Scottish things and people that I like

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2. That is me now, too! I have just got myself a small handful of nuts to keep me going.

Mädchen (Madchen), Saturday, 30 July 2005 07:36 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm eating Starburst Jooster Jelly Beans, cinema leftovers. The popcorn's inedible :-((

Onimo (GerryNemo), Saturday, 30 July 2005 07:39 (nineteen years ago) link

2. That's me too, right now!

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

I think I do several of those: 1,2,5,6,7,10 and 11. Oh, and I think I've probably introduced myself as my screen-name too at some point.

(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

I think Camera Obscura should probably be mentioned somewhere on this thread.

Mädchen (Madchen), Saturday, 30 July 2005 11:14 (nineteen years ago) link

My favourite Scottish word = oos (it means fluff)

Dadaismus (Dada), Saturday, 30 July 2005 11:21 (nineteen years ago) link

christ, gerry. i'd have to admit to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 11, 12 and now 13. plums.

grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 30 July 2005 11:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Camera Obscura

I was just going to cite them! Even (especially?) their English member.

Mooro (Mooro), Saturday, 30 July 2005 12:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Never heard of them

Dadaismus (Dada), Saturday, 30 July 2005 12:11 (nineteen years ago) link

I've heard it said that behind every great Scottish band there has to be a great English woman.

Alba (Alba), Saturday, 30 July 2005 12:17 (nineteen years ago) link

"smothercate"

cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 30 July 2005 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link

two months pass...
I had completely forgotten my promise to bring butteries to a FAP. Possibly because we go out to eat stuff and bringing your own food wouldn't be very good form.

I love this thread.

ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 29 October 2005 12:01 (nineteen years ago) link

bring butteries to koshkemeer!

grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 29 October 2005 17:01 (nineteen years ago) link

ailsa, mail me your address and I can possibly send you some in time. (Fowlie's service will be too expensive if you don't want meat too)

aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Saturday, 29 October 2005 21:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Don't worry about it, a trip to Tesco will suffice for introductory purposes. I can bring some home with me when I go up north for Christmas if need be.

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

Also there is the possibility that I will just eat them all myself.

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

I haven't thought about the Sunday Post in years and years! My grandparents used to have a subscription to it, I remember all of the goofy stories it would have.

So so Krispie (Ex Leon), Sunday, 30 October 2005 14:05 (nineteen years ago) link

My friend is the Sunday Post today with a story about washing dishes on an ironing board while watching tv. It's a top time saving tip!

Stew (stew s), Sunday, 30 October 2005 14:25 (nineteen years ago) link

four months pass...
For ILEORS who didn't know yet:

R.I.P. Ivor Cutler

dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Hey, Scotland, there's a documentary on about Oor Wullie tomorrow night at 9pm. I'm a bit disheartened by the voice-over which pronounces "crivvens" as "creevens". I know Dundonians do odd pronunciations, but Oor Wullie is so phonetically written ("help ma boab", "wee Jeemie" etc) that I wud (ha!) have thought that they'd have written it "creevens" if it should be pronounced as such.

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

one month passes...
Revive, simply because I recently managed to find a copy of Alasdair Gray's "Lanark" and while "Unlikely Stories, Mostly" has always been my favourite book, I'm only 6 chapters into this and it's starting to exceed even that. Droool!

dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 4 May 2006 08:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Scots Wikipedia!

No Irvine Welsh on this thread - does everyone hate him the noo?

rener (rener), Thursday, 4 May 2006 09:26 (eighteen years ago) link

None of the links work on that Scots page.

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 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.

I am sad this never came true.

aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 4 May 2006 10:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Lanark is one of those books which were waiting for the internet to happen.

Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 4 May 2006 10:20 (eighteen years ago) link

whaddya mean marcello?

dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 4 May 2006 10:24 (eighteen years ago) link

No Irvine Welsh on this thread - does everyone hate him the noo?

Och aye

Vitbe... *pause*... Is Good Bread (Dada), Thursday, 4 May 2006 10:40 (eighteen years ago) link

cocteau twins, jesus and mary chain, prefab sprout, trash can sinatras, orange juice, aztec camera, joseph k, nick currie and the bad seeds... are th e housemartins scottish?

Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Thursday, 4 May 2006 10:43 (eighteen years ago) link

You die, ya bass

Vitbe... *pause*... Is Good Bread (Dada), Thursday, 4 May 2006 10:44 (eighteen years ago) link

William Topaz McGonagall - the poets' poet!
O and cheese'n'burger with salt and sauce on the way home from the pub - yum!

indolent girl (indolent girl), Thursday, 4 May 2006 11:05 (eighteen years ago) link

whaddya mean marcello?

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

www.consolevania.com

Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 4 May 2006 11:23 (eighteen years ago) link


prefab sprout ur fae Durham ya tumshie

JohnFoxxsJuno (JohnFoxxsJuno), Thursday, 4 May 2006 12:16 (eighteen years ago) link

one year passes...

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

onimo, Friday, 18 January 2008 14:03 (sixteen years ago) link

It's just a general terms, like "bloke" where I come from, but I'm not sure if it has connotations elsewhere.

xpost

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

one year passes...

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

two years pass...

Limmy's Show

Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link

seven years pass...

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


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