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Interesting Links for 23-10-2013

Oct 23, 2013 12:00

CurrencyFair: A P2P platform for currency exchange
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Fulfilled by Amazon: How to get rid of old stuff immediately, sell it for more, and use Amazon as a cheap storage facility
(tags: amazon )
Why we keep doing bizarre things in order to finance public works
(tags: politics uk economics )
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Comments 51

philmophlegm October 23 2013, 18:14:15 UTC

Looking more closely at the article, Edinburgh is the second best city to live in _out of a sample of eleven British cities_. That's not at all the same as the second best place to live in the UK.

I've not spent enough time in Edinburgh to comment on the Athens* of the North. However, I have spent quite some time in Bristol (which came top in the sample), and large parts of that city are an utter shithole.

* I wonder if this is the compliment it used to be...

andrewducker October 23 2013, 18:29:55 UTC

Oh yes, I always take such surveys with a pinch of salt.

Doesn't stop me reposting them when they say nice things about home, of course :->

f4f3 October 23 2013, 19:04:54 UTC

And we Glaswegians love being talked down. It stops us being swamped with tourists every August, for a start...

danieldwilliam October 24 2013, 08:18:52 UTC

Rubbing up against all those tourists might shift some of the dirt.

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octopoid_horror October 23 2013, 21:38:18 UTC

One of my friends has only been in the UK a couple of years, and went to visit an Edinburgh sauna assuming it would be a place for some taking in healthy and invigorating steam.

Apparently the staff explained her error to her before things got weird, and she left somewhat surprised.

andrewducker October 23 2013, 21:47:07 UTC

There _must_ be a sauna somewhere in Edinburgh that's actually a sauna!

ajr October 23 2013, 23:03:32 UTC

Perhaps ones attached to gyms and sports/health clubs?

andrewducker October 24 2013, 07:27:28 UTC

Probably, yeah.

Not so useful if you don't want to be part of a gym, I guess.

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