Have you ever wondered if chavs/neds/white trash think they are a much maligned part of society? Just as Phillip K Dick asked 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' one must ask to chavs or neds dream of ghetto gold?
If you are unsure if you are a chav, please complete this quiz. If you are unsure if you are ned (glasgow trailor trash) then may I highly recommend a visit to limmy.com. I would also recommend you get out your best burberry for the occasion.
Ever wonder if ghetto trash have a name for you?
Everytime we heard a siren at work today we feared the worse. The huge, visible police presence at Central Station in Glasgow this morning was reassuring and paradoxically worrying. What I thought was fabulous was the amount of people on my train this morning.
Glaswegians have a bravado and a sense of disrespect that would completely defeat any terrorist. Whilst many people view 'weegies as a bunch of down trodden defeatist, try telling one of them what to do and see how far you get.
I'm sitting here watching the Live 8/Make Poverty History concert from Murrayfield (in Edinburgh) wondering how the people in the crowd REALLY feel about ending poverty in the developing world.
Increasing aid, canceling debt and protesting your little lungs out about all the injustice of poverty in Africa or admiring how cool everyone is whilst wearing their 'MPH' white wrist bands. The real question is does anyone in the crowd really, i mean, really as in they fully understand all the implications fair world trade would mean for them, do they really understand what would happen?
Fair and equitable trade with the developing world means one thing - more expensive prices. Clothes, cameras, computers, cars. Making poverty history may be today's catchphrase, but I truly wonder if anyone - even a single person - at Live 8 or the fantastic and frenzied fanatics protesting in black balaclavas at the site of the G8 summit would honestly consider paying more for everything.
Make poverty history. Please. I am happy to pay for the privilege of living in a world where no child faces the fear of dying from hunger, starvation or easily curable childhood disease. But once we've made poverty history, can we tackle ignorance next?
Hang on, maybe we need to tackle that one first...