Which is the most hardcore Orange/Proddy town in Scotland?

[Lock&Light]

Like those mugs with 'greatest dad in the world' printed on it. If it were true, they'd only sell one mug!

They count on breakage.

 

[treefrog]

I always find it weird that celtic park, Celtics pitch is in a traditionaly 'proddy' area and the reverse for Ibrox n rangers in a 'taig' area....

I remember hearing somewhere that's not an accident. The whole thing is so ridiculous I can well believe it...

 

[heinous seamus]

In the Central Scotland category I would also add Airth and Bo'ness to the list.

I hail from the latter.



(No I don't support the gers The orange walk used to go right past my house though.)

 

[Citizen66]

They count on breakage.

And delusions of grandeur.

 

[anchorage]

i remember reading about larkhall in the paper, they smash the green traffic lights and everything.

i cant help but think thats really just a bit sad.

It had nothing to do with the fact that the green part is the lowest of all the colours. The shite some folk think is true.

 

[inflatable jesus]

The shite some folk think is true.

 

[Fedayn]

It had nothing to do with the fact that the green part is the lowest of all the colours.

I don't know, did it?

 

[inflatable jesus]

I hail from the latter.
(No I don't support the gers The orange walk used to go right past my house though.)

I spent most of my teenage years living in Grangemouth. We lived on a quiet cul-de-sac but one of my neighbours was a longstanding orangeman and had several of the surrounding Lodges round for his son's big initiation thingy. It was quite a shock when I opened my curtains in the morning and saw 200 orangemen surrounding my house, especially since I knew we were the only Tims on the street.

I've been away for quite some time but I gather Bo'ness was getting revamped a few years ago. I always got the impression that it was trying to unhinge itself from the Falkirk-area towns and attach itself more squarely to the West Lothian ones.

 

[anchorage]

I don't know, did it?

I read an article which interviewed the chap who fixed them and this was his thought on the matter, the lower ones were broken more often.

 

[The Octagon]

Probably because Larkhall was the name of a prison in some TV show a while back.

Bad Girls I think.

The concentration camp / testing facility in V For Vendetta was called Larkhill too, so close as well.

 

[Fedayn]

I read an article which interviewed the chap who fixed them and this was his thought on the matter, the lower ones were broken more often.

But their being green would also be a reason for their being broken. Some of the stuff written about Larkhall is laughable stuff, especially no RC's live there or are hounded. But some stuff, even some ludicrous stuff, is true sadly.

 

[anchorage]

But their being green would also be a reason for their being broken. Some of the stuff written about Larkhall is laughable stuff, especially no RC's live there or are hounded. But some stuff, even some ludicrous stuff, is true sadly.

 

[Fedayn]

What are you rolling your eyes at? A mate is a councillor there, well liked and a Tim, which blows apart some of the stereotyped shite written about the place. He's not deaf, blind or stupid though....

 

[marty21]

can I do the Larkhall joke again?

 

[anchorage]

But their being green would also be a reason for their being broken. Some of the stuff written about Larkhall is laughable stuff, especially no RC's live there or are hounded. But some stuff, even some ludicrous stuff, is true sadly.

The fact they are the lowest is the reason.

 

[Fedayn]

The fact they are the lowest is the reason.

It might be it might not be.

 

[geminisnake]

The fact they are the lowest is the reason.

Bollocks. If it's only because the green light is lowest what's your wonderful explaination for gers fans not having grass?? Yes, I have known them to lift grass from their garden because it is green

 

[skyscraper101]

I once met a Leeds fan who wouldn't have anything red in his house out of contempt for Manchester United

 

[danny la rouge]

The fact they are the lowest is the reason.

Those millimetres way up to the amber light make all the difference.

 

[DotCommunist]

Those proddy strongholds are going to go mental if the independance vote doesn't go their way

 

[danny la rouge]

Those proddy strongholds are going to go mental if the independance vote doesn't go their way

I'd be interested to see polls from those areas. I'm not sure that's been done before; it's always assumed they're staunchly Unionist, and for good reason. But I don't think I've ever seen a poll.

Possibly because, as Fed rightly points out, they aren't as segregated as they are made out.

 

[Fedayn]

Those proddy strongholds are going to go mental if the independance vote doesn't go their way

Larkhall has an SNP MSP. West Lothian, a council area with numerous 'Proddy strongolds' has 13 SNP councillors out of 32 on the council. There's a tendency, a frankly ridiculous one, to label all working-class Protestants as de facto loyalists/unionists/pro Brit/Brit etc. There is obviously a sizable element within that has strong pro Union sympathies but as a whole they aren't some homogenous mass who all think act the same.
I agree it doesn't de facto mean they support Independence but there's been a shift amongst a sizable section of the Protestant/nominally Protestant working-class from Labour to SNP. How solid that shift is, is to be seen.

 

[starfish]

Those millimetres way up to the amber light make all the difference.

Maybe theryre all shortarses in Larkhall & cant reach.