Rangers Fans Conned

[Moonrakers]

I can't find a link to this as it was posted on a Swindon forum, but apparently:

A new poster signs up on a Rangers forum and makes a few non-descript posts. No one pays him any real attention. He then starts a thread saying;

If you want tickets for next week's title decider away to Dundee United, read here...

Since the away allocation for Rangers fans of 5 thousand is long sold out.

Tickets for the home end is the only solution.

But as we all know, if your not on Dundee United's official club/supporter database then you won't even be able to buy tickets for the home end.

Here's what to do..

Phone up the club shop. And ask to buy a pair of Dundee United kit socks.

Don't even mention tickets for Sunday. They might become suspicious.

Then when they take your sock order, personal details and process your payment your details will then be stored on thier system.

Give it a few hours until there's a shift change, phone up again and order your home tickets for the Rangers match and beacuse of your sock order, you will be on thier system and you will get your match tickets. It's perfect lads.

Turns out, there's no such database and all these Rangers fans have ended up with hundreds of pairs of Dundee United socks and no match tickets. The poster was a Celtic fan.

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[Jockstar]

I can't find a link to this as it was posted on a Swindon forum, but apparently:

A new poster signs up on a Rangers forum and makes a few non-descript posts. No one pays him any real attention. He then starts a thread saying;

If you want tickets for next week's title decider away to Dundee United, read here...

Since the away allocation for Rangers fans of 5 thousand is long sold out.

Tickets for the home end is the only solution.

But as we all know, if your not on Dundee United's official club/supporter database then you won't even be able to buy tickets for the home end.

Here's what to do..

Phone up the club shop. And ask to buy a pair of Dundee United kit socks.

Don't even mention tickets for Sunday. They might become suspicious.

Then when they take your sock order, personal details and process your payment your details will then be stored on thier system.

Give it a few hours until there's a shift change, phone up again and order your home tickets for the Rangers match and beacuse of your sock order, you will be on thier system and you will get your match tickets. It's perfect lads.

Turns out, there's no such database and all these Rangers fans have ended up with hundreds of pairs of Dundee United socks and no match tickets. The poster was a Celtic fan.

I'm a Rangers fan and i still have to laugh. :D :D

[mrtoad]

dam_n funny that

I bet the Jocks were more upset though on spending the extra money.

[Jimjim]

Good con.

[Jockstar]

dam_n funny that

I bet the Jocks were more upset though on spending the extra money.

:D

Stereotypes! They lead to other stereotypes and all of them lead to misunderstandings. In some ways they make people's lives easier. If you have a ready-made opinion about somebody, you don't have to spend much time thinking (a very painful process for some people) and forming your own opinion. You don't have to think about Germans - you 'know' that they have no sense of humour. The Russians? Drunk most of the time, or they like their drink too much. The French - why bother with them? They eat frogs. Quelle horreur!!!. And the Scots - that brave little nation. Supposedly so mean - tight fisted? Not true.

This fallacious myth about the meanness of the Scots is often abused. When a Scandinavian airline company advertised, "With every two persons, the third flies for free", they illustrated it with a strange picture. Two men in kilts sitting in a plane and a third hidden in the hand luggage compartment. The message was somewhat unclear but seemed to say that - "Scots will do anything to avoid paying because they are mean".

"Everyone says" they are mean! "Who is everyone?" you may well ask. Don't you know that they heat knives in Scottish restaurants so you don't use so much butter? A Scotsman invented a cure for sea sickness - he leant over the side of the ship with ten pence in his mouth. Copper wire was invented in Scotland when two Scotsmen fought over a penny. Ha Ha!

But what "everyone says" is NOT true! "Meanness" and "Scotland" go together about as well as "snow" and "tropical island". Scottish people give more to registered charities than the English, Welsh or Irish. Scottish people spend a great deal of money on Christmas gifts. So why has this myth became one of the most widely abused stereotypes?

Politics are the answer. The Scottish and English crowns were united in 1707 and Scotland effectively lost its independence when power was transferred to London. Over the years many Scots resisted the new English government. They were not ready to support England with taxes from Scotland. These taxes were very high especially after the unsuccessful Jacobite rebellion of 1745. For 40 years after the English did their best to eliminate Scottish culture. Tartans and the kilt were banned. The playing of the bagpipes was forbidden. No Scotsman could carry arms. These were terrible times and the Scots suffered greatly at the hands of the English. Even to this day those times are remembered.

The Highland people, who suffered the most, were unable to pay the money the government in England wanted. And so for the English the Scots became "mean" - they did not want to pay. But then how could they? The English had devastated the land. The Highlands had been cleared of people, many of them shipped out to America.

So the English were left in their frustration to vilify the brave Scottish people. If you cannot conquer them then try and ridicule them, they thought. But the Scots did not pay the English their high taxes. Why should Scottish money pay for English politics? And so the myth was invented by the English that the Scots were mean. Even now - more than two centuries later - Scots are "mean" in the sense that they resist paying taxes to the government in London. Scotland had large oil resources, as rich as that of some of the Arab states, but most of the money went to England. When Scots declared that it was "Scotland's Oil", the English cried out that, "We're all British and the oil is Britain's". That is, English. And the Scots were - again - called 'mean'.

The fact is that the Scots are not mean, they are just a bit careful with their money. The Bank of England and Bank of France were founded by Scots. The Royal Bank of Scotland is one of the largest independent banks in the world. Many of the major business concerns in Hong Kong, London and even New York are headed by people with Scottish origins. The First US Secretary to the Treasury was Scottish, as was James Pollock, who wrote those famous lines, "In God We Trust".

Stereotypes exist. They depend on a certain misunderstanding and ignorance of history to keep them alive. Remember it's not just the Scots who suffer from this. Are you happy when you hear why Christ wasn't born in Poland? He couldn't find three wise men and a virgin? Mind that for some people this joke can be as "funny" as Scottish jokes are for us!

[bkkjames]

dam_n funny that

I bet the Jocks were more upset though on spending the extra money.

:D

Stereotypes! They lead to other stereotypes and all of them lead to misunderstandings. In some ways they make people's lives easier. If you have a ready-made opinion about somebody, you don't have to spend much time thinking (a very painful process for some people) and forming your own opinion. You don't have to think about Germans - you 'know' that they have no sense of humour. The Russians? Drunk most of the time, or they like their drink too much. The French - why bother with them? They eat frogs. Quelle horreur!!!. And the Scots - that brave little nation. Supposedly so mean - tight fisted? Not true.

This fallacious myth about the meanness of the Scots is often abused. When a Scandinavian airline company advertised, "With every two persons, the third flies for free", they illustrated it with a strange picture. Two men in kilts sitting in a plane and a third hidden in the hand luggage compartment. The message was somewhat unclear but seemed to say that - "Scots will do anything to avoid paying because they are mean".

"Everyone says" they are mean! "Who is everyone?" you may well ask. Don't you know that they heat knives in Scottish restaurants so you don't use so much butter? A Scotsman invented a cure for sea sickness - he leant over the side of the ship with ten pence in his mouth. Copper wire was invented in Scotland when two Scotsmen fought over a penny. Ha Ha!

But what "everyone says" is NOT true! "Meanness" and "Scotland" go together about as well as "snow" and "tropical island". Scottish people give more to registered charities than the English, Welsh or Irish. Scottish people spend a great deal of money on Christmas gifts. So why has this myth became one of the most widely abused stereotypes?

Politics are the answer. The Scottish and English crowns were united in 1707 and Scotland effectively lost its independence when power was transferred to London. Over the years many Scots resisted the new English government. They were not ready to support England with taxes from Scotland. These taxes were very high especially after the unsuccessful Jacobite rebellion of 1745. For 40 years after the English did their best to eliminate Scottish culture. Tartans and the kilt were banned. The playing of the bagpipes was forbidden. No Scotsman could carry arms. These were terrible times and the Scots suffered greatly at the hands of the English. Even to this day those times are remembered.

The Highland people, who suffered the most, were unable to pay the money the government in England wanted. And so for the English the Scots became "mean" - they did not want to pay. But then how could they? The English had devastated the land. The Highlands had been cleared of people, many of them shipped out to America.

So the English were left in their frustration to vilify the brave Scottish people. If you cannot conquer them then try and ridicule them, they thought. But the Scots did not pay the English their high taxes. Why should Scottish money pay for English politics? And so the myth was invented by the English that the Scots were mean. Even now - more than two centuries later - Scots are "mean" in the sense that they resist paying taxes to the government in London. Scotland had large oil resources, as rich as that of some of the Arab states, but most of the money went to England. When Scots declared that it was "Scotland's Oil", the English cried out that, "We're all British and the oil is Britain's". That is, English. And the Scots were - again - called 'mean'.

The fact is that the Scots are not mean, they are just a bit careful with their money. The Bank of England and Bank of France were founded by Scots. The Royal Bank of Scotland is one of the largest independent banks in the world. Many of the major business concerns in Hong Kong, London and even New York are headed by people with Scottish origins. The First US Secretary to the Treasury was Scottish, as was James Pollock, who wrote those famous lines, "In God We Trust".

Stereotypes exist. They depend on a certain misunderstanding and ignorance of history to keep them alive. Remember it's not just the Scots who suffer from this. Are you happy when you hear why Christ wasn't born in Poland? He couldn't find three wise men and a virgin? Mind that for some people this joke can be as "funny" as Scottish jokes are for us!

I wonder what MR BT will think of this article?

[mrtoad]

dam_n funny that

I bet the Jocks were more upset though on spending the extra money.

:D

Stereotypes! They lead to other stereotypes and all of them lead to misunderstandings. In some ways they make people's lives easier. If you have a ready-made opinion about somebody, you don't have to spend much time thinking (a very painful process for some people) and forming your own opinion. You don't have to think about Germans - you 'know' that they have no sense of humour. The Russians? Drunk most of the time, or they like their drink too much. The French - why bother with them? They eat frogs. Quelle horreur!!!. And the Scots - that brave little nation. Supposedly so mean - tight fisted? Not true.

This fallacious myth about the meanness of the Scots is often abused. When a Scandinavian airline company advertised, "With every two persons, the third flies for free", they illustrated it with a strange picture. Two men in kilts sitting in a plane and a third hidden in the hand luggage compartment. The message was somewhat unclear but seemed to say that - "Scots will do anything to avoid paying because they are mean".

"Everyone says" they are mean! "Who is everyone?" you may well ask. Don't you know that they heat knives in Scottish restaurants so you don't use so much butter? A Scotsman invented a cure for sea sickness - he leant over the side of the ship with ten pence in his mouth. Copper wire was invented in Scotland when two Scotsmen fought over a penny. Ha Ha!

But what "everyone says" is NOT true! "Meanness" and "Scotland" go together about as well as "snow" and "tropical island". Scottish people give more to registered charities than the English, Welsh or Irish. Scottish people spend a great deal of money on Christmas gifts. So why has this myth became one of the most widely abused stereotypes?

Politics are the answer. The Scottish and English crowns were united in 1707 and Scotland effectively lost its independence when power was transferred to London. Over the years many Scots resisted the new English government. They were not ready to support England with taxes from Scotland. These taxes were very high especially after the unsuccessful Jacobite rebellion of 1745. For 40 years after the English did their best to eliminate Scottish culture. Tartans and the kilt were banned. The playing of the bagpipes was forbidden. No Scotsman could carry arms. These were terrible times and the Scots suffered greatly at the hands of the English. Even to this day those times are remembered.

The Highland people, who suffered the most, were unable to pay the money the government in England wanted. And so for the English the Scots became "mean" - they did not want to pay. But then how could they? The English had devastated the land. The Highlands had been cleared of people, many of them shipped out to America.

So the English were left in their frustration to vilify the brave Scottish people. If you cannot conquer them then try and ridicule them, they thought. But the Scots did not pay the English their high taxes. Why should Scottish money pay for English politics? And so the myth was invented by the English that the Scots were mean. Even now - more than two centuries later - Scots are "mean" in the sense that they resist paying taxes to the government in London. Scotland had large oil resources, as rich as that of some of the Arab states, but most of the money went to England. When Scots declared that it was "Scotland's Oil", the English cried out that, "We're all British and the oil is Britain's". That is, English. And the Scots were - again - called 'mean'.

The fact is that the Scots are not mean, they are just a bit careful with their money. The Bank of England and Bank of France were founded by Scots. The Royal Bank of Scotland is one of the largest independent banks in the world. Many of the major business concerns in Hong Kong, London and even New York are headed by people with Scottish origins. The First US Secretary to the Treasury was Scottish, as was James Pollock, who wrote those famous lines, "In God We Trust".

Stereotypes exist. They depend on a certain misunderstanding and ignorance of history to keep them alive. Remember it's not just the Scots who suffer from this. Are you happy when you hear why Christ wasn't born in Poland? He couldn't find three wise men and a virgin? Mind that for some people this joke can be as "funny" as Scottish jokes are for us!

Thank you for the indepth explanation Jockstar.

[Moonrakers]

Rangers get revenge:

Rangers fans will no doubt have been enjoying this clip for a couple of days now, but for everyone else it’s time to learn about “Operation Tango.”

Midway through the first half on the final day of the SPL season, a massive roar bellowed out from the Celtic fans as news spread like wildfire around Parkhead that Dundee United had equalised against Rangers. Obviously such rumours were later discovered to be pure fabrications, nevertheless for several seconds the whole of Celtic Park seemed convinced the rumours were true.

According to the Rangers’ forums, “Operation Tango,” as it is now known as, was the result of a mass texting by a group of Rangers supporters to their Celtic supporting friends, spreading the lies that conned the Celts into believe their team was in the box seat in the title race.

http://www.101greatgoals.com/2009/05/opera...-of-the-season/

[Jockstar]

Rangers fans will no doubt have been enjoying this clip for a couple of days now, but for everyone else it’s time to learn about “Operation Tango.”

Midway through the first half on the final day of the SPL season, a massive roar bellowed out from the Celtic fans as news spread like wildfire around Parkhead that Dundee United had equalised against Rangers. Obviously such rumours were later discovered to be pure fabrications, nevertheless for several seconds the whole of Celtic Park seemed convinced the rumours were true.

According to the Rangers’ forums, “Operation Tango,” as it is now known as, was the result of a mass texting by a group of Rangers supporters to their Celtic supporting friends, spreading the lies that conned the Celts into believe their team was in the box seat in the title race.

Brilliant. Ah the banter.