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Ah, I'd never though about the regional variations on toasted cheese before. For me it was always roasted when my friends talked about it but cheese on toast when my mum made it (from Aberdeenshire)
leffeboy
The Gow
The Gow
The actual Gow?
the actual Gow, the one and only
My first ever real construction job was the tennis pavilion in McKirdy Park
My first ever real construction job was the tennis pavilion in McKirdy Park
I'll have to google stalk it. I think I would only have gone out that end of town if if I was cycling to Hamilton
All this fechtin o'er a wee bit o spam n cheese we need more lines to toughen up
On the East coast it was always toasted Cheese best ever fast food wi plain bread and there was/is a spam valley in Kirkcaldy built by Wimpey same crappy houses wi London bricks
Sorry, only spotted you wanted more to translate. This really could do with some attention. The four youngsters (15-22 in age) have got halfway up a hill towards the reservoirs and are about to get ready to play a trick on the kidnappers to get the ransom money back. Josh has been folded up in one of those trailers you put behind your bike and put your toddler in.
“Tom and Josie wait here. No need for ye to cycle all the way up. I’ll take Josh up and get him in position and then I’ll come back and let ye know what we’re going to do. Tom, the bike please. Not dragging this nugget up the hill.” Jack said and laughed as Josh tried to extract himself from the trailer.
have got halfway up a hill towards the reservoirs and are about to get ready to play a trick on the kidnappers to get the ransom money back.
Christ this is exciting. Not sure I could fold into a a kids trailer though.
Tom, the bike please.
Please?
No kid for Glasgow would ever be called Tom, Tommy or Tam yes, but not Tom. Reservoir would be the dam or the rezzy.
Geez the bike Tom.
Actually would he be called Tom?
Tam?
Geez the bike Tom.
Gie's that bike aff ye, Tam
Maybe you'd be better just basing it round Milngavie, in which case you could have them speaking in that annoying ubiquitous west end/swallows and amazons accent.
Tom and Josie wait here
Tam...Josie...Youse two stay doon here.
Maybe you’d be better just basing it round Milngavie, in which case you could have them speaking in that annoying ubiquitous west end/swallows and amazons accen
Then they'd have e-bikes and going all the way up the hill wouldn't be a problem.
I'm just astonished that they were able to rustle up a bike trailer for emergency transport of a teenager but not an extra bike.
Perchy to play Jack, Josh, Josie in the film adaptation?
Fur the last fuxxin time ya cheesy wee bellend get aff the fuxxin bike
Perchy to play Jack, Josh, Josie in the film adaptation?
Wouldn't work. Ah canny ride a bike.
Edit - a gie up
a gie up
Ah gie up 😉
Sorted
“Tom and Josie wait here. No need for ye to cycle all the way up. I’ll take Josh up and get him in position and then I’ll come back and let ye know what we’re going to do. Tom, the bike please. Not dragging this nugget up the hill.” Jack said and laughed as Josh tried to extract himself from the trailer.
You 2 plank yer arse there and wait while we take a donner up. Me and josh'll fire up and suss it out and then we'll gie youse a shout. Tam, geez the bike, yer arse I'm kerting this nugget up on ma ain.
I feel you're not really striking a balance between authenticity and readability to facilitate clear plot exposition here 😉
This thread 😂
perchypanther
Free Member
I feel you’re not really striking a balance between authenticity and readability to facilitate clear plot exposition here 😉
😆 I'll leave readability judgements up to the OP, I'm only here to provide authenticity. I'll temper my ruglin mumble for no c***! 😆
ruglin
Hing oan!
That's South Lanarkshire.
You're no' a Weegie either!
I did admit that earlier. though, from 1975 to 1996 ruggie was in glasgow, so I spent my formative years as a bonafide weegie. 😆
Yer a pound shoap weegie at best.
Same as me.
I'm a rugloanian, yer weegies can come a head! 😆
Aye!
Mon' then.
The 'Shire Big Team'll take yeez all on.
in aboot thum! 😆
To set the next piece of dialog in context, they have stopped the kidnapper's van by having Josie lie naked on the track ready to squirt vinegar into the eyes of the kidnappers and Jack has taken out the valves of the van's tyres to make sure they won't be able to follow them (actually they loose control and leave the road and die but the kids don't know that) BTW Tom is the posh kid...
“The valve caps will keep the air in for a few minutes but after that, they won’t go anywhere. Get ready to get on yer bike.” Jack whispered quietly before turning his attention to Josie.
“The valve caps will keep the air in for a few minutes but after that, they won’t go anywhere. Get ready to get on yer bike.” Jack whispered quietly before turning his attention to Josie.
The caps will haud the air for a wee bit, but efter that, they're stuck and urny gon anywhere. Make sure you're ready to scarper oan that bike!
Why is he naked and where’s he hiding the vinegar?
Josie is the 22 year old sister of Jack's. What better way to make sure the kidnappers stop the van and BOTH get out to have a look and she is has a very small waterpistol filled with vinegar. (Well it is fiction after all...) You'll have to read the book to find out what happens when Josie gets into the hot tub with Tom's dad. It is truly shocking!
22 year old girls don’t ordinarily get all their kit off for their brothers 15 year old mates.
Not even in Glasgow.
Also, poor Josie is now suffering either frostbite or midge bites
She feels very guilty as she thinks she might have killed Tom's dad and nearly killed his grandmother by accidentally shutting her inside a walk-in fridge. But you're right normally they certainly wouldn't! Midges are accounted for earlier in the story.
You realise we won't need to buy the book when it comes out?
You realise we won’t
need tobuy the book when it comes out?
I doubt anyone will buy the book when it comes out! 🙂 I will put you in the acknowledgments just in case!
If ah wis you OP, I wid juist screen shot the hail thread and delete it richt noo. Nae c... body kens whae ye ur or whaur ye stay. Except mebbe Scotroutes, ye'll need tae pey him aff and get him tae delete the thread. Then when ye've wrote yer bestseller and yer gettin interviewed oan the telly ye can laugh at aw us batterin awa at wir keyboards. Sayin "that's that cheeky f*****er got us tae scrieve his buik fur him and stitched us aw up"
I'll just pretend Google Translate had Glaswegian as an option. To be honest I wish it did as I'm struggling to read all your replies! You could make me put anything in this book and I wouldn't know what it said!
Actually, could someone give me good alternative to the word Sure that might be more appropriate? As in "Sure, we can..." and similar.
Nae bother
One of the young guys from work types just like how he talks on our WhatsApp group. He's from Loanhead rather than Glasgow though, very funny to read but can take a couple of reads some times with me being a Sassenach and all.
See if you can employ the Bam Whisperer.
Discussed this thread with my boys - no kids talk like they do in the text above.
Stirling-born and go to high school with kids from the Raploch (see above) and Fallin.
Fallin doesn't have an accent, it's a growl (I lived there for 10 years - awesome folk).
I chat daily to a guy from the Raploch while walking the dug. I tell him of my adventures and he says, "Pitlochry sounds amazing, I've always wanted to go there". And I think, "It's 90minutes up the road, son".
Anyway, a couple of things:
Kids are called Tom but they are always called something else, like Dickhead.
Cheesie Toast.
“Sure, we can…” = Sound.
Cheesie Toast.
Teuchter perverts. 😉
Finally, the book is published! Thank you so much to everyone that helped, some of which have been acknowledged in the book. All the profits for any sales during the next 7 days will go to Swaledale Mountain Rescue that has picked up many injured mountain bikers (especially during Ard Rock!) His Favourite Hole
Good stuff, great cause ya c##t.
His Favourite Hole conjures up a different image than golf for me, in the context of Scottish slang. 😉
Congrats on getting it done!
“It’s 90minutes up the road, son”.
You must drive like my father in law.
You must drive like my father in law.
Your maw
lol
His Favourite Hole
Your maw
Ok an that but
"But" gets used to finish a sentence throo the West I don't know why
“
ButEh?” gets used to finish a sentence throo theWestEast I don’t know why
FTFY
No_discerning_taste
Free Member
Finally, the book is published! Thank you so much to everyone that helped, some of which have been acknowledged in the book. All the profits for any sales during the next 7 days will go to Swaledale Mountain Rescue that has picked up many injured mountain bikers (especially during Ard Rock!) His Favourite Hole
Good stuff, best of luck with it.
Quality title, we'll just say you meant it! 😆
It wid be guid tae have a wee swatch an see if ony 'wer words are init
Oh yes, the title is entirely intentional! 😉
Finished the book last night, really enjoyed it and fun spotting which bits came from this thread 🙂
Glad you enjoyed it! You'll be pleased to know I'm halfway through writing the second book where Jack returns. Although he is a bit more quiet in this one as nobody understands a single word he is saying (it being mostly set in Russia). I'll look forward to getting the forum's help with the Glaswegian again in a few months time. Might need some Russians to help too!
Braw!
Pure, dead, brilliant
Yay, have ordered the book.