As the title says. The tour guide said that this monument, which has a huge Irish flag beside it, was to commemorate the “bravery and tenacity of the Scottish that made the long journey to America”

by unsilent_majority

20 comments

  1. Did you stand up and correct him? “ACTUALLY….!!!”

  2. Least offensive of mistaken nationalities one could’ve made tbf.

  4. You should have stood on one leg like Danny le Russo ,hands out stretched out singing 

    Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun

    It’s the eye of the tiger

    Then sweeped her leg

  5. A lot of these tours are known for making things up, especially in the south. It’s annoying. Every once in a while you get a history teacher moonlighting and it can be fantastic.

  7. Should have told her Rocky Balboa was your favourite Bostonian.

  9. Unless she meant the “famine” that was in part caused by Scottish plantation of the island?

  13. Ah yes the great Scottish Irn-Bru drought of 1776 i remember it oh to well

  14. That’s very odd, because the Irish-American community over there make a big deal out of the Memorial, it’s where the politicians do their speeches after the Paddy’s Day parade.

  16. There is a scottish memorial right beside it but thats a bad one

  17. The Scottish and Irish memorials are literally right beside each other in Philly, you can be looking at both at the same time.

  18. Honestly, least offensive thing you’ll experience in Philly. Hop on over to Kensington for the full experience.

  19. Famously depicting the abject sorrow of the year the haggis crop was stolen by unicorns,

  20. There’s records from Constantinople in the middle ages of tour guides just straight up inventing shit about the various monuments around the city. Because a lot of it was built in Late Antiquity, and because the Roman era lasted over 1,000 years in the city, people had forgotten what some of them were dedicated to.

    Some tour guides never stopped operating this way, lol. Although I mean it should be easier to keep on top of this stuff with all the information everyone was access to now, than in 1100 AD.

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