[Football] Don't be a Dundee United!

[Eeyore]

Half my family are from Dundee.
What does that make me?

Half wit ?

 

[Eeyore]

Very true. I was there in 1983 based on East Falkland, we were told not to call the locals Benny, and so it became "Stills". In "retaliation" the locals referred to us as "Wheni's" as in "When I was in....." as most serviceman will include in nearly every conversation stories of "When I was in...., Cyprus, Germany, etc

I was down the Falklands when the order about refraining from calling the Islanders “Bennys” was issued.
The Army General who was Senior Officer South Atlantic was General Peter De Le Billiere, at the time,previously Commanding Officer Special Forces, and later, of Gulf War fame.

SNOWFLAKE!!

If I could do one thing that would make me complete before I die it would be play a cricket match in the Falklands.

I'm guessing the season is short...

 

[WATFORD zero]

the sweaty socks on board used to use the term 'dunderheads'? = stupid

I believe you'll find it's pronounced Doonderheeds and often preceded by Yerwee

 

[FloatLeft]

There's a lovely story in today's Guardian investigating how 'Dundee United' has apparently become a byword for fool in Nigeria:

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...how-dundee-united-became-an-insult-in-nigeria

I love that people have been using the term without even knowing that Dundee is a place, or has two football teams and a university. If you don't know the origins of the insult and then heard of the place and its institutions, it must be the equivalent of the Scots finding out that there is a city called 'Barnpot' which has a Barnpot United and a Barnpot University!

I thought the Scottish term was ‘bampot’ not ‘barnpot’

 

[Stato]

I thought the Scottish term was ‘bampot’ not ‘barnpot’

You''re probably right. I've probably misheard.

 

[nickbrighton]

I think you missed a stage. Before 'Normattas' they were (apparently) called 'Andys' as in "And he's still a Benny!". But yeah, it kept the language police on their toes!

I had not heard of Normattas, but Benny, Stills, and Andys were common terminology in use when i was doing my two tours there

 

[Hampden Park]

Aye laddie, aye. (WATFORD zero), forgot to press reply with quote.