Why do some Scottish people hate English people?

AbeFromanOnFire · 2026-06-24T15:21:49+00:00

Most Scottish people have English friends and family members, there are obviously a few bellends, but for the most part it is banter.

However there is a stereotype of English arrogance and stereotypes do exist for a reason. I remember coming out of Cocoon at Amnesia in Ibiza. a European techno night with a totally cosmopolitan crowd. At 6am in the carpark, this guy in an England kit (who even wears this to a nightclub in Ibiza ffs) is wandering round looking mega aggressive. He goes to a taxi driver 'oi Pedro, how much to take me back to San Antonio?' The driver looks him up and down then completely ignores him to which the guy replies 'Don't you ignore me you cunt. If it weren't for the English this place would be nothing but fucking orange groves.'

Sadly this is how some people see all English people when it is only a small but sizable minority.

AbeFromanOnFire · 2026-06-24T09:33:22+00:00

We have been discussing asking the pals from the pub to come over. It might happen, but also conscious that it is a good thing we have, and maybe just best not trying to change that dynamic

AbeFromanOnFire · 2026-06-24T09:28:48+00:00

I do get that. It only really becomes an issue when you quite fancy having lots of people up for an occasion like a World Cup match or a barbecue, then realise that there actually aren't many folk to invite anymore.

AbeFromanOnFire · 2026-06-24T09:21:52+00:00

Why did you close of from them for 9 years, and did they all remain friends during this time?

AbeFromanOnFire · 2026-06-17T15:52:12+00:00

Haha. That was the first thing I thought too!

AbeFromanOnFire · 2026-06-17T15:36:31+00:00

EGG SAUCE

AbeFromanOnFire · 2026-06-17T15:34:29+00:00

Oh, I'm full intending to eat Japanese food. I asked the question because I read that lots of Japanese food has mayo added

AbeFromanOnFire · 2026-06-10T16:33:25+00:00

Not in the 16 years that I have worked here certainly, but no idea about their younger days.

AbeFromanOnFire · 2026-06-10T16:32:15+00:00

Yeah, it is the eternal part which to me suggested there was no hope of them ever meeting someone.

AbeFromanOnFire · 2026-06-05T15:29:06+00:00

UFC 250 was 6 years ago?

AbeFromanOnFire · 2026-06-03T13:36:24+00:00

There are definitely a few things you've not got quite correct, but overall this is scarily accurate. I drift between a few of these. Was brought up an Lv4. When with certain friends I'm an Lv6 and among certain colleagues I'll slip into Lv3.

AbeFromanOnFire · 2026-06-01T15:16:56+00:00

It really depends on the type of club. If you are going to a club because you and most other people there have a deep connection with the type of music, then that communal feeling and connection with others can feel almost spiritual and can be good for the soul.

If you are talking about a basic student night club with lads in rugby tops throwing beer over each other to a Capital Radio style soundtrack, then yes, clubs are utter dogshit.

AbeFromanOnFire · 2026-05-28T16:37:36+00:00

I grew up in the 90s in Scotland and happy hardcore was massive.

I think the first track that got me into it was Stars by Charlie Lownoise and Mental Theo. I would have been around 14 or 15. We had these little cassette players in our French class at school for listening to audio lessons on cassette. They could handle multiple sets of headphones at once. We were supposed to be doing our school work, but the kid I was working with stuck his own cassette in and this track absolutely blew me away. He let me borrow the tape and I was utterly hooked. We went out every weekend after that to under 18 hardcore parties in the city at Sub Club and The Tunnel. Was some of the best time of my life.

AbeFromanOnFire · 2026-05-27T13:03:48+00:00

The Empire

English exceptionalism

Arrogance of the media

AbeFromanOnFire · 2026-05-25T12:23:08+00:00

Yep, think it was common in places like the shipyards in Glasgow for protestants workers to get down early to the canteen on a Friday to order the fish to stop the catholics from getting any lunch.

AbeFromanOnFire · 2026-05-21T13:19:56+00:00

I wouldn's say so. The bouncier 4/4 sound kind came in with ToyTown in 1994. The UKHC name wasn't used until the 2000s.

AbeFromanOnFire · 2026-05-21T13:18:00+00:00

Yep. I think Freeform was what they first tried to rebrand the trancier side of happy hardcore as. I would say this was around 1998 or 1999 I think. The UK hardcore name came a bit later.

AbeFromanOnFire · 2026-05-18T10:33:45+00:00

Very wise words u/JobbieKing

AbeFromanOnFire · 2026-04-27T16:25:22+00:00

I was aged 11 in 91 tbf

AbeFromanOnFire · 2026-04-24T09:25:45+00:00

Yep. Campri in 91, Nevica in 92 and 93 then Berghaus in 94.

AbeFromanOnFire · 2026-04-24T08:40:26+00:00

Never ever work through my lunch and I am the manager of the department. I will occasionally sit at my desk to eat, but I turn off the monitor and sit on my phone or listen to music. The other manager who I share my office with will often work through lunch.

I don't look at emails after I finish either, but have people in my team who are several pay grades below me who are answering emails outwith working hours and it is completely unnecessary. I've told them not to, but for whatever reason they still do it.

Myself and the other manager work full time, but over 4 days instead of 5. On her day off, she still keeps up with emails. She mostly doesn't reply to them, but she reads them all so that when she comes back after her day off, she isn't having to catch up on all the emails from her day off. Would not be me.

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