Le Stu

What's wrong with having a good moan?? I love a good moan. Have you seen the fucking weather??? It's horrid. There, that felt good! Aberdonians love a good moan and it's a good place to live if yer a whinging pomme!

It's the original Canadian (hence, HILARIOUS) version of Ed Vs Spencer. Download it.

To open the discussion, I feel the one where they compete to see who can keep a dead octopus on their head for the longest is the most classic, followed up by the one where they compete to see who can stay tied to a goat for the longest.

Stoner heaven:up:

Does anyone have something good to say about Aberdeen?

it's good fer a natter!

i think the main problem with the majority of people on here who are complaining is that they have had such an easy life that they have to find things to moan about so they piss and moan about this city, i know the type i used to live with two of them. Try living in some third world country and then we will see how bad you think aberdeen is.

RIGHT.

I lived in Oakland, California for nine months. I checked the 2008 homocide map the other day and two guys were shot dead right outside my former house so far this year. There will be about another 148 of them this year. Just average! But I'm so terrified of being bottled to death by some ned. NOOOOOEZ!!11

Third world america. The ethiopian food there is amazing, though!

if you aks me, you gone done brung it.

HYPHY!!!!!!

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Nuclear Fusion is the way forward...

Hope we can bridge the energy gap until then:

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the worst thing about aberdeen is the aberdonians themselves. No amount of nice restaurants, art centers, shift in the quality of the nightlife etc is going to change the fact that aberdonians are largely ignorant racist smallminded uneducated materialistic shallow barely human scumbags, most of whom have practicaly given up language and reverted to communicating with each other through animalistic grunts and violence, and none of whom can actually think for themselves to any extent that might differentiate them from any of the other mindless plebs that live here. The funny thing is a lot of these worthless homunculi actually believe they are middle class, because they live in a semi detached house and drive a modestly expensive car.

I'm moving away in the near future, and it will be the best thing I've ever done.

You may be right about aberdonians but remember that they aren't breeding and in fact are working on advanced ways of prematurely ending their lives. I can't remember a time when aberdeen had more implants and sooner or later they'll have a better idea than opening a hairdressers on King St! There's more diversity in the population here now than I ever recall.

Don't still be saying yer moving in five years, though, or you'll look like a bit of a cunt!

why's it ironic? surely it's the whole point of the nationalists existence.

It hardly aids their seperatist agenda to get a good deal for Scotland within the union, or so says conventional wisdom, anyway. I wish i hadn't mentioned that 'i' word either now. *le sigh*

I definitely agree with the oil fund idea and it seems ironic to me that it's the nationalists pushing for it. It's disgusting that an oil rich region of the UK has some of the worst poverty in western europe.

I won't mention the 'I' word.

And yes, they should be slashing tax and duty on fuel. There should be a formula to deal with inflation in oil prices to periodically adjust this. While it might be a bonus in some ways to have a massive tax windfall to cover deficits, it's not a lot of use if the economy subsequently tanks and public sector spending rises as a result.

The sushi man, Aberdeen Market

Earl of Sandwich, the Green

The Globe Inn, north silver street - great food great music

Fusion, north silver street - currently filling the late-night-coffee void that was left when Beans closed down.

Rock Salt and Snails, St. Swithin Street. My all-time fave place to have lunch and chill. It also has some 'funcy' stuff that you can't get elsewhere.

The Hub, university of Aberdeen. Fresh pizza and fajitas, food is nice and pretty cheap. Nice little coffee place downstairs, and the whole place is open to the public.

See, these are exactly the sort of eateries and venues I don't know about!

I dig Saigon. I'm not sure how great it is, on the scale of vietnamese restaurants, but my work had a very tasty 'tapas' style meal there and we got pretty wankered on Tiger beer.

Depeche Mode - People Are People

(bonus point??)

Extermineiren! Extermineiren!

That was a really cheeky one. I must say, I can't complain about the Daleks at all. Especially Dalek Caan's nutty Dalek act and the bit where Davros went nuts and turned into Dr Evil. Ace!

Forte Agent was my fave, back in the day.

Horribly bandwith sucking way to download media, though.

I think Aberdeen has plenty of nice things if you know where to look.

That's the problem. Finding them. Everyone is retarded without the internets these days and Aberdeen isn't exactly that 'wired' although this board is very useful for snouting around for info.

Like, how many people know there's a rad hole-in-the-wall sushi place in the market now?

No, that's "toonser Doric".

As apposed to "mealer Doric?"

Can't understand a fucking word of either, and i grew up in Turra! Ebonics of scotland, etc.

The female singer of that band was on my college course.

That's rad. Was her name Gillian Tennant? I have their rekked somewhere. Saw them live at The Bishops in Elgin back in the day, but their dancer overheated and they were forced to flee (assholes wrenched the taps shut and turned the heating up, a common ploy to sell water and beer in those days)

Think he's talking more about Russell T Davis.

You're right, that was just me not reading correctly.

Still, I think this last episode was more of an excercise in onanism than gay homosexuality.

I quite obviously said that other Scottish cities are prone to inverse snobbery, not Doric.

Of course, I don't care to stop people speaking with their natural accents (even though I happen to find the local Aberdeen Doric inflection hideous), but rather I would prefer not to be looked at funny for pronouncing a word correctly.

I have difficulties with complex apostrophication (if that is a word (and I prefer nested parentheses)) but I was just being a dick, anyways! What sort of accent do you have? I can't tell exactly why Aberdonians are snobbing me. Your skills must be better honed.

if you're literate, speak clear english, and don't like football, you're fucked.

Alcohol is working on the first two, but I could never manage football. I'm just too fuckign middleclass. Fuck them, any way. Aberdonians are mostly a pain and most of my friends tend to be implants, and that's always been the case, though not neccesarily from too far afield.

Quality ending!

Not so keen on the big welsh poof continaully influencing his girthy storylines to be fair, he has issues!

Are you talking about Torchwood Jack? Because, if there was someone actually welsh being gay in there, it was eclipsed by the massively homosexual scots-american guy. Who can't be killed.o_O

I find it to be a safe city for the most part and I heartily enjoy not getting chibbed on Friday nights, but I hate the inverse snobbery of Aberdeen folk, for whom it is a crime to articulate your conversation in any manner other than broad, ugly doric, although a lot of Scottish cities are prone to that.

I somehow doubt that any city other than Aberdeen has a large percentage of doric speakers. But I get your point, and being a pretty anglicised Scot, I dislike that myself. Fuckin' accent snobs... I try to be AS LOUD AND AMERICAN AS I CAN POSSIBLY MANAGE FROM FIVE YEARS OVER THERE i find it succesfully fucks them off

Aberdeen is good at what it does, just like any other town/city. I think it depends what you want. Years ago when my band were young and menkle, we used to go down to London to play heaps of gigs for a few weeks at a time. It was always a total blast and coming back to Aberdeen was sooo depressing. Compared to the energy and sheer non-stop lunacy of London it felt like a tiny backward village. Then we all went and did our own thing, and our bass player moved down there and is still there. But now he can't wait to get out and come home. And I think we all kinda feel the same now, we just can't be arsed with London, (or Glasgow or wherever). Neither London nor Aberdeen has changed, but we have.

There's really no excuse for complaining about living in a place you hate - life's too short. There's pretty much always something you can do about it.

Too true. It's great living in a big, cosmopolitan, vibrant city for a time, but I found that it got on my nerves after a while and I developed an ernest desire for everyone to just get the fuck out of my face. People (mostly) leave you the hell alone in Aberdeen and I very much appreciate it. Plus, it's not so pasty faced as I recall. I think I can survive here for a time. But when I get on my tirades, I should be off again!

Aberdeen has potential. It just seems as if Aberdeen can't be arsed and will probably just stay in with a spliff and some xbox

Acen - Trip 2 the Moon is one of my all time favourite tunes, I loved all that mad breakbeat techno back then. I was quite into the scottish scene aswell due to reading a lot of M8 magazine, infact I found an M8 cover tape from 1994 recently when clearing out an attic with stuff like Q-Tex, QFX, Praga Khan & Jade 4 U etc on it. Forth FM used to do a really good weekly techno show playing all that stuff which I used to tape.

Was that Tom Wilson's show, perchance? I used to have a couple of tapes with his show on. I think that was his name, anyway.

how about Moby - Go, or UHF.

Acen - Trip 2 The Moon

Quadrophonia (check the Tech Itch drum and bass tribute: Quad!)

New Atlantic - Eye Know/Yes To Satan

Isotonic - Different Strokes

Urban Shakedown (Aphrodite!) - Some Justice

Family Foundation - Xpress Yourself

Blame - Music Takes You

Then Scottish scene stuff like Bass-X and Qtex and... other dance acts invented by Scott Brown.