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I know it's essentially an Amsterdam forum, but following recent events I feel I should lay tribute to an outstanding citizen..

I'm guessing a few of you folks will have kept up with the news and seen the attack on Glasgow International last week...

It's a sad time, it's the first terrorist attack on central Scotland ever.

"As the Jeep's engine revved and the passenger started chucking the petrol containers out the windows like he was Santa in Shettleston, one man stepped in to help The Law take control."

JOHN SMEATON YOU ARE A LEGEND, YOU ARE GLASGOW THROUGH AND THROUGH! IF IN DOUBT, KNOCK THEM OUT!!!! (please excuse the caps, required for effect)

For a few crazy hours, the English media went a bit mad and let our very own Braveheart rule the airwaves. When the camera cut back to the studio, you could see them blinking and wondering just what language it was they had just heard.

"This isney happnin! You're no hitting the Polis mate, there's nae chance"

"So I ran straight towards the guy, we're all trying to get a kick-in at him, take a boot to subdue the guy."

When asked by ITV News what his message to terrorists was: "Glasgow doesn't accept this. This is Glasgow; we'll set about ye"

Never a truer word spoken!

ABSOLUTE LEGEND!!!!

I was watching it all as it happened (all the while thinking "holy shit, that's 20 minutes away from my house") and they had plenty of West Enders (well-to-do area, affluent, arty, poncey) and plenty of Tcheuchters, and I wondered... "Where the fuck are all the real people?" not that West Enders and Tcheuchters aren't real people, but they aren't a good representation of most Glaswesgians.

Then on came Smeaton...

"Aye.... right, aye ... everythin' wis gaun pure bananas right, and I sees this guy runnin' towards me ... and he wis on fire right... and I didnae know wit tae dae, so I just chinned him"

I salute this man and everything that stood for.

A little more quotage:

"Attack our beloved Glesga will you? Nae chance wi' John the superhero aroon' wi' the fist and doon wi' the heid, terrorists beware John is here. Oan yersel', bigman."

A message warned: "We have 5million John Smeatons, so be afraid."

Another comment said: "Good to see nobody's gony take this s**** aff these bams."

"That’s right Osama, this is how we do things in Raintown. This ain’t London. There’s no stiff English upper lip here, no WAGs. And it sure ain’t Edinburgh - they’d all be hiding in Harvey Nicks and hysterically babbling about their Tuscan villas. There’s no ‘Big J’ in Edinburgh airport, there’s no ‘Smeato’ at Heathrow. Here we take the law into our own hands. And feet."

So... here's to John Smeaton and his willingness to give a good kicking to someone who royally deserved it!



It's folk like John that make this fine city what it is, proud, willing to defend ourselves, even if it means standing up with our bare hands and panning seven bells of shit right out of a flaming man! HAIL!

My heart goes out to the people of scottland and england. Just like the USA, you were malicously attacked by a group of radical fuckheads. These people are truly fucked up. <sorry for the language but its the best way I can describe them>

Radical idiots more like... a botched job.

Rule 1 of terrorism:

When trying to drive a car into an airport terminal, make sure it fits through the doors first.

Borrowed from another forum... a predominately glaswegian one.

Right here it is. Folk in London panic and run like fuck when the terrorists strikes. In Glasgow some rocket spanks the fucker without missing a step. Thats the message to send to terrorists.

Q

How come Heathrow airport got tanks and Glasgow hasn't?

A

We don't need them, any fucker tries anything up here and they're getting bottled...

//o

I'm afaride to say what I really think...

I think my gov is behind both attacks...in an effort to bring both your
countrys thinking round our way.....Espically
since Bush's half brother Tony is out of power...

They want Iran...we want our children home....

So they need something to prolong...their machine

Believe me SLEEPING AMERICANS...we will attack ourselves yet again
to inflame...and inrage us to go after OIL again...



Sorry...I'm not quite understanding .... This John guy...is a hero
I didnt understand what he did...sounds like he beat the guy up

could you explane...I love a good ass wupin.....

AND a RESPECTFUL REMINDER

We have a whole PLANE full of HEROS.....Flight 93

Ya know I read alot of your postings blue and needless to say they are a bit off the wall but this time I have to say something..

I think my gov is behind both attacks...in an effort to bring both your
countrys thinking round our way.....Espically
since Bush's half brother Tony is out of power...

..Our gov would never ever do anything as horrid as you claim here.As an AMERICAN it makes me sick that people like you dont appreciate what men and women here fought for.Even though bush and his clan have done some really idiot things he would in no way allow this..Your anti-Americanism is the reason people say what they do about us..They see our own citizens speaking like you do and find it o.k to knock us every chance they get..We as a country have helped many a nation in their time of need and we ask nothing in return..This is not a time to disparage anyone but a time to come together and fight the real enemy..A radical sect of a religion that does not allow murder..These people hide behind religion when the fact is they have no basis for what they do..I live in Detroit which has the highest amount of arabs in the world outside of the middle-east and I can say that they are good people and are appalled at what is happening.And they themselves become victims of these radicals through hate crimes and so on....So even though you can say what you want keep that kind of sentiment to yourself and those that follow your belief..Because in fact by saying that you become no better than those we are fighting

Back on topic, Mr Smeaton is a bloody legend.

I must be a little extra wasted tonight, because I managed to read the quotes attributed to him with a perfect Scot accent (in my head).

Funny shit.

I thought this thread was about the famous civil engineer.

MarijuanaEnthusiast wrote:I thought this thread was about the famous civil engineer.

it kinda is. smeaton will engineer yer civility disturbing arse wi a good glasgae kiss.

http://www.johnsmeaton.com/

hes a good lad, read a bit more today in news of the world, amazing guy, i think i would of done the same, hes so scottish and he should be beaming with pride,

did scotland proud,

Sorry to have taken it off topic but it had to be done...Please accept my apologies...

A message warned: "We have 5million John Smeatons, so be afraid."

lol that is so true lol,

Shit....I am 5 generations removed from Glasgow and I am beeming from ear to ear. The terrorists only win when we are frightend.

stew1974 wrote:you make "real" Glasweigens(sp) sound like phycho nutcases. i would just like to add after a few visits to Glasgow they are the FRIENDLIEST people in Scotland and welcome visitors with open arms as long they dont fuck about or take the piss. Tcheuchters in my eyes are country loons and i wouldnt like to take on one of them in a fight! Or do you mean Tcheuchters in the context anyone fae north of Dunfermline like us sheep shaggers. stand free
Respect to the boy.

Mighta known a tcheuchter woulda chirped in

I jest... but...

You've contradicted yourself there though, by saying it makes real glaswegians sound like psychos then you say we're friendliest people in scotland as long as they don't take the piss or fuck about, what was said chappy doing? taking the piss, albeit an extreme form. I dunno about you, but I wouldn't have expected anything less from our locals, nobody's scared of a scrap here, least not with someone who tried to kill us by blowing up one of our airports.

So I didn't really make us sound like psychos, you just took it out of context, both the humour and the way I've used the word Tcheuchter, by that I mean any jock with an english-scottish accent (it was proved some time ago that modern day edinburgh accents and a good number of east coast accents actually came from and are closer to english than proper scots - my girl does linguistics, it's a fascinating subject*)

Friendly people, yes...

To be fucked with, no... "No Mean City", I'm sure you've heard that one before even if it's just on the Taggart theme music as a city, we've got bad tempers and itchy fists but that certainly doesn't stop us being friendly and welcoming. It really takes living here to know what the city is about and how it works. I feel quite confident in my ability to comment here, being a local myself

*side note - did you know that west coast scots, certain parts of norn irish and the appalachian mountain men are the only people in the whole world to use an extra vowel in some words ... like the way someone from the southcoast of england would say "girl" we say "girul" ... off topic, but the lady told me that the other day and I found it quite interesting...

Back on topic... SMEATON # 1