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'

See I don't take schemie as insult
No more than saying someone fae a boought hoose

A dug! LOL. Our old landlord, when his family was cleared off to Castlemilk in the 60s they found it heaven! Running water in every 'to-er' as he still says 'tower'. 'Bastard devil dugs roond here!' he'll say if he sees a yippee one.

I had the atypical schemie upbringing
Overcrowding,skint,big family
Dugs

He did, too, SM, and the parents were Irish on top of that.

Aye well the Irish goes wi out saying
Hence the huge family
And dugs

Santana my cousins dog was

I went to uni with horah's who'd never met anyone from a scheme
They tried to be all. Relaxed and right on about it
But I think they were fearit

Expat my that's what my mum called her beloved dugs "bastard devil dugs"

Scottishmummy my mum always told you can take the lassie oot the scheme but you canny take the scheme oot the lassie, and it's a true saying

Aye!ive met loads of folk at work,uni and all us schemies always bond
We can sniff each other oot

Cause were one off a kind

I had a happy upbringing,it's no aw glue and folk knocking motors

Your spot on I was the same and everybody looked out for you!

I think op is wide offmark schemie to me isn't insult

Me either doesn't bother me in the slightest, I'm a schemie and proud I do take offence to chav though as in baseball caps, joggers etc

Schemie isn't a insult, I'm schemie through and through. am no a Ned though, ken?

I ken what you mean

Loving this thread :-) Schemie and proud from Broomie It's true that all us schemes have a common bond. It's not an insult to me, used to love going up to the pool at the WHEC on a Saturday. Now these folks were real hardcore schemies! To be terrified of and revered in equal measures.

White your right they westerhailens were mental

Ha Whitewhine that made me laugh - my brothers (and their mates!) went to WHEC (and prob hung out at the pool hall!) and there were plenty of hardcore schemies around.

You feelin' brave WeeLady...Ey...ey...

Haha stat I got chased from the pool many a time

WHEC! I had a mate I met online, kept wanting to meet up, then she told me, I live in Wester Hailes. Relief! 'Ach, it's okay, I live in Muirhouse, so who's meeting me at the bus?'

I had trouble understanding, at first. One time, I took the no. 37 from a job interview up the toon. To me, one lot of shops looked like any other. So I got off. Couldn't find my arse from a hole in the ground. So rang DH at work. He was trying to figure out where I was, then did, and tried to tell me. What?

I got the message, stay where you are! Then a text, Mark is coming for you. Stay where you are!

I'd got off in Drylaw. Whoops. A car pulled up, 'Get in, expat!'

Haha Expat, I worked in Greggs when I was a teen for my saturday job and in the summer got sent to the Pennywell Shop. I knew I had to get the number 1... I ended up at Goldenacre. The Bus driver was wetting himself laughing. But I got there eventually.