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I like how there is a thread on that site's forum where people are weeping and wailing over the downfall of the English language, yet the description of Hampden on the site contains the phrase "it has went through some changes".

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 12 March 2005 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I am biding time, until the winchester, and reading about tunnels & bunkers.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 12 March 2005 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

isn't that just a sewer? hmmmm....
ahhh doocots... i once wrote about the doocots of moray. fascinating.
i once lived near a doocot in maryhill. i always wondered what went on in there...

"The often misunderstood doo-cot is used in a complex game of pigeon "kidnap". Many people still believe the doo-cot is the inner city equivalent of the suburban pigeon loft. This could not be further from the truth.

The concept: let one bird out to bring a neighbour's bird back to your doo-cot. On entering the doo-cot, the neighbours bird is captured and becomes the property of the capturer.

Techniques: All sorts of techniques are used, of which seduction is one of the most common.
A female in a particularly attractive condition seduces another person's amorous male back to her loft or to his, depending which one wins.
If seduction doesn't work, then aggressive males will bully another bird back to their doo-cot, often with heavy blows from the leading edge of their wings."

sounds about right...

― dahlin (dahlin), Saturday, 12 March 2005 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Americans keep trying to kill this thread.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

NO SURRENDER

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

NEVER

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

OH WELL THEN

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I see Burton beat Woking, then.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

What do you care?

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

do the english hate the scots?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes. That is why the English keep voting the Scottish accent as the world's sexiest accent.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

you'd think they'd do something more hurtful.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

it's a curse and a burden.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

do the scots hate the english?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

That's a bit generalised (I like Madchen, so, no)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

do the english hate the germans?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I was disappointed to learn last night that a team of nitwits from Edinburgh University had beaten the team from Glasgow University some weeks previous.

I think Scotland is a charming region, and its inhabitants of great anthropological interest.

I sometimes go to Burton, Madchen, when I can't get out of it. I thought you knew. A bit of lighthearted banter is all I ever get out of it. Today I have been subtitling a video with footage of a bus on its way to Burton. I nearly announced it to everyone.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I had no idea about the Burton Connection (it's like French Connection, but upstairs from Dorothy Perkins). Germany has this nice icecream thing called Spaghettieis, so I quite like it there.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I knew two of the Glasgow nitwits!! The Edinburgh team captain was unbearable.

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

she took it a bit forfar.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

She was pretty, but not terribly bright. I once knew all of a Glasgow team (just after I graduated - I think it was the year they brought back UC) - they were totally dreadful and an affront to such a fine academic institution.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Balliol could win it.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Back in my day, the team was stuffed full of GU bigwigs.

I think the Edinburgh captain might have appeared brighter if Paxman hadn't been ribbing her all the time. I didn't fancy her much though. The mysterious lady above her was more my type.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

PJ OTM.

both of the captains had expressions, that they kept doing, that I had a hard time being bothered to try to believe.

balliol(?)'s was very "oh, well, I don't mind" and the edinburgh one (emily drayson, I remember, for some reason) was a bit "hehehehe!".

I bet it was nerves, though, and doubt any of my expressions would hold up, in a similar situation.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

The Glasgow team I knew were the clique from the student paper. They probably thought they were bigwigs, but, er, they weren't.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I was going to type "I don't know anyone, who has been on university challenge" but I did meet one of cathy's pals, who was on, and there was a lady, from architecture (or, perhaps, building science!!), who was on, last year, maybe, and who was in some classes, with me.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

DAPPERS!

Or, perhaps more correctly in this context, Liz:x (or however its supposed to be: I think my colon is out of order)

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't hate the Scots, I even like some of them a little & a few of them a lot. They are best when they are not hating the English.

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I only hate the English when they are being insufferably smug about being better than us at football/rugby/whatever. And then, it's not so much "hate" as "am jealous of".

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

do the english hate the french?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I love the french, with their goose livers and their wild boar.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I love a woman speaking English in a French accent.

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I love everything.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

No you don't. You hate cheese.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't hate the english.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

do glaswegians hate apple?

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't hate cheese. I don't hate apples.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, but you don't love it either. Therefore YOU ARE A LIAR.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

We're all liars, darling.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

and you all rally around your common hatred of the americans...

― dahlin (dahlin), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I was thinking about getting an iPod, I think.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

do they make them in america?

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

and cheap too. send ally out to get you one

― dahlin (dahlin), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

ayePod

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

are there any clubs in glasgow that play reggaeton, baile funk, dancehall all in the same room?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

are there any clubs that play pagodge, forro, ache, batucada all in the same room?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

not as far as I'm aware.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

haha

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

haha

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

zappy would.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

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