Happy Mr Burns Night to all our kilt-wearing NSCers

[jakarta]

Politically and as someone who just happened to be born in Scotland, I am afraid that I cannot in any way disagree with you.

However, the original thread was about a Scottish poet of around 300 years ago so perhaps you could re-read the post which contained nothing nationalistic as indeed the works of Burns equally did not.

I'm sorry, Burns Night has become in my experience utterly Scottish Nationalistic (or at least the ones I have had to sit through when working offshore).

If it was indeed the celebration of Scottish Poetry I somehow doubt if many of the oil rig workers would have got too worked up.....

In retrospect I was probably more pissed off that we were having a 'Dry' Burns Night!

 

[Mendoza]

Merry Burns Night to Brighton Scottish legends
Gordon Greer
Craig Mackail-Smith
Doug Rougvie
Neil McNab
Graeme Smith
Adam Virgo
Paul Dickov
Silky Dave Cameron
Gordon Smith
Paul McDonald
Stephen Thompson
and
Franciso Sandaza

 

[little al]

Merry Burns Night to Brighton Scottish legends
Gordon Greer
Craig Mackail-Smith
Doug Rougvie
Neil McNab
Graeme Smith
Adam Virgo
Paul Dickov
Silky Dave Cameron
Gordon Smith
Paul McDonald
Stephen Thompson
and
Franciso Sandaza

You forgot...Dougie Freedman.

 

[The Peanut Roaster]

I'm sorry, Burns Night has become in my experience utterly Scottish Nationalistic (or at least the ones I have had to sit through when working offshore).

If it was indeed the celebration of Scottish Poetry I somehow doubt if many of the oil rig workers would have got too worked up.....

In retrospect I was probably more pissed off that we were having a 'Dry' Burns Night!

Maybe so, but a good Haggis tastes superb.

 

[fork me]

 

[jakarta]

Maybe so, but a good Haggis tastes superb.

Got no problems with haggis, just no whisky available!

BTW I am not a xenophobe, have got on OK with most of the Sweaties I have encountered offshore over the past 20 years but the SNP have changed the whole political scene (maybe for the better?) and I think we need an amicable divorce (and that goes for Ulster & Wales as well).

I know some on this site will say 'Little Englander' but I wonder just how 'small' and 'isolated' a country of 55 million people would be compared to the Celtic Fringe?

 

[Dandyman]

Then let us pray that come it may,
(As come it will for a' that,)
That Sense and Worth, o'er a' the earth,
Shall bear the gree, an' a' that.
For a' that, an' a' that,
It's coming yet for a' that,
That Man to Man, the world o'er,
Shall brothers be for a' that.

 

[ferring seagull]

I'm sorry, Burns Night has become in my experience utterly Scottish Nationalistic (or at least the ones I have had to sit through when working offshore).

If it was indeed the celebration of Scottish Poetry I somehow doubt if many of the oil rig workers would have got too worked up.....

In retrospect I was probably more pissed off that we were having a 'Dry' Burns Night!

Well, thank you for your reply and I can, to some extent, appreciate that you may have been less than enamoured under the circumstances but at least you don't appear to have found the company too bad.

The Scottish Nationalistic thing is not something I would have expected but, there again, I have been away for many years. Irrespective, my comments re Burns (and Burns Suppers) remain and something I would certainly recommend under the right circumstances, certainly not dry circumstances.

 

[perseus]

What to do with cold leftover Haggis ?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

What to do with cold leftover Haggis ?

Save it for next year

 

[perseus]

Save it for next year

Tats's a Hoot