(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
8. Your Dad
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
is made in devon or somewhere, innit? buckfast vomit is usually scottish, though, aye.
Do you read yr own paper?
i find it hard to see past all the mistakes :)
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 13:50 (eighteen years ago) link
I used to live for the Maggie - it was the one place I insisted on visiting (to partake in their renowned "Scooby Snack") whenever I visited Glasgow. But it's a young man's burger, really, I'm getting too old.
― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 13:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 13:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 13:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 13:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 13:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 13:57 (eighteen years ago) link
I didn't know about the Devon thing, but surely it should be left out because it tastes like cough medicine?
I'm going to go for shortbread. And the Loch Ness Monster, because I was fascinated by it when I was small (or when I was wee, as I should say on this thread.) Also - T The Park was great because I wasn't the only stupidly pale person frying in the sun.
― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link
Also, x-post - I liked Soma too.
― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:27 (eighteen years ago) link
Ben Nevis
West Highland Beaches
Lucky Tatties
The Arches
Hogmanay
― Rumpie, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link
i have never experienced the "real" electric brae. i should. although isn't it just full of cars rolling slowly into each other?
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:30 (eighteen years ago) link
John Byrne - Fantastic painter and playwright, you might have come across some of his work without realising it as he has been commisioned to do album covers for The Beatles and Gerry Rafferty among others. He wrote Tutti Frutti which was a big deal in Scotland, in the late eighties and deserves a DVD release but this, I'm told, is somehow stymied by rights/credits issues.He also wrote an incredible trio of short tragicomic plays set in 1950's Paisley called The Slab Boys trilogy which are worth checking out.
Lewis Grassic Gibbon - a turn of the century author who wrote a series of books called 'A Scot's Quair', concerning a young womans life growing up on a remote Croft, it's a rite of passage tale with the slightest mystical flavour. You might say he's almost like a Scots Steinbeck, it's great stuff. There's a film apparently being made as I speak but I don't know if it's just going to be dealing with the first book 'Sunset Song'.
― mzui (mzui), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:35 (eighteen years ago) link
Lots of experiments with footballs and small children.
― mzui (mzui), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:36 (eighteen 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