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   XPost: soc.culture.scottish   
   From: ccaine@worldnet.att.net   
      
   "allan connochie"  wrote in message   
   news:KN7Ci.2326$gA6.1326@newsfe2-gui.ntli.net...   
   >   
   > "The Highlander"  wrote in message   
   > news:rvkhd35plgkrf1qh27jbrt36kbmielu5t7@4ax.com...   
   >> On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:06:07 GMT, "Chess One"    
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>>"allan connochie"  wrote in message   
   >>>news:IhLxi.11236$mZ5.7031@newsfe6-win.ntli.net...   
   >>>   
   >>>> It just seems to show more of his general lack of knowledge about   
   >>>> Scotland. Even from Soutra Hill in the Borders you can look over the   
   >>>> Lothians and Fife and see over 50 Highland peaks. We live in such a   
   >>>> small   
   >>>> country that no matter where we are we aren't far from the Highlands.   
   >>>> Likewise some foreigner   
   >>>   
   >>>hey - to whom is this braggadocio low-talk indicating? anyone who lived   
   >>>there, or is it the boast of the vulgar tourist?   
   >>>   
   >>>>crowing on about being a Highlander because of his supposed ancestry   
   >>>>doesn't mean anything either. Can there be many Scots who haven't got   
   >>>>some   
   >>>>Highland ancestry somewhere along the line?   :-)   
   >>>   
   >>>another suppositional statement presuming to reinforce a doubt based on a   
   >>>lack of direct experience of living in the country?   
   >>>   
   >>>    typical of non-highland attitude! entirely so! there is no dispute   
   >>> here   
   >>>except that of living experience against romancing and recieved tourism!   
   >>>Scotland the Wa.... !????   
   >>>   
   >>>there is another realm to these suppositonal postures, Sir, and you dinna   
   >>>ken it. so you must protest it! what else can you do to make such noise   
   >>>about what you don't know?   
   >>>   
   >>>you ask nothing directly of how it is, have no experience of it, and you   
   >>>are   
   >>>the same as those who would write of history based on politics, which has   
   >>>caused a havoc in Ireland - since the people there prefer a history based   
   >>>on   
   >>>people's experience   
   >>>   
   >>>that has been the evil which suppressed the celts, and the wormtongues   
   >>>who   
   >>>continue the triumphing noises of those who know not what they destroyed,   
   >>>and care not a single honest question   
   >>>   
   >>>Phil Innes   
   >>>   
   >>>> Allan   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >> There's a Scots word for this - haivers!   
   >>   
   >> Ye're awa wi thi faeries, laddie! Awa hame an gang tae yer beid!   
   >   
   > You have to laugh! If I was going to invent a personality for myself then   
   > I'd make it something exciting. No-one would pretend they were born in   
   > Selkirk cottage hospital and brought up in bloody Sin City (ie   
   > Bannerfield.)   
      
   Sin abounds in Bannerfield?   
   Please tell me more!   
      
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