Watched "How We Made Britain" on the Beeb last night with David Dimbleby. This week's programme focussed on Scotland and there were plenty of camera shots of our beautiful countryside and Dimbleby driving his Land Rover along a single track road.
The trouble was that everywhere he went, he travelled along a single track road. Up to the highlands - single track road; across to Aberdeen - single track road; down to Glasgow - single track road.
The apogee of this was towards the end of the programme when the focus switched from Glasgow to Edinburgh. Did the intrepid David take on the nightmare that is the M8, with its multiple lanes of traffic all travelling at around 5 mph? No. It was that bloody single track road again!
No wonder some of our less enlightened neighbours have a skewed view of Scotland! This kind of poetic license on behalf of the BBC does us no favours!
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I have a theory on this. On the face of it we Scots are the full chip on the shoulder militants. Paranoid inferiors who resent everything about our larger neighbours. The English on the other hand would appear to be mystified at this attitude, regarding the Scots as ungrateful beneficiaries in the Union between us.
And yet the Scots Zeitgeist seems to generally lean towards a liberal/left field attitude whilst our southern neighbours incline towards a more reactionary norm. This perhaps explains why most Scots seemed to be against the Iraq invasion/war from the start unlike their English neighbours.
I would contend that Dimblebey's portrayal was fairly typical of London media to us whether intentional or subconscious. Richard Keyes faux pas is in a similar vein. We’re a piddling unimportant backwater with a jumped up sense of our own importance it would seem. With the physical and political infrastructure in place, I can't see it being too long before Scotland is fully independent.
Does this qualify as a rant?
Rab, I would give it a rant factor of around a 5.8.
Aye. More an articulation than a rant. I'll save a real rant for another time!
Is it actually physically possible to drive from Edinburgh to Glasgow on a single-track road? And if it is, if one were driving a 4x4, why would anyone choose to do so?
I am seriously hoping it isn't as yesterday in a moment of madness i bet jetBoy a million quid that you couldn't.
I suppose it depends on what constitutes Glasgow and what constitutes Edinburgh. If you're talking about from Princes Street to Sauchiehall Street, then it's definitely impossible. I doubt very much that a single track road exists anywhere within the boundaries of the City of Glasgow. I hope not, for your sake!
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