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'

That was the highlight of some of our summer nights getting either the 1 or the 6 or the 32 or 52 and doing a bus run!!

LOL those were the days!

Love this thread! I'm lentil eating MC from Newington but we used loads of these words too. Bag off being my fave.

Keep shotties?

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Sorry. Phone has life of own.

Also from Newington (age 41)..am thinking I will know you Morris.

Sorry. Phone has life of own.

Also from Newington (age 41)..am thinking I will know you Morris.

Sorry about the multiple posts. Embarrassing

Aged 42

Yup, we'll know each other :)

Small world :)

Depends which school you went to. If you went to Preston street we will definitely know each other as pretty much all my classmates are now 42.

We can stay blissfully anonymousish and just wonder though

"ah Choreed it!" (Stole it) another word which I heard recently.

Mr B mean anything to you? :)

Yes indeed!

the other class though...and was never taught by him. So I thought he was scary due to his gruff manner but appreciate now that he was an inspiring teacher.

*I was in.

I did actually learn literacy at school, altbough it doesn't appear so.

I think I will stop using phone to MN.

Mr. B would not have put up with such sloppy posting.

Oh god I was terrified of him too, even a little bit when he was my teacher! He was an amazing teacher, he became the head later. I guess he toned down his antics then. He writes crime novels now, think he has ME. Happy memories of his outrageous teaching methods, he'd be sacked in two seconds these days.

What about 'corp-y' as in short for corporation-something scruffy, inadequate or low-class (because it looked as if it were council-issue or paid for by social services)? A favourite of my charming not-at-all judgmental MIL.

He was quite war obsessed too, I seem to remember

I had my home town described as "scaffie" by a teenager in Scotland. Is that as bad?

To me corpy corresponds with "cooncil" as used by a scots friend who offers me all types of tea "or cooncil". The tea is lovely but commonplace and unpretentious!

I grew up in marchmont but was just thinking about the word Barry the other day and considering a revival of it. I live in glasgow now, it would baffle people. I've never heard anyone through here say schemie though but it was definitely used as an insult where I grew up. Bag off is awful I can remember someone coming up to me at murrayfueld ice skating and saying 'will you bag off with ma pal?'
Oh the romance.