Grim Up North (876 hits)
Category: RomanceRating: 1.53 on 43 reviews (Rate this item) (V)
Submitted by Flash Harry (View user info) at 2009-01-23 09:23:28 EST
These are all pictures taken in and around the town where I grew up, Glenrothes. It's a fairly small town on the east coast of Scotland. The headteacher of one of the high schools was recently dismissed on account of his huge child pornography collection.
It's grim up north.
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Submitted by loki (user info) at 2010-01-20 20:03:29 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I like the hippos and the generic graffiti
The life's a bitch thing doesn't quite have the right cadence.
Submitted by TuTs (user info) at 2010-01-20 09:44:34 EST (#)
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I want park hippo.
Submitted by F.J.Bell (user info) at 2009-01-29 07:08:58 EST (#)
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Yay...
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.2485485.0.Glenrothes_names_Scotlands_most_dismal_place.php
Submitted by AshK (user info) at 2009-01-24 21:46:40 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
+2 Hippos
Submitted by firefly (user info) at 2009-01-24 21:17:22 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by LittleMonster (user info) at 2009-01-24 09:08:38 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I like the hippos.
This was great.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2009-01-24 07:04:30 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Well done scotchie type fellas.
Submitted by BranDo (user info) at 2009-01-24 06:36:51 EST (#)
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Nice.
Nice to see the Dead Kenndy's logo too.
Submitted by SilvrWolf (user info) at 2009-01-23 22:20:28 EST (#)
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Steal me one of those concrete hippos. Send it UPS. I'll pay you in salmonella-laden peanut products.
Submitted by Lib (user info) at 2009-01-23 18:50:46 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2009-01-23 17:57:06 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Sidivan (user info) at 2009-01-23 16:07:02 EST (#)
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Submitted by F.J.Bell (user info) at 2009-01-23 11:56:40 EST (#)
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Christ, that cow's fucking awesome.
All I have to compete with that are some giant gay irises http://www.fife.police.uk/images/L099%20Glenrothes%20Irises001.jpg
:o(
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We also have a strip of highway called "The Enchanted Highway". Basically, some old farmer got a hair up his ass to weld these GIGANTIC sculptures along this stretch of road out in the boonies. Huge grasshoppers, a sun with geese flying.. all kinds of weird shit. Next time I go back home, I'll get a buncha pics of Salem Sue (the cow), the buffalo, and the enchanted highway madness and make a post.
Submitted by Jack_McCallum (user info) at 2009-01-23 15:38:44 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
This was just great.
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2009-01-23 15:24:40 EST (#)
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Grafittiartists should be dead.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2009-01-23 14:21:07 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
i still want to go to scotland.
Submitted by experima (user info) at 2009-01-23 14:04:05 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I love that kind of graffiti. I photographed an angry one scrawled across a bank building in Edinburgh that said GEEZ MA GIRO YA RADGE
Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2009-01-23 13:24:23 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Well, at least yeh didnae bide in Insch or Keith like.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2009-01-23 12:45:37 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
thank god im a southern nancy!
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2009-01-23 12:41:20 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
heh
Submitted by TheGoat (user info) at 2009-01-23 12:14:47 EST (#)
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for those suffering from a serious case of arachnophobia, i suggest you keep clear of liverpool....
yikes--> http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/022daDIcIi63O/340x.jpg
doubles yikes--> http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Observer/Pix/pictures/2008/09/05/spidy460x276.jpg
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2009-01-23 12:12:33 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Very grim indeed, Bell.
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2009-01-23 12:05:38 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Small towns are treasure troves of secret graffiti. You just need to know where to look. For me, it was either around the decrepit warehouses, the obligatory water tower, and wherever there was a boulder.
Lots of boulders, lots of graffiti.
Submitted by F.J.Bell (user info) at 2009-01-23 11:56:40 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Christ, that cow's fucking awesome.
All I have to compete with that are some giant gay irises http://www.fife.police.uk/images/L099%20Glenrothes%20Irises001.jpg
:o(
Submitted by Sidivan (user info) at 2009-01-23 11:51:29 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
I see your concrete hippos and raise you THE WORLD'S LARGEST COW!
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2716
We also have the world's largest buffalo.
Submitted by forensicgirl3 (user info) at 2009-01-23 11:46:23 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
hahahaha people are nuts.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2009-01-23 11:37:07 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Banjo (user info) at 2009-01-23 10:34:07 EST (#)
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I like reading the toilets in manky bars.
Trish is always a dirty skank who sux cox with herpes.
Submitted by FALLEN (user info) at 2009-01-23 10:29:59 EST (#)
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I have no idea what FJ said below
Submitted by F.J.Bell (user info) at 2009-01-23 10:14:57 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
I also need to phone Pilly and see if he's okay...
Submitted by F.J.Bell (user info) at 2009-01-23 10:14:03 EST (#)
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Of course we are a lyrical folk. That reminds me, it is Burns night on Sunday. Hope everyone is having haggis, neeps n tatties. I may even read out Address to a Haggis and voicewhore it.
Submitted by FALLEN (user info) at 2009-01-23 10:09:27 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I learned something today. See, all I knew was what I saw in Bravehart.
you have sidewalks and electricity and the Scotts are a lyrical and somewhat silly folk.
Not at all the gruff drunkards the TV portrays you to be.
Submitted by F.J.Bell (user info) at 2009-01-23 10:09:10 EST (#)
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And a concrete toadstool, forgot about that.
Submitted by F.J.Bell (user info) at 2009-01-23 10:07:51 EST (#)
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No, there are no cows...I think there's a giant hand somewhere...
Look at this though http://www.flickr.com/photos/70603790@N00/304189856
How weird. I used to play there and pretend I was doing television programs. Yes, I prefer when you're underneath me.
Submitted by orphelia (user info) at 2009-01-23 10:06:28 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
You just posted to knock me off the top off the page, didn't you?
Swine.
Submitted by orphelia (user info) at 2009-01-23 10:05:27 EST (#)
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Submitted by F.J.Bell (user info) at 2009-01-23 14:41:17 GMT (#)
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The hippos are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to concrete animal architecture.
We have stone crocodiles, stone elephants, stone tulips, a stone TV, a stone sofa, stone dinosaurs...
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But do you have concrete cows??
Submitted by rubbermaid (user info) at 2009-01-23 09:51:18 EST (#)
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Not sure why I should care but the dialect is a bit unusual. Also, I hate side scroll.
Submitted by hidden101 (user info) at 2009-01-23 09:49:05 EST (#)
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i like posts like these.
Submitted by Littlebint (user info) at 2009-01-23 09:48:37 EST (#)
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Nice place
Submitted by F.J.Bell (user info) at 2009-01-23 09:41:33 EST (#)
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City of fucking Culture.
Submitted by F.J.Bell (user info) at 2009-01-23 09:41:17 EST (#)
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The hippos are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to concrete animal architecture.
We have stone crocodiles, stone elephants, stone tulips, a stone TV, a stone sofa, stone dinosaurs...
Submitted by orphelia (user info) at 2009-01-23 09:35:58 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
haha at the hippos and pic 2.
:)
Submitted by bromide (user info) at 2009-01-23 09:31:43 EST (#)
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It's grim in the Isle of Man
Submitted by sage104 (user info) at 2009-01-23 09:25:58 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
<3 xo
I'm fucking hungover as hell.