I remember going into a (Welsh) pub with a Scots friend. There was some muzak at which he winced. I said, jokingly," Of course in Scotland you think music in pubs too frivolous and interferes with serious drinking."
"Aye," he replied, "In some of them you get glared at if you TALK".

...and we're still friends 35 years on (where did the time go...?)

RtS