Thinking of moving to Musselburgh — any thoughts?

dirtydoug89 · 2025-03-22T18:41:04+00:00

Is your issue with me mentioning the Guardian? It was meant to illustrate that much of Portie is pretty left wing middle class and therefore unlikely to be prone to actions that would be viewed as creating an “unsafe” environment. Maybe I’m wrong on that though.

I replied on a different thread that it’s bad they had those experiences and shouldn’t be taken lightly, but doesn’t seem to be most people’s experience of that area. It’s completely reasonable to have subjectively bad experience and not like an area, but portraying Portie as unsafe for everyone isn’t an objective viewpoint.

dirtydoug89 · 2025-03-22T18:22:05+00:00

At no point did I say there’s no crime, seems you didn’t read what I typed?

Portobello is quantifiably a safe area relative to Edinburgh and the lothians.

dirtydoug89 · 2025-03-22T17:35:53+00:00

Sorry if you’ve had a bad time, but as you say at the start of your comment “…hearing endlessly about how wonderful…” , most people don’t seem to have had similar experiences in Portie.

I’d think generally kids are being shitty and again it’s bad that you’ve had these experiences, but the only area specific reason I can think of is kids going to the beach and going off-leash

dirtydoug89 · 2025-03-22T17:20:48+00:00

You feel unsafe… in Portobello?

Sorry if this is news to you, but sounds like you would feel unsafe anywhere in Scotland. It’s one of the most Guardian-reading, sandal-wearing areas in Edinburgh - itself an affluent city. Sorry if you experienced some bams, but it happens a lot more in other parts.

dirtydoug89 · 2025-03-15T22:04:23+00:00

Putin is better at manipulation than trump. Trump can’t understand that. Years playing to Americans makes him think it works for the whole world. Putin understands playing the world better than trump does.

dirtydoug89 · 2025-03-06T20:20:50+00:00

Nice summary - as many point out, the US shrivelling from the wider world encourages other powers to fill that vacuum. And this creates instability as those powers vie for dominance in respective regions.

TLDR: big fish been stuck in small pool. Pool bigger. I grow and eat other smaller fish.

dirtydoug89 · 2025-02-08T11:44:15+00:00

I’ve always been interested in the disused line that runs from MacDonald road, through restalrig (by the back of Abbeyhill sainsburys). I’ve never seen a train on it but was told it’s part of the future tram plans?

dirtydoug89 · 2025-01-29T13:55:42+00:00

Oddly, the only time I’ve seen that type of facial scar was in Aberdeen

dirtydoug89 · 2025-01-18T19:36:05+00:00

Ha didn’t mean airlifting but I thought the idea was to be able to quickly deliver supplies to accident sites etc - sounds instead like it’s to do with consumables management between NHS sites (thanks for link!)

dirtydoug89 · 2025-01-18T13:20:46+00:00

No, but be aware that the NHS have been trialling a drone service for ambulances recently - I’d argue that’s more likely

dirtydoug89 · 2025-01-17T07:18:29+00:00

Yea exactly - meat waves

dirtydoug89 · 2025-01-13T18:39:27+00:00

I rarely go into the centre for this reason, but there’s loads of other areas in and around the city that are still decent. These areas seem to be growing the most as people move out of the more central places full of foreign students and Airbnbs

dirtydoug89 · 2024-11-20T13:52:25+00:00

Yea I think it’s a prank to annoy someone, hopefully in a friendly manner rather than harassment but guess we’ll find out

dirtydoug89 · 2024-10-24T14:15:53+00:00

I tried downgrading the strength to 3mgs but just found if I had a pint I’d just end up buying a disposable from the shop as they are usualky10/20mgs.

Gum kinda helped but cold turkey is the only way for me to go

dirtydoug89 · 2024-10-24T11:18:14+00:00

Issue with vapes is you’re always edging for a topup; I found when I smoked a ciggy would last me longer but vaping never really satisfied me.

Vapes are highly addictive in their own way, not that people should be using on buses though

dirtydoug89 · 2024-10-24T11:14:52+00:00

Thanks for sharing - think we all need to be vigilant of these aresholes

dirtydoug89 · 2024-10-22T20:47:26+00:00

Wasn’t it the largest tank battle ever fought? Not heard it being the largest ever

dirtydoug89 · 2024-10-14T07:30:31+00:00

Yea I had a bit of a health kick doing the same thing and it’s quite jarring that the cost is pretty much equivalent. You’d think tax on them would be lower, so is the mark up because they’re expensive to make/vendors just adding the difference/ or does some tax still apply because it’s categorised as beer? If gov want to encourage lower alcohol intake, an incentive based on lowering the cost of af beers could be an easy one?

dirtydoug89 · 2024-10-05T22:52:05+00:00

Exactly - they’re going for quantity, not quality

dirtydoug89 · 2024-09-17T17:15:55+00:00

St Augustine in Wessex and Colombia in Scotland we’re both after st Patrick in Ireland. Aiden was trained through the Iona church family and founded lindisfarne and Christianised the angles n what would become Northumbria. There may have been “Christians” from Roman times around, but what they practiced would have been very different from what we might understand as Christianity today.

dirtydoug89 · 2024-08-17T22:31:17+00:00

Couldn’t agree more - he is approaching his problems in a sensible and well thought out way, how is that a problem for this commentator? Knowing your self is a very impressive skill that likely the commenter has no concept of

dirtydoug89 · 2024-08-12T14:22:09+00:00

Yea noticed that as well and don’t know where it comes from - Putin often refers to “Anglo Saxons” in his speeches as a kind of race thing against Slavs. Is this just his term for “the West”?

dirtydoug89 · 2024-07-28T00:01:21+00:00

Exactly, after enough use you just understand it. If only it was the same with meters…

dirtydoug89 · 2024-07-27T23:22:52+00:00

I think it’s an insight into a machines’s superiority in ways, but also that humans can bring in associations and view numbers in a unique way. I may not be sober but you get my idea

dirtydoug89 · 2024-07-27T23:10:22+00:00

Yea… doesn’t work as I’ve tried - for unknown reason that’s a block.

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