i'm working till 10pm on wednesday but i should be able to join you for a swift one somewhere.
― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 20 May 2007 20:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Wednesday? I thot yese were going out on Friday, no?
― stet, Sunday, 20 May 2007 20:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Friday was a plan, yes. But now aldo is coming up on Wednesday, so that means pub-going is happening then. Friday is still possibly a possibility, perhaps, though probably not since it was something me and grimly had said ages ago and he's probably gone and double-booked himself, the big tit.
― ailsa, Sunday, 20 May 2007 20:45 (sixteen years ago) link
G L A S G OW
― RJG, Sunday, 20 May 2007 23:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Is that like D I S C O ?
― Madchen, Monday, 21 May 2007 09:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Or D I V O R C E ?
― Madchen, Monday, 21 May 2007 09:48 (sixteen years ago) link
not sure i'm going to be able to get out tonight now. sorry. i'll try to play it by ear. although you'll all be so pissed by the time i finish work anyway ... :)
― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 09:49 (sixteen years ago) link
I shall look forward to seeing you if you make it. First one in Sporto to grab a decent table pls.
― aldo, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 10:17 (sixteen years ago) link
I think I'm having a dodgy Wetherburger with ailsa at 6pm so we should be in Sporto by 7.
Rhoderick Dhu next door might be less busy and still has big screens...
― onimo, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 10:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I will probably meet you for a Wetherburger, though 6 might be slightly pushing it for me. Which one?
I am easy on the pub front.
― aldo, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 10:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Edward G Wylie, on Bothwell St.
― onimo, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 11:18 (sixteen years ago) link
so how was it? sorry i missed you, aldo (and indeed fappery in general). i ended up working late, with the car, because i had to drive to kilmarnock at lunchtime. think tomorrow's fucked as well. i'm off to hide under a stone and mutter into my sideburns.
― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 24 May 2007 21:21 (sixteen years ago) link
But great sideburns they are. Probably.
― aldo, Thursday, 24 May 2007 22:31 (sixteen years ago) link
This never happened.
― Alba, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 09:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Without having read a single word of this thread I say this: I think we will be visiting, but it might take us a year or so to save up to do it. I'm really excited about this trip.
― AMD, Monday, 28 February 2011 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Tell me about it!
Long story but, within a morning's notice I booked a 4 night trip there beginning this friday.
And yes, there's both an Optimo and Instruments of Rapture nights on the same weekend (!!!!!!!!).
― EDB, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
Also, I have no idea about anything in Glasgow other than the Sub Club, so I will take any tips I can get. Thanks.
― EDB, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 19:54 (eleven years ago) link
I'll be at optimo on Friday and Horse Meat Disco at the berkeley suite on the saturday. see you at one (or both?). You are coming up from London but you're from the US, is that correct EDB?
― jed_, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
Close! I'm from Canada, specifically Toronto, and am generally just impressed that anyone here knows/remembers that.
― EDB, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 22:04 (eleven years ago) link
damn, i should have known that, in fact, since i've spent so much time there. are you on your own or with friends? i used ilx webmail to send you a PM with my number and my direct email.
― jed_, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
Cool, though I received no such webmail (that email address was recently deactivated and evidently doesn't forward things anymore) but if you'd like to resend it to 3dd1e b4cal at gmail.com feel free.
I'll probably be a mix of time with my brother and time alone.
― EDB, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
Is it standard practice to arbitrarily weed out people in the queue for optimo? On the dubious allegation I was too drunk to get in, I was refused entry at like 11:30 - a bitter pill for someone who hasn't drank since he was 18.
Anyways, I am NOT impressed.
― EDB, Saturday, 4 August 2012 10:34 (eleven years ago) link
sux
― conrad, Saturday, 4 August 2012 10:37 (eleven years ago) link
what!? that is bizarre. i've never heard the like of that EDB.
― jed_, Saturday, 4 August 2012 13:43 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I even stood on one foot, touched my nose, and volunteered to recite the alphabet backwards. It didn't make any sense, and he refused to hear me out. Sucks cause that was among the primary reasons I came here.
― EDB, Saturday, 4 August 2012 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
eddie i emailed you - let me know if you got it. if not mine is colinohara at gmail
― jed_, Saturday, 4 August 2012 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
is this city as romantic as the Blue Nile's music makes it seem?
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 4 August 2012 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
only when you're listening to the Blue Nile
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Saturday, 4 August 2012 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
the east end of glasgow is having a massive thunderstorm...in august...right now - dunno if that counts as romantic
― Ward Fowler, Saturday, 4 August 2012 18:28 (eleven years ago) link
Hi jed, got your mail, but alas it's been early nights the last few days. I figure I'm best to confront my fears and return to the sub club for the revenge/6th BP tonight.
― EDB, Sunday, 5 August 2012 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
hope you have a great night
― conrad, Sunday, 5 August 2012 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
if i wanted to go to eat somewhere in Glasgow with someone I like very much, where should I go? (feel frighteningly expensive should be off the list, not purely for reasons of parsimony but also a general having good time rather than going wow this is rly high end look at the tablecloths). other recommendations for things to do in Glasgow with SILVM too for that matter.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 18:22 (ten years ago) link
current plans. talk about david hume and alasdair gray until she's bored senseless.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 18:27 (ten years ago) link
I was in the Ubiquitous Chip on Ashton Lane in the west end a couple of weeks back, it was lovely and charming. Not massively pricey, though iirc I had the set menu so I'd look them up first.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 18:31 (ten years ago) link
Thanks IK, looks good. the pre-theatre fits the bill I think.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 20:03 (ten years ago) link
It's a nice area too, lots of pubs & bars around if that's your thing
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 20:13 (ten years ago) link
Christ steady tho. I've got to go out for organised work drinks later, so it's just a chance to get a bite to eat, and have a drink before going to some terrible terrible sounding place, I can't even
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 20:15 (ten years ago) link
should've organised a FAP IK
ubiq chip is a good shout. if you eat upstairs in the brasserie, it's a more relaxed vibe tho the cooking's all done in the same kitchen
― cozen, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 20:43 (ten years ago) link
anyway this thread is non canon
― cozen, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 20:44 (ten years ago) link
That's a thought. I'm actually there tomorrow as well (if it's tomorrow Fizzles) but only 'til fiveish so not really fap timing.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 21:20 (ten years ago) link
I'd've liked to FAP, but it's really all about work and I don't think I'll get the chance. lit eminence gris IK and velocipede supremo cozen wdve been great.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 03:01 (ten years ago) link
mother india is v nice, & stereo & the 78 seguing into the café side of things x
― szarkasm (schlump), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 03:17 (ten years ago) link
i am moving to glasgow in october and know nobody up there so would be well up for a FAP if someone were to organise one.
― ewar woowar (or something), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 10:28 (ten years ago) link
Most of which (on Ashton Lane itself) are G1 Group-owned, so to be avoided if you have any sort of a social conscience.
A Glasgow FAP is long overdue.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 14:47 (ten years ago) link
fu g1
― conrad, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 14:56 (ten years ago) link
so mono it is then
(mother india - slightly overrated? only time i went there was on a Saturday evening (we'd booked) and felt the whole time we were being rushed to finish and fuck off asap. have had tastier curries in glasgow too (eg the wee curry shop))
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 14:59 (ten years ago) link
will be up in Glasgow every few weeks or so, so all this is good info. maybe room for a fap on a subsequent visit?
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 15:22 (ten years ago) link
Will be there the second weekend in November or so.
― ᕦ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ᕤ (sic), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 17:19 (ten years ago) link
I'm in for Glasgow FAPs.
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 22:21 (ten years ago) link
Ailsa is there more horribleness to G1 Group than "just" the toilet mirror thing? (I mean that's more than enough on its own- I'm just curious!)
― sktsh, Thursday, 5 September 2013 12:03 (ten years ago) link