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.
Posted : 10/04/2014 10:14 pm
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..)
Posted : 10/04/2014 10:14 pm
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