Thumper Posted June 10, 2021 Author Share Posted June 10, 2021 10 minutes ago, Gaz said: There are some absolutely wild takes on this thread. I refer you all again to my post from Page 2 on this thread: "Dear Mister President. Dunblane is in the central belt. PS I am not a crackpot" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 16 minutes ago, Gaz said: There are some absolutely wild takes on this thread. I refer you all again to my post from Page 2 on this thread: Dunfermline isn't in the central belt. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 Always thought it was just the name for the wasteland east of Glasgow city centre, west of Balerno, south of the river Forth. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 (edited) I know this is only one reporter's article, but FWIW: Quote https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/travel/central-belt-where-it-how-did-it-get-its-name-and-everything-else-you-need-know-about-scotlands-coronavirus-hotspot-2996457 There are known to be some disparities when it comes to which specific regions are identified as being part of the central belt, but the most commonly referred to sections which make it up are Clydeside, the Lothians, Stirlingshire and Clackmannanshire. In her announcement today, the First Minister referred to five health boards as being part of the central belt and at risk of increased virus transmission, these were Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Lanarkshire, Ayrshire and Arran, Lothian and Forth Valley. The smaller central belt is sometimes referred to as the lowland triangle, which is defined by the M8, M80 and the M9 motorways which stretch from Greenock and Glasgow to Edinburgh. The larger central belt is more commonly thought to include Ayrshire in the south-west and Tayside to the north-east as well. The larger central belt includes all of Scotland's major cities except for Aberdeen and Inverness. Here are just some of the towns found in the central belt of Scotland: Livingston, Dunbar, Bathgate, Falkrik, Bo'ness, Dunfermline, Cumbernauld, Larbert, Stenhousemuir, Croy, Bishopbriggs, Bannockburn, Linlithgow, Paisley and Motherwell. Edited June 10, 2021 by Hedgecutter 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speckled tangerine Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 3 minutes ago, Peter Grant said: Always thought it was just the name for the wasteland east of Glasgow city centre, west of Balerno, south of the river Forth. Yeah. Pretty much my take. Anywhere along the M8 between the edge of Edinburgh and that wee version of spaghetti junction before Ballieston. All pretty desolate places that dug coal or extracted shale oil in the main. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D Angelo Barksdale Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 39 minutes ago, Left Back said: EH1690 surely. Reserved for Larkhall. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 14 minutes ago, Peter Grant said: Always thought it was just the name for the wasteland east of Glasgow city centre, west of Balerno, south of the river Forth. 5 minutes ago, speckled tangerine said: Yeah. Pretty much my take. Anywhere along the M8 between the edge of Edinburgh and that wee version of spaghetti junction before Ballieston. All pretty desolate places that dug coal or extracted shale oil in the main. Hold the motherf***in' megabus... now we have folk saying that Glasgow and Edinburgh aren't in the Central Belt? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbornbairn Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 47 minutes ago, Hedgecutter said: Hold the motherf***in' megabus... now we have folk saying that Glasgow and Edinburgh aren't in the Central Belt? I'm thinking there's a central belt above the two arse cheeks of Glasgow and Edinburgh. I think that makes Airdrie the arsehole of Scotland. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 1 minute ago, Newbornbairn said: I'm thinking there's a central belt above the two arse cheeks of Glasgow and Edinburgh. I think that makes Airdrie the arsehole of Scotland. I believe they prefer the term 'cleftal horizon'. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strichener Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 Anywhere with decent train service should cover this. Central Belt = Rail subsidy junkies Greenock = central belt less the rail subsidy 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thumper Posted June 10, 2021 Author Share Posted June 10, 2021 13 minutes ago, Newbornbairn said: I'm thinking there's a central belt above the two arse cheeks of Glasgow and Edinburgh. I think that makes Airdrie the arsehole of Scotland. Could there be anything more iconic in the year of our lord 2021 than a Falkirk fan claiming that actually the central belt was the bit through Falkirk and not the lower bit. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 13 hours ago, ICTChris said: Is it only Scotland where we have intense debates on amorphous regional boundaries? Is there a Welsh league forum where their fans debate whether Pontypool is part of Greater Carmarthanshire or part of the wider Glamorgan metropolitan area? I lived in Wales for 3 years and, yes, this happens. Some folk thought South Wales was anything south of the M4. Others thought it included the Valleys. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 On 09/06/2021 at 16:29, Jim McLean's Ghost said: The Central Belt is Glasgow and Edinburgh metropolis's and everything in between. No Ayrshire, no Fife, no coastal areas like Greenock or Dumbarton. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 On 09/06/2021 at 19:54, coprolite said: Coalmines- Those dots drift a bit south as you zoom in on the map. But that's what i always thpught the central belt was based on. Apologies to any people from Ayr (is it Ayryans?) for not knowing you had mines. Bit careless of you if you didn't know who had yours... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 On 10/06/2021 at 12:47, Melanius Mullarkey said: Coal League needed IMO. Stick the colts in there. Preferably down an abandoned shaft. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillonearth Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 Must admit I'd never really given it thought before...whenever I hear the phrase I always mentally translate it to "the bits where nearly every c**t lives" which in my mind is Ayrshire in the southwest sweeping up to maybe Tayside in the northeast, and obviously including the Glasgow-Edinburgh corridor. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellaboz Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 Fife is Fife. It's always just Fife.Central belt begins the other side of the Kincardine Bridge and ends somewhere the other side of the Glasgow sprawl. Stirling? Central belt.Ayr? No. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thumper Posted June 12, 2021 Author Share Posted June 12, 2021 God put the Firth of Forth there for a reason: as a horizontal divider separating men from beasts. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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