Odd factoids

[classic33]

That sounds reasonable

Which part?

 

[NorthernDave]

Frige the Anglo-Saxon goddess of Marriage, Child-birth and the home.

Frige is also the Anglo-Saxon goddess of domestic cooling products

 

[colly]

Frige is also the Anglo-Saxon goddess of domestic cooling products

AKA Frige the Frigid. Married to the man who dared.

Frigidaire

 

[david k]

Au contraire. I have it from the Encyclopedia Britannica that England was subsumed into the Scottish empire by King James VI (who was incorrectly called James I by Englishmen who only had one hand to count on).

Is that why the Scots get really angry whenever anyone mentions it's in the north of England?
I don't understand their anger, do they think it's in the south of England, do they have it upside down?

 

[classic33]

It has been calculated that the 2,500kg of gunpowder Fawkes hid would have wreaked damage almost 500 metres from the centre of the explosion.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Guy Fawkes was a Cavalier hair dresser. The results were shocking.

 

[Drago]

Is that why the Scots get really angry whenever anyone mentions it's in the north of England?
I don't understand their anger, do they think it's in the south of England, do they have it upside down?

I've lived in both roughly 50/50 and couldn't care less!

The kilt was invented by a canny Scot's tailor, Dougal McTavish. He was fed up with the extra expense incurred by tailoring trousers for men over skirts for women, so the kilt was a canny ploy to unify the process and save a fortune on production costs.

This led to some awkwardness in the early days as Scottish Jethro Tull fans insisted on wearing their codpieces atop the kilt. This proved impractical, and the codpiece was modified accordingly and became the sporran.

One legged Scots rocker, Ian Anderson, was so disgusted by the changes to the codpiece that he bought England and moved there. Thus England is technically now a province of Scotland.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Codpieces were originally made from fillets of cod

 

[classic33]

Doncaster, South Yorkshire, is part of Scotland.

 

[Drago]

Doncaster, South Yorkshire, is part of Scotland.

Indeed, named after the first mayor of the town, Don McAster, a legendary tosser. Of the caber.

 

[raleighnut]

I've lived in both roughly 50/50 and couldn't care less!

The kilt was invented by a canny Scot's tailor, Dougal McTavish. He was fed up with the extra expense incurred by tailoring trousers for men over skirts for women, so the kilt was a canny ploy to unify the process and save a fortune on production costs.

This led to some awkwardness in the early days as Scottish Jethro Tull fans insisted on wearing their codpieces atop the kilt. This proved impractical, and the codpiece was modified accordingly and became the sporran.

One legged Scots rocker, Ian Anderson, was so disgusted by the changes to the codpiece that he bought England and moved there. Thus England is technically now a province of Scotland.

Disgruntled Scots who wanted to carry on wearing trousers as a defence against the midges moved to Corby where I enterprising guy invented an automatic ironing machine so he could have an extra 10 minutes in bed and still go out with freshly pressed trews.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Is that why the Scots get really angry whenever anyone mentions it's in the north of England?
I don't understand their anger, do they think it's in the south of England, do they have it upside down?

It's a well known factoid that Scots never get angry.

 

[oldwheels]

Surely Scotland is not in England so no wonder they get annoyed when it assumed that it is.

 

[classic33]

Surely Scotland is not in England so no wonder they get annoyed when it assumed that it is.

Errr...
https://www.doncasterfreepress.co.u...nd-and-stay-in-eu-after-brexit-vote-1-7998045

 

[david k]

Surely Scotland is not in England so no wonder they get annoyed when it assumed that it is.

Get your factoids right