Picture of a Scot that no Scot will ever see:

[Horse_Apple]

How apt that to celebrate the ridding of Parliament of all the utterly useless Scots who have brought this country to its knees the Bank of England is going to plaster the face of one of Scotland’s great exports on the £50 note. It’s a great shame that no Scot will ever see one

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_we...

Quite a bit of choice when you look it up:

William Wallace (1274 - 1305) defender of Scottish independence.
Robert the Bruce (1274 - 1329) defeated English at Bannockburn.
John Knox (1505 - 1572) father of the Protestant Reformation.
John Napier (1550 - 1617) Mathematician and Astronomer.
William Kidd (Captain Kidd) (1645-1701) Infamous pirate.
Adam Smith (1723 - 1790) father of economics.
Robert Adam (1728 - 1792) Architech
James Watt (1736 - 1819) Developed the steam engine.
James Boswell (1740 - 1795) Biographer and Traveller.
Patrick Ferguson (1744-1780) inventor of the breech load rifle.
John Paul Jones (1747 - 1792) established the U.S. Navy.
John McAdam (1756 - 1836) Developed the process tarmacadam.
Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832) Great Scottish patriot, writer and poet
David Livingstone (1813 - 1873) Explorer and medical missionary
Sir John Alexander MacDonald (1815 - 1891) First Prime Minister of Canada.
Allan Pinkerton (1819 - 1884) detective,Head of U.S. Secret Service 1861-62..
Joseph Lister (1827 - 1912) pioneered the use of antiseptics
Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1918) U.S. iron and steel magnate and great philanthropist.
Alexander Graham Bell (1847 - 1922) the inventor of the telephone in 1876.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) Author, works included "Kidnapped", "Treasure Island".
James Keir Hardie (1856 - 1915) a founder of the British Labour Party.
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) Author. Creator of the detective Sherlock Holmes.
Sir Alexander Fleming (1881 - 1955) discovered the world's first antibiotic drug - Penicillin.
John Logie Baird (1888 - 1946) Inventor of the television.

It’s amazing how so many Scots were at the absolute heart of the modern world that we live in, telephones, engines, roads, televisions, economics, medicine…..

It really does beg the question, just how did we end up with such absolute, useless sts running this country for 12 years.

[Dunk76]

The Scots were the greatest Empire builders the world has ever known.

Working in conjunction with the seafaring English, it's small wonder we, as Britannia, ended up controlling 1/4 of the World's landmass.

[Pooh]

Every country has its useless tts, it is worth remembering that there are plenty of useless English people in this sorry excuse for a government, so it is not just a problem with the Scots.

[Horse_Apple]

Pooh said:

Every country has its useless tts, it is worth remembering that there are plenty of useless English people in this sorry excuse for a government, so it is not just a problem with the Scots.

We'll probably see proof of that once Broon is binned

[jesusbuiltmycar]

Brown probably wants his face on the £50 notes - after all he thinks he owns them all....

[chippy17]

didn't someone else invent the telephone and he nicked the idea as he was a patent clerk...?

[Adrian W]

jesusbuiltmycar said:

Brown probably wants his face on the £50 notes - after all he thinks he owns them all....

No!...................he'll wait for the £500 note

It won't be long

[funkyrobot]

The thing I don't understand is we allow Scots in our parliament, but there are no English allowed in the Scottish parliament??

Also, how come Scotland, Wales etc have a parliament and assembly of their own, but we don't really have an 'English' parliament??

[Horse_Apple]

jesusbuiltmycar said:

Brown probably wants his face on the £50 notes - after all he thinks he owns them all....

Well he has just had to print 3.5Bln new ones so he has a good arguement.

[thinfourth2]

funkyrobot said:

The thing I don't understand is we allow Scots in our parliament, but there are no English allowed in the Scottish parliament??

Also, how come Scotland, Wales etc have a parliament and assembly of their own, but we don't really have an 'English' parliament??

Evidently you don't understand it

As there is nothing stopping you from standing for the scottish parliament

[Fume troll]

Horse_Apple said:

It’s amazing how so many Scots were at the absolute heart of the modern world that we live in, telephones, engines, roads, televisions, economics, medicine…..

It really does beg the question, just how did we end up with such absolute, useless sts running this country for 12 years.

I think you'll find that for 10 of those 12 years there was an Englishman in charge.

Cheers,

FT.

[Martial Arts Man]

funkyrobot said:

The thing I don't understand is we allow Scots in our parliament, but there are no English allowed in the Scottish parliament??

Also, how come Scotland, Wales etc have a parliament and assembly of their own, but we don't really have an 'English' parliament??

You're gonna need to start a new thread on that topic.....it will run and run and run.

Look up West Lothian Question on google.

Here is the Wiki link to get you started: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Lothian_question

[Dunk76]

Fume troll said:

Horse_Apple said:

It’s amazing how so many Scots were at the absolute heart of the modern world that we live in, telephones, engines, roads, televisions, economics, medicine…..

It really does beg the question, just how did we end up with such absolute, useless sts running this country for 12 years.

I think you'll find that for 10 of those 12 years there was an Englishman in charge.

Cheers,

FT.

Is Edinburgh in England then?

[jamieboy]

funkyrobot said:

The thing I don't understand is we allow Scots in our parliament, but there are no English allowed in the Scottish parliament??

Well, when you say 'our' parliament you're meaning (I guess) the UK parliament, and with Scotland being part of the UK...

As for English allowed in the Scottish parliament, Mary Mulligan is one that I know of - born and brought up in Liverpool, now MSP for Linlithgow.

I suspect there is more than one thing you don't understand.

[Fume troll]

Dunk76 said:

Fume troll said:

Horse_Apple said:

It’s amazing how so many Scots were at the absolute heart of the modern world that we live in, telephones, engines, roads, televisions, economics, medicine…..

It really does beg the question, just how did we end up with such absolute, useless sts running this country for 12 years.

I think you'll find that for 10 of those 12 years there was an Englishman in charge.

Cheers,

FT.

Is Edinburgh in England then?

Being born in Edinburgh doesn't make one Scottish.

Cheers,

FT.

Edited by Fume troll on Thursday 4th June 13:02

[Martial Arts Man]

Fume troll said:

Dunk76 said:

Fume troll said:

Horse_Apple said:

It’s amazing how so many Scots were at the absolute heart of the modern world that we live in, telephones, engines, roads, televisions, economics, medicine…..

It really does beg the question, just how did we end up with such absolute, useless sts running this country for 12 years.

I think you'll find that for 10 of those 12 years there was an Englishman in charge.

Cheers,

FT.

Is Edinburgh in England then?

Being born in Edinburgh doesn't make one Scottish.

Cheers,

FT.

"Being born in a stable does not make me a horse" D of Wellington (supposedly).

[Semi hemi]

funkyrobot said:

The thing I don't understand is we allow Scots in our parliament, but there are no English allowed in the Scottish parliament??

Also, how come Scotland, Wales etc have a parliament and assembly of their own, but we don't really have an 'English' parliament??

Because you cant be trusted,

[Horse_Apple]

Fume troll said:

Horse_Apple said:

It’s amazing how so many Scots were at the absolute heart of the modern world that we live in, telephones, engines, roads, televisions, economics, medicine…..

It really does beg the question, just how did we end up with such absolute, useless sts running this country for 12 years.

I think you'll find that for 10 of those 12 years there was an Englishman in charge.

Cheers,

FT.

Of the economy? Pretty sure GB has been in charge of that from the outset. TB just handled the media and started wars with falsified data.

[Horse_Apple]

Semi hemi said:

funkyrobot said:

The thing I don't understand is we allow Scots in our parliament, but there are no English allowed in the Scottish parliament??

Also, how come Scotland, Wales etc have a parliament and assembly of their own, but we don't really have an 'English' parliament??

Because you cant be trusted,

A fair arguement but it's not as if you could trust Brown or Darling?

Besides, back in history, most Scots were betrayed by other Scots wanting a bit of extra land or some shiney coins.

[Fume troll]

Horse_Apple said:

Fume troll said:

Horse_Apple said:

It’s amazing how so many Scots were at the absolute heart of the modern world that we live in, telephones, engines, roads, televisions, economics, medicine…..

It really does beg the question, just how did we end up with such absolute, useless sts running this country for 12 years.

I think you'll find that for 10 of those 12 years there was an Englishman in charge.

Cheers,

FT.

Of the economy? Pretty sure GB has been in charge of that from the outset. TB just handled the media and started wars with falsified data.

Fair enough. I can only assume we sent some bad ones. Sorry. Probably why they are down there and not up here.

Cheers,

FT.