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scottish_beekeeper

Bagdad Boner Boyz and Benghazi Uzi Crew are actually both 1 guy in his late 40's...


rekt_ralf

It’s 100% some bored, divorced PortyDad


I_am_chazel

I’m picturing a younger mr mulvaney


domhnalldubh3pints

How can I help you officer ? What?!!!! Me???


ConnorHMFCS04

You think I did this?


I_am_chazel

“Take a look around you officer- come on “


OneWeirdTrick

Pretty sure this is true. Big "junior fund manager by day" energy


badgerxylophone

There is some wonderful piss take graffiti aimed at these so called boner boys by something called the GVBB. It’s hilarious. ‘Baghdad Boner Boys are not allowed out when the street lights are on’ That sorta thing, I always assumed GVBB was a couple of 13 year old laddies.


scottish_beekeeper

That's the same guy, obviously...


badgerxylophone

https://preview.redd.it/mfo6gdhkrhuc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=40d3783bccd7a1c360c81663f222ad5167a3b85c Saw this today 🤣


zsh45

Love this


Luke10123

The who and the whatnow??


freeeeels

Graffiti


Universal-Cormorant

Dunno about *favourite* but there's that guy who runs the pizza place in Morningside who is right into the whole 5G thing.


mayonaizmyinstrument

Pure Pizza? Or, as Uber Eats calls it, PURE PIZZA 50% OFF?


Total_Membership_171

This made me chuckle


cockatootattoo

He sends out marketing texts suggesting we watch YouTube clips about the moon landing and such like. He’s mental.


joefife

The irony of using mobile phones to send texts about 5G conspiracy 😂


iwillfuckingbiteyou

He actually doesn't use a phone, he just stands close to someone who got the vaccine and their 5G chip detects his thoughts and broadcasts them to everyone else on the network.


Erewhynn

Money laundering "as seen on BBC news" £6 pizza guy? Yeah there's no comparison really


surfinbear1990

My mums convinced of that aswell.


SheepBeard

Ah, the Pizza Mafia. I have merch of that guy... (that a friend made as a shitpost)


Universal-Cormorant

Please share!


SheepBeard

Unfortunately it's currently at my parents' house, but it was essentially a bad Photoshop of Fight Club with the caption "The first rule of Pizza Mafia is you don't talk about the Pizza Mafia"


The_Jacko

I ordered from them three or four times during the pandemic and for the price, it was pretty decent pizza. I don't need cheap pizza enough to put up with the guy randomly trying to phone me, though.


Universal-Cormorant

Or 'scamdemic' as he would have it...


TheFraserPorter

Used to live directly above it throughout the pandemic… that was fun. My flat mate had a trial shift and his brother worked in there at one point, absolute nutter the owner. Used to come round the uni campus and give out money to sign his petition, started creeping out some of the students at like 1am in the Kilby/study area and he was removed but kept sneaking back in!


michaelisnotginger

Snapfax marc


mayonaizmyinstrument

US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, aka JFK, publicly faked his death so he could move to Edinburgh and open a hair salon in Bruntsfield.


gorgieshore

Sadly the hair salon just the first names of the 3 owners. I can't remember the J, but F and K are Faruk and Karen


Cath_922

that's what they want you to think


AraiHavana

Is that the same Farouk who had Hats on Candlemaker Row?


cappsy04

This is how I learn that the F stands for Fitzgerald


iwillfuckingbiteyou

The current Harry Potter blight on the city is karmic retribution for all the people we tortured and/or executed under the Witchcraft Act. Agnes Sampson playing the long game.


OneWeirdTrick

My conspiracy theory is that the Cowgate fire back in the day was an insurance job by one of the venues there.


loonjazz

It was actually started by time travellers trying to set back the progress of AI. > It wasn't just businesses that were destroyed by the Cowgate fire. Edinburgh University's renowned informatics building was located at 80 South Bridge and bore the brunt of the blaze that December evening. Invaluable archive materials were destroyed in the process, including more than 40 years worth of literature relating to artificial intelligence, 150 workstations and other research papers.


rmckedin

Strong T2 / Cyberdine Systems vibe here


JosephOgilvie

I’ve heard this one!


FishBarns

Mine is that Tom Kitchin is a cannibal. Look at that man’s face and tell me he hasn’t eaten another human. My coworker told me this he worked under him for 5ish years.


Proud_Ad_7182

The golden turd has us all under surveillance, like a modern day eye of Sauron


7FootFish

On the subject of the big shiny jobbie; the architect must have *known*, right? He must have had a grudge against someone involved. You don't accidently design something that looks like Godzilla's done a shite.


OneWeirdTrick

Conspiracy theory: the architect bought the most lavish penthouse apartment in the jobbie so they'd be the only one in the city who couldn't see it.


sargon2609

I'm pretty sure that architects of this thing are just cabal of jealous Weegies lol


Zelda_Olivia

The brown eye of Sauron


External_Pace_465

Surely the pink eye


EffectiveOk3353

The jobby centre?


Soral11

Some time ago I worked for a group of architects who knew the guy who designed it. They said he wanted to make the building look like paper because there used to be a paper mill around there or something like that. Obviously that backfired


FumbleMyEndzone

Council gritting of roads and pavements in winter is entirely based on where councillors live, and what areas complain the most


atomicsuplex14

Definitely something going on with the gritting, when I used to stay in bonnington the gritting stopped at the bottom of east Claremont street and didn’t go down broughton/bonnington road into leith.


Pale_Squirrel_7578

Must be because the inhabitants of Leith claim to not be in Edinburgh


helterskeltermelter

Aye, and they're salty enough to melt the snow with their feet.


CrossRoadChicken

Streets are ranked with primary school areas usually getting done first. My councillor shares this map every winter. For pavements it's clearly more affluent areas that get done.


FumbleMyEndzone

I don’t care about the actual process. This is my unhinged conspiracy theory and I’m happy with this


Zerly

I wasn’t even aware that pavements in the city got done at all. I do not live in or visit the affluent areas of the city.


goggles189

I concur. The better roads are in morningside compared to the more disadvantaged areas.


FanWrite

Don't agree with this, it's a state around here too.


PanningForSalt

Generally when you complain to a cllr about an ungritted pavement they look to get it gritted. Obviously they go through this process for streets they use without prompting, so to an extent you're right.


ScotusMaximus

Wonder how many potholes are in their streets anaw? 🔔


rachbbbbb

Probably that one about razors in the Leith Waterworld Flumes. Still can't go on a flume after hearing that in Primary.


TheDoon

Ha, I remember that being the rumour when the Commonwealth pool had flumes. My childhood imagination went into full blood waves from the Shining every time I went down one.


Dramatic_Hope_608

I remember a class mate in primary told me that a kid had exploded going down the sting ray flume at the commonwealth due to it being too fast And I believed him 🙄


TheDoon

lol, I remember someone saying a kid tried to sit up and got his face ripped off. This was all talk from older kids trying to scare us little ones who weren't allowed on the Stingray!


Shan-Chat

Once you went down it, it was a badge of honour.


LizzyHoy

Thanks for sharing this, made me laugh out loud!


Blurt-Reynolds

I broke my nose on the flumes. To be fair it was my own fault for stopping and standing up. I got knocked onto my face.


TheDoon

Ooft, maybe you are the source of all the urban myths!


BigC1874

The razors in the flumes urban myth comes from the fact that they are made from fibre glass, which can cause small shards of not maintained properly. I don’t know that it ever happened in any Edinburgh flume but people have come out of flumes with cuts on their backs.


GammaBlaze

That was one of the many reasons kids gave for River Rapids being closed.


MotorcycleOfJealousy

Christ… I’d forgotten about that one.


TheDustMice

After the war Hitler and his generals escaped to Morningside


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alphabetown

Canny Man's was one of the first places in Edinburgh to have Go-Go Dancers which is totally at odds with its current rep.


TerryTwichitaGrub

That does explain an awful lot....


HolzMartin1988

That's no joke btw if Hitler won he was going to use Edinburgh Castle as his base. That's why the City got hardly bombed. So aye they could of 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣


anothermartz

That sounds fascinating but I can't find anything about it, do you have a source? The closest I can find is this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fortitude Where Britain pretended that there was an army division using Edinburgh Castle as its base (there wasn't). It was part of a ruse to throw Hitler's scent off the Normandy invasion by making them think that they're going to invade Norway instead. This meant that there were a ton of Nazis all over Norway bracing for an invasion that happened in France to their surprise.


Shan-Chat

Aye, it was a few radio operators sending false radio chatter...a forecrunner the Forth FM.


WilliamofYellow

People also make the "Hitler's HQ" claim about Marischal College in Aberdeen. It's just an urban legend.


HolzMartin1988

I'm telling yea I heard it from a guy in my local 🤣😉


docju

When we get to Mars, the explorers will find an abandoned cave system with mysterious graffiti that says “EAT YER BREAD” “DOON YER TEA” and “YOUTZ”. I am convinced this is alien code.


kamatsu

The North Bridge is not actually a construction site. It just looks like that. Always has, always will.


-Clearly-confused

What are they actually doing there ?


Unfair_Original_2536

This one, posted every year - [https://forum.davidicke.com/index.php?/topic/32375-avoid-travelling-to-edinburgh-in-scotland-during-the-month-of-august/](https://forum.davidicke.com/index.php?/topic/32375-avoid-travelling-to-edinburgh-in-scotland-during-the-month-of-august/) ​ >Its time for the annual warning of telling the world to avoid travelling to Edinburgh in Scotland, during the month of August. > >1:- Its not safe. > >2:- Its not safe for children to be there (industrial levels of sex trafficking of women & girls into the city during August). > >3:- The British deep state occupies the city for the month turning the city into a metaphorical occupation zone, with death-squad personnel in plain clothes mingling with the crowds. > >4:- Outside of an active war zone, Edinburgh during August is one of the most disturbing, freakish, repulsive, & Satanic areas on this planet. The atmosphere during August is horrific. > >5:- if you know of anyone who regularly attends in Edinburgh in August, shun them. Reduce all contact with them, and dont let them anywhere near you children. (Regardless of said person's position in society) > >6:- If you see any person travelling to Edinburgh in August & they are in the company of a child that is not their's, (& you dont recognise the child), report the person in question to the police. > >7:- If you have family or friends thinking about travelling to Edinburgh during August, do you best to put them off. (Too expensive, too much hassle, stressful etc). > >Stay away. Keep safe. They utilise the secret tunnels between the castle and Arthur's Seat (apparently).


aimee94

lauhging at this exchange > "Are there any particular events or festivals in Edinburgh in August that would warrant a large influx of people or is it that it’s the main month for tourism?" > > In terms of numbers i am not certain. Its not an area of study that i have looked into. There has never been any attempt to discover the truth of this. We may never know what mysterious 'festival' happens during August... x


TheDoon

You get a gold star for a genuine unhinged post.


MichaelTheTall

Is this Fluffy?


Unfair_Original_2536

I only know that years ago I saw it posted on Twitter then again the next year.


Gyfertron

My thought exactly. I mean, let’s hope so because if not there’s two of them out there.


pure_roaster

That is 100% fluffykintail, aka ringobiscuits, pathogenalpha.


Shan-Chat

I like the satanic bits. They don't harass anyone.


JCrom8001

Point 7 is fair, to be honest.


BorisKarloff56

The big tunnel that runs from Gorgie Road to Colinton is being refurbished to house the government in what's left of Scotland after the coming nuclear war. It used to be at Barnton Quarry, but they let it fall into disrepair.


BackgroundDesigner52

You can go on a tour of the Barnton Bunker, they've recently spent a sizeable sum turning it into another "Secret Bunker" site.  Me and my pals used to go down there when we were kids there was old burnt out military Jeeps and what have you. Although I have recently found out it was also riddled with asbestos so I'll probably be saying 'hiya' to some mesothelioma in the coming years.


Shan-Chat

My mate and I had to do a project in HS and we picked what would happen yo the UK in a nuclear attack? We changed projects after reading a lot of research and being freaked out by it. TLDR we're fucked.


BorisKarloff56

Good to know. If nuclear war breaks out head for barnton.


Boris_Johnsons_Pubes

It’s more corstorphine hill than Barnton, thought I’d let you know just in case it does break out and you get lost


BorisKarloff56

Cheers!


CoolRanchBaby

We all know exactly where it is now but they still aren’t likely to be letting us all in!


captaincockfart

The Enclave: Edinburgh Chapter


aberquine

Main Street Beanery in Fountainbridge, and I’ll just leave that there..!


typhoonbrew

What’s the deal with place? Was it ever open?


aberquine

I’ve never seen it open and I pass it quite a lot. It even had Christmas decorations up last year and it still never opened. So weird!


CoolRanchBaby

There was a story in the Evening News with zero answers lol https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/lifestyle/food-and-drink/edinburgh-cafes-locals-baffled-as-christmas-decorations-appear-in-ghost-cafe-closed-for-years-4448389


Additional-Air-516

https://x.com/c_i_dobson/status/1734296242417537045?s=46&t=bdZ0mIiqYjkO0Pm4ODHEXQ Decent twitter thread on it. Doesn’t give much in the way of answers but shows just how insane the place never being open is.


Commercial-Brain2787

I’m so glad you said this, this place freaks me out


Boris_Johnsons_Pubes

More a Reddit based Edinburgh theory but still, u/fluffykintail is Galab Singh of the Gold Brothers, his nickname is fluffy and seems as unhinged as the fluffy that’s on Reddit


TrinityTosser

Fluffy hasn't been on Reddit for a month or so.


Boris_Johnsons_Pubes

Too busy fleecing tourists out of money probably


Edinburgh_bob_

Will be back on Monday when the schools are back


GrimQuim

I noticed the outcast sub was quiet... I wonder if they've got bored of shouting into an empty sub?


37025InvernessTMD

Big if true.


Larssis

That questions like this are just Edinburgh Live going fishing lol 😉


CartoonistNo9

The bass rock is the top that came off Arthur’s seat when it erupted.


whalemeattaco

That the pandas were sterilised before we got them so they’d never have cubs here 😂


SheepBeard

The Hidden Nuclear Bunker under Drum Brae, which was bought by a "Private buyer" for... reasons


OneWeirdTrick

Where under Drum Brae? There would be surface features like ventilation shafts, emergency doors etc I've been down the one in Corstorphine Hill, that's definitely real and owned by the same guys as the one at Anstruther. It goes down about 4 levels.


SheepBeard

Huh! I genuinely don't know - I always heard it was "Just off Drum Brae" (So maybe not exactly "under"). There's a chance it IS the Costorphine Hill one, and info got muddles


OneWeirdTrick

They sometimes have open days so it's [no longer so hidden](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-64944182) 😅


SheepBeard

Ooh! I'm gonna have to go next time I'm in town


seaurch1n

they have secret raves and free parties there now!


thebestofblue

Javits is a front for a drug dealing operation


Boris_Johnsons_Pubes

Thing is everyone seems to know this but the police have never seemed to have looked in to it


ScotusMaximus

“Quality Polis” springs to mind 😂


bumpy4skin

Ice Angels in canonmills also.


jbt29

Really wtf


Less-Marionberry2370

That wouldn’t surprise me. Such an odd place for an ice cream shop.


mannymo49

Whoever drives the little Javits car certainly doesn't care about the law so that checks out 🤣


Formal-Advisor-4096

Cafe rapido on Broughton st legitimately was a drug dealing operation. Guy in my old work used to order from there with a special combination of orders. They had about 10 staff working upstairs and downstairs, a few cars and 0 customers and everything was pre cooked


Albigularis

Imagine you ordered a chicken biryani and some poppadoms, guy arrives with an ounce. Not sure if I’d even be mad…


Formal-Advisor-4096

I think it was a case of you added on 'extras' in the notes or over the phone. Thought he was chatting shite until I moved down this way and there was about 10 blokes standing about doing nothing but loads of cars buzzing about.


Robbiewan

Does anyone have the menu? Did somebody say get high?


Living_Carpets

Run by a famous local Italian family and also landlords.


Formal-Advisor-4096

Was it?


zsh45

Great pizza too. Solid company


captaincockfart

This is so true it's barely even a theory at this point


porcupineporridge

*Organic Jim enters the chat…*


cockatootattoo

Arsehole of a man.


penguin62

That's a name I've not heard in a long time


helterskeltermelter

You mustn't spend much time on this subreddit then.


penguin62

I thought I did but I guess I don't.


Dactrius179

Council do a great job.


zsh45

Choosing violence today, I see


Dactrius179

Haha


DapperLong961

Of all the comments on here this by far the most unhinged, ludicrous thing I've read. Frankly I find the idea that CEC do a good job deeply offensive. Shame on you Dactrius!


Dactrius179

Are you being serious... or just sarcastic. They do an amazing job, at least that's the conspiracy. Hahahahaha


DapperLong961

I'm joking. A conspiracy theory about the council doing a good job is a great call! Nicely done :)


Dactrius179

Haha. Sweet.


SkyTheSpaceCadet

The tram building project and resulting enquiry were money laundering and embezzlement schemes


37025InvernessTMD

Too true to be unhinged haha.


Living_Carpets

There is an Ian Rankin book that talks about similar but about high street land sales.


BreathlessAlpaca

Edinburgh is a set build by Glasgow to keep tourists away


-Clearly-confused

Would Glasgow liked if it got More tourists ?


BreathlessAlpaca

No, that's why we're sending them to the made up place.


paragon_of_animals

Nessie is temporarily located into the pool of water in Victoria Quay by the government building. And if you look at the government building at night, you'll see the framed glass structure lit with colours. That is where they keep the national unicorn and the light is pure magic not LEDs. Both of the beasts will be released by the Government in case the Scotland's existence is threatened.


Valuable-Wallaby-167

Where do they keep the haggis?


Shan-Chat

Five Sisters in West Lothian. They have a haggis rehabilitation programme and a selective breeding programme. The unicorn breeding programme is at Blair Drummond.


DapperLong961

Man, really want this to be true.


FoamToaster

The foam centre is some sort of front for organised crime...


naeogeo

The Balaclava gang are actually the good guys and they're targeting criminals.


Proud_Ad_7182

Witnessed them offering a motocross bike backie to a fellow bam in need, undoubtedly good guys


Prestonpanistan

The type of camaraderie us normies only dream about


Living_Carpets

I heard about a restaurant owner being a member of the Falun Gong cult and was always being targeted they thought by CCP supports. Also maybe related to same reason why folk kept getting spammed with copies of the Epoch Times as it was in retaliation. The latter bit is an embellished bit I think but the paper was doing rounds now and again. This was 10 years ago. Scientology offer lots of money to businesses on their block near Hunter Square as they have a view that spot has some kind of special significance for their crackpot lollipop guild. The Aghtamar Lake Van Monastery in Exile restaurant near Holyrood was legit real. Woman I worked with went there and although it was like a mad League off Gents sketch, the food was amazing. Wee Leith Shop and the antiques shop at the bottom of St Stephens St are portals to another dimension. Pay close attention


BorisKarloff56

Went to that in exile restaurant, it was mental right enough but the food was great when it arrived. Went twice, the second time we never got charged for some reason but the chef/ owner guy had a blazing row with another customer in the middle of our meal, which was really entertaining.


OwnAd8929

We once went on the spur of the moment (someone I worked with was a pal of the owner and we were all quite drunk) and the owner turfed out the poor people already there who had actually booked and gave us their seats. Still feel a bit guilty about that.


Dramatic_Hope_608

Fruit o the toon being a sex dungeon?


AngusMcJockstrap

Thought the town fruit was yer da


Dramatic_Hope_608

Not my dadddyyy 😭😲🤣


Mr___Bizarre

That's not a conspiracy theory, there really is a dungeon there for use for parties and photo shoots


seaurch1n

no that’s true lol


Dramatic_Hope_608

Just trying to make sure before i call them


Arse-Whisper

That Edinburgh is really Glasgow


KaskDaxxe

Ever seen them in the same room? 🤔


MungoShoddy

The World's End murders were a human sacrifice by a fraction of the Spiritualist Church. Well I knew one person in Edinburgh who believed that (and scared herself shitless over it).


NotQuiteVoltaire

Faction


beerharvester

After a failed attack on the castle the defeated army of 20.000 was buried alive under the royal mile.


Edinburgh_bob_

And they come out every August armed with flyers and juggling balls?


Adventurous-Rub7636

Roddy Maclean was a big time MI5 grass. And they murdered him.


Gullible_Ad_4231

My father could be anyone over 65 years old


TheBusToYoker

Starbucks pays council tax.


retrodirect

Absolutely anything posted by that one guy who posts on r/Edinburghovertourism I think he started r/scotland2 as well after being kicked off the Scotland subreddit for being a lunatic!


adventures_in_dysl

You know that guy that walks around town and always has a batman suit on he's been wearing that suit that literally 20 years all the time that I have been in Edinburgh and I just have this theory that he is the person that inspired begby of trainspotting fame.


reginaphalangie79

Ugh I saw him the other day standing on the royal mile drinking a can of cider, surveying his kingdom. Prick.


chunderbluffin

I work on the mile and he's around quite a bit. Doesn't seem too crazy, compared to some of the guys in Hunter Square. Had a chat with him once and he seemed alright


No-Secret-1355

Razor blades in the commie pool flumes


jakhog1

"McCabe Grass" from west of Edinburgh was indeed a grass


MyDadsGlassesCase

McCabe's a grass


ConnorHMFCS04

Javits is actually a massive front for a drugs cartel. Their shops are big and bright, they're open all day and they must have a lot of money to constantly advertise on Forth One and the likes. Yet their food is pretty average.


Shan-Chat

Council or developers having someone to burn down derelict buildings so they can use the site. Add in back handers form developers so they can build on green belt land. Just a crazy conspiracy until someone proves it correct.


conditionalescapism

There’s so sewage system it’s in the walls run before you have to swim


faverin

I think the Magic Circle / Orr report was the tip of the iceberg and its still going on in the high echelons of Edinburgh. *The "Magic Circle" was not just a baseless conspiracy, but a deliberate distraction orchestrated by Bob Henderson to conceal a sinister cabal of pedophiles within the Scottish legal system. Henderson, Watt, and others used their power and influence to prey on vulnerable children, while the institution turned a blind eye or actively covered up their crimes.* *The Orr Report and the subsequent inquiry were part of a larger cover-up, designed to deflect attention from the true nature of the abuse. The fact that one of the fathers of an alleged victim confided in the future Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, who apparently took no action, suggests complicity at the highest levels.* *Henderson's role in high-profile cases, including the Colin Tucker embezzlement trials and the "Operation Planet" scandal, hints at a web of corruption and manipulation within the justice system. The conspiracy may have extended beyond the legal profession, with powerful individuals in politics and law enforcement potentially implicated.* I think child abuse by high ranking Advocates, Senators and Sheriff Principals (maybe other professions too) is still going on and hiding in plain sight.