#stooshie

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Good Scottish Words, #8: Scunnered

Definition: Pissed off, fed-up, miffed, frustrated, had enough, annoyed.

Usage: (adjective) ‘I’m scunnered wi’ aw this shite.’ It’s a simple past-tense usage, and while ‘I’m going to be scunnered, if this shite isn’t sorted out,’ is technically correct, I’ve never heard it used to preface a stooshie, rammy or stramash. The usual ‘next step’ from being scunnered is to walk away or accept that there’s not much you can do about the situation you find yourself in.

Today, scunnered was brought life by Scottish steelworkers at news of TATA’s decision to lay off 1,200 workers across the UK. There are only two steel plants left in Scotland and not many more left in the rest of the UK.

Shop-floor workers always bear the brunt of poor strategic planning by the so-called bosses. In my day, unions had a shop-floor rule: first in, first out, so before they get on their soap-box to moan about this sorry development, they should remember that.

Steel production is one of those 19th century industries that we in Britain get all teary about; heritage and all that, but the UK has never had a global monopoly on steel and these islands are not a significant source of ore, so we have no divine right to make the stuff. That said, it’s a strategic resource (like oil and gas) and importing it all costs us a lot and it’s a timely reminder that the one thing Government is not good at is managing strategic resource availability.

Health Warning: Scunnered is a mild form of annoyed that shares the rich category of Scottish adjectives for fighting. Scunnered = DEFCON 1. 

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Good Scottish Words, #7: Stramash

Definition: prelude to engaging in a stooshie that leads to a rammy. 

Or if you’re of certain age and persuasion living in the West of Scotland, a last-minute penalty for Rangers which leads to a 0 - 1 result against your team. The late great Arthur Montford, of STV football commentary fame, made the word his own by the dead-pan way he pronounced it. In his honour, no TV sports commentator has uttered it since he died.

However, corners in football are still the prelude to a stramash as players tug, pull, wrestle, shove and bite their opponents to ensure they don’t get a free header when the ball comes in. Hardly any penalties are awarded during a stramash, unless the Old Firm needs the points whence it can be found in the same sentence as ‘controversial’.

Pronunciation: Stramash. Stra-mash. Stram-ash. Strraaaammaaashh.

Usage: ‘We’re into injury time and there’s a stramash in the box ... McCoist goes down and it’s a controversial penalty for Rangers ... their sixth in six games.’

Heath Warning:  It’s no coincidence that there are more Scots words for fighting than for loving.

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Good Scottish Words, #3: Stooshie

Definition: mild rammy or altercation; a heated discussion between friends leading to fisticuffs which results in innocent bystanders taking sides and piling in. Can be deadly in extreme cases without immediate hospital treatment.

Not to be confused with ‘stashie’; meaning your personal collection of assorted illegal narcotics, but for which a refusal to share with said friends can cause a stooshie.

Originated in the stair-heids of tenements in the early 20th century, between wifies arguing loudly about who’s turn it was to wash the stairs - four floors of them. No fighting broke out between the women, however, until the men came home, whence the resulting stooshie escalated into a rammy.

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Is there an international current girlband appreciation day because if there isn't there should be

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#girlbands2k14

I feel we need a #girlbands2k14 There's too much patriarchy in the world and boybands do so much better without putting in as much effort a lot of the time (and i don't mean that offensively- I do like boybands). There's so much focus on boy bands that a lot of people don't even give girl bands enough chance. And lets stop comparing the girl bands because they aren't there to try and out-do each-other, that isn't what girl groups represent!

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daddy i've fallen for a monster