Scotts - friendliest in the UK?

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According to the BBC News this morning a personality survey has shown that the Scotts are the friendliest people in the UK ... discuss :D
 
Lol in my experience yes absolutely, when you aren't English. Me personally has never had any issues, but my English colleagues weren't so lucky.

Never forgot a bigwig CIO leap across the table and shouted down one of my project managers who gave an example of success in Dorset; "I don't f*****g care what you did in England, you are in Scotland now and do it our way."

Likewise in some of the lounge bars in Glasgow I was welcome and my English colleagues were shown the door. This was during the England Argentina match.

So yes in my experience, as long as you aren't English they are very friendly folk.
 
Aye well you might have the bloody decency to spell Scots correctly. Typical English ignorance.:rolleyes:
 
I live in Huddersfield but work in Erskine at the moment and I can say there are some friendly Scots but there are a fair few miserable ones as well. On balance people from Yorkshire are the friendliest :-)
 
Get back to yer whiskey :D
 
Mr Bump said:
I live in Huddersfield but work in Erskine at the moment and I can say there are some friendly Scots but there are a fair few miserable ones as well. On balance people from Yorkshire are the friendliest :-)
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Yorkshire men are grumpy in my experience, and not please please please this is not a dig at anyone before that kicks off again, however if the report wasn't out I would have guessed that the Welsh would be up there.
 
Londoners don't fare well!
 
gramps said:
According to the BBC News this morning a personality survey has shown that the Scotts are the friendliest people in the UK ... discuss :D
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That's bleedin porridge yer asking aboot!
 
Everyone's blooming grumpy no matter where you live...
 
Well the general perception is that Londoners are unfriendly, but I have rarely found that to be the case, having moved here from North West England 10 years ago. Yes, they are unlikely to be the first to say hello, you normally have to do that bit, but if you do, they almost always respond in kind. The Welsh? Well as a Mancunian girl, I was dragged to Wales most years for a holiday and the abiding memory is of the locals reverting to speaking Welsh when you walked into the shop or pub, when you had heard them speaking English 10 secs earlier. However, again it's a perception thing, I have never encountered an unfriendly Welsh person as an adult. The few times I have been to Scotland have always been friendly and welcoming. Yorkshire? Well, a bit like Lancashire really, you have to accept that generally a spade is a bloody shovel and no mistake, but straight talking shouldn't be mistaken for unfriendliness.

In fact probably the least friendly places I have visited have been the Home Counties and that is only relative to other places, they are not unfriendly per se, just takes a little more time to raise a smile and welcome in my experience.

However that is the point isn't it, it is about experience and your own behaviour and expectations will often come back at you in spades ;)
 
Yv said:
However that is the point isn't it, it is about experience and your own behaviour and expectations will often come back at you in spades ;)
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Fully agree. I'm that "weirdo" that will speak to someone in a tube or train :)
 
dejongj said:
Fully agree. I'm that "weirdo" that will speak to someone in a tube or train :)
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OMG, was that you on Friday last week that spoke to me on the tube between Epping and Liverpool Street? If it was, I hate to say this publicly, but you did smell of wee a little bit :eek:
 
Nikon_Nick said:
OMG, was that you on Friday last week that spoke to me on the tube between Epping and Liverpool Street? If it was, I hate to say this publicly, but you did smell of wee a little bit :eek:
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Lol no. Wasn't me. I was wearing Kouros that day :p
 
OP has def got it wrong......The Irish are the friendliest.....That is to say "ME!" :D

and as a side note, I lived in Perthshire for 3 years and I was met with quite a bit of racism.. that is to say against me being from Northern Ireland, on the other hand I am Glasgow quite often and they are quite friendly.......but by far the friendliest people that I have met outside Northern Ireland have been the Geordies.......Wonderful People
 
In reply to the OP. I havent spent a great amount of time in Scotland. Ive had fleeting visits in a lot of places there, bur not really spent a signifiant amout of time recently.

I do remember staying in Inverness for a couple of weeks as a teenager, and seem to remember the locals were very friendly to me then.
 
Oi you lot have no taste. Kouros is a fantastic fragrance from the 80s.
 
archangel said:
OP has def got it wrong......The Irish are the friendliest.....That is to say "ME!" :D

and as a side note, I lived in Perthshire for 3 years and I was met with quite a bit of racism.. that is to say against me being from Northern Ireland, on the other hand I am Glasgow quite often and they are quite friendly.......but by far the friendliest people that I have met outside Northern Ireland have been the Geordies.......Wonderful People
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This is my experience. I find, very generally that people here are against the English despite them being their fellow countrymen. Edinburgh folk tend to me a bit more reserved and Glasgow folk fall into too camps, ok or very anti British as they see that as "English".

NI and Newcastle seem friendlier places in my experience.
 
Oi! I'm from Edinburgh and I'm friendly! (except to Glaswegians!)
It just depends how you are approached.
 
Well I'm a Geordie living in Lincs and agree the Geordies are the friendliest bunch of folk......unless you come from Sunderland :)
 
Does friendliness include just passing the time of day and/or having the odd word?

I'm English and live in London but I spend a fair bit of time in a village in NW Scotland. It is virtually unthinkable that you would pass anyone without saying, "Hello". This extends to greeting shopkeepers when you go in shops. I was once greeted by a lad of about 14 who I passed in the street - I can't imagine that happening in London.

Just about the only exceptions are with some visitors. I should qualify that, if there is no greeting it is usually English visitors - the foreign visitors usually make the effort.

Dave
 
Yv said:
Well the general perception is that Londoners are unfriendly, but I have rarely found that to be the case
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Suited Londoners are not friendly at all but the non-suited and ones that you wouldn't normally talk :eek: are the friendliest.
 
it all comes down to the manner they speak to you in i have seen people get a glasgow kiss faster than some togs can take a photo we did not get the tag of no mean city for no reason
 
archangel said:
OP has def got it wrong......The Irish are the friendliest.....That is to say "ME!" :D

and as a side note, I lived in Perthshire for 3 years and I was met with quite a bit of racism.. that is to say against me being from Northern Ireland, on the other hand I am Glasgow quite often and they are quite friendly.......but by far the friendliest people that I have met outside Northern Ireland have been the Geordies.......Wonderful People
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I agree ...... From friendly newtownards :-)
 
dejongj said:
Fully agree. I'm that "weirdo" that will speak to someone in a tube or train :)
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I'm that weirdo that everyone else wants to talk to in a tube or train.
From asking directions to unloading their problems . . . and since I only ever take the tube or train when I'm working away from home they're on to a loser with the asking directions bit :LOL:

I don't think I'd read too much into the survey though since participants were asked to assess themselves.
I think it would have more meaning if it had asked other people to respond on their experiences in various places in the UK.

And in case anyone's wondering, come to Wales. We're all lovely here :)
 
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