Do all Scots hate the English?

Do all Scots hate the English?

  • Yes

    Votes: 17 32.1%

  • No

    Votes: 36 67.9%
  • Total voters
    53
  • Poll closed .
Basher said:
Being Yorkshire and English and living in England, I agree with most of the above. ;)

Lots of Scots live round these parts. Have no problems with them. Quite friendly people. Then again, you can't get much friendlier than a Yorkie.
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Dislike Yorkies, yappy wee dugs.
 
Iaing said:
As far as sport is concerned, it is a rivalry. Just like Utd. and City, Spurs and Arsenal etc. The most bitter rivalries are between close neighbours.

From a political perspective, I believe Scots are sick of being patronised by the English, whether it is the wee things like the mocking of the accent or national dress. Or the big things like being told that independence won't work like a child being rebuked by an older sibling.
Or the stupid, laughable things like David Cameron's pathetic attempt at quoting Burns in the Commons on Wednesday.
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I don't think the Scots are patronised.

Most English people admire Scottish national dress, we don't have one, apart from the bowler hat or dressing like a morris dancer. I married in Highland dress as a mark of respect to my wife.

Whether independence will work is at the moment a matter of personal opinion. Personally I think the UK is greater than the sum of it's parts.

How many Scots do you know who can make a passable attempt at quoting Burns or indeed understand it?

you know where you are with a bit of Shakespeare! ;)
 
Iaing said:
As far as sport is concerned, it is a rivalry. Just like Utd. and City, Spurs and Arsenal etc. The most bitter rivalries are between close neighbours.

From a political perspective, I believe Scots are sick of being patronised by the English, whether it is the wee things like the mocking of the accent or national dress. Or the big things like being told that independence won't work like a child being rebuked by an older sibling.
Or the stupid, laughable things like David Cameron's pathetic attempt at quoting Burns in the Commons on Wednesday.
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The Scots want independence and I think this plays a big part in their dislike for the English and I don't blame them.

But....as an Englishman, I would like us to have our independence too! It's so annoying having to select 'UK' on a form - I want to select 'English' or 'England'.

Independence didn't work out so well for Ireland and if the same happens to Scotland then so be it. But I do think that England would be best placed to survive being independent.
 
leaney said:
The Scots want independence and I think this plays a big part in their dislike for the English and I don't blame them.

But....as an Englishman, I would like us to have our independence too! It's so annoying having to select 'UK' on a form - I want to select 'English' or 'England'.

Independence didn't work out so well for Ireland and if the same happens to Scotland then so be it. But I do think that England would be best placed to survive being independent.
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The Scots want Independence - really? I would say that currently, based on the people I speak to on a daily basis, Salmond is heading for a humping. If he was so sure of a victory he would go for a referendum now, rather than allow himself two years to drum up support. If he was so sure of overwhelming support he could declare independence now - this isn't Jugoslavia, the British Army is hardly likely to invade to secure the union.
 
Apologies.
I wasn't aware that prior to the Irish war of independance the country was called The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
I always thought it was just called Great Britain.

For someone born and brought up in the West of Scotland my knowledge of Irish history is woefully inadequate.
 
Hate is a strong word to be honest,its a media thing to be honest i've some great guys in the past from over the wall.

But last year i had the misfortune of playing with 2 from Manchester when i was on holiday in Ireland ,there was a squad of them playing in the same comp as me ,what a right shower of w*****s they were.One of them asked me if i'd played here before i said i had ,he said well you can show me where to go as i couldn't be arsed playing my practise round, as i'm the shy retiring type i simplY told him to F OFF, he didn't take to kind to that the knob.
 
I always find this "scenario" awkward as when it comes to sport I am English through and through and admit to being anti-scot at times. I am half Scottish though and my mum was born in Glasgow and, from what I've been told, hated the English and then met my Dad :) She sadly died when I was a babe and my 2 sisters and brothers and I were sent to a Scottish boarding school - in Watford !! So my brother is a great piper and all 3 of us girls can do a mean Highland Fling - if my elder sisters were fit enough! If she had lived then we would have been brought up to be way more Scottish than English as she ruled the roost. My eldest sister is much more pro Scottish than me when it comes to the rugby etc but she had longer with the influence of my Mum...

I think it's a shame when it gets out of hand although fortunately this only tends to be on the sporting stage at the moment. The current political edge to it just fuels the flames - not a clue where that will end up.
 
The older generation perpetuate any anti English feelings unfortunately, they instilled it in their kids that just see it as normal. The football crowd who support anyone against the English is just ridiculous.

I'm loyal to Scotland first and Great Britain second but never to the detriment of another nation of the UNITED kingdom.

Salmond is egotistical and wants in the history books IMO, we had independence 300 yrs ago, didn't turn out well, do we never learn!
 
What a class thread, there is 2 things I seriously hate about England, they don't do square sausage or plain bread,other than that's it's spot on ;)

As for the hatred of teams, it's a rivalry nothing more, most scots do not want the England national team to do well in the same mould most Rangers or Celtic fans will not wish well on the opposite team.
 
I'll not go on a rant about independence on this, I promise!

I don't hate the English as a nation, my dad and sister are from Newton Heath.I have a healthy dislike of some people who by co-incidence are English, but the same can be said about some Scottish people I know.The entire Match of The Day panel for example.
 
Dodger said:
I voted Aye.:whistle::smirk:
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Ha! I was going to say it was a good question because all the English haters are sitting there biting their tongues that they can't post what they REALLY feel because it's embarrassing to say on an open forum that you carry a prejudice.................... and then up steps Dodger :D
 
It's "No" for me.

I do always support whoever England are playing at sport but that's just rivalry and probably affected more by the biased commentary.

As for independence - there's no desire for it here which is why Salmond is delaying the vote on it. He'll try to weasel us into it somehow, horrible man!
 
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