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?

Another Scot - never been to a supermarket at 9am for years and that was only to get away from the kids! Might vote SNP, might not. Once met Alex Salmond on a girls day out - he was a sweaty oik!

Ooh I've never been part of a conspiracy before!

That's so true Cheesecake!

NotTonightJosepheen I was at school with her and never had anyone use that phrase.

Kevin Bridges has coined the latest "Did ye aye" it is just passive sarcasim

Ha ha. When I saw the title, I thought that there wasn't 'too many' Scottish Mumsnetters until anyone mentions the supermarkets being closed at 9 am or 8 pm on a Sunday, when there appears to be dozens of people expressing surprise at the concept of a closed supermarket, because it appears that in Scotland, the 24 hour supermarkets do indeed never close.

Hello from Parkhead, Glasgow! Freedom n that

What, supermarkets don't open till 9am on a Sunday in England?? What about 24 hour supermarkets? By their very definition they should be open 24 hours, which would include before 9am on a Sunday? And you can buy alcohol anytime??

Am I in the correct proportion? Or the disproportion?

Not sure where it puts me as an exiled Scot within the M25. Or was OP only referring to Scots in Scotland. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Mlou

. Right on cue

In England, yes we can buy alcohol at any time the shop is open, which excludes all but 6 hours on a Sunday, even for '24 hour' supermarkets.

I know this because I often go to the supermarket on the way to work, so 7-8 am and sometimes buy alcohol, because my method of shopping is to buy things that are on special offer, as well as the things that we actually need and this often includes booze.

Mawsnet

We don't have the multibuy alchol offers here Soo we might have stopped off at tesco carlisle to stock up on the way home from holiday

at Mawsnet and McConspiracy

@Deux that is the other thing about Scots, they often wander about, refusing to stay where they were born!

We just got the internet up here and we just can't keep off it OP. We're hoping for indoor plumbing next year.

@Deux you live in the Ops accepted demographic

*@Justmuddlingalong

Mawsnet! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I love that,

I hate the assumption on here sometimes that everyone is English, and you get accused of making up something when you post something about being in the supermarket at 8am, or things to do with Scottish school holidays

The mind blowing lesser known Scottish posters who speak of odd shopping hours, slice sausage and red kola!

Another mawsneter checking in, I'm not even a man, more like a groovier Daphne Broon.

Dont forget the haggis and tattie scones

The Scottish school holidays really confuse some I have seen loads of suspicion when a poster says theyare going on holiday end of june lots of muttering about term time holidays.

"The Scottish school holidays really confuse some I have seen loads of suspicion when a poster says theyare going on holiday end of june lots of muttering about term time holidays."

Always reminds me of visiting family in London as a child with my grandparents during (my) school holidays and some woman in a shop giving me a bollocking for not being at school, and then trying to manhandle me out the door back to wherever she thought I was supposed to be...

My auld granny soon put her gas at a peep!