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Submit Response is a weblog by Jack Mottram, a journalist who lives in Glasgow, Scotland. There are 1303 posts in the archives. You can subscribe to a feed. This post was made on March 12, 2004 and belongs in the misc. category. The previous post was The Rise of The ‘And’ Bands, and the next post is On The Train (For 9 Hours).

Raymond & Suzanne

So, I was walk­ing along mind­ing my own busi­ness yes­ter­day, when the lead­ing scally in a troupe of scal­lies called this out:

Hello Raymond!

[Takes a closer look]

Oh no, it’s Suzanne!

Since I have long flow­ing auburn locks in the manner of a big girly girl, I can see what this young fellow was dri­ving at. And it is cer­tainly more inven­tive - and much fun­nier - than the cries of “Poof!” I have to endure every single sod­ding day of the week, from stunted, screw-​faced little gob­shites in trackie tops and caps. (Keep up lads - I think you’ll find your aver­age iden­tikit poof looks a lot more like you than me.)

But why Ray­mond and Suzanne?

Who they?

Can any Scot­tish folk enlighten me?

Posted at 2pm on 12/03/04 by Jack Mottram to the misc. category.
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  1. I can’t clear up the Raymond/Suzanne thing, but I can sym­pa­thise. Having long hair myself, I get a fair bit of abuse form the neds.

    Fun­ni­est is when they call me a Goth.

    Posted by Gary Fleming at 4pm on 12.03.04

  2. are you sure they were talk­ing to you/

    I find it quite hilar­i­ous when the local colour tell me I’m pure spot­ted by the way

    no, they’re freck­les, and these are stripes, your point exactly?

    Posted by Donna at 5pm on 12.03.04

  3. Yip - defo talk­ing to me. I actu­ally said ‘What does that mean?’ to them at the time, but they responded with incom­pre­hen­si­ble gut­tural hoot­ing noises and ges­tures pre­sum­ably meant to rep­re­sent per­verted homo­sex­ual acts, rather than an expla­na­tion. Funny that.

    I get ‘Goth’ some­times too, Gary - spec­tac­u­larly innacu­rate, that one.

    Posted by Jack at 6pm on 12.03.04

  4. I think that Goth might be an inter­change­able term for poof

    in my school­days swot and snob meant the same thing, pre­sum­ably a person of some intelligence.

    Posted by Donna at 11pm on 12.03.04

  5. shut it you snobby, swotty, poofy goths…

    as for ray­mond and suzanne, i can only assume they are refer­ring to the actor/actress in the scally soap brook­side, suzanne collins and ray­mond j quinn…

    Posted by gape at 2am on 13.03.04

  6. shut it you snobby, swotty, poofy goths…

    as for ray­mond and suzanne, i can only assume they are refer­ring to the actor/actress in the scally soap brook­side, suzanne collins and ray­mond j quinn…

    Posted by gape at 2am on 13.03.04

  7. what are you on about, ya beardy HIPPY!

    Posted by Donna at 12pm on 13.03.04

  8. oddly i never get abuse from neds. in fact, i get an inor­di­nate number of neds saying ‘awright big man?’ which i find even more disconcerting.

    a few weeks ago whilst wait­ing to get into the club with a leop­ard­skin record bag, some ned wan­dered over. i was wait­ing for some wry com­ment about my ‘poofy’ record bag but instead he said ‘awright big man? love your shep­herd­skin bag’, shook my hand and walked off.

    when i had long hair i would fre­quently get shouts of ‘are you a boy or a girl?’. i usu­ally found that a retort of ‘why don’t you suck my dick and find out?’ would ter­mi­nate the con­ver­sa­tion rather rapidly. i should per­haps add that having long ago mas­tered the art of giving neds the impres­sion that i might pos­si­bly be a total psycho has ensured that no ned vio­lence ever resulted from that quip.

    Posted by stirmonster at 7am on 16.03.04

  9. I would like to ded­i­cate this to Gape, who wrote a mes­sage on the 13th of March 2004. ]

    Well, Gape, who­ever you may fuck­ing be, I would just like to get this into your thick pathetic brain, Brook­side is not a soap for scal­lies at all. I live near Liv­er­pool, the same place were Brook­side came to life. Even though I don’t rememem­ber watch­ing it, I have watched videos of it, and I think it is fantastic.

    I am also good friends with Suzanne Collins, and I find it sick­in­ing that you would want to write some­thing harsh about her. Your just fuck­ing jeal­ous that she got the role of Nikki Chad­wick in the soap, not you. Well NEWS­FLASH bitch, Suzanne was the lucky one, not you. I would describe Suzanne as being a lovely, caring, beau­ti­ful young lady, with a fan­tas­ticly made career, unlike you.

    And as for Ray­mond Quinn, I don’t really know him per­son­ally, but it seems to reflect a response that your just plain jeal­ous about him being famous, like Suzanne is.

    So to clear of this state­ment, keep your fuck­ing com­ments to your­self you nasty cow.

    With all my love, Me :]

    Posted by Jenii at 8pm on 15.12.07

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