Scottish Money

PostScottish Money by **mrspax** » Mon Mar 23, 2015 7:51 pm

Fatal Exception wrote:£8 from an airport in London? Did you live in Hounslow?

London CITY

I lived on the Isle of Dogs.

Hounslow? I do love London, but I'm not an idiot. Horrid part of the world. Regardless of the flight path!!!

That said, probably more than 8 quid from Heathrow to Hounslow!!!

PostRe: Scottish Money by **No:1 Final Fantasy Fan** » Mon Mar 23, 2015 9:52 pm

LOL yeah bring back as much Scottish notes as you can. Its fun watching the reactions you get from cashiers. Tbh the Clydesdale bank ones etc are really unfamiliar to me.
But even an RBS note left me stood waiting for a supervisor at Waitrose. I wanted to ask her if she had ever heard of RBS?

PostRe: Scottish Money by **LewisD** » Mon Mar 23, 2015 9:57 pm

Scottish notes are far better looking.

PostRe: Scottish Money by **Cheeky Devlin** » Mon Mar 23, 2015 10:03 pm

LewisD wrote:Scottish notes are far better looking.

This.
Our money looks awesome.

Strangely enough I'm just back from a Stag weekend in England and I was dreading the inevitable "I can't accept that" arguments. Luckily there were only two occasions that a supervisor got brought over and both times it was a simple "Yes you can take that note" so no real problems. Though the Australian girl in Walkabout in Derby looked utterly baffled when I handed her a crisp £20 scottish note. :lol:

PostRe: Scottish Money by **E-Man** » Mon Mar 23, 2015 10:10 pm

If you ever have difficulty getting rid of notes in England you can just shove them in the self service machines at supermarkets.

One of my mates handed over a tenner to some barman in Cambridge and he went to get his supervisor. "How much is this worth?" he asked, to which the supervisor replied "...ten." The giant £10 written on it obviously wasn't clear enough.

RBS notes > Bank of Scotland notes > Clydesdale Bank notes

PostRe: Scottish Money by **Victor Mildew** » Mon Mar 23, 2015 10:11 pm

LewisD wrote:Scottish notes are far better looking.

Even their bank notes are drunk, dem built in beer goggles.

PostRe: Scottish Money by **CuriousOyster** » Mon Mar 23, 2015 10:24 pm

This really baffles me. Foreign women in a shop in a random shopping centre in London said something to me in another language, ran away with my £20 note to another side of the centre and returned 5 minutes later. Though I was being had, fo sho.

Corazon de Leon · PostRe: Scottish Money by **Corazon de Leon** » Mon Mar 23, 2015 10:30 pm

I'm in London for two weeks in April. I reckon I'll take down £200 in Scottish tenners, and spend my time messing with shop workers.

I'm an awful person. 8-)

PostRe: Scottish Money by **bear** » Mon Mar 23, 2015 10:35 pm

KKLEIN wrote:Michael McIntyre did a joke .

That's a lie.

PostScottish Money by **mrspax** » Mon Mar 23, 2015 10:42 pm

Corazon de Leon wrote:I'm in London for two weeks in April. I reckon I'll take down £200 in Scottish tenners, and spend my time messing with shop workers.

I'm an awful person.

Until they refuse to let you pay for goods with your toy money.

Won't be so 8-)

then will ya!

Corazon de Leon · PostRe: Scottish Money by **Corazon de Leon** » Mon Mar 23, 2015 10:53 pm

mrspax wrote:
Corazon de Leon wrote:I'm in London for two weeks in April. I reckon I'll take down £200 in Scottish tenners, and spend my time messing with shop workers.

I'm an awful person.

Until they refuse to let you pay for goods with your toy money.

Won't be so then will ya!

Then I play the race card and make them feel bad about it. IZ IT CUZ I IZ SCOTTISH?

I feel superior when using British notes with our Queen on in Scotland lol dunno why I know its silly
Scottish notes are awesome

PostRe: Scottish Money by **Pacman** » Tue Mar 24, 2015 1:48 am

I worked in a bar and the first time I saw a Scottish note I had to ask my supervisor :lol:

Was looking forward to the day when it would happen again and I'd get to show off how worldly I was by already knowing about them and not needing to ask anyone... but that day never came

IIRC businesses aren't obligated to take them but we did.

YouTube · PostRe: Scottish Money by **Stugene** » Tue Mar 24, 2015 2:07 am

I just accept the note. It's not my money if its fake :slol:

PostRe: Scottish Money by **Jay Adama** » Tue Mar 24, 2015 12:29 pm

I was coming back from Tokyo one time and obviously I had bought a fuckload of stuff so my suitcase was heavier than my allowance. At the time it was:

Up to 23kg - no fee
23kg-32kg - £50 flat fee (in local currency)
32kg and over - too heavy for the plane.

They weighed my then-girlfriend's case and it was 17kg which we were pretty pleased with. Then they weighed mine and it was 36 odd :oops:

Cue us opening our cases in the middle of Narita airport while I shovelled what I hoped to be around 5kg of Sega Saturn games into my girlfriend's case. We managed to get the weights right so she was still under 23kg and mine was under 32kg so only £50 to pay.

I didn't have enough Yen left but had some sterling on me so went to get it changed into Yen to make up the difference. There were 2 places, I went to the one with the shorter cue and handed over £35 - one English fiver, and a Scottish tenner and 20. The woman at the counter told me she couldn't accept the Scottish notes. I protested but she was having none of it, she was being kind of shitty about it too which was the first time I had experienced that in Japan, normally they bend over backwards to help you or, in the event that they can't, are ridiculously apologetic.

So I went to the other kiosk, bricking it at the thought of having to leave a bunch of stuff behind if I couldn't pay the fee. They guy looked at my notes and, after some consideration, asked me to wait a minute. He then returned with this giant strawberry floating tome of a binder which he then opened up and it had pictures of every banknote in the world (I presume, anyway). He flipped to the Scotland page and they had pictures of every single RBS, BoS and Clydesdale note in circulation. He checked my notes and handed over my Yen with a smile. My faith in Japanese customer service, and their incredible practical nature and attention to detail, was restored :wub:

So I don't feel bad about handing over Scottish notes in England, if they accept them in Japan they can strawberry floating well accept them in England.

PostRe: Scottish Money by **Fatal Exception** » Tue Mar 24, 2015 1:17 pm

Imagine still using cash in 2015.

PostRe: Scottish Money by **bigcheez2k3** » Tue Mar 24, 2015 1:21 pm

You're on of 'those' people :dread:

PostRe: Scottish Money by **TheTurnipKing** » Tue Mar 24, 2015 1:26 pm

Lotus wrote:To be fair you never see Scottish/NI notes in England, so it's not exactly shocking when people don't recognise them or question their validity.

It's what you might call a chicken and egg situation. No-one uses them because they're such a ballache to deal with.

PostScottish Money by **mrspax** » Tue Mar 24, 2015 1:37 pm

I am not sure thats really true. I suspect when the cash gets banked, the monopoly money gets sent back where it belongs

Corazon de Leon · PostRe: Scottish Money by **Corazon de Leon** » Tue Mar 24, 2015 1:38 pm

mrspax wrote:I am not sure thats really true. I suspect when the cash gets banked, the monopoly money gets sent back where it belongs

The Bank of England?

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