Scottish Water

[Debroos]

Motorhomers are hated enough in Scotland already so filling a watering can from these will just give them more amunition.

Are they hated in Scotland?

 

[caledonia]

New to me this morning, they have 130 water dispensers around Scotland, we found and used one today, you need a watering can to use it best.

https://www.scottishwater.co.uk/your-home/campaigns/top-up-tap-map

They are for people filling water bottles and the like while walking/ cycling and motorhomers with watering cans making multiple trips might give Karen an excuse.
Lots of Karens in Scotland they move here from Englandshire

 

[Wooie1958]

Are they hated in Scotland?

Brother-in-law has just done a few weeks doing the NC500 and some of the reactions / comments he got were not very pleasant.

It's only a 5.00m Campervan that is fully self-contained but it's obvious what it is and a couple of times when he got back to it after one of his long walks there was a note under his windscreen wiper telling him to go away ( or words to that effect ).

This was tucked in the corner of some very remote car parks so not in anyones face or anything like that, this was his first time up there and he's now said he won't bother going back.

That means the barstwerads have won.

 

[trevskoda]

Never mind that, all shops clossed and road blockades everywhere tonight at 7pm.
This is in responce to a illegal gouging at the the eyes, cutting the throat and stabing a 15 year old in town.
Any of you lot over here please stay put and put the head down as this may get out of control.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

That's what happens when you go to a foreign country and you don't speak the lingo

I'll have you know I'm effluent in Welsh.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

They are for people filling water bottles and the like while walking/ cycling and motorhomers with watering cans making multiple trips might give Karen an excuse.
Lots of Karens in Scotland they move here from Englandshire

People are extrapolating a lot from one post, one trip to the tap =10 litres.

The water is there to be used no signs about who or how, whereas everywhere else unless paying for it is theft in effect as you do not have permission and someone else is paying for it.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

Brother-in-law has just done a few weeks doing the NC500 and some of the reactions / comments he got were not very pleasant.

It's only a 5.00m Campervan that is fully self-contained but it's obvious what it is and a couple of times when he got back to it after one of his long walks there was a note under his windscreen wiper telling him to go away ( or words to that effect ).

This was tucked in the corner of some very remote car parks so not in anyones face or anything like that, this was his first time up there and he's now said he won't bother going back.

That means the barstwerads have won.

We won't be going up there, did it a few times in the noughties, it was bleak back then, now it seems the locals have set up to cater for all these offcomeduns they profess to hate, too much BS surrounding visiting motorhomes, how many if these are actually native Scots? And we don't slag them off when visiting the rest of the UK do we.

 

[mariesnowgoose]

As Cal has already hinted at, plain old-fashioned nimbyism.

The one and only nasty encounter we had on our very limited trips to Scotland recently (Orkney and back) was with an unbelievably entitled, snotty-nosed ENGLISH "Karen" by the side of Loch Ness. Unfortunately there are a few of them around. They existed long before social meedja coined the phrase.

They operate in other areas of life too... sad individuals who are more to be pitied than anything else

 

[barryd]

As Cal has already hinted at, plain old-fashioned nimbyism.

The one and only nasty encounter we had on our very limited trips to Scotland recently (Orkney and back) was with an unbelievably entitled, snotty-nosed ENGLISH "Karen" by the side of Loch Ness. Unfortunately there are a few of them around. They existed long before social meedja coined the phrase.

They operate in other areas of life too... sad individuals who are more to be pitied than anything else

The English abroad (And that kind of includes Scotland) can be even bigger NIMBYs than they are here in England. When we went on a flying visit to Mull years ago in the car we basically did hotel hopping and two hotels we stayed on on Mull were run by English people. I was told 65% were English there. They were horrible. One bloke gave Basil Fawlty a run for his money but not in a funny way and in another I asked for some drinks when we came back from the Indian around 10:30pm and you would think I had asked her to cook us a three course dinner or something. Never been back.

In nearly two decades of touring Europe twice I have been told off for parking the scooter somewhere it shouldn't have been. Both in France and they were English!

 

[edina]

A friend runs 2 gites in a converted barn in France with shared (huge) rear garden. He won’t rent to 2 English tenants because they always fall out and cause trouble.

 

[alcam]

The English abroad (And that kind of includes Scotland) can be even bigger NIMBYs than they are here in England. When we went on a flying visit to Mull years ago in the car we basically did hotel hopping and two hotels we stayed on on Mull were run by English people. I was told 65% were English there. They were horrible. One bloke gave Basil Fawlty a run for his money but not in a funny way and in another I asked for some drinks when we came back from the Indian around 10:30pm and you would think I had asked her to cook us a three course dinner or something. Never been back.

In nearly two decades of touring Europe twice I have been told off for parking the scooter somewhere it shouldn't have been. Both in France and they were English!

Think quite a high percentage of local residents and hoteliers in the north of Scotland are English .
So good chance of crossing someone up there who happens to be English.
We do have some nippy jock residents too !

 

[caledonia]

People are extrapolating a lot from one post, one trip to the tap =10 litres.

The water is there to be used no signs about who or how, whereas everywhere else unless paying for it is theft in effect as you do not have permission and someone else is paying for it.

Go for it fill your boots. Im happy they’re there for everyone to use. Its Karen with the notes under the wipers that will take umbrage

 

[Tonybvi]

If you watch any news report where they interview “locals” in Scotland I reckon 90% of the locals have English accents, and it seems the more remote the place the more English there are. Not a criticism, just a comment as I am English and have lived in Scotland since 1972 (apart from a fair few years abroad)!!!

 

[Debroos]

Never mind that, all shops clossed and road blockades everywhere tonight at 7pm.
This is in responce to a illegal gouging at the the eyes, cutting the throat and stabing a 15 year old in town.
Any of you lot over here please stay put and put the head down as this may get out of control.

Sky news says he's in his 40's

 

[caledonia]

Sky news says he's in his 40's

Why let the truth get in the way of a good story

 

[jann]

We've been going to Scotland in a motorhome for 43 years, never felt unwelcome.

 

[TeamRienza]

Often in Ireland you encounter people who appear to be English, but frequently although born and raised in England, they have Irish parent(s) and have decided to relocate to Ireland. Particularly on the back of the Celtic tiger boom.
I wonder if some of the Scottish blowi-ins are similar. You only have to look at the number of members on here who declare Irish heritage, useful for the passport to see how it can happen. Not so obvious in Scotland as they don't have an EU passport.
Of course it could simply be the case that said English have had enough of an increasingly crowded and changing homeland and moved to a perceived better quality of life.

Davy

 

[Tim120]

As Cal has already hinted at, plain old-fashioned nimbyism.

The one and only nasty encounter we had on our very limited trips to Scotland recently (Orkney and back) was with an unbelievably entitled, snotty-nosed ENGLISH "Karen" by the side of Loch Ness. Unfortunately there are a few of them around. They existed long before social meedja coined the phrase.

They operate in other areas of life too... sad individuals who are more to be pitied than anything else

Been fortunate enough to have travelled extensively in Scotland with Meg (Biggarmac) and always made to feel welcome, might have something to do with Meg's accent, but I genuinely don't think so. Always found the true locals to be very welcoming and friendly.
It's the white settlers that are the problem, and Meg soon put them in their place, excellent to witness, buy somewhere in a place that's really nice then try to change it to what they think it should be like to suit them.
I won't draw comparisons of the many bowing to the wishes of the few... Oops... too late.

Second homes are ruining places, oh, this is a nice place, it has a pub, a butcher, a bakery, a thriving community. Let's buy a place and visit a couple of times a year. Then wonder why it's not what they thought it would be when those places close due to lack of custom.

That's better. Rant over.

 

[Wooie1958]

It's over 25 years now we've been going up Scotland and it was great, the locals couldn't have been more friendly and you could almost park anywhere you wanted without any bother and as soon as they saw the " Lancashire Born & Bred " sticker they wanted to know where in Lancashire ?

The majority of them knew Preston and quizzed us about what is what like down there now as it was many many years since they'd been down that way.

Sadly Covid and the dreaded " Staycationers " changed everything, we went back up there when restrictions relaxed and you'd have thought it was a different country to what we was used to.

 

[edina]

Lots of reasons, but I still think a lot of it is down to the way you treat and interact with other people. You can see it on here with people giving ‘advice’ like ‘you want to go in and tell them blah blah blah’; I think, well how would I react if someone said that to me