Scottish things and people that I like

I love this thread.

Also there is the possibility that I will just eat them all myself.

I noticed upthread that I was going to tell the story of my flatmates being in the Sunday Post. They were in a band, and wanted some publicity. They therefore went to the Sunday Post with a ridiculous story of how they met their drummer - he had come round to audition for the band and had looked through the singer's tape collection and found a demo tape from a previous band of his there which, suprise, had been given to the singer by a friend of a friend and had become a big favourite of his, and he'd always wanted to meet the people responsible. And now he had, and now they're in a band together.

This story, incidentally, does not have one iota of truth to it. Yet there it was in the centre pages of the Sunday Post alongside other heartwarming tales of hillwalking dogs and marathon running lollipop ladies.

In other exciting news, you can read Francis Gay online!. There's something not quite right about the Sunday Post being on teh interweb, but I like that their website is reassuringly pish.

Tell me about it, I've eaten 6 myself since Thursday night.

I have a friend who was also involved in a fake Sunday Post centre page story. Three times. It was quite lucrative, letting Little Old Ladies laugh at the Youth Of Today.

R.I.P. Ivor Cutler

The trailer features Dominik Diamond - for one glorious moment I thought Aldo had had his hair cut and had been drafted in as a talking head following the powers-that-be at the BBC reading this thread. Sadly not.

(that rant about plain bread still makes me weep helpless tears of laughter every time I read it).

No Irvine Welsh on this thread - does everyone hate him the noo?

Irvine Welsh is equal parts classic and dud. His last two novels were a marked return to form after a dodgy spell.

I am sad this never came true.

Och aye

Different sections that can be read in any order, the sidebars of blockplags/diplags/etc., author's interjections, artwork: everything in it cries out to be hyperlinked with everything else in it (see also Life: A User's Manual, The Unfortunates, Arcades Project etc. etc.).

What does "gadgee" actually mean? Is it like saying "shitboy" up north, or "buster" down south, just a way of showing disrespect for someone without it being too aggy?

It's just a word for any random wee guy about town. Not always disrespectful.

(I'm from the wrong coast so I might be talking shit)

mad wee guys are radge gadges

It's just a general terms, like "bloke" where I come from, but I'm not sure if it has connotations elsewhere.

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Is it Romany? Apparently a lot of slang on the East Coast (Scotland AND North England) is. So I've been told.

I'm reading Christopher Brookmyre books and learning all kinds of new slang! I like his books, there's some Scottish things.

That last Brookmyre book on the serial killer big brother stuff was badly written drivel.
Easily his worst book and the only real clunker he's published, the one before it about spiritualism was great.

Scotland is no bad.

think that should be the new motto instead of Nemo me impune lacessit.

Scotland Isnae Bad

I liked Leith, being asked if I wanted "salt and sauce," and the Glasgow Necropolis.

Also: Robert Louis Stevenson.

Alcholism?

AC/DC?

Limmy's Show

I like Scottish banknotes but am more than a little irked by English shopkeepers' unwillingness to accept them. What gives?

Imagine how much more irked you'd be if you were Scottish.

Scottish banknotes are unusual, first because they are issued by retail banks, not central banks, and second, because they are technically not legal tender anywhere in the United Kingdom – not even in Scotland.[1][2] As such, they are classified as promissory notes, and the law requires that the issuing banks hold a sum of Bank of England banknotes or gold equivalent to the total value of notes issued.[3][4]

Imagine how much more irked you'd be if you were Scottish.

I do think about that fwiw.

So why do they exist in the first place? Is it a botched, nigh contemptuous symbolic allowance?

and you can still execute a Scot with a crossbow if they try to pay for horseshoes with ye counterfitte currencies between maundy thursday and whit sunday.

95% of scottish notes test positive for traces of ground-up shortbread iirc

All the more reason to prefer them to their English counterparts.

So why do they exist in the first place? Is it a botched, nigh contemptuous symbolic allowance?

Apparently banks in England used to be able to print their own notes too:

Until the middle of the 19th century, privately owned banks in Great Britain and Ireland were free to issue their own banknotes. Paper currency issued by a wide range of provincial and town banking companies in England,[3][4][5] Wales,[6] Scotland[7] and Ireland[8] circulated freely as a means of payment.

As gold shortages affected the supply of money, note-issuing powers of the banks were gradually restricted by various Acts of Parliament,[9] until the Bank Charter Act 1844 gave exclusive note-issuing powers to the central Bank of England. Under the Act, no new banks could start issuing notes; and note-issuing banks gradually vanished through mergers and closures. The last private English banknotes were issued in 1921 by Fox, Fowler and Company, a Somerset bank.[9]

However, some of the monopoly provisions of the Bank Charter Act only applied to England and Wales.[10] The Bank Notes (Scotland) Act was passed the following year, and to this day, three retail banks retain the right to issue their own sterling banknotes in Scotland, and four in Northern Ireland.[11][12] Notes issued in excess of the value of notes outstanding in 1844 (1845 in Scotland) must be backed up by an equivalent value of Bank of England notes.[13]

I think it's more a case of lets give the Scots their little freedoms, keep the fuckers on side.

... little being the operative word.

Interesting, thanks.

Cullen skink
Haggis
Vegetarian haggis
Innis & Gunn beer
Bruichladdich
Castles

I will now answer the thread question in boring fashion

Cullen skink
Haggis
Vegetarian haggis
Innis & Gunn beer
Bruichladdich
Castles