The Scheme

Richie

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Not sure if anyone down South knows about this as I beleive it was BBC Scotland it was shown on BUT, if you want to see a real life Shameless then have a gander -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00sj713/The_Scheme_Episode_1/

No punches are pulled. People like this are REALLY like this....


As you see, its on the iPlayer so ppl with the Wii/Virgin might prefer to watch it on TV for best effect :)
 
Richie said:
As you see, its on the iPlayer so ppl with the Wii/Virgin/PS3 might prefer to watch it on TV for best effect :)
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Fixed..

Looks pretty amusing. Thanks for sharing :)

Edit: Wish I could understand half of them..
 
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Just watched this last night on iplayer. Was interesting to see how quickly you could go from just thinking of them all as total scumbags, to actually feeling sorry for some of them. And then to instantly see them go out and do something stupid again.

Good tv, in a strange kind of car crash way.
 
I have just started watching this. At 2:10 I have little idea what anyone is saying.

EDIT: Continuing to watch, but am understanding very little. Were there subtitles on TV?
 
I honestly very much struggled to understand them, especially so if they weren't facing the camera. If they were talking directly to the camera and I had the volume up loud, I could make out what they were saying. If they were walking around the room I would catch 1 in 10 words. The kids were the worst - I barely understood anything they said at all!

It's a lethal combination of very thick accent and fast talking.
 
There are subtitles on iPlayer.

I thought I'd understand them fine, but some of the stuff they say is literally inaudible failure so I had to turn the subtitles on.
 
Citizen420 said:
Do you guys seriously struggle to understand them?

I don't, but then again I'm a born and bred Scot.
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When I was in the UK I used to work with a bunch of Scots from all over the place (Aberdeen, Glasgow, Inverness, Dundee, Kilmarnock, Edinburgh, etc.) and I grew accustomed to the various different accents. I even picked up some of the Scots dialect and a handful of colloqualisms ("Get it up ye!" being one of the most useful). But hell's teeth, these people on The Scheme are hard work! They just don't enunciate their words properly. They mumble, gabble and slur.

Painful, painful stuff to watch. Each new generation perpetuates the mistakes of the previous one. They're locked into a cycle of socio-economic dysfunction. :(
 
Yeah, watched it on the iPlayer a couple of days ago. Hilarious viewing but also horrifying.

There was a guy sent to jail for racial abuse, a young ned climbing out a window to avoid the police, numerous alcoholics and druggies, a couple with burberry bedsheets and that's not to mention half of them. It's like a compendium of chav stereotypes.
 
So ******* grim, but sadly true. It's just a vicious circle for these people, which is very sad. I've seen this in action (and been a part of it) and it's not very nice. I wish it weren't true, but people are this unfortunate.
 
It's compulsive viewing!

Some absolutely classic lines in it as well, particularly the maw when she came out of the court :)


Search around on the net abit, folk have found their myspace/bebo pages and all sorts. Apparently a lot has happened in the year since this was started filming.
 
Some highlights.

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Deary me, i'm feeling a wee bit sorry for Dayna now.

God this is depressing, the way these kids are falling back down into the gutter despite their parents trying to stop it from happening is pretty soul destroying.
 
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