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  • #122
    Del.Monte
    Registered Users Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    "Flower of Scotland" is better than "Ireland's Call" - anything else?

    ****



  • #123
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,784 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    realdanbreen wrote: »
    Well that's me finished with everything Scottish. Starting with. ...ahem. ...give me a minute. ...ahem. .....well I'm not wearing tartan ever again!

    Hmmm... ye can feck off if you think I'm pouring my Scotch down the drain for a lump of rock in the middle of nowhere!

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #124
    blinding
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭blinding


    A People that cannot ‘ Fight “ their Way out of the British Union in a Free Referendum do not deserve to be called a Nation or a People .

    After there failure to take their own Independence they should have been called Northern England / Northern Britain .

    They are not a Nation or a National People .


  • #125
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,784 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Del.Monte wrote: »
    "Flower of Scotland" is better than "Ireland's Call" - anything else?

    Glenlivet, Glenfiddich, Glen Goyne, Jura, Talisker, Macallan, Bowmore, Highland Park, Laphroaig, Springbank, Speyburn... impressive first 11 for the Scotch there.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #126
    realdanbreen
    Registered Users Posts: 8,060 ✭✭✭realdanbreen


    Del.Monte wrote: »
    "Flower of Scotland" is better than "Ireland's Call" - anything else?
    Flower of Scotland is only for pansies@


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  • #127
    janfebmar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,424 ✭✭✭janfebmar


    Blinky Plebum wrote: »

    You can't claim sovereignty over something that is completely uninhabitable.

    A SAS man was able to live on it for a few months, as far as I remember.


  • #128
    Psychlops
    Registered Users Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭Psychlops


    The Brits actually stationed Troops there too...

    https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/from-the-archive-blog/2013/may/28/rockall-nick-hanckock-archive


  • #129
    Patser
    Registered Users Posts: 7,859 ✭✭✭Patser


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    Nah, their fighting days are behind them. All alcos since they got a lifetime supply of booze for Guinness ad appearances.

    Naval Toucans never forget their true calling - especially if we threaten to cut off their Guinness supply- what'll the Scots offer them? Tennants- fairly sure the Geneva convention lists Tennants under war crimes.


  • #130
    boetstark
    Registered Users Posts: 825 ✭✭✭boetstark


    bob mcbob wrote: »
    Ahem.

    https://www2.gov.scot/Topics/marine/Compliance/resources/Vessels

    Britain's sea fisheries have been protected and controlled by the authority of Parliament for nearly 200 years, but in 1882 responsibility for protecting Scottish waters was given to the Fishery Board for Scotland.

    The first vessel that the Board took over was a former Royal Navy sailing cutter "Vigilant", which had worked for some years on protection tasks. Over the years, new ships were added to the fishery protection fleet and responsibility for managing the task of fishery protection was transferred at different times to various Government bodies, including the Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency and now Marine Scotland Compliance.

    Currently, Marine Scotland Compliance has three ships in its fleet of Marine Protection Vessels (MPVs):

    MPV Minna

    MPV Minna was built at Ferguson's Shipyard, Port Glasgow and was launched in 2003. She is 42 metres in length and has a gross tonnage of 781. She has a crew of 15, a top speed of 14 knots and is used mainly for inshore enforcement tasks.

    MPV Jura

    MPV Jura was built at Ferguson's Shipyard, Port Glasgow. She was launched in 2005 and entered service in March 2006. Currently the largest vessel in the fleet - at 1 tonne heavier than the MPV Hirta - she is 84 metres in length and has a gross tonnage of 2,181. She has a crew of 17, a top speed of 18 knots and is used mainly for offshore enforcement tasks.

    MPV Hirta

    MPV Hirta is the newest of our ships and is the same type of ship as the FPV Jura. Built at the Remontowa Yard in Gdansk, Poland she entered service in 2008. She is 84 metres in length and has a gross tonnage of 2,181. She has a crew of 17, a top speed of 18 knots and is used mainly for offshore enforcement tasks.

    Plus Google HMNB Clyde and see what the Scottish Government absolutely have at their disposal. I think for what its worth GB is itchy to give Ireland a slap , considering Irish ministers interference over Brexit


  • #131
    Patser
    Registered Users Posts: 7,859 ✭✭✭Patser


    janfebmar wrote: »
    A SAS man was able to live on it for a few months, as far as I remember.

    But according to wikipedia he was Irish born, so we claim him as a double agent.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockall


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  • #132
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,784 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Patser wrote: »
    Naval Toucans never forget their true calling - especially if we threaten to cut off their Guinness supply- what'll the Scots offer them? Tennants- fairly sure the Geneva convention lists Tennants under war crimes.

    All the whisky they can drink!

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #133
    archer22
    Registered Users Posts: 2,116 ✭✭✭archer22


    blinding wrote: »
    A People that cannot ‘ Fight “ their Way out of the British Union in a Free Referendum do not deserve to be called a Nation or a People .

    After there failure to take their own Independence they should have been called Northern England / Northern Britain .

    They are not a Nation or a National People .

    Actually the Scots were never forced into the union...there was only hundreds of years of back and forth invasions between England and Scotland.
    England invading Scotland, Scotland invading England and so on over and over.

    Eventually it was sorted when a Scottish king became king of England...so in that sense it was actually the Scots who took over England.

    The history between Scotland and England is very different to the history between Ireland and England.
    Also the English and Scots shared the same religion, which bonded them closer.


  • #134
    [Deleted User]
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    archer22 wrote: »
    Actually the Scots were never forced into the union...there was only hundreds of years of back and forth invasions between England and Scotland.
    England invading Scotland, Scotland invading England and so on over and over.

    Eventually it was sorted when a Scottish king became king of England...so in that sense it was actually the Scots who took over England.

    The history between Scotland and England is very different to the history between Ireland and England.
    Also the English and Scots shared the same religion, which bonded them closer.

    Scotland was broke due to its American misadventures and needed bailing out.


  • #135
    [Deleted User]
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    boetstark wrote: »
    Plus Google HMNB Clyde and see what the Scottish Government absolutely have at their disposal. I think for what its worth GB is itchy to give Ireland a slap , considering Irish ministers interference over Brexit

    A cornered rat comes to mind...

    Also, we arrested a couple of Nordy fishermen lately. Those that once purported to rule the waves will not have liked that.


  • #136
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    recedite wrote: »
    Its more or less 50;50, until the Scots roll out the Loch Ness Monster.
    At that point, all the Irish fish change sides.

    Agreed, look if the Scots deploy oul Nessie and if you are an Irish fish then you better go turncoat lest ye be gobbled up...


  • #137
    Nobelium
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭Nobelium


    Church on Tuesday wrote: »
    Agreed, look if the Scots deploy oul Nessie and if you are an Irish fish then you better go turncoat lest ye be gobbled up...

    You also need to factor in the Scots have Iron Bru


  • #138
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users Posts: 3,133 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    Patser wrote: »
    But according to wikipedia he was Irish born, so we claim him as a double agent.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockall

    i can't find it, was he born in Howth ???


  • #139
    Nobelium
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭Nobelium


    Hamsterchops wrote: »
    i can't find it, was he born in Howth ???

    Indeed, it hardly could be classed as Ireland. Another territorial dispute.


  • #140
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    Nobelium wrote: »
    You also need to factor in the Scots have Iron Bru

    We may as well give up now then so :(


  • #141
    boetstark
    Registered Users Posts: 825 ✭✭✭boetstark


    Chinese whospers wrote: »
    A cornered rat comes to mind...

    Also, we arrested a couple of Nordy fishermen lately. Those that once purported to rule the waves will not have liked that.

    A fly on an elephant's arse springs to mind ðŸ˜


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  • #142
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    boetstark wrote: »
    A fly on an elephant's arse springs to mind ðŸ˜

    Calling the EU an elephant is simply gauche :P


  • #143
    AMKC
    Registered Users Posts: 15,508 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    The Scottish want ''Rockall'' back. So should we let them have it or so we fight for it for our hard working fishermen and women?

    https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2019/0608/1054211-rockall-fishing/

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



  • #144
    Pawwed Rig
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 22,289 CMod ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    They already own it but I'm in if we are invading


  • #145
    Blueshoe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    Nobody


  • #146
    Balanadan
    Site Banned Posts: 725 ✭✭✭Balanadan


    We should declare a jihad against Scotland if they threaten our country.


  • #147
    Wheeliebin30
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,593 ✭✭✭Wheeliebin30


    But what about da homeless?


  • #148
    Alrigghtythen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,365 ✭✭✭Alrigghtythen


    Balanadan wrote: »
    We should declare high jnyx against Scotland if they threaten our country.

    Fixed that for you


  • #149
    mikemac2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,926 ✭✭✭mikemac2


    I was going to call for a boycott of irn-bru and battered mars bars but that already exists


  • #150
    SeaFields
    Registered Users Posts: 6,551 ✭✭✭SeaFields


    We're going to invade and Scotland will be waiting for us but just as England come to help Scotland we join with Scotland and both fight the English!

    I seen it in a film.


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  • #151
    Rubberchikken
    Registered Users Posts: 5,083 ✭✭✭Rubberchikken


    people have gone to war for less.

    count me in.


    btw...what rock??


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