Drove the A71 (Edinburgh-Kilmarnock) yesterday

[tarapoa]

Needed to go to Inverkeithing on my way to the game from Aberdeenshire yesterday, so as a consequence to get to Rugby Park, drove this road for the first time in my life.

What an interesting experience of central belt schemieness this was.

I already knew from bitter experience that Livingston was a depressing hole, but all the other places were almost unknown to me - West Calder, Newmains, Bonkle (!), Overtown, Stonehouse, Darvel, Galston...has anything of note happened in any of these places?

Dodgy looking kebab shops, boarded up premises and dilapidated council-style housing seemed to dominate...I never realised so much of the third world still existed within Scotland.

I'd heard of Strathaven though and it didn't seem that bad - but almost ended up in Larkhall, which I've heard is a disturbing experience for anyone.

Are these the kind of towns that breed all these sellik and Sevco muppets?

[ClaudeBalls]

West Calder is a fine wee toon. More than enough boozers for its size. It has a pretty evenly balanced mixture of fitba' fans. :)

If you sheep-shaggers knew anything about the Scottish shale industry, then you would know how important West Calder and West Lothian in general was during the 19th and 20th centuries. My maternal ancestors worked in it. - view external link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Calder)

[gersforme]

what an ignorant basturd of a post from the OP, i'm amazed he was deemed intelligent enough to pass a driving test.

[1995_Oh_My_Sides_]

If it wasn't for oil Aberdeen would be a Paisley with water.

[DannyBhoy]

If it wasn't for oil Aberdeen would be a Paisley with water.

If you've ever been to Torry it makes Paisley look like Beverly Hills.

[Dirty_Dingus_Magee]

If it wasn't for oil Aberdeen would be a Paisley with water.

If you've ever been to Torry it makes Paisley look like Beverly Hills.[/quote]

Torry's a fine area full of salt of the earth types.

Would be middle class if it was situated in Glesga. >:)

[Dirty_Dingus_Magee]

what an ignorant basturd of a post from the OP, i'm amazed he was deemed intelligent enough to pass a driving test.

I've missed this side of you Gers.

It wizna quite right seeing you sook Aiberdeen boaby. >:)

[DannyBhoy]

If it wasn't for oil Aberdeen would be a Paisley with water.

If you've ever been to Torry it makes Paisley look like Beverly Hills.[/quote]

Torry's a fine area full of salt of the earth types.

Would be middle class if it was situated in Glesga. >:)[/quote]

You and I both know that's a lot of shyte, Dingle. For one of the riches cities in Britain to have that amount of poverty and desolation contained within it, is quite frankly, a disgrace. :blue:

[blanche]

If it wasn't for oil Aberdeen would be a Paisley with water.

If it wasn't for Aberdeen the central belt would be like Saudi without the oil - featureless landscapes,indecipherable language and full of intolerant, religious fanatics.

You lot should be much,much more grateful.

[blanche]

Danny,I have to disagree.

Compared to Possil,Ruchazie,Govanhill,Govan,Cranhill etc,Torry is heaven.

And let's not bring North Ayrshire into it.

[DannyBhoy]

If it wasn't for oil Aberdeen would be a Paisley with water.

If it wasn't for Aberdeen the central belt would be like Saudi without the oil - featureless landscapes,indecipherable language and full of intolerant, religious fanatics.

[/quote]

That actually sounds a lot like Partick.

[1995_Oh_My_Sides_]

Danny,I have to disagree.

Compared to Possil,Ruchazie,Govanhill,Govan,Cranhill etc,Torry is heaven.

And let's not bring North Ayrshire into it.

"And let's not bring North Ayrshire into it".


>:)

[Dirty_Dingus_Magee]

If it wasn't for oil Aberdeen would be a Paisley with water.

If you've ever been to Torry it makes Paisley look like Beverly Hills.[/quote]

Torry's a fine area full of salt of the earth types.

Would be middle class if it was situated in Glesga. >:)[/quote]

You and I both know that's a lot of shyte, Dingle. For one of the riches cities in Britain to have that amount of poverty and desolation contained within it, is quite frankly, a disgrace. :blue:[/quote]

You've go to stop diving in Danny. >:)

You are right to an extent. Scotland as a country shouldn't have the amount of poverty that it does, that's why I'm voting Yes.

[gersforme]

Partick is a fine loyalist area, loads of great boozers, fine eateries and local activities, on the opposite scale we have the beacon of republicanism which is royston :O

[DannyBhoy]

Danny,I have to disagree.

Compared to Possil,Ruchazie,Govanhill,Govan,Cranhill etc,Torry is heaven.

And let's not bring North Ayrshire into it.

Possil and Ruchazie have mostly been flattened and rebuilt. Govanhill is full of asylum seekers, and it's been a few years since I was in Govan.

Agreed about Cranhill though, the place is completely bonkers. Probably the only scheme in Glasgow I wouldn't go to.

It's like the Wild West at times.

[gersforme]

Govan is a shytehole, full of sellik fans, a former industrial town ran by bluenoses too, now gone the way of all sellik hovels :blue:

[blanche]

All joking aside,I was gob*****ed when I saw those places first time.

Nobody should have to live like that...well,almost nobody :)

But is it the place that makes the people or the people that make the place?

[DannyBhoy]

All joking aside,I was gob*****ed when I saw those places first time.

Nobody should have to live like that...well,almost nobody :)

But is it the place that makes the people or the people that make the place?

Where in particular?

[gersforme]

I'd rather live in a glesga shytehoose than a soulless aberdeen studio flat far from my ain folk just cos of oil money, what a phucking freezing seagull shoite ridden city

[1995_Oh_My_Sides_]

I'd rather live in a glesga shytehoose than a soulless aberdeen studio flat far from my ain folk just cos of oil money, what a phucking freezing seagull shoite ridden city

10/10

[blanche]

It was 20 years ago so it probably has changed(I hope for the better) - Possil and Ruchazie

[DannyBhoy]

It was 20 years ago so it probably has changed(I hope for the better) - Possil and Ruchazie

They have been completely flattened and rebuilt.

[1995_Oh_My_Sides_]

It was 20 years ago so it probably has changed(I hope for the better) - Possil and Ruchazie

They have been completely flattened and rebuilt.[/quote]

They done that with Feegie Park 25 year ago. It's away as bad as ever again. You can change the hooses, but you can't change the people.

[tarapoa]

West Calder is a fine wee toon. More than enough boozers for its size. It has a pretty evenly balanced mixture of fitba' fans. :)

If you sheep-shaggers knew anything about the Scottish shale industry, then you would know how important West Calder and West Lothian in general was during the 19th and 20th centuries. My maternal ancestors worked in it.


OK ClaudeBalls - thanks for the pointer on West Calder - the place maybe does have some substance, and anywhere on a cold dreich day can look miserable.

However, that same Wiki page also threw up this...


West Calder also has a Masonic Hall which is home to Lodge Thistle number 270 of the Roll of the Grand Lodge of Scotland. The hall is also home to the West Calder chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star.


Clearly there is a whole underworld of tickly handshakes and apron-wearing that I'm still unfamiliar with.

[BertrandRussell]

There are areas in all Scottish towns and cities that resemble third world hovels. Aberdeen has some of the biggest jakeballs in the entire country.

[DannyBhoy]

It was 20 years ago so it probably has changed(I hope for the better) - Possil and Ruchazie

They have been completely flattened and rebuilt.[/quote]

They done that with Feegie Park 25 year ago. It's away as bad as ever again. You can change the hooses, but you can't change the people.[/quote]

I played in Feegie Park at football a right few years ago, in the under 16s Paisley and District Cup. We went 3-0 up in the first 15 mins, and the hatred towards us was unbelievable. Everyone was shyte scared to go and take a corner, it was mental. XD

If we had scored another goal in that atmosphere I'd doubt we would have got out of Paisley alive.

[Mook1]

I played Fitba at the Jack Kane centre in Niddrie once & they checked the pitch for needles first... FFS :D

[blanche]

Absolute crap.

We have some "bad areas",but they never amount to more than 2 or 3 streets,at most.

Even these have been greatly improved by the Eastern Europeans who seem to actually seem to care about their council hoose.

Nothing compared to the other big cities in Scotland.

[Hibees]

Needed to go to Inverkeithing on my way to the game from Aberdeenshire yesterday, so as a consequence to get to Rugby Park, drove this road for the first time in my life.

What an interesting experience of central belt schemieness this was.

I already knew from bitter experience that Livingston was a depressing hole, but all the other places were almost unknown to me - West Calder, Newmains, Bonkle (!), Overtown, Stonehouse, Darvel, Galston...has anything of note happened in any of these places?

Dodgy looking kebab shops, boarded up premises and dilapidated council-style housing seemed to dominate...I never realised so much of the third world still existed within Scotland.

I'd heard of Strathaven though and it didn't seem that bad - but almost ended up in Larkhall, which I've heard is a disturbing experience for anyone.

Are these the kind of towns that breed all these sellik and Sevco muppets?

And you didn't like American Hustle.

[BertrandRussell]

Aberdeen, where the streets are paved with gold.

XD

[revolutionaryred]

Aberdeen, where the streets are paved with gold.

XD

Aye black gold. :star: :star:

Thank f*ck I was born in Aberdeen. B)