whereismymind73 : I studied Scots at uni and your post has made me feel really sad and frustrated.
Studies into attitudes to accent/dialect/language have shown that varieties associated with wealth are generally considered to be attractive. For example, the Liverpool accent was considered to be prestigious at one point (17th C? Can't remember exactly, will have to look it up) because the city was booming, but as poverty increased so did contempt for the accent. Similarly, the Southern Irish accent was once considered to be extremely unattractive but is now, according to surveys, amongst the most desirable due to the ROI's recent (and somewhat shortlived) success in Europe.
Glaswegian accents are considered to be amongst the least attractive in the country, according to those same surveys. They come just above 'Asian' accents, in fact.
Of course the reason for this is presumably Glasgow's appalling poverty rates. The Glaswegian dialect of Scots is spoken almost exclusively by working class people due to the same linguistic imperialism that practically killed off the Celtic languages in the UK (whether by the carrot or the stick, it's still imperialism). The Glasgow middle-classes have their indigenous dialect educated out of them due to insidious and often unconscious class-based prejudice that disguises itself as a simple matter of taste.
That classism is as bad as the racist attitudes that led to generic 'Asian' accents coming bottom of the surveys - possibly worse in some ways as they're not acknowledged and are considered to be acceptable. In fact, people like me who value these non-prestige varities are the exception.
I have worked with Glaswegian children and my mind boggles at how you could possibly find their speech unattractive. My favourite example was a story told by a four-year-old from Royston, and extremely deprived inner-city area - "and then ma mammy flinged the cat oot the windae!"
Scots was once the language of court. It's a language rich in literature that doesn't always translate easily into English. At Glasgow University it's acceptable to submit essays written in Scots. And now it's the language of poor people, so nobody wants to speak it any more.
I would have no more respect for a person who judges others based on accent or dialect (Scots, including words like 'aye' and 'hoose' - which btw is identical to the original Old English word 'hus', much as 'coo' comes for OE 'cu' and 'moose' from 'mus' - is a minority language recognised by the European Commission) than I do for those who judge based on sex or race. It's prejudice, plain and simple.
Sorry about this rant. It makes me so, so sad that we Scots insist on doing this to ourselves. It's our language, so of course it must be shit.