What can we do to change the minds of decision makers and people in general to actually do something about preparing for the forthcoming economic/energy crises (the ones after this one!)?
If Scotland gets independence, I want Yorkshire to become part of Scotland
Scotland has a different social ethos from (most of) England, if you've lived there you know what I mean, if not then sorry I'm no poet/psychologizt so find it hard to put into words. But there seems to be more social cohesion, for a start. You try being a little old lady and putting "siller in the pram" for a new baby that you just happen to have smiled at in the shopping centre. In England they'd take you away. In Scotland its What You Do.
Of course if you are a Tory in England it would only make sense to support Scottish independence. But when have tories ever understood what makes sense?
RenewableCandy wrote:If Scotland gets independence, I want Yorkshire to become part of Scotland
Scotland has a different social ethos from (most of) England, if you've lived there you know what I mean, if not then sorry I'm no poet/psychologizt so find it hard to put into words. But there seems to be more social cohesion, for a start. You try being a little old lady and putting "siller in the pram" for a new baby that you just happen to have smiled at in the shopping centre. In England they'd take you away. In Scotland its What You Do.
You're right; it is difficult to put into words, but I know just what you mean. Mrs Tarrel and I have sometimes talked about this. I put it down to the climate. Without a natural tendency to pull together, people probably wouldn't survive! That's a tongue-in-cheek observation, but there may be some truth in it. In Canada they have "block parent communities". On a typical block (neighbourhood), one or more householders will volunteer to become designated "go-to" houses for kids in trouble (e.g. locked out). In a country where it routinely gets down to 30 or 40 below in winter, this facility could literally mean the difference between life and death for a child who's forgotten their key and who's parent is out at work or delayed. Can you IMAGINE that happening in England?
Of the 5 Scottish blokes I know, 2 actually live in Scotland and all of them seem to have generally the same ambitions as English blokes I know in London. However none of them are married to Scottish women, they come down here and steal our women
Perhaps, if there is indeed a diferent, more communal culture in Scotland then it is driven by the females.
Yes that's true, individual Scottish people in other countries don't show that difference: it's a "property" of the entire community, or country. I think the climate idea has something going for it: I noticed it in Russia's far North and all.
extractorfan wrote:Of the 5 Scottish blokes I know, 2 actually live in Scotland and all of them seem to have generally the same ambitions as English blokes I know in London. However none of them are married to Scottish women, they come down here and steal our women
Perhaps, if there is indeed a diferent, more communal culture in Scotland then it is driven by the females.
I actually don't know ANY Scottish women, weird.
All the ones I have known have been a little bit scary
So are the Russians in the far North. And so, amusingly, were a bunch of bikers (not Scots, though) who practically saved my life once. Scariness isn't always bad.
