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Did it? I put my postcode in and got nothing. It took browsing the map to discover it had no results for Scotland at all.

9rx 9mo ago
Yes. Being on the other side of the world, I've only ever heard of efforts to save English pubs. Thus, without more details, one knows that is what is being referred to. Perhaps Scotland has the same kind of movement happening at the local level, but something on a global website implies global context.
- thebruce87m 9mo ago
  The website is for England and Wales.
  - 9rx 9mo ago
    Wales comes along with England due to how their legal framework is setup. It is a good technical point you raise, but for all intents and purposes within the context they are the same place.
    - jhbadger 9mo ago
      And yet it is the one part of the UK that actually has a language that is spoken by a non-trivial percentage of the population (unlike NI or Scotland where a tiny percentage can speak their Celtic tongue)
      - 9rx 9mo ago
        > And yet it is the one part of the UK that actually has a language that is spoken by a non-trivial percentage of the population 98% of the UK population can speak English, so I'm not sure where you got that idea. Clearly every part (maybe some small, uncelebrated village breaks the rule) of the UK has a language spoken by virtually the entire population of that region. > (unlike NI or Scotland where a tiny percentage can speak their Celtic tongue) If you are struggling to say that England is the only country in the UK that sees most of its population still speak the language of its ancestral roots, then I suppose that's true, but when English is the most commonly used natural language across the entire world I'm not sure that is much of a feat. What does any of this have to do with the discussion at hand?
        OJFord 9mo ago
        Are you joking? They meant Wales, 27.7% of the population of Wales speak Welsh (and yes most of them English too).
        9rx 9mo ago
        Wales/Welsh doesn’t jive under the conditions set. Perhaps you missed "non-trivial percentage"? Outer Hebrides is a part of the UK where ~50% of its residents speak Scottish, never mind England and its English dominance, so clearly ~30% is still considered within trivial range. Otherwise "the one part" doesn't work; seeing many parts of the UK fit the bill.
- lazyasciiart 9mo ago
  Being on the other side of the world, I had never heard of efforts to save English pubs, so that doesn’t sound like a global context at all.
  - 9rx 9mo ago
    Maybe not so much active efforts to save them, but the mass lamentation around the collapse of the industry that has been going on for several decades. What efforts there are to save them is merely an extension of that. Much the same thing has happened here too (the local watering holes struggling and failing, that is), but that isn't even considered newsworthy at the local level, let alone a message that has spread far and wide. English pubs, for whatever reason, are the only ones that have consistently caught grander attention. But there will always be someone living under a rock, as they say.

9rx 9mo ago

Yes. Being on the other side of the world, I've only ever heard of efforts to save English pubs. Thus, without more details, one knows that is what is being referred to. Perhaps Scotland has the same kind of movement happening at the local level, but something on a global website implies global context.

thebruce87m 9mo ago
The website is for England and Wales.
- 9rx 9mo ago
  Wales comes along with England due to how their legal framework is setup. It is a good technical point you raise, but for all intents and purposes within the context they are the same place.
  - jhbadger 9mo ago
    And yet it is the one part of the UK that actually has a language that is spoken by a non-trivial percentage of the population (unlike NI or Scotland where a tiny percentage can speak their Celtic tongue)
    - 9rx 9mo ago
      > And yet it is the one part of the UK that actually has a language that is spoken by a non-trivial percentage of the population 98% of the UK population can speak English, so I'm not sure where you got that idea. Clearly every part (maybe some small, uncelebrated village breaks the rule) of the UK has a language spoken by virtually the entire population of that region. > (unlike NI or Scotland where a tiny percentage can speak their Celtic tongue) If you are struggling to say that England is the only country in the UK that sees most of its population still speak the language of its ancestral roots, then I suppose that's true, but when English is the most commonly used natural language across the entire world I'm not sure that is much of a feat. What does any of this have to do with the discussion at hand?
      - OJFord 9mo ago
        Are you joking? They meant Wales, 27.7% of the population of Wales speak Welsh (and yes most of them English too).
        9rx 9mo ago
        Wales/Welsh doesn’t jive under the conditions set. Perhaps you missed "non-trivial percentage"? Outer Hebrides is a part of the UK where ~50% of its residents speak Scottish, never mind England and its English dominance, so clearly ~30% is still considered within trivial range. Otherwise "the one part" doesn't work; seeing many parts of the UK fit the bill.
lazyasciiart 9mo ago
Being on the other side of the world, I had never heard of efforts to save English pubs, so that doesn’t sound like a global context at all.
- 9rx 9mo ago
  Maybe not so much active efforts to save them, but the mass lamentation around the collapse of the industry that has been going on for several decades. What efforts there are to save them is merely an extension of that. Much the same thing has happened here too (the local watering holes struggling and failing, that is), but that isn't even considered newsworthy at the local level, let alone a message that has spread far and wide. English pubs, for whatever reason, are the only ones that have consistently caught grander attention. But there will always be someone living under a rock, as they say.