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(365 on Leap Years!!!)

It's Dundee. To get an authentic feel for what you have missed, get drunk and play Left For Dead 2 for a few hours

Glasgowsfinest: It's Dundee. To get an authentic feel for what you have missed, get drunk and play Left For Dead 2 for a few hours

Having lived in Dundee, I can only surmise this is the most drab, soul-sucking game ever written, with a plot that revolves largely around not stepping in puke or feces on the sidewalk.

Oh well, if they want a proper Hoagmanay (for the non-Scots, that's an ancient word meaning "stay drunk for three days straight") they can just take the train down to Edinburgh.

dbirchall: Oh well, if they want a proper Hoagmanay (for the non-Scots, that's an ancient word meaning "stay drunk for three days straight") they can just take the train down to Edinburgh.

It's a big party right enough, but Edinburgh is for the English.

If you REALLY want to see hogmanay, head north and go to a small town or into the country. People go out first footing for a week.

"The problem with Scotland is that it's full of scotts!"

Glasgowsfinest: dbirchall: Oh well, if they want a proper Hoagmanay (for the non-Scots, that's an ancient word meaning "stay drunk for three days straight") they can just take the train down to Edinburgh.

It's a big party right enough, but Edinburgh is for the English.

If you REALLY want to see hogmanay, head north and go to a small town or into the country. People go out first footing for a week.

This.

/Small isles (Eigg / Muck) are awesome

Anyways, go ahead and party.

runningscared: "The problem with Scotland is that it's full of scotts!"

I thought it was that it was conquered by wankers?

New Year's Eve:

The night all the amateurs come out to drink...

Glasgowsfinest: dbirchall: Oh well, if they want a proper Hoagmanay (for the non-Scots, that's an ancient word meaning "stay drunk for three days straight") they can just take the train down to Edinburgh.

It's a big party right enough, but Edinburgh is for the English.

If you REALLY want to see hogmanay, head north and go to a small town or into the country. People go out first footing for a week.

Any tips? I have a cousing living in London, but he has friends living in Glasgow in who-knows-where, and he's been nagging me about going after I get vacations both from my job and college.

/I really want to go, but I don't have that much cash right now
//But he's saying that is no problem
///But seriously, I don't wanna be a bother with money, it sucks

CygnusDarius: Any tips? I have a cousing living in London, but he has friends living in Glasgow in who-knows-where, and he's been nagging me about going after I get vacations both from my job and college.

If I still had my flat in Glasgow, you could have the keys. somewhere to crawl to is essential.

A good tip? Take a jacket!

Almost all of their articles seem to consist of 1 sentence paragraphs, wtf?

That Guy...From That Show!: Almost all of their articles seem to consist of 1 sentence paragraphs, wtf?

Dundonians might take anything more complex than that as an assertion of superiority and give them a drunken beating. I'm surprised they haven't already stormed the newspaper office and killed everyone for using multisyllabic words.

The problem with Scotland is it's directly north of England.

runningscared: "The problem with Scotland is that it's full of scotts!"

For those of you who don't know, Shetland New Year involves burning a viking longboat.

Kalyco Jack: For those of you who don't know, Shetland New Year involves burning a viking longboat.

Damn. That's a pretty cool tradition. Thanks for the wiki article.

"How can you guys tell if it's New Year's Eve?"

"We wear hats."

Dufftown was by far my favorite place over a recent vacation; though we didn't make it to Glasgow, and Edinburgh had all the fried food. Make sure you visit during Dufftown's weekly Ceilidh. Other than that, the town is small as all get out. Doesn't even have a resident police officer.

I remember the year they canceled the Hogmonay bash in Glasgow because of 100mph winds, my mate and I still headed out though.

Sadly, town was dead, but it didn't stop us hitting any of the pubs that were free to get into. (which unfortunately involved 3 drinks in Campus) However, it was a good night, except I had to work the next day, reading the news with a hangover is not fun.

Anyway, I quite like Dundee. The locals are terrifying, violent and frequently ugly, but it is a student town, so there are a large number of attractive out of towners too.

Still, wouldn't want to spend New Years there. Bloody baltic.

Time for a picture of Michelle Gomez.

Who's reading the Courier online anyway? I only ever read it when I worked in Dundee. And that's because I had to. Stories full of dole scrounger's complaining their council flat has mould or some shop has sold them a tin of peaches two weeks after their sell by date.

Oh yeah, and a lot of stabbings/kickings/glassings/beatings, well assaults basically.

Lord_Byrne: Who's reading the Courier online anyway? I only ever read it when I worked in Dundee. And that's because I had to. Stories full of dole scrounger's complaining their council flat has mould or some shop has sold them a tin of peaches two weeks after their sell by date.

Oh yeah, and a lot of stabbings/kickings/glassings/beatings, well assaults basically.

Well, it's the gritty side of Scotland, I guess. Maybe not as much violence as Glasgow, but most Dundonians are, to borrow a few words from Hobbes, "nasty, brutish and short."

It's certainly not "the Scotland of kilts and pipes, brave warriors and lasses in the heather," as I once had to say in a movie. :)

A lovely place. I lived there for a year. You might remember it from a story recently on Fark about a guy who pulled one of his ex-girlfriend's eyes out with a coathanger and threw it out of the window. Salt of the earth, Dundonians. Some excellent pubs, though.

Kraftwerk Orange: New Year's Eve:

The night all the amateurs come out to drink...

I thought all Scots were pros.

/Won't somebody think of the children?

ecossais: Salt of the earth, Dundonians.

Make you want to salt the earth, more like. Where's Sherman when you need him?

We party every weekend but we want a hogmany party as it guarantees we wont get arrested no matter what

Dundee is a twin city with Buiret.

We have a piper down... I repeat a piper is dowwwn!