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After you've read this did you dump all your friends, made new ones, moved on and changed your lifestyle?

Best decision ever.

>> No.1931833

>Did you dump your friends.
How can one dump what does not exist?

>> No.1931846

>>1931824
No, but then again my friends aren't a bunch of heroin addicts and psychos, so it didn't really seem necessary.

>> No.1931854

>>1931846
I think the novel emphasize the bad living enviroment in general besides the drug use and psychotic behaviour. So either way you need to get out of there.

>> No.1931856

So what you're saying is that you hung out with deadbeat junkies who had long and strange conversations about pop culture but decided to get your shit together and become an upwardly mobile yuppie, or the opposite?

>> No.1931860

also Trainspotting general.

Can you recommend me other books like these besides the works of Irvine Welsh's of course?

>> No.1931863

>>1931860
Tao Lin.

>> No.1931864

>>1931854
You are what you are, you can change your environment, but you'll never run away from yourself.

>> No.1931869

>>1931856
>with deadbeat junkies who had long and strange conversations about pop culture

Most of them were exactly like that. Also being a "Yuppie" is not the proper word. More like taking the control over and going straight through the life.

Also I think that novel has the best and the most realistic protagonist i.e In hard situations I just ask myself "What would Mark Renton do?" and it usually works out.

>> No.1931870

>>1931864

Suicide.

>> No.1931872

I thought the book was just basically a long explanation as to why Glasgow is a shithole.

>> No.1931876

>>1931869
>>1931869

"What would MR do?"

Then I became a heroin junkie.

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>>1931872
>mfw it's based in Leith not Glasgow.

>> No.1931883

>>1931876
I think in the sequel he gets into porn production if I remember rightly.

>> No.1931884

>>1931876
then kicking it. But not after one more hit.

>> No.1931887

>>1931883
He actually gets into Club management business and has a hot girlfriend etc.

>> No.1931892

>>1931885
>>1931885

Who gives a fuck? All of Scotland is basically an extension of the shitty asshole that is Glasgow.

>> No.1931894

>>1931860
>Can you recommend me other books like these besides the works of Irvine Welsh's of course?

Bret Easton Ellis is the Yuppie equivelant of Irvine Welsh. Complete with only having one worht while read (Rules of Attraction, don't be fooled by people who actually like American Psycho).

>> No.1931896

>>1931892
>Comparing all of scotland to the shittest place.
Fuck you. The west coast is the worst of the worst. Don't toss the glorious East in with that shit hole.

Also, fuck Central.

>> No.1931897

Planning a trip soon to Scotland. Can local Scots tell me about the dangers and what to avoid what to do etc. while I'm in there?

Is it anything like the book?

>> No.1931901
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>>1931896
>>1931896

It's all a third world country, I'm sure Babagadodo Bix Nood in Afria thinks his mudhut village isn't a shithole like the rest of africa is, but the sad fact is you still have AIDS and you do live in a third world country.

>> No.1931905

>>1931897
>>1931897

Things to avoid:

Scottish people
Scottish food
Scotland

>> No.1931922

The only thing Scotland has going for it is all the awesome mountains, hills and locks, but TBH, that's quite a lot. I'm half Scottish myself. I avoid ANY big city, since most of them suck.

>> No.1931924

>>1931905
This.

>> No.1931926

>>1931901
I like you. We should hang out, maybe get some dinner and a nice bottle of port. What d'ya think?

>>1931897

>>1931905 is right about the food and people.

But no, just don't go out after dark alone to places that aren't busy. But I'd say that if you were going anywhere.

>> No.1931932

>>1931901
>>1931905
BrownBear dissing scotland.

I thought you were scottish?

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>>1931932
>>1931932

Brownbear? What the fuck I'm not a bear.

But I am just trollin'. This is the kind of shit I say constantly to piss off my Scottish friend.

But seriously Scotland can be pretty rough. Go with a big friend. A few big friends if you can.

Also, mfw a Scottish family convince my friend that Haggis is a wild animal

>> No.1931953

>>1931932
So what if he's scottish? Nationality doesn't mean shit. i.e I was born and live in motherfucking Brazil and diss it all the time. Just because you're part of a group doesn't mean you don't have the right to whine about it and bitch and moan.

>> No.1931960

>>1931932
>meanless crap

Just because you're part of a group doesn't mean you can't whine about it, and generally be a bitch and moan and complain some more. For instance, I was born & live in motherfucking Brazil and diss it all the time

>> No.1931998

>>1931955
>Big friends
Enjoy getting targeted by every group you pass.

"Oi big yin, hink yer hard coz yer size?"

>> No.1932004 [DELETED] 

>mfw I lived in glasgow for a year (amerifag)
>mfw i loved every second of it, great food, amazingly nice people, free drinks, free coke everywhere
>mfw people told me to go to Edinburgh
>mfw I went and it was a shithole, people were snobby rich fucks and the city itself was just a disneyland of tartanry

>> No.1932018

>>1932004
I'm pretty sure I know that study abroad feel. Glasgow is awesome.

>> No.1932979

>>1931872

Edinburgh.

And it is.

>> No.1933697

read Irvine Welsh read the acid house. Short stories.

>> No.1933782

>>1931922
>The only thing Scotland has going for it is all the awesome mountains, hills and locks, but TBH, that's quite a lot. I'm half Scottish myself. I avoid ANY big city, since most of them suck.
>locks

>> No.1933815

THE BIGGER THE CITY, THE BETTER.