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Jesus that fecking paper. The front covers are something else. I hope their 10000 regular readers are lapping it up. Fuckin embarrassment to Indy. And graphic design.
Ah aywis luik forwart tae their colum in the guid puir Scots, such an interestin take on seeminlie anodyne shite fae sum skelpt erse faceit poet (sorry, Makar).
I think there is a value in Scots and the Doric is spoke by maist classes in the NE, but ffs pawky obvious shite such as their Scots columnist gaes tae a festival, didnae ken ony ay the groops, but liked it! Shite is hardly Henrysson Douglas Dunbar or McDiarmid Vital, let alone Burns.Last edited by Lang Spoon; 14-12-2017, 00:42.
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Originally posted by Lang Spoon View PostJesus that fecking paper. The front covers are something else. I hope their 10000 regular readers are lapping it up. Fuckin embarrassment to Indy. And graphic design.
Ah aywis luik forwart tae their colum in the good puir Scots, such an interestin take on seeminlie anodyne shite fae sum skelpt erse faceit poet (sorry, Makar).
I think there is a value in Scots and the Doric is spoke by maist classes in the NE, but ffs pawky obvious shite such as their Scots columnist gaes tae a festival, didnae ken ony ay the groops, but liked it! Shite is hardly Henrysson Douglas Dunbar or McDiarmid Vital, let alone Burns.
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Originally posted by Sam View PostI thought the joke someone made a couple of weeks ago about LS being a bot was funny but a little harsh, but I have to admit I'm really struggling with that post.
I was badly trying to satirize The National’s Scots columnist, who just trots out Mundane Thread type stuff. But in the braw bricht tongue.
It’s a terrible paper, while the Sunday Herald manages to be pro Indy and Scotland’s best paper, The National gave horrible bastard Wings Over Scotland a column. Broad Scotch and shitty covers aren’t their worst crimes.Last edited by Lang Spoon; 13-12-2017, 22:18.
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Originally posted by Lang Spoon View PostI was badly trying to satirize The National’s Scots columnist, who just trots out Mundane Thread type stuff. But in the braw bricht tongue.
This is not a call to change, mind. Your level of bottiness is providing me with ample opportunities to learn more about this language. Keep up the good work!
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- Jan 2012
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- Worthing
- The Hammers, until Mark Noble goes.(he's still there, sort of)
- Garibaldi, dipped in tea.
Originally posted by E10 Rifle View PostWhat does #FBPE mean?
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Originally posted by Lang Spoon View PostI was badly trying to satirize The National’s Scots columnist, who just trots out Mundane Thread type stuff. But in the braw bricht tongue.
It’s a terrible paper, while the Sunday Herald manages to be pro Indy and Scotland’s best paper, The National gave horrible bastard Wings Over Scotland a column. Broad Scotch and shitty covers aren’t their worst crimes.
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What does "braw bricht" mean?
This is not a call to change, mind. Your level of bottiness is providing me with ample opportunities to learn more about this language. Keep up the good work!
Haha!
“It’s a braw bricht Moonlicht nicht the nicht” is a Stage Scotch phrase John Humphreys types like to use to gently josh the North of the Wall types. Braw=Good, nice. bricht=bright.
Twice I’ve had that said to me. I think I was supposed to laugh back and mibees playfully punch their arm. It’s as well a demotic Scottish Accent is still considered a red flag for best back away, possible Mad Bampot Random Violence action (no matter if the Scotsman is Strachan wee and Andrew Marr muscled). Stereotypes come in handy on occasion.Last edited by Lang Spoon; 14-12-2017, 00:47.
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As Ursus says. It's a way of making Twitter even more of a self-justifying bubble than it already is, and is generally full of people saying 'Labour doesn't offer an opposition/Corbyn's a Brexiteer' sort of stuff. Which could be claimed at certain points with a little justification, but is really just a cover now for LibDem-type centrism.
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Originally posted by johnr View PostAs Ursus says. It's a way of making Twitter even more of a self-justifying bubble than it already is, and is generally full of people saying 'Labour doesn't offer an opposition/Corbyn's a Brexiteer' sort of stuff. Which could be claimed at certain points with a little justification, but is really just a cover now for LibDem-type centrism.
He's got 28% for best PM. I'd venture he could add quite a few on by strengthening his opposition to Hard Brexit.
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I think it's a cover for some of them, but there is a certain strain of hardcore Remainer for whom Brexit genuinely is the worst, or indeed only bad, political event that has ever affected them personally in their lifetime, and they literally can't comprehend that it isn't the only thing that matters for everyone else too. So they get completely enraged when Corbyn devotes PMQ time to something trivial like homelessness or the NHS or poverty. It's a charmless tactic and, with Brexit on such a knife edge, has the effect of persuading precisely no people to their cause.
But they're the Grown-ups, apparently.
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