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January 16, 2010

Scots 'drink 46 bottles of vodka'

“People in Scotland drank 25% more alcohol per head of population than individuals in England and Wales.”

Is it wrong that I read this and felt a sense of nationalistic pride?

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August 4, 2008

Deep Fried Scotland

Short video review of all that is great about Scottish cuisine: Deep-frying. Helpfully subtitled.

June 13, 2008

What is a Munchy Box?

The culinary minds in Scottish chip shops that brought your the deep-fried pizza have a new creation. (They can give me American nationality, but since I’m sorely tempted by this, it’s clear they’ll never take away my Scottish heritage)

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May 16, 2008

Irn-Bru: If

Excellent advert from Irn-Bru: A staggeringly accurate glimpse into the Scottish psyche.

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August 28, 2007

The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: More from Glasgow

Fake Steve takes on the Scots: “The real winners in all of this are the phone sales reps who work for Apple in California. Until now they been given the unlucky job of trying to take orders over the phone from Scotland. They’ve never been able to understand what the fuck these miserable Scots are asking for. Have you ever actually talked to a Scottish person? And not one that’s been living in America for a while and has learned to speak English, like Bono”

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August 13, 2007

Real Life Comics - comic strip for August 10, 2007

I need to get myself a t-shirt with a traffic cone on it, clearly.

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May 4, 2007

BBC NEWS | Scotland | Review under way on voting chaos

Who would have thought that having three different voting systems (First past the post, regional list, and STV) on one ballot paper would cause confusion? Gah!

September 4, 2006

Flickr: Explore your geotagged photos on a Map

My photos from our Scotland trip, overlaid onto a map of Scotland. Hooray for Flickry goodness.

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September 3, 2006

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Highland Cows

Highland Cows

On the way south from Inverness, Joy finally managed to spot some Highland Cows. She hopped out with the camera, and I discovered that she likes cows the same way I like penguins.

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August 31, 2006

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My dad's license plate. Makes sense if you know he's a wildfowler.

Expressions

Expressions

Floating heads inside Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.

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Interactive Art

Interactive Art

A painting of a bored marriage, flanked by LCD screens where visitors can add what they think the subjects of the painting are thinking. Watching previous and new entries going by was great fun. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.

Rabbie Guevara

Rabbie Guevara

Scotland's national poet, in a t-shirt meme stylee. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.

Donald Dewar

Donald Dewar

Sculpture of the first First Minister of the Scottish Parliament. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.

Grouse (famous and otherwise)

Grouse (famous and otherwise)

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.

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Giant Deer skellington

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.

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Six Million Dollar Tiger

Six Million Dollar Tiger

We can rebuild him. We have the technology. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.

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St. Michael’s Sushi

St. Michael’s Sushi

Things have changed -- Marks & Spencers sell sushi next to the sandwiches?!

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Coo In The Road

This charming lady was blocking the dirt track that our Sat-Nav had directed us down.

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August 24, 2006

Ron

Ron

Ron Jones holding forth on massively important topics, at 3am in the C's bar.

Joy & Larry Tish

Joy & Larry Tish

Joy taking part in a late-night improv show, so she can now add "Performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival" to her resume, if only on a technicality!

Ron Jones

Ron Jones

Our chum Ron Jones in The Black Jew Dialogues.

Top Trumps

Top Trumps

I introduced Joy to the wonder, amazement and excitement that is Top Trumps.

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THIS IS WHERE…

THIS IS WHERE…

It's now a Chinese restaurant.

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“The Life”

“The Life”

Pygmy Hippos

Pygmy Hippos

Mercedes

Mercedes

Mercedes the Polar Bear, so names because Mercedes-Benz sponsored her move from the wilds of Canada to Edinburgh Zoo.

Relaxing Leopard

Relaxing Leopard

Prowling

Prowling

Rhino

Rhino

A great one-horned rhino.

Warthog

Warthog

One ugly, ugly creature!

Penguin Nests

Penguin Nests

Fact I learned at the zoo: Gentoo Penguins expell their shit out their arse over a metre, to keep it away from their nests. It's really quite breathtaking to behold.

Penguin Pontoon

Penguin Pontoon

Penguin

Penguin

Penguins by their pool

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Swimming Penguins

Swimming Penguins

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TIM VINE…

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"IS NOT APPEARING AT THIS YEAR'S EDINBURGH FESTIVAL"

Possibly the funniest thing in Edinburgh, from someone who hasn't even bothered to head up north.

Fringe e-ticket Tent

Fringe e-ticket Tent

A vast improvement over the mile-long queue at the High Street box office -- You just surf the Fringe website on one of forty PCs, order online, then pick your tickets up at the desk.

August 19, 2006

Joy, Asleep, Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin.

Joy, Asleep, Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin.

Joy hadn't had enough sleep, and her epilepsy was playing up, so for her, the walking tour of Kilmainham Gaol was more of a napping-and-leaning tour.

June 29, 2006

BBC NEWS | Have Your Say: Where next for national identity?

Fascinating bitchfest on the BBC discussion site around Scottish folks not supporting England in international sporting events. Interestingly, most of the kneejerk racist comments are from the English, accusing Scots, amongst other things, of being “bitter miserable idiots”.

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About This Site

This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.

I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.