Excellent! Nice to see Leon is performing his cultural duties.

Funnily enough when my mother was in Paris, saying she was "Ecosse" evoked a totally different reaction to "Anglais." 


Make mine an Irn Bru - FSN

Quote from: fsn on 08 November 2014, 12:24:12 PM
Excellent! Nice to see Leon is performing his cultural duties.

Funnily enough when my mother was in Paris, saying she was "Ecosse" evoked a totally different reaction to "Anglais." 


Make mine an Irn Bru - FSN

Yes, he does a very good job explaining British culture and politics to me.

There is sympathy for the Scots on the continent, especially since Brave Heart.

Many years ago, at the height of the "Lamb War," two carloads of us, a mix of Scots and Norwegians, went on holiday to the South of France. On a trip to the Camargue we arrived at the Bac du Sauvage chain ferry, which was on the opposite bank. No amount of waiting and waving persuaded the ferry to come pick us up so we turned the cars to head back the way we came. The moment the Scottish and Norwegian stickers on the rear of the cars were visible the ferry chugged it's way to us.

Isn't Poland the Belgium of the East - a place for Germans to march through on their way to invade somewhere else?

An American colleague remarked to a Polish one a while ago that it was amazing that Poland existed at all, being squashed between two aggressive superpowers. The Pole, who knew more history, and I had to point out that the real wonder was that Germany had ever got a seat at the grown-ups' table, being stuck for most of its own history between two more consistently aggressive superpowers like Poland and France, and to this day remaining seriously divided.

Just noticed your side bar comment FK!

Brilliant.

'strue, innit?

But can he sculpt sombreros and ponchos? 

Who keeps letting colonels into the senior officers' mess?

If you're going to be rude, I'll take my unpaid slate elsewhere

You know, for the sake of partity, we should have some 'English Jokes'...

I know you boys won't dissappoint!

Quote from: mad lemmey on 09 November 2014, 08:39:01 PM
You know, for the sake of partity, we should have some 'English Jokes'...

David Cameron?  Or is he Scottish? 

Mollinary

No stateless - no country would have him....

IanS