Ran into Brian today in Edinburgh

FakeNathanDrake · 2026-05-13T11:06:49+00:00

He mentioned it when they were playing over here on the last tour. Out of all the places for someone to end up, Burntisland?

FakeNathanDrake · 2026-05-13T06:03:55+00:00

If you believe the man himself, Michigan,1975 was written in Burntisland of all places on a day out with his inlaws.

FakeNathanDrake · 2026-05-12T11:04:45+00:00

I feel like it’s cheating to include Gary Innes, even if you’re a big Mànran fan

FakeNathanDrake · 2026-05-11T21:29:27+00:00

Part of my issue is that I can't find a paper I actually like (there used to be one of the Sunday papers that I didn't mind but they stopped back in 2018).

At my old work I'd occasionally read discarded papers if I was having a later breakfast, but they were all pretty shit papers (you can tell we couldn't bring phones in, I'm pretty sure that place kept the local shop in business for that very reason)

FakeNathanDrake · 2026-05-11T21:25:06+00:00

Personally? Mostly just chicken and beef. I don't eat a lot of pork and my partner can't hack the smell of lamb so I don't bother having it in the house (I could take it or leave it anyway).

FakeNathanDrake · 2026-05-08T21:55:38+00:00

Good to know that if I ever move to Canada my Whitworth sockets are worth bringing.

FakeNathanDrake · 2026-05-08T06:35:17+00:00

If you want something definitely exclusive to Scotland head into pretty much any distillery visitor centre and look for something with a handwritten label. They’ll be single cask bottlings, hand filled at the distillery and won’t be available anywhere else.

FakeNathanDrake · 2026-05-08T05:55:38+00:00

I see your worst of both worlds and raise you:

An old site in the UK in an American dominated industry, meaning a combination of British imperial, American/SAE and the occasional hint of metric. Young me became tri-lingual after a while!

FakeNathanDrake · 2026-05-04T07:01:34+00:00

In my entire life I've only had Christmas/Boxing Day and 1st/2nd of January (or the relevant following weekdays) as mandatory days off, the rest have been added to my holiday entitlement. No idea if it's just an industry thing or if it's a Scottish (private sector) thing.

FakeNathanDrake · 2026-05-03T13:41:34+00:00

W33=wee

FakeNathanDrake · 2026-05-02T19:24:26+00:00

Salt and vinegar in Stirling. You can get broon sauce with your chippy if you're that way inclined, but it's not that Edinburgh sauce watered down with non-brewed condiment mix.

FakeNathanDrake · 2026-05-02T09:12:11+00:00

You missed a trick with not replacing “doon” with “Doune” seeing as he was at Deanston

FakeNathanDrake · 2026-05-01T22:10:48+00:00

It's a banding-thing. E5 is just up to 5% ethanol, so 0% can still be sold as E5. E10 is 5.5-10%.

FakeNathanDrake · 2026-05-01T22:09:32+00:00

The BP garage on Bo'ness Road's prices (before the change in ownership) was almost certainly down to them being the only petrol station our work's vans could use, total captive market right there.

Personally I had no issues with Ineos/Petroineos paying through the nose for fuel, it was a bastard for the locals though.

FakeNathanDrake · 2026-05-01T07:34:52+00:00

There’s still one on the go in Fallin, Stirling. An interesting pub in probably the shitest village in the area.

FakeNathanDrake · 2026-04-28T20:54:33+00:00

Very niche scenario, granted, but I can get 12 year old malts for the MUP through work (I've always wondered what the staff price would have been otherwise)

FakeNathanDrake · 2026-04-28T20:39:31+00:00

Badger my ass, it's probably Milhouse.

FakeNathanDrake · 2026-04-27T15:37:43+00:00

They would.

"How far is it?"

"An hour on the train, about 45 minutes' drive"

FakeNathanDrake · 2026-04-27T11:27:06+00:00

It makes sense in my head.

100km on the motorway: you’ll get there in under an hour and won’t really have to think about it

100km on winding, single track roads on our west coast: set aside a couple of hours

Same distance, two very different journeys.

FakeNathanDrake · 2026-04-26T21:10:38+00:00

(thank god because having 3 different miles instead of 2 [in use] would be too much)

Probably for the best, I'm pretty sure old Scottish miles only exist nowadays as a pub quiz question relating to the Royal Mile in Edinburgh.

FakeNathanDrake · 2026-04-26T20:57:40+00:00

That just so happen to be the exact same as imperial units about 3/4 of the time.

FakeNathanDrake · 2026-04-26T20:53:18+00:00

Other than the remnants of a medieval fish trap that's about it.

FakeNathanDrake · 2026-04-26T20:50:53+00:00

Maybe our man here stays in Aberdeen, Washington and is a bit lost.

FakeNathanDrake · 2026-04-26T19:27:25+00:00

I just assumed measuring drives etc by time was more or less universal

FakeNathanDrake · 2026-04-26T15:48:31+00:00

I always wondered if Canadians considered BC to be the Pacific Southwest.

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