20 Ridiculous Things Which Make You Proud Of Being Scottish

11. Our National Flower Is Jaggy As Hell

Oh, your national flower is the daffodil is it? The clover? That's delightful. Even the English rose with its thorny stem can't compete with the catastrophic injury potential of Scotland's national flower, the Bold Thistle. The story goes that an unfortunate, bare-footed Norseman trod on one of our spiny little friends while trying to sneak up on a Scottish encampment, crying out in agony as the spikes penetrated his puny mortal flesh, thus alerting the heroic Scots to their presence and allowing them to enact the message of the national motto and kick the tar out of their foes.