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On 02/06/2016 23:37, Robert Carnegie wrote:
> On Thursday, 2 June 2016 13:30:13 UTC+1, Smiler  wrote:
>> On Thu, 02 Jun 2016 03:07:18 -0700, Robert Carnegie wrote:
>>
>>> On Wednesday, 1 June 2016 23:54:43 UTC+1, Smiler  wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 01 Jun 2016 10:58:05 -0700, Hypatiab69 wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Wednesday, June 1, 2016 at 1:49:05 PM UTC-4, Smiler wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, 01 Jun 2016 04:53:24 -0700, Robert Carnegie wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wednesday, 1 June 2016 11:40:14 UTC+1, Alex W.  wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 01/06/2016 19:45, Robert Carnegie wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <snip>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I'm presuming a thorough "ethnic cleansing".
>>>>>>>>> No more Northern Ireland Protestants.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> How would that be accomplished?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That would be Trump's problem.  But maybe solar powered robot
>>>>>>> drones that fly down to pick up Ulstermen by their sash and fly
>>>>>>> them across to dear old Alba.  It's not ideal territory for solar
>>>>>>> power but it is an option.  Imagine an Orange Lodge March being
>>>>>>> evicted in formation.
>>>>>>> Like "Apocalypse Now" with flutes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Send them back to Scotland, as that's where they came from.
>>>>>
>>>>> You are NOT a Brit, are you?
>>>>
>>>> Fuck off, forger.
>>>
>>> She's sort of right.  (Ultimately everyone is from Africa.) The "Ulster
>>> Scots" are the product of deliberate "Plantation".
>>
>> Indeed, but I was showing the folly of your idea.
>> Be careful what you wish for. :-)
>
> I'm not exactly wishing for it, but it seems to me -
> without much investigation - that the world would be a
> better place if that "Plantation" had not happened.

That is probably right, but it doesn't help us now.  After three 
centuries, they are as local and native as anyone else.  To uproot them 
now would be to commit a new crime...


>
> But apparently the "Scoti" tribe had previously come
> from Ireland anyway.  I don't know why, maybe they
> played bagpipes too loud and were emphatically asked
> to leave.

The Pictsies must have been so happy to hear them approaching...

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hey Brits! Jeanne Douglas <hlwdjsd2@NOSPAMgmail.com> - 2016-05-30 16:06 -0700
  Re: hey Brits! "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-05-31 12:49 +1000
    Re: hey Brits! Jeanne Douglas <hlwdjsd2@NOSPAMgmail.com> - 2016-05-30 20:28 -0700
  Re: hey Brits! Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> - 2016-05-31 04:52 -0700
    Re: hey Brits! "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-06-01 10:22 +1000
      Re: hey Brits! Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> - 2016-06-01 02:45 -0700
        Re: hey Brits! "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-06-01 20:40 +1000
          Re: hey Brits! Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> - 2016-06-01 04:53 -0700
            Re: hey Brits! Smiler <smiler@jo.king> - 2016-06-01 17:48 +0000
              Re: hey Brits! Hypatiab69 <opuzayo@gmail.com> - 2016-06-01 10:58 -0700
                Re: hey Brits! Smiler <smiler@jo.king> - 2016-06-01 22:54 +0000
                Re: hey Brits! Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> - 2016-06-02 03:07 -0700
                Re: hey Brits! Smiler <smiler@jo.king> - 2016-06-02 12:30 +0000
                Re: hey Brits! Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> - 2016-06-02 06:37 -0700
                Re: hey Brits! Smiler <smiler@jo.king> - 2016-06-02 16:53 +0000
                Re: hey Brits! "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-06-03 10:42 +1000
                Re: hey Brits! Jeanne Douglas <hlwdjsd2@NOSPAMgmail.com> - 2016-06-03 05:09 -0700
                Re: hey Brits! Olrik <olrik666@gmail.com> - 2016-06-04 00:02 -0400
                Re: hey Brits! "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-06-04 16:06 +1000
                Re: hey Brits! Olrik <olrik666@gmail.com> - 2016-06-04 02:17 -0400
                Re: hey Brits! Jeanne Douglas <hlwdjsd2@NOSPAMgmail.com> - 2016-06-04 04:19 -0700
                Re: hey Brits! Don Martin <drdonmartin@comcast.net> - 2016-06-04 11:02 -0400
                Re: hey Brits! Jeanne Douglas <hlwdjsd2@NOSPAMgmail.com> - 2016-06-04 15:06 -0700
                Re: hey Brits! "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-06-05 11:29 +1000
                Re: hey Brits! Jeanne Douglas <hlwdjsd2@NOSPAMgmail.com> - 2016-06-04 20:55 -0700
                Re: hey Brits! "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-06-05 18:38 +1000
                Re: hey Brits! "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-06-03 10:45 +1000
                Re: hey Brits! Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> - 2016-06-03 04:02 -0700
                Re: hey Brits! "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-06-04 11:00 +1000
                Re: hey Brits! Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> - 2016-06-04 04:43 -0700
                Re: hey Brits! "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-06-05 11:33 +1000
            Re: hey Brits! "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-06-02 11:08 +1000
              Re: hey Brits! Smiler <smiler@jo.king> - 2016-06-02 12:33 +0000
  Re: hey Brits! Malcolm McMahon <malcolm.mc74@googlemail.com> - 2016-05-31 05:37 -0700
    Re: hey Brits! John Ritson <j.ritson@hotmail.co.uk> - 2016-05-31 16:10 +0100
      Re: hey Brits! Jeanne Douglas <hlwdjsd2@NOSPAMgmail.com> - 2016-05-31 16:33 -0700

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