― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― It Is What A Man Does Which Demeans Him, Not What Is Done To Him (kate), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― It Is What A Man Does Which Demeans Him, Not What Is Done To Him (kate), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stew (stew s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:23 (eighteen years ago) link
All the tartan and shortbread stuff is bollocks, of course - clan tartans were invented by aristocratic Walter Scot fanboys in about 1820; and ever since "Highland Dress", of the non-military-uniform kind, has been *extremely* posh, the favoured clothes of moneyed landowners like Mohammed Al Fayed. Kilts, incidentally, were invented by a Lancashire mill-owner, slightly earlier.
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― It Is What A Man Does Which Demeans Him, Not What Is Done To Him (kate), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:27 (eighteen years ago) link
(xpost)
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:27 (eighteen years ago) link
U forgot
8. Your Dad
― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:27 (eighteen years ago) link
try glasgow more :)
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:30 (eighteen years ago) link
(Where *is* that photo of bare-chested Ewan MacG in a kilt?)
― It Is What A Man Does Which Demeans Him, Not What Is Done To Him (kate), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:31 (eighteen years ago) link
(on men or women, I should add)
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stew (stew s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stew (stew s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:38 (eighteen years ago) link
(I am Duncan MacCLOUD of clan MacCLOUD and I will have yerrrr head!)
― It Is What A Man Does Which Demeans Him, Not What Is Done To Him (kate), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:41 (eighteen years ago) link
I don't think it's very Scottish at all. It's "British".
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:44 (eighteen years ago) link
Oops, sorry Dad.
― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:55 (eighteen years ago) link
also: nobody's mentioned chewin' the fat, mogwai, absolutely, aereogramme, single malts or haggis. this suggests my appreciation of the country in which i live is rather different to many other people's.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 12:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 12:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 12:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― It Is What A Man Does Which Demeans Him, Not What Is Done To Him (kate), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 12:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 12:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― It Is What A Man Does Which Demeans Him, Not What Is Done To Him (kate), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 12:13 (eighteen years ago) link
PS: I've never seen that song book.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 12:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 12:16 (eighteen years ago) link
Tattie scones are great. Anyone ever had a Scooby Snack from the van outside the Botanics? Burger, cheese, bacon, sliced sausage, fried egg and a tattie scone in a burger bun. I had one to soak up the booze coming back from a Hogmanay party last year. Never again.
Every town in the North East claims to have invented the deep fried Mars bar. Go to Peterhead and one shop proudly proclaims to be the originator. Go to Stonehaven and you'll get the same.
Ivor Cutler's Life In A Scotch Sitting Room is indisputably Scottish and indisputably wonderful.
Chick Murray!Dick Gaughan!Monorail Music!Orange Juice!Edwin Morgan!
― Stew (stew s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 12:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stew (stew s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 12:26 (eighteen years ago) link
"the maggie"? i've never been brave enough. also, if i'm outside the botanics i'm either a) visiting mrs fiendish's sister, who lives up the road, or b) trying to get the fuck away from the west end in that crappy little taxi queue. in either case, death by burger would only be a hindrance.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 12:30 (eighteen years ago) link
I heard he's spent most of his life in very squalid surroundings. He deserves to be rich.
― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 12:31 (eighteen years ago) link
Have you read any Edwin Morgan? He modernised Scottish poetry by rejecting the narrow nationalism of McDiarmid (who is, nonetheless, great) and being hip to the Beats and modernism. Like Gray he has an ability to capture Glasgow as it is and also recast it as his imagination wishes. There's a playfulness and cosmopolitan quality to his writing. He translated Miakovsky into Scots! He's suffering from cancer sadly, but he's still writing. He was a lecturer and tutor at Glasgow Uni for years. My parents were both taught by him and agree he was the most inspiring lecturer they'd ever had. That blows my mind.
― Stew (stew s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 12:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 12:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 12:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 13:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 13:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 13:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 13:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 13:37 (eighteen years ago) link
Do you read yr own paper? Top scientists (badly short of funding, doubtless) did a study showing the DFMB wasn't an urban myth.
(What's true however, is that everyone makes em wrong. You have to seriously, seriously freeze the Mars bar first, so that when it's fried the batter and the outside is meltingly soft, but the inside is cold and rock.)
Stew OTM with Scooby Snacks, but a deep-fried pizza wins my heart every time.
― stet (stet), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 13:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 13:49 (eighteen years ago) link
Scotland is no bad.
― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Saturday, 6 June 2009 17:31 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
Scotland Isnae Bad
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 6 June 2009 17:51 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
Alcholism?
― "too worldly to compete on /b/" (King Boy Pato), Monday, 8 June 2009 02:04 (fourteen years ago) link
AC/DC?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 8 June 2009 02:08 (fourteen 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 (four 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 (four years ago) link
I do think about that fwiw.
So why do they exist in the first place? Is it a botched, nigh contemptuous symbolic allowance?
― pomenitul, Saturday, 14 September 2019 09:26 (four years ago) link
and you can still execute a Scot with a crossbow if they try to pay for horseshoes with ye counterfitte currencies between maundy thursday and whit sunday.
― calzino, Saturday, 14 September 2019 09:31 (four years ago) link
95% of scottish notes test positive for traces of ground-up shortbread iirc
― provisional ilx (darraghmac), Saturday, 14 September 2019 09:54 (four years ago) link
All the more reason to prefer them to their English counterparts.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 14 September 2019 09:59 (four years ago) link
Apparently banks in England used to be able to print their own notes too:
Until the middle of the 19th century, privately owned banks in Great Britain and Ireland were free to issue their own banknotes. Paper currency issued by a wide range of provincial and town banking companies in England,[3][4][5] Wales,[6] Scotland[7] and Ireland[8] circulated freely as a means of payment.As gold shortages affected the supply of money, note-issuing powers of the banks were gradually restricted by various Acts of Parliament,[9] until the Bank Charter Act 1844 gave exclusive note-issuing powers to the central Bank of England. Under the Act, no new banks could start issuing notes; and note-issuing banks gradually vanished through mergers and closures. The last private English banknotes were issued in 1921 by Fox, Fowler and Company, a Somerset bank.[9]However, some of the monopoly provisions of the Bank Charter Act only applied to England and Wales.[10] The Bank Notes (Scotland) Act was passed the following year, and to this day, three retail banks retain the right to issue their own sterling banknotes in Scotland, and four in Northern Ireland.[11][12] Notes issued in excess of the value of notes outstanding in 1844 (1845 in Scotland) must be backed up by an equivalent value of Bank of England notes.[13]
As gold shortages affected the supply of money, note-issuing powers of the banks were gradually restricted by various Acts of Parliament,[9] until the Bank Charter Act 1844 gave exclusive note-issuing powers to the central Bank of England. Under the Act, no new banks could start issuing notes; and note-issuing banks gradually vanished through mergers and closures. The last private English banknotes were issued in 1921 by Fox, Fowler and Company, a Somerset bank.[9]
However, some of the monopoly provisions of the Bank Charter Act only applied to England and Wales.[10] The Bank Notes (Scotland) Act was passed the following year, and to this day, three retail banks retain the right to issue their own sterling banknotes in Scotland, and four in Northern Ireland.[11][12] Notes issued in excess of the value of notes outstanding in 1844 (1845 in Scotland) must be backed up by an equivalent value of Bank of England notes.[13]
― The Inner Mounting Phlegm (Tom D.), Saturday, 14 September 2019 10:03 (four years ago) link
I think it's more a case of lets give the Scots their little freedoms, keep the fuckers on side.
― The Inner Mounting Phlegm (Tom D.), Saturday, 14 September 2019 10:05 (four years ago) link
... little being the operative word.
Interesting, thanks.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 14 September 2019 10:32 (four years ago) link
Cullen skinkHaggisVegetarian haggisInnis & Gunn beerBruichladdichCastles
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 14 September 2019 15:39 (four years ago) link
I will now answer the thread question in boring fashion Cullen skinkHaggisVegetarian haggisInnis & Gunn beerBruichladdichCastles
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 14 September 2019 15:41 (four years ago) link
ludacris otm
― provisional ilx (darraghmac), Saturday, 14 September 2019 15:41 (four years ago) link
lol wtf how did I xpost myself with an edited version
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 14 September 2019 15:42 (four years ago) link
that mangoes on the run beer by innis & gunn is so good
― calzino, Saturday, 14 September 2019 15:43 (four years ago) link
Ferguzade, Scotland's version of Lucozade.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBo_PvkX0AAYwRI.jpg
― A Drunk Man Looks At Partick Thistle (Tom D.), Monday, 23 January 2023 12:03 (one year ago) link
"DAUGHTERS keep radiant on it". This can't be real!?
Vague and fond memories of those Chewin' the Fat sketches that were ads for a beer you drank in the morning: "it's never too early for a Fusilier".
― verhexen, Monday, 23 January 2023 12:08 (one year ago) link
It's 100% genuine.
https://www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory/ferguzade
― A Drunk Man Looks At Partick Thistle (Tom D.), Monday, 23 January 2023 12:09 (one year ago) link
It was from Forfar, you couldn't make that up!
― A Drunk Man Looks At Partick Thistle (Tom D.), Monday, 23 January 2023 12:10 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0CYB5V9e64
― Cry for a Shadowgraph (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 23 January 2023 13:03 (one year ago) link
It's weird because Lucozade isn't that far from Irn Bru, anyway, in terms of taste and spiritual sustenance.
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 23 January 2023 13:07 (one year ago) link
This is deep Glasgow lore, but this place popped into my head the other day.
I even wondered if I might have imagined it, but I definitely visited at least once.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-DvmtFGTdIhttps://stvfootagesales.tv/content/buck-rogers-burger-station-glasgow/https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/history/glasgow-burgers-rogers-station-14717048
― MaresNest, Monday, 23 January 2023 13:10 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA3JH5tfTYg
― Renaissance of the Celtic Trumpet (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 June 2023 19:49 (nine months ago) link
James Kelman is fantastic.
Wish Bill Forsyth would direct a new film
― beamish13, Thursday, 29 June 2023 21:33 (nine months ago) link
Ah yes this video is a classic
― Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Thursday, 29 June 2023 23:02 (nine months ago) link
NTS: Must rewatch Gregory's Girl
― Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Thursday, 29 June 2023 23:04 (nine months ago) link
Housekeeping (1987) is just a masterpiece. I really wish his original cut of Being Human (1993) was commercially available
― beamish13, Thursday, 29 June 2023 23:07 (nine months ago) link