― Mädchen (Madchen), Saturday, 30 July 2005 07:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Saturday, 30 July 2005 07:39 (nineteen years ago) link
You forgot the one about coming in pissed and switching on your PC first before even considering the kettle/toaster.
― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 30 July 2005 07:42 (nineteen years ago) link
(when I met Ned, I introduced myself by asking him if he had a blue tie. He quickly realised it was me.)
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 30 July 2005 07:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Saturday, 30 July 2005 11:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Saturday, 30 July 2005 11:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 30 July 2005 11:40 (nineteen years ago) link
I was just going to cite them! Even (especially?) their English member.
― Mooro (Mooro), Saturday, 30 July 2005 12:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Saturday, 30 July 2005 12:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 30 July 2005 12:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 30 July 2005 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link
I love this thread.
― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 29 October 2005 12:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 29 October 2005 17:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Saturday, 29 October 2005 21:01 (nineteen years ago) link
Also there is the possibility that I will just eat them all myself.
I noticed upthread that I was going to tell the story of my flatmates being in the Sunday Post. They were in a band, and wanted some publicity. They therefore went to the Sunday Post with a ridiculous story of how they met their drummer - he had come round to audition for the band and had looked through the singer's tape collection and found a demo tape from a previous band of his there which, suprise, had been given to the singer by a friend of a friend and had become a big favourite of his, and he'd always wanted to meet the people responsible. And now he had, and now they're in a band together.
This story, incidentally, does not have one iota of truth to it. Yet there it was in the centre pages of the Sunday Post alongside other heartwarming tales of hillwalking dogs and marathon running lollipop ladies.
In other exciting news, you can read Francis Gay online!. There's something not quite right about the Sunday Post being on teh interweb, but I like that their website is reassuringly pish.
― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 30 October 2005 13:16 (nineteen years ago) link
Tell me about it, I've eaten 6 myself since Thursday night.
I have a friend who was also involved in a fake Sunday Post centre page story. Three times. It was quite lucrative, letting Little Old Ladies laugh at the Youth Of Today.
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Sunday, 30 October 2005 13:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― So so Krispie (Ex Leon), Sunday, 30 October 2005 14:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stew (stew s), Sunday, 30 October 2005 14:25 (nineteen years ago) link
R.I.P. Ivor Cutler
― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link
The trailer features Dominik Diamond - for one glorious moment I thought Aldo had had his hair cut and had been drafted in as a talking head following the powers-that-be at the BBC reading this thread. Sadly not.
(that rant about plain bread still makes me weep helpless tears of laughter every time I read it).
― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 4 May 2006 08:29 (eighteen years ago) link
No Irvine Welsh on this thread - does everyone hate him the noo?
― rener (rener), Thursday, 4 May 2006 09:26 (eighteen years ago) link
Irvine Welsh is equal parts classic and dud. His last two novels were a marked return to form after a dodgy spell.
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 4 May 2006 09:46 (eighteen years ago) link
I am sad this never came true.
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 4 May 2006 10:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 4 May 2006 10:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 4 May 2006 10:24 (eighteen years ago) link
Och aye
― Vitbe... *pause*... Is Good Bread (Dada), Thursday, 4 May 2006 10:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Thursday, 4 May 2006 10:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Vitbe... *pause*... Is Good Bread (Dada), Thursday, 4 May 2006 10:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― indolent girl (indolent girl), Thursday, 4 May 2006 11:05 (eighteen years ago) link
Different sections that can be read in any order, the sidebars of blockplags/diplags/etc., author's interjections, artwork: everything in it cries out to be hyperlinked with everything else in it (see also Life: A User's Manual, The Unfortunates, Arcades Project etc. etc.).
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 4 May 2006 11:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 4 May 2006 11:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― JohnFoxxsJuno (JohnFoxxsJuno), Thursday, 4 May 2006 12:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 4 May 2006 13:32 (eighteen years ago) link
What does "gadgee" actually mean? Is it like saying "shitboy" up north, or "buster" down south, just a way of showing disrespect for someone without it being too aggy?
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 18 January 2008 13:46 (sixteen years ago) link
It's just a word for any random wee guy about town. Not always disrespectful.
(I'm from the wrong coast so I might be talking shit)
― onimo, Friday, 18 January 2008 14:03 (sixteen years ago) link
mad wee guys are radge gadges
It's just a general terms, like "bloke" where I come from, but I'm not sure if it has connotations elsewhere.
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― ailsa, Friday, 18 January 2008 14:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Is it Romany? Apparently a lot of slang on the East Coast (Scotland AND North England) is. So I've been told.
― Tom D., Friday, 18 January 2008 15:07 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm reading Christopher Brookmyre books and learning all kinds of new slang! I like his books, there's some Scottish things.
― Laurel, Friday, 18 January 2008 15:10 (sixteen years ago) link
That last Brookmyre book on the serial killer big brother stuff was badly written drivel.Easily his worst book and the only real clunker he's published, the one before it about spiritualism was great.
― Sandy Blair, Saturday, 6 June 2009 17:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Scotland is no bad.
― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Saturday, 6 June 2009 17:31 (fifteen years ago) link
think that should be the new motto instead of Nemo me impune lacessit.
― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Saturday, 6 June 2009 17:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Scotland Isnae Bad
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 6 June 2009 17:51 (fifteen years ago) link
I liked Leith, being asked if I wanted "salt and sauce," and the Glasgow Necropolis.
Also: Robert Louis Stevenson.
― Virginia Plain, Monday, 8 June 2009 01:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Alcholism?
― "too worldly to compete on /b/" (King Boy Pato), Monday, 8 June 2009 02:04 (fifteen years ago) link
AC/DC?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 8 June 2009 02:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Limmy's Show
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
I like Scottish banknotes but am more than a little irked by English shopkeepers' unwillingness to accept them. What gives?
― pomenitul, Saturday, 14 September 2019 09:01 (five years ago) link
Imagine how much more irked you'd be if you were Scottish.
Scottish banknotes are unusual, first because they are issued by retail banks, not central banks, and second, because they are technically not legal tender anywhere in the United Kingdom – not even in Scotland.[1][2] As such, they are classified as promissory notes, and the law requires that the issuing banks hold a sum of Bank of England banknotes or gold equivalent to the total value of notes issued.[3][4]
― The Inner Mounting Phlegm (Tom D.), Saturday, 14 September 2019 09:23 (five years ago) link