At this time I would like to officially inform you that his name is "Iain," with an extra 'i.' Though in the casual format of emails and texts he doesn't normally bother including it, that is the way it is properly spelled (spelt?) on his birth certificate. That's right, mi amiga, FOUR LETTERS.
Let the games begin. *smiles sheepishly*
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you're fine then (for this one but keep an eye out for the other danger signs)...enjoy!!!!
He doesn`t know how to spell his own name then? Not a good sign...
I would agree with you TB except that the extra i denotes that he is indeed Scottish as only the Scots would put in an extraneous letter on the grounds that since they were free they could use them with abandon.
Scotsmen are yummy. Wearing kilts, mooning their oppressors, riding harleys...
yeah, they are yummy. but then, i watched Rob Roy way too many times at _way_ to impressionable an age!
If he's a real Scotsman, he should be spelling his name "Capercaille" but pronouncing it "Ian" or some such shouldn't he?
guys, seriously, can we get past this spelling thing? please?
er..no the spelling thing is really important.
although I must admit that I'm beginning to wonder where you're all getting your impressions of scottish men from. I live in the sodding place and I can tell you that the majority of scottish men are either weedy little ginger haired google eyed things or, overweight pasty faced mousy haired things...
Braveheart was fictional. A short Australian in orange makeup wearing a wig did not liberate Scotland from their hated English overlords. Sorry but it's the truth. TheScottish nobles were far, far worse to their own people than the English ever were (read the history). Equally, the Scottish are a warrior race. We know this because they keep telling us that they are. Lets review the evidence: What have they won? Well, they once won a battle against the English. Many people have once won a battle against the English. Few have won wars against them. So it is with the Scots. It galls them that they're a warrior race who couldn't fight their way out of a paper bag. Bannockburn was the equivalent of an F.A cup third round upset. It happens but the status quo is soon resumed. As for the extra I in the name, it's grasping at cultural straws for the sake of being pissy (something that the scots are capable of being against the English at the drop of a kilt). 'I have an extra I in my name (or a silent Z or Q or whatever) because I'm Scottish. It's how we spell it. It's how we spelled it before you English destroyed our culture...' (I've had this conversation. With a Scot). Look, life is tough and the world is hard. If your culture isn't strong enough or versatile enough to survive without subsidy, help or support, then it won't. Don't penalise the English (an effete tea drinking race) for being better at fighting and exporting language, culture, identity and belief systems than you. It's not our fault that you're crap at the one thing you claim you're good at (fighting) unless led by English officers in which case you're capable of carving out an Empire upon which the sun never sets. Fuckers. All of them. Weejie soapdodging provincial rats.
I sat next to Glaswegians on the train on Friday. It was funny until I realised that they weren't joking. They really are bigots. I'm still recalibrating my world view to take it in.
Good on the fella tho. Sounds like a nice dude.
Iain has four letters because it's a Gaelic derivation of John. The roman aphabet used the same letter for I and J and the name got a bit garbled, but there you go. Something about Roman Christianizing the local Celts or some such.
It was Rob Roy, NOT Braveheart, you twit. The short ozzie (who by the way is a flaming right wing bigot) does nought for my libido. Liam Neeson in a kilt, however, is the most prfoundly sexy thing god ever put on this earth.
And the British Empire is dead and gone. You had, you lost it. Accept it.
but Liam Neeson is not scots. He's irish...( I'm pretty sure of that but ay well be wrong) and at least you can say one thing for the scots - they aren't the irish...
(PS. The thought of liam neeson anywhere near me is enough to kill my libido stone dead because that will obviously kill any street cred I have whereas smelly mel...oh be still my beating heart - just goddam gorgeous...even now..but then give me a well brought up catholic boy any day!)
yes yes i know he's irish. but he played a scotsman in a movie, which was hugely influential in my adolescent years, and thus he defined my image of what scottish men are like in my fantasies. sheesh.
and smelly mel is NOT a well brought up catholic boy. he's a fundamentalist freak who even believes his own wife will burn in hell because she isn't catholic. i saw an interview once. the man _actually_ said "it's a shame, because she's such a nice person, i hate to think of her burning in hell for all eternity, but she isn't baptized catholic and only catholics can be saved." i reapeat: F.R.E.A.K. Neeson's a playboy, but i'll take a playboy over a self-righteous bible-thumper any damn day. (and he's taller)
No, if he believes all non catholics burn in hell...then he's def a well brought up catholic boy. The bigoted, fundementalist freaky bit wouldn't out me off at all because the most I ever imagined him saying is "oh baby"...besides which, F tells me all the time that I'll burn in hell, ( in fact he often suggests that he will be the one with the firelighters and paraffin) not, I admit, for being non-catholic, just because I'm a bad tempered sod most of the time...
But you see there it goes. We all want what we haven't grown up with. I've never ever never wanted anything to do with anyone Irish because coming from the north east of England you're surrounded by the weasley faced shifty eyed oirish tinks and so they're the last thing you're ever going to find attractive...whereas my formative years were spent drooling over Mel Gibson (and that guy out of Rush before he lost his hair!) and so I've always had a thing for checky shirt wearing, fast talking, Marlbro smoking misfits with a death wish...
as for the taller/shorter thing...most of my boyfriends have been shorter than me -its what comes of being practically a giantess!
Actually emergent historiography and the actual definition of Empire (as opposed to the popular definition of it) suggests (well, it more than suggests, it proves) that the British Empire is alive and well. I could tell you why, but I'm about to spend 3 years and 80,000 words doing that in paradigm shifting statements about it. A clue? Think of Empires as transnational organisations designed and maintained for the mobilisation and transport of resources. Now think of what London's role was during the days of a geographical empire. Now think of what London does now. Why, it's the same thing then as now: It's where money and resources are moved from place to place. Usually by Oxbridge elites. Settlers and colonies merely provided ideological continuity and stability during the predatorial period of Empire. Once the Empire became developmental they were no longer necessary. After all, why patrol the world with gunboats and military might when you can get them to use your language? It's far, far cheaper and is ideologically interpelating. The sun has yet to set.
And I know that you mentioned Liam and Rob Roy but someone else mentioned 'mooning their oppressors' - a scene from Braveheart. Hence the monologue. Man, you must be reading easy texts at Uni cos that's the second link you've missed in my last two comments!
Besides, they're interchangeable historical figures. Romanticised through the years, both were essentially cattle thieves.
emprire. fine. have it your way. though by your definition America seems to be the globe's great empire at the mo (though her days are numbered).
Couldn't watch Braveheart. too gorey/bloody. hence why i missed the mooning reference. and yes, i KNOW they're both highly-romanticized pseudo-historical figures, but that is completely beyond the point. the point was only that the image of mr. neeson wearing a kilt and standing by a loch and saying "how fine ya are t' me mary mcgregor" created in my adolescent mind a fixation on all things male, long-haired, kilt-clad, and with scottish accents. very simple.
and since when is cattle theiving not sexy? :-)
don't kow why herebe is getting all superior about cattle stealing as if he checks his family records he'll find out that one of our great grandparent/uncle type things was actually in ol'robs gang!
As far as the fixation on all things male, long-haired, kilt-clad, and with scottish accents goes...nothing at all wrong with that!
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