You know you're from Scotland when.......
Posted: 30 Oct 2008, 22:57
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> Subject: You know you're from Scotland when......
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>
>
>
>
> > 1. 'Scattered showers with outbreaks of sunshine and a cold northerly
>
> > wind' is good weather!
> >
> >
> >
> > 2. The only sausage you like is 'square'.
> >
> >
> >
> > 3. You have been forced to do Scottish country dancing every year at
>
> > high school.
> >
> >
> >
> > 4. You know a wide vocabulary of random Scottish words -
> >
> > an idiot is 'a numpty'.
> >
> > 'Aye'- yes.
> >
> > 'Aye Right'-not likely.
> >
> > 'Auldjin'- someone over 40.
> >
> > 'Baltic'-freezing.
> >
> > 'Dry yer eyes'- aww..diddums.
> >
> > 'Dry Boak'- sickened. etc
> >
> >
> >
> > 5. You have an irrational need to eat anything fried with your supper
>
> > from the chippy: haggis, pizza, white pudding, sausage, fish, chicken
>
> > (but not mars bars) etc...
> >
> >
> >
> > 6. You used to love destroying your teeth when you were young;
>
> > Buchanan's toffees, wham bars, tablet, Irn-Bru bars, Cola Cubes, etc
> >
> >
> >
> > 7. You have an enormous feeling of dread whenever the Scotland
>
> > national football team play a 'diddy' team that we will lose to.
> >
> >
> >
> > 8.You happily engage in a conversation about the weather. 'Dreich day
>
> > eh? Aye at least the wind has died down'
> >
> >
> >
> > 9.Even if you normally hate the Proclaimers, Runrig, Caledonia ,
>
> > Deacon Blue, Big Country etc. you still LOVE it when you're in a club
>
> > abroad and they play something Scottish. (you'll probably even ask the
>
> > DJ to play it...)
> >
> >
> >
> > 10. You take a perverse level of pride by the fact that Scotland has
>
> > the highest number of alcohol and smoking related deaths in Europe .
>
> > At least we know how to party, 'Yer a lang time deed'.
> >
> >
> >
> > 11. You used to get up really early on a Saturday/Sunday to watch
>
> > cartoons when you were a kid. You watched Glen Michael's Cartoon
>
> > Cavalcade on a Sunday afternoon with his sidekick oil lamp called
>
> > Paladin. You remember Glen giving Paladin a good hard stroke!.
> >
> >
> >
> > 12. You were given an Oor Wullie or Broons Annual at Christmas.
> >
> >
> >
> > 13. You have come in from the pub pi**ed with flatmates and watched an
>
> > episode of Weirs Way engrossed by a little guy with a bobbly hat
>
> > walking around Scotland .
> >
> >
> >
> > 14. You can tell where another Scot is from by their accent. E.g.
> >
> > Glaswegian: 'Awright pal, gonnae gies a wee swatch oa yur Record,
>
> > cheers, magic pal'
> >
> > Fifer: 'Aye, that wifie is getting it oan wi a laddie fae the
> butchers'
> >
> > Dundonian: 'Twa bridies, a plen ane in an ingin ane an a'
> >
> > Aberdonian: 'Fit ya bin up tae, fair few quines in the night eh?'
> >
> > Invernesian: 'Ah-ee, Right Enufff! 'How's you keeeeeepeeeen?'.
> >
> >
> >
> > 15. You see police and hear someone shout 'Errrapolis'
> >
> >
> >
> > 16. You have participated in or witnessed people having a 'square go'.
> >
> >
> >
> > 17. You know that when someone asks you which school you went to, they
>
> > actually want to know if you're a protestant or a catholic.
> >
> >
> >
> > 18. You have eaten lots of random Scottish food like Bridies, Aberdeen
>
> > Rowies(butteries), Mince & Tatties, Haggis, Cullen Skink, Stovies,
>
> > Tunnock's Teacakes/Snowballs, Scott's Porridge Oats, Macaroon Bars,
>
> > Baxters Soup, Scotch Pies, Scotch Eggs, Oatcakes, Shortbread, Arbroath
>
> > Smokies etc.
> >
> >
> >
> > 19. A jakey has asked you for money: 'Got any spare change hen?'
> >
> >
> >
> > 20. You wait expectantly for your 1p change from the shopkeeper.
> >
> >
> >
> > 21.You know the right response to 'yoo dancin' is 'yoo askin',
>
> > followed by 'am askin' and finally 'then am dancin!!'
> >
> >
> >
> > 22. You know that whenever you see sawdust it reminds you of pools of
>
> > vomit because that's what the 'jannies' used to chuck on it.
> >
> >
> >
> > 23. You lose all respect for a groom that doesn't wear a kilt to his
>
> > wedding.
> >
> >
> >
> > 24. You don't do the groceries or shopping, you do the 'messages'.
> >
> >
> >
> > 25.You've been sitting quietly on the train/bus and then a drunk man
>
> > sits beside ye..telling ye a 'joke' ..and saying 'I'm no annoying ye
>
> > am a hen/pal?' You: 'Not at all...yer fine...'a think this is ma
> stop!!'
> >
> >
> >
> > 26.You know a Scottish male can have a telephone conversation using
>
> > only the words 'Awright', 'Aye' and 'Naw'.
> >
> >
> >
> > 27. You have experienced the peer pressure to have an alcoholic drink
>
> > after you've ordered something non-alcoholic.
> >
> > ?'Mon, have a drink, whit's wrang, ye driving? Naw. Are you no well?
> > Naw. Get yersel a drink, (other folk-Wahey!)
> >
> >
> >
> > 28.You know ye cannae fling pieces oot a twenty storey flat, seven
>
> > hundred hungry weans'll testify, to that. If it's butter, cheese or
>
> > jeely, if the breid is plain or pan, the odds against it reaching
>
> > earth are ninety-nine tae wan.
> >
> >
> >
> > 29. You know that going to a party at a friends house means bring your
>
> > own drinks
> >
> >
> >
> > 30.Your holiday abroad is ruined if you hear there is a 'heatwave' in
>
> > Scotland while you're away.
> Subject: You know you're from Scotland when......
>
>
>
>
>
> > 1. 'Scattered showers with outbreaks of sunshine and a cold northerly
>
> > wind' is good weather!
> >
> >
> >
> > 2. The only sausage you like is 'square'.
> >
> >
> >
> > 3. You have been forced to do Scottish country dancing every year at
>
> > high school.
> >
> >
> >
> > 4. You know a wide vocabulary of random Scottish words -
> >
> > an idiot is 'a numpty'.
> >
> > 'Aye'- yes.
> >
> > 'Aye Right'-not likely.
> >
> > 'Auldjin'- someone over 40.
> >
> > 'Baltic'-freezing.
> >
> > 'Dry yer eyes'- aww..diddums.
> >
> > 'Dry Boak'- sickened. etc
> >
> >
> >
> > 5. You have an irrational need to eat anything fried with your supper
>
> > from the chippy: haggis, pizza, white pudding, sausage, fish, chicken
>
> > (but not mars bars) etc...
> >
> >
> >
> > 6. You used to love destroying your teeth when you were young;
>
> > Buchanan's toffees, wham bars, tablet, Irn-Bru bars, Cola Cubes, etc
> >
> >
> >
> > 7. You have an enormous feeling of dread whenever the Scotland
>
> > national football team play a 'diddy' team that we will lose to.
> >
> >
> >
> > 8.You happily engage in a conversation about the weather. 'Dreich day
>
> > eh? Aye at least the wind has died down'
> >
> >
> >
> > 9.Even if you normally hate the Proclaimers, Runrig, Caledonia ,
>
> > Deacon Blue, Big Country etc. you still LOVE it when you're in a club
>
> > abroad and they play something Scottish. (you'll probably even ask the
>
> > DJ to play it...)
> >
> >
> >
> > 10. You take a perverse level of pride by the fact that Scotland has
>
> > the highest number of alcohol and smoking related deaths in Europe .
>
> > At least we know how to party, 'Yer a lang time deed'.
> >
> >
> >
> > 11. You used to get up really early on a Saturday/Sunday to watch
>
> > cartoons when you were a kid. You watched Glen Michael's Cartoon
>
> > Cavalcade on a Sunday afternoon with his sidekick oil lamp called
>
> > Paladin. You remember Glen giving Paladin a good hard stroke!.
> >
> >
> >
> > 12. You were given an Oor Wullie or Broons Annual at Christmas.
> >
> >
> >
> > 13. You have come in from the pub pi**ed with flatmates and watched an
>
> > episode of Weirs Way engrossed by a little guy with a bobbly hat
>
> > walking around Scotland .
> >
> >
> >
> > 14. You can tell where another Scot is from by their accent. E.g.
> >
> > Glaswegian: 'Awright pal, gonnae gies a wee swatch oa yur Record,
>
> > cheers, magic pal'
> >
> > Fifer: 'Aye, that wifie is getting it oan wi a laddie fae the
> butchers'
> >
> > Dundonian: 'Twa bridies, a plen ane in an ingin ane an a'
> >
> > Aberdonian: 'Fit ya bin up tae, fair few quines in the night eh?'
> >
> > Invernesian: 'Ah-ee, Right Enufff! 'How's you keeeeeepeeeen?'.
> >
> >
> >
> > 15. You see police and hear someone shout 'Errrapolis'
> >
> >
> >
> > 16. You have participated in or witnessed people having a 'square go'.
> >
> >
> >
> > 17. You know that when someone asks you which school you went to, they
>
> > actually want to know if you're a protestant or a catholic.
> >
> >
> >
> > 18. You have eaten lots of random Scottish food like Bridies, Aberdeen
>
> > Rowies(butteries), Mince & Tatties, Haggis, Cullen Skink, Stovies,
>
> > Tunnock's Teacakes/Snowballs, Scott's Porridge Oats, Macaroon Bars,
>
> > Baxters Soup, Scotch Pies, Scotch Eggs, Oatcakes, Shortbread, Arbroath
>
> > Smokies etc.
> >
> >
> >
> > 19. A jakey has asked you for money: 'Got any spare change hen?'
> >
> >
> >
> > 20. You wait expectantly for your 1p change from the shopkeeper.
> >
> >
> >
> > 21.You know the right response to 'yoo dancin' is 'yoo askin',
>
> > followed by 'am askin' and finally 'then am dancin!!'
> >
> >
> >
> > 22. You know that whenever you see sawdust it reminds you of pools of
>
> > vomit because that's what the 'jannies' used to chuck on it.
> >
> >
> >
> > 23. You lose all respect for a groom that doesn't wear a kilt to his
>
> > wedding.
> >
> >
> >
> > 24. You don't do the groceries or shopping, you do the 'messages'.
> >
> >
> >
> > 25.You've been sitting quietly on the train/bus and then a drunk man
>
> > sits beside ye..telling ye a 'joke' ..and saying 'I'm no annoying ye
>
> > am a hen/pal?' You: 'Not at all...yer fine...'a think this is ma
> stop!!'
> >
> >
> >
> > 26.You know a Scottish male can have a telephone conversation using
>
> > only the words 'Awright', 'Aye' and 'Naw'.
> >
> >
> >
> > 27. You have experienced the peer pressure to have an alcoholic drink
>
> > after you've ordered something non-alcoholic.
> >
> > ?'Mon, have a drink, whit's wrang, ye driving? Naw. Are you no well?
> > Naw. Get yersel a drink, (other folk-Wahey!)
> >
> >
> >
> > 28.You know ye cannae fling pieces oot a twenty storey flat, seven
>
> > hundred hungry weans'll testify, to that. If it's butter, cheese or
>
> > jeely, if the breid is plain or pan, the odds against it reaching
>
> > earth are ninety-nine tae wan.
> >
> >
> >
> > 29. You know that going to a party at a friends house means bring your
>
> > own drinks
> >
> >
> >
> > 30.Your holiday abroad is ruined if you hear there is a 'heatwave' in
>
> > Scotland while you're away.