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Comment on Sycamore Gap tree destroyed in 'moronic mission', court told

Rogue@feddit.uk ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

What depressed me most about the loss of the sycamore is nobody would ever face consequences for it. I figured it would be impossible to prove.

But I’ll be damned the morons recorded themselves doing it. What the actual fuck. How do people this dim exist?

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frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Looks like only two of them are facing consequences; the other one seems to be getting off scot-free.

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- Silic0n_Alph4@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Scott-free? Yes, that’s what Hadrian’s wall was for…
  
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  - tal@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Now I’m kind of wondering about the etymology there.
    
    kagis
    
    Hmm. Apparently different etymologies:
    
    www.etymonline.com/word/Scot
    
    Scot
    
    Old English Scottas (plural) “inhabitants of Ireland, Irishmen,” from Late Latin Scotti (c. 400), a name of uncertain origin, perhaps from Celtic (but answering to no known tribal name; Irish Scots appears to be a Latin borrowing). The name followed the Irish tribe which invaded Scotland 6c. C.E. after the Romans withdrew from Britain, and after the time of Alfred the Great the Old English word described only the Irish who had settled in the northwest of Britain.
    
    www.etymonline.com/word/scot-free
    
    scot-free(adj.)
    
    late Old English scotfreo “exempt from royal tax,” from scot (n.) “royal tax” + freo “free” (see free (adj.)).
    
    www.etymonline.com/word/Scot
    
    scot(n.)
    
    “royal tax,” a term that survived in old law and in scot-free; late Old English, “municipal charges and taxes,” also “a royal tax or contribution sometimes levied for support of local officers.” This is from Old Norse skot “contribution,” etymologically “a shooting, shot; a thing shot, a missile” (from PIE root *skeud- “to shoot, chase, throw”). The Old Norse verb form, skjota, has a secondary sense of “transfer to another; pay.” It is related to Old English sceotan “to pay, contribute,” Middle English scotten “to bear one’s share of;” Dutch schot, German Schoß “tax, contribution.”
    
    Also via Old French escot “reckoning, payment” (Modern French écot “share”), and via Medieval Latin scotum, scottum, both from Germanic, as is Spanish ecote.
    
    From c. 1300 as “payment for food or drink at a social gathering,” also figurative (late 12c.), a sense also in the Old French word. Hence scot-ale (n.) “a drinking party, probably compulsory, held by a sheriff, forester, bailiff, etc., for which a contribution was exacted” [Middle English Compendium], attested from late 12c., with ending as in bridal. “Scot implies a contribution toward some object to which others contributed equally” [Century Dictionary].
    
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    frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    The word ‘Scotland’ basically means ‘land of the lrish people’
    
    Fun to remind lowlanders about this to annoy them.
    
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