try glasgow more

Since they reopened the vic last year you don't have to be a student or be with one to get in and it's actually a nice varied clientele especially in non term time. It's v nice.

I'm the last person in the world to get sentimental about Glasgow, but a friend just posted this on Facebook:

Entrance buzzer goes in flat.
Me: 'hello?"
Response: first part is sung - 'is it me you're looking for?.....how you doing? it's the bin man '

In 1974 I was an undergraduate in Glasgow Veterinary School. After a hard afternoon dissecting dogs, I was on my way home to my flat. It was cold and wet and I was hungry. I passed a pub with a sign outside that read ‘Hungry, thirsty? Come in for a pint, a bite to eat and a few kind words’. Moments later I was sitting at the bar with a pint of flat, dull beer and a meat pie in front of me. The surly barmaid was handing me my change when I remembered something. ‘What about the kind words?’ The barmaid leant over the bar, took my hand and whispered in my ear, ‘Dinna eat the pie’.

Did you eat it?

it isn't my anecdote - it's one told by the uk's chief veterinary officer nigel gibbens

it was actually the deputy chief veterinary office alick simmons - my apologies

I'm glad it wasn't your anecdote because I was about to point out that 'Dinna eat the pie' is not remotely Glaswegian.

"Gie the pie a bodyswerve"?

"Ah widnae if ah wis you, mate"

Boufin'

Love the bin man story.

I believe the barmaid in the anecdote was an australian lady

I'm unconvinced by that one.

an austrian lady?

The only person I've ever heard use the word 'dinna' like that is Aberdonian.

could pass for dundonian but it would of course be 'peh' rather than 'pie'

Think Dundonian would be "dinnae" rather than "dinna", but who knows at what point between Perth and Aberdeen the pronunciation warps?

perhaps she was an aberdonian lady

I think that is a pretty reasonable conclusion.

I thought there was a by-law to prevent Aberdonians being employed in Glasgow.

I was born in Aberdeen and grew up in Glasgow, suddenly all those failed job interviews make sense :/

xpost, not in my old workplace, there were fecking hunners of them (well, about five). Even had a wee Aberdeen supporters club of their own!

I once worked with an aberdonian man in glasgow - what he would do is when someone had a roll and referred to it as a roll he would say "that's not a roll"

i read that dinna eat the pie thing today - do i work in the same government department as you, conrad? (at least until i finish here on friday)

you work in the same government department as my girlfriend ;)

ah but of course

I once worked with an aberdonian man in glasgow - what he would do is when someone had a roll and referred to it as a roll he would say "that's not a roll"

was it rather a buttery? seven years living in dundee and i don't think i ever managed to discern what the precise difference is

havent eaten a buttery in years, closer to a crossaint than ordinary rolls iirc. now I want to eat one dammit.

It's not a roll if it hasn't come from Roland Butter?

What do they call a roll? I know that the older ones call oatcakes "bread" and they call bread "loaf".

it's a buttery - a flattened heavy salty buttery thing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buttery_(bread)

Oh I know about buttery's I just wondered what they call rolls.

oh i see yes! I have no idea

they call rolls softies apparently

Haha!

You can get butteries in Aldi, I discovered last week. Food of the artery-blocking gods.

Really sad that The Variety Bar is closing tonight.

http://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/last-orders-popular-glasgow-city-11490979

That's a real shame

Macsorleys has gone this year as well :(

shiter, was a regular of mine, especially one year when i lived nearby on kent road

I didn't know about Macsorely's :(

Trip back next month will be a little sad. Not that I frequented it other than pre-Sub Club nights.

Damn RIP Variety.

General question: where *should* I be drinking in Glasgow these days?

In or near the city centre Stereo, Mono, Saramago, Flying Duck, Blackfriars, Bon Accord, 13th Note, State, Griffin, Sleazys, Broadcast, Babbitys, Scaramouche

I don't go out much in the West End but the Belle, Doublet, Coopers, Gallus are OK to good

On the southside the Allison Arms, Sammy Dow's, Granary, Glad Cafe and Clockwork Brewery

A decent east end (mainly Dennistoun) circuit is possible nowadays: West Brewery, Drygate, Redmonds, Duchess of Duke Street, Tibo.

I spend a lot of time in Stereo/Mono/the Note because my other half is vegetarian and it's convenient. I always thought the Griffin was a bit of a lad haunt for some reason? I miss Broadcast being The Local, it wasn't the best but it was cheap, central and more often than not had good music playing.

Every taxi driver I've spoken to in the six months since we moved to Shawlands has said to go to the Allison Arms but I've still not managed it, which I guess says more about my drinking habits than anything else.

Sammy Dows hasn't been Sammy's for ages. It was a pop-up Lebowskis, then it changed to the Stag's Head for the last year or so, and is currently closed and about to reopen as Lebowskis. I suspect it won't be as good when it does.

The Glad is fine for gigs, and it has a belting open mic night (or we just landed very lucky the night we wandered in).

Lots of love for the Ally Arms here.

I'd add the Pot Still to city centre pubs.

toby jug

Sammy Dows hasn't been Sammy's for ages. It was a pop-up Lebowskis, then it changed to the Stag's Head for the last year or so, and is currently closed and about to reopen as Lebowskis. I suspect it won't be as good when it does.

That's a shame. I've been in Lebowskis in Finnieston, it's OK but a bit hipstery (as you'd expect). Allison Arms probably has the best selection of bottled beers in Glasgow and it's dog friendly. I've heard good things about Rum Shack over the road but I've not been in

I forgot Roderick Dhu in the city centre as well