Assassinate Thatcher

[Viminalian]

Originally Posted by aNonnyMoose

Easy seen you're not a Scot.

I'm afraid I can't make sense of that sentence.

The damage that vindictive ***** did to Scotland lives on, and will not be forgotten for many a long year.

Yeah, if state subsidised manufacturing is the high of your ambition for Scotland - yes, she damaged that. However her economic policies laid the foundations for Scotland's world-class financial sector, high-tech economy and plenty of other things besides.

Let's face it - given the choice, how many people in Scotland would prefer to be back in the dark days of the 1970s? A few foaming-at-the-mouth trade unionists, I expect, and that is all. Scotland is a far better place to live now than it ever has been.

[Polwarth]

I think that proves you aren't Scots.
That sentence makes perfect grammatical sense to those of us who speak Lallans or the Doric.

[Viminalian]

Originally Posted by Polwarth

I think that proves you aren't Scots.

An early genesis of the 'no true Scotsman' fallacy? Either way, I couldn't give less of a toss about your image of what being 'Scots' involves. Probably being white, working class, aggressively Calvinist, an SNP supporter, state-educated and God-knows-what-else are essential attributes too.

That sentence makes perfect grammatical sense to those of us who speak Lallans or the Doric.

That'll be pretty much no-one then, unless you're confusing Glaswegian street slang with an ancient linguistic variety.

[Polwarth]

Welcome BACK.... I love your new name.

I am a private-school educated woman, certainly white, not an SNP voter (just ask my pal Nonny) - but you go ahead and voice your prejudices. Nice to see you coming from a different angle in this persona.

[Celyn]

Originally Posted by Viminalian

An early genesis of the 'no true Scotsman' fallacy? Either way, I couldn't give less of a toss about your image of what being 'Scots' involves. Probably being white, working class, aggressively Calvinist, an SNP supporter, state-educated and God-knows-what-else are essential attributes too.



That'll be pretty much no-one then, unless you're confusing Glaswegian street slang with an ancient linguistic variety.

Oh Polwarth, that's you tellt! Common little state-educated Glaswegian street urchin that you are!

Not that Viminalian, (friend of old Nova Britannia, perchance?), is sounding at all snobbish and prejudiced here. Not at all.

[Polwarth]

Ah um suitably chagrined, mah wee black an white pal...

An me, an ejikatit, Edimbra matron anaw...

[Saorsa1]

Unfortunately, the beast seems to be recovering and has left hospital.

I fear she's not human and will outlive us all.