I've been in America or something and people would be like "oh aye the noo." I'm like - I'm sorry, no
I'm not gonna acknowledge you saying that. You're dead to me
True. 100%. I'm actually - you've caught me on a day where I've not got mine. It's in the wash
No, no definitely not
Ah no. We obviously don't. Which is quite evident that we don't wear a kilt every day
It's not as prevalent as people might think it is. And we're not roaming about the street
and then someone's walking up to you with a kilt. To be fair, in Edinburgh. In Edinburgh they love a kilt
I think normally people who have kilts wear them for weddings, don't they?
Aye, weddings and the family time. I got mine at Aldi's (store) to wear at a football game.
To be fair, on a night out, right, you'll get one old man at the pub, drunk with his kilt and he says like - woo
And that's the one time you're like - OK. I see where this comes from
No - the reason you don't wear underwear is ecause when you go to the toilet, you just (gestures). It's just easy, just to lift it up
and do it out. If you're in the urinals, everyone is just standing up
They're quite heavy and there's loads of material around them. So if you have to like take them off and then take your pants off
and stuff, it would take a while.
The one thing I love about a kilt is that it's based on tradition, so it's about your family tartan
I would happily wear a kilt every day if I could, it's just so comfortable and so freeing
Special occasions and I wish there was a female equivalent but
It's called a skirt.
F*ck off
I think people look at it in other countries as like - oh, you're wearing your kilt, my goodness
It's one of those things
Like wearing it abroad to go watch Scotland, it's always quite funny to see people's reactions
They don't usually see hairy legs in a kilt. After Brave Heart, people being like running about, being like crazy
and victorious in a kilt seems to be quite a good thing
There's a lot of ginger-headed people. I've got an uncle who's ginger
My brother is ginger, my sister-in-law is ginger, my nephew is ginger, my dad's ginger
I've got the ginger gene because I'm pretty pink undertones, I burn in the sun
I don't have any gingers in my family, no gingers, ginger-less
You're not Scottish - I'm just joking
That is the Scottish genes we want. That we never get.
If you've watched "Brave" and she's got that curly -- what the f*ck is that -- ginger, she's got all that going on
It plays into the stereotype, but I'll be honest -- it's not that common
Maybe like 10% or something?
I think because we're so pale it stands out so much more and be like - oh Scottish people are really ginger
No - I just burn and then it goes away. Yeah I burn... a lot
No -- absolutely not. This is me tanned. Sometimes during the summer, I'll get a nice, see how the freckles
they'll go more prominent - I'm like: look at my freckled arms, that's my tan.
If people are tanned in Scotland, you're like - that's fake. Yeah, they're not really Scottish
They're not purebred. No. No.
100%. We're steaming right now, so. Yeah we went to a pub before we came here.
I'm not gonna lie - I did ask you for a whiskey before we started. I think that's like one of the proudest things about being Scottish
We know how to have a good time
Yes, true
Absolutely. I don't know how else to put that, but it's absolutely true
What do you have?
Everything. Oh ab-- I'll drink whiskey, I drink beer, I drink gin. I mean we do have standards, I mean --
Not really. Yeah, that's true
Drinking starts quite young as well. Shall we say it? 13-14? I started at 13
On the Buckfast. Buckfast - I dont' know if you've heard of that. It's a fortified wine. It's made my monks and it's absolutely brutal
but it's class at the same time. It's what people drink when they're 16-17
The saying is "buckfast makes you f*ck fast" and that's what everyone says
We are just quite genuine, love having a laugh and letting ourselves go so easily
We just go absolutely mental. Kind of a very social thing, so you'll be like - do you wanna go to a pub?
We went to the pub to celebrate the fact that I almost got an overdraft on the bank. Why is that even
something to celebrate -- that is f*cking gorgeous though. I know right?
And you go to a "gaff". Where I'm from, I'm like central, central Scotland we call them "empties"
Like if your parents weren't there, the house is empty, it is an "empty" and we'd go to an "empty"
As a national holiday we get the 2nd of January off because we need two days to recover
We'll take the whole week off, they'd be like f*ck it - we just need a whole solid week to recover
Who wants to go back to work on the 2nd of January? Like it's pretty much still Christmas. You're probably still drunk
Yes, yes. F*ck yes.
Aye, we have a catalog of swear words
Yeah, I'm finding it really difficult not to swear at the moment. Aye, it's hard not to swear
It's more so just like sentence and in the middle of your sentence, if you can't think of a word to say you just say f*ck
(Lists of Scottish swear words)
Rocket, you absolute rocket
Oh no I love that one
Jobby is a good swear word, Aye - that is a swear word that everyone needs to know. It's just literally just a sh*t
I think I'd distrust someone if they don't swear, whereas if someone's swearing in my face I'm like this person
knows what they're all about, they're very genuine. I take offense if they don't swear at me
C-word is commonly used. Alright but it's used as a term of endearment. Exactly - it's not a bad thing
Even on a date - this is how I gauge if I like someone: if I can give them a swear word and they throw it back to me
I'll be like - mhm. Yeah, if you start slagging someone off and then they come back to you with a better insult you're like ooh ya
You paying us for this?
False, false
No, no, no. No, I kinda agree
It's absolutely true. I've seen a thing on Facebook and it was all the countries slagging each other and Hungary's was just
a flag of Scotland cause the slag was for being cheap. I'm just surprised you knew where Hungary was on the map
to be honest. Aye - it was highlighted in the Facebook post.
I don't think we're stingy, I think we're economic. If I'm in the shops and there is a three pounds can of tomatoes
or like a 50 pence brand sh*tty version, I'm gonna go for the 50 pence one. They're tomatoes, same thing. What's the difference?
We're logical and pragmatic. We'd rather save our money to go and get p*ssed
Scottish folk aren't stingy in the pub normally, because you buy a round of beer, and then someone else will buy a a round of beer
and you owe them a beer and then just keep buying rounds of beer
Everyone will buy a round and you just keep going, round and round and round
It depends on the city: so Edinburgh, they're a little more snobby. They'd spend double the price just because of brand name
Even though it's the same standard. There's a good phrase actually, it's "Fur coat me nickers" which basically means
you like to put on a front and you got the nice fur coat on but underneath you can't even afford underwear
Oh aye the noo
Oh aye the noo! No we don't, no
No, we do not say that. No one has ever said that. That has never been said at all. Maybe by some absolutely chictar up
in the North, it's like "top of the morning" thing to you if you're Irish
It means: yes right now. Yes, the now. You would say like - you wanna go to the pub? Oh aye the noo
Whenever you go on holiday or you go abroad or you meet someone who isn't Scottish. As soon as you start speaking
they just go - I'm gonna say your accent straight back at you - terribly. And you're just like ugh god.
and Och aye the noo is just one of the ones they use and you're just like
I've been in America or something and people've been like - oh aye the noo. I'm like - I'm sorry, no.
I'm not gonna acknowledge you saying that. You're dead to me
True, I mean yeah - true
Close - very true. Obviously we eat other things but the fried things are very good. The most famous one, pizza, fried pizza
from the chippy and it is fantastic.
I have had a deep fried haggis pizza which is actually gorgeous
There's actually a chippy down the road from me, well at the end of the week if you bring anything in and you ask them to fry it for you
Mine would be a single sausage from the chippy, which is like a smoked sausage in batter
This is far as stereotypes go but deep fried haggis. I just love it. But it looks funny though when you get it
When I was younger the guy in the chippy was really sound and he'd be like - you'd just walk in and pay 20p to get any
chocolate bar deep-fried. I'm not a fan of like fried Mars bar. It's not very good. It's all melted and then crunchy
It's absolutely heroin-ist
I think it's because we're drunk all the time, that's probably a lot to do with that. You kinda need to get that satisfaction
No, we obviously don't just eat fried food
I mean, that's a tough one
Steak-pie, yeah I was gonna say - a pie. That's a good one
Like steak, chips. Chips are deep fat fried - aye. Crisps, they are deep fat fried? All the good stuff's fried!
In Edinburgh we have our avocado and toast sh*te, but everyone else - the commoners, the peasants
they do like their fried food
Yeah that's very true. I'm from Glasgow and it's chippy upon chippy and takeaway upon takeaway
No, realistic
Aye, I would say so.
Very true. Yeah - I would agree with that. Well that depends on what your life is like there
I'm pretty optimistic, I mean I'm a Glasgow Rangers fan, that's all I'm gonna say
Previously we used to be quite pessimistic
I feel like it's the weather, yeah it's to do with the weather. It's just always very dull, dreary
It's like 14 degrees and it's like "tops off!"
Like the football team is a big part of society. If the football team is doing well then people are optimistic
Imagine in the '70s when Scotland was actually good - aye - once we qualify for the world cup everyone will be happy
Yeah - we'll be optimistic when we get to Qatar and start splashing the money and all that. Lose every game
It has to do with the culture in terms of poking fun at ourselves, so like today's so depressing but we're all just like
oh yeah, but every day is depressing. If we're pessimistic than that means if our expectations are flipped
and we get it wrong, that means we're even happier cause we didn't expect it. Yeah I don't think we're pessimist, we're realist
We know what we're about, we know who we are, we're self aware. Genuine. We're legit
Maybe that we're alcoholics, that's not really that great. Don't give a f*ck about that.
Everybody's just pale and ginger - minus
But no it's true - I think we have so many different types of people in Scotland now, so many different cultures
I just hate when people assume that Scotland is England. So what part of England are you from? Scotland.
The day you meet someone and they go 'ohmygod, mate, my cousin's wife's f*cking dog's gran's auntie's from Scotland
Her name is Margaret. Do you know her? And it's like no of course I don't know who that is. There's like 5M people in Scotland
The immediate thing is always - can you say something in your accent? They try to get you to say something that's just
Purple Burglar Alarm
For me, I've heard quite a lot of people asking - do you live in a castle? I'm like - no, I live in a house
I mean there's a lot of castles in Scotland, but I can't say that they belong to families
If I get one more taxi driver who shouts "freedom" at me, I think I'll open the door, and roll out and kill my f*cking self
because I can't deal with that.. I do say it back though
We're a very passionate nation. The chat, and the humour. We're just always up for it, we're always ready to go at any time
Even if you're gonna go there by yourself you're always gonna make a friend, no matter what
You're gonna be invited out with a random person you just met at the bar and before you know it you're surrounded
by 10 people that think you're family
Incredibly inclusive, so I know for a fact that we're the first nation in the world to include LGBT+ sex education in schools
Anyone from any background is always welcome in Scotland
Glasgow's the friendliest but also the most dangerous - that's true - so they say that there's a chance you're gonna get stabbed
but the person who stabs you will take you to the hospital
If you go to the islands of Scotland, there are actually beaches that are like white sand beaches that you'd find in the Caribbean
You can go traveling there and enjoy the like two days of summer that we get
It's such an amazing place, it's got culture, it's got the people, it's got the booze. What else do you want?