tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post6801142969591488771..comments2023-12-20T19:39:29.865+00:00Comments on Munguin's Republic: THIS, YOU SEE, IS THE KIND OF MESS YOU GET WHEN A COUNTRY THAT IS TOO WEE, TOO POOR AND TOO STUPID, TAKES CONTROL OF ITS OWN AFFAIRSMunguinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16475165830302054002noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-74058004313135778262013-09-19T13:27:34.104+01:002013-09-19T13:27:34.104+01:00Yeah John. That seems to sum it up pretty well.Yeah John. That seems to sum it up pretty well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-6911789413523539042013-09-19T11:11:51.722+01:002013-09-19T11:11:51.722+01:00your an idiot anon your an idiot anon Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08693495793453207077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-58689306738004402452013-09-09T18:43:43.370+01:002013-09-09T18:43:43.370+01:00I think every country has its own beauties. If you...I think every country has its own beauties. If you think about the fabulous little villages (like the ones they use to film Midsomer Murders) they are idyllic. But then I've been places in Switzerland that have taken my breath away in a totally different way. Likewise in Turkey and Albania, Greece, Morocco,....too many places to mention.<br /><br />We would be much richer if we had done what Norway did... make life better for its people, and not try to keep our place at the top table.<br /><br />So hopefully we can still do this. They say another 40 years of oil... and look where Norway is after 40 years of oil.<br /><br />Totally agree with you about racism. It happens here; it happens in England, Ireland and Wales.<br /><br />Again, I've seen it...just like lovely scenery...all over the world.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-71908975686690008932013-09-09T18:37:56.004+01:002013-09-09T18:37:56.004+01:00Well Hamish, the FM and the Cabinet already discus...Well Hamish, the FM and the Cabinet already discussed more powers for the islands, when he was in Orkney a few weeks ago.<br /><br />At least, I feel that Edinburgh is a bit closer in a lot of ways (I know it's too far for a day trip from the islands unless you can afford to fly). But it's not just physical; it's more than that. You feel that at least the people there are concentrating on Scotland... and not running the world!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-36854903089447791582013-09-09T16:25:35.448+01:002013-09-09T16:25:35.448+01:00Ok i have experienced a form of belittlement when ...Ok i have experienced a form of belittlement when i was visiting England but not all English folk are like that. We got laughed out of a pub as one of us didn't have i.d by a group of people including the manager.The second pub we went into were funny with us as well. However the third pub/restaurant were very welcoming and they were all part of the same chain! The moral of the story is you will always get nationalist idiots that will always have their opinions but where is the need? <br /><br />We are all human beings in the end doesn't matter where you are from, what colour your skin is or what you look like. Once everyone gets past these petty insignificant ideals they have then the world can move on as a whole. <br /><br />Norway should be used as an example to follow not as a reason to slag of one another especially the countries we live in. Where does that get us ? <br /><br />It is in fact a reality that Scotland would be a much richer country without England and Wales as we have most of the oil resources as well as most of the good fertile farm land and the beautiful scenery to boot (highlands) which is good for tourism. Scotland would be able to keep all that wealth generated from those resources within it's own borders and we wouldn't have to split it all up between the surplus millions that live in the rest of the UK for the greater good.<br /><br /> Now before anyone replies with "England is beautiful too" yes you are right but in different ways. England is mostly flat land but you do have the dales and the lake district. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-18292961661901241892013-09-09T15:29:16.864+01:002013-09-09T15:29:16.864+01:00And I'm quite sure that come Scottish independ...And I'm quite sure that come Scottish independence, the Highlands and Islands will want to improve their standing at Holyrood, or start their own independence movement. But in the meantime, it'll *still* be better to be governed by Holyrood than by Westminster.Hamishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04699254777912702472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-83198105833270445222013-09-09T12:39:38.252+01:002013-09-09T12:39:38.252+01:00Would you like to elaborate on that too?
I'm ...Would you like to elaborate on that too?<br /><br />I'm interested in the comparisons. <br /><br />Of course I know there is poverty in Norway. It runs at about 1.7% I think... whereas in Britain it is at 8.7%.<br /><br />You have to accept that there will always be poor, and even good social security cannot beat that.<br /><br />But tell us about the people in the North. It must be a hard life there in any case...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-58140610155655179032013-09-09T12:36:07.045+01:002013-09-09T12:36:07.045+01:00Good Dean. I'm happy to hear it.
As I said be...Good Dean. I'm happy to hear it.<br /><br />As I said before, I've yet to hear a positive case for the union that doesn't involve world power, prestige etc, none of which actually touches me, my neighbours or the people I work with, in any way, other than I help to pay for it.<br /><br />But if someone could give a positive case that you could argue was for the good of the people, I would certainly listen to it. Just don't ask me to swallow UN, EU, G8, G20, G whiz... That's a pile of nonsense; just talking shops for pumped up, self important prats.<br /><br />I've far more respect for the local councillor who gets an old lady into good sheltered housing so that she can be allowed home from hospital (Joe Morrow, Labour), than some big headed minister bumping his gums at the UN.<br /><br />Actually, I'm pretty sure most people (not all) are like that. If you give people a good argument they will listen.<br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-51247693560768140312013-09-09T12:29:23.188+01:002013-09-09T12:29:23.188+01:00Would you like to elaborate on that. From all I ca...Would you like to elaborate on that. From all I can make out life there is a lot better than it is here...<br /><br />...Maybe we are all wrong?<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-52662315516650444552013-09-09T06:47:39.658+01:002013-09-09T06:47:39.658+01:00i could write a book on how horrific standars peop...i could write a book on how horrific standars people in the north of norway have to live with.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-12199037248272400192013-09-09T06:35:06.416+01:002013-09-09T06:35:06.416+01:00true, i live in norway, and they havent done 1 goo...true, i live in norway, and they havent done 1 good thing in 8 years, since they got the power..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-33696768012475558302013-09-08T21:00:09.138+01:002013-09-08T21:00:09.138+01:00Well it wouldn't surprise me to know we depend...Well it wouldn't surprise me to know we depended on Norway, CH.<br /><br />The UK talks a big talk, but walks like a toddler...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-30204948965569082252013-09-08T20:58:46.554+01:002013-09-08T20:58:46.554+01:00Truth is, Anon, I don't think most Scots hate ...Truth is, Anon, I don't think most Scots hate the English. Why would they? <br /><br />No one wants to be ruled from another country, with the benefits of THAT country as the primary factor in legislation. But it's not the ordinary people that rule us from England.<br /><br />English people are the same as any other people. They are workers, mums dads, mates lovers... same as we all are. Scots or Norwegians or Icelanders or Matswani or Chinese or Russians...we all made of the same stuff.<br /><br />I'm not a fan of racism of any kind. I've suffered from it and it is so wrong. There's plenty to dislike about me, but not that I am Scottish! You can't help where you were born. <br /><br />Your rant reminds me of the less appealing features of people in the EDL or the National Front, here or anywhere else in the world. Even the lower orders people in UKIP.<br /><br />As I say. I don't like racism and I won't tolerate it here. Besides making me sick, it does our cause no god whatsoever with reasonable thinking people.<br /><br />Please consider that a strong word to the wise.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-24202909603750190402013-09-08T20:47:27.636+01:002013-09-08T20:47:27.636+01:00Interesting article.. You wonder, don't you, h...Interesting article.. You wonder, don't you, how long the decline can go on.<br /><br />One of the things I noted was that local newspapers like Courier and Press & Journal which don't give much away on their sites, are doing better. So if you want to know what happened to Mrs McGillicuddy's cat in that tree in Dalrymple Terrace, you jolly well got to fork out for the paper.<br /><br />Of course newspapers got bigger and bigger and no one has time to read all that stuff now.<br /><br />Sundays need a cart to take them home in, and most of it goes straight in the paper bin.<br /><br />The only national with upwardly mobile figures is the I at 20p...<br /><br />Maybe there is a lesson there...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-85994676443516792212013-09-08T20:16:49.365+01:002013-09-08T20:16:49.365+01:00I was born in England!I was born in England!cynicalHighlanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06034325908473006163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-34717799121671307442013-09-08T20:15:45.451+01:002013-09-08T20:15:45.451+01:00I believe that Norway is protecting the skies abov...I believe that Norway is protecting the skies above our rigs because the UK is unable to do so, stop sniggering at the back as I read somewhere that the MOD was a mistype MOW and the UK only does apologies in the distant future stiff upper lip an all that.cynicalHighlanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06034325908473006163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-29108413463940200962013-09-08T20:13:33.653+01:002013-09-08T20:13:33.653+01:00We dont want run by the english because we hate yo...We dont want run by the english because we hate yous! you steal our money and try to suppress us to benefit yourself! Yous might take our money but yous will never take our freedom!!!! Why in gods name would the english want us if we hate them so much? is it because they love us? NO it our resources ...common thieves!!!!!! I will never bow to the english as yous raped us and try to take us over but we sent yous home tae think again!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-33585210558933861732013-09-08T20:11:49.526+01:002013-09-08T20:11:49.526+01:00Hell while they search around for another 'sou...Hell while they search around for another 'source' for their news stories we might actually get some TRUTH out of the BBC, there again maybe I'm dreaming of an alternate universe. lolArbroath 1320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-16821373430130472592013-09-08T20:11:41.511+01:002013-09-08T20:11:41.511+01:00Hell while they search around for another 'sou...Hell while they search around for another 'source' for their news stories we might actually get some TRUTH out of the BBC, there again maybe I'm dreaming of an alternate universe. lolArbroath 1320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-2179425820152288952013-09-08T20:09:14.205+01:002013-09-08T20:09:14.205+01:00Don... It certainly gives the impression of being ...Don... It certainly gives the impression of being Oslo here:<br /><br />http://www.thesmartgirlstravelguide.com/travel-to-oslo/<br /><br />But I have a feeling you're right.<br /><br />Anyone know Oslo?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-46124966317239005552013-09-08T20:07:40.099+01:002013-09-08T20:07:40.099+01:00As a matter of fact for our cynical cynical I'...As a matter of fact for our cynical cynical I've not made my mind up yet.<br /><br />Some of us take the facts in, then set up a view on issues.<br /><br />We aren't all crusading ideologues like Cynical or Niko.Dean MacKinnon-Thomsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08221192592535723681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-34478403722187724632013-09-08T20:04:51.526+01:002013-09-08T20:04:51.526+01:00PS: There's an oil fund bought up most of Prin...PS: There's an oil fund bought up most of Prince's Street... I don't think it's Norways though. Probably Middle Eastern.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-14601739220999941192013-09-08T20:03:42.992+01:002013-09-08T20:03:42.992+01:00Fancy a government that listens, Rolfe, and that d...Fancy a government that listens, Rolfe, and that does what the people want.<br /><br />I saw somewhere that they build roads there and toll them until they are paid for, then they are given back to the people.<br /><br />Did you find that?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-85799727699038506792013-09-08T20:01:58.748+01:002013-09-08T20:01:58.748+01:00Clanchief... I see you worked it out then...
We&#...Clanchief... I see you worked it out then...<br /><br />We'll put him on the train and give him a piece and enough money for a cup of tea on the way down to England... <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-67646041109280662242013-09-08T19:59:47.047+01:002013-09-08T19:59:47.047+01:00I think Niko was having a pull a our collective le...I think Niko was having a pull a our collective legs there CH...<br /><br />And I see signs, even ever so slight that Dean could be persuaded to take a broader view.<br /><br />As for Niko, Taz has his instructions. On referendum day he is to bite Niko on the bum every 10 minutes until he votes YES...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com