Lost daughter of Scotland

[Snowfeather]

Greetings everyone. I'm new to the forum and while American by birth (and have only a lick of scottish blood), I am truely a lost daughter of Scotland.

It's my dream to someday visit the land who's song haunts my soul, but at the same time I'm afraid that I, like so many others before me, will be so bespelled that I will be unable to leave without great anguish. It would not be so bad if I had the means to stay but I don't. What is it about Scotland that, even after several generations removed, it calls out to it's children the promise of home that they'd never felt anywhere else?

Also I was kind of surprised (and dismayed) that this forum, with over 60 thousand users doesn't have more active posting. Have people drifted in an out? Did this place used to be more popular and has since waned?

Anyway it's nice to be here now.

[Polwarth]

Welcome
This site was more popular, but there have been 'turf wars' in the past and other reasons why folk left.

[Snowfeather]

Originally Posted by Polwarth

Welcome
This site was more popular, but there have been 'turf wars' in the past and other reasons why folk left.

Don't you hate it when that happens? Why do people have to put so much ego into something like this? You just end up destroying what you claim to love.

Oh well...maybe the Scotland Forum will rise again!

[McDink]

Originally Posted by Polwarth

Welcome
This site was more popular, but there have been 'turf wars' in the past and other reasons why folk left.

VERY sad indeed. The forum seems to be littered with petty slagging matches like the following and do little to encourage anyone from joining in. Songs of exile and longing.

[Snowfeather]

Originally Posted by McDink

VERY sad indeed. The forum seems to be littered with petty slagging matches like the following and do little to encourage anyone from joining in. Songs of exile and longing.

(sigh) I've seen things like that. Logic so twisted it's painful to witness. The "you are wrong because you suck" mentality. Or worse the "You said something negative about this one person so therefore you hate that person's entire ethnicity/nationality/social class/profession/yada yada" In other places I've been such logic is severely looked down upon, even derided. But it still sucks to come face to face with it.

It's like having to look at a hairless cat. It's just so...wrong.

[bell-the-cat]

Originally Posted by Snowfeather

Greetings everyone. I'm new to the forum and while American by birth (and have only a lick of scottish blood), I am truely a lost daughter of Scotland.

But at least you have decided to explore that lick, rather than the pints of the non-scottish stuff circulating in your veins.

Also I was kind of surprised (and dismayed) that this forum, with over 60 thousand users doesn't have more active posting. Have people drifted in an out? Did this place used to be more popular and has since waned?

Isn't that perhaps the number of users of all the forums that "newmedia holdings" own and run.

[ScotsTraveller]

Originally Posted by McDink

VERY sad indeed. The forum seems to be littered with petty slagging matches like the following and do little to encourage anyone from joining in. Songs of exile and longing.

If you want visitors to this forum to believe the crap that Raingeanach spouts then fine, but it leaves a bad taste in the mouth when all he does (and others like him) make a mockery of this country and its people!