Pawn

What is this, some kind of communal therapy session?

Week wasn't bad. I recently relocated to Scotland (from England), where I'm to be starting a magazine within the next few months. You can get more info on it in the Contents and Market Something forum. It's a mad experience, changing your entire life. We don't realise how much of ourselves is a reflection of everything around us. Changing it can make things so different without and within, that one feels almost as if reborn. Thankfully, where my life once seemed completely clouded, and uncontrollable ("the days and nights tower above me till my eyes burn with the effort of looking up"), I now have a clarity to my thought. Life, I realise, is about choice. We choose to get up every morning, and if we do not, we let the choice go, and feel unsatisfied. I am reminded of the father of Existentialism, Sartre, and feel that it is necessary to take responsibility for everything we do, every moment of our lives - only then can we really live. Who wants to be a passenger on the bus of life.. the view may be good, but it's nothing to seeing the road in front of you, and knowing that when you see an attractive turning, it's yours to take. Better yet, when you need a quick picnic, a smoke and a Ginn and Tonic, you're in a position to go about it. Anyway, just thought I'd ramble about that a tiny winy bit. Go ahead and write something for meh mag, make the Choice, and open another door.

Yours idealistically, Craphead Mcstupid.

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Penelope

Returning the courtesy here. Back to the highlands? I've spent time in Scotland and every cliché about dour, miserly kilt wearers (didn't check for knickers though) is false. I believe they are circulated to discourage less hardy souls from cluttering up the countryside. Resurrect the wall!
btw - IMO - Ireland is even better, but it may be an ancestral bias.

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Pawn

Ah well yes there's not as many kilts as the media led me to believe. There are plenty of rude scotts though; I recall my attempt to buy a couple of network cables from a local town. The reply was:

"Now, you could get one of these for maybe three pounds from a magazine or off the net. But to you, it'll be fifteen pounds each, because I've got them, and you haven't."

Exact words. How or why the shop owner said this is completely beyond me. Sufficed to say I went home, bought the cable I required online, and have never visited the shop since. Scottish hospitality my arse.

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Penelope

I spent a charming afternoon in a cellar bar in Edinburgh while the bartender poured me tiny samples of malt scotch. He was delighted with my preference of Islay malts over the highlands. He said it was probably because I loved the sea. In Dundee, the people who ran the B&B were so hospitable they even sent us a Christmas card months later. In the town where Johnny Walker scotch is blended (can't remember the town name) the hotelier chatted me up in a charming manner and the following morning served us breakfast in a medieval style banquet hall. The piper who was hawking by playing laments by Loch Ness, the beauty of Inverness, the spectacular scenery traveling through the mountains (which look like hills to this Canadian) ... no where did I find ill temper or miserly manners. I loved it every minute of it. I suppose the direct manner of the shop keeper would have been a little off putting .. but hey .. I got by just fine with the people of New York. I just know I'd have had something to say .. and with a smile too.

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Pawn

Girls get all the fun.

I love the people of new york; utterly direct, occasionally rude but always interesting. Reminds me of someone..

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Sam

Sorry, I just found that funny.

I've never been up to Scotland so I can't really comment on the Scots.

I'm sitting in a free period, awash with boredom. Wheeee...

(Yeah, I know, this post is stock full of constructive input.)

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Spudley

'Free period'... hmmm.... that's where a full stop escapes from it's sentence and goes wandering off on it's own.... I think.

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Sam

Yes, you'd think it would be fun to ride one, wouldn't you. But no, it's actually about as interesting as a narcoleptic corpse.

(That last bit is cleverer then it looks. Think 'inter' and 'resting'...)

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