I come from Edinburgh
'nuff said.

Haha, but seriously folks, Edinburgh's lovely and I feel lucky to say I'm a native - even more so after this QOTW. Glasgow's where I'm studying now and it gets a bad rep. Stay out of certain areas and it's pretty much as lively and charming as cities get. I've literally never been mugged, beaten up, or even badly threatened (touch wood, ooh-er madam).

Kirriemuir on the other hand...I've never been inside it for long (it did look atrocious though; like it was aspiring to be Dundee), but I worked with some of the inhabitants once. It was a fun day. One of them claimed the truck we were in "smells like ma fanny". They smoked foul rollies - CONSTANTLY - that honestly smelled like they'd been recycled, or at least marinated in farts and tar for an hour. This in a confined space.
Their breakfast consisted of four cans of Tennant's Special (the less classy cousin of Tennant's), and their lunch consisted of as much of the provided beer as they could physically fit on their persons.
They were apparently the best of the bunch, because everyone else in Kirriemuir is a smackhead, as was the aforementioned woman, who moaned all day that she needed her methadone. A reliable source told me that the junkies there would go to the doctor for methadone, where he would supervise their intake of it (they'd sell it otherwise). They'd then go outside, throw up their latest meal, and sell THAT.

The worst part of that is imagining the sort of person who bought it.

I do feel I've led an exceptionally sheltered life now...
(StapMyVitals wouldn't mind a bit of that, Mon 2 Nov 2009, 22:40, 3 replies)

edinburgh
is bloody grand. And that is all.
(jennymnemonic, Mon 2 Nov 2009, 23:11, closed)

you know somewhere is bad
when it aspires to be Dundee.
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Tue 3 Nov 2009, 0:12, closed)

I agree
"aspiring to be Dundee" may be the funniest thing I've ever read.
(snopesthetruth, Tue 3 Nov 2009, 11:15, closed)