Is it Celtic with a soft C or with a hard one? Because Celtic Frost the band is (s)eltic Frost, not (k)eltic Frost.
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Tue 4 Mar 2008, 10:28,
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Under NO circumstances mention the word 'orange' in any context whatsoever to a Glaswegian taxi driver...
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Tue 4 Mar 2008, 10:31,
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I was terrified. They asked who I supported... I stammered that I was a dundee utd fan... "Aye, but are ye a proddie or a cafflic dundee utd fan?" I said neither, just a dundee utd fan. Then one of them said "Aye, bit dundee unitit are a fenian team eh" and started going on about how they didn't like fenians, before all finally saying they were celtic fans with the exception of one rangers fan. They eventually got bored. I was extremely scared.
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Tue 4 Mar 2008, 10:45,
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'haw you trying to budge in or sumfin eh !' (looking menacing) 'are you a tim or a hun ?'
*squirm*
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Tue 4 Mar 2008, 10:55,
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*squirm*
I certainly did not enjoy such situations. I've never met so many brown-toothed people as I did in glasgow. They all wanted to speak to me, ask me what I did, if i was a tim or a hun, then if they could have a fiver for the bus, while holding a glass bottle near my face.
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Tue 4 Mar 2008, 11:02,
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but only because the Glaswegians at the time the club was founded didn't know how to say it properly.
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Tue 4 Mar 2008, 10:30,
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thought I'd better add that...
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Tue 4 Mar 2008, 10:32,
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according to the QI book currently living next to my loo, that term was only invented in C18 or something....
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Tue 4 Mar 2008, 10:33,
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