Veritas vincit, indeed…
I’m awfully proud of my Scottish heritage, which traces to Clans Keith and Campbell (grandma was a Marshall up one side and a Campbell back down the other). I even have a Keith kilt, which I wear on formal occasions. I love fine single malt (the drinking of which I even built into my wedding ceremony) and am the owner of a rampant Scottish Terrier, who is possessed of strong, if not always rational, opinions.
But this, which came around on a list I subscribe to, clearly demonstrates how very far I still have to go.
You know you are a true Scot if………..
1. Ye can properly pronounce McConnochie, Ecclefechan, Milngavie, Sauchiehall St, St Enoch, Auchtermuchty and Aufurfuksake.
2. Ye actually like deep fried battered pizza fae the chippie.
3. Yer used tae four seasons in wan day.
4. Ye canna pass a chip/kebab shop withoot sleverin when yer blootert.
5. Ye kin fall about pished withoot spilling yer drink.
6. Ye see people wearin shell suits with burberry accessories – pure class!
7. Ye measure distance in minutes.
8. Ye kin understaun Rab C Nesbitt and know characters just like him, in yer ain family.
9. Ye go tae Saltcoats cos ye think it is like gaun tae the ocean.
10. Ye kin make hael sentences jist wae sweer wurds.
11. Ye know whit haggis is made ae and stull like eating it.
12. Somedy ye ken used a fitba schedule tae plan thur wedding day date.
13. You’ve been at a wedding and fitba scores are announced in the Church/Chapel.
14. Ye urny surprised tae find curries, pizzas, kebabs, fish n chips, iron-bru, fags and nappies all in the wan shop.
15. Yer holiday home at the seaside has calor gas under it.
16. Ye know irn-bru is a hangover cure.
17. Ye learnt tae sweer afore ye learnt tae dae sums.
18. Ye actually understand this and yurr gonnae send it tae yer pals.
19. Finally, you are 100% Scot if you have ever said/heard these words;
how’s it hingin
clatty
boggin
cludgie
pished
get it up ye wee beasties
erse
bandit
amurny
away an bile yer heid
peely-wally
humphey backit
Ba’-heid
baw bag
dubble nugget
Up yer Hoop!And finally……
A wee Glesga wumman goes intae a butcher shop, where the butcher has just came oot the freezer, and is standing haunds ahint his back, with his erse aimed at an electric fire.
The wee wumman checks oot the display case then asks,”Is that yer Ayrshire bacon?” “Naw,” replies the butcher. “It’s jist ma haun’s ah’m heatin.”
[THX: JimmyD from the Voltage Transformer list]
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lullaby pit 
LOL
Oh my, I read with a Scots accent – and I’m rubbish at accents. 🙂
Welsh, Irish & Scots – Mother’s side
English – Father’s side
…thanks for the out loud laugh.
LOL
Oh my, I read with a Scots accent – and I’m rubbish at accents. 🙂
Welsh, Irish & Scots – Mother’s side
English – Father’s side
…thanks for the out loud laugh.
Ronan says hi the fine-looking Westie in the icon.
Ronan says hi the fine-looking Westie in the icon.
🙂
Westie salutes Ronan.
🙂
Westie salutes Ronan.
A long, long time ago, I had a large bin supplied by the council at my business. It went missing. So I called to ask if we could get another one (which I assumed I’d have to pay for). I had to actually file a theft report with the police to get a docket number before they’d let me get another one.
I prefer Edwards, too. But unlike you, I’m glad Warner is sitting out. I don’t see the appeal.
Re: pt 2
NHL numbers were NEVER sub WNBA prior to the lockout, where did you pull that fact out of?
The NHL took the VS deal because the ESPN deal was crap. They low balled a desperate league thinking they would bite. When ESPN learned that the NHL didn’t want to take the deal they got pissed. It also seems kinda funny that most ESPN talk show hosts dis hockey now. ESPN has continued to go down hill, but your right poker and darts are way better to watch.
I’m not a moron I know the NHL is trying make it in the big time, and to tell you the truth the only time a game got a buzz this year is with the Sabres Vs Ottawa game following one of the greatest games of the year, which had 2 major fights. Just like the NBA, MLB, the only time those sports get any airtime on ESPN is when there’s a fight, but that’s Journalism 101.
As far as sports writers and personalities, they mostly agree that the shots to the head need to go, but the fighting needs to stay. Shit even Wayne Gretzky says it should stay. I believe we have the ONLY owner who is trying to address cheap shots and shots to the head and here’s his letter.
Click to access golisano_letter.pdf
So if I get your point right it’s this,
Fighting in hockey is morally bad, and it’s causing people not to watch.
I mean we are totally sending a message to the youth that it’s ok to………..
Cheat in baseball by doing roids.
Gamble on your NCAA brackets.
Kill someone, get arrested a bunch of times, sell drugs. All while playing in the NBA or NFL.
Most of these offenses get limited suspensions, and are forgotten.
But it’s morally wrong to go toe to toe with someone who slashed your goalie?
I’m not saying the NHL has been perfect but there are far less instances of repulsive human conduct in the NHL then any of the other sports. But when some one takes a stick to the face it rekindles the “hockey players are thugs” argument that gets non hockey fans all worried. The last I checked the fights in baseball are a little more brutal. A bunch of dudes bats, elbows, feet. So the NHL has 3 moments in the last decade that are considered repulsive (McSorley, Betruzzi, Simon) while the other sports have 3 a week. So Two men going toe to toe for 1 minute is ruining hockey? Seriously all the other problems that hockey has and the thing that is stopping you and millions of people from watching is a fight? That is probably the worst argument I’ve heard about hockey’s “demise.” It’s almost the worst hypothesis ever, right next to Scientology.
The fact about this argument is that you have not presented facts either! You’re regurgitating old news from radio hosts that don’t like hockey and most likely got beat up in Gym class. You’re using a conversation you had with 3 friends who agreed that hockey needed to get rid of fights and thats the sole reason the NHL isn’t doing good. I remember in class you talked about a successful marketing campaign, and you discussed the milk campaign. Remember you said that that campaign was successful because it they only lost a certain percent less then the year before. So Milk takes a hit every year, but with efforts it’s less and less. Well the NHL went into last year with that mentality and they exceeded what they wanted to do. This is a league who didn’t play for a year! So they pissed off fans, restructured the game, and put out a great product that continues to fill most stadiums without a major market team reaching the finals. All of this WITH fighting in the league!
You do know that I was dabbling in Complexity as a side-offshoot of my dissertation, no?
I presented a talk based on my PhD research at a conference in Santa Fe.
Had I a natural talent for research (read: grant-writing), Complexity & self-emergent phenomena would’ve been the direction I’d taken my career.
This is a really smart take on this whole issue, Sam. We just started going with the Hill’s Science Diet for all of our dogs because our oldest, our Yorkie, was getting sick from supermarket-bought brands whose names you’d readily recognize. I thought that was a smart move; now, I’m not so sure. I may begin making my own food.