Anything Scottish, just for fun!

oscash said:
My darling old Grandad hadn't been back to his beloved Scotland for almost 30 years, so he decided to visit the old country with my grandmother. He wanted to see the Edinburgh Tattoo. When the massed bands came marching out, he said he burst into tears because it
bought back old memories of himself with his old regiment. When they played "Will ye no come back again?", he said that was it for him, because he knew he would never see the old place ever again. God Bless you Grandad.
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I know the feeling, I get a lump in my throat, when I
hear some old song or tune, from my youth.

Mike.
 

Mizmo said:
AH the Valeta...so graceful.
I did a lot of ballroom dancing in my day and The Albert Dance Hall in Glasgow was
the only one who would play the music for it.
The male dancers were not so keen but many good dancers went there so it was always a treat to watch them
and occasionally get asked to dance it.

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I think you must mean the Albert Ballroom in Bath street, do you ?(y)


One of my friends who loved traditional country dancing and I would go occasionally to a hotel that had a ballroom, in Charing Cross.. I can't remember for the life of me what the hotel was called.. but you could also have supper there if you could afford it ...

of course we disco'd on friday nights.. and our friends at the terminal one club in St Enoch square or Clouds in Sauchiehall st would have been horrified at knowing we went country dancing on another night.. :ROFLMAO:
 
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Mike said:
I know the feeling, I get a lump in my throat, when I
hear some old song or tune, from my youth.

Mike.
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I think that Scots and Irish are very loyal to their country's traditional ways .. and we do get emotional when we hear music that we've known all our lives...
 

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All pipers should be admired, they play lots of different tunes,
all without sheet music.
Many, many, years ago, in Edinburgh, I had the pleasure of
witnessing, 1,000 pipers, they started in Holyrood Park, by the
Palace of Holyrood House, they marched from there, up the
High street, (The Royal Mile), then down to Princes Street and
headed west towards Corstorphine, each bad a few yards behind
the one ahead of them, but every piper was playing the same tune
without making a mistake, at least to my ears.

No, I am not a Piper, though I sometimes wished that I was.

Mike.
 
hollydolly said:
I think you must mean the Albert Ballroom in Bath street, do you ?(y)


One of my friends who loved traditional country dancing and I would go occasionally to a hotel that had a ballroom, in Charing Cross.. I can't remember for the life of me what the hotel was called.. but you could also have supper there if you could afford it ...

of course we disco'd on friday nights.. and our friends at the terminal one club in St Enoch square or Clouds in Sauchiehall st would have been horrified at knowing we went country dancing on another night.. :ROFLMAO:
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Yes, it and the Plaza Ballroom were considered 'posh' in those days.
We had to wear dance shoes to protect the beautiful wooden floors.
Since I took dance lesson I had to buy a pair but one could rent shoes for one shilling for the night.

Locarno and Playhouse were good too with the big bands.
Not much ballroom but lots of jiving, rhumbas, sambas
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Mizmo said:
Yes, it and the Plaza Ballroom were considered 'posh' in those days.
We had to wear dance shoes to protect the beautiful wooden floors.
Since I took dance lesson I had to buy a pair but one could rent shoes for one shilling for the night.

Locarno and Playhouse were good too with the big bands.
Not much ballroom but lots of jiving, rhumbas, sambas
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the Locarno was my Aunt betty's favourite place to go on the weekend.. she was my fathers youngest sister and barely out of her teens in the 60's when I was about 1l or 12... so she and her friends always fascinated me with her Beehive hairdo and all the sticky ''laquer''.. and her tight pencil skirts .. I think she met my Uncle at the Locarno...


My father OTOH was a Bouncer at weekends at the Barrowland Ballroom in the 60's...

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My times were late forties and fifties....
All good times and fun in Glasgow in those days.
Theatres...saw Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennet and one time actually bumped into Tyrone Power
on Buchanan St..well he actually bumped into me and steadied me with his hand on my shoulder and said "so sorry"
I was wasted all afternoon:love:
He was in a play at The Alhambra Theatre...I forget what it was.
Must go get my coffee and chocolate digestive biscuit now...
 
Some Scottish words, translated to English, I don't
agree with all of them, but these are from today's
newspaper.

Mike.

  1. Wee – small or little
  2. Aye – yes
  3. Naw – no
  4. Braw – great, fine or lovely
  5. Blether – chat or gossip
  6. Ken – to know or understand
  7. Dinnae – don’t
  8. Banter – playful conversation
  9. Greet – cry
  10. Crabbit – grumpy
  11. Gallus – bold, cheeky, confident
  12. Gutted – sad, disappointed, upset
  13. Buzzin – excited, happy
  14. Smashin’ – excellent
  15. Aff – in a bad mood
  16. Steamin – drunk
  17. Pure dead brilliant – extremely good
  18. Chuffed – pleased or proud
  19. Up the road – going home or to someone’s place
  20. Skint – broke, no money
  21. Gaff – house or flat
  22. Messages – groceries or shopping
  23. Piece – sandwich
  24. Scran – food
  25. Nae bother – no problem/you’re welcome
  26. Dreich – miserable, grey, drizzly
  27. Haar – cold sea mist
  28. Baltic – freezing
  29. Chuckin’ it doon – raining heavily
  30. Clarty – dirty or muddy
  31. Sweatin’ like a pig – hot and sweaty
  32. Meltin’ – overheating or uncomfortably warm
  33. Tapps aff – tops off for when the sun comes out
  34. Numpty – silly or clueless person
  35. Bampot – eccentric or crazy individual
  36. Rocket – daft or ridiculous person
  37. Eejit – idiot (lovingly used)
  38. Chancer – risk-taker or opportunist
  39. Bam – loud person
  40. Walloper – someone acting foolishly
  41. Dafty – a light-hearted way of saying silly
 
10 seconds in he gets it wrong..even tho' he's Scottish... he says' Dinnae ken is used on the East Coast of Edinburgh... no it's not , it;s used on the East Coast of Scotland as a whole... I know because my mum was an East coaster and for the first 7 years of my life I lived and went to school there...before moving back to the West coast where I was born
He;s lost the plot... 'when he says people going for the messages ( groceries) has it written down for them... he's inferring people are stupid or drunk, and need instruction... when in fact it's written down because many people at least back in the day...sent the children for the groceries..

he's talking like he's addressing 5 year olds... I don't think he's a full shilling...
 
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hollydolly said:
10 seconds in he gets it wrong..even tho' he's Scottish... he says' Dinnae ken is used on the East Coast of Edinburgh... no it's not , it;s used on the East Coast of Scotland as a whole... I know because my mum was an East coaster and for the first 7 years of my life I lived and went to school there...before moving back to the West coast where I was born
He;s lost the plot... 'when he says people going for the messages ( groceries) has it written down for them... he's inferring people are stupid or drunk, and need instruction... when in fact it's written down becuase many people at least back in the day...sent the children for the groceries..

he's talking like he's addressing 5 year olds... I don't think he's a full shilling...
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much misrepresentation of our everyday language....lots of what we used to call 'slang'
In my day we spoke proper English but with the Scottish lilt.
Occasionally when we were having 'daft' times
we would resort to it . .... yes, definitely

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Mizmo said:
much misrepresentation of our everyday language....lots of what we used to call 'slang'
In my day we spoke proper English but with the Scottish lilt.
Occasionally when we were having 'daft' times
we would resort to it . .... yes, definitely

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we still call it slang here in the UK... becase as you well knnow, the dialects change greatly all over the UK.. you can literally go just 20 miles and they're using different dialect and different slang words..
 
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