Can’t say it was Alex at his finest, but I think that’s what he was getting at. Just thought I’d say since it seemed to be the total opposite of how you took it which is rather interesting.

I took it the same way as Duncan, to be honest. It’s poorly-worded in any case, but I think it’s more poorly-worded if you assume it means Salmond calling Brown “un-Fife-like”. You’d need a lot of inflection to make it mean that when speaking, which you’d think would’ve altered the way it was transcribed.

Of course there’s nothing that says that the transcription is accurate.

I thought he added the “Fife” part not in any derogatory way but to perhaps highlight that Gordo “The Feartie” Brown was showing distinctly un-Fife-like characteristics by running away from a challenge.

Can’t say it was Alex at his finest, but I think that’s what he was getting at. Just thought I’d say since it seemed to be the total opposite of how you took it which is rather interesting.

If you like that sort of thing……

And if you happen to like that sort of thing, is there a difference between an opposite and a “total opposite”?