Jeanette Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 Why's it so bad? There are a lot of English people and American people in Scotland, particularly in Aberdeen in the case of the latter. What you said was a bit sensationalist and xenophobic in my opinion, but if you could explain it a bit better it may not come across that way (which i'm sure it wasn't meant to).What is so difficult to understand?! At no point did I say I had a problem with the accent on an English or American person... but on those who are from Scotland but appear to have English or American accents... and I'm not counting those who have parents from England or America.Argh. A simple pet hate has turned into something ridiculous. Stop trying to pick an argument out of nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alkaline Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 What is so difficult to understand?! At no point did I say I had a problem with the accent on an English or American person... but on those who are from Scotland but appear to have English or American accents... and I'm not counting those who have parents from England or America.Argh. A simple pet hate has turned into something ridiculous. Stop trying to pick an argument out of nothing.See, you hadn't mentioned that you hadn't included people with English or American parents. Maybe if you'd said that first it wouldn't have been such an ambiguous statement. Thanks for clearing that up. Clearly you mean put-on accents. That's a completely different thing of course that i totally understand.It's nice to know people don't start wetting themselves when they're asked to qualify a statement. Oh, wait... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeanette Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 People who are Scottish but have awful pseudo-English accents.Clearly you mean put-on accents. That's a completely different thing of course that i totally understand.I did say pseudo-English accents... Anyway, you need to watch more awful MTV style American reality shows and then see the wannabes walking around various Scottish towns! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alkaline Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 I did say pseudo-English accents... Anyway, you need to watch more awful MTV style American reality shows and then see the wannabes walking around various Scottish towns! Yeah, that's what i thought you meant but it was still a bit ambiguous and that's why i asked.I've never let anyone's accent bother me that much really to be honest. If they want to look stupid aping an alien accent then that's not a problem in my eyes. I honestly can't think of an instance where i've met someone and they've been putting on an accent though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huw Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 Student who dress in trackies/shorts, polo shirts and flip flops in the height of winter. I hope to god their fucking feet fall off. people who elongate the word banter with other hyperbole to create monstrosoties like banteriffic, bantertastik etc. most of these people and the people referred to above go to aberdeen uni. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
em-s-t-a-r Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 No no girls who wear those silly Canterbury tracksuit bottoms with Ugg boots, please no. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeanette Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 Student who dress in trackies/shorts, polo shirts and flip flops in the height of winter. I hope to god their fucking feet fall off. No no girls who wear those silly Canterbury tracksuit bottoms with Ugg boots, please no.I'm with you on both of these... and they're often combined with my other pet hate of fake American/English accents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain America Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 I'm with you on both of these... and they're often combined with my other pet hate of fake American/English accents.So basically everyone on a sports science degree at uni(I realise this is a slight exageration, but it's not really all that much).Apologies if you're on a Sports Science degree and are not a dick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeanette Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 So basically everyone on a sports science degree at uni(I realise this is a slight exageration, but it's not really all that much).Apologies if you're on a Sports Science degree and are not a dick.Haha. I wouldn't say just sports science students. I fully accept the need for sportswear... but Ugg boots with trackies?! Seriously? Lol.I think I might stop with my pet hates as I might end up getting in a real pickle.Also... people who park on the street and leave so much space between them and the car in front and the car behind, but it's not quite big enough as a space... Just move forward a little bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 Michael Winner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scootray Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 Michael WinnerCalm down dear...I apologise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calum Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 Student who dress in trackies/shorts, polo shirts and flip flops in the height of winter. I hope to god their fucking feet fall off. people who elongate the word banter with other hyperbole to create monstrosoties like banteriffic, bantertastik etc. most of these people and the people referred to above go to aberdeen uni.I'm inbanterate. Surely anyone who shortens it to "'bant" also deserves to be strangled with their own small intestine?Students who'll stand in a public place, a bus for example, and badmouth Aberdeen, usually in comparison with Edinburgh. Maybe you should've got the grades to go to Oxbridge or St. Andrews then, you glaikit private schooled cunt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 I'm inbanterate. Surely anyone who shortens it to "'bant" also deserves to be strangled with their own small intestine?Students who'll stand in a public place, a bus for example, and badmouth Aberdeen, usually in comparison with Edinburgh. Maybe you should've got the grades to go to Oxbridge or St. Andrews then, you glaikit private schooled cunt.Maybe you shouldn't be so predgidous against privately schooled people.Though I agree with the rest of your post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calum Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 Maybe you shouldn't be so predgidous against privately schooled people.Though I agree with the rest of your post.I'm not prejudiced against them. I wait until they display what I view as cuntish traits before judging them to be cunts I just mentioned their having been privately educated because the people I was referring ot are folk from my course who I know went to Edinburgh private schools. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elizabeth Posted January 28, 2009 Report Share Posted January 28, 2009 Pins and Needles. The ones you get in your feet.All I want to do is sit on my foot because it is comfortable like that, BUT YOU JUST WON'T LET ME. :'( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glennbuchan Posted January 28, 2009 Report Share Posted January 28, 2009 People who spell your name wrong.Glen is not my name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Easy Wishes Posted January 28, 2009 Report Share Posted January 28, 2009 People who moan about their name being spelt wrong when it's not spelt the way that the majority of the English-speaking world spell it.Mink couples that call their babies Asia or India or Kaylee or Ashlee or Beyonc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Neck Man Posted January 28, 2009 Report Share Posted January 28, 2009 Mink couples that call their babies Asia or India or Kaylee or Ashlee or Beyonc.Yes. This pisses me off. The worst case being one time I was on a bus and the father snaps at the screaming child "LEVI - SHUT THE FUCK UP" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Easy Wishes Posted January 28, 2009 Report Share Posted January 28, 2009 It wasn't this guy was it? I sometimes wish he'd shut up with his reggae-reggae guitar playing, and that stupid song about his sauce. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuartmaxwell Posted January 28, 2009 Report Share Posted January 28, 2009 It wasn't this guy was it? I sometimes wish he'd shut up with his reggae-reggae guitar playing, and that stupid song about his sauce.I love Levi and his sauce is taste tastic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Easy Wishes Posted January 28, 2009 Report Share Posted January 28, 2009 I've heard good things, but never tried it. Can you only buy it in Sainsbury's or do other supermarkets stock it now too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alkaline Posted January 28, 2009 Report Share Posted January 28, 2009 Yes. This pisses me off. The worst case being one time I was on a bus and the father snaps at the screaming child "LEVI - SHUT THE FUCK UP"Jewish minks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuartmaxwell Posted January 28, 2009 Report Share Posted January 28, 2009 I think it was an exclusive distribution agreement at sainsburys for a certain period of time, but the deal will have then expired allowing the company to licence it into other stores/distributorsThe business model for what he has done is very neat, extracting maximum revenues from all applications of the sauce (including restaurant chain deals, trademark litigation etc) and they got the business was running slick before the exclusive deal with sainsburys ended. Then slowly started introducing new products and doing the same with them. They combined this with an excellent pr campaign headed up by Levi personally. the dragons are not idiots Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Easy Wishes Posted January 28, 2009 Report Share Posted January 28, 2009 I wouldn't want to get too close to the horsey one though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afro Droid Posted January 28, 2009 Report Share Posted January 28, 2009 Another gripe:Aberdeen City Council. I pay what I consider to be extortionate Council Tax, so why is it so difficult to GRIT THE FUCKING PAVEMENTS WHEN IT'S FROSTY!!!???Where's the fucking grit I've paid for? I was out visiting my parents in Ellon over Christmas, and every square inch of path was gritted, why is so difficult to do this in town? Even worse are those brass stud things they put into the pavement to help the blind. Unfortunately they cause the pavement to be even more slippery... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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