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CANDLES · Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2013 9:11 am Post subject:

Speedy recovery Scot. All the best. Very Happy

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

We are activel planning a Training Course for New Curmudgeonss. Start date will be be soon. Location is to be the Interstellar Cadet Academy in the Epsilon Centauri System. Payment in advance. That way, when you find you have been ripped off, you will have at least one good reason to be curmudgeonly.

Sashadroogie · Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2013 2:53 pm Post subject:

Can't we do that online? Or over Skype?

johnslat · Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2013 2:56 pm Post subject:

Dear scot47,

This flies in the face of all the latest research, which definitely proves that curmudgeons are born, not made (and it also flies in the face of Scottish predestination and Arab inshallah.)

Moreover, when did any self-respecting curmudgeon ever need a REASON to be curmudgeony?

Regards,
John

kpjf · Joined: 18 Jan 2012 Posts: 385

Sorry to hear it. I wish you a speedy recovery!

jaffa · Joined: 25 Oct 2012 Posts: 403

Sorry to hear that. Get well soon, I'm sure you will.

PS. Apologies for the jokes I make about Scotland, wherever that is, although my Mum does remind me every now and then that I'm half Jock, too Shocked

DebMer · Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2013 4:32 pm Post subject:

Glad to hear you came through it and you're on the mend, Scot47.

spiral78 · Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 11534 Location: On a Short Leash

I've been underwater with work, all-too-busily manufacturing a potential heart attack of my own, and am late here.
But no less sincere.
Recover - you're needed, and appreciated.

Mikalina · Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 8:19 pm Post subject:

Hang in there, Scotty. An independent Scotland is around the corner.....

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Is it ? The forces of reaction are stronger than you think !

Sashadroogie · Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2013 1:03 pm Post subject:

Nothing else for it then, Scot, but to declare a Scottish Soviet on behalf of the Scottish People, and just secede from the imperialist union.

History is on your side!

Wilsonthefarmer · Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2013 3:46 pm Post subject:

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Perchance they will make me the Ambassador to the US

Mikalina · Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2013 5:14 pm Post subject:

See what you mean. Was naively thinking it depended on the desires of the Scottish. Just been doing some research.
Campaign 'Better Together' (with undertones of 'Divided We Fall') has that nice Labour MP for Edinburgh (read - one of us) Alistair Darling giving positive soundbites...
Daily Mail 'feckless Scots' approach is a bit scary. You will never managed on your own "given the heavily subsidised style to which they are accustomed"
Scottish Secretary in Parliament presents a choice "to remain an integral part of the most successful partnership of nations the world has ever seen" or to "go it alone".
Telegraph poll says only 25% want separation and Times youGov poll says 59% against.
Separation will also cause: breakdown of Universities (due to shortfall in pension funds); breakup of EU (Catalonia, etc., following suit); mass rape of women during war (wombat Haig says joint prevention programme will end - always bring out the dying babies and the raped women for a virtuous stand); unemployment (CBI - and also don't need your free universities because most good jobs don't need a degree); Shetland Isle will join Norway, etc., etc.

Finally, it is Alex Salmond's 'Independence', i.e. a one man ego trip.
The English (don't believe rubbish about 'we are all British'; we call ourselves English) are not nice in a fight. We need somewhere to put our grubby toys and we need your oil, not to mention the nuclear traffic across the Atlantic.

From all the normal and decent people in England, sorry.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

I begin to understand how it must have felt to be an American colonist in the 1770s.