Comments on: On Edinburgh

By: kenzdawg

kenzdawg — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 05:24:00 +0000

Yes, Edinburgh must be inhabited by English people since everyone knows real Scots can only be thuggish drunks and hooligans.

By: Pearsall

Pearsall — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 21:01:00 +0000

Of course, the illusion that you are not in Scotland vanishes the moment you get on a Niddrie-bound bus.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 12:20:00 +0000

Anyway, wasn't Trainspotting based in Edinburgh?

Yes, and very obviously so, though for some reason many people seem to think it's set in Glasgow. Which is a terrible slur on the people of Glasgow, but there you go.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 10:18:00 +0000

Well, that’s simply class trumping nationality…

By: Chris Bertram

Chris Bertram — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:59:00 +0000

Well I was going on look and feel ...

Anyway, wasn't Trainspotting based in Edinburgh? Begbie strikes me as a somewhat un-English character.

By: john b

john b — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:39:00 +0000

JonnyB – the weird thing is that most of the people flyering on the Royal Mile aren’t actually English, they’re posh Edinburghers. There isn’t any appreciable difference between the two accents (see also Blair, T.).

Chris Bertram – as Jim, chris and Andrew all hint at, Cardiff and Dublin generally contain people who are recognisably Welsh or Irish rather than English…

By: JonnyB

JonnyB — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 07:25:00 +0000

It's always struck me as very English. I used to go up there every August. Full of English people handing you flyers on the Royal Mile and putting on amateur dramatics in church halls. In fact I don't think any Scots live there at all.

Incidentally, I guess that was you quoted in the newspaper today. I was very disappointed that you didn't call anybody a cunt.

By: Andrew Bartlett

Andrew Bartlett — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 05:51:00 +0000

"Dublin is a bit more plausible because the destinations on the buses are actually in Foreign."

Hey, araf there boy. All signs down here in Caerdydd are in Foreign too.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 05:23:00 +0000

D2: consider yourself pinted at some future date.

Larry: you're damn right. Little London in Leeds is placed strategically between the spiffy city centre and Chapeltown in order to remind the people of Chapeltown that life could be worse.

By: Jim Bliss

Jim Bliss — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 18:51:00 +0000

The post-boxes are green in Dublin. Never fails to remind me where I am.

That, and the fact that most people have a Dublin accent.