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the 100 best things...according to Scots apparently

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  1. DevAdvocate

    DevAdvocate Gigging bassist

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    Detailed below is the listing for the top 100 greatest things of the past 30 years as voted by Scots:
    1. World Wide Web
    2. Smartphones
    3. WiFi
    4. Online banking
    5. Email
    6. Google
    7. Digital cameras
    8. Text messaging
    9. Online shopping
    10. Andy Murray winning Wimbledon

    11. 1997 referendum and Scotland Act
    12. Flat screen televisions
    13. Berlin Wall coming down
    14. Super Mario Brothers
    15. Sir Chris Hoy and his seven golds
    16. GHD Straighteners
    17. The Independence Referendum
    18. Satellite navigation
    19. Fibre optic broadband
    20. Digital TV
    21. Glasgow Commonwealth Games
    22. DVD
    23. The Smoking ban
    24. 2014 Ryder Cup at Gleneagles
    25. YouTube
    26. Tablet computers
    27. 1990 Calcutta Cup - Scotland 13 England 7
    28. Price comparison websites
    29. 2000 Calcutta Cup - Scotland 19 England 13
    30. iPad

    31. Sky+
    32. eBay
    33. Online check-in
    34. Microsoft Office
    35. Budget airlines
    36. E-Book readers
    37. Budget supermarkets
    38. Facebook
    39. iPhone
    40. Budget hotels
    41. Networked computers
    42. Harry Potter
    43. Social Media
    44. Live Aid
    45. iPod
    46. Wonderbra
    47. Power showers
    48. Mobile apps
    49. Sunday opening hours
    50. Bluetooth

    51. MP3
    52. HTML
    53. 2012 Olympics
    54. Skinny jeans
    55. Wikipedia
    56. JK Rowling
    57. Alex Salmond
    58. The National Lottery
    59. Sony Playstation
    60. Mass-produced mobile phones
    61. Barack Obama
    62. Wheelie Suitcases
    63. Hybrid cars
    64. X Factor
    65. The Simpsons
    66. Friends (TV show)
    67. iTunes
    68. X-Box
    69. Usain Bolt
    70. William & Kate’s wedding

    71. Nintendo Wii
    72. Twitter
    73. Take That
    74. Roger Federer
    75. Spotify
    76. Spandex
    77. Netflix
    78. Michael Jackson
    79. Nintendo Game Boy
    80. Queen’s Diamond Jubilee
    81. Macbook
    82. George Foreman grill
    83. David Tennant
    84. The Rachel cut
    85. 1999 Scotland’s Five Nations Triumph
    86. Oasis
    87. Online dating
    88. Blogging
    89. Sega Megadrive
    90. Nintendo NES

    91. Sex and the City
    92. Instagram
    93. Botox
    94. Spray tanning
    95. Gordon Brown
    96. Nutribullet
    97. The Selfie
    98. Eve Muirhead
    99. EastEnders
    100. Red Bull
     
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    GHD straighteners at No16. I wonder who they surveyed in this sham?
     
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    Michael Jackson. <rofl>
     
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    No Irvine Welsh or Susan Boyle
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    Nae Buckfast? Away to ****. Where did they carry out this survey? Milngavie and Morningside?

    Okay, misread OP. Nothing to see here. Move on.
     
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    That Hiroshima one had me in tears laughing last night.
     
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    Where was the survey done?

    47, 70, 80 = Definitely not Parkhead
    27, 29, 85 = Possibly Edinburgh
     
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    Skinny jeans <doh>
     
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    Guess it was the huns who voted for 70.

    Surprised Diana being squashed in the underpass isn't there.
     
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    No mention of football but Nutribullet gets a mention<laugh>
     
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    Nae: Square Sausage/ Roll n Sausage wi onions, Mortons Rolls, Buckfast, Irn Bru, Tennents, Ice Cream Vans, Chippies, Tunnocks snowballs, broon sauce, tablet, macaroon, roll n pie!

    **** off - skinny ****s!

    And that's just my lunch!
     
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    ****ing right Pud, the fact that Nelsons Burn Cream never made the list is a travesty.
     
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    The smoking ban <grr>
     
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    Nae

    Alpine Ginger
    Barrs Limeade
    Bikers 10p crisps
    Collection for the Black Babies
    *****phile cub leaders
    Junior cup final sponsored by OVD rum

    GET TAE ****!
     
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    Though Sunday opening hours compensates.
     
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    Remember having jumbles and handing the money into the local kid's home?

    Too young to know we were probably funding *****s.
     
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    Spicy bikers Pud :emoticon-0115-inlov
     
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