Edinburgh
About Edinburgh
Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas. It is located in southeast Scotland and is bounded to the north by the Firth of Forth and to the south by the Pentland Hills. Edinburgh had a population of 506,520 in 2020, making it the second-most-populous city in Scotland and the seventh-most-populous in the United Kingdom. The wider metropolitan area had a population of 912,490 in the same year.
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The wig club was founded in 1775 in Edinburgh, and there was a really cool investigation into it by an author called David Stevenson, and it was a gentleman sex club.
from No Such Thing As A Danquito, 2021-08-27 at 00:52:28 · read transcript
Other times Edinburgh came up
Part play on because he owed copyright on the theater production how amazing yeah monica have you done that with really good actually i should do just stop someone doing a bootleg play that was basically what my experience of doing the Edinburgh fringe was was going out half an hour before the show being like anybody somebody and then uh you know wildly entertaining two people chills actual chills remembering that everyone's Edinburgh yeah okay down well we've done the Dracula thing can we.
470: No Such Thing As A Walking Stick Full of Bagels, 2023-03-17 · listen
They just have a little they have a little symbol it's a post box crown or something it's something wrong but not saying she's the second yeah. I really like and maybe this was a massive story but I missed it that there are now 100 golden post boxes. That's so cool. Did you not see one like in Edinburgh when the Olympics was on they did they spray painted one? When are they going to paint them back I wonder? I don't think they will yeah I think they ought to eventually.
110: No Such Thing As A Dull Post Box, 2016-04-22 · listen
Yeah. If you were found guilty of the vice of, this is the exact words, filthy fornication, you would get a fine of 40 pounds, 40 Scottish pounds, which in those days was absolutely enormous. In 1697, as late as then, there was a guy in Edinburgh called Thomas Aikenhead, he was hanged for declaring that theology was a rhapsody of ill-invented nonsense. He was hanged for that. It wasn't, you know, the Norwegian today legal system, but it was slightly more lenient.
No Such Thing As Duck Bill Hickok, 2022-09-15 · listen
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