sparky88 Posted October 2, 2021 Share Posted October 2, 2021 1 hour ago, pozbaird said: Aberdeen though. I’m convinced an Aberdonian could show me around, the way I could show someone around Paisley, but, just turning up as a visitor, what a fcuking miserable looking place it is. Instantly brings your mood down just walking around its centre. Really don't understand why people from the central belt go to Aberdeen, unless for work or football. Takes ages to get there, and it's worse than where you've come from. Like someone from London going out their way to visit Norwich. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bendan Posted October 2, 2021 Share Posted October 2, 2021 10 minutes ago, sparky88 said: Really don't understand why people from the central belt go to Aberdeen, unless for work or football. Takes ages to get there, and it's worse than where you've come from. Like someone from London going out their way to visit Norwich. Most people in London never go out of their way to visit Norwich. Nor do most of them ever visit places like Manchester, Glasgow, Leeds or Newcastle unless they have to. I think that's actually part of the problem we have in the UK. I like going to random places in Scotland just to see if they are actually how I had previously perceived them to be. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnydun Posted October 2, 2021 Share Posted October 2, 2021 1 hour ago, Jimi Shandrix said: It's a nice place really. Except Torry. Square go c**t? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimi Shandrix Posted October 2, 2021 Share Posted October 2, 2021 16 minutes ago, johnnydun said: Square go c**t? Ah, you've been then. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnydun Posted October 2, 2021 Share Posted October 2, 2021 3 minutes ago, Jimi Shandrix said: Ah, you've been then. I'm surprised you dislike Torry, they had a gang in the 80's / 90's with the same name as our favourite stand in football. The Torry Derry. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennie makevin Posted October 2, 2021 Share Posted October 2, 2021 3 hours ago, Thorongil said: Why is it such a tense and unfriendly place? That's Glasgow for you....always been the same. Neds, Bigots & Litter. Which, incidentally, was a proposed but unused title for Hue & Cry's 2nd album. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inanimate Carbon Rod Posted October 2, 2021 Share Posted October 2, 2021 Can we not just agree that both places are shiteholes for very different reasons. But one thing that makes Edinburgh residents absolute wrong yins is the insistence on putting watery brown sauce over perfectly good chips. One good thing that Edinburgh has going for it is The Kitchin which is my favourite restaurant. One thing that makes Glasgow shite is the infestation of sectarianism whereby everyone gets tarred with the same brush, I also hate the fact that everyone assumes everyone from Glasgow is either a rangers or celtic fan, even abroad ‘where are you from?’ ‘glasgow? Are you celtic or Rangers?’ f**k off mate ive got taste. One nice thing about Glasgow is the emerging food scene in and around Finneston and the Southside. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted October 2, 2021 Share Posted October 2, 2021 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scary Bear Posted October 2, 2021 Share Posted October 2, 2021 4 hours ago, the jambo-rocker said: Stop being a coward and tell them you can't skip lunch. Exactly. Fucking pussy. Press the decline meeting button. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbornbairn Posted October 2, 2021 Share Posted October 2, 2021 1 hour ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said: everyone gets tarred with the same brush Two brushes, shurely? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTJohnboy Posted October 2, 2021 Share Posted October 2, 2021 Nothing wrong with Edinburgh. I went up Arthur's Seat once, and he didn't mind at all. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RawB93 Posted October 2, 2021 Share Posted October 2, 2021 2 hours ago, kennie makevin said: That's Glasgow for you....always been the same. Neds, Bigots & Litter. Which, incidentally, was a proposed but unused title for Hue & Cry's 2nd album. Throw in puddles and abandoned furniture and that's pretty much my impression of Glasgow too. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarapoa Posted October 2, 2021 Share Posted October 2, 2021 Really don't understand why people from the central belt go to Aberdeen, unless for work or football. Takes ages to get there, and it's worse than where you've come from. Like someone from London going out their way to visit Norwich.Aberdeen is misunderstood by many, but we are used to that - plus if you include the coastal and inland hinterlands there’s plenty to see and do.When I head the 2.5 hours (ages as you deem it) into the central belt - there are very few parts of it that cry out “I really must spend more time here”.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bendan Posted October 2, 2021 Share Posted October 2, 2021 1 hour ago, ICTJohnboy said: Nothing wrong with Edinburgh. I went up Arthur's Seat once, and he didn't mind at all. There are so many up it these days he barely notices any more. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyle Lanley Posted October 2, 2021 Share Posted October 2, 2021 Glasgow has a better selection of shops than Edinburgh. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
engelbert_humperdink Posted October 2, 2021 Share Posted October 2, 2021 7 minutes ago, Lyle Lanley said: Glasgow has a better selection of shops than Edinburgh. So does Kabul, not saying much that 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bob Mahelp Posted October 2, 2021 Share Posted October 2, 2021 We were in Edinburgh last week for the first time in ages. What a run down, 3rd world shithole of a place Princes Street is. What should be one of Europe's most iconic thoroughfares is filled with empty shops, tartan tat, crap awful 99p chain stores and more buses per square metre than any place else in the world. Don't even get me started on the Royal Mile. There's literally decades of hopeless mismanagement of what is a historically unique city. Awful. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8MileBU Posted October 2, 2021 Share Posted October 2, 2021 Cocaine and cokes-up armed cardboard gangsters are what’s wrong with Edinburgh now. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pozbaird Posted October 2, 2021 Share Posted October 2, 2021 20 minutes ago, 8MileBU said: Cocaine and cokes-up armed cardboard gangsters are what’s wrong with Edinburgh now. On the bright side though, the JK Rowling desk survived the fire. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pozbaird Posted October 2, 2021 Share Posted October 2, 2021 (edited) 7 hours ago, sparky88 said: Really don't understand why people from the central belt go to Aberdeen, unless for work or football. Takes ages to get there, and it's worse than where you've come from. Like someone from London going out their way to visit Norwich. Four of us went to Aberdeen for an overnighter simply because, other than for football, we’d never been. Me, my mate, and our good ladies. Booked a Travelodge in town, and the brief was pretty simple - walk around the town during the day, go for a nice Italian or Chinese, hit a city centre bar, retire to the hotel for a nightcap. Now, to be fair, we did enjoy a ‘studenty’ bar in Aberdeen, can’t remember the name, but it was a bit ‘goth’, was maybe a church back in the day, played good rock music, and felt like we were drinking in the album sleeve of Ozzy Osbourne’s ‘Diary of a Madman’. That was good fun. However, we found the city centre to be a grey depressing place to be. We don’t, for example, find Dundee to be a depressing place. Dundonians will have to remind me, but there’s a restaurant down by the Tay that was an old railway carriage - that was good, and also a good area to stroll around watching the sun set over the ‘silvery Tay’. Just one part of Dundee, but it was pleasant to be there. As is the V&A area and waterfront. I think there’s a good feel to Dundee as a visitor. As I said in an earlier post, an Aberdonian could show me around and it would no doubt be very enlightening, but just as a casual visitor, not my favourite place. No offence intended as I really try to enjoy everywhere I go in my own country. Edit… on the whole though, Scotland is fcuking brilliant. Yes, we have our issues, our faults, but by Christ, look at the size of us and what we have. Utterly amazing country. Edited October 2, 2021 by pozbaird 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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