why David Starkey is a total knob:
Im in a strop. Burns is not a deeply boring provincial little poet, if it wasnt for burns what would you sing at new years? one of those well known English folk songs? Furthermore there's nothing wrong with having pride in national culture we have so may great things going for us up here and we aren't necessarily making a big deal out of them per se, they're just part of our everyday and every year cultural lives. For example at a Scottish wedding the men are often in kilts they look smart and, as a woman, quite sexy. The bride and groom will often walk in or out of church to the 'awful bagpipe' and we'll quite often have a ceilidh with lots of general running about for the whole family and general fun. These things are part of what make the day special for lots of Scottish couples. But maybe we should have some English culture instead, instead of the pipes could we perhaps be morris danced into the church. No?
As for 'what made England great' I don't know how anyone can even use this phrase in cold blood, what actually in Starkey's opinion actually made England 'great' we don't get to find out but if he's referring to the empire, that wasn't England that was Britain. I actually believe in full devolution for Scotland but since we don't have it and didn't have it for the time when Britain became 'great' (for the sake of argument when the empire was all pure stomping about like a great bully) then we should get as much credit as England, the Scots went out and built the empire and fought in the wars and yes Dave, we made Britain, oh, sorry, England, great. In our little country.
You cannot selectively claim the Scots if ye so badly want tae keep us ye cannae dingy us when it suits ye. (sorry, would you like that subtitled?)
There's nothing wrong with being a little country, Little does not mean bad
Yours,
a feeble little country.
Well. I feel much better now.
Im in a strop. Burns is not a deeply boring provincial little poet, if it wasnt for burns what would you sing at new years? one of those well known English folk songs? Furthermore there's nothing wrong with having pride in national culture we have so may great things going for us up here and we aren't necessarily making a big deal out of them per se, they're just part of our everyday and every year cultural lives. For example at a Scottish wedding the men are often in kilts they look smart and, as a woman, quite sexy. The bride and groom will often walk in or out of church to the 'awful bagpipe' and we'll quite often have a ceilidh with lots of general running about for the whole family and general fun. These things are part of what make the day special for lots of Scottish couples. But maybe we should have some English culture instead, instead of the pipes could we perhaps be morris danced into the church. No?
As for 'what made England great' I don't know how anyone can even use this phrase in cold blood, what actually in Starkey's opinion actually made England 'great' we don't get to find out but if he's referring to the empire, that wasn't England that was Britain. I actually believe in full devolution for Scotland but since we don't have it and didn't have it for the time when Britain became 'great' (for the sake of argument when the empire was all pure stomping about like a great bully) then we should get as much credit as England, the Scots went out and built the empire and fought in the wars and yes Dave, we made Britain, oh, sorry, England, great. In our little country.
You cannot selectively claim the Scots if ye so badly want tae keep us ye cannae dingy us when it suits ye. (sorry, would you like that subtitled?)
There's nothing wrong with being a little country, Little does not mean bad
Yours,
a feeble little country.
Well. I feel much better now.
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But yes thats one hell of a duck.
Im glad I bought two.