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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

OP posts:
expatinscotland · 19/01/2007 09:18

My MIL uses dookers for swim trunks as well.

They're a strange bunch.

suzycreamcheese · 19/01/2007 10:14

dooking for apples
no one says that here, apart from me!

go for a dook in the river....

suzycreamcheese · 19/01/2007 10:15

bobby2 oxters are further down the thread..

suzycreamcheese · 19/01/2007 10:16

baffies yes, but for old folks slippers i always think, tartan baffies for the broons type thing..

Fimbo · 19/01/2007 10:21

Fisher & Donaldson's did someone mention Fisher & Donaldson's????????

OMG seventh heaven-we used to buy cakes at work when it was someone's birthday from there. My fil, bil & Dh had a look at the cakes in the window one day and decided which one they were going to have - a "grange" cake. Much confusion alround until the assistant realised it was an "orange" cake he meant! Their swirly writing had confused him! My dh was only about 6 at the time and poor fil has never lived it down.

saltire · 19/01/2007 10:22

I live near a Fisher and Donaldson's. In fact there are 3 within a twenty mile radius of me!

Fimbo · 19/01/2007 10:26

I so want to know where you live Saltire! > In the middle of a triangle between F & D's in Dundee, St Andrews & Cupar!

ItsMeMellowma · 19/01/2007 10:37

An expression my friend says a lots and I haven't heard it before is "I kin see it far enough"!!

Is this a scottish one?

Fimbo · 19/01/2007 11:06

I say that!! Don't know whether it is a Scottish thing or not.

myturn · 19/01/2007 11:06

Yes it is. My dad says it all the time...

saltire · 19/01/2007 11:07

You're good Fimbo, i think you may have me sussed out

Fimbo · 19/01/2007 11:22

You are probably my pil next door neighbour!

saltire · 19/01/2007 11:24

I'm not sure about that. Where abouts near St Andrews do they live. Does it begin with B, L, G or S? Theres a cryptic message if ever there was one

Fimbo · 19/01/2007 11:37

Nowhere near then! They live underneath the Tay Rail Bridge!, nearer to D than St A really!

saltire · 19/01/2007 11:39

Ah right, i know roughly where they live. I live nearer to St Andrews.
Do they ever use the really good Chinese takeaway that's in the village along the road from them, we do, it's great. They deliver as well which is good.

Fimbo · 19/01/2007 11:44

Ah do you live in G then? Yes Chinese very yummy - we go there when we come up to stay with them. Also braw white pudding suppers in the chippy there.

expatinscotland · 19/01/2007 11:46

I know where G is!

Glad to know the Chinese restaurant there is good!

stleger · 19/01/2007 11:48

Totally irrelevant, I had a Scottish friend who convinced a visiting English colleague that Ailsa Craig moved in and out with the tide, and was unique geologically.

saltire · 19/01/2007 11:48

No, i don't live in G. The place i live in is a small(ish) village, which if you get on a train going from Edinburgh to Dundee, you will pass through the station there.

Fimbo · 19/01/2007 11:48

The Chinese is not in G, Expat. It is in W (sounds a lot like something birds dig for and like to eat!!)

Macdog · 19/01/2007 11:50

PMSL at the Ailsa Craig remark

saltire · 19/01/2007 11:50

What are we like? I think even MI5 would struggle with all these letters. You would have to know Fife, or have a map to know what we are on about

Fimbo · 19/01/2007 11:51

Right S then???

hotandbothered · 19/01/2007 12:00

We used to live under the Tay rail bridge - what a view! No house I've lived in since comes close...
The Chinese is still good then?!

hotandbothered · 19/01/2007 12:04

Pathetically trying to work out where S is

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