On Parr
Posted: Sunday, 10 June 2007 |
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how could you gave have called our dearest and oldest friends south of the border""s*h ?!! shocking!!
carol from deep in shock!
I'm shocked and dismayed by this blog, and demand it's removal forthwith. It was done on a SUNDAY, and that is totally unacceptable in Lewis ( that's the Isle of Lewis, and not Lewis Hamilton, or Lennox Lewis, it's easy to get them confused) and at a time when all good peoples are in bed. The LDOS will here about this, or do they already know????
Tws from Everywhere
Annie b, with regard to the s+++++++h word i would not worry about it, during my friendship with Scots over many years this word has been used to denote my country of origin in a jocular and friendly manner no offence was ever intended, in a similar manner i never took offence whenever it was used. Over the many ,many years of my life i have found that the people who object to to these '' harmless'' words are sometimes the biggest rascists themselves, I.B.H.Q.may not agree nor will some other bloggers but that is their point of view
traveller from down south
Oh. And here was me thinking Assenach was a bit of Ness due for a community buyout...
Flying Cat from sitting in the evening sun...
That'lll be what the Welsh cry Saesneg then. It's only a variation of the word Saxon so, whilst possibly ethnologically incorrect, it can hardly be termed offensive. My sons were called English C**** at school ethnologically, biologically and in every other way incorrect.
Hyper-Borean from Along Offa's Dyke
Consider yourself banished from the Big Brother Bochan. Incidentally, how come the gender police and the size police haven't tacked the issue of Big Brother and just renamed it Person of indeterminate stature? One of life's mysteries from the Butt to Exeter.
calumannabel from Loohiss
Annie:-you do realise i was joking??
carol from in the sun
Person Of Indeterminate Stature... petit pois? Surely that's not PeaC!
Flying Cat from a linguistic coil
Of course the Scots were really Irish who came to Dalriada and displaced the people that the Romans called Picts. One of the pictish tribes were called Caledones but the people of the southern parts of Scotland in Roman times were welsh speakers who had their capital in what is now Govan. They were displaced by peoples of mainland european origin who came from what is now Dennmark and spoke a sister language to Anglo-Saxon this became Lowland Scots. Then the Vikings came,some from Norway, who displaced the Picts and some of the Irish from the Northern and Western Isles. The other Vikings came from Dennmark and displaced some of the Lowland scots speakers, but their dna is indistinguishable so nobody can sort out who came from where. Is that all clear? Good then call me...what you like!
Hyper-Borean from An ethnographic cul-de-sac
I'm that mortified to be caught blogging on the Sabbath. I can only think that my clock must have been wrong. Confusing business this language stuff, but greetings to sociopaths and swordfishes everywhere, whatever their gender, size or sibling relationship (and to Carol, who can rest assured that she didn't cause any offence).
Annie B from near to Assenach, Ness
I can understand your concerns regarding the uproar over calling someone from down south a S+++++++h. Some people have no sense of humour. Out here people from that neck of the woods are starting to object to being called Pommy B++++++s. Stone the crows, what's the world coming to.
Wallaby Col from Ozstraylia
Annie b: I DIDN'T cause any offence-drat!! I sent you a postcard c/o IBHQ as it reminded me of one of your earlier blogs,so doubt it will posted on the IBHQ site soon,xxx
carol from in the shade
H-B can you do all that again, but only slower this time, you went too fast for me, maybe it was your accent, maybe it was my accent, there's a lot of maybe's here, isn't there? So H-B am I a Dane, or Irish, or Norwegan, or what?
Tws from History Class
tws, what I think I mean is that"We are all Jock Tamson's Bairns." and that includes all.
Hyper-Borean from The creepy stool
Oh, dearie me Wallaby, and there I thought that "Pommy B." was a term of endearment. # TWS: maybe you are an ex-Pat?! # Hyper-B.: we all came out of Africa ... and I was certainly glad when the transport ship Lisa Brodin got me outtathere. Better late than never, eh? At least unlike our ancestors I did not have to walk out of that continent.
mjc from NM,USA
mjc you are so right we share a common ancestry, trouble is too many of us forget it. As for Pommy Bs, been there got called that and I still think it's the lucky country; also been called a White Cockroach B but that was by a bloke who, not unreasonably, thought that europeans were usurping his country.
Hyper-Borean from Africa
H-B. You said your sons were called English c, I've looked at my sweary_word dictionary, and can't quite place that one, maybe I've counted the *'s wrong? Yes? No? In any case it is wrong, I blame everybody else except me. I remember when there was good light hearted banter, between Scots and English, it has now gone a bit far, in some cases.
Tws from Here'n'there
Poor Hyper, maybe he's forgotten..........
Flying Cat from patting a plump rump
Fc stop patting your fpu's backside, you know how touchy she is about that thing...
Tws from A slimmer rump
That's fighting talk Tws; just as well you are on another island Oot West. How do you know it's fpu's rump that I'm patting? Eh? Eh?
Flying Cat from Danderup Cott
That's right, FC. I mean, you could be at the butcher, patting a plump rump.
mjc from NM,USA
There's a lot at steak here...
Flying Cat from dribblingalloverthejoint
In answer to FC's question, you were patting a plump rump, and after a few photo's from behind, of your fpu, I just assumed, that's all!!!
Tws from Oot West
Mee-maw, mee-maw, mee-maw....that'll be the ambulance Tws!
Flying Cat from Clawsoot&Fangsbared
Niseach meanderings. (Niseachs come from Ness - the villages in NW Lewis from South Dell to the Butt.)
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