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Title    : Conversation 11: Two female students chatting on various topics
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F809: What will we share with them? [laugh]
F810: [laugh] Some words of wisdom. [laugh] [laugh] [inhale] I don't think
I've got any words of wisdom for today.
F809: Shall we talk about where we're from?
F810: [exhale] It's a dump. //[laugh] It's probably [inaudible], [laugh]
then again, Cumbernauld, you know, not much better.//
F809: //[laugh]// //[exhale]//
F810: //[sniff]// //Well,//
F809: //uh-huh//
F810: wha- what can you say about the Scottish Borders? //[inaudible]//
F809: //I heard a really interesting// thing the other night, actually,
last night. Ehm, this girl who grew up on a hippie commune. //Down in
Dumfries and Galloway.//
F810: //Is it, eh, yeah!// I know her, what's her name? But yeah, her, erm,
she was in "Rocky Horror Show"?
F809: No, it was //a different girl.//
F810: //No, another different girl?//
F809: I'm sure it wasn't her. //No.//
F810: //No?//
F809: I'm sure it wasn't her.
F810: Cause she grew up on a hippie commune as well.
F809: Oh right, it's erm, I can't remember what it was called now.
F810: In Dumfries and Galloway?
F809: Yeah. She said the name of it. It's like a manor house. And, they
grow all their own //vegetables,//
F810: //Uh-huh//
F809: and there's no like, kind of, leader of the house or anything, it's
all all quite //kind of democratically run.//
F810: //I didn't think Dumfries and Galloway// was that exciting.
//[laugh]//
F809: //No,// maybe it's a secret. There's about thirty people live there.
F810: Gosh.
F809: And they have committees and then like they make money by having,
ehm, [tut] kind of festivals, like natural healing //festivals.//
F810: //Oh, you know, I think// Rafi's involved in that, because er, she
was down in, like, Selkirk and stuff last week. Cause, is it like they do
flame-throwin, and
F809: [Tut], //probably, yeah it//
F810: //uh-huh//
F809: sounds like that //kind of place.//
F810: //Cause eh, they do a big// thing up on eh, what do you call it?
Arthur's Seat. They do a thing, once a year, where they go and they throw
fire and dance and //sing and//
F809: //[laugh]//
F810: Rafi goes and drinks too much. //[?]Anyway[/?].//
F809: //Well, I thought// you know, I was totally reminded of //Rafi when
we were talking about it actually.//
F810: //[laugh]// [inhale] //It's funny.//
F809: //It's like oh I know a girl// who would quite like things like
that.
F810: [laugh] You know, I totally hadn't thought about the slander aspect
of this. [laugh]. //Now I think about it a bit more.//
F809: //[laugh]// //There's//
F810: //[laugh]//
F809: there's so many people we could get back! //[laugh]//
F810: //[laugh]// //[exhale]//
F809: //[inhale] I don't think we should// //do that though on tape, oh
no.//
F810: //I don't think we should do that either. [laugh]// //[inhale] We
wouldn't be popular.//
F809: //[laugh]// Mutual topics of conversation. [laugh] //[laugh]//
F810: //How was Marisa?//
F809: Oh, she's fine, eh, she's eh away home for Mother's Day. She's away
//to see her mum.//
F810: //She's a good daughter.//
F809: She's got to go, I know, not like me. //[laugh] I'm gonna go//
F810: //[laugh] Me neither, [laugh].//
F809: home for a few hours //[laugh] on Sunday mornin.//
F810: //[laugh]//
F809: I know, she's got to get the ehm, the bus then the train and the bus
//then the train//
F810: //mm//
F809: again or something to get //to her house.//
F810: //And Stuart's// still on this week?
F809: Er, yeah, but we shouldn't really talk about things like that, cause
//Yeah. [laugh]//
F810: //Oh that's [laugh]// Well, yes, they are. //That's good. [laugh]//
F809: //[laugh] Yeah, they're happy.//
F810: Good. Well nothing exciting happened today. I didn't get out of bed
for ages. And then ehm [laugh] just as I was leaving, I got a very nice
phonecall from a very nice man from a telecommunication company who wanted
to save me money on my line rental. //An then,//
F809: //[inhale]//
F810: he was goin, he totally confused me there, cause he's goin "oh eh,
your bill's forty pounds a month", and I'm goin, "no it's not", and he's
goin "yeah, yeah, it's forty pounds a month", and I'm goin, "well, I've got
the bill in front of me, and it's not forty pounds, it's eighteen pounds."
F809: Was this the same company as we're with?
F810: Well, no, it was like, well we're with British Telecom, but this guy
was from somewhere else. //But he was//
F809: //uh-huh//
F810: goin, "oh, it's through your BT line, you don't need any prefixes or
suffixes, or anything", and I was just like, but then eh I'm gullible, I
said, "oh just phone me back". I should have just said "no, I'm dead".
//Take me off the list now. [laugh]//
F809: //[laugh]// [laugh]
F810: But that was my total excitement for today, and I got a parcel from
my mother, with some make-up in it.
F809: Oh that's nice.
F810: That is nice. [exhale]
F809: I got up ridiculously early, and went to Beanscene, and we had
coffee, and then I went to Uni, and got chucked out of the Reading Room,
cause, not the Reading Room, the SESLL lab, cause the Goals kids all came
in to learn about bein at university and everything, so I just kind of went
to the Reading Room and felt miserable, and //sneezed all [inaudible].
[laugh]//
F810: //Aw, [laugh]// I need to write my essay, I really really do. I'm
seein Ellen after this and we're going to study. And then I'm gonna write
my essay.
F809: Are you? I think I'm gonna go home. I'm meant to be goin out tonight,
but I think I'm just gonna
F810: Where were you goin tonight?
F809: Ehm, I don't know. We were gonna go to T'Chai Ovna, and then we were
gonna go to the pub or something, but Judith's too hungover to go out
anyway. [laugh] //[laugh]//
F810: //[laugh]//
F809: And ehm Fiona hasn't got back to me anyway. So I'm just gonna go home
and ge- I might get a video out, and just sit on the couch.
F810: I don't want to be late out tonight. It's too depressing being in the
library on a Friday. It's just [laugh]. Any other day's okay, but a Friday
just hurts.
F809: No, it's not good.
F810: But I'm gonna have a stab at this essay and get it done, and then,
yey, it's finished!
F809: I've got a conference tomorrow. I'm helping make tea, [laugh] for
Scottish Amnesty students //tomorrow, cause we've got a//
F810: //[laugh]//
F809: conference at the, eh, up by the [?]Reading Room[/?], //like//
F810: //uh-huh//
F809: talkers from Nepal and //stuff.//
F810: //Is there something// on just now, cause there's like a, the
free-trade fair and stuff's on at the QM today. Is it like a significant
week, or?
F809: It might be something like Fair-Trade Fortnight. There's a night on
Sunday //at the//
F810: //Mmhm//
F809: QM - Fair-Trade Funk or something.
F810: [laugh]
F809: It's eh, och, it's usually quite good. They don't get the best
turnout . The music's really good, //so it's.//
F810: //uh-huh//
F809: I think I'll go along after the gig on //on Sunday night.//
F810: //Sunday.//
F809: If I've got any money left. //[laugh]//
F810: //[exhale]// Don't talk about money.
F809: I know.
F810: It's painful. [sniff] Erm, Michael's goin to a gig tonight, but it's
something really random. It's Some band whose name I've forgotten I've
never heard of, that Subcity Radio plays on a frequent //basis. Yeah.//
F809: //Oh, is it// or no, that was last night. It was the eh Doc //Party
[inaudible].//
F810: //Mm it's called// Chief, or Chat, or //summat.//
F809: //Are they a real// band, or are they just like a Uni //band?//
F810: //I don't know, I// think, well I think they're a real band, but I
don't know how much of it's a band, and how much of it's a DJ. [sniff] //I
think it might be//
F809: //Oh right.//
F810: one of those fine-line DJ-band types. //[laugh]//
F809: //Oh//
F810: But I'm not goin. Mm
F809: But I'm gonna rediscover Friday night television this evening.
F810: [inhale] Television! I was gonna tidy up today, but I didn't do that
either.
F809: No, I was gonna do that all day too, then I remembered that I had
this. But I went to my lecture and the lecturer never turned up! So we all
sat. But I did get a free coffee! //Because, they took me//
F810: //[laugh]//
F809: me so long to make my coffee in Beanscene that I had to go by the
time it was //ready.//
F810: //Uh-huh//
F809: But then they'd made it for me, just as I was about to go, so I got a
free coffee and my money back. //So.//
F810: //Yeah!// //That's very good.//
F809: //That is// pretty good. I d- I needed it, I can tell you. Extra
chocolate.
F810: I had something interesting to tell you about today, //but it's gone
away.//
F809: //[cough] [sniff]//
F810: No. I was thinking all the way here. I was going, "Oh I have to
remember to tell Kirsty about that." And, you know. When being filmed. What
better time? [laugh] //[laugh]//
F809: //[laugh]//
F810: [laugh] And then I forgot straight away, so it can't have been that
important. [click] Erm I don't know. My brains are totally melted. I'm just
so sick of study.
F809: [laugh] //[sniff]//
F810: //I'm tired.//
F809: What are you writing about?
F810: [laugh] [sniff] Hm, the significance of the pentangle in "Sir Gawain
and the Green Knight".
F809: That's important.
F810: It's very important, but it's ridiculously stupidly complicated. It's
like, it's all about there's, like, he's got a shield, and on this shield
he's got a pentangle. And this pentangle signifi-signififies-signifi-
//Yes. [laugh]//
F809: //Signifies.// //Is//
F810: //Signifies!// //[laugh]//
F809: //symbolic for. [laugh]// //[cough]//
F810: //Eh many// things, including like the five wounds of Christ and the
five joys of Mary, //and//
F809: //The five senses?//
F810: the five senses, and the five knightly chivalric code things, and
some other five. There's five lots of five anyway. So like, as you can
imagine, my essay is becoming increasingly complicated as I go down each
one of these fives. But then some of them I just don't really get. Cause
like the five, the five joys of Mary is like like the birth of Jesus, the
death, the resurrection of Jesus, [laugh] her getting told she's going to
have Jesus, I think that probably happened before he was born. //Erm.//
F809: //[laugh]//
F810: Then, when he dies and goes to Heaven, and she dies and goes to
Heaven, and that's like the five joys of Mary. But I don't really know
what's that's got to do with this knight.
F809: Because they were all very religious, back then.
F810: But I don't really know like what it, like what it symbolises for
him, cause it's all meant to be like the way he acts, and it's like ehm,
you know, like the chivalric code that he's got to be courteous, and he's
got to be eh, you know, polite and //he's got to be//
F809: //[laugh]// //He's got to say please and thank you. [laugh]//
F810: //[?]handsomely[/?] and all this.// //[laugh] You know?//
F809: //"Ha-ha, I shall slaughter thee, please!"//
F810: I should, you know, rise again, after I die, I just don't think, you
know [laugh] it would be highly appropriate. But I think that it probably
symbolises something I haven't figured out yet. But I'm on it. And then
when that one's finished, I'm going to write about [exhale] why, in what
ways do words change their meanings. It's eh
F809: I'm currently writing the last essay //of my university career.
[laugh] I feel like I should end on a peak,//
F810: //[inhale] Aw, no! So jealous! [laugh]//
F809: but I don't think it's gonna //happen.//
F810: //[laugh]//
F809: [inhale] //It'll be a bit of an apology.//
F810: //Aw. [laugh]// I've got, this one I'm writing just now, and then
there's another one that I've decided not to do, cause I just don't have
time to do it, but it's like a second essay and it's //voluntary, so I'm//
F809: //Mmhm//
F810: not volunteering to do more work.
F809: Yeah, I could volunteer to do one more after this, but it's going to
be so good, there's going to be no need //for me to write another essay.//
F810: //[laugh]// Erm, as I say I've just got to finish this one, and then
after that one's done, I've just got to do my extended ones, and I've
written one of my extended ones, so it's just the other one that needs to
get done.
F809: You've just got one more after that, then?
F810: Yes. [exhale] Finally.
F809: And then the Finals, yeah! //[laugh]//
F810: //Oh yeah. [laugh]//
F809: I don't know if my mother expects me to go home over Easter, or not?
F810: I didn't think it was - do you normally go home over Easter?
F809: No. I might go home for a week though. But I think I'd study better
if I stayed here, //so.//
F810: //Mmhm//
F809: I might just do that.
F810: Think she's gonna be sick o the sight o you after //[laugh] you move
back in [inaudible] [laugh].//
F809: //Yeah, that's it. I move home anyway, so she can [inhale].// She can
have a few more weeks of freedom before I move //home again.//
F810: //[laugh]// Yeah. I got a bit of a parental guilt trip the other day.
Oh, cause I'm going through to Edinburgh on Monday, cause I'm going to the
doctor's and the hospital and stuff, ehm, but they're comin up to meet me,
but it's ended up like I've got one appointment after the other, with like
half-an-hour gaps in between, and they're "Oh, wish we could see you."
F809: Are they not gonna be at the doctor's as well?
F810: Well, they're gonna come, but I'm gonna be in the doctor's, and then
come out and have to go to the next place, and then go in //and and go to
the//
F809: //Oh right.//
F810: the next place, and, [sniff], but I'll probably go home and see them
after Finals, for maybe a day or two.
F809: Yeah.
F810: At least several days. My little sister's still plotting to move out.
She was asking what was happening with your bedroom. //She was going
[laugh]//
F809: //[laugh]// //Cause you'd love to live with your little sister,
wouldn't you?//
F810: //Is K- Is Kirsty movin home over the// summer, you know, and I was
going, "well, ehm,
F809: [laugh]
F810: [laugh] yes, why?" She's goin "Empty bedroom", I'm goin "Claire, more
money than you can afford," "Oh no no, I'm I'm doin the lambin". //She's
[inaudible] she's doin the lambin.//
F809: //What? The lambing? [laugh]//
F810: And eh she's gonna //a lambin for three weeks, so eh.//
F809: //[cough]// //Wait, wait!//
F810: //You know, obviously I'm gonna have//
F809: Is this really her helping sheep give birth?
F810: Yes.
F809: She's gonna be pulling //lambs out of sheep.//
F810: //She's goin be pulling lambs out o sheep.// [laugh]
F809: Okay.
F810: Yes. So she's helpin with the lambing, so, you know, in this three
weeks of lambing she's gonna make enough money that she can afford to move
to Glasgow, live in a flat, pay all her rent and all her bills, and run a
car. //[laugh] [inaudible]//
F809: //Oh right, and when is// she gonna learn to get on with you enough
to live with you again?
F810: Erm, probably afterwards, probably after I crucify her. //[laugh]//
F809: //[laugh]//
F810: You'll come round to the the house one day, and I'll be striking her
up in the garden.
F809: [laugh] //Does she still work at the Co-op?//
F810: //[sniff]// No, she, well she was working at ehm, there, and she was
working at WHSmith, but then she quit because they were making her work
like overnight shifts, //So she//
F809: //Uh-huh//
F810: was like working till one in the morning and stuff, and she's got
exams coming up. But she had her prelims and stuff, and they went okay, so
she's quietly confident, //[laugh] that she's gonna get in//
F809: //Oh that's nice.//
F810: to Uni and things. So that's good. An eh
F809: To St Andrews?
F810: Well that's where she wants to go, but then she was meant to be going
with her pal, but her pal's movin to Ireland. //So,//
F809: //Uh-huh//
F810: Like th- they had great plans like to get a flat together and stuff
in St Andrews, which now isn't happening, so I don't know really where she
wants to go, but.
F809: Uh-huh
F810: I don't know why she'd want to go to St Andrews.
F809: Yeah, that.
F810: It's kind of quiet. And a little dull.
F809: Yeah but, Johnny's there, so. //[laugh]//
F810: //[laugh] Yeah, that's true.// But I don't know how long he's gonna
be there though, cause I don't know whether he's gonna do like another year
after this year coming.
F809: Uh-huh //Is that//
F810: //Cause he's like//
F809: him finished his degree? //Next year.//
F810: //Yeah.// He finishes his degree next year, but he's on like a funny
course, for his Masters [inaudible], I've told you this about twelve times.
//[laugh]//
F809: //[laugh]//
F810: So we don't know whether he's gonna stay and do his Masters year or
not.
F809: Okay.
F810: But eh, hey. Ehm, that's it. That is //everything that I've got//
F809: //[inaudible]// //[laugh]//
F810: //to tell you! [laugh]// //[laugh]//
F809: //Well, I applied// for a job today.
F810: What in?
F809: Fundraiser. [laugh] //Street fundraiser, standing on the street,
going, "Will you give money to charity, please?"//
F810: //[laugh]// [laugh]
F809: [inaudible] the job that everyone ha- will hate me //for.//
F810: //Mmhm//
F809: But, I think, if it's the summer time and it's sunny, then I'll quite
enjoy it, cause I'll be outside //just chatting to people.//
F810: //I think as long as you don't// stand on that corner of Buchanan
Street, like the //bit right at the top where//
F809: //Yeah.//
F810: where everybody is, cause it's just such a gauntlet. But even
[inaudible] Botanic Gardens and shook your tin or something, //yeah.//
F809: //I don't// think you'd be allowed to do it in the Botanic //Gardens,
that's//
F810: //You'd be outside it.//
F809: kind of, Glasgow //Council space,//
F810: //Yeah.//
F809: probably. I think, I don't think you get to choose where you go,
Robyn. [laugh] //Otherwise I would do it all from the café. [laugh]//
F810: //That's that corner's so awful! [laugh]// I hate that bit of
Buchanan Street, just that corner, //where you come up, and.//
F809: //But it's dead busy.// So when I was doing that other job, like,
selling the //cards for the clubs, they em,//
F810: //The [?]K-cards[/?], yeah.//
F809: [click]. That was quite a good place //to stand,//
F810: //uh-huh//
F809: cause you get, okay, you get loads of people going no no no no no,
but, there's always people coming, so //it's okay.//
F810: //Hate that bit.// I always avoid it, and I like I go by Flip, //and
cut up, just cause I can't//
F809: //Just because of the people?//
F810: deal with them all, yeah. //And eh,//
F809: //Aw [inaudible]//
F810: It's the same as the QM, though. I always kind of come up and up the
pathway now, like, rather than goin up the pavement, cause you get harassed
so badly.
F809: Aw but it's usually for good causes outside there.
F810: It was the QM election yesterday, it //was like,//
F809: //[inhale]//
F810: a crazy circus taking place outside the //Union.//
F809: //You missed// lots of free sweets.
F810: I can deal without the free sweets.
F809: And, did you know, it got ehm, cancelled, the- well not cancelled,
the Presidency got voided, because one girl said that the other girl had
gone over the budget for the, cause they're apparently allowed sixty quid
to have a budget //to//
F810: //Aw I didn't// even know they did anything like that.
F809: Yeah, I mean, you wouldn't think from what they had, //you know?//
F810: //[laugh]// //[laugh]//
F809: //A bed sheet with their names written on it.// Ehm, because they
went over the budget, the other girl contested it so they never even
counted the votes. //So they've got to do it again//
F810: //Mm// //[exhale]//
F809: //in six months' time now.//
F810: No. //[laugh]//
F809: //Yep. [laugh]//
F810: I just can't //aw.//
F809: //You just say you// voted already if you don't want to.
F810: That's what I was sayin when ehm everyone was doin that newspaper
interview as well. //Yeah.//
F809: //Oh the Times.// //Yeah.//
F810: //People goin// aw do it, do it. I'm goin, "aw I did it already, did
it already".
F809: That put the fear of God in me.
F810: It was awful. //[laugh] [inaudible] It was money!//
F809: //It's "What have you done?" [laugh]// "What have you done to further
your career after graduation?" [laugh] "Mm, nothing, nothing, nothing,
nothing." //Made it quite quick to fill in, though, I//
F810: //[laugh]//
F809: didn't have to give any details for anything.
F810: [yawn] I need to start thinking about graduate jobs. //Even just for
the summer.//
F809: //You've got// a few, oh yeah, for the summer.
F810: Cause I think that I'm just gonna get something a lot better paid if
I don't let on that I'm comin back to Uni.
F809: Uh-huh
F810: It's quite cheeky, but, you know. I ca- I don't want to work in a
call centre all summer. I'll just //lose the will to live.//
F809: //Are you not gonna go back// to the place you were at?
F810: Well, I would do, but I don't know whether they'll have me, after my
slight indiscretion. //[laugh]//
F809: //[laugh]// //Yes, let's [?]head to[/?] scandal on the video!//
F810: //[laugh]// //Scandal at the call centre! [laugh]//
F809: //[laugh]//
F810: Wasn't that scandalous. He deserved it! //[laugh]//
F809: //[laugh]// Yeah, you shouldn't really swear at patrons.
//[inaudible]//
F810: //No, no.// [laugh]
F809: But on your last day it's forgiven, //[inaudible]//
F810: //Well,// yes. And he was really rude to me, and, you know? [laugh]
I've no excuse //really. [laugh] I was in a bad mood and he was rude.//
F809: //[laugh]// Well, it's ensured that you'll never have to go back.
F810: But you know, what was the chances, because, you know, nobody ever
asks the calls to be checked. Like, you know if you're on the phone to
someb-, I was on the phone to him and he said "get a supervisor", and I
thought he was just going to rant at the supervisor, and usually the
supervisors just go "Yeah, we'll discipline them". [laugh], you know,
//"That's fine."//
F809: //[laugh]//
F810: Put the phone down. "Very bad," you know. And that's what I was
expecting, but he totally hit the roof, and was like, got the call called
up, and then it just so happened it was the not so pleasant lady that
listened to the call, and then she hit the roof, and eh,
F809: I think the most, the best thing to do with people at that time is
just be so nice //and so polite//
F810: //[inaudible]//
F809: to them that they can't possibly [?]rile[/?] you, cause all they want
you to do //is shout and swear back//
F810: //[laugh]//
F809: at them, so, //if you're nice to them.//
F810: //See, I think my problem// was the shouting and swearing back. I
usually am really good though, cause usually I'll just be like "Yeah, yeah,
yes, Mr Smith, no Mr Smith". But ehm, he irritated me, really badly, and
he'd only been waiting half an hour. So it wasn't really like he was
freezing to death in his car, you know, it was. Twat.
F809: I'm never going to work in a call centre again. //[inaudible] work in
MacDonalds before I work in a call centre again.//
F810: //[laugh] [laugh]// See, I think that, I'll apply to that well-known
motoring organisation which will remain unnamed, //[laugh] and eh,//
F809: //[laugh]//
F810: and I'll ask them if they'll have me back, but I really don't think
they will, or ehm, //if they do//
F809: //How?//
F810: I think it will be a while before they take, like, cause I have to go
in an on intake. They won't just take me in at a random time, so I think
I'll probably have to, like, even if I have to temp for a couple of months
and then go back.
F809: How about the day-centrey job?
F810: The overnight one? Och, I'm not. It's summer time. [laugh] You know?
It's not so bad to do it in the winter, but, you know, you'd never see the
light of day. //Ehm, [laugh],//
F809: //Yeah, you could sleep in the park, all day! [laugh]//
F810: that would be really //nice, [laugh]//
F809: //Yeah, [laugh]//
F810: But I just, I don't know how happy I'd be, spending my summer in
darkness. //You know, it's//
F809: //Yeah, that's true.//
F810: at least in winter it's dark and cold, well, admittedly in summer
it's dark and cold and miserable too, but I think I'd like to be there
occasionally when the sun //shines.//
F809: //I sat// outside the library yesterday, for a whole fifteen minutes,
before I got //too cold. I had to go back in again.//
F810: //[laugh]// //[inhale]//
F809: //I was sitting there enjoying the sunshine.//
F810: It was, it was quite sunny //yesterday, it was nice.//
F809: //While my fingers turned blue.//
F810: Who was it that was saying that they were gonna go and lie in the
park, and we all laughed, somebody in my class was goin, "oh, we'll go and
lie in the park. //It'll be great." I'm like, eh,//
F809: //Och, no.//
F810: no. [laugh] My dad's bought a sunbed. //[laugh]//
F809: //Has he, for the// //house?//
F810: //[laugh]// //[laugh] I know!//
F809: //That's wrong.//
F810: It's not, he's not even bought it. It's like the couple next door are
getting rid of their old one, cause it was like faulty. //So they bought a
new one.//
F809: //[laugh]//
F810: And they were throwing the old one out. So my dad said, "aw", you
know, "I'll have that." [laugh] And, eh, it makes him stripey. //But it's
like a proper, uh-huh it's like//
F809: //Cause it's faulty!//
F810: a proper like lie-in-it-pull-the-lid-down job, it's like a proper,
like, sunbed, but it just makes him stripey.
F809: [exhale] Why does he want a //sunbed anyway?//
F810: //I have// absolutely no //idea. [laugh]//
F809: //It's a bit vain, isn't it?// //[laugh]//
F810: //I'm goin "Dad, who're you foolin?" [laugh]// And I'm goin "Really
bad for you", and he's goin "Oh", you know, "it's not that bad for you",
and I'm goin, you know, "Well, worse for you than cigarettes, I would say."
//[laugh]//
F809: //It's something// like ehm, if you go less than four times a year,
it's not meant to have like, //a too negative//
F810: //Mm//
F809: effect on you, but any more than that it's meant to be really
F810: I just don't like the idea of like "Here's a box. Get in it, and
we're goin to stew you with UV light", you know, it's
F809: But I think, I'd like one of the ehm SAD boxes, //I think that would
be quite nice.//
F810: //Yeah yeah, that'd be nice.// But when we've got that wallpaper like
my little brother told us about, the stuff where it's the ambient lighting
and it's the wallpaper. //Yeah. Then it could be sunny all the time.//
F809: //Yeah, we could just be in a tropical place all the time.// Yeah. If
we ever bother. Well you wouldn't need to change lightbulbs any more.
F810: It would save us ever having to open the curtains. [laugh]
//[inaudible] [laugh] [laugh]//
F809: //Well, [laugh]//
F810: [inhale] //I was goin to say, [laugh]//
F809: //We'd never need to go outside again.// [sniff]
F810: [laugh] I hate opening the curtains in that flat just now cause it's
so dirty. And you know, it's like //it's fine when you leave it//
F809: //[cough]//
F810: in kind of sub-darkness, you know, //cause then you don't really have
to deal with it.//
F809: //[laugh]//
F810: [sniff] //[laugh] It's on the list, you know.//
F809: //That's alright, soon we'll// soon we'll be able to afford a
cleaner.
F810: Any day now.
F809: [laugh]
F810: That's what my mum keeps goin, "They'll clean for a fiver an hour,
you know". They'll clean it. And I'm goin //just//
F809: //Who's they?// //[laugh]//
F810: //They. [laugh] I don't know. They. [laugh]//
F809: I c- I could get a job as a cleaner, there's always an advert in the
local shop for that person, remember that dog I was going to //start
walking? They're still//
F810: //[laugh]//
F809: looking for someone for that disobedient cocker spaniel they're
always talking about. So, that's only three hours a day, so maybe when I
finish I'll do that, like, and do a pub job or something at night.
F810: I wouldn't want to clean.
F809: Och, I think, most people clean up before the cleaner comes round. I
know my mum used to always do that.
F810: I wouldn't want to clean.
F809: She used to always go mad at us in the morning as we were getting
ready, she'd be like "Tidy your rooms, tidy your rooms, the cleaner's
coming", and she'd be hoovering the living room so the cleaner //wouldn't
come in to a dirty house.//
F810: //[laugh]// //[laugh]//
F809: //Cause that would be embarrassing, you know?//
F810: [laugh] I just, I just don't like cleaning. //[laugh]//
F809: //oh//
F810: I don't like cleaning my own house. I'm not willing to clean other
people's. But it is usually better to clean up other people's stuff than
your own. [sniff]
F809: Yeah.
F810: Cleaning your own stuff's just just [inaudible]. We need to find the
lid of that hundred and fifty pound [laugh] pan.
F809: Yeah. Yeah, I'll well //I'm gonna clean this weekend.//
F810: //I mean it won't be far,// you know, it won't be anywhere. It'll
just be somewhere among the chaos. And recycling. I'll take all that
recycling. Maybe we could do that tomorrow.
F809: I did half the recycling this mornin.
F810: Oh good. //[inaudible]//
F809: //A bit.// //I took half of it//
F810: //Erm are// //you working?//
F809: //out.//
F810: Are you finished now?
F809: No, I've got two more shifts.
F810: Two more?
F809: Yeah, ehm, actually I won't be able to do anything tomorrow. I might
just do it tonight then, because, ehm, I'm out all day tomorrow at Amnesty,
and then I'm working //in the shop.//
F810: //I keep meaning to// get you to show me where it is, cause I know
roughly that area, but I would just end up //wandering about like a
bag-woman.//
F809: //The recycling? It's// just in the, if you go into the halls there's
like the bin closet,
F810: Mmhm
F809: and, inside there there's, like, there's green bins and they're got
recycle written on them. //You just put it in there.//
F810: //Cool.//
F809: They're usually not too full, so it's alright.
F810: I wonder what they've got in those halls, because I'm always
wondering if they've got, like, computer facilities and stuff.
F809: Yeah, like the other one. //Maybe in//
F810: //Uh-huh//
F809: the wee reception. But you've got to have a swipe-car-, like your
key, to get into the main reception. //Did you used to do that in
Murano?//
F810: //Ah, no, no.// You just went in.
F809: No, it's posh.
F810: It is posh. //[laugh]//
F809: //[laugh]//
F810: They're the most expensive halls at the Uni.
F809: I always expect they have like an underground sports suite or
something hidden. [laugh]
F810: I hate them with their cars. //All of them//
F809: //[laugh]// //They live so close and they've all got//
F810: //with their cars, [laugh].//
F809: cars! //[laugh]//
F810: //As I walk// to Uni in the morning as they all drive out as I'm
running, cause I'm so late //and they all come out//
F809: //uh-huh//
F810: in their cars.
F809: I thought you were being lazy and getting the bus from Byres Road the
other day when I saw you,
F810: No, //[laugh]//
F809: //[?]so I did[/?].//
F810: It's not even a proper bus stop any more; it's all closed off. Erm,
no I was just writing a Mothers' Day card. Cause eh, oh it was so hard,
cause I went to the Oxfam Bookshop to get a, like, a Fair-Trade card And I
was in there, and eh, started looking at the books. //And I was//
F809: //[laugh]//
F810: just, I was doin okay, I was lookin, I was going "oh none of these,
none of these" and then I found like this big chunk of university-relevant
texts. //So I was "oh,//
F809: //Aw!//
F810: they're university-relevant, you can justify buying them", and I was
like that, with tears in my eyes, I was putting them all back on the shelf
going "no, no". //[inaudible]//
F809: //[laugh]//
F810: I've got eight hundred books at home //not read yet.//
F809: //Although sometimes// you should because I didn't buy - I was in the
other day, and they had this book, and I was like "Oh, that's one of ours
for our course, but then I didn't buy it and then I had to buy it later on
anyway,
F810: Mm
F809: for Uni, and it cost me twice the price. I should have just got it
//in the first place.//
F810: //See I've got// Amazon vouchers just now as well, from doing that
treasure hunt thing
F809: Uh-huh
F810: Erm, so they're sitting on my computer, and I need to use those. But
I'm trying not to because [laugh] I know I'm gonna need to buy books in
September, //so, for my course, yeah.//
F809: //Oh, for your postgrad, yeah.//
F810: So I should probably, you know, wait and see what I really need, but
what I really want to do is blow it on something unnecessary.
F809: Och well, it's vouchers for free, I mean, why not?
F810: But, [laugh], iIt's only fifteen quid worth of vouchers, so I was
thinking, well, you know, cause it's fifteen quid that means I can justify
spending fifteen quid, because then I've got thirty quid, and you can get a
much better book for thirty //quid than you can//
F809: //[laugh]//
F810: for fifteen [laugh].
F809: Oh the crazy life we lead, //it's scary. [laugh]//
F810: //Oh I know,// it's so exciting.
F809: What books can we //buy, now?//
F810: //[laugh] Bet they've// been videoing other people, like first and
second years, and they've been coming in and talking about their crazy
//lives and [laugh],//
F809: //[laugh]//
F810: [laugh] "yeah, we were out drinking till five a.m."
F809: Oh, and nearly went mad, and nearly bought a book from Amazon, but,
no, I //stopped myself, it's okay.//
F810: //[laugh]// //[laugh] Too much [laugh]//
F809: //Don't worry about me.// //[laugh]//
F810: //[laugh] It wasn't// even fiction; it was a university textbook.
[laugh]
F809: Aw!
F810: Oh, I can't wait till we have a life again. //[?]Hey though[/?], do
you think//
F809: //[laugh]//
F810: it'll be really hard to go back to havin a life again?
F809: No, I think it'll //be incredibly easy;//
F810: //[laugh]//
F809: I think I'll adjust just fine. I was, I w- quite a relaxing day today
though, just like sitting in the coffee shop and stuff. But it felt, it
feels wrong when I'm not working //though. I was sitting there//
F810: //Mmhm//
F809: I was reading, I was even reading a relevant book, [laugh]. I was
readin a uni book.
F810: [inaudible]not even, [inaudible], it's the guilt, more than anything,
and //it's like you don't really//
F809: //Yeah.//
F810: enjoy yourself because you're so busy feeling guilty about it, and,
the fact of the matter is that even if you weren't there you'd probably be
at home avoiding writing your essay anyway. //[laugh] It's//
F809: //[laugh]//
F810: not like you're saving yourself any time, but
F809: Uh-huh. Well I tried to rediscover television ehm //on Wednesday
night,//
F810: //[laugh]//
F809: and I was really disappointed.
F810: [sniff] I was watchin telly this morning, and we had a choice of
tennis - it was crazy, it was like, they were playing some Argentina-
-tinian. This is gonna be great, you know? [laugh] Robyn's inability to say
//any word.//
F809: //They're gonna have// //serious eh//
F810: //[laugh]//
F809: worries about our concepts of language //anyway, you know?//
F810: //I know. [laugh]// Erm, he was playing some Argentinian guy, and
every time that, like, the ball went out of play, this crazy band struck up
and started playing Argentinian //music.//
F809: //[laugh]//
F810: "Do-do-do-do!" And then like they'd hit the ball again and they went
silent, you know, it was really //bizarre.//
F809: //[laugh]//
F810: So that was one channel, and they we had, eh, what did we have, like
Home Improvements, but it was just, you know, some neddy housewife that was
having her house re-done, and she was like "oh, it's gorgeous!", //[laugh]
and all this, and it was horrible, and you know,//
F809: //[laugh] Let's paint it bright pink! [laugh]//
F810: ghastly and yuk, //and then eh//
F809: //"Look we made this picture out of tin-foil".// //[laugh]//
F810: //and then they had eh// What's his name, that actor? Mic- Michael
Sheen? //He's some//
F809: //[inaudible]//
F810: some, very fam- well, according to Michael, very famous actor who's
worth loads. They had his mum, and her pal on, because they were on like,
you know the programmes like the eh the car boot sale? //Ehm//
F809: //Uh-huh//
F810: It was like the car boot sale programme, but it was Michael Sheen's
mum and her pal, going on because they wanted to save the money up to go to
London for a weekend. And we're thinking "well, she's Michael Sheen's mum."
//[laugh] You know?//
F809: //[laugh]//
F810: Surely? [laugh] But.
F809: But I'm sure there are lots of people that are interested in what
Michael Sheen's mum has in her car //boot, you know? [laugh]//
F810: //Well, that's true. It was interesting to have a dig through all her
stuff, you know? But.// She was just a wee wifie who wanted to go for a
weekend in London, but they were, admittedly, going for dinner at the Ritz
and that's what she wanted her money for. [sniff]
F809: I don't know if you can really enjoy the luxury of the Ritz if you
got it by selling your //belongings at a car-boot sale. [laugh]//
F810: //[laugh] A car-boot sale, I know. [laugh]// //[inaudible]//
F809: //I don't think people that// go to the Ritz, go to the Ritz
regularly really need to [laugh]
F810: But do you not think all the things they sell on these things, it's
always the most hideous bits of ghastly pottery that w- get the most
//money in.//
F809: //The little// porcelain doll.
F810: It was eh, it was, it was like little, like little figurines that she
was selling, and they had eh, she'd bought them in some car-boot sale, and
they had like ten ninety-nine on the bottom in like indelible marker, and
//the [inaudible].//
F809: //[laugh]//
F810: The guy's //goin "Hundred//
F809: //[cough]//
F810: pounds, a hundred and fifty pounds, you're goin, it's horrible, you
know, it's
F809: [laugh]
F810: it's not nice, so that that was that was good. And I believe Trisha
was on Five, but you couldn't really see it cause it was really fuzzy.
F809: Trisha's moved to Channel Five?
F810: She's on both now! //[laugh] Yes, double Trisha, I know!//
F809: //Oh, it's a Trisha empire!//
F810: [laugh] //[laugh]//
F809: //Did I tell// you about my mate that was in America, and went to see
Jerry S- no, yeah, he went to see Jerry Springer? But the day he went to
see the Jerry Springer show, ehm, he was goin to go and see Oprah Winfrey,
but he thought, "No, Jerry Springer'll be more exciting," //and//
F810: //[laugh]//
F809: the one where he gave, the one that he missed of Oprah Winfrey was
the one where she gave a free car away to //every single member of the
audience,//
F810: //Aw, no!//
F809: so he never got a free car.
F810: She's always doing stuff like that though, she's always giving away
//free stuff.//
F809: //Och, she's// a generous lady, //is//
F810: //Yeah,// //I don't//
F809: //Oprah.//
F810: mind Oprah. I don't really enjoy watching her show, but, you know,
she's okay. It's worth it just to watch her fluctuatin weight. //[laugh]//
F809: //[laugh]//
F810: [inhale] It was some some kind of satirical programme that was on,
and they had like "The many weights of //Oprah" [laugh] and it just//
F809: //[laugh]//
F810: had it cut in like that and it's just her going like this, //you
know?//
F809: //It proves// she's a real person, //you know, she st- she struggles
with weight control.//
F810: //Yeah. No, I think she's alright.// She's okay. She's more real than
Trisha. [laugh] I hate Trisha. [laugh]
F809: Trisha has experienced //everything that we have.//
F810: //[laugh]// [laugh] I know.
F809: God.
F810: [laugh] And it's like her wee sum-up at the end, you know she's like
"I have solved nothing. //Nothing has changed.//
F809: //[laugh]//
F810: You're all still miserable. Go back to your miserable lives, but
think about it." [laugh] And I hate all the people on Trisha. It was the
woman with the panda jumper. Honestly. This horrible panda jumper and her
big moustache. It's just so horrible, [laugh], but eh. I don't know. At
least Kilroy's not on anymore. //He's too busy running his own political
party. [laugh]//
F809: //Oh, yeah, forgot [inaudible] [?]scandal[/?]. No, he had to give it
up.// He had to //give it up.//
F810: //Did he not, he// left it though, and then formed the Kilroy-Silk
party, like his very own party.
F809: Which was just the same as the other one only without the
//millionaire that paid for everything. Aye, cause I//
F810: //It was just him [laugh].//
F809: saw the interview where they were both on the telly, and it was him
and the millionaire that pays for everything, and ehm Kilroy was sitting
there going "Yes, yes, so Jimmy," or whatever //the guy's name was.//
F810: //[laugh]//
F809: Jimmy thinks this about our party," and Jimmy's going "No I don't,
Kilroy, no, that's not //what I want at all." And Kilroy's going "Shut
up!//
F810: //[laugh]//
F809: Shut up!" //And then,//
F810: //[laugh]//
F809: it was, one of these news presenters - I can't remember his name -
was kind of like trying to get Jimmy to say his piece. And, you know, the
guy practically walked out on the interview cause Kilroy //was being so
obnoxious.//
F810: //But it was just like "Vote// Kilroy." He's the only member of his
own party, [laugh] you know, it's "Vote Kilroy", you know, for
dictatorship.
F809: [laugh]
F810: But do you think anybody really went, and voted Kilroy? [laugh] Yes.
//"Vote Kilroy for more chat-shows", yes. [laugh]//
F809: //Don't know. Maybe his mum? [laugh]//
F810: I don't like Kilroy. [sigh]
F809: What to say? //[laugh]//
F810: //Ah, what to say, [laugh] yeah.//
F809: How long have we been speaking?
F810: I have no idea.
F809: Maybe about ten minutes? //[laugh] We need to [inaudible].//
F810: //[laugh] [inaudible] we could discuss what I think of// a well-known
communications company, [laugh] and their their not-free upgrade policy.
F809: [laugh]
F810: I was so angry. That guy was so rude to me last night. Honestly. He
was just like, I mean obviously it was like five to six and he finished at
six. So I'm like, well yeah, you know, I've worked in a call centre. I've
done the same. But he was just such a ignorant little
F809: Maybe it was his last day, too. //Maybe you could have got him
sacked! [laugh]//
F810: //Maybe. [laugh]// Totally. But I've written them a very
strongly-worded letter. Informing them that if they do not provide me with
a free handset, then I will be moving to another well-known communication
//company. [laugh] That//
F809: //[laugh]//
F810: will also remain unnamed. [laugh]
F809: Oh
F810: [laugh] It was bad, but he was just really cheeky and he was like
"Well, there's nothing I can do, there's nothing I can do." And he was goin
"Oh, it's based on your ehm, your calling patterns." And I'm like, thinking
of the size of my phone //bills. You know? My//
F809: //Yeah, you make a lot of calls.//
F810: phone bills are massive. And it's, like, you know, how many calls do
you have to make before you get a free handset? I'm not chuffed.
F809: Many. Many calls.
F810: But I'm just still waiting for my - oh and that's it as well, my
benefit all got cancelled. //Ehm//
F809: //Why?//
F810: Well I didn't get a payment last month. So I phoned the [laugh] - it
was so bad - I phoned like the the living allowance helpline. And because
you know it's like the disability line, you know caring, sharing, it was,
like, Enya on their hold music, and this voice kept going "Please ensure
you have your name and your National Insurance number. //to hand."//
F809: //[laugh]//
F810: And you're goin, yeah, I know. [laugh] [inaudible] in there for a
while. And then it was goin eh, [laugh] it was goin, "Please ensure you
speak slowly and clearly." [laugh]
F809: Was it one of those ones that records your voice, when you speak i-,
like a computer? And you speak into it and it records your voice and comes
up with an automated response //from what you said?//
F810: //No, no, no, it was// just like hold music, but you know like when
it's ge- it's going hold music, and it's going "de-de-de", and you get the
wee reassuring message that you're gonna still //speak to somebody.//
F809: //[laugh]//
F810: But their reassuring messages were so patronising. It was like, you
know, "Please make sure you're sitting comfortably //when we answer your
call," you know, [laugh] and eh//
F809: //[laugh]//
F810: Eventually I got right through it all and got to the guy, and he was
like "Hullo, it's Jocky", and I was like "Hello, Jocky", [laugh] and eh, he
was goin, oh, you know,  "So, what's the problem", and I was like "Well,
you've not given me any money", and he was goin "We've had mail returned to
sender." And they had like the Dorchester Avenue address, but I told them
that I moved house. So like they automatically cancel your benefit if any
mail's returned to sender, cause I think they think you're dead. //Eh,
[laugh]//
F809: //Oh! [laugh]//
F810: So I said, you know, "I'm just, you know, calling to inform you that
I'm still alive," you know, "could I have some money?" So he says he's
going to authorise it in the next couple of days.
F809: That's good.
F810: Which is //good!//
F809: //But you've// moved out of there about a year now.
F810: I know, I know, and I phoned them, and at the time I phoned them like
"Yeah, we'll put that straight in the computer, ehm, but make sure you
write to us and tell us as well", so I did, //and they're//
F809: //Uh-huh//
F810: just incapable. But you know, we'll get another couple o months down
the road, and they'll think I've moved house again, and they'll just cancel
it all, but in some ways it's quite good, cause it's kind of like a savings
plan. Cause they give you like all your back payments, [laugh], you know?
So I'll get all my back payments, and like, this month's payment as well,
so it's alright.
F809: Okay.
F810: [click] And the uni's givin me some money as well. But I don't know
how much. //It's the unspecified amount until//
F809: //For your oh, yeah.//
F810: Tuesday. "Do not attempt to find out how much we are giving. It's a
secret, it's a secret."
F809: [tut] Oh that's good. I'm gonna go and do my shopping, on the way
home. //Get some food.//
F810: //I got, ehm,// another voucher off my mother, for Tesco's, she says
she's not buying any more food for me, which is fair enough, //considering
that she bought me my birthday food, yeah. But I got a voucher//
F809: //Yeah, she bought quite a lot of food. [laugh]//
F810: for eh, you know, "get ten pounds off when you spend fifty", and I
was //I'm pretty//
F809: //[laugh]//
F810: sure when I'm next //gonna have fifty pounds,//
F809: //Maybe we could all group together,// //[laugh] for the next year,
[inaudible].//
F810: //[laugh]// //I totally didn't see your note this morning.//
F809: //Buy lots of Tesco value orange juice.//
F810: That's why I texted you. I was like that, wanderin about.
F809: Oh right. No, it's okay, cause I wasn't sure what time.
F810: Supposedly, ehm, eh, our our third flatmate, who will remain unnamed,
was eh not popular at work this morning.
F809: Oh, I heard, cause she never showed up for her shift.
F810: Oh she never showed up yesterday, and then ehm, like, he- they'd been
trying to phone her, and she hadn't been answering her phone, so they told
Michael, and er, had no problems mentioning //him. [laugh]//
F809: //[laugh]// //Innocent party. [laugh]//
F810: //and ehm [laugh]// They told Michael to like speak to her and then
Michael came home and said "Oh, ehm," you know, "they're really angry with
you, cause, you know, you didn't show up and you're not answering your
phone." And she just said "Oh, you know, I'm not rota-ed on", but she was
totally kind of grumpy. And eh, and then Michael said oh well, Rory, Rory
had been goin mad about it. And said that if she didn't eh, get in touch
with them the next day, then eh, he was, you know, she would be sorry. You
know, or something to that effect, //you know,//
F809: //Oh right.//
F810: it was like a total, you know, "she will live to regret //her
actions," yeah.//
F809: //I don't think she'll be very sorry.// //[laugh]//
F810: //Well, that's the thing, like, she's waiting for them to fire her.//
//But she was there this morning.//
F809: //Oh, it's not a very good job.//
F810: when Mike went in. But he said there was loads of people there this
morning. There was like six people on.
F809: Six //people, why?//
F810: //Uh-huh// Don't know. Well, James and Rory were both on, ehm so,
like, they don't really count. And then there was like Claire and three
other people, //or something that were all on at once.//
F809: //Oh right, okay.//
F810: But Claire had a face like fuzz, so no doubt she got a bit of a
telling-off.
F809: I'm a bit worried they're not goin to be able to use this recording
for anything Robyn //cause you keep saying people's//
F810: //I know, [laugh]//
F809: names over and over again.
F810: Well, you're allowed to say names, you can't identify them, they're
//non-identified names.//
F809: //Yeah, mm// That's true. //We should probably slander ourselves a
little bit.//
F810: //[laugh]// I was goin to say, let's not do that. //[laugh]//
F809: //[laugh]// //There's nothing to say! [laugh]//
F810: //We've probably got more stories about each other, but you know.//
F809: [laugh]
F810: Probably safer not to. We've probably done enough now anyway.


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Audio audience
Adults (18+): For gender: Females
Audience size: 2

Audio awareness & spontaneity
Speaker awareness: Aware
Degree of spontaneity: Spontaneous

Audio footage information
Year of recording: 2005
Recording person id: 718
Size (min): 34
Size (mb): 197

Audio medium
Other: Private conversation recorded for Scots

Audio setting
Education: Private/personal: Recording venue: Lecturer's office
Geographic location of speech: Glasgow

Audio relationship between recorder/interviewer and speakers
Professional relationship: Speakers knew each other: Yes

Audio speaker relationships
Friend: Members of the same group e.g. schoolmates: 
Audio transcription information
Transcriber id: 718
Year of transcription: 2005
Year material recorded: 2005
Word count: 8349

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Participant
Participant details
Participant id: 809
Gender: Female
Decade of birth: 1980
Educational attainment: University
Age left school: 17
Upbringing/religious beliefs: Agnostic
Occupation: Student
Place of birth: Stirling
Region of birth: Stirling
Birthplace CSD dialect area: Stlg
Country of birth: Scotland
Place of residence: Glasgow
Region of residence: Glasgow
Residence CSD dialect area: Gsw
Country of residence: Scotland
Father's occupation: Civil service
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: Teacher
Mother's place of birth: Golspie
Mother's region of birth: Sutherland
Mother's birthplace CSD dialect area: Suth
Mother's country of birth: Scotland

Languages:
Language: English
Speak: Yes
Read: Yes
Write: Yes
Understand: Yes
Circumstances: Home, work, university
Language: German
Speak: Yes
Read: Yes
Write: No
Understand: Yes
Circumstances: When abroad visiting family
Language: Scots
Speak: No
Read: Yes
Write: No
Understand: Yes
Circumstances: Coursework (Scottish lit.), speaking with friends


Participant
Participant details
Participant id: 810
Gender: Female
Decade of birth: 1980
Educational attainment: University
Age left school: 18
Upbringing/religious beliefs: None
Occupation: Student
Place of birth: Edinburgh
Region of birth: Midlothian
Birthplace CSD dialect area: midLoth
Country of birth: Scotland
Place of residence: Glasgow
Region of residence: Glasgow
Residence CSD dialect area: Gsw
Country of residence: Scotland
Father's occupation: Computer technician
Father's country of birth: England
Mother's occupation: Fraud squad investigator
Mother's country of birth: Canada

Languages:
Language: English
Speak: Yes
Read: Yes
Write: Yes
Understand: Yes
Circumstances: Native language
Language: Icelandic
Speak: No
Read: No
Write: No
Understand: No
Circumstances: Basic
Language: Scots
Speak: No
Read: Yes
Write: Yes
Understand: Yes
Circumstances: Socially, with friends