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Outing a bogus structural Engineer

Incidentally, if you like Uisge-beatha Gu Leor then you seriously need to see:

1. Local Hero

2. Gregory's Girl.

3. Restless Natives.
 
Thanks for the trivia. I didn't know that about Robertson. People really need to see the film. It's delightful.

I've walked across England, Wales, and Ireland, so Scotland must be next. I've been avoiding it until my proclivity for Lagavulin is under control.
 
Well, when you make it we'll have a beer together and I'll show you the alcoholic delights of Glasgow. Unless I'm in the Manchester office, of course.


You mean you've never really seen "Local Hero"?????!?????

It's got Burt Lancaster and everything!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Hero




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Incidentally, this is a fairly typical view of the Sound of Mull.....
 

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Architect said:
Incidentally, this is a fairly typical view of the Sound of Mull.....
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This is what makes me wish I had spent some time in the Atlantic fleet. Got to see lots of the Orient, but never got to see any of Europe or the UK. Never could get stationed at Holy Loch sub base, dammit!
 
Yea, but Holy Loch is next to Dunoon (which is a dump) and looks over the Greenock (which makes Dunoon look nice).

You know that your former colleagues just dumped all their crap off the floating dock when the left, including (famously) a jeep and it cost the Scottish government an absolute fortune to clean it up?

Buy me a beer to make up for it, or else! I want my tax pounds back!





Mind you, if you want to see a real blot on the landscape, Faslane (where our Nuclear Subs are based) is truly, deeply, astoundingly bad. There's a running joke that the English don't want to give us independence because they'd have to build something just as bad in their country.......
 
Architect said:
Yea, but Holy Loch is next to Dunoon (which is a dump) and looks over the Greenock (which makes Dunoon look nice).

You know that your former colleagues just dumped all their crap off the floating dock when the left, including (famously) a jeep and it cost the Scottish government an absolute fortune to clean it up?

Buy me a beer to make up for it, or else! I want my tax pounds back!





Mind you, if you want to see a real blot on the landscape, Faslane (where our Nuclear Subs are based) is truly, deeply, astoundingly bad. There's a running joke that the English don't want to give us independence because they'd have to build something just as bad in their country.......
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Well, if that's all it's going to cost, no problem! Least I can do!
 
Since I'm in a trivia mood.

US air bases in the UK used to drive on the right, which meant they had to switch sides at the gates. They also specially imported all the food, except meat, and got to pay for everything in dollars.
 
Architect said:
You mean you've never really seen "Local Hero"?????!?????
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C'mon, I've even seen "Geordie." But "Local Hero" I saw it on a plane after walking across other parts of Europe. Not the ideal viewing conditions, so I'll have to rent it one of these days.
 
Gravy said:
C'mon, I've even seen "Geordie." But "Local Hero" I saw it on a plane after walking across other parts of Europe. Not the ideal viewing conditions, so I'll have to rent it one of these days.
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Famous lines:

1. I'm not from around here, you know.

2. That rabbit had a name! Two names!

3. Is there one, or two, Ls in Dollar? I don't know, but there's two Gs in "bugger off".

Restless Natives is another classic; two unemployed Scots disguise themselves and start holding up busloads of American tourists (no offence meant) on remote Highland roads. They end up a tourist attraction until Ned Beatty (a slighted CIA man) tries to catch them. Big Country sound track too!
 
The ferry runs from Oban through the Sound of Mull (past Duart Castle), then skirts Tiree and Coll, before cutting up the very souther (uninhabited) end of the archipeligo (or, as we say in Gaelic, archipeligo)
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Well now I recognize "Oban".:D

I'va also sampled Lagavulin and Islay whiskys. At first I considered them fit only for sterilizing medical instruments but I did notice that one quickly develops a taste for them about the time one starts on the third shot and later that day when switching back to Glenfiddich I found that I longed for the harder kick in the teeth of the Islay (Bunnahabin IIRC) whisky we were downing earlier. My wife's former brother in law though, who is a die hard Rye whisky drinker, did inquire late that night, "how much of this stuff do you have to drink before it tastses good?"
 
North Uist, you're almost in Newfoundland!

Canadian trivia. The reserved residence of the leader of the opposition in the Canadian Gov't is named Stornoway. Named after an area not that far from you I believe. Its in the western Isles I believe.
 
Its the capital of the Western Isles, proper name Steornobhagh and pronounced Shtorno-vag
 
jaydeehess said:
Well now I recognize "Oban".:D

I'va also sampled Lagavulin and Islay whiskys. At first I considered them fit only for sterilizing medical instruments but I did notice that one quickly develops a taste for them about the time one starts on the third shot and later that day when switching back to Glenfiddich I found that I longed for the harder kick in the teeth of the Islay (Bunnahabin IIRC) whisky we were downing earlier. My wife's former brother in law though, who is a die hard Rye whisky drinker, did inquire late that night, "how much of this stuff do you have to drink before it tastses good?"
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Never developed a taste for whisky, I'm a whiskey man myself, usual tipple is bushmills, though a few years ago was given a bottle of Jameson's Millenium Malt, put down in 1975. Smooth and yet smokey at the same time.
 
This thread will now be printed and bound and issued by the Scottish Tourist & Drinking Board to anyone who applies.

(CTers need not apply)

och aye!
 
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Northern Welshman tend to have a more anglified accent, whereas the South is very, very broad.
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This is very true. Until you get to the North West of Wales, especially around Caernarfon and Pwllheli, where you meet a lot of people who never really speak english, then their accent is that of an aggrieved welsh person, annoyed at having to use some johnny-come-lately language like english.
 
8den said:
Never developed a taste for whisky, I'm a whiskey man myself, usual tipple is bushmills, though a few years ago was given a bottle of Jameson's Millenium Malt, put down in 1975. Smooth and yet smokey at the same time.
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I've only tried Dahlwhinnie before, any other recommendations for us USians?

Though I do have to prolifically thank you for the invention of Fraoch Heather Ale as it is, by far, my favorite summertime beer.
 
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What, you mean he drinks ferociously then shouts unintelligibly before going for a deep fried pizza supper?


Best North American scottish impression thus far is Mike Myers as his own dad in "So I married an axe murderer". Richard E Grant isn't bad (Warlock) either, mind.

Worst remains (to this day) Scottie from Star Trek.
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What about "Ah cannae swim ya Spanish peacock!" Points if you can name the film without Googling it ;)
 
Architect said:
Since I'm in a trivia mood.

US air bases in the UK used to drive on the right, which meant they had to switch sides at the gates. They also specially imported all the food, except meat, and got to pay for everything in dollars.
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Not sure about the side of the road thing, but AFAIK the rest still applies at Lakenheath and Mildenhall. I'm told the burgers at the latter's air day were fantastic (and cheap!).
 
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