Scotland. The land of cake. Castles. Kilts. Bagpipes. Tartan. The Loch Ness Monster. And an accent that you might absolutely love, or completely not understand. I was more than a little surprised (and amused) to learn that Scotland’s official national animal is not a bird, deer, squirrel or even a fish. But rather… a unicorn. Yes, really. I guess it makes sense given the Scots' penchant for all things mythical. And their wicked sense of humor.
If you love yourself a good dose of laughter brought on by a quintessential Scotsman or woman, you should head over to a place called Scottish Patter. The Facebook account has more than 754,000 followers. And for good reason. It's a wall of utterly hilarious memes and posts can can only be described as "braw" or "tidy." IYKYK... Bored Panda has put together a list of our utmost favorites from the page. Let us know yours by upvoting them!
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Lovely story. Sweet. But not hilarious. Not funny. Somehow it's at the top of "50 Hilarious Posts That Scottish People Blessed The Internet With (New Pics)"? The URL is even https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-scottish-posts-scottishpatterr/...
Around 1960, when our dad was away for extended periods on business, he would send is letters in the form of audio tapes. We've had them digitized and can hear his voice whenever we want.
Nice but where's the funny part? This is supposed to be a list of *funny* Scottish posts. How did this get the highest score?
Last century, I was put in charge of data changes for a system. Audited what I inherited. Found one change with no supporting paperwork. Asked senior folk if I should remove the one change, they said to leave it. Had eight character field for the paperwork id, put "damifino", and forgot about it. Months later, audit team from headquarters came in. I was somewhere else, my assistant was helping the data auditor. The auditor asked, "What is this Dam Ifino code?" Assistant said, "Not Dam Ifino, it is Dam If I No." Auditor tried to have me reprimanded and failed. He retired a few months later, I sent a cap with DAMIFINO on it to his retirement party. I was informed that he turned very red when he saw it.
Hey guys!! It got past censors!! BP DOESNT UNDERSTAND GLASWEGIAN!!!!!!
And all this time I thought Fuctifano was a Renaissance Italian.
My American use of "F**k if I know" must be generationally derived from my Scottish ancestors...lol
If you're trying to spell something, no one's got a f*****g clue what it is because the posts move up and down as people vote on them. You're just wasting time writing out gibberish.
Load More Replies...Even if you’ve never set foot in Scotland, you might already be quite familiar with the country. Thanks to several blockbuster films that gave us an inside glimpse into the culture, terrain and history of the United Kingdom destination. Whether it’s wizardry, war or the wild ways of teens and young adults going off the rails, many of us have witnessed Scotland in all its good and bad glory.
To be fair some chippy menus are really small print
Load More Replies...That's the joke... he's squinting to see the menu at the chip shop.
Load More Replies...When I work out there in the wild, I saw this expression - the squint eyes struggling to see and the slack jaw of confusion. I know this is what I look like now to the clerks serving me.
"I canny see" For some reason I read that in my dads voice! (My parents still have a pretty strong Scottish accent even though we have been in Australia for like 35 years)
If you’re a Harry Potter fan, we probably don’t have to tell you that parts of the books and movies were set in Scotland. While the battlefields featured in Braveheart also fall within that country. Those who remember the movie Trainspotting might know it was adapted from a book written by Scottish author Irvine Welsh. The characters in the novel and film come from a poverty-stricken area of Edinburgh.
The trouble is, both sides make sense - as seen by themselves. Thinking through someone else's eyes is a rare skill
A lot of people don't realise how very expensive the upkeep of a house often is. When renting the roof, for example, isn't your responsibility (usually anyway!!) but when you own it you need to be able to pay for the maintenance of the property - sometimes that's not much, sometimes it's frighteningly expensive. New boilers/heat pumps, replacement windows... Mortgage providers want you to be able to protect their investment unfortunately. Not ignoring something expensive that ends up rotting the house and making it worth a lot less.
Load More Replies...They don’t have “no way of knowing” if you’ll pay it back. Why do you think they ask for so much financial and employment history? Do you have a record of paying back debts on time? Do you have steady employment? They want to make a reasonably good bet that they’ll get the money they loan plus interest.
I think the people who continue to post a variation of this mortgage vs rent meme simply don't understand that getting a mortgage encompasses so many more expenses than the monthly payment right up front, and that doesn't include the person's ability on future expensive maintenance that is factored into the loan. The lending bank owns your property until the last payment, so you're an investment that they don't want becoming a financial liability.
The bank doesn't "own" your property. They have a declining financial interest in it, which means it is an offsetting value to the value of the load. That's what collateral is, whether it's your house or your bank balance, there is something you *own* (your house) to offset the value of the money you borrowed. They can't take it from you unless you default, then, through many painful legal steps, they can take possession and (typically) sell the property to recover their investment. Depending on the country/locality and various laws, they may only be able to keep the sale proceeds equal to the outstanding balance and the earned equity goes to the owner. The bank has an interest in keeping the value of the collateral up, but not because they own it.
Load More Replies...Scotland has produced its fair share of famous actors, singers and creatives. Think Sean Connery, Tilda Swinton, Ewan McGregor, Annie Lennox, DJ Calvin Harris and Gerard Butler.
It’s also brought us mythical greats like the Loch Ness Monster, or Nessie as it’s known to some. The creature once again made headlines around the world on 1 April, when it was widely reported that scientists had developed photographs from a 50-year-old camera trap that had been set up to capture images of the Loch Ness Monster.
Did that when my mum burnt the boiled potatoes (an achievement in itself) and I said to my dad that they were "crematoes" and we were both corpsing whilst my mum was trying to rescue dinner! One of us would whisper "crematoes!" and we'd be off again!
Those are the best times. It forms the basis of how I choose my besties.
This is one of the few things I miss with my ex. We had times like this, just not frequently enough.
A friend and I were in a fast food place, and this was going on. I almost fell out of the bench. It was late at night, no other customers, and staff were just enjoying the show.
If you can find humor in jail...we were sitting in group, about 40 women in a circle. The one next to me used a lead pencil for eyeliner and she asked me how she looked. I said "Like an internet w***e." She pauses and says "But I AM an internet w***e!" and we couldn't stop laughing. We'd stop, look at each other and it would start again. She was busted for internet p**********n. I merely spit on the arm of a cop. I'm surprised we didn't get written up for it.
“The device is thought to be one of six cameras placed 180 metres (590ft) below the surface in 1970 by Professor Roy Mackal, of the Loch Ness Investigation Bureau, and the University of Chicago,” reads one Daily Mail article.
“It is likely one of the earliest attempts to catch the famous monster on film and, remarkably, remained dry within its clear waterproof plastic container. It was unearthed during trials of a National Oceanographic Centre (NOC) submersible vessel – commonly known as Boaty McBoatface.”
I used to live on a street that was very hard to spell too, we had the same joke going around about Oehlenschlæger street.
Two years in Schleppegrell's street. I know your pain
Load More Replies...Oh hi fellow East Helsinki person! Hertsi here :)
Load More Replies...There are two Indian reservations in the area where I live so there are a quite a few roads and some places that have indian names. Because we grew up around them / used to them they sound normal to me but I get reminded when an out of town English speaker has no idea how to pronounce them.
Yeah sadly I completely believe these stats. When I got my exam results (20yrs ago) everyone was comparing their results and it quickly became clear that 90% of my year (around 200 students) had failed or gotten the lowest possible passing grade.
Actually the stats are deliberately Skewed. This is the reason Scots hate the BBC. what they were referring to was Sixth years doing higher maths (you can do it in fifth year or not at all if you choose) so this sample included pupils who did not take it or actually passed it the year before. The pass rate for those who actually took the subject in sixth year was around 85%
Load More Replies...I dont understand this missing T business. A lot of people mispronounce things, like Brit-ish instead of Bri-tish, but the T is still there, they've just split the word into different syllables.
Load More Replies...George Carlin did a joke on this decades ago: “Have you ever noticed, when you’re driving, that everyone going slower than you is an idiot, and everyone going faster than you is a MANIAC?”
It's one of those irregular verbs: He's a complete menace on the road, you should never have been given a driving licence, I'm "making progress".
Russell's Conjugation - "I am firm, you are obstinate, he is a pig-headed fool.”
Load More Replies...Really? joking with your kids makes you evil? You clearly don't have a sense of humour.
Load More Replies...Turkey is a popular destination for people from Britain to go for dental surgery, particularly aesthetic procedures, much cheaper than the UK.
You have to do your research first though. Botched surgery and bad after-care is claiming victims every year.
Load More Replies...It's a train ticket... Jesus, what's happening over there that IQ's have dropped so drastically? It's even in the post text.
Load More Replies...Yeah yeah...nice try but Rick rolling is sooooo over .
Load More Replies...I was actually wondering if it was him. I haven't seen him in a while, and just thought he had aged very very badly.
Load More Replies...The sports cosplayers are just a bit extra compared to the rest of us
Load More Replies...This was funnier when the poster said they don’t dress as Gail when they watch Coronation Street.
The same reason women wear TS shirts when they go to Taylor Swift concerts, to support their interests!
Little known hint - if you put an extra 'a' in between the "mur" and the "der" it sounds really authentic. Something to do with the Gaelic, I'm told.
You think he's gonna allow her to put the flowers in there?
Load More Replies...This one took me forever. Only when I read numbers out loud I worked it out 🤦♀️
I've read 'em out loud, even in a Scots accent, and I still don't get it.
Load More Replies...Hey! Our local Aldi's here in Virginia carries these! Loads better 'n Hersheys muck!
I'm not even entirely certain Hersheys is in fact chocolate
Load More Replies...i live in Belgian. We once brought these to a friend in Denmark. Chocolates were melted, liquid, so we left them in the car. Next day drove home. Put the whole box in the freezer. Came out nice shaped because of the plastic holder. Ate it. yes, i am fat. No, i didnt get sick :-D
They still make me feel like that, and I don't even like them very much
I would hate that if I hadn't done the same. A local carwash had a sign that read "WE WASH HENWAYS." Time went by and nothing happened. Then one day, my daughter said, "Mom, what's a henway?" I responded, "Oh, about two-and-a-half pounds."
LOL same - I though it was my specs needing a wipe.
Load More Replies...The original document was conserved in what people of that period called "floppy disk"
Both the original email, and OP's comment, sail over my comprehension like a star sails over a sleeping duck
I'm thinking it's just the idea that the student thinks of "the late 1900s" as a long time ago, as the professor could easily have been an author of such a paper of only 30 years ago.
Load More Replies...I studied History but I'm bad with dates... I would've said "from the last decade of the XX century"....
I absolutely hate this. What is even worse, with my job, it can't be the last 10 passwords.
Had this several times, needed a live customer service agent to fix it--not all same company
They could have just popped it round in the police car. May even have got a tip
To be fair cucumber is a silly way of spelling it considering you quite literally start by saying “Q” when you pronounce it. Qcumber
C for seafood. J for gingerbread. L for elephant. Good grief, I'm hooked on phonics.
I didn't realise cucumber was that popular in Milngavie , there's usually only a queue at the chippy
Does the chippy do gherkins? They're technically just 'que'cumbers that have had some work done... :)
Load More Replies..."Banter", you say? -- 'Bally Jerry pranged his kite right in the How's Your Father. Hairy blighter dicky-birded, feathered back on his Sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harper's and caught his can in the Bertie!' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWWPk9jrvqk&t=145s
Bunch of monkeys on the ceiling, sir! Grab your egg-and-fours and let’s get the bacon delivered!
Load More Replies...So first you don't like their roasts, and now you don't like their banter!
And from the purple foil it looks like Cadbury's... Mmmm
Load More Replies...Maybe because you can just fill your face and not look *too* greedy ?
I see kzys59pcrp has finally taken a break from the Rickrolling. Thank god, too.
Oh I wondered what the w****r was doing. Thanks for the info
Load More Replies...This one's over my head. (My apologies, I'm American. I'm not apologizing for being American, only explaining why it's over my head.)
That's to indicate that the country is in distress and needs assistance.
Load More Replies...So many memories of making toast on these in the 80s and 90s. Still have a few scars from the burns too. Haven't seen one for a really long time.
My cat burnt his tail twice on one of those. My idiot roommate burnt a chair.
Load More Replies...Only thing that Chav needs transferred is a solid thump to his schnozz.
She says "a drink," and he says "those drinks," so we have to wait for the forensics now. Or it's as usual. Girls.
For some reason, I've never forgotten the beginning of my first French dialog, which would have been back in 1972. In case someone is looking for Phillip, he's at the swimming pool.
Ah, I remember Phillip. He's the one who rides a bicycle and has a cat called Zazou?
Load More Replies...¿Donde esta la biblioteca? (High school Spanish)
Load More Replies...My classmate put together two random phrases in French and repeated them after bonjour every time he saw the French teacher. It was : bonjour, il neige l'ecole. The teacher was mostly French and couldn't understand what was going on.
"Hello, he snow the school"? Yeah I can understand why teacher was confused
Load More Replies...Do they not have refrigerators in Scotland? Why not just go shopping once a week?
In grad school, my advisor had been trying to get a book through International Library Loan for over two years. One day, he got a note from ILL asking him if he had it. He spun around in his chair, plucked it directly off the shelf behind him, and said, "Oh, it's right here."
Let's just give her a few minutes as we wait for the meds to kick in.
I usually start talking about how it's time to start shopping for a new car and sending this one to the scrap heap. It usually finds a way to fix itself.
I can tell by the background which movie this movie this is from. That expression is priceless and so useful for makers of memes.
Now I'm craving a Colin the Caterpillar cake....trip to M&S later it is!!
Just going to have a sulk as we do not have M&S nor a Greggs.
Load More Replies...We got to play football exactly 1 time in gym class, during my 6yrs in secondary school. Every girl in my class except me 'forgot' their gym kit that day so the teacher reluctantly agreed to let the boys play football. He didn't want me to play but I insisted on joining in. I was (unsurprisingly) picked last and everyone was stunned when i turned out to be a better player than 80% of the boys. Everyone had conveniently forgot that I played for the school's girls team and that we regularly won tournaments against other schools and beat the boys school team every time we played them.(they never won any tournaments)
If you play footie because you want to, in your spare time, nae chance the school will let you play it there. This is character-building, apparently.
"Ned" is Scottish slang for young hooligan, in case the explanation was needed.
How about 10 thugs with guns!!! You live in a super-nice neighbourhood!
... And yet, here you are, spilling the beans to the entire effing planet on social media. Good Job!
Fiat should start making it again, it is still prettier than the cyber truck.
I thought the picture was originally of a cyber truck, and these comments were for that. No? Which one is it?
The picture is a Fiat Multipla, a legendarily ugly vehicle. The commenter stated that it's still better looking than the Cybertruck, which is d@mning with faint praise.
Load More Replies...Lost treasures, like your DS you havent seen in years or smth
Europe: "American portions are WAY too large! No wonder you're all obese!" Also Europe: "The portions in our restaurants are far too small!" (I know, different cases, different establishments, different people complaining. But hey, what's humor without some unwarranted overgeneralization?)
My Granny used to call Bourbon biscuits 'dog biscuits,' as they look like them....she was right!
Controversial perhaps, but I always thought bourbon biscuits tasted like Bonios.
Load More Replies...My mother gave me money to buy a block of driving lessons and I spent it all, and now I need to go for a walk for an hour every Wednesday night to kid on (pretend) that I'm away doing a lesson.
Load More Replies...... and now you're getting walking lessons - and maybe a little lesson about budgeting, as well
Did anyone else say "Rupsi!" in Scooby Doo's voice in their head? Did you add, "Ruh Roh" in there as well?
Aye ya would, because that there is Fat Craig. Skinny Craig is the one without a tattoo.
Load More Replies...BP author wrote "But rather… a unicorn. Yes, really. I guess it makes sense given the Scots' penchant for all things mythical. And their wicked sense of humor." Neither of those are the reason for the unicorn being the national animal of Scotland. The truth is, they chose it because the unicorn is the natural enemy of the lion, and the lion is the national animal of England. The 'auld enemy' immortalised its hatred of the English in its national coat of arms.
Tons of these weren't Scottish at all. Funny....but not Scottish.
Swinton was born in London but the paternal side of her family are Lowland Scots. Likewise, Rod Stewart's father was Scottish, so both are Scots-English.
Load More Replies...BP author wrote "But rather… a unicorn. Yes, really. I guess it makes sense given the Scots' penchant for all things mythical. And their wicked sense of humor." Neither of those are the reason for the unicorn being the national animal of Scotland. The truth is, they chose it because the unicorn is the natural enemy of the lion, and the lion is the national animal of England. The 'auld enemy' immortalised its hatred of the English in its national coat of arms.
Tons of these weren't Scottish at all. Funny....but not Scottish.
Swinton was born in London but the paternal side of her family are Lowland Scots. Likewise, Rod Stewart's father was Scottish, so both are Scots-English.
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