Granny Danger Posted June 15, 2019 Author Share Posted June 15, 2019 Don’t know how topical this is, but SNP controlled Ayrshire Council have apparently spent £45k on bilingual English/Gaelic road signs. Gaelic signs. In Ayrshire. Fucking hell. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BawWatchin Posted June 15, 2019 Share Posted June 15, 2019 2 minutes ago, Granny Danger said: Don’t know how topical this is, but SNP controlled Ayrshire Council have apparently spent £45k on bilingual English/Gaelic road signs. Gaelic signs. In Ayrshire. Fucking hell. C**ts can't even speak proper English yet. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted June 15, 2019 Share Posted June 15, 2019 5 minutes ago, Granny Danger said: Don’t know how topical this is, but SNP controlled Ayrshire Council have apparently spent £45k on bilingual English/Gaelic road signs. Gaelic signs. In Ayrshire. Fucking hell. This has been gone through before, the signs had to be renewed anyway and the extra bit of printing cost fuckall, and the tourists like it. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bishop Briggs Posted June 15, 2019 Share Posted June 15, 2019 18 minutes ago, Granny Danger said: Don’t know how topical this is, but SNP controlled Ayrshire Council have apparently spent £45k on bilingual English/Gaelic road signs. Gaelic signs. In Ayrshire. Fucking hell. Based on my journeys, most of the Scotrail stations in and around Glasgow are bilingual. I would guess that less than .01% of the local population (and that's being very optimistic) can speak Gaelic. It all reeks of Mel Gibson's Braveheart (made in Ireland to avoid paying taxes in Scotland) fantasies. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherrif John Bunnell Posted June 15, 2019 Share Posted June 15, 2019 Anything that annoys Sassenach wankers is ok by me. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo Posted June 15, 2019 Share Posted June 15, 2019 On 11/06/2019 at 13:07, Detournement said: If you increase the size of the population you need more services, that's obvious surely? If the immigrants have a high birth rate then that is compounded. The Piketty quote is the perfect example of why the EU economy is failing. 5% every year just disappearing out of the Eurozone. No doubt ending up offshore and being invested into lower wage economies. Migrants aren't going to stop coming so it'll either be the welfare state or the fiscal austerity that go. Quote In other words, each time the countries in the Euro zone produce 100 units of goods and services, they only consume and invest 95 in their own country. Would you care to explain this? I'm not sure Piketty has this right, but I'm willing to learn. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
O'Kelly Isley III Posted June 15, 2019 Share Posted June 15, 2019 Don’t know how topical this is, but SNP controlled Ayrshire Council have apparently spent £45k on bilingual English/Gaelic road signs. Gaelic signs. In Ayrshire. Fucking hell.It's been topical recently in the letters page of the Glasgow Herald. As a matter of interest, does anyone have a rough cost to all of us for that American-controlled nuclear submarine base ten miles down the road from where I'm writing this ? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted June 15, 2019 Share Posted June 15, 2019 How anyone who isn't a native Gaelic speaker can see a road sign and think anything other than 'isn't that interesting that's how it's said in Gaelic' and go on with their day really is beyond me.As a point of pedantry It doesn’t tell you how it’s said in Gaelic. It tells you how it’s written 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted June 15, 2019 Share Posted June 15, 2019 5 minutes ago, topcat(The most tip top) said: As a point of pedantry It doesn’t tell you how it’s said in Gaelic. It tells you how it’s written That is top class pedantry 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lichtgilphead Posted June 15, 2019 Share Posted June 15, 2019 33 minutes ago, Bishop Briggs said: Based on my journeys, most of the Scotrail stations in and around Glasgow are bilingual. I would guess that less than .01% of the local population (and that's being very optimistic) can speak Gaelic. It all reeks of Mel Gibson's Braveheart (made in Ireland to avoid paying taxes in Scotland) fantasies. In the 2011 census, Glasgow City mirrored the Scottish average with 1.7% of the population able to speak Gaelic. Accordingly, the true figure is more than 170 times larger than your guess. An seo gus do chuideachadh 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bishop Briggs Posted June 15, 2019 Share Posted June 15, 2019 12 minutes ago, lichtgilphead said: In the 2011 census, Glasgow City mirrored the Scottish average with 1.7% of the population able to speak Gaelic. Accordingly, the true figure is more than 170 times larger than your guess. An seo gus do chuideachadh Fair enough but do they need Gaelic station signs to use our local trains? Is Gaelic the second language of us Glaswegians? Perhaps we are more likely to speak other European or Asian languages. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted June 15, 2019 Author Share Posted June 15, 2019 19 minutes ago, lichtgilphead said: In the 2011 census, Glasgow City mirrored the Scottish average with 1.7% of the population able to speak Gaelic. Accordingly, the true figure is more than 170 times larger than your guess. An seo gus do chuideachadh I have to say that I am astounded by this figure. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted June 15, 2019 Share Posted June 15, 2019 Why does anyone have a problem with Gaelic on signs? Like, what impact does it have on your life? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted June 15, 2019 Author Share Posted June 15, 2019 1 minute ago, oneteaminglasgow said: Why does anyone have a problem with Gaelic on signs? Like, what impact does it have on your life? Probably more Polish speakers in Scotland than Gaelic. Should we have Polish on signs? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo Posted June 15, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted June 15, 2019 2 minutes ago, Granny Danger said: Probably more Polish speakers in Scotland than Gaelic. Should we have Polish on signs? Certainly. It gives them a nice shiny appearance which aids visability. 22 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lichtgilphead Posted June 15, 2019 Share Posted June 15, 2019 5 minutes ago, Bishop Briggs said: Fair enough but do they need Gaelic station signs to use our local trains? Is Gaelic the second language of us Glaswegians? Perhaps we are more likely to speak other European or Asian languages. You'll probably like this map of railway stations in East & Central Scotland with "no Gaelic, Celtic or other foreign mumbo-jumbo to confuse the traveller" Best of luck using these proper English names next time you travel from "Thicket" to "Mound of Stones Place" through the city centre . 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted June 15, 2019 Share Posted June 15, 2019 Probably more Polish speakers in Scotland than Gaelic. Should we have Polish on signs?No, I don’t think we should.What particular difficulty does Gaelic appearing on signs cause? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
O'Kelly Isley III Posted June 15, 2019 Share Posted June 15, 2019 Probably more Polish speakers in Scotland than Gaelic. Should we have Polish on signs?No, because they'd quickly run out of 'Z' transfers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeartsOfficialMoaner Posted June 15, 2019 Share Posted June 15, 2019 They pay their taxes so are entitled to road signs, Urdu roads signs would be cool as well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin_Nevis Posted June 15, 2019 Share Posted June 15, 2019 47 minutes ago, oneteaminglasgow said: Why does anyone have a problem with Gaelic on signs? Like, what impact does it have on your life? None. However it seems to cause dickless cringers completely disproportional seethe, so i'm all for it. While they're at it, perhaps these dafties could contact the SMC and Ordnance Survey and demand all our mountain name names be anglicised. Ruadh Stac-Mhor absolutely reeks of SNP-inspired Braveheart-ism. I'd rather it was known as "Big Red Stack". 35 minutes ago, MixuFixit said: We don't have a history of destroying the Polish community, so have no particular need to make such a token gesture of restoration. Yet. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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