Jump to content

Seven years on


Richey Edwards

Recommended Posts

7 minutes ago, The_Kincardine said:

Away to yer bed ya dope!

Ah. More abuse, but no attempt to debate the inconsistencies in his two previous posts.

How can someone believe that his nation is the UK, yet believe that his national team is Scotland?

To my mind, that's a circle that cannot be squared.

Answer the question, you thirsty, thirsty Yoon

Link to comment
Share on other sites

4 minutes ago, lichtgilphead said:

Ah. More abuse, but no attempt to debate the inconsistencies in his two previous posts.

How can someone believe that his nation is the UK, yet believe that his national team is Scotland?

To my mind, that's a circle that cannot be squared.

Answer the question, you thirsty, thirsty Yoon

How many players played for Scotland last night?  13?  

How many could vote in IndyRef2 (boak) if it was governed along the same lines as 2014?  3?

This is the idiocy of politicising a game of kickball.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

22 minutes ago, The_Kincardine said:

Away to yer bed ya dope!

This from the lad whose bed is presumably so empty he gets his jollies seeking attention on his own dying threads, trawling Twitter for like-minded racists and extremists, and hurling abuse at strangers just to have someone to interact with. Nice.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

14 minutes ago, The_Kincardine said:

How many players played for Scotland last night?  13?  

How many could vote in IndyRef2 (boak) if it was governed along the same lines as 2014?  3?

This is the idiocy of politicising a game of kickball.

Can you answer the question I asked please? To make it simple, here it is again

"How can someone believe that his nation is the UK, yet believe that his national team is Scotland?"

Where people currently reside has absolutely f*ck all to do with their nationality. I've lived in Manchester & London, however, when I did stay down south, I wouldn't expect a vote in a indyref. However, I'm still Scottish.

Edited by lichtgilphead
Link to comment
Share on other sites

16 minutes ago, lichtgilphead said:

"How can someone believe that his nation is the UK, yet believe that his national team is Scotland?"

We're all British and we're blessed with regional teams to support.

Ours happen to Scottish - which makes us both happy.

You, though, want to make a bunch of kickballers - most of whom don;t live in Scotland -  into a pathetic cause célèbre.

I choose just to enjoy football.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

That's beyond pathetic. 

My current passport still says "European Union", so, in your opinIon should I support Luxemburg, Belgium, Greece or Eire when they play each other?

Who should I support when Wales play England? I'm struggling to pick my favourite region.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

7 hours ago, The_Kincardine said:

Must be a right bitch for  you to be both Scottish and British.

I personally enjoy it - but then I'm not a small-minded xenophobe.

Then why do you support a xenophobic state and, more pertinently, why do you frequently use xenophobic, racist language and think it’s ok to promote the Tweets of extremists so vile they get banned from social media platforms? 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

7 hours ago, The_Kincardine said:

We're all British and we're blessed with regional teams to support.

Ours happen to Scottish - which makes us both happy.

You, though, want to make a bunch of kickballers - most of whom don;t live in Scotland -  into a pathetic cause célèbre.

I choose just to enjoy football.

As much as you enjoy racism and trolling in the wee hours?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

9 hours ago, The_Kincardine said:

Must be a right bitch for  you to be both Scottish and British.

I personally enjoy it - but then I'm not a small-minded xenophobe.

You know being British isn’t something I identify with

It’s a bit of a foreign concept to me

The former Welsh MP Gwynford Evans once described Britishness as….

“A political synonym for Englishness which extends English culture over the Scots, the Welsh, and the Irish.“

Which I struggle to disagree with to be honest

but I wouldn’t begrudge anyone who does since identity  it’s such an individual thing.

What I do find strange, is when people try to force an identity on you or when they get angry that you don’t share part of that identity 

They can’t just allow people to be Scottish without trying to force another identity on you or sticking a flag everywhere 

They say you can be both Scottish and British.. but they’re only happy when this concept of Britishness is the dominant culture

Scottishness is something to be mocked and dismissed by unionist in my experience

Edit: When unionist refuse to recognise the four nations of the UK, all that does for me is solidify my position on identity

Edited by Clown Job
Link to comment
Share on other sites

British nationalism does have something of a reputation.

Just do a Google image search an count the nazi salutes that appear. Nick Griffin will make an appearance.

The current Brexity Britishness has the same exclusionary roots. It treats other EU citizens as lesser. Even though it's UK citizens that have lost their rights. It is not appealing at all.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

1 hour ago, Zern said:

British nationalism does have something of a reputation.

Just do a Google image search an count the nazi salutes that appear. Nick Griffin will make an appearance.

The current Brexity Britishness has the same exclusionary roots. It treats other EU citizens as lesser. Even though it's UK citizens that have lost their rights. It is not appealing at all.

Arthur Donaldson and Andrew Gibb like this post.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

2 hours ago, strichener said:

Arthur Donaldson and Andrew Gibb like this post.

The 1930's. A period when there was quite the enthusiasm for that nice Mr Hitler and his economic policies.

Until there wasn't

Link to comment
Share on other sites

On 18/09/2021 at 18:27, Richey Edwards said:

Seven years on from the independence referendum, and it turns out that we're not Better Together after all. Who'd have thought it?

Have your views on independence changed since 2014? 

I voted Yes in 2014, and nothing since then has made me think that I was wrong to do so. If anything, events since then have only reinforced my belief that Scotland should be an independent country.

Wanted it to be over with a decisive outcome one way or the other more than anything else back in 2014 to get back to a politics that doesn't revolve around competing nationalisms as not hugely fussed either way as long as EU membership was still involved and find the zealots on both sides deeply off-putting. Doubt there's any chance of normal politics any time soon after the Brexit vote went the wrong way and Boris went full UKIP with the Tory party.

Edited by LongTimeLurker
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

Loading...
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...