Townspeople

[mrblue]

Is it just me, or have they been a bit more...on edge...post-break. I had two rather ned-ish girls outside of Tesco yell a a rather nasty term for 'gay' at me yesterday, and then a middle-aged man told me to 'Watch where I'm walking and stay the fuck out of my way' today as I was walking back home from class. Both were unprovoked (especially the second one, as the psycho - who was in front of me - stopped and turned around to tell me this).

Has anyone else had any trouble, or is this just a string of bad luck on my part with the locals?

[rob 'f*ck off' wine boy]

Bad luck, I'd say. Neds yell things, nothing out of the ordinary there. The 'psycho'...who knows? I find most people tend to want to have sex with me after about ten seconds of having seen me, so perhaps I'm monumentally biased.

[Duffman]

Quoting rob 'f*ck off' wine boy from 19:12, 14th Apr 2008
Bad luck, I'd say. Neds yell things, nothing out of the ordinary there. The 'psycho'...who knows? I find most people tend to want to have sex with me after about ten seconds of having seen me, so perhaps I'm monumentally biased.

Tis true, Rob is teh sex!

The locals were probably just feeling over confident after 2 weeks without student oppression, or just pissed off that we're all back.

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Don't dream too far,
Don't lose sight of who you are.

[Power Metal Dom]

Am I the only one who has been here nearly 4 years and has seen none of this reported animosity between town and gown?

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Like flames on fuel...upon metal I drool

[exnihilo]

Nope. I was there a lot more than 4 years and saw nothing of it, not even during the height of the "Braveheart" period. Maybe I was just lucky, I was certainly out late enough, often enough, drunk enough, to have run the risk of trouble, but not a thing. Equally, I've now lived in Glasgow for 5 years with all the same lates as St Andrews and also not a thing. Perhaps there's an element to how one carries oneself that provokes people?

[Griggsy]

I've noticed a bit of angst from the locals...but maybe that was because I was sat in TPs supporting Chelsea. Probably doesn't go down too well up here

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'I run wild in the shadowy jungle of erotic adventures.'

[the Empress]

I've yet to have trouble . . . but I avoid eye contact with most people. On the other hand, I have been chased by a leafleteer desperate to give me his leaflet. I seem to accumulate 'Find God!' flyers. Generally in St Andrews and cities (even foreign ones) I just constantly get asked for directions, and to take people's picture. And just last week in St A's a town guy offered to carry my shopping. I seem to be strangely approachable. But yeah, I dread walking past chavs and resort to manic politeness if accosted for ciggies etc.

[on a side note] I hate when people insist on making observations like 'oh, those bags look heavy!' or 'are those dogs walking you or you them!' Oh yes, total stranger no.3, I've never heard *that* before. How witty.

[Eliot Wilson]

Ah, Dr Joss, you are forgetting the altercation in which we found ourselves with the gentleman in the Cellar Bar who insisted to us - somewhat too vehemently - that trews (which we were both wearing) were an invention of the English and therefore a symbol of colonialism, and that, if we were true Scotsmen, we should be wearing kilts.

Happily, of course, we had him thrown out.

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Bill and Ted beat the Grim Reaper at Twister

Bill: "You played very well, Death, especially with your totally heavy Death robes."

Death: "Don't patronise me."

[Eliot Wilson]

God-damned double post. Sorry, chaps.

[Fawksie]

Perhaps he just disliked trews. Personally they remind me of pyjamas.

[theshadowhost]

I walked past a guy on bridge street at 5 yesterday who had a sealed bottle of wine in one hand, and he was stumbling drunkenly up the hill - nearly bumping people (accidentally) into the road.

That was funny, but over the break nothing really changed - I was here the whole time and walking around Lamond Drive was same old same old - only had neds square up to me once, but that was probably cause they assumed i was a local cause it was the holidays.

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[kate_m]

To be fair, trews are an english invention. I assume you are english? If not. maybe you should check up on scottish cultural history. Also, trews look ridiculously stupid, which is as good a reason as any to not wear them. Those people smiling at you? Are actually laughing.

[niall]

Quoting kate_m from 11:39, 15th Apr 2008
Also, trews look ridiculously stupid, which is as good a reason as any to not wear them. Those people smiling at you? Are actually laughing.

regardless of who invented them, this is true!

[exnihilo]

No. They're not. And, no, he's not. But, yes, you are about as wrong as you could be. Good try, though.

(Meant as a reply to kate_m, not niall.)

[rob 'f*ck off' wine boy]

No. They're not. And, no, he's not. But, yes, you are about as wrong as you could be. Good try, though.

(Meant as a reply to kate_m, not niall.)

[thePontificator]

Anyone who is happy to wear trews in public is likely not to give a shit what anyone else thinks.

And most of the neds are just bored cos there was absolutely sod all to do for the last fortnight.

[Tigger]

I think wearing trews at any stage of life unless your Rupert the Bear warrants ejection from any establishment.


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My Wings Are Like A Shield of Steel...
(Claire Raynor)

[LII]

I have been told that the kilt that is just worn around your waist was a Victorian English invention as it was easier to wear than the great kilt (the one that goes around and over the shoulder) which is authentically Scottish.
If true I would ask any one who attacks trews for their “Englishness” what they wear as an alternative.

[Al]

Quoting kate_m from 11:39, 15th Apr 2008
To be fair, trews are an english invention.

So, you'd have us believe that someone from England invented a garment and then decided to name his invention using a Gaelic word?

[Manners]

Quoting the Empress from 23:50, 14th Apr 2008
I seem to be strangely approachable.

With smug, self-flattering comments like that I'm surprised you're approached at all.

[on a side note] I hate when people insist on making observations like 'oh, those bags look heavy!' or 'are those dogs walking you or you them!' Oh yes, total stranger no.3, I've never heard *that* before. How witty.

They might not be being original but they're at least being nice. You would do well not to put down any attempt at sociability in this day and age where you get evils just for smiling and saying "Good day".