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You know you're Scottish when........................................

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weepootleflump · 18/01/2007 13:16

1.you kin properly pronounce - McConnochie, Ecclefechan Milngavie, Sauchiehall St, Enoch, Menzies, Auchtermuchty and Aufurfuksake.

  1. .Ye actually like deep fried battered pizza fae the chippie.
  2. ...Ye get four seasons in wan day.
4... Ye canny pass a chip/kebab shop withoot slaverin when yer blootert.
  1. ..Ye kin fall about p_shed withoot spilling yer drink.
  2. ..Ye see people wear shell suits with burberry accessories - pure class!
  3. .....Ye measure distance in minutes.
  4. ..Ye kin understaun Rab C Nesbitt and know characters just like him - in yer ain family.
  5. ...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 fae and stull like eating it. 12. .Somedy ye know his 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,irn-bru, fags and nappies all in the wan shop. 15... Yer holiday home at the seaside has calor gas under it. 16.... A big flash car has a ned at the wheel. 17. ..Ye know irn-bru is a hangover cure. 18. ..Ye learnt tae sweer afore ye learnt tae dae sums. 19. ...Ye actually understand this. 20. Finally, you are 100% Scottish if you have ever said/heard these words...

a) how's it hingin
b) yourgonnaegetyerfikinheidkiktin
c) clatty
d) boggin
e) cludgie
f) p!shed
g) get it up ye
h) wee beasties
i) ar$e bandit
j) amurny
k) away an bile yer heid
l) peely-wally
m) humphey backit
n) numpty-heid
o) baw bag
p) dubble nugget
1.you kin properly pronounce - McConnochie, Ecclefechan Milngavie, Sauchiehall St, Enoch, Menzies, Auchtermuchty and Aufurfuksake.

  1. .Ye actually like deep fried battered pizza fae the chippie.
  1. ...Ye get four seasons in wan day.

4... Ye canny pass a chip/kebab shop withoot slaverin when yer blootert.

  1. ..Ye kin fall about p_shed withoot spilling yer drink.
  1. ..Ye see people wear shell suits with burberry accessories - pure
class!
  1. .....Ye measure distance in minutes.
  1. ..Ye kin understaun Rab C Nesbitt and know characters just like him -
in yer ain family.
  1. ...Ye go tae Saltcoats cos ye think it is like gaun tae the ocean.
  1. ..Ye kin make hael sentences jist wae sweer wurds.

  2. .Ye know whit haggis is made fae and stull like eating it.

  3. .Somedy ye know his 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.

  1. ..Ye urny surprised tae find curries, pizzas, kebabs, fish n chips,irn-bru, fags and nappies all in the wan shop.

15... Yer holiday home at the seaside has calor gas under it.

16.... A big flash car has a ned at the wheel.

  1. ..Ye know irn-bru is a hangover cure.

  2. ..Ye learnt tae sweer afore ye learnt tae dae sums.

  3. ...Ye actually understand this.

  4. Finally, you are 100% Scottish if you have ever said/heard these words...

a) how's it hingin
b) yourgonnaegetyerfikinheidkiktin
c) clatty
d) boggin
e) cludgie
f) p!shed
g) get it up ye
h) wee beasties
i) ar$e bandit
j) amurny
k) away an bile yer heid
l) peely-wally
m) humphey backit
n) numpty-heid
o) baw bag
p) dubble nugget

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Skribble · 18/01/2007 17:53

LOL but can i swap the deep fried pizza for a smoked sausage in batter. (I have had the pizza though)

weepootleflump · 18/01/2007 18:42

PMLS Macgod!

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weepootleflump · 18/01/2007 18:43

Macdog

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weepootleflump · 18/01/2007 18:46

Fubar - that's another one we used to go to after Hanger closed.
All the clubs in glasgow and we used to go to Ayr, Saltcoats or Stirling every Sat night

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frumpygrumpy · 18/01/2007 18:47

weepootle, I haven't laughed so much in ages! That was class honeybunch!! You're talking ma bodies language

frumpygrumpy · 18/01/2007 18:48

oxsters!! I love it! I talk about oxsters a lot!

ItsMeMellowma · 18/01/2007 18:49

me too weepootle.

We used to go out on a Friday, then all night Saturday then come home and pretend to sleep on the Sunday.

weepootleflump · 18/01/2007 18:54

have to say though mellowma, can't imagine marrying any of the type of guys I went out with then!

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weepootleflump · 18/01/2007 18:56

frumpygrumpy are you Granny Murray off Me Too?

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suzycreamcheese · 18/01/2007 19:01

ishouldbeironing lol
love urny and amney too

suzycreamcheese · 18/01/2007 19:03

i remember teacher at school saying 'there is no such word as oxster'
yeh, there is
and ouse? anyone?

frumpygrumpy · 18/01/2007 19:03

I hated it to begin with, I could only see Isa from Still Game now I'm changing my mind.......

Should I thank you for that comparison

Macdog · 18/01/2007 19:09

Glaikit big eejit!

suzycreamcheese · 18/01/2007 19:09

bouffen boggen boaking
the dry boak myall time favourite

Macdog · 18/01/2007 19:10

(sorry Frumpy, not you)

suzycreamcheese · 18/01/2007 19:12

glaikit top word much in use

hamhaugh, ya big

driech

sleekit

mince, thick as

tolley !

hen !

oh, waes like us! great language, no

Macdog · 18/01/2007 19:14

It's particularly poetic !!!!!!!

weepootleflump · 18/01/2007 19:17

oose, suzy

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weepootleflump · 18/01/2007 19:21

frumpy, it was the 'honeybunch' comment that did it

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whoopsfallenoveragain · 18/01/2007 19:25

Sweetkitty - I'm just coming up for the weekend visiting a friend as I used to live up there a couple of years ago but moved down south nearer to home!

frumpygrumpy · 18/01/2007 19:27

macdog

pootle, I've always been someones honeybunch (usually my folks) and I used it daily, pmsl when I hear granny murray saying it.

ItsMeMellowma · 18/01/2007 19:28

weepootle - thankfully when I met dh we were both feeling the same about clubbing (pi$$ed off) and wanted to start staying in, together.

suzycreamcheese · 18/01/2007 19:37

oh weepootie ..is it on my cardi?

suzycreamcheese · 18/01/2007 19:38

macdog
we were talking about bud neill on that other thread...

weepootleflump · 18/01/2007 19:40

aye suzy, yer big oosie jumper

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