Scotland bashing

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 1:42 pm

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When (if) Scotland goes independent, the first thing it will do, is reaffirm a treaty & alliance with the EU, and Hadrian's Wall will just be another border that will be used as a back door for all the rejects from across Europe to flood into England.

- Brian, London, UK, 25/3/2012 2:42

Well done, Brian. It's Schengen that Scotland might join. And it has non-EU countries in it.

I'd love it if that happened. I can imagine some loonies suggesting passport control at Berwick-on-Tweed. I'd love it if Ireland joined as well.

Arnold · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 2:17 pm

Carlos The Badger wrote:

Interesting article. Interesting in the fact that it's complete bullshit. Any proposed Top Level Domain name (TLD) has got nothing to do with either Cameron or Salmond. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has de facto responsibility as to who gets to use what.

Yes, .scot and .cymru are on a list of proposed TLDs but so is .eng.

And all three of them look clumsy, amateurish, unprofessional and stupid.

All the country codes consist of two letters anyway. "En" and "Wa" are available for England and Wales. Scotland is less lucky. Although they could make a case for AA (Alba).

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7417

Tubby Isaacs wrote:

Quote:

When (if) Scotland goes independent, the first thing it will do, is reaffirm a treaty & alliance with the EU, and Hadrian's Wall will just be another border that will be used as a back door for all the rejects from across Europe to flood into England.

- Brian, London, UK, 25/3/2012 2:42

Well done, Brian. It's Schengen that Scotland might join. And it has non-EU countries in it.

I'd love it if that happened. I can imagine some loonies suggesting passport control at Berwick-on-Tweed. I'd love it if Ireland joined as well.

Awfully nice of the Hadrians Wall restoration brigade ton cede us all that extra land.

Big Rob · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 5:36 pm

Quote:

When (if) Scotland goes independent, the first thing it will do, is reaffirm a treaty & alliance with the EU, and Hadrian's Wall will just be another border that will be used as a back door for all the rejects from across Europe to flood into England.

- Brian, London, UK, 25/3/2012 2:42

Yes Brian, England already has enough rejects of its own

Big Rob · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 5:38 pm

Schengen is a damn fine concept. Countries behaving like adults...

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 5:55 pm

It applies a bit more easily to countries with land borders, but yeah, it is good.

I too am enjoying the sight of patriots who don't know where the border is.

(Er it is near Berwick, isn't it?)

Gourami · **Joined:** Wed Jul 20, 2011 10:51 pm **Posts:** 2005

Bones McCoy wrote:

Awfully nice of the Hadrians Wall restoration brigade ton cede us all that extra land.

Yes, these people who love their country but know nothing about it are entertaining.

Big Rob · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 6:51 pm

That would put Newcastle in Scotland.

I like it.

Carlos The Badger · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 6:59 pm

Big Rob wrote:

That would put Newcastle in Scotland.

I like it.

Would that mean Newcastle would become a sleazy border town, populated by smugglers, secret agents and lost souls, with intrigue just around every corner and where life is cheap?

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 7:14 pm

Carlos The Badger wrote:

Big Rob wrote:

That would put Newcastle in Scotland.

I like it.

Would that mean Newcastle would become a sleazy border town, populated by smugglers, secret agents and lost souls, with intrigue just around every corner and where life is cheap?

Whereas at the moment...

spoonman · **Joined:** Tue May 11, 2010 2:27 pm **Posts:** 922

Tubby Isaacs wrote:

Quote:

When (if) Scotland goes independent, the first thing it will do, is reaffirm a treaty & alliance with the EU, and Hadrian's Wall will just be another border that will be used as a back door for all the rejects from across Europe to flood into England.

- Brian, London, UK, 25/3/2012 2:42

Well done, Brian. It's Schengen that Scotland might join. And it has non-EU countries in it.

I'd love it if that happened. I can imagine some loonies suggesting passport control at Berwick-on-Tweed. I'd love it if Ireland joined as well.

Not gonna happen while the UK (with or without Scotland) doesn't fully join Schengen itself - reintroducing border controls between Northern and the Republic of Ireland would be a publicity disaster.

As for the domain name issue, the main problem I would see with Scotland and Wales being granted their own TLD would be then that various states, Lander, regionales, provinces etc. could try and start making their own claim for one and the whole thing could end up being a massive mess of uncoordinated TLD's. The Catalans got .cat with the reasonable reason that it was to cover Catalan language and cultural across several countries not tied itself to a state border or entity within one country. Berlin, Paris and New York are trying to get in on the act themselves with city titled TLD's which have no merit other than ego, and would likewise see any jumped up town try to claim its own TLD.

I believe there was a plan a few years back to give the four constituent parts of the UK domain names as second level e.g. sco.uk, eng.uk but nothing came of it.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 8:48 pm

What?

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 8:49 pm

Give it 20 minutes and we'll have a demand for .yorkshire
Could be .yok?

Althea · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 9:01 pm

.ey.up

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 9:02 pm

.gradely

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