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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:this thread is about us learning to understand scotland The only thing I need to know about Scotland is what I can eat and what i can gently caress. Also where some decent shopping and tourist locations are. Also hotel recommendations. Some historical and cultural information and a general sense of the country's ethos. Otherwise though, NOTHING
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I was able to go to Scotland in 2003 for our HS band trip and it was pretty loving rad. Highlights of the trip were - Eating haggis, which I found somewhat gritty in texture and heavy on black pepper, but overall enjoyable. - Playing at Edinburgh Castle - Buying a scarf with my family's clan tartan - Playing another concert where I had to instrument swap a few times between Tuba and Bari Sax. My teacher let me wear the scarf I bought during it too. - Visiting St. Andrews. The golf course isn't really all that special to look at. - Playing a jazz concert. - Being told that we should use all our Bank of Scotland issued notes before we went to London because I guess they were widely counterfeited. - Trying to grasp the idea that sales tax didn't exist in some places. - Hearing people talk in Scots and having no loving clue what the gently caress they were saying.
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Feb 11, 2022 17:17
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Big Beef City posted:The only thing I need to know about Scotland is what I can eat and what i can gently caress The sheep
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Feb 11, 2022 17:19
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Nam Taf posted:Your tongue tasted wrong. Dude, you like your whiskey to taste of burned mud, I'm not the one with defective tastebuds.
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Feb 11, 2022 17:23
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posting scottish babes is highly encouraged. studs for those who like fellas as well.
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Feb 11, 2022 17:24
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All right let's see here    What do these prices mean? Serious question I don't understand 
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Feb 11, 2022 17:25
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Nam Taf posted:The sheep Isn't that more a Welsh thing
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Feb 11, 2022 17:26
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Big Beef City posted:The only thing I need to know about Scotland is what I can eat and what i can gently caress. wow gonna send this post to Mrs. BBC and see what she thinks!!!!!!!!
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Feb 11, 2022 17:27
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AARD VARKMAN posted:What do these prices mean? Serious question I don't understand First, do you know what fitbaw is?
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Feb 11, 2022 17:29
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AARD VARKMAN posted:What do these prices mean? Serious question I don't understand I'm guessing the main stand is £1 on top of the other ticket prices. So if you're an adult in the main stand you pay £10. Most lower league grounds are mainly terraced, with one main stand that has seats and a roof. £1 not to have to stand for 90 minutes and get rained on is a bargain imo.
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Feb 11, 2022 17:32
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Infidel Castro posted:- Being told that we should use all our Bank of Scotland issued notes before we went to London because I guess they were widely counterfeited. Not really, English shopkeepers are just arses about accepting Scottish and NI money. Though London is normally ok
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Feb 11, 2022 17:33
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Concessions = auld yins
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Feb 11, 2022 17:34
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jazzyhattrick posted:I'm guessing the main stand is £1 on top of the other ticket prices. So if you're an adult in the main stand you pay £10. What is "Concessions"?
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Feb 11, 2022 17:35
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for fucks sake posted:Concessions = auld yins ...Senior and Child discount?
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Feb 11, 2022 17:36
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AARD VARKMAN posted:...Senior and Child discount? Aye ah hink so
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Feb 11, 2022 17:38
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    Would could it mean? What could any of it mean?
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Feb 11, 2022 17:43
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Wan at the boatom's a ceilidh, dinnae hae a scooby aboot the rest
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Feb 11, 2022 17:48
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bitterandtwisted posted:Not really, English shopkeepers are just arses about accepting Scottish and NI money. Though London is normally ok I think that's just we were told to cover for the fact that the English are just super racist, in hindsight.
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Feb 11, 2022 17:53
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do all scotspeople say "stunning" like gordo ramsay does
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Feb 11, 2022 17:59
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sugar free jazz posted:do all scotspeople say "stunning" like gordo ramsay does Mibbe no all ey us. Ah'd usually prefix it wae "pure" masel. "That's pure stunnin, eh?"
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Feb 11, 2022 18:08
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I would like to go to a Burns supper one day.
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Feb 11, 2022 18:18
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rectum? drat near kilt'em!
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Feb 11, 2022 18:27
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Infidel Castro posted:- Being told that we should use all our Bank of Scotland issued notes before we went to London because I guess they were widely counterfeited. It's more because every country in the UK issues its own bank notes and it can make people in London (aka the centre of the Universe) twitchy when they see them, even though they're all pounds sterling. Whizzing Wizard posted:do scots care about belle & sebastian ? I had tickets to see them and was sad it was delayed until November, but generally, as a people, no more than any other twee indie-pop band. Scotland are surprisingly good at those, like The Pastels, Randolph's Leap and The Vaselines!
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Feb 11, 2022 18:30
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Feb 11, 2022 18:31
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for fucks sake posted:Mibbe no all ey us. Ah'd usually prefix it wae "pure" masel. Scots is fun to speak out loud
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Feb 11, 2022 18:31
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I had a one night stand with a Scottish tourist once. It was nice.
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Feb 11, 2022 18:35
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That'll be nice when someone cooks it.
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Feb 11, 2022 18:38
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bitterandtwisted posted:Not really, English shopkeepers are just arses about accepting Scottish and NI money. Though London is normally ok there is nothing more Scottish than yelling IT'S LEGAL TENDER at an English shopkeeper
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Feb 11, 2022 18:44
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Ruby Gloom posted:there is nothing more Scottish than yelling IT'S LEGAL TENDER at an English shopkeeper The only reason the cliche about Scottish people being tramps in London exists is because perfectly wealthy Scottish people have been made destitute by the sudden devaluation of their money when they step off the train in London.
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Feb 11, 2022 18:47
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BKcjBaKRkk
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Feb 11, 2022 19:01
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Whizzing Wizard posted:do scots care about belle & sebastian ? Belle and Sebastian are doss
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Feb 11, 2022 19:09
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https://youtu.be/GzYm3ig7tak
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Feb 11, 2022 19:11
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur-ZTdsH_Vc
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Feb 11, 2022 19:17
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwet6xL5n7Y
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Feb 11, 2022 19:32
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How can I, an American, visit Scotland in a way that won't make the entire country think Im an enormous shithead, which I assume is what you think of all tourists
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Feb 11, 2022 19:33
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Who What Now posted:How can I, an American, visit Scotland in a way that won't make the entire country think Im an enormous shithead, which I assume is what you think of all tourists from what i understand of scotland, thinking people are enormous shitheads and telling them so, is actually how they display affection
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Feb 11, 2022 19:37
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glasgow and edinburgh are one hour from each other and have totally different accents. i go east and everyone talks in a mystical sing song style and i am something called a 'weegie' whatever that is.
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Feb 11, 2022 19:37
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show everyone how good offa scotch accent you can do
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Feb 11, 2022 19:37
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discovering more Scottish delicacies   Haggis Nachos   
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Who What Now posted:How can I, an American, visit Scotland in a way that won't make the entire country think Im an enormous shithead, which I assume is what you think of all tourists this isn't really true here, even in city centres. scotland's got a pretty deep inferiority complex built into the culture due to england and being small in general so when tourists start throwing their exciting foreign accents around it's generally taken as a compliment you deigned to visit at all. might be different in really busy tourist spots in edinburgh but i've worked in hotels a lot and generally it's like oh an american very nice, very nice
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