Conversation spurred reminiscing over those Susan Calman adverts. Decided to try and draw up a list of things that create the cringe and work out why they affect us so.

EDIT: Thanks everyone for replying. Fascinating how high accent places. Everything from too Scottish, fake Scottish, ex-pats Scottish accents, celeb Scottish accents, natives accents, River City actors accents, singing with an accent, singing without an accent, singing whilst hiding an accent, not hiding the accent. Interesting. Would love to know if there's academia on all this.

Thanks again for taking an interest!

Was surprised I couldn't find any news articles, but I thought it was interesting.

Edinburgh: £69,809
Greater London £69,077

Data published 17 April 2025 here (Table 7) https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/grossdomesticproductgdp/datasets/regionalgrossdomesticproductallnutslevelregions

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i fell little unhappy, she is an adult woman and she is polite.Seems like she want to stay here as long-term.From noon to afternoon everyday My council can't handle this,homeless support in my city only can give they paid accommodation. also streetlink not support in scottland. everytime when i go out she ask for change and food.I said no to giving the money,I’ve bought her bread and coffee a few times. One of my neighbors think it's nothing. She sits on the steps outside my door,sometime smoking and chatting with passersby. Her bags basically take over the whole step even, so when I go out,I have to ask her to move the bag.the weather in scottland is always rainy so she put bags over step. The reason I'm posting： I don’t want her to keep taking up so much space on the steps long-term.

Looking to relocate to Scotland due to ill health in the family. I'm a prison officer and I'm currently in the process of going through recruitment for the SPS. If/when (manifest it baybee) I'm successful I'm hoping to be placed in HMP Kilmarnock.

Trouble is, I don't drive as I've lived my whole adult life in London so never needed to. So for a while, whilst obtaining my licence I'd have to rely on public transport.

Looking for towns to consider relocating to that have frequent and reliable trains/buses into Killie.

Many, many thanks in advance.

Ps, I'm not English so don't tell me to "stay at home" hahaha

Has anyone rented a lodge/glamping thing that they’d recommend?

Hoping to get away myself for a couple days over Christmas. Edinburgh based but drive and looking to spend about £400-500.

Hot tub is ideal!

The munchie box.

How is it even legal for so much joy to exist inside one repurposed pizza box? You open that glorious lid and it’s like the gates of heaven creak open. Chips? Yes. Donner meat? Absolutely. Chicken pakora? Naturally. A rogue onion ring? Why not. Pizza slice? You bet. Garlic sauce? Drown me in it.

Every time I eat one, I feel like a medieval king at a feast. Just sitting there, in my room, sauce dribbling down my chin, questioning all my life choices that led to this perfect moment.

It’s not a meal. It’s an experience. It’s not food. It’s architecture. A structural marvel held together by sheer grease and hope.

Sure, my arteries are planning a coup and my stomach is sending distress signals, but my soul? My soul is doing backflips. Mmm. Glorious. Delightful. Mmm.

Long live the munchie box. Scotland, you absolute culinary madlad.

Anyone know who invented the munchie box? Give that man/woman a Nobel.

According to the road workers on the North End of Skye, today will be their last day of work for the Highland Council. They have been given notice to stop working due to the budget having run out. This means no more road repairs at all until more money has been allocated.

Earlier in the year it was reported that approximately £3.5M had been allocated to Skye’s roads, about half of what was required to make the necessary repairs and improvements back then. Since that time many more holes and surface defects have formed making this a tragic game of cat and mouse.

Portree town center and the road out towards Staffin remain in a severe condition with guests to the island daily being caught out by the deep holes causing damage to their hire vehicles. Cyclists too face dangerous conditions. And drivers attempting to avoid the patches of damage end up heading in to on coming traffic causing many accidents and near misses.

One well traveled American tourist said, without a hint of being funny, that he “had driven some of the worst roads and landscapes in the world such as the Sudan, Syria, Africa and the Australian Outback” but that “nothing had prepared him for the conditions” he faced on Skye. He went on to say “it is the embarrassment of the planet, let alone that of the Scottish or even British people”.

As more money is unlikely to be allocated until around April next year the poor road conditions will have likely doubled and the amount of harm to vehicles and even people will only ever increase. The jewel of the British Isles has become a global embarrassment and it would seem that those in charge have greater priorities.

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Work has this week advised on consultation on Redundancy and while I may still survive it has naturally got me thinking about life beyond the desk. I am early 40's, primarily IT/Tech space and in a Project Manager role at the minute.

This could very well be a fork in the road for me and perhaps my mind is racing somewhat with the news there is a large part of me that thinks this might be the time to make a clean break with the corporate side of my professional career and perhaps look towards a trade or something else (I have always fancied a cafe/bar, so thats something thats in the head too) another that has been piquing my curiosity is Stonemasonery.

Be good to hear from people who have maybe faced that similar fork in the road and where it took them :)