The response from Scottish Twitter was immediate, profane, and locally-flavored.

There’s the musician from Aberdeen:

A Glasgow actress (vocals of this also available):

with some variations on that theme:

A Scottish gamer:

(translation: go away you hamster-headed person of low intelligence and hooliganistic tendencies, go boil your head)

And plenty of creatively profane insults from non-Scots, too, like this London author:

Someone who is a Britain First critic:

A British comedian and cosplayer:

A proud Welsh-Canadian:

And this blogging cancer survivor who is English (but says he wishes he was Scottish):

Updated with additional translation, courtesy of @screamnevermore.

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