@Shan @ Last Shreds Of Sanity -

No, I'm totally with you, Shan. I don't buy this line that Celtic people are just too full of pee & vinegar to abide by the standards of conduct that keep other humans human.

Before this red-bearded, blond-mustached Celt was fully dry behind the ears, he was a qualified nuclear power plant operator on a submarine; around the world and under the ice cap ... and home again, in one piece, mission accomplished.

You can't do those kinds of things, without being able to get a grip on yourself. Likewise, KevinJohn Gallagher's ancestors & relatives have for centuries & millenia been some of the finest military men (and women) ever to strike terror in the heart of the enemy ... yet they too learned to abide within the discipline that is necessary, to be able to best apply ourselves to important goals.

Whether it's beating the USSR and winning the Cold War, or organizing & leading Open Source Scotland. We have to be able to get a handle on the passion, if we are going to use it to do anything worth doing.

That our passion and intensity prevents us from controlling & managing ourselves, is, as my dear & fierce Celtic mother will put it, "A crock."