Scottish things and people that I like

You forgot the one about coming in pissed and switching on your PC first before even considering the kettle/toaster.

(when I met Ned, I introduced myself by asking him if he had a blue tie. He quickly realised it was me.)

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

I love this thread.

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.

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.

R.I.P. Ivor Cutler

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).

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

Irvine Welsh is equal parts classic and dud. His last two novels were a marked return to form after a dodgy spell.

I am sad this never came true.

Och aye

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.).

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?

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)

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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Is it Romany? Apparently a lot of slang on the East Coast (Scotland AND North England) is. So I've been told.

I'm reading Christopher Brookmyre books and learning all kinds of new slang! I like his books, there's some Scottish things.