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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Fleecewife on July 09, 2016, 11:57:37 am
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-36746394 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-36746394)
I don't know how long this link will stay open but goodness me that's 'orrible - like a tasteless open grave just waiting...........
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According to wiki apparently he had a bad heart condition and he died following a dental extraction. :o
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I don't even need to click the link and I know what you're talking about!
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-36746394 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-36746394)
I don't know how long this link will stay open but goodness me that's 'orrible - like a tasteless open grave just waiting...........
Why? It's not his grave, it's where he drank supposedly healing waters which weren't healing as it turns out. If it's another source of income in our already beleaguered tourist trade, why not! :excited:
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I always thought he died of exhaustion/malnourishment ie worked to the bone by trying to cultivate sour land.
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When I first saw this on BBC, I thought - great, at long last there's what we in Germany call a Wassertretbecken (or -tretstelle)... Quite popular for walking about in, excellent for your health - see Kneipp!
As an example:
http://www.blackforest-tourism.com/Media/Attraktionen/Wassertretstelle-Schluchsee-am-Sportplatz (http://www.blackforest-tourism.com/Media/Attraktionen/Wassertretstelle-Schluchsee-am-Sportplatz)
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If it's another source of income in our already beleaguered tourist trade, why not! :excited:
Not sure our tourist trade will be beleaguered - with the situation with the £, we're quite an attractive touristdestination ;)
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A few hurdles, and it would make a cracking sheep dip! :innocent:
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A few hurdles, and it would make a cracking sheep dip! :innocent:
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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If it's another source of income in our already beleaguered tourist trade, why not! :excited:
Not sure our tourist trade will be beleaguered - with the situation with the £, we're quite an attractive touristdestination ;)
Actually, with the increase in racist "incidents" I don't know whether tourists will feel so very welcome here any more... Why would they come where foreigners are wanted?
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Actually, with the increase in racist "incidents" I don't know whether tourists will feel so very welcome here any more... Why would they come where foreigners are wanted?
There has been no reported increase in racist incidents in Scotland.
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Not yet - thank goodness! But a few years ago I read a report by a German reporter who writes for a very good weekly; he lives somewhere in the highlands with his British wife, and regularly gets Nazi taunts when they go out for meals etc... Might be just a local thing, but it is not unheard of, and those kinds of people will only feel justified now to strengthen their anti-foreigner activities... There are a lot of people out there who blame anything that's wrong with society on those bl**dy foreigners - not just in the UK, but in any country - and unfortunately they have just been given a boost!
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Not yet - thank goodness! But a few years ago I read a report by a German reporter who writes for a very good weekly; he lives somewhere in the highlands with his British wife, and regularly gets Nazi taunts when they go out for meals etc... Might be just a local thing, but it is not unheard of, and those kinds of people will only feel justified now to strengthen their anti-foreigner activities... There are a lot of people out there who blame anything that's wrong with society on those bl**dy foreigners - not just in the UK, but in any country - and unfortunately they have just been given a boost!
Racists have been given a boost, almost tacit approval of their racism. I agree that the build-up to the recent referendum appeared to encourage the haters to hate more.
However, the Scots people are a bit different to the English (I was born and raised in England but have been Scottish for more than 4 1/2 decades). There is a long history of top quality education in Scotland going back centuries, giving the sense that 'we're all Jock Tamson's bairns', ie we are all basically equal. Somehow this seems to make the Scots rather more accepting of incomers than is so in the south of the UK. Also there are way more incomers in the south than there are here.
Anyway, I really don't think that the worry that Scotland will hate tourists will ever be an issue. People will flock to the Well, just as they have before. I just wish the architect of the upgrade had done a classier job :innocent:
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I think they wanted it to look as old and as vintage as possible, to make people really believe he did bathe there, which he did, but if they made it look newer people may not believe it is real :thinking: