Women, floaty skirts and gusty wind. A good mixture.

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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    Being 3/4 Irish I have a legitimate (ish) excuse to wear a Tartan.

    Of course, you realise you aren't 3/4 Irish don't you? :wink:
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  • gtvlusso
    gtvlusso Posts: 5,112
    I saw a "laydee of the night" walking up Filton Hill from "My only Vice" sex shop......does that count?!

    I think she uses the place like we use the Tesco extra down the road...

    No wind and no skirt though - barely a belt to be fair!
  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    Braveheart what a wonderful work of fiction:

    According to today's Guardian:
    "Astonishingly, Carry On Cleo is not a completely accurate depiction of the first century BC. Nonetheless, it scrapes a pass mark for including a few historical references, for being on the level with ancient Egyptian comedy, and for not being as bad as Braveheart."
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/may ... ry-on-cleo
    'Historians from England will say I am a liar,' says Mel Gibson in the voiceover. Yup, says Alex von Tunzelmann:
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/jul/30/3
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  • AyrshireBacon
    AyrshireBacon Posts: 173
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    Braveheart what a wonderful work of fiction:

    Agreed. Did you know that in the scenes for the battle of Stirling bridge they cut out the bridge? :lol:
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  • AyrshireBacon
    AyrshireBacon Posts: 173
    cee wrote:
    AyrshireBacon

    Fathers side from inverness-shire, mothers side were travellers who stayed still for a while in aberdeen-shire, then my mother and father moved around an awful lot when I was kid. So my accent is all over the place.

    I had lived in 13 different houses and 3 caravans by the time I was 12!

    My grandmother pretty much only "spicks" the doric, which I can understand, but not completely respond in.
    Cee, Thanks for that buddy. Something you wrote didn't sound like Edinburgh, but I wasn't sure of Glasgow either.
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  • cee
    cee Posts: 4,553
    was it re-hae by any chance? :wink:
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  • tardington
    tardington Posts: 1,379
    Not the doric!

    Fit like?
  • Mike Healey
    Mike Healey Posts: 1,023
    It is a little known fact that the origin of Scottish tightfistedness lies in the use of the sporran as a method of carrying coins.

    Running wi' a sporran full o' guineas is a surefire way of encouraging you to not bring any money out wi' ye
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  • cee
    cee Posts: 4,553
    tardie wrote:
    Not the doric!

    Fit like?

    tyauvin awa, bit ma darg is neer deen til efter the day.
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  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    In the standard comuting tradition this thread has gone from the OPs intended subject to something different, albeit similar. A few days ago I had the good fortune to encounter a girl on a bike, mixte frame, with a floaty skirt and she was riding with one hand trying hard to protect her modesty.
    I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.
  • the_hundredth_idiot
    the_hundredth_idiot Posts: 813
    AyrshireBacon wrote:
    Feltup wrote:
    I'll stick to reading Oor Wullie! (in my kilt)

    As an extra check say the following out loud...
    A guy goes into a bakers, points at an item and asks the girl behind the counter “Is that a doughnut or a meringue?”
    And she says “No you’re right, it’s a doughnut”
    If done correctly, this should be funny. If not, then your accent needs more work. Or I need better jokes. :D

    Oor wullie - very good - keep it up :wink:

    Finally got it. Also got a slightly sore throat from saying it out loud several times in a bad Scottish accent. And got a few funny looks from the people around me. :lol:
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  • tardington
    tardington Posts: 1,379
    Re: Kilts

    Been reading Monty Halls Great Escape (that Applecross tv series) and he wears a kilt for a bit, pulling a Lifeboat for charity...

    'I was walking like John Wayne, my feet now several yards apart... [I was told]
    "Monty, there's no way we could do this without something underneath the kilts - it's a myth that you don't wear anything. There would have been a lot of bow-legged battle charges by Highland clans if that had been the case...."
    ... "You can always spot a fake Scotsman because he's got a callous on the end of his willy where it's been worn down by constant rubbing against the Tartan"'
  • Cycling Dave
    Cycling Dave Posts: 79
    Scottish humour continued...

    Man is, well,, manning his butcher's stall. There is an oil drum brazier at his side. A lady walks up to the stall, points in the general direction of something and asks "is that your Ayrshire Bacon?". Man replies "naw hen, I'm just warmin ma hands".

    Good night.
  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    Cycling Dave wrote:
    Scottish humour continued...

    kiltstoolsg3.th.jpg

    :oops:
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