A little something to ponder on...

exactly . Why is people like sandy so remarkably bitter about their world coming to an end , while the same process is happening for you and I but we aren't anything like as bitter.?

I grew up in a council tenement in govan in Glasgow. The op of this thread and the article contained within is fucking alien to me. The English world of the fifties , enid Blyton cricket on the village lawn and warm beer and all that nostalgic bollocks. If I came on here , enthusing about some golden age of scotland, I would get laughed off the forum.

 There is something mentally wrong with many of the English. Im not sure what it is , I keep trying to put my finger on it , but is it the loss of empire and decline they can't handle? I say English , what I really mean is the British nationalists , because sandy of course is Scottish as much as he hates to think of himself so.

 I come on these forums , and read drivel like the op , and I have to say sometimes it shocks me reading such nonsense. The world moves on , time never stands still , and as I said earlier in one of the threads , was that wee welsh guy gildas sitting moaning about the idyllic British golden era in the fifth century before all those German immigrants sailed over the north sea and took his lands and Called it England? 

 It's fucking fantasy delusion . 

I don't think it's fair or accurate to try to frame this as an English thing.

Nostalgia is universal, it's an emotional reaction to the ageing process.

I don't have a conclusion because like everyone else I don't know what the future holds, but countless past gloomy predictions have proven unfounded and from what I've seen the next generation seem very capable.

I know what you said , and im disagreeing with you. Ive said , and many others have said , the British are in meltdown because their world is coming to an end. As all things do. Thats all that is left now , navel gazing about a period long gone , never to return , and meltdown about what to do about it.

I am not having a meltdown by the way, you are because you somehow see it as a threat to Scottish nationalism, which you have said several times, rampaging on about empire, I seriously doubt the merits of it were in any way entrenched by empire. In fact, they have made several TV series based on said nostalgia. 

sorry sheepy I dont understand your post. What do I see as a threat to Scottish nationalism? Im sitting back eating popcorn as the uk implodes , and staggers from one crises to the next , all the while , the ticking nationalist demographic time bomb in scotland and Northern Ireland carries on minute by minute , hour by hour.

It's your country that is in meltdown. Read the thread. Dan dare is upset the aryan race is being polluted by the untermenchen. Others are in meltdown about the crowds that keep asking up on Hastings beach. Sandy is upset about the baby boomers , and the loss of the colonies , and Vinny wants to go to war with everyone to show how britian is still an imperial power.

 You told us once we left the EU , the empire would be back any minute , Johnny Foreigner would not be allowed into Blighty , and yet here we are arguably worse now than what things were a decade ago. Whats going on ? I dont want to hear any more excuses from you populists.