I Lol’d. Credit tho, they had about 100 years or so of inventing things and being good mechanics, then they left.

So my socialist aunt who lives in the middle of nowhere BC, she’s raising her boys to believe in global warming and never watch TV, when I mentioned during this episode “hey, maybe they’ll be weapons systems designers when they grow up!” and she went very very still and said “No, I don’t think so”, anyway so:

One of them had had his seventh birthday or so the week before, so we brought with us a birthday present for him from my family which was some kind of lego car with a little motor in it so when you push it back it goes scooting forward at great speed. So the other one had a plastic toy dinosaur that, bless his lil’ childlike imagination, turned into a tank and they kept shouting “it’s a massacre! It’s a massacre!” So I comment to my aunt, “they’re a bit bloodthirsty, aren’t they?” and she says,

“Well they were in Scotland last summer and you know everywhere you go was the site of some massacre so they seem to have picked up the word.”

The point about Scottish history is that it’s monotonously bloody. English history has moments when people invent things or write things or even discover things, but Scottish history is almost always about people getting killed. Like the king who rode his horse off a cliff into the dirth of Forth. And the one who stood too close to a cannon and it blew up….. Vairy Scottish.