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Apparently it was banned from being shown, an ad for the six nations, I actually think it's quite humourous and amusing and probably shows a side of the UK that most of the rest of the world can't get it's head around.
We're like warring siblings until somebody picks a fight with one of us, then we're a tight family unit.
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No idea when I began here, was a very long time ago. Previously known as Spirit_of_81. Love cheese, hate the colour of it, this is why it requires some blue in it.
Never seen this before on 12:16 - Mar 27 by Churchman
The link hasn’t worked for me. If it’s the united in dislike ad from about ten years ago yes, it’s dead funny.
Have updated the link, but yes that's the one
No idea when I began here, was a very long time ago. Previously known as Spirit_of_81. Love cheese, hate the colour of it, this is why it requires some blue in it.
Not sure there are any untruths in that ad, you only needed to look on here last night with posters willing Wales to win.
Positive that few Welsh, Scots, or Irish would be doing that if we were in a play-off.
As Mark Renton from Trainspotting so eloquently put it....
"Ah don't hate the English. They're just w@nkers. We are colonised by w@nkers. We can't even pick a decent, vibrant, healthy culture to be colonised by. No. We're ruled by effete @rseholes. What does that make us?"
Never seen this before on 13:54 - Mar 27 by mutters
As Mark Renton from Trainspotting so eloquently put it....
"Ah don't hate the English. They're just w@nkers. We are colonised by w@nkers. We can't even pick a decent, vibrant, healthy culture to be colonised by. No. We're ruled by effete @rseholes. What does that make us?"
Totally agree. I like english people in general, its the coloniest past I object to. There is a certain irony in the fact that the most ardent anti small boat/invader types regard themselves as very British. Strange that people resent their culture ( identity ) being destroyed.
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Never seen this before on 18:18 - Mar 27 with 2220 views
It’s political correctness gone mad I tell ye …. and this was 2012 😮 I imagine the creators would have been hung drawn and quartered in these enlightened days, after jumping through a thousand different safeguarding and inclusiveness checks to remove all humour.
Totally agree. I like english people in general, its the coloniest past I object to. There is a certain irony in the fact that the most ardent anti small boat/invader types regard themselves as very British. Strange that people resent their culture ( identity ) being destroyed.
Interestingly, the Scots (probably to escape the lack of opportunity in their homeland ) played a disproportionate role in Empire, as evidenced by the very high proportion of surnames of Scottish origin amongst people in Jamaica.
However, the fact that 62% of Scots voted to Remain indicates that the "Empire mentality" that, in my view, was a major factor in the Brexit vote is these days much more prevalent in England (and Wales) than Scotland, because differences between the countries in poverty, opportunity and deprivation cannot explain the vote.
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Never seen this before on 08:25 - Mar 28 with 1901 views
Not sure there are any untruths in that ad, you only needed to look on here last night with posters willing Wales to win.
Positive that few Welsh, Scots, or Irish would be doing that if we were in a play-off.
Perhaps there is an element of support for the plucky underdog.
However, when England didn't qualify and Scotland did, no one in my class in school in Ipswich in 1974 was persuaded by me to support Scotland.
The relative size of the nations also plays a part in my view, just as in the 70s I despised all the large London clubs, not least because of the greater publicity they got.
But I still think the enmity, if it is that, really only extends (for the vast majority of people) to the sporting field.
Perhaps Gore Vidal summed it up best, with once again the British media overkill, if England succeed, playing a part as far as I am concerned.
"Every time a friend succeeds, something inside me dies."
Perhaps there is an element of support for the plucky underdog.
However, when England didn't qualify and Scotland did, no one in my class in school in Ipswich in 1974 was persuaded by me to support Scotland.
The relative size of the nations also plays a part in my view, just as in the 70s I despised all the large London clubs, not least because of the greater publicity they got.
But I still think the enmity, if it is that, really only extends (for the vast majority of people) to the sporting field.
Perhaps Gore Vidal summed it up best, with once again the British media overkill, if England succeed, playing a part as far as I am concerned.
"Every time a friend succeeds, something inside me dies."
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Never going to support Scotland when we had the Dutch! 78’ the same. And there’s another bunch with some previous!
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Never seen this before on 08:49 - Mar 28 with 1820 views
Yes, I don't remember anyone in my school supporting Scotland in '78 either.
Think I was the only kid supporting Scotland in my school as well. Had moved back to Haverhill from Arbroath ( I have to confess my first football team) where the father had been working on oil rigs until a few months before world cup started.
He still likes to tell everyone that I thought I was Scottish when I was 6. We were on holiday at some big caravan park in Yarmouth for some of it and apparently I forced him to watch Scotland v Holland game in some kinda large communal tv room 'rammed full of Jocks'
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Never seen this before on 09:33 - Mar 28 with 1720 views
Never seen this before on 09:24 - Mar 28 by leitrimblue
Think I was the only kid supporting Scotland in my school as well. Had moved back to Haverhill from Arbroath ( I have to confess my first football team) where the father had been working on oil rigs until a few months before world cup started.
He still likes to tell everyone that I thought I was Scottish when I was 6. We were on holiday at some big caravan park in Yarmouth for some of it and apparently I forced him to watch Scotland v Holland game in some kinda large communal tv room 'rammed full of Jocks'
Never seen this before on 09:24 - Mar 28 by leitrimblue
Think I was the only kid supporting Scotland in my school as well. Had moved back to Haverhill from Arbroath ( I have to confess my first football team) where the father had been working on oil rigs until a few months before world cup started.
He still likes to tell everyone that I thought I was Scottish when I was 6. We were on holiday at some big caravan park in Yarmouth for some of it and apparently I forced him to watch Scotland v Holland game in some kinda large communal tv room 'rammed full of Jocks'
Arbroath in the lovely county of Angus!!
I have a friend from Forfar, the wonderfully nicknamed 'The Loons"
I absolutely hate all fish. Pretty sure this is due to spending so much time around the harbour and overdoing Smokies and fish in general as a young child.
I do enjoy a smoke though
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Never seen this before on 10:09 - Mar 28 with 1618 views
I have a friend from Forfar, the wonderfully nicknamed 'The Loons"
looks like a lovely part of the world
Don't remember that much about the place. Remember it was a tad cold and v windy and I once seen a young Kenny Dalglish play for Celtic against Arbroath in the cup.
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Never seen this before on 10:25 - Mar 28 with 1572 views
Never seen this before on 10:36 - Mar 28 by leitrimblue
Isn't that a bit like preferring Dundalk to Drogheda?
I dunno, I think I have been to both but I can remember neither. I do know that saying Drogheda repeatedly can help to drum out a particular rhythm on a bodhran (which I think cannot be said of Montrose...or Dundalk.)
Never seen this before on 12:31 - Mar 28 by WeWereZombies
I dunno, I think I have been to both but I can remember neither. I do know that saying Drogheda repeatedly can help to drum out a particular rhythm on a bodhran (which I think cannot be said of Montrose...or Dundalk.)
'Think I've been to both but I can't remember neither' is actually a perfect description of both places..
Perhaps I'm doing Montrose a misjustice?
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Never seen this before on 13:50 - Mar 28 with 1245 views
Yes, I don't remember anyone in my school supporting Scotland in '78 either.
Nope, no support in my school for Scotland. Lots of laughter when they lost but by and large nobody cared.
Managed to confuse Americans with the rugby thing. We were skiing in Breckenridge Colorado and in the bar after a good day. I wore a rugby shirt with the England rose on it as we were playing Wales the following day. In came a group of Welsh people. They spotted the badge and the conversation began. It was a rather heated debate, not that I had any idea what I was on about. It went well beyond rugby. But it finished with a bet on the result (drinks, nothing serious).
Typically England lost. At home too. Next day in the bar we went, me with my England shirt and a cricket three lions baseball cap. In the Welsh people came, dressed head to foot in Wales gear. They marched up to us looking stern. We looked stern back. The Americans in the bar started getting jittery. Then I put my hands up, said ok, ok, and fulfilled the bet. We then proceeded to have the night to end all nights and a few more as the days went by. Drank the place dry.
The Americans thought we were crazy and very odd. We didn’t care.
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Never seen this before on 18:40 - Mar 28 with 1013 views
Its Round Tower, 25m tall and nearly 5m wide, is one of only two Irish-style round towers still standing in Scotland.
A decoration around the first-floor doorway indicates Brechin Round Tower was built about AD 1100, but a date a century or so earlier cannot be ruled out. Originally free-standing, the tower became attached to Brechin Cathedral in 1806.
Its Round Tower, 25m tall and nearly 5m wide, is one of only two Irish-style round towers still standing in Scotland.
A decoration around the first-floor doorway indicates Brechin Round Tower was built about AD 1100, but a date a century or so earlier cannot be ruled out. Originally free-standing, the tower became attached to Brechin Cathedral in 1806.
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