excellent headline, winmitter!

Well, it's certainly better than Korea's national sport of Starcraft.

/kekekeke

Hurling and haggis naturally go together too.

FTA:
"drinking... has become Scotland's "national sport", a government minister has warned."

Newsflash: gov't ministers are killjoys

Hurling is a brutal sport. Makes american football look like golf.

"It's impossible to walk down the street at night without seeing people who've simply had too much to drink."

My God, and during the holiday season!

Note to Submitter: Don't submit an excellent headline this late in the year. The ballots for the best of 2007 have already been set.

WIN. Yet, FAIL.

/I'd have voted for this one.

They also know how to eat well in Scotland

Deep-Fried Mars Bars (new window)

What the f*ck do you mean, we f*cking drink to f*cking much, you f*cking wanker?

I think we need a Scotland tag.

Bermuda59: I think we need a Scotland tag.

I would click on it every time.

Hurling is an IRISH sport. As is the National Sport of Drinking, bagpipes, kilts, AND whiskey!

You Scots need to stop stealing all our shiat and trying to make it yours. You aren't fooling anyone.

Silly Irish git, the Irish traditionally wore a long tunic called a brat. It wasn't a kilt.

Veteran of the Cola Wars: Silly Irish git, the Irish traditionally wore a long tunic called a brat. It wasn't a kilt.

Whatever you call it, it's a dude in a skirt.

/ducks thrown whiskey bottles.

I'm sure those drunken, murdering farktards were also sober farktards.


Disapproves.

Is eating greasy fatty food the number two sport?
Ian Rankin pointed out in one of his Rebus novels that thanks to their drink and diet Scots have the mortality rate of a third world country.

Binge drinking in Scotland leads to questions the following morning along these lines:

"Cò an caora sin còmhla riut a chunnaic mi an-raoir?"

That's Scots Gaelic for "Who was that sheep I saw you with last night?"

No. A skirt hangs from the hips. A brat is a tunic. It is a long shirt that hangs from the shoulders down to the knees, belted around the middle, and left loose fitting.

One is a shirt, or even could be considered a dress of sorts, while the other is a skirt.

The Irish were to fecking drunk to learn to properly fold and pleat a belted plaid properly. :)

Heh. But the irish don't drink whisky. They drink whiskey. It tastes like drain cleaner.
Real whisky is much better than that mind-rot the irish swill down.

America frowns upon the Scottish shenanigans.
But don´t worry boys, I am part of the American Olympic drinking team and I will do us proud!

"Would you like to order, sir?"

"Yes! Mr. Badger, what would you like to start with?"

"Uh, I'll have a whiskey to start with."

"For first course, sir?"

"Aye!"

"And, for main course, sir?"

"Uh, I'll have a whiskey for main course, and I'll follow that with a whiskey for pudding."

"Yes, sir, and, what would you like with it, sir? A whiskey?"

"No, a bottle of wine!"

Hurling's Irishiathink you mean shinty, which doesn't make for quite so amusing a headline.

unkotabete:
"Cò an caora sin còmhla riut a chunnaic mi an-raoir?"

That's Scots Gaelic for "Who was that sheep I saw you with last night?"

Um, I'm trying to drink my beer here.

/It's about midnight according to my circadian rhythms.
//Scotch-Irish, so I'll drink it all!
///Oh yeah, I forgot to tell the subby he wins a bazillion trillion internets.

can't we all just agree that whiskey and scotch are superior to bourbon?

"Fark you....you dos coont!"

Wizard Drongo: Heh. But the irish don't drink whisky. They drink whiskey. It tastes like drain cleaner.
Real whisky is much better than that mind-rot the irish swill down.

This

Oooh 18... Barely legal.

I bet there is some peat on that field!

Ah camán now.

Actually Scots do have a 'sport' called haggis hurling.

Mike Myers: "My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare."

'Tis the tossin' o' the caber tha marks a true Scots laddie...


/Up yer clunge.

No kidding. When they came here to play FCB they drank all the alcohol in Barcelona. No joke. Some bars had to close for the night. Well, due to the violence as well.

National Sport? Getting shiz faced is what I call Tuesday.

What about shirling?

...but of course

I didn't RTFA but I'm guessing it was said like it was a bad thing.

/alba gu bra
//american mutt with scottish blood from the clans Graham (Warnock) and Muir, my surname is a derivative of this, from both my parents..and just got off phone w/ ex gf who last name is Gordon..also scottish...yet she is a new york rican..figure that one out.
///reading this makes me want to find a drink..and something deep fried.

I was drunk in Edinburgh during 2000-2001 Hogmanay, so I'm getting a real chunder out of these replies

Drinking to excess can be a major factor in date rape. Won't someone please think of the sheep.

I don't know why society chooses to continue glamorizing alcohol. It's pretty farking pathetic.

That's why I wear kilts... Zippers scare sheep.

mandyer: What about shirling?

I came into this thread hoping that someone would make that reference -- thanks for not disappointing me. :) Kids In The Hall FTW!