#scots american

[scotianostra]

July 18th 1792 saw the death of John Paul Jones in Paris.

I covered the life of "The Father of the US Navy" in my post on his birth date a little over a fortnight ago so wont cover old ground, instead will go through his final days and his death, which many deemed to be mysterious, in Paris France.

As far as we know, John Paul Jones was in good health until 1770, when a severe fever sent him to bed for 16 days and left him ‘much reduced’. Nothing more is known of the character of this illness or its treatment. He was 23, serving in the West Indies and recovered. Except for two other unnamed illnesses and recurrent psychological highs and lows bordering on manic-depressive disorder, he seems to have been well for the next seven years.

In 1780, after many months at sea, he complained his eyes were so sore that he was almost blind, and for a time was so incapacitated that he gave up visiting friends on shore. His behaviour then was ‘Qweeg-like, suspicious and slightly dotty’, and though only 33, he felt like an old man. Three years later, during further service in the West Indies, a severe attack of ‘tropical fever’ caused him to travel to a Moravian sanatorium in Bethlehem, Palestine, for hydrotherapy, after which he recovered.

At the age of 41, Jones became ill during an overland trip in an open carriage from Hamburg to Copenhagen. From Copenhagen, he travelled to St. Petersburg through ice floes in a small open boat to take command of a Russian fleet, arriving exhausted, sick and depressed. The illness lingered on for months. Although its specific characteristics are unknown, it is believed to have involved the lungs; afterwards, he had a persistent hacking cough and ‘Grey visage

Shortly before his 45th birthday, Jones’ health declined rapidly. The nature of his final illness is described vividly in a letter written by a close friend, Col. Samuel Blackden, to Jones’ sister shortly after the naval hero’s death. In it, Blackden says of Jones:

" But for two months past he began to lose his appetite, grew yellow, and showed symptoms of jaundice. For this he took medical treatment and for a short time seemed to grow better. A few days before his death his legs began to swell, which proceeded upward to his body, so that for two days before his decease he could not button his waistcoat and had great difficulty in breathing ... [He] put off the making of his will until the afternoon of July 18, when he was prevailed upon to send for a notary and made his will. M. Beaupoil and myself witnessed it and left him sitting in a chair in his parlor. A few minutes after we retired he walked into his chamber and laid himself upon his face on the bedside, with his feet on the floor. The Queen’s physician, who was attending him, came soon after, and on entering the apartment found him in that position, and on trying to lift him up found that he had expired. His disorder had terminated in dropsy of the heart. His body was put into a leaden coffin [and submerged in alcohol] on the 20th, that, in case the United States, which he had so essentially served and with so much honor, should claim his remains they might be more easily removed "

One hundred and thirteen years later (in 1905), the remains of John Paul Jones were recovered and autopsied. According to L. Capitan and Victor Cornil, who performed the autopsy:

"The only organs which were injured were the kidneys As far as can be judged, by examination of the badly preserved viscera(which included the heart, aorta, liver, gallbladder and spleen but not the brain), we believe that the case in point is interstitial nephritis, with fibrous degeneracy of the glomeruli of Malpighi, which quite agrees with the symptoms observed during life. "

The autopsy goes on in some detail, I wont bore you with it but at the end of the day, the kidney failure/disease killed him, but there is no explanation of how it came about.

Jone's liver was normal, he wasn't the cliched stereotypical Scot, he abstained from spirits, his tipple was wine and it is said he drunk no more than three glasses,so alcohol was ruled out, as was lead poisoning, which would have come from the wine of the era. Cardiac arrhythmia or some other complication of uremia has been the conclusions. The first is a group of conditions that cause the heart to beat irregular, too slowly, or too quickly, the second occurs when your kidneys become damaged. The toxins, or bodily waste, that your kidneys normally send out in your urine end up in your bloodstream instead.

With regard to the question of the true ‘father’ of the United States Navy, no one person emerged as singularly worthy of the title in the aftermath of the American Revolution. Following the war, Jones left America embittered by a lack of recognition and served briefly as an officer in Catherine the Great’s imperial fleet before fleeing Russia over an apparently trumped up rape charge. Hopeful of securing another naval commission, he travelled to Paris where he died in 1792, lonely and forgotten. Because the American minister, Gouverneur Morris, refused to claim his body, a French official paid to have the corpse packed in straw and alcohol and sealed in a lead coffin for possible future transport to the United States.

If it wasn't for the foresight of this unknown French official the fate of John Paul Jones would have been unknown.

[oifaaa]

Would you rather be british or french

Haven't I answered this before? French the foods nicer the weather's better and it's still apart of the eu

[garpen]

YALLER

Yaller...

"Yaller need therapy once he's done with you."

I'm sorry. I have nothing to say for myself 😔

Yaller= yall will = you all will

I'm not even country or anything this is just gen how I speak. I try spelling out what comes through my head but sometimes I forget and just like spell/sound out what words sound like to me lol

A more accurate spelling would have been "Y'all'll" ? (ew the apostrophes make it look ugly) but the way I say it out loud sounds more like "yaller"

You all should be thankful you can't hear the way I speak it's honestly an atrocity

[vagueconfusion]

just found my mom didn't know that people in Britain speak English and it sent me into hysterics

[wormbussy]

I just...

"Serious question as an American. I've been told that drinking bleach cures COVID and stuffing rose quartz up your pussy realigns your chakras. All the school shooters had a ton of food coloring in their diet too. Why is everyone being so critical of me and my statement? I'm making an effort to educate myself."

[insomniacfoxu]

my mom literally just told me that the first thing she asked my piece of shit father when she found out he was cheating

"oh ye found some wee sheep ta fuck now arentye"

[leadendeath]

Read your tags in Demoman's voice

UR NOT THE FIRST PERSON TO GUESS I SPEAK SCOTS!!!!!!

[ebenelephant]

reclaiming my national roots by saying 'yous' instead of 'y'all' because i'm not a cowboy that's just the spirit of american entertainment speaking through me

[kemetic-dreams]

By the 1760s the English, both at home and in colonial America, were applying the term to Scots-Irish settlers of the southern backcountry, as in this passage from a letter to the earl of Dartmouth: “I should explain to your Lordship what is meant by Crackers; a name they have got from being great boasters; they are a lawless set of rascalls on the frontiers of Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia, who often change their places of abode.” The word then came to be associated with the cowboys of Georgia and Florida, many of them descendants of those early frontiersmen.

Among African Americans cracker became a contemptuous term for a white southerner; among some southern whites it has become a label of ethnic and regional pride, boosted by the election of south Georgian Jimmy Carter to the presidency in 1976. This led to the coining of the word crackertude as a not entirely serious answer to negritude.

[scotianostra]

On July 25th 1930 the Singer Annie Ross was born.

Another one of those, "what makes a Scot type posts, well Annie was born as Annabelle Allan Short in London to Scottish parents, her brother was the late great Jimmy Logan, she spent the majority of her first 4 years in Glasgow, her heritage alone in my opinion gives her the right to be classified as Scottish.

Annie moved to the USA with her aunt, the singer Ella Logan, at the age of only four. After working as a child actress in Hollywood she was lauded as the Scottish Shirley Temple, appearing in various films such as The Little Rascals and as Judy Garland's sister in Presenting Lily Mars.

At 17 Annie moved to London to sing in a club and was quickly established as a vocalist noted for her style and depth. She went to Paris, where she produced her first record Le Vent Vert and toured internationally. She worked with other musicians such as Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Zoot Sims and Georgie Fame. In the mid-1960s, Ross opened a popular jazz club, called Annie's Room, in Covent Garden

Annie featured in a number of Hollywood films right up to the 1990's working with stars including, Richard Gere, Christian Slater, Richard Pryor, Billy Crystal, Danny Devito, Jessica Lange and Tommy Lee Jones.

Perhaps her most famous role was one few will know of where she was Britt Ekland's voice in the cult Scottish film The Wicker Man.

In A Daily Record interview she spoke of her brother and Scotland, she said: “I admired Jimmy so much. I was so proud of being his sister. He was a good man. He taught me to hunt rabbits.

“He really showed me Scotland – because my aunt had always threatened to send me back to what she said was a horrible place.

“When I arrived it was raining and gloomy. I didn’t get to know Scotland until my brother showed it to me.”

“I still think of Scotland as home. If I had my way and the money, I’d move back. I have lots of great friends in Scotland.”

[algrenion]

you know youre in love with a cis man when you start showing genuine interest in his favourite sports

[britneyshakespeare]

Mary Queen of Scots got her head chopped off and me I also feel not so good

[timaeuslover001]

Cowboy “Cash Grab” Carter: it’s giving….Gimmick

Beyoncé has capitalized off of mainstream media at all points in her career. And this is evident in her song styles, her wardrobe, even in the features she’s had with various musicians over the years.

If you not popping, she’s nowhere near you.

This woman is NOT a trail blazer , she has not trail blazed a single thing , but the way people talk about her Like she has is CRAZZYYYYYY

And peopel need to understand the difference between country music the genre and the country music the LABEL!

Black country artists BEEN existing, the LABELS don’t want to open that door for Balck artists but Balck peopel BEEN in country.

And another thing about country is it’s a self sustaining community only person to win a Grammy for a country album in modern day music is LeAnn Rhimes and that was when she was a teenager.

Country is NOT mainstream and people openly VOCAL about the hatred and dismissal of country music.

It’s no secret .

And I think some of it has to do with people‘s own prejudicial ideas of what the south is and that they think that they’re all stupid.

They are very much so like Latin music, and their fans are very much so like Latin fans they are very loyal and very supportive.

Country music has always had loyal fans from every single decade and continues to have fans.

In the origins of country music stem from the Irish . They do not come from black Americans. They come from Irish Americans.

So it’s a blend of different components of other songs and music.

Just because slavery was in the south does not mean that everything that we know that is about the south today was created from black Americans .

There were other people in America, besides black Americans .

And so since the Irish have been in America since the beginning , a lot of the music and songs and other things they brought have been implemented into the culture just like every other group.

And now she wants to capitalize for some reason on the south and Americana …. When a decade ago she was standing there dressed like a black panther along with her dancers throwing up a fit during the halftime show when everybody was talking about the American flag being a symbol of racism🤨🤨🤨?!???

Like you spit on our nation’s, flag a decade ago and all of a sudden now because you want a new gimmick for your album it’s OK to now use the flag as a prop?!?

And if she had any type of social understanding about the world around her like she claims that she does , she would understand that a lot of people still attached the idea of racism to the south and she would’ve opened her mouth and stood up for the south like she should have back when people were acquainting Trump support to racism and /sistercousin marrying illiterate southerners😡😡😡

But what makes country music country music isn’t just the music alone it’s also a singing style . Those who do country don’t sound like any other genre it’s the same thing that jazz has, it’s a singing style that is completely unique to its genre the same way that soul singer sound unique in the same way that R&B singer sound very unique.

So if you’re gonna stand on something stand on it because it’s true not because “he said she said”Don’t be a liar.

[yorktaylor]

society if my family hadn't come to america from ireland during the revolution and instead came in the 40s like most irish americans so i could get citizenship

[newtinaboot]

The language switches I do are hilarious to me because-as a native English speaker-my ENTIRE pitch changes. Here is how I sound speaking different languages:

Japanese: Slightly higher and almost bouncy, like a caffeinated squirrel combined with an 11 year old sticky iPad boy who just got a Fortnite pack.

Russian: 65-year-old male chain smoker who won’t stop talking about that one time his friend shot him in the hand “by accident”

Scots Gaelic: Like me but…classier? Slightly deeper than normal pitch.

French: Deeper voice, almost like a man who tastes wine and smells cheese before it’s shipped to aristocrats around the world for a living.

Navajo: Me but more bouncy with more fluctuation.

NOTE: these are MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES. I am in NO WAY an expert or native speaker of these languages, and I do not believe that everyone who speaks these languages sounds the same or experiences them the way I do (no shit bc I only really fluently speak “Yee Yee” American (not that there’s anything wrong with that))

[etherealspacejelly]

bastard sounds great in an irish accent. if an irish person calls you a 'daft bastard' it just feels right

the welsh have the monopoly on things ending in hell. fuckin hell and bloody hell hit different in a welsh accent. its like music to my ears

the scots have piss and shite for sure. "its pishin it doon out there" "this is a load of shite" absolute poetry

if i may speak for the english i think we do penis related words very well. dickhead, knobhead, bellend, etc.

and for all the shit we give them, you gotta admit that no one can deliver a 'goddamn' quite like an american. theres a certain weight to it that you just cant achieve in other accents. when an american says goddamn you know shit just got real