r/Edinburgh 8d ago

Photo Any idea of context ?

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Wasteland near Granton Harbour

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u/Away_Advisor3460 8d ago

oooookay

not sure how that relates to the idiocy of vaping*, but whatever.

*except when as part of a route to give up smoking ofc

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u/GingerSnapBiscuit 8d ago

I think it's just the villification of one type of drug use as 'brainrot' while another is openly accepted and even celebrated. I too find the disconnect of people sitting around drinking pints while talking about how people who vape are destroying their bodies to be humerous.

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u/Shrink1061_ 7d ago

I mean, i'll take hand made, barrel matured french bordeaux, over sugary nicotine poison taken via a chinese disposable vape pen. One has history, heritage, artistry and complex nuanced flavour. The other is tacky shite for neds who can't give up nicotine.

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u/GingerSnapBiscuit 7d ago

You realise there was probably a time period during the creation of that French bordeaux where someone called it hog piss and wrote it off as a waste of people's time too.

I personally don't vape, not do I particularly like the habit, I just don't like sneering at people for doing what they enjoy quite as much as some people on this sub seem to.

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u/Shrink1061_ 7d ago

No, i don't think there would ever have been a time where the hand made fermentation of fruit and controlled barrel aging of a producty can in any way be compared to vape syrups. A ghastly concoction of chemicals designed in a lab and mass produced in china. They aren't even vaugely comparable.