M-m-m-my Corona…

[sonofrgmsdad]

There it is, always bubbling away under the surface

There used to be a cocky confidence with Aberdonians, bordering on arrogance. Possibly as a result of watching their (weegie infested) successful football team, possibly as a result of well paid work on their doorstep. Now there’s just this bitterness & resentment. What the young ‘uns these days call SDE.

I’m sorry that nobody is prepared to answer the question that’s been eating away at you for months. It was be infuriating that nobody gives a monkeys. However, the latest polling would suggest that the overwhelming majority have confidence in our dear leader.

Cocky confidence and arrogance are not phrases generally applied to northeasteners. We're more generally thought of as dour and hard working. This by those that mistake dourness for taking our time to make sound long lasting friendships.

Cocky confidence and arrogance may well be applied to a large portion of the weegie population with their 'we arra peepil' attitude. Often this cocky confidence and arrogance is excused as a 'gallus' behaviour. Gallus is the Glasgow term for downright rude, threatening and often disgusting behaviour, applied to reduce the unacceptable behaviour to acceptable norms. Fit can ye dee? He's just gallus.

Your use of the word infestation is interesting. Over the years there have been numerous exchanges of players between Aberdeen and the now defunct Rangers and their succesor tribute act. Never heard that term applied as after a good wash they usually fit into the Dons team ok. Indeed many of them flourish in a cleaner environment.

Still haven't a clue about SDE.

I wouldn't go as far as bitter and resentful. Our own politicians have failed over many years to get a fair deal for the northeast. Partly our own fault. We are however only 10% of the population and do come across this 'don't give a single f*uck' attitude. Perhaps we should make like Shetland and get a GRIP (Grampian Region Independence Party).

[Mason89]

Having recently moved back to Gods country after 2 years in Dumfries, I think I can speak for the whole region when I say that everyone would be delighted the border was shut & would welcome weegies with open arms.

That may sound a little bold but plenty of folk seem to speak for the whole NE, so fair f*cks

[57vintage]

Having recently moved back to Gods country after 2 years in Dumfries, I think I can speak for the whole region when I say that everyone would be delighted the border was shut & would welcome weegies with open arms.

That may sound a little bold but plenty of folk seem to speak for the whole NE, so fair f*cks

So, no serious answer then?

That’s a disappointment.

Never mind.

[Mason89]

Our own politicians have failed over many years to get a fair deal for the northeast. Partly our own fault. We are however only 10% of the population and do come across this 'don't give a single f*uck' attitude. Perhaps we should make like Shetland and get a GRIP (Grampian Region Independence Party).

Maybe if you all stopped electing folk like Ross Thomson, Raymond Robertson etc. Just a thought

[Mason89]

So, no serious answer then?

That’s a disappointment.

Never mind.

My serious answer hasn’t changed since the last time it was asked a few pages back. Folk keep asking though. I suspect no answer will be good enough.

[Mason89]

Cocky confidence and arrogance may well be applied to a large portion of the weegie population with their 'we arra peepil' attitude. Often this cocky confidence and arrogance is excused as a 'gallus' behaviour. Gallus is the Glasgow term for downright rude, threatening and often disgusting behaviour, applied to reduce the unacceptable behaviour to acceptable norms. Fit can ye dee? He's just gallus.

It sounds like you typed that out in 1982.

Have you ever been to Glasgow, outwith a football ground? It doesn’t sound like it

[57vintage]

all stopped

Not in my name, thanks.

Had my friend of nearly 50 years been adopted as SNP candidate for a local constituency in which I formerly voted, I’d have voted for him, as I’d have trusted him to work for the area and his constituents first. Our local nationalists, promoted through the cronyist MSP/MP staff position/ local council/Edinburgh MSP or London MP and put Party before home constituency on a huge number of occasions. I suspect that my pal’s stated reluctance to agree always to toe the Party line (2015 Conference resolution) counted against him, and the compliant local councillor git the gig after he withdrew. He’s as loyal to the Party as ever, but is as appalled as I am by the systemic entitled cronyism at the heart of the organidation. We’ve got Kevin Stewart as a city representative, for ****’s sake, who as Council Finance Convenor proposed ‘an alternstive budget’ to that if his LibDem coalition partners. It had compulsory redundancies built in. At the 11th hour, he had his collar felt by Swinney who reminded him that that was contrary to Party policy. His attempted parting shot was to suck Ian Wood’s cock (figuratively) by junking Peacock Arts’ agreed and funded plans for a presence in Union Terrace Gardens. The TIF Scheme being promoted by Holyrood at the time was embraced by Dense Kevin, its outcome independently forecast to cost the city £95m as no businesses backed it with cash pledges. We dodged a bullet, people say, although I think it was more akin to an entire episode of Blitzkriegery. And that was before the 2015 oil price crash.

There are as many useless brainless brass-necked clones representing Aberdeen as we had when Robertson, Thomson, Sproat and Malone were nodding dogs on the Tory back benches.

[donsdaft]

Sproat 😀😀😀

He had to share a rail journey with Ping once.
He was never the same afterwards.

[57vintage]

My serious answer hasn’t changed since the last time it was asked a few pages back. Folk keep asking though. I suspect no answer will be good enough.

You asked me if I agreed that the Aberdeen travel ban was surely a good idea. I agreed. I still think so, which is why I think it would be a prudent and responsible measure taken in the current high risk area, to limit the spread to other areas currently less-affected. It seems to me to be defying logic, which is a trait I’d not normally associate with the FM or her health and epidemic experts.

Puzzling, disappointing and life-threatening, which inspires no confidence on being on top of this. Maybe she just ‘forgot’ to include it on the restriction list? She’s got form.

[57vintage]

Sproat ������

He had to share a rail journey with Ping once.
He was never the same afterwards.

Bob Allan, former chairman of the Fishermens Federation, and my friend’s father-in-law, introduced me to Gerald Malone, utter ****ing Tory knob, outside Hampden before the 1986 cup final. I said to him that I assumed he was there to support Hearts since we disagreed on everything else. The prick.