mojo on July 2, 2007 at 4:45 PM

If you’re pickin’ on yer owen sieed, please state that upfront…it just sounded like an insult from an outsider. I happen to like them and their accent, so was only taking up for’em.

No harm meant.

The Glasgow airport baggage handler John Smeaton (sometimes misspelled “Smitten”), who gave a burning terrorist a good right-hander, has become a hero. And an Internet Phenomenon….

Tommy: Doesn’t it make you proud to be Scottish?

Mark “Rent-boy” Renton: It’s SHITE being Scottish! We’re the lowest of the low. The scum of the fucking Earth! The most wretched miserable servile pathetic trash that was ever shat on civilization. Some people hate the English. I don’t. They’re just wankers. We, on the other hand, are colonized by wankers. Can’t even find a decent culture to get colonized by. We’re ruled by effete assholes. It’s a shite state of affairs to be in, Tommy, and all the fresh air in the world won’t make any fucking difference!

Having said all that, my favorite “cool John Smeaton fact” was: John Smeaton died 5 years ago, Death never had the balls to tell him.

Nah. It jus’ takes ‘eem loonger ta git it oot…

And I’m a Scot, so I’ll make whatever jokes I like, Sparky.

Ah, Glaswegians. Either tough or daft, I’m not sure which. One of the only places, though, where a wee baggage handler will kick the cr*p out of a terrorist. On a smoke break, no less.

As someone who is half Scottish, I say pure dead brilliant, Sir. Alba Gu Brath!

Now if only someone could get the Scots to speak intelligible English…

mojo on July 2, 2007 at 2:13 PM

I don’t know why this bristled me, but Sparky, they’ve been speaking it longer than we have. Imagine landing in the “sticks” here or deep in the bowels of NYC…Got news for you, some of our folks are just as “intelligible”. All in where you’re coming from. So, please don’t be insulting.

Wheen I knew him he was living in a flat in Hyndland but I think he mybe was from Erskine originally. I stayed at his flat a couple of times: interesting fact about smeats, he owns either two or three ferrets which run about all over the place. His favourite one was white and I think it might have been called snowy.

Any truth to the rumors that Rudy chewed him out yet?

Might there also, perchance, be a list of Norrisesque “cool facts” about John Smeaton? My friends, there might.

Awesome. Just like the cool facts about Jeff Sessions.

Good on ya, John! Mee’me in Edinburgh in March…I’ll buy ya a pint or 10.

Intimidate the ‘new’ power structure into submission. Just like in Spain and other places.

The West has to stand strong and defeat this dispicable and barbaric enemy.

Yet again.

I had no problem understanding him, btw.

John Smeaton can make a woman climax just by looking at her and shouting ALLAH!

I’m converted.

Or maybe it’s the Scotch in the bloodstream.

This guy has Chertoff living with him?

conservnut on July 2, 2007 at 10:20 AM

he said ferrets not weasles