waltz Posted February 20, 2011 Report Share Posted February 20, 2011 You may as well watch a movie on a gameboy screen if you're going to go to the Belmont only been there twice. Once as they were the only cinema showing a hunter Thompson movie and once because they were the only cinema showing Antichrist. CHAOS REIGNS.Please use commas.I dunno, I think The Belmont's really good, not sure what you were getting at re: screen size. They're... big screens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cynic Posted February 20, 2011 Report Share Posted February 20, 2011 I did remember that....but in times of desperation I used to get my pals to get the free second lot and have my own second serving followed by theirs. No wonder the belly increased. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FOX Posted February 20, 2011 Report Share Posted February 20, 2011 Only ever been to Belmont Cinema once, to see El Orfanato with Spanish classmates. Was pleasant enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool1 Posted February 20, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2011 Only ever been to Belmont Cinema once, to see El Orfanato with Spanish classmates. Was pleasant enough.I prefer vue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool1 Posted February 20, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2011 Can someone explain what the hell a Money Shop is?they exchange your money to foreign moneyEDIT - the place is actually called The Money Shop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool1 Posted February 20, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2011 They have an entire shop for that?yeahthey have loads in Edinburgh and Glasgowand millions in London Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted February 20, 2011 Report Share Posted February 20, 2011 yeahthey have loads in Edinburgh and Glasgowand millions in LondonI think there's more too it than that!The shop is nicely in keeping with the scaffie Sports Shop across the road. Worst service ever, but at least consistent. The Glasgow shop was equally as bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waltz Posted February 21, 2011 Report Share Posted February 21, 2011 I think there's more too it than that!The shop is nicely in keeping with the scaffie Sports Shop across the road. Worst service ever, but at least consistent. The Glasgow shop was equally as bad.The Money Shop is a notorious American (I think?) high street loan dealer who charge obscene APR on quick-fix cash sums. They've recently talked to the press about it being a key time for them to offer their services to people. Really evil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monster Zero Posted February 21, 2011 Report Share Posted February 21, 2011 I don't go out in town much these days and the Belmot Street area very rarely but I still wander up and down it from time to time...I've been sitting here thinking what has changed dramatically and come to the conclusion fuck all. Unless you are a big fan of tat for your house, in which case The Pier closing may have been the catalyst of doom of which you speak.Belmot Street was always a good source of amusement from drunk scantily clad lasses and blokes in Ben Sherman shirts making twats of themselves with others of their kind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirsten Posted February 21, 2011 Report Share Posted February 21, 2011 I think there's more too it than that!The shop is nicely in keeping with the scaffie Sports Shop across the road. Worst service ever, but at least consistent. The Glasgow shop was equally as bad.Not to forget Ramsdens also on Union Street, the Cash 4 Gold shop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool1 Posted February 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2011 Not to forget Ramsdens also on Union Street, the Cash 4 Gold shop.On the money shop website it turns out they will your gold aswell.Cash converters will give you hardly anything for your gold and then sell it.The gold rush is on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool1 Posted February 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2011 Im not about things changing into other thingsIm on about the clubs and bars not as good as they once were.Like the wild boar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FOX Posted February 21, 2011 Report Share Posted February 21, 2011 Im not about things changing into other thingsIm on about the clubs and bars not as good as they once were.Like the wild boar.You realise that Belmont St is host to about half the bars/clubs in Aberdeen, so you might as well go for the jugular and say that bars/clubs in Aberdeen are all pants. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool1 Posted February 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2011 You realise that Belmont St is host to about half the bars/clubs in Aberdeen, so you might as well go for the jugular and say that bars/clubs in Aberdeen are all pants.I have only noticed 3 on the street itself.Excluding little belmont street. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stroopy121 Posted February 21, 2011 Report Share Posted February 21, 2011 I have only noticed 3 on the street itself.Excluding little belmont street.Not including the couple in The Academy; TK's, Rev, Slains, Priory, Siberia, Wild Boar, Drummonds...Did I miss anywhere?xxEDIT: There's also The Belmont (I think that's what it's called - the place opposite Drummonds down the stairs?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool1 Posted February 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2011 Not including the couple in The Academy; TK's, Rev, Slains, Priory, Siberia, Wild Boar, Drummonds...Did I miss anywhere?xxforgot about them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bob Knob Posted February 21, 2011 Report Share Posted February 21, 2011 There's also The Belmont (I think that's what it's called - the place opposite Drummonds down the stairs?)The Belmont is not a bar. It's a holding pen for the Jeremy Kyle show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted February 21, 2011 Report Share Posted February 21, 2011 I like It's Kitch for funny birthday cards. I've avoided that area in general since I had a godawful sandwich from the sarnie shop next to One Up. Bilge. I've even stopped buying from the One Up 2nd hand section since the angry little guy downstairs tends to smash the cases about as he's putting the CD's in, and I get home to the middle bit all smashed to pieces and cracks all over the case.I just hate going outside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TR!ΔNGL€ T€€TH Posted February 21, 2011 Report Share Posted February 21, 2011 I've been in Aberdeen for 10 years now, and Belmont Street seems pretty much the same as it's always been, barring the sandwich shop and Kef/Lava disappearing. So yeah, the standard is pretty much exactly the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted February 21, 2011 Report Share Posted February 21, 2011 When I first started going out in Aberdeen in about 1998 most of the pubs on Belmont Street were pretty grotty, like Wodka Bar, Wild Boar, Lava, Triple Kirks, Ma Camerons etc and it was all very studenty. All of those pubs closed down for refurbishment within the space of a couple of years and they were a lot more swanky when they re-opened, and around the same time the Priory opened up, and Revolution, and Espionage round the corner and Belmont Street became a lot trendier. I liked it better when it was a shitehole. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TR!ΔNGL€ T€€TH Posted February 21, 2011 Report Share Posted February 21, 2011 I liked it better when it was a shitehole.Ah, but I'd say that you are are looking back with rose-tinted glasses. Back in 1998 you were a teenager going out, which is vastly different from yr elderly self nowadays. I think that 18 year olds are pretty much delighted with anywhere to go for a drink. I look back on going out to the Palace and Exodus back in the day, and apparently it was the best thing ever, but in fairness it is probably much the same as going to Korova and Exodus nowadays, except that I'm much older and my tolerance for students has decreased about a million times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted February 21, 2011 Report Share Posted February 21, 2011 Right. Better shift these posts before one of the proper mods comes online and shouts at me for cluttering up this thread.>>>>> http://www.aberdeen-music.com/forums/other-clubs-venues/52592-aberdeen-pubs-clubs-80s-90s.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Android Posted February 21, 2011 Report Share Posted February 21, 2011 Don't be scared of them. They didn't win best mod 2010. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TR!ΔNGL€ T€€TH Posted February 21, 2011 Report Share Posted February 21, 2011 Don't be scared of them. They didn't win best mod 2010.Pffft, this is 2011! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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