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CriedWhenBrucieLeft said:
Did you know I was in the RAF, @JudasMyGuide?
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And dating either Ingeborg Barz or Brigitte Mohnhaupt, I presume. :D
 
School holidays aren't national holidays, Wiz...

But, yeh, Scotland gets a ninth national holiday on 2nd January. England only really gets eight recognised national holidays.
 
I've finally got my Open University textbooks and have been giving them a good look today. Very interesting and insightful stuff with regards to the introduction of social sciences, though I have an excerpt, and following that, a question for you:

"Another difference is that social scientists use concepts. Concepts are words that are in regular use, but not everybody uses a concept in the same way. Using concepts is also part of doing everyday social science - it is impossible for anybody to think or to speak without using concepts. The difference is that social scientists try to think about the concepts they use and reflect on them. Social scientists also contest the meanings of concepts, so reflecting on how concepts are used is important."

"Concepts put to one side complicated or less relevant details to leave a term that acts as a kind of shorthand - a simplification of what is a far more complex idea. Concepts make a difference to social science inquiry. They affect how social scientists describe the social world and the questions they ask."

My question for you guys is this: Do you think the usage of concepts can be avoided or minimised to an extent? Our society and indeed, our very lives are incredibly intricate and complex, and to give them such simplification is not doing them enough justice. Doing so could also lessen the impacts of strife and ignorance due to the large degree of variance from person to person.

And no, I'm not trying to cheat, this isn't a interpretative question set by the Open University, this is established facts that is a requirement for revision that I'm challenging.
 
So I was walking home tonight, and some stranger - about my age - starts raving incoherently at me. The hell does he want, I wonder. Borrow a lighter? Buy drugs? Talk politics?

Turns out he was worried about me stealing his Pokemon.
 
Albie said:
doesn't Scotland have regional holidays as well?
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We take holidays at different times, yes; but unless your employer is really generous, you're basically on nine a year. In my short employment life (~20 years) I've watched holiday entitlements gradually get eroded away in my line of work. I'm sure it's the same for others...

Most people, even those who have their bank holiday entitlement added to there employment holiday entitlement (which I sort-of do), still usually get the big four festive date-determined holidays on the actual day e.g. Christmas Day (25th), Boxing Day (26th), New Years Day (1st), and January 2nd. Like you, I'm sure, you can pretty much refuse to work these. Most people would probably get Easter on the actual day too. The remaining four are between Easter & October & are usually associated with the old fair weekends; these vary from region-to-region. Depending on what you do for a living, the actual dates of these might be ignored & you might just get four days some other time of you, or your employers, choosing. I personally don't get the regional ones sometimes; and to avoid paying me time-and-half or something, they simply dump me in another area to work & claim it's not a holiday (as it isn't) & therefore pay is standard. Which sucks. With the big four, I usually get "asked" and pay is double-time. I don't work them.

In Glasgow most people get NY [1], 2nd January [2], Easter [3], Spring Bank Holiday Monday [4] (the first Monday in May), May Day [5] (last Monday in May), a Monday at the start of July (I think) at some point [6] (the start of the old Glasgow fair fortnight, when factories used to all close at the same time in olden days), the October school break [7], Christmas [8], and Boxing Day [9].
 
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