How to tell if your Scottish....

[Denham]

A few of these were listed in tic's thread below.

50 give aways your scottish


1. Scattered showers with outbreaks of sunshine is good weather
2. the only sausage you like is square
3. you have been forced to do scottish country dancing every year at high school
4. you know a wide vocabulary of random scottish words - numpty, aye, aye right, auldjin, baltic
5. you have an irrational need to eat anything fried with your supper from the chippy - haggis, pizza, white pudding, sausage
6. you used to love destroying your teeth when you were young - buchanans toffee, wham bars, tablet, cola cubes etc
7. you have an enormous feeling of dread when ever scotland play a 'numpty' team
8. you happily engage in a conversation about the weather
9. even if you normally hate the proclaimers, runrig, caledonia, deacon blue, big country you still love it when your in a club abroad and they play something scottish
10. you take a perverse pride in the fact that scotland has the highest number of alcohol and smoking related deaths in europe
11. you used to watch glen michaels cavalcade on a sunday afternoon with his side kick lamp paladin
12. you got oor wullie and the broons annuals at xmas
13. you have come in from the pub p*ssed with flatmates and watches weirs way engrossed with a wee man in a bobbly hat walking around scotland
14. you can tell where another scot is from by their accent -
awright pal gonnae gies a wee swatch oa yur sun, cheers, magic pal -glaswegian - fit ya bin up tae, fair few quines in the night eh>?-inverness etc
15. you see cops and hear someone shout 'errapolis'
16. you have participated in or watched people having a 'square go'
17. you know that when someone asks you what school you went to they want to know if you are catholic or protestant
18. you have eaten lots and lots of random scottish food like mince n tatties, oat cakes, haggis, cullen skink, macaroon bars etc
19. a jakey has asked you for money
20. you think nothing of waithing expectantly for your 1p change from a shop keeper
21. you know the right response to 'yoo dancin' is 'yoo askin' followed by 'am askin' and finally 'then am dancin'
22. you know that whenever you see sawdust it reminds you of pools of vomit as thats what the jannies used to chuck on it at school
23. you lose all respect for a groom who doesnt wear a kilt
24. you dont do shopping you do the 'messages'
25. your sitting on the train or bus and a drunk man sits next to you telling you a joke - and asking 'im no annoying ya am a?' and you respond 'no not at all yer fine this is my stop'
26. a scottish male can have a phone conversation using the words awright, aye and naw
27. you have experienced peer pressure to have an alcoholic drink when out - regardless of the circumstances
28. you know ye cannae fling yer pieces oot a 20 storey flat, seven hundred hungry weans'll testify tae that, if its butter, cheese or jeely if the breid is plain or pan the odds against it reaching earth are 99 tae wan
29. you know that going to a party at a friends means bring your own drink
30. your holiday abroad is spoiled if you hear there is a heatwave in scotland when your away
31. your national team goes 2-0 up again the czechs in a qualifier in prague and your mate says we'll end up losing 3-2 here and you think probably
32. you can properly pronounce McConnochie, Ecclefechan, milngavie, and auchtermuchty
33. you like deep fried battered pizza from the chippy
34. your used to 4 seasons in one day
35. you cant pass a chip shop,kebab shop, without drooling when your drunk
36. you can fall about drunk without spilling your drink
37. you see people wearing shellsuits and burberry accessories and think its class
38. you measure distance in minutes
39. you can understand rab c nesbitt and know characters just like them in your own family
40. you go to saltcoats because you think its like being at the ocean
41. you can make a whole sentence out of just swear words
42. you know what haggis is made with and still eat it
43. somebody you know used a football schedule to plan their wedding day date
44. you've been at a wedding where the footie results were read out
45. you arent surprised to find curries, pizzas, kebabs, irn bru, nappies and fags in one shop
46. you seaside holiday home has calor gas under it
47. you know irn bru is a hang over cure
48. you learned to swear before you learned your sums
49. you understand this and are going to send it to your pals
50. You are 100 per cent scottish if you have ever heard these words - 'hows it hingin? clatty, boggin, cludgie, ba-heid, baw bag and dubble nugget

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hummmmmmm hope they all true lol g1