Very Scottish things

[Jbrown76]

Inspired by the very Irish things thread on Craignet.

Here's tae us; wha's like us? Damn few and they're all deid"

Craignet That's reminded me of Craiglang and Still Game. The neds in the park saying 'No ye urnae!' Also all the Hogmanay programmes like 'Only An Excuse'. Rikki Fulton, Stanley Baxter and Johnnie Beattie.
Jackie Bird on the Hogmanay programme before The Bells. Some of it might be crap but it's our crap

Years ago I went back to my home town after many years away. I was being shown a rental house by an old woman, who asked why I was coming to the town. Once I told her I’m from here, she perked up. Spent the best part of an hour there while she dug into my back ground (Oh, I mind him fine! ) and told me stories from my family I’d never heard before. You’ve no secrets in the north of Scotland!

"Craignet That's reminded me of Craiglang and Still Game. The neds in the park saying 'No ye urnae!' Also all the Hogmanay programmes like 'Only An Excuse'. Rikki Fulton, Stanley Baxter and Johnnie Beattie.
Jackie Bird on the Hogmanay programme before The Bells. Some of it might be crap but it's our crap"

The Rev IM Jolly was such a part of Hogmanay for us.

I did have to stifle a giggle when I saw this in Home Bargains the other day. I was envisaging the entire rest of the shop to have been stripped bare by frenzied customers (who may or may not have actually paid for their goods), with only these left

We're in the NE and didn't get all of the Hogmanay programmes that "down south" got. We did get the Still Game ones though and still watch these every year and have kept some phrases like "PAROKAS". I'm always scared people will think I don't know the correct word when I'm in shops.

Some of it might be crap but it's our crap

That's a beautifully profound way of putting it!

We're in the NE and didn't get all of the Hogmanay programmes that "down south" got. We did get the Still Game ones though and still watch these every year and have kept some phrases like "PAROKAS". I'm always scared people will think I don't know the correct word when I'm in shops.

I always have to stop myself whenever I'm about to say "You're welcome" to somebody. If I don't, I'm guaranteed to say 'weclome' without thinking!

I grew up in the northernest north of England and at some point our tv aerial must have got twisted in a storm because we could only get BBC Scotland. Many a New Year's Eve in the 1980s was spent watching my dad fiddling pointlessly with the tv while my mum wailed about 'missing Clive James AGAIN' as we stared glumly at the accordion-heavy festivities being broadcast from some shed in Auchtermuchty.

We also got Dotaman, the Gaelic children's programme; I always assumed the opening line of 'Mahorsht, mahorst!' must be Gaelic for 'Hello there!' Until I met my Gaelic speaking MIL and discovered it wasn't. (I still have no idea what it means; Duolingo Gaelic has not yet reached the 'Discuss children's programming' section.)

Dotaman 😆😆😆

This man is amazing and makes me proud to be Scottish 😂

https://x.com/greganderson_21/status/1711089724755001803?s=57&t=zXl94QYFdmVVd9lpOSwl3A

It is well worth sticking with it until the end as it really ramps up 😃

My DH was at the France v SA game at the weekend. I half-expected him to turn up on Facebook in a similar 'impassioned by the pure magic of rugby' state.

Does anyone else remember the Scotland fan who told his wife he was going for a losf of bread and ended up disappearing to the World Cup in France for a couple of weeks?

I seem to recall (but may have misremembered) that a newspaper (probably the Daily Record) caught up with him after and his wife put her foot down and made him take a child with him whenever he left the house afterwards.

Dancing the slosh

But to which song @BlueBellsArePretty?

I am in Dundee and say baffies. I have a Fife mum and a dundonian dad, but I grew up on the edge of Fife that is practically in Dundee. I also call my worktop the bunker. Gee'z a skiffy when playing eye spy. Calling a drain a cundie. We have circles, not roundabouts. Asking someone to hud on a minute always gets a good response

Bunker in East Lothian, too.

✋🏻to circles from a fellow Dundonian 😂

@Hiddendoor

Beautiful Sunday

@BlueBellsArePretty my mum was adamant that it was Amarillo, and Amarillo only! I've been turned to Beautiful Sunday now.

Actually, I checked and she said it was "knock 3 times" and didn't know where I got Amarillo from. Strong words.

The Slosh seems to be a southern thing as it's pretty unheard of where I live but I remember it being done to Beautiful Sunday on Still Game and at a wedding dance "doon sooth"

It absolutely isn’t a southern thing! Still alive and kicking at dos in Dundee! Generally led by my late Gran 😂

Dundee is southern when you live in Moray 😄

@RaraRachael fair comment 😂😂