Current Events > Meeting people in Edinburgh is a lesson in humility sometimes

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You get talking to someone and they speak 6 languages, are studying a postdoc while working in some humanitarian cause and they have like a dozen interesting hobbies

I'm like haha, yeah I like videogames but I don't even really bother playing them

Guess you should've been the Brain.

pinky0926 posted...

You get talking to someone and they speak 6 languages, are studying a postdoc while working in some humanitarian cause and they have like a dozen interesting hobbies

While perhaps slightly exaggerated, this does match up quite well with the people I know in Edinburgh.

Glob posted...

While perhaps slightly exaggerated, this does match up quite well with the people I know in Edinburgh.

It's not even much of an exaggeration. I was just talking to someone who speaks english, mandarin, cantonese, japanese, german and french, is studying a postdoc and likes to do metallurgy in her free time.

Who just takes up metallurgy...

Glob posted...

While perhaps slightly exaggerated, this does match up quite well with the people I know in Edinburgh.

P.s. pub quizzes here are on hard mode.

pinky0926 posted...

It's not even much of an exaggeration. I was just talking to someone who speaks english, mandarin, cantonese, japanese, german and french, is studying a postdoc and likes to do metallurgy in her free time.

Who just takes up metallurgy...

Sorry, I didnt mean to say that you were exaggerating, but rather that my friends there tend to only speak 3-5 languages.

pinky0926 posted...

P.s. pub quizzes here are on hard mode.

Im well aware. Back in Bristol I was a quizmaster and a fairly competitive pub quizzer, but the few Ive done in Edinburgh were considerably harder across the board than the ones in Bristol.

Are you no longer living in NYC?

And is urban Scotland really THAT cosmopolitan?

I would like checking out Edinburgh.
It's got a cool castle!!
So, there is that!

SiO4 posted...

I would like checking out Edinburgh.
It's got a cool castle!!
So, there is that!

I was the best man at a wedding in that castle. I dread to think how much it cost.

Glob posted...

I was the best man at a wedding in that castle. I dread to think how much it cost.

Jesus.
That is cool, but Holy fuck...
Ya, that's not a budget wedding.

so is it ed-in-borough or is it ed-in-brg

Glob posted...

I was the best man at a wedding in that castle. I dread to think how much it cost.

that sounds amazing.

Kaiganeer posted...

so is it ed-in-borough or is it ed-in-brg

I hear people say it like e-din-bruh

TetsuoS2 posted...

that sounds amazing.

I hear people say it like e-din-bruh

It was a lovely day, to be fair.

Kaiganeer posted...

so is it ed-in-borough or is it ed-in-brg

The thing about British place names is that you have to remove as many of the letters as possible when you say then.

En-bruh

UnholyMudcrab posted...

The thing about British place names is that you have to remove as many of the letters as possible when you say then.

En-bruh

Um, no.

Another acceptable pronunciation is to say it the Swedish way

Eh-din-bor-ee

It is Eh-din-bruh.

Glob posted...

Sorry, I didnt mean to say that you were exaggerating, but rather that my friends there tend to only speak 3-5 languages.

Im well aware. Back in Bristol I was a quizmaster and a fairly competitive pub quizzer, but the few Ive done in Edinburgh were considerably harder across the board than the ones in Bristol.

Hah, nice! Yeah it's basically university challenge here. Less questions on who won the english league 2 and more questions like how many quarks in a proton