Dundee is Delightful.
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danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
And marmalade.
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
They should combine all those in the next edition of GTA. Plus the red squirrels.
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
Nice waterfrontRed squirrels aye, have you seen one?
I'm not really up there often enough so not for years. My mum saw one the other day, she was telling me.
She's also seen a grey one recently.
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
I'm not really up there often enough so not for years. My mum saw one the other day, she was telling me.
She's also seen a grey one recently.
Ach, the grey ones are no better than tree rats
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
Yes & their publishers are grade-A cunts.
Balls - Aberdeen & I'm pretty certain Inverness, both have resident populations. Although Aberdeen's is a fairly recent recolonisation (last decade or so). It was one of my former students who first observed & then went-on to study them for a couple of years. When he finished, he had identified well over 250 individuals.
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
Which is why I added so I'm told. As I was typing it I thought, ''What about Inverness? It's a city now.''
Never gave a thought to Aberdeen though.
Yeah but London zoo has Giraffes.
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
dundee has a zoo. Giraffes are dull unless you're staying at a tree top lodge on safari.
catinthehat
Failed VK = Replicant
Dundee has giraffes, they just dont put themselves about as much as them Londoney ones. Scots modesty.
editor
hiraethified
I liked Dundee, and the Beat Generator is a splendid venue.
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Dundee photos: Desperate Dan, street scenes, architecture, Tunnock’s and salt shaker seediness -
Last weekend, I headed up north to Dundee, a Scottish east coast trading port once known as the city of "jute, jam and journalism" and - of course - the home of The Beano and Dandy comics. I know this won't be of interest to many readers, but I was delighted to find an old
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Your first picture there, editor, (the Caird Hall?) suddenly reminded me of a time I had gone over to Dundee and was vaguely wandering along, thinking about 18th birthday present for my younger brother, when I glanced toward that whatever-its-name concert hall building and was struck by the fact that it was festooned with a whole load of hammer and sickle banners and couple of very big pictures of Lenin.
"Oh", I thought, "has the revolution happened and news has not reached me?"
Glanced around at others passers-by but all seemed just to be walking along about their business and finding nothing unusual about this at all. I remained at bit flummoxed, so my bemused internal dialogue sort of continued:
"Well, it's at least theoretically possible, I suppose, given that St. Andrews is not really in the red-hot vanguard of anything, and nobody* has a telly. And there's radio for news, but realistically have radio news on while also doing the lazy-person mad dash to-and-fro about washdresscoffee, then mainly get the news by reading newspapers much later in the day."
"That's very dimwitted and stupid of me. Oh well. Probably I should hail a random person or two in the street and ask them. It's the normal thing to do, after all. But it's not quite the same as asking in an unfamiliar town 'excuse me, sorry to bother you, but could you possibly tell me how to get to Bloggs Street, please?'
"What to do?" Or, I suppose "what is to be done?"
Oh, the temporary confusements!
It was all just stuff put there for making a film.
"Oh", I thought, "has the revolution happened and news has not reached me?"
Glanced around at others passers-by but all seemed just to be walking along about their business and finding nothing unusual about this at all. I remained at bit flummoxed, so my bemused internal dialogue sort of continued:
"Well, it's at least theoretically possible, I suppose, given that St. Andrews is not really in the red-hot vanguard of anything, and nobody* has a telly. And there's radio for news, but realistically have radio news on while also doing the lazy-person mad dash to-and-fro about washdresscoffee, then mainly get the news by reading newspapers much later in the day."
"That's very dimwitted and stupid of me. Oh well.
Probably I should hail a random person or two in the street and ask them. It's the normal thing to do, after all. But it's not quite the same as asking in an unfamiliar town 'excuse me, sorry to bother you, but could you possibly tell me how to get to Bloggs Street, please?' "What to do?" Or, I suppose "what is to be done?"
Oh, the temporary confusements!
It was all just stuff put there for making a film.
The Tunnock's Caramel Wafers and Tunnock's Teacakes and T's Snowballs etc have really nothing to do with Dundee. The company is based in Uddingston in Lanarkshire, which doesn't have quite the same world-class grand glamour as Dundee.
And Boyd Tunnock is a bit of a Tory. However, to be fair, he hasn't upped-sticks and removed the company and local jobs to any random country where production costs are cheaper and workers' rights non-existent. So there is that.
And Boyd Tunnock is a bit of a Tory. However, to be fair, he hasn't upped-sticks and removed the company and local jobs to any random country where production costs are cheaper and workers' rights non-existent. So there is that.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Though it did, back in the late 1980s, have the first chip shop I was aware of that did a vegetarian lasagna supper. Uddingston will always have a special place in my heart because of that.Uddingston in Lanarkshire, which doesn't have quite the same world-class grand glamour as Dundee.
Ah, that is very charmingly wonderful and touching.
When you are dead and opened, your grieving family shall find Uddingston lying in your heart.Righty-ho then!
Why is it unctuous, though? It is beginning to sound quite interesting.However, on a thread that is for Dundee, yep, I suppose Uddingston and its chip-shop wonders does not belong.
Fair enough.
TheHoodedClaw
acknowledging ur soup leg
My first visit to Dundee was to go and see some movie at a cinema that was showing it in 70mm format. It might have been the 1989 Batman. As it turned out we didn't get to see it, so.
My mate got the car parked and the four of us wandered into the unfamiliar city centre. The next thing there's a guy running towards us. He's carrying a whole load of clothes under each arm and he's being chased by two security guard types. They grab him and really give him a proper kicking. Like, brutal. An older guy intervenes to stop it, and then the police show up.
Once we were done with the polis it was way past the start time of the film, so we headed back to my mates car. Which, of course, refused to start. It wouldn't even start with 3/4 of us pushing the thing down a busy road.
So, we went to a pub, where the driver phoned his dad for help. With a couple of hours to kill, we had some pints and someone got us kicked out of the pub by sticking French Kiss by Lil Louis on the jukebox, errr, about twenty times in a row.
All the other times I've been to Dundee have been a bit more straightforward than this, and consequently more enjoyable.
My mate got the car parked and the four of us wandered into the unfamiliar city centre. The next thing there's a guy running towards us. He's carrying a whole load of clothes under each arm and he's being chased by two security guard types. They grab him and really give him a proper kicking. Like, brutal. An older guy intervenes to stop it, and then the police show up.
Once we were done with the polis it was way past the start time of the film, so we headed back to my mates car. Which, of course, refused to start. It wouldn't even start with 3/4 of us pushing the thing down a busy road.
So, we went to a pub, where the driver phoned his dad for help. With a couple of hours to kill, we had some pints and someone got us kicked out of the pub by sticking French Kiss by Lil Louis on the jukebox, errr, about twenty times in a row.
All the other times I've been to Dundee have been a bit more straightforward than this, and consequently more enjoyable.
geminisnake
a complex mass of conflicting ideas
The Cairdie has been used in a few 'Russian' based films iirc, not that I can name any of them but it has happened a few times
Also when you are walking in that square you are walking over a shitload of rats, but then that could mabe be said of many cities?
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
Is that rats displaced from the redevelopment of the Quaya/Tayside house?
I heard chilling stories of what happened with rats pouring out the drains/pipe ducts etc when they started demolition down there - and most headed to the centre, there was no chance of catching any more than a small percentage..! <BRRRR>
I heard chilling stories of what happened with rats pouring out the drains/pipe ducts etc when they started demolition down there - and most headed to the centre, there was no chance of catching any more than a small percentage..! <BRRRR>
geminisnake
a complex mass of conflicting ideas
Nah, there's been rats under there for years, I know cos Sandy had to go under there when he was at Brown's and they went bust long since. Think he's been at his current place at least 10 yrs
