The Ethnic Cleansing of James VI... The Fife Adventurers

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2 videos this week you're spoiling us & i must say The Thumbnail for your videos are top quality. 👍 😊

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[@duncancallum]

England

[@vatsal7640]

​@@duncancallumjames was Scottish not English

[@allisonshaw9341]

Wow... how horrific and outrageous this period of time was. That the Scots have survived so much from within and without speaks to their strength, tenacity, and sheer grit.

[@stanleyshannon4408]

Now, if only they had the grit to start having children again...

[@choedzin]

In order to burn down wooden houses on Lewis I would imagine you'd have to keep a close eye on the weather and make use of the narrow time window when it wasn't raining. :-)

[@johnsharkey466]

Love the story and the way it’s delivered , the one liners make me smile. Keep it going .

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[@youtubeaddict9948]

Lovely to see a mixed race Scot teaching us all Scottish history. Beautiful. I’m Sure this man could silence any rangers fan lol.

[@nadiamurchie1949]

that could be a lesson to be addressed maybe, no matter your football team preference in scotland. my grandfather told me todays feelings( he passed just over a decade ago) around football didnt exist in his day. he supported his local team from childhood. neither celtic nor rangers.

[@nadiamurchie1949]

glasgow man

[@janetmackinnon3411]

Always new ,always clear....and I appreciated your "Highlander" references.

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Thanks

[@johnedmond9469]

Really good stuff. Never learned this in school and history of Scotland was my favorite subject

[@UKDrivingTestRoutesOfficial]

Awesome - Thanks for sharing❤️

[@jlm8572]

Could you see parallels in the history of Ireland and the Scottish in these intrseene years that may have lead to closer relations if not for english engagement. Stories of Scot’s, Welsh, and Irish struggles against the common opposition make for great interwoven tale’s in both peace, war, planting and long term social development. Arrows cost money………………………they don’t! Love your work and nobody over here does what you do with your passion. Maybe time for a tour.

[@billjones393]

Great craic, Bruce, fascinating story. You’re well deserving of a terrestrial series with someone serious like the Beeb or better. Unless you’re getting minted here!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

😅No mint, but nobody knocking on the door either

[@gregoryhamblett9071]

Thanks Bruce once again, great vid.. my favourite history teacher ❤

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

My pleasure!

[@taylorbad]

When I visited Scotland, I enjoyed a pleasant couple of days at West Weems. The people were warm and welcoming. I am sure I was the only Yank in town that night...

[@charlesdriggers199]

I like when you have these conversation videos. I will be looking forward to it.

[@rabby-u]

Bruce, I'm so grateful for these videos. As I languish in the cultural wasteland of Canada 🇨🇦, your stories reveal to me the mystery of the man I called "Dad" and the rest of his side of my relatives. His mum, a Gàidhlig speaking Highland lass. His dad, a lowland Scot from the bowels of Kilmarnock. They meet on a boat to Canada after ww1 and 8 months later my dad was born. Quite a story it has been ever since....

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Wonderful

[@rabby-u]

@@ScotlandHistoryTours Well it would make a good movie but hasn't been a fairy tale ending. My grandpa only lived to father his 4 children meanwhile the gangrene from his war wounds was eating him up slowly and died ten years later. For myself I have nothing but admiration and a lot of tears for the man. Still have his war diary, but none of my brothers even care to know his story. But I'll keep it going...and you are helping it stay alive. I am learning my Gàidhlig but have no one to converse with here in the "wet coast" of Canada. Might have to call you up for a tour one day!

[@fearthekilt]

Great story! You never cease to amaze me with unique and interesting tales that I never knew about. I truly believe that a mainstream show on a major network is in your future, should you want to travel that path. If it were up to me I'd have already made you the offer. Your combination of humor, accuracy, articulation and warmth make your brand of story telling so appealing. Thank you so very much for another wonderful beginning to an otherwise rainy Saturday in South Carolina. Good morning from America and a good day Bruce!

[@fearthekilt]

@@Al-iv3mb wow, no kidding? I wasn't aware of the bias. You too have taught me something today. Here in America our networks show a similar bias.

[@eamonnclabby7067]

@@Al-iv3mb cheers / slainte...

[@rideitpodcast]

Superb, great see some history of my home Isle. It's all the better to see you filming on location. Nicely done Bruce 👌

[@marcingala.]

I live in Scotland for 10 years now. Few days ago i discovered Your channel - and well - what to say - i love it. Smashing!

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Welcomeonboard

[@jumbodoug]

Another fantastic story, thanks again. Maybe one point, when mentioning your chat with an expert, maybe mention the year as well, as folk will be watching these videos years later, long after your chat with experts, so too late for questions. Your videos are timeless, they'll still be watched years from now, and still inform and entertain. I frequently recommend your videos to others. You are so much more informative and thought provoking than other presenters. Keep up the great work you do

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Thanks. Aye that's a thought

[@Sighhhh]

Love waking up to Scottish History

[@relyn1201]

Amazing video. Great storytelling.

[@daveunbelievable6313]

isn't it kind of appropriative that now Scotland has seemingly universally adopted a Celtic identity to contrast with their southern neighbours in England when once there were many in Scotland who very much didn't like people who spoke Celtic languages?

[@alasdaircook1733]

Celts from Central Europe took their Language with them essentially it remained in Ireland and spread to Scotland, one of the main reasons it didn't stay/go to England (with probably the exception of Cornwall that was a mix of Celts and Britons) was due to the Roman and Saxon influence on the people. The history of the language is intertwined with the history of the people.

[@daveunbelievable6313]

@@alasdaircook1733 well i mean the Celtic languages did go to what is now England, they were just displaced by germanic languages as new settlers came and culture changed. But my point is that the people of lowland Scotland didn't speak a Celtic language, they spoke Scots, which was a Germanic language that split off from the English spoken in England in the Middle English period. A good chunk of Scotland was once part of the Anglo Saxon kingdom of Northumbria, non-celtic languages and people had an influence on Scotland too and yet today a Celtic identity is universally adopted.

[@Hsalf904]

Now I’m not from Scotland so not sure how relevant my opinion is but I am from the Scottish Gaelic culture of what’s known as Cape Breton and I’d honestly prefer this than just having the Celtic culture and language die out entirely. I personally love that it’s being promoted this way. It feels like a form of Lowlanders realizing they have a common enemy to the south with the Highlanders and finding a new appreciation for their Celtic neighbours and their historic struggle against English/British imperialism. It seems sort of similar to settler New Zealanders adopting aspects of Maori culture to contrast themselves from Australia. Would be curious to hear what Maori people think of this but I’d guess they’d prefer it to cultural genocide

[@robertemmet7769]

@@daveunbelievable6313 Celtic/Gealic culture is Scottish culture anyone says otherwise is English Loyalists

[@McConnachy]

We didn’t adopt the Celtic culture, it is Scotlands culture. Despite 3 centuries of attempted cultural genocide by the British state, we / it still survives. My parents were taught to ridicule the Gaelic language, so didn’t speak it. My grandparents were beaten at school for speaking it, I speak very little of it, but I’m still a Gael / Celtic, and if proof is needed, my DNA says so, and I’m classed as a lowlander.

[@aaronk534]

Fantastic. I must say how great the sound quality. Great video. Great topic. Thank you sir

[@sullivanrussell4008]

Hello Bruce, I grow up in a village in the East Neuk and found this story speaks to the spirit of the place, a bit daft and a lot of greed. Some strange images of people sneaking about trying to build fancy houses and impressing some locals. This image reminds me of school and trying to impress people and also I wander about the jokes behind the backs of the adventurers and how they were really put down. I wander what kind of personal torment it left the colonizers returning home from war defeated. The fife adventurers sounds so cool, sweet advertising, a real tragedy.

[@BarryHWhite]

" Don't take the piss, don't take the piss, don't take the piss ", well done Brucie boy for a truley monumental feat of subtlety holding Yourself back. Another superb video. I am truly jelly of ur ability to both visit our beautiful wee houf,advcome up with outstanding quality presentations.

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[@garybenson2280]

Been watching your videos for a while and it’s definitely a case of not what you say but how you say it. You’re one fine story teller Sir, please keep up the good work

[@andrewboland1062]

Love your video's, From an Irishman 💚

[@autumnzolstice9758]

@9:52 clever scene change there, your production techniques have been developing remarkably The scenery you choose is always so stirring and brings relief from the city skyline I live among in downtown Portland Oregon. Im the last surviving descendant from my mother's Scottish side, besides my daughter. Your videos help give my life a sense of continuity and meaning, I appreciate your work!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

I'm delighted

[@andrewkirk6595]

another great story mate i spent a few summer holidays when i was a child in that part of fife many happy memories

[@alistair682]

Discovered your channel last night when your Glencoe massacre video randomly appeared in my Recommended. Enjoying your content, wish I had found your channel sooner.

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Welcome on board

[@Anaris10]

I am Harris MacLeod with Isle of Skye ancestry (Geary) and Cherokee Native from my Father and Irish and Miwok Native from my Mother. My roommate is a Lewis MacLeod, we go to the Highland Games/Clan Gather one week and the Acorn Festival Powwow the next week. There are quite a few Native/Scots here!. New sub!,

[@anthonymichael5078]

Fife adventurers sounds like a great name for a football team.

[@jennybates]

Your touch of comedy makes history fun.

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[@properjob2311]

Your videos are great. You deserve many more subscribers.

[@zali13]

Fantastic telling, good sir!

[@bruceman8519]

I'm just found your vids this week, I must have watched 20 this week alone!! Great stuff man - interesting details you rarely get in books!! We (a Hardy & a Moffat) from Cape Breton, New Scotland are doing the North Coast 500 in May, can't wait to see some of the sites involved in your stories. You have certainly added to our expectations! Would be interested in a Clan MacKay, Orkney or Ardvreck Castle story for sure! Keep em comin - you are a "spell binding" true story teller & hilarious !!!

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Brilliant

[@adammcinnes5615]

I have heard this process as "internal colonization" due to the parallels with colonization of Indigenous people in foreign territories but having been done within the country by fellow countrymen.

[@jamesquinn7492]

The quality content keeps coming.I thought I knew a lot aboot it , but ye keep putting me in my place, 🍺

[@RHSashWindows]

love this part of Fife. Another great video, cheers Bruce.

[@alansmithee8831]

A'reyt Bruce. Another topic new to me south of the border. It puts into context somewhat "Kidnapped" that I loved as a kid.

[@alasdaircook1733]

I really enjoyed this video, my family are from the Isle of Lewis i'm descended from MacLeods, Mackenzies, it's great to see the exploration of Lewis History, I would love to see a video on The Earls of Seaforth, Earls of Cromarty, the Macaulays of Uig (Especially Donald Cam). I know it's a big ask but don't let the comments about the islands being remote and disconnected deter you, it's much more connected than you think!!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

I have a list of topics as long as a long armed man to deal with already you know😁

[@vikingshelm]

I love your channel So very well done.

[@sgr1888]

Glad to see you out of the house again!

[@harryscott2768]

Not sure about the”backstabbing” gesticulation!!…excellent video Bruce.

[@hogzzy2669]

One of my good friends is a MacLeod so this was pretty cool to watch!

[@liampaterson3424]

I did a talk on this years ago at university as some of my Fife ancestors may (or may not - accurate family records for that period are thin on the ground and lots of people had the same names) have been involved in what I described as a 'sorry tale of Scottish colonialism - in Scotland'.

[@BrendaPenepent]

Hi Bruce❤

[@systemSkynet]

I was waiting for a "there can be oy one" quote and I was not disappointed

[@systemSkynet]

Only one*

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[@lindakay9552]

This episode has me wondering more than ever about my ancestry. On my dad's dad's side, I've traced our oldest known male ancestor, my 9th great grandfather, surname Edgerton, to 1620s Connecticut. He fought in the Pequot war. His grandson married William Bradford's grand daughter (my 7th great grandparents.) That entire generation of my ancestors are buried in Founder's Cemetery in Norwich, Ct. I'm a descendent of King Henry IV. By all standards, it seems like we're "English." But family stories have always said we're Scottish. I've had my DNA sequenced. My dad's dad's side was (almost) pure Scottish. His mom's side was (almost) pure Irish. I have never been able to figure out why my Scottish 9th great grandfather was fighting with Major John Mason in the first Connecticut militia. This story is the closest "Scott Homeland" sorry I've heard, pertinent to the turn of the 16th century. What really blows my mind, is I'm 10-11 generations removed from the incidents in this video. But I can only trace that line back, definitively, 9 generations. Some time right around 1600 - 1620, the knowledge of the ancestral homelands of a lot of the first pilgrims has been lost or erased.

[@tomtaylor6163]

Hey Bruce , as an American whose descent comes from England , Scotland and Ireland . I’d like to have your take on the Potato Famine

[@leijensen11]

Fook'n brilliant Jimmy! Well done!

[@OcculiMortis]

Another great video and history lesson.

[@HRHKingJamesIXofScotland]

I love this form of history. it brings it to life.

[@garwood.5993]

Hi@BruceFummey great informative facts. This may sound strange but what kind of wood was used to build Lewis’s Home was it Garwood. Just a thought.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

That's more detail than I have

[@molecatcher3383]

The Stewart kings (apart from perhaps James IV - who went to the trouble of learning Gaelic) were no friends to the Gaels yet, today, this is all glossed over with the innacurate believe of many that most Gaels supported the Jacobite uprisings between 1689 and 1746. In reality many highland, and island, clans did not want the return of the Stewart kings. This video may offer some of the reasons why. Also, well done for presenting, in an interesting and entertaining manner, a little known part of Scotland's history.

[@eamonnclabby7067]

Good point well made...

[@joanr3189]

…”There may be trouble ahead…”. Not easy to sing out of the blue like that, and not many who could do it without getting lost. 😀. Well done!

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[@MargaretPinard]

Oh that was backstabbing, was it? I thought that was the sign for more jiggery-pokery... LOL great fun in this episode Bruce!

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[@geowidman]

Were he capable of learning, a certain former KGB guy 🤬 busy dictating in the former U.S.S.R. could stand some learning from Jimmy, eh? Thank you, as always, for your fine work.

[@davetherave7279]

Mate, fucking loving these videos. I will buy you a coffee (via payment thing) but please get yourself an irn bru on me! Soooo much history for my eager ears to hear.

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[@James_BAlert]

Bruce l thought you were going to reply 'You're f**king welcome! '! 🤬😁

[@davetherave7279]

And is that crail Harbour your at or Anstruther? I spent loads of time in Crail (and alot of drinking in the Golf Hotel)

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

It's Crail

[@davetherave7279]

@@ScotlandHistoryTours beautiful wee place

[@matthewdeavitt9888]

I have Definitely subscribed. Just wondering... do you do an audio book? 🤔

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Now that's maybe an adventure for another day

[@Narvask]

Watching your videos before setting off to Stornoway for work. Most of the people I work with are Macleods.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Of course

[@sashaneemoht8764]

😂😂😂😂😂 I must say, Sir, that, if this wasn't a seriously historical site, I would still watch it for the humour. That said, the serious stuff is phenomenally good. I doff my cap, Sir, and thank you for all your work/style/class etc.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Thanks Alex

[@darriendastar3941]

Really enjoyed this.

[@rattytattyratnett]

Bruce will you be doing a video about the Scottish witches and the campaign for them to be pardoned?

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

That's a bit recent, no?

[@Nastyswimmer]

You missed out the bit about McKenzie of Kintail first promoting the idea of lowland plantations in Lewis to the king, then encouraging the MacLeods to resist it, then calling on the king for approval to suppress their revolt, resulting in his being made Baron Seaforth

[@johnholkham2420]

Thanks really interesting, as an Englishman the history of Scotland is often little known.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Oooooh you might not like it. We're just about to start a series on the Scotland England border🤣

[@adox26]

My Scottish ancestors came from Fife. Their surname was Auchmoody. Apparently it means something like “field of pigs on a hill” in Gaelic.

[@BarryHWhite]

Well...ther wisny much oan the telly back then !.

[@stevenmackenzie1870]

Well done Brucie-Giid stuff✌️

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Cheers

[@jesusjohnny8286]

Sometimes I'm so busy laughing I miss the next sentence. Let us catch up Bruce. ♥️

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[@robertdaley1194]

The seas would have been teeming with fish in those days,I believe the Forth Estuary was rich in Oysters also.

[@mrsbreaux2967]

I’ve been doing history on my roots. My great grandfather was Thomas Bolfa. Come to find out Bolfa used to be Balfour. The balfours were sheriff’s in fife. The owned the pilrig house for a time. They were servants to royalty pretty much. Specifically my ancestors migrated in the early 1800’s from Scotland and ended up in good old south Louisiana. Where I now currently live. One of my ancestors even fought with William Wallace. Thomas Bolfa married Edna brown and she was from a France backround that migrated to Nova Scotia and they were exiled by the English. Sent to Louisiana. Pretty interesting stuff. Can’t wait to learn about fife Scotland where the bolfas/ balfours pretty much ruled. And I hope to God they didn’t have anything to do with this “cleansing” you speak of

[@raibeartthehairypict4696]

Fantastic video 'as per' Bruce.

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Cheers

[@raibeartthehairypict4696]

@@ScotlandHistoryTours You're welcome mate.

[@christopherbonnar9047]

Brilliant video, always learning of our country’s history. I have only one wee question 🙋‍♂️. Fifers & civilised. Are you sure?

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Don't take the piss😜

[@Halbared]

There can be only naan...I salute you. Also, great motion for backstabbers...

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[@roberthodgkins-pv3ve]

The BBC will be busy looking to a time when David Attenborough is no longer with us. Now don't get me wrong I love Chris Packham and Steve Backshall but their voices haven't got that piquancy. Bruce does however but of course he's a comic and an historian perhaps he should be getting in touch with the BBC natural History unit and putting his name forward. Whatever the weather this man cannot be lost to the nations of Scotland, England and Wales the Beeb should be digging deep to recruit this man of rare pedigree.

[@James_BAlert]

As Bruce was walking away from the camera📸 at the end of the video with the 'Lonely man' theme from the lncredible Hulk 🧟‍♂️TV program playing, one of the McLeods stole 😳his cameras and demanded a ransom for it...... 😄

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[@MrHDE-ex6xl]

Did the MacKenzie clan eventually take advantage of the situation to wrest control of Lewis from the MacLeods?

[@alasdaircook1733]

Essentially yes, they were known as the Earls of Seaforth, referring to the Macleods as one collective as it is difficult as there were different branches, Macleods of Harris and Dunvegan, Macleods of Lewis, Macleods of Ramsay, Macleods of Assynt, apologies if I've missed any out!

[@Sophie1Lynne]

While on James, have you discussed Witch Hunts yet?

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[@mikhailabunidal9146]

@🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scotland History Tours w/ Bruce Fummey 4:00 Sounds like somebody was messin' around but anyways continue dear Brucy

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[@charlesmorgan8440]

Fascinating. Internal empire with all its barbarities precedes external. A Glaswegian mate has his house in the East Neuk, and absolutely lovely it looks too, but he only posts photos when it's sunny! Glad James VI and I failed, otherwise we might not have the marvellous (best in world good) MacLeod and MacLeod of Stornaway black pudding.

[@eamonnclabby7067]

Liked the pitchfork...good post too...best wishes from the wirral peninsula...E

[@patrickohara5925]

Is that Crail at 0:45?

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Aye

[@kathleensiegrist1457]

“There can be only one” lol that was good

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[@charlieharris2824]

You make history fun

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

I try 😎

[@trojanette8345]

So, the land forfeiture act was during the reign of QEI ("1597") and then James continued enforcement once he took over in, 1603? OR was the year "1597" a typo and you really meant 1697?

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Elizabeth was never queen in Scotland

[@andrewsmith-cm9qw]

It’s fair to say that the clans were a bloody pain in the arse fighting each other fighting the English then fighting each other again and ended up being turfed off their land to make way for sheep

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

I'm not sure 'fair' would be an accurate description 😂

[@charlesgru8978]

Here's my question for him: Did the Fifers consider the MacLeods to be fellow-countrymen, or did they see them as an entirely different nation/peoples, like there were two totally separate countries?

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

I think I know the answer to that, but what is a country? They were two different cultures with two different languages

[@charlesgru8978]

@@ScotlandHistoryTours Exactly, which is what I was wondering about how they viewed each other, nationality-wise. Did they view each other then as "two different cultures but we're still one 'country' of Scotland", or did the Fifers have an attitude similar to the colonies of the Americas a couple centuries later of "This is our country now, and you're just foreigners who are in our way, never mind you were on the land first" ?

[@nicholasbethell2921]

Really interesting. Do you think that Gaelic culture might have fared better if the clan chiefs had been more subservient and less mischievous?

[@fearnpol4938]

They wanted total subservience but that’s not in our culture nor was it really in that of the lowlands hence why Scot’s are sovereign not the monarch or parliament. Highland/Gaidhlig culture was always going to fare worse due to numbers and the church.

[@nicholasbethell2921]

@@fearnpol4938 Thanks Fearn. I suspected that would be the answer. I suppose it would be easier to govern a more homogeneous population where everyone speaks the same language.

[@Albert-Arthur-Wison225]

Another superb video. Look, I don’t wish to be pedantic ( oops…too late ! ), but, I don’t really think it appropriate to describe James as an ‘ English ‘ king. Descended in no small part from English lines, yes,.Tudor, Lancastrian , Yotkist,..but, James was born & raised as a Scot. And came to reign as king of two still distinct realms that, to his frustration, did not come close to union in his lifetime. Three distinct crowns remained. And the ‘United Kingdom’ was still but a twinkle in his eye.

[@douglassayers9109]

Brilliant as usual but I have missed a lot due to youtube no telling me of your stuff

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Go to the channel and watch some of the playlists

[@geoffreymassey4865]

Complete sincerity, but you do a pretty Frank Sinatra with your singing.

[@Mustang727L]

"There can be only Naan!" 🤣

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[@interested-q4d]

end of act one scene one , reunification what next mr Fummey?

[@Campbell5339]

I like your scottish accent

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

It's the way God intended for people to talk 😁

[@whoarewe7515]

Pardon. :)

[@davidbethell4049]

"I'd rather be a lifer than a Fifer." ~ Bob Servant (Hero of Dundee)

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[@Thewolverine0865]

Highlander movie reference! "There can be only one."

[@chyannahughes8643]

This shows me that my Scottish granny was right .