Why are so many Scottish men so devastatingly handsome?

I know what you mean. The Scots are a beautiful people.

Maybe they should pass some of their genes on to the Windsors!

In a big country, dreams stay with you.

yet, the most famous Scott is Willie the groundskeeper on the Simpson, not exactly a turn-on.

Sean Connery

Enough said.

Speak for yourself, r4.

I can tell you've never been to Scotland.

I don't know, he's got an unmistakable charm.

Sean Connery never looked conventionally Scottish.

I have loved the lead singer since the 1980's.

Who are hot Scots? All I can think of is Colin Farrell. Or is he Irish?

It ain't the Scots it is the Irish who are so devastatingly handsome en mass. The Scots have too much Norse and German in them.

Glasgow fashion week

Many Scots look like hobbits or have skinny Clay Aiken face.

that was HOTTT!

[quote]Maybe they should pass some of their genes on to the Windsors!

The Queen Mum was Scottish so there is Scots blood in the Windsor family.

Eww - most of the ones I see seem soaked in Whiskey.

I happen to think Norse men are handsom r12. In fact the Vikings invaded Ireland and occupied it for years way back when, I bet they have just as much Norse as the scotts.

A lot of them have really big dicks.

They're all drunks with horseface.

even the ugly ones, that is the truth.

The Windsors have more Scottish blood in them then the Houses of Alpin, Balliol, Bruce, Dunkeld, Moray and Stuart who were all French. Mary, the Jameses and Charleses were all French from Paris.

yum, r10!

Ireland joins the thread

OP...have you actually been to Scotland!!?

r11, yes Colin Farrell is Irish, not Scottish.

Grade A Scottish meat.

Scroll down for NSFW shots. Heavenly ass!

I'll agree that there are some damned handsome Scots, and some damned sexy Scots, and considerable overlap, but "devastatingly handsome" as a class seems the overstatement of someone unfamiliar with Scotland.

I love the place, but they ain't all gorgeous.

Sometimes a wee delusional though.

[quote]In fact the Vikings invaded Ireland and occupied it for years way back when, I bet they have just as much Norse as the scotts.

A genealogical study was commissioned in Great Britian using the Y chromosome, which changes very little from male descendants to male descendants, in villiages where their presence could be traced back serveral generations. Both Ireland and Wales showed none/to very little Norse Y chromosome earmarks whereas Nothern England, Southern Scotland and the Northern Isles of Scotland was 40%-60%. Of course with Danelaw that is not surprising. Also the Irish and Welsh, the celts being the original peoples of the British Isle, were looked down upon by the invaders from Rome to the Normans. The Saxons, Jutes, Angles and Danes were all from the same area around and in Germany.

Butler would have been so much better than the fug Daniel Craig

SO in other words, the Scots and English didn't get their Norse genes from the Vikings but from the Anglo-Saxon invasion.

R30, too bad he can't act and would only be going for a Connery impression.

Craig Ferguson, not hot

r12 having been to Ireland and expecting to see ravishingly beautiful men - Irish Americans tend to often be very good looking - I was somewhat disappointed.

I find the sexiest guys are from the Czech Republic, and surrounding countries (Bosnia, Slovakia, etc).

At least according to the world of porn. Those guys are all GORGOUS and HUNG.

The Danes were Vikings and of the Viking tribes were the most likely to settle rather than pillage and leave. There was a heavy Norwegian presence in the Northern Scottish Isles between Norway and Scotland, it is believed that Norwegian Vikings completely eradicated the indigenous celt populations of these islands. Dane settlements have been found in Russia and the Near East and the Normans, at least the Norman nobiltiy, were Viking Danes.

Yes, but the point is numbers. The Viking invasions of Russia, of France, or England and Ireland, happened in an era of widespread literacy and if there were population mass movements, it would have been recorded. The invaders were rather small groups. On the other hand, the invasion of the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, et al. happened in a largely pre-literate society. The assumption that these people were German rather than Norse rests on the thin reed of language. Probably most of them came from Denmark and Holland, not Saxony, and that they spoke a Germanic language doesn't mean they weren't Norse by genetic descent. That's the point we were trying to make. Yes the Vikings and Normans were Norse (although the Normans had intermarried in the hundred years they spent in France). They founded Dublin. But they weren't a mass movement of large numbers of people, which is why it is likely the genetic relationships of Scotland and England with the Northlands predate them. Of course it is probable that Norway and Spain have been in contact with both Scotland and Ireland continuously for thousands of years. The question is what accounts for the genetic anomalies.

The real problem with gay Scottish men are their clingy faggis haggises.

I always look forward to my stroll through the Victoria Embankment Park that has the beautiful stature of Robert Burns.

I am SO sick of YouTube trolls posting their constant shit all over the place.

Nobody forces you to click on the links R40.

You can see where the link leads by positioning your cursor over it without pressing it.

R39 needs to get laid

I have a terrible, pungent wet sheep b.o. Consequently Scottish guys are the only ones who are ever attracted to me.

The Scottish Rugby team is particularly handsome at the moment, helped by their flattering strip. They're not so good st the actual rugby though. Mind you, the English, Welsh, French and Italian ruby teams are all pretty gorgeous as well, so maybe its rhe tugby, not the Scottishness. Scottish soccer players - not so great.

I lived in Edinburgh for three years and I had my fair share of sizemeat, but handsome? No more so than other places, I think. And Glaswegians can be pretty manky.

Nobody's mentioned James McAvoy yet?

You think Glaswegians are manky? Try Edinburgh. There's a lot of men up there with serious jail-face. If you want beautiful Germanic men in the UK go to Norwich.

Bravo r10.

[italic]yet, the most famous Scott is Willie the groundskeeper on the Simpson, not exactly a turn-on.[/italic]

Have ye not seen Groundskeeper Willie shirtless?!

Yes, some Scots can be very handsome. But the most drop dead gorgeous guy I ever saw was a boy from Ireland that my sister was dating.

He and I got along fabulously. But he had a little drinking problem which ended his relationship with the family.

Some of the UGLIEST men in Europe are Scots. I'm not saying there aren't some good-looking guys there, but on the whole... ick.

Same with Ireland, although the good-looking ones there are INCREDIBLY good-looking. Real standouts.

The royal family of England is German. Their name was changed to Windsor in 1917.

[quote]But they weren't a mass movement of large numbers of people, which is why it is likely the genetic relationships of Scotland and England with the Northlands predate them. Of course it is probable that Norway and Spain have been in contact with both Scotland and Ireland continuously for thousands of years. The question is what accounts for the genetic anomalies.

Quite the contary. The Danes had a huge presence in Northen England, so much so that the King was a Dane and the territory covered by Danelaw was massive. Much larger than the English territories of the Anglo Saxons in the South. The suffix "by" is old Norse for farm or village and look at the number of place names in this area that end that way. In fact after the defeat of the Danes in Northern England the Anglo Saxon King ordered that all Danes in England and Scotland be killed to avoid any Viking sympathies should there be another invasion and they were. The Celts were seen as inferior to the foreign ruling classes and were slaves and they were treated as such by all of the invaders. The Vikings sold the Celts as slaves to other places and the Anglo Saxons as well as the Normans treated them as homegrown slaves. There wasn't much marriage or association between them and the Celts other than to collect taxes or preform manual labour. This is one of the few things in Britain that has been consistant.

Craig whatsisname on that late night show is typically Scottish handsome.

Has anyone in this thread ever seen an Italian?

Well if they were all killed then they couldn't have passed their genes on R54.

Slaves came from Russia Slav=slave in Old English.

[quote]The royal family of England is German. Their name was changed to Windsor in 1917.

Queen Elizabeth, the "Queen Mum", was of the House of Stuart bloodline. Victoria was as well and Victoria's children all married into the Royal Houses of Europe. All Euro Royality is a French - German - English - Spanish mixture with a bit a Dutch thrown in.

"Some of the UGLIEST men in Europe are Scots. I'm not saying there aren't some good-looking guys there, but on the whole... ick. "

Looking back at you everyday ain't no picnic, hon.

Alright then 57, the Danes had aboslutely no affect on England, it's history, or it's population. It is all the Anglo-Saxons. It is also an interesting fact that the concept of slaves comes from Russian Slavs, one must say that those Slavs certainly got around and are as old as civilization.

Ewan Mc Gregor, James McAvoy...ok by me,

What about Welsh men?

As I enjoy rooting for the underdog, r45, I have a soft spot for Scotland rugby.

And they can sing too.

Sorry, Alan Cumming (aka OP): none of us is going to sleep with you despite this attempt at propaganda.

Irish and Scottish guys are UNBELIEVABLY good in bed. I've been with several and they make American guys seem like fucking wet fish.

NYSD went to "Dressed to Kilt" in NY. Check out the pic of the shirtless guy in the red jacket/grey kilt.

The video is kind of hot too.

bmp

I didn't say Danes had no influence on English history, I said that I suspected most Anglo-Saxons were probably Danes and Frieslanders, they just didn't speak a Norse language.

The Rus, and the Norse origins of their name.

Ewan Mc Gregor

I'm with you R61 Black Lesbian here but he can have it.

well?

Reply 61, wrote, "he can have it."

That's the second time I've seen this term, "he can have it" used, and the other instance was also very recent. The other time, an African-American also used it. What does it mean precisely, and what is its origin?

You realize that Mike Meyers is of Scottish descent, right?

He can have it, is a simple phrase meaning he can whatever I have if he wants it. Most often this phase is used with sexual connotations. It, can refer to any valued or sought after attribute of the speaker.

He can have it, is a simple phrase meaning he can have whatever I have if he wants it. Most often this phase is used with sexual connotations. It, can refer to any valued or sought after attribute of the speaker.