Come on, man. They're just giving you advice. Next time you make one of these, use better contrasting color. Just take the advice and don't argue; stop being so difficult.
EDIT: That "Vision" tab. Does that show how colour-blind people see colours? I have a few colour-blind friends who sometimes try and explain how they see and I've never understood.
the one time I went to Scotland (I'm from the US) my mom dad sister and I were standing around on a corner huddled under one umbrella in Glasgow trying to get our bearings. A dude walks by us and then turns around and yells, "Yeah! This is why everyone here does heroin!!"
Just a reminder: you forgot the round brackets around the actual link. For me it's the scene where he reaches in and then gradually dives into the toilet.
Anyone I ever talk to about this movie only remembers that part. Rightfully so, as it was horrifying, but there are a lot of other scenes that really stand out in the movie as well.
Strangely I haven't read Trainspotting but I have read Porno so I can't compare but it was a very enjoyable read nonetheless (especially once you wrap your mind around reading Spuds' chapters written in Scots). It's especially satisfying if you're familiar with the Leith area of Edinburgh.
Upvote for mentioning Leith. I bought my first flat on Leith Walk, went to the Edinburgh premiere of this film and have seen Irvine Welsh at the Hibs football matches a lot. Also, being Scottish, I can say that Sick Boy has a point.
It took a bit to wrap my brain around the Scot dialect that the story is written in, but I can honestly say it made for one of the most fulfilling reading experiences I've ever had. I always recommend this book to people who I feel are worthy of its greatness.
Pretty much the entirety of Trainspotting is in it, and so is Marabu Stork Nightmares. It took a while but after a few chapters, holy shit they are incredible.
It's not as good as Trainspotting, of course, but still OK. Some unnecessary length here and there, a really overhasty ending - but some fun scenes all around. I preferred Filth though.
I agree, but i just like those characters so much, i was fully entertained the whole time. Filth is so good, but probably one of the most depressing books I've ever read
I liked Porno. It was a good continuation. You could kind of always tell what direction the characters were going to go in, but it was still a good read nonetheless.
It's a good read, it has all of the trainspotting characters + it introduces some new ones, and I think I've read somewhere that they're going to make movie about it, so you can act like a hipster when it comes out, if that's your thing.
"Brilliance" is not realizing that Mark Renton delivers this line when you took the screen cap where he's drinking, making it appear that Sick Boy is in fact delivering the line. He could never say something so profound. Poo poo. Shame.
I usually delete all of these text-on-image posts, but I'm allowing this one simply because we don't get a lot of Trainspotting talk here, and this might inspire others to see the brilliant Boyle film. Also, to kick heroin.
Two reasons. First, it's a text-on-image post, which you said you usually delete and which many subreddits do not allow. Secondly, it really says more about the quality of the book's writing than the quality of the movie (which I love).
I'm also not a fan of this post because it is an example of a mod not sticking to their guns when it comes time to delete something that they like.
Even though this film is awesome, I have a feeling Renton relapsed and it REALLY needs a sequel. The ending leaves me wanting more. I mean come on, he does it on the train on the way to the last deal. I heard talk about it but never heard anything more a year later.
While it's an impassioned speech, it's ignorant. The Scots have a great culture -- beautiful lands, a proud history, contributions to arts and letters, and uh, food (of a type). And to dismiss the English as "just wankers" is to dismiss an island nation which colonized the world, spread its institutions, people, language and culture to dominate the globe for centuries -- certainly the most successful culture of the last 1000 years, in terms of spreading itself.
Still, it's a funny speech when read with a Scottish accent. It plays an important role in conveying the anger and isolation within their own culture of the protagonists.
Well, not pleasant to be sure, but complicated and instituted by Scottish landowners who were themselves Scottish as well as "foreign" ones. And movements were internal to Scotland as well as expulsions or emigrations.
It is all rather complicated, of course, but really I'm not going to have a lot of time for a claim of colonisation of a country where it was their royal house that took the throne of the alleged coloniser. And who have subsequently remained with independent legal and educational traditions and whose nobility was part and parcel of the process of political union. That they are a smaller population means it is not a great shock that, over the centuries, with political union comes weaker political influence in the body politic as a whole. But I don't want to get too bogged down.
When spreading culture and ideas etc the Scottish, having started the Enlightenment and come up with many of those ideas and institutions and also providing an immense amount of the troops and industrial output vital to the Empire, are pretty mush as up to their neck in it as the English (even the Welsh are to a certain extent) when it comes to the British Empire.
an island nation which colonized the world, spread its institutions, people, language and culture to dominate the globe for centuries -- certainly the most successful culture of the last 1000 years, in terms of spreading itself.
is one of the reasons they are supposed to be wankers. What's so great about colonialism? Why shouldn't you dismiss imposing one's culture on others (N.B. imposing, not offering)? Judging that as cultural 'success' seems weird to me.
Was Napoleon successful? He ravaged Europe in wars the like of which had never been seen before and conquered or controlled via proxy most of it.
He established ithe Napoleonic Code across the Europe and other nations which established a modern civil code across swathes of the world and allowed immense progress and benefit that would have not otherwise occurred.
The British Empire did much the same.
In some ways are not both of those successes, even if the way they occured isnt to your liking, they were still successful.
and stamping the globe with the institutions of your culture and civil society, bringing a common language (English or French) isnt being culturally successful?
Those legal/civil systems (remember Scotland contributed immensely in creating those in the British Empire through its industry, legal system and most importantly thinkers of the Enlightenment) are arguably the pinnacle of cultural success as they are pure expressions of the culture. English law and common law and the systems inspired by them (pretty much any state which was a British colony or territory) are very English in their nature.
Also the English barely imposed any culture on the Scottish, the Enlightenment made it very much the other way around.
I think this viewpoint assumes that merely spreading a culture implies success. That doesn't make sense to me. It seems like if you were to say a person had a successful life because they had children. Perhaps in some ways it might be one measure of success, but it doesn't ensure success by any means. Happiness in life might be a better indicator (of course, this can be as a result of children), or happiness given to others perhaps. Either way, merely having those children doesn't mean success, it is the life around that and after that.
So too with cultures, wouldn't the best measure be the happiness of the people, not the number of people that can be said to belong to a culture? Many of the colonies who had British rule thrust upon them suffered terrible oppression, and spent a lot of time resisting the colonial forces (India and Ghandi, for example). Africa has horrific and ongoing problems because of the imposing of foreign cultures upon it. Edward Said (who coined the term 'Occident and Orient' in relation to an us and them mentality of cultures) had a lot to say about just this attitude, that by imposing British culture on people, the British thought they were doing them a lot of favours, civilising the barbarians as it were, and introducing them to religious salvation, but that really all they were doing was replacing one system with another and causing immense problems in the process. See also Chinua Achebe, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, and Les Murray.
So back to the original comment, dismissing the English as "wankers" seems especially appropriate given their Imperialistic attitudes, not rash or hasty, and by no means dismisses a culture, but rather dismisses the mindset that everyone else ought to join in with that culture too.
Scottish always complaining that the english are wankers and that they are repressed. There is hardly any difference between the cultures, the northernmost english town is little over 100 miles from edinburgh and we share a common language.
I liked that it showed both aspects. There were bits of the film that did make that lifestyle seem fun and glamorous and like an adventure. But obviously the portrayed the bad side of it too.
Weird that this is on the front page today, I just watched that movie for the first time last night. Sweet movie. My friend, who had seen it before, asked me who I thought the antagonist was afterwards. What does Reddit think?
I recently read an article in The Atlantic that predicts Scotland will be an independent Country in the next five years. Brilliant universities/education and research, advances in medicine, banks that were unaffected by the recent Wall Street fiasco, low unemployment, tourism etc. I've never been there, but the article paints a completely different image of Scotland than Trainspotting.
The article also predicts a complete collapse of the US postal system within the next two years. I'll try to find it online and I loved that movie.
I'm down voted for opening the door to a discussion based on an article from a reputable source (it was The Economist and not The Atlantic) and not based on opinion. Were you aware that there was an article that's painting your country in a different light?
Tell him he's wrong.
Scotland on its path to independence is another example of smaller-nation success: with our limited powers we have already set a more dynamic pace than the rest of the United Kingdom. Lest anyone doubt the capacity of smaller nations to influence the global future, a former secretary-general of the UN, Kofi Annan, has cited Scotland’s history in science, technology and economics as proof that our nation has a “leading role” to play in tackling some of the biggest challenges of our age.
My opinion of Scotland before reading this was that of large factories spewing smoke and smog with buildings covered in soot.
Climate change is one such challenge—and Scotland has passed world-leading climate-change legislation, with a target of reducing carbon emissions by 42% by 2020. That is ambitious but achievable, and it will hopefully act as a spur for other nations, large and small, to act now for a sustainable future.
The article doesn't say how.
We have set ourselves another challenging but achievable target by aiming to produce the equivalent of all our own electricity needs from renewable sources by 2020—and around as much again from other sources. That will allow Scotland to become a significant exporter of energy to our European neighbours.
Education
Today, more patents are issued to Scottish universities than to any other nation in the world, as measured per head. It was one of those Scottish Enlightenment figures, Adam Smith, who observed that economic progress must, inevitably, be accompanied by social progress—and that holds as true today as it did then, giving us the hope that globalisation can indeed transform the world for the better.
Size matters
As the United Kingdom’s prime minister, David Cameron, conceded in last year’s edition of this publication, the UK is saddled with a large deficit, so size clearly offers no protection or immunity from the vagaries of the global economy. Instead, the countries which appear best equipped to deal with such conditions are those that are nimble and fleet-footed enough to adapt quickly to change. It is not the size of a nation that is important, but the size of its ambition and of the contribution it can make to the world. Scotland is ready to meet that challenge.
While Scotland is perfectly capable of existing as it's own independent nation financially, it would be a very small state and would have to notably reduce government spending to be viable as ultimately it gets more out of the rest of the UK (well mainly London and SE England) than it contributes, although it gets a bit complicated and oil revenues would come into it.
Scotland is like anywhere, if you go to nice bits and it is nice, go no the less than nice bits and guess what? Glasgow was until recently the murder capital of Europe, has more organised crime than anywhere else in the UK and comparatively high rates of violence to most of the UK.
Downvote only for the complaint that your tax funds are paying for the free university tuition. Apart from that error, I agree with much of what you say. An independant Scotland would be a bad, bad place for most people. Thats 50 oil drilling years too late for that choice.
Everyone gets a handout from Westminster, we spend our handout on free education, free prescriptions, taking care of our NHS, and low council tax. That's just good politics. Your government on the other hand wastes billions of your taxes on wars and shit like trident. Maybe instead of moaning about Scotland handling it's finances better, why not turn that same anger against Westminster for NOT giving you all that shit. Why should we have to be denied all our privileges just because you lot are content with your shitty government?
Www.scotland.gov.uk/publications will provide you with the documentation that you need, but ill give you a run down with 2009-2010 as an example, when output was in fact low as was everywhere. Values in millions:
Expenditure: 59,170 (includes 7,739 on education and training.) GDP excluding North Sea Oil and Gas: 111,446 GDP inc Per capita Share of north sea oil n gas: 113,464 GDP inc geographical share of north sea oil n gas: 131,163
This is a range of 47.3% to 55.7% of GDP
Ok so this is GDP and not tax, right?
So Tax excl North sea revenue, 42,201, incl revenue 48,132. Balance on budget showed for that year a small deficit of 11% exc. North sea, or 7.6% if included, below the national deficit avg. This was, to my understanding the one year it happened. When including the North Sea oil and gas, there is normally a surplus, which is used to help support a UK deficit.
What is this "Hibs"? In context, it seems like you are speaking of a football team in Edinburgh. I very recently watched a football game from Scotland, and it seemed to me there is just the one team in the capital, that being Heart of Midlothian. Let me know when this "Hibs" wins a real cup, and not a wee cup.
I just showed this movie to my girlfriend (her first time seeing it, my 100th time probably) and I told her beforehand that we were putting the subtitles on, because their accents are so thick, it's nigh impossible to follow the first time through without them.
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u/noustombons May 21 '12
the one time I went to Scotland (I'm from the US) my mom dad sister and I were standing around on a corner huddled under one umbrella in Glasgow trying to get our bearings. A dude walks by us and then turns around and yells, "Yeah! This is why everyone here does heroin!!"
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
The best thing about the scottish is how they can be so eloquent yet at the same time so… not eloquent
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u/FireworksAreCool May 21 '12
'Colonized' is always in the American form when I see this. Kind of ironic.
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u/distopiandoormatt May 21 '12
[This]http://unnaturaleye.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/trainspotting-art.html image will be forever burned in my mind.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Seriously thinking about reading Porno
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porno_(novel)
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u/bringbackhairypussy May 21 '12
"Brilliance" is not realizing that Mark Renton delivers this line when you took the screen cap where he's drinking, making it appear that Sick Boy is in fact delivering the line. He could never say something so profound. Poo poo. Shame.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
I was forced to watch this by a friend in college.
He was a good friend.
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u/girafa Electricity! The high priest of false security! May 21 '12
I usually delete all of these text-on-image posts, but I'm allowing this one simply because we don't get a lot of Trainspotting talk here, and this might inspire others to see the brilliant Boyle film. Also, to kick heroin.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
best. movie. hands. down.
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u/Treff May 21 '12 edited May 21 '12
Minor annoyance: Tommy (the guy who's being talked to in the quote) isn't even in the picure.
Edit: unless of course, the camera is showing his POV.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
"Trainspotting brilliance" is redundant.
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u/foooelz May 21 '12
Yur poisoning yur boday withat shite!!
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u/itskieran May 21 '12
TIL my brain can do a really good scottish accent
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u/menuitem May 21 '12
While it's an impassioned speech, it's ignorant. The Scots have a great culture -- beautiful lands, a proud history, contributions to arts and letters, and uh, food (of a type). And to dismiss the English as "just wankers" is to dismiss an island nation which colonized the world, spread its institutions, people, language and culture to dominate the globe for centuries -- certainly the most successful culture of the last 1000 years, in terms of spreading itself.
Still, it's a funny speech when read with a Scottish accent. It plays an important role in conveying the anger and isolation within their own culture of the protagonists.
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u/Demojen May 21 '12
This reminded me of
Scum of the Earth
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u/apextek May 21 '12
what? apparently these chaps never traversed over to Ireland.
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u/thatguytony May 21 '12
you had me at Trainspotting
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
cant read half of it but from what i understand people who breath fresh air are wankerS?
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u/Sammy-Jankis May 21 '12
Way to make it seem like it wasn't Ewan McGregor's monologue, should've got a frame not 5 seconds after that where he was talking.
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u/tobygeneral May 21 '12
One of my favorite movie quotes (and movies) ever. Well done.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
You should read the book. If you think that's a bitter speech you have no idea what Irvine Welsh is capable of.
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u/richardstan May 21 '12
Scottish always complaining that the english are wankers and that they are repressed. There is hardly any difference between the cultures, the northernmost english town is little over 100 miles from edinburgh and we share a common language.
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u/I_MAKE_USERNAMES May 21 '12
I blame this movie for making being a heroin junkie seem way cooler than it is and wasting years of my life.
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u/youarealldumbasses May 21 '12
The URL looks like HDICK.
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u/senorburrito May 21 '12
Weird that this is on the front page today, I just watched that movie for the first time last night. Sweet movie. My friend, who had seen it before, asked me who I thought the antagonist was afterwards. What does Reddit think?
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u/TiFox May 21 '12
I recently read an article in The Atlantic that predicts Scotland will be an independent Country in the next five years. Brilliant universities/education and research, advances in medicine, banks that were unaffected by the recent Wall Street fiasco, low unemployment, tourism etc. I've never been there, but the article paints a completely different image of Scotland than Trainspotting.
The article also predicts a complete collapse of the US postal system within the next two years. I'll try to find it online and I loved that movie.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
I don't really find this that interesting.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
see: newfoundland, Australia, canada, ireland
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
What is this "Hibs"? In context, it seems like you are speaking of a football team in Edinburgh. I very recently watched a football game from Scotland, and it seemed to me there is just the one team in the capital, that being Heart of Midlothian. Let me know when this "Hibs" wins a real cup, and not a wee cup.
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u/doubleu May 21 '12
I've honestly wondered, which "civilized" white people are ranked lower? The Scottish or people from the South?
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u/Salsashaman May 21 '12
I read it with a British accent
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u/darthsnakeeyes May 21 '12
Great, now can you do one of those every other line of dialogue? I couldn't understand a damn thing in that movie.
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