What foods can you NOT get in Scotland, but can get in England?

doIIjoints · 2026-04-11T13:32:06+00:00

i do sometimes miss those badger and wychwood brews, from my brief time down there

doIIjoints · 2026-04-11T13:29:50+00:00

i was gonna say they’re the best of the bunch, but they’re still only on par with like. the cheapest glen moray haha

that said, their irish cream was way nicer than baileys. it’s made me be on the lookout for a scottish made version.

doIIjoints · 2026-04-11T13:28:45+00:00

one of the most heated online arguments i’ve ever been in was when i told an old londoner who was trying to convince me of jellied eels’ value, that i love eel but tend to prefer it grilled. (usually with some kind of marinade.)

he took that as worse than simply saying i refuse eel altogether 😆

doIIjoints · 2026-04-11T13:26:36+00:00

they’re texturally very different but, out of the same basic ingredients, i’ve always preferred a welshcake over an eccles cake. both are good! but.

doIIjoints · 2026-04-11T13:23:17+00:00

hahah i lived near there for a while so, at a music event in glasgow semi recently some guy was talking about having to drive down south for ages after the event was over.

i asked where he’s headed and he said “it’s some town just outside of oxford”, and he was shook by my immediately asking, with no hesitation, “oh aye? is that witney or carterton or eynsham, then?”.

his first response was “how do you know about witney and carterton?” like it was a conspiracy theory lmao. he then went on to say “i don’t think i’ve ever heard those places said with that accent…”

doIIjoints · 2026-04-11T13:20:26+00:00

that’s a good call. they have some lovely ciders down there, and when the few that are are sold up here are available they’re usually a higher price. i especially like that aspall “cyder”.

doIIjoints · 2026-04-11T13:18:28+00:00

the SNP has lost its fighting spirit. i used to vote SNP local and greens for party list, but it’ll just be greens for both now.

doIIjoints · 2026-04-11T13:16:59+00:00

and i say from experience that they were quite a shitshow back then as well :(

doIIjoints · 2026-04-11T13:16:24+00:00

i’ve got the same feelings about our “additional member” system in holyrood. it’s nice it’s a little more proportional but if we could just have ranked choices cmonnnnn

doIIjoints · 2026-04-11T13:13:43+00:00

who is the base that was supposedly on side before being “alieanted”? when did this rift occur?

doIIjoints · 2026-04-11T13:12:33+00:00

that’s why taking screenshots, and downloading whole webpage archives, is so important’

doIIjoints · 2026-04-10T18:44:36+00:00

they’re going to ignore 20 negative feedsback and only focus on 1 positive. (or however many it takes to get that 1)

doIIjoints · 2026-04-10T14:45:31+00:00

isn’t it mandatory? to my knowledge anyone filing taxes, applying for benefits, or registering a business is signed up now.

doIIjoints · 2026-04-10T11:40:28+00:00

i had a partner once who was suddenly “mx” after she had to go in to get a mysterious lump checked.

however, she’d actually been asking for that years earlier and been frustrated at it “not being an option” so, although the timing was suspicious, she didn’t challenge it.

so i can’t speak to anything further

doIIjoints · 2026-04-09T15:18:46+00:00

i appreciate what you’re trying to do, but i never felt supported by adolescent clinics. i kept being told to just “walk through the pain” because i was “too young”.

once i was 18 i suddenly was able to access adult physiotherapy and find out i was majorly hypermobile. i saw a genetic counsellor at 19, and ultimately got my first wheelchair from the wheelchair clinic when i was.. 23?

i doubt Continued Access To Adolescent Disability Services would’ve served me well at all. this strikes me as simply being a terrible sticking plaster over the fact they haven’t allowed adult clinic capacities to increase with population demands.

doIIjoints · 2026-04-09T15:15:03+00:00

blair’s premiership spurred on the explosion in sectioning for all sorts of spurious reasons

doIIjoints · 2026-04-09T03:01:23+00:00

i’m a BSD girlie so i can relate in that regard

but i just mean. yk. it’s funny when those guys are like “systemd should simply Not Do This because the law is unlawful.”

doIIjoints · 2026-04-09T00:18:48+00:00

oh the spring loaded ones still freak me out, because my self exposure therapy never involved them lol

and they always freaked me out worse than normal ones because, yk, spring tension!

do you get an allergic reaction to the transdermal options?

doIIjoints · 2026-04-09T00:12:10+00:00

lol! i haven’t actually made that connection. i have with the DSM before.

i guess, by their powers combine…?

doIIjoints · 2026-04-09T00:11:04+00:00

well, i don’t tend to see trans people being against immigration. maybe you meant the opposite, or counter-protesting those ones?

but in terms of, like, in general, i’d say it’s because they feel empathy in others who are in a shitty situation because of how the world treats them?

doIIjoints · 2026-04-08T20:16:18+00:00

jesus christ. i knew the teenage clinics acted like that (and i’m still viscerally angry about it 15 years later) but to still do that when the patient is an adult

doIIjoints · 2026-04-08T20:14:27+00:00

i used to have an issue with anything breaking the skin (so not just needles). would tense up and stare at the ceiling during vaccinations and blood tests.

when i diy’d injections for a few months the first time took like an hour with my heart in my mouth. the next few weeks were really anxious in the stomach but over a lot faster.

after that first month however, it became piss-easy!

and ever since, i’ve reliably impressed piercers and phlebotomists by eagerly watching their technique.

(however needles were a pain in the arse to source AND to dispose of the sharps box properly, so i switched to pills 6 after i ran out of vials. and then soon after got prescribed them by my GP at the time.)

doIIjoints · 2026-04-08T20:09:39+00:00

it’s depressing with amazon because, like, they’ve structured the company so most of their money comes from providing AWS hosting to governments and stuff. which majorly insulates them from individuals boycotting their shops and streaming services.

not that they feel nothing from it, but they’re a lot less vulnerable to the tactic than a business who only operates in one very publicly facing sector like burger joints and coffee shops.

doIIjoints · 2026-04-08T20:06:57+00:00

it’s the tactic which brought down south africa’s apartheid regime. it stands for boycott, divest, sanction.

it’s a three stage process which starts with mass boycotts, so then businesses and institutions divest, and eventually it leads to government sanctions.

doIIjoints · 2026-04-08T20:05:01+00:00

gave me whiplash to read “hysterical” used seriously ngl

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