Scottish woman told would be charged for homophobic and transphobic tweets

[ItsAllGoingToBeFine]

twitter.com/millar_marion/status/1396039074239164423?s=19

On Wednesday April the 28th 2021 I received a call from a PC Laura Daley from police scotland requesting i attend an interview for homophobic and transphobic tweets under the milacious communications act.

I was asked to attend that coming Friday, she told me I had to attend East Kilbride police station so I could be then transported to Cathcart police station in a police car because I would have to go to a police station where there is holding cells, I would be then processed, questioned and then most likely charged.

I told her I would not be attending any interview on that day especially with it being a bank holiday weekend because my autistic twins needed me and I was scared I would be held all weekend.

To this she told me she would attend my house with social workers for my boys.

I contacted a solicitor straight away and he was unable to get PC Daley so for the first bank holiday in May I sent my disabled twins away for fear of this officer carrying out this threat.

This absolute nonsense has been hanging over my head for a month, I can barely sleep
or eat and I still don't know what the offending tweet is, my new interview has been scheduled for Thursday the 27th May, I will find out what I am supposed to have said at that point and if I will be indeed charged, again at another bank holiday, I just want to say, anyone who knows me, knows I am not homophobic or transphobic, I am a hard working mummy who would fight to the end for the safety and dignity of women and girls and for my vulnerable twinnies.

If we sit back and do nothing we will regret it for ever. For this reason I will never
Wheesht.

#WomenWontWheesht

@ArabellaScott

Ane o they fancy neologisms. [tuts and mutters]

- although it looks like no incidences of 'wheesht' found pre 1700, in fact.

Not to say it wasn't used though.

Just not documented.

@MargaritaPie

btw does weesht in Scottish mean "wee shit"?

What, you think people are using the phrase 'women won't wee shit'?

Gid ain.

"women won't wee shit", unlike Stonewall who will do great massive steaming turds all over our rights?

No, I get it, if you weren't subjected to Burns at primary school, or ever stuck anything up yer jooks and aren't sure if you've got an oxter or not, then I can see that Scots might be fairly impenetrable. Which is a shame, we've got ALL the best words.

Bloody Burns is part of the problem - total womaniser and sexist... but feted as our great hero! "A man's a man for a' that" - says it all ready, a text which is as "not inclusive" as that was chosen for the opening of the Parliament and not an eyebrow was batted.

The account has the description:
"I am a coward
#whatwomenweesht
Woman - Noun - Adult Femaoe Human

If this is GC trolling, seems a tiny bit odd that both the hashtag and the spelling of the definition of woman are off. Those are two things you would expect a GC person to get right. A TRA pretending to be a GC troll in order to "both sides" it, not so much.

@Bollockstothat

*The account has the description: "I am a coward #whatwomenweesht Woman - Noun - Adult Femaoe Human*

If this is GC trolling, seems a tiny bit odd that both the hashtag and the spelling of the definition of woman are off. Those are two things you would expect a GC person to get right. A TRA pretending to be a GC troll in order to "both sides" it, not so much.

Bunbury would probably take a similar view of the matter.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3438714-Bunbury-s-Public-Service-Announcement-2

aren't sure if you've got an oxter or not

Gosh, I seem to have two of these

@RiojaRose

aren't sure if you've got an oxter or not

Gosh, I seem to have two of these

Do you pull your trousers up to them? 😁

breeks go to oxters.

Agree about Burns by the way. some wonderful writings, but, dreadful behaviour, even by 17th c standards.

Ah'm scunnered!

Marion must be beelin'

Can we keep the thread in English so I can follow what's going on?

Ooh that's me telt!

Ah'm scunnered

I love that word. I learnt it from this TinTin book which I highly recommend for those wanting to learn some local dialect.

For advanced readers you can also get Harry Potter in Scottish.

Boufin is a good word. It's kind of visceral as you can feel what it means when you say it. You can even smell it.

@MargaritaPie

Can we keep the thread in English so I can follow what's going on?

mebbes aye, mebbes naw...

Chuckled there cos I read it in a French accent initially - took me a minute, I always visualise it as bowfin' ! Yes, that's a stoater.

@MargaritaPie

Can we keep the thread in English so I can follow what's going on?

I’m not sure that’ll help.

My favourite is " a wee nyaff" So many people could be described thus.

I’m a fan of glaikit myself. Also scunnered and shoogly. Yer coats on a shoogly peg!

And so the thread draws to a close...

Mind oot for ribbons a’body.

That wis a rer wee chat, lasses.

Grellbunt - a wee blether is aye better than a sterheid rammy....ye ken thon way?

Oh aye that's fir sure

A blythe nicht tae yersels a'. Tis bonny oot.

Aye, we're no awa tae bide awa...