FCMR Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 Post it here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posters Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 Oh FFS Mind you, if it means that all that drivel doesn't get posted on here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
When Skies Are Grey Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 Yawn.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FCMR Posted June 23, 2005 Author Share Posted June 23, 2005 Oh FFS Mind you, if it means that all that drivel doesn't get posted on here... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> How would the DTL and Government feel if it was Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Addie Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 So the Isle of Man's back in the YUK again? I thought I'd check on Jersey and and found they'd moved too! lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lonan3 Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 Same everywhere! I just hope they've got room enough for this one http://www.hobotraveler.com/co5kingdomcorruption.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ans Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 Another informative thread title. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teapot Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 Same everywhere! I just hope they've got room enough for this one http://www.hobotraveler.com/co5kingdomcorruption.php <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Bloody Hell the Shetlands are a long way off!!!! Let's try and be positive shall we Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Upstream Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 Shetland IS a long way off but I used to pick up Manx Radio 1368 when I visited up there. If you want to immediately fall out with a Shetlander refer to the 'Shetlands'. with an 's'. It annoys them. If they like you they might tell you this if they don't like you they let you carry on! 'Shetland Isles' or 'Shetland' but never the Shetlands. It is akin to referring to the Isle of Man as that place near Southampton or something. (The singular word Shetland means a group of Islands and doesn't need pluralising further.) I just thought I'd mention that for those people from the Isle of Man who are going to the Island Games in Shetland later on in the year. The place has a very strong identity. I hope our people learn something from them. The people of Shetland believe themselves to be Shetlanders first, Norwegians second and possibly Scottish, or maybe, even British next!! Independence is a frame of mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Declan Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 'Shetland Isles' or 'Shetland' but never the Shetlands. It is akin to referring to the Isle of Man as that place near Southampton or something. (The singular word Shetland means a group of Islands and doesn't need pluralising further.) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> So Shetland Isles is tautologous then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Upstream Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 Indeed. A bit like saying: "How are the two twins then" instead of " How are the twins" (that last bit for TheSun readers amongst us). Nothing wrong with The Sun btw. I read it cover to cover in the Students Union at my Yorkshire Uni back in the late 70s/early 80s just to pee off my friends in the Socialist Workers Party. Trolling was invented long before this internet thingy you know. And in any case, I'm sick of Upstream and think it is about time he took a back seat for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Declan Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 Bye, Bye Upstream. (Before you go - Pissing off the student's section of the Socialist Workers Party isn't trolling - their whole raison d'etre is to be pissed off, you were doing them a favour. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steph82 Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 hi i'm from orkney and it's true it does do our heads in when you call it the shetlands and the orkneys! sad but true!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teapot Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 Dearie me!!! Sorry, sorry, sorry all those lovely people in the far away Islands, didn't mean to p..s anyone off, just an observation. Just for the record though, saying "off Island/on Island" really pisses me off!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doric Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 I agree with that one too. athol street people and such use it. i sometime wish that sort they'd just stay off island too. Or perhaps thats being racist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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