Are there a disproportionate amount of Scots on MN?

[charliesp]

AIBU in thinking there is a disproportionately large amount of Scots on MN? Before I continue, there is absolutely nothing 'wrong' with this, just an observation.

I very often see on the "what are you doing today" threads posted on a Sunday that they are going to the supermarket at 9am... where England and Wales don't have extended Sunday trading hours. Or lots of "I'll be voting SNP at the general election".

Anyone else noticed this? I wonder what the percentage of active users are English, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, and others?

How many people can understand Young MacGuffin?

I just saw a follow on interview on Youtube with the guy who did MacGuffin's voice and he said it was his idea to do him as Doric - the Pixar guys wanted the joke that he's incomprehensible, but they were just going to put some nonsense words in the script before he suggested Doric. Imagine how much less funny that would have been!

I live in Polo Mint City. Anyone from Central Scotland will know where that is. SNP voter here.

@ineedto

There is a way to get up the hill without breaking a sweat, you just need to know your way around the buildings and their lifts

I miss slice sausage. But I can get Irn Bru in Coles cheaper than I can get Diet Coke, so swings & roundabouts.
I was also born in the Rottenrow.

I live in Polo Mint City. Anyone from Central Scotland will know where that is.

Laying off the express Stagecoach bus to Glasgow was the worst thing they ever did.

@MapofTassie You anywhere near Sydney? There was a butchers in Maroubra you can get square sausage, black pudding and haggis. Missed the bacon, Aussie bacon is dead thick, didn't eat any bacon for years. 😮

Bellshill born SNP voter from Ally McCoist’s neck of the woods.

My only claim to fame, my friend went out with Alistair (as she called him) and I know someone who was in the What's it called video .

Hello from Dundee! Jute,Jam,journalism and mince Peh's

Born in Dunfermline maternity no longer exists
Been tae Glasgow, Ayrshire, Dundee, France, and back to Ayrshire

I’m not voting SNP god forbid

Waving to you across the water @BluebellsareBlue

Bluebells have you been to the new V&A? I keep meaning to pop up for a weekend and see it.

My claim to fame is that mum taught Marti Pellow and he was quoted later saying she'd been his favourite teacher (even if he did mangle her foreign sounding surname )

Waves at Dullardmullard

I was born in the old Dunfermline maternity hospital, too!
Did you also go to Dunfermline High School? I did, the old one that I think is now demolished and rebuilt all fancy like.

Haven’t been to Dumf for a while.🙁

Waving from North Lanarkshire. I was born in Motherwell maternity and live a few miles away from it now. Will also be voting SNP.

All the best people were born in the Simpson

Well I wasn’t, but I did give birth there! DS is clearly better than his sisters.

I was born at home. DSs born in the shit tip Simpsons as it was falling apart about our ears just prior to the new one opening.

You guys all know that we have scotsnet topic on here yes?
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/scotsnet

Useful for when you want to talk about exclusively scottish stuff e.g. primary admission ages, legal stuff etc.

Grew up in Edinburgh with pockies (usually with a shopping list wrapped round a couple of bob when being sent to the drysalters for gallon of parrafin and "the store" for rest) stuffed inside for safekeeping. The pockies being connected with a wool string through the sleeves of your coat of course. Then coming home and putting the shopping ben the hoose on the bunker.

I'll not be voting SNP either.

One of my favourite scottish phrases has to be: shy bairns get nae sweeties.

...an an ingin een an ah

Took me a few seconds to work that bit out! Haven't lived in Scotland for 30 years now.

Another one here, I was born in the old Simpsons, I was on the same ward with Ds1 as my Dm was with me and my Dtwins were born in the new Simpsons. Dh was born in Gala, but soon moved to Midlothian.
My birth certificate says Edinburgh but anyone who knows the area knows Hay Drive is really Niddrie , luckily they moved to Leith then to Midlothian where I have been for the last 39 years!

Oh meeehhh .
Eh'll hae a plen ain @BluebellsareBlue z

Maybe I should have written "ane ".
Ane
Twa
Three
Fower
Fev
Seeks
Seeven
Echt
Nine
Ten
Help ma boab , em multi-lingual.

Another aberdonian here, born Aberdeen maternity, now living on the other side of the North sea and a bit further south! Been playing old singing kettle videos on YouTube to make sure my wee girl knows which granny she can shove aff a bus push push!

Thought someone had beaten me to it to say they were born in Fonthill but you must be younger than me @TooManyPaws !
Been away from Aberdeenshire for many years but still love some chat about the wonder of the bypass.
Now in the land of the Kelpies in the Central Belt.

@Doboopedoo My gran stayed just by the library, where Fonthill Road, Great Southern Road, Holburn and Nellfield meet; Grandad and Great-Grandad are buried over at Nellfield, leading to the family saying "ah'll be roond at Nellfield by then" 😂. Saying Fonthill was the family being all pan loaf.

I'll wave at you over the watter as I'm in the west of the Kingdom.