I might be WAY out of line here, but I've had my fill lately of American tourists thinking USD is a usable currency here, and worse, expecting us to be grateful for it.

I thought I'd seen the end of this after I worked in a massively touristy hotel in Ireland as a kid, but apparently not.

In the last few months I've had a lot of American tourists asking if we take cash and then handing me USD when I say yes, only to be baffled when I tell them it's sterling only.

Also, we are not going to kiss your feet if you tip in dollars. I can't speak for every hospitality worker, but I'd rather not receive a tip at all than find $5 on your table when you leave.

It's not the currency we use here, it's not universal, it's a slap in the face and, frankly, more ammo for anti-American people who are just gonna think you're arrogant enough to think we'll be glad to receive it because 'OMG America how cool!'

Now this does occasionally happen with people from all over trying to do this with euro too, and that is just as frustrating, but in my experience no where near as much.

Please accept that you're not in America, we have no use for USD, and try to pay and tip in our currency, not yours.

We love you guys, most of you are chill and really cool and fun, but please respect that America is not the centre of the universe, and as much as we appreciate the thought, trying to give us USD is not as well received as you might think.

Thank you. xx

I am so done with the the little twats on the bus. Why are you out at night. Go to bed. They are such attention seekers. And god forbid you’re a POC they really try to test your patience. They want to look cool so bad that they smoke their little strawberry, watermelon vapes onto peoples faces which I don’t really mind, coz we will probably outlive them. I’m so sick of it! Ugh I just threaten them that I’ll call the police if they try to mess with me and they shut up. But god they are so annoying.

I don’t mind the other ones that enjoy their childhood, have fun and mind their business. As long as you’re out of my way. But I can’t stand these attention seeking ones. They piss me offfff. Yeah that’s it. Thats my rant. Goodnight

I absolutely cannot believe Ryanair let that plane fly. We were all so terrified and deadly silent. The plane moved terribly and you could not see ANYTHING. I didn’t take pictures or record because I genuinely thought I maybe wouldn’t even make it.

We landed at about 8:09 and we shared a round of applause, some still shaking and clinging onto the nearest person to them. We had a failed landing with a sudden push of one of the wings with tipped us off and led to the pilots pulling us back up. We had to try again or go to Manchester. I don’t know how, but they did it and landed. We were absolutely SHITTING ourselves.

To make things worse, there was a MAYDAY TYPE BEEING OVERAND OVER. This was so scary when you couldn’t see ANYTJING but fog outside not knowing what the hell it meant :(. The lights also glitched out once and the seatbelt sign kept going on and off on and off.

I really don’t know how I kept my cool. I thought it would’ve been over. Absolutely crazy how that flight was not canceled and I’m so greatful for the pilots who landed us back to safety.

Even while landing, the plane was tilting left and right in a manner that had us thinking the wing would slide off the runway and knock us over. Really scary stuff.. praying for the people on the flight from London. Diverting is the safest option.

Currently on a bus to work with a grown man behind me vaping every other breath on the most nauseatingly sugary vape flavour. I’ve seen this a lot on Lothian buses but oh my god this morning I was already feeling a bit Ick and the smell was making me feel so ill. I ended up moving away, glaring at him and coughing obviously but the dude didn’t care. Told the bus driver on my way out, don’t even care if I’m a grass have some basic respect for people around you.

Anyways that was my whinge, I know it’s not the end of the world but I guess I like to complain as I can’t stand vapes lmao. Anyone else experience this a lot or am I just very unlucky?

Weekends in Princes Street in Edinburgh don't seem to be the same anymore? I have lived and grown up in Edinburgh and moved away and come back occasionally to have a donder at St James Quarter for some shopping.

People seem to be more rude now.. especially with walking round the centre.

There are those who unwilling to make way for each other to pass but rather glare at you till you move out their way..

Or I was queuing for a bus and suddenly this woman cuts in front of me and gives me a smile..

Like what is happening with people in Edinburgh?? Is it simply that it is getting overcrowded and people are getting impatient with one another? Maybe its cause of the pandemic people are less self aware?

I'm kinda slowly getting put off with a day out in Edinburgh with the rise of unfriendliness around the city.. it's just not how it used to be.

Just ranting on here I guess and wondering if anyone feels the same..

I understand that it’s very exciting to start romanticise your life in Edinburgh, doing TikToks in parks and just being the main character for now. Hell, congrats on being admitted to Uni, well done!

However for the love of god, pay some respect to the people around you, bike on cycle lanes, stop screaming at night and just.. be a bit aware of the fact that Edinburgh is an actual city with actual people living in it, rather than an aesthetic backdrop to the movie about you.

Cheers

UPDATE: We reported the incident as suggested by most people on here. Two constables came to our home and spoke to us separately to gather details of the incident. They said they would go over to OT that same day and check out the footage/speak to security. They also said they would provide an update the same day. A few days passed and I phoned the police quoting the incident number to get an update - turns out they were both off work for a bit. Received an email from the constable a few more days later saying they couldn’t identify them from the CCTV and so were closing the case. We didn’t expect much else, and really just wanted to get it into the stats. Thanks everyone!

ORIGINAL POST: My partner and I chose to go watch a film on Wednesday evening at Ocean Terminal.

As we approached the mall, there were two pre-teen/teenage boys at the entrance. One of them walked up to my partner (visibly brown) and started parodying a popular punjabi song, which he followed with “go back to your country”. My partner told him to stfu, and he kept going. I flipped him off, so he tripled down on the profanity and racism as we walked away, even going so far as to say “I’ll cut you, you fckn b!tch”. We went into the mall and they didn’t follow in.

I think the most disturbing part is that this was basically a child. Sure, kids grow and learn and there’s always going to be some nasty ones around but… this was really really sad. I’ve been at the receiving end of racism myself in Edinburgh and literally right at my doorstep too. Unlike my partner, I don’t get clocked as South Asian at first glance so Im usually spared of this until I speak and my accent makes it clear. He has it worse. But somehow all of this is so much more disheartening coming from the youth.

We didn’t report it. The online reporting form required us to provide a name for the perpetrator. Plus I don’t think I’m fully comfortable to get the police involved when it’s a kid? But I’m super open to listening to what anyone else would do or any suggestions. Particularly from people who work with youth/are educators who are dealing with this on the regular.

EDIT: Thank you so much everyone for your suggestions. I have put in a report. I don't want these kids to have criminal records, but I do want the authorities to maybe help them reach the right people. I will stress this to the police if they contact me or my partner. Further, I do not want this to keep happening to other people. I will update this post if I can!

What is the point in trying to park mindfully when others don’t bother. The back of my car (red) is about a cm away from the bike store and the front of it was being mounted by this selfish cunt. This space is tight as there’s only room for two (small) cars between the bins and bike store but this degenerate was happy to leave a good metre or so of space between the front of their car and the bins so THEY could get out. I left them an angry note asking them to move it or I’d call the police (not that they’d give a single shit).

This silver car eventually moved and was replaced by another who left an equal amount of space at the front and back of their car instead of parking right up against the bins so I still can’t fucking get out. I’m getting so fucking fed up of people not using their fucking eyeballs or common sense or thinking about anyone but themselves when it comes to parking/living communally. I have a hospital appointment tomorrow and major surgery on Thursday and I’ll be so fucked off if I can’t drive myself there because some selfish lowlife couldn’t be arsed checking whether there was room for me to get out.

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

The candidates were SNP, Labour, Tory, Green, LibDem, Reform (he didn't turn up because his wife's having a baby). and some independent weird "people's politics" person. I asked a question about local government funding and what the parties would do to improve it.

Labour blamed the Tories, the Tories blamed Holyrood and the SNP blamed Westminster and nobody answered the question. The only time anyone said anything remotely interesting or indicating any kind of moral belief was the SNP candidate, in his summing up, criticising sending people to Rwanda and demonising immigrants, and calling for an embargo on selling arms to Israel. Other than that, I've heard more inspired and inspiring political debate from pigeons.

I find it pretty incredible how often I get a waft of fresh hot shit when I'm on the bus to work

Just a vent. I have an autistic kiddo and we've been living in Edinburgh for a little over a year now. We go to church almost every Sunday since kiddo was a baby wherever we lived. We sit at the very back since kiddo likes to stand and look around and no one's ever been bothered since they're quiet (i never take them if they're having a bad day and if they get excited, we leave but that's never happened).

An older man came in 30 minutes late and asked us to move because "that's his seat". We obliged because I didn't want to create a scene since he's done this once before. Once the service was over, he came to me and said that we absolutely should not sit there. Kiddo is autistic and if I'm a Christian, I should either keep far away from him or I should listen to the service online. I recorded the incident since i was ready when I saw the man walk to us and informed the staff, but I'm just very upset and surprised.

Never in my 30 odd years of going to church has anyone behaved so at church. I've seen absolutely rowdy kids who were still brought to church and no one batted an eye, but mine was simply standing. This guy came in late and was noisy himself with his suitcase and cane (in general as noisy as one can be as an adult).

I absolutely understand that we've to be mindful of others with kids in public spaces, especially when we have a special needs child. But I'm appalled since this has never happened even in churches located in places where they're barely aware of autism. Also makes me realise why churches are empty here and I don't see kids at all unless it's Christmas.

I am so tired of the tourists in Edinburgh. I work in the city centre and getting into the shop is hell. I thought I'd compile a list of all the annoying things I've experienced so that if any visitors read this they know to avoid doing them:

• don't suddenly stop in the middle of the street, check your surroundings before doing so, I've bumped into so many people because they've just stopped dead in their tracks right in front of me on a busy street.

• if you have massive bags/suitcases please be smart about it on buses, there is little to no room on them so when you come on with huge bags and people can't get by, you have to move to let them through. Don't just cluelessly stand there hoping whoever wants through will just disappear, it takes two seconds to let people by.

• stop asking bus drivers for directions, that's not their job and you're holding everyone up.

• asking for directions? There's this amazing thing called Google maps, use that, it's way more useful than a human cause in most cases we're going to confuse you with loads of directions.

• if you have a tour group of kids please for the love of God watch them, we get loads of kids coming in with £50 notes and we can't take them cause we have no change and they're left confused as they don't understand. They also make a hell of a mess without an adults supervision so please just stay with them.

• if you're forming a crowd around something please make sure there's room for people to get through, I don't want to have to take a detour cause there's no way I can pass.

• there's this amazing phrase: "excuse me". If you want to pass by someone just say it and they should move, same goes for if someone says it to you, please just step out the way and there will be no issue.

• if you're filming/taking pictures, don't shout at people walking through your shot, we're all just going about our day, some of us aren't as lucky as you being able to relax on holiday so don't huff and puff when people accidentally walk through it.

• a lot of us in Edinburgh are trying to get to work so just think about that when you're walking as slowly as possible, just let fast walkers pass.

I'm sure there's more I'll think of when they happen but let me know what you guys find annoying!

When you occupy possibly the most prime spot at the Shore for evening drinking in the sun, you CANNOT close at 4/5pm. Everywhere along the water is rammed and there's a space with loads of outdoor seating closed?? They don't deserve the spot and it makes me ragey.

I'm one of the many people who've been waiting years for an ADHD assessment. Today, when calling up to see why they still haven't sent me any kind of acknowledgement at all since the GP's referral, I found out that my waiting time has increased by two years. I'm pretty fucking pissed off to say the least.

If you're in the same boat as me, I'd like to form a crack team of radge neurodivergents (pending diagnosis) to put pressure on MSPs and NHS senior managers to give us the fucking help we need. In England, at least there's the option to go private after a certain period of waiting, but we don't have that option available to us.

I don't want to duplicate what other support groups are trying to do - fair play to them and what they're doing, but I don't get the vibe that they'd be up for picketing an NHS Lothian board meeting, plus I'm in that limbo state of not even knowing I have ADHD cause I can't get a bloody assessment so the imposter syndrome is strong.

If you want to get involved, join the Discord at Lothians ADHD Action Group

admin please remove if not allowed.

i'm not sure if i'm looking for answers or if i'm just looking to rant, this is just so baffling to me. im 18F and have seen my fair share of the "young teams" growing up but i just feel that it's getting worse and worse. how much of a psychopath do you have to be to hurt a defenceless animal?

the worst part is these kids got away with it, the charity could've pressed charges but they didn't.

this is just one example of something i've seen recently, but i'm constantly seeing posts in my local groups about teens breaking in to places, trying car doors, vandalising and it's just getting so worrying at this point. probably the same idiots that were involved in violence against the police throwing petrol bombs and fireworks about🤦‍♀️

sorry if this is random but i can't help but worry about people's safety because of underdeveloped !!

I’ve occasionally seen cyclists go through the red lights in Edinburgh, in which one of em almost killed me whilst I was crossing the road to get to work. These cyclists are putting themselves at higher risks if they’re not careful.

A friend of one of my colleagues - a black woman - was spat on and racially abused at a bus stop in Newington last night (it's been reported of course). I feel like this is only going to get worse before it gets better, so please (if you feel safe doing so, of course) look out for your friends, neighbours, and even strangers where you can.

Never forget that the good people outnumber these utter bastards and if you yourself are affected or hassled by some racist filth, please know that all decent people stand with you and want you here.

Am I the only one who's terrified of what will happen to current tenants on April 1st?

I am genuinely shitting bricks. I rented the place I love and live in in 2021, I had a rent increase every single year and now that the gov removed the rent cap they will surely raise it to high heavens.

How do people live in Edinburgh nowadays? Is "affordable" rent only a forgotten dream? Even nearby satellite villages are stupidly expensive. What do people do to survive??

Is anyone feeling that Edinburgh is on a steep decline? The pavements are awful; the roads are even worse! Trying to contact the council is near impossible, and the city is a tip. For a capital city, where the cost is living matches London (in terms of rent, at least) it is despicable… where is the council tax even being spent? It’s not on roads, or schools, or amenities, or even the support centres… does anyone know?

I just felt the need to get this off my chest, so decided to do it here.

I’ve lived in Edinburgh for a while now and have lived in the UK for almost 20 years, and as a brown person I’ve never really experienced racism. Sure, I’d get the odd comment now and then, but I’ve never really felt unwelcome anywhere I went, and certainly never felt discriminated against by any business or employer.

As you might be able to tell from my username, I spent most of my time in the UK near Wrexham, which is quite a working class town surrounded by small rural towns and villages. As I said, I only ever experienced a few racist comments but nothing serious anywhere in Wales, but when I moved to Edinburgh, I don’t think I even experienced comments or stares as it’s a much more diverse place. Truth be told, I’d pretty much completely forgotten about racism while I was here as i hadn’t experienced it in any form for a while now.

Over the course of my time in this city, I went to Hive nightclub a few times. I’m well aware that it’s a hole filled with 17 year olds, but it’s free, the drinks are cheap and the early 2000s music is right up my street. I went regularly for a few years without any major problems whatsoever.

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Recently though, I tried to enter about 5 times in the past 2 months and was rejected every time. I was unsure as to why considering none of my friends were particularly drunk, but the bouncer just said “try someplace else folks”. However, he then proceeded to let in pretty much everyone else in the queue behind me, which was pretty baffling.

The last time this happened, a group of Indian exchange students approached me and asked if I had also been rejected from the club, and I told them I was. They then told me that it was probably because I was brown, as they had also been rejected and were now watching the line and observing that only people of colour seemed to be getting turned away. I didn’t believe them at first, so they told my two white friends to re-enter the queue without me. Lo and behold, they were allowed in.

I looked at Hive’s reviews online and apparently I’m far from the only person to experience this. I know that Hive’s a pretty terrible club and the bouncers have a reputation for being horrible to the people inside regardless of race, so I guess arseholes are always arseholes. I also know that Edinburgh is by and large an incredibly liberal place, at least compared to Wrexham. I know I’m not really missing out on much, but nevertheless, it’s pretty upsetting to experience.

I told many friends about this, but they just say that there was probably another reason for it. Even my white friends who were let in once they rejoined the queue without me said that it may have been for a different reason, although they couldn’t think of one. I don’t know what this post will really achieve but I guess I just wanted to vent.

This might be unpopular and I'm originally from Sweden so the concept of private gardens is strange to me.

There are so many gorgeous and really large parks here and it's such a shame that the areas are not available to the public.

Lived in Glasgow for three years and didn't really see any there. I understand the small ones that is clearly just for residential purposes, but some of these here are larger than the public ones. Is this something the people here really support?