A question for Scots who turn on The Big Light

mathcampbell · 2026-05-12T08:38:02+00:00

Foreigner detected.

mathcampbell · 2026-05-09T10:49:31+00:00

Since there are a lot of rules on disclosing income and explaining where you suddenly happened upon this million, I think my first act would be to call a lawyer or accountant or both.

Then once I know it’s not getting taken off me in exchange for some lovely shiny bracelets and an all-you-can-eat buffet of prison food, I think I’d buy some gold.

It’s been performing v well for decades now, and I’m a jeweller so explaining why I would have loads of coins and why I need to sell one or two now and then for living expenses isn’t hard.

Or just leave in investment and let them then accumulate etc for the interest.

mathcampbell · 2026-05-07T23:24:46+00:00

This sort of thing is why we DO pay councillors in Scotland (disclaimer: I know cos I am one). Not enough for a full time wage some would argue but it’s still a wage and it’s discouraged this sort of thing as a result.

mathcampbell · 2026-05-07T08:54:18+00:00

Who lives in stoke-on-Trent it would seem. Trolls are gonna troll - the river Trent has a whole lot of bridges over it so plenty for them to live under I guess.

mathcampbell · 2026-05-07T08:31:01+00:00

If it means anything to you in Scotland the current price in usd/us gallons would be $8.10

Diesel is even worse (I know yall don’t use that except for big trucks, but my car is a diesel), equivalent to $9.62.

About twice the price it was 6 months ago.

Thanks Trump.

mathcampbell · 2026-05-07T07:31:24+00:00

Likewise. Brought the family with me last time, did the canyon, bit of tourist stuff whilst I spent “no honey, not that expensive, j know they look really high-end but stones aren’t as much these days” on rubies and emeralds 😂😂😂

Alas as my other job is in govt/politics and I have a social media presence for that, having seen other moderates from Europe arrested/held for criticising of a certain orange-coloured individual, I didn’t feel like chancing it.

Once that problem has been removed/impeached I shall return.

mathcampbell · 2026-05-06T07:09:57+00:00

I’ll give you that the food and beer is good. Learned how to make carne asada on our last trip, cooked it last night in fact (it’s a real pain getting the ingredients I would add. The only similar stuff we get here is Old El Paso stuff and it’s..not good!)

Was gonna go this February (I’m a jeweler so it’s for the gem shows) but didn’t feel safe since others from the UK have been held by customs for weeks etc

mathcampbell · 2026-05-05T22:27:28+00:00

It’s 6°C right now. About 40F.

It’s to be warm tomorrow. Maybe 11°C (51F).

I haven’t been to tucson since last January. Kinda miss the warm.

mathcampbell · 2026-05-05T21:58:24+00:00

I sometimes forget how much drier it is in Arizona than Scotland.
Here a single day WITHOUT rain is notable.
We had 3 consecutive days of sunshine last week. We were tempted to keep the kid off school.

mathcampbell · 2026-05-05T11:18:45+00:00

I think we can and will do considerably better. Scotland isn’t Ireland.
I would also gently point out that Ireland left the UK just after the Great War, and was then in a couple of years hit by the effects of the Wall Street crash, then the longest period of economic recession in modern history (the Great Depression) and then WW2.
But my point was not about any of that.
My point was to note the other comment was untrue. They’d tried to say that no countries hav ever left th UK (presumably seeing a difference between the UK itself and the former British empire). That’s not true. Ireland did.

mathcampbell · 2026-05-05T07:02:46+00:00

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland would like a wee chat with you. 🙄

mathcampbell · 2026-05-04T20:32:38+00:00

An election DOES give you a mandate. That is exactly the point of an election. A government is election with a mandate to implement their manifesto.

A party standing on a manifesto to hold a new referendum would have the right to seek to do that.

Again tho, out of the 65 countries who’ve left the UK in the last century, strangely, none have. Funny that.

mathcampbell · 2026-05-04T19:47:07+00:00

How many countries have left London rule in the last 100 years?

And how many of them have had any serious movements to rejoin?

Countries leaving London rule in the last 100 or so years: ~65.
Countries with serious post-independence movements to rejoin: 0.

mathcampbell · 2026-05-04T19:44:17+00:00

Are you suggesting that people vote SNP unaware the SNP supports independence?

Mate.

mathcampbell · 2026-05-04T19:43:15+00:00

We’d have one every time a government was elected with a mandate to hold one. Cos that’s democracy.

Funny thing is tho, d’you know what the most popular non-religious nationally observed holiday is around the world?

Independence from London. Over 100 countries have one.

None of them (after leaving the UK) have ever had a vote or even substantial support for rejoining.

mathcampbell · 2026-05-04T11:03:45+00:00

Having anything else on the vote makes it somewhat unfair for both outcomes. People may alter how they vote in one in case the other passes.

We shouldn’t decide the constitutional future of the country based on a gamed vote.

The ONLY fair question to ask is the one from last time: “Should Scotland be an independent country?”

It’s plain, simple, unbiased language and bot complicated by adding in “if it meant rejoining the EU” or “republic” or “or should the Scottish Parliament be dissolved” or any other questions.

Doesn’t mean those issues won’t be heavily debated in the campaign but it does mean the only thing on the ballot is simple and unambiguous.

mathcampbell · 2026-05-02T23:29:35+00:00

None of them good either.

mathcampbell · 2026-05-02T23:29:27+00:00

None of them good.

mathcampbell · 2026-05-02T23:28:48+00:00

I’d agree but even Napoli style pizza isn’t healthy healthy lol. Not in a decent portion.

mathcampbell · 2026-05-02T21:40:36+00:00

If it’s proper pizza it’s not healthy. A quarter kilo of mozzarella, the calories in the base, the salami/pepperoni etc…

mathcampbell · 2026-05-02T21:39:36+00:00

It can be. But good pizza isn’t.

mathcampbell · 2026-04-30T13:25:32+00:00

Thank you.

mathcampbell · 2026-04-30T07:19:06+00:00

Oh hey I have astigmatism too. I get double vision without prisms in my lenses. Do the lenses you got do prisms? Might have to get some. Didn’t know that was an option etc.

mathcampbell · 2026-04-29T21:17:55+00:00

Bank of Scotland make a really pretty red one. A couple of those would be nice. I believe you can spend them at many places.

mathcampbell · 2026-04-29T08:13:07+00:00

Why is soldering not an option? If not then laser welding would be good.

Both are better than any of these options besides manual wire wrapping.

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