Flower of Scotland/ Burns Day

[AngryOfTuebrook]

I wish I liked whisky. It just seems like a proper grown ups drink

You should get into it.  It'll put hairs on your chest.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/robertburns/works/cock_up_your_beaver/

 

When first my brave Johnie lad came to this town,
He had a blue bonnet that wanted the crown,
But now he has gotten a hat and a feather -
Hey, brave Johnie lad, cock up your beaver!

Cock up your beaver, and cock it fu' sprush!
We'll over the border and gie them a brush:
There's somebody there we'll teach better behavior -
Hey, brave Johnie lad, cock up your beaver!

[Trumo]

A neat Scottish single malt is the nectar of the gods.

[Champ]

You should get into it.  It'll put hairs on your chest.

Thats kinda my thought on it. It makes me feel like I might need to wear a tux and look like K D Lang

[Mook]

Whisky is like most things, if you drink cheap shit, it'll taste like cheap shit, the nice stuff goes down a treat but then you get these wankers in their Whisky Society clubs paying £110 a nip. I've never really got into it myself though & prefer a nice Brandy.

[Nunavut Patrick]

Thats kinda my thought on it. It makes me feel like I might need to wear a tux and look like K D Lang

kd lang

 

Haggis gives me a constant craving.

 

She always wanted her name in lower case. But when you are born in Alberta and bat for the other side you tend to stand out.

 

Enjoying a Glenfiddich Solera 15 yr right now.

 

No haggis, though. I could murder one right now, o cheiftan pudding race.

[Moctezuma]

Ate Haggis, drank a dram.

 

I think Burns is pretty much shite (though this maybe akin to the way English kids dislike Shakespeare as it gets forced down their throat/over analysed to death during their education) but Tam-o-shanter isnae bad so gave that a read.

 

Miss home quite a bit, in part because Edinburgh is an ace city and Aberdeenshire is a bucolic idyl, but also due to the fact that less people are  looking to stamp on your face to get on all the time (i.e. Conservative spoons). That is probably solely down to population density (therefore a lack of squabbling for resources) and a feeling of unitedness against 'the other' i.e. the English/government in London.

[Nunavut Patrick]

Just cooked up a haggis, going to wash it down with an Innis and Gunn brewed naked in oak with golden women...or is it naked with golden oats?

 

Love haggis.

[Bjornebye]

I didn't say it was the worst, have you heard Brazil's?

 

I think Flower of Scotland is a nice enough folk song but it's a bit embarrassing having a national anthem about a battle with the English army when there's plenty of positive things we could just be singing about Scotland instead.

 

God Save the Queen isn't even the English National Anthem, it's British & yes, it's a load of shite.

Should be Born Slippy by Underworld

[Sputnik1]

Can we not just combine them and burn all scots?

[Mook]

Can we not just combine them and burn all scots?

 

Chinese?

[setreal]

Bagpipes are seriously underrated.

[Sputnik1]

Chinese?

 

 

I think the correct term would be 'friction burn' caused by the placing of both hands on someones forearm and while grabbing tight, moving each tightened hand in opposite directions. 

[Mook]

I think the correct term would be 'friction burn' caused by the placing of both hands on someones forearm and while grabbing tight, moving each tightened hand in opposite directions. 

 

Naw, friction burns are when you've been shagging a bird on the carpet & have fucked your knees.

 

You have to take the rough with the smooth I suppose.

[setreal]

Erm, what the fuck.

 

One of these just popped up in our office.

 

[Mook]

We might not have made the Euros this Summer but we're winning at the drinking apparently...

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-36369507

[Champ]

We might not have made the Euros this Summer but we're winning at the drinking apparently...

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-36369507[/size]

Haha. I wondered how that might be brought into the conversation

[Nunavut Patrick]

The average adult in Scotland consumes 477 pints of beer a year???

 

A wee tear of pride just fell from my eye....

[Anubis]

Mmmmm. Haggis.

[Mook]

Ya fucking beauty, it's haggis day.

 

[Anny Road]

Interesting graph not the numbers but the trend.

[Paulie Dangerously]

Used to work with a lad who's missus was from a remote part of Scotland and her Da still owned a farm.  He went up for a visit and I asked him for a haggis jokingly.  He brought me one down from the farm.  No instructions, no nothing on it.  Just a haggis vacuum packed.  It was lovely 

[Champ]

I'm working tonight so Burns Night has been postponed until Friday chez Champ. Wouldn't miss my haggis

[AngryOfTuebrook]

I'm working tonight so Burns Night has been postponed until Friday chez Champ. Wouldn't miss my haggis

We had ours last night, because of Mrs. O'Tuebrook's work.

[Anny Road]

Used to work with a lad who's missus was from a remote part of Scotland and her Da still owned a farm.  He went up for a visit and I asked him for a haggis jokingly.  He brought me one down from the farm.  No instructions, no nothing on it.  Just a haggis vacuum packed.  It was lovely 

I am an English born Irish man but having a Welsh mum and who now lives in Scotland I feel I am uniquely qualified or more likely disqualified for commenting on Haggis.

 

Best I have ever had and the first ever Champion Haggis maker.

 

Cockburns of Dingwall.

 

Most Haggis is heavy and a task to eat. This is light and you eat far more than intended both as a result of the lightness and cracking flavour