Nationalism. Is there an up side?

[Red Celt]

Wait. So we're meant to exactly qualify for our online pseudonyms?

And you're debating this with a guy called "Rum"? Fuckwittedness incarnate from the Little Englanders.

[Rum]

Wait. So we're meant to exactly qualify for our online pseudonyms?

And you're debating this with a guy called "Rum"? Fuckwittedness incarnate from the Little Englanders.

Wanna call a truce Bruce?

[Clinton Huxley]

The Crying Scotsman puffs out a lot of acrid smoke but gets nowhere.

[klr]

So it begins again ...

[Cormac]

Jesus, this is fucking tiresome.

Any chance we can have a moratorium on the whole Scottish independence issue for a while?

[klr]

Jesus, this is fucking tiresome.

Any chance we can have a moratorium on the whole Scottish independence issue for a while?

... as in, for about two years.

[Cormac]

Jesus, this is fucking tiresome.

Any chance we can have a moratorium on the whole Scottish independence issue for a while?

... as in, for about two years.

That would do.

[klr]

Jesus, this is fucking tiresome.

Any chance we can have a moratorium on the whole Scottish independence issue for a while?

... as in, for about two years.

That would do.

And another month or two, just to let the recriminations die down after whatever the result is.

[mistermack]

Jesus, this is fucking tiresome.

Any chance we can have a moratorium on the whole Scottish independence issue for a while?

Hello hellooooooo, what's all this shouting?
We'll have no trouble here !!

This is a local thread, for local people. There's nothing for you here !

[Gallstones]

This idea that there should be no Nationalism has got to be one of the most childish and fanciful notions I have ever read coming out of the heads of thinking adults. To see it actually happen and become real would be the building of Hell.

Life itself knows better---variety is the spice of life AND it creates the scaffolding and, when practiced, the opportunity for novelty and different ways of thinking, different mindsets, different inspirations and motivations, different interactions. I am willing to bet money that the potential possibilities and opportunities coming from differences are exponentially greater than those of sameness.

Those who want all to be one, are you assuming it will be your idea of the one?
What if it is my version of one? Do you want to live in my version of one?


Yay, Yay USA!

[amused]

This idea that there should be no Nationalism has got to be one of the most childish and fanciful notions I have ever read coming out of the heads of thinking adults. To see it actually happen and become real would be the building of Hell.

Life itself knows better---variety is the spice of life AND it creates the scaffolding and, when practiced, the opportunity for novelty and different ways of thinking, different mindsets, different inspirations and motivations, different interactions. I am willing to bet money that the potential possibilities and opportunities coming from differences are exponentially greater than those of sameness.

Those who want all to be one, are you assuming it will be your idea of the one?
What if it is my version of one? Do you want to live in my version of one?


Yay, Yay USA!

Yup, and even then yay state's rights to fuck around with things until they fuck it up too much!

[mistermack]

What if it is my version of one? Do you want to live in my version of one?

Yay, Yay USA!

There is absolutely no chance of that happening.
I have it on good authority that an independent Scotland will be just like Swansea.

Don't let them lie to you, there is a Swansea !!

[Gallstones]

What if it is my version of one? Do you want to live in my version of one?

Yay, Yay USA!

There is absolutely no chance of that happening.
I have it on good authority that an independent Scotland will be just like Swansea.

Don't let them lie to you, there is a Swansea !!

In your dreams.

I have it on good authority that it will be my way--no highway either.
Think about that.

[charlou]

Nationalism =/= diversity.

[mistermack]

In your dreams.

I have it on good authority that it will be my way--no highway either.
Think about that.

Right, so the fifty US states are the same throughout then? Nashville sounds the same as New Orleans?
Chicago blues is just exactly the same as Bluegrass?

I just love that Alaskan Hula, the tradition goes back years.
Yep, fifty identical states, just one big mush.

Oh yeh, mush. That's what the apaches shout at their sled dogs ennit?