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[lochnesssnowman]

I just got word that I've landed a job as a games programmer down in Eng-ur-land. Just finished university (BSc Hons Computer Games Technology) in June and applied for a load of games jobs at the end of the summer and very very happy with the job I've got. Sadly, it means that I am leaving Scotland -- I love Scotland loads and this might (unless I hit up Rockstar North someways down the line) be my last week here as a resident.

Here then, is a small tribute to the best country in the world.

Scottish Words:

BLETHER
(ble-thir) Dialect, chiefly Scot. ~n. 1. person who catters incessantly; one who babbles on and on (" That wee yin o' yours is an awfy blether getting'"). ~v. 2. to engage in conversation, long-winded or idle talk ( as in " Ah met yer granny doon the toun, we hud a richt guid blether the gither") [ see also sweetie-wife ]
CRABBIT
(cra-bit) Dialect, chiefly Scot. ~adj. 1. ill-tempered, grumpy, curt, disagreeable; in a bad mood [esp. in the morning]. ( often used in " ken this, yer a crabbit get, so you are") ~n. by their nature or temperament conveys an aura of irritability.

EEJIT
(ee-jit) Dialect, chiefly Scot. ~n. 1. idiot, simpleton, one not possessed of all their mental faculties; one who is unable to properly conduct their own affairs ( as in " Yer aff yer heid, ya eejit. That's no' a real dug" ). [ See also bawheid, dunderhead]

FOUTER
(foo-tir) Dialect, chiefly Scot, ~n. 1.one who muddles through; aimless, exasperating person ("Yer a fouter, gie it tae me, ah'll dae it"). 2. a fiddly or troublesome job (" This is a right fouter, this"). ~adv. foutering ( "Yer foutering aboot. Stope it!") [Similar to gitter]

GLAIKIT
('glai-kit) Dialect, chiefly Scot. ~adj. 1. (intr.) stupid: senseless, silly. ( often in"he stood there wi' a glaikit look oan his fizzog") 2. (tr.) giddy, thoughtless. 3. affected 4. petty.

SKIVER
(sky-ver) Dialect, chiefly Scot. ~ n. 1. one who avoids tasks or work in general; a shirker. [also sloper]. ~ v. skive ("Ah cannae be arsed wi' this - ah'm away fur a skive") 2. splinter of wood embedded in the skin (also skelf)

BESOM
(biz-um) bisom Dialect, chiefly Scot. ~n. 1. obstreperous girl or woman; female upstart [as in "Dinnae pou' yer brither's hair, ya wee besom"]. 2. woman of low moral standing; a hussy ( "Thon yin's a right mucky besom"). 3. broomstick or scourge; any broom made from loose twigs. 4. a comet or its tail.

CANNY
(can-y) Dialect, chiefly Scot. ~adj. 1. cautious, careful, hesitant; unwilling to rush into things. 2. frugal, prudent (esp. with money) [a canny scot- one who has an aversion to separating money from his pocket] ( as in " He's that canny he aye pays for his round wi' empty lemonade bottles").

FANKLE
(fan-kle) Dialect, chiefly Scot. ~v. 1. to entangle, twist. 2.to knot. 3. to coil, wind. 4. to disorder, complicate. ~n. 5. an entanglement (used in "Dinnae get yersel' in a fankle").

GALLUS
(ga-luss) Dialect, chiefly Scot. ~adj. 1, self-confident, daring; cheeky. 2. stylish, impressive (" See him, he's pure gallus, by the way") 3. Orig. derogatory, meaning wild; a rascal; deserving to be hanged ( from the gallows).

SCUNNER
('scun-ner) Dialect, chiefly Scot. ~vb. 1.(intr.) to feel aversion. 2. (tr.) to produce a feeling of aversion in. ~n 3. a strong feeling of aversion ( often in take a scunner, or " git oot o' ma face ya wee scunner" ) 4. an object of dislike; nuisance, [c] 4: from Scot. skunner, from ?]

STEAMIN'
(stee-min) Slang, chiefly Scot. ~adj. drunk, inebriated, the state of having consumed too much bevy. ( see also "guttered,fu', pissed, gassed, blootered, stoned, miraculous, legless, smashed, minced, wrecked, mingin', welly'd, mortal, arsed, blitzed, blazin', hingin', buckled)

FITBA'
(fit-baw) Dialect, chiefly Scot. ~n. 1. (m) the beautiful game 2. (f) stupid game involving 22 grown men (and 3 officials of dubious parentage and eyesight) kicking a lump of leather around a field, often sparking irrational behaviour, bad language and blind devotion to a team or player, to the detriment of normal marital relations. ( see fitba' widow)

SASSENACH
(sass-y-nak) sic. Dialect, chiefly Scot. ~n. 1. an Englishman or -woman 2. used by highlanders to describe non-Gaelic-speaking Lowlander [from the Gaelic sasunnach, meaning Saxon ] 3. someone who actually understands the rules of cricket and mentions 1966 every bloody chance they get (see Jimmy Hill).

TEUCHTER
(choo-chter) Dialect, chiefly Scot. ~n. 1. (trad.) one who derives from the Highlands of Scotland ( a Hielander); more commonly used by city folk to describe rural dwellers. 2. Gaelic-speaker (mostly to each other) esp. at strange gatherings known as Mods. [definitely not Rockers]. Occassionally partakes of a wee dram. ( also heuchter teuchter).

BRAW
(br-aww) Dialect, chiefly Scot. ~adj. 1. fine, pleasant esp. weather. ("It's a braw day the day" or "It's a braw, bricht, moonlicht night the nicht.") 2. attractive, pretty, often in "You're really braw, hen. Fancy a Ruby Murray?"

GALOOT
(gah-loot) Dialect, chiefly Scot. ~n. 1. (trad.) bumbling fool; slow witted person (as in "Och that's no a tour guide. It's a naked rambler, ya daft goloot!"). 2. awkward, clumsy or gangly.

GOWF
(gow-ff) Dialect, chiefly Scot. ~n. 1. 1. golf; sport involving hitting a little white ball with a club until it goes into a little hole in the ground, all the while attempting to avoid long grass, sand, water hazards, various widlife and losing your balls. 2. an excuse to get away from one's life partner for a while for just a wee bit of peace and quiet. (freq. "Ach, you're dae'in ma heid in. Ah'm awa' tae the gowf")

MAUCHIT
(maw-kit) Dialect, chiefly Scot. ~adj. 1. dirty, filthy, sticky, muddy.cf. mauchy, mochy, maukie, Mawkit, (see also Manky, Clarty) (often used in "Lookit the colour o' ye, ya mauchit we to'rag")

WABBIT
(wah-bit) Dialect, chiefly Scot. ~adj. 1. exhausted, out of breath; unable to function due to extreme tiredness (as in "Playin' wi' thae weans has gote me wabbit") [similar to puggled]


Pictures:

Loch Treig

Loch Achtridchtan, Glencoe

View of Loch Ness from Dores

The Aonach Beag Group Chnodeargh, Lochaber

Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow. Home of Rangers FC (My team)

Ibrox on Matchday

Lochaber, Fort William, Ben Nevis & the Caledonian Canal. Lands where Clan MacDonald roamed. (and my hometown and where I live currently)

Edinburgh Castle from Princes St. Gardens

Winter twighlight at Bridge of Orchy

Eilean Donan Castle. Links to Clan MacKenzie, MacRae, & Matheson.

Charing Cross, Glasgow (I'm about a mile from here as I post this).

Edinburgh from the Castle.

5 Sisters of Kintail and Loch Duich. Lands have links to Clan Macrae, MacLeod & MacLennan

Tartan Army (Scotland Supporters) at a game

Scotland fans before a game. Or before they go to the pub more likely.


More pictures of Fort William and surrounding area (my hometown) available in this thread: Photos of your City


My Tartan

Hyndman or...

MacMillan

Find yours at Tartan Finder


Links:
Flavour of Scotland (Pictures and Information)
Visit Scotland - Scottish Tourist Board
TartanDay.com - Celebrate Scotland!
Britannia: Scotland - A Brief History


That will do for now. I might update this thread with more cool stuffs. I shall miss Scotland Back later this month to graduate though!

 

[SFA_AOK]

Congratulations on the job man! Which Uni were you at?

 

[lochnesssnowman]

Congratulations on the job man! Which Uni were you at?

University of Abertay Dundee: Link. I really got a lot out of the course. Before Uni, I couldn't program at all so it's testament to the course that I've now landed a job in industry.

 

[jecclr2003]

Enjoy your new home and job... CONGRATS!

 

[nubbe]

No whisky?

 

[gollumsluvslave]

Caledonia will always be there for ye!

I come from Perth originally, lived in London for a while(job related), but am now back in Edinburgh thankfully...

Congrats on the job!

BTW, Rangers will get gubbed by Celtic on Wednesday...

 

[Suerte]

We shall miss you

Now there will only be about 297 people in Scotland!

 

[SFA_AOK]

University of Abertay Dundee: Link. I really got a lot out of the course. Before Uni, I couldn't program at all so it's testament to the course that I've now landed a job in industry.

Ahh, I was planning on going there myself but I flunked AS Level maths *hard.* Probably for the best as it goes, don't want to work in the industry any more but this isn't about me is it?

Best of luck with the job, remember us when you're famous

 

[Suerte]

There are other ways to work in the industry I suppose, I'd like to do something along the lines of marketing within it.

Oh yes, forgot to say, good luck!

 

[lochnesssnowman]

BTW, Rangers will get gubbed by Celtic on Wednesday...

This has to be the first Old Firm in a long time where it really could go either way. Rangers are looking good at the moment and Celtic are wobbling slightly. At their best though, Celtic probably have victory in the bag - but at the moment, they aren't at their best. Still, I'd take getting beat 46-0 in the cup as long as we take the three points in the league match.

Gonna be staying in Glasgow with the other half until Sat/Sun. Probably be out most nights. Look for me trying to live the last few moments of freedom/studentness at The ShacK/Garage(actually, no)/Union/The Hall and other equally cheesy haunts.

 

[DaCocoBrova]

Wow. Some beautiful scenery.

Is there not one black person in Scotland? I've always wondered.

 

[iapetus]

So where in England are you working? And don't forget, THEY CLOSE THE PUBS EARLY HERE!

 

[navanman]

congrats man on the job.

in ireland u also use eejit and steamed as local dialects, they mean the same thing.

 

[lochnesssnowman]

So where in England are you working? And don't forget, THEY CLOSE THE PUBS EARLY HERE!

Brighton - quite a trek. I start on Monday.

I am also most aware about the pub times - and it greatly saddens me. Even my wee town of 10k people has 1am/2am opening times. It might help me get over my chronic alcoholism I suppose. All pubs close early? Why is this? What about pub-clubs/clubs? Guess I'll be dining in for my liquid fill down south.

 

[speedpop]

Made a promise to myself to visit Scotland (as well as Ireland) a few times in my lifetime, since I am of Scottish (and Irish) blood and my last name being Burns, Scottish last name. It's also semi-weird in that I was born and raised in Australia, yet don't have a very thick Australian accent.. my partner who is Singaporean has always said that it sounds like a meld of various UK accents with an Australian accent, I pay it all to my heritage

And if those pictures don't sell anyone, then I don't know what will.

 

[belgurdo]

God bless Scotland

 

[iapetus]

Even my wee town of 10k people has 1am/2am opening times. It might help me get over my chronic alcoholism I suppose.

Heh. Worked for me, mostly. I've still not quite got over moving down from Edinburgh (didn't take me that long to get used to things the other way round - wonder why that could be?)

 

[Koshiro]

Yeah I'm outta here as soon as I have the coins saved up. Problem is I've been here all my life, and while it's generally okay, I'm bored shitless with it.

Oh and belgurdo - we cancelled out GTA with State of Emergency.. sorry about that...

 

[SFA_AOK]

Brighton - quite a trek. I start on Monday.

Heh, I'm in Southampton on a placement this year which isn't a million miles from Brighton. Know quite a few people who go to Uni at Brighton so there should be a good local student scene for you to mooch on

 

[Suerte]

haha, I just remembered, if you had taken this picture at around 3am on Saturday night/Sunday morning, you would have seen me staggering over the road to get a taxi.

Aaaah, good times.

 

[Dyne]

My Tartan

Hyndman or...

MacMillan

Find yours at Tartan Finder

My Hunter heritage brings up like four different Tartans. I have to ask my Grandma what the real tartan is.

 

[mrklaw]

BSc in Computer games? Fucking kids don't know they're born. In my day it were BSc in punch cards (actually stupid irrelevant ADA). I'd have loved to do a computer games degree. Oh well.

Brighton is great. Lived there for a while when I worked up near gatwick. Pretty much as far away from Scotland as you can get though.

Where abouts you working? Wide? Climax (that'd be a good score direct from Uni)

Anyway, good luck with the new job, and don't gold plate the options menus too much

 

[8bit]

BSc in Computer games? Fucking kids don't know they're born. In my day it were BSc in punch cards (actually stupid irrelevant ADA). I'd have loved to do a computer games degree. Oh well.

Brighton is great. Lived there for a while when I worked up near gatwick. Pretty much as far away from Scotland as you can get though.

Where abouts you working? Wide? Climax (that'd be a good score direct from Uni)

Anyway, good luck with the new job, and don't gold plate the options menus too much

My god, someone else had to suffer ADA.

I left Scotland 4 years ago to go to Switzerland. The first year I made the mistake of returning for Christmas before, but it was hell on Earth.
Back in 2 weeks for a wedding in Arrochar, so that should be fun, and relatively calm.

 

[mrklaw]

My god, someone else had to suffer ADA.

yeah "oh we've just introduced it. Its a cutting edge, realtime programming language. The military use it for missile guidance systems you know". Wonder if those missiles accidentally hit a hospital because the compiler never checked for correct type declarations?