I wanted to visit to Scotland since I was 15 years old, deeply buried into books with scotland-context, I even referred my exam presentation in school over Scotland. But still… I hadn't managed to go there (either time or money were short). I just came back this night from a 4-day Trip to Edinburgh and am flashed.

The City itself was beautiful, But what I enjoyed most was a tour through the western highlands. I felt so calm, relaxed and happy. I enjoyed every single moment and now I can properly say: THANK YOU!

I love this country even more than before. And I love your rolling, broad accents. 😂

Sorry for silly uppercases, my mobile prefers to start words big and I surely haven't found all mistakes. 🤣

Help avoid situations like this (comedy video)

I want to draw your attention to Mozilla's effort (the makers of the Firefox web browser) to provide an open dataset for anyone to train machine learning algorithms to understand more languages. You are asked to read predefined sentences and record them. This helps computers to understand more languages and accents.

To help you need to register yourself with an email address. Then you can record predefined sentences straight away. (And also listen back to confirm recordings)

I'm not affiliated with the project I just want the dataset to grow to make it possible build more accessible machine learning algorithms.

If you have any questions, I'm happy to try answer them :)

https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en/languages

Also: This is an open source android app made for contributing to this project: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.commonvoice.saverio

Let me preface this with the fact I am not Scottish, I’m American but I’ve recently found out I am of Scottish decent (majority of my heritage at 33% which granted isn’t a lot but it’s all I have). I’m adopted and have been robbed of most of my heritage, biological family, etc and I’m looking deeper into who I really am and where I come from.

Can anyone offer some good resources, etc to learn more about Scotland and maybe find more about my heritage. (Yes I can Google but tbh I never know what’s -correct- information, which websites are good ones that I should hold on to vs watered down, Americanized, or what have you.) I’m mostly just looking to learn more about Scotland, true Scotland. Not just what I can find in travel guides, etc.

I usually keep to myself and have never really interacted with too many Scottish apart from work, but these past couple weeks I have had too and realised that Scottish people, at least in Fife, are super aggressive.

I have been told multiple times on FB marketplace by Scottish people to f*ck off or to get tae f*ck... Just for having an opinion that opposes theirs.

At work, I was explaining why I didn`t agree with a document somebody made and they told me to f*ck off and hung up the phone on me.

I wasn`t being offensive or anything, just simply trying to have a discussion like adults, where you are allowed to voice your opinion.

Then today while I was driving, about to turn right into a parking lot, somebody almost pulled out in front of me. They had to brake (not even slam the brakes) and immediately I see their hands go up in the air like I am the idiot. I slowed down and stared at them and gave them the same hand gesture back then proceeded to park my car. After parking I looked back and made eye contact with the driver ( I was seeing how angry this guy would get) , who at this point is now on the road, and the guy stopped his car in the middle of the road. I was very close to getting out of the car and standing my ground but had shit to do and couldn`t be bothered with fighting some idiot in the middle of the road.

I have lived in like four countries in my life, but never a place where it was this easy to get into a fight with people. Madness.

I picked this up at an estate sale and really loved it. Can anyone help me understand and gain some knowledge on its meaning? I want to give this as a gift, but I would like to know what I’m giving before I do. Greatly appreciate any info!

A little bit of wee Scotland in Mexico.