[mdcurran]

I feel embarrassed! Despite being from Glasgow, until now I've never made the connection between the River Kelvin (and the surrounding Kelvingrove and Kelvinbridge), the statue in the park of someone called Baron Kelvin, and the unit of measurement.

[zyklu5]

You scots are the most extreme combination of a people who have made vast parts of the modern world and people who know nothing about the achievement of their own people. I spent a year doing my postdoc in your country and have to say you guys are my favourite lot on this otherwise wretched rock.