Where are all these weans now? Are they all indoors? Are they playing on computers or too frightened to go out?
Their paranoid parents won't let them out. We got kicked out and told not to come back in before tea time.
What do you miss the most?
Started by thomas, Mar 14 2007 07:21 PM
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Posted 21 March 2007 - 12:54 PM
Their paranoid parents won't let them out. We got kicked out and told not to come back in before tea time.
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Posted 21 March 2007 - 04:39 PM
:twisted:I remember the wind, smell and the fancy entrance
I spy a very obvious lack of riposte from one amongst us, well done sir
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Posted 21 March 2007 - 05:06 PM
:twisted:I remember the wind, smell and the fancy entrance
I spy a very obvious lack of riposte from one amongst us, well done sir
Probably because they were no lucky enough to experience it
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Posted 21 March 2007 - 05:14 PM
I remember the little rose garden on Cranworth Street and kids playing there but even the most innoncent child, reading a book would be chased away by an obnoxious old woman who lived opposite.
The obnoxious old woman was my downstairs neighbour.
I won't post her name as I think she still has relatives in the West End.
However here is an absolutely true story.
She would never let us other residents have a security entrance,so all the drunks pissed in our close, or slept in it and crapped in it.
One week I was working in London.
I arrived home very late because the flight had been delayed.
So I was not in a good mood.
As I walked in the entrance I saw that someone had been sick in a corner of the stairwell, so as I walked up the stairs I was really pissed off with my neighbour for refusing to agree to a security door.
I was so angry I passed her as she was at her door and I didn't speak,I just glared at her.
The next day was a Saturday, so I rang my pal who happened to be an ex-girlfriend of another Cranworth Street resident.
I felt so guilty about snubbing the old woman, I said to my pal:"I saw xxxxxx last night, and I rubbered her, because of her this close is a public toilet! " My pal asked me to repeat what I had done and what I had said,so I did.
She then said:"Oh Liz, I am not doubting you, I can tell you are very angry but it's impossible, xxxxxx died on Tuesday night, how could you have seen her on Friday?"
I know about her and the rose garden, she was obsessed with her house.
It was staggering what hey found when they came to empty it!
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Posted 21 March 2007 - 07:35 PM
The penny ha'penny sweetie tray, used to spend my peny hapeny bus fare from school, if I managed to skip it.
I jumped and climbed dykes and broke my arm, I remember my unlce taking me to Oakbank hospital whou wouldn't treat me for some reason and having to go to another hospital for my stookie.
Playing beds on the pavement, statues, tig, and a shop with empty cans filled with dirt and broken glass for money
She then said:"Oh Liz, I am not doubting you, I can tell you are very angry but it's impossible, xxxxxx died on Tuesday night, how could you have seen her on Friday?"
Maybe the old bat was making sure you got up the close allright Lizo, she had a heart of gold really
I jumped and climbed dykes and broke my arm, I remember my unlce taking me to Oakbank hospital whou wouldn't treat me for some reason and having to go to another hospital for my stookie.
Playing beds on the pavement, statues, tig, and a shop with empty cans filled with dirt and broken glass for money
She then said:"Oh Liz, I am not doubting you, I can tell you are very angry but it's impossible, xxxxxx died on Tuesday night, how could you have seen her on Friday?"
Maybe the old bat was making sure you got up the close allright Lizo, she had a heart of gold really
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Posted 21 March 2007 - 07:40 PM
The penny ha'penny sweetie tray, used to spend my peny hapeny bus fare from school, if I managed to skip it.
On a Saturday morning we used to go to the ABC minors at the Grosvenor. It cost 3d to get in which left 3d for sweets ... and that bought quite a lot of them!
I used to walk to school and spend the subway fare on sweets which were bought at RS McColl when it was next to the chip shop on the block between Ruthven St. & Roxburgh St.
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Posted 21 March 2007 - 08:10 PM
We recently moved to a Cul-de- sac and found to our delight hordes of kids out playing beds, Pever?? (strange word), cricket with stumps drawn on a wheely bin, bikes & skate boards racing round, kids climbing trees & skipping. Not unusual to have to get out car to move skateboard/bike lying in middle of road. The whole presided over by a little terrier cross. a real bitzer* who is always there & who bails up strangers.
*Bitzer = mongrel, bits of this & that
*Bitzer = mongrel, bits of this & that
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Posted 21 March 2007 - 08:26 PM
............ I remember the wind, smell and the fancy entrance.
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Yer erse :wink:
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Posted 21 March 2007 - 08:52 PM
As heard on Andy Cameron's Radio Scotland show sometime in the 80's.
Andy to young caller from Milngavie "do you have any hobbies, Angela?"
resoponse "Oh yes, I love pony trekking."
Andy to the next young caller from Haghill. "Tracy, do you enjoy any pastimes?"
her response "Aye, dreeping aff dykes."
Sharp as pen knife.
Andy to young caller from Milngavie "do you have any hobbies, Angela?"
resoponse "Oh yes, I love pony trekking."
Andy to the next young caller from Haghill. "Tracy, do you enjoy any pastimes?"
her response "Aye, dreeping aff dykes."
Sharp as pen knife.
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Posted 21 March 2007 - 11:04 PM
There is a tale that Andy tells about a kid who called in with a joke.
He gets the child to tell him the joke before putting him on air to check the joke is (a) radio friendly (
not funnier than his own material.
So having passed these 2 tests the child is allowed on air and tells his joke. Of course by this time the wee boy has decided that the joke he was going to tell didn't quite meet his exacting standards and tells a different joke. Which wasn't radio friendly and was funnier than Andy's own material, it took him around 2-3 records to regain his composure.
Unfortunately I can't remember what the joke was.
He gets the child to tell him the joke before putting him on air to check the joke is (a) radio friendly (
not funnier than his own material.So having passed these 2 tests the child is allowed on air and tells his joke. Of course by this time the wee boy has decided that the joke he was going to tell didn't quite meet his exacting standards and tells a different joke. Which wasn't radio friendly and was funnier than Andy's own material, it took him around 2-3 records to regain his composure.
Unfortunately I can't remember what the joke was.
Every law has an exception - except Murphy's Law
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Posted 21 March 2007 - 11:11 PM
Wis it the one about the snooker balls ?
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Posted 21 March 2007 - 11:18 PM
Rickets.
Changed back to 'Peace & Love' after reading Snowy's post.
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Posted 21 March 2007 - 11:42 PM
It's what I miss the most.
Changed back to 'Peace & Love' after reading Snowy's post.
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Posted 21 March 2007 - 11:49 PM
Been cured then?
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Posted 22 March 2007 - 01:59 AM
Where are all these weans now? Are they all indoors? Are they playing on computers or too frightened to go out?
Their paranoid parents won't let them out. We got kicked out and told not to come back in before tea time.
They're pretty much all indoors now Thomas. Either at after-school clubs or at childminders till we working parents get home from w*rk. They'll be either doing their homework or chatting on MSN.
Totally shit, innit, really?
Fine talk from TOG there about paranoid parents, btw. Empty rhetoric, IMHO, from someone who's admitted hereabouts to choosing private education over state school.
Those who live in glass houses...etcetera.....
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Posted 22 March 2007 - 02:03 AM
Those who live in glass houses...etcetera
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Posted 22 March 2007 - 08:44 AM
Those who live in glass houses...etcetera
Careful Oz, Westie will be coming after you for posting a quote.. :wink:
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Posted 22 March 2007 - 09:39 AM
Aye, an auld ham, me.Been cured then?
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