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391 points sva_ | 7 comments | 11 Nov 25 21:18 UTC | HN request time: 1.149s | source | bottom
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abujazar ◴[11 Nov 25 21:50 UTC] No.45893368[source]▶
Also: 100 % cloud cover in basically all of Northern Europe :/ Iceland is probably the place to be for the aurora show!
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onion2k ◴[11 Nov 25 22:08 UTC] No.45893566[source]▶
Yep. It's raining pretty hard here in the North East of the UK. Not much point in going to look.
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thebruce87m ◴[11 Nov 25 22:37 UTC] No.45893850[source]▶
Note to non-UK readers:

Most of the time when someone says they are in the “North East of the UK” it’s not some Scotsman up in Shetland it is an English person who is currently in the North East of England.

The North East of England is in the middle part of the UK mainland.

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1. lukan ◴[11 Nov 25 22:48 UTC] No.45893962[source]▶
So .. they don't see scotland as part of the UK anyway? Why was it such an issue then that they wanted to leave? (And why were there bloody wars fought about it in the first place?)
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2. hdgvhicv ◴[11 Nov 25 23:33 UTC] No.45894389[source]▶
Who wanted to leave? What wars?
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3. permo-w ◴[11 Nov 25 23:36 UTC] No.45894408[source]▶
I think most people say "the North East" as a synecdoche for "the North East of England". the commenter being referred to likely just misspoke
4. kjs3 ◴[11 Nov 25 23:48 UTC] No.45894489[source]▶
Someone with a tiny little...um...axe to grind and not enough sense to take it someplace where people care. You can tell when they have to go back to Culloden to try and drag something up to wave around.
5. lukan ◴[12 Nov 25 05:50 UTC] No.45896768[source]▶
Scotland the UK? (They were allowed to vote in the end and voted to remain)

And wars happened when scotland was forced to become part of the UK in medieval times. (Braveheart)

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6. hdgvhicv ◴[12 Nov 25 07:39 UTC] No.45897337{3}[source]▶
So Scotland didn’t want to leave. And Scotland didn’t unite with England until after the Scottish King took over he English throne hundreds of years after the time of William Wallace

You might be confusing the U.K. with the USA where a pet of the country there wanted to leave and were refused and that did lead to war, and that happened far more recently than 700 years ago.

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7. lukan ◴[12 Nov 25 08:18 UTC] No.45897620{4}[source]▶
Are we on the same timeline here?

I spoke about

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_independence