I am interested in Scotland. Is anybody from Scotland, so that he can tell me about it?

Mouse and Jerome are, but they're useless :D

They have Billy Connolly. Bastards.

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And they have whiskey and even worse weather than here in holland!
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As is our resident PC hardware expert, andrewas. Btw, we're not useless, it's just hard for those of limited intellect to appreciate the depth and subtelty of our naturally superior intellects [img]graemlins/finger.gif[/img]

P.S. Try here for some basic information.

[ 09-23-2003, 03:55 PM: Message edited by: Mouse ]

You lie! * [img]graemlins/whackya.gif[/img]

Aw, c'mon, aren't I allowed to scare the newbies off talking to you and Romey? [img]tongue.gif[/img]

You lie! * [img]graemlins/whackya.gif[/img]

Aw, c'mon, aren't I allowed to scare the newbies off talking to you and Romey? [img]tongue.gif[/img] </font>[/QUOTE]You mean so they warm to you and you take on a maternal light, only to dash their hopes of you reading them stories when you turn all "I am the drow mistress, come here and be punished, etc"? [img]tongue.gif[/img]

My favorite Mike Myers quote about Scotland-

All scotish food is based on a dare. *points to hagis* I dare ya to eat that!

"Once upon a time, little boys and girls, there was a very silly Ironworks member called Horatio. Now, Horatio liked to run, so when he annoyed the nice drow mistress Kaltia, she let him run.

From her five-headed dragon pet "Tiamat".

It is said that the silly Horatio is still running away from Tiamat even now! Oh, dear, boys and girls, that's the end of the story! But look! I have a new one here, "The tale of the dancing genie-boy"! It begins like so..."


Something like that, Robert? :D :D :D :D

"Once upon a time, little boys and girls, there was a very silly Ironworks member called Horatio. Now, Horatio liked to run, so when he annoyed the nice drow mistress Kaltia, she let him run.

From her five-headed dragon pet "Tiamat".

It is said that the silly Horatio is still running away from Tiamat even now! Oh, dear, boys and girls, that's the end of the story! But look! I have a new one here, "The tale of the dancing genie-boy"! It begins like so..."


Something like that, Robert? :D :D :D :D </font>[/QUOTE]rofl, I think he is to busy running Kat :D

I have been to Scotland about seven times, once for a full weeks tour on a motorbike [img]tongue.gif[/img] The areas away from Glasgow /Edinburough / Dundee ect are well worth seeing, very friendly, great beer and very relaxed. I have yet to see more than a half day of sunshine in total, it is a very moist area. :D Here is a extract from a post I did on the visit.

"My wife and me did a weeklong tour of the eastern side of Scotland on motorbikes many years ago. Being summer it rained heavy every single day, we were constantly wet, and for the most part we were camping too. We never dried out once :D But the crazy thing was it made the scenery even more beautiful!, the heather on the moors glistening with the rain in the odd shaft of sunlight peeping through the ever brooding sky. Empty roads unwinding like a black ribbon to the horizon. Surely the most peaceful and empty of Europe’s destinations."

I love the place, shame about the strange languague the locals use though ;)

The problem with Scotland, is that it's full of Scots. :D

Oy!

hmmm, and so is every other country now [img]tongue.gif[/img] , I happen to know alot of Scots, my brother-in -law is scot..oh wait you mean the country...never mind

My boyfriend's been living there for half a year, and he had splendid weather! :D Not a lot of rain, quite some sunshine, and a beautiful layer of snow covering everything in the winter. He went from September till February and mostly the weather was better than over here.
I visited Scotland 4 times now, seen the area east and south of Glasgow (Ayr) and Glasgow, Edinburgh, Stirling. Still want to go up to Inverness some time, but I gave my boyfriend a short break to Scotland for his birthday (we're going in Feb) so we might do that then.
Oh, and there's still a fair chance we might both move therre for at least a few years - he to do his PhD, I to do an MA and possibly also a PhD there...

As for your question - what do you want to know that you cannot find on Google? Personal tales of what it's like to live there? Clarify! [img]smile.gif[/img]

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A small but important point. It's the Irish that have whiskey, the Scots have whisky!

Bloody pedantry will be the death of me! ;)

A small but important point. It's the Irish that have whiskey, the Scots have whisky!

Bloody pedantry will be the death of me! ;) </font>[/QUOTE][img]graemlins/check.gif[/img] You learn something every day [img]graemlins/heee.gif[/img]

It will be the cessation of sufficient biological functions required to sustain life that will be the death of you, not pedantry [img]graemlins/nono.gif[/img]

If you have a spare 2 weeks, go on "west highland way" treck in spring. I did it in 8 days if i am not mistaken. it is a good journey. But! Beware of the flying -annouying- biting -blood -sucking bugs. Mites or whatevertheyarecalled. They ate me! grrrr :angry

LOL, thank you Fred!! If it weren't for you, my reputation as a pedant would be much worse than it already is. I was actually hoping you'd come along to correct the whisky error, since I think I exceeded my quotum of nitpicks this month. :D
BTW - you get double points for correcting a fellow pedant (lead-led), so better be careful now! ;)

LOL, thank you Fred!! If it weren't for you, my reputation as a pedant would be much worse than it already is. I was actually hoping you'd come along to correct the whisky error, since I think I exceeded my quotum of nitpicks this month. :D
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