Re: Another Drive4show 'Anything goes' thread

[mystiroakey]

First topic message reminder :

Btw Fader 25 is fine anyway- your in the healthy scale so either way its no dramas at all mate!

[super_realist]

Quite like the idea of being part of an ARU, bit like a firefighter at an airport, you wouldn't really have to work very hard.

[Diggers]

Im not saying havinbg guns would have saved them during the incident, just that he might have thought twice about instigating the ambush in the first place as it would appear that he didnt have a death wish as he gave himself up straight away. But who knows, its the police themselves who dont want to carry guns which in some ways suprises me I have to say.

[dynamark]

Murder suspect out on bail?
Hindsight may have been better to keep the nutter locked in

[navyblueshorts]

Murder suspect out on bail?
Hindsight may have been better to keep the nutter locked in

You, me and many others might have thought so. Can't possibly comment on what the 'authorities' were thinking though!

[super_realist]

Apparently there wasn't enough evidence to hold him on remand, and in such circumstances bail is applied.
You'd have thought though with such serious charges, they might have kept an eye on him and checked whether he had a hand grenade and pistol.

[kwinigolfer]

Norman Tebbitt should take his own advice;
"On your bike."

And, on the subject, yesterday's, of accents, has anyone ever heard a worse British accent than William Hague's?

[McLaren]

" has anyone ever heard a worse British accent than William Hague's?"

No, where does he come from?

[Diggers]

Norman Tebbitt should take his own advice;
"On your bike."

And, on the subject, yesterday's, of accents, has anyone ever heard a worse British accent than William Hague's?

Yes, anyone who comes from Dudley.

[super_realist]

Glasgow is the worst for me. It manages to sound deprived, uneducated, uncouth and aggressive all in one, not to mention high pitched, littered with expletives and generally incomprehensible.

[dynamark]

Dudloy?
Sorry my error -double murder suspect manchesters 'most wanted man'out on bail?Surely they could have hung on to him

[McLaren]

Super, I agree about the glasgow/west coast accent. Actually - and i may loose my socialist worker subscription for this - any "working class" scottish accent sounds quite bad.

[super_realist]

You should hear the teuchters up here in Ayburdeen Mac, I'm not even sure what language they are "speaking" in.

[McLaren]

Yes the teuchter accent is pretty bad, thankfully I have never been to Aberdeen or the surrounding area.

To earn back my reputation as a fine champagne socialist I will say the posh Scottish Morningside accent really winds me up as well.

[super_realist]

Yes, that and the "posh" Weedgie, if that isn't an oxymoron.

[McLaren]

So super,

Do you have a fife accent?

[super_realist]

Not in the traditional South Fife (shroo, shree, neeboor, ya'hoor sir) nonsense.
Probably closer to an educated Edinburgh one given my St.Andrews background.
Many English people say they often don't think I sound Scottish at all.

[McLaren]

Haha, so you are one of those people who try to hide your scottish accent. Thats pretty funny.

So coming from fife, how many "kens" do you normally use in a sentance?

[super_realist]

Mac, I only speak the Queens.

You should know via your many St.Andrews sojourns that the accent there is very slight and barely discernable (at least amongst the middle classes), so I'm not hiding my Scottish background, it's just not an accent as recognisable as a soap dodging weedgie or sheep shagging aberdonian.

I NEVER say "ken"

[McLaren]

But super, you have said in the past you came from a lower class background?

[super_realist]

Lower middle class Mac. I know how to mind my p's and q's.

[McLaren]

Super

I had a number of friends at uni from around st andrews who all sounded quite broad to me. I guess you maybe suppressed it subconsciously?

[super_realist]

No Mac, There are a lot of disparate accents around there, i.e the village I grew up in was quite middle class and accentless, while the one a couple of miles around the road was quite industrial and tried too hard to put on a Scottish accent which is actually harder to do than speak properly.
I don't suppress it as such as if I have a telephone voice.

[McLaren]

Super

What accents do your parents have?

[super_realist]

Same as me obviously.

[McLaren]

Not that obvious, my parents dont come from the same place and I did not grow up in the same place as either of them. So dont really share an accent.

PLus you said all the villages have different accents so it is worrying that both your parents come from the same small village. meaning you come from a small gene pool.

[kwinigolfer]

Ref: Dudley:

Only been to Dudley to watch cricket but any city that gave the world the great Duncan Edwards can't be all bad.

[super_realist]

Not really Mac, My dad is from Edinburgh whilst my mother was local to where I grew up. Not surprising I have a neutral accent.

Be interesting to know what the Berwick accent is, given it's geographical position.

[McLaren]

I remember playing football in berwick quite some time ago and I think they sounded english?

[super_realist]

I know a guy who is a staunch Scot, totally Nationalistic/SNP with tartan blood and hates everything English.

It kills him that he was born in Berwick

[McLaren]

Super

Do you think if you had more of a scottish accent it would improve your chance with the ladies?

[super_realist]

I wouldn't have thought so Mac, I don't find it endearing in a lady, so I doubt they would either, perhaps abroad where it appears unusual or "exotic", but not in Scotland.

Off to Norway with work in a month, so I'll let you know then.

[oldparwin]

Mac
I was with you about the Glasgow accent, that's till I started working with the Black Country folk in Bilston, near Dudley that's an accent that no one outside the Black Country can understand.

I had a Londoner who had worked there for 20 years, and he was asking me a Scotsman what they were saying?.

[JAS]

Super

Do you think if you had more of a scottish accent it would improve your chance with the ladies?

I can confirm that a Wiltshire modified broad east Ayrshire tongue works wonders in both Mexico and the good old' U.S.A

[barragan]

clyde the thistle-headed Glasgow 2014 mascot ... how original

[McLaren]

barragan

I saw that, really very embarrassing for scotland. I get the feeling 2014 will be more Delhi 2010 than London 2012.

Why does scotland always have to act so parochial on the world stage?

[super_realist]

I thought the same, total lack of imagination and living up to every token cliche around.
I hope the commonwealth games are a total disaster, in fact they are bound to be if that's the best they can come up with for a mascot. Looks like morph on acid.

[mystiroakey]

I think they might have a point SR. Girls love a scottish accent!

[Diggers]

The Manchester Commonwealth Games were a big success, even with really poor weather. Hopefully the same will be true of Glasgow. The Games need a success story after Delhi which wasnt so good.

[super_realist]

Diggers, I think it's the small man, insecure mentality and over the top parochialism that is a problem with Scotland hosting anything. They have to shout SCOTLAND!!! in your face at every opportunity. Part of the reason I don't consider myself Scottish.

[McLaren]

Would anyone consider putting in an offer to buy this place?

http://www.rodgersandbrowne.co.uk/site/Property.aspx?to=%&ty=%&be=0&mi=0&ma=1000000000&sr=sale&kw=&listpageid=0&resultsindex=1&x=HK37s09Ex~plus~8=&id=442


I reckon sin e would love it in that part of the world.

[mystiroakey]

That's beautiful.. kinda pricey mind

[navyblueshorts]

Not bad. Think the golf facilities might need a bit of improvement for my game though. Don't think the driving range is long enough for one thing... .

[mystiroakey]

So then Hamilton joins Mercedes!!

This must be a combination of brawn and hamiltons frustration- he has been very ul this year to be fair!

[lorus59]

Change of topic, I saw an article on the Internet about if you could live without your mobile/smart phone. Any comments?

[mystiroakey]

I couldnt because its a work tool. The extra organisation and staffing I would need without a phone that does the below would make it pretty hard for me and other people with small businesses to just survive.

calenders, emails, gps, logmein, the phone itself diveting from my work number!, etc ,plus internet, apps, games, music, 606v2....

[incontinentia]

What posters are from Aberdeen? Looks like someone's Ryder cup celebrations got out of hand...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-19783214

[navyblueshorts]

S_R obviously had a little too much after TW's capitulation to Molinari on 18 last night...

[mystiroakey]

[mystiroakey]

he also wasnt about last night- which is kinda strange for him!!! It all adds up

[BlueCoverman]

Now then, now then guys and gals, how will Jimmy Saville be remembered then? As a widely acclaimed philanthropist honoured for his charity work or a sexual predator of under age schoolgirls? And are ITV justified in airing this programme tomorrow night or is it unfair to speak ill of the dead?

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