Why do we like the scots ?

minidazzler

The Scots are exceedingly gullible people so we like them because we can take the piss and they take it in good humour.

We invented the Uillean pipes and convinced them they weren't a joke.

We invented whiskey and pretended that it wasn't disgusting so they immediately liked it!

Doc Ruby

I love the Scottish accent, its great, and we are very similar in character, sense of humour and nature I feel. Scots Gaelic is basically the same as Irish, highlighting the ancient roots that connect our two peoples, and there are efforts underway to make it the official language of Scotland, although unfortunately being closer to England they had a worse time of it in keeping up their native tongue, as it was more ruthlessly suppressed.

Obviously they'll have an easier time of it once they gain their independence, so here's hoping that happens soon.

saywhatyousee

There tight miserable so and so's with little or no sense of humor the majority of the inhabitants look like they have been sniffing paint thinner there whole life.There very hard people to warm to.

gigino

minidazzler wrote: »

The Scots are exceedingly gullible people so we like them because we can take the piss and they take it in good humour.

Even when "we" go over as migrants, set up our Irish ghettos and our Irish football clubs ( Celtic) and then sing pro-IRA songs. We can wave our tricolour at them and "we can take the piss and they take it in good humour."

Maybe we like the Scots because we are mostly ugly like them?

The King of Moo

saywhatyousee wrote: »

There tight miserable so and so's with little or no sense of humor the majority of the inhabitants look like they have been sniffing paint thinner there whole life.There very hard people to warm to.

They also stereotype entire nationalities all the time!

Doc Ruby

gigino wrote: »

Even when "we" go over as migrants, set up our Irish ghettos and our Irish football clubs ( Celtic) and then sing pro-IRA songs. We can wave our tricolour at them and "we can take the piss and they take it in good humour."

Maybe we like the Scots because we are mostly ugly like them?

You're about as Irish as Maggie Thatcher.

gigino

Doc Ruby wrote: »

You're about as Irish as Maggie Thatcher.

I am born + bred and have an Irish passport. I think you are a bit confused, bless ya. Hope you get better.

Doc Ruby

gigino wrote: »

I am born + bred and have an Irish passport. I think you are a bit confused, bless ya. Hope you get better.

In my hole you are. There's never a topic about Ireland but you and the other three leap in and lay slanders and aspersions on the good nature of the Irish people as fast as you can type. Its a sad comment on the education system of wherever it is you originated, and I think we can all make a good guess where, that attitudes such as your own are fostered in the modern world.

Eve_Dublin

mongoman wrote: »

Why do we like the scots?


What's with this 'we' business OP? Since when did you and your opinion become 'we'? Do yourself a favour and maybe just speak for yourself in future.

WoooooOOOOOOoooooooo



The Scottish are funnier than us...much darker sense of humour. Probably because their weather is more miserable. Moved there with an ex with the intention of staying long-term but left after 4 months as I couldn't handle the horizontal rain in Edinburgh. Hard to make friends with locals there though. Glasweigans are lovely. And the country is the most beautiful I've ever been to. There's other nationalities I like more but I like them overall.

gigino

Doc Ruby wrote: »

Its a sad comment on the education system of wherever it is you originated, and I think we can all make a good guess where, that attitudes such as your own are fostered in the modern world.

lol you are making a dig at our Irish education system there. Hard to believe someone as intolerant as you came out of the same system, but if you want to claim I'm from Mars you can if it makes you feel better, a chara.

Doc Ruby

gigino wrote: »

lol you are making a dig at our Irish education system there. Hard to believe someone as intolerant as you came out of the same system, but if you want to claim I'm from Mars you can if it makes you feel better, a chara.

Why would I do that when there's far more likely candidates closer to home. And only someone from that particular province would claim that slapping down racists is intolerant. What century are you living in.

Coriolanus

Doc Ruby wrote: »

In my hole you are. There's never a topic about Ireland but you and the other three leap in and lay slanders and aspersions on the good nature of the Irish people as fast as you can type. Its a sad comment on the education system of wherever it is you originated, and I think we can all make a good guess where, that attitudes such as your own are fostered in the modern world.

I'm curious as to who the other three are?

AnamGlas

GINGER STRONGHOLDS OF THE WORLD!

woodoo

saywhatyousee wrote: »

There tight miserable so and so's with little or no sense of humor the majority of the inhabitants look like they have been sniffing paint thinner there whole life.There very hard people to warm to.

Thats the Northern Irish unionists you are talking about

woodoo

Tesco Massacre wrote: »

An Afternoon in Fife by Tesco Massacre

'Here's your drink, Hamish'

'This Irn Bru tastes like pish. I did nae order a can o' pish. I'm goin home to wee Maggie and the bairn tae watch Braveheart.'

Fin.

Powerful stuff, I'm sure you'll agree.

The Scots worship irn bru tho. It out sells coke. And the scots have such lovely teeth

gigino

woodoo wrote: »

The Scots worship irn bru tho. It out sells coke. And the scots have such lovely teeth

like us Irish. But shure did'nt the first settlers in Ireland come from Scotland anyway, it being the nearest land mass . Human Beings did not evolve in Ireland before anywhere else.

Coriolanus

gigino wrote: »

like us Irish. But shure did'nt the first settlers in Ireland come from Scotland anyway, it being the nearest land mass . Human Beings did not evolve in Ireland before anywhere else.

No, no they didn't. The first settlers to Ireland more than likely came from France and England since the post glacial land bridge drew a straight line through the three landmasses practically.
The scottish however did come from Ireland.
Look up the Kingdom of Dal Riada.
Why is Scotland called Scotland? Because the romans called Irish raiders Scoti, when we "moved" to Pictland, the name stuck.

Son Of A Vidic

I don't particularly prefer the Scots over the English ect. However, after socialising with Scots on numerous occasions, I find the Scots are tight bástards with their money.

pragmatic1

I prefer the English and Welsh tbh.

Wattle

Because they're a nation of pisscans like we are.

Sindri

I don't particularly like them.

I don't particularly hate them neither.

Don't see what all the fuss is about. I do know though the Scots do not have such an affinity with us as 'we' like to think 'we' have with them.

By that I mean I hardly doubt any Scots person who is not emotionally imbalanced, or has the brain development of a 14 year old, would even consider such a question as asked by the OP in reverse.

Cool_CM

Tesco Massacre wrote: »

'This Irn Bru tastes like pish.

Irn Bru is amazing!

Canis Lupus

Cool_CM wrote: »

Irn Bru is amazing!

If that were true it'd be sold everywhere, not some backwater part of Britain.

stoneill

I heard that some Rangers supporters are Scottish!

travelledpengy

I don't like the accent but I have a good friend who is a Scot, nice people

Cool_CM

Canis Lupus wrote: »

Cool_CM wrote: »

Irn Bru is amazing!

If that were true it'd be sold everywhere, not some backwater part of Britain.

They seem to have started selling it in quite a lot of places here, you can get 6 packs of it (both normal and diet) in dunnes and tesco. I can buy it in switzerland without any major problems.

Saying that, it is and acquired taste.

Jesus Wept

Do we?

Cú Giobach

I prefer the Welsh, achos Dw i 'n hoffi a moyn siarad Cymraeg.

Caveman1

newballsplease wrote: »

The trouble with Scotland is that there's too many scots!

Could be worse, the trouble with Ireland is that there's too many foreigners

Duckworth_Luas

Cool_CM wrote: »

Irn Bru is amazing!

My teeth are rotting just looking at the words Irn Bru on my monitor!

pipelaser

Is this the guy that ****ed you over so bad that it turned you into a tremendously tetcy feminist? :rolleyes:

Eve_Dublin wrote: »

WoooooOOOOOOoooooooo



The Scottish are funnier than us...much darker sense of humour. Probably because their weather is more miserable. Moved there with an ex with the intention of staying long-term but left after 4 months as I couldn't handle the horizontal rain in Edinburgh. Hard to make friends with locals there though. Glasweigans are lovely. And the country is the most beautiful I've ever been to. There's other nationalities I like more but I like them overall.

Eve_Dublin

pipelaser wrote: »

Is this the guy that ****ed you over so bad that it turned you into a tremendously tetcy feminist? :rolleyes:

:rolleyes:

Ahhhhh shut up! You're just picking a fight with me now for absolutely no reason whatsoever? Sounds like your the one who's a little "tetchy" pal. Grow up.

44leto

I like the Scots, the Welsh and the English, but the British do my head in and you meet most of them in Northern Ireland.

Standard Toaster

Ach!! If I don't save the wee turtles, who will?

Fratton Fred

Wait until they beat you in two weeks time, you'll hate them then!

El Siglo

My reason to like the Scots...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfectchNtQM

swimming in a sea

holidays to yoker

gigino

stoneill wrote: »

I heard that some Rangers supporters are Scottish!

They heard that some Celtic supporters are Irish! To answer the OP's question, why do we like the Scots, its our shared sense of humour. Even when we migrate, set up our Irish ghettos and then sing pro-IRA songs /wave our tricolour at them, they take it in good humour.
They know deep down that we like them, as the OP says.:rolleyes:
At least they do not eat snails or talk in a foreign language.

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Sorry this is a kind of long.

the keen edge wrote: »

We think that we share with the Scots a common Celtic ancestry.

The Scotish as a whole are descended from the Irish Dal Riatans and the native Picts. These two groups mingled and homogenised in Scotland, not Ireland. The Irish settled mostly around Argyll (Beach of the Gaels) but by the 11th century or so both tribes would have seen their identity as Scottish.

The reason for the prevalence of people of Scottish people in Ireland is the plantations. Forced clearances and ethnic cleansing just aren't as romantic though.

the keen edge wrote: »

We also claim Spanish thanks to the Armada, obviously.

No we don't. The Armada playing any role in Irish society is a complete myth. There wouldn't have been a lot of time for procreation as the Irish busily hanged shipwrecked survivors or sold them to the English.

However the Irish did have extremely close trading links with the Spanish. Obviously there would have been some immigration from such sources.

Mil Espaine was apparently the first settler to Ireland and he originated from Spain. Interestingly he was meant to have journeyed with his wife Scota who may have lent her name to the Scotti.

the keen edge wrote: »

Anglo-Norman; Cambra-Norman; Viking

The impact of the Normans in Ireland wasn't that extreme. They came to rule not to settle. They didn't bring a huge influx of Normans with them or rather they did but most of their soldiers and minor nobles took the land they were paid with and either sold it (in some cases back to the original owners) or rented it before returning to England. Obviously there would have been some intermingling but nothing substantial to an established population.

The arrival of the Black Death in Ireland in 1300 odd massacred the Irish towns and cities. Obviously the proportion of mixed Norman Irish and pure Norman in such locations ensured far higher death rates amongst this segment of society.

The impact of this can be seen in the resurgence of Gaelic culture afterward.

the keen edge wrote: »

In truth your average Paddy is a mix of all these.

In truth the average Paddy is far more likely to be either from Connacht or a descendent of one of the successive waves of invasion from England and Scotland that began with the Tudors.

To give one example of this it is estimated that the death toll from the Cromwellian invasion of Ireland was around 618,000 or about 40% of the population. (This included victims of an intentional famine as well as another outbreak of the plague.) Added to this 50,000 Irish were sold as slaves and around 50,000 left as mercenaries.

These were then replaced with English and Scottish "Adventurers" as well as thousands of veterans of the New Model Army. This is the sory of thing that would have an impact on an established population!

lubo_moravcik

Hoots mon, furryboots dae yi bide?

Nodin

gigino wrote: »

They heard that some Celtic supporters are Irish! To answer the OP's question, why do we like the Scots, its our shared sense of humour. Even when we migrate, set up our Irish ghettos and then sing pro-IRA songs /wave our tricolour at them, they take it in good humour.
They know deep down that we like them, as the OP says.:rolleyes:
At least they do not eat snails or talk in a foreign language.

You typed that ignorance out before. Any reason you're treating us again?