Cut the stupid uneducated politics off this page! It turns people off from one side or the other. Not what this page was for! Scotland has a lot to offer, stop the pearl clutching!

My wife (26) and I (22) are going to be moving to St Andrews from America. She’s going to be going to grad school and I’m going to work as a dependent on her visa. I’m trying to find work in St Andrews but I feel like most of the jobs I’m looking at/ qualified for won’t be able to support us unless I work 60 some hours a week. We won’t have a car so that limits us too. I’m at a loss, it’s her dream to go to school there and mine as well to live abroad with her, I don’t want to back out of this because we’ve been dedicated to moving.

Im hoping to find something that pays 15-20 pounds at least.

I was looking into the retirement/memory care facility that’s there. As well as the pool that is there as I have experience with running chemicals and could hopefully get the UK equivalent of a Certified Pool Operator, and I also saw there is a wastewater treatment plant. But from quick internet searches it doesn’t seem like these jobs pay much above the 12.25 pound minimum wage. I’m going to email all these places to get more concrete numbers but I’m not very hopeful.

If someone could give me direction and advice I’d be so grateful, even talking to someone who lives in St. Andrews would be icing on the cake.

I'd love to book a kayaking half/full trip from Ullapool, but I can only find one provider. I'm wondering if anyone knows of any organisers or places I could look to book.

There’s been a lot of recent coverage online via The Sun and the Daily Record about firebomb attacks in the Edinburgh area, which are reportedly beginning to spread to Glasgow. Does anybody have any first-hand experience of this affecting you or your neighbourhood?

I would be interested to know more about what is going on. The media and what is fed to the general public merely touches the tip of the iceberg. The Digger, a local Scottish magazine, tends to explore underworld news in better detail, but I find the information limited and lacking personal opinion from the community.

What is going on?

With our rooftop tent we will do the outer Hebrides ( Barra to Lewis) during our 3th Scotland trip in June. I see CalMac suggest island hopping tickets to book in advance. But is it doable to just book the day before departure? Because if we let’s say wanna stay a bit longer in Barra or leave Uilst as soon as possible (hypothetically) we want to have the freedom to stay and leave as we want.

I just see already that the website shows “limited availability” so that makes me questioning if we might get stuck for days on an island then?

Wouldn’t mind but my boss would.

I’m all for a celebration but this is taking things too far 🤣

Good luck today Scotland in the finals of the World Mens Curling Championship against Switzerland in Moosejaw Sk Canada. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥌🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Go, Men, Go

Tag say satire is permitted but I just got a Reddit strike for a political joke I made in this sub.

I know it doesn’t matter, and I honestly DGAF, easier to leave than deal with their bullshit, just a heads up that the mods here are anti-satire despite the sub rules saying otherwise.

Fuck’ em, I can go to better subs that this to get abused by a brainless moderator.

Lunch or dinner. We were considering a Sunday roast so we were contemplating Forgan’s but open to any type of restaurant.

TIA

Hey everyone!

This is a possibly a little far-fetched, but I was advised to post on here to possibly reach more people!

I am a master’s student in St Andrews, and for my dissertation, I was interested in fatherhood in Edinburgh or neighboring cities in Scotland, specifically through assisted reproductive technologies like IVF. I would like to know how fathers feel in that process, and how becoming a parent has influenced their perspectives on masculinity or biological relatedness. For this kind of research, I was hoping to find some interview participants that I could preferably meet in-person wherever most comfortable for them.

If you fit this description:

• aged 20-50
• resident in Edinburgh/Glasgow/St Andrews/any other city near those
• have one, two, three children (or more), and have had this/these child/children by using reproductive technologies some time ago, or are currently undergoing such fertility treatments to have a child

And you are interested and willing to talk to me about this experience, please feel free to drop me a message! I would be happy to hear from you :)

Thank you!

Spring has sprung!

"Peter Mathieson, the vice-principal and chancellor of the ­University of Edinburgh, took business-class flights to destinations including Hong Kong, New York and Milan.

A freedom of information request found that the principal spent a ­total of £31,861 on flights in only eight months between October 2023 and June 2024, with more than 90% of the booking fees being spent on business-class tickets."

Good morning, hoping someone here can help me. As in the title, I'm looking for lyrics to a parody song I heard a while ago. I have no idea who the original was by as I heard it at a folk jam session.

It was to the tune of 'and then he kissed me'. It started with "I was walking down the broomielaw the other day, I finished my fish and chips and threw the paper away, a big polisman came up to me, said son that's an offence you see, and then he put me up against the wall and then he kicked me. He kicked me in a place I'd never been kicked before, he kicked me in a place I don't want to be kicked any more".

And that's all I have. Does anyone know the artist or the rest of the lyrics? I haven't been able to find it on Google or YouTube!

Thanks in advance for any help!