Particular Graffiti in Edinburgh

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22-06-2012, 06:20 AM
MSK

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Originally Posted by essexhibee

Was looking through the photos earlier...cracking page they've put together. Found the next door neighbour of my Grandma photographed aged three in 1950 very coincidental!

Quick question...does anyone know what the "mains" part of area names means? Like saughton mains, colinton mains etc....

Stupid question but its been bugging me :greengrin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_(Scotland) :aok:
22-06-2012, 12:00 PM
DaveF

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Originally Posted by hibsbollah

Free Mike Lynch was a bit further towards Princes St, on the medical school wall at South Bridge directly opposite where Costa coffee is now (was James Thins Booksellers in the 70s). I walked past it every day outside Primary School.

I remember the Mike Lynch one. What did he do and was he ever freed? :greengrin
24-06-2012, 02:57 PM
oconnors_strip

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Originally Posted by Pretty Boy

Also asked around re the other graffiti that I mentioned around Oxgangs. The name that escaped me earlier was 'Fergie' and the graffiti was 'Fergie fat grass'. Sadly that story seems far more sinister. Seems my earlier recollection was accurate and whether through a reaction to the 'publicity' or genuine fear he did indeed take his own life.

The story seems a bit all over the place but rumour has it that the character Feardie Fergie from Ian Rankins Black and Blue was loosely based on him.

fat fergie lived in oxgangs, opposite st marks school, his garden backed on to the burn and someone found his dead body, remember the police shutting the road and questioning people. he was infamous in oxgangs for who he was and who he had dealings with.
24-06-2012, 09:09 PM
Hibernia Na Eir

anyone else noticed 'SINE' graffitied all over east Edinburgh and also seen it in deepest musselburgh.

who is this dickhead?
24-06-2012, 09:39 PM
easty

I keep seeing a big loveheart with CG in it around my way (broomhall). Caversham....is that you? :wink:
24-06-2012, 09:41 PM
easty

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Originally Posted by Hibernia Na Eir

anyone else noticed 'SINE' graffitied all over east Edinburgh and also seen it in deepest musselburgh.

who is this dickhead?

Maths based graffiti. Educating the cities children on trig terminology.
24-06-2012, 10:14 PM
lyonhibs

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Originally Posted by easty

Maths based graffiti. Educating the cities children on trig terminology.

:agree::agree:

I'm getting fed up of seeing "SOH CAH TOA" tagged all over Piershill as well!!!
25-06-2012, 08:20 AM
easty

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Originally Posted by lyonhibs

:agree::agree:

I'm getting fed up of seeing "SOH CAH TOA" tagged all over Piershill as well!!!

:thumbsup:
25-06-2012, 12:25 PM
silverhibee

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Originally Posted by happyhibbie

Still with the Exploited I think ..saw him up town a few months back outside the Bank Bar ..

Yikes, they still on the go, used to see them at the club just of Pennywell Road, maybe also at the YMCA hostel.

I am still young. :greengrin
25-06-2012, 12:49 PM
The_Exile

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Originally Posted by Hibernia Na Eir

anyone else noticed 'SINE' graffitied all over east Edinburgh and also seen it in deepest musselburgh.

who is this dickhead?

Sine is irish gaelic, pronounced Shinay, and is usually put at the end of stories and/or sentences etc, translates roughly as "That's it" or "Finished". Not sure if that's what the graffiti means but as good a stab in the dark as I can manage.
25-06-2012, 01:03 PM
Wilson

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Originally Posted by The_Exile

Sine is irish gaelic, pronounced Shinay, and is usually put at the end of stories and/or sentences etc, translates roughly as "That's it" or "Finished". Not sure if that's what the graffiti means but as good a stab in the dark as I can manage.

Perhaps a stab in the dark is what finished it!
02-07-2012, 07:24 PM
Hibernia Na Eir

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Originally Posted by The_Exile

Sine is irish gaelic, pronounced Shinay, and is usually put at the end of stories and/or sentences etc, translates roughly as "That's it" or "Finished". Not sure if that's what the graffiti means but as good a stab in the dark as I can manage.

seems a serious business, he's got his own site:-

http://randomvandalism.com/Serial%20...July/index.htm

you'd think the Police could check in on his I.P and do a bit of work to catch him/her out.
02-07-2012, 08:36 PM
RyeSloan

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Originally Posted by Hibernia Na Eir

seems a serious business, he's got his own site:-

http://randomvandalism.com/Serial%20...July/index.htm

you'd think the Police could check in on his I.P and do a bit of work to catch him/her out.

Highlights quite a few tag's....don't get it myself but at least some of the tag's are well done, the OE and OE crew tags are pathetic and surely can't be described as a tag at all.
05-07-2012, 09:38 AM
Chuck Rhoades

Know a few people personally involved in the tagging scene in Edinburgh. Most popular at the moment are:

Mate
Yeah
Toarch
Sine
Paperboy

Think a group of taggers use OE; however I believe this stood for (Our Edinburgh).

Aero was all about the South/West of Edinburgh - but was caught late 2011.

Want to know more about 'Toarch' - always in a drip style font, looks like blood.
06-07-2012, 11:18 PM
The Modfather

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Originally Posted by BouncerRoss

Know a few people personally involved in the tagging scene in Edinburgh. Most popular at the moment are:

Mate
Yeah
Toarch
Sine
Paperboy

Think a group of taggers use OE; however I believe this stood for (Our Edinburgh).

Aero was all about the South/West of Edinburgh - but was caught late 2011.

Want to know more about 'Toarch' - always in a drip style font, looks like blood.

There's also "Youts" all over the place. Always makes me smile as it makes me think of the film "My Cousin Vinnie" -

"What, what was that word you just said?"
"What?"
"Youts, what's a yout?"
"Oh, I'm sorry, yoooths"

Love that film :agree:
07-07-2012, 08:30 AM
The_Exile

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Originally Posted by Right Said Frank

There's also "Youts" all over the place. Always makes me smile as it makes me think of the film "My Cousin Vinnie" -

"What, what was that word you just said?"
"What?"
"Youts, what's a yout?"
"Oh, I'm sorry, yoooths"

Love that film :agree:

Probably in my all time top 3 films ever, love it, the scene where she's going on about her biological clock is just some of the best comic timing ever filmed. Joe Pesci is utter genius in it.
08-07-2012, 10:47 AM
Onceinawhile

Toarch is everywhere on my train route and walk to work from the station. Same with nsa. Don't understand the point personally.
08-07-2012, 04:17 PM
superbam

Anybody know the story behind "Bert Oil" which was all over east Edinburgh in the mid-late 1990s? It always intrigued me. Not a tag, was written much in the same style as McCabe Grass.
10-07-2012, 08:32 PM
Onceinawhile

Another one I loved was "Pam, I love you, call me" or words to that effect on the huts at the sighthill football pitches
11-07-2012, 11:25 PM
Bishop Hibee

John -M- 1690 was all over Holy Rood High School, Porty and the surrounding neighbourhoods in the early to mid 80's. If memory serves, Lothian and Borders finest eventually took a dim view of this and, ahem, 'encouraged' the individual to see sense.

I believe he has posted on hibs.net but without the date :jamboak:
13-07-2012, 06:01 PM
HibsMax

Bus shelter at Burdiehouse on the dual carriageway 80s/90s. Simple but poignant. "Sex kills, die young" (or words to that affect).
14-10-2018, 08:02 PM
Hermit Crab

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Originally Posted by MSK

Still with the Exploited I think ..saw him up town a few months back outside the Bank Bar ..

Regularish poster on Kickback as well.

Sorry to bring up an old thread, was just reading about graffiti in Edinburgh and this popped up on google search. Interesting stuff.
14-10-2018, 08:24 PM
MSK

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Originally Posted by Hermit Crab

Regularish poster on Kickback as well.

Sorry to bring up an old thread, was just reading about graffiti in Edinburgh and this popped up on google search. Interesting stuff.

Jeez it is a blast from the past 😆 Ive actually spoken to Wattie a few times since then, decent bloke for a jambo dare I say 🤭
14-10-2018, 08:30 PM
Hermit Crab

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Originally Posted by MSK

Jeez it is a blast from the past 😆 Ive actually spoken to Wattie a few times since then, decent bloke for a jambo dare I say 🤭

Have we ever had any famous (ish) "celebrity" contributors to the site over the years?
14-10-2018, 08:33 PM
MSK

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Originally Posted by Hermit Crab

Have we ever had any famous (ish) "celebrity" contributors to the site over the years?

Fish ? Posted a couple of times a few years back, still reads the site now and then, he is about the only famous (ish) hibby I can think of 😀
14-10-2018, 08:39 PM
Hermit Crab

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Originally Posted by MSK

Fish ? Posted a couple of times a few years back, still reads the site now and then, he is about the only famous (ish) hibby I can think of 😀

Wonder if Irvine Welsh looks in on here.
15-10-2018, 10:56 AM
The Modfather

Dean Shiels and Tony Rougier have posted before haven’t they 😂 wish I could find those threads.
15-10-2018, 09:57 PM
matty_f

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Originally Posted by The Modfather

Dean Shiels and Tony Rougier have posted before haven’t they 😂 wish I could find those threads.

The Dean Shiels thread was one of the funniest threads ever on here. It's long since been deleted unfortunately - I tried to find it a while back.

I'm led to believe Irvine Welsh posts here but I've never been able to verify that information, so I have my doubts.
16-10-2018, 01:21 PM
wpj

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Originally Posted by MSK

Still with the Exploited I think ..saw him up town a few months back outside the Bank Bar ..

Wattie has been quite ill over the last year, I am very good pals with ex exploited band members. Still gigging and for a Jambo he is a nice geezer, not at all like he is sometimes portrayed.
16-10-2018, 08:22 PM
MSK

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Originally Posted by wpj

Wattie has been quite ill over the last year, I am very good pals with ex exploited band members. Still gigging and for a Jambo he is a nice geezer, not at all like he is sometimes portrayed.

Yeah, collapsed on stage in Portugal in 2014, I spoke to him on his return and a few times after, certainly lives on the edge 😃

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