Is David Starkey amazingly insightful here?

[R1Geezer]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/80 16440.stm
There's a Blue Geezer Badge for the first one to mention one of the main things they mention when discussing the sweaties!

[paraffin]

So, geezer and young:

So, the term "sweaties" could be:

1. Dutch as in "crutch"?

2. Rocks as in "socks"?

3. What rhymes with "armpit" or "b*llocks" or "m*nge" ?

[jake-the-peg]

Ah yes, cloud chamber not bubble chamber, that was a later derivation.

There are 9 Scottish Nobel prize winners

There are 26 English Nobel prize winners

3:1

Population of Scotland 5 Million
Population of England roughly 50 Million

So I guess on that basis Scotland is roughly 3 times Greater than England Geezer?

[R1Geezer]

Parafin: Sweaty = Sweaty Sock = Jock

Septic = Septic Tank = Yank

Geddit?

[paraffin]

geezer:

"Jock"? Which is?

[R1Geezer]

I'm trying to decide if you are being obtuse paraffin. Our Scottish neihbours are known as jocks

[jno]

all inventions are based on earlier developments and discoveries. It doesn't stop them being inventions. Penicillin existed before it was discovered, but it was a Scot who noticed it.

[paraffin]

geezer:

Thanks for that. And by what piece of rhyming slang would "our Scottish neighbours" refer to their English counterparts?

[R1Geezer]

we'll be Sasenachs, I don't know if they have a rhymming slang term, I don't suppose they'll have any trouble making one up!