Scotland & England (lighthearted)

[chocolatecakemakesmefat]

Not really an AIBU but thought I'd post in here for traffic , we have in laws who come from England and Wales , they were here visiting and we got onto the subject of differences ie they'd never heard of buckfast or Irn-bru didn't have a clue what the orange walk was and the education seems to be different ie they say there 'going to school' at 3 when here it's nursery and year 1 year 2 etc , we have p1,p2 etc , I found it weird that there so many differences when we're only a few hours drive away anybody else ?

No MrsJayy of course not, it has to be equitable across the whole country.

My point was that Engkish friends didn't understand why it was the 16 and 17 year olds were allowed to vote in the Indyref.

Ah ok, i get you now sorry.

Really blue gringrin I find it a bit strange all the shops shut early and there shops shut on a Sunday shock I'd be screwed I don't do food shopping till 8-9 pm at night blush

OP have I understood this right - do you think shops in England and Wales close at 5 and don't open on Sundays??

Can never work out the year10, year 12 stuff on MN.i think you have to add 4 years to get Scottish equivalent so an English year 8 is 12 years old? But I could be wrong.
You can't buy drink in Scottish supermarkets until after 10 am.

I also get confused about reception. Is it like nursery because the children start school earlier?

My dd started nursery at 3 and a half and then started school at 5 and a half. It was all in the same building but the nursery bit is totally separate.

Supermarkets are open New years day in England ,

Supermarkets are open on new years day up here too! Only closed Christmas day. Open new years and Easter.

Yeah okay my parents and brother went to Liverpool Friday-Monday on a long weekend and they said all the shops shut at 6pm and couldn't get any food to take back to there hotel

chocatecakemakesmefat

A fairly large town just outside Glasgow....

East Kilbride
Cumbernauld
Kirkintilloch
Paisley
Hamilton
Motherwell...

Which one is it?

Yup Dundee football rivalry is mostly banter :).

Orange walk stuff is Glasgow and anywhere lots of Glaswegians were exported to like West Lothian and Fife new towns.

The school system always confuses me. I think reception kinda =P1?

Actually some are open Christmas Day aswell I used to work for a big supermarket and they opened for a few hours

Redpinkblue Hamilton I've definetly just outed myself

East Kilbride here

That really isn't true OP Tesco alone....in Liverpool alone....not to mention the dozens of other shops/supermarkets open round the clock....

It was true okay I'm pretty sure my brother and parents wouldn't make that sort of thing up apparently it was like that down there and the hotel staff confirmed it , must have been 2-3 years ago

Op I mean this kindly, but I think you're confusing Glasgow with all Scotland, and a few streets around a hotel in Liverpool with all England.

I've lived in NI, Scotland and England. I've found that a lot of people in those places are completely clueless about each others cultural quirks.

I do love all the little differences though. I love finding out something which is done just a little bit differently, like cooked breakfasts! They're the same but different.

Buckfast and Orangemen Parades are equally grim and shouldn't be encouraged IMHO.

I get confused with education. It was reception, then Foundation stage.

I do know that it can be hard in SOME parts of Scotland to get a drink on Sundays. Sundays seems to be different in some parts of Scotland in what you can and can't do.

I can't figure out the point in a reception class...English people please fill me in.

From what I can gather on MN, it tends to be play based and many parents stress over their Children starting too young. Why do they not just extend nursery by another year?

Also, the school intake in Scotland runs from start March until End of Feb so the youngest you can go to school (barring an under age placement) is 4 years 6 months. rather than turning 4 at the end of August and starting reception the next week which I see seems to be the case for some children.

We have three verdicts in court - guilty, innocent and not proven.

Aaaaaaaaaaand...our Scottish accents are loved the world over so I'm told

I like England....LOVE Manchester.

Do supermarkets in England close early on a Sunday? I was visiting friends last year and on Sunday afternoon they were fretting about getting to morrisons before it closed at 4pm. Up here Sunday is normal hours pretty much, maybe some shut at 9 instead of 10.

Buckfast is rank drank it as a teen not now it makes me feel ill dp still drinks it and Bil always buys a bottle to take back home Our drink shops are always open on Sunday but drink license is strictly 10am to 10pm all the timr

It's all to do with the size of the supermarket. Big supermarkets have limited opening hours on Sunday but smaller ones such as Co-op seem to be able to open for longer. Which is a good thing.

I once tried to get a pint with my Wetherspoons breakfast between arriving in Glasgow and getting a morning train to the west coast

To be fair outside of a few spots in London you'd be hard pushed to get a beer before 1000. In my defence it had been a long journey

Yes, large stores in England have limited opening on Sundays. Smaller ones close later, but certainly by 2200.

Are you for real OP? Why on earth would all the shops in Liverpool shut at 6pm? When was this, 1953? I've lived in Liverpool so find your comments bizarre. As is the comment about no food to take back to the hotel. Maybe one of the thousands of restaurants or takeaways might have been a good bet for them if by some small chance they could not locate a shop in a city centre!!