In reply to Galileo's Universe:
How fabulous! We haven't had a good old slagging match on the FORUM for donkeys!
Now if we're gonna talk semantics, in Glasgow a 'balloon', like a 'tube' and other unlikely words like 'Baw-bag' is a term of derision. You might address a football player that scored an own-goal as a 'BALL-OON!!' for instance, or indeed Keith Haring...