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Re: Blazing car rammed into Glasgow Airport
The emails are flying around already (perhaps meadhbh will be the only one to appreciate this  )
Quote:
If this had happened in a US airport, compared to Glasgow...
America: "Oh my God! There was a man on fire, he was running about,
I just ran for my life. I thought I was gonna die, he got so close to me"
Glasgow "C*nt wis running aboot on fire, so a ran up n gave him a
good boot, then decked him"
America: " I just wanna get home, away from here. I just wanna get
home, I thought I was gonna die"
Glasgow: "Here shug, am no leaving here till am oan a f*ckin'
plane!"
America: " There was pandemonium, people were running in all
directions, we didn't know what was happening thought I was gonna die"
Glasgow :"F*ck this fir a kerry oan, moan we ll get a pint in"
America: " We thought he was gonna blow us all up he had a gas
Canister and was trying to get into his trunk, I thought we were gonna
die, I just ran for my life"
Glasgow :"Ah swaggered by the motor that wis on fire, and the dafty
couldnae even open his boot, he wis in fire annaw so a ran up n gave him a
good boot to the baws"
America: "There was this huge explosion, it sounded like war, I
thought I was gonna die"
Glasgow: " There wis a bang, yi know when yi throw BO basher intae a
fire it wis like that"
America: " I'm too traumatized even to speak, I thought I was gonna
die"
Glasgow "Here mate, gies 2 minutes till a phone ma auld dear, if am
gonna be oan the telly a want her tae tape it"
& finally, two quotes from an eye-witness.........John Smeaton (these are
real)
John just surpassed himself on the National ITV new.
The interviewer asked "What message do you have for the bombers" - he
replied "This is Glasgow we'll just set about you"
John done an interview on CNN and they asked how he restrained the guy and
he said "Me and other folk were just tryin to get the boot in and some other
guy banjoed him" !
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The general concensus from the whole event is that Scottish people, especially Glaswegians, should not be allowed to speak on TV 
*Translations available upon request
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- Edmund Curtis (A History of Ireland: From Earliest Times to 1922)
The Irish are one of the most ancient nations that I know of at this end of the world, and are from as mighty a race as the world ever brought forth.
For it is certain that Ireland hath had the use of letters very anciently and long before England; that they had letters anciently is nothing doubtful, for the Saxons of England are said to have their letters and learning, and learned men, from the Irish.
- Edmund Spenser (writer, and British Government Official in Ireland, AD 1596).
The renaissance began in Ireland seven hundred years before it was known in Italy. And Armagh, the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland, was at one time the metropolis of civilisation.
- Arsene Darmesteter, Professor of Old French and Literature
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