What's something about Scotland I would never know from browsing this subreddit?

[u/ismeyk]

I'm not Scottish, but this subreddit pops up on my feed sometimes. What's something about visiting or living in Scotland that I would never know just from reading the posts here?

[u/CottonSocksRocks]

Juice is not one singular type of drink and more often than not is not derived from any type of fruit.

[u/Silver_Ruby → u/CottonSocksRocks]

I will never forget the look of horror on the faces of my English friends when I asked if they wanted a fizzy juice whilst over for a visit.

[u/CottonSocksRocks → u/Silver_Ruby]

When my husband moved to Glasgow from London he was asked when ordering a McDonald's meal at the drive-thru "What juice do you want with that?" And he replied "I don't want juice thank you, I'd rather have a Coke". The girl looked at him like he'd lost the plot!

[u/something_python → u/Silver_Ruby]

My (English) wife still looks at me weird when I say diluting or fizzy juice.

Regular conversation in our house:

"Want me to pick up some juice at the shops"

"Nah, could you get some coke?"

"Oh sorry, I meant to ask would you like me to pick you up some fizzy pop at the shop?"

Said in my very best English accent.

[u/anotherbrckinTH3Wall → u/something_python]

I can relate. My wife is not Scottish. She texted me from the shops asking if I wanted anything. I replied “aye, get some ginger please” she duly returned with ginger, not the ginger I was expecting tho

[u/something_python → u/anotherbrckinTH3Wall]

You: "Can I have a 2L bottle of ginger?"

Your wife: "WTF?"

[u/StayJealous2491 → u/something_python]

Conversely I’ve lived in Glasgow ages now as an Englishman and have picked up very little local dialect but juice for everything is one that I have, tin a juice just works for me

[u/wallaceakw → u/StayJealous2491]

Can of juice, never a tin

[u/bogushobo → u/wallaceakw]

It's OK, they're still learning.

[u/Brido-20 → u/wallaceakw]

A canna skoosh.

[u/malcr69 → u/something_python]

Dill-yootin

[u/tasteMyRottenHoop → u/Silver_Ruby]

When I was wee I remember visiting family down in London and I remember my uncle (the Londoner who’d married into the family) asking if I wanted some ‘pop’.

[u/FoxyInTheSnow → u/CottonSocksRocks]

I went to Canada when I was 11 and asked the lady at a cafe for a glass of ginger. She looked at me like I had a willy sprouting out my heid.

[u/Boydy1986 → u/FoxyInTheSnow]

A barman in Canada showed me the head of a moose on his wall, I never seen one but I’d hate to the see the size of their cats

[u/ArtVandeslay → u/Boydy1986]

Have an upvote for that belter.

[u/CrocodileJock → u/FoxyInTheSnow]

You don't have to go as far as Canada. London will do.

[u/ScottyW88 → u/CrocodileJock]

Parts of Scotland would do. I know what it means, but we don’t usually say ginger in the east.

[u/Difficult_Paramedic8 → u/ScottyW88]

I've never heard it in Ayrshire either. Not that it doesn't happen I'm sure some will. I've just never heard it

[u/CrocodileJock → u/CottonSocksRocks]

Ahh, but are you talking about diluting juice, or ginger?

[u/Trama_Doll_ → u/CrocodileJock]

You mean dlooting juice.

[u/Selfishpie → u/Trama_Doll_]

I didnt even realise that the term was "diluting juice" until like 3 years ago, I am 25 this year, I always thought "delu'in juice" was the actual name

[u/MBronsonWisconsin → u/Selfishpie]

That needs to be distinguished from deluding juice (the tonic wine).

[u/Emergent444 → u/MBronsonWisconsin]

😄

[u/Diligent-Coffee1408 → u/CrocodileJock]

Ginger, coke, Fanta, the works!

[u/sputnikmonolith → u/Diligent-Coffee1408]

See also: Bin juice (Domestic waste secretions)

Wreck-the-hoose-juice (Buckfast fortified wine)

Fizzy juice (Soda)

'Cooncil' juice (water)

Coo juice (milk)

[u/South_Result_627 → u/sputnikmonolith]

Or mammie's sleepin' juice

[u/bishpenguin → u/South_Result_627]

Gin?

[u/th3thund3r → u/bishpenguin]

That's the greetin' juice

[u/lm230565 → u/CottonSocksRocks]

We called it scoosh

[u/Weegie_67 → u/CottonSocksRocks]

It no juice, its ginger mate.

[u/Dear-Beat-9358 → u/CottonSocksRocks]

In our house it was skoosh for fizzy and lootin for squash

[u/WhereDoEelsComeFrom]

Less than one percent of Scottish land is built on and like 98% of Scotland is classed as rural with less than 20% of our population living there.

Mostly due to how our ground is rocky and hard to build on and of course, midges.

[u/Gingers_got_no_soul → u/WhereDoEelsComeFrom]

So are you saying 80% of the population lives on 2% of the land? I'm learning things too apparently

[u/WhereDoEelsComeFrom → u/Gingers_got_no_soul]

I think its less than that 😂

E: I just googled and yeah its pretty much exactly what you said

[u/Oshabeestie → u/WhereDoEelsComeFrom]

What do the midgets have to do with it? Stop picking on the wee folk.

[u/WhereDoEelsComeFrom → u/Oshabeestie]

Hahaha theres just so many of them!

[u/Brido-20 → u/WhereDoEelsComeFrom]

But they don't take up much room.

[u/steellfj86 → u/WhereDoEelsComeFrom]

The harder the ground the more midges there are… have we being looking at them wrong? I always thought they were more abundant around water. Saying more abundant because those little things are abundant in the masses everywhere.

[u/WhereDoEelsComeFrom → u/steellfj86]

Sorry the two points wasn't related other than it's a reason certain parts of Scotland aren't more developed

[u/conzo88]

We are Scottish, don't call us Scotch

[u/NoPaleontologist7929 → u/conzo88]

Some of us are a fair percentage Scotch.

[u/Jeezoh001 → u/conzo88]

Some of us are a result of Scotch

[u/Skanedog]

Noone here gives a shit about Clans.

[u/Pokesabre → u/Skanedog]

To second onto this (although you'd likely learn it from this sub) talking about how you're Scottish because you great x15 grandad was from Montrose is just going to get you funny looks

[u/-malcolm-tucker → u/Pokesabre]

Both my parents are Scottish and I don't try and pretend I am somehow related to Mary Queen of William Robert the Bruce. I'm Aussie. I wasn't born there. I've lived there. And I'm very grateful for the cultural exposure and education on important matters, such as juice, wreck the hoose juice, mince, tatties, tablet, fry ups, free range haggis hunting and curry sauce with my chippy chips. Amongst many other things.

[u/Skanedog → u/Pokesabre]

That one always gets me - oh my great-great-great-grandfather was from Scotland so I'm scottish. Right, Ok, but what about all the other people in your family tree? Aren't you equally as decsendant from them?

How does anyone even *know* who their antecedents to that degree where? I can get as far back as my great grandparents and then I'm into the 1800s and it's anybodies guess from there.

[u/GingerrJinx → u/Skanedog]

I'm Spanish and my family tree is recorded to 1061 d.C. it's because my family worked for monasteries and their movements are recorded in monastery archives since they left the continent to Ireland and then down south to Iberia.

[u/Pokesabre → u/Skanedog]

Certain countries are much more into ancestory stuff for totally normal reasons that definitely have nothing to do with who can use which drinking fountains, etc..... 

[u/TunaPasta1888 → u/Pokesabre]

The average German can go back hundreds of years due to reasons in the 1930s

[u/PluckyPerspicacity → u/Skanedog]

I can tell you don’t know much about genealogy if you think it’s “anybody’s guess” in the 1800s. 1800s is pretty easy to get records for. There are records that go back for centuries. Tax records, birth and marriage records. Censuses, etc.

[u/bonersaus → u/Skanedog]

I mean, my grandpa was born in Scotland. They all died before I was born but I was definitely surrounded by scottish imagery at holidays since i was a kid, clan tartans and what not. A lot of other people had their ancestry presented to them a similar way, my wife is "polish" and we eat some polish food at holidays thats about it.

[u/peahair → u/Skanedog]

Apart from that one McLeod fella who seems to have been hanging around for ages.

[u/Canazza → u/peahair]

The one with the funny accent you can't quite place?

[u/Environmental-Crow88]

The unicorn is our national animal 😊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[u/ForwardBandicoot4325]

Thank the bus driver as you get off the bus.

[u/bigmac182 → u/ForwardBandicoot4325]

Yep the old cheers mate works great

[u/hutch86861 → u/ForwardBandicoot4325]

Thanks driver, thanks driver, bye, byeee, BYEEEEEE

[u/Morlu06]

That this subreddit doesn’t represent most of Scotland

[u/Hour_Vermicelli8009]

We are not at all tight fisted, quite the opposite in fact.

[u/this_noise → u/Hour_Vermicelli8009]

Poor, what I am, is poor.

[u/Blaw_Weary → u/Hour_Vermicelli8009]

More of an east coast stereotype in my experience

[u/Keezees]

The majority of us find Braveheart a bit cringe. The only good thing that came out of it's popularity in the 90's was that it made Scots look up their own history, which wasn't taught in schools, and we realised just how much of Braveheart is bullshit (the Battle of Stirling Bridge took place on an actual bridge and not in a field, the French Princess was 6 and is unlikely to have even met William Wallace, let alone have his children (of which Wallace had none and anyone claiming to be his descendant is full of shit), Scots/Picts used Wode 1000 years before the events of Braveheart, oh and Braveheart is the title given to Robert the Bruce not William Wallace).

Great soundtrack, though. Even if James Horner won an Oscar for (possibly) ripping off an anime from the 90's called 3x3 Eyes.

[u/WhereDoEelsComeFrom → u/Keezees]

I agree with everything you said but its still one of my favourite films haha

[u/Keezees → u/WhereDoEelsComeFrom]

Maybe I'll amend it to "The majority of us find (people who use) Braveheart (as their basis for idolising Scotland) a bit cringe". But then you would absolutely know that from browsing this sub lol

[u/WhereDoEelsComeFrom → u/Keezees]

I'd have to completely agree with you then

[u/Nimblewright_47 → u/WhereDoEelsComeFrom]

Cracking story. Barely a nodding acquaintance with history.

[u/RianJohnsonIsAFool → u/Keezees]

Rob Roy is the superior film.

[u/sauvignonblanc__ → u/Keezees]

Cringe when those pipes are actually Irish 😜

[u/supersephone_]

I moved to glasgow a little over a month ago, and I was expecting to like the people here, but not as much as I do. They are some of the friendliest people you’ll ever meet, especially when talking to strangers. They do not consider talking to a stranger a waste of time like they do in other places.

[u/mmarkmc → u/supersephone_]

I visited Scotland a year ago and Glasgow was the most pleasant surprise for me. I expected to like it but did not expect to fall in love with the city and its people.

[u/supersephone_ → u/mmarkmc]

Seriously!!! I don’t know if it’s just a foreigner’s perspective, but the people are delightful.

[u/mmarkmc → u/supersephone_]

As soon as I got off the train from Edinburgh, I could tell Glasgow had a completely different feel that was remarkable.

[u/Gentle_Snail]

Many people are not fucking nutters.

[u/roxstarjc → u/Gentle_Snail]

maste folk are, but the good kind

[u/QOTAPOTA]

Those in the borders and Edinburgh have more in common (ancestry/language) with the English northerners than they do with those in the Highlands and Islands.

[u/cardinalb → u/QOTAPOTA]

to be fair its not just the borders and Edinburgh its right up the central belt and into lowland Perthshire and Angus too

[u/abber76]

Genuine old school Scottish food is never pretty but tastes amazing and really comforting in the winter, stovies, mince and tatties, home made soup with a ham hough, dumplings with mince, haggis with neeps and tatties, shortbread, tablet and scotch pie. You'd have to eat them to get it

[u/restingbitchsocks → u/abber76]

Ham hough simmering away on my hob right this very minute

[u/Clean-Strength-1678 → u/restingbitchsocks]

Please explain what ham hough is

[u/restingbitchsocks → u/Clean-Strength-1678]

Also known as ham shank, it’s the end of the pigs leg, just above the ankle. Most butcher shops and supermarkets have them. It’s raw and smoked, and you boil it until the meat is starting to fall off the bone. In my family, we usually make it into soup using the stock from boiling it, red lentils or dried peas and some chopped veg. You then pick the meat and add it back into the soup. It takes a long time to cook, but it’s not difficult and it makes loads.

[u/Stinkyboy3527 → u/abber76]

I remember when I went on holiday to mull I tried some proper homemade tablet for the first time. It was heavenly. Despite living here I'd never had homemade tablet up until that point, I feel like an idiot for it to this day.

[u/SG133722]

It's actually a regular place where not everything is taken to its extreme, the Internet seems to sensationalise the country a bit like how the West marvels about everything that happens in Japan

[u/Jahaangle → u/SG133722]

A walk round any town in North Lanarkshire will burst that bubble.

[u/roxstarjc → u/Jahaangle]

Or Edinburgh these days

[u/Pioneerz90]

Wild haggis hunting is prohibited in Glasgow, you're only permitted in places like Aberdeen etc where the populations are out of control

[u/CrocodileJock → u/Pioneerz90]

To be fair, you don't see many "wild" haggis running around Glasgow anymore, not even in the parks. Only the odd feral one.

[u/kickingtyres → u/CrocodileJock]

Is it not the case that 'urban haggis' are now considered a distinct species from the original wild haggis?

[u/rustybeancake → u/kickingtyres]

I believe you’re correct, u/kickingtyres. Though there is some debate among biologists as to the degree of interbreeding between urban and ‘wild’ haggis, among urban fringe populations.

[u/username_not_clear → u/rustybeancake]

The wild ones taste far superior to urban. I refuse to eat farmed haggis on ethical grounds.

[u/GingerrJinx → u/username_not_clear]

This thread of comments does wonders for when people go out and ask AI about wild haggis.

[u/olleyjp → u/GingerrJinx]

Haggai**

[u/ismeyk → u/Pioneerz90]

I'm not falling for this one!

[u/olleyjp → u/ismeyk]

It’s true! As an aberdonian, you can only catch Haggai by running anti clockwise round a hill as they have one leg longer than the other so when they turn round to run away, they fall over

[u/GingerrJinx → u/olleyjp]

Haggai, what a wonderfully correct use of the term.

[u/lifeinthebeastwing]

My mum goes to the village kirk with the mum of a women who is a presenter on BBC Scotland, one time my mum said to her "Sheena (not the real name) always has nice clothes on and I never see her wearing the same outfit twice, she must spend a lot on clothes"

Sheena's mum told her that Sheena buy clothes online, wears them once and then returns them.

Obviously that was the hot gossip in the village for a while and I'm surprised Sheena's mum gave the info out so freely.

[u/MacaroniBoot]

The loudest opinions aren't always the majority.

[u/bobby_sandals]

Someone calling you pal probably isn’t being friendly. They may, in fact be about to strike you

[u/eat-real-chips → u/bobby_sandals]

Ok hen

[u/minion-steeve]

Being called a c**t isn’t necessarily an insult.
You can be a good one, a cheeky one or a stupid one, all generally delivered with a smile and in good humour

[u/UberPadge → u/minion-steeve]

Just further to this, I’d add that we use swear words as a form of punctuation.

[u/TerryTibbs2009]

Cutting about wearing a £5 tartan bunnett, or even worse a £20 kilt, will not in fact endear you to the locals.

[u/Scotscommonsense → u/TerryTibbs2009]

But it will give them a good laugh

[u/peatgirl21]

Scottish people don't talk about what clans they are in . And most of us haven't seen outlander, like whiskey or wear tartan all the time

[u/efasser5 → u/peatgirl21]

Get that "e" out. It has no place in here

[u/peatgirl21 → u/efasser5]

Crikey... Typo👍

[u/efasser5 → u/peatgirl21]

Autocorrect is a cruel and pernicious mistress

[u/MB-Taylor → u/efasser5]

No no, they said most don't like whiskey, surely we all like whisky after all 😉

[u/spoonsmeller → u/[deleted]]

Also, outwith is a Scottish word that is rarely heard outwith Scotland

[u/roxstarjc → u/[deleted]]

This is solid, I lived in the Highlands and the poverty is rife... Hard working Scots who canny buy a hoose because of the invaders holiday homes.. It's diabolical, last time I was there (ardfern)I was mistaken for a Sas because of my Edinburgh accent until the boy I usto work for recognised me. Hard place

[u/witchysusie]

Getting the messages,means going shopping

[u/duckorange14]

The word “outwith”, which is hardly used outwith Scotland.

[u/TeutonicSpacehopper]

We don't fuck sheep in Aberdeen.

Dundee isn't some kind of city-sized prison/urban slum. Some of it is actually very nice.

[u/i-smell-really-nice → u/TeutonicSpacehopper]

You don’t fuck them…..you make love with them

[u/moon_witch_26 → u/TeutonicSpacehopper]

Dundee is awesome, gets such a bad rap unnecessarily!

[u/AlephMartian]

“I’ll meet you at the back of 2” means I’ll meet you just after 2pm. Or possibly just before. Or maybe nearer 3pm.

[u/CraigHBruce]

The condiments offered with your fish supper will vary depending upon which part of the country you're in

[u/Free_Clerk223]

Yer da sells avon

[u/ayeImur → u/Free_Clerk223]

Amd your mum sells cooncil

[u/piss_puncher227]

The word "Bahoochie", what it means, how to pronounce it and say it properly, bonus points for Milngavie which is a place. The former is pronounced ba-hoo-key but with the key like Scottish people say Loch, not lock. The latter is pronounced Mulguy.

[u/ismeyk → u/piss_puncher227]

I... what is a bahoochie?

[u/piss_puncher227 → u/ismeyk]

You're arse, "sit on your bahoochie."

[u/jmck8688 → u/piss_puncher227]

Never heard this spelling before! I’d go for bahookie! Learn something new every day!

[u/conzo88]

Taps aff is a weather term

[u/TinyDimples77]

Hing and Hingy are use as nouns and can be used for a wide variety things (hings).

You can use swear words to describe the hing or hingy.... "That bloody hing over there"

We call tv controller the doof or doofy or doofer

[u/TerryTibbs2009 → u/TinyDimples77]

As Scottish comedian Marc Jenko said “you could walk into a shop in Scotland and say ah need a hing to hing hings wi” and they’d know what you meant.

[u/ajreid881 → u/TerryTibbs2009]

Or go into a shoe shop in Aberdeen and ask "Fit fit fits on fit fit?"

[u/TerryTibbs2009 → u/ajreid881]

To which they’d reply “ah dinnae ken fit fit fits fit shoe. Ahye!”

[u/Aggressive_Scar5243]

We're gonny win the world cup 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[u/ismeyk → u/Aggressive_Scar5243]

Manifesting that for you!

[u/QUARTERMASTEREMI6 → u/Aggressive_Scar5243]

As a local nearby to Boston, we love that for you 🥹

[u/Superb-Ad-8823]

Car window washers are commonly called windae skooshers or skooshers for short.
EG I hiv nae water in ma skooshers

[u/Gwyllithar]

we dont all make 90% of our personality and national culture all about putting traffic cones on statues....

[u/Cara-Bi-ner]

"How?" means "Why?"

A sentence can end with the word "but" and nobody blinks an eye at it.

[u/lalajia]

That yer da sells Avon.

[u/Marcus-Aurelius18]

Some people pick up dog shit off the street using a plastic bag and tie it onto a low hanging branch.

[u/JackOfHearts008 → u/Marcus-Aurelius18]

Totally ruins the town Christmas tree every year eh

[u/ismeyk → u/Marcus-Aurelius18]

Um, why?

[u/Marcus-Aurelius18 → u/ismeyk]

Id hazard a guess at low IQ being the driving factor.

The idea is to pick up after your dog and bin it. Rather than leave it tograde naturally or bin it, these individuals tie them to trees or throw plastic bags into rough ground to preserve it for future generations.

Future archeologists will have a right head scratcher with this one.

[u/Fine_Cress_649]

Most people have at least one exterior wall that is pebbledashed

[u/BigfootUK]

It rains. A lot.

[u/Ginyerjansen]

The fucking midges

[u/Profscribblerofnote]

the second most language spoken in Scotland is Polish.

[u/AfraidOstrich9539]

King Arthur's (one of many alleged) final resting place is under a roman army signal point which is on top of 3 mountains that are actually 4 hills.

[u/duckorange14 → u/AfraidOstrich9539]

Borders historian Alistair Moffat reckons that Roxburgh Castle is the site of Camelot. It was at that point I threw his book at the wall.

[u/Sweaty_Sleep_3405]

We are still very tribal, so its okay for an Aberdonian to have a poke at the Dundonians but wo betide another country having a nip, because they are our Dundonians!

[u/moon_witch_26 → u/Sweaty_Sleep_3405]

🥲🫶🥰 loveee this 🥲

[u/Friendly_Acadia_8057]

We have a great sense of humour for one, as you'll find out, read on.

[u/mcalr3]

If you don't remember the feeling of getting 50p for the shop when you were wee and getting a pack of spicy bikers and a can of Tizer ice with the money

[u/moon_witch_26 → u/mcalr3]

Omg 🥲 memories 🫶

[u/Hendersonadele59]

Considering how friendly and upbeat we are, we can be brutally honest and so deeply negative about EVERYTHING. (I have noticed this since moving to Australia)

[u/Aceman1979]

Nobody gives a rats arse about mixed gender bathrooms or JK Rowling.

[u/Fuzzy-Raccoon8677 → u/Aceman1979]

Think you'll find that's incorrect. Local high school where my sister lives tried gender neutral bogs and lots of the female pupils refused to use the toilets.

Lots of parents kicked up fuck and there's now separate toilets for both genders.

[u/Flagrant_Unicorn → u/Fuzzy-Raccoon8677]

That's because teenage boys are awful.

[u/Greedy_Baseball_7019 → u/Fuzzy-Raccoon8677]

I’m an American and I spent some time with the New Zealand Air Force. Their bathrooms and showers are gender neutral. Blew my mind to see a young lady walking out of the shower next to me.As long as you don’t have a bunch of perverts, I guess it could work. But it did feel really strange.

[u/Llemur1415]

We're actually quite nice 🙂

[u/-_the_gentleman_-]

its shite being Scottish! - YouTube

[u/sweetpicklemilk → u/-_the_gentleman_-]

Is it though?

[u/Nurturessa]

If you walk to the end of the street, all of the slang changes, and so does the weather!

[u/Evzz72]

Being told yer a cunt isn't always a bad thing, in fact it can be a term of endearment 😂

[u/RimJaw007]

If you dinnae like the weather in Scotland, just wait ten minutes.

[u/olleyjp]

The porridge drawer is a real thing

[u/TheDanjinSpear]

There is more to Scotland than the manky Weegies who think they represent Scotland.

[u/Ravinella]

Fife is a separate kingdom 

[u/Bar_B_Who]

Glasgow is slightly more north than Moscow

[u/No_Watercress8123]

We are, in the main, very friendly and very helpful.

[u/ismeyk → u/No_Watercress8123]

Actually I get that from this sub!

[u/No_Watercress8123 → u/ismeyk]

I tried haha. I drive a taxi on the East coast and I'm always hearing how friendly we are from my customers. They seem genuinely touched by it and it's lovely to hear.

[u/Jiao_Dai]

Scots has Northern Anglo Saxon roots going back to Old and Middle English which is mad considering Anglo Saxons did not fully invade and conquer all of Scotland - its a cultural wave

Also the amount of words of Norse origin is significant could come from Northern Middle English or Islands and coastal regions

[u/conzo88]

Yer maw punts Cooncil

[u/parason47]

One must always souse ones porridge oats overnight.

[u/Sharp-Rhubarb-1058]

If someone offers you a 'fine piece', they are offering you a sweet treat like a cake or biscuit. Normally offered with a cup of tea.

[u/ConfidentTry4257]

Barry is not a person...

[u/duckorange14]

I moved to the Borders last year from a village in England. I thought I was living in the country down there, but it is NOTHING to here. EVERYTHING is geared toward the primary industries (farming and fishing and horses and rugby union) and it helps to respect and appreciate the work ethic involved.

I’ve also found out a LOT about Borders history (I can see two major battlefields from my house, both Scottish victories) and that which isnae informed by agriculture is moulded by the absolutely insane amount of history here.

[u/Dr-Ebola]

We all have ginger hair but some people dye theirs.

[u/Vladamir_pootinn]

90% of people In Scotland are actually just English people with speech problems and ginger wigs. The other 10% are danish. Scotland doesn’t actually exist

[u/Hamsterminator2]

That virtually nonody in regular conversation talks about independence outside of newspaper headlines.

[u/Far-Cardiologist3794]

That Scottish men don’t wear kilts everyday….. nor do we wear ‘utility kilts’ ‘sports kilts’ and whatever other things Americans like to wear and calm it’s a kilt.

[u/polaires]

That we’re actually a functioning nation.

[u/Ok-Thing4762]

Kilts aren’t all that common when you’re out and about.

[u/mdmnl]

It's got more coastline than France.

[u/Darazu_ → u/mdmnl]

I think you'll find it's got exactly the same amount of coastline.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox

[u/READ-THIS-LOUD → u/Darazu_]

It’s got the exact same amount, 10x less and 100x more.*

*T&Cs apply.

[u/Scotscommonsense → u/mdmnl]

More than the rest of the UK.

[u/Only_Quote_Simpsons]

Well have you noticed how South Edinburgh golfers put like this, and north Edinburgh golfers put like this?

[u/fizzmaw]

You can strike up a convo with someone in the supermarket queue, and it's not weird. Honestly, I was surprised to find this wasn't global.

[u/VexExisting]

the bothies

[u/Amberlux]

We're funny as fuck!

[u/Witty_Entry9120]

Its not as different to the rest of the UK as people (would like to) think.

If you want different, go to Barra.

But you'll come back.

[u/extravagant_wank]

A surprising amount of islanders have an accent closer to Welsh than Scottish

[u/KazukiPUWU → u/extravagant_wank]

I feel as though some of the island accents still maintain strong Gàidhlig roots and therefore, have that jumpy sound that’s also prominent in Wales for the same reason, since both Welsh and Gàidhlig are from the same language tree. (Just my theory)

[u/Fuzzy-Raccoon8677]

That most of us are fairly normal and it's not some weird far left fantasy land. We have some of the best comedians going and you can more or less say what you like. Were not easily offended as some would like to have you think.

[u/Not_A_Clever_Man_ → u/Fuzzy-Raccoon8677]

Scots are fundamentally sound, but with a spiky exteriour. There is a thick strain of dark humour that I personally attribute to the lack of sunlight.

[u/Onuva_42 → u/Fuzzy-Raccoon8677]

How do you define far left? I'm fairly certain the vast majority of Scots take no personal offence over seeing a foreigner or trans person. There are way too many nut jobs out there who'd class that as dangerously far left.

[u/Morlu06 → u/Onuva_42]

Depends how you define far left and if it’s even a category you’d recognise

[u/Fuzzy-Raccoon8677 → u/Onuva_42]

I'm not saying we're not welcoming or that we're all right wing. Reddit in general is very left leaning. If I was an alien that knew nothing of Scotland I would assume we were all running about waving rainbow flags screaming free Palestine and offering our spare rooms to asylum seekers. It's just not like that in reality. Were generally friendly tho I would say.

[u/Academic_Visual116]

We don't all want to move to Boston and marry Boston lassies, nor do we want Bostonians ? to do the reverse *

• Not a slight on Boston, the place or the people, that's not what I'm saying.

[u/Bar_B_Who]

Scotland has Europe's only private army, The Atholl Highlanders serve as a personal bodyguard to the Duke of Atholl, Queen Victoria stayed at Blair Castle in 1844 and was so impressed by the guard that she presented them with the Queen's Colours in 1845, effectively granting them official private army status.

[u/ismeyk → u/Bar_B_Who]

That's actually very cool!