An Apology from The Vaping Guru

[Mr Ripple]

Well @simong i think what I said above isn’t necessarily specific to Scotland though, you could look at it more broadly as a u.k. wide problem.

I tend to have a generally socialist kind of outlook. And I find the idea that people are responsible for their own poverty, misery, inability to deal with the adversity the life presents them, to be a pretty selfish point of view. Fair enough people should take responsibility for the things they can, but I think that where people end up in life, in the bigger picture, has much more to do with how their surroundings have treated them and what resources they have had at their disposal. And resources are far too unequally split.

But there you go I think that’s enough of my sociological theorising, back to remarking on how much of a cunt big mad Ray is...

Oi less of the big

 

[zouzounaki]

Yeah it was unfortunately, there's statistics on the Internet if you wish to look.
I'm not gonna go posting it because I'd agree with what you're saying. I love Glasgow, I've never felt threatened or uneasy but there was a lot of gangland violence at one point. There's some pretty rough areas in aberdeen these days but it's a mix of rich oil workers and people absolutely scraping an existence

I don’t doubt it has a relatively high murder rate but the point is if you’re not involved in gang land activities, drugs, crime, or live in one of a few specific areas, you wouldn’t notice it. It’s reduced quite a bit in the last few years as well. I think Glasgow is haunted by a reputation from the razor gangs and bible john era. Tongs ya bass and that kind of stuff.

The funny thing with Aberdeen is that I used to drive a delivery van and never had any trouble or problems dropping stuff in any of the rough areas. But for quite a spell I couldn’t walk along Union Street on a weekend night without passing numerous groups of people knocking lumps out each other, the level of casual drunken violence I found shocking. I think the oil workers were a big part of the problem. Much more dangerous than Sauchiehall Street at 3am, imo.

 

[vapemac]

I don’t doubt it has a relatively high murder rate but the point is if you’re not involved in gang land activities, drugs, crime, or live in one of a few specific areas, you wouldn’t notice it. It’s reduced quite a bit in the last few years as well. I think Glasgow is haunted by a reputation from the razor gangs and bible john era. Tongs ya bass and that kind of stuff.

The funny thing with Aberdeen is that I used to drive a delivery van and never had any trouble or problems dropping stuff in any of the rough areas. But for quite a spell I couldn’t walk along Union Street on a weekend night without passing numerous groups of people knocking lumps out each other, the level of casual drunken violence I found shocking. I think the oil workers were a big part of the problem. Much more dangerous than Sauchiehall Street at 3am, imo.

I get what you're saying. I'm agreeing in the fact that it's not somewhere that really lives up to its reputation unless you're actively looking for trouble

Aberdeen exists in its own wee bubble. The oil workers get home for 2/3 weeks at a time with far too much money in their pockets and fuck all to do bar drink. I see it with my mates. They call their rig the betty ford clinic because they go back to work to dry out.

 

[zouzounaki]

I get what you're saying. I'm agreeing in the fact that it's not somewhere that really lives up to its reputation unless you're actively looking for trouble

Aberdeen exists in its own wee bubble. The oil workers get home for 2/3 weeks at a time with far too much money in their pockets and fuck all to do bar drink. I see it with my mates. They call their rig the betty ford clinic because they go back to work to dry out.

Aye I was seriously shocked the first few weeks I was up there, the town centre is chaos. I expected it to be tame in comparison. Oil workers and students. It’s like queensberry rules, smallest disagreement results in people knocking lumps out each other! It’s an interestingly big place though I liked it the few years I was up there.

 

[vapemac]

@Sp3ckyh0td0g81

 

[Sp3ckyh0td0g81]

@Sp3ckyh0td0g81
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fasttech they never fail to get the job done

 

[DjDoc]

Is airmail the best option from FT?

I paid for UK e packet or something.

Take it I fooked up? [emoji52]

 

[jsixtysix]

No, ePacket works fine - postage of choice for many. Six days if lucky.

 

[Mitz]

Is airmail the best option from FT?

I paid for UK e packet or something.

Take it I fooked up? [emoji52]

UK e packet or Euro express are correct. Avoid airmail and others.

 

[vapemac]

Is airmail the best option from FT?

I paid for UK e packet or something.

Take it I fooked up? [emoji52]

No, we've got a bet going so we decided to choose the slowest option going.

If you're ordering properly then you want to use the uk epacket option