The Difference between English and Scottish Sailors

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So how about Dubarrys, cargo shorts, Henri Lloyd top and shades on the head is a really cool look?

Strange, I never had the Scots down for any of those things.

You can't have been referring to the English, cos I'm English and none of them apply to me :D

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Strange, I never had the Scots down for any of those things.

You can't have been referring to the English, cos I'm English and none of them apply to me :D

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He can't be talking about us Jockinese -it is illegal to dress like that in Scotland.

He must be on about the Welsh.
 

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The scatological, xenophobic, anal-retentives on here seem to be running out of steam on the French. So how about Dubarrys, cargo shorts, Henri Lloyd top and shades on the head is a really cool look?

How about:

A man in London wearing a kilt is from Scotland.

A man in Edinburgh wearing a kilt is from the Highlands.

A man in the Highlands is an American dressed up pretending to be a Scotsman!
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Feasgar math(fesker ma),Tha I fliuch agus fuar am Loch Ness!-there are those kind of people the world over as well as the others-never forget a girl I once invited to go sailing many years ago-at the time I had a little Seawhych bilge keeler I kept on Coniston in the Lake District.
-She turned up in a white sailor suite-I dont kid -designer glasses and expensive designer sandles.
By the end of the day the sailor suite was to say the least a little grey.
Persay she never came sailing again.
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Feasgar math(fesker ma),Tha I fliuch agus fuar am Loch Ness!-there are those kind of people the world over as well as the others-never forget a girl I once invited to go sailing many years ago-at the time I had a little Seawhych bilge keeler I kept on Coniston in the Lake District.
-She turned up in a white sailor suite-I dont kid -designer glasses and expensive designer sandles.
By the end of the day the sailor suite was to say the least a little grey.
Persay she never came sailing again.
Feasgar math


What you really mean is that you rewarded a girl who agreed to go sailing with you and did her best to look elegant by mucking her up in your dirty boat.

It is no surprise the little angel never came back.:eek:
 

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The scatological, xenophobic, anal-retentives on here seem to be running out of steam on the French. So how about Dubarrys, cargo shorts, Henri Lloyd top and shades on the head is a really cool look?

Easy, easy man!!!!! Its far simpler to get started on the GERMANS!!

Now where shall I start.........................
 

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Oxford English dictionary - and the one you suggested also showed "Study of fossil excrement" - so I'm now being got at and still confused.
 

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As an educated Scot awol will most probably have based his usage on The Chambers Dictionary, one of the finest publications of its kind. Chambers offers 'an obsession or preoccupation with the obscene' as an alternative meaning for scatological. It's a common enough usage indeed I think more often found than the scientific.

It's quite surprising that none of the usual grammar police and bemoaners of the state of contemoprary education have been along to illuminate the question.
 

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As an educated Scot awol will most probably have based his usage on The Chambers Dictionary, one of the finest publications of its kind. Chambers offers 'an obsession or preoccupation with the obscene' as an alternative meaning for scatological. It's a common enough usage indeed I think more often found than the scientific.

It's quite surprising that none of the usual grammar police and bemoaners of the state of contemoprary education have been along to illuminate the question.

Hmmmm - "contemoprary" doesn't seem to be in my Chambers.
Ken - you might want to tighten one or both of your windward springs to pull her off the pontoon.
 
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The scatological, xenophobic, anal-retentives on here seem to be running out of steam on the French. So how about Dubarrys, cargo shorts, Henri Lloyd top and shades on the head is a really cool look?

I suppose we could have (yet) another discussion of Scottish independance but personally I wopuld prefer to talk about anchors or colregs.

In any case I dont think we have yet done the French quite the same justice that we have done the Scots Nats.
 
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