[Scottymeuk]

Lol, I just watched Dave on 5th gear. It was so funny how useless he seems lol. He should do TV more often he looked quite comfortable with it.

[Yudster]

Can you stop "lol"ing please? In line with the posting guidelines? Ta.

[Bonanzoid]

I wonder how long it'll take for 'lol' to be in the dictionary'

lol (verb);
to laugh out loud - When he told me I joke, I lol'd heartily.

[le_moribond]

In welsh, it means 'fun'. But I'm aware we don't write in welsh, so....

and to be on topic, I enjoyed the Dave feature on Fifth Gear. They were clever in making it the last feature of the programme, to make sure the non-regular viewers watched the entirety!

[foot-loose]

Location: Eyemouth, Scotish Borders

If you are in the Scottish borders, can you sort the spelling out?

Scotish looks bad.

Scottish is correct.

Scotterlish is funny.

[MK Chris]

Can you stop "lol"ing please? In line with the posting guidelines? Ta.

lol - funny!

How is it funny? It actually is in the posting guidelines.

[Bonanzoid]

roolz r there 2b broken lol

[Scottymeuk]

lol

[MK Chris]

...and everyone else who hates it, of which there are quite a few on these boards. Please don't do it.

[foot-loose]

Yudsters don't have bends. They have curves.




*pokes*

[Yudster]

I was nice about it. If he wants to carry on, who am I to say otherwise? They aren't my rules, and the person who did make them is probably busy with far more important things right now. Someone will sort it out at some point I'm sure.

[foot-loose]

I think the much more important thing to worry about is that someone is spelling the word "Scottish" with one "t".

That's illegal!

If he is Scottish himself, it's possibly treason.

[Yudster]

I heard a story about my beloved brother in law the other day. Apparently some years ago he was in a bar in Glasgow (no idea why), and being the person he is, he was quietly and effectively winding everyone up as much as possible (yes I know, doesn't take much doing in a bar in Glasgow, but he IS an expert). Anyway, apparently Braveheart came on the big Plasma telly, and he jumped on a table and shouted "Hang the bastard!" at the top of his voice.

Apparently he looked a right mess afterwards - but interestingly enough so did about 6 Scottish blokes. He likes a fight, my brother in law.

[MK Chris]

He sounds an agreeable chap.

Mind you, I tend to think reacting to anything with a fight is a bit extreme.

[Yudster]

He is a very agreeable chap actually, I really love him - but he is a bit daft at times. I would like to think he has calmed down in recent years......

[Bonanzoid]

lol! You do realise we're all going to drive Yudster round the bend

I was arsing about. You really ought not to say 'lol', it is (as Yudster says) against the forum rules. It's not just a pet hate of hers.

[foot-loose]

I heard a story about my beloved brother in law the other day. Apparently some years ago he was in a bar in Glasgow (no idea why), and being the person he is, he was quietly and effectively winding everyone up as much as possible (yes I know, doesn't take much doing in a bar in Glasgow, but he IS an expert). Anyway, apparently Braveheart came on the big Plasma telly, and he jumped on a table and shouted "Hang the bastard!" at the top of his voice.

Apparently he looked a right mess afterwards - but interestingly enough so did about 6 Scottish blokes. He likes a fight, my brother in law.

Huh.

I'll start defending my home city at this point and say that if some drunken idiot walked into any pub and started winding the locals up, there is a good chance he would get a kicking.

The fact he decided to do it in Glasgow says less about the city he did it in and more about him being a tit.

[Yudster]

Oh absolutely - he will have a punch up anywhere in the world, he's not fussy. Well - perhaps I should put this in the past tense now, he's been a sober upstanding law-abiding citizen for a good few years now.

However - a friend of mine who is at St Andrew's university got beaten up by five drunk Scotsmen before Christmas simply for wearing a pink hat in Glasgow. I do think that says something about the place and/or people. Or some of them anyway.

[foot-loose]

Once again, yes it's a bit shit for getting beaten up for wearing a pink hat (unless there was more to that story) but I doubt that it will be restricted to Glasgow.

It's a bit like watching that police show thats filmed "on the streets of Cardiff" and shows all the drunken yobs of Cardiff getting * out their minds and wrecking the place. Then you get loads of people saying how terrible Cardiff is.

I'm pretty sure that all major cities have their drunken yob problems and they would be able to film a similar series in plenty of cities.

Also, I've worn odd hats on a couple of occasions including a memorable sparkly pink cowboy hat (it had glitter and all sorts on it!). Did I get beaten up for it? No. My point being that yes, it's unfortunate that your friend got a kicking off some folk. However, I have a feeling it could have happened anywhere. Why then, does it say anything about the place or the people?

[Yudster]

I think maybe the combination of the pink hat and being English was the key. He is a totally inoffensive lad. And I did specify SOME people.

[foot-loose]

So you're agreeing with me that your story represents city life across the UK rather than saying something specific about one place or people?

[Yudster]

I think its an incident which you could interpret as confirmation of a local stereotype. Whether this is a valid confirmation or not, I don't know.

[foot-loose]

Ah right, as long as I know we are arguing about stereotypes then I shall retire from the discussion.

That's more your problem to solve than mine.

[Scottymeuk]

Just to point out, I'm English.

[Yudster]

Ah right, as long as I know we are arguing about stereotypes then I shall retire from the discussion.

That's more your problem to solve than mine.

I wasn't aware it was a problem at all, let alone mine!