Basically when you are young and living at home or at school, you are filled with how the world should be and want to change things. When you are on your own and working to survive, fear can make you more conservative in not wanting to rock the boat since it is pointed out to you the negatives of change (your taxes will increase, you will lose your job, social network cuts etc etc etc)
Bye, bye Scotland, we hardly knew ya!
Mon, 2014-09-22 17:31
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Mon, 2014-10-20 09:50
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Lord lov'em. Not only did the Scots give civilisation the steam engine, the telephone, television, and more, - apparently they also invented sex. Can't we let the poor buggers have their own country, - we owe them big time!
Sex 'emerged in ancient Scottish lake'
Scientists believe they have discovered the origin of copulation. An international team of researchers says a fish called Microbrachius dicki is the first-known animal to stop reproducing by spawning and instead mate by having sex. The primitive bony fish, which was about 8cm long, lived in ancient lakes about 385 million years ago in what is now Scotland...
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29661446