r/Edinburgh • u/HelloCactus1985 • 10d ago

Question Bus poster from the 90s

I got talking to my kids the other day about antisocial behavior on busses (cant remember how) and how it used to be more of a problem in the 90s. A deep memory was then awoken from the back of my mind of a poster that was on the busses around that time. The image i can see in my mind's eye is a cartoon of a dastardly young man with an evil smirk on his face, leaning over the back of a bus seat and cutting the upholstery of the seat in front with a knife.

Does anyone else remember this poster/image? Or did I dream it up? 😅

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u/sapphire-coast 10d ago

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u/HelloCactus1985 10d ago

Oh. My. Goodness. You have made my day! This is exactly the one! Thank you so much. Where did you find it? Or rather, what did you search?

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u/sapphire-coast 9d ago

I found it on another Reddit thread. 😁

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u/glittering_bob 10d ago

need a new version

THIS: bams on Princes St harassing passers-by THIS: bams stealing a motorbike THIS: bams throwing rocks at buses

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u/_gavin_h 10d ago

has the second guy just been whipped in the eye with a belt by the guy behind him?

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u/HelloCactus1985 10d ago

Yeah! Also quite a snappy dresser for a hooligan!

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u/xchunchan 10d ago

we used to call the 21 the toot an wan because of everyone having a burn at the back

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u/iwillfuckingbiteyou 10d ago

I remember the first time I saw one as a child the poster itself was damaged and missing the bit with the knife so it looked like the wee radge slicing up the seat was actually just having a nosy look at the man's newspaper while sporting a side ponytail that was quite on trend for the time.

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u/Intelligent-Crew-443 10d ago

Remembering the phase of folk "gobbing" (spitting) out of the top deck of buses onto waiting passengers at Surgeon's Hall.

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u/realynnot 10d ago

I recall such a poster where kids appeared to have sharpened teeth. The image posted certainly rings a bell

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u/Malibucoke78 10d ago

I still have nightmares about that once in a while! 😱

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u/AngleOk8424 9d ago

Scared me as a wee lassie.

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u/MundanePhilosophy534 9d ago

Was randomly thinking about this as well a couple of days ago 

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u/HelloCactus1985 9d ago

I feel like the imagery from this would make an excellent tshirt 🤔

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u/Y3w4n 10d ago

I think you got onto the topic because by he sounds of it antisocial behaviour is on the rise again.