think that should be the new motto instead of Nemo me impune lacessit.
― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Saturday, 6 June 2009 17:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Scotland Isnae Bad
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 6 June 2009 17:51 (fourteen years ago) link
I liked Leith, being asked if I wanted "salt and sauce," and the Glasgow Necropolis.
Also: Robert Louis Stevenson.
― Virginia Plain, Monday, 8 June 2009 01:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Alcholism?
― "too worldly to compete on /b/" (King Boy Pato), Monday, 8 June 2009 02:04 (fourteen years ago) link
AC/DC?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 8 June 2009 02:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Limmy's Show
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
I like Scottish banknotes but am more than a little irked by English shopkeepers' unwillingness to accept them. What gives?
― pomenitul, Saturday, 14 September 2019 09:01 (four years ago) link
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]
― The Inner Mounting Phlegm (Tom D.), Saturday, 14 September 2019 09:23 (four years ago) link
I do think about that fwiw.
So why do they exist in the first place? Is it a botched, nigh contemptuous symbolic allowance?
― pomenitul, Saturday, 14 September 2019 09:26 (four years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Saturday, 14 September 2019 09:31 (four years ago) link
95% of scottish notes test positive for traces of ground-up shortbread iirc
― provisional ilx (darraghmac), Saturday, 14 September 2019 09:54 (four years ago) link
All the more reason to prefer them to their English counterparts.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 14 September 2019 09:59 (four years ago) link
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]
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]
― The Inner Mounting Phlegm (Tom D.), Saturday, 14 September 2019 10:03 (four years ago) link
I think it's more a case of lets give the Scots their little freedoms, keep the fuckers on side.
― The Inner Mounting Phlegm (Tom D.), Saturday, 14 September 2019 10:05 (four years ago) link
... little being the operative word.
Interesting, thanks.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 14 September 2019 10:32 (four years ago) link
Cullen skinkHaggisVegetarian haggisInnis & Gunn beerBruichladdichCastles
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 14 September 2019 15:39 (four years ago) link
I will now answer the thread question in boring fashion Cullen skinkHaggisVegetarian haggisInnis & Gunn beerBruichladdichCastles
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 14 September 2019 15:41 (four years ago) link
ludacris otm
― provisional ilx (darraghmac), Saturday, 14 September 2019 15:41 (four years ago) link
lol wtf how did I xpost myself with an edited version
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 14 September 2019 15:42 (four years ago) link
that mangoes on the run beer by innis & gunn is so good
― calzino, Saturday, 14 September 2019 15:43 (four years ago) link
Ferguzade, Scotland's version of Lucozade.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBo_PvkX0AAYwRI.jpg
― A Drunk Man Looks At Partick Thistle (Tom D.), Monday, 23 January 2023 12:03 (one year ago) link
"DAUGHTERS keep radiant on it". This can't be real!?
Vague and fond memories of those Chewin' the Fat sketches that were ads for a beer you drank in the morning: "it's never too early for a Fusilier".
― verhexen, Monday, 23 January 2023 12:08 (one year ago) link
It's 100% genuine.
https://www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory/ferguzade
― A Drunk Man Looks At Partick Thistle (Tom D.), Monday, 23 January 2023 12:09 (one year ago) link
It was from Forfar, you couldn't make that up!
― A Drunk Man Looks At Partick Thistle (Tom D.), Monday, 23 January 2023 12:10 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0CYB5V9e64
― Cry for a Shadowgraph (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 23 January 2023 13:03 (one year ago) link
It's weird because Lucozade isn't that far from Irn Bru, anyway, in terms of taste and spiritual sustenance.
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 23 January 2023 13:07 (one year ago) link
This is deep Glasgow lore, but this place popped into my head the other day.
I even wondered if I might have imagined it, but I definitely visited at least once.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-DvmtFGTdIhttps://stvfootagesales.tv/content/buck-rogers-burger-station-glasgow/https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/history/glasgow-burgers-rogers-station-14717048
― MaresNest, Monday, 23 January 2023 13:10 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA3JH5tfTYg
― Renaissance of the Celtic Trumpet (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 June 2023 19:49 (eight months ago) link
James Kelman is fantastic.
Wish Bill Forsyth would direct a new film
― beamish13, Thursday, 29 June 2023 21:33 (eight months ago) link
Ah yes this video is a classic
― Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Thursday, 29 June 2023 23:02 (eight months ago) link
NTS: Must rewatch Gregory's Girl
― Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Thursday, 29 June 2023 23:04 (eight months ago) link
Housekeeping (1987) is just a masterpiece. I really wish his original cut of Being Human (1993) was commercially available
― beamish13, Thursday, 29 June 2023 23:07 (eight months ago) link