What do you know about Scotland & Scottish witness culture (page 3)

boyzone

Yay! Good luck with the leaflets Lorraine - lets hope it'll rattle some cages up there.

"All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing" - Edmund Burke.

There is also the two great football teams. Glasgow Rangers and Glasgow Celtic. Each come attached with their own religion, Protestant and Catholic. Supporters of these rival teams are known affectionately as 'Huns' (protestant) or 'Tims' (catholic). So when you are asked "Are you a Hun, or a Tim ?"...then you are being asked what team you support. When an Old Firm Game is played and televised it will be shown in pubs throughout the city and country. Its a given that both team supporters wont be catered for within the same pub. Their viewing of the game has to be separate. There are 'Celtic' pubs and 'Rangers' pubs.

This rivalry of supporting your 'team' would extend to the brothers. They would 'rib' each other about who was doing better in the League.....and more often than not it would be the better team...Rangers ! Yes.....Im a Hun. LOL. If you're born and bred in Glasgow/ Scotland, its just the way it is. When an 'old firm' game would be played on a Sunday, you would find the numbers in attendance that day at the meeting to drop dramatically. Sisters would come with the kids on their own because hubby had come down with something that day. Also, the local KH is shared between two congregations. If the game was being played in the afternoon, then the morning meeting would be suspiciously full with brothers supposedly paying the other congregation a visit'. Some would be dutiful and would attend the meeting anyway, but would have more toilet breaks than normal, so they could go out to the car to check the score on the radio. One elder, at one time, feebly tried to remind the brothers, that we shouldnt put anything before the meetings and our worship to Jehovah......but at times, football was the bigger pull, and, for the die-hard fans, and those that had season tickets, then.....they would boost the numbers in the football stadium rather than at the KH.

But, in Glasgow....football is a big part of the culture. It is a religion in its own right.

slimboyfat

Scotland is the epicentre of apostasy!

besty

nod to iknowall - Glasgow has both 'Catholic' JW's and 'Protestant' JW's depending on their lineage and which half of the Old Firm they support.

Weak in the faith for a footballing JW resident in Glasgow would be professing support for Motherwell or Partick Thistle.

Fading might be accomplished with a new found interest in any of the football teams from Dundee or Perth.

Apostasy would be to start supporting Hibs or Hearts in the anti-Christ city of Edinburgh.

Of course every religion has its problems and its well known that JW's from Inverness or Aberdeen have policies and procedures that protect all the sheep-shaggers in their midst.

Disclosure - I am a true-bluenose hun, left Glasgow at the age of 3 and left Scotland in 1997. I am part of the MacDiaspora.

iknowall558

BESTY.... pmsl x Actually laughing out loud here.....You can take the boy out of Scotland............

ninja

try walking round to my local shops just before an england game and you will see literally scores of england football tops.....as all the rangers supporters also support england here....it may just be a local thing though

besty

Glaswegians will tend to support England or Ireland at national football depending on which half of the Old Firm they claim as theirs. Actually supporting Scotland is rare in Glasgow. Unless you are a Partick Thistle or Motherwell supporter. Kilmarnock and Ayr United supporters are known for supporting Scotland as they are all related to the famously fecund Rabbie Burns.

Bizarrely most Scotland supporters - the Tartan Army - hail from Edinburgh, which in itself is the 6th biggest English city in the UK - sorry just to clarify, Edinburgh although geographically located in Scotland is in fact part of England. This apparent anomaly has been caused by the inherent 'Englishness' of native Edinburghers and the influx of actual English people seeking the famous better of quality of life Scotland is known for, but too feart <scared> to move anywhere near Glasgow.

So I'm not surprised Ninja is spotting England tops where he lives - just glad he doesn't live anywhere near the Ireland tops in the other half of Glasgow.

"There's only one Thierry Henry.....there's only one Thierry Henry....." <sidepoint>

scotinsw

Pissing myself with laughter here!!!!

Besty you've brightened up my evening here!

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