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Topic: Letting it ALL Hang Out?
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Sat 10/26/13 01:37 PM

I never know when to shut upsurprised but I'm trying


Me too.

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Sat 10/26/13 03:49 PM




I remember this time when I was doing my computer training. It had been funded by the Job Centre and they made us go there every Friday to sit round a table and talk to someone about jobs, even though I was only doing the course because I wanted to go to university and needed to learn to use a computer for that.

Anyway, a lot of the people on this course didn't like me much because I'm outspoken and don't give a shiney shite about keeping up appearances or any of that crap. So, we were sitting round this table and when it came to my turn the woman asked me what sort of job I was looking for and I said, "Lion tamer". The wankers weren't too impressed by that, or some of the other things that I said and they started slagging me off and picking arguments with me.

I traveled to that college by taxi and on the way home I told the taxi driver about it and he said to me, "You're just an open book mate".

Oh yeah, forgot to say that most of the other people on the course were from Glasgow and I'm from Edinburgh.
Ha ha, i'm a Glasgow man and a Celtic supporter and season ticket holder, but I did my Joiners ( Carpentry, to US + Canada ) apprenticeship, in Londons Docklands, ( Canary Wharf ) I love London, but I did my time working away from home and had to bring up my son, as Coke and partying, was more important to my sons mum than her kid. She's from Dagenham. My son though is my life! drinks


Well, don't get me wrong. I know catholics and protestants but we don't go in for that sectarian crap so much here and I don't even follow football. I was speaking to a neighbor about it and he said that he can't be doing with guys that ask what team you support to find out what religion you are. He was saying that even when you say that you don't follow football they will ask you what team you would support if you did.

Yeah, there are areas in Edinburgh like Bingham that I wouldn't be seen dead in and they are catholic areas but they are rough as f**k and full of dickheads. My ex is now with a guy from Pilton. Wouldn't be seen dead there either. I hear that it's not as bad as it used to be though and they have knocked down all of the tower blocks in Edinburgh, apart from the ones down Leith.

I live near Tynecastle and Murrayfield but like I said, I don't follow footbal and rugby is for posh brainless types that hang about toilets.


I used to be into the politics of Celtic and Rangers, when I was younger and I was in a Republican band too. Then I moved to Essex, just before I turned 18 and nobody was into the religous divide down there. It made me grow up, as I was out the Goldfish bowl and I distanced myself from it all when I came back to Scotland with my kid. Now I just go to support my team thats all. A lot of my mates are still caught up in it though and some are casuals as well. I can't preach to them though, as I was that guy once before. So you're a Gorgie Road boy I take it?


No mate. Know a guy that's a neighbor of mine though and he drinks in a boozer down there though and he's a Rangers supporter.

One time some Hearts or Hibs or Celtic fans gave him a game of pool after their team had lost and he bbeat them and they said, Thanks for the game prick" and he said, "Thanks for the game arsehole". He was standing outside the pub having a fag and they came along and said, "There's that prick" and gave him a kicking.

Another time he went to the same pub and the barman refused to serve him because he had been told that he had beasted up some guy's daughter. He said, "What c**t said that?" and to get him down there. Two young guys showed up and he would have got his head kicked in if the prick that said it hadn't just f**ked off.

I know guys that go on about dirty fenian bastards and the worst scumbag I ever met in my life was one of them, even though we were mates for a while.

That's good though that you were educated by the English I suppose. "Hey, I went down to England and now I realise how shite Scotland is".

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