Scotland vote explained for non brits. plus it uses TG (I think)

Started by TheBadger, September 18, 2014, 09:28:42 PM

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TheBadger

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2014/sep/17/scottish-referendum-explained-for-non-brits-video

Found this from digg.com, which I found by clicking on the link on the left side of the forum<------ Over there. By the way, has that always been there? I just noticed it.

Anyway, Im pretty sure this explanation of the how the vote for Scottish independence came about uses Terragen in the video. See for your self, its short but its clearly there. So thats why Im posting this. And if it is TG, who do we believe made it?

Happy Independence Day tomorrow!.. Or not?  ??? Maybe happy, Better Together Day? Either way you should have some fireworks.
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Oshyan

Terragen? Or just Scotland being Scotland? We may never know! :D

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mr-miley

That was actually a pretty good explanation of the whole sorry mess. Made me laugh too!
I live in Wales (UK) and as Wales has a similar sort of devolved power setup as Scotland, the Welsh have been getting a bit of a bee in their welsh bonnets about the whole Scotland thing, because a lot of them think "we could be next" I'm sure that most UK residents will be soooo glad that this whole referendum thing is over as it means that we can have something different on the news / current affairs TV programmes for a change.
By the way, though I live in Wales, and have done for 20 odd years, am married to a Welsh woman, and have 2 Welsh daughters, I'm Cornish (the bottom west bit of the UK that sticks out) A far superior area of the UK than both Scotland and Wales put together! We don't want independence from the UK because we already know that we are far superior to every one else, so it doesn't really matter  ;D
Thank god that no one that I know who is Welsh will read this, otherwise I'd be in big trouble for saying that  :D
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Hannes

Looks a bit like TG Classic. Except the clouds.
We're all crazy. No matter what we're looking at, our whole life seems to be a constant TG/reality comparison. ;D

PabloMack

Quote from: mr-miley on September 19, 2014, 07:37:45 AMA far superior area of the UK than both Scotland and Wales put together!

We recently had dinner with the cousin and (common law or partner?) "wife" of a friend of mine. He is native (ethnic British) Australian and she is German. Somehow we got on the subject of Scottish Engineers (I think a reference to Star Trek was in there somewhere) and she said that Germans regard Scotts as being "superior". Knowing she is ethnic German (very fair skinned with blonde hair) and being the WWII buff that I am, shivers when down my spine when she said that. I couldn't suppress wondering what my fate would have been in Nazi Germany if my ancestry would not have been judged to be so "superior".

With three known Scottish sir names in my recent ancestry, I think Scotland should remain part of the UK. In so much of Scottish history, little kingdoms were fighting one another and couldn't seem to get along. With independence, I am afraid that same thing will happen again and that won't solve anything. I think the English and Scotts are better together than separate. They are good checks on one another. I love them both.

AP

I am of the opposite thought. I wanted Scotland to break free of the British rule. Give them time for better freedom, they will figure things out. There is a massive oil reserve just north of Scotland that would boost there economy if they can grab it. I want to see smaller more localized governments as it is a start. I am sick of massive government and all of this centralized control. Does England honestly know best for Scotland? Besides, as people are starting to figure all of this out I see more often now a days that they are crying out for separating from big daddy government anyways. It's growing all over weather we like it or not. 

http://youtu.be/BCk3wHAwKqY?list=UU0RJJ_Wm7jyOU9eY10LgcwA

PabloMack

Quote from: ChrisC on September 20, 2014, 01:07:39 PMI am of the opposite thought. I wanted Scotland to break free of the British rule.

Don't you mean "English rule"? The Scotts ARE British and it was the joining of the Scotts, Welsh and English that created the "British" in the first place. So if Scotland breaks free then what is next? The clans are going to want to break free of the other Scotts. Remember that it was only that they had a common perceived enemy (real or otherwise) in the English that made them cooperate with each other. Before that, they couldn't get along.