stevie_r
Tour Winner
I'm just waiting for the totally tedious 'the only man that entered parliament with an honest intention blah blah blah' Just don't bother doon or SILH.
Haggis
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I'm just waiting for the totally tedious 'the only man that entered parliament with an honest intention blah blah blah' Just don't bother doon or SILH.
SocketRocket
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Fair fa your honest sonsey face, great chieftan owr the pudding race. And I can address the complete verse by heart.
Foxholer
Blackballed
Who's #1 target was a Scot!
My view is that the English are quite content letting the 'other parts' of Britain celebrate their heros/champions in the arrogant belief that they have the ability to squash the dissenters when they get too rowdy!
An Aussie colleague described the phenomenon as 'small country syndrome'!
Doon frae Troon
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I don't think Guy Fawkes is celebrated anywhere else but the UK.
Burns is celebrated throughout most of the world.
Burns is celebrated throughout most of the world.
Smiffy
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Yes. A W.I. jam tasting competition
Fader
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Absolutely no Scottish connection to my family but I do love a bit of haggis after spending time up in Dundee.
As for Burns a very average poet at best, ad for England well we're not even allowed to celebrate St George's day properly without local government fearing we may offend someone for simply being patriotic.
As for Burns a very average poet at best, ad for England well we're not even allowed to celebrate St George's day properly without local government fearing we may offend someone for simply being patriotic.
Doon frae Troon
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Two posts saying Burns was an 'average' poet.
If that is the case how can you explain how widely read [and sung] his works are.
[Or is it simply that you do not understand the language he uses.]
If that is the case how can you explain how widely read [and sung] his works are.
[Or is it simply that you do not understand the language he uses.]
stevie_r
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The fact of the matter is that many Scots bang on about Burns yet couldn't quote more than a couple of lines at best.
John Keats, now there's a poet :thup:
Fader
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It's called being entitled to our own opinion. Just because something is widely read doesn't mean we all have to like it, 50 Shades of Grey is widely read to but hardly a literary masterpiece!
I can perfectly understand Burns written word it's just I don't think it's very good.
Doon frae Troon
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Somehow I don't think folk will be quoting passages of 50 shades a couple of centuries after its publication date.
Doon frae Troon
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Fair point, perhaps they should start organising Keats Suppers.
stevie_r
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SocketRocket
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Doon frae Troon
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Sort of.
I spun it to suit my point of view!
Off doon the pub now for a richt guid willie waught and a Sunday lunch to celebrate the 42nd anniversary of my wife's 21st birthday.
Foxholer
Blackballed
You'd be wrong then! But it's, not unreasonably, 'primarily' UK.
Certainly just about as big in NZ as UK. 'Celebrated' in Aus, Canada and even USA.
Anywhere where there's a Scot! Which covers most of the globe!
Smiffy
Grand Slam Winner
As opposed to Burns
"On the Ning Nang Nong
Where the Cows go Bong!
and the monkeys all say BOO!
There's a Nong Nang Ning
Where the trees go Ping!
And the tea pots jibber jabber joo.
On the Nong Ning Nang
All the mice go Clang
And you just can't catch 'em when they do!
So its Ning Nang Nong
Cows go Bong!
Nong Nang Ning
Trees go ping
Nong Ning Nang
The mice go Clang
What a noisy place to belong
is the Ning Nang Ning Nang Nong!!"
Brilliant. And I can now see why Jocks are Jocks
Doon frae Troon
Ryder Cup Winner
As opposed to Burns
"On the Ning Nang Nong
Where the Cows go Bong!
and the monkeys all say BOO!
There's a Nong Nang Ning
Where the trees go Ping!
And the tea pots jibber jabber joo.
On the Nong Ning Nang
All the mice go Clang
And you just can't catch 'em when they do!
So its Ning Nang Nong
Cows go Bong!
Nong Nang Ning
Trees go ping
Nong Ning Nang
The mice go Clang
What a noisy place to belong
is the Ning Nang Ning Nang Nong!!"
Brilliant. And I can now see why Jocks are Jocks
That sounds suspiciously like Spike Milligan.
Ireland's answer to William McGonnagal
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
I love Burns and love haggis. My love of Burns goes back to primary school when in music we learnt to recite and sing Burns poetry and songs - and were assessed by The Burns Federation (my mum still have the certificates I was awarded) - and on a school trip we were taken to Alloway, the house, museum and to the R. Afton.
And I love haggis - it does seem to be becoming rather trendy in restaurants - getting served with steaks and with chicken dishes - yummmm. And it's turnip btw. Swede???
And I love haggis - it does seem to be becoming rather trendy in restaurants - getting served with steaks and with chicken dishes - yummmm. And it's turnip btw. Swede???
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
It's the poetry of a man who understands completely the land, love and death and all things in between - and all with a social conscience (if that his own conscience wi' the lasses and bairns he sired could have been a wee bit more focussed
)
StrangelyBrown
Tour Winner
I had jerk chicken with rice and peas instead, but I had a rather large malt later on.
I have a wee haggis in the fridge, freshly shot over the weekend. Once it's hung for a while it'll be fine and tender.
I have a wee haggis in the fridge, freshly shot over the weekend. Once it's hung for a while it'll be fine and tender.
