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Sashadroogie

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scot47

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Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2015 7:03 am Post subject: |
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Wherever I went on Planet Terra I seemed to come across people behaving like this. Not all were Scots. |
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Sashadroogie

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Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2015 7:52 am Post subject: |
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I love the way the coppers are so reasonable...for the cameras. |
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sheikh radlinrol
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Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2015 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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scot47 wrote: |
Wherever I went on Planet Terra I seemed to come across people behaving like this. Not all were Scots. |
My Glasgow upbringing inured me to this kind of conduct. We Scots are decent folk but...... |
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sparks
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Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 2:28 pm Post subject: |
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I don't know why everyone was all on his face. He was just drunk on an airplane:) |
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Dedicated
Joined: 18 May 2007 Posts: 972 Location: UK
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Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 2:48 pm Post subject: |
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I don't know why everyone was all on his face. He was just drunk on an airplane |
Hardly.....he sexually assaulted a female cabin crew member, used threatening and abusive behaviour and assaulted somebody. His behaviour was so frightening, the plane had to be diverted to Gatwick and delayed for 2 hours, until flying on to Turkey.
He was jailed for 9 months and placed on the sex offenders' register.
Totally obnoxious. |
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peripatetic_soul
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Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 9:11 pm Post subject: What a tosher! |
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I don't know the exact meaning of tosher (not in my AE "productive" vocab) but one can extract the gist from the context and find it quite a colorful noun. Is there an equivalent verb as well (to tosh?).
As Scot noted, 'tis not a phenomenon unique to only Scots. You can find obnoxious drunks anywhere in the world.... well, almost.
Cheers,
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grahamb

Joined: 30 Apr 2003 Posts: 1945
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Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 10:51 pm Post subject: Name game |
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It's a play on words. Tosser is a an abusive term similar to w*nk*r. The culprit's surname is Tosh, hence tosher.
A year or two with the sisters in Shawshank Prison would dampen Mr Tosh's ardour. |
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Sashadroogie

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Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2015 8:04 am Post subject: |
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Also reflects how 'tosser' would be pronounced under the influence
Outdone myself there, I think, hic! |
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scot47

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Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2015 8:20 am Post subject: |
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Discussion under way about introducing "bouncers" at Glasgow Prestwick Airport to deter people arriving drunk for flights. |
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