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  • Some highlights from the Knowhere Guide to Aberdeen - written by those who live there


    The Best Things
    • What best things? The constant battle of wits between the cool resident seagulls and not so cool Aiberdonians. The great transport links - A90, train station, bus station, airport - all great ways to get the hell out of !!!!! City.
    • twitch the !!!!!!
    • Everyone and everything in Aberdeen is half-assed, so there is no pressure to
    • The 1.99 breakfast at Lloyds bar
    • Getting out of the miserable !!!!ing place.
    • we have a fairly decent skate scene here
    • the blue lamp.
    • the people...i know there are alot of idiots who love nothing more than to fight at the weekend or the many junkies who pollute our city but the good still by far outweighs the bad! i love to go on holiday but i always love to come back, so the weather is dull, who cares i love to feel the wind at the beach 100x more than the dull rain of glasgow!! we need more aberdonians to be proud of the city, it's beautiful, and those who mock the granite city and the oil workers...shame on you this is what makes aberdeen the city it is!
    • The fighting on the street on a saturday, The nice looking bouncer on blu bar door, aberdeen is still small enough that everyone knows one another.
    • Memories of 20 years ago when Aberdeen was far better than it is now.
    • Best thing about Aberdeen is the friendly people. Unfortunately we get too many migrating !!!!!!!!s who think Aberdonians are morons when in fact it is they who are ignorant, anti-social lower middle-class prats!
    • The red P-Reg Corsa with the white phantom alloys and combat 1 bodykit use2 be owned by towler now owned by sum small dude !!!! hot car he has modified it alittle still, but the white wheels are a trademark best car down the boule by far.
    • great if you love winds that cuts right through you and bring aberdeens already low temperatures to well below zero with wind chill.
    • the graveyard at st nicolas used to rock the shiznit for lying on the grass smoking reefers in the sun.. now your pretty likely to get bumped there.
    • The Beach parties. First thing in the morning watching two lesbians throwing each other on top of cars knockin lumps out of each other at the city bar.
    • the amount of flesh exposed at the weekends, regardless of the weather
    • THE BOYRACERS DOWN THE BOULEVARD! ABERDEEN IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST CITIES IN ABERDEEN TO HAVE A PHENOMENAL AMOUNT OF MODIFIED CARS. SOME ARE WORKS OF ART SUCH AS THE SILVER HONDA CIVIC TYPE R WITHT HE TINTED WINDOWS AND CHROME ALLOYS, THE XRV VAN WITH THE CHROME ALLOYS. COME DOWN ON A SUNDAY EVENING AND ADMIRE ALL THE HARDWORK THAT GOES INTO MODIFYING OUR CARS
    • Health Promotions in Union street. Complete waste of time! !!!!!!s the lot of them! Except that blond in the red dress, a right looker if you ask me. Expect she understands complementary therapies and does not give a sh..t about the health Boa..d's opinion.
    • Got to be the BOy Racers- its like a scene from the Fast and Furious at our Beach Front defiently THE CITY FOR EXCELLENT MODEFIED CARS!!!! THE SILVER PUG 206 WITH FULL NEW KIT ON IT IS EXCELLENT AND THE 2 HONDA CIVICS FULLY KITTED OUT ARE HOT TOO!!!! THE XRV VAN IS THE BEST THO
    • Getting away from here!!
    • Defiently the Beach Boulevard and all the cruisers in their cars!!!
    • IRN-BRU AND GREESY CHIPS
    • Anyone who ventures out of Aberdeen long enough to not be an arrogant materialistic rude obnoxious !!!!!
    • Join the right golf club and meet the so-called "Human Resource Managers". Before the Oil they could not even obtain a job as a simple milkman or a fork lift driver. These people will find you a job no matter who or what you want to be. It helps to have a good golfing handicap but you can always lie about this, just as most CVs in Aberdeen are complete lies.
    • It's only two & a half hours drive from civilisation.
    • The beach and the Cruisers. The HOT XRV van with Chrome Alloys is a must !!!! hot. The Black Toyota Celica, with Tv - (which u can hear b4 u see it, is tastefully done up).In a really nice way. Watch out for the B reg Mini thats yellow (absulute !!!!!). THe corsa Sea/aqua green colour with mille miglia spiders on it is really nice - and also tastefully done up, along with the white corsa with the bodykit.
    • XRV VAN WITH SMOKED OUT WINDOWS - MAKES ME WEEK AT KNEES EVERYTIME I C IT! BEACH CRUISERS THAT CHARGE U A TENNER FLAT FARE AND TAKE U HOME ONCE UV HAILED HTEM DOWN ON UNION STREET AFTER A DRUNKEN NIGHT OUT! - I SALUTE YOU!
    • THE BEACH AND THE CRUISERS!!!!!!!! THE TIDY XRV WHITE VAN THAT GOES UP ADN DOWN THE BEACH WITH CHROME ALLOYS
    • Its good for !!!!!s.
    • Getting drunk and walking home.
    • Those rather friendly women that lurk down at the harbour.
    • After living in Aberdeen, everywhere else in the word seems a !!!!ing brilliant place to live!!
    • The BEST thing about Aberdeen is the bloody airport to take you the hell out of this dreary, uptight city full of some of the dumpiest women and pretentious nose pickin'men on the planet.
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Whats Aberdeen actually like?

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    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”

    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • ruggedtoast
    ruggedtoast Posts: 9,819 Forumite
    edited 8 October 2010 at 3:56PM
    You got those from a website called

    www.europeancitiesmarketing.com

    Which is a website designed to showcase cities for tourism.

    I demand a response to my links. The reality of google streetview does not lie.

    Edit. Oh no, you just google searched them...
  • nearlynew
    nearlynew Posts: 3,800 Forumite
    Aberdeen town centre is essentially a red light district.


    In fact, Mctittish lives next door to a brothel.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7734480.stm
    "The problem with quotes on the internet is that you never know whether they are genuine or not" -
    Albert Einstein
  • Horizon81
    Horizon81 Posts: 1,594 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Looks beautiful. So beautiful I wish all the inhabitants would stay there and never leave.
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic

    Whats Aberdeen like?

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    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”

    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • nearlynew wrote: »

    In fact, Mctittish lives next door to a brothel.

    How do you know? Is that the one you use ;)
  • nearlynew
    nearlynew Posts: 3,800 Forumite
    I take it those pictures represent the best of Aberdeen?


    If so, I don't know what you're bragging about.
    "The problem with quotes on the internet is that you never know whether they are genuine or not" -
    Albert Einstein
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