Why are the English so Rubbish at Sport?

[thalbergmad]

Sorry, i thought i read somewhere that you were scottish.

He was and is, but like many Scots, he has come south of the border for a better lifestyle.

It must be a pleasure to eat breakfast without having to shoot it first.

Thal

[naughtius-maximus]

He was and is, but like many Scots, he has come south of the border for a better lifestyle.

It must be a pleasure to eat breakfast without having to shoot it first.

Thal

yes, those haggis run very fast.

[ahinton]

He was and is, but like many Scots, he has come south of the border for a better lifestyle.

May I remind you, Thal, that at the age when I came "south of the border" to live, the notion of "a better lifestyle" was not exactly a major priority of mine; not only that, even the idea that there might have been a "better lifestyle" anywhere else in the British isles at that time would have been seriously open to challenge.

It must be a pleasure to eat breakfast without having to shoot it first.

What would be the point of shooting a bottle of fine malt?

Best,

Alistair

[thalbergmad]

In addition, having to walk 3 miles to get water from the spring whilst evading cattle theives, must have been rather exhausting.

Thanks to English tax payers money, Scotland is beginning to dig itself out of the dark ages. In some areas, they are even starting to undo the chains on the playground swings on the Sabbath.

Thal

[thalbergmad]

What would be the point of shooting a bottle of fine malt?

You have that for breakfast!!!!!!!!!

What about oatcakes, porridge, kippers and freshly skinned rabbit?

Thal

PS: if the cook from the Cape Wrath Hotel happens to see this, stop poaching from the river.

[ahinton]

In addition, having to walk 3 miles to get water from the spring whilst evading cattle theives, must have been rather exhausting.

In my early years in Scotland, "thieves" were at least spelt correctly and tended, as now, to go for wallets rather than cows. In one of the places where I lived in that country, there was a spring that ran through the garden.

Thanks to English tax payers money, Scotland is beginning to dig itself out of the dark ages.

Those, I take it, are the "dark ages" in which Scottish laws were developed and exported to england for the use of the English; I don't think that scotland benefitted much from English taxpayers' money in those days. anyway, regrettable though I myself find it to be, it is surely some Scots who are now digging the English INTO a new dark age, given that the present and immediate past Prime Minister, the present and immediate past Chancellor of the Exchequer, the past Prime Minister's two predecessors as party leader, the past two leaders of the Liberal Democrat party and the present and last-but-one leader of the Tory party in Britain were/are Scots.

In some areas, they are even starting to undo the chains on the playground swings on the Sabbath.

Even were that true, would that not be somewhat insignificant by comparison to the shameful undoing of the entire pensions industry that has been occurring over the past ten years at the hands of a certain Scot?

Best,

Alistair

[pianochick93]

If I were a Scot, i'd wish to be an Englishman.

But Scots have cooler accents!

[mephisto]

Alistair don't you think that it is quite ironic that someone like you who have admited to not liking sports at all, have contributed to approximately half of the posts in this topic?

[thalbergmad]

But Mephisto, none of his posts mention sport

Thal

[ahinton]

Alistair don't you think that it is quite ironic that someone like you who have admited to not liking sports at all, have contributed to approximately half of the posts in this topic?

No, not really, but then I am unaware of having admitted to not "liking sports at all", although I do not doubt that I have admitted to not liking to participate in them (and I am neither talented nor fit enough to do so, either, so there'd be little point in my trying to do so even if I wanted to), so I hope that this clarifies one part of the answer that you presumably seek; the other is that I have replied to things that have been addressed in my direction (or at least in the direction of Scots) and, if that constitutes off-topicness, then I must ask you to look first at those who have made the comments to which I replied before asking me about that perceived irony!

Certain English folk might even remark that your comment here is simply not cricket!

Best,

Alistair