Hi all, as a prospective LLM student in Britain (2005/2006) I would really like to know if rumors are true, that pubs are now open after 11 p.m. Someone here from the UK who can confirm this?

I read something about that as well, do not think it actually happened.... Nice pic though...

No British residents in this message board at all?

Right, this vital issue needs to be resolved ;-)

Maybe the British will even start to drive on the right (right) side of the road some day....

Pubs and bars across England and Wales can begin applying today for licences to open for up to 24 hours a day -- sweeping away a fixed 11 p.m. closing time observed by most pubs since World War One.

http://reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=667661
Mon Feb 7, 2005 07:30 AM GMT

An important note on this important issue from a Scot! English and Welsh licensing laws are subject to a seperate legal system from those here in Scotland. Scotland has enjoyed late night openings (as late as 3am) for many years. Generally a sore point with our neighbours south of the border, until very recently!

So it seems that the Scots are ahead of the Englishmen in some regards. So far, I only knew that the Scots invented golf, curling and malt whisky...

haha. Was looking through old posts and found this one.. Thought it worth reviving so here's a list of other famous things invented (or founded) by Scots:

adhesive postage stamps | anaesthetics | antisepsis | artificial diamonds | reaping machine | Bank of England | latent heat | Brownian movement | Buicks | chemical bonds | penicillin | the decimal point | documentary films |

Encyclopedia Britannica | engineering sciences | fax machines | first cloned mammal | flailing machines | geosciences | golf | historical novels | hypodermic syringes | Kelvin scale | percussion powder | logarithms | Maxwell's equations | marmalade | mackintosh raincoats |

macadamized roads | microwave ovens | colloid chemistry | breech-loading rifle | tubular steel | quinine | Sociology | pneumatic tyres | pink bathtubs | hollow pipe drainage | Peter Pan | radar | paleobiology | polarization | cure for scurvy | King Arthur | Halloween | refrigerators | Neptune | bakelite | iron bridges | solitons | the steam engine |

telephones | thermos flasks/dewars | the telegraph | television | the stereotype | sulphuric acid | the steam-hammer | cure for insomnia | paraffin |
Sherlock Holmes | Toad of Toad Hall | Long John Silver | Jekyll and Hyde | Auld Lang Syne | US Navy | Chilean Navy | Economics | Cloud Chamber |

AND Whisky

Wow, even the US Navy! I did not know about that...

The US Navy! Ask an American about John Paul Jones and see if they can tell you a story about that particular scotsman!

i thot th Indians n Arabs wer using decimal point long before scots wer evn born!!

I thought the difference was a numeric system based on twelve or something versus one based on ten???

re Scottish inventions check out the book:

How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It.