JamesyWatt

On the 24th June 1314 Scotland defeated its English oppressor's at Bannockburn, outnumbered 3 to 1 Robert the Bruce led them to victory.

Alba gu brath

Scribbler1

Yay!

__________________
Not a day goes by that I don't see something that reinforces my belief that people are idiots.

3v3r1ast

Go to hell with the English!!!!In the memory of William Wallace and Robert The Bruce fight for Scotland full independence!!!!

Viv

It's comin yet, for a' that...Scotland forever!!!!!!!

3v3r1ast

What?????

Viv

It's a quote from a Robert Burns poem. He's our national poet. It means it will happen...we're waiting but in the end it will happen.

I'd give you a few more quotes, but he wrote in broad Scots and it wouldn't be easy to read. Here's the poem, I know Jamesy Watt won't mind if I post it in his thread, he's a very reasonable fellow The gist of it is that men should be equal regardless of race, colour, social class, financial worth and independent thinking sensible people are not impressed by these things and laugh at them. All men should have self-respect and be confident that they are worth as much as the next man - to value their own worth. And that the day is coming when all men will be as brothers.

A Man's a Man for A' That
By Robert Burns, 1795
Is there for honest poverty
That hings his head, an a' that?
The coward slave, we pass him by -
We dare be poor for a' that!
For a' that, an a' that!
Our toils obscure, an a' that,
The rank is but the guinea's stamp,
The man's the gowd for a' that.

What though on hamely fare we dine,
Wear hodding grey, an a' that?
Gie fools their skills, and knaves their wine -
A man's a man for a' that.
For a' that, an a' that,
Their tinsel show, an a' that,
The honest man, tho e'er sae poor,
Is king o men for a' that.

Ye see yon birkie ca'd 'a lord,'
Wha struts, an stares, an a' that?
Tho hundreds worship at his word,
He's but a cuif for a' that.
For a' that, an a' that,
His ribband, star, an a' that,
The man o independent mind,
He looks an laughs at a' that.

A prince can mak a belted knight,
A marquis, duke, an a' that!
But an honest man's aboon his might -
Guid faith, he mauna fa' that!
For a' that, an a' that,
Their dignities, an a' that,
The pith o sense an pride o worth,
Are higher rank than a' that.

Then let us pray that come it may
(As come it will for a' that),
That Sense and Worth o'er a' the earth,
Shall bear the gree an a' that.
For a' that, an a' that,
It's coming yet for a' that,
That man to man, the world, o'er
Shall brithers be for a' that.

The last three lines are key...it means regardless of all the things mentioned in the poem, equality is coming, that men worldwide will become as brothers.