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Post 1

Jimmy MacJock

Spliffing gufftastik you old phlange grunger old boy y'know. I was really buggerified by all the fecal matter spread over the so called web page of yours.. More like a public toilet old boy. Love it to bits
Well toodleoo for now you old spunky spongebag, write soon
Elvis. ( yes, It really is ME. )


Nurdlermongung

Post 2

wingpig

Erm, cheers. Warn me when they let you out.


Nurdlermongung

Post 3

SMURF

I know what you mean about inbreeding. I was raised in Norfolk. Flat boring and lots of inbreeding. Bit like everywhere else in the fens really.

By the way, isn't Edinburgh a nice place. I was at uni in Glasgow and spent one of my summers in Edinburgh.


Nyimnamnong

Post 4

wingpig

I'm damn surprised you found it nice in the summer. The only pleasant thing about it is giving wrong directions to lardy be-camera'd folk. I plan to get a job with the rickshaw company this year so that I can tell people terrible tales of the fates that have befalled previous tourists. In the summer you can't even go for a run up the hill without finding the summit mobbed by legged whales who've gone up the steps from the car park half-way-up at the back. At least the buses are alowed down by having to explain to people that A: they're standing on Prince's street or that B: this bus doesn't get within three miles of the same place, leaving them less time to try and run cyclists over.


Nyimnamnong

Post 5

SMURF

I was working for GEC Marconi in Silverknowes and we managed to find some nice tourist free pubs. I enjoyed the book fest as I'm a bit of a bookworm. But the weather was nice and the beer was good. What more do you want from your summer?


Nyimnamnong

Post 6

wingpig

You don't know a bearded freak called Chris Forman do you? He's been working there for a few summers in the radar dept. All I require from my summers is the chance to not have to be ashamed of the fact that I'm not scottish by all the association with the foreign tourists. There are enough nasty english folk up here as students without even worse and even richer ones arriving by the busload. Plus, you become inclined to stop watching comedy programmes when you've seen one of the writers step on your mate's toes in the Pleasance and wander off laughing to themselves. Even though some of the people may only be playing smallish theatres to hundreds of people they give the impression of aspiring to heights of "Don't you know who I am"-dom usually only achieved by $20M actors. Grrr. Oh well. I have prepared some stickers saying "I am a t**t" that shall, with luck, find their way onto the backs of at least five people who don't deserve to be getting audiences. hah.


Nyimnamnong

Post 7

SMURF

I don't think I know him. It was two summers ago I was working there and I was working in the TIALD dept. I thought the Radar dept. was at Crewe Toll?
Why do people who live in Scotland hate tourists so much? You'd have thought that they'd be in heaven taking all that money from people who are too rich to know any better.
And as for being English, at least you weren't in Glasgow. I am Scottish by birth (born in Glasgow) but my parent moved to Norfolk and I got my accent beaten out of me. But I am very proud of being Scottish and I love Glasgow. So when I went to uni there, I was stunned by the racism and bigotry I found in a people I had brown up respecting and on the whole feeling a great warmth from. I fear that if this continues the reputation of Scotland being a warm and inviting country will be gone.
So much of the Scottis economy depends on tourism that this would only lead to further hardship.
I must say, I'm glad they now have a devolved parliament as Westminster is so out of touch. Unfortunately it looks to be made up of people who would ordinarily go to Westminster and therefore it will also be out of touch with the people. Isn't that the way of governments?
Er, I'm ranting again aren't I?

Have fun with the tourists.


Nyimnamnong

Post 8

wingpig

I'm lucky in that I moved from Banbury (oxfordshire) to Lincolnshire when I was still young enough to lose the nasty BBC accent. However, just as it's hard for me to pick out the different regional accents of Scottish people they hear me as English rather than northern english and thus associate me with all the posh folk. It was allright a couple of years ago when I had dyed ginger hair and never spoke, as people assumed me to be scottish. It's the yah factor that annoys me the most - all these english students wandering around the town as if they own it, waving mobiles, wearing fashion and speaking loudly. Or lordly. Probably both. If only they could accept that they're not in their own country anymore and thereby respect the people it'd be better, but they insult the people and incite the people to dislike them. What would make everything better is if people could stop insisting on dragging their country round with them everywhere they go, especially if they do it offensively. i sometimes wish the ingua franca of the world wasn't english - it'd force people to stop expecting to have people speak their language when abroad and make them have to learn another, thus reducing xenophobia. There's a saying that only the english could say that the French were the most hated nation on earth and unfortunately it's true.


Nyimnamnong

Post 9

SMURF

The thing I hated most when I was a student was the "toffs" who had been to bording school and had quite privaledged lives pretending they were just ordinary common man like the rest of us. It used to get right up my nose. We had one guy who was always complaining about not having enough money, even after being given 50 grand for his birthday.

I mean, how much money do you bloody need?

I could have survived very nicely as a student if someone had given me 50K. Mind you, I didn't have the expensive speed habit to support.

I think Edinburgh attracks more of the "Loads a Money" type characters as in the south of England especially it is seen as much more upper class than scummy Glasgow. I was told I was mad for wanting to go to uni in Glasgow and it wouldn't take long before I was beaten up etc. But Glasgow is a fantastic place and although I had a few problems with my accent it was never anything too serious and mostly I found the people accepting me and I made some fantastic friends.

I would loved to have stayed there but you have to go where the jobs can be found.

I think it's about time we got away form this "Britain is Still Great". The empire no longer exists and it's about time this country moved on.


Nyimnamnong

Post 10

wingpig

Mayeb Australia will get on with kicking out the queen. I only use the word britain when I have to avoid saying that I'm from england. My cousin (from Brecon) was at uni in glasgow and was once mugged - upon her arrival at the police station she got nothing but shit until she spoke in her welsh accent, at which the mood changed to total cooperation.


Nyimnamnong

Post 11

SMURF

I'm able to put on a rather posh sounding scottish accent and apparently I talk to members of my family with an accent too. I think it's fair comment about the police. I had my passport stolen in Glasgow and the first comment I got was "why were you carrying it around" (only not as polite as that. I have a tendancy to get shirty back though which isn't always a good idea.
However, I'm sure that had your cousin been in certain parts of England she would have got many references to sheep! When it boils down to it, people can be pretty crap wherever you go.
People in England do go around thinking the world owes them a living though. And nowhere else I've been seems to have this attitude.


Nyeinmongming?

Post 12

dmk

Well they do say it's in the eye of the beholder . . .
I've travelled. Not a lot, and not for good reasons, but I have travelled. I've been all over Scotland, England, some of Wales and Dublin. Don't start me on the rest of Europe because you wouldn't like what I have to say.
I'm from Glasgow. I know a lot of people from south of the border and I know a lot of them who do not want to come up here in case they get beaten up. Most of them who have ventured into the this fine Metropolis have gone home genuinely surprised at the lack of abuse and telling tales of strangers being nice to them. Of course, they are never believed, not even by close friends or relatives, but it is nice that they try.
Of course it's not all sunshine and daffodils (don't ask), and I know all about the downside, but the only time I was beaten up was in Edinburgh (a sort of gang warfare type thing which turned out to be a case of mistaken identity, so no hard feelings (although my nose will never be the same again). I'm sure you know that heading towards Muirhouse after midnight isn't a good idea anyway), and the only time I was mugged was in Brussells, where I lost my car keys and my mate lost his passport.
Surprisingly I spend most of my time not having my head kicked in. I know, I know - everyone needs a hobby, but I am sorry, that just isn't my idea of fun.
And we don't really hate the English . . .
We just can't think of anything better to do, and we're not as close to France as you are . . .
:o)


Nyeinmongming?

Post 13

SMURF

I just wanted to say that I miss Glasgow and I think it's on the whole a fantastic place. I know a lot of people from North of the border who refuse to come to England just because it's full of English people. There are bad people wherever you travel but that shouldn't stop you experiencing new places.


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