Racism

[Pentlandpirate]

Why is racism like this tolerated in various broadcast news formats but not here.http://news.aol.co.uk/scottish-men-buy- ... ain%20News

[DiscoClint]

Why is that racist? It's just saying that a particular product was sold more in one area than in another. It's consumer statistics; a fact.

[Peter Connelly]

Its just that in all this rainy weather, they make good emergency waterproof bunnets.

[Pentlandpirate]

Racism is the belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.

This article suggests the Scots are superior to the English!

[DiscoClint]

If it said "Scottish men are more generously endowed than their counterparts elsewhere in the UK" then I could see your argument, but it doesn't say that. It's just stating the results of a sales analysis from Tesco.

[Seil Blubber]

This article suggests the Scots are superior to the English!

This article says more large condoms are sold in Scotland. There could be many reasons for this, but it is on its own no more than a consumer statistic. The rest is idle speculation.

However, if you really believe that having a larger penis is what makes a man superior then may I respectfully suggest that you need to get a life

[Pentlandpirate]

Speculation or implication is everything with this kind of subject if you know what I mean, nod, nod, wink, wink

[DiscoClint]

But speculation is in the mind of the beholder.

It could just as easily mean that men in Glasgow overestimate their ideal fit: inflated egos? Or that they buy big in order to impress the girl at the checkout: deflated egos.

Or as Peter C says, that they make better waterproofs as they are bigger and it rains more in Scotland than in England.

To entertain the possibility that it is racist, AOL news is an American company. So are the Americans being negatively racist towards the English, or positively racist towards the Scots (or "Scotch" as they say?). Is there such as thing as positive racism?

[khartoumteddy]

Can`t see the Americans as racist towards the Scots in particular
Most have never been out of America.have no idea where Scotland is
and couldnt care less anyhow.
One needs to see Scotland before deriding it (or otherwise)
and maybe deciding it rains a lot.
thus increasing the sales of prophylactic hats.

And wasnt it ignorance on behalf of the local population that got the natives of
Hartlepool their nickname of monkeyhangers

Teddy