Cambridge "Night Stabber"

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Yes, we also tame wild haggis up here :P

Are they the ones that have two legs shorter than the other two, so you just have to make them turn round so they fall off the mountain?

Lol yeah Actually my boyfriend wrote a play that had an American couple getting duped into paying for a haggis watching trip . Don't know what he was implying about Americans . I believe it also featured lines like "Wow they built the castle next to the railway station! How convenient!"

Please don't call girls "hotties." I hate that word almost as much as the word "birds."

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Yes, we also tame wild haggis up here :P

Don't suppose you can recommend anywhere up there worth visiting? I'm planning on doing a world tour of Scotland in September.

Like Billy Connolly

Can you give me a better noun for attractive, nubile young women? I never used to say it, I picked it up quite recently from someone I worked with. Then again I used to say 'man' a lot, so I guess I'll always have some bad linguistic habit or other....

Is there something wrong with the phrase "pretty girls?" Or "attractive, nubile young women," as you so eloquently put it yourself. "Hotties" is just...eurgh...sounds like something some uneducated 16 year old townie would say about the Kappa slapper troupe that just walked past.

Not at all. 'Hotties' are in the eyes of the beholder. As I don't find myself attracted to 'Kappa slappa troopers' I doubt I would describe them as hotties.

Listen it's not meant to cause offense - like all words it's simply meant to convey a concept. In this case 'attractive, nubile young women' in a much more compact form.

I'm not saying that you are attracted to them, that's just the connotations that the word brings to my mind, rightly or wrongly. I find it somewhat derogatory, is all. I know girls refer to guys as "hotties" too occasionally, but it's something I never would do. If I'm describing people I tend to use adjectives rather than nouns - nouns makes it sound rather possessive and I just, well, don't like it.

Cool. Well I'm more than willing to stick to adjectives if it'll make you happy(er).

Thank heavens we don't have thought police!

... yet.

Agin from the same job as above - One of the store managers had recently transfered from Edinburgh to Inverness. He happened to stop by down here in Glasgow so I asked him how he was enjoying not having to cope with as many junkies. He claimed that it's an even worse problem up there than in Edinburgh and others corroborated this. I've no firm evidence one way or the other but I'm told it's much worse of a problem that you'd ( or maybe I'd ) have thought.

If I'm wrong - shoot me. But it came as quite a surprise.

Don't suppose you can recommend anywhere up there worth visiting? I'm planning on doing a world tour of Scotland in September.

Depends, what kinda places do you want to visit?

Drugs are increasingly becoming a big problem up here. There's quite a lot of guys been expelled from my school for drug related stuff. Every teenage party up here seems to have pot guaranteed (yet another reason for avoiding parties). Even in my own social circle, guys I know well and like seem to spend as much time getting stoned as getting drunk, which they do a hell of a lot. Idiots

Well yeah but that's kids. I'm talking adults here. I won't get into a debate about the relative advantages/disadvantages of taking weed on a regular basis but while it leads people to become a bit slow and unmotivated it doesn't turn them into walking, shop-lifting zombies the way heroin can.

Uh... visiting? I dunno. I was really thinking in terms of just the major towns and maybe some of the Islands. It really depends on how much it's going to cost me - I'm going to do some research. At the moment I'm thinking Glasgow-Oban-Fort William-(Skye-Stornoway-Ullapool-Thurso-)Inverness-Aberdeen-Dundee-Perth-Stirling-Edinburgh-(Berwick-Carlisle-Dumfies-Wigtown-)Ayr-Kilmarnock-Glasgow.

Well if the most normal sane kids are like that, then what are adults going to be like?

Inverness is quite nice actually. Some cute shopping, good restaurants, Culloden Battlefield, Fort George and stuff. My Australian relatives always seem to love going up the west coast when they come here.

Hmmm... yeah. Culloden is the right kind of idea.

Yeah it's not bad Good for the history and all that.
Fort George btw is this army barracks place. Also good for history, and reasonably close to Culloden. Something to do on the way to Aberdeen maybe.

You're really really mad you know that?
I'm lucky, I have relatives over half of Scotland that would put me up