Active 3 years, 5 months ago. Viewed 89k times. Improve this question. Ankit Ankit 22k 35 35 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. From Trainspotting film : Legacy comes: The cryptic film title is a reference to a scene not included in the film in the original book, where Begbie and Renton meet 'an auld drunkard' who turns out to be Begbie's estranged father, in the disused Leith Central railway station, which they are using as a toilet.
As to the hobby of trainspotting Improve this answer. Andrew Thompson Andrew Thompson 6, 9 9 gold badges 43 43 silver badges 70 70 bronze badges. Stargazer Stargazer 51 1 1 silver badge 2 2 bronze badges. It's certainly possible, but that usage of trainspotter isn't very common in the UK, you'd be more likely to be called an Anorak which is both broader and less likely to be confused for an actual trainspotter. That very well might be. Obviously it failed horribly, and I will never try to be funny ever again In the story they're actually at a train station, so the specificity tracks so to speak.
From an artistic point of view, trains can be very dangerous. So is heroin. If you flirt with the train too closely, you're going to die.
Harcore users will tend to have multiple sites of injection and will locate, or "spot" an optimum vein - one with minimal "tracks" and discomfort or infection. A hit can be analogous to the impactof a locomotive or train. That's how I figure it anyway. Watch the damn movie. It rocks. An incredible movie that will blow your mind. I'm not allowed to put the entire quote into the "example", so I'll put the first half into the definition section.
Too many "choose"s, apparently. Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortage repayments. The equipment of a trainspotter consists of: a data book listing all the locomotives or other equipment in question, in which locomotives seen are ticked off; a notebook and pens, to note sightings for transfer to the book at leisure, and an infinite supply of patience.
Some trainspotters now use a tape recorder instead of a notebook. Railfans can maintain private computerized databases of spotting records as well. Radio scanners are common equipment for listening to railroad frequencies in the US to follow rail traffic. Jan 31, AM. It is also slang for trying to find a vein to shoot in. Jun 13, AM. I read it as a metaphor for the pointlessness of their existence.
Jun 13, PM. Dave's right as far as i recall, i think Wikipedia gives the same explanation. Dec 11, PM. I sort of saw it as a metaphor for heroin addiction. Trainspotting is more of a lifestyle than a hobby, and it's something that people on the outside of it just can't see the appeal of at all, similarly to the 'junkie' lifestyle. At least, those were my thoughts. Feb 21, AM. I beleive it relates to the Chapter mentioned above. Begbie and Renton are walking past or throiugh the old Station when a jakey asks them if they are trainspotting.
The jakey turns out to be Begbies Father, although Begbie does not state this I think Renton confirms it during his narration. This then leads to Begbie giving a random person a good kicking.
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