Lola at the Coffee House

lol i'm from Dundee, and it has arguably the most difficult combination of dialect and accent.

a good example is anything pronounced "eye", becomes "eh", (a hard "e" like in "very"), as does the word "yes" (because in the rest of scotland it is of course, "aye.")

e.g. eh, eh ken. it's in meh eh. - yes, i know. it's in my eye

and the letter "i" is pronounced "u" like in "mud".

anyway, where's that wassau?... eh wan a peh 'n chups. and a glass of mulk please.

"An' an ingin' ane an' a"

(buying some items at the baker's)

lmao..i'd forgotten that one

twa plain bridies!!!

...and an onion one as well.

so what part of bonnie Alba are ye fae McTag?

Is this your statue? Cut down on the horse pie.

Yeah well Lola!! Obviously that's nothing compared to 22 Republican senators voting in favour of violence against women.

apparently, in his youth, my grandad was in poland, and he overheard 2 old women talking in the street. one said "ehm fae Dundee, but donnae tell onywan". don't know how true that is, but i like it.

hehehe it's over 20 years since i left, and in that time caird square has totally changed, almost beyond recognition.....McColl's is still there though.

As the actress said to the Parliamentary Committee on Safe Sex.

The only difference between Scotland and anywhere else is that the population there is just as mad but in a slightly original and unique way.

As Tolstoy might have said "sane people are the same the world over and there are so many forms of madness that only a small fraction of them have been discovered so far".

i think that's true of most nationalities/cultures though isn't it? we all got our quirks innit.

I don't know Jock. I had just watched the first 15 minutes of a BBC2 in depth look at how mass transit systems are operated.

A bunch of us had to testify at a "Board Planara" in Dublin. It was about mining some slags that contained a large amt of rare earths.
The scientsit (a chemist) we had from GLEZZGO, was unintelligible that the entire audiences in the hearings were quiet as mushrooms and all had their heads turned in his directionall of them with quizzical eyes and enlarged eyeballs so they were all trying hard . EVERYONE was trying to understand this guy (even the Irish geologists were looking like they were gonna have a stroke from trying to figure out what he was saying).
Its gotta be as tough an accent as anyplace on earth. Id dealt with Taiwanese who spoke little english (And what they did speak was usually all wrong)-But I understood the TAiwanese after but a few tens of minutes . The guys from GLEZZGOW were almost impossible. Took me days and days and I still fucked up and had to ask the guys to repeat often.

BUT it was a blast, the place and the geology was neat , as was the way the town was layed out on a ridge . I loved it(as long as it wasnt dark). I never got used to the late sunrises in the winter and the early sunsets

I had also heard a lady who had the task of dispensing government grants aimed at regenerating the High Street.

She said "We have reduced the rate of vacancies and that must be a good thing for occupancy."

i thought that stobbarts programme was on ch5.

Gimme a hot chocolate with some malt (No whipped cream, Im driving)

All you needed to do was stop in bed until lunchtime and get to the pub for opening time.

yeah glesgae is harsh, it's like bein mauled by a pack of angry rottweilers when a glaswegian speaks to you.

is there a pool table in this joint?

i think this place has anything you want.

any chance of a cabbage sandwich, with milk and 2 sugars?

that's a sign it's almost bedtime...im gibbering