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The Scots are British...!

The English have claimed that the bagpipes are a weapon of war inventing by the Scots.

On a slightly more serious note, my limited understanding tells me that both the Irish and the Scots have had bagpipes for centuries, though each country has its own design.

@Marionville "Scots are British," you are you trying to kid?
Scotland was a FREE country and so were its people UNTIL Edward the Long -Shanks, King of England DECIDED to INVADE and CLAIM as English Lands.
It may have taken a hundred or so years but the Scots and Scotland WON their Freedom and National Identity once again thankfully.
Long Live Scotland, Down with England.

@Triphid
Are you Scottish, by chance?
I know Scots hope for independence, and were independent. I know there are hard feelings.
Technically, in 2014 a Scotland majority voted to remain part of Great Britain, until a majority wins independence again.

@Triphid I am Scottish...and I’m also British. I find it amusing that you are trying to teach me my own history! It isn’t a contradiction to be both Scottish and British ...it is factually correct, just as you can be Welsh and British, Northern Irish and British, or English and British. I hope Scotland will choose to become an Independent country again the next time there’s a referendum put to its people, but until then Scotland is part of the U.K. and is British. Technically speaking anyone born on the Island of Great Britain can call themselves British, but those born on the island of Ireland can call themselves Irish or British, as Ireland although a separate island, is still part of The British Isles.

Btw...it was the Act of Union in 1603 or the Union of the Crowns which joined Scotland with England under the Scottish King James VI (James I of England), but the two countries ran as two separate entities with their own separate parliaments until the second Act of Union in 1707 in Queen Anne’s reign, when the single entity called the United Kingdom came into being, when there was the Union of the Parliaments. That second Union is the one which SNP supporters want another referendum to vote to abolish, when we will be independent of Westminster and are fully able to govern ourselves again.

@AnonySchmoose I’m Scottish and was sorry that we didn’t take the chance to be an independent country in 2014, but am hopeful that next time we get the chance to vote again for it...we will.

And we aren't asking for you to send them back.

@GeorgeRocheleau Damn! Should we drop those exports from the U$A in the mid-Atlantic trench?

@GeorgeRocheleau No matter which way you choose to look at it, I'd say the rest of the world ended up on the better end of the Deal. You in the United States of Absurdity ARE still stuck with Ham, Hovind, Monica Cole, Kenneth Copeland and a few thousand other absolute Dip-shits as well, aren't you.

@anglophone I know where we can find an active volcano. Sacrifices must be made!