[Yudster]

You're absolutely right. Lets get back to the usual sensible forum which we have here.

[MK Chris]

Blue cheese is brilliant and spiders don't bother me (I'm usually the one putting them outside for my mum, my sister, or my brother).

[MK Chris]

It's a bit silly going on to develop a petition.

Sign it Viv. Go on, go on, go on, go on, go on.

[S4B]

You're absolutely right. Lets get back to the usual sensible forum which we have here.

See Zooty, THIS is post of the day!

[Sunny So Cal]

Sign it Viv. Go on, go on, go on, go on, go on.

Haha. That's a cracking Mrs. Doyle impression!

[S4B]

See that's the kind of thing we'd miss if Topher was in Room 101.........................

*goes to sign the petition*

[foot-loose]

I'd rather put Edinburgh in (or however you spell the stupid place) - Glasgow sounds ok.

Edinburgh is a lot better looking that Glasgow. Glasgow is a lot friendlier. Both are cracking places.

Put Dundee in. Noone likes Dundee.

the lady at the b&b where I was staying almost wouldn't take my cash, because she said I had "foreign currency" with me. I had Scottish pounds notes. D'uh.

It is surprising the number of people who don't realise that Scottish notes are legal tender.

It's ignorance.

and parked in a different car park only to find it impossible to find my car when I left for the day.

Bless. You can park? No wonder you couldn't find your car - all that extra brain power must have been struggling to get you into that space earlier in the day. You needed to get home and do some knitting.

Oh and most of the people there were VERY unhelpful.

How many people did you ask for help?

At least 15 in the space of half an hour - I told them what shops I had come past on my way in and they all sent me in the wrong direction. I also worked there for 3 months covering a manager and found the majority of the shoppers to be rude.

It's cos you're a woman and couldn't understand basic road signs. Then you obviously couldn't follow simple directions! Of course the customers were rude. You're Welsh. They knew they were better than you!


(Put Scotchland into room 101 will you?!)

[foot-loose]

As a Southerner, I would not have (nor have had any reason to) know that Scottish notes were accepted in England if it weren't for these boards. I can see why people wouldn't accept them as they look different to the English ones (and personally I haven't ever seen one in real life). I know for people in Scotland it may be very obvious but you have to see why see some initial suspicion.

If the quiet, backward people that live in the middle of nowhere up the top of Scotland can work out that they can take English money, could a couple of the smarter Southerners, who have developed the power of speech and opposable thumbs, have a quick grunting session and work out that maybe since the Royal Bank of Scotland is the fifth biggest bank in the world and the second biggest in the UK, perhaps their money might count for something?

[Munki Bhoy]

As a Southerner, I would not have (nor have had any reason to) know that Scottish notes were accepted in England if it weren't for these boards. I can see why people wouldn't accept them as they look different to the English ones (and personally I haven't ever seen one in real life). I know for people in Scotland it may be very obvious but you have to see why see some initial suspicion.

If the quiet, backward people that live in the middle of nowhere up the top of Scotland can work out that they can take English money, could a couple of the smarter Southerners, who have developed the power of speech and opposable thumbs, have a quick grunting session and work out that maybe since the Royal Bank of Scotland is the fifth biggest bank in the world and the second biggest in the UK, perhaps their money might count for something?

In England they put subtitles on Rab C Nesbitt. They don't put subtitles on Eastenders in Scotland. That may answer your question.

[foot-loose]

More that it proves a point.

[S4B]

(Put Scotchland into room 101 will you?!)

Yep! And I'd do it again now! I had ONLY put Glasgow in but now I feel like throwing in the whole country!

[foot-loose]

I'll put yer maw in.

[TIAL]

If the quiet, backward people that live in the middle of nowhere up the top of Scotland can work out that they can take English money, could a couple of the smarter Southerners, who have developed the power of speech and opposable thumbs, have a quick grunting session and work out that maybe since the Royal Bank of Scotland is the fifth biggest bank in the world and the second biggest in the UK, perhaps their money might count for something?

All I am saying is that we never see Scottish notes in the South, so when one does come along it's understandable that some people feel some initial reluctance to accept it. At what point is someone who's grown up with learning about 'English' money supposed to realise that Scottish notes are also acceptable? Is it just something that everyone magically knows? I very much get the feeling that it's something people in England don't know about until they see one.

[foot-loose]

So ignorance is an excuse? Surely if they are trusted enough to deal with a cash registar, then someone could show them a nicely coloured drawing of what a ten pound note looks like and explain to them if the word "sterling" appears on it, then it's legal tender.

[TIAL]

That's cool, I'd be in favour of that - it's just that I know from working on the tills at Sainsburys that they don't tell you what you can and can't accept. I never saw any Scottish currency, but if I had I'd have been confused.

[foot-loose]

Excellent.

Foots 1 - 0 Engerland.

[S4B]

I'll put yer maw in.

What is a "maw" exactly!?

[TIAL]

Draw pictures of notes and send them down here!

[TIAL]

I'll put yer maw in.

What is a "maw" exactly!?

This

[foot-loose]

I'll put yer maw in.

What is a "maw" exactly!?

SAKE.

[S4B]

TELL ME! I've always wondered.

[TIAL]

SAKE.

I've never tried that before, but I hear it's quite nice with sushi.

[foot-loose]

Did he not fly the Enterprise with Kirk?

[Bruvva]

So ignorance is an excuse? Surely if they are trusted enough to deal with a cash registar,

S'that like a cash register at all?

So, bad spelling, I'd put that in room 101.

[ladbroke]

(1)Wasps. ( 2)Seafood. (3)People who sit in the middle lane on the motorway. (4)People who in conversation say 'so I turned around and said' and 'he turned around an said' (5)The Welsh (6)Belly buttons (just freaky) (7)The feel of wool (8)The new signs on the motorway telling me how many minutes to cover x amount of miles-I can do the maths. (9)Jade Goody (10)My girlfriend continually tidying up and putting things away-everywhere in the house looks so sparse!

Second thoughts I may just put myself in there as almost everything and everyone annoys me!