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Originally posted by Agathon
I think they'd swap that for a government that addresses their own interests.
I think they'd swap that for a government that addresses their own interests.
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They've got that, and it addresses Scottish interests at English expense. What you're inadvertantly arguing for is for Scotland's rights to pay its own bills.The genesis of the "evil Finn" concept- Evil, evil Finland -
Are you sure that's traditional? I suspect the idea of the quarrelsome Scots is a myth. If you're looking for places that have had really nasty civil wars, Scotland isn't really the first place to look.Originally posted by Starchild
Or they'll go back to the traditional Scottish past-time of hating other Scots once the English Enemy is gone to rally against. The Highlanders will hate Edinburgh, the islanders will despise the mainland and the Outer Hebrides will re-start their own dormant independence movement.Comment
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Shh pudding. I like my stereotypes. Besides, the English aren't any better.Originally posted by Sandman
Are you sure that's traditional? I suspect the idea of the quarrelsome Scots is a myth. If you're looking for places that have had really nasty civil wars, Scotland isn't really the first place to look.Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
-Richard DawkinsComment
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I don't know anything about this guy, but he can't be worse than Livingstone. That guy praised a islamist who defends terrorism and murder on civilians.Do not fear, for I am with you; Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God.-Isaiah 41:10
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made - Psalms 139.14a
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And we're thankful for it.Originally posted by Agathon
Still whacking you guys on the Human Development Index. I'd certainly choose it over Britain.You just wasted six ... no, seven ... seconds of your life reading this sentence.Comment
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Happily I don't think Agathon will every come to America.Comment
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Looks like we are both in the clear then
You just wasted six ... no, seven ... seconds of your life reading this sentence.Comment
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boris wants to ban homosexuality?Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
Unless the liberty in question involves homosexuality, of course.
"The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
"The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de BottonComment
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He was stridently in favour of Section 28.The genesis of the "evil Finn" concept- Evil, evil FinlandComment
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