Edinburgh?

Absolutely love Edinburgh.

Awesome city, but they also have the best damn fish suppers in the world. You don't get salt and vinegar, you get "Salt n Sauce there pal/hen?" depending on gender.

Chippy sauce is unbefuckinglievable. It's brown sauce watered down slightly and then mixed with vinegar. It tastes outrageous.

Great for chips, fish, shepherd's pie, bangers n mash. Hell, I love it on pancakes, I love it on Pizza, I like to put a little bit in my hair when I've had a rough week; what do you think holds it up, slick?

TL;DR Edinburgh - come for the beauty, stay for the chippy sauce.
 


Kiopa_Matt said:
BTW... what is it with you Brits, and not traveling? I'm honestly curious, as never did figure it out.

I lived up in Darlington for a year, close to Teeside. You'd constantly meet 20-somethings that haven't even been to Yarm, and it's like 10km away.

I don't know, it was just weird coming from Canada I guess. For us, a quick 4 hour jaunt down the highway to go camping for a weekend is completely normal, whereas over there it's not so much.
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Probably not the best person to ask as I'm an Eastern European student here finishing up an university degree then moving back to my home country :)

But I noticed that too, young Brits don't really travel, no idea why is it so.
 
7Radu said:
But I noticed that too, young Brits don't really travel, no idea why is it so.
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Most counties in eastern europe are shitty, have barely functional infrastructure, and look weak compared to the west in every way except for tax reasons, women and cheaper overall. That's why people travel more often, to temporarily rid themselves of everyday depression. Maybe, even if brits don't travel often it's not because they don't have the means for it but rather they got it good. The UK has bright people all over the place, beautiful parks/scenery, lots of things to do, same reason most americans never get a passport.
 
bodiddley said:
For fuck's sake why are there no fucking trees in scotland?
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Lies.
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bodiddley said:
For fuck's sake why are there no fucking trees in scotland?
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Because the English cut them all down. They decided to make it the playground of the rich and cut down every tree and killed every wild animal. This made for perfectly safe land or the English rich to play in, farm, and hunt game they brought with them. The country was basically terraformed into what it is today. Scotland used to be 90% forest but it was all cut down to make ships, homes, and the rest was cleared away so animals and Scotts couldn't hide in it.

The only trees you see there now have been recently planted or are commercial trees.

Btw, Mattseh have you been to a restaurant called Outsider in downtown? When I was in Edinburgh I ate lunch there everyday. They have a daily lunch special thats £7, the food is 5 star quality.
 
BeerNuts said:
Because the English cut them all down. They decided to make it the playground of the rich and cut down every tree and killed every wild animal. This made for perfectly safe land or the English rich to play in, farm, and hunt game they brought with them. The country was basically terraformed into what it is today. Scotland used to be 90% forest but it was all cut down to make ships, homes, and the rest was cleared away so animals and Scotts couldn't hide in it.

The only trees you see there now have been recently planted or are commercial trees.

Btw, Mattseh have you been to a restaurant called Outsider in downtown? When I was in Edinburgh I ate lunch there everyday. They have a daily lunch special thats £7, the food is 5 star quality.
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You're talking a whole load of shite. At no point in time was Scotland a country covered with significant amounts of forest.

By the time the English were getting pumped by Romans, most of what forest there was had been transformed into bogs through farming and a wetter climate.

tl;dr: I'll beat you, boy, name a time and place.
 
kumansk said:
Most counties in eastern europe are shitty, have barely functional infrastructure, and look weak compared to the west in every way except for tax reasons, women and cheaper overall. That's why people travel more often, to temporarily rid themselves of everyday depression. Maybe, even if brits don't travel often it's not because they don't have the means for it but rather they got it good. The UK has bright people all over the place, beautiful parks/scenery, lots of things to do, same reason most americans never get a passport.
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LOL if only the UK's living standards reflected how highly their citizens thought of themselves.

List of countries by Human Development Index - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The UK hasn't been in the top 20 for quality of life in quite some time. Slovenia has already surpassed it and the Czech Republic is only one spot behind. I supposed some back patting is in order though. The UK did manage to beat Greece...
 
Krnuernberger said:
LOL if only the UK's living standards reflected how highly their citizens thought of themselves.

List of countries by Human Development Index - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The UK hasn't been in the top 20 for quality of life in quite some time. Slovenia has already surpassed it and the Czech Republic is only one spot behind. I supposed some back patting is in order though. The UK did manage to beat Greece...
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I don't tend to let charts dictate my life choices, and the case with hdi is that there's always going to be exceptional people and losers no matter what the environment. Just this year I've been to all those countries you mention and their biggest cities (prague, brno, athens, ljubljana) and I'd still pick london as a place to live over any of them.
 
Scococo said:
You're talking a whole load of shite. At no point in time was Scotland a country covered with significant amounts of forest.

By the time the English were getting pumped by Romans, most of what forest there was had been transformed into bogs through farming and a wetter climate.

tl;dr: I'll beat you, boy, name a time and place.
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Its sounded good though right? Yes it was not the English that solely fucked everything up the Romans, and Scots themselves also decided to chop down tons of it too.

But I will still say that Scotland had significant forests there. It was the Caledonian Forest and here is its Wikipedia. It was logged in Roman reports that when they first got to Scotland it was full of trees. The wikipedia page even says "Today less than 1% of the original native pinewood forest survives, in isolated remnants." So Scotland is missing 99% of the forest that it once had.

Another link: http://www.treesforlife.org.uk/forest/humanimpacts/deforestation.html
 
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