[Closed] Burns Night

Any scot is welcome at my house. I'm having a Chinese burns night.

RACIST!!!

(I think) 🙂

In a hotel and they ran out of haggis. Tried for a free whisky but they weren't having it. Shambles.

Tried my 17mth old son with a wee bit of haggis tonight. He demolished it and wanted more. Mind you had to go to sainsburys as local tesco down here didn't have any in.

Back up on call so can't enjoy any of the lovely Laphroag I have in. :

I still dinnae ken some of that lingo after 14 years of being up here, like 😉

I do like decent haggis, neeps, tatties and a spot of gravy though, nom, nom, nom 🙂

gravy?!?

Aye!

Gravy!

Hmmm, maybe it is a contemporary twist on a traditional Scottish dish? 😉

Did a Burns night at Beavers tonght. Kids loved the Haggis, & didn't seem overly concerned when we read out the ingredients afterwards. 🙂

ahh that's why they were advertising haggis as the butchers. Damn, I was hoping they were just getting them in stock regularly. At least Costco always has them 🙂

Tried my 17mth old son with a wee bit of haggis tonight. He demolished it and wanted more.

Our daughter was weaned on haggis, neeps n tatties 😀

We may live in Northumberland, but I'm still hoping to instil some trace of Jockery in her. 🙂

Did a Burns night at Beavers tonght.

Kings of Leon did a song about that.

Lovely drop of Bowmore last night. Just about enough to wet the bottom of the glass, but I drink it for the taste and smell, so that's fine.

No haggis though - January's a 'get-fit' month and although lovely, haggis is about the worst thing you can eat. And I can't just eat a single forkfull and stop.

Are the [i]neeps[/i] from [i]neeps and tatties[/i] turnips as in swedes or turnips as in the smaller white things?

went round to some friends of t'missus last night for haggis, neeps and tatties.

Haggis was lovely, but unfortunately, I was the designated driver, so didn't get to wash it down properly.

Dave

Last night in my local, we had a guy dressed up playing bagpipes, recitals of Burns poems, a glass of whisky and some haggis, ptatoe and gravy all followed by a Burn/Scotland themed quiz - all at no cost quite enjoyed it but still not sure who this Burns guy is!?

The neeps are swede.

Nothing unhealthy about a bit of Haggis. I'm also on a get fit january but don't see anything wrong with a wee portion of offal and veg. Kept off the whisky mind...

Deep fried haggis after a few pints of Belhaven 90' - memories of a mis-spent youth! But got engaged to a nice wee lassie (met in Scotland) on BN a few years ago so we had a wee dram to toast Rabbie last night to celebrate.

At least Costco always has them

Just finished off a Costco one last night, very nice.

I noticed the pasty shop at the station was selling haggis pasties last week. The ultimate in made-up traditional-fare fusion-food maybe, narrowly beating a chicken tikka pizza.

Roseberry to his lady says,
"My hinnie an my succour,
"O shall we dae the thing you ken,
"Or shall we tak oor supper?"
Fal, lal, &c.
Wi modest face, sae fou o grace,
Replied the bonny lady;
"My noble lord dae as you please,
"But supper is na ready."
Fal, lal, &c

can we just have the haggis and whisky without having to endure that gibberish.

oh and you can get those bagpipes right up you whilst you're at it.

Somebody'll be telling us it's a proper language next.

But tm +1. It's shoite.

can we just have the haggis and whisky without having to endure that gibberish.

🙄 I don't think that one is particularly hard to understand or gibberish. But if you want a rough translation:

Roseberry to his lady says,
"My honey and my succour,
"Shall we do [i]the thing you know[/i],
"Or shall we have our dinner?"

With modest face, so full of grace,
Replied the pretty lady;
"My noble lord do as you please,
"But dinner is not ready."

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Executive Translation: Bloke says [i]"Shall we shag or have dinner?"[/i], missus says [i]"Well, dinner isn't cooked yet..."[/i]. Wahay!

Thanks to radio 4, I was quite surprised a couple of months back to learn that he'd penned a ditty called "Nine Inch will please a Lady". I'll let someone else post the rough translation of it 🙂

Yep it's quite rude. As is pretty much all the poems/songs in Merry Muses.
Most cannot be repeated here without a fair bit of censorship (the C and F words are not recent inventions it seems)

Read the PDF here at your peril:
http://www.robertburns.org.uk/merrymuses.htm
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[b]Nae Hair On’t[/b]

Yestreen I wed a lady fair,
An ye wad believe me,
On her * there growes nae hair,
That’s the thing that grieves me.

It vexed me sair, it plagued me sair,
It put me in a passion,
To think that I haed wad a wife,
Whase * was oot o fashion.

so the great cultural icon was a kind of 18c sid james then ?

don't think you're in any position to vilify someone's mode of speech...
aloight?
😀