The Other Side Of The Coin

[Matthew-C]

Originally Posted by kathyv

There are things I haven't experienced, that others have, so I can't bring some things into the picture. But the shortbread munching, kilt wearing, whisky swigging, heather hopping, haggis chasing, hairy Scot does get old real fast!

It's too bad that a lot of these kinds of posters won't listen to or accept reality. I guess my 'job' as an American is to let Scots know that not all of us have bought into, or long for Brigadoon and to tell the Americans that the real world and Hollywood are hundreds of years apart!


I did try to explain things but maybe they weren't much accepted? After all, I am just a Levi's wearing, fence sitting, hay chewing, boot stomping, cow branding, Indian chasing, coyote roping old cowgirl who (horror of horrors) can't sing or play the guitar well! heh heh heh!

I happen to like whiskey swigging.shortbread munching,but I don't do too much heatherhopping or haggis chasing these days.I consider my job to perpetuate those myths,so the flow of cash keeps going to the land o haggis bashers.At least the sassenachs canny take that away.

[Polwarth]

Originally Posted by Matthew-C

I see you have a new Prime minister,Hopefully a vast improvement over the last moron

Hmmm - he's hardly 'new', Matthew. And ANYONE would be a vast improvement over the lying, cheating moron, aka Tony BLiar.

[ScotSites]

Originally Posted by Matthew-C

whiskey swigging...

That would be the Irish or the Americans... our whisky has no added e!

[Matthew-C]

Our whisky,it was probably mine before you were out of nappies.Being a 1929 model I will spell whiskey any way I want.go look for someone else to correct it seems to be your hobbie.

[Matthew-C]

Originally Posted by Polwarth

Hmmm - he's hardly 'new', Matthew. And ANYONE would be a vast improvement over the lying, cheating moron, aka Tony BLiar.

You better be careful with your spelling,or our resident encyclopedia will send you a correction notice.

[Celyn]

Originally Posted by Matthew-C

You better be careful with your spelling,or our resident encyclopedia will send you a correction notice.

Tsk, tsk, don't you mean "encyclopædia, dear boy? Only joking! Fair play, I had also been going to whine about the "e" in "whisky", but I got distracted by something shiny, I suppose. Still, for all we know, you are drinking U.S. American whiskey, heretical though it may seem.

As for Gordon Brown, well he's not that new and he's not exactly much of an improvement. Same as Tony Blair, only more lugubrious and less smarmy. Same policies though, despite his claim to have a "moral compass". I only mention that he's not exactly new to emphasise that he has had enough time to show us if he is any improvement over Blair. And he hasn't. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

I'm truly pleased that Obama won, as the thought of Sarah Palin* anywhere near power was very scary, and I think he genuinely does look like being better than Bush. Mind you, I do see that some nutters around the internet have decided that he is the Antichrist. The world is not short of weirdos, eh?

I get the impression you were not pleased, perhaps, at foreigners commenting on U.S. politics? Fair enough up to a point, but the U.S. President is so damn powerful that the matter does rather tend to affect a lot of the world. Look on the bright side - all of a sudden, the world is happy for, and pleased with, the U.S. again. Not that you need to care what other people think, and not that hopeful good wishes are a currency you can spend in the shops, but, well, we just ARE, that's all.


* Had it been Michael Palin, now, that would be different.

[Polwarth]

Jings, Celyn - I'D have voted in their elections if it had been Michael P...!