to wonder why so many MNetters dont understand MN can be used by people outside England.

[BooCanary]

What with being on the world wide web and all!

So why are there constantly puzzled responses to anything that doesn't fit with the 'norm'.

Posts in 'Education' during August are often met with - 'why wait til the middle of the summer holidays to ask about this OP?' 'Don't email the school in August, noone will be there OP!'
HELLO! There are places in the world ( inc Scotland) where there is school in August.

If someone posts on a Sunday night about just speaking to a teacher about something, there's always a few 'it's Sunday OP, are you making this up, trip trap'.
HELLO! People in the world are in different timezones to the UK. It does not make them trolls!

Aye. Its because when we live in exile nobody knows what the hell we are saying.

Aye. Its because when we live in exile nobody knows what the hell we are saying

This, this!

Although, to be fair it used to take me hours to get round the supermarket in Partick because Glaswegians live to chat to randoms.
In my student days I was befriended by a lovely lady who did her shopping at the same time as me, we always stopped to pass the time of day in one of the aisles. It was only months later when I met them together in the town did I realise she was my friend's mum

Aye. Its because when we live in exile nobody knows what the hell we are saying.

There's a new Scottish manager in a nearby branch of the place I work, I frequently have to speak to him on the phone. I feel utterly awful because I can't understand a word he says! I'm sure I'll get used to it eventually, but for now I spend our conversations bumbling through and just hoping I've got it right!

Best way to sort that one out, StuntGirl, is to figure out what accent he has and find some braw regional Scottish radio and listen to it for hours on end. That'll get you used to it!

I always think it's funny that the 'stiff upper lip'/quiet stoicism thing is allegedly a 'British' trait. Not north of the border anyway! I'm Glaswegian and yes, a stranger's just a friend I haven't met. Unfortunately for them. Chattin' shite - that's what we do best.

Ooh that could work estelle! I think he's from Glasgow?

I'm ok face to face, it's only over the phone I struggle with!

I have a few English friends they dont phone me anymore they are ok face to face but struggle on the phone

Accents are harder over the phone - not sure if its the earpiece or not seeing the facial expressions.

I regularly have to deal with a rather Angry Man at work and I really have difficulty with his accent. Not great when he's having a rant.

You don't always want to show that you're in a different time zone, or that you're posting at five am in the uk because its still daylight where you are, the earth being round etc.

I've nc quite a lot as people can be quite rude, when I don't fit their picture of someone from Guildford with two kids.
Its like I've been tricking them or something by not being in the UK, and in gmt, and not having English as a first language, and they find it very suspect!

Sad really but there are quite a lot of parochial posters on mn who think everyone is from the Home Counties, and those who aren't don't count as very much.

Venus I really don't want to take away from your point, but you've conjured up an image of some sort of Zorro whipping off their mask and shouting "fooled you again home counties aha!"

Maybe you should embrace it?

The BBC annoyed me the day the a level results came out. One silly reporter was banging on about how some college students were the first in the WHOLE of the UK to get exam results as they were at school at midnight - well apart from the HUNNERS of Scots weans who had got their results the week before!

Venus I don't think that's particular to mumsnet though. I posted on the guardian cycling blog once about how annoying taxis are and another poster started going on about how I must be cycling down the Fulham Road (or some other random London Road) because that was renowned for it. Didn't even seem to cross their mind that the Guardian is a national newspaper.

I wonder how much of it is to do with not knowing what people sound like. I mean I now know mrsjay is Scottish but in my head she still sounds exactly like me.

oh.... I quite fancy a name change!
Venetian Venus?
Zorro's bit on the side?
The lady who loves milk tray?

I read the guardian (sometimes, though am not outraged in tunbridge wells) and amn't in the UK, it's is amazing how unglobal some are.... Hoik hoik... Uncomfortable wedgie... :)

It's 'BRITISH' not 'ENGLISH'! ;-D

What is??

Because this is UK based I always when I lived in the USA (name changed since then) prefixed anything that was time based with I live in the USA...but...that was because I was from the UK, I Knew MN was UK, if I heard anything on PDS or Fox say on MN in the UK and it does happen, I would goggle.com it and would get straight to the page, if I had been American I wouldn't have got the time difference or different term times.

try getting google.co.uk, when you live in the states I could only do it on a old computer we brought from the UK, I often try to use google.com since we moved back and really it isn't going to happen instantly I get the UK version.
so it is no wonder people don't get this is a UK site.

I'm in Glasgow and have no problems using ITV player. Can't use STV in England, something about being outside the network area. I have SKY and can get ITV on TV so it may be something to do with the package you subscribe to.

I'm from NZ (hence my username) and I actually enjoy it, as I lived in England (London) in my younger days and loved it.
I like that I'm more anonymous here than NZ- based forums, as they're often based on suburbs and areas, and due to about 40 people living in this country, someone is bound to catch me out! also a lot based on facebook so you're out anyway !
I do get a bit confused with school times/grades etc etc and also different ways and names for stuff, but, hey thats life - I've travelled a fair bit and it's all different isn't it ?

Ok I meant I actually enjoy lurking and occasionally commenting on Mumsnet in my first sentence . . .

Yes, Scotland is in the UK. Where I am fairly sure nighttime happens at almost the same time as in England

No it doesn't. Where I live, night-time (a purple sky) happens after 11pm and before 2.30am in the summer and around 2.30pm and 9am in the winter (serious dark.)

You do know we're four separate countries with four separate socio-historical and cultural contexts too?

^Posts in 'Education' during August are often met with - 'why wait til the middle of the summer holidays to ask about this OP?' 'Don't email the school in August, noone will be there OP!'
HELLO! There are places in the world ( inc Scotland) where there is school in August^

There are places in the world where it's not even SUMMER in August!