Highlanders v. Lowlanders

[skauwt]

Well I think Lowland Scots are spare English, 2nd class citizens in their own right

well for starters my ancestors are not spare english ,
if folk are going to be funny buggers about the origins of whose from where ..........then we are all africans at the end of the day

[Redshank]

well for starters my ancestors are not spare english ,
if folk are going to be funny buggers about the origins of whose from where ..........then we are all africans at the end of the day

I was joking hence the

[skauwt]

i must admit ya had me there , thats the thing with words i guess
though its a bid mad when you come onto this forum and everyones going on about whose from where and all that though granted folk are proud the heritage but people are people ive said it a few times on different topics but thats all we are people who are trying to recapture things and folk who are long dead and buried all that remains is what folk think these people did and speculate on evidence and data gathered over time,

im all for respecting the ancestors but i reckon if they lived today they`d have laughed at us and told us to stop out hayvering and get on with life and be thankful for what we have

[Redshank]

im all for respecting the ancestors but i reckon if they lived today they`d have laughed at us and told us to stop out hayvering and get on with life and be thankful for what we have

I reckon you may just be right

[Rob]

Well I think Lowland Scots are spare English, 2nd class citizens in their own right

But aren't the Dal Riada (Gaelic Celtic) Highland Scots just 2nd class "Johnny-come-lately" foreigners from Ireland, compared with the "indigenous" (Brythonic Celtic) Lowlanders and Picts?

[Redshank]

But aren't the Dal Riada (Gaelic Celtic) Highland Scots just 2nd class "Johnny-come-lately" foreigners from Ireland, compared with the "indigenous" (Brythonic Celtic) Lowlanders and Picts?

nice one