Fun fact: England tried 4 times within (nearly) one century to unite the parliaments between 1606–1707, only succeeding after Scotland’s failed trading venture left many people bankrupt (partly due to England’s efforts). But the SNP are the ones who “won’t let it go”. Mmmhmmm…
Soap with an “Alba gu brath” tattoo along his lower back
It was a stupid tattoo he got when he was younger.
When he fucked people and they asked what it was he came up with something it read as. “Be the change.” “Because I can.” “Soul of lion.” Anything that the person he brought to bed would seemingly like.
His personal worst? “Don’t fret. Live and let live.” Seriously how the fuck would that have fit? It doesn’t even have punctuation!
It didn’t matter though if someone looked it up later. He probably wouldn’t see then again. Most people didn’t bother.
When he sleeps with Ghost for the first time he bends over to mess with his pillow. Soap totally forgot about the tattoo until a scarred knuckle traces over the words. “Scotland forever.” Ghost mutters the words as he translates them.
Soap swore he knew he loved him then.
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Ghost knew the translation because Soap had screamed it once before following it up with a sharp “SCOTLAND FOREVER,” when he was drunk.
But after hearing his Johnny rave about his side of the story? He wouldn’t dare tell him that.
Not people in the comments of this MWII playthrough video saying how bad Soap's accent is and how they wish they got a real Scot to play Soap instead 🙃
Like I know you're not talking about "Alba gu brath 🏴!" in his Instagram bio, Neil Ellice like???? Get out of my house.
see all these American born-and-bred folk going “proud💪🏻to have Scottish 🏴 blood 💪🏻 bagpipes are the instruments of my ancestors 💙 och aye the noo 🏴 alba gu bràth 💪🏻” coz they’re like 0.0001% Scottish right? av seen them bloody everywhere on scottish twitter nd youtube nd shite nd they’re pretty fuckin annoying like calm it doon Mary Ann mate you’ve got to take ur son to soccer. think they think they’re edgy but like no cunt’s walking about here going “‘Murica 💪🏻 the great 🇺🇸 maccies 🍟makes me proud to be American ❤️bad spelling 💪🏻for the win 🗽”
Also, I figure am safe coz like noone follows me but if this happens to be my one popular post, I’m sorry for the slight attack but it’s just embarrassing yanno xoxo
Although I occassionally think of myself as a passable writer, I have no delusions that I would be able to properly put into words how much I love Scotland. Fortunately, Robert Burns existed, and I can use one of his songs. This is traditionally a love song, but I think it very much applies to this situation. What better way to close out this blog?