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Is Doncaster, South Yorkshire still part of Scotland?

jblackmoustache

If so that means i'm Scottish :biggrin:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/doncaster--is-part-of-scotland--after-900-year-old-administrative-error-comes-to-light.html

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No.

Ummm. The clue's in the name.. Doncaster, South YORKSHIRE. Which just happens to be in ENGLAND?!

Reply 3

Foghorn Leghorn

Lol seems like you are. Free prescriptions, free education, welcome to paradise my friend you will like it here.

Reply 4

jblackmoustache

Original post by jordan-s

Ummm. The clue's in the name.. Doncaster, South YORKSHIRE. Which just happens to be in ENGLAND?!

Read the link...

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jblackmoustache

Original post by Foghorn Leghorn

Lol seems like you are. Free prescriptions, free education, welcome to paradise my friend you will like it here.

I'm half Scottish, but now I feel fully Scottish :biggrin:

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Phantom Lord

Maybe, but I heard it's legal to shoot a Scotsman in York with a crossbow if he's drunk on a Sunday or something like that.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2007/nov/07/uk.queensspeech20072

(edited 12 years ago)

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jblackmoustache

Original post by AkaJetson

No, but I heard it's legal to shoot a Scotsman in York if he's drunk on a Sunday or something like that.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2007/nov/07/uk.queensspeech20072

So if I travel past the Doncaster border I can be shot?? :eek:

Reply 8

hughcapet

It may have been signed over to the King of Scotland to stop Scottish raids in Yorkshire and other areas of Northern England, but it sounds like the King of England later reclaimed it by force. So the Scots can lay claim to Doncaster all they like, citing the treaty for effect, but that won't change the fact that it's an English town and always will be.

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ForgettingWhatsername

Original post by AkaJetson

Maybe, but I heard it's legal to shoot a Scotsman in York with a crossbow if he's drunk on a Sunday or something like that.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2007/nov/07/uk.queensspeech20072

Haha, this is brilliant. Women can go topless in Liverpool if they work as a clerk in a tropical fish shop :lolwut:

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juliewho

I don't want to be scottish though :tongue:

Oh, and why did they pick the worst picture they could find of Doncaster? Rail maintenance yard and the Hexthorpe flats? :frown:

(edited 12 years ago)

Reply 11

Pitt1988

There's loads of random old laws that are still about, don't know how many you could actually pull off. That one about shooting a scotsman with a bow and arrow I read in the York dungeons. There's another one where a pregnant woman can request to urinate in a police officers hat if there are no toilets about.

Reply 12

aspirinpharmacist

Original post by juliewho

I don't want to be scottish though :tongue:

Oh, and why did they pick the worst picture they could find of Doncaster? Rail maintenance yard and the Hexthorpe flats? :frown:

I wouldn't either. Mostly cos I live here. :colonhash:

But

at the idea of Doncaster being Scottish.

Reply 13

Phantom Lord

Original post by ForgettingWhatsername

Haha, this is brilliant. Women can go topless in Liverpool if they work as a clerk in a tropical fish shop :lolwut:

Here's where I originally read it, there's loads more crazy ones
http://best-hoaxes.blogspot.com/2009/02/20-strange-and-funny-uk-laws.html

Reply 14

Organ

Guys, you don't want to claim Doncaster.

ermm no

So will i now have my uni tuition fees paid for me by the Scottish government? If so that would be a great help, maybe ill write to Alex Sammond on the matter . . . . :wink: