As usual, you ignore facts. The Kingdom of Scotland existed for a period of time almost four times as long as any national construct referring to itself as Great Britain (though Scotland sometimes shared a monarch with the Kingdom of England during that time). Whether or not all parts of what is now called Scotland belonged to the nation during that time is completely irrelevant, all nations change their borders over time.

As for the "warring tribes", yes there was division, but Scotland was a lot more cohesive than, e.g. Germany which consisted of hundreds of mini-states for most of the last two thousand years.

And it's sad to see that your fact allergy apparently runs in the family. Voting for Scottish independence because "...England would be better off without spongers sapping its' wealth." is completely arse-backwards. Look up "North Sea Oil" for one reason. Scotland has the fourth highest GVA per capita of the 12 regions in the UK.


All dogma is stupid.

In reply to OT: Scotland (was Re^5: Humour – an important mechanism for language learning) by tirwhan
in thread Humour – an important mechanism for language learning by Win

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.