To think the term Schemie is even more reprehensible than Chav?

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After reading another thread where baby names are being declared Chav or schemie by the op and a few others my blood is boiling a bit.

I live in Scotland and the phrase schemie gets used interchangeably with ned and chav.

I think schemie is by far the worst of the three. Chav and ned are nasty terms of abuse, but refer to a type of behaviour/manner of dress /lifestyle that the (ignorant) speaker is describing.

Schemie goes a step further (a housing scheme is the term used in Scotland for council estate) implies that an undesirable person or behaviour in type of behaviour is exclusive to and representive of people who live in local authority housing. My mother, grandparents and a lot of my friends grew up in council homes and not a single one of them display behaviour which could be described as 'schemie'

Mr mccarthur not there anymore I had mr McPherson as my English teacher he was my favorite

Yeah I was, her name was miss Laing she was my French teacher she was a nippy cow

Mr Wilson maths teacher has just retired!! Mr bratby science teacher still there but he was new when I was there and everyone fancied him cause he was young!

Wait till your son starts there's a few hotties in the school now

Did you live in broomie??

A few hotties you say? Damn, ds is only 5.
Miss Laing, that's right. I believe Mr Peace was sacked for being a perv, he was my maths teacher and gave me the creeps, and Mr McLeod was sacked for, well beating up pupils.
I lived in Carrick knowe, we was well posh .

Mr Black left last year as dd was being taught by him. Mrs Lauder (current Guidance) taught me at Tynie in 2nd year!!! Mr Bratby teaches dd too. He recognised ds's name at the open day and asked if he was dd's brother!

Mr Fusco's legs are to die for! Another mum told us to behave ourselves when we went on the visit as we kept saying we were the legs group.

And we said Shan Man until 1st year when there was a Sian in the class.

A very Scottish word, I thought it was the alternative word for chav in England. Both of which I hate! Been ages since I've heard that one though.

Groovee what year are your kids in??

Aww velvet you were well snobby

I miss the sweet spot

Oh, the sweet spot was great, lived round the corner, spent all my pocket money there. A quarter of cola cubes anyone? Shut down a few years ago now, twas the only thing Carrick Knowe had going for it. Anyone else spend their childhood on the railway building gang huts?

My fav was a quarter of coffee creams but they cost a fortune lol!

We used to hang about at the pivvy having a wee refreshment

Oh god, the pivvy, had my first snog there .

My first "bag off" was the phone box at the wee bridge bit going towards forries from carrick knowe haha

HaHa, used to use that phonebox all the time to call bf for some privacy, pre mobiles.

Don't hear it a lot tbh.

However, best insult for an orange chav girl I heard recently, was scheme goblin

weelady dd is in 2nd year and ds is currently in P7.

My first "bag off" was the phone box at the wee bridge bit going towards forries from carrick knowe haha

OMG I drive past that every day and will be now thinking of weelady and her bag off. I wasn't much better. Mine was on the trolley's at Scotmid at Chesser before it was the wee asda.

Ah my ds1 he's left school now and ds2 is in 4th year, oh yeah that scotmid my dad used to take me every Thursday night for my shopping, and the fruit market was there and over the other side of road was the slaughter house!

Amazing how the area's have changed so much now. My sisters went to Forries in the 70's and were horrified I was sending dd there. We've been really happy with her progress.

In response to a few comments further up the thread, describing someone as a 'chav' or 'schemie' (personally I've never heard that one, but it's vile either way) is not the same as describing someone as posh. Why? Because "posh" people aren't looked down upon by society in the way that "chavs" and "schemies" are.

That's not even touching upon the other issue that few people living on council estates are actually stereotypical "chavs". I've lived on a council estate my whole life. My family were and are working poor, my neighbours were and are working poor, my friends' families were and are working poor.

Yeah I've never had any problems with the school, although DS is a bit of a bugger at times!!

Trip down memory lane.... What about the Duchess in corstorphine - used to love winding up the old git who worked there. Mind the penny bit at the back?? "A'll huv one of them, two of them, one of them" etc etc then getting him to put some back as I didn't have enough dosh.

He fell for it every time, he was a greetin' faced sod in his dodgy brown socks and sandals!

The duchess? I can't remember that one whitewhine, where was that?

Old fashioned sweet shop on St Johns Road. We used to go every Saturday night so my dad could get the Pink paper!

I can't think of that one! Was it along by the public toilets? The pink think every man in edinburgh got that paper eh lol

Yeah - it's Wongs now.