that could change in 2014 :D
hooray for scotland
Boo for Scotland's SNP and it's short-sightedness.
I've heard some ridiculous things said by members of the SNP about how Scotland will be entirely self-sufficient if it leaves the UK.
Things about how the Oil in the seas around Scotland will immediately become Scottish, and all those British Oil companies will have to leave.
How all the military bases in Scotland will magically swap over from being British to being Scottish, and all soldiers and equipment in them will belong to Scotland.
How the country will carry on giving free education to everyone from Scotland or the EU, without the money that Britain pumps into the country.
Scotland leaving Britain is a ridiculous concept and only exists because of a self-righteous, greedy political party, who got too self-important when Britain gave Devolution of Parliament to Scotland and gave it some right to rule itself.
If you ever watch any political channels/programmes, if a member of the SNP comes on the show, they make a complete fool of themselves.
They seem to have this weird view that if the Referendum for leaving the UK is passed, that for some reason the SNP will be the only political party who will be voted in and they will have supreme rule of Scotland forever and ever.
And to curry favour with the young, the SNP managed to write in that 16-18 yeard olds get a vote too, rather than just the traditional vote of 18+.
And either I'm remembering wrong, but I think there was a poll at a number of colleges and universities, where students voted to the majority for staying in the UK.
I've got nothing wrong with Scotland or the Scottish, and it's an important part of Britain and has been for it's entire history, even prior to the unification of Scotland and England.
But the people who seem to think that they are incredibly put down by the British are just being pathetic.
Scotland has as many benefits to being British as any of the countries in the UK or Commonwealth, and some that England and Wales themselves don't have.
"Ah-loo-min-ee-um" what the forget is that
Think of Elements like;
Titanium
Actinium
Americium
Cadmium
Californium
Calcium
Barium
Caesium
Not wanting to just repeat all I said in the "Maths" topic, but 'Aluminium' is the scientifically accepted term by the International scientific community.
The discoverer of Aluminium initially wanted to call it 'Alumium', but that was shot down. So he wanted to then call it 'Aluminum', but the scientific community shot that down too.
Aluminium was chosen instead, because the "ium" suffix fits in correctly with other similar metal Elements in the Periodic Table.
But for some reason, the American's decided to ignore what the rest of the world was doing, and go for the illogical "Aluminum".
We dunked the british in boiling tar and threw chicken feathers on them.
The Brits have been doing that for Centuries, long before the Americas were ever discovered.
Enemy attacks your castle? Throw some boiling tar or oil on them.
Humiliate your enemies by tarring and feathering them.
According to Wikipedia, the first ever account of it was by King Richard I of England, who ordered it to be done to thieves in his Navy, in 1189.
Also, the above page of posts pretty much fits my point that people will always try to slander each other's nationalities based upon their historical past.
Anything that doesn't seem humane anymore is suddenly a great issue.
Let's just forget the countless improvments and technologies and advancments to science, medicine, culture, religion, geography and much more that our countries have done.
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