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Title    : Conversation 15: Glasgow father and his five year-old son
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M804: Is that yours there? Well, okay, just keep that there in case //you
need a wee drink.//
M805: //But, but I// can, I can do it with a glass, I can drink with glass
now!
M804: Can you?
M805: Yeah! Do you want to see me?
M804: Yeah. How long have you been able to do that?
M805: [drink]
M804: How long do you th-, do you think you've been able to do it? Wow!
That is cool! //You definitely//
M805: //Huh//
M804: do know how to do that.
M805: Yeah, so we could share your water.
M804: Cool, okay then, like, if we run out then I'll share yours with you?
Well, that'll look a bit silly, Dad drinkin out of that though won't it?
[laugh] [slurp]
M805: No!
M804: mm [laugh]
M805: You should, you should really take off the lid.
M804: [laugh] Okay. So, ehm, I was wondering if maybe you could tell me
about how Spiderman became Spiderman?
M805: Ehm, so this guy wa-, called Peter Parker was in a place and officer
um [?]crogrammes[/?] and there was a spider, //radioactive//
M804: //mm//
M805: spider.
M804: Oh!
M805: And it climbed up Peter Parker and it bit him and then he tu- and
then he was poisoned by that spider and he, and he was turning into a
spider himself!
M804: Oh //He turned in-//
M805: //[?]With a[/?]// human head!
M804: Oh so he had a spider's body and a human head?
M805: Yeah.
M804: Oh! So how did he become Spiderman that's not got the spider's body?
M805: Um, and there was actually a dream and a- and he walked onto the road
and a car was coming //for him//
M804: //Oh!//
M805: and he jumped and he was sticking to the wall!
M804: Really?
M805: Erm, and he noticed he had superpowers, so he would call himself
Spiderman!
M804: And what sort of superpowers does he have?
M805: He has this power [kick]. Kick.
M804: Kick. And what's that one?
M805: Punch. //Punching.//
M804: //Punch.// That's cool. And so what does, what does Spiderman do to
help people? Oh, try and not touch that, Henry.
M805: He, ehm, he saves people, he saves people.
M804: Is it bad people he saves or good people he saves?
M805: He, he saves good people.
M804: Right. And does he have any friends?
M805: Mm, yeah. In the w-, in the different Jones Jamieson one. [touches
microphone]
M804: Oh! Maybe just try and leave that alone as well, if you could, cause
that'll, you know how this is the mic?
M805: mmhm
M804: And that's where the, the sound goes into so if you move that about
you'll get lots of cr-cr-cr-cr type stuff on the tape which I would be
interested in listening to but I don't think Mum would like to listen to
that when she's, cause you know what Mum's got to do with this as well?
//She's gonna//
M805: //Okay.//
M804: write it all out.
M805: Yeah.
M804: So it'd be quite good if there wasn't any of that on it. [tut] Ehm,
so what other superheroes are there and what, what do they do?
M805: Um, Superman. He's from Krypton and he is a human but he's metal.
M804: Right, he's metal?
M805: And bullets don't just make him die. //They just//
M804: //Right!//
M805: bounce off him.
M804: Okay. I've got a wee idea, see with this mic cause you accidentally
hit that there, so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put it on there and just
point it at ye. How's that?
M805: Oh, but //[inaudible]//
M804: //Is that a good idea?//
M805: Yeah. //How're you gonna//
M804: //Okay.//
M805: pick it on to?
M804: Put it on to Dad's wallet. There we go.
M805: So. [inhale] //[inhale]//
M804: //You don't have to speak into it, it's fine, you can just sit back
if you want.//
M805: Okay.
M804: [tut] So, anyway, you were sayin about Superman.
M805: Yeah, um, he can never die if you shoot bullets at him.
M804: Really? //What happens to the bullets?//
M805: //[inaudible]// They just bounce off him.
M804: Ah!
M805: Cause he's metal.
M804: Ah!
M805: So if Superman was real and you had a gun and you were trying to
shoot him, the bullets would bounce off.
M804: [tut] That's awful clever isn't it.
M805: Yeah.
M804: [tut] So who, what other superheroes are there?
M805: Um, Batman.
M804: Tell me about Batman.
M805: Um, he shoots out, [tut], eh, a bat rope,
M804: Mm!
M805: And Catwoman, she shoots out a cat rope. Cat rope.
M804: So, is Cat-, is Catwoman a goodie or a baddie?
M805: She's a ba-, she's a goodie.
M804: A goodie. But she's sometimes a baddie, is she not?
M805: Yeah. A wee bit. //But not//
M804: //A wee bit bad.//
M805: today.
M804: Not today.
M805: [tut] Not all the time. [tut] So, what would you, else like to, ehm,
hear about? Frankenstein?
M804: Oh, that'd be great if you could tell me //about Frankenstein. I
don't know anything about Frankenstein.//
M805: //Ehm, Frank-, there's a// doctor Frankenstein and there's also a
robot da- Frankenstein. The doctor Frankenstein made a, a green robot
Frankenstein. Cause the, cause the m-, cause the human was dead.
M804: Aha!
M805: So he s- decided to make a Frankenstein. Frankenstein robot.
M804: And how did he, what, what did he make it up from?
M805: Um, he had a cutting machine. Cause he was made out of cardboard.
M804: Ah! And what happened to Frankenstein then? Do you know any more
about his story?
M805: And, and he putted screws in, screws in.
M804: Screws!
M805: To connect his, his neck!
M804: Ah!
M805: To keep it on. And his, cause all the time if he didn't have a bolt
in his neck, two bolts, um, his head would keep falling off.
M804: [laugh] And that would look silly, //wouldn't it?//
M805: //c-c-c!//
M804: [laugh]
M805: And then he would be hea-, the headless spectre!
M804: Oh!
M805: The headless spectre's got no head! His head is stuck down into his,
into his, see look!
M804: Oh! You look like a headless spectre! Where did you hear about the
headless spectre?
M805: It was in Scooby Doo //after//
M804: //Ah!//
M805: Kong Fu! //Hong//
M804: //Hong Kong// Fooey. //Yeah.//
M805: //Yeah.// //[inaudible]//
M804: //Do you like Hong Kong Fooey?//
M805: Yeah.
M804: He's silly, isn't he?
M805: Yeah. He's a dog hero.
M804: A dog hero?
M805: Yeah.
M804: That's cool.
M805: And there's a fridge with buttons on, on the [tut], on the, on the
door. And the, and the door goes that way, it doesn't go that way, it goes
that way.
M804: Right.
M805: And, and he falls into drawer, a drawer. And the, and the cat bang
bang bangs on the drawer and then cause, cause Hong Kong Fooey squashed
into it and putting his suit on.
M804: [laugh] What colour's his suit?
M805: Red.
M804: Mm, sounds nice.
M805: He's got black, um, black, he's got black red th-, no he's got black,
um, things for his eyes. And they've got holes
M804: Hah!
M805: for your eyes.
M804: Like a wee mask?
M805: Yeah.
M804: Is that what it is?
M805: Yeah.
M804: Why do you think he's got that?
M805: Cause he just l-, wants to have that.
M804: [tut]
M805: See?
M804: Can you think of another, of another superhero that's got the same
thing as that? I can think of one.
M805: [laugh] The Incredibles!
M804: That's right.
M805: They've got a red suit.
M804: That's right. I've not seen The Incredibles yet, maybe you could tell
me a bit about that?
M805: The Incredibles have got a red suit and they've got black things for
their eyes! //And they've//
M804: //Mmhm//
M805: got holes for their eyes and the, and, and the man saw the red thing
in the water. Like, like Violet the oldest one,
M804: [tut]
M805: who can go invisible and make force fields. And, and, and sh-, and he
saw the red thing that, the same colour as her suit and he, and he shot the
thing but it wasn't Violet.
M804: Mm!
M805: [cat miaowing] It was just the refection of her.
M804: The?
M805: Reflection of her.
M804: Well done.
M805: [tut] [inhale] And, and he punched the guard!
M804: [laugh]
M805: c-c-c
M804: [laugh]
M805: He punched him back there.
M804: In the back of the head?
M805: Yeah, there.
M804: [tut] oh
M805: There.
M804: [taps microphone]
M805: There. [slurp] So and also. Do you want to hear about something?
M804: Yeah, I want to hear //about stuff.//
M805: //Um// See that pipe there? That thing there. That looks like a
telephone.
M804: Yeah, that's an extension cable.
M805: Yeah. And it's curling, curly, curly.
M804: That's right.
M805: And a, and a volume kind of thing //it's like//
M804: //That's//
M805: that curl-, cur-, curlr-, curly.
M804: That's right.
M805: So, what else do you want to hear about? //[clap]//
M804: //[tut] Ehm, did you do anything interesting at nursery yesterday? I
know you weren't at nursery today.//
M805: Eh, eh, I don't want to tell you about that. //I meant//
M804: //Okay, well what else would//
M805: a superhero thing.
M804: Okay. Ehm, [tut] well you've told me about Superman and you've told
me about Batman and you've told me about Spiderman, who else is there that
you like?
M805: Um, I also like the Incredibles.
M804: Okay, we've had the Incredibles too. So, who else would there be?
M805: Cause there's one there.
M804: Yeah, there's one here that we need to talk about, eh? There's one,
who could it, who could it be? Oh!
M805: I know, it's Superboy!
M804: Superboy! Yes! And what's, what's Superboy's outfit like?
M805: Um, it's like, it's got a r-, a yellow R. It's got black things for
its eyes. //It's//
M804: //Uh-huh//
M805: got holes and he's, and he's got the same colour as my hair. //Cause
I'm actually//
M804: //Right.//
M805: him.
M804: You're actually Superboy?
M805: Yeah.
M804: [sh], we'd better not tell everyone. Is it a secret?
M805: Yeah.
M804: Okay, okay, w-
M805: What's your name as a superhero?
M804: What's my name as a superhero? Ehm [tut]
M805: Supercrunch.
M804: Supercrunch. //I'll go//
M805: //Is it?//
M804: Supercrunch.
M805: Okay.
M804: Okay, so tell us more about Superboy.
M805: I'm actually the Thing.
M804: As well as Superboy?
M805: Yeah.
M804: mm
M805: Cause the, cause the Superboy is actually the Thing. So I can change
into Superboy and also the Thing.
M804: So what's Superboy's special powers?
M805: Um, he turns invisible and, and he, and he, and he can, and he holds
a stick invisible and he poh toh hit it. And the guard and then he says,
"What?" And then loo- and he turns round and erm he just says "Aha"!
//Cause, cause//
M804: //[laugh]//
M805: cause he sawed my big, um, brick hand. [drink]
M804: Ah, so would you change into Thing at that point?
M805: Yeah. //And I and I'm//
M804: //Right.//
M805: running and then I stamped on one of the guards and he, and he just
said br-rr-cr-poh! //He was like//
M804: //[blows lips]//
M805: so I c- connected a back bomb, a back bomb.
M804: uh-huh?
M805: Have you heard about them?
M804: No, //you tell me about//
M805: //Ehm, a back// bomb is red and Thing has them whenever he wants to
stamp on any guard he just, he just threw the bomb and he thought I was
going to crunch him but I just deeee! I pressed my control, the, the green
button and, and the, and the, and the made the bomb explode!
M804: Oh!
M805: And I actually missed his head a wee bit. It got his head. c-c-c
//c-c-c//
M804: //Oh!//
M805: c-c-c
M804: That would be a bit sore, wouldn't it?
M805: Yeah.
M804: Yeah.
M805: It woargh! And actually half of my toe fell off.
M804: [tut] Was that your Thing toe?
M805: Yeah.
M804: Could you not just replace that with another rock that you could find
somewhere?
M805: No.
M804: No, //[inaudible]//
M805: //No, there's// no rocks in the land!
M804: There's none?
M805: No, so I just found the rock who was actually fell off. //Cause
the//
M804: //Mmhm//
M805: bomb got my toe a wee bit, //so I//
M804: //Uh-huh//
M805: so I picked up it and put it back on. //[makes noise with lips]//
M804: //Ah! phew//
M805: And I screwed it on.
M804: You screwed it on?
M805: Yeah.
M804: How did you get a screw through that rock?
M805: Um, I found it, eh, cut, I got a wee rock I c-, I managed to f-, I
found loads!
M804: Right.
M805: Yeah, of rocks.
M804: Cool.
M805: And I was shavin it, ksh, and I got, found a knife //left off//
M804: //mmhm//
M805: the guards. So I was cutting tik-tik-tik, //fooh-fooh-fooh//
M804: //tik-tik-tik//
M805: fooh-fooh-fooh-fooh-fooh-fooh So I at last found a screw, cr-cr-cr,
and I ting-ting-ting and, and I s-, and I got it through
M804: Well done. //That was really good.//
M805: //So.//
M804: [cough]
M805: Is that enough stories for now?
M804: Ehm, I think if we could speak for just a wee bit longer. //Ehm, just
trying to think what you would like to speak about.//
M805: //[inhale] [exhale]//
M804: [tut] Ehm wh-, do you know what you want to be when you grow up?
M805: Mm, yeah.
M804: What do you want to be?
M805: I want to be the Thing and Superboy.
M804: Okay, right, you know how, you know Peter Parker?
M805: Yeah.
M804: He's got, ehm, you know how he's, who's he again, he's //S-S-//
M805: //Peter Parker.//
M804: ehm
M805: Peter Parker.
M804: What superhero is he though? He's eh S-S- Superman.
M805: No, he's //Spiderman!//
M804: //[click fingers]// So he is, that's right. Okay, so he's Spiderman,
//but//
M805: //Yeah.//
M804: he's got a job during the day, hasn't //he?//
M805: //Yeah.// Mm
M804: What's his job?
M805: To take photographs of spiderman.
M804: Yeah, for, do-, what's the name of the paper?
M805: Um, the Daily Bugle.
M804: That's right, so, so he's got to have a day job, so even although
you're going to be Thing and Superboy
M805: Yeah.
M804: you'll need to have a day job, won't you?
M805: But, but, but really, his, Superboy and Thing's boss, they don't
really want him to have a job.
M804: Oh!
M805: They just leave him
M804: [cough]
M805: and they know he's a superhero //cause,//
M804: //Right.//
M805: cause their boss is a superhero too.
M804: Hah! Who's their boss? Do you know who it is?
M805: Superman!
M804: Superman? That would be a good boss to have, wouldn't it?
M805: Yeah.
M804: Yeah [tut] okay, I know that you don't have to have a job when you
grow up then, but if you had to have a job, do you know what you'd like to
do?
M805: [tut] Ehm, take photographs of Peter Parker.
M804: [laugh] That's a good one.
M805: Yeah.
M804: That's a good answer.
M805: And also take pictures of the Thing.
M804: That would be pretty //cool.//
M805: //That's me!//
M804: Yeah, //how's that//
M805: //So//
M804: gonna work?
M805: so I would turn the camera the front way and I would press the button
and it would tick! And, and the photograph would get out of the top and it
would see me! And it was like, [laugh], like that! And I kind of put my
head like that. So it, so the, so it wouldn't see my head. Cause the camera
doesn't like Thing, Thing with, with a head, they o-, they only like Thing
with no head, so I put my head like that. There's no head.
M804: Ah, that was a good move I think. So, what would, //what's your//
M805: //Is that// enough //talks?//
M804: //Just a wee// tiny bit more. What's your f-, what's your favourite
colour?
M805: [tut] Eh, pink, blue, purple and green.
M804: Right, that's, they're quite different colours, aren't they?
M805: mm
M804: Why, do you know why you like them, would you be able to explain why
you like //them?//
M805: //Erm// cause I just do.
M804: That's, that's good enough reason for me. And do you like music?
M805: Ehm, not much.
M804: No?
M805: No.
M804: No. Thought you and Mum sort of listen to music sometimes don't you?
M805: Yeah.
M804: Yeah, and sometimes when we're in the car I put some music on for you
as well, don't I?
M805: Yeah. //But I don't//
M804: //So//
M805: really listen to it cause, to that. //s-//
M804: //Is a bit too// loud?
M805: Yeah.
M804: Yeah.
M805: You put it too up.
M804: I put it, I put it up too loud?
M805: Yeah, do you think we could do that a wee bit different way?
M804: ehm
M805: Okay. Like, like that could be like that.
M804: Yeah, as long as you don't touch these two. //Okay, I'll keep my
fingers on them and you can do whatever you want and don't touch these
buttons either, okay?//
M805: //[inhale] [exhale]//
M804: Cause you know that's, that's kind of what Dad does for Dad's job,
you know at my work when //you've seen that//
M805: //Yeah.//
M804: desk that's, it's got stuff like this on it and that's what, I've got
to move them up and down and make the bands sound good.
M805: But I would like that to be like that //and that//
M804: //Okay.//
M805: I would like to be like that. //Do you wanna p-//
M804: //That's//
M805: ehm
M804: that's fine for me.
M805: What is this, is this a battery?
M804: That's right, that's exactly what it is. Try and not touch the button
on it. Okay? //[tut]//
M805: //I didn't touch the// //button.//
M804: //No, I know you didn't.// Okay, we'll have one more wee chat about
something, and is there any posters on the wall that you'd like to chat
about?
M805: Ehm, that one with the skull.
M804: This one here?
M805: Yeah, um, this, you, under your skin you've got a skull of bones.
And, and also, and also muscles.
M804: Muscles? //And what do the//
M805: //Yeah.//
M804: muscles do?
M805: They make you be strong and when you eat, eat, eat, eat so much you
get stronger and stronger and stronger and stronger and stronger!
M804: Wow! That's gonna be cool. So are you going to try and eat up like a
good boy then when it comes //to dinner//
M805: //[inaudible]//
M804: time? //Yeah.//
M805: //[inaudible]// [inaudible] [inaudible]
M804: Oh right, //so//
M805: //could I please// have a nut?
M804: Yeah, in a wee second if you tell me one of your jokes. //[cracking
nut]//
M805: //But, but I need to have one now.//
M804: [laugh] Okay, you have one and I'll have one and then you'll tell me
a joke, okay?
M805: Okay.
M804: And then we can have more after, when we've finished the recording we
can have more after, okay?
M805: Okay.
M804: Right. [eating]
M805: That's, that is making the sound of us eating. That.
M804: That's right, Mum's gonna have to write down "eating noises".
[eating] She'll be a bit angry with us. [laugh] She won't really, I'm only
joking. Okay, so [clap] one of your jokes, if you please?
M805: Have you never heard the stick went to the noisy house?
M804: No, I haven't.
M805: He accidentally saw a farmer and the farmer cut off his head.
M804: [laugh] //[laugh]//
M805: //[laugh]//
M804: Have you got [laugh] have you got another one?
M805: So, why did the stick go to the farmer's?
M804: I don't know, why did the stick go to the farmer's?
M805: Cause he wanted his head to explode!
M804: [laugh] What about one of your skeleton jokes?
M805: [inaudible] //[inaudible]//
M804: //That's twenty-five minutes.//
M805: What's that [inaudible]
M804: [tut] Mum was just [tut] givin in a wee comic just in case that we
were running out of things to talk about but we've talked about quite a lot
already. Henry was just going to give me another one of his jokes. What
about a skeleton joke?
M805: Why does a skeleton go to the clock?
M804: I don't know, why did the skeleton go to the clock?
M805: Cause he wanted a new skull and new eyes,
M804: [laugh]
M805: cause I used the, the numbers as his eyes. And a number for his
nose.
M804: What number would you use for your nose?
M805: Um, he used five. And he used four for his eye. And he used two for
his other eye. And he used, um, one for his mouth.
M804: Hah!
M805: [laugh]
M804: Does that make it have a smile? What about his ears, what numbers did
he use for that?
M805: Um, they were seven and eight.
M804: That's pretty good goin. Where are you gettin those numbers, from the
clock? //Is that where you're//
M805: //Yeah.//
M804: seeing them?
M805: Yeah.
M804: That's pretty good.
M805: And also he had one for his feet.
M804: Mmhm?
M805: And also two for his toes. And he also had, um, three for his legs.
M804: Mmhm?
M805: And also had four for his muscles.
M804: What else did he have?
M805: He also had, for his heart he had two.
M804: Two, that's a good number for the heart, isn't it?
M805: Yeah.
M804: And what about
M805: Um, the bottom for, um, six.
M804: Six for his botty. [laugh]
M805: Don't say it too loud.
M804: Okay, we'll not say it too loud. Well, I think maybe that's where we
can stop. Okay? We can do, but it's been really good. So do you want to
have another nut?
M805: Yeah.
M804: [throat] Let's celebrate with a nut.
M805: Okay.
M804: Is there anything else you'd like to tell me about before we finish,
like maybe what your favourite toy is?
M805: [tut] Yeah.
M804: What's your favourite toy?
M805: [eating] After we've finished.
M804: Okay. //[eating]//
M805: //[eating]//
M804: We're just about to finish up, he's just about to tell me about his
favourite toy.
M805: [eating]
M804: Okay, that's, that's them just now. We'll get another one after we're
finished, okay?
M805: I've just going to put them away.
M804: Well, g-, we've just got to both stay here just now so I'll just keep
them, in fact I'll give them to Mum, okay?
M805: Okay, I'll give them to Mum.
M804: [cough]
M805: So
M804: Okay, so your favourite toy.
M805: My favourite toy is the Action Man with one arm, my mum buyed me that
cause //I'd been//
M804: //Bought.//
M805: so, bought that, cause I'd been so good.
M804: And what happened to his arm?
M805: Um, when we took off the label, it was just broken by itself.
M804: Hah! Really?
M805: When we just took the label off so we needed you to fix that.
M804: Well, I'll have a look at it right now then. Okay?
M805: Okay.


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Participant id: 804
Gender: Male
Decade of birth: 1970
Educational attainment: Highers/A-levels
Age left school: 17
Upbringing/religious beliefs: Catholicism
Occupation: Events promoter
Place of birth: Cambuslang
Region of birth: Lanark
Birthplace CSD dialect area: Lnk
Country of birth: Scotland
Place of residence: Glasgow
Region of residence: Glasgow
Residence CSD dialect area: Gsw
Country of residence: Scotland
Father's occupation: Bookmaker
Father's place of birth: Cambuslang
Father's region of birth: Lanark
Father's birthplace CSD dialect area: Lnk
Father's country of birth: Scotland
Mother's occupation: Translator
Mother's place of birth: Gourock
Mother's region of birth: Renfrew
Mother's birthplace CSD dialect area: Renfr
Mother's country of birth: Scotland

Languages:
Language: English
Speak: Yes
Read: Yes
Write: Yes
Understand: Yes
Circumstances: All circumstances


Participant
Participant details
Participant id: 805
Gender: Male
Decade of birth: 2000
Upbringing/religious beliefs: none
Occupation: schoolchild
Place of birth: Glasgow
Region of birth: Glasgow
Birthplace CSD dialect area: Gsw
Country of birth: Scotland
Place of residence: Glasgow
Region of residence: Glasgow
Residence CSD dialect area: Gsw
Country of residence: Scotland
Father's place of birth: Glasgow
Father's region of birth: Glasgow
Father's birthplace CSD dialect area: Gsw
Father's country of birth: Scotland
Mother's occupation: Research assistant
Mother's place of birth: Dundee
Mother's region of birth: E Angus
Mother's birthplace CSD dialect area: Ags
Mother's country of birth: Scotland

Languages:
Language: English
Speak: Yes
Read: No
Write: No
Understand: Yes
Circumstances: All circumstances