Each country has a town or city wehre people are considered to be particularly mean and in Scotland it is Aberdeen. Apparently copper wire was invented by two Aberdonians fighting over a penny.

Yeah but it is really hard to tell a tight-fisted joke about the real penny pinchers... the Welsh

Knew a German in Thailand who actually had a sense of humour. He hailed from Stuttgart and used to tell the story that the rest of Germany thought they were tight arse. He said they sent all their spendthrifts from Stuttgard to Scotland

@273kelvin My abiding memory is of being in a Pub in Argyll and watching an English tourist taking out a little purse and carefully count out several low denomination coins to pay for his half pint of beer.

@Moravian I had a brief romance with an English surveyor who was up working with the team who were building the first Forth Road Bridge in the early 1960s. Our romance came to an end when at the end of a date he asked me if I could let him have enough money to buy The Daily Telegraph the following morning as he was skint after taking me out! It appeared he had our date budgeted and I’d cost him more than he had reckoned! This was in the days before the widespread use of bank cards and he simply ran out of cash…which he also kept in a wee purse like a lassie!

@Marionville Bad enough asking you for money, but for the Telegraph !!

@Moravian I know…but he was a Tory toff from the Home Counties. Another reason our future was doomed from the start!