Dean’s sharp observation turns Scottish contrarianism into a brilliant masterclass on linguistic subversion. It perfectly illustrates how a culture uses wit to reclaim its identity and defy external labels.
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Your race, your gender, your sexual orientation doesn't play a part in it, but if you try and make that play a part in somebody else, you're a bad [ __ ] That's how we work it. It's a really simple system. I think though, Scottish people just love proving other people wrong. We love it so much. I think we probably used to be homophobic and then somebody told us that we were. We're like, All right. [laughter] You think we're homophobic?
I'm going to have sex with this man just to prove England's wrong.
>> [laughter] >> O, flower of Scotland, when will we see?
>> [laughter] >> We don't even need to use the word gay in Scotland. We've got >> [laughter] >> Scottish people have this strange ability. They can describe somebody as a homosexual by using any noun.
>> [clears throat] >> All right. Is that guy a bit of a blueberry?
>> [laughter] >> Is that a set of maracas over there?
English people can do it, but they can only use activities to describe somebody as gay. They're like, "Oh god, he's the kind of guy who likes to leave the windows open.
>> [laughter] >> Oh, Barry loves a fundraiser.
>> [laughter] >> Bet you wear your slippers around the house.
>> [laughter] [laughter] >> I moved down to to England a long time ago. I moved back and had to live with my parents again and oh man, the the banter was too much. I had to move out again.
See, I'm living with my mom. That's the thing, right? My mom would take the piss out of me, which I'm fine with cuz I make fun of her voice cuz me and my mom don't always see eye to eye cuz her's at the side of her head. We all joke.
>> [laughter] [laughter] >> But my mom loves making fun of my stammer.
I've got a stammer. Some things I have a just comes out randomly. It's hard to see why I'm good at doing voices cuz I had to cover up my stammer for ages and my mom loves the fact I've got a stammer. I was on the phone to her yesterday, right? And she was at the shops. I was like, "Mom, are you at the shops?" She was like, "Yeah, I'm at the shops. What do you want?"
I was like, "Can you get me a sandwich and a muffin?"
She was like, "Okay, I'll get you a sandwich and 23 muffins."
>> [laughter] [applause] [cheering and laughter] >> No comeback to that. I was too good, wasn't I?
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