To believe that a very high % of mumsnetters are Scottish

[greedygal]

I get this impression and have no idea why - is this my imagination or is this the case?

Where are you originally from?

I am thoroughly English.

Cereal is for Monday to Friday. Sausage is for Saturday.
That is not a euphemism.

Mintchoc you need some vodka in that bru

I only knew baffies from reading the Broons. But then we never got Glenn Michael's Cavalcade because we had rubbish Border TV and I think that has had a fundamental impact, weakening my essential feeling of Scottishness through a removal of what I perceive to be a key cultural reference point.

Why as a child did I need to know what was happening in Cumbria, why?

Square sausage, tattie scone and fried onions on a roll is a Sunday breakfast

I remember the German teaching assistant at my school being utterly confused that "juice" covers pretty much any cold drink in Scotland that's not milk, water or alcoholic. Apparently in Germany they only use it for something that has actually originated from a piece of fruit, not so over here .

My sister lives in Cumbria. Pre digital switchover she used to get Scottish news.

pissed is that because the onion counts as a Sunday vegetable?

because allegedly we Scots don't eat fruit and veg, what a load of shite

Confirmed Southerner here

Clearly I am not properly Scottish as I only like cooked breakfasts on holiday when someone else has cooked them.

Scottish

I think a lot of Scots don't eat that healthily bit then so do lots of other people in the UK. And probably other countries as well. We haven't ended up with a Western world obesity crisis by overdoing the salad.

I dont have onions in my breakfast roll - that would be weird! tomato ketchup on mine (or red sauce)

Santana Lin was priceless,esp dinnae pish in the close

Wildthong it's the only veg us Scots eat don't ya know

Scottish here too.

And a Fifer

I am currently sitting on the settee wearing my baffies.

I wonder if Scottish posters post more? Who is it who keeps spreadsheets on that stuff?

We couldn't get the Scottish version of BBC2 because the signal missed us and had to be bounced back from Cumbria. It seemed that they could be bothered to do this for BBC1 but not BBC2. It was handy sometimes because if the TV scheduling was different because of football or something and you'd missed the start of a film it was sometimes possible to catch it on the other BBC1.

Border TV was still appalling though. I'll never forget the weird valentine's day show when they thought they'd highlight the romantic side of the presenters - one wrote Mills & Boon books in her spare time, another crooned a cheesy Daniel O'Donnell-esque ballad. Totally bizarre.

Baffies,slippers?

whitepudding

XH was English and used to go spare at me calling every cold liquid juice!

Not Scottish. Don't live in Scotland.

Originally NI - probably not a million miles from where Trooperslane was.

I would walk 500 miles
and I would walk 500 more

I agree that juice can be squash, fizzy juice, fresh fruit juice, etc. I do call water water though.

I only use juice for juice - which would mainly be squash or fruit juice.