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Why are the great people of Scotland subsidising these vagabonds?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DtDwpYfqL4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0-r4DnZMbo

Is there a website or document to view the official figures for Northern Ireland and Wales?

I was partly looking for a bit of reaction, Sodje. Although Scotland's great history of invention and discovery etc can be something well worth bringing up at times.

I'd love us to become an official atheist/agnostic state post-independence.

Hardly surprising to read a comment like this given your already rotten contribution to the thread. I think you'll find that more or less every G8 country gets pumped senseless in standard of living, quality of life, general happiness, equality, GDP per capita and HDI tables by nations like Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Switzerland.

Oh dear. I think you'll find Scots have many reasons to be arrogant, champ.

http://newsnetscotland.com/index.php/scottish-news/5813-scotland-tops-global-university-rankings?format=pdf http://tattie-scones.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/scotland-has-proportionally-more-top.html http://www.snp.org/media-centre/news/2012/sep/scotland-leads-universities-table I could list ten incredible Scots and their contributions to the world and they would compare with any other nation in the world. Lets see: John Logie Baird - invented the television Alexander Graham Bell - invented the telephone Andrew Carnegie - steel tycoon and one of the richest men in history, helped revolutionise the modern city and the USA Alexander Fleming - discovered penicillin, one of the most important discoveries in the history of mankind David Hume - one of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy James Hutton - the father of modern geology David Livingstone - Africa's most famous explorer, the first (Westerner) to discover Victoria Falls James Clerk Maxwell - unified electricity, magnetism and optics into a consistent theory, he's third only to Einstein and Newton Adam Smith - the father of modern economics James Watt - invented the first useful steam engine, which ultimately brought about the industrial revolution The scary thing is, people like Joseph Black, Robert Watson-Watt and James Young Simpson (to name but a few) aren't even on my list, as well as many great Scottish writers. Then there are folk like James Cook and Peter Higgs who have a Scottish mum or dad and are therefore half-Scottish. It's incredible really. Good Lord.

Huh? The phrase "thanks for playing" is pretty popular, granted vikingTON says it also. I was dealing in facts and was spot on in what I said. Cheers.

Well... the political scandal is a unionist one for starters, and as for what you are claiming to be 'generalisations': they aren't. Scotland is not subsidised in any way, shape or form - Norn Iron is. I wouldn't question the intellect of Scots either given the number of incredible things we have done for the world and given that, proportionately, we have more universities in the QS top 100 rankings than any other nation on Earth. Thanks for playing anyway.

I thought that Norn Iron had "moved on" nowadays?