Ribh's D'Coopage

[Ribh]

I really need to visit Scotland. My grandmother was Scotch English mix along with some Cherokee mixed in (her grandmother was 100% Cherokee). My Grandfather was entirely English background. His ancestors snuck into the states and were disinherited for marrying heathens.

Whereabouts in Scotland. My GGM was a Skye woman [last Gaelic speaker in the family] & my GF was from a small town on the nor'eastern coast of Inverness. It is beautiful country but poor ~ & when I was there, really short on young families.

 

[MaryJanet]

MJ, My Aussie speak is pretty good but I totally missed that one.

If you visit and someone says Aussie Aussie Aussie the answer they want to hear is oi oi oi. If you don't say it you get a nasty comment or maybe even violence (as in fisticufs, generally speaking we don't do weapons in public unless we're already engaged in criminal activity - farmers and hunters are usually v sensible with firearms) .

 

[rjohns39]

Whereabouts in Scotland. My GGM was a Skye woman [last Gaelic speaker in the family] & my GF was from a small town on the nor'eastern coast of Inverness. It is beautiful country but poor ~ & when I was there, really short on young families.

If you visit and someone says Aussie Aussie Aussie the answer they want to hear is oi oi oi. If you don't say it you get a nasty comment or maybe even violence (as in fisticufs, generally speaking we don't do weapons in public unless we're already engaged in criminal activity - farmers and hunters are usually v sensible with firearms) .

Thank you both... I was given a bye at the bar when I didn't understand. Anyway, they were drinking my boose so that made it all ok.

Jeannie, I'll have to look at ancestry... I haven't been there for a long time and still have a ton of research to do. I did see a pic at an English airport of a women I swear was one of my Grandmother's relatives... She got out of bootlegging when liquor became legal and sold her still to glennfiddich. No evidence to support that, but since I was bootlegging at the time, I thought it was very cool. I had 13 different labels in Saudi.

 

[Ribh]

If you visit and someone says Aussie Aussie Aussie the answer they want to hear is oi oi oi. If you don't say it you get a nasty comment or maybe even violence (as in fisticufs, generally speaking we don't do weapons in public unless we're already engaged in criminal activity - farmers and hunters are usually v sensible with firearms) .

That's weird. The only place I've ever heard the Aussie, Aussie, Aussie thing is @ the sports ~ & then only on t.v because I don't do most sport ~ the exception being the Socoroos & that is always such a fraught experience it is not recommended for sane individuals.

 

[Ribh]

She got out of bootlegging when liquor became legal and sold her still to glennfiddich. No evidence to support that, but since I was bootlegging at the time, I thought it was very cool.

In Ireland & Scotland everyone had a still for donkey's...probably because the water was undrinkable for centuries ~ & up in your Appalachians probably also true cause everything drained into the waterways, including the middens & ick!

 

[MaryJanet]

That's weird. The only place I've ever heard the Aussie, Aussie, Aussie thing is @ the sports ~ & then only on t.v because I don't do most sport ~ the exception being the Socoroos & that is always such a fraught experience it is not recommended for sane individuals.

Oh right, that's lucky! It was Australia day and I was approaching a bar to go to a gig when a drunk man said it to me out of the blue. I don't like to do it outside of sports because it's too nationalistic. I do a more quiet and respectful type of patriotism. I love Australia but that's not the same as hating other places or cultures.

 

[MaryJanet]

See I'm clueless on your socceroos reference, but I'm guessing they don't win very often?

 

[MaryJanet]

In Ireland & Scotland everyone had a still for donkey's...probably because the water was undrinkable for centuries ~ & up in your Appalachians probably also true cause everything drained into the waterways, including the middens & ick!

Not sure what's happening up in Queensland @Ribh, but here lots of people are setting up micro breweries and micro distilleries, it's awesome!

 

[Ribh]

See I'm clueless on your socceroos reference, but I'm guessing they don't win very often?

Oh, they win... but they like coming from behind. And I really only do soccer because nearly all mine played @ a quite high level. They're the sports nuts.

 

[Ribh]

Not sure what's happening up in Queensland @Ribh, but here lots of people are setting up micro breweries and micro distilleries, it's awesome!

Home brewing has always been a thing on the islands. Most just do a light beer but white spirits is a thing for some & that's not good news.