Hey thats just a horse with 70's hair! I am proudly about 1/4 Scot. I descended from the Scots-Irish who settled Appalachia in the 1700's. I'm not Scottish enough to go to the festivals and shit, but I wish I was. I'm too ashamed of my anglophilia to even openly entertain myself with Scottish accent practice. I'm way in the closet. asssit:
You are right, FF, that is indeed just a really really fabulous horse. lol. I did not notice. I was distracted. Dat ass. I feel you Ofo. :thumbsup: Scotland vs. Wales. You should put this up at sporting events
Scotland win cos Englands patron saint kills the dragons. No one can fuck with the Unicorns. Hey FF..... thats the Ulster people you refer to. Hardy bunch of Scots who helped overtake the north in Ireland. Few ancient relatives of mine were among the Ulster people who then settled in America:jj:
TA- Hell yeah brother! One of these days I want to trace back my lineage a little better than I have. Who knows - we could be kin. We DO represent similar phenotypes.... I would love to go to Scotland some day. It's a long way off though because traveling is 4X as expensive with the fam... And the kids didn't even bat an eye when I told them what Scotland's animal is. They were like - of course!
FF man,dont matter how long someones gone from Scotland...the Caledonian never dies my manLeft Scotland year and a half ago man and just went back two weeks ago for a holiday. Sheeeit man,you dont know what you got till its gone! Summit special about Scotland man:thumbsup:[YOUTUBE]P7C53nNffVA[/YOUTUBE]Wee island called Great Cumbrae(Millport) i was staying on. Kinda special place for my family. Great clan gathering so it was. If you are ever gonna go do scotland then make sure you hit the west coast. The firth of clyde and western Isles. Perfect for families. Cant be beaten,nothing but Islands separating Scotland and Ulster. Feel homesick already:sad4:[YOUTUBE]4s6VN2EPGt4[/YOUTUBE] /monthly_2013_08/DSC_0546.jpg.69709cdad0359a18f2fe2fbd88a84096.jpg /monthly_2013_08/DSC_0610.jpg.34b2e0b564f85d5d1a168d19424b0e19.jpg /monthly_2013_08/DSC_0618.jpg.df793c4cc3101d4aeb83079d968d3867.jpg /monthly_2013_08/DSC_0649.jpg.d2ba270b5382be76299142b85045d7e5.jpg /monthly_2013_08/DSC_0563.jpg.34c54378c1b7de07f20da16f5b19acc5.jpg
way off topic but still about Scotland :redbong::redbong: Those are awesome pics! :redbong: I'm a sailing nut, but above all else I covet classic wooden yachts from the 1890 - 1940 time frame, and of those, the boats designed by William Fife III of Fairlie on the Firth of Clyde are my favorite in terms of beauty. Our own "Wizard of Bristol" Nathaniel Herreshoff is my favorite American yacht designer, closely followed by John G. Alden. But Fife produced designs and built boats that were "fast and bonnie" and constructed by master craftsmen out of good materials such that some boats from 100 years ago are still sailing today, aided by timely and effective maintenance and repairs. Imagine this thing sailing by at 12-15 knots, silent but for the rush of the bone in her teeth and the hiss of the wake. It's pretty amazing from the deck of a 30 foot sloop. These yachts are engineering marvels, but the genius of the rigging is most evident, silently dragging this 100 foot long 60,000 pound piece of varnished furniture through the water. Looks like something da Vinci drew. The classic yacht thing hits all the high notes for me - the ocean, wood, history, adventure, ecology and nature. Wood because I can make it, and wind because its free and harmless. History because the way they built these boats 100 years ago is by and large the same way they build them today, with the use of modern materials where appropriate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fife
Believe it or not sailng used to be a hobby of mine back in my boys brgade and scout days,got my sailng badges I used to love it on a saturday going ut for a sail with the wind behind you. I never sailed anything like the ones above but all the same its definetely something i think i'll get back into again over time. Firth of Clyde be the greatest place to sail:eusa_clap::icon_salut:
Yo boss, one day I'm gonna be PMing you saying Hey I'm sailing across the pond to see ya! We'll go up the coast of Scotland on our way to the Netherlands, looking for ruins of castles, smoking BHO, eating haggis and sipping Darmore. Kids just naturally seem to love sailing too, so bring your bairn! :thumbs-up:
