― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 28 July 2005 18:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 28 July 2005 18:45 (eighteen years ago) link
He didn't get a bonus. The first thing you do at work after receiving such news is NOTHING PRODUCTIVE. I got the same news today and I spent my afternoon ranting about Celtic's ineptitude - aldo's rants have been more interesting, though I'll never forgive him for calling me a posh hun because I buy the occasional Herald.
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 28 July 2005 18:54 (eighteen years ago) link
If "lucrative" meant even the possibility of a penny a year, given it's fun and 1) my job isn't and 2) the bonus is worth the square root of fuck all (in real terms, it's actually about two weeks wages, but you're supposed to work hard all year to get it and these are more or less real time - with work fitting in wherever) then doing this instead of actually working is several orders of magnitude "better".
Fuck me, I wish I could just write pish for a living. With an editor these screeds might be almost entertaining.
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 28 July 2005 20:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 28 July 2005 20:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 28 July 2005 20:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 28 July 2005 20:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― MaryMary, Thursday, 28 July 2005 20:55 (eighteen years ago) link
ally looks so young, in that photo!!!
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 28 July 2005 21:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 28 July 2005 21:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 28 July 2005 21:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 07:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 July 2005 07:14 (eighteen years ago) link
I would actually like to go and visit again as an adult. I remember being taken by a child, and not being very impressed by much, except running around chasing my brother screaming and pretending to go at him with a claymore or something. My mum said there was a book where you could look people up to see if any of your ancestors had died there, and she claimed to have found quite a few.
I did like the descriptions in the book of the Highlanders being so terrifying that most of the early battles just involved the loyalists turning around running away. :-)
― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 07:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Anna (Anna), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:16 (eighteen years ago) link
Or just say I can't type for the life of me, especially using this mysteriously bouncey keyboard.
― Anna (Anna), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Anna (Anna), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Anna (Anna), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― dahlin (dahlin), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― scotstvo (scotstvo), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:09 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm even more confused now!
― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stew (stew s), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― scotstvo (scotstvo), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― scotstvo (scotstvo), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:33 (eighteen years ago) link
I once heard of a guy at Celtic Park saying "aw naw er Annoni on an aw noo" which is brilliant if you say it quickly.
(trans: Oh no! There's Annoni* on as well now)(*Enrico Annoni: pish Italian defender who was once Celtic's highest earner)
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Anna (Anna), Friday, 29 July 2005 13:37 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/language/scots/index.htm
It's pure mad n'at huvvin yer ain pairliment n'at ay?
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 29 July 2005 14:34 (eighteen years ago) link
Even better than "Glaswegian Windoos" or whatever it was called.
― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 14:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 29 July 2005 14:40 (eighteen years ago) link
That makes the linguist in me roll over on my back and waggle my arms and legs in the air with joy!
― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 14:41 (eighteen years ago) link
Awright troops!
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 29 July 2005 14:54 (eighteen years ago) link
(And FWIW, Scots is not just a "Translated for Neds" type dialect - it is actually a separate language, related to Old English/Anglo Saxon but with more Scandinavian influence and less Norman.)
― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 14:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:23 (eighteen years ago) link