John Smeaton - Come to Glasgow and we'll set about you.

[Wilse]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCqprbH7mrg&NR=1

[uncharted]

I have to agree with the Youtube comments:

Legend!

[CannonFodder]

:lol:

Good man!

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Man that's hard to understand what he's saying because of the accent and the poor sound quality. Ehm, what was it about exactly? :-?

[metalman]

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
Man that's hard to understand what he's saying because of the accent and the poor sound quality. Ehm, what was it about exactly? :-?

failed suicide attack on Glasgow Airport

"It's your luck and luckily my luck was in yesterday. I mean, it could have gone totally another way and I wouldn't be here standing talking to you. You know, it's just, it's just one of those things - now John the *thingy* of his colleagues had a message for any would-be terrorist - They can try and come to Britain and they can try and disrupt us anyway they want, but the British people have been under a lot more things than this and we'll always stand proud, and then you come to Glasgow. Glasgow doesn't accept this, do you know what I mean? This is Glasgow, you know so, we'll set about you, you know, so that's it."

:cheers:

Scottish grammar and vocabulary are quite similar to English in some respects,
perhaps even closer than German. :-P

(Used the Babel Fish Scottish to English translator. :-P )

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Ah, thanks Metalman :-)

O.T. Same old stuff, and the man obviously doesn't know what he's talking about.

[CannonFodder]

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
Ah, thanks Metalman :-)

O.T. Same old stuff, and the man obviously doesn't know what he's talking about.

I don't think you get it Eyso.

Glaswegians are famed for not taking any sh!t off anyone.

[Speelgoedmannetje]

C'mon, no one does.
But there isn't a war going on, so he doesn't know what he's talking about.

[CannonFodder]

Of course there is a war going on.

The War On Terror(TM)

It's not your cities getting blown to bits by mad fcukers either, so you can say that quite easily.

[Speelgoedmannetje]

This is nothing alike a war.
Like WW2, where, over here, man were forced into slavery (though slavery was never used because of shame; it was called 'enforced labour'), people got randomly rounded up and killed when the resistance blew german things up, cities were turned into ashes (and people burned to death), and our soldiers (one of them my granddad) faced a far, far superiour army in terms of materials and numbers, thundering over our soil. THAT is war. And to think of such still happening today in Africa, and Tibet's still repressed also. But no, there's war going on in GB, with acts of a very few nutcases which death toll is nothing compared to the death toll of traffic.

[CannonFodder]

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
This is nothing alike a war.
Like WW2, where, over here, man were forced into slavery (though slavery was never used because of shame; it was called 'enforced labour'), people got randomly rounded up and killed when the resistance blew german things up, cities were turned into ashes (and people burned to death), and our soldiers (one of them my granddad) faced a far, far superiour army in terms of materials and numbers, thundering over our soil. THAT is war. And to think of such still happening today in Africa, and Tibet's still repressed also. But no, there's war going on in GB, with acts of a very few nutcases which death toll is nothing compared to the death toll of traffic.

It is a war. Mr Bush and Mr Blair said so.

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Oh, ok.

[metalman]

Taxi driver Alex McIlveen faced down the Glasgow Airport terror suspects ... and his courage cost him his favourite pair of trainers and a £30 parking fine.

Alex punched and kicked the two men after they crashed a Jeep Cherokee loaded with gas canisters into the door of Terminal One. The 45-year-old booted one of the suspects, whose body was covered in flames, as hard as he could between the legs. But the man didn't appear to feel the blow, and a police doctor told Alex later that he'd damaged a tendon in his foot.

[CannonFodder]

Taxi driver Alex McIlveen faced down the Glasgow Airport terror suspects ... and his courage cost him his favourite pair of trainers and a £30 parking fine.

:roflmao:

Only in the UK would a man trying to save others from terrorists get issued with a parking fine.

I bet the beady eyed little Traffic Nazi couldn't wait to stick the notice on his window.

[Wilse]

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
C'mon, no one does.
But there isn't a war going on, so he doesn't know what he's talking about.

OK, I've missed something.
where does he say there's a war going on?