| In a report published this week by
the Charities Aid Foundation, the Scots came out ahead of our English and Welsh cousins in
the giving to charidee stakes. The report, likely to occasion much
"wha’s like us" gloating at the expense of the
tight-as–a-gnat’s-chuffness of our Southern based relatives, confirms what we
already smugly know: we’re nice, the English aren’t and the Welsh as a nation
have short arms and deep pockets.
Professor Beaker of Edinburgh’s School of Why
We’re Great Studies says the study merely confirms what his already common knowledge: |
"It’s a well known fact
that when it comes to helping out the dafties, cripples and unfortunates in an on-going
your tea’s oot scenario, the Scots are first to put their collective hand in their
pocket. This study backs up anecdotal evidence based on me standing in a bar waiting to
see if a Welshman is ever going to buy a round." Feelings of
collective superiority were tempered however by the report finding that our cousins in
Northern Ireland came top, although this finding might derive from CAF observers drawing
the wrong conclusions from watching punters in Belfast pubs stuffing money in tins
collecting for (ahem) "The Boys." |
