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Scotland Top of the Leagues, Best of

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    Scotland Top of the Leagues, Best of

    Etc...
    To save scooterscot the effort of finding out what other things Scotland is great at, I did some research for him.

    Heart Attacks
    BBC News | Health | Glasgow: The world's heart attack capital
    Glasgow women suffer the highest heart attack rate in the world, according to the largest international study of coronary disease yet conducted.
    Teenage Pregancy
    Dismay at figures | Herald Scotland
    Dundee used to be famous for its three Js, thanks to mills that once employed 50,000 people, James Keillor's world-beating marmalade and the publisher D C Thomson. Today it is better known as the teenage pregnancy capital of Europe
    Obesity
    Scotland is second in the world for obesity - Telegraph
    Scotland has the second highest level of obesity in the developed world, official statistics show.
    Lung Cancer
    Indonesia Tobacco: Scotland is UK’s lung cancer capital thanks to cigarettes
    Lung cancer remains the most common form of the disease in Scotland, according to a charity’s latest figures.
    Murders
    Scotland has second highest murder rate in Europe | UK news | The Guardian
    Scotland has the second highest murder rate in western Europe and Scots are more than three times more likely to be murdered than people in England and Wales, according to a study by the World Health Organisation.
    Violent Crime
    BBC News - Glasgow ranked UK's most violent area
    Glasgow has been ranked as the UK's most violent area in a new report.
    Although this is apparently an all time low!
    BBC News - Recorded crime at 39-year-low in Scotland
    Coffee's for closers

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      #3
      I think we deserve a round of applause, it is not easy getting all of those.

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        #4
        Scots are more than three times more likely to be murdered than people in England and Wales, according to a study by the World Health Organisation.
        Usually by strangulation I reckon.

        STFU about Scotland you tiresome



        Oh dear, he's dead!

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          #5
          "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

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            #6
            Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
            Scots are more than three times more likely to be murdered than people in England and Wales, according to a study by the World Health Organisation.
            I feel a sense of pride when I read that one.
            "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

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              #7
              Scots are more than three times more likely to be murdered by people in England and Wales, according to a study by the World Health Organisation.
              FTFY
              "He's actually ripped" - Jared Padalecki

              https://youtu.be/l-PUnsCL590?list=PL...dNeCyi9a&t=615

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                #8
                Interactive murder map here

                Murders in the UK

                Green = 2103

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by mudskipper View Post
                  Interactive murder map here

                  Murders in the UK

                  Green = 2103
                  Not many in the Welsh valleys then; have they evolved a special stab resistant skin?
                  And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
                    Not many in the Welsh valleys then; have they evolved a special stab resistant skin?
                    You'd have to ask zeity.

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