Published on 12, July, 2020
What do you think about the "How are you?" question?
I, personally, do not like this question and I have never liked it.
I do not know what to answer.
Also, a lot of the time, I think it is expected just to give a positive answer, but I often feel awful to say "Fine!" simply to be polite if I am not fine.
It is a question asked to which no one who asks it wants to know the answer.
i usually say something like "I'll do", much to the consternation of neurotypicals. A work colleague many years ago used to give a shopping list of her ailments every time she was asked.
A book of etiquette I read once said that the answer to it is to reply the same. So "How do you do" should be answered with "How do you do?" which makes no sense at all and is merely exchanging breath.
Different cultures have different ways of greeting besides verbal. Westerners shake hands, give a 'high five' or a Glasgow kiss depending whether they like the person or not. Other cultures may bow, rub noses or stick their tongues out. My preference is just a simple nod and a "Hello". No insincerity in making someone else think I am in the least interested in their health.
Because in most cases I am not!
Having been born and brought up in Glasgow, many moons ago, I can say with some authority that a Glasgow kiss isn't considered a 'Greeting' even in Glasgow!! I think the only time I ever saw it deployed as one was by Begbie in 'Trainspotting' (the original one, haven't seen the new one so I've no idea if his manners improved in the interim).
I have actually dropped the nut on someone as a greeting. They ran my dog over accidently but when my mom went over they gave her a mouthful of abuse, she didn't even say anything abusive to him. She said it was an accident but he called her a *** because his front spoiler was cracked. Luckily someone saw him do it and told me. Another woman who he told to *** off when she told him to stop swearing at old women. The next time he saw me he said "Sound mate" I said "Nah" then broke his nose. Funny how people will be friendly to men but not to little old ladies who are crying. I also ripped the spoiler off his car.
BTW Begbie is still the same pretty much but the other characters aren't much better than him now.
I'd imagine the Queen has tasted boiled head. I've just got a feeling about it. A boiled head terrine with fois gras and a vintage ox blood jus. Prince Phillip is a radgepot so it's even more likely with him!
Weegie slang moderator. Maybe you have a job! I'd be lost with gaelic, totally!
Head boil, but yeah. ("Go away and boil your head you fool" - as the Queen probably doesn't say in her English.) Maybe one of us will get a job out of this, as Weegie-slang Moderators! My shocking Gaelic might come in useful too! It's a wonder they haven't thought of slang in their efforts to keep the chats PG.
Weegie slang eh! Seems like the head bile thing got through! Hope we dont get kleiped on!
It's useful to have discovered that NAS don't appear to delete 'inappropriate language' in Glaswegian!! Might come in useful, I'll have to brush up on this latent skill! I wonder if it applies to all slang? "Awainbileyerheid ya bam!" LOL this could be fun!
Loollloll. Feckin midden is a bit rude! Saw my cousin call a girl a feckin senga once. Laughed my *** off. Didn't know what it meant. He said "She's drinkin' buckie in a tracksuit, that's a feckin senga!" I pretty much figured it out, lol.
Yikes, I remember that one from school!! No, that wasn't one of his but I do remember him going through a phase of calling me a "Feckinmidden" but thankfully it didn't last much beyond his revelation that a sister with female friends might be something he could exploit if he didn't "get on her goat" too much : )
Loolloolll. I hope he went easy on you! Did you have to stop telling him "shut yer geggy" so much?
"Gaun yersel wee man!" Haven't heard that in a while! I remember as a young teenager saying it to my younger brother to 'P' him off when he tried to fight back - usually as he lay on the floor with me standing on him. All good until he got to about 16 and shot up to 6-foot.
Not angry "hevvy ragin", lol!
Just thinking about that reminded me that when I did visit Glasgow again for the first time in over 20 years, It was VERY weird to hear the Glasgow accent again and made me realise how much of it I'd lost! I had no idea that my accent had changed over the years but I do remember having to remind myself to speak more slowly when I first moved away purely to make myself understood. I guess I don't speak so slowly when I'm angry : /
She always used to say "gwan yersell" when the horse racing was on, matter of fact she used to say that a lot anyway. People always had her "hevvy ragin" too!
My kids have rarely, if ever, seen me in that mode but they do say that when I'm angry it comes out in the way I express myself: "Gonnaenodaethat!!", "Ahfirfuksake!" and other multi-syllabic utterances that just crack them up. They'd never been to Glasgow until very recently so they extract the Michael from the few words or phrases they hear from me that, according to them, I've invented.
My dad was brought up in Castlemilk until he was 3. He's half-scot. It doesn't hurt too bad if you use the top of your head. Weegie can sound kind of intimidating, lol. My aunt was quite a few years older than my dad and bounced between Glasgow and here for years. She had a very Weegie mode when angry. Her kids did their chores! I love Scotland, I lived near Inverness for a while. Lovely place.
A Weegie doesn't look like an Edinbugger, lol. Or so I've been told by both.