tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post7834673003291946731..comments2024-03-29T01:33:01.670+00:00Comments on SCOT goes POP!: Would you like to "upgrade" from Scot to Brit, sir?James Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01516007141763230886noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-38138813983398286402012-07-09T18:24:48.591+01:002012-07-09T18:24:48.591+01:00Even this woman's corrected version implies th...Even this woman's corrected version implies that you cannot be dour and British...<br /><br />...Which is pretty unbelievable for anyone who's ever been in England.<br /><br />But I completely understand the typical English conflation of English and British.<br /><br />We are but a small and relatively unimportant part of the UK, which is one of the reasons, surely, of wanting independence. So that we can cease being a small and unimportant part of someone else's country and be a big and important part of our own country.<br /><br />And I agree with you. We won't stop being British or European. These are non-negotiable geographical facts, just as the Norwegians didn't stop being Scandinavians when they got independence from Sweden. They just stopped being Swedish.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-72035763762729655412012-07-09T16:45:36.139+01:002012-07-09T16:45:36.139+01:00The tears at the end were the metaphorical bloodle...The tears at the end were the metaphorical bloodletting that middle England has demanded ever since he made the error of thinking people were grown up enough to understand "anyone but England". It would have been one thing to win, but far better to lose the way a proper Eng... sorry, Brit would do.<br /><br />ENGLAND EXPECTS EVERY MAN TO DO HIS DUTY!<br /><br />Unless he's from Scotchland, in which case hide those saltire sweatbands and doff your head in deference. We'll claim your glory as our own, but don't ask us to consider you to be a fully-fledged Eng... sorry, British citizen. Hmmm, sounds a bit like colonialism...<br /><br />It's pathetic. Andy, you'll always be a Scotsman, and we'll never ask you to prove it. Just make sure you unravel a "YES SCOTLAND" saltire when you win Wimbledon in 2014...Doug Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15017218581660887134noreply@blogger.com