Please can we have a Scottish MN section - Mawsnet, mebbe?

[StayingSamVimesGirl]

Following on from discussion on another thread - could we have a Scottish section, please?

The local information is good, but it is too local to apply to the whole of Scotland, if you see what I mean.

I'm at Nippy Sweetie being sexist. I know a few men who are nippy sweeties and have always heard it used in relation to both men and women. It's definitely an equal-opportunities insult.

I'm loving the alternative names for the sections.

I understood a nippy sweetie was a wee dram.

Yes please, but please don't call it 'mawsnet'. A Scottish education section would be particularly helpful. Thanks!

'We have 23 local sites in Scotland'. That's why they are underused. 5 would be better. Borders, East, West, Higlands, Islands.

'Mawsnet' is awful. Hope MNHQ avoid anything parochial or twee. How about 'Scottish MNers'. And I hope it isn't more than a topic. A whole area is a bit apartheid-y.

Barrow
'You'll have had yer tea' is said on the East Coast too. That one took some explaining to my German husband!

Baking would have to be Scones an' Pehs

And for Sleep, we could just have Scunnered

I also love 'hingy' - no better word to describe the non-specifically not-well child: 'He's right hingy today'. 'Nuff said, I know what you mean.

Response to a goadyfucker....howd Yur wheesht

Exercise= tumblin yer doakies

And I hope it isn't more than a topic. A whole area is a bit apartheid-y

Quite agree.

Never heard 'tumbling yer doakies', where is that one from?

Think it is west coast

Yes please to ScotsCorner! Or maybe add a board to each relevant section- Scots Law next to legal, Buying and Selling in Scotland in the property area, Education in Scotland in the Education section, NHS Scotland in health. I think thats all that's different?

Tumblin yer doakies is a new one to me.

Please don't do a Scots Law next to Legal. The legal profession in Scotland is small/well kent and anyone offering specialist advice is likely to be outed after about 3 posts.

Scotch corner is in Englandshire and scots corner is too close a name to be useful and will grate.

MNScotland SN
MNScotland Education
MNScotland Health

etc

or Hee Haw!

oh and

MNScotland property

Why do we need a Scottish Property? Pretty much the same house whether it is here or there?

The process for buying and selling property is different.

I agree that we shouldn't have separate boards for everything, just one extra MNScotland topic.

We have no chains, home reports and long standing moral objections to gazumping et al. There is no comparison.

Not sure our property market has 'moral objections', just a different pattern of practice (or was that actually an attempt at smugness ). And not so significant that it actually requires it's own thread.

The danger with splitting off these topics is that it just diminishes access to information in either place. The Property & DIY boards are really useful as they are. It isn't a big deal to cope with the two systems. And the renovation stuff is the same both sides of the border.

Tea is a hot drink.

Dinner is the main meal of the day.

Agreed re renovations etc but not for sales.

All the communications here go through the solicitors mostly who will not gazump or gazunder willingly (due to possible reputation damage), this does make the system better because I do think there is less chance of an unscrupulous vendor or buyer being able to behave badly during a sale. A lot of people don't know there is a different system here, I think the system in England is excruciating and do feel sympathy for those trying to buy there!

Er, Scotland DOES have Home Reports!
You cannae go on the market withoot one....

Isn't the difference with gazumping that if an offer is accepted then it's legally binding...but that's not the case in England?

I don't think we need loads of boards? I think it would be too quiet, just somewhere to go if you know your issue is Scotland specific?

I agree. I think just the one board is enough. Thread titles should be enough to differentiate by.