The Worst Things in Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh*

The entirely missable and worth mentioning because of it

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The Worst Things

• Chav's Shouting in Speed-Pyke
• As the saying goes "Edinburgh - nice city, shame about the people". A more insular, snobbish and delusional town with ideas above its station would be hard to find. Most of the natives seem to be bitter and twisted about Glasgow and feel the need to slag it off constantly (you don't get the same nastiness in Glasgow towards Edinburgh....maybe because the people in Scotland's largest city are much nicer and not up themselves as Edinburgers seem to be). Nice place to visit is Edinburgh, but living there feels like you're trapped at the small end of a funnel. A very self-loving place, not everyone's cup of tea (unless Tunbridge Wells and Cheltenham turn you on). Avoid, or visit if you must but be glad when you can get the hell out and into the real world. Brigadoon meets McDisney, that's Edinbore.
• The weather.
• the Mcdonalds on st Anderws Square. it took me 15 mins to get a plain bacon roll the othe day and its has far to many schemies going about
• The Scottish Parliament Building and criminalisation of smokers.
• The weather and the cost of living in the Capital :' (
• The fat slags in Edinburgh are the ugliest dirtiest really unclean.

• Any art galleries usualy full of old farts. But if fat old faggots is your style! Be brave!
• The huge amount of high earning people who live in Edinburgh - they have made working class people feel segregated
• the massive increase (or was there always so many) of Schemies out and about, a real eye/ear sore and very obnoxious and rude! Some of the shops on princess street eg. macdonalds, scotland shops, disney store. Number of cars, prices of houses.
• Freewheelin Cycles, 91 Slateford Road , Edinburgh . YOU WILL BE RIPPED OFF BIG TIME BY THE STAFF WHO ARE INTO TAKING YOUR MONEY AND SELLING DEFECTIVE BIKES AND ACCESSORIES
• The amount of ugly people walking about south bridge area. I lived in edinburgh for 2 months and have never seen so many walking dead freaks in all my life. AND THE BUS DRIVERS ARE A PACK OF IGNORANT GITS! ANY WONDER THEY GET BEATEN UP ALL THE TIME-THEY BLOODY DESERVE IT!!!!!!!!!!
• Nowhere else in Scotland will you find a higher percentage of freaks to the square mile. I love to sit on a bench on Princes Street and play 'spot the inbred'. It fair passes an afternoon. Do all Edinbuggers get dressed wi the lights oot, wearing shades in the mornin'?
• Worst thing is the people who live there. They've had a sense of humour transplant. Oh yes...and the people who work there. If you can't afford to work and live in this shithole of a place find another job and don't commute from Fife because we don't want you here you fuckin' pricks!

• Road systems designed by people who are severely retarded
• Not the best clubs or shopping. Glasgow is better but ugly.
• Long, dark winters. People jumping on you on princess street trying to convert you to some religion / donate money for some charity / sell you something. Dirty streets (all other cities have invented bins for household rubbish - why does edinburgh still have people chuck their bin bags on the streets???)
• The worst thing about Edinburgh is the one o`clock gun. If they got a bigger gun they might be able to hit Glasgow from up there.
• how glasgow people think they are so much more creative and cooler than us. posh cunts who dont like skaters
• Lots of stuck up people who drive huge cars but have no brain.
• Fat arsed yanks turning up every August for the festival and taking up all the pavement space. Burberry cap wearing neds.
• I think the neds have had a bad press in this website. Theyre not all bad! So what if the majority of what they own is Burberry, and fake at that.
• neds guns violence
• Home Counties Ya's who think that Edinburgh should be sooo grateful to them coz without English money, Edinburgh would die - NOT!!! Edinburgh was always a successful city, and a few poor little rich kids living off daddy's trust fund are hardly single-handedly supporting the city's economy. Edinburgh used to be a proper laugh, but there's too many pretentious w4nkers living there now, with their p00fy wine bars and who think that a couple of shandies, and some civilised conversation was "an absolutely wiiild night out daaarling". Notice that they never venture into the locals pubs, coz they know they'd get a proper kicking.
• everythings crap and expensive and the locals are arrogant and hate you. if you want to see a decent castle go to Stirling.
• The fact that you can't go shopping on Princes Street without having to listen to bloody bagpipes!!
• neds.they attack you.raving schemies trying to be hard.on the bus people saying stuff like "pure shmental goffick"
• Those bloody nuisances you get who go around pestering you wish clipboards when you're trying tob get from one end of Princes St to the other, and the Hare Krishna peopl who prowl around street corners going 'Couranga' or some shit. If ONE MORE of those fuckers come near me they're going to get lamped! I don't object to people's religion, but I do object to religion being rammed down my neck!
• Dario's Takeaway on the Lothian Road - £5 for a distinctly average burger and some potato sections marinated in oil and slightly warmed. Can't even remotely be described as chips. bloody hell.....
• Fucking schemie, working class scum clogging up the corridors. Racist Scots hating English people yet perfectly happy to live off the endless amount of English cash that runs the fucking city.
• how come the art college in edinburgh only has one video machine, while glasgow has about 6?...i was very disappointed.
• the cold
• These two guys who walk around in suits, approaching people to ask them to come to some Bible classes, or some special meetings their church will be having....
• Hiberian FC.
• Townies whining about the festival. Why not piss off to Aberdeen for three weeks and let us use your houses?
• rain. portobello high school.
• American genealogists. Oxfam collectors. American genealogists. Yah students. American genealogists. Pan-pipe players. American genealogists. Teviot comittee members. American genealogists. THE FESTIVAL!!!! THE NEW YEAR PARTY!!!!! American genealogists.
• Leaving after the weekend to go to Aberdeen...
• Hogmanay. I won tickets for the street party to bring in 2000, and was left feeling extremely sorry that I went. They played us no good music at the west end, just a crap video of those fat old blokes the Bay City Rollers - over and over again. There was hardly anything to do whatsoever, except for the semi-okay fireworks display. Even George Street was dull. Hope they sort it out.
• cliques. ponces. summer jobs at EH1. the bizarre incestuous Pie In The Sky family. morning-fucking-side and all it's skate-wank inhabitants. the staff of Cult clothing - if you're so cool why don't you fuck off to London? getting chatted up by 35 year old solicitors when you're 15 and in the pub. spoilt little rich kids. english students and their shite house parties. those twats in velvet jester hats. the drugs.
• The weather
• Traffic
• The Tourists and the arty-farty-theatre-twats who come and clutter up the pubs and cafes and rent all the cheap flats and bore the arse off everyone spouting crap about how great kilts and Haggis are.
• The Festival: Everything about it. The people, the tourists, the pubs. Yes, clubs open later, but you've got to share them with a hundred drunken jugglers and actors. Some good comedians, though, but not enough to justify ruining the good people of Edinburgh's summer.
• All the buses always seem to come late or not enough.
• It's full of failed thespians/yuppies who can't afford to live in London any more
• The club scene seems to be very stale these days, only held up by Pure, Camel Beats and Tribal Funktion. Unfortunately Glasgow seems to be much better (particularly for Techno)
• The weather (apart from the summer of 95 :)
• The pubs on the Grassmarket (or is that Meatmarket?)
• All the bloody tourists during the Festival (apart from the nice-looking ones of the opposite sex ;) )
• People who support the Glasgow teams.
• Queing up to get in all the pubs when it's raining!! Lack of nice and cheap student housing!!!
• Jugglers. Peruvian pan-pipes. People who hang on every word written by Irvine Welsh.
• The millions of tourists and the too many entertainers during the Festival period/
• Influx of English students. The Festival and Fringe Festival - for foreigners, by foreigners, go away and leave us alone.
• The price of Taxis - amongst the most expensive in the UK
• Tourists

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