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'

Groovee my mum and dad had pals who lived in peffer court the 2 huge high flats that was opposite jolly giant and I loved going there it was like a world away going there

LOL Weelady, imagine you had named the kids after where they lived when they were born.

Oh no! I sobbed at the end of Sunset Song!

Well hasn't this flushed oot all us schemies
The great thing about being fae scheme is it's great to meet another schemie
It's a good common bond

Oh yeah, I never got to go to Jolly Giant. My mum said woolies was enough for me at Tollcross. I did love Goldbergs though.

I know I would have outshone that Victoria beckham

Aww groovee goldbergs I loved it my auntie had a wriggs gold card fuck I think she's still paying it they had the best Santa

'The great thing about being fae scheme is it's great to meet another schemie
It's a good common bond'

True that.

My entire family hail from Craigmillar. But I grew up in err Newington

Very very true

'LOL Weelady, imagine you had named the kids after where they lived when they were born.'

Snap! DH and I were thinking that and laughing.

Expat my DH went to school with someone called leith!!!

I did Sunset Song for Higher English too! It was written after the First World War, though, not in the late 1800s.

I could have cried with sheer relief by the end, ubik!

We visited a friend once in Bruntsfield. DH was driving, but 'I dunnae really ken this area.' We got lost. I said, 'There's some guy trimming a hedge' - this MASSIVE thing, I told him. Go ask him. So he got out.

'Excuse me, I'm looking for a house.' Man replied, 'Is that you here about the gardening job?' He said, 'Why do you ask?' He just looked at our P-reg Vauxhall Astra. To which DH thinking, quickly, asked, 'Does it come with tied accommodation?' We had got WAY lost! :o

OMG, Weelady you are joking!!??

Why would someone do that?

I get the whole Dougal MacDougal but Leith?!

Nope I swear to god leith haha!!!

Gadgies!

Aye Barry gadgey

I don't think schemie is necessarily bad I love colloquialisms

Scottishmummy I don't mind being called a schemie cause I am

Radge, or radge cunt are good put doonstairs.though you'd no want to meet one

Well I'm schemie,grew up scheme. Big family and a dug

Yip I had the dugs too wee yorkies mind you!

Was the dug called Sasha?