Jan
5
Robert Burns Unfit to Represent Scotland?
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Via Poetryhut: “Robert Burns was a ‘racist, misogynist drunk’ who is unfit to promote Scotland’s 2009 Homecoming celebrations, a leading historian said yesterday.
“Describing modern Scots acting like Burns, [the historian] said: ‘We could repeatedly get drunk. In this condition, the males among us could ‘lay’ one woman after another, following discussion of their respective merits in dirty talk with our drouthie cronies. ‘”
“‘Needless to say, this would be unprotected sex performed in a spirit of utter indifference to potential pregnancies, amang the rigs o’barley perhaps. Irksome consequences would be the females’ own silly fault.'”
Your Editor appreciates that every fifth comment on this article has been removed from by the administrator. I also appreciated this particular comment: “I would far rather split a bottle or two with a proper Scot, than with this sanctimonious bletherer.”