A sports coupe made between 1998 and 2002, came with a choice of either a 2.0 I4 engine or a 2.5 V6. 3-Door Hatchback body and was the second car to exibit the Ford 'New Edge' styling philosophy (the ford KA being the first!) Was built on the MK1 Mondeo floorpan with improvements that made it onto the MK2 (2000 on) Mondeo
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Made famous by the Channel 4 programme 'Grand Designs' in the UK by one of the owners of the houses being built, a Five Star Fur Lined Ocean Going Balls Up means that something has been a major catastrophe from start to finish, a complete and utter screw up. This is possibly just the perfect thing to say when something has gone just about as wrong as it can!
We made a five star fur lined ocean going balls up of that, didn't we!
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Howlin' is a predominantly scottish term for extremely smelly or a pungent aroma
Give that toilet a wide berth, who's been in there, it's howlin'!
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A man who claims not to be gay, but acts and dresses like one, only thinks of himself, no-one else matters, reckons he's gods gift. see pranny
Metrosexuals are normally clad with a Ted Baker shirt, Armani Jeans, Ray-bans wearing Calvin Klein aftershave.
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A Glasgow or Western Scottish term for a bloke or geezer, basically means ordinary person.
See thon gink ower there, he's brighter than he looks!
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The SECC is the Scottish Exhibition & Conference Centre located on what was the docks of the Clyde in Glasgow. Known informally locally as the 'Red Shed' when it first opened in 1985 because it's corrugated shell was predominantly red but has since been painted grey when the second phase 'Armadillo' building was added in 1997, so called because it is shaped like an armadillo and is finished with stainless steel. A third phase of the development is in construction at the time of writing (2007) and is expected to elevate this facility to world class status.
The Scottish Motor Show, Modern Homes Exhibition and many Concerts have all been held at the SECC
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Black Affronted is a Scottish way of expressing ones embarrassment, basically it is a local colloqualism for saying that you have been embarrassed by someone or something.
That lassie o' mine lifted up her skirt and mooned a'body, I was pure black affronted so ah wiz!
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