Was he attacked by a stripper?

Maybe the English thinks it's the Scottish doing log-throwing contests

And since the logs end up in England, the English fear the Scottish are getting too powerful

@North-Sea-Empire I'm not worried about the Scots with their cabers.
To get to me they first have to get past the Lancastrians with their black puddings.

@Epi And they'd have to go that way. They can't go down the east coast without breaking the treaty.

"Yorkshire - protecting England from Scottish invasion since 1323."

@Epi Those darn vampires with their bloody cuisine (literally)!

@North-Sea-Empire If it is, it's a terrible attempt. The caber is supposed to end up lying along the ground pointing in the right direction. A Scot who can't even get their caber to lie down? They'd be a laughing stock.

@North-Sea-Empire That'd be scary for any English person!

Everyone knows that british people are afraid of Poles.
Harharhar.
*dives for cover*

@minando So that's why they are so insistent on Brexit.

@Asheram Brexit is a mess of things. Most of those that voted yes, were likely older and living in the industrial areas that got ravaged by the Thatcher years. While those that voted no were younger people, mostly living in and around London.

Never mind that it was supposedly UK that pushed for an expansion of EU back when the USSR dismantled. Possibly to make the EU system less efficient.

@minando

Ironically, although it gets 'forgotten' by our opponents, the reason there are so many Poles and other eastern Europeans in Britain is because we were far more open than the old core states when the eastern Europeans were allowed to join. All the existing states were given the right to restrict immigration from the new ones for a period and only Britain, of the large states anyway, didn't take up the option. Partly a traditionally more open attitude to migrants partly because it gave access to frequently skilled workers without needing the time and money to train up our own people. [Even Blair's new Labour was very much Thatcher lite in this and too many other respects. ] You then get the knock on effect that when some people find good jobs in Britain they form a focus for more migrants since the latter have friend/family/associates already in Britain so they don't find it too alien moving here. A bit like how large scale emigration to the US in the ~1860-1920 period saw huddles of Irish, Germans, Jews, Italians etc collecting in communities.

This has caused some hostility as it did in the US and other such cases but that has been vastly overblown by the people who want to present most/all Brits as raving racists and bigots to hide why so many people voted to leave the EU. [Partly a f**k you to the establishment which in both London and Brussels has been ignoring them for so long and partly because the EU isn't working for Britain with its different cultural background to the continent.]

I live in in the State of Iowa & every dang election cycle we're besieged by telephone poles!

@Newnetherlander Well played.

@Newnetherlander
And do those telephone poles have the right to vote ? ;-)

@Newnetherlander me too bro

@Newnetherlander *slow clap*

@Newnetherlander Bravo, good sir. Comment of the month!

He found it.. ap-pole-ing.. (appalling, get it?). Sorry that sounded much better in my head, seeing myself out now.

@dudemanbro A-pole-ogy accepted.

I love how the dog just keeps going

@Sisu

Freeeedom!

then again, there are polls that go up overnight - and up and up and up. :-D

Honestly. I blame PTSD from Scottish invasion. Those cabers man, they drop when you least expect it.

We have a similar (and very old) story in Germany (the exact location is unknown), where a mobile-network-operater erected a mast radiator. Shortly afterwards they received multiple complaints about headaches, sleep disorder and other issues. Upon confronted in a news conference, they asked how much trouble there will be, when the mast will be finally operated, as it was just not turned on yet.

@Bugmenot Well, all types of "technology allergies" tend to just be psychological ^^ I can just imagine their faces when they were told that the mast wasn't turned on yet

@skyacya And all the disappointed lawyers!

@skyacya Unfortunately, people like that seem much more likely to be certain that the company, government, etc. are lying and the equipment is already in use, probably for some secret classified nefarious purpose.

@CritterKeeper Not necessarily... It's been proven that nocebo and placebo effect are real things and that thinking you are suffering is sufficient enough to make you actually suffer. Now believing in false stuff is also widespread among humans, I would go as far as say that we all have at some point in our life (but most likely we still all are) believed in things that are/were false, the big difference is that some accept easily than others that they were wrong...
Being afraid of new things (like technology) is not that irrational a behavior : what you don't know can often hurt you. Without involving a conspiracy theory, there are still plenty of reasons to believe that a new technology can be dangerous mainly because there have been several cases in which it has been proven afterwards that some widely used stuff was actually pretty bad for your health (essentially because you don't always have the time to thoroughly test it and because some effect are only visible after using them for decades).
Don't be too fast to judge others without taking a good look at yourself... Chances are you are as much delusional as they are about some other stuff.

@Isdaril Placebo and nocebo may be real, but, for example, drugs aren't approved unless they have a significantly *better* outcome than the placebo group. The scientific method is a very effective tool — not perfect, but a heck of a lot better than the alternatives! If a proper double-blind prospective trial shows something works or doesn't work, I'm inclined to believe it unless there's an equally good reason not to. There's a *big* difference between believing in folklore or conventional wisdom or rumor, and believing in what's actually been tested and proven.

We're taught that some of the medical "facts" we are taught will be disproven or supplanted within ten years of graduating, and how to judge how well-proven a technique/drug/practice is. I know that some of the drugs I prescribe are *very* well-proven to be safe and effective, and others are the best we've been able to figure out so far but more studies are ongoing, and that some are what should work based on all the knowledge and theory we have now but they *haven't* been tested yet. The key is to use the best option available. If I have a choice between something that's been tested for decades but only works so-so and something that is new but has *much* better results in clinical trials, I'll talk to the client about those options. If they ask me about a new age or right-wing-conspiracy option that hasn't been tested but every scientific understanding we have says it shouldn't help and might do harm, I'll discourage it, but if there's no reason *not* to use it, I don't care, as long as they don't ignore something we *know* actually *will* help and is safe in favor of the complete unknown.

@Bugmenot Dunno about Germany. But the exact story played out in Sweden some years back. the mast was erected, the antennas mounted, and the local hospital got a bunch of calls from people with vague symptoms. Only that the antennas had not yet been turned on. We have become so accustomed to stress, that we fail to recognize the effects it can have on the body.

I wonder what England's dog name is the truth is I like the idea of it being named Edinburgh after the capital of Scotland
like how Sister America's dog is named Ottawa after the capital of Canada, England Welsh Corgi is named after the capital of Scotland

at first, I thought the dog should be named London but I thought a welsh corgi owned by an Englishman named after Scotland's capital would be funnier and cuter too

plus the dog being named Edinburgh makes it walking off while England freaks out kind of funny reference to "Scottish independence"

Love the corgi