"The Scheme" (BBC Scotland Documentary)

by leavingwt 21 Replies latest social entertainment

  • leavingwt
    leavingwt

    NOTE: Mature Language/Content Warning

    The YouTube video below is a 'Best Of' compilation from a British TV show called 'The Scheme'. I'm told it's like a Scottish version of 'Jersey Shore'. As a Mississippi native, I can honestly say that many of these folks would feel right at home, here in the Deep South. This shouldn't come as a surprise, if American redneck culture is a transplant of the Scots-Irish culture.

    Enjoy!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xan2xU-ZFic

  • VIII
    VIII

    White trash?

    These could be my relatives. Just with different accents. Oh, and they are skinnier. I couldn't understand a word the girl in the black bikini said. Her words were unintelligible. Most of them were unintelligible.

    I'm sure someone will come up with the next Jersey Shore:

    Hooterville Hell?

  • cantleave
    cantleave

    The best of British . Makes me proud of my Scottish heritage.

  • St George of England
    St George of England

    So now you know why Hadrian became a brick-layer!!

    George

  • slimboyfat
    slimboyfat

    Hey LWT ur ye denigrating ma toonsfolk ya cheeky bam?

    These could be my relatives. Just with different accents.

    These could be my relatives with the same accents.

  • VampireDCLXV
    VampireDCLXV

    WOW! VIII wasn't kidding! These ppl are indeed uttlerly unintelligible. I couldn't understand even half of it. The only ones who could possibly be worse in this regard would be the Welsh. Egads!

    V665V665

  • slimboyfat
    slimboyfat
    This shouldn't come as a surprise, if American redneck culture is a transplant of the Scots-Irish culture.

    I see it the other way round actually. Traditionally Scots have been a very industrious people, adherents to the Protestant work ethic and all that. It's the global capitalism promoted by the neoliberal elite, principally in the United States, that has produced a workless underclass in many disparate regions of the planet. So I see the problem as an American export not the other way around.

  • cofty
    cofty

    Everything that Slimboyfat just said ya bampot.

    Now pass me that bottle of Buckie

  • leavingwt
  • scotinsw
    scotinsw

    fantastic programme. They had to delay the third episode as someone was arrested and ended up awaiting trial. I'm Scottish (East coast) and had difficulties in understanding the accents (West Coast).

Share this

Google+
Pinterest
Reddit