Should the sweaties be worried?

[R1Geezer]

After discovering last year that haggis was in fact an English dish, and now this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8405783.stm
Is there an Identity crisis building for our Caledonian cousins?

[Ankou]

doubt it, they will probably be delighted there is another outlet for them to get pished.

[mosesg]

It is probably a cheap and nasty whisky, not worth even breaking a sweat over, probably aimed at the supermarkets rather than the connoisseur

[Booldawg]

I dont know many Scots that wax lyrical about a decent Islay malt. They'd be mortified if it was Tennants or Irn Bru though.

[Quizmonster]

Some idiot will probably claim it's racist, but a Scot (as I am) is called Jock - a form of John - a Welshman is called Taff - a form of David - and an Irishman is called Mick - a form of Michael. In other words, all three of the male non-English groups which make up Great Britain's population actually HAVE a friendly form of identification. What's the Englishman's equivalent? Oh dear...there isn't one! Nah, I don't think there's any need for US to fear an identity crisis.
And why has it taken you so long to grasp that the word whisky actually means 'water of life' and begin to make it for yourselves? By 2509, you might even have hacked it quality-wise.

[Ankou]

ours are regional, scouser, brummy, manc, geordie etc.

[Quizmonster]

Mmmm....Glaswegian, Aberdonian, Invernesian, Dundonian, Orcadian...we've got our 'regionals', too. Perhaps they're all 'ians' because THAT's a common Scottish identifier in itself!

[R1Geezer]

Limeys? well that;s what the septic call us! Pomms?

[Quizmonster]

Below is an extract from an article by an expert on highland dress. He was writing about the plaid...

"Just a few quick notes on how this large wrap became the kilt of today. One story commonly repeated is that an Englishman named Thomas Rawlinson opened an iron-smelting factory in the Highlands around the year 1730. His workers all dressed in the belted plaids, which proved too hot and cumbersome for close work in his factory. He solved the problem by cutting the garment in half. The lower part could now be worn separately and the upper part discarded when coming indoors. This is considered proof that an Englishman invented the Scottish national dress.
The problem with this story is that we know of numerous illustrations of Highlanders wearing only the bottom part of the belted plaid that date LONG BEFORE Rawlinson ever set foot in Scotland. Remember that the belted plaid consisted of two widths of material stitched together. If one neglects to stitch the two together, and only the bottom 4 yards are worn, pleated and belted around the waist, the resulting garment is called the feilidh-beag (little wrap). The word is often spelled in English phillabeg."

(Roget's Thesaurus lists kilt and filibeg - another spelling - as synonyms.)

I wonder if the above is the discredited story of an English kilt-inventor you referred to, Steve.

[Sandy-Wroe]

We, the Irish, were distilling whiskey, with an 'e', when our Scottish cousins were still running around with their faces covered in woad.