Scottish people are scary! (says my young Chinese student...)

[simon43]

Chatting to one of my young (10 years) online Chinese students today, and he explained that he had just returned from a holiday to the UK.  He said that he visited London and that was nice, but he also went to 'Eedinberg'.  "Where?" I asked, and finally had to get him to spell it out "Edinburgh!"

 

"That was very scary" he said.  "I was scared, my brother was scared and my parents were scared!"  

 

"Why?"

 

"There were many men in the street shouting and hitting the walls of the shops, or lying on the pavement.  They shouted at us and other people for no reason.  They were like mad people!!"

 

And so there you have it.  Give Scotland a miss 'cos it seems to be full of shouty, scary people....

[PJ71]

Behave....Scotland is gods country, everyone knows that.

[blaze master]

If its not Scottish its crap. 

[ukrules]

Hadrian had the right idea and was well ahead of his time 🤣

[it is what it is]

at least the student didn't experience the bad parts...

[Jimjim1]

1 hour ago, simon43 said:

And so there you have it.  Give Scotland a miss 'cos it seems to be full of shouty, scary people....

You only have to look at the SNP to now just how shouty and scary the Scot’s are

[quake]

59 minutes ago, Jimjim1 said:

You only have to look at the SNP to now just how shouty and scary the Scot’s are

 

Yeah, remember this one and her son.

Fandabidozi 

 

[lamyai3]

2 hours ago, simon43 said:

Give Scotland a miss 'cos it seems to be full of shouty, scary people....

 

Whatever you do don't show your students the picture of Wee Jimmy Krankie above, or his doppelganger on the right... 

[norsurin]

Been working in Aberdeen for years.Never had any problems with people there.They love to curse and speaking loud but anyway nice.

[scubascuba3]

They must be talking about the homeless, Glasgow central use to be bad, sad Edinburgh gone down the toilet, they must be fuming at the migrants

[sammieuk1]

Just get on the gear or the beer and you will blend "Vat 69" in fine Jimmy chin 🤔

[fredwiggy]

7 hours ago, blaze master said:

If its not Scottish its crap. 

I'll have to disagree because all countries have good things. Scotland is on my bucket list though, as is the rest of the UK, as I'm half Irish and would like to see the sites. I'll always give Scotland credit for standing up against England when it had it's megalomaniac in charge, and Mark Knopfler is one of my favorite musicians. 

[blaze master]

14 minutes ago, fredwiggy said:

I'll have to disagree because all countries have good things. Scotland is on my bucket list though, as is the rest of the UK, as I'm half Irish and would like to see the sites. I'll always give Scotland credit for standing up against England when it had it's megalomaniac in charge, and Mark Knopfler is one of my favorite musicians. 

 

Its just a comedic saying from Mike Myers. 

 

 

[fredwiggy]

3 minutes ago, blaze master said:

 

Its just a comedic saying from Mike Myers. 

 

 

Ok, thought you were Scottish.

[blaze master]

2 minutes ago, fredwiggy said:

Ok, thought you were Scottish.

 

Born in Canada to Scottish parents. All my extended family lives there though. 

[Briggsy]

I used to deal with a large volume of customers from all over the UK. 

 

People from the Glasgow area are the most likely to lose their rag and become enraged. Whenever I heard a Glaswegian accent, I was just waiting for the explosion. (Edinburgh also bad, but not as angry as Glasgow) (Anger issues drop off rapidly as you head north so by the time you reach Inverness, people are very reasonable.)

 

It sounds as though failure to address homelessness, lax policing and Scotland's worldwide fame as the druggie capital of Europe have now had a visible effect on the capital's streets.

[DonniePeverley]

Scotland has an awful drug and alcohol problem.

 

 

[oxo1947]

 

AS Edinburgh is the cultural center of Scotland---

I can only assume he somehow missed out the good parts ------   

 

 

[FlorC]

She went to London and didn't get stabbed ?

Pretty lucky.

 

[fredwiggy]

2 hours ago, DonniePeverley said:

Scotland has an awful drug and alcohol problem.

 

 

You can say that about many countries.  For drugs.......https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/drug-use-by-country. Look at Mongolia, Russia, Belarus, Greenland, Kazakhstan, and New Zealand in this map for alcohol............https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/alcoholism-by-country

[Cameroni]

Maybe tell your student about the execution of William Wallace to cheer him up.

[Crossy]

Did he meet these chaps with their "tamed" wild Haggis' ?

 

Wild haggis can never be truly domesticated and remain dangerous at all times.

 

 

[VocalNeal]

15 hours ago, simon43 said:

Chatting to one of my young (10 years) online Chinese students today, and he explained that he had just returned from a holiday to the UK.  He said that he visited London and that was nice, but he also went to 'Eedinberg'.  "Where?" I asked, and finally had to get him to spell it out "Edinburgh!"

 

"That was very scary" he said.  "I was scared, my brother was scared and my parents were scared!"  

 

"Why?"

 

Does he support Rangers or Celtic?

[bkk6060]

Their Golf courses are great. 

[NanLaew]

12 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

They must be talking about the homeless, Glasgow central use to be bad, sad Edinburgh gone down the toilet, they must be fuming at the migrants

 

Naw, there's nae migrants here pal. We're all just pished.

[Magictoad]

Through the eyes of  a ten year old! He should try Glasgow. 

[Keeps]

Tightest people on the planet.

 

I saw a Scot drop a one baht coin the other day. He bent down that quickly to retrieve it, it hit him on the back of the head. 

[3NUMBAS]

[DezLez]

55 minutes ago, Keeps said:

Tightest people on the planet.

 

I saw a Scot drop a one baht coin the other day. He bent down that quickly to retrieve it, it hit him on the back of the head. 

Actually it was two Scots who invented copper wire when they both tried to pick up the same copper farthing and  had a tug o war over it!

[newbee2022]

18 hours ago, simon43 said:

Chatting to one of my young (10 years) online Chinese students today, and he explained that he had just returned from a holiday to the UK.  He said that he visited London and that was nice, but he also went to 'Eedinberg'.  "Where?" I asked, and finally had to get him to spell it out "Edinburgh!"

 

"That was very scary" he said.  "I was scared, my brother was scared and my parents were scared!"  

 

"Why?"

 

"There were many men in the street shouting and hitting the walls of the shops, or lying on the pavement.  They shouted at us and other people for no reason.  They were like mad people!!"

 

And so there you have it.  Give Scotland a miss 'cos it seems to be full of shouty, scary people....

Probably they came all from London