EmsquaredHeading for #Milngavie where I will feel both out of place and at home.
Bob Thomson@emsquared interesting. What is homely about it to you do you think? Couldn’t wait to escape it to town as a kid but liked it well enough at age 45-50 :)
@bobthomson70 I think I feel safer there than Glasgow but at the same time it's very much not for me. It's an odd juxtaposition.
@bobthomson70 It may also be that (and I feel bad about this) another English enclave where I don't have to be quite so careful opening my mouth and getting judged for it
@emsquared sad that is a factor at all but can't deny people's experience when it is :(
@bobthomson70 I meet Americans here who just say they're Canadian but that probably a UK wide kick back these days. I haven't had too much ill will but am keenly aware that some are very suspicious of me.
@emsquared personally I find people are more skeptical of posh sounding folk than anything but can imagine some US hostility now, just not from Reform fans presumably
LionelBI suspect that splits. They are a strange ragbag.
@lionelb @emsquared a ragbag of bawbags.
@bobthomson70 I mean I don't identify as being English but obviously I sound like I am and that can be loaded. I'm a citizen of nowhere.
@emsquared Milngavie, even the Scots in it, has always been a game of two halves anyway. Maybe less so now and more gentrified but it used to be very much 'bought house' / 'cooncil hoose' and that was one of the best things about the 2 schools I went to, that mixture and not being separated, much as it could be fractious, it was more healthy than being segreated by school.
@bobthomson70 Yes. What a world. I'm part of Glasgow in that I'm not playing the "I am considerably more middle class than yow" (Jesus I grew up in Luton FFS) but don't fit into the ridiculously toxic and ever present sectarianism other than my accent sometimes flags me as a representative of the enemy. It's way less status driven that England but there are still great divides.
@emsquared especially if you are a “kaflick”
@bobthomson70 Yep. Can't blame them. I do find that Unionists assume I'm pro union and those with Irish heritage hold me in contempt for just my accent of upbringing. Not all but I just have to be careful.
@emsquared aye I mean, rampant colonialism eh it’s a rough one with a long shadow.
@bobthomson70 I mean it is justifiable contempt if only for the fact I wasn't directly involved.
@emsquared true, same shit with the tobacco lords and Dorian Gap for may Scots. Reparations innit. I think with Ireland what grates a lot is the total ignorance of most folk as to what went on due to education that papers over anything bad and we can see plenty who want to extend that approach and deny history :(