trout Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 From the Bank of England website Are Scottish & Northern Irish notes legal tender?In short ‘No’ these notes are not legal tender; only Bank of England notes are legal tender but only in England and Wales. Of course refusing to accept Scottish notes may well mean loss of trade but stores are entitled to refuse them. http://www.scotbanks.org.uk/banknote_history.php http://www.scotbanks.org.uk/legal_tender.php ^^ Definitive answer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trout Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 Thing that does my fekin head in is the MSDN site! You search for ages for an answer to solve some weird abstract programming issue and it leads specifically to the MSDN ... then all you get is a 404 error! You'd think the dozy beggars would map their old links to the new as they update the site and or give a sensible answer to what happened to them! Grr. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twerto Posted December 11, 2007 Report Share Posted December 11, 2007 people who use a toilet and don't clean it after they make a mess, even when all the tools are there to clean it.. some disgusting people/person in the office I work anyway.. oh while I'm on it.. people that stop and let people out of the brig o fitch... it's just a huge pile up waiting to happen IMO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Posted December 17, 2007 Report Share Posted December 17, 2007 With you on the bog thing Twerto. In the gent's men should use urinals and use the pan for the other activity... As men we are blessed with the much envied ability to pee standing up and, as a result, have invented troughs/urinals to facilitate this. Yet still some fellas use the cubicle, hogging it for others who needs to empty their bowls, and frequently spraying the seat with pish. Not nice! Maybe these individuals are feart of willy-watchers or something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted December 30, 2007 Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 Don't know if it's been added before, and even it it has, it deserves adding again.... Folk that cannot be bothered to tighten the fanbelt on their car/van/pickup/whatever....there it sits for a while, quite silent and happy, and all of a sudden the minute they jump in it, coal it up and try to go someplace, a god-awful screech that lasts at least 50 yards at an average speed not exceeding 20mph, that would do any "B" Horror movie proud, and is twenty times worse than any set of nails on a blackboard.... Once, even twice, is bad enough, but perhaps forgivable, if I'm feeling in a charitable mood.....however, I have some neighbours who have vehicles which remain in this state for weeks on end....and they come and go with them multiple times daily.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted December 30, 2007 Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 ^^^^^A strip of plywood with several nails, carefully placed, better known as a Shetland Stinger, should slow them, and quieten them down, for a day or three. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted December 30, 2007 Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 ^^ I am tempted, sorely tempted....there'a clapped oot auld Escort sitting round the corner that's a prime candidate....he's been yalkin daily noo fur at laest a fortnite... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeAyBee Posted December 30, 2007 Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 people that stop and let people out of the brig o fitch... it's just a huge pile up waiting to happen IMO Absolutely, and the same people who stop at the Gremista turn off despite the fact that there's half a mile of cars behind them some still in the 60 limit still doing sixty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sassermaet Posted February 23, 2008 Report Share Posted February 23, 2008 Why oh why do companies insist on making tvs, videos, etc. that do not operate without the remote control?!! We had this problem while I was home over Christmas. I went to visit my granny in Yell with my brother and his girlfriend. A while back my dad had bought a Freeview box for my granny. My granny's current TV is one that my auntie's mam-in-law gave to her, which is ancient, and so Dad had reckoned it wasn't compatible with the Freeview box. My brother tried the box, however, and it did actually work with my granny's telly. The trouble was, though, the remote was buggered even with the batteries and the box didn't work without them! How very annoying Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sassermaet Posted February 23, 2008 Report Share Posted February 23, 2008 Xenophobic Scottish twats who bore the tits off you about being 'true Scots' and that everybody loves the Scottish on account of their friendliness, then want to beat you up because you insist you are a Shetlander and won't admit to being Scottish. Irn Bru adverts People who shout 'Thankyou driver' when they get off the bus. Being called 'pal' I agree with you here in a lot of ways. I sometimes think that the Scots take it too far with the whole patriotism thing, and this was another thing I was discussing with my brother and his girlfriend at Christmas. My brother's girlfriend is from Crook in Durham, and was saying about how the Co-op own the supermarket chain Scotmid. She commented on the name, saying how she couldn't imagine having such a thing as 'Engmid' down south of the border. I found I agreed with her. The old Irn Bru ads used to be good - you know, the black and white ones. Like grandad taking out his falsers to have a sip of his grandson's Irn Bru, the sing-song around the piano where Mam reveals she used to be a man, etc. - they cracked a smile or three. In fact I'm amused thinking about them now but the new ones with the 'Phenomenal!' slogan are anything but. I thank the driver when getting off the bus but I don't make a big show of it. Calling him / her 'driver' is equally rude. Reminds me of the other day at work in Boots - Central Station has no bins on the concourse for security reasons, any bins are outside or in the shops on the station concourse. So I got this cheeky bint come in and hand me an empty coffee thing, saying 'Can you put that in the bin for me, girl?' How CHEEKY, treating me like some kind of bloody skivvy! I felt like retorting 'A please or a thank you wouldn't have gone amiss, and my name is on my damn namebadge, call me by it!' Grrr And to close - people calling me 'pal' actually makes me very nervous. Most of the people who call me that don't mean me harm but that doesn't help me much...:/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuckleJoannie Posted February 23, 2008 Report Share Posted February 23, 2008 the Co-op own the supermarket chain Scotmid. She commented on the name, saying how she couldn't imagine having such a thing as 'Engmid' down south of the border. Scotmid is the trading name of the Scottish Midland Co-operative Society Ltd. Everyone knows that the Midlands are in England! Incidentally there is a bank Birmingham Midshires that is owned by the Bank of Scotland. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepshagger Posted February 24, 2008 Report Share Posted February 24, 2008 ^ yep and then there's the dunfermline, scotish, dundee, midlothian, yorkshie,halifax, northern rock, etc, building societies always had regional names because they were regional societies. no xenephobia involved in the naming of them just local pride and trust in your neighbours.maybe the demise of the building society can be attributated the lack of trust in your neighbours nowadays, something to think about. Totaly in agreement about the xenephobic scotish twats that cant, and will never understand why I am a Shetlander Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groilick Posted February 24, 2008 Report Share Posted February 24, 2008 ^ yep and then there's the dunfermline, scotish, dundee, midlothian, yorkshie,halifax, northern rock, etc, dan dere's "Walls Ice-cream" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sassermaet Posted February 24, 2008 Report Share Posted February 24, 2008 Scotmid is the trading name of the Scottish Midland Co-operative Society Ltd. Everyone knows that the Midlands are in England! Ah, thanks for enlightening me on that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groilick Posted February 24, 2008 Report Share Posted February 24, 2008 Scotmid is the trading name of the Scottish Midland Co-operative Society Ltd. Everyone knows that the Midlands are in England! Ah, thanks for enlightening me on that one. dere is a Midland Valley in Scotlandhttp://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/features/featurefirst10623.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.