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Good evening fellow NOPErs....and happy Canada Day, aye!

 

So while our big cousins (or is it brother's) way up north celebrate their nationhood down here in Aus we are holding our international tartan day celebration (note this is an Aussie holiday not a Scottish one, cos well any excuse for a piss up) ...which we hold to coencide with anniversary of the Repeal Proclamation of 1782 which annulled the Act of Proscription .... So basically the English made a law that the Scott's couldn't wear there kilts, if they did they copped a fine or 6mths in jail...if they did it again they could be transported for 7 years of indentured slave labour to any land of that England owned...oh so that's why the Aussies celebrate tartan day, cos of the convicts, yeah-NAH....I told ya it's any reason for a party (about 1/8th of our population has Scottish ancestry).. you see if you check those dates...the First Fleet hadn't even set sail for Aus when all this happened.

An odd coincidence, North America celebrates tartan day in April...and the Canadians began the tradition...so see it's only fitting we celebrate our one on Canada Day. Did you know 15.8% of Canadians have some degree of Scottish ancestry... See now your life is complete....

 

So while I might don the tartan, and smother my bacon with maple syrup on this day of celebrations....will I smoke, ever again.....

 

NOPE

 

 

 

 

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