Chaos in Scotland.

[AtomKraft]

Would be a poor use of good Whisky!
I can think of better things to do with it than burn it.

[TheGreenGoblin]

Would be a poor use of good Whisky!
I can think of better things to do with it than burn it.

So we are ad idem on one point at least!

[Undried Plum]

bibulous Scottish monk,

I like that.

If I get chucked out of this Forum, I shall come back under the nom-de-plume-de-ma-tante-en-le-jardin-de-mon-oncle as Bibulous Scottish Monk.


Regards,

Bibulous Scottish Monk

[TheGreenGoblin]

bibulous Scottish monk,

I like that.

If I get chucked out of this Forum, I shall come back under the nom-de-plume-de-ma-tante-en-le-jardin-de-mon-oncle as Bibulous Scottish Monk.


Regards,

Bibulous Scottish Monk

Nobody leaves here... It is the Hotel California forum...

[OFSO]

If that's so, who is the Beast we stab but can't kill?

[Undried Plum]

We are our own prisoners here, of our own device.

Faack!

[TheGreenGoblin]

For Scotland...

[Undried Plum]

We don't have bayous in Scotland, but that is a terribly Scottish song.

[Undried Plum]

I well remember horsing a certain mare to that song.

[TheGreenGoblin]

To you bastards...

[TheGreenGoblin]

[TheGreenGoblin]

[TheGreenGoblin]

This is for Atom...

[Woody]

Stronger red wines, fortified wines, and high-strength ciders will see a small increase in their rates

Buckfast to be more expensive, that’s not going to be popular in Glasgow

[Undried Plum]

I remember in junior officer training we were taught that the most effective form of dumb insolence is for a subordinate to carry out a stupid order as instructed.

At least one nightclub is playing strictly by the rules which have been written by the Snumpty gumment.

From The Telegraph

Scottish nightclubs sidestep vaccine passport rules by putting furniture on dance floors


Scottish nightclubs are successfully evading the SNP’s vaccine passport rules by putting furniture on their dance floors, leading to claims that the scheme has descended into “a shambolic mess”.

Lulu, a major nightclub in Edinburgh, has begun marketing itself to unvaccinated Scots by advertising the fact that door staff will not be carrying out checks on whether customers have been jabbed.

Nightclubs and other venues, such as stadiums and concert venues hosting major events, have been legally obliged to check customers’ vaccination records in Scotland since last month.

However, despite describing itself as “Edinburgh’s best nightclub” and being open until 3am, Lulu said it technically no longer qualified as a nightclub under Scottish government rules because it had placed seats on its dance floor.

In several social media posts promoting the changes, introduced at the weekend, the venue boasted that “normal service” had resumed and added: “You don’t need [a] vaccine passport to party with us.”

Under the legal definition, only venues with a space “provided for dancing by customers” are classed as a nightclub, meaning those that install seating instead can claim they are outside the scheme’s scope. Hospitality industry representatives said clubs across Scotland were exploiting the loophole so they could ignore vaccine passport rules.

“SNP ministers should be embarrassed that they designed such a mess of a scheme,” Murdo Fraser, the Scottish Conservative spokesman for Covid recovery, said.

“The vaccine passports guidance is so shambolic that places which are clearly not nightclubs are being billed as nightclubs, and places that are clearly nightclubs are managing to use loopholes to claim they’re not.”

Nightclubs said they have seen revenues plummet since the vaccine passport scheme fully came into force on Oct 18. More than one fifth of 18 to 29-year-olds in Scotland – around 180,000 people – have so far refused to be vaccinated.

[Undried Plum]

[PHXPhlyer]

~ 2,500 average for ~5.5M pop. in Scotland.
~3,800 ave. in AZ pop ~7.2M

Slightly higher rate here.
Not good either place.

PP

[Woody]

[FD2]

[TheGreenGoblin]

My experience of Scots generally, and in Africa particularly, has been a very positive one. Historically, also, they have brought an enormous amount to the places where they have laid down roots outside Scotland. People like this Dutch Scottish polymath for example...

Robert Jacob Gordon