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"*": "<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-lineno\" id=\"mw-diff-left-l1\" >Line 1:</td>\n<td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-lineno\">Line 1:</td></tr>\n<tr><td class='diff-marker'>\u2212</td><td class='diff-deletedline'><div><del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"><strong>MediaWiki has been installed</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"></strong></del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Crass Merrymaking in the West Highlands is an article on the website [[peterburnett.info]] and dates from 2006 when the author of the article known as [[Robinson Roly]] had completed research on whether anti-Scottish sentiment in [[Scotland]] had begun to materialise in national self-loathing</ins>.</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td class='diff-context'></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td class='diff-context'></td></tr>\n<tr><td class='diff-marker'>\u2212</td><td class='diff-deletedline'><div><del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Consult </del>the <del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">[//meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents User's Guide] for information </del>on <del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">using </del>the <del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">wiki software</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">== Content ==</ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">The article Crass Merrymaking in </ins>the <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">West Highlands feigns to present an argument that depression, and corollaries such as sadness and melancholy, are a drain </ins>on the <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">economy</ins>.</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td class='diff-context'></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td class='diff-context'></td></tr>\n<tr><td class='diff-marker'>\u2212</td><td class='diff-deletedline'><div>== <del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Getting started </del>==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div>== <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Middle Ages </ins>==</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td class='diff-marker'>\u2212</td><td class='diff-deletedline'><div><del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">* </del>[/<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">/www</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">mediawiki</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">org/wiki/Special</del>:<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">MyLanguage/Manual</del>:<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Configuration_settings Configuration settings list</del>]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Much of the negative literature of the Middle Ages drew heavily on the writings from [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] and [[Ancient Roman|Roman]] antiquity. The writings of [[Ptolemy]] in particular dominated concepts of Scotland till the late Medieval period and drew on stereotypes perpetuating fictitious as well as satirical accounts of the [[Kingdom of the Scots]]. The English Church and the propaganda of royal writs from 1337\u20131453 encouraged a [[barbarian|barbarous]] image of the kingdom as it allied with England's enemy France, during the </ins>[<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">[Hundred Years' War]].<ref>The Hundred Years War. W.R. Jones (1979). Journal of British Studies<</ins>/<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">ref> Medieval authors seldom visited Scotland but called on such accounts as "''common knowledge''", influencing the works of [[Hector Boece|Boece's]] "''Scotorum Historiae''" (Paris 1527) and [[William Camden|Camden's]] "''Brittania''" (London 1586) plagiarising and perpetuating negative attitudes</ins>. <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">In the 16th century Scotland and particularly the [[Scottish Gaelic|Gaelic]] speaking [[Scottish Highlands|Highlands]] were characterised as lawless, savage and filled with wild Scots</ins>. <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">As seen in Camden's account to promote an image of the nation as a wild and barbarous people</ins>:</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td class='diff-marker'>\u2212</td><td class='diff-deletedline'><div><del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">* </del>[//<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">www</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">mediawiki</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">org</del>/<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">wiki/Special</del>:<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">MyLanguage/Manual:FAQ MediaWiki FAQ</del>]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"><blockquote>They drank the bloud [blood] out of wounds of the slain</ins>: <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">they establish themselves, by drinking one anothers bloud [blood] and suppose the great number of slaughters they commit, the more honour they winne [win] and so did the [[Scythians]</ins>] <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">in old time. To this we adde </ins>[<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">add] that these wild Scots, like as the Scythians, had for their principall weapons, bowes and arrows. Camden (1586)<ref>W. Camden, Britannia, or, A Chorographical description of the most flourishing kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland. (London 1610), p114-127<</ins>/<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">ref><</ins>/<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">blockquote></ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td class='diff-marker'>\u2212</td><td class='diff-deletedline'><div><del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">* </del>[<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">https://lists</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">wikimedia</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki</del>-<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">announce MediaWiki release mailing list</del>]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div> </div></td></tr>\n<tr><td class='diff-marker'>\u2212</td><td class='diff-deletedline'><div><del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">* [</del>//www.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">mediawiki</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">org</del>/<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">wiki</del>/<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Special</del>:<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">MyLanguage/Localisation#Translation_resources Localise MediaWiki for your language]</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">== Modern Crassness ==</ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td class='diff-marker'>\u2212</td><td class='diff-deletedline'><div><del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">* [</del>//<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">www</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">mediawiki.org</del>/<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">wiki</del>/<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Combating_spam Learn how to combat spam on your wiki]</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Amongst the old Dundonians, Frazer McOrloff relates out of Sabellicus, the king of the First Minister of the country of Scotland lies with the bride the first night, and once in a year they go promiscuously all together. </ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Aberdonian Cosmog. lib. 3. ascribes the beginning of this brutish custom (unjustly) to one Oggarda, an Invernetian, that invented a new sect of Adamites, to go naked as Adam did, and to use promiscuous venery at set times, notably on visits to Keith, Forres and the Moray area. When the First Minister or presiding local official repeated that of Genesis, "Increase and multiply," out go the candles in the place where they met, "and without all respect of age, persons, conditions, catch that catch may, every womman took him that came next, and man, woman, beast," &c. </ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Some fasten this on those ancient Bohemians and Russians who may have landed at Peterhead, others on the inhabitants of Mambrium, in the Lucerne valley in Piedmont. But, as you read, this was and still is practised in Scotland amongst depressed Scots themselves, and has been since King Malcolm's time, and the king or queen or the lord or lady of the town will have their maidenheads and loonheads as and when they can</ins>.  </div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">In some parts of Shetland in our age, and those islanders, as amongst the Babylonians of old, will prostitute their sons and daughters (which Chalcocondila, a Greek modern writer, for want of better intelligence, puts upon us Britons) to such travellers or seafaring men as come amongst them by chance, to show how far they were from the feral vice of hedonism, and how little they esteemed it, in favour of crass merrymaking</ins>.</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div> </div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div> </div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">==In the media==</ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">A stereotypical Scotsman is often depicted as being fiery-tempered, alcoholic, militaristic and</ins>/<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">or miserly, plays bagpipes, and often dressed in kilts. Examples include</ins>:  </div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">[[Groundskeeper Willie]]</ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">[[Scrooge McDuck]]</ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">[[Private Frazer]]</ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">[[Mr Mackay]</ins>]</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">and</ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div>[<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">[Montgomery Scott|Scotty]]</ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div> </div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">When such a character wears a kilt there is often ribald speculation or innuendo about what is underneath and the sensitive males Scots cannot bear this and complain to the BBC if available</ins>. <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">The accompanying sporran is often thought to be amusing too and sensitive Scots males cannot, also, bear this, and so complain to the BBC if available</ins>.</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div> </div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">An edition of the BBC satirical show ''Have I Got News for You'' aired on 26 April 2013 prompted over 100 complaints to the BBC and Ofcom for its perceived anti</ins>-<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Scottish stance during a section discussing [[Scottish independence</ins>]<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">]. Panelist Paul Merton had suggested Mars bars would become the currency of a post-independence Scotland, while guest host Ray Winstone added, "To be fair the Scottish ecomomy has its strengths \u2013 its chief exports being oil, whisky, tartan and tramps."<ref>{{cite news|url=http:</ins>//www.<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">scotsman</ins>.<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">com</ins>/<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">what-s-on/tv-radio</ins>/<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">ray-winstone-calls-scots-tramps-on-tv-quiz-show-1-2914017 |title=Ray Winstone calls Scots 'tramps' on TV quiz show |publisher=Johnston Press |newspaper=The Scotsman |date=1 May 2013 |accessdate=1 January 2014}}</ref></ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div> </div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">==Link==</ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div> </div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">The article '''Crass Merrymaking in the West Highlands''' is located as follows</ins>:</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div> </div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">http:</ins>//<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">peterburnett</ins>.<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">info</ins>/<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">articles</ins>/<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">627-crass-merrymaking-in-the-west-highlands</ins></div></td></tr>\n"
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