Scottish things and people that I like

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

ludacris otm

lol wtf how did I xpost myself with an edited version

that mangoes on the run beer by innis & gunn is so good

Ferguzade, Scotland's version of Lucozade.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBo_PvkX0AAYwRI.jpg

"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".

It's 100% genuine.

https://www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory/ferguzade

It was from Forfar, you couldn't make that up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0CYB5V9e64

It's weird because Lucozade isn't that far from Irn Bru, anyway, in terms of taste and spiritual sustenance.

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-DvmtFGTdI
https://stvfootagesales.tv/content/buck-rogers-burger-station-glasgow/
https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/history/glasgow-burgers-rogers-station-14717048

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA3JH5tfTYg

James Kelman is fantastic.

Wish Bill Forsyth would direct a new film

Ah yes this video is a classic

NTS: Must rewatch Gregory's Girl

Housekeeping (1987) is just a masterpiece. I really wish his original cut of Being Human (1993) was commercially available