You might know that I’m a bit of a fan of Irn Bru adverts, they’ve had some crackers over the years. What do you think of the one below? Apparently there have been 60 complaints about it to the authorities, which is quite a lot I suppose. But have they all had a sense of humour bypass?

I don’t think the ‘crazy Yanks’ advert got any complaints at all, and that could be taken as being derogatory to Scots in that it implies that you might be head-butted in Scotland!

Some English people are complaining that the ‘English boyfriend’ advert is anti English. I suspect that the type of people who have complained are the ones who never leave England, unless it’s to scorch themselves on a Spanish beach.

If they did bother to visit Scotland they would discover an awful lot of English people who have chosen to live in Scotland, a far higher percentage of the population than Scots living in England, but it’s always English people who compain about Scots living in England.

Having lived in England myself, I experienced quite a lot of anti Scots behaviour of the ‘what are you doing here, taking OUR jobs’ variety. I’m not a fan of my local M.P. who happens to be Gordon Brown, but the amount of vitriol that he had to put up with from the tabloids was just ridiculous, and nothing was ever done about it – and it was all blatantly aimed at him because he was Scottish. I suggest that that IS something far more serious than adverts.

By the way, I belive that Irn Bru can be found in some parts of the USA now.