Aberdeen City Centre

[The Cockney Don]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-34219371

[Zeus]

Spotted MAF today not far from my house

 

Should I be worried?

[RAZOR]

Had a wee drive down Onion St last night to see the lights. Nae bad.

[Dynamo]

Union Terrace looks nae bad. Anybody been since the Christmas market has been on?

[Robbie Winters]

Union Terrace looks nae bad. Anybody been since the Christmas market has been on?

Credit where credit due. Looks as if the council have actually got their act together this year albeit they have that Aberdeen Inspired team pushing it. Union Terrace well set out and plenty there, even a bar. Looks like they have let UTG just fester further though. Cologne it ain't though but good effort.

[Dynamo]

Might head along one night this week. Good that they lifted the drinking in public bylaw too.

[dave_min]

What's a bylaw?

[RAZOR]

What's a bylaw?

 

A law that fucks two people.

[Bluto10]

Aye colognes markets are easily the best I've ever been to.

[dave_min]

Aye colognes markets are easily the best I've ever been to.

They're even better after 7:30pm

[Robbie Winters]

Todays EE space filler

 

Police investigate after skull discovered in Aberdeen churchyard

 

[Zeus]

Weird cunt.

 

'I'm an Aberdeen cashul, I'm fucking Millwall mate, I'd take on anyone in a fight, you want a go' was last seen in the caravans near Kintore, stays out there now... or atleast did at the end of last year/beginning of this year. Last heard speaking about getting his boaby tattooed to anyone that would listen to him.

 

I avoided.

Was Cove, seen him quite a lot recently.

[Zeus]

Aye there is actually, mobile homes I think they are out at Marywell

 

Hes always down near Allan park, in folk gardens bizarrely. Maybe he's a gardener?!

[RabidGiraffe]

 

He was employed by the Kintore Arms to clean, and do 'odd jobs' around the pub.

 

I wouldn't trust the cunt admittedly, but hey - if folk want that kind of chap roaming their gardens, then that's their choice.

 

Is that the guy with the tattoo'd face?

[Poodler]

Aye, the completely tattooed face? I saw him getting lifted at Union Square two weeks ago for being pished. He was happier in Wordies the other day though.

[The Boofon]

Aye, the completely tattooed face? I saw him getting lifted at Union Square two weeks ago for being pished. He was happier in Wordies the other day though.

Bit harsh that.

 

Might have just been somebody, who looks like him.

[King Street Loon]

It is indeed.

If it's the guy with the Spiderweb on his face.

I remember working in a flat he had on Great Northern Road many many years ago.

I was completely taken aback by what i saw when he opened the door.

You can't help but stare at his face, but he hates it, or so I'd imagine.

[The Boofon]

If it's the guy with the Spiderweb on his face.

I remember working in a flat he had on Great Northern Road many many years ago.

I was completely taken aback by what i saw when he opened the door.

You can't help but stare at his face, but he hates it, or so I'd imagine.

@@Poodler there proves my point.

[Poodler]

@@Poodler there proves my point.

Haha piss off Boof or I'll pull your hair imorn

[terenceandphilip]

well done Ian Wood - £25m contribution to ONE and about the only oil rich person in ABZ who seems to realise and be able to cater for the future, as well as willing to financially help.

 

How Aberdeen has managed to go backwards whilst being gifted 40 years of vast amounts of oil revenue is incomprehensible.

[Henry]

 

It is the rock upon which the Granite City was built.

Now, in a twist on the irony of taking coals to Newcastle, builders are importing 180 tonnes of the rock from China for a controversial new development in the historic heart of Aberdeen.

Many of the city’s houses and iconic buildings such as Marischal College are created out of the hard grey stone, as well as pavements, kerbs and statues.

The £107 million Marischal Square scheme will stand opposite the college – Europe’s second-largest granite building and one of the city’s most visited historical sites.

But news that the developers plan to import stone from China have sparked outrage.

“Importing cheap granite for a building opposite Marischal Square is sacrilege,” said campaigner Bill Skidmore, of the Reject Marischal Square Group.

Alex Johnstone, Conservative MSP for Northeast Scotland, said: “Given the history of the city, to be building with Chinese granite is a cultural catastrophe. So much that is important to Aberdeen is based on a tradition of granite. This represents a complete misjudgment by those behind this development.”

The city’s Rubislaw quarry closed down in 1971 but sites in Kemnay and Corrennie in Aberdeenshire still produce the stone for building developments.

John Forbes, of Bon Accord Granite, now sources stone from Africa, Asia, South America and Europe so he can offer clients a good price.

“What people don’t understand is that we haven’t built a major building out of north-east granite for the last 30 years at least,” he said.

“If I don’t supply Chinese granite then others will.”

[rumpus]

Chinese granite to be used in centre of Aberdeen. Absolute shambles...

 

I see the huge concrete support pillars already dwarf the Provost building. Why the good people of Aberdeen voted this lot into power is unbelievable..

[The Boofon]

Disgusting.

[Pash]

...anyway, has anyone managed hanging from the bar for 2 mins in the Xmas market?

[The Boofon]

...anyway, has anyone managed hanging from the bar for 2 mins in the Xmas market?

 

No.

 

I went on the Bomber Mark II though.

 

Fucking hell you fair feel the blood going to your feet. Was sat next to two boys who kept gobbling every time they were at the top. Told the boy next to me that if he did it again I'd burst him once we were off. He never did it again.

[The Boofon]

It doesn't say that you have to hang by your arms, so just get your legs up and over the bar

 

If they don't pay - take them to court.

The bar is fucking freezing. Just wet your hands and you'll stick to it.

[RAZOR]

Even though I'm super fit, I think I would have even struggled. Looks a decent challenge though, money making gold mine

[manboobs109]

...anyway, has anyone managed hanging from the bar for 2 mins in the Xmas market?

Is that a real thing? Piece of milky piss surely?

[Pudgie]

Is that a real thing? Piece of milky piss surely?

Saw a kid try it. 16 seconds the poor thing lasted. I'm going to try it at work and see how I get on.

[daytripping]

Saw a kid try it. 16 seconds the poor thing lasted. I'm going to try it at work and see how I get on.

 

I've been told it isn't as it first appears, the bar turns, whoever has it will know the odds, probably the best chance of making it would be a really light girl, gymnast type.

 

I've seen a pic on fb of a girl doing it, she was small, almost tup like, got any body weight you're fucked.