The nicest thing someone's ever done for meIn amongst all the tales of bitterness and poo, we occasionally get fluffy stories that bring a small tear to our internet-jaded eyes.
In celebration of this, what is the nicest thing someone's done for you? Whether you thoroughly deserved it or it came out of the blue, tell us of heartwarming, selfless acts by others.
Failing that, what nice things have you done for other people, whether they liked it or not?
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chthonic, Thu 2 Oct 2008, 16:14)
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Yeah, thats most certainly true.There are an infinitely higher number of homeless addicts in Glasgow than in Edinburgh (or maybe the ones in the capital are jus not as visible, who knows).
Yet, anytime someone in Glasgow mentions Edinburgh, there's a drug joke shortly afterwards.
(, Fri 3 Oct 2008, 17:50, 1 reply)
I thinka lot of it comes to down how they cities are built. Edinburgh moved it's slums outwards and built nice town houses in it's New Town as well as keeping the Old Town pretty exclusive (although it's full of students now). I mean if you hop on a bus and go down Leith or Gorgie way there's plenty of trouble down there but not a lot of folk notice it.
Glasgow built on top of it's slums so you walk 5-10 minutes in an direction and you're in a pretty crappy area.
Although funnily enough I was in Edinburgh over the weekend and there was loads of homeless folk, addicts or not I don't know, up and down Princes and George Street so they're certainly visible.
And about the whole Edinburgh drug thing...I doubt Trainspotting, or indeed any Irvine Welsh novels, helped...
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