In Northern Scotland, the Neolithic Age Never Ended
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In Northern Scotland, the Neolithic Age Never Ended
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#2Well, it wasn't that bad when I visited Scotland last time
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#4You know I wondered who those guys throwing spears at the busses were. Thought they’d just come doon the watter.
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#5Not true. They definitely didn't have deep fried Mars bars in the Stone Age.
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#6You know I wondered who those guys throwing spears at the busses were. Thought they’d just come doon the watter.
Just Wishaw things.
I used to work with a guy whose parents were Pakistani but who had been born in Scotland, although he had quite a strong accent from living with his grandparents for several years. People used to ask him "So where are you really from?" quite often.
"I'm from Wishie", he'd say.
"No but where are you really from?"
"Well, dinna tell onyone," he'd say, dialling up the Lanarkshire accent, "but I'm really from Newmains, but if they hear I'm from there they'll think I'm a bam"
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#7I read George Mackay Brown in high school - Greenvoe and An Orkney Tapestry were the set texts in 2nd year and 3rd year respectively - and I was struck by the immense sense of depth of history from a living poet. It's difficult to explain what reading An Orkney Tapestry was like for the first time. It's like seeing Saturn's rings through a telescope with your own eyes for the first time except it's a telescope that's letting you see in crisp sharp focus all the way through 5000 years of time, instead of 750 million miles. From where I was standing aged 14 in a fairly small town on the Isle of Skye, 5000 years seemed a hell of a lot further.
I've been to Orkney several times, and it's an incredible place. The people who built Skara Brae had more advanced architecture than the Romans did (at least, they had better drains, and understood things like septic tanks and keeping drainage away from water supplies).
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#8Not true. They definitely didn't have deep fried Mars bars in the Stone Age.
Deep fried Mars bars are an English thing.
Re: In Northern Scotland, the Neolithic Age Never Ended
#9Not true. They definitely didn't have deep fried Mars bars in the Stone Age.
Deep fried Mars bars are an English thing.
The origins of the Deep Fried Mars Bar are disputed but all of the people doing the disputing appear to be here in Scotland?
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#10Not true. They definitely didn't have deep fried Mars bars in the Stone Age.
Deep fried Mars bars are an English thing.
They were supposedly invented in Scotland, and I've not seen them sold in an English fish and chip shop. Go to Scotland however and they're not uncommon.