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@rodan
I’m from Glasgow, but I’ve spent most of my adult life in England. The use of terms like ‘sweaties’ exploded around the time of the independence referendum, mainly by people who didn’t have the first clue about the issues, but were going to talk loudly and at length about them anyway.
It’s lingered on since then, generally with the implied (or as often explicit) context of ‘sit down and shut up, we’re in charge’. Use it if you must, but any Scots in earshot will assume some pretty shitty things about you in return.