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Today my boiler was fixed by a Glaswegian Sikh plumber. Not a combination I'd have expected. He did a good job by the way.
(Hopes the thread doesn't get hijacked by the usual nonsense...)
Not a combination I'd have expected.
Why....aren't there many Glaswegians where you live ?
Pesky Sikhs, we get everywhere! Some of us even fix boilers 🙂
The first Glaswegian I ever met was a Sikh, nice guy. I'm almost certain he could have fixed my boiler, had I asked him.
Do I need a point..?
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I guess we don't get many Sikhs or Glaswegians here, so a combination of the two was unusual.
I'm almost certain he could have fixed my boiler, had I asked him.
Apparently, Sikhs are genetically predetermined to fix boilers.
Something called the Honeywell gene.
Did he have a tartan turban ?
I once got a taxi driven by a Sikh. In Seattle. He had an American accent and it was wrong, wrong, wrong.
'Murica!
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Reminds me of the one and only time I went to Ireland. Flew into Limerick, and got the bus to my friend's place. There were two black guys on the bus talking away in broad west-coast Irish accents, it really struck me as surreal at the time. Sheltered upbringing I guess!
Jamie - stop it right now. There are only three acceptable accents for Sikhs - cut-glass English, Indian and Glaswegian.
Fact.
<calms self as world collapses>
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Though to be fair your Captain Sikh America is a cracking photo. 🙂
Ok ok, I lead a sheltered life. Looks like Sikhs also fix stuff. Not sure on his Glaswegianess though.
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He appears to have a deep fried Mars bar in his pocket, so safe to assume he is a Glaswegian.
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😆
There's a big new gurdwara on the South side - just finished last year, I think - so there's a decent size Sikh community in Glasgow.
Used to see them turn up at various fun runs - including one year all wearing "Guru Nanak Wants You" t-shirts in the style of The Lord Kitchener poster 😉
There's a big new gurdwara on the South side
Next to a plumbers merchants?
Directly opposite a builders yard, according to Streetview 😀
Well, never knew Plumber was a race.
If it had been an African plumber you'd have found that the heat exchanger, gas valve, thermostat and fan in your boiler would have been mysteriously exchanged for "fairly used" ones from down at the local spare parts market.
*Large Ethnic population in large British city shocker* 🙄
I work in Glasgow from time to time, and eat out when we're staying over. (I could write a book on Glasgow curry houses)
Sikhs with Glaswegian accents always make me smile. 😀
What race was he?
Sikh's rock. I also love how they can be both patriotic [u]AND[/u] still have their group-identity.
(I grew up around Sikhs). For the most very good, humble and capable people.
I must say the most incongruous ethnic mash-up I've ever encountered was a German Rastafarian I overheard in a cafe near Lake Garda. His accent was something to behold.
P.S, loving the quick draw photoshop Jamie
Today my boiler was fixed by a Glaswegian Sikh plumber. It was Not a combination Boiler as I'd have expected.
FIFY
Guy works for me, whiter than a Persil advert bed sheet comes from Kingston....Jamaica.
His accent is something to behold, most people assume he's putting it on, he tells me about all the shit he's had for it. Scary stuff
I once worked with a girl who had Chinese family but was born in Northern Ireland. She totally threw me when I first spoke to her, as every Chinese female I'd met before were very softly spoken, she had the typical harsh/loud NI accent
Sikhs in Glasgow? I loved this show
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/meet-the-magoons
How do they ware safety hats on a building site??
How do they ware safety hats on a building site??
Assume this comment was a link to this [url= http://www.deccanchronicle.com/140409/world-europe/article/uk-sikhs-now-allowed-without-safety-hats ]news[/url]
Now just imagine a sikh cycling helmet debate thread.....
How do they ware safety hats on a building site??
Totters crash turbans, obviously
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[quote=Drac ]Well, never knew Plumber was a race.
Don't be silly - clearly he's racially Glaswegian.
Hmm saw a Rasta last week wearing a safety hat on a site I drove past, was literally balanced on top of his dreads, how it stayed on I don't know, surely he could put a case forward now to be exempt from wearing one?
houns-
Mrshora now sounds like a Manc.
My sis in law sounds like a brummie.
(Both were Yorkshire-Chinese born and bred).
I however, will always sound like a Yorkshire lad.
Weegie Sikhs can cook too see Hardeep Singh Kholi and Tony Singh.
Hardeep is often on R4 but is not as funny as his brother Sanjeev.
Other Glaswegian cooks and heating maintenance personnel are available.
Had a Sikh work colleague lovely bloke, Guardian reading liberal etc etc but...
Was quite worried one of his daughters was possibly going off the rails (in his eyes) at uni, dating English boys, and hoping that nothing would come of it. All came good in the end though, she ended up being 'introduced' to a nice Sikh lad from a good family, with good prospects, they married, ended up emigrating to Seattle. Taxi driver line above reminded me of this.
However, my friend was a bit pissed one night while the daughter was still running wild, and he confessed that, in his eyes there was a definite hierarchy of suitable partners for his daughter, with Blacks and Untouchables being at the bottom-marriage to either would sadly mean the end of contact with his daughter.
He had no prejudices that I saw with regard to working with people of any race, or drinking with them, just didn't want his kids getting married to someone outside his own race and caste. Unsure whether this is racial discrimination or not.
Was in pub on Lincolnshire Wolds and Chinese bloke came in with his family. Wanted to know why his house was always referred to as Black Bobs house? The Landlord told him because a Black Bloke called Bob used to live there (obviously) and the house was a good spot to use to give directions from ie turn left at Black Bobs house!
I then pipped up "but we are changing the name
now". He said "oh i liked that name whats it going to be called now" I said are you "seriously? Honestly [u]Steve[/u] can't you work that out?
For those who can't it is now called Chinese Steves House. He was amused even when I asked him which chippy he owned!!! But his white wife was definetly not amused!!
saw a big black guy riding along the river the other week wearing full-on lederhosen complete with ankle socks and frilly shirt. made me smile.
saw a big black guy riding along the river the other week wearing full-on lederhosen complete with ankle socks and frilly shirt. made me smile.
Useless without pics.
.vinnyeh - Member
Had a Sikh work colleague lovely bloke, Guardian reading liberal etc etc but.....However, my friend was a bit pissed one night while the daughter was still running wild, and he confessed that, in his eyes there was a definite hierarchy of suitable partners for his daughter, with Blacks and Untouchables being at the bottom-marriage to either would sadly mean the end of contact with his daughter.
He had no prejudices that I saw with regard to working with people of any race, or drinking with them, just didn't want his kids getting married to someone outside his own race and caste. Unsure whether this is racial discrimination or not.
Nothing to be unsure of racism end of.
Unsure whether this is racial discrimination or not.
What?
The?
****?
Insert Fry from Futurama meme here.
vinnyeh - Member
Had a Sikh work colleague lovely bloke, Guardian reading liberal etc etc but...Was quite worried one of his daughters was possibly going off the rails (in his eyes) at uni, dating English boys, and hoping that nothing would come of it. All came good in the end though, she ended up being 'introduced' to a nice Sikh lad from a good family, with good prospects, they married, ended up emigrating to Seattle. Taxi driver line above reminded me of this.
However, my friend was a bit pissed one night while the daughter was still running wild, and he confessed that, in his eyes there was a definite hierarchy of suitable partners for his daughter, with Blacks and Untouchables being at the bottom-marriage to either would sadly mean the end of contact with his daughter.
He had no prejudices that I saw with regard to working with people of any race, or drinking with them, just didn't want his kids getting married to someone outside his own race and caste. Unsure whether this is racial discrimination or not.
Not at all uncommon, I believe. Back at uni I had a Sikh girlfriend for over a year. We were both living overseas at the time, away from our respective families, so she got away with it. She was honest about long term prospects the minute it looked like it was getting serious, said that there was no way we could be a couple back in the UK as her family would disown her. To be fair, it was just her dad. She actually told her sister about me, and reckons her mum suspected something but never asked. But she said her dad would basically disown her and the rest of her family would have gone along with it out of respect, or tradition, or whatever you'd call it.
Apparently I was about mid-way down the pecking order of offensiveness, as far as suitors for his daughter were concerned - Muslims were top of the list, then black guys, then ol' whitey here, then I think it was Hindus. It was a strange mix of religions and ethnicities, anyway!
I have a black mate who was brought up in an orphanage in Dublin and has a strong Irish accent. Anyway he was captain of the boxing team at uni, auditor of the L and H, got a 1st and ended up for a while writing a PhD at Cambridge. Nobody could work him out as no stereotype fitted.
I guess it down to racial groups you are used to seeing. So a Glaswegian Sikh is probably nothing unusual. Here in Liverpool we have a decent Chinese and Black population, but hardly any Asians and next to no Sikhs.
I remember travelling away to watch Liverpool play Coventry. One of the police on duty was a Sikh lad, but instead of a helmet he had a turban with a west mids police badge on the front. I guess it wasn't something that we see in liverpool, but the stick he got from the liverpool fans was disgusting and embarrassing. I remember apologising on behalf of the large section 'our' fans. Tbf he seemed great, had heard it all before and eventually put some of them in their place.
Ok ok, I lead a sheltered life. Looks like Sikhs also fix stuff. Not sure on his Glaswegianess though.
It's one of those odd genetic/racial things, but I've read in a number of places that Scots and Sikh are natural-born engineers; certainly the number of great engineers that Scotland has produced seems to bear this out, and Sikhs were highly regarded as engineer/mechanics during the war, so a Glaswegian Sikh is a pretty much unbeatable combination with a toolkit. 😀
One of my ex's is half-Chinese, her mum Singapore ethnic Chinese, her late dad a short, hairy Brummie. Kim was brought up in Wiltshire, and had no significant accent, normally; she could, however, drop straight into broad Brummie, which was a bit disconcerting from a beautiful Chinese lass.
Mate of mine, of ****stani decent, served in the RAF for several years - including the Falklands War.
One of his colleagues at one point was a big black lad of Glaswegian extraction.
They both did a stint as Red Arrows ground crew & got to serve all over the place. Apparently Sweden was good fun because of the low levels (at that time) of non-white Swedes, combine their 'exotic' looks with a Red Arrows badge & those two guys were up to their eyeballs in Swedish blondes (barstards..)