r/Scotland 3h ago

Memes

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Anyone have the Leonardo Dicaprio Django drinking and laughing meme, but with him wearing a tartan hat ad drinking a pint of Tennents?


r/Scotland 3h ago

This can’t be real 🤣 god bless ‘murica!!!

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r/Scotland 3h ago

Stirling Campus

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Open day at Stirling University today… impressive place. Very clean. Nice and chilled. My boy loved it.


r/Scotland 3h ago

Wild blaze spreads over large area of forest

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r/Scotland 4h ago

Question anyone want to be pen pals? posted here last year asking for autism friendly recs for my trip and you all were so helpful, but now it’s not happening (because, well, you know)

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None of the details matter… blah blah everything is stupid and evil blah blah my lifelong dreams of traveling to Scotland/UK (and Sweden and Italy and Japan and literally fucking anywhere) and connecting with the world outside of Americanized hell are pretty crushed and I am really struggling with it. Woe is me. It’s a privilege to even get to dream of such things; americans are annoying, me included

But being autistic, I am so passionate about it and love learning about other places and people so much and I FINALLY had the opportunity do to The Big Thing and… Ugh. It’s the only thing I’ve ever wanted and the only goal I’ve ever had due to my narrow interests.

So I guess I am gonna ask different international subs for pen pals and hope for the best 😂

Starting with y’all because you are my favorites and the OG special interest country… and the most likely to roast me alive for being cringe so it’s good for character development. Perhaps my next post will be better LOL

I collect stationery, and never get to use it, just hoard it, so I was wondering if anyone would want to write letters?

I would love to hear about the mundane and every day, and hear different perspectives, outside of US brainrot. It feels more important than ever to have small connections like this to tether me to a broader, world community, instead of to american individualism.

(……the 1930s are soooooo back! 💌📝)


r/Scotland 4h ago

Question Question about scottish mental health/nature

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I am interested in interviewing some local experts about Scotland's approach to mental health and, more specifically, how locals use nature/Natural wonders to improve their own mental well-being or if this is something Scots even consider. I have tried reaching out to multiple mental health organizations across the country, but almost all of them have told me that they receive too many inquiries to respond to all student requests. Do any of you have any advice?

I am a university student in Canada, and I am trying to compare the Canadian approach to other nations that possess many natural wonders.


r/Scotland 4h ago

Huge fire in Galloway Forest.

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r/Scotland 6h ago

Political Glasgow-styled drug consumption rooms must be opened across Scotland 'to stop people dying' [says Alex Cole-Hamilton]

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r/Scotland 7h ago

Refuweegee Fundraiser Tomorrow @ Mono

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r/Scotland 7h ago

Sunshine Hours vs. Annual Rainfall Across The UK

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r/Scotland 8h ago

Beautiful flight across to Skye today

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Inverness>Ullapool>Skye>Loch Ness


r/Scotland 11h ago

Casual Cobbler

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Great day out yesterday. Fresh breeze while walking up but the sun kept one warm.


r/Scotland 12h ago

Baby box

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Weird one for Reddit but I don’t grace Facebook, has anyone got a spare yellow “lovie” toy from the baby box I can buy? Terrified of the day that eventually gets dropped and lost.


r/Scotland 12h ago

Casual Unicorns returning to Stirling Castle this weekend | Historic Scotland

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r/Scotland 12h ago

All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and...whatthefuckingfuck?

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Just a reminder that tick bites if untreated can lead to Lyme disease and really fuck you up...


r/Scotland 13h ago

Revealed: the great property factor scandal

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One year after Kristian Stevenson bought his first flat, the 34-year-old received an unexpected demand for £4,000.

The property factor who looks after the roof, garden and maintenance of his tenement flat in Cessnock, Glasgow, claimed that he was liable for a debt owed by somebody else in the building.

The letter from 91BC, which manages almost 4,430 properties, said: “Our role as factor is to facilitate communal works and charges relating to your building. We have exhausted our debt collection process and as a last resort, we must reapportion this debt to you.”

The £16,000 bill for the building, which Stevenson said was run up before he purchased the two-bed property, had never been mentioned in conveyancing and he was liable to pay £4,200. Nothing existed in the title deeds to suggest he would be culpable for somebody else’s debt. The factor said the deeds were outdated and he must pay the bill according to their written statement of service, which he said he did not receive until two years after moving into the property he bought for £180,000.

The statement of service did state that homeowners were jointly liable for debt, even if they did not cause this themselves, as is the case for most property factor contracts.

Stevenson, a freelance TV and film production co-ordinator, pays about £130 a month to 91BC and said the “absurdly high bill” included £6,000 in late payment fees and legal fees the property factor paid when chasing the other owner’s debt.

“If I was to pay this off it would wipe out any savings I’ve rebuilt,” he said. “A substantial bill without notice, consultation or even a real explanation is both unethical and a poor business strategy.

“Dealing with a massive sum of money like that puts significantly a lot of pressure on me.”

There are hundreds of thousands of property owners like Stevenson across Scotland collectively paying tens of millions of pounds each year to factors who are almost impossible to hold to account.

A long multi-step complaints process, which requires homeowners to compile evidence and documents and often take legal advice, has been blamed for poor regulation and accountability of property factors.


r/Scotland 21h ago

Moving to Scotland from Scotland next month

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Hi Scaatland!

So, after a lot of soul-searching, ancestry.com results, and a can of sugar free IRNBRU extra I decided to move to Scotland, from Scotland! I just can't take Starmer anymore. I didn't vote for him, and he's ruining Cumbernauld's reputation. Not everybody here is a gun loving bible bashing people hating miserable cunt. Some are only one or two of those things.

I'm considering moving into a croft on Saracen St where my clan ancestors lived, and reconnect with the tarmac.

Do you have some tips about how I can get a visa, adapt quickly, and keep wild haggises away since I'm terrified of animals?


r/Scotland 21h ago

Can anyone help me with some Scottish Gaelic translation?

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Hello, I'm getting some tattoos done and my heritage is scottish (isle of sky on my dad's side, eaglesham & glasgow on my mums side).

I would like the words I use to reflect some of this heritage but as someone born in London, I haven't a clue about traditional scottish dialects.

Can anyone help me with suggested translations for the following words?

Freedom Peace Peace at last Peace, finally

The tattoo is to commemorate a divorce as you may guess from those words 😂

Many, many thanks in advance.

Thank you


r/Scotland 21h ago

Scottish ghost stories

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do you have any personal paranormal experiences? what’s your favourite ghost/folklore story/legend that’s tied to scotland? Just came from a post about how edinburgh has a dark eerie energy, what’s your thoughts?!


r/Scotland 1d ago

Scots - what's it like living in Scotland?

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31M from the USA. I've always wanted to visit Scotland (and Europe in general) but I could never afford to. In recent years, I've had a strong desire to commit to live abroad for a minimum of one year, and Scotland has caught my interest simply because of how beautiful the country looks. What's the reality of living in Scotland like?


r/Scotland 1d ago

Casual Aurora coming out in the highlands!

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r/Scotland 1d ago

Political SNP blazer ban rejected by Scotland’s top state schools | Government guidelines urged heads to abandon strict uniform policies and take a ‘flexible and inclusive approach’

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r/Scotland 1d ago

Scottish parade

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Anyone going nyc?


r/Scotland 1d ago

New tattoo

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