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Asshoppers need not apply. RJG

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 27 June 2001 03:03 (twenty-three years ago) link

two years pass...
asshoppers need not apply

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 5 February 2004 02:41 (twenty years ago) link

Every time I've been to Glasgow I've beaten someone up. Not again.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Thursday, 5 February 2004 02:55 (twenty years ago) link

I have an idea

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 5 February 2004 03:35 (twenty years ago) link

http://website.lineone.net/~johnfinlay/recipes/glasgowp.htm

― see ar (see ar), Thursday, 5 February 2004 03:39 (twenty years ago) link

PUNCH

― see ar (see ar), Thursday, 5 February 2004 03:39 (twenty years ago) link

you are not on the menu, ILX.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 5 February 2004 04:02 (twenty years ago) link

Today on a train I saw a wee lassie who reminded me of, or who was, a female version of RJG. Save that she was wee.

I thought her pretty.

― the bluefox, Thursday, 5 February 2004 17:11 (twenty years ago) link

I think RJG's pretty.

― Lara (Lara), Friday, 6 February 2004 11:40 (twenty years ago) link

RJG is handsome. Cook is pretty.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 6 February 2004 11:53 (twenty years ago) link

Pretty what?

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 6 February 2004 12:02 (twenty years ago) link

one easter i happened to be up in glasgow and sonic youth were doing a signing session at the old RAT record shop in the virginia street galleries (i assume the shop's long since gone - this would have been '86 time as they were signing copies of EVOL). they asked whether there were any good alternative music radio shows in glasgow/scotland and i gave them contact details for frank skerrett on radio clyde and andy cameron on bbc radio scotland, having assured them that they were tireless champions of new music. i've no idea what if anything transpired but whenever i saw any sonic youth people in subsequent years they never mentioned anything about it.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 6 February 2004 12:10 (twenty years ago) link

Pretty/Vacant/Gorgeous/Sweet smelling/Funny/Witty/Please

― Mooro (Mooro), Friday, 6 February 2004 17:21 (twenty years ago) link

it's glasgow?

you're all pretty/handsome, in glasgow.

try glasgow more.

(asshoppers need not apply)

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 9 February 2004 02:25 (twenty years ago) link

try glasgow more.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 9 February 2004 02:59 (twenty years ago) link

What are the best buildings in Glasgow? Are there whole streets of good buildings?

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Monday, 9 February 2004 03:01 (twenty years ago) link

no.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 9 February 2004 03:10 (twenty years ago) link

there are streets in glasgow of whole buildings. and wholly of buildings, yes.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 9 February 2004 03:15 (twenty years ago) link

you've tried glasgow right? try it more.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 9 February 2004 03:18 (twenty years ago) link

what are you people saying?

I don't think you're all trying as much as one another.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 9 February 2004 03:22 (twenty years ago) link

two weeks pass...
148 has cigarettes and pancakes, tomorrow.

asshoppers need not apply.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:39 (twenty years ago) link

But can they if they want?

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:43 (twenty years ago) link

cigarettes don't explode in your stomach.

― cozhopper (Cozen), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:44 (twenty years ago) link

it might be more fun if they did, to tell the truth.

crosspost

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:44 (twenty years ago) link

it might be more fun if they did, to tell the truth.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:45 (twenty years ago) link

9 has gin and pancakes, tomorrow.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:46 (twenty years ago) link

haha, 139 less/fewer.

everywhere has gin, tomorrow.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:47 (twenty years ago) link

no, you count up. and then back round to 9.

that much more.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:49 (twenty years ago) link

okay. 139 less. : /

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:49 (twenty years ago) link

I do like gin.

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:56 (twenty years ago) link

no wonder.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:02 (twenty years ago) link

he used my 'no wonder' line.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:03 (twenty years ago) link

I'm going to bed. Will probably see one or both of you tomorrow. And I'll expect pancakes.

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:06 (twenty years ago) link

I'll expect fireworks.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:07 (twenty years ago) link

but there might be gunshots.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:11 (twenty years ago) link

caesium.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:14 (twenty years ago) link

I got phone-interviewed by a lovely woman from the glasgow herald today re: blogs.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 18:41 (twenty years ago) link

who was that?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 18:51 (twenty years ago) link

Ab1g4il W1ld. she had a very nice voice.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 18:53 (twenty years ago) link

do you know her?

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 18:54 (twenty years ago) link

Well, I know who she is. I like her writing.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 18:54 (twenty years ago) link

I was talking to Spiers again early, and I sent your love.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 18:55 (twenty years ago) link

I hope she says nice things about me.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 18:56 (twenty years ago) link

I hope everyone says nice things about me.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 18:56 (twenty years ago) link

I once saw Graham Spiers staggering drunkenly down Byres Road, having just left Cookie to go for a taxi. It was a beautiful sight and I wish he could have seen it.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 18:57 (twenty years ago) link

There was a Cookie-Spiers summit?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 18:59 (twenty years ago) link

I had left Cook and I wished he could have seen it. I thought that may have implied he didn't.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 19:00 (twenty years ago) link

cook could beat up spiers.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 19:01 (twenty years ago) link

Certainly in the state spiers was in that night . . . (someone said somewhere else that was the right way to do ellipses? It looks silly)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 19:02 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, ignore them, they were talking shite.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 19:03 (twenty years ago) link

I believe amateurist.

. . .

it looks horrible though.

she said 'you don't have a glaswegian accent.' and I said 'yeah but I have a scottish accent.' and she said 'do you?!' now I'm saying 'what?!' she was very nice though, I think I was a little rude at one time but I didn't mean it. I normally feel uncomfortable on the phone.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 19:08 (twenty years ago) link

She was clearly hitting on you.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 19:09 (twenty years ago) link

I hate all of you.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 19:10 (twenty years ago) link

get some work done.

I saw paul ross, outside lauder's, today.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 20:16 (twenty years ago) link

wait a minute.

what does 'try glasgow more' mean?

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 23:13 (twenty years ago) link

I did a few times, & I will again

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 23:15 (twenty years ago) link

The teaser on the the front page reads 'BLOGGERS WILD: OBSESSIVE LOSERS OR INTERNET CHRONICLERS?'.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 08:34 (twenty years ago) link

haha! the first one!

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 09:37 (twenty years ago) link

the article is ok. apart from the bit where she says I'm a frustrated writer which is plainly untrue. other than that I'm just generally frustrated by the world, that is. not specifically as a writer.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 09:38 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/10687.shtml

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 09:40 (twenty years ago) link

She is just trying to paint you as difficult and dark. It is part of her fantasy.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 09:41 (twenty years ago) link

"heydair!"

33! borderline autistic baby!

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 09:44 (twenty years ago) link

She writes well but seems a little callous. I covet her name, though!

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 09:52 (twenty years ago) link

She is young and bitchy, which is kind of refreshing in the Herald.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 09:55 (twenty years ago) link

vanity.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 11:22 (twenty years ago) link

I meant, infamy.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 11:26 (twenty years ago) link

My central heating man hasn't come yet. He was meant to be here at 8.30am.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 11:44 (twenty years ago) link

Why can't my central heating man come

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 11:46 (twenty years ago) link

or maybe Why can't my central heating man come

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 11:46 (twenty years ago) link

Do I want to click on those at work?

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 11:49 (twenty years ago) link

Fooled you! I am not at work!

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 11:50 (twenty years ago) link

cozen, where does the GH article say that you. specifically, are a frustrated writer?

I may be going to Glasgow on Monday as it happens!

― zebedee (zebedee), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 11:52 (twenty years ago) link

'according to several online historians, DH, a frustrated writer, could have...' haha! yeah this article wd have been more interesting as 'what ppl take from blogs' not what 'blog writers are and do' which is kinda tired. I'm v. disappointed.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 12:05 (twenty years ago) link

if anything an 'idiot's point' of the blog wd be cease such frustration.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 12:06 (twenty years ago) link

This is the proper feature in the Herald about weblogs so I guess it's not tired for Herald readers (the first mention of the word in there came a year after I'd given mine up!)

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 12:12 (twenty years ago) link

revive!

hi, anyone up for a drink or something in bonny wee glasgow this maybe friday night (5th mar)? woot i'll be there for the weekend (going up on thurs and then driving back down on saturday night for footie in london the next day!!)

going to see MJ Hibbet on saturday, too. at captain's rest. woohoo.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 17:54 (twenty years ago) link

the captain's rest is on th grt wstrn rd?

I am sure people will come out, on fri, yeah.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 17:57 (twenty years ago) link

Me, since i missed you the last time I was up.

The Captain's Rest is a funny wee pub. I used to live across the road from it. I think I have been to some birthday parties there.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 17:58 (twenty years ago) link

hurrah! drinkies!

i think that's the captain's rest! i'm only getting this info from C*l*m* (as opposed to c*l*m!) feel free to nominate a decent boozer for friday night! as my knowledge of glaswegien pubs is low (actually i do know quite a few but no idea which ones are the bestcannot remember the good ones cos i got too drunk)

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:07 (twenty years ago) link

also gonna be seeing Divine comedy at the 13th note (now known as barfly!!?) on thurs night! woah

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:09 (twenty years ago) link

I am going to be in Glasgow on Friday March 5th. Is there a Winchester Club? I would like to meet Ken.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago) link

the winchester club is the following sat : (((

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:13 (twenty years ago) link

I'm dreading it too.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:15 (twenty years ago) link

score. I won't be super-busy anymore come friday. nice to meet ken again. and maybe even pj miller too.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:16 (twenty years ago) link

& me.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:17 (twenty years ago) link

meeting me is not rating highly, I see

*cries*

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:18 (twenty years ago) link

I've met you before ailsa!

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:20 (twenty years ago) link

yay! oh my god i get to meet PJ MILLER, and COZEN, and AILSA!!!!!

and rjg :D

wow this rocks.

p.s. winchester club should totally go weekly.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:20 (twenty years ago) link

no you haven't. or else i didn't know about it. when?

(x post)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:21 (twenty years ago) link

I lied. meep. sorry.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:23 (twenty years ago) link

I've played football w. you chu!

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:24 (twenty years ago) link

oh i meant meet as in seeing!

i guess the only person i will be "meeting" brand new would be PJ!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:27 (twenty years ago) link

i'm still looking forward to it!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:28 (twenty years ago) link

& me.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:28 (twenty years ago) link

we could play football. ponzé can play football?

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:29 (twenty years ago) link

I look forward to meeting up with ken again. I will be meeting cozen and pj miller for the first time. Except I will probably not be arsed making it into Glasgow like I don't ever other time people are up.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:30 (twenty years ago) link

i've played football with ponzé once!

and rjg

and cozen

i've watched football with ailsa once!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:30 (twenty years ago) link

I mean, some other time, we could play football. remember 'fuck my ankle!'?

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:31 (twenty years ago) link

have you? you probably have. i have no idea.

ha ha, cross post.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:32 (twenty years ago) link

I haven't played football for some time now. I wasn't very good then and I doubt I'm very good now. I am surprisingly dirty though.

― Ponzé (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:32 (twenty years ago) link

ha, you have become a soap-dodging weegie at last (that wasn what you meant wasn't it?)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:34 (twenty years ago) link

ew. but yeah.

cross post obv.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:36 (twenty years ago) link

I believe in 1 in 8 crossposts.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:37 (twenty years ago) link

'most consistently funny poster' has shaken your faith?

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:38 (twenty years ago) link

yes but not in the way you think.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:39 (twenty years ago) link

disco inferno cd-r.

so I don't forget.

I'm glad you still have faith in the way I think.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:40 (twenty years ago) link

that's it.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:41 (twenty years ago) link

I like Glasgow.

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:42 (twenty years ago) link

you should have tried a little more.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:42 (twenty years ago) link

Glasgow misses you.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:44 (twenty years ago) link

That's not very nice.

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:45 (twenty years ago) link

glasgow hits you!!!!!!

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:45 (twenty years ago) link

glasgow's rough.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:46 (twenty years ago) link

you gotta take it w/ the smooth.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:46 (twenty years ago) link

Do you want me to hate Glasgow? Because I will. Also, why are you not on AIM?

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:46 (twenty years ago) link

glasgow's better than this.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:46 (twenty years ago) link

I am washing my hair.

: (

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:47 (twenty years ago) link

You should come back. Seriously.

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:47 (twenty years ago) link

glasgow is better than this, yeah.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:48 (twenty years ago) link

That's really not nice at all. Thank you.

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:51 (twenty years ago) link

friday night fever!!!!!!!!!

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 19:00 (twenty years ago) link

Captain's Log, Great Western Road. Never heard of it. If I ever get there I will look out for RJG's massive quiff.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 4 March 2004 09:04 (twenty years ago) link

I have always been rather intimidated by that pub. Doesn't it have no windows?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 4 March 2004 09:07 (twenty years ago) link

I always think of that as a blessing--no windows to be thrown through by rough'n'tough regulars.

you wouldn't like to make more concrete plans, PJ?

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 4 March 2004 09:14 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.concretemonthly.com/monthly/images/2004_02/cmcover_2004_02.jpg

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 4 March 2004 09:16 (twenty years ago) link

so are we meeting at the captains log on friday as well (i'm there on saturday to see MJ Hibbet?).. cool.

my number is

07967

755446

i'm off now and prolly will have no net access! so if you guys have more solid, concrete, fixed, well-formed etc plans then let me know!!

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 4 March 2004 09:43 (twenty years ago) link

karaoke?

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 4 March 2004 09:44 (twenty years ago) link

KARAOKE YAY!
(i'm still here, for another 30 mins :D)

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 4 March 2004 09:57 (twenty years ago) link

I'll come. But I won't do karaoke.

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 4 March 2004 10:08 (twenty years ago) link

i tried it more on monday. might try it again sometime

― zebedee (zebedee), Thursday, 4 March 2004 17:17 (twenty years ago) link

valerie are playing 'frock on' on saturday. I'm sorely tempted.

when is ken happening?

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 4 March 2004 17:34 (twenty years ago) link

on sunday in glasgow a woman is a woman.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 4 March 2004 17:35 (twenty years ago) link

Oh, I'd like to see that.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 4 March 2004 17:35 (twenty years ago) link

That is showing at my university this weekend, too! Small world.

― kirsten (kirsten), Thursday, 4 March 2004 17:38 (twenty years ago) link

Me too. No to frock on though.

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 4 March 2004 17:40 (twenty years ago) link

Juan Atkins is playing the Arches next weekend. Just saying.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Thursday, 4 March 2004 17:48 (twenty years ago) link

faf.

o dear, only bad can come of this.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 4 March 2004 17:57 (twenty years ago) link

this thread is patchy, at best.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 4 March 2004 19:27 (twenty years ago) link

you are insulting me, btw.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 4 March 2004 19:28 (twenty years ago) link

we need some new applications.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 4 March 2004 19:45 (twenty years ago) link

You're better than this, Glasgow.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 4 March 2004 19:46 (twenty years ago) link

I've done that one.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 4 March 2004 19:48 (twenty years ago) link

You think you're better than me?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 4 March 2004 19:49 (twenty years ago) link

I'm better than this.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 4 March 2004 19:59 (twenty years ago) link

I can't tell which patches are good and which are bad.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 4 March 2004 20:00 (twenty years ago) link

you're sworn to secrecy?

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 4 March 2004 20:01 (twenty years ago) link

He'll know when he hits the bottom.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 4 March 2004 20:02 (twenty years ago) link

I just stabbed myself in the middle of my hand.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 4 March 2004 20:16 (twenty years ago) link

There's nothing to do for kids round here.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 4 March 2004 20:17 (twenty years ago) link

nearly there!

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 4 March 2004 20:20 (twenty years ago) link

RJG - hit Cozen's bottom.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 4 March 2004 20:23 (twenty years ago) link

Hello! Are we going out somewhere near Byre's Road? I'm going to Di Maggio's with workmates but am hoping for an early exit. If long lost friends, including one I've never met before, are coming out to play, that might provide me with the perfect excuse.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 4 March 2004 21:22 (twenty years ago) link

PJ has to promise to wear the jumper.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 4 March 2004 21:22 (twenty years ago) link

bottoms...?


PJ, I tried to send you an e-mail but it said your box was unavailable and returned to me.

let us know if you're free!

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 4 March 2004 21:31 (twenty years ago) link

So, are we going out tonight then?

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 5 March 2004 14:20 (twenty years ago) link

no, I don't think so.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 5 March 2004 14:25 (twenty years ago) link

But I've got my high heels out!

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 5 March 2004 14:34 (twenty years ago) link

I don't think I'm going out, today.

: /////////

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 5 March 2004 14:35 (twenty years ago) link

poor ken.

is anything happening at all?

I'm going to see 21 grams in an hour. I guess that much is happening.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 5 March 2004 14:37 (twenty years ago) link

OK I am maybe coming out, but I've only had about four hours sleep the last three nights so I don't know. Is PJ Miller really appearing at the Captain's Rrrest?

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 5 March 2004 14:45 (twenty years ago) link

I might go out, tonight.

I have only had four hours sleep, too.

I haven't heard from PJ.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 5 March 2004 14:54 (twenty years ago) link

what have you two been doing?!

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 5 March 2004 14:55 (twenty years ago) link

Reading books.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:37 (twenty years ago) link

I'm going out.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:21 (twenty years ago) link

if i were going out last night i wouldn't have had much sleep.

― ken c (ken c), Saturday, 6 March 2004 16:57 (twenty years ago) link

N., are you going to see gorky's on tuesday?

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 6 March 2004 17:52 (twenty years ago) link

No.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 6 March 2004 18:01 (twenty years ago) link

I am. Are you cozen?

― Cathy (Cathy), Saturday, 6 March 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago) link

wait a minute, I'm fighting on an other thread.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 6 March 2004 18:13 (twenty years ago) link

no. I don't like either of the bands.

well I do like the second last yo la tengo album.

I can't afford it either. that's mad expensive.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 6 March 2004 18:14 (twenty years ago) link

who's seeing linkin park in glasgow on 3rd jun?

― ken c (ken c), Saturday, 6 March 2004 18:16 (twenty years ago) link

that's my birthday!

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 6 March 2004 18:17 (twenty years ago) link

are you going to see linkin park that day?

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 7 March 2004 08:47 (twenty years ago) link

I have a cold and I can't afford to go to Gorky's and Yo La Tengo - I've spent all my ticket money on the Mountain Goats and Jonathan Richman. I'm not sure I can even afford to go to the pub quiz tonight, unless somebody can guarantee I'll win the cash :-(

― Madchen (Madchen), Sunday, 7 March 2004 09:58 (twenty years ago) link

Hope you had a good journey home, Ken!

― Madchen (Madchen), Sunday, 7 March 2004 09:59 (twenty years ago) link

The journey was fine! I'm back home now - the three cans of red bull i had proved not to be enough and I ended up sleeping in my car in a service station near Birmingham for an hour!

What fantastic fun it was though, well worth the journey! Had two more hours of sleep when I got back and now I'm off for football! I think I shall be spending tonight sleeping very soundly.

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 7 March 2004 12:43 (twenty years ago) link

: D

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 7 March 2004 12:52 (twenty years ago) link

oh. my. god.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 7 March 2004 17:16 (twenty years ago) link

oh. my. god. AND o dear.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 7 March 2004 17:23 (twenty years ago) link

get your heels out.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 7 March 2004 17:27 (twenty years ago) link

I feel... terrible this morning.

mmm.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 7 March 2004 17:46 (twenty years ago) link

b-but it's this afternoon. you should be feeling better.

Ken, I apologise I missed you yet again. please don't take it personally :)

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 7 March 2004 18:43 (twenty years ago) link

we think we saw PJ, dancing in the captain's rest, last night but we were too intimidated/scared/terrified/laughy to approach.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 7 March 2004 18:46 (twenty years ago) link

I was more scared of the 'standing in line to see the show tonight' guy. I didn't know Godzilla and King Kong had had a kid together.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 7 March 2004 19:22 (twenty years ago) link

you are the man who saw the man who saw the man who saw the man who saw the man who saw the man who saw the bear.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 7 March 2004 19:26 (twenty years ago) link

Are we going to see Une Femme est Une Femme tonicht?

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 7 March 2004 19:28 (twenty years ago) link

I think you mean "the nicht."

aye, we are.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 7 March 2004 19:32 (twenty years ago) link

8:30 PM

feel free to come around, from now on. asshoppers, etc.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 7 March 2004 19:33 (twenty years ago) link

My ass shall hop along.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 7 March 2004 19:35 (twenty years ago) link

mine won't. it will be defending our pub quiz title. feel free to remind cook on my behalf that his team won't be winning anything this season, however.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 7 March 2004 19:38 (twenty years ago) link

the quiz season hasn't begun, in my eyes.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 7 March 2004 19:39 (twenty years ago) link

Ken came out this afternoon and played a blinder in goal - second only to the stray German (Willie) we picked up on the lowlands of Primrose Hill as Most Valuable Player; a testament to the restorative powers of Red Bull, surely.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Sunday, 7 March 2004 22:50 (twenty years ago) link

I stayed in and watched it on video. I'm still pretty ill.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 7 March 2004 22:51 (twenty years ago) link

you watched ken on primrose hill on video?

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 7 March 2004 23:46 (twenty years ago) link

He's very ill.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 7 March 2004 23:49 (twenty years ago) link

no wonder

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 7 March 2004 23:51 (twenty years ago) link

Cozen - the cheeky little kid in the shop who asked for a sexier book reminded me of you for some reason.

I realised that it wasn't the film I thought it was. I was thinking of Two or Three Things I Know About Her. Is that about an airport?

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 7 March 2004 23:52 (twenty years ago) link

because you think I am cheeky?

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 7 March 2004 23:53 (twenty years ago) link

There was something in his eye.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 7 March 2004 23:55 (twenty years ago) link

Tears of sorrow?

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 09:17 (twenty years ago) link

and in his ear.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 11:44 (twenty years ago) link

earwax of sorrow?

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 11:45 (twenty years ago) link

ears are the _________ of the soul.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 11:53 (twenty years ago) link

soulwax are the ____________ to the ear

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 12:00 (twenty years ago) link

U R ALL __________________

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 12:03 (twenty years ago) link

_______?

― aja x (ken c), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 12:05 (twenty years ago) link

Sorry I didn't make it to the Captain's Log, I was suffering from severe lower back pain and it was a long way. I didn't see any of the messages here otherwise I could have texted Ken. I will just have to wait to get on the RJG/N Friendster axis :-(

Admittedly I might have made more of an effort if I'd known our Woking correspondent was going.

Ken, I will probably see you at one of our London events.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 19:21 (twenty years ago) link

ears are the doorbells of the soul!!!!!!

hope to see you, next time, PJ.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 19:28 (twenty years ago) link

I think I tried glasgow too much.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 20:17 (twenty years ago) link

Hey, Dick -- any sign of that capo?

― the ... pinefox, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 22:30 (twenty years ago) link

Is this a luddite stand against underscores?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 22:33 (twenty years ago) link

hope to see you next time ailsa and pjmiller! cozen given the fact that i didn't see you all last weekend despite having walked/driven through half of glasgow's westend and city centre it's clear that you're not trying glasgow enough!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 23:11 (twenty years ago) link

No. It is a way of emphasizing, by means of *withholding* and *suspense*, the name of a pop group, or two, because for once that is pertinent to what I am asking about.

I still want Dick's answer.

― the bluefox, Wednesday, 10 March 2004 13:40 (twenty years ago) link

...to the vagina monologue?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 17:34 (twenty years ago) link

TRY AGAIN


no capo, PF. we all want capo.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 17:43 (twenty years ago) link

I'm looking to try some more glasgow.

what you got glasgow?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 19:51 (twenty years ago) link

That sounds like something Gary Coleman would say.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 19:56 (twenty years ago) link

RJG: you do?

Could you give me a view, sincerely, on what you think happened to that capo? You must agree that it did not leave your flat. Except that it did. Or did it? I just don't get it.

Please let me have the official Renfrew theory on this once pressing issue as it now stands.

Also, I think I need a new capo.

― the blissfox, Wednesday, 10 March 2004 19:59 (twenty years ago) link

It's not even possible that COZEN took it. Is it?

I think we were using it the day after he came round and in. And played McCartney and post-rock.

― the bluefox, Wednesday, 10 March 2004 19:59 (twenty years ago) link

I have my own schub capo thankyouverymuch, the pinefox.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 20:00 (twenty years ago) link

was it always yours?


as I say, PF, we have had no luck in locating your capo or, indeed, the capo we already had, in the flat. I don't think it left the flat. unless cozen answers "no." we will keep looking.

: /

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 20:42 (twenty years ago) link

I have two capos (one of those horrible canvas-band deals, along with the 'bronze' schub). they're all mine, though.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 20:49 (twenty years ago) link

all?

― the bluefox, Wednesday, 10 March 2004 21:13 (twenty years ago) link

(I think he has a problem)

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 21:16 (twenty years ago) link

you can't call two all?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 21:16 (twenty years ago) link

yes.

― the bluefox, Wednesday, 10 March 2004 21:19 (twenty years ago) link

RJG -- do you think Cozen will say 'no'?

― the byrdfox, Wednesday, 10 March 2004 21:19 (twenty years ago) link

O!

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 21:19 (twenty years ago) link

Cozen -- do you think that RJG is using my capo and not telling me?

― the britfox, Wednesday, 10 March 2004 21:19 (twenty years ago) link

[It is funny how I am PLAYING THEM OFF AGAINST EACH OTHER and they cannot tell.]

― the byrdfox, Wednesday, 10 March 2004 21:20 (twenty years ago) link

he's playing blackbird, capoed at the 12th.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 21:20 (twenty years ago) link

I just really want theories on what happen the capo.

― the bellefox, Wednesday, 10 March 2004 21:20 (twenty years ago) link

I'm sure he can tell.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 21:21 (twenty years ago) link

it's only a capo?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 21:21 (twenty years ago) link

Maybe it had sentimental value.

― the bellefox, Wednesday, 10 March 2004 21:24 (twenty years ago) link

Without that capo no 'We'll Never Be Cool'

― the blissfox, Wednesday, 10 March 2004 21:24 (twenty years ago) link

I can send you a capo with sentimental value!

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 21:25 (twenty years ago) link

+ // Second Hand / Till The Dawn / Stop Writing Start Living / Petal Affinity / MGM / Milk Bar / lots more, in a way

― the bluefox, Wednesday, 10 March 2004 21:26 (twenty years ago) link

So you DO have my capo?

― the bluefox, Wednesday, 10 March 2004 21:26 (twenty years ago) link

I just looked at the start of this thread. Some of it surprised me.

Also this is good:

what are you people saying?

I don't think you're all trying as much as one another.

― the bluefox, Wednesday, 10 March 2004 21:28 (twenty years ago) link

I wonder how RJG became so funny.

― the bluefox, Wednesday, 10 March 2004 21:28 (twenty years ago) link

some of us have come a long way.

I'm not sure anyone's developed though.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 21:30 (twenty years ago) link

fully : (

petal affinity : ((

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 21:33 (twenty years ago) link

I wonder, too, btw.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 21:35 (twenty years ago) link

I have da capo.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 21:51 (twenty years ago) link

I'll pop a capo in your ass.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 21:54 (twenty years ago) link

Ally's room is a pigsty at the moment - if he tidies up you might find the capo.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 11 March 2004 11:04 (twenty years ago) link

or a pig

― chris (chris), Thursday, 11 March 2004 11:25 (twenty years ago) link

the lack of a capo has driven the pinefox into schizophrenia!

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 11 March 2004 11:35 (twenty years ago) link

Be careful, N. might start on a rant about The Real Meaning Of Schizophrenia

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 11 March 2004 11:50 (twenty years ago) link

I do not know the pinefox's mental condition, so I would not do that.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 11 March 2004 11:53 (twenty years ago) link

What's that supposed to mean?

Hi, buddy

― the bellefox, Thursday, 11 March 2004 13:35 (twenty years ago) link

I've worked it out, the pig has the capo

― chris (chris), Thursday, 11 March 2004 13:37 (twenty years ago) link

N., do you really have the capo?

― the bluefox, Thursday, 11 March 2004 14:27 (twenty years ago) link

I just said he did

― chris (chris), Thursday, 11 March 2004 14:30 (twenty years ago) link

Sometimes I think I need two capos.

― Forster the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 11 March 2004 14:37 (twenty years ago) link

you're playing the guitar properly.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 11 March 2004 14:39 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.markfair.com/capo.jpg

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 11 March 2004 14:58 (twenty years ago) link

http://home.swipnet.se/~w-68238/ph-slash109.jpg
"Sometimes I think I need two capos"

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 11 March 2004 15:53 (twenty years ago) link

I just tried playing with two capos. it sounds like something coming from a basement somewhere. probably somewhere in america. it's lovely, very unpretty.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 11 March 2004 16:23 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.iem.ac.ru/zeppelin/images/jp_dbl.jpg
"I just tried playing with two capos. it sounds like something coming from a basement somewhere. probably somewhere in america. it's lovely, very unpretty."

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 11 March 2004 16:27 (twenty years ago) link

stop making this so much not about glasgow, please.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 11 March 2004 16:29 (twenty years ago) link

Maybe it's here: http://www.lollo.5pm.co.uk/todaysoffers.cfm?page=todaysoffers&restid=980

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 11 March 2004 16:32 (twenty years ago) link

for all capo enquiries please click here

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 11 March 2004 16:38 (twenty years ago) link

I don't think I share Cozen's vision of loveliness.

The Nipper's link awes me.

― the bellefox, Thursday, 11 March 2004 16:56 (twenty years ago) link

Is that restaurant run by the Care Bear?

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 11 March 2004 17:42 (twenty years ago) link

Serving sausage suppers and pot noodles?

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 11 March 2004 17:43 (twenty years ago) link

Bitch!

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 11 March 2004 18:16 (twenty years ago) link

so, does rjg?

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 13 March 2004 16:59 (twenty years ago) link

better believe it.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 13 March 2004 18:32 (twenty years ago) link

le petit soldat.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 14 March 2004 17:10 (twenty years ago) link

oh, yeah, shit.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 14 March 2004 17:15 (twenty years ago) link

I can here that pig. It is playing sowing the seeds of love.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 14 March 2004 18:36 (twenty years ago) link

"the chicken is only involved but the pig, the pig is committed."

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 14 March 2004 18:39 (twenty years ago) link

But what is the best thing to do with an egg?

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 14 March 2004 18:43 (twenty years ago) link

eat your eggs and eat them.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 14 March 2004 18:48 (twenty years ago) link

wait, eggs?

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 14 March 2004 19:29 (twenty years ago) link

are omelettes eggs?

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 14 March 2004 19:34 (twenty years ago) link

better believe it.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 14 March 2004 19:45 (twenty years ago) link

Was Cook listening to 'Just a Minute' on R4 this morning?

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Sunday, 14 March 2004 19:48 (twenty years ago) link

he was! he told me all about it, on a stair.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 14 March 2004 19:49 (twenty years ago) link

You've found me out, Nipper.

Only partly on a stair.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 14 March 2004 19:54 (twenty years ago) link

L'esprit d'escalier.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Sunday, 14 March 2004 19:58 (twenty years ago) link

Nonsense.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 14 March 2004 20:02 (twenty years ago) link

L'esprit d'eggscalier?

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Sunday, 14 March 2004 20:04 (twenty years ago) link

Better.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 14 March 2004 20:06 (twenty years ago) link

believe it.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 14 March 2004 20:08 (twenty years ago) link

or not.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 14 March 2004 20:10 (twenty years ago) link

I think you two have something I don't want.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Sunday, 14 March 2004 20:10 (twenty years ago) link

haha, a sailor gave me a penny.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 14 March 2004 20:11 (twenty years ago) link

It was during the war.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 14 March 2004 20:13 (twenty years ago) link

back to glasgow, lads!!!!!!!!

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 14 March 2004 20:19 (twenty years ago) link

stupid sunday service. I'm stuck at home now.

on the plus side I've got a reciprocated glasgow spring crush!

but I'm stuck on the thing I'm writing. : /

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 14 March 2004 20:29 (twenty years ago) link

is glasgow spring crush a kind of drink?

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 14 March 2004 20:48 (twenty years ago) link

It's hipster slang for Irn Bru.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Sunday, 14 March 2004 20:51 (twenty years ago) link

it is, now.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 14 March 2004 23:32 (twenty years ago) link

sp: 'hear'

― the bluefox, Monday, 15 March 2004 14:20 (twenty years ago) link

britney sp: 'hear' s

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 15 March 2004 14:22 (twenty years ago) link

I managed to ignore that.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 15 March 2004 14:25 (twenty years ago) link

A bit of Glasgow came to London at the weekend & I tried it twice, does that count?

― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 15 March 2004 17:32 (twenty years ago) link

i only tried it once this weekend, although i may have tried it on a couple times.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 15 March 2004 17:34 (twenty years ago) link

The second time was much better, so its true what they say, one should always

TRY GLASGOW MORE

― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 15 March 2004 17:40 (twenty years ago) link

uh-huh!

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 15 March 2004 17:42 (twenty years ago) link

oh!

i thought it said "try glasgow, moore"

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 15 March 2004 17:42 (twenty years ago) link

Haven't we done that one already?

― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 15 March 2004 17:45 (twenty years ago) link

In the midnight hour, I cried...

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 15 March 2004 17:48 (twenty years ago) link

we probably have but the second time was better

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:06 (twenty years ago) link

when do you try NYC more, RJG?

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 15 March 2004 19:21 (twenty years ago) link

before 2005.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 15 March 2004 19:34 (twenty years ago) link

I didn't hear about Glasgow on Thames until far too late, but hey, there'll be plenty of Glasgow on the Hudson in April, which is a very good thing

― chris (chris), Monday, 15 March 2004 19:35 (twenty years ago) link

I would have liked to have attended the Glasgow in London events this weekend, but had to make do with going to the Winchester Club instead. Ally C played Dire Straits!

Me and the other would like also to attend the mass exodus to NYC but have no money. Also I have a niece being born in Florida soon which may take up my USA-ward excursion quota for the year.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 15 March 2004 21:16 (twenty years ago) link

When/who is playing the next WC, Glasgow?

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 15 March 2004 21:22 (twenty years ago) link

I wonder if we'll ever know.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 15 March 2004 21:25 (twenty years ago) link

April 10th. Torgas Valley Reds. Might even be good. Who knows.

?

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 15 March 2004 21:57 (twenty years ago) link

haha, I wonder.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 15 March 2004 21:58 (twenty years ago) link

OF COURSE IT WILL BE GOOD

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 15 March 2004 21:58 (twenty years ago) link

better believe it?

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 15 March 2004 21:59 (twenty years ago) link

if you can, please.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 15 March 2004 22:02 (twenty years ago) link

Is Glasgow going to Sweden this summer to see The Pines (and Momus)?

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 15 March 2004 22:11 (twenty years ago) link

try birthdays more

asshoppers

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 18 March 2004 22:03 (twenty years ago) link

Jack - them images aint working pour moi. What do they say?

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 18 March 2004 22:57 (twenty years ago) link

Ah- they is working now.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 18 March 2004 22:59 (twenty years ago) link

Its OK, Jerry - asshoppers need not apply

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 18 March 2004 23:00 (twenty years ago) link

; )

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 18 March 2004 23:03 (twenty years ago) link

Am.... I.... an.... asshopper?

: (

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 18 March 2004 23:06 (twenty years ago) link

I think we all are, in some respect.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 18 March 2004 23:19 (twenty years ago) link

I don't like the word asshopper.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 18 March 2004 23:24 (twenty years ago) link

there goes your respect.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 18 March 2004 23:25 (twenty years ago) link

and mine.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 18 March 2004 23:35 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.melodiedelamer.com/images/leapfrog.jpg

― Mooro (Mooro), Friday, 19 March 2004 10:33 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/edu_ww1/images/leapfrog.jpg

― Mooro (Mooro), Friday, 19 March 2004 10:35 (twenty years ago) link

Am.... I.... an.... asshopper?

I have no idea what one is. It was just a silly, childish, thoughtless thing to say to see if I could make RJG smile.

Profuse apologies for any offence called.


I continue to love the pants off you.

― Mooro (Mooro), Friday, 19 March 2004 12:03 (twenty years ago) link

The feeling is mutual, Big Tackle.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 19 March 2004 12:11 (twenty years ago) link

for a moment i thought the would be goods were to be playing at the winchester.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 19 March 2004 12:17 (twenty years ago) link

Another schooldays photo from Mooro?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 19 March 2004 13:29 (twenty years ago) link

anyone want the glasgow?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 13:02 (twenty years ago) link

jerry?

ally says you should come up for the next winchester because it is the easter weekend or something? yeah, I think so.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 13:28 (twenty years ago) link

I am going to Paris for the Easter weekend, I am afraid.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 13:34 (twenty years ago) link

I'll tell him it was a bad idea.

maybe next time!!

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 13:35 (twenty years ago) link

Next Easter?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 13:35 (twenty years ago) link

there are so many nexts, nick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 13:36 (twenty years ago) link

You ponce, Jerry.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 13:39 (twenty years ago) link

I don't understand RJG anymore.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 13:40 (twenty years ago) link

what a ponce.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 13:41 (twenty years ago) link

Je pense.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 13:44 (twenty years ago) link

therefore I ponce.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 13:45 (twenty years ago) link

dying of not dying.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 28 March 2004 21:10 (twenty years ago) link

glasgow was tried and tested, last night.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 28 March 2004 21:28 (twenty years ago) link

how did it measure up?

― chris (chris), Sunday, 28 March 2004 21:38 (twenty years ago) link

about 56 feet!! (28 pairs)!!

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 28 March 2004 22:07 (twenty years ago) link

I am SO over Glasgow

― Skottie, Sunday, 28 March 2004 22:10 (twenty years ago) link

how are you posting from the plane?

― chris (chris), Sunday, 28 March 2004 22:13 (twenty years ago) link

Oh dear.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 28 March 2004 22:14 (twenty years ago) link

yes dear?

― chris (chris), Sunday, 28 March 2004 22:16 (twenty years ago) link

Dear dear.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 28 March 2004 22:18 (twenty years ago) link

mmmm dear

― chris (chris), Sunday, 28 March 2004 22:19 (twenty years ago) link

I went to see 'alphaville' tonight. I can see how and why an architecture course would screen it: its theme being personality's erosion by modernity's unfeeling organisation. I'm not sure it wasn't awful. what is it with french people and this theme: le corbusier, tati, foucault, debord etc. all to some extent handled it. I almost felt like the cinema was smothercating me and exhaled a long 'fucking hell' when the 'FIN' came up.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 28 March 2004 22:53 (twenty years ago) link

OK, it was OK.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 28 March 2004 22:55 (twenty years ago) link

better than that.

I think I need my nose syringed. is that a thing?

it feels like I have a flabby epiglottis.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 28 March 2004 22:57 (twenty years ago) link

at this point i'm irate that i'm not trying glasgow next weekend. what was i thinking?

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 28 March 2004 22:59 (twenty years ago) link

I have no idea!!!

did you like paris?

crosspost but it's OK

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 28 March 2004 22:59 (twenty years ago) link

I love paris but there wasn't much of paris in the film.

I guess it was interesting just not heartbreaking plus a touch obvious and didactic. and the guy's (the 'big brother' cypher) the guy's big voice was irritating.

some nice touches though. there was a guy before the film who talked about godard, did you get him at 'une femme est une femme'?

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 28 March 2004 23:02 (twenty years ago) link

yes, we had him. before and after. I kind of wish he hadn't but he seemed nice.

it's all paris, btw!!!

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 28 March 2004 23:03 (twenty years ago) link

haha outside is different from inside.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 28 March 2004 23:04 (twenty years ago) link

I don't think you understand...

haha.

do you want to go to paris, on wednesday?

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 28 March 2004 23:10 (twenty years ago) link

O I'd love to but I'm going to see 'the passion'.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 28 March 2004 23:29 (twenty years ago) link

dude paris is where the passion is

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 28 March 2004 23:32 (twenty years ago) link

my friend, kate, was going with her friend but her friend got hit by a car.

: /

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 28 March 2004 23:32 (twenty years ago) link

glasgow should have an FAP.

I met jed (colin) in the street and he talked to paul buchanan. it was all very exciting.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:18 (twenty years ago) link

It is now April. I hear Tracer is around.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 8 April 2004 10:03 (twenty years ago) link

was paul buchanan who the buchanan street was named after? if not who was he?

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 8 April 2004 10:13 (twenty years ago) link

or who IS he, even (i didn't kill him!! honest)

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 8 April 2004 10:13 (twenty years ago) link

He's the Blue Nile dude, dude

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 8 April 2004 10:15 (twenty years ago) link

... and, yes, Buchanan Street was named after him and Nile Street after his band

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 8 April 2004 10:15 (twenty years ago) link

and that's why the street has those weird blue lights!!! it all makes sense now

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 8 April 2004 10:20 (twenty years ago) link

... and you can only walk down it if you're wearing a "Hat"

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 8 April 2004 10:21 (twenty years ago) link

you've lost me now

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 8 April 2004 10:22 (twenty years ago) link

A Hat is recommended as Tinseltown is often in the Rain

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 8 April 2004 10:23 (twenty years ago) link

Why is there a West Nile Street, but not an East Nile Street? There should be a Blue Nile Street.

I saw someone on the underground today that looks like what I think I remember Tracer Hand looking like in photos. But it probably wasn't him at all.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 8 April 2004 16:00 (twenty years ago) link

I didnae hear no-one that soonded like ye, wee Ailsa, on yon POPMASTER.

― the bluefox, Thursday, 8 April 2004 16:02 (twenty years ago) link

That is rubbish.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 8 April 2004 16:04 (twenty years ago) link

I told you on the other thread. I have a job. And I hate Richard Allinson. And I am scared of being foolish on the radio.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 8 April 2004 16:06 (twenty years ago) link

WEST NILE FEVER

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 8 April 2004 16:31 (twenty years ago) link

I fell back in love with glasgow.

it only took london.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 8 April 2004 16:33 (twenty years ago) link

ARGYLE SOCKS

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 8 April 2004 16:36 (twenty years ago) link

AAAAH, REGIMENT

― cozenazi (Cozen), Thursday, 8 April 2004 16:37 (twenty years ago) link

WELLINGTON BOOTS

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 8 April 2004 16:38 (twenty years ago) link

DUKE IT OUT

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 8 April 2004 16:42 (twenty years ago) link

UNION BUSTERS

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 8 April 2004 16:46 (twenty years ago) link

PITT BULLS

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 8 April 2004 16:48 (twenty years ago) link

This has to stop.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:02 (twenty years ago) link

I HOPE SO

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:02 (twenty years ago) link

When are we going out, with Tracer Hand?

Not Saturday. Everyone is going to The Winchester Club on Saturday. AREN'T THEY?

Maybe Saturday.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:03 (twenty years ago) link

He left me a message, I left him a message. Will M. be able to get him into her show tomorrow if he wants to come?

He is offering a party on Saturday. The Winchester's not offering that, is it?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:06 (twenty years ago) link

QUEEN BITCH

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:07 (twenty years ago) link

Uh, maybe. Not sure.

Yes, it is. And so much more.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:08 (twenty years ago) link

I asked m. to put his name down, if she could (she's already put down cozen's!!), and she said she would, if she could.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:09 (twenty years ago) link

Well he's around next week too, anyway. Let's just not make him go to the sodding Hubbards quiz, eh?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:10 (twenty years ago) link

OH! YOU PRETTY THINGS

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:10 (twenty years ago) link

thank you, RJG.

haha I think tracer hates me. so this could get interesting!

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:10 (twenty years ago) link

this could get boring.

I can't believe it.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:12 (twenty years ago) link

it's already boring. so etc

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:12 (twenty years ago) link

Tracer put a question mark after your name when he was listing people he'd like to meet, cozen, but I don't think he meant anything by it.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:14 (twenty years ago) link

was david bowie on his list?

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:17 (twenty years ago) link

No, but David Bowie was.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:18 (twenty years ago) link

how do you pronounce 'howie'?

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:19 (twenty years ago) link

with a 'b'?

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:19 (twenty years ago) link

I had never thought how ridiculous Howie's name was until just then.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:19 (twenty years ago) link

haha!

can we play football at some time?

you're another one, dastoor.

(ps, I read something you wrote in papercuts and then watched 'wonderland'. I think you're largely right.)

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:20 (twenty years ago) link

wait, you gave him a list?

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:21 (twenty years ago) link

I think I need to calm down, a little.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:22 (twenty years ago) link

He gave me a list. Actually it was more of a menu.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:23 (twenty years ago) link

are you a starter?

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:24 (twenty years ago) link

there's a 'don't try it' joke in there somewhere.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:24 (twenty years ago) link

Nick is still pissing his life away.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:24 (twenty years ago) link

I booked a table at a restaurant, online, recently. it said 'conditions: tea/coffee included'.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:25 (twenty years ago) link

are you a starter?

Only in the sense that you are a urine-drenched bowl of imperial mints.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:25 (twenty years ago) link

hauty cuisine.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:27 (twenty years ago) link

Cordon bleurgh.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:27 (twenty years ago) link

this could get boring. ...

it's already boring. so etc

Weegie bored, weegie bored

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:34 (twenty years ago) link

à la fart

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:37 (twenty years ago) link

I think we're going to see the highlights, in the gorbals, tomorrow, before we go, to the post grad club.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:55 (twenty years ago) link

What is Dennistoun like?

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Thursday, 8 April 2004 18:05 (twenty years ago) link

dennistoun is quite nice, actually, but there is no reason to go there.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 8 April 2004 18:09 (twenty years ago) link

sublime!

xp

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 8 April 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago) link

I have a friend who lives there, so I might have a reason.

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Thursday, 8 April 2004 18:21 (twenty years ago) link

I feel personally responsible, in some odd way, for young Coz. having such a low opinion of London. : (

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 8 April 2004 18:28 (twenty years ago) link

I have a friend that lives there but I don't.

haha.

I used to have a reason to go there but I am glad I don't, now.

no, it is nice, w/ the cathedral and necropolis nearby and alexandra park and so on.

I hadn't ever really thought about how weirdly the cathedral is located, in glasgow, until last week.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 8 April 2004 18:29 (twenty years ago) link

comma chameleon.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 8 April 2004 18:48 (twenty years ago) link

Coz. did not discount that I was responsible for his metroterror.

GF in a comma.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 8 April 2004 18:50 (twenty years ago) link

I got my flatmate to add tracer's name, to the list, but now he says he can't come : ( etc.

m. says they won't play until 10/10:30 and the doors open at 9, plenty of time for the highlights. cozen? nick? cathy? asshoppers?

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 9 April 2004 09:41 (twenty years ago) link

RJG I wish I could go!!! I'm beginning to think we have actually organize something. I want a FAP next week. When?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 9 April 2004 10:05 (twenty years ago) link

this is where we fall down : (((

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 9 April 2004 10:08 (twenty years ago) link

Why do you have three mouths?!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 9 April 2004 10:15 (twenty years ago) link

I tripped!

okay, so, we could try, again, to actually arrange an actual glasgow FAP but there have been countless failed attempts, in the past.

next week? what suits you? I am going to have to be very busy, this next week, but, if it is actually arranged, I should be able to work it into my schedule, haha.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 9 April 2004 10:20 (twenty years ago) link

Tuesday, April 13th. (or really anytime)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 9 April 2004 10:27 (twenty years ago) link

Tuesday could be good. WHO ELSE?

If Coz wants football, could that be Monday? Would anyone?

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 9 April 2004 10:33 (twenty years ago) link

what the fuck???

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 9 April 2004 10:35 (twenty years ago) link

I was gonna say:

I'm pretty easy. let's see if anyone, else, has any preferred nicht.


I think cookie might have hacked into my user account, from upstairs.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 9 April 2004 10:36 (twenty years ago) link

I am not RJG. It must be some sort of cookie on my machine.

It must be some sort of Cookie in his machine.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 9 April 2004 10:39 (twenty years ago) link

Good Nicht.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 9 April 2004 11:01 (twenty years ago) link

who else, do we have?

madchen?
ailsa?
jed?
plink?
rumpywhatever?

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 9 April 2004 11:05 (twenty years ago) link

Sharleen?

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 9 April 2004 11:06 (twenty years ago) link

billy.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 9 April 2004 11:11 (twenty years ago) link

are you coming, to the highlights, tonight? they'll all be there.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 9 April 2004 11:11 (twenty years ago) link

It's a trap.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 9 April 2004 11:14 (twenty years ago) link

what kind of a real trap would use billy sloan, as bait?

maybe we need a new thread, for that question.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 9 April 2004 11:17 (twenty years ago) link

I don't understand the highlights thing.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 9 April 2004 11:18 (twenty years ago) link

remember the empty tower block w/ lights in and lights up?

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 9 April 2004 11:19 (twenty years ago) link

Oh, yeah. For sure. I thought you meant highlights of the Arsenal-Liverpool game or something. I'll come.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 9 April 2004 11:28 (twenty years ago) link

I hope I'm there tonight.

football on monday would be good. throughout the day?

I'm not sure I could make an FAP next week though; super-busy etc. : /

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 9 April 2004 11:38 (twenty years ago) link

was nichts muss?

I can scrounge two extra players (flatmates; I think) for football.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 9 April 2004 11:40 (twenty years ago) link

you hope you're there, tonight?

you'd better be, actually!!!

we got m. to put all these names on the, quite limited, list, at the expense of other people, maybe!!

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 9 April 2004 11:41 (twenty years ago) link

I'll be there! I just hope I'm there.

the glas. uni. post-grad. club, yeah?

am I on under my sunday name?

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 9 April 2004 11:42 (twenty years ago) link

yes and yes. don't wear the corresponding suit, though.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 9 April 2004 11:43 (twenty years ago) link

football fap.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 9 April 2004 11:44 (twenty years ago) link

it's friday night.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 9 April 2004 11:45 (twenty years ago) link

oh my friend peter did the tower block lights... if it's the same one your talking about.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 9 April 2004 14:13 (twenty years ago) link

I can't tracer-fap next week as i will be in spain. i can't other-fap tonight as I have to drink my share of our pub quiz winnings before i go to Spain.

I might be winchestering tomorrow though, but briefly as I have to be at the airport for 4am.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 April 2004 15:54 (twenty years ago) link

Yo Glasgow!

Thursday May 6th I'll be playing guitar for the crazy artist Shirokuma at fire : works, The Woodside Social Club, North Woodside Road.

Apparently there is a full-on Lynskey gig the next night, but I don't know the venue yet. Either'd be a good opportunity to "meet the Lynsk".

Oh and theres an Aberdeen on the night after that too. If anyone's interested I'll put the details up when I get them.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Friday, 9 April 2004 16:10 (twenty years ago) link

what time are you going along tonight, RJG?

I had another question.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 9 April 2004 16:35 (twenty years ago) link

o, yeah, if someone wants to come along (say, a flatmate) who is to pay then how much is it?

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 9 April 2004 16:38 (twenty years ago) link

that was some good glasgow!

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 10 April 2004 00:32 (twenty years ago) link

That was. We agree.

I feel that the thread should not be used for advertising, of for instance clubs.

That doesn't mean the clubs are bad, themselves.

"I fell back in love with London; it onley took Cozen?"

― the bluefox, Saturday, 10 April 2004 07:53 (twenty years ago) link

Actually, it would take more, than that.

― the redfox, Saturday, 10 April 2004 07:53 (twenty years ago) link

I'm taking that as mean-spirited.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 10 April 2004 09:26 (twenty years ago) link

I am less mean-spirited on The Poetry Thread

― the greenfox, Saturday, 10 April 2004 09:36 (twenty years ago) link

It is queer to see Eyeball Kicks talking about beating people up.

I have met him. He didn't even seem to consider beating me up, nor none else neither.

― the pinkfox, Saturday, 10 April 2004 09:39 (twenty years ago) link

did you see I revived the sean o'brien thread to talk about the park by the railway and also the peom of the similar name?

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 10 April 2004 09:46 (twenty years ago) link

No: soon, I will, see.

― the greenfox, Saturday, 10 April 2004 11:08 (twenty years ago) link

are we going to play football, glasgow?

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 10 April 2004 11:09 (twenty years ago) link

Cookie wants to play on Monday. I'm at work.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 10 April 2004 11:11 (twenty years ago) link

In that case, Monday?

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 10 April 2004 11:12 (twenty years ago) link

I think we should play on monday. I have an 11-a-side size astro-turf park out my back door, which also has 7-a-side goals and hockey goals for the more informal kick-a-bout.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 10 April 2004 11:13 (twenty years ago) link

I fancy Cozen might be quite useful

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 10 April 2004 11:15 (twenty years ago) link

...as a rallying cry

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 10 April 2004 11:15 (twenty years ago) link

I don't understand what Cozen's on about. Is this free?

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 10 April 2004 11:32 (twenty years ago) link

it's free.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 10 April 2004 11:39 (twenty years ago) link

it is, as I said, an 11-a-side astro-turf park which has 11-a-side goals, 7-a-side goals, and hockey goals. (you know the set-up, it's common.) the park is annexed to the local school and during non-school times, it is free to use. there may be some other people on the park and I can't guarantee space (though it's rare that it is completely stoked full) but it is a possibility?

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 10 April 2004 11:40 (twenty years ago) link

It's a trick!

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 10 April 2004 11:44 (twenty years ago) link

I don't got no baby!

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 10 April 2004 11:45 (twenty years ago) link

It is a world of possibility.

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 10 April 2004 12:38 (twenty years ago) link

pausibility

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 10 April 2004 14:06 (twenty years ago) link

I'm starting to understand why there's never been a Glasgow FAP.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 10 April 2004 14:16 (twenty years ago) link

it's tuesday night. isn't it?

should people be there from 7? if not, when?

should people be at the carnarvon bar, on the corner of carnarvon street and st. george's road? if not, where?

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 10 April 2004 14:22 (twenty years ago) link

I'll go where I'm told.

― Cathy (Cathy), Saturday, 10 April 2004 14:24 (twenty years ago) link

Oh no, not the Carnarvon. How about the Uisge Beathe?

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 10 April 2004 15:14 (twenty years ago) link

I like that one less.

― the bluefox, Saturday, 10 April 2004 15:21 (twenty years ago) link

You're not coming. The Carnarvon is good when you feel grotty, but it has too many bad smells and memories.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 10 April 2004 15:23 (twenty years ago) link

How about the new Sports Bar on Sauchiehall St?

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 10 April 2004 15:24 (twenty years ago) link

Maybe I should try Glasgow?

― the bluefox, Saturday, 10 April 2004 15:28 (twenty years ago) link

i cannot believe a glasgow fap is actually happening and i will be not there.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 10 April 2004 15:30 (twenty years ago) link

I can. You never came to my Glasgow FAP.

― the bluefox, Saturday, 10 April 2004 15:42 (twenty years ago) link

CCA?

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 10 April 2004 15:44 (twenty years ago) link

Did you have a Glasgow FAP? I did come and see you though.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 10 April 2004 15:47 (twenty years ago) link

You did.

I appreciated it.

One day you should come and see me, and hear Ken Bruce. And touch my fluffy rabbit?

― the bluefox, Saturday, 10 April 2004 15:50 (twenty years ago) link

*runs away*

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 10 April 2004 15:55 (twenty years ago) link

haha,

the CCA is good.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 10 April 2004 16:01 (twenty years ago) link

Are we all agreed on the CCA? Cook won't be, but fuck him.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 10 April 2004 16:18 (twenty years ago) link

I'm agreed on the CCA.

― Cathy (Cathy), Saturday, 10 April 2004 16:19 (twenty years ago) link

it's OK to eat a whole bag of pistachios in a oner?

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 10 April 2004 16:22 (twenty years ago) link

let's not get nasty.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 10 April 2004 16:23 (twenty years ago) link

why would cook object to the CCA?

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 10 April 2004 16:38 (twenty years ago) link

cos of the perforated pleather light fittings?

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 10 April 2004 16:49 (twenty years ago) link

colin, what are you doing in your friendster picture?

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 10 April 2004 16:51 (twenty years ago) link

nick says ally is always complaining unless it's the carnarvon or a wetherspoons. it is simple not true and is actually false. nick says "I'm align him." I don't think anything is fair, anymore.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 10 April 2004 16:52 (twenty years ago) link

It's true, Dick, what you say, because, remember the other day, when we noticed that something wasn't fair?

Still.

― the fairfox, Saturday, 10 April 2004 16:54 (twenty years ago) link

i'm taking a picture of myself, what's Richard doing in his?

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 10 April 2004 16:55 (twenty years ago) link

I'm making things fair. fairer, at least.

you're right PF. there have been a couple of times, like that, lately. I should've kicked up more of a stink.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 10 April 2004 16:57 (twenty years ago) link

I definitely fell in love. yes, with her.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 11 April 2004 00:55 (twenty years ago) link

OK. you asked. yes, the dress. the smile, the just-off aligned nose, the perpetual smile, the dancing, the the hair! o!, O my! the hair, OK, yes, I fall in love easily, so I'm alistair flitchett, big deal, but this girl, this girl.

you don't see it, do you?

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 11 April 2004 01:04 (twenty years ago) link

I think she was with (with?) that boy, despite n4l saying, not less than a week ago, that she, k4ty, "doesn't" (didn't?) have a boyfriend.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 11 April 2004 01:07 (twenty years ago) link

I don't see it, yet, because I don't know whom, you are talking, about: you are beside your point, right next to - her.

― the bellefox, Sunday, 11 April 2004 09:48 (twenty years ago) link

I'd like to thank RJG. He is right. I don't see a reason why I would object to the CCA - in fact the opposite is true. It's rare that Dastoor has been so off the money.

Fair would be him, apologising, to me.

Cozen, I thought she had bf but if not then GO. She is OK. I hope you are not Fitchett.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 11 April 2004 11:33 (twenty years ago) link

my keyboard is still, broken. sorry, cook.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 11 April 2004 11:45 (twenty years ago) link

Accepted.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 11 April 2004 11:54 (twenty years ago) link

i used to say dumb things, i guess i still do

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 11 April 2004 12:04 (twenty years ago) link

ally, I thought she had a bf too. but I was informed, as I said upthread.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 11 April 2004 12:15 (twenty years ago) link

I thought she had. 4D4M. madchen said not, though. they are often seen, together, but never w/ the kiss/cuddle/touch and are just pals?

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 11 April 2004 12:17 (twenty years ago) link

anyway. I'm too wuss, anyway.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 11 April 2004 12:18 (twenty years ago) link

go 4 it, cozen. I think that guy has tinnitus, anyway, and no neckerchief.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 11 April 2004 12:20 (twenty years ago) link

you don't like the neckerchief?

I've heard i. 'I love it', ii. 'o, it's a bit sporting' and iii. 'you look quite trendy'. so far.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 11 April 2004 13:02 (twenty years ago) link

It probably suits you. More than a suit would suit.

Nick: bizarrely, RJG and I were in Waterstones the other day and that song was playing. I could hardly believe it. I still can't. Hardly.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 11 April 2004 13:27 (twenty years ago) link

i have noticed outre music in that waterstones, before.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 11 April 2004 13:49 (twenty years ago) link

Summary of Uses for the Scout Neckerchief

The Scout Neckerchief may be used:

1. As an International Morse signal flag.
2. For sending messages by Semaphore code.
3. In knot-tying practice.
4. For Troop and Patrol identification.
5. As a reminder of the Scout Good Turn, (single knot).
6. As indication that wearer is not a Cadet, but a Scout.
7. As a substitute for a belt.
8. As a shoulder mat.
9. As a smoke mask.
10. As a blindfold for Scout games.
11. As a dressing for a burned face and neck.
12. As a sweat band for confining the hair.
13. For identifying contesting teams.
14. As a swatter in playing games.
15. In the three-legged race, to tie legs together.
16. In games requiring contestants to be hobbled.
17. In game called "Badger Pulling," to make binder for heads.
18. As a night cap or ear protector.
19. As a muffler for storm or blizzard.
20. As a cover for a pail of water.
21. As a loin cloth or bathing trunks.
22. As a triangular cap bandage.
23. As a napkin.
24. As an apron.
25. As a table cloth.
26. As a dust cloth or cover.
27. As a "Hobo" bag.
28. For a tump line to carry a load.
29. To lash poles or staves together.
30. As a smoke signal.
31. As a red flag on projecting end of load.
32. As a patch for a canoe, when properly treated.
33. As caulking for a leaky boat, when properly treated.
34. For distress signal, lighted for a "flare."
35. As a pad for the head in carrying heavy loads and wherever needed to prevent chafing.
36. As a padded glove for the hand, to prevent blisters.
36a. As a blindfold for rescuing a horse from fire.
37. To pad portions of harness to prevent chafing.
38. To tie up square packages.
39. For fastening ends of the blanket roll.
40. For making life line or guard rope.
41. For making rope ladder.
42. For making boat sail.
43 For making emergency clothing

from, Scouting With a Neckerchief, BY COMMODORE W. E. Longfellow

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 11 April 2004 13:59 (twenty years ago) link

Wow.

I am most interested in this game of 'badger pulling'.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Sunday, 11 April 2004 14:19 (twenty years ago) link

I think I might suit a suit. in fact, yesterday, I was looking for a brown suit jacket to go with my brown suit trousers. one day, eventually.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 11 April 2004 14:56 (twenty years ago) link

36a. As a blindfold for rescuing a horse from fire.

why 36a?

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 11 April 2004 16:12 (twenty years ago) link

I'm trying medea more tonight.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 11 April 2004 16:15 (twenty years ago) link

medea.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 11 April 2004 16:19 (twenty years ago) link

badger pulling.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 11 April 2004 16:21 (twenty years ago) link

So were people thinking more Monday night than Tuesday?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 11 April 2004 17:06 (twenty years ago) link

This is hopeless.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 11 April 2004 17:10 (twenty years ago) link

Plus: is anyone coming out tonight? Pool might be good.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 11 April 2004 17:11 (twenty years ago) link

anyone short of cash should play pool with ally for money

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 11 April 2004 17:35 (twenty years ago) link

Tuesday = cca
Monday = football, Tracer

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 11 April 2004 17:40 (twenty years ago) link

tonight = medea, gft.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 11 April 2004 18:00 (twenty years ago) link

sorry - ambiguous
Monday = football, Tracer
Tuesday = cca, Tracer
, Tracer

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 11 April 2004 18:02 (twenty years ago) link

whattakeyboard!

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 11 April 2004 18:04 (twenty years ago) link

keycaps

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 11 April 2004 18:05 (twenty years ago) link

pervert.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 11 April 2004 18:06 (twenty years ago) link

youkowitworksait

it'sjusttheottorothatisroke

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 11 April 2004 18:08 (twenty years ago) link

I am down for monday feetball accione. 'Moan the hoops!!*

*Obsolete bonding banter

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 11 April 2004 18:33 (twenty years ago) link

I just saw 'capturing the friedmans' and cook has so much money that he doesn't want to play pool, any longer, and I have lots of work, to do.

I am depressed.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 11 April 2004 18:53 (twenty years ago) link

Don't be.

Dinna(e) fash?

― the bluefox, Sunday, 11 April 2004 19:33 (twenty years ago) link

Just watched the Glasgow episode of This Is Our Music on MTV Nordic, yay!

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 11 April 2004 20:37 (twenty years ago) link

I am disturbed by the X in the middle of that Scout site's title. It makes it look like some kind of porn site.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Sunday, 11 April 2004 20:50 (twenty years ago) link

:(

monday football action!

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 11 April 2004 21:27 (twenty years ago) link

okay.

do you have a football and the time?

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 11 April 2004 22:16 (twenty years ago) link

I have a football. I'm sure I can spare some time.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 11 April 2004 22:17 (twenty years ago) link

my football is a size 4.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 11 April 2004 22:17 (twenty years ago) link

no, the time of when we will play.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 11 April 2004 22:18 (twenty years ago) link

is 4 smaller, than the normal?

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 11 April 2004 22:18 (twenty years ago) link

um. are schools back tomorrow?

1 size smaller.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 11 April 2004 22:19 (twenty years ago) link

I thought 5 was normal.

easter monday? I have no idea. www.google.com ?

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 11 April 2004 22:24 (twenty years ago) link

easter monday? I doubt it then.

what time suits you? you call it.

I was just thinking that if schools are in, which I doubt it, then we'd have to play at 4, if we were to play on my park.

are we playing on my park? or elsewhere?

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 11 April 2004 22:25 (twenty years ago) link

your park OK.

I dunno, like, 12? 1?

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 11 April 2004 22:26 (twenty years ago) link

below my right shin hurts, btw.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 11 April 2004 22:27 (twenty years ago) link

yeah, 1? why not.

bring both your shins; I won't play otherwise.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 11 April 2004 22:28 (twenty years ago) link

you want a kick about

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 11 April 2004 22:28 (twenty years ago) link

your chops.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 11 April 2004 22:28 (twenty years ago) link

the football park is on the first left off clarence drive.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 11 April 2004 22:29 (twenty years ago) link

first on the left, coming from hyndland road?

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 11 April 2004 22:32 (twenty years ago) link

yeah, sorry.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 11 April 2004 22:32 (twenty years ago) link

I'll try bring a flatmate or two.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 11 April 2004 22:34 (twenty years ago) link

RJG plays: they only like you because you're nice
RJG plays: cathy's sister likes you, too
allycook96: like likes me likes me?
RJG plays: cook
RJG plays: you have no balls
allycook96: that is not answering the question. although it does, in a way
RJG plays: oh, shit
RJG plays: I just told her you have no balls
RJG plays: sorry
allycook96: what are you talking about?
RJG plays: lack of balls
RJG plays: cozen has a ball
RJG plays: he says it's smaller than is usual
allycook96: oh i see
RJG plays: no
allycook96: that's no good
RJG plays: I just added that to make sense out of none
RJG plays: it's a size 4
allycook96: no good
allycook96: just because cozen is small he needn't impose it on everyone

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 11 April 2004 22:37 (twenty years ago) link

yes, he is upstairs.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 11 April 2004 22:37 (twenty years ago) link

fuck who.

I might wear shorts.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 11 April 2004 22:51 (twenty years ago) link

That's my schtick.

― the finefox, Monday, 12 April 2004 08:25 (twenty years ago) link

cook says 3, not 1?

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 12 April 2004 09:35 (twenty years ago) link

Perhaps 2. Is anyone up yet?

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 12 April 2004 09:42 (twenty years ago) link

not me.

my shin feels a little better but, now, my tummy hurts. thank goodness, I am still asleep.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 12 April 2004 09:46 (twenty years ago) link

you asshopper.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 12 April 2004 09:49 (twenty years ago) link

the closer to 1 the better, I think. 2?

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 12 April 2004 09:56 (twenty years ago) link

well, we said that. Jesus.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 12 April 2004 09:58 (twenty years ago) link

i thought you were still talking about cozen's ball

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 12 April 2004 10:21 (twenty years ago) link

2.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 12 April 2004 10:23 (twenty years ago) link

5.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 12 April 2004 10:36 (twenty years ago) link

We'll buy, since we must.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 12 April 2004 10:37 (twenty years ago) link

football rockist?

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 12 April 2004 10:42 (twenty years ago) link

The best kind.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 12 April 2004 10:51 (twenty years ago) link

That's true.

I'm not playing, kids.

― the bluefox, Monday, 12 April 2004 11:01 (twenty years ago) link

I hope these hockey kids leave the park in time.

there are contingency pitches.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 12 April 2004 11:26 (twenty years ago) link

I'm watching.

― the bluefox, Monday, 12 April 2004 11:47 (twenty years ago) link

cozen should set up a webcam

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 12 April 2004 12:51 (twenty years ago) link

so we can see his ball

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 12 April 2004 12:51 (twenty years ago) link

we arrived, to find hockey, ongoing. I telephoned cozen to tell him I hated him and ask where he was. he said he'd seen my hair and it was okay and to continue to the gate. we got up, to their level, as they were being sent away, by the hockey mistress. cozen and two flatmates. we went to a tiny five-a-side (three-a-side) "pitch," which was being used by small people. we went to a bigger five-a-side (seven-a-side) "pitch," which was made out of concrete. ally told us that was where he had to smoke, so that they could film him. ally thought we could hear murdoch's music, from a window. ally wouldn't change his trousers. ally took his watch off. we played, three-a-side, until flatmate #2 (I think) fell (or was he pushed?) and onto glass and cut. flatmate #2 (I think) had to leave. with hyndsight, he should have gone to the pharmacy, after all. then we played cuppy doubles. the numbers said that it was cozen and me Vs. ally and richard 2, with flatmate #1 (I think) in goal. I was already going deaf, due to lack of fitness. cozen and I won. I think I scored two, of the five, but ally said he scored the last one. I had to lie down, on the grass, for a while. they played cuppy singles. ally was in goal and cozen was through and flatmate #1 (I think) was through and richard 2 was out. richard 2 and I sat on the wall. cozen and flatmate #1 (I think) battled. I think cozen scored a couple of goodies but my vision was a little blurred. despite this and despite that, flatmate #1 (I think) won out and scored his and the winner. by then, I had recovered, a little, and we all were standing up and keeping the ball up and, then, richard 2 had to leave but the four, of us, that were left, kept the ball up, a little longer. they were talking about real footballers and how they can kick the ball. some other people, people that we did not and do not know, arrived and we decided to get out. we walked up and onto hyndland road and, there we were, pizza magic. fifteen percent off, if you order online. cozen seemed to be recommending but was, soon, warning off: although they deliver to his flat (nine up, on queer street), he got food poisoning, from their food, once. "that's the magic," said I. "that's the pizza," said cozen. we parted company, at the start of queer street, and ally and I walked to hillhead underground station. a call, from nick, a message, for tracer. we saw a friend, on a large bicycle. he rang his bell, at us, and smiled, at us. on byres road, we saw a mongolian, that I know. I pointed at him, saying to myself "there he is," he smiled and then frowned, thinking to himself, perhaps, that I was saying "there he is," to ally. undergound, we got a train, eventually, and, three stops later, we had another hill to climb and song to sing. if only we could have stopped, for some food, but ally has too many friends. we talked about next week.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 12 April 2004 15:05 (twenty years ago) link

A good time had by all then. Except perhaps flatmate #2, and the Mongolian.

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:14 (twenty years ago) link

I watched the football.

― the bluefox, Monday, 12 April 2004 16:16 (twenty years ago) link

RJG has finally given berth to his latent, inner Gertrude Stein.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:18 (twenty years ago) link

a good time but I wonder if I will have a better time, when I do almost die.

you watched, from murdoch's flat?

crosspost, haha?

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:21 (twenty years ago) link

flatmate #2 played by sam.
flatmate #1 played by simon.
flatmate #2 played by cooke, the allegations say.
flatmate #2 fell, the other allegations say.
richard #2 played by richard.
flatmate #2 is OK, if a little wounded. not his pride, mind.

I enjoyed it.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:22 (twenty years ago) link

I think my face may be the colour of my skin, again, now.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:24 (twenty years ago) link

one day you'll see my new move and, then, your face will glow again.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:26 (twenty years ago) link

it's called 'blue steel'.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:26 (twenty years ago) link

Haha. Cozen is a little bit tasty. And not too shabby a 'baller.

Cook.

We were talking, on the way, about the exciting possibility of, one day, playing with the Nipper and the pf.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:45 (twenty years ago) link

'berth'

― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 12 April 2004 17:59 (twenty years ago) link

'cooke'!

― the cookfox, Monday, 12 April 2004 19:19 (twenty years ago) link

Steiner, outer.

Oxter?

― the bluefox, Monday, 12 April 2004 19:19 (twenty years ago) link

His inner Seymour Stein!!

― the bellefox, Monday, 12 April 2004 19:20 (twenty years ago) link

'exciting'?

― the pinefox, Monday, 12 April 2004 19:20 (twenty years ago) link

'possibility'

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:32 (twenty years ago) link

"Evening".

― the bluefox, Monday, 12 April 2004 19:35 (twenty years ago) link

you watched, from murdoch's flat?

They were each trying to inspire the other to write songs again.

― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 12 April 2004 22:01 (twenty years ago) link

Hello. I am glad I didn't come to the football because instead I pruned a giant fuchsia down to a few twigs and sprigs. I am coming out to play tonight.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 08:40 (twenty years ago) link

He succeeded, up to a point.

I am still not sure whether he is allowed round to mine, to get some more inspiration.

It depends what he wears?

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 08:42 (twenty years ago) link

Belle bottoms?

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 09:27 (twenty years ago) link

Enduring image.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 09:30 (twenty years ago) link

What do you mean, Jerry - of Bel's bottom?

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 09:34 (twenty years ago) link

injuring image.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 09:34 (twenty years ago) link

She's not all bad

http://www.isobelcampbell.com/desktop_01.htm

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 09:40 (twenty years ago) link

It has endured, that, one.

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 09:40 (twenty years ago) link

(I don't know what's in the photo graph.)

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 09:41 (twenty years ago) link

(Silly me)

http://www.isobelcampbell.com/images/pic1_800x600.jpg

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 09:41 (twenty years ago) link

why do I rarely see her?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 09:42 (twenty years ago) link

Bless her, you old pervert.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 09:42 (twenty years ago) link

(that was not advice for RJG)

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 09:43 (twenty years ago) link

I suppose I agree with N.

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 09:43 (twenty years ago) link

We should invite her out tonight.

Just to make this more clear. FAP. Tonight. CCA on Sauchiehall Street. All and/or anyone welcome. From 7pm or so. It's OK, Cozen is not coming.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 11:56 (twenty years ago) link

so soon.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 16:17 (twenty years ago) link

I just had a minor heart attack and was advised not to go out tonight, but will try to anyway.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 16:23 (twenty years ago) link

the oddest one, in the book.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:08 (twenty years ago) link

oldest, I mean.

have you got people worried?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:08 (twenty years ago) link

Apparently. I don't think it was a minor heart attack but I have pain in my chest and it hurts to breathe deeply.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:10 (twenty years ago) link

I get it.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:11 (twenty years ago) link

Stevie says it is just fags.

I've warned you, both.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:15 (twenty years ago) link

you don't know the meaning, of the word.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:16 (twenty years ago) link

I've had these pains, sporadically, since before I even started smoking.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:31 (twenty years ago) link

Eat some food.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:35 (twenty years ago) link

I did that before.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:35 (twenty years ago) link

It worked for a while, then I just needed more.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:35 (twenty years ago) link

okay, we are leaving the flat, now. do the same, mr.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:39 (twenty years ago) link

That's bad.

I am sorry to hear about it.

We'll all be sorry, when you're not around, for the things we said; though in a way, you're not around already.

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:42 (twenty years ago) link

Only some of the things we said.

I don't think the other boys are taking this seriously enough.

Perhaps I am missing something.

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:43 (twenty years ago) link

I'm not there. so it's OK.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:51 (twenty years ago) link

I felt bad when I shouted 'FUCK OFF' at myself with the old guy and the young kid playing right next to us.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:51 (twenty years ago) link

Try Oban less. Also Holborn.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 08:34 (twenty years ago) link

try hearing holborn less.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 08:45 (twenty years ago) link

how was glasgow?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 09:44 (twenty years ago) link

Don't ask Tracer.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 11:12 (twenty years ago) link

don't try it

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 11:21 (twenty years ago) link

Another sucessful Glasgow FAP then....

― smee (smee), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 11:23 (twenty years ago) link

It was more of a FAGAT. We were five.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 11:25 (twenty years ago) link

Oh, and somebody Cozen knows was at the table opposite.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 11:26 (twenty years ago) link

Someone Cook knew was upstairs.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 11:26 (twenty years ago) link

hey, I know him, too.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 11:37 (twenty years ago) link

So do I. If you're talking about the Pioneer of Anaesthetic.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 11:37 (twenty years ago) link

You didn't speak to him.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 11:38 (twenty years ago) link

I did. in fact, it was me, that noticed him. I shouted "cossar!"

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 11:40 (twenty years ago) link

Oh, I misheard you.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 11:45 (twenty years ago) link

tosser.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 11:49 (twenty years ago) link

did the person I know have a boyfriend in tow?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 12:10 (twenty years ago) link

It was a boy, that is all I can say.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 12:14 (twenty years ago) link

xpost

He's a peot and he dinnae kneow it.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 12:14 (twenty years ago) link

I am convinced she doesn't have a boyfriend. We were discussing the likelihood of her being a lezzer last night.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 12:17 (twenty years ago) link

'A lezzer'? - good grief.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 12:19 (twenty years ago) link

You can take the girl out of Woking...

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 12:21 (twenty years ago) link

there are other girls.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 12:40 (twenty years ago) link

cathy's going to get her to marry you.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 12:45 (twenty years ago) link

:)

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 13:07 (twenty years ago) link

how will she manage that? does cathy know her?

I think we should play football this weekend.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 13:15 (twenty years ago) link

I have decided to try Glasgow more in June. I may bring a Real Person with me.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 13:15 (twenty years ago) link

from the...outside?

cathy kinda knows her, I think.

I won't play football, this weekend.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 13:17 (twenty years ago) link

Will Jerry's real person be prepared to marry Cozen?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 13:18 (twenty years ago) link

Yesterday, Cathy claimed to kinda know the Orange advert girl. I am suspicious of her powers.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 13:19 (twenty years ago) link

she kinda knows prince, too.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 13:19 (twenty years ago) link

Make him play Glastonbury in place of Muse, Cathy!

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 13:29 (twenty years ago) link

June?

I will not ask why June specifically.

I may yet have to try to pre-empt you.

― the bellefox, Wednesday, 14 April 2004 14:33 (twenty years ago) link

june is pipas and language of flowers and a maybe secret that nipper knows about.

june is a lot more, besides.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 14:35 (twenty years ago) link

I do know her, a bit. Well enough to say 'hello' and maybe 'my mate fancies you'.

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 14:48 (twenty years ago) link

Is she a lezzer though? How did I miss all these conversations last night. Should we give up on Glasgow FAPs for all time?

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 14:50 (twenty years ago) link

I'm two degrees of separation from Prince, and only one from Muse. I'll see what I can do.

x-post x a few

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 14:52 (twenty years ago) link

Can you also fix it for me that the Orange advert girl works in the Orange recharging tent this year?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 14:56 (twenty years ago) link

Ooh! The Language of Flowers aussi? I wonder if I could make it a supa-dupa-long-weekend and be in Glasgow for Bloomsday, too?

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 15:03 (twenty years ago) link

Only if you pwomise to speak with a lithp all weekend.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 15:06 (twenty years ago) link

What, more so than usual? I am going out to buy a kilt now, I think.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 15:10 (twenty years ago) link

if you make her marry me, cathy...

I learned today I am one degree of separation from robbie lumsden (on two sides) (neither ilxers).

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 16:22 (twenty years ago) link

I am one degree of separation from R*dd* L*msd*n.

Or, none?

― the bellefox, Wednesday, 14 April 2004 16:24 (twenty years ago) link

I would rather be in pf's shoes.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 16:26 (twenty years ago) link

Cathy - UR 2 degrees of seperation from Prince?

HOT THANG! that's the most exciting piece of information i've heard 2day.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 16:28 (twenty years ago) link

I can't work out which is the better neme: Robbie Lumsden or David Howie. Perhaps it depends what 'Howie' rhymes with.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 16:28 (twenty years ago) link

'Name', not 'neme'. Is there no 'neme'?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 16:28 (twenty years ago) link

I'm changing my name.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 16:29 (twenty years ago) link

'howie' rhymes w/ 'trouble'.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 16:29 (twenty years ago) link

philanders.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 16:30 (twenty years ago) link

And: he already did.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 16:30 (twenty years ago) link

"It's Hull."

"Excuse me?"

"Rod Hull."

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 16:31 (twenty years ago) link

Robbie Lumsden is an anagram of In bed: loser bum. (that's right my name is infact Robbie:Lumsden, like a channel 4 yoof TV show)

my friends (bastards!) call me Jobbie Cumstain. Nice.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 16:33 (twenty years ago) link

I got a new scarf today.

I have lots of work to do.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 16:33 (twenty years ago) link

I play football with your friend steve, robbie.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 16:34 (twenty years ago) link

unless I'm wrong.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 16:34 (twenty years ago) link

A comma in one's name is even more preposterous than a colon.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 16:35 (twenty years ago) link

Would that be Steve Keld (it's spelt I-W-A-S-C-O-N-C-I-E-V-E-D-I-N-K-E-L-D) Cole?

on a monday nigh with the navs? do I know U? I come along 4 a drink at the rock from time 2 time...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 16:39 (twenty years ago) link

rather it's spelt I-W-A-S-C-O-N-C-E-I-V-E-D-I-N-K-E-L-D

except after C damn...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 16:41 (twenty years ago) link

Robbie, you must stop writing in that -- modern way.

It makes it hard for me to read, the thread, for instance.

N., did you not really have a heart attack?

I was worried for a while. A minute.

Should I not be?

― the blissfox, Wednesday, 14 April 2004 17:32 (twenty years ago) link

I think you really love N..

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 17:44 (twenty years ago) link

I didn't have a heart attack but my chest still hurts. I am on antibiotics.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 17:45 (twenty years ago) link

'think'

― the bellefox, Wednesday, 14 April 2004 17:49 (twenty years ago) link

yeah, that's a larf and a harf!

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 17:50 (twenty years ago) link

I'm an unhappy half-time camper here.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 17:51 (twenty years ago) link

I'm not much of a thinker.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 17:51 (twenty years ago) link

He does not love me.

I have noticed.

― the bellefox, Wednesday, 14 April 2004 17:51 (twenty years ago) link

Hey Cozen - who (other than Steve) is the connection between U and I?

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 17:54 (twenty years ago) link

I was wrong: on this thread he says he does!

Happy Birthday The Pinefox!

― the blissfox, Wednesday, 14 April 2004 18:09 (twenty years ago) link

robbie - did you work in fusion / the dining room for a couple of shifts?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 21:16 (twenty years ago) link

I did work in Fusion for two shifts way back in 2002. were you a-working there?

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 22:54 (twenty years ago) link

two shifts, that's right. yeah, I was right above.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 22:56 (twenty years ago) link

two shifts, that's right. yeah, I was right above.

words tripping me up here. you were right (as in correct) above (as in an above post) OR you were right above (as in directly above in the mezzanine) while i worked those two shifts....

hmmmmmm...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 23:02 (twenty years ago) link

I'm an enigma wrapped in a fuckhead.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 15 April 2004 10:12 (twenty years ago) link

I lose track of all these new bars.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 15 April 2004 10:13 (twenty years ago) link

I prefer the old Oban Inn than any of your Bar Bolas. Despite more modern music on the juke-box—your Pink Floyd and Steve Miller and what have you—there are guys in there who will commence a sea chanty or two with such loud abruptitude that you think they might be picking up where they left off some eighty years ago (it having taken them that long to remember the next verse.)

I think I've been picking up on my inner flake, having somewhat disguised it in the years since I lived on Ruthven Street.

I like Bar 10, but I won't cry wolf any more.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 15 April 2004 10:40 (twenty years ago) link

The old Oban Inn is a cracker, I'll give you that.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 15 April 2004 10:46 (twenty years ago) link

N. I think I saw you on Monday, two blocks down from the Herald, carrying a sandwich. But I was having a silent argument with my girlfriend which needed attending to.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 15 April 2004 10:54 (twenty years ago) link

You dragged your girlfriend here too? Or have you just acquired one aleady.

I am often carrying sandwiches.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 15 April 2004 11:01 (twenty years ago) link

Try eating them, for once.

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 15 April 2004 11:07 (twenty years ago) link

they're not always vegetarian but neither is he.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 15 April 2004 11:09 (twenty years ago) link

A good bar is the Alpen Lodge on Union Street (i think). a free jukebox stocked with fine 50's records and cheap...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Thursday, 15 April 2004 11:13 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.geocities.com/r_gillanders/smallmay.txt

btw.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 15 April 2004 11:13 (twenty years ago) link

Ta, Dick.

You never know.

― the bluefox, Thursday, 15 April 2004 11:16 (twenty years ago) link

wait for the next one, I think, PF.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 15 April 2004 11:17 (twenty years ago) link

(Mooro -- once again: a *second* e-mail address of yours bounced my mail!

Apologies if this should not be aired on this thread.

But then, everything else has been.)

― the bluefox, Thursday, 15 April 2004 11:17 (twenty years ago) link

cookie's sheets haven't been aired, anywhere.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 15 April 2004 11:19 (twenty years ago) link

Ayrshire?

― the bluefox, Thursday, 15 April 2004 11:28 (twenty years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005AL0U.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg

'Bounced' :( I don't know what to suggest. Yr txts don't make it either. P F phone, home?

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 15 April 2004 11:29 (twenty years ago) link

Is that yer Ayrshire bacon?

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 15 April 2004 11:29 (twenty years ago) link

cookie should use 'bounce'.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 15 April 2004 11:30 (twenty years ago) link

I've always been curious about the Alpen Lodge and am pleased to hear it is good. Can we go there soon, can we, can we?

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 15 April 2004 11:30 (twenty years ago) link

He only has one pillow case still to wash.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 15 April 2004 11:30 (twenty years ago) link

there aren't many tables, so get there early (you will end up drunk as BIG measures Voddy and coke is £1.50).

it's the top choice pre-optimo venue, je crois...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Thursday, 15 April 2004 11:32 (twenty years ago) link

I like the one about Cookie, using Bounce.

Mooro, it is queer how these mails keep bouncing.

I will text you.

― the bluefox, Thursday, 15 April 2004 11:32 (twenty years ago) link

cookie's bed is like the forth rail bridge.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 15 April 2004 11:50 (twenty years ago) link

Because of the constant traffic?

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 15 April 2004 11:52 (twenty years ago) link

No, because it has to be repainted at least 4 times a year

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 15 April 2004 11:54 (twenty years ago) link

it's ridiculously over-engineered.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 15 April 2004 11:56 (twenty years ago) link

It's been the scene of several disasters and innumerable personal tragedies

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 15 April 2004 11:58 (twenty years ago) link

It fucking stinks.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 15 April 2004 11:59 (twenty years ago) link

SHUT UP COCKS. I'm going back to work now.

When I return, I expect you all to be dead.

I'm so angry I might get my hair cut then go to an art show.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 15 April 2004 12:00 (twenty years ago) link

it looks impressive but essentially takes you to fife?

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Thursday, 15 April 2004 12:02 (twenty years ago) link

you have to pay, a man, to go over it.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 15 April 2004 12:03 (twenty years ago) link

I updated the winchester poster, upthread, to incl. info, about the june one.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 15 April 2004 12:08 (twenty years ago) link

Mooro, I sent you some text.

― the bluefox, Thursday, 15 April 2004 12:43 (twenty years ago) link

Rcvd on my work phone, fwdd to my psnl 1. Will reply l8er. Thank you.

Cookie's hair as a work of art: discuss.

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 15 April 2004 13:16 (twenty years ago) link

cookie shouldn't cut his hair so that he looks insane.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 15 April 2004 13:17 (twenty years ago) link

Ally Q!

'Bin Laden' offers Europe truce

― the bluefox, Thursday, 15 April 2004 13:26 (twenty years ago) link

Qlly

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 15 April 2004 13:27 (twenty years ago) link

qlly?

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 15 April 2004 13:27 (twenty years ago) link

KuQi.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 15 April 2004 13:31 (twenty years ago) link

the lad 1417.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 15 April 2004 13:36 (twenty years ago) link

Everyone I Meet Is Obssessed With Cookie

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 15 April 2004 13:56 (twenty years ago) link

I get that too.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 15 April 2004 13:57 (twenty years ago) link

birth & turf.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 15 April 2004 15:14 (twenty years ago) link

We love us.

I will text you.

I assume, not, on a phone?

I am so angry I didn't cut my hair or go to art. Tomorrow, perhaps.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 15 April 2004 17:27 (twenty years ago) link

oh that art thing opens today?

I'm going to get a haircut and go.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 15 April 2004 17:39 (twenty years ago) link

I won't get free wine, tomorrow.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 15 April 2004 17:53 (twenty years ago) link

I just ate another whole pack of pistachios. I feel disgusted.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 15 April 2004 20:09 (twenty years ago) link

a whole pack of pistachios? that's nuts!

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Thursday, 15 April 2004 20:10 (twenty years ago) link

disgusted.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 15 April 2004 20:10 (twenty years ago) link

oh, btw, you worked at fusion w. my flatmate one time; he said.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 15 April 2004 20:11 (twenty years ago) link

your flatmate Jodie???

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Thursday, 15 April 2004 20:12 (twenty years ago) link

s'the one.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 15 April 2004 20:19 (twenty years ago) link

and U play the football on a monday night with the Christians?

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Thursday, 15 April 2004 20:20 (twenty years ago) link

christians?

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 15 April 2004 20:20 (twenty years ago) link

it's navigators football ain't it? with Darren "The Duke" Jackson, Daniel "the Drunk" Wilson, Jonnny "The Dank" Forsyth...that lot, eh?

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Thursday, 15 April 2004 20:21 (twenty years ago) link

um, I'm not sure, I just went along one night and asked if I could play. they play just down from my flat, I spied them from the window.

I don't know a darren but know a daniel and a jonny, yeah.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 15 April 2004 20:23 (twenty years ago) link

ah...okay...

no it is, nominally at least, christian football. but being nice christians they let even the heathen play...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Thursday, 15 April 2004 20:24 (twenty years ago) link

wow... I never.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 15 April 2004 20:25 (twenty years ago) link

seems I shoulda.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 15 April 2004 20:25 (twenty years ago) link

that's nothing. I used to live with three delightful christian girls who used to have prayer meetings at 8am(!) every thursday in the room beside me! sometimes 30 christians all praying (probably for my lazyass soul) next door...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Thursday, 15 April 2004 20:27 (twenty years ago) link

The plot thickens.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 15 April 2004 20:36 (twenty years ago) link

the plot thickens further when one establishes that I bear a slight resemblance 2 Jesus (a ginger jesus, but jesus nonetheless)...

what can it all mean?

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Thursday, 15 April 2004 20:37 (twenty years ago) link

Before the cock crows, Cozen will have denied you three times. RJG is the cock.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 15 April 2004 20:40 (twenty years ago) link

I AM THE COCK.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 15 April 2004 21:22 (twenty years ago) link

You can be a donkey if you want.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 15 April 2004 21:25 (twenty years ago) link

N. has been peeking again.

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 15 April 2004 21:29 (twenty years ago) link

alfy cock,
also known as wally puke,
also known as raleigh crook.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 15 April 2004 21:46 (twenty years ago) link

RJG = voice of an angel

― chris (chris), Friday, 16 April 2004 07:20 (twenty years ago) link

with the mind of a divil.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 16 April 2004 08:36 (twenty years ago) link

I'm about to go buy a bottle of mad-dog 20/20.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 16 April 2004 10:29 (twenty years ago) link

You disgust me.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 16 April 2004 11:42 (twenty years ago) link

I'm disgusting now?

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 16 April 2004 16:39 (twenty years ago) link

I'm happy and I'm singing.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 16 April 2004 16:39 (twenty years ago) link

and a 1, 2, 3, 4.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 16 April 2004 16:40 (twenty years ago) link

spotted: robbie lumsden droppin science on the pool table in the QM at about half eight tonight.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 18 April 2004 23:53 (twenty years ago) link

indeed! 4sooth, johan Cohen and myself were arguable the dullest most tired men in the greater glasgow area, following our exhausting daytrip to balloch. too many dogs in balloch.

8.30 was about the time me and johan cohen's selection rocked the QM jukebox (Young Americans in2 brown sugar in2 a prince mix:U got the look, delirious, and Do Me Baby). so we might have cheered up for a second there.

you shd have said hello...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 19 April 2004 07:34 (twenty years ago) link

I thought about it. next time; I was dying for a game of pool too. that's jonny, right?

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 19 April 2004 17:36 (twenty years ago) link

Behold the teapot!
http://geocities.com/madchen_in_uniform/teapot.txt

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 19 April 2004 19:52 (twenty years ago) link

Shall I drink from the teapot or shall I kiss you?
http://geocities.com/madchen_in_uniform/pucker.txt

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 19 April 2004 19:53 (twenty years ago) link

OK, I'll drink from the teapot whilst also clutching my 'glider'
http://geocities.com/madchen_in_uniform/swig.txt

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 19 April 2004 19:53 (twenty years ago) link

'fraid those are in geocities so if you get red crosses, come back later please.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 19 April 2004 19:54 (twenty years ago) link

Both Jack and Cook need a haircut, if they haven't already remedied this.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 19 April 2004 19:55 (twenty years ago) link

we're both just so busy.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 19 April 2004 19:57 (twenty years ago) link

thanks, madchen, btw.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 19 April 2004 19:57 (twenty years ago) link

Give Jim Carrey his face back asap, please Dick!

― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 19 April 2004 20:13 (twenty years ago) link

Alright busy people, can anyone meet me at Bar 10 tomorrow? Or wherever you want, that's just the one I know that's kind of convenient to where my bus comes in the evening. I'm working in Edinburgh all week and I go back to London Saturday morning. Truly I need to try Glasgow more. I swear the wolf is actually attacking my sheep this time!

(I saw a bunch of sheep in Glen Branter, next to Harry Lauder's house. They looked yummy!!)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 19 April 2004 22:51 (twenty years ago) link

YES, I CAN. I was just thinking 'So is that it for Tracer?'. I seem to remember Cook-RJG saying something about tomorrow. Maybe it was apocalyptic. But Bar 10 is fine.

By 'tomorrow' do you mean err, tonight? It strikes me that you probably do. Well, that's OK.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 08:39 (twenty years ago) link

that is confusing: it seems that 12:51 AM april 19th comes after April 19th 10:13 PM. how'd that happen?

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 08:53 (twenty years ago) link

It says12:51 AM april 20th.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 09:14 (twenty years ago) link

no, it doesn't.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 09:15 (twenty years ago) link

This is what it says on my computer (i swear! I have no reason to lie!):

Give Jim Carrey his face back asap, please Dick!
-- Mooro (david.moore9...), April 19th, 2004 10:13 PM. (Mooro) (link)


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Alright busy people, can anyone meet me at Bar 10 tomorrow? Or wherever you want, that's just the one I know that's kind of convenient to where my bus comes in the evening. I'm working in Edinburgh all week and I go back to London Saturday morning. Truly I need to try Glasgow more. I swear the wolf is actually attacking my sheep this time!
(I saw a bunch of sheep in Glen Branter, next to Harry Lauder's house. They looked yummy!!)

-- Tracer Hand (tracerhan...), April 19th, 2004 12:51 AM. (tracerhand) (link)


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i wonder why dat is?

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 09:16 (twenty years ago) link

Well on mine it says April 20th (except where you've pasted it). The gods are conspiring against a Glasgow meetup.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 10:19 (twenty years ago) link

I am ironing, packing, shaving my legs and dying my hair. A fairly decent excuse, being a girl on the verge of a week's holiday, but I'm sorry I'll miss Tracer.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 10:46 (twenty years ago) link

I always ensure my legs are freshly ironed and shaved before I pack them, too.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 10:50 (twenty years ago) link

That doesn't quite work.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 11:05 (twenty years ago) link

"caucasion, 6 foot three, moustache" "that's an awfully big moustache"

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 11:07 (twenty years ago) link

I know! My legs are all hot after I've ironed them and so I get tons of razor nicks!

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 11:07 (twenty years ago) link

xpost

I know! My legs are all hot after I've ironed them and so I get tons of razor nicks!

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 11:08 (twenty years ago) link

No, that doesn't work either. Anyone knows that you get nicks when the skin is cold.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 12:13 (twenty years ago) link

I fear that the chilly north has turned the Wegie London expats into frightful pedants.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 12:16 (twenty years ago) link

I don't think that's fair. there's still a lot that gets by them.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 12:20 (twenty years ago) link

Yes, I'm a twat.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 12:43 (twenty years ago) link

but jerry you live in south london

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 12:56 (twenty years ago) link

That doesn't quite work.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 13:02 (twenty years ago) link

let's not be pedantic.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 13:02 (twenty years ago) link

RJG - Cook - Cozen - anyone else

I think we can assume Tracer means this evening. I have lost his mobile number. Can anyone make it? I finish work at six.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 14:25 (twenty years ago) link

"fear that the chilly north has turned the Wegie London expats into frightful pedants"

Wegie? Is that when yer knickers get all scrunched up in yer bum?

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 14:33 (twenty years ago) link

No, you are confusing it with a Glasgow FAP.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 14:38 (twenty years ago) link

In Glasgow FAP means Fill Ass Pants

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 14:55 (twenty years ago) link

Well it doesn't mean random ILXors getting together for a drink, that's for sure!

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 14:56 (twenty years ago) link

I'm trying, smee.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 14:58 (twenty years ago) link

Really?

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:00 (twenty years ago) link

Yes I meant today!

I can get to Bar 10 by 7 o'COCK. I didn't bring my mobile with me anyway so we're going to have to just do it!

Madchen why would you do all that grooming if you're not meeting me?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:04 (twenty years ago) link

I WILL BE THERE

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:08 (twenty years ago) link

Don't think I will be. Supposed to be going to see Multiplies etc I think, in between packing and going for drink with my dad. TOO MUCH TO DO.

I might be able to make it briefly. Call me, someone. Anyone.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:19 (twenty years ago) link

I think you should, got for drink (lots) with your dad.

I have not been keeping up.

― the bluefox, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:22 (twenty years ago) link

OK, pf.

And where the hell is this Bar 10, anyway?

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:24 (twenty years ago) link

Actually I may skip the gig. Like I said. Call.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:31 (twenty years ago) link

It's opposite the Lighthouse, on Mitchell Lane.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:31 (twenty years ago) link

Bring your dad along.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:32 (twenty years ago) link

sorry tracer dude, if this was tomorrow I'd totally come but I'm signed up to see alasdair roberts tonight.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:49 (twenty years ago) link

Tracer: because I am going to a posh hotel in a glamorous foreign metropolis with Ally C tomorrow. I will shave my legs for you some other time.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:52 (twenty years ago) link

Alternative answer: because my legs are a forest

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:52 (twenty years ago) link

Shaving your legs takes how long? 10 mins?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:57 (twenty years ago) link

quickest deforestation ever.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:59 (twenty years ago) link

we should have another glasgow FAP.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 16:00 (twenty years ago) link

What a great idea.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 16:01 (twenty years ago) link

It takes about 10 minutes just for the bath to run. While that is happening, I apply wash my face and apply a face pack. Then I shave my legs, wash hair ect. Then I get out of the bath and do other girlie stuff like paint my toes and moisturise my elbows.

I also have to pack. I'm leaving work now, bye!

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 16:24 (twenty years ago) link

I changed my mind. Tracer has been fapped. He seemed surprised that I was keeping an eye on the footie.

I thought of another one - The Damned can either be singular or plural.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 21:37 (twenty years ago) link

How come we couldn't stop talking about hookers?

p.s. I don't think the 38 actually runs at night.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 23:09 (twenty years ago) link

Glasgow buses aren't something I've ever thought it was worth the trouble learning about. You rented a taxi?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 23:12 (twenty years ago) link

I am going to regret this, isn't I?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 23:14 (twenty years ago) link

I hired a hooker.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 23:17 (twenty years ago) link

hookah
snuka
...

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 23:18 (twenty years ago) link

No, I hired a damn pedlar to carry me home on his back. He knifed a few people on the way who were singing too loud.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 23:21 (twenty years ago) link

we should have talked about hookahs.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 23:24 (twenty years ago) link

There's a hippie hookah place off Kilmarnock Road near the shopping center if you really wanna know. I don't even know what that means either but I swear it's there.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 23:28 (twenty years ago) link

We have Tchai Ovna for all our hookah needs. Richard - do your work.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 23:31 (twenty years ago) link

haha I was in tchai ovna tonight and, for the first time in my life, tried a hookah. synchronicity innit.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 23:40 (twenty years ago) link

How was the hookah for you?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 23:43 (twenty years ago) link

it was... okay actually. a bit cherry.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 23:45 (twenty years ago) link

I find them ultimately unsatisfying.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 23:47 (twenty years ago) link

Like hookers, I imagine.



I don't imagine very often.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 23:48 (twenty years ago) link

haha you're always at the hookers?

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 23:49 (twenty years ago) link

lots of flavour coming out but very little on the way in.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 23:50 (twenty years ago) link

text from Cathy: "Cozen - I am in Paris eating pistachios by the Seine. I think you'd like it." *grumble grumble jealous jealous*

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 23:50 (twenty years ago) link

my flavour comment about hookahs, OK?

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 23:51 (twenty years ago) link

my text from Cathy: "Nick - I am in Paris pissing in the Seine. I feel strangely bohemian."

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 23:55 (twenty years ago) link

my text from cathy: "in sex shop with status quo"

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 00:04 (twenty years ago) link

I was in a Moroccan restaurant last nite and they had hookahs. Except on the menu they called them "hubblybubbly pipees".

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 06:33 (twenty years ago) link

I feel so dirty, I just bought a suit.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 10:51 (twenty years ago) link

Are you going to resolve the ambiguity of that sentence?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 11:21 (twenty years ago) link

he but/cut it too short : ((/))

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 11:28 (twenty years ago) link

buying a suit, man!

― hippyozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 16:18 (twenty years ago) link

Are no posts on this thread to be longer than twenty words?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 16:34 (twenty years ago) link

It's the Postcard aesthetic, you old hippy!

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 21:14 (twenty years ago) link

The sound of 'young' Scotland.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 21:15 (twenty years ago) link

'Scotland'.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 21:29 (twenty years ago) link

Racist.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 21:42 (twenty years ago) link

You fapped without me! Glasgow is still better than Paris, even if we don't have a Pompidou Centre. Just to make it clear: I didn't piss in the Seine.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 23 April 2004 00:25 (twenty years ago) link

what the fuck does FAP stand for? (unrelatedly: what's ET short for?)

as much as I love Glasgow (and i do love it rather pathetically at times) I ain't buying that preference, cathy...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Friday, 23 April 2004 07:46 (twenty years ago) link

Fancy a Pint, Errol Thompson.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 23 April 2004 07:59 (twenty years ago) link

aaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Friday, 23 April 2004 08:00 (twenty years ago) link

It's the Postcard aesthetic, you old hippy!

Oh, I've never heard of that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 23 April 2004 15:38 (twenty years ago) link

apparently seinfeld was in tinderbox last week (source: my new belle).

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 23 April 2004 17:49 (twenty years ago) link

NEW BELLE?

Is this ...the one? If not, does she know about ...the one?

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 23 April 2004 17:55 (twenty years ago) link

Sorry - in all the belle excitement I neglected to get amazed about the Seinfeld in Tinderbox thing. How could this possibly be?

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 23 April 2004 17:57 (twenty years ago) link

Jerry Seinfeld's a funny guy.

how could JS be in Glasgow??? How did my brother not know?

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Friday, 23 April 2004 23:22 (twenty years ago) link

new belle, yes, nick. (she has a nice name too: eilidh.) you should read the 'dear [random]...' thread.

no, not her but another her.

all morley fans, notice: copies of '± nothing' are being sold in muzic zone (sauchiehall street) for £2.97 when its RRP is £11.99 - you should hurry along.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 24 April 2004 00:50 (twenty years ago) link

it's so weird that glasgow could still be trying.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 24 April 2004 03:24 (twenty years ago) link

I didn't mean that.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 24 April 2004 03:24 (twenty years ago) link

It's OK, RJG, I understand. Don't forget my card.

What if the Morley fans already have a copy of ± Nothing, cozen? I'm not sure if I am a Morley fan, but I have one. I haven't read it. I think I paid £2.99 for it, about three years ago. I was diddled.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 24 April 2004 10:23 (twenty years ago) link

spotted, again: robbie lumsden, sat just off kelvin bridge, outside glasgow academy, at about midnight tonight. with chris (? he played football, once).

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 25 April 2004 00:20 (twenty years ago) link

I think I like '± nothing', N..

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 25 April 2004 00:46 (twenty years ago) link

I tried Glasgow in the triumvirate's absence. It was OK! Two French girls said I sucked but then said I was the nicest boy in Glasgow. It meant ± nothing.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 25 April 2004 04:17 (twenty years ago) link

we could play pool, in the triumvirate's absence?

actually, how long are they gone?

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 25 April 2004 09:06 (twenty years ago) link

...said I was the nicest boy in Glasgow

Nice to see that you are covering well for 96 in his absence.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 25 April 2004 09:09 (twenty years ago) link

abcess.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 25 April 2004 14:51 (twenty years ago) link

Ally is not nice! He's a monster.

I have only just got up. It's a beautiful day. I'm starving. I've ruined everything. I don't know about pool.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 25 April 2004 14:58 (twenty years ago) link

I was only saying was all.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 25 April 2004 14:59 (twenty years ago) link

No, it's a good idea, but I don't want to think about things that involve more drinking and stinking right now.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:18 (twenty years ago) link

you're not playing pool properly.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:19 (twenty years ago) link

I am trying oko's buffet more tonight, I think. sushi.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:20 (twenty years ago) link

That sounds nice.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:42 (twenty years ago) link

Cozen - indeed sitting on the war memorial with Chris "Cunthead" Muirhead, vaguely aware that we were sitting on a regular late night pissing point...

such a nice night for sitting around discussing the stupidity fo disliking Elvis cause he ripped of black music...


man, you should have said 'ello...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Sunday, 25 April 2004 16:45 (twenty years ago) link

Glasgow is so beautiful today it's talking the piss.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 25 April 2004 17:45 (twenty years ago) link

It was a really nice day. I had to spend a huge percentage of my weekly income on a pair of sunglasses (£15! the cheapest in boots!) otherwise the sunny day sickness would have struck me too hard...

i hate it that the sun makes me feel ill, it makes me sound like an horrendous goth (or worse: the narrator of garbage's awful "Only happy when it rains).

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:00 (twenty years ago) link

I'm struggling to think of what 'talking the piss' might mean. Taking.

Boots can fuck off.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:35 (twenty years ago) link

I trust boots though. I'm constantly worried about buying sunglasses from a shady retailer and finding out that their the ones that end up burning your retina...

'talking the piss' is, i wd imagine, some sort of irish expression meaning 'talking about drinking', which would be a form of pornograpgy if this saying is the truth:

"a quare in ireland is a man who prefers women to drink..."

― Robert Lumsden (Wallace), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:38 (twenty years ago) link

Shady retailers are where it's at when it comes to sunglasses.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:41 (twenty years ago) link

D'uh! check my second rate word assosciation there...

― Robert Lumsden (Wallace), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:42 (twenty years ago) link

Why have you become Robert?

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:44 (twenty years ago) link

I would say it's because it's sunday......

I found out i had registered twice, so i was just experimenting with proper name-isms....

back to the ever childlike Robbie though...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:47 (twenty years ago) link

wow, glasgow is stunning this morning.

I played three-on-three basketball last night. it felt like summer had started.

I then watched kill bill one w. eilidh and all the smiths videos back to back.

it felt like summer had started.

I'm gunna try some more glasgow today. after the rape, murder, assault and public order.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 26 April 2004 09:06 (twenty years ago) link

Aye Glasgow's mega 2day.

where do you play basketball? is it the summer paradise Hayburn Crescent (i remember an ace game of night time football I played there, during a party at a flat in Hayburn crescent)?

Victoria Park is another good place for the B-Ball...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 26 April 2004 09:10 (twenty years ago) link

there's a park just up from partick cricket ground, just down from my flat (on clarence drive.) it's just one hoop, fairly informal. I've never played basketball before but I think I did alright.

we should play some football again. N.?

if only ally c were here.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 26 April 2004 09:21 (twenty years ago) link

I'm at work and it's supposed to rain later.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 April 2004 09:27 (twenty years ago) link

as i overheard on the lift today: one side said it was gonna be like this all week, the other said it was gonna rain.

It also hasn't snowed yet this april, and that is a given in Glasgow, so my bets are on a snowstorm by thursday.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 26 April 2004 09:31 (twenty years ago) link

are 'fred perry' satchels OK?

haha rain.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 26 April 2004 09:32 (twenty years ago) link

fred perry's not as cool as fruit of the loom. but still cool.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:10 (twenty years ago) link

I tried edinburgh.

I had a job interview.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 1 May 2004 06:11 (twenty years ago) link

what's c-man really like?

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 1 May 2004 10:09 (twenty years ago) link

imagine!

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 1 May 2004 11:22 (twenty years ago) link

ryan air is making it very easy to try glasgow this month.

― lauren (laurenp), Saturday, 1 May 2004 11:37 (twenty years ago) link

not for us.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 1 May 2004 11:40 (twenty years ago) link

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO FLY FROM AMERICA TO GLASGOW WITH RYANAIR - THEIR PLANES ARE NOT EQUIPPED FOR THIS MAMMOTH JOURNEY AND YOU WILL FALL INTO THE SEA.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 May 2004 11:41 (twenty years ago) link

but the gner takes such a long time from new york.

― lauren (laurenp), Saturday, 1 May 2004 11:44 (twenty years ago) link

How do Ryanair's Boeing 737-800's get delivered from Seattle, please N.?

― Mooro (Mooro), Saturday, 1 May 2004 11:47 (twenty years ago) link

BY THE GRACE OF ANGELS.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 May 2004 11:49 (twenty years ago) link

do the angels shout or sing?

― Mooro (Mooro), Saturday, 1 May 2004 11:51 (twenty years ago) link

THE HARPIES SING, THE ANGELS SIGH, THE PILOT CLOSES HIS EYES.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 May 2004 11:53 (twenty years ago) link

Lauren, you should come, yes. Glasgow is bright and beautitiful today, and this weather will surely not change by the end of the month. I think it would be nice if you came on a train across the Atlantic. It would be like Spirited Away. We will turn you into a pig.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 May 2004 11:59 (twenty years ago) link

beautitiful

Oh dear, I fear I have ruined everything.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 May 2004 12:03 (twenty years ago) link

Don't pretend like you didn't mean to do that.

N. can you explain why the GNER trains from King's Cross to Glasgow, via Edinburgh, take the same amount of time as the Virgin trains that go direct? Ye cannae change the laws of physics. (Llaws of physics, laws of physics.)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 1 May 2004 12:30 (twenty years ago) link

Unfortunately, you cannae get around to upgrading the West Coast mainline, either.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 May 2004 12:36 (twenty years ago) link

I am going to try Glasgow some more between the 11th & 13th of June. Sally might try it even more than me, from the 9th to the 13th.

― Mooro (Mooro), Saturday, 1 May 2004 12:45 (twenty years ago) link

Ah good.

Supposedly, the first phase of the modernisation will have an effect from September, cutting half an hour off the London-Glasgow journey. The target is 4hrs 15mins by 2008.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 May 2004 12:49 (twenty years ago) link

RJG says early in this thread "I have an idea".

I like the mystery of this - should it be left forever unexplained?

― the bellefox, Saturday, 1 May 2004 12:50 (twenty years ago) link

Me and my real person will be up for that weekend of June, also.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Saturday, 1 May 2004 13:18 (twenty years ago) link

That weekend has been somewhat fucked up by Belle and bloody Sebastian.

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 1 May 2004 14:17 (twenty years ago) link

Won't 10,000 cardie-wearing biscuit nibblers provide a pool from which to fill The Winchester Club? The B&S event is supposed to finish at 9 pm, after all.

― Mooro (Mooro), Saturday, 1 May 2004 14:27 (twenty years ago) link

Yes, but evil Murdoch will no doubt overrun his set and then lead the impressionable children a merry dance to some 'aftershow party'.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 May 2004 14:35 (twenty years ago) link

I am to explain.

my words, to do so, are: there after show parties and poofs.

ally said I also have to say that the people that like belle & sebastian, these days, are mentalists and the national pop league john is DJing, after, maybe, who knows?

everyone, obviously, should want to see PIPAS. no mentalists, here.

crosspost

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 1 May 2004 14:36 (twenty years ago) link

Get someone, say who used to be involved in the running of the Winch', and who might be on stage that afternoon/evening, to tell the people in the Botanical Gardens that they should go to see Pipas. Then get Pipas to play a late set of danceable tunes.

There is room for the Art School & you. It can all work out. (Failing this, you can tunnel into the Art School & sabotage their power supply or something.)

― Mooro (Mooro), Saturday, 1 May 2004 14:46 (twenty years ago) link

I think the only solution is to inflate Pipas and fly them from the Tennents brewery towers.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 May 2004 14:48 (twenty years ago) link

Lupe idea.

― Mooro (Mooro), Saturday, 1 May 2004 14:53 (twenty years ago) link

I am so looking forward to that weekend. B&S related shenanigans in Glasgow are always much fun. On a related note, I may be trying London more in July.

It has just occurred to me that I haven't really tried Glasgow since the March Winchester. Which seems wrong somehow.

Incidentally, "going to the Winchester" has taken on new levels of silliness chez us thanks to Shaun of the Dead. You should utilise this new-found fame somehow.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 1 May 2004 15:24 (twenty years ago) link

OI!

I'm about to depart, so I'll just mindlessly plug Shirokuma @ fireworks on Thursday night.

The Woodside Social Club
North Woodside Road, Glasgow

FAP you bastards

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Saturday, 1 May 2004 15:27 (twenty years ago) link

People behind me in the cinema tittered when Liz said "We're not going to the bloody Winchester again" or something. I wondered who they were.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 May 2004 15:42 (twenty years ago) link

Wasn't me. Or the other half. Unless you were at the Odeon at the Quay on Monday...

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 1 May 2004 16:02 (twenty years ago) link

bear in mind that customs regulations regarding livestock/agriculture probably prohibig me from returning to america as a pig.
i hate ryan air. i don't know what i was thinking. i'm looking at cunard's site now, for fun. the queen mary 2 has its own planetarium, and a kennel.

― lauren (laurenp), Saturday, 1 May 2004 16:23 (twenty years ago) link

No sty?

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 May 2004 16:32 (twenty years ago) link

prohibig

See - it's starting already.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 May 2004 16:34 (twenty years ago) link

Lauren, you could come as Beef Jerky. My beef jerky made it to Glasgow undiscovered.

― Madchen (Madchen), Saturday, 1 May 2004 17:36 (twenty years ago) link

I was going to post something so disgusting that you wouldn't have been able to believe it was realy me.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 1 May 2004 17:37 (twenty years ago) link

sp.

― Madchen (Madchen), Saturday, 1 May 2004 17:40 (twenty years ago) link

no sp.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 1 May 2004 17:42 (twenty years ago) link

Close the curtains.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 May 2004 17:51 (twenty years ago) link

:-o

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 1 May 2004 19:42 (twenty years ago) link

Jesus.

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 1 May 2004 19:51 (twenty years ago) link

you should see my blisters.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 1 May 2004 19:54 (twenty years ago) link

stop being so fucking disgusting.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 1 May 2004 20:14 (twenty years ago) link

sorry.

― c~man (Cozen), Sunday, 2 May 2004 06:29 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.geocities.com/r_gillanders/smallspecial.txt

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 9 May 2004 23:13 (twenty years ago) link

WAKE UP, TO GUEST DJs!!

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 9 May 2004 23:14 (twenty years ago) link

It's, true.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 10 May 2004 11:49 (twenty years ago) link

Saturday = Eurovision. Wanna come over to mine for a party? It could also be a sort of housewarming/51 week anniversary of getting the keys.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:04 (twenty years ago) link

Germany
http://www.eurovision.tv/english/img/06_germany_max.jpg

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:05 (twenty years ago) link

Belarus
http://www.eurovision.tv/english/img/05_belarus_II_VERWENDEN.jpg

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:07 (twenty years ago) link

Bosnia
http://www.eurovision.tv/english/img/03_bosnia.jpg

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:07 (twenty years ago) link

You know you want to.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:08 (twenty years ago) link

I'm not sure I do but I probably will.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:09 (twenty years ago) link

Ooh can I come? Even if RJG doesn't? I don't think I've missed a Eurovision since I was eight or nine, though I usually fall asleep before the end. I think I'm voting for Bosnia already.

Britain is still in isn't it? I thought we'd be relegated, but I vaguely remember being told that only no-money countries can be relegated, and we're exempt.

Turkey's song last year was brilliant.

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:15 (twenty years ago) link

I only meant I wasn't sure because I am not at full fitness (and one should be, really, for eurovision) and not because I don't want to be in madchen's house.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:16 (twenty years ago) link

We're exempt because it was our idea. Of course you can come. Does that email address work? I'll send you my real life address.

RJG, have you been in my house before? I'm thinking the only people who've been in my house are Ally, N, family and non-Glasgow people. Oh, and my ex-boss.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:18 (twenty years ago) link

Estonia
http://www.eurovision.tv/english/img/06_estonia.jpg

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:19 (twenty years ago) link

I haven't been in your new house, no, even thought you have been, for a while. I like to leave my house as little as possible, as I'm sure many would testify.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:20 (twenty years ago) link

Thanks, Madchen. Yes my email should work.

I think I'm getting pity fatigue, RJG.

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:20 (twenty years ago) link

that's a pity.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:20 (twenty years ago) link

Pity Latvia
http://www.eurovision.tv/english/img/06_latvia_left.jpg

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:21 (twenty years ago) link

I should be putting these pictures on another thread.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:23 (twenty years ago) link

No, it'll be OK when Scotland wins the competition & Eurovision tries Glasgow more because its hosting the event.

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:25 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, I just noticed there's a proper Eurovision thread. For Eurovision purposes Scotland is just an unimportant province of England. Although if it were ever to break away, maybe it could be the new Ireland.

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:28 (twenty years ago) link

or wales.

20 million can't be right.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:29 (twenty years ago) link

20 million can't be wrong!

I just realised the first Eurovision I remember clearly was in 1991, when France and Sweden drew but Sweden won because they had more 12s. 1991 is also the first year I remember knowing what year it was. So I haven't missed one since I was 6.

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:35 (twenty years ago) link

I thought 1987 was a double year when i was young.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:36 (twenty years ago) link

Stop making us feel ancient. I've emailed you Cathy.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:37 (twenty years ago) link

so, what about that maryhill blowing up, again, eh?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:38 (twenty years ago) link

A double year? I don't understand.

Pretty much everything I know about European geography I learnt from Eurovision...

Thanks Madchen :)

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:38 (twenty years ago) link

i don't really understand what i was getting at either. some how i thought that some years just go on twice as long as others. it seemed sensible at the time.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:41 (twenty years ago) link

I'm going to go home in a bit and have a look. G20 might possibly be Glasgow's unluckiest postcode.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40140000/jpg/_40140073_explosionscene203.jpg

x-post


― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:43 (twenty years ago) link

where does lumsden live?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:44 (twenty years ago) link

lumsden lives in kelvindale. g12.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:46 (twenty years ago) link

garnethill. G3.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:50 (twenty years ago) link

'ancient'

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 15:37 (twenty years ago) link

hyndland. g12.

can I come, madchen? even if RJG doesn't, I mean.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:33 (twenty years ago) link

RALLY

I think we could go and sit in the outside of a pub/bar

CCA/halcyon/mcphabbs/?

RALLY

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 15:59 (twenty years ago) link

RALLY

I think we could go and sit in the outside of a pub/bar

CCA/halcyon/mcphabb's/?

RALLY

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 15:59 (twenty years ago) link

need it, again?

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 16:01 (twenty years ago) link

just now!!!!!!

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 16:09 (twenty years ago) link

mcphabb's in, like, half an hour.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 16:16 (twenty years ago) link

do this again.

tomorrow?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 16:42 (twenty years ago) link

Saturday looks good to me.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 13 May 2004 19:19 (twenty years ago) link

Cozen: but of course.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 13 May 2004 21:19 (twenty years ago) link

thank you!

I bumped into cathy and RJG on the street (love yr visor!!!) and cathy said she would forward your details, madchen. so. see you on saturday. is it OK if I bring a girlfriend?

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 14 May 2004 00:41 (twenty years ago) link

cathy has forwarded your details and all I can say, among other things, is: fucking hell, the buses?

love, david.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 14 May 2004 00:46 (twenty years ago) link

I 'ate you, 'owie.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 14 May 2004 01:30 (twenty years ago) link

whose girlfriend, btw?

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 14 May 2004 01:30 (twenty years ago) link

Lots and lots of lovely buses. That is why everyone wants to live in Dennistoun. You could walk it - it's 25 minutes from George Square or probably 20 minutes for a bloke with a long stride.

Girlfried, eh? OK, as long as she doesn't puke on my flowerbeds.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 14 May 2004 07:07 (twenty years ago) link

Do you think people will see my invite on friendster or should I send an email just in case?

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 14 May 2004 07:07 (twenty years ago) link

sp.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 14 May 2004 07:10 (twenty years ago) link

Sorry.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 14 May 2004 07:12 (twenty years ago) link

she won't mind.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 14 May 2004 07:14 (twenty years ago) link

1000

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 14 May 2004 10:55 (twenty years ago) link

I wish!

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 14 May 2004 14:21 (twenty years ago) link

I met dastoor on the street and he said something about the puking in the flowerbeds comment above and so I can only guess he's refraining from posting for some reason (over-pallyness? who knows) or other reasons.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 14 May 2004 16:03 (twenty years ago) link

Just to remind anyone that steve and I shall be runnin' tings down at the Double-T pub Quiz tomorrow....

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 17 May 2004 14:55 (twenty years ago) link

"james joyce round"?!

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 17 May 2004 17:12 (twenty years ago) link

.....there is a question on James Joyce. perhaps....

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 17 May 2004 19:12 (twenty years ago) link

How far is it from Manchester to Glasgow? Would the unsuspecting visitor benefit more from a sojourn to Edinburgh or to Glasgow, or indeed to Dundee?

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 17 May 2004 19:15 (twenty years ago) link

Ooh, pub quiz! Where?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:35 (twenty years ago) link

the doublet, on park rd. off gt. western road, behind the hogs head...

best bar in glasgow!

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:36 (twenty years ago) link

No it isn't (I used to live about a hundred yards from it, and it's full of scary people). I think we should try this, but I bet none of the others want to...

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:39 (twenty years ago) link

the doublet's not scary at all! i thought it was scary at first, but once you're in their always unfailingly pleasant to everyone. (except overly noisey young people. and quite rightly).

and the bar staff call me lovely there. like, as my name.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:41 (twenty years ago) link

I may have been an overly noisy young person though...

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:46 (twenty years ago) link

..their always unfailingly pleasant to everyone what?

I will be on holiday again. Sorry.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:48 (twenty years ago) link

ailsa, I'll be there.

mary: glasgow!

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:49 (twenty years ago) link

well, it was only really one group of noisey young freshers who came in, and were asked to keep it down, and left uppily.

i was drinking in the afternoon once with a few friends, and the bar man came close to telling us off for neglecting our studies. ach it's brilliant and (until tomorrow, i dare say) the best pub quiz...

xpost

they're alway unfailingly pleasant...

my apologies...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:50 (twenty years ago) link

fuck's sake, cook, you're only just back off your holidays...

(is there, like, prizes, btw?)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:50 (twenty years ago) link

I heard your quiz is 'pretentious'.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:51 (twenty years ago) link

£25 in drink vouchers for the winner, £15 for second....

xpost

who told you my quiz was pretentious? nobody's seen it but me and the Steve "The Vancouver Hoover" Cole...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:52 (twenty years ago) link

I've been playing football.

I hurt myself. would you like to see my bum?

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:53 (twenty years ago) link

ahhhh, so that's who told you...

i don't think its particularly pretentious. his questions more than mine.

in fact, one of the questions is to accurately represent the decline of the working classes through mime and/or dance.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:55 (twenty years ago) link

I agree with cozen.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 17 May 2004 21:06 (twenty years ago) link

How is Dundee?

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 17 May 2004 21:17 (twenty years ago) link

Does anyone want to see Dani Siciliano at Cottiers on Saturday?

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 17 May 2004 21:48 (twenty years ago) link

oooooooh. I'm in! I won't go.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:08 (twenty years ago) link

Sorry - Sunday, not Saturday.

Quite a weekend of Glasgow live music, potentially

Friday - Sons & Daughters (OK, again)
Saturday - Multiplies or Wu-Tang Clan
Sunday - Dani Siciliano

Don't be a wuss, cozen.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:20 (twenty years ago) link

s&d - never seen. are they OK?
multiplies - mebbe.
siciliano - I'm down.

are you pub quizzing tonight, N.?

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:22 (twenty years ago) link

No, I am preparing my wu moves.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:23 (twenty years ago) link

(ie. yes, OK)

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:23 (twenty years ago) link

don't be a wu, N..

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:24 (twenty years ago) link

Siciliano is £12 but yeah, I think I'm down.

Sons & Daughters are great if you don't hate guitar bands entirely. I noticed on your musicmobs page that THE STROKES are by far you're top-played artist, so I guess you don't. It's at Sleazy's and only two quid, so why don't give a whirl?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:40 (twenty years ago) link

I hate doing that and I hate that I hate doing it even more.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:42 (twenty years ago) link

you and your crazy capitals. I feel misrepresented by my musicmobs page, bah -. (that strokes 'phase' ws post-break-up hysteria, see.) £12 is a bit steep, hm. I think I'm down though. I need to find a career first. multiplies played the other night too; I'm a bit wary. they sound like devo?

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:42 (twenty years ago) link

x-post, ach shut up.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:43 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah.

They were pretty amazing at Bunker the other night. Maybe Devo is the comparison I was looking for. I mean, I don't really know Devo, but I thought they must sound like something.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:48 (twenty years ago) link

Oops - have got my days in a twist. Friday is Multiplies and Saturday is Sons & Daughters. I think I was thinking of Friday's child being loving and giving.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 12:07 (twenty years ago) link

who is down for the pub quiz, then? cathy, ailsa, N., me?

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 13:13 (twenty years ago) link

I heard that exotic Carey was coming too.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 13:14 (twenty years ago) link

(not that our own Carey is not exotic in her own way, but she doesn't have to cross oceans to reach us)

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 13:15 (twenty years ago) link

(not that she's crossed oceans just to reach us)

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 15:07 (twenty years ago) link

I'm sorry I'm missing all of this. There's never a good week to go away, it seems. Go see Multplies and Sons and Daughters. They're the best two bands in Glasgow, perhaps.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 15:19 (twenty years ago) link

Apart from the old guard, are there even any other contenders?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 15:22 (twenty years ago) link

pro forma, although they rarely play out these days.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 15:29 (twenty years ago) link

oops. except for saturday night, when they're playing with sons and daughters!

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 15:48 (twenty years ago) link

Hurrah (I don't know them).

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 15:55 (twenty years ago) link

and i'm not angry that i can't be there to see them, not at all.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:17 (twenty years ago) link

What time is this quiz, again? I need to rest first.


How far is it from Manchester to Glasgow? Would the unsuspecting visitor benefit more from a sojourn to Edinburgh or to Glasgow, or indeed to Dundee?

It's about three hours on the train. Through the Lake District - pretty. Edinburgh would take you longer, as it's on the East coast, but it's a WORLD HERITAGE SITE or something very pretty blah blah. Dundee? No, I don't think so. If I were you I'd want to go up to the Highland around Torridon or something. It's stunning, and not packed with people like the Lake District is. The English aristocracy got rid of them all har har. Talking of which, Sutherland is maybe my favourite county of all, but it's not as dramatic and is kind of spooky. It appeals to something deep in my psyche. But maybe you're not into the countryside.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:40 (twenty years ago) link

Sutherland is my middle name (blame the Aristocrats getting rid of everyone from there for that...) but i don't think i've ever been. also there not cold counties in scotland, though i can't remember what they're actually called...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:45 (twenty years ago) link

I think I prefer Sunderland to Sutherland, but thanks for the advice.

What kind of stuff is there to do in Glasgow?

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:53 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.dynamicforces.com/images/image001e.jpg

Sitting on buckets?

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:54 (twenty years ago) link

Is Oor wullie (your wullie, ma wullie, abodie's wullie (hee! hee!)) from Glasgow? dundonian cunts are always claiming that he's fae there.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:59 (twenty years ago) link

I was just hazarding a guess, I have no idea.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 17:05 (twenty years ago) link

also there not cold counties in scotland, though i can't remember what they're actually called...

This is funny.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 17:12 (twenty years ago) link

My co-worker just informed me that Glasgow is gritty. Perhaps it is everything I was looking for in Manchester/Bradford/Leeds? I think I would like to try it.

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 21:48 (twenty years ago) link

I showed my ass to carey, cathy, and RJG when you left N..

I just got a can of irn-bru from 'the maggie' and it is flat. wtf?!

your quiz ws too hard, lumsden. 'pretentious'.

while my ass gently weeps.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 22:52 (twenty years ago) link

I meant 'my bum'.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 22:54 (twenty years ago) link

I didn't think it was pretentious. who said it was, though?

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 23:02 (twenty years ago) link

it seems that carey is always asking scottish people to get naked. but... maybe this was unprompted?

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 23:04 (twenty years ago) link

It was pussy and shit - you don't want to know.

Mary - you seem more demented than ever, but you're welcome to try it.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 08:35 (twenty years ago) link

There's a car outside my window with the number plate B14 RJG - it's a Mercedes Benz!

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 09:12 (twenty years ago) link

also there not cold counties in scotland, though i can't remember what they're actually called...

what's become of me? really, i used to be able to spell, to write, to read....now it's all gone....

oh dear. well thanks to all who came to see my public humiliation at the PQ. I think "Which romantic poet..." has become my new slagging....

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 10:34 (twenty years ago) link

If you are looking for a 'gritty' in Glasgow that you can't find in Bradford you're going to be disappointed, Mary.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 10:36 (twenty years ago) link

It wasn't the 'cold' - it was just "they're not called that in Scotland but I can't remember what they are called" being said by someone Scottish.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 10:37 (twenty years ago) link

well what are they cold*? i honestly cannae mind (see ahm'ur scoatish)

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 10:39 (twenty years ago) link

Regions, supposedly.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 10:41 (twenty years ago) link

regions is a bit of an ugly word. you'd think there'd be something nice and old and scottish, with a big "chhhhhhhh" sound in it.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 10:44 (twenty years ago) link

My co-worker just informed me that Glasgow is gritty. Perhaps it is everything I was looking for in Manchester/Bradford/Leeds? I think I would like to try it.

I've now got Common People on my internal jukebox.

It is gritty, but it's also windy and the grit gets in your eye.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 10:48 (twenty years ago) link

I don't think it's especially windy. Well, it was yesterday, OK.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 10:49 (twenty years ago) link

what does gritty mean in that context? working class? dangerous? what?

well the west end of Glasgow's about as gentrified as it could be, but if you want proper glasgow grit, go to easterhouse or yoker or possil. but you wouldn't want to go there. really.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 10:51 (twenty years ago) link

It was windy first thing this morning - I can only see concrete out of the window so it is hard to judge current windyness.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 10:53 (twenty years ago) link

Onimo should be grateful - the windiness outside his building stops the prostitutes hanging around the front door and moves them to the alleyway instead.

Oor Wullie x-post upthread: Wullie and The Broons are both from Dundee. I remember a particular Wullie story where an uncle of his that had a car (which is, to this day, still a pretty big deal in Oor Wullie and The Broons) and took him to Edinburgh and Glasgow in the same day. Nobody at home believed it was physically possible until his postcards from both turned up. Therefore city remote from both Edinburgh and Glasgow but has lots of tenements = Dundee. (But you still don't want to go there Mary)

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 11:07 (twenty years ago) link

I say his like 'hiss'.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 11:45 (twenty years ago) link

How do you say 'pus'?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 11:47 (twenty years ago) link

puzz.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 11:48 (twenty years ago) link

You really should see a doctor, seriously. Open pussy wounds are not to be sniffed at.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 11:50 (twenty years ago) link

I suppose gritty meant abandoned warehouses, windswept streets, the faint smell of garbage wafting through the air (?) Is that totally wide of the mark? I'm not sure we will have time to try it between Manchester and returning to London, maybe we will try Sheffield instead...But someday, soon...

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 14:17 (twenty years ago) link

it's hard for me to tell cause i've been here so long, but I think glasgow stinks. if you want gritty I think you should go to the depressed towns around glasgow. Alexandria (how many disappointed egyptologists!) or Cumnock. maybe even West Lothian. Addiewell...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 14:21 (twenty years ago) link

If you want a stink of rotting refuse, I recommend the section of Sauchiehall St., west of Charing Cross, early on a Sunday morning.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 14:43 (twenty years ago) link

Sorry, east of Charing X, I meant.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 14:44 (twenty years ago) link

This thread is called try Glasgow MORE - you aren't helping...

― smee (smee), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 14:45 (twenty years ago) link

It's horses for courses.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 14:45 (twenty years ago) link

hey! he's just helping someone who was after the stinking, economic blackspot aspect of glasgow.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 14:47 (twenty years ago) link

Thank you, Nick, your suggestions are, as always, duly noted.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 15:27 (twenty years ago) link

I'll let you know if there's another binmen's strike.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 15:48 (twenty years ago) link

The weird thing about the UK is there aren't big abandoned sections of city. There are huge abandoned sections of countryside but that's different I guess.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 15:53 (twenty years ago) link

I think maybe there were more abandoned sections of cities a decade or so ago, but pressure on property has made it too valuable to leave abandoned.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 16:08 (twenty years ago) link

If you want a stink of rotting refuse, I recommend the section of Sauchiehall St., west of Charing Cross, early on a Sunday morning.

Are you referring to Cook's dirty linen again?

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 16:18 (twenty years ago) link

Sadly, I think the stale beer, rotting carry outs and piss trump even Cook for stench.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 16:19 (twenty years ago) link

he won't be on holiday for ever, you know.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 16:20 (twenty years ago) link

"abandoned warehouses"
go to the legendary warehouse in shef. there is a brass foundry next door which starts up at 6am and makes the floor bounce rhythmically. allen st.

"UK is there aren't big abandoned sections of city"
again, sheffield proves this fairly, if not very wrong. mazes of dead factories and warehouses, also cf. those whole rds of abandoned terraces in liverpool, newcastle etc.

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 16:21 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, I was going to say, last time I was in Liverpool they still seemed to be very much in evidence, but that was like, ten years ago, so I thought things might have changed. Never been to Newcastle.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 16:22 (twenty years ago) link

Sheffield actually exists?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 16:24 (twenty years ago) link

yes. it has a weird new-ish musical arts centre kind of thing, at which i got ill from too much bombay hotmix.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 16:39 (twenty years ago) link

what is happening tonight, glasgow?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:16 (twenty years ago) link

sorry about tonight (I guess I am unrealiable, cathy :/ ). my leg is all dressed & clean now, though.

good news, too: I found a job I actually like (via a v.v. kind friend)!

I'm definitely still up fr sons & daughters (or whoever it is that plays on saturday) and siciliano.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 21:48 (twenty years ago) link

ugh. my plans to keep trying glasgow and go 2 the oxfam benefit failed by me going for a nap and waking up 7 hours later. now i'm miserable, nocturnal and bored. internet scrabble til 6 in the morning?

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 23:51 (twenty years ago) link

I found a tap to get some juice out of your booty, Cozen. It was next to the corn holders at the mall.

― Carey (Carey), Thursday, 20 May 2004 22:59 (twenty years ago) link

I'm not sure... what you mean.

siciliano: 7pm?!

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 23 May 2004 12:00 (twenty years ago) link

Is it? I guess it's a theatre. Are you going or not?

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 23 May 2004 12:05 (twenty years ago) link

I am going. provided it hasn't sold out.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 23 May 2004 12:08 (twenty years ago) link

Go see Multplies and Sons and Daughters.

never seen ot heard Multiplies, but i can vouch for Sons & Daughters. Saw them supporting Franz Ferdinand and they were great.

(wonder if they took their name from the Ozzie soap of yore?)

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 23 May 2004 12:12 (twenty years ago) link

I got my ticket in advance.

Sons & Daughters were great again last night, but they cheekily claimed that it was their first headlining gig. What about the Winchester Club a year ago, you rotters?

Pro Forma were pretty good too.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 23 May 2004 12:18 (twenty years ago) link

I tried to go to the S&D &c. gig but foolishly hadn't bought my ticket in advance. So I just hung about in Nice and Sleazy's (incidentally: why is it so unacceptable to call it Nice and Sleazy in my head? why do i need to pluralise/use the saxon generative when speaking of it?) and pretended I was a scenester. Then my night went downhill due to a lack of momentum.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 24 May 2004 12:36 (twenty years ago) link

I just went outside for a cigarette. There was an amazing pink cloud in the sky, perfect against the blue. Tom Recchion's Gentlewomanly Grace randomly came on my iPod. It was a beautiful moment. I love Glasgow.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 24 May 2004 19:27 (twenty years ago) link

I saw that one.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 24 May 2004 19:29 (twenty years ago) link

Yes! (or stop insulting me every time I go away).

(I take a piece of you, with me).

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 24 May 2004 21:58 (twenty years ago) link

Nick, you shouldn't smoke. What are 'Glasgow kisses'?

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 24 May 2004 22:30 (twenty years ago) link

a Glasgow kiss is a headbutt.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 24 May 2004 22:36 (twenty years ago) link

I know, Mary.

I bumped into Carey and Tracy on the way home from Sleazy's on Saturday and went to the art school with them. The art school was a bit rubbish but it was a nice thing to have happened.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 24 May 2004 22:40 (twenty years ago) link

My hot water has gone again.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 07:30 (twenty years ago) link

Somebody is coming to fix it...

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 07:30 (twenty years ago) link

...NEXT TUESDAY. If Renfrew Street doesn't object, I might come and stay.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 07:31 (twenty years ago) link

Also, my credit card, which I've had for just over a month, has already been frauded for £400.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 07:38 (twenty years ago) link

Sorry, yeah. I'll pay you back.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 08:45 (twenty years ago) link

I didn't know you were in Cannes on 7th May. Ponce.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 09:22 (twenty years ago) link

I was wowing the paparazzi and needed some new swimwear.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 09:26 (twenty years ago) link

I am filling in an application form fr the mod and they want info on my mum and dad?!

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 11:46 (twenty years ago) link

Oh yeah, they do that. I started applying for a job at GCHQ once and got put off when I found that they take 6 months to complete security check.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 11:50 (twenty years ago) link

The applications for jobs with the police are possibly worse than the MOD ones. The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act doesn't apply to them so you are expected to list every possible crime you were _falsely_ accused of/charged with/questioned about. You also need to give names and addresses of all immediate family members so that their records can be checked.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 11:55 (twenty years ago) link

this is insania gone mad. I don't have a spouse/partner and anyway leave her alone!

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 12:01 (twenty years ago) link

T0MB0T to thread, obv...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 12:02 (twenty years ago) link

haha the last thing I can remember is asking colin if I offended him. I've no idea why I was asking that.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 29 May 2004 15:30 (twenty years ago) link

not a clue, i can't remember much. i put on my jeans to go out and saw that i had a circle of black dirt on the knee = flashback to spinning on the floor. oh dear.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 29 May 2004 16:38 (twenty years ago) link

I am now scared of my flatmate. I am an idiot. You just disappared, cozen!

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 29 May 2004 17:20 (twenty years ago) link

On the plus side, I'm impressed that I half-remember the names of two tracks I asked the DJ about - one by The Test and one by Squarepusher. When I say 'half-remember' I mean I have no idea of the actual titles and nothing on discogs.com is ringing any bells. Ah well.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 29 May 2004 17:23 (twenty years ago) link

Or maybe it was Superpitcher - I have no idea.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 29 May 2004 17:29 (twenty years ago) link

It's good you're not dead, cozen. That would have made today even more difficult.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 29 May 2004 17:35 (twenty years ago) link

squarepusher - extremely unlikely.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 29 May 2004 17:43 (twenty years ago) link

I realised that after I posted it. I am dumb.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 29 May 2004 17:46 (twenty years ago) link

i cant remember any suprpitcher from last night but i can't remember much actually. ask on http://www.optimo.co.uk/echatio/forum.php?id=1 twitch usually answers any playlist queries.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 29 May 2004 17:50 (twenty years ago) link

Ta.

We should do it again, sometime. I seem to remember that you were sick, colin. Are you OK today?

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 29 May 2004 17:52 (twenty years ago) link

haha I remember that spinning on the floor!

I checked the front cover of the daily record, this morning: it's OK, I'm fine, not blue.

did they play psychometry? I'm sure I heard it.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 29 May 2004 18:05 (twenty years ago) link

strangely, I feel absolutely fine today.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 29 May 2004 18:06 (twenty years ago) link

was i sick? oh i cant remember, i really don't think so however. im fucked today but just in the usual hungover/ guilt/ worry about blackouts kinda way.

Psychometry was indeed played as was Easy Lee - dissappointingly there was no twitch re-edit of Sweet dreams my LAX at this (he played it at the last) - i seem to remember snippets of Britney's Toxic at one point though!

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 29 May 2004 18:10 (twenty years ago) link

oh oh oh, another flashback,maybe. im sure Superpitcher's "The Long Way" was played.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 29 May 2004 18:13 (twenty years ago) link

Tom Recchion's Gentlewomanly Grace randomly came on my iPod. It was a beautiful moment.

Yay! I like dipping into this thread every now and again.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Saturday, 29 May 2004 18:14 (twenty years ago) link

yeah, I remember easy lee. it ws amazing; really glad I came. although I bit my bloody tongue (I can remember doing it!) and it hurts like hell today.

your flatmate looked a bit miffed/sleepy, nick.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 29 May 2004 18:15 (twenty years ago) link

looks like i missed out! can't have been better than the last one though... i heard you had THE MOVES jed... *ahem*

― DQ (danny quintana), Saturday, 29 May 2004 18:16 (twenty years ago) link

I can't look her in the eye anymore, cozen.

Half the People who came back were nice and the others weren't so. I guess that is the way of things.

'Toxic' was definitely played. I thought it was some mix rather than just snippets, but I am probably wrong. It was great, anyway. Was there also The Sweet's Blockbuster??

I thought I must have got that Tom Recchion track from you, Mike! Thank you.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 29 May 2004 18:21 (twenty years ago) link

I liked the damien guy - he seemed nice.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 29 May 2004 18:22 (twenty years ago) link

Oh, he's lovely, yeah.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 29 May 2004 18:25 (twenty years ago) link

haha yes i was trying to remember what bit of glam got played at the end - it's usually gary glitter's Rock and Roll.

Tickle - it wasnt quite as good as the last one from what i can remember. who told u about ma moves? im getting worried here! I also fell asleep for a wee while, as someone has kindly just reminded me!

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 29 May 2004 18:25 (twenty years ago) link

Maybe I confused being asleep with being sick. It's a topsy-turvy world.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 29 May 2004 18:26 (twenty years ago) link

my flatmate just got punched in the face outside our flat by a passing drunk in a bunch of boys. wtf?

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 29 May 2004 18:47 (twenty years ago) link

In a bunch of boys?

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 29 May 2004 18:48 (twenty years ago) link

the drunk was among a bunch of boys / 'lads', yeah.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 29 May 2004 18:49 (twenty years ago) link

Was the drunk a boy himself?

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 29 May 2004 18:50 (twenty years ago) link

I meant man, when I said boy. I've not spoken to him yet, he's tending to his broken (?) nose, but it seems it ws just an impromptu, random punch - no reason. w.t.f.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 29 May 2004 18:51 (twenty years ago) link

Try glasgow less.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 29 May 2004 18:59 (twenty years ago) link

btw, Ally C was indulging in some serious buzz harshing last night, telling me I looked 'hideous'. He looked rubbish himself.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 29 May 2004 19:05 (twenty years ago) link

Give the guy a break, he spent a lot of yesterday making me soup and electrolyte replacement drinks.

― Madchen (Madchen), Saturday, 29 May 2004 20:12 (twenty years ago) link

That's no excuse for coming in at 6 in the morning with dark ghoulish eyes looking disapproving. Is anyone going out tonight? I have just got dressed. Are you better, Madchen?

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 29 May 2004 20:28 (twenty years ago) link

Not better enough to go out - I've spent the whole day in bed. I've been able to eat a bit but the tummyache is still there. The more disgusting symptom from which I've been suffering has (touch wood) cleared up. I might go to the Winch at the Barfly for a bit tomorrow. I've got new shoes that need breaking in.

― Madchen (Madchen), Saturday, 29 May 2004 20:34 (twenty years ago) link

What would you like me to play to break in your shoes?

I still don't know what time I'm on.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 29 May 2004 20:36 (twenty years ago) link

If memory serves, there is no set order - you either say "is it OK if I go on at x o'clock?" or you wait for somebody to come over and tell you you're next.

I'm not sure if my tummy will be up to dancing - it's not keen on being jigged around at the moment. But if you played Vampire Girl by Jonathan Richman I'd be happy.

― Madchen (Madchen), Saturday, 29 May 2004 20:40 (twenty years ago) link

But I don't want to go on at 8pm - it would be rubbish. Bagsy 1AM.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 29 May 2004 20:48 (twenty years ago) link

less, indeed.

I should go to the W. club. will I?

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 29 May 2004 21:09 (twenty years ago) link

Fuck yeah.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 29 May 2004 21:11 (twenty years ago) link

My new shoes are lovely. Tons of toe cleavage.

― Madchen (Madchen), Sunday, 30 May 2004 10:45 (twenty years ago) link

KODANSHI

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 30 May 2004 12:17 (twenty years ago) link

Toe cleavage makes me think that they are squeezed in like a push-up bra, which canr be good.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 30 May 2004 12:18 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.geocities.com/r_gillanders/smallspecial2.txt

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 30 May 2004 13:11 (twenty years ago) link

They aren't really squeezed - my Nanna has been giving me bunion lectures and showing me the damage done to her own feet since I was tiny so I'm careful with shoes. Before I bought these ones (from Ravel) I tried on another pair (in Faith) which purported to be size 8 but squeezed so badly I had to check the size on the sole. They were worse than the 7 1/2 boots I was wearing that day, which don't squeeze at all (thank you M&S).

Anyway, I think I will come tonight, but not drink or dance and probably not stay until the end.

― Madchen (Madchen), Sunday, 30 May 2004 13:48 (twenty years ago) link

you like kompakt now d-man?

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 30 May 2004 16:13 (twenty years ago) link

Say hi to my friend Claire T if she is there singing w/Dudley Corp!! Ginger bob, blue eyes, from Edinburgh. That probably doesn't narrow it down too much but I think you know who I mean.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 30 May 2004 16:18 (twenty years ago) link

Update. She won't be singing. But She'll be there.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 30 May 2004 17:44 (twenty years ago) link

idea: fancy a sushi?

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 30 May 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago) link

some time.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 30 May 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago) link

Sushi, Kompakt, Timmins, it's all good. I still haven't met the latter. Why didn't you come last night, cozen?

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 31 May 2004 11:07 (twenty years ago) link

none of your fucking business.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 31 May 2004 11:09 (twenty years ago) link

where il casio good?

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 31 May 2004 11:10 (twenty years ago) link

How the fuck am I supposed to know?

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 31 May 2004 11:20 (twenty years ago) link

I saw Claire! But I forgot you knew her so didn't mention it (I hadn't read this thread before I went).

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 31 May 2004 12:41 (twenty years ago) link

mwah.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 31 May 2004 13:43 (twenty years ago) link

They were meant to come and fix my boiler between one and five this afternoon. I took a half day off work. It is now 7.08pm. They have not been.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 17:09 (twenty years ago) link

= they are cunts.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 22:52 (twenty years ago) link

I am bored and now 22.

is anything happening in glasgow tonight?

'japanese story' is on at the gft. its run has just begun.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 5 June 2004 15:37 (twenty years ago) link

We might be going out. It is a friend's birthday. Patrick - do you know him?

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 5 June 2004 16:48 (twenty years ago) link

yes. he's very nice.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 5 June 2004 16:54 (twenty years ago) link

I will try Glasgow in a few days. Can you recommend anywhere for a traveller to head with his bags if he were to arrive in the city at about 10 pm this coming Friday night, please?

― Mooro (Mooro), Saturday, 5 June 2004 17:39 (twenty years ago) link

Mooro, depends where you are staying, for instance if here

http://www.scotland2000.com/flowerhouse/

then nip round the corner to Stereo

― clever he man goblin, Saturday, 5 June 2004 18:00 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.dudleysutton.com/images/boys.jpg

Doesn't RJG look like Colin Campbell in "Leather Boys"?

― Mary (Mary), Saturday, 5 June 2004 23:16 (twenty years ago) link

Is that TINKER?!

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 6 June 2004 09:22 (twenty years ago) link

I do believe it is. The other bloke looks like Matt Damon.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 6 June 2004 09:29 (twenty years ago) link

is that david gray next to RJG, in bed?

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 6 June 2004 11:51 (twenty years ago) link

I think it's you, isn't it?

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 6 June 2004 11:54 (twenty years ago) link

I would never get in bed with david gray.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 6 June 2004 12:01 (twenty years ago) link

you know what I mean.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 6 June 2004 12:48 (twenty years ago) link

I can't handle it.

pool?

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 6 June 2004 13:24 (twenty years ago) link

quiz, said someone, and, maybe, walk, first.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 6 June 2004 13:41 (twenty years ago) link

I'd like to come to the quiz. would that be OK?

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 6 June 2004 14:52 (twenty years ago) link

I will be trying Glasgow on Friday.

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 6 June 2004 14:59 (twenty years ago) link

I have never tried Glasgow.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 6 June 2004 15:00 (twenty years ago) link

You should. Everyone should. It's very nice.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 6 June 2004 15:01 (twenty years ago) link

you try it.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 6 June 2004 15:03 (twenty years ago) link

I tried it last Sunday. It was OK.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 6 June 2004 15:04 (twenty years ago) link

I think the idea is, always, to try it more.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 6 June 2004 15:05 (twenty years ago) link

Trying Blackpool

http://www.dudleysutton.com/images/leatherboyspier.jpg

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 6 June 2004 15:05 (twenty years ago) link

I used to try it every day for work. But no more.

I would try your pub quiz if it didn't coincide with my pub quiz.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 6 June 2004 15:20 (twenty years ago) link

We've got Cozen, lined up.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 6 June 2004 16:55 (twenty years ago) link

Like a firing squad?

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 6 June 2004 17:07 (twenty years ago) link

this film, starring me and cozen, looks v. interesting.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 6 June 2004 17:14 (twenty years ago) link

It's got Mike Baldwin in it as well.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 6 June 2004 17:25 (twenty years ago) link

It's very good, RJG. Rita Tushingham is your wife.

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 6 June 2004 18:41 (twenty years ago) link

http://members.tripod.com/MrMorrissey/video/coma.jpg

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 7 June 2004 08:03 (twenty years ago) link

there is a film, just about to come out, called monsieur N..

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 7 June 2004 10:33 (twenty years ago) link

I bumped into esther. we did a 'stop and chat'. she's never been to mexico.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:10 (twenty years ago) link

ally phoned me up, today, to solve a work dispute.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:13 (twenty years ago) link

it's bannion.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:14 (twenty years ago) link

or, banion.

"Jerry's Comedic Rival Kenny Bania - Banion is Jerry's comedic rival that Jerry thinks is horrible. But others seem to like it. Jerry decides one day during his stand up comedy routine to take a dive, so that Banion who follows his act would be met by a hostile crowd. This backfires because NBC executives after the show try to recruit Banion for a TV pilot just like Jerry had always wanted. Banion seems to take everything Jerry once had including his girlfriends, and his TV pilot."

- I don't understand but you're telling me what I want to hear and, maybe, what ally c does not want to hear.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:17 (twenty years ago) link

"kenny bania"=387

"kenny banion"=2

"kenny bannion"=1

"kenny bannia"=1

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:25 (twenty years ago) link

"kenny banyan" = 4

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:26 (twenty years ago) link

"oh fuck" = ??

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:28 (twenty years ago) link

"kenny banya" = 153

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:28 (twenty years ago) link

"kenny banjo"=9

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:29 (twenty years ago) link

"kenny banana" = 17

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:34 (twenty years ago) link

"kenny ban state car dealerships from opening on sundays"=1

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:37 (twenty years ago) link

"kenny banoffi pie" = 0

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 7 June 2004 23:19 (twenty years ago) link

I have been told I look like Rita Tushingham. My boiler has gone again. Don't tell the people who are staying with me this weekend.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:03 (twenty years ago) link

Madchen, you don't look anything like Rita Tushingham!

I still intend to try Glasgow more this weekend.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:05 (twenty years ago) link

I am a fucking idiot. The nice British Gas man noticed that my boiler wasn't working because I'd accidentally switched off the power when I put away my garden tools. It's quite possible I did this the last couple of times the other company came out to see me.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 13:51 (twenty years ago) link

Lovely Rita, (gas) Meter Mad(chen)

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 15:35 (twenty years ago) link

I am applying for a job (advertised) at the herald.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 18 June 2004 21:53 (twenty years ago) link

The editorial assistant one? Or the other one (can't remember what it was)?

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 18 June 2004 21:55 (twenty years ago) link

I think so.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 18 June 2004 21:57 (twenty years ago) link

They are expecting 2000 applications.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 18 June 2004 22:28 (twenty years ago) link

I am not going to apply then. haha I'll mess them up!

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 18 June 2004 22:29 (twenty years ago) link

This is why I never apply for jobs.

(xpost)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 18 June 2004 22:30 (twenty years ago) link

I don't think that's not reason not to apply. A reason for you not apply is that you should apply for a better, and a better paid, job.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 18 June 2004 22:31 (twenty years ago) link

I think you are right. involving guns.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 18 June 2004 22:32 (twenty years ago) link

I am applying for a haircut too.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 18 June 2004 22:33 (twenty years ago) link

You know your shit.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 18 June 2004 22:38 (twenty years ago) link

i'm seeing sons and daughters tonight. i'm excited, but worried about lack of air conditioning.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 18 June 2004 23:41 (twenty years ago) link

Sons And Daughters are there? Cor!

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 18 June 2004 23:59 (twenty years ago) link

ja. along with another, slightly more well-known glaswegian outfit.

― lauren (laurenp), Saturday, 19 June 2004 00:01 (twenty years ago) link

Frank Ferguson?

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 19 June 2004 00:57 (twenty years ago) link

i liked s&d, for the most part. they remind me a tiny bit of throwing muses. the other band has improved so much within the past four months that i suspect some sort of black magic midnight crossroads deal has been struck.

― lauren (laurenp), Saturday, 19 June 2004 05:50 (twenty years ago) link

I heard about that. don't trust them.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 19 June 2004 07:01 (twenty years ago) link

RJG, what was your idea?

― the bluefox, Saturday, 19 June 2004 09:25 (twenty years ago) link

1238 is quite enough. NEW THREAD!

― Madchen (Madchen), Saturday, 19 June 2004 12:27 (twenty years ago) link

no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 19 June 2004 12:29 (twenty years ago) link

THIS IS THE OPPOSITE OF MY IDEA

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 19 June 2004 12:29 (twenty years ago) link

I have a "better", and better paid, job. What I don't have is an interesting job.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 19 June 2004 12:36 (twenty years ago) link

I'm clever now; maybe I can get a job.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 19 June 2004 12:38 (twenty years ago) link

Stop talking and just do it.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 19 June 2004 12:41 (twenty years ago) link

Mime artiste, or something.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 19 June 2004 12:42 (twenty years ago) link

clown.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 19 June 2004 12:43 (twenty years ago) link

Do you mean Vivien Goldman?

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 20 June 2004 12:50 (twenty years ago) link

vivienne goldman.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 20 June 2004 12:51 (twenty years ago) link

I think that is a misspelling.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 20 June 2004 12:53 (twenty years ago) link

it matters.

have you heard that song?

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 20 June 2004 12:55 (twenty years ago) link

No. I don't know much about her. Why?

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 20 June 2004 12:57 (twenty years ago) link

Chris - yes. August Bank Holiday will be a lot of fun. I'll probably be working, but hey.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 20 June 2004 20:32 (twenty years ago) link

I like your style.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 20 June 2004 21:00 (twenty years ago) link

cathy, it is 1.39pm and you just walked past me on level 2 of the library, you looked a little glum, I should have said 'hi hi!' but in those situations I normally whistle, which is rude, but in the library 'rude' becomes 'inappropriate' and 'annoying', I should have said 'hi hi!'.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 21 June 2004 11:43 (twenty years ago) link

also: graeme (?) dott, the snooker player, the world famous snooker player, is on the computer across and left from me.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 21 June 2004 11:46 (twenty years ago) link

I say! Was Cathy eating?

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 21 June 2004 11:48 (twenty years ago) link

it isn't graeme dott any more than I am graeme dott.

cathy wasn't eating, for God's sake, this is a library!

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 21 June 2004 11:49 (twenty years ago) link

glasgow really is the best city.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 21 June 2004 11:49 (twenty years ago) link

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― RJG (RJG), Monday, 21 June 2004 12:12 (twenty years ago) link

I didn't like the title of the other thread much but this one is even worse!

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 21 June 2004 12:16 (twenty years ago) link

Err - the other way round. See how confusing!

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 21 June 2004 12:16 (twenty years ago) link

Lauren - that's great. 3 weeks time I think I'll be back here.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 21 June 2004 15:08 (twenty years ago) link

I hope I can be, in three weeks time.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 21 June 2004 21:43 (twenty years ago) link

i hope you can, too.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 21 June 2004 22:44 (twenty years ago) link

So, this was the idea, all along?

I want to try Glasgow, soon.

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 22 June 2004 10:29 (twenty years ago) link

I didn't even know you went to Glasgow Uni, Cozen. I'm sort of glad you didn't whistle or say "hi hi!" because I was all grimy from my disgusting job, and I might have pretended not to hear and hidden behind a bookshelf. If I looked glum, it was probably the result of having just been cleaning toilets and getting covered in hoover bag dust and scraping mould out of the back of a cupboard and not getting to eat for four hours...

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 10:50 (twenty years ago) link

I didn't know you went to Glasgow Uni, either, Cathy, or Cozen, either.

― the junefox, Tuesday, 22 June 2004 10:51 (twenty years ago) link

Me, Cozen, Adam Smith, James Herriot, Charles Kennedy, The Delgados...maybe RJG next year too, he says.

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 10:57 (twenty years ago) link

and Vicky and Jonnie

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 10:59 (twenty years ago) link

Oh, no -- not Dick!

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 22 June 2004 11:08 (twenty years ago) link

what uni did you think I went to?

― snobzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 12:22 (twenty years ago) link

I didn't know you went, to one.

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 22 June 2004 12:25 (twenty years ago) link

I just finished. there was a thread.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 12:25 (twenty years ago) link

And me. I went to Glasgow Uni too. I think maybe at the same time as Vicky.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 16:31 (twenty years ago) link

fucking commas.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 20:40 (twenty years ago) link

I didn't. Fucking snobs. Glasgow is waiting, again, JB.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 22:01 (twenty years ago) link

can we play tennis at some time ally? maybe a weekend?

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 22:02 (twenty years ago) link

I'm glad that Glasgow is waiting. Really, I am.

― the bluefox, Wednesday, 23 June 2004 10:22 (twenty years ago) link

Glasgow is raining.

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 10:24 (twenty years ago) link

by god, glasgow is raining.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 10:25 (twenty years ago) link

I don't believe in rain.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 10:25 (twenty years ago) link

Tall buildings
Reach up in vain.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 10:25 (twenty years ago) link

not that kind of rain.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 10:26 (twenty years ago) link

I've been stuck in the library thinking about Usborne books for two hours, it's raining that much.

I thought you went to Strathclyde, Cozen. I don't know what gave me that idea.

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 10:27 (twenty years ago) link

I am raining.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 10:28 (twenty years ago) link

Wow.

I wish I was in the Glasgow rain, not the London.

― the bellefox, Wednesday, 23 June 2004 10:51 (twenty years ago) link

three weeks pass...
5 wetherspoons, 5 drinks - 40.5 minutes

taxi allowance: 1

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 18 July 2004 12:56 (twenty years ago) link

which wetherspoons?

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Sunday, 18 July 2004 13:31 (twenty years ago) link

all of them.

an untimed drink at george sq. -> jamaica st. -> argyle st. -> bothwell st. -> west george st. -> sauchiehall st.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 18 July 2004 13:36 (twenty years ago) link

you should've completed that with a wee trip down gt western rd and gone to the Esquires wetherspoon beside fifth avenue.

though i'm too scared to go in the that at night time. but then i'm generally scared.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Sunday, 18 July 2004 13:38 (twenty years ago) link

Well done, RJG.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Sunday, 18 July 2004 14:45 (twenty years ago) link

1 the open, 18 holes - 7.5 hours.

blisters allowance: 2.

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 18 July 2004 17:37 (twenty years ago) link

thanks, PJ.

are you going to stereo, tonight, cozen?

I can't promise, that it will be as blistering, as the open.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 18 July 2004 17:41 (twenty years ago) link

I am still in stevenston. I'm lining up a job and a flat and then I'll be BACK.

what's on in stereo?

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 18 July 2004 17:53 (twenty years ago) link

uter rubbish.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 18 July 2004 18:03 (twenty years ago) link

how is glasgow? : (

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 24 July 2004 15:02 (twenty years ago) link

nervous.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 24 July 2004 19:14 (twenty years ago) link

how come?

I was just about to ask. I might come in to see, among other things, (other things also spelled 'b, e, f, o, r, e, s, u, n, s, e, t'), colleen tomorrow, for free, at mono ('it's only a d away'). no-one's interested?

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 24 July 2004 19:40 (twenty years ago) link

I think I want to see Before Sunset.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 24 July 2004 19:44 (twenty years ago) link

I think the gig is free.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 24 July 2004 19:46 (twenty years ago) link

I think I have to go try to win £100 rollover prize at the pub quiz. Can I claim Paisley and Renfrew goings-on for the Glasgow thread?

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 24 July 2004 19:47 (twenty years ago) link

ally c, I am better than you at tennis now < /gauntlet thrown>.

football? well, it remains to be seen.

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 25 July 2004 14:29 (twenty years ago) link

I WILL BEAT YR SKINNY WHITE FRAME TO A PULP.

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 25 July 2004 14:30 (twenty years ago) link

(hester made me do that.)

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 25 July 2004 14:30 (twenty years ago) link

these Glaswegians blame me for every damn thing.

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 25 July 2004 15:22 (twenty years ago) link

I have my 2nd interview tomorrow. wish me luck.

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 1 August 2004 14:21 (twenty years ago) link

Good luck.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 1 August 2004 14:35 (twenty years ago) link

When am I going to Glasgow?

― the bellefox, Sunday, 1 August 2004 16:50 (twenty years ago) link

I meant to tell you, sorry.

whenever you like.

lloyd cole is coming to glasgow, in october, maybe.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 1 August 2004 18:51 (twenty years ago) link

Hey, I just, told him. And then looked. At this.

Cozen: you were always better.
I was always better.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 1 August 2004 21:05 (twenty years ago) link

we're still trying Glasgow at the end of the month, I am still officially looking forward to it.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 2 August 2004 07:44 (twenty years ago) link

What days are you trying Glasgow?

― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 2 August 2004 08:48 (twenty years ago) link

the bank holiday - Friday to Tuesday - Vic is there all week on conference

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 2 August 2004 08:49 (twenty years ago) link

I tried Glasgow. I liked it.

― alix (alix), Monday, 2 August 2004 09:12 (twenty years ago) link

I beleive Glasgow Fair is now over. What did you do for Glasgow Fair? Did you take over Blackpool? Was the city deserted? Etc.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 2 August 2004 09:16 (twenty years ago) link

Oh, it was mad. Like the New Orleans Mardi Gras but like, madder.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 2 August 2004 09:34 (twenty years ago) link

People are trying Glasgow. More importantly, people I like are trying Glasgow. I might even be here myself this time.

Chris, does Vicky know that that's the weekend of the first Old Firm game?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 2 August 2004 15:43 (twenty years ago) link

I might even be here myself this time.

famous last words ;)

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 2 August 2004 15:45 (twenty years ago) link

(that's the first Old Firm game of the season up there, obviously)

Yes, Ken, I know. Come back some other time and I will see you, honest.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 2 August 2004 15:46 (twenty years ago) link

It would be nice if it were discovered that, contrary to popular belief, Celtic and Rangers had actually never played each other before.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 2 August 2004 15:49 (twenty years ago) link

oooh, I didn't know that. But there's not much chance of getting tickets :0(

― Vicky (Vicky), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 07:07 (twenty years ago) link

come on, how hard can it be? ;o)
stupid question, but how much would it cost to get a couple off a scalper? Would I have to cancel Xmas?

― Porkpie (porkpie), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 07:57 (twenty years ago) link

and is it at Parkhead or Hunderland?

― Porkpie (porkpie), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 07:59 (twenty years ago) link

right, I'm taklking to a few contacts......

― Porkpie (porkpie), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 08:10 (twenty years ago) link

don't give up on me.

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 22:20 (twenty years ago) link

we would never do that.

BTW, since you changed the orthography of yr name on ilx I automatically think of you as Seedy Greezen.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 10:15 (twenty years ago) link

Barnet Ape Sunday Smash! Who's out?

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 5 August 2004 19:18 (twenty years ago) link

I thought about trying glasgow more later on this month, but the flight prices are OUTRAGEOUS WAH!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 5 August 2004 19:20 (twenty years ago) link

Later on another month. Soon. Bring pie.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 5 August 2004 19:22 (twenty years ago) link

If I get this dream job that I am interviewing for next week I will definitely be trying Glasgow more in October or so. I will bring pecan pie. But only if I can feed it to Ally C.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 5 August 2004 19:39 (twenty years ago) link

You can feed me anything within reason.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 5 August 2004 19:43 (twenty years ago) link

Hmmm. I need to try Glasgow more. I tried it last Friday and it was fun. I should re-try.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 5 August 2004 22:17 (twenty years ago) link

where's that great pic with RJG, Cathy and 2 other ppl I don't recognise are standing in the art gallery looking for all the world like they're in Ladytron or something? It's a superb shot - I thought it was on this thread but obviously not....

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:41 (twenty years ago) link

don't assume!

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:42 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.geocities.com/r_gillanders/RCAB.txt

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:43 (twenty years ago) link

It's a shame that Cook couldn't make more of an effort .

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:45 (twenty years ago) link

Oh I was wondering if that was Ally, who's the fourth person?

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:46 (twenty years ago) link

no-one you know.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:48 (twenty years ago) link

that figures - people I know would look in the right direction!

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:49 (twenty years ago) link

oh, SNAP!

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:50 (twenty years ago) link

don't post, on this thread, again.

crosspost

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:50 (twenty years ago) link

shirt tugged-in vs shirt not tugged-in fite

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:10 (twenty years ago) link

do you mean, tucked in?

― g--ff (gcannon), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:12 (twenty years ago) link

that is exactly what i meant.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:14 (twenty years ago) link

I, Robot.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:19 (twenty years ago) link

What exactly do you mean by, effort?

That is not an art gallery. Just behind that wall is the largest body of water in the British Isles.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:06 (twenty years ago) link

he's calling you out.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:09 (twenty years ago) link

I'm calling you on.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:12 (twenty years ago) link

there are many ways in which this could go.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:14 (twenty years ago) link

I'm mostly excited.

― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:18 (twenty years ago) link

I mean effort to have have bit of contrast. You look like you're fading away.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:18 (twenty years ago) link

Basically, you've completely ruined the photo.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:19 (twenty years ago) link

he looks OK.

― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:20 (twenty years ago) link

I look the best, because it's my birthday.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 6 August 2004 17:52 (twenty years ago) link

I was not told beforehand that the photo would be taken. You are a cock, Scotland. I look good.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 6 August 2004 17:56 (twenty years ago) link

Ally, I have the photo of you where your heart is scampi from the same day, you look good in that. Can I post it somewhere?

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 6 August 2004 17:59 (twenty years ago) link

He says it's ok:

ihttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v133/cathyleech/P2280257.jpg

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 6 August 2004 18:18 (twenty years ago) link

Why does the i thing not work anymore? Well, the link works anyway.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 6 August 2004 18:19 (twenty years ago) link

What is going on with Cook's hair now?

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 6 August 2004 18:28 (twenty years ago) link

Not sure. I never said it was ok. I don't look that good. It's OK. I like the heart scampi though.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 6 August 2004 21:18 (twenty years ago) link

Cook suddenly resembles my friend Darcy. How'd that happen?

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 6 August 2004 21:25 (twenty years ago) link

Hey!

― Mandee's friend Darcy (Ally C), Saturday, 7 August 2004 12:34 (twenty years ago) link

I found my phone.

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 8 August 2004 10:38 (twenty years ago) link

The heart scampi is very sweet. Ally is an adorable scamp(i).

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:35 (twenty years ago) link

scampo

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:36 (twenty years ago) link

What an odd thread.

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Monday, 9 August 2004 11:50 (twenty years ago) link

dear RJG,

elsewhere, on board, you have been in fine form. hope you feel a bit better, soon.

angels on yr body,
cºzen.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 19 August 2004 09:50 (twenty years ago) link

get in, we will be trying Glasgow in 8 days, I hope to do some drinking

― Porkpie (porkpie), Thursday, 19 August 2004 10:11 (twenty years ago) link

awww.

see you guys soon!

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 19 August 2004 10:12 (twenty years ago) link

I've been looking at the weather forecast, and it's nice to know that some things don't change and it will be pissing it down as usual.

― Vicky (Vicky), Thursday, 19 August 2004 10:22 (twenty years ago) link

You're trusting an 8 day forecast? I don't even trust tomorrow's when it comes to Glasgow.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 19 August 2004 10:24 (twenty years ago) link

Oh no hang on - you're here earlier than Chris, aren't you?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 19 August 2004 10:24 (twenty years ago) link

no Vic's here for the rest of the week after I go back

I would like to be trying Dastoor over that weekend, as I've heard he is a hermit these days

― Porkpie (porkpie), Thursday, 19 August 2004 10:26 (twenty years ago) link

Hmm.. that's not exactly true. Maybe a bit. Now you've depressed me.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 19 August 2004 10:29 (twenty years ago) link

are you guys going to be free on the 10th and 11th of september?? i would like to try glasgow then.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 19 August 2004 10:35 (twenty years ago) link

sorry dude

― Porkpie (porkpie), Thursday, 19 August 2004 10:36 (twenty years ago) link

I think I'm in Exeter, setting up an outreach hermitage project.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 19 August 2004 10:36 (twenty years ago) link

that's quite a stretch!

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 19 August 2004 10:37 (twenty years ago) link

Wahey I will be here then, ken c. : ))

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 19 August 2004 12:59 (twenty years ago) link

The Motorcycle Diaries is previewing tonight at the GFT, at 7.45.

Glasgow?

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 19 August 2004 14:17 (twenty years ago) link

yay cathy!

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 19 August 2004 14:23 (twenty years ago) link

I'm looking forward to your return, ken c. There will be karoke and staying up and dancing, I'm sure.

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 19 August 2004 14:28 (twenty years ago) link

I certainly hope so! It's going to be a fun weekend!

I also hope to see the miraculous mad karaoke dancing man again.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 19 August 2004 14:31 (twenty years ago) link

I did love that man.

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 19 August 2004 14:32 (twenty years ago) link

Come on, Glasgow, come to the cinema with me!

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 19 August 2004 14:39 (twenty years ago) link

what fun events are on next weekend? Pop league? anything else?

― Porkpie (porkpie), Thursday, 19 August 2004 14:41 (twenty years ago) link

Pop League is on Friday. If getting very very sweaty is your idea of fun. As mentioned already, the Old Firm game is on for dubious amounts of fun also.

N. isn't a hermit - I saw him last week. The Winchester Club is therefore the cure for the end of hermitude (he didn't stay long, but long enough for one of the folks I was in with to mistake him for Belfast Bob Kildea).

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:48 (twenty years ago) link

!!

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:49 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, I decided not to tell you that at the time.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:52 (twenty years ago) link

Ridiculous. If Bob still looks as good when he's 38, then we'll talk.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:53 (twenty years ago) link

I AM NOT 38

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:22 (twenty years ago) link

I admire your honesty.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:43 (twenty years ago) link

Great Scottish Run.

Stephen will be running a half-marathon there on Sunday. So more moore trying Glasgow.

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:01 (twenty years ago) link

I do want to see the old firm game, and obv, Vic will too. What's the least pain way of watching while actually in Glasgow (I wish I could go but ha ha ha ha no)

― Porkpie (porkpie), Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:07 (twenty years ago) link

my dad is running too.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:43 (twenty years ago) link

RJG is ill?

Get better Jack!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:50 (twenty years ago) link

RJG is not ill. He has to write 5500 words in 12 hours. OK, he is ill.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 19 August 2004 21:18 (twenty years ago) link

I once watched an Old Firm game in the Horseshoe with Cook. It was not painful and quite neutral. It was also enjoyable, though he may disagree as Celtic won 6-2.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 19 August 2004 22:19 (twenty years ago) link

Most pubs in the centre are kind of non-affiliated, aren't they?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 19 August 2004 22:23 (twenty years ago) link

no I'm not sure. babbity bowsters?

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 19 August 2004 22:24 (twenty years ago) link

Now you're just typing random letters.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 19 August 2004 22:25 (twenty years ago) link

even still 'non-affiliated' /= comfortable fr watching the old firm match.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 19 August 2004 22:26 (twenty years ago) link

Well it's all boring to me.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 19 August 2004 22:27 (twenty years ago) link

"I love hate."

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 19 August 2004 22:28 (twenty years ago) link

I would have to go on your nose.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 19 August 2004 23:46 (twenty years ago) link

I like Babbity Bowsters. The black paint works. I am not a goff.

Chris - what days are you trying Glasgow again?

― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 20 August 2004 08:39 (twenty years ago) link

we are going up on Friday, I will return on Tuesday, to be followed by Vic on Friday

― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 20 August 2004 08:41 (twenty years ago) link

As I am trying Loch Awe next week, followed by trying Edinburgh and Preston, it seems rude to not meet up.

― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 20 August 2004 08:46 (twenty years ago) link

Loch Awe sounds more like a condition than an actual loch...NB I am now picturing Dave B standing, open mouthed on the bank of a huge stretch of water.

writing 5500 words in 12 hours is enough to make anyone ill.

Somewhere on ILX is a pic on N. where he looks, very like, Bob Kildea.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 20 August 2004 09:14 (twenty years ago) link

It is very awe inspiring. Also very cold, so last year when I swam in it, I was standing on the shores open mouthed. I thought my heart might stop with shock.

I shall be on a stag weekend where 5 of us will drink drinks, talk shite and fail to catch any fish worth eating.

― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 20 August 2004 09:23 (twenty years ago) link

i think i write about 5500 words each day.. here.

but i wouldn't hand it in as uni work.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 20 August 2004 09:24 (twenty years ago) link

although i've always wanted a degree in scatology

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 20 August 2004 09:25 (twenty years ago) link

shell loves snow patrol.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 26 August 2004 09:29 (twenty years ago) link

Every day in every way.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 26 August 2004 10:47 (twenty years ago) link

jed, is that ticket still going?

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 26 August 2004 11:42 (twenty years ago) link

because if it is &c.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 26 August 2004 11:43 (twenty years ago) link

Zara is giving Glasgow a whirl, finally.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 12:25 (twenty years ago) link

Sadly, no mention of the Winchester Club:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1293847,00.html

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 13:43 (twenty years ago) link

Soon the Strathclyde polis will be taking a leaf out of Ian Fleming's book.

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 15:19 (twenty years ago) link

will be in Glasgowland 10th and 11th Sept! Hope to see yous. at the winchester and other places.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 23:42 (twenty years ago) link

rumour is: no aberdeen.

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 5 September 2004 11:42 (twenty years ago) link

That is a peculiar rumour. They don't want you, you don't want them, or there is just no Aberdeen?

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 5 September 2004 11:47 (twenty years ago) link

I am taking my time.

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 5 September 2004 11:47 (twenty years ago) link

he's right, though.

I thought there was going to be aberdeen and, then, there wasn't.


I went to the nottingham zara, recently, and was quite disappointed.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 5 September 2004 13:03 (twenty years ago) link

You have to get it on a good day.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 5 September 2004 14:10 (twenty years ago) link

Is there going to be organised fun for Ken, like food or beer or something? or karaoke at the Pewter Pot?

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 5 September 2004 15:59 (twenty years ago) link

There is Karaoke in The Iron Horse. Friday night. But none of you are invited.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 5 September 2004 16:13 (twenty years ago) link

i still have never had a Buckfast.

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 5 September 2004 21:27 (twenty years ago) link

I can't remember my last day without.

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 5 September 2004 21:36 (twenty years ago) link

i expected nothing less.

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 5 September 2004 21:43 (twenty years ago) link

is it called buckfast because you are bucking a fast?

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 5 September 2004 21:44 (twenty years ago) link

it makes you buck really fast.

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 5 September 2004 21:45 (twenty years ago) link

being a liar has turned me into a liar.

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 5 September 2004 21:46 (twenty years ago) link

East Kilbride's had a Zara for like, ages, dudes.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Sunday, 5 September 2004 22:26 (twenty years ago) link

Don't be so stupid, boy.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 5 September 2004 22:31 (twenty years ago) link

east kilbride isn't glasgow.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 5 September 2004 22:59 (twenty years ago) link

G74 says it is, bitch.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Sunday, 5 September 2004 23:11 (twenty years ago) link

Anyone taking postal codes as an indication of city boundaries is on a very sticky wicket.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 5 September 2004 23:16 (twenty years ago) link

Hehe, point taken and conceded. Nonetheless, it's a sign that South Lanarkshire is really the place to hang out these days. TRY SOUTH LANARKSHIRE MORE!

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Sunday, 5 September 2004 23:18 (twenty years ago) link

nope.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 5 September 2004 23:19 (twenty years ago) link

I did try to persuade Ally C and RJG to do this, with Zara as a draw, but they were having none of it. Mr Best Buttocks South Lanarkshire put them off, maybe.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 5 September 2004 23:20 (twenty years ago) link

Pah! Mr Best Buttocks South Lanarkshire decamped to North (as it is called) before he made it. Ergo, he's pish. Now come on! Try Hamilton Pace more, kids!

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Sunday, 5 September 2004 23:28 (twenty years ago) link

Er, I mean Hamilton Palace. Although the pace of life in Hamilton is breakneck.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Sunday, 5 September 2004 23:29 (twenty years ago) link

I would rather keep my neck intact, thanks.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 6 September 2004 11:40 (twenty years ago) link

Can organised fun for Ken maybe please involve Little League? (by which I mean organised fun for me, which Ken may also like to be involved in).

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 6 September 2004 16:21 (twenty years ago) link

I love the way you always don't think of others.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 6 September 2004 21:55 (twenty years ago) link

Stop being mean :(

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 6 September 2004 22:09 (twenty years ago) link

I would have to start, first.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 6 September 2004 22:12 (twenty years ago) link

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw!

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Monday, 6 September 2004 22:12 (twenty years ago) link

I think I picked up something when I licked RJG's hair.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 6 September 2004 22:12 (twenty years ago) link

So that's where his quiff went.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 6 September 2004 22:16 (twenty years ago) link

'Quiff' feels kind of disgusting when one types it.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 6 September 2004 22:16 (twenty years ago) link

gemini.

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 16:29 (twenty years ago) link

germini.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 18:15 (twenty years ago) link

germinviii.

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 18:30 (twenty years ago) link

I'm not sure I undersand what is going on here.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 18:55 (twenty years ago) link

Nothing is going on. Go back to your coffin.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 19:35 (twenty years ago) link

I AM NOT THE UNDEAD.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 19:49 (twenty years ago) link

Count on it.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:12 (twenty years ago) link

"what was the last book you read and why?'

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 15:19 (twenty years ago) link

'

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 15:19 (twenty years ago) link

was that a pub quiz question?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 15:29 (twenty years ago) link

people asking questions, and money's changing hands!

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 20:02 (twenty years ago) link

not vodka though?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 20:41 (twenty years ago) link

so what is this little league thing? is vodka involved?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 20:41 (twenty years ago) link

It's like National Pop League, but littler. And less sweaty. Vodka can be involved if you like.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 9 September 2004 16:29 (twenty years ago) link

national pop league but littler and less sweaty and involves vodka, sounds like paradise.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 9 September 2004 16:33 (twenty years ago) link

where and when can one find this smalltime league?

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 9 September 2004 16:33 (twenty years ago) link

Tomorrow night, in the West End, in a TOP SECRET VENUE! You have to press the buzzer to get in and everything. So that the plebs and the neds and that don't spoil it.

I haven't been to it yet, but they have sounded like fun. The guys from How Does It Feel To Be Loved DJed the last one.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 9 September 2004 16:38 (twenty years ago) link

woah! i'm so there! FAP before???????????????????

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 9 September 2004 16:39 (twenty years ago) link

Well, obviously...

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 9 September 2004 16:52 (twenty years ago) link

is it true that eski dance is coming to the secc?

― willdabeast, Thursday, 9 September 2004 21:34 (twenty years ago) link

ok! heading for the 9am coach tomorrow - if you guys are meeting up somewhere tomorrow let me know where and when! i should arrive glasgow about 6pm (god it takes a long time!)

my phone number is 07967 755446 text me or sommat.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 10 September 2004 00:12 (twenty years ago) link

I estimate that Ken is approaching the Northampton turn-off even as we speak.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 10 September 2004 08:41 (twenty years ago) link

haha i actually missed the coach! some bastard told me the wrong way to get to victoria coach station from the tube, and i slipped in the rain fell on my arse whilst running back! haha. some guy behind me went "OOOOHHHHHHHHSHHHHHH" in a shocked painful way.

going to get the train at noon from kings cross, i should get there before the actual coach arrives!! That'll show them!

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 10 September 2004 08:45 (twenty years ago) link

Well done, Ken!

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 10 September 2004 08:52 (twenty years ago) link

Oh no! But the train is better anyway. See you soon!

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 10 September 2004 08:58 (twenty years ago) link

The pace of life in Hamilton is indeed breakneck. Well, Cadzow Street is fairly steep if you're not careful.

― Donnie Smith The Quiz Kid, Friday, 10 September 2004 09:01 (twenty years ago) link

The walk from Victoria Train Station to Victoria Coach Station is a bastard. They should be right next to each other, but aren't. And if you're running late and it's raining, it's even worse. Poor Ken :(

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 10 September 2004 10:03 (twenty years ago) link

And to think he's missed out on a refreshing 45-minute break at Charnock Richard Services!

― Donnie Smith The Quiz Kid, Friday, 10 September 2004 10:09 (twenty years ago) link

Has Glasgow got its act together yet?

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 10 September 2004 15:49 (twenty years ago) link

yay i'm here! i'm at the easy everything just now but going to check in at the B+S just now at the Georgian House Hotel on that buckingham terrace bit of Great Western Road right by the botanic garden! phone me if you guys fancy a pint somewhere west end before little leaguing (if you are... i hope it's still at the same place on A*hley Street as last month)

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 10 September 2004 16:25 (twenty years ago) link

the B+S????!? haha the B+B i meant

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 10 September 2004 16:26 (twenty years ago) link

An understandable slip. I will be venturing out fairly soon, after dinner.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 10 September 2004 18:38 (twenty years ago) link

The Georgian House Hotel?

Lobby & stairways always full of stationary people staring at you as you pass?

Rolled up carpets on the stairs & blocking the landings - look out when you stagger back with a skinful Ken!! You'll be on your arse with your legs up in the air again quicker than you know it!

― Mooro (Mooro), Friday, 10 September 2004 18:44 (twenty years ago) link

asshoppers need not apply.

― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 10 September 2004 18:57 (twenty years ago) link

MODERATOR PLEASE LOCK THREAD

― Mooro (Mooro), Friday, 10 September 2004 19:06 (twenty years ago) link

I didn't venture out as Cook is rubbish at answering his phone so I didn't know where anyone was.

I will try Glasgow for a a bit tomorrow.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 10 September 2004 22:05 (twenty years ago) link

I realise now I could just have phoned Ken, but I'm a bit slow at thinking things like that through.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 10 September 2004 22:07 (twenty years ago) link

in my dream last night porkpie kept laughing (loud) (and in my face) because I was trying to explain to him society's move away from 'the heterogenous' to 'the homosocial.'

some things are deserved.

― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 10 September 2004 23:16 (twenty years ago) link

Ha ha - that is ridiculous. Explaining the homosocial to Porkpie is like teaching your grandmother to suck eggs.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 10 September 2004 23:24 (twenty years ago) link

My grandmother is dead, you insensitive oaf.

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 11 September 2004 11:28 (twenty years ago) link

swine.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 11 September 2004 11:29 (twenty years ago) link

teaching grandmother to suck eggs is especially difficult if she's dead

― ken c (ken c), Saturday, 11 September 2004 12:25 (twenty years ago) link

wasn't a big fan of the tartan special but the tactical switch to newcastle brown paid dividends.

what a good night! although it'd appear that PEOPLE IN GLASGOW DON'T DANCE! or they don't dance before 23:30.. the floor was totally empty. but then came the Man With A Black Shirt who stormed the dance floor.. what a man.

The Georgian House is fantastic! The guy who works there totally doesn't look like he works there. And then another guy shown me around the room

"This.. is .. the window... er.. it shuts"

awesome. and their "office" is messier than my room (they were going to write me a receipt but after fumbling about the desk for 2 minutes they realised that they had run out of reciept papers!!) and i somehow managed to avoid the asshopping!

saving it all for tonite. obv.

― ken c (ken c), Saturday, 11 September 2004 12:31 (twenty years ago) link

You utter drunk, what are you doing in Glasgow?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 11 September 2004 14:37 (twenty years ago) link

shutting windows, obv.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 11 September 2004 14:40 (twenty years ago) link

After vomiting through them.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 11 September 2004 14:46 (twenty years ago) link

Or something.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 11 September 2004 15:01 (twenty years ago) link

walking past open windows.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 11 September 2004 16:22 (twenty years ago) link

When is asshopping commencing tonight then?

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 11 September 2004 17:00 (twenty years ago) link

I don't involve, myself.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 11 September 2004 17:07 (twenty years ago) link

Ailsa is trying Glasgow badly.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 12 September 2004 10:57 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, I tried, but Glasgow let me down in the afternoon. The cost of taxis let me down at night. I could try Glasgow this afternoon, for a while, if you want.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 12 September 2004 11:03 (twenty years ago) link

glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow glasgow.

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 12 September 2004 11:45 (twenty years ago) link

Is that the way you've been filling out your application forms?

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 12 September 2004 11:46 (twenty years ago) link

Is Glasgow trying the Hubbards pub quiz tonight? My local Sunday night pub quiz venue is closed for refurbishment, and the mister is working and I am bored.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 12 September 2004 14:26 (twenty years ago) link

I am going to become this guy : /

http://www.turcanconnell.com/images/cs.jpg

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 12 September 2004 15:28 (twenty years ago) link

You are the guy.

Glasgow may well be trying tonight. Call me!

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 12 September 2004 16:09 (twenty years ago) link

I did. You didn't answer. You call me.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 12 September 2004 16:21 (twenty years ago) link

wally c

― Cathy (Cathy), Sunday, 12 September 2004 16:23 (twenty years ago) link

Haha. Shut it.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 12 September 2004 16:31 (twenty years ago) link

I need to scratch this card first. I just heard it beep.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 12 September 2004 16:31 (twenty years ago) link

you don't happen to have tommy's or enda's or biff's telephone number, do you?

― Cathy (Cathy), Sunday, 12 September 2004 16:56 (twenty years ago) link

whoops, I am RJG and so was the wally c.

― Cathy (Cathy), Sunday, 12 September 2004 16:57 (twenty years ago) link

It's OK. I knew that. Pub. 8.30pm.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 12 September 2004 17:04 (twenty years ago) link

For Cookie

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 12 September 2004 21:35 (twenty years ago) link

glasgow pixors

http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ken_the_juggler/album?.dir=/3cb6&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ken_the_juggler

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 13 September 2004 01:12 (twenty years ago) link

These are good pictures apart from my pondering face. I'm sad that there was no karaoke or curry and not even any lunch, but the Winchester was fun and I hope you will come back soon xxx

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 13 September 2004 08:13 (twenty years ago) link

I don't approve, of Jack's beard.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 13 September 2004 08:23 (twenty years ago) link

we're not calling it that.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 13 September 2004 08:25 (twenty years ago) link

Jings

― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 13 September 2004 09:07 (twenty years ago) link

i'm sad about lack of karaokeage too - a trip to "Cafe India" filled (partly) the curry needs (although there was really too much tomatoes in the rogan josh) but one day i shall sample the vindaloos of glasgow properly.

It was good to see all of yous! hope to return soon and next time actually getting on the mode of transport i will have planned for.

p.s. the "cryptic clues" quiz machine at the drum and monkey(?) is teh excelsior.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 13 September 2004 13:02 (twenty years ago) link

asshoppers have applied.

― cºzen (Cozen), Monday, 13 September 2004 18:56 (twenty years ago) link

thanks for the txt, btw cozen!

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 13 September 2004 18:56 (twenty years ago) link

Iiiiiiiiiiiii think about yoooooooooou, all the time.

― cºzen (Cozen), Monday, 13 September 2004 18:59 (twenty years ago) link

aw bless

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 13 September 2004 19:46 (twenty years ago) link

brwc?

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 16 September 2004 16:17 (twenty years ago) link

y

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 September 2004 17:00 (twenty years ago) link

Are these the cryptic clues?

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 16 September 2004 17:13 (twenty years ago) link

n

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 September 2004 17:13 (twenty years ago) link

I thought it was like the bit at the end of Gregory's Girl where Gregory and Susan just say random numbers to each other. Except with letters instead.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 16 September 2004 17:15 (twenty years ago) link

Cozen and I's relationship is nothing like that of Gregory and Susan's.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 September 2004 17:17 (twenty years ago) link

I's?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 September 2004 17:17 (twenty years ago) link

It's a randem tandem.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 16 September 2004 17:21 (twenty years ago) link

I need to bum a b.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 16 September 2004 17:21 (twenty years ago) link

boy?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 September 2004 17:22 (twenty years ago) link

ed.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 16 September 2004 17:23 (twenty years ago) link

You can stay here if you like.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 September 2004 17:25 (twenty years ago) link

thank you.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 16 September 2004 17:27 (twenty years ago) link

What, in the world, are you talking about?

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 16 September 2004 17:30 (twenty years ago) link

sleeping!

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 September 2004 17:31 (twenty years ago) link

I'm not sure that all that's going on here.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 16 September 2004 17:35 (twenty years ago) link

that's

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 16 September 2004 17:36 (twenty years ago) link

You're so suspicious. Are you coming?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 September 2004 17:36 (twenty years ago) link

it's jist the way he's staunin'.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 16 September 2004 19:40 (twenty years ago) link

This is sheer madness

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 20 September 2004 11:21 (twenty years ago) link

really?

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 20 September 2004 11:26 (twenty years ago) link

Yes

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 20 September 2004 11:31 (twenty years ago) link

have you been to the gardens?

I think cook still hasn't even though I tried to take him.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 20 September 2004 11:32 (twenty years ago) link

I went to the opening of the gardens. It was a lovely sunny day and we had strawberry tarts and wine and listened to Big Band Music. I predict that 24th September will not have similar weather.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 20 September 2004 11:38 (twenty years ago) link

'urban creativity' = 'demolishing maternity provision'

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Monday, 20 September 2004 11:41 (twenty years ago) link

It upsets me too much to go.

Actually, I did walk past it in the dark recently. It looked OK.

Why 'Finding Nemo'?

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 20 September 2004 11:43 (twenty years ago) link

replacing?

crosspost

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 20 September 2004 11:43 (twenty years ago) link

It'll be nicer once the ivy has grown across the stepped bits. Last time I saw it, the planting was a bit gappy. I like the water features and the nappy pin.

I think it's OK to demolish a hospital if it's too old to cope with modern medicine, as long as there's somewhere else that's convenient and has the capacity for the patients to go to. I don't get sentimental, but then I wasn't born there.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 20 September 2004 11:55 (twenty years ago) link

There's a lovely plaque commemorating all the babies that were born there, and also the ones that died there.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 20 September 2004 11:56 (twenty years ago) link

I'd like to say that I love pictures of Ally's behind when he's dancing but I'm not going to cos it has connotations. (He’s so perky and bendy!)

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 20 September 2004 11:58 (twenty years ago) link

Yo yo yo whassup Glasgow!

Kev and I are going for a proper 'date' on saturday night, we haven't done this since we moved in together last year. Thinking about the Shish Mahal - I think it's Park Street? Anyone tried it?

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Monday, 20 September 2004 14:52 (twenty years ago) link

Yes. It was very late at night and we were the only people there. I think we annoyed the waiters cos they wanted to go home. Food was nice, though. I think.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 20 September 2004 15:25 (twenty years ago) link

I think Lara is drunk, already.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 20 September 2004 15:30 (twenty years ago) link

Oi, you don't need sauce to enjoy your bum!

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 20 September 2004 16:35 (twenty years ago) link

It could render it even tastier, though.

― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 20 September 2004 18:08 (twenty years ago) link

Thanks Ally, we may hit a tavern afterwards, any recommendations? It has been some time since I've done the West End and I'm completely out of touch with what's going on.

Looking for somewhere we can hear ourselves drink, not too quiet though, and not old manny. Last time I was out I spent most of the night in Whistlers Mother eating peanuts...

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 08:19 (twenty years ago) link

a face like an in-swinger.

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:25 (twenty years ago) link

Just up the street (Woodlands Road) is the Uisge Beatha. It's not bad.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:02 (twenty years ago) link

It has a tendency to get a bit stowed out on a Saturday night though, doesn't it?

Even further up Woodlands Road is the Halt, which is also not bad. Saying that, it probably isn't there any more, as the West End seems to have changed ridiculously from when I used to live there.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:04 (twenty years ago) link

It is there. Perhaps Lloyd Cole is also there. It is possibly more old-manny though. The Uisge Beatha is a weird pub - I have been there on weekends where it's empty, and ones where you can't move.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:28 (twenty years ago) link

which way is up?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 19:27 (twenty years ago) link

I was in The Halt on Saturday. It's very much still there.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:49 (twenty years ago) link

Thanks, I've been in Uisge Beatha before, for a meeting of the, er, Glasgow West Indian All Nations Club.

Tha Halt? I'll give it a go if I can find it.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 09:27 (twenty years ago) link

try celtic park more.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 25 September 2004 08:35 (twenty years ago) link

I will be, this afternoon.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 25 September 2004 08:42 (twenty years ago) link

me too.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 25 September 2004 08:44 (twenty years ago) link

I might (might) have a spare season book for today's match. I'm supposed to be taking my little brother but he's not here. I guess I should be leaving here about, say, 12.30 - 1pm. are thr any other ilxer celtic fans who don't already have season books? madchen?

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 25 September 2004 09:14 (twenty years ago) link

gah sorry false alarm he's just walked through the door innit.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 25 September 2004 09:17 (twenty years ago) link

ouch.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 25 September 2004 09:42 (twenty years ago) link

Madchen is not strictly a Celtic fan.

Last night, I tried Glasgow a little whilst sober, and had fun. I love to watch Catherine dance. She is so magically young, like Emily Lloyd.

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 25 September 2004 15:49 (twenty years ago) link

Emily Lloyd is in the forthcoming Peter Sellers film, to which I am looking forward.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Saturday, 25 September 2004 16:59 (twenty years ago) link

"sober"
"Celtic fan"

― Madchen (Madchen), Saturday, 25 September 2004 18:07 (twenty years ago) link

Hey, Glasgow people, do you want to come for a pizza with me next Saturday night?

― Madchen (Madchen), Saturday, 25 September 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago) link

cheesy

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 25 September 2004 18:22 (twenty years ago) link

Ally has inspected the menu and there are other things for cheeze haterz.

― Madchen (Madchen), Saturday, 25 September 2004 18:25 (twenty years ago) link

oh, yeah, he doesn't like cheese.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 25 September 2004 18:26 (twenty years ago) link

Did you see Rowetta?

― Madchen (Madchen), Saturday, 25 September 2004 18:27 (twenty years ago) link

I guess not.

who or what is rowetta?

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 25 September 2004 18:29 (twenty years ago) link

it's okay.

we have figured it out.

yes, we did see her.

she was bonkers.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 25 September 2004 18:34 (twenty years ago) link

I'm rooting for her.

― Madchen (Madchen), Saturday, 25 September 2004 18:38 (twenty years ago) link

: (

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 25 September 2004 18:44 (twenty years ago) link

Madchen, we'll come and have pizza with you next Saturday! Me and the mister were just saying last night that we should phone you lot and go out for a meal.

Ally C ate a pizza on his 21st birthday, as despite being a cheese hatah he had his birthday meal in Deep Pan Pizza Co. He was quite drunk though. The staff in there must hate us.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 26 September 2004 09:04 (twenty years ago) link

I was sick soon afterwards. This may not have been due to the pizza. If the staff still remember us 5 years later, something is wrong.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 26 September 2004 11:22 (twenty years ago) link

I have pizza WITHOUT CHEESE (warm sandwiches).

― Lara (Lara), Sunday, 26 September 2004 11:26 (twenty years ago) link

You are so crazy.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 26 September 2004 11:28 (twenty years ago) link

I also had a kebab last night BEFORE I started drinking.

― Lara (Lara), Sunday, 26 September 2004 11:34 (twenty years ago) link

Everyone was sick quite soon afterwards (carsmile to thread, etc), weren't they?

I meant they must have hated us. If any of them are even still working there 5 years on, something else is wrong. With them.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 26 September 2004 11:44 (twenty years ago) link

I will pizza!

― Cathy (Cathy), Sunday, 26 September 2004 12:21 (twenty years ago) link

Yes, but Saturday?

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 26 September 2004 12:31 (twenty years ago) link

Yes Saturday.

― Cathy (Cathy), Sunday, 26 September 2004 12:31 (twenty years ago) link

It's Emily Watson, not Emily Lloyd, in the Peter Sellers film. I get them mixed up. Silly PJM.

I see the Rangers had a good win.

The older I get, the more I can see the appeal of Rangers. Is this normal? I think it probably is.

Kilmarnock is the luckiest town in Britain, if not the world.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Sunday, 26 September 2004 19:12 (twenty years ago) link

OK, how many shall I book a table for? I will do it early this time.
Ailsa, Neil, Ally, me, Cathy, RJG... what about Nick? Any others?

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 27 September 2004 09:33 (twenty years ago) link

Where are we going?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 27 September 2004 09:37 (twenty years ago) link

There's a place in the Merchant city that has a proper wood fired oven but the name escapes me. Is that OK?

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 27 September 2004 09:54 (twenty years ago) link

Sounds good to me. : )))

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 27 September 2004 09:54 (twenty years ago) link

I don't mean is it OK I've forgotten the name, obv. I'll find out. it's on the same street as Armani, but towards the High Street.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 27 September 2004 09:54 (twenty years ago) link

Just in case anyone missed this, Edinburgh FAP? Oct 11?

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 27 September 2004 15:03 (twenty years ago) link

That's a Monday. Edinburgh on a Monday? It's possible.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 27 September 2004 15:59 (twenty years ago) link

What about doing Glasgow on the Tuesday instead? I'm not sure about the wisdom of Edinburgh on a Monday (or any other day, come to think of it).

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 27 September 2004 16:23 (twenty years ago) link

Tuesday is Lloyd.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 27 September 2004 16:31 (twenty years ago) link

Ooh, so it is. I should get a ticket soon, I guess.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 27 September 2004 16:31 (twenty years ago) link

Is the Halt Bar going to be packed on Tuesday?

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 27 September 2004 16:37 (twenty years ago) link

No, because everyone will be at Lloyd Cole.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 27 September 2004 16:38 (twenty years ago) link

I am so sorry to miss Lloyd, in Glasgow.

― the bellefox, Monday, 27 September 2004 16:40 (twenty years ago) link

Glasgow is sorry too.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 27 September 2004 16:42 (twenty years ago) link

Lloyd's going to be there before the show ... and I suspect the entire audience will be there as well.

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 27 September 2004 16:43 (twenty years ago) link

I'm going to dundee, on the sixteenth. does that help?

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 27 September 2004 16:49 (twenty years ago) link

Is he really, or are you trying to tempt us? I would go to Lloyd if he was cheaper and at the Opry, but he's not.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 27 September 2004 16:53 (twenty years ago) link

there was a rumour, that lloyd would be at the halt, around the concert.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 27 September 2004 16:54 (twenty years ago) link

My bank balance would be helped slightly by not going to see Lloyd Cole. Halt-FAP on Tuesday then?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 27 September 2004 16:59 (twenty years ago) link

I can't find the original message from the Lloyd Cole list - but either Lloyd himself or one of the band posted that they planned to be at the Halt, "as usual" before the show.

xpost -

Halt FAP. (As an out-of-towner .. how might I recognize an ILE crowd?)

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 27 September 2004 17:02 (twenty years ago) link

Today I saw a CD called

LLOYD COLE.
THE COMMOTIONS.
THE SINGLES. (I think.)

Excitingly, it includes a DVD.

I will find a Lloyd Cole thread for this too.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 27 September 2004 17:07 (twenty years ago) link

There are like a billion photos of Ally C and RJG on ILE.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 27 September 2004 17:13 (twenty years ago) link

I look, like I should be in the movies.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 27 September 2004 19:52 (twenty years ago) link

I'll come along. I don't think I know where The Halt is. I hope it isn't anything like The Hall.

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 00:42 (twenty years ago) link

just rememeber: don't look back, like some do in the movies.

xpost

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 07:04 (twenty years ago) link

Horror movies (x-post)

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 07:43 (twenty years ago) link

Home movies.

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 10:06 (twenty years ago) link

Motion Pictures (1974).

Making Movies (1980).

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 10:53 (twenty years ago) link

I need an ISDN connection to keep accessing this thread.

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 10:57 (twenty years ago) link

I did try starting a new one but it was cruelly rejected.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 12:05 (twenty years ago) link

"try try glasgow more more"

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 12:12 (twenty years ago) link

i put the quotes in the wrong place

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 12:12 (twenty years ago) link

I suppose it is RJG's thread. He must be the one to make herald the new thread.

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 12:26 (twenty years ago) link

RJG will not be talked to.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 15:10 (twenty years ago) link

I will not.


settings> thread pages> show messages> last 50 answers

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 17:16 (twenty years ago) link

Is this stalemate?

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 17:19 (twenty years ago) link

what does it smell like, pal?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 17:19 (twenty years ago) link

Um, stale,'suppose. Jeez....

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 17:20 (twenty years ago) link

this is like ATP but with granite not alcohol, lecturers not bands.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 30 September 2004 07:14 (twenty years ago) link

Are they a bit beardy and post-rock?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 30 September 2004 09:30 (twenty years ago) link

O, if only!

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 30 September 2004 11:50 (twenty years ago) link

Fuck, I've left it too late again

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 30 September 2004 12:46 (twenty years ago) link

They can do 5pm or 10pm. Should we try another day?

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 30 September 2004 12:47 (twenty years ago) link

hate glasgow trendy shit hole
only good thing is sexy jack from Jack & Victor

― jane aeternus, Thursday, 30 September 2004 12:49 (twenty years ago) link

watching 'ae fond kiss' I was lots homesick.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 30 September 2004 12:51 (twenty years ago) link

Cozen, come for pizza. Or just come back.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 30 September 2004 12:54 (twenty years ago) link

so do the glasgow folks have any opinions on this http://www.popmatters.com/features/tttp/2robertson.shtml

― H (Heruy), Thursday, 30 September 2004 13:28 (twenty years ago) link

We could try somewhere else, maybe?

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 30 September 2004 15:51 (twenty years ago) link

I'm all in favour of Scotland With Style, Hare, mainly because I fancied the woman in the posters. However, I am also in favour of David Shirgley, who made that notice. I don't know if I am in favour of the SECC. What do others think?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 30 September 2004 15:57 (twenty years ago) link

I'm not in favour of people who write Glasgowian rather than Glaswegian then expect me to take their writing seriously.

I quite like the Armadillo, but I'm not sure about the Science Centre. However if you go up Govan Road heading from Paisley Road Toll towards Govan, there is a point of view where the IMAX, the Science Centre and the stupid tower that doesn't work are immensely phallic-looking.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 30 September 2004 16:07 (twenty years ago) link

scotland with style: no

david shrigley: yes

secc: no

science centre: why not?


I thought they fixed the stupid tower.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 30 September 2004 16:20 (twenty years ago) link

I think it broke again.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 30 September 2004 16:25 (twenty years ago) link

every time they fix it?

I had no idea, that you had such powers.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 30 September 2004 16:27 (twenty years ago) link

They are think of putting it on a plinth, and installing CCTV, to stop me breaking it.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 30 September 2004 16:29 (twenty years ago) link

What no pizza? Surely, there is another place?

I like the SECC.

Is "Ae Fond Kiss" good, cozen? It looked kind of schmalzy and cliché-ridden from the trailer. Where have you gone that isn't Glasgow? You should come back, and stop all this other-places nonsense.

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 30 September 2004 16:47 (twenty years ago) link

I love you, glasgow.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 30 September 2004 17:29 (twenty years ago) link

I would like to know about 'Ae Fond Kiss' too, because I thought the trailer looked rubbish and then at the end it said, 'Ken Loach'.

I didn't know Glasgow had an IMAX. I hope it has special 'regional' programming.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 30 September 2004 18:20 (twenty years ago) link

The Daily Record are giving away a free DVD of Gregory's Girl with Saturday's paper. This is the second best reason to buy the Record (the best being the slim chance that 96 and Madchen may be in the food review section photo again).

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 30 September 2004 18:24 (twenty years ago) link

Can someone get me one, please? I'll swap it for a Maidenhead Advertiser with a voucher for McDonald's.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 30 September 2004 18:26 (twenty years ago) link

"slim"

"96"

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 30 September 2004 18:30 (twenty years ago) link

I will buy that, for myself. presuming they have it, here, here.

I always cry at endings.

I always cry at ken loach films too, it doesn't mean they're not right.

'ae fond kiss and then we sever...

and to see her was to love her,
to love but her and her forever.

ae fond kiss and then we sever...'

it was my gran's favourite poem, it is poignant for me.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 30 September 2004 18:31 (twenty years ago) link

Oh, would someone get me one too? I will exchange for a bottle of Danzka Vodka, a striped scarf and some binoculars....

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 30 September 2004 18:33 (twenty years ago) link

Hmmm, vodka or crappy local paper? Tough call. Multiple purchase of Daily Record on Saturday methinks.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 30 September 2004 18:36 (twenty years ago) link

That was a half-arsed bribe for Ally as I have a bottle here that I have owed him since, say, January. What could I buy you Ailsa?

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 30 September 2004 18:41 (twenty years ago) link

Is that the bottle of Danzka I bought Ally for his birthday last year then Lara?

You don't need to buy me anything. It's like 40 pence or something.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 30 September 2004 18:42 (twenty years ago) link

Um........ We accosted him in the middle of the night! His defences were low! He seemed angry but we persisted! *Kirsten has to take some of the blame for this too*

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 30 September 2004 18:46 (twenty years ago) link

I agree with PJ Miller, about Loach.

I like what Cookie said: 'Making Movies' (1980)! Class!

I like RJG, also.

― the bellefox, Thursday, 30 September 2004 18:47 (twenty years ago) link

(Also, I told him I'd get him a replacement bottle, which I could locate neither in Glasgow in the limited time I still had there or in Dublin when I got home. I ended up getting a Danish friend to mail me a bottle from Copenhagen. I thought I'd just hand it over next time I was across but I've been lazy at trying glasgow this year.)

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 30 September 2004 18:49 (twenty years ago) link

The scary thing about this thread is, how it's alive, and people keep posting to it, at the same time!

― the bellefox, Thursday, 30 September 2004 18:49 (twenty years ago) link

I have not tried Glasgow since, like, 2.1.2004 or sth, la.

― the bluefox, Thursday, 30 September 2004 18:50 (twenty years ago) link

Crosspost

If only they were as good at FAPing!

PF - my record is way worse this year and I have been in Edinburgh, which makes it almost shameful.

Danzka is expensive - Ailsa is very good present buyer. Official.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 30 September 2004 18:52 (twenty years ago) link

We have FAPped. We have also FAIRed (Fancy An Indian Restaurant) for Vicky and Cabbage, which was quite impressive.

(I meant that the Daily Record was 40p by the way, not the vodka, in case there was any confusion. I bought the vodka in Spain, to where I shall be returning shortly. I shall buy some there this time too, I think. Come to Glasgow, Lara, and you can have some!)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 30 September 2004 19:06 (twenty years ago) link

Glasgow and booze - a marriage made in heaven!

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 30 September 2004 19:11 (twenty years ago) link

I spedread that as 'Glasgow and boobs' and agreed wholeheartedly.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 30 September 2004 19:12 (twenty years ago) link

'spedread'

― the bellefox, Thursday, 30 September 2004 19:13 (twenty years ago) link

I thought it was too cold to whop em out. Have you become more racy since I last saw you?

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 30 September 2004 19:15 (twenty years ago) link

(I spedread 'speadread' as 'bedspread'.)

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 30 September 2004 19:16 (twenty years ago) link

'spedtyped'

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 30 September 2004 19:17 (twenty years ago) link

Have you become more racy since I last saw you?

I think so.

I thought about 'speedread', but rejected it on syylistic grounds.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 30 September 2004 19:19 (twenty years ago) link

syyl boy

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 30 September 2004 19:20 (twenty years ago) link

special 'regional' programming="spider-man", at the moment.

I wish they'd show "crocodile dundee" or, even, "crocodile dundee 2". not that I've been to the IMAX or the science centre or the southside.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 30 September 2004 19:48 (twenty years ago) link

(Southern readers might be unaware that the whole Crocodile Dundee trilogy was shot on brownfield sites on the outskirts of Glasgow)

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 30 September 2004 19:54 (twenty years ago) link

Paris, Texas was shot in Pollockshaws, which gave Sharleen Spiteri the idea.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 30 September 2004 19:56 (twenty years ago) link

and travis?

"taxi driver" was set originally going to be in dundee, wasn't it?

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 30 September 2004 20:02 (twenty years ago) link

I think so, but I can't remember why they changed it. Googling comes up with nothing.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 30 September 2004 20:03 (twenty years ago) link

'Bickle'

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 30 September 2004 20:04 (twenty years ago) link

Oh, OK. Apparently it was because all the Dundee catering firms were already booked for the 'All The President's Men' shoot (which ironically was originally set in Inverness).

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 30 September 2004 20:06 (twenty years ago) link

What the fuck happened to the Scottish film industry?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 30 September 2004 20:07 (twenty years ago) link

Local hero today, gone tomorrow

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 30 September 2004 20:09 (twenty years ago) link

"the taxi driver" was a comic strip character who originally appeared in the beano. his strip only ran for six weeks but that is where paul schrader, a big broons fan, first came across him.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 30 September 2004 20:14 (twenty years ago) link

There's quite a big Schrader/DC Thomson connection. 'Cat People' was his attempt at a noir update of Korky the Cat, I believe.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 30 September 2004 20:17 (twenty years ago) link

The critical consensus is that ulimately, it failed through being too faithful to the original text.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 30 September 2004 20:19 (twenty years ago) link

Ultimately, sorry.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 30 September 2004 20:20 (twenty years ago) link

yes, he often includes references and allusions to many D.C. stories and characters. despite this, he has never attempted a direct adaptation, although, there were rumours that he had been in talks with yaphet kotto, to star, as the teacher, during early preparation for his unrealised "the bash street kids".

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 30 September 2004 20:27 (twenty years ago) link

look, what you made me do.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 30 September 2004 20:43 (twenty years ago) link

There's a good chapter about the whole thing in 'Easy Riders, Raging Bulls'.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 30 September 2004 20:54 (twenty years ago) link

Recognise this, anyone?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v384/lucyald/bath.jpg

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 1 October 2004 05:59 (twenty years ago) link

For the above reason, and because I'm having a small and non-worrisome but nonetheless annoying operation today, could somebody else take over organisational duties? (also because I am shit at this, as you may have noticed)

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 1 October 2004 06:39 (twenty years ago) link

It seems to have been removed from the photobucket server. Is it a picture of you in the bath?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 1 October 2004 06:56 (twenty years ago) link

Removed? I only put it up this morning. My bathroom ceiling has fallen in. It's not bad news because I think the insurance company is also going to have to replace my horrible bath, which I've discovered has had large chunks taken out of it by the impact of rubble.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 1 October 2004 07:41 (twenty years ago) link

Ah, photobucket is down, generally. Hopefully it will come back later.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 1 October 2004 07:42 (twenty years ago) link

This thread has definitely got its second wind.

Prime Minister Tony Blair is having an operation today as well.

I tried to dign up to Photo Bucket for ROCKER PUB motives, but no go.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 1 October 2004 08:02 (twenty years ago) link

second?

― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 1 October 2004 08:05 (twenty years ago) link

OK, first.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 1 October 2004 08:14 (twenty years ago) link

It is known as the windy city.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 1 October 2004 08:17 (twenty years ago) link

First time I went to Glasgow, it was very windy indeed.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 1 October 2004 08:23 (twenty years ago) link

so good, they named it twioe.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:03 (twenty years ago) link

I have had a few showers in that bath, aaah, golden memories.

Sorry to hear about your ceiling, Madchen, & the annoying operation. I hope that recovery from both upsets is swift & complete.

― Mooro (Mooro), Friday, 1 October 2004 15:15 (twenty years ago) link

Is this a coded way of admitting you pissed in Lucy's bath?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 1 October 2004 15:16 (twenty years ago) link

Only messing :)

― Mooro (Mooro), Friday, 1 October 2004 16:57 (twenty years ago) link

golden memories.

that's enough.

― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 1 October 2004 21:44 (twenty years ago) link

know what you mean
p.s - i'm a newbie. please welcome me

― gordon slantrielle, Friday, 1 October 2004 21:49 (twenty years ago) link

no you're not gogs you fucking liaaaaaaaaar!!!
*total psycho btw*

― JORDAN, OCCASIONAL, Friday, 1 October 2004 21:51 (twenty years ago) link

poofs

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 1 October 2004 21:53 (twenty years ago) link

OR: hello gordno.

― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 1 October 2004 21:53 (twenty years ago) link

hello RJG, are you OK it feels like a long time since?

― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 1 October 2004 21:53 (twenty years ago) link

-RJG
soooooooo dead glasgae fayget

― whoever i just said i was, Friday, 1 October 2004 21:54 (twenty years ago) link

I don't even know.

cozen, you're missed or like it.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 1 October 2004 21:55 (twenty years ago) link

hate rjg?

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 1 October 2004 21:56 (twenty years ago) link

I have rolled up sleeves, now. I always had.

― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 1 October 2004 21:57 (twenty years ago) link

CROSS post.

― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 1 October 2004 21:58 (twenty years ago) link

GOPOD

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 1 October 2004 21:59 (twenty years ago) link

glasgow = rich poncey town filled with poncey bent straight faggets who are too straight to be bent but still accept christ into there eternal life shite

― laura...??, Friday, 1 October 2004 22:06 (twenty years ago) link

we should start a new thread, now.

OR FUCK OFF

FUCK OFF

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 1 October 2004 22:08 (twenty years ago) link

christ was gay?

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 1 October 2004 22:08 (twenty years ago) link

I don't get it.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 1 October 2004 22:11 (twenty years ago) link

i'm too straight to be bent. i should move to glasgow maybe

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 1 October 2004 22:12 (twenty years ago) link

I have enough trouble with glasgow

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 1 October 2004 22:15 (twenty years ago) link

too straight to be bent too?

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 1 October 2004 22:16 (twenty years ago) link

it makes picking things up from the floor really tough

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 1 October 2004 22:17 (twenty years ago) link

Poor Madchen. Hope everything turns out ok for you, dear.

― Lara (Lara), Saturday, 2 October 2004 09:13 (twenty years ago) link

Glasgow is trying.

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 2 October 2004 09:29 (twenty years ago) link

cozen sez he's in GLASGOW, soon?

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 2 October 2004 10:16 (twenty years ago) link

I don't believe you. Tonight?

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 2 October 2004 10:20 (twenty years ago) link

celine et julie vont en bateau.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 2 October 2004 10:24 (twenty years ago) link

Which part are you playing?

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 2 October 2004 10:56 (twenty years ago) link

When is he going boating?

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 2 October 2004 15:38 (twenty years ago) link

I might go to see Dead Man's Shoes tonight, or maybe Hero. Is there anything else I should be doing?

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 2 October 2004 15:51 (twenty years ago) link

I didn't understand the hero.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 2 October 2004 15:55 (twenty years ago) link

Oh well.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 2 October 2004 16:00 (twenty years ago) link

There wasn't much to understand. I liked the green.

― Cathy (Cathy), Saturday, 2 October 2004 17:25 (twenty years ago) link

Please go and see the Peter Sellers one and tell me if it's any good.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Saturday, 2 October 2004 17:52 (twenty years ago) link

I might, in case my dad has survived the cutting room. But tonight I am going to see 'Dead Men's Shoes', at the GFT. In 37 minutes. I hope it isn't sold out.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 2 October 2004 18:21 (twenty years ago) link

what is DMS about?

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 2 October 2004 18:23 (twenty years ago) link

hero was, and still is, dull.

DMS looks, despite myself, good. paddy considine + shane meadows + 'return to indie roots' + not 'once upon a time in the midlands' (which = awful) = a winner.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 2 October 2004 20:35 (twenty years ago) link

DMS shoes should be here, in april or so.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 2 October 2004 20:35 (twenty years ago) link

It wasn't a sell-out, by any means.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 2 October 2004 21:30 (twenty years ago) link

I bought two copies of the Daily Record yesterday. Lara, email me your address if you want a copy of Gregory's Girl and I will post it to you.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 3 October 2004 07:50 (twenty years ago) link

Thanks! Email on the way...

― Lara (Lara), Sunday, 3 October 2004 10:11 (twenty years ago) link

I bought four.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 3 October 2004 13:28 (twenty years ago) link

I bought none. I am the real loser.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 3 October 2004 18:26 (twenty years ago) link

I'm all in favour of Scotland With Style, Hare, mainly because I fancied the woman in the posters

Vanya? my best mate!

or someone else?

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 3 October 2004 18:31 (twenty years ago) link

It was Vanya! Blimey. Tell your mate I fancy her.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 3 October 2004 21:57 (twenty years ago) link

Is Glasgow trying Little League on Friday? I'll probably be trying the Counting House tomorrow. Are we trying pizzas some time also?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 18:10 (twenty years ago) link

We're all doing everything, someday.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 20:20 (twenty years ago) link

I thought Little League was finished?

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 20:23 (twenty years ago) link

No, it's the Scot-pop-tastic last one on Friday, I think. It had better be, as I have made plans. Which involve Little League.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 20:29 (twenty years ago) link

Alba, i will! (she's married with 2 kids). also much cooler than that pic makes her look tho.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 23:33 (twenty years ago) link

In Glasgow, stylish is shorthand for 'wearing unadventurous clothing and photographed in b&w'. I saw Lorna who some of you know yesterday and she looked very stylish x 1000, as always.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 11:16 (twenty years ago) link

And she's Canadian!

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 11:17 (twenty years ago) link

Are you slagging off Jed's best mate?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 11:19 (twenty years ago) link

Not unless Vanya designed the campaign. I think she was just pictured, no? She does look nice, although I do not fancy her.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 11:35 (twenty years ago) link

What's this about them turning the Woodside into a drugs rehab centre and needle exchange point?? 'Turning into' ha ha yes, but huh? Did I know this already?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 14 October 2004 14:20 (twenty years ago) link

ihttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/albaalba/ilx/b24688dc.jpg

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 14 October 2004 14:24 (twenty years ago) link

i understand glasgow is trying london more tomorrow, in the personages of ms lander and ms campbell from the CO, we've had quite a steady stream of you in the past couple of months, which i wholeheartedly approve of :)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 14 October 2004 14:28 (twenty years ago) link

There's more to come (not me, unfortunately).

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 14 October 2004 14:35 (twenty years ago) link

What, no more Woodside? : ( That makes me sad. It will still be there for a while though, won't it?

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 14 October 2004 14:37 (twenty years ago) link

aw i like the woodside. it has its ventilation and beer price flaws but aw happy memories.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 14 October 2004 14:39 (twenty years ago) link

This is ridiculous. As we have discussed, it must be a scam. I do not believe The Woodside will be changing.

Oh, and yes, go see the Campbell/Lander DJing frenzy, Londoners!

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 14 October 2004 15:38 (twenty years ago) link

I thought we had discussed this, yes. Was that notice there on Saturday? Was that when? I was very drunk.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 14 October 2004 15:39 (twenty years ago) link

In other Glasgow news, who wants to be the new Vanya? They've opened up the competition here.

Actually, I think I may have misidentified the woman I fancy. It's the one in the stripey top and dark jacket. I think jed's friend might be the one the light suit. She's lovely too, but I'm just saying.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 14 October 2004 15:51 (twenty years ago) link

I saw the camp hairdresser who was on X-Factor and they said he should be a drag queen today! He works near my house, it seems. I am tempted to go to him for a haircut, and see if he'll tell me about his shattered dreams.

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 14 October 2004 17:01 (twenty years ago) link

his name is j0sh mcgu1re. he is on one of those I BELONG TO GLASGOW posters. I saw it, in the men's toilet's, in mcphabb's, last night. someone, helpfully, had written "screamer" after his profession ("hairdresser"). I think someone else had written "bawbag", on his forehead.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 14 October 2004 18:11 (twenty years ago) link

and we think the needle centre joke is to scare the local residents into loving the noise and vandalism, caused by people leaving the woodside, as is.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 14 October 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago) link

Was Lloyd good? Should I have been Halting on Tuesday?

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 14 October 2004 18:13 (twenty years ago) link

I have 0 idea.

; )

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 14 October 2004 18:20 (twenty years ago) link

i suggest a move to grande olde opry, even smaller dancefloor + divine horizon backdrop

― NIC PACIFIC, Thursday, 14 October 2004 19:47 (twenty years ago) link

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02.10.04 SIR ALICE ??? MTPELLIER FRANCE
07.10.04 JOAKIM APT NEW YORK USA
07.10.04 OPTIMO CLUB METRO KYOTO JAPAN
08.10.04 JOAKIM OSLO / SOFT CURLS DETROIT USA
08.10.04 OPTIMO DELUXE FUKUOKA JAPAN
10.10.04 OPTIMO CAY TOKYO JAPAN
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08.10.04 SIR ALICE ??? VIENNA AUSTRIA
15.10.04 OPTIMO HOT COUTURE BRUSSELS BELGIUM
15.10.04 SIR ALICE CONFLUENCES PARIS FRANCE
16.10.04 OPTIMO (TWITCH ONLY) DEATH DISCO GLASGOW UK
16.10.04 JOAKIM FABRIC LONDON UK
21.10.04 K.I.M. MEG FESTIVAL MONTREAL CANADA
29.10.04 TIGERSUSHI VS O.S.C.A.R.R. NOUVEAU CASINO PARIS FRANCE
30.10.04 JOAKIM + SIR ALICE live ??? WARSAW POLAND
01.10.04 JOAKIM DAMA DE FERRO RIO BRASIL
04.11.04 JOAKIM (CINE-LIVE) SAO PAULO FILM FEST SAO PAULO BRASIL
05.11.04 OPTIMO BLACK RABBIT WHOREHOUSE GLASGOW UK
18.11.04 OPTIMO CLUB PULP PARIS FRANCE
19.11.04 JOAKIM DEFRAG VICENZA ITALY
26.11.04 JOAKIM CLUB NOON OSAKA JAPAN
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27.11.04 OPTIMO THE VENUE EDINBURGH UK
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04.12.04 OPTIMO TRANSMUSICALES RENNES FRANCE
11.12.04 OPTIMO SNAFU ABERDEEN UK

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 14 October 2004 23:22 (twenty years ago) link

Ah, fuck. I'm in Dublin on the 5th. Well, not fuck, because it will be good, but it's bad brwh timing. I was going to ask if anyone was going to Death Disco tomorrow.

Should we come to Aberdeen in December? That might be quite funny.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 14 October 2004 23:51 (twenty years ago) link

anyone going to Instal?

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 14 October 2004 23:52 (twenty years ago) link

Not planning to. Is there anyone you'd particularly recommend?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 15 October 2004 00:06 (twenty years ago) link

Charlemagne Palestine!

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 15 October 2004 00:37 (twenty years ago) link

I'd like to go to aberdeen.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 15 October 2004 07:52 (twenty years ago) link

Well fuck off then.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 15 October 2004 08:51 (twenty years ago) link

see ya

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 15 October 2004 09:16 (twenty years ago) link

hi, glasgow & satellites,

if you would be willing to help me, to do something, please tell me an e-mail address, of yours, that could receive a 508KB jpeg image file and instructions, for you, to help me, with it.

it is about something, in glasgow. so, anyone who is from, from near, has lived in or near or has visited glasgow, much, would be a good helpy. ta.

you can tell me e-mail addresses, here, or at my e-mail address, below.

TA TA.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 15 October 2004 14:46 (twenty years ago) link

I'm not going, to aberdeen, yet.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 15 October 2004 14:46 (twenty years ago) link

Alternatively, can you show us it in the Carnarvon tongith?

Carnarvon tongith, people!

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 15 October 2004 14:51 (twenty years ago) link

I am busy, doing this, mainly, but other stuff, too. although, if there were going to be people, at the carnarvon, it might be worth my while, tripping, to show you some things.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 15 October 2004 14:52 (twenty years ago) link

Let me get this straight: you plan to take drugs and expose yourself?

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 15 October 2004 15:16 (twenty years ago) link

I would come to this.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Friday, 15 October 2004 15:20 (twenty years ago) link

Oh, that sounds all right. I'll be there.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 15 October 2004 15:20 (twenty years ago) link

I will be too, after scary POP LEAGUE FOOTBALL! I expect they are all freaks.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 15 October 2004 15:35 (twenty years ago) link

Hey, Dick - I have been, to Aberdeen!!

― the bluefox, Friday, 15 October 2004 15:35 (twenty years ago) link

When are you Glasgowing, PF?

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 15 October 2004 15:36 (twenty years ago) link

Also - have you seen Lloyd, yet?

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 15 October 2004 15:36 (twenty years ago) link

thanks, guys.

crosspost

I almost went there, recently, PF, but drove straight home (I didn't drive) from durness, via thurso, dunnet head and inverness. I hear it's quite nice and only not-far away, on a train, so, I should visit, it, really.

how did you like it?

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 15 October 2004 15:37 (twenty years ago) link

do you know anything, about glasgow and its areas, PF?

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 15 October 2004 15:38 (twenty years ago) link

I would love to go to Glasgow, naturally.

I am going to see Lloyd in hours.

Aberdeen was nice, esp. in the centre and along the shore, the strand, the shingly strand of the sea shore. The rocks, the boats, the coracles, the tankers, the cranes. The herons. The cranes.

I didn't drive, there and back (I didn't drive).

You could buy Lloyd Cole there: I remember that. The Negatives.

RJG, are you making fun of me, re. Glasgow? I do have a map of the city, on my wall.

― the bluefox, Friday, 15 October 2004 15:43 (twenty years ago) link

Oh - you wanted to send me the thing? that you had done?

― the bluefox, Friday, 15 October 2004 15:44 (twenty years ago) link

I don't half want to go to Iceland.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 15 October 2004 15:48 (twenty years ago) link

A quarter?

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 15 October 2004 16:10 (twenty years ago) link

you can e-mail me, here.

― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 15 October 2004 16:58 (twenty years ago) link

done

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 15 October 2004 17:49 (twenty years ago) link

You could, e-mail me, here:

― Mooro (Mooro), Friday, 15 October 2004 18:34 (twenty years ago) link

Although I do not know much about Glasgow


So perhaps I should try

― Mooro (Mooro), Friday, 15 October 2004 18:35 (twenty years ago) link

done

: )

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 15 October 2004 18:39 (twenty years ago) link

oh, btw, guys,

when you're done, send the image back, please.


; )

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 15 October 2004 18:40 (twenty years ago) link

I know Glasgow, and am also curious now. You could mail me at ailsa.watson at gmail dot com if you want.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 15 October 2004 18:41 (twenty years ago) link

done

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 15 October 2004 18:48 (twenty years ago) link

Oh! You should send it to me too, I suppose. I can cope with half a meg.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 15 October 2004 18:53 (twenty years ago) link

My mailup one is fine, I mean.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 15 October 2004 18:53 (twenty years ago) link

don't worry, I will bring copies, along to the carnarvon.

leaving soon.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 15 October 2004 18:54 (twenty years ago) link

almost done.

― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 15 October 2004 18:56 (twenty years ago) link

Oh yes - it is time to go.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 15 October 2004 18:59 (twenty years ago) link

You could send it to me too RJG, if you would like to. I would like to Aberdeen, it could be a birthday treat. For me.

― Lara (Lara), Sunday, 17 October 2004 12:31 (twenty years ago) link

This Aberdeen bandwagon is picking up passengers! You'd love Optimo, Lara. As for Aberdeen... well who knows?

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 17 October 2004 12:57 (twenty years ago) link

I tried Aberdeen, once.

It was grey, & smelled of fish.

― Mooro (Mooro), Sunday, 17 October 2004 13:00 (twenty years ago) link

It might have changed.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 17 October 2004 13:15 (twenty years ago) link

I am not going to Aberdeen. This thread is not about Aberdeen.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 17 October 2004 13:25 (twenty years ago) link

spoilsport. i think optimo aberdeen would be worth trying.

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 17 October 2004 13:26 (twenty years ago) link

I'm afraid I will be in Italy, instead, I think.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 17 October 2004 13:27 (twenty years ago) link

Shall we follow Ally to Italy instead, then?

― Lara (Lara), Sunday, 17 October 2004 18:17 (twenty years ago) link

Certainly not.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 17 October 2004 18:31 (twenty years ago) link

Why? We could execute a Carry On ILXing caper, and evade detection (narrowly) every time he thinks he spots one of us. You could wear clam-pickers and moccasins?

― Lara (Lara), Sunday, 17 October 2004 18:38 (twenty years ago) link

I'm in italy, just now.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 17 October 2004 18:42 (twenty years ago) link


*hides behind bush*

― Lara (Lara), Sunday, 17 October 2004 18:49 (twenty years ago) link

go to the insecure or thoughtful trimming thread, please. on second thoughts: don't.

so, now, I'm in china.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 17 October 2004 18:57 (twenty years ago) link

And to think I was worried about Dan Perry finding that post....

― Lara (Lara), Sunday, 17 October 2004 19:02 (twenty years ago) link

:***(

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 17 October 2004 19:03 (twenty years ago) link

Yes, follow me. But don't touch my hem.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 17 October 2004 22:34 (twenty years ago) link

A Room For Romeo Brass is on TV, and I started watching it, with hot chocolate and a cat. I was enjoying it, though it seemed surprisingly rough-edged, but I couldn't stay the distance. I need a TV in my room, all cosy like.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 17 October 2004 22:42 (twenty years ago) link

Is this supposed to have something to do with anything?

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 17 October 2004 22:43 (twenty years ago) link

Oh, I see. You live in Glasgow.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 17 October 2004 22:43 (twenty years ago) link

Yes, I need a portable TV, in my room, in Glasgow.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 17 October 2004 22:45 (twenty years ago) link

It would have to have a special stand, because my bed is far from things. Maybe it is impractical.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 17 October 2004 22:49 (twenty years ago) link

what colour?

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 17 October 2004 22:53 (twenty years ago) link

White, if poss.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 17 October 2004 22:53 (twenty years ago) link

I meant "what, colour?"

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 17 October 2004 22:56 (twenty years ago) link

I answered you already.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 17 October 2004 23:05 (twenty years ago) link

don't make me talk about white, again.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 17 October 2004 23:06 (twenty years ago) link

There was a film once, by that Canadian, about a man who sat and watched white noise on television, and told everyone it was heaven.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 17 October 2004 23:08 (twenty years ago) link

jandek?!

I have cause to be in glasgow soon. when my dates are arranged, maybe we could have drinks.

― cºzen (Cozen), Monday, 18 October 2004 14:33 (twenty years ago) link

'a room for romeo brass' is fantastic, nick. it's a shame you didn't last.

― cºzen (Cozen), Monday, 18 October 2004 14:35 (twenty years ago) link

I saw Shell today, in the West End. She was wearing blue stilettoes and getting a lot of attention from passers-by.

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 18 October 2004 14:35 (twenty years ago) link

Just blue stilettos?

Not surprising, the attention, then.

― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 18 October 2004 15:28 (twenty years ago) link

Is she Jandek?

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 18 October 2004 15:35 (twenty years ago) link

Who's Jandek?

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 18 October 2004 15:38 (twenty years ago) link

WTF!!!?

http://tisue.net/jandek/images/live1.jpg

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 18 October 2004 15:41 (twenty years ago) link

She's let herself go.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 18 October 2004 15:52 (twenty years ago) link

It had to happen.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 18 October 2004 15:57 (twenty years ago) link

it's unbelievable that this should happen.

― cºzen (Cozen), Monday, 18 October 2004 17:48 (twenty years ago) link

I am in glasgow on friday.

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 19:27 (twenty years ago) link

You mean Shell off the TV? I don't like her.

What is Optimo Aberdeen? Did I ever know, and if so, who made me forget?

Like Mooro, I have visited Aberdeen. It smelled of mortality. It was good. Oh, yes, I have already talked about it.

RJG, your 'colour' post was very good.

RJG, I tried to mail you about your whatever that you wanted mailing, but I fear that you will bounce off me.

― the bluefox, Tuesday, 19 October 2004 19:47 (twenty years ago) link

I liked her at first.

I can't find my umbrella :*(

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 09:29 (twenty years ago) link

Friday: what is going on?

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 15:21 (twenty years ago) link

No: Wednesday, today.

― the bluefox, Wednesday, 20 October 2004 15:21 (twenty years ago) link

You are so difficult. I'm waiting for more Lloyd.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 15:25 (twenty years ago) link

Oh! OK. I ought to give it to you, I guess.

The set was probably the same as yours.

It was exciting when all 5 walked on, and played - 'original instruments'. With those, they played 'Rattlesnakes'.

Lloyd said: you're not looking too bad; you got over that difficult mid-30s period; there are many old friends tonight - a couple of them in that song ('2CV'); last time I was here I put my foot in my mouth and regretted it for 7 years; this song's so hard to sing ('Sean Penn Blues'); you've been lovely.

Possible contender for best number: 'My Bag': Neil Clark is the new, old Robert Quine.

Rumours that Morrissey attended have been dismissed.

― the bluefox, Wednesday, 20 October 2004 17:02 (twenty years ago) link

By whom?

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 17:31 (twenty years ago) link

Does anyone else want to go to this 'Through The Wire' thing at the RAF club on Friday? It says it's 'electro/new wave/indie'. Only £2! And there's a picture of cozen on the poster!

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:18 (twenty years ago) link

I'll go.

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:21 (twenty years ago) link

Was it cozen that swung it? I know it was for me.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:23 (twenty years ago) link

Oh! The real cozen is here on Friday, isn't he? This is going to be weird.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:24 (twenty years ago) link

It was cozen wot swung it.

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:26 (twenty years ago) link

I would like to see a picture of him, swinging it.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:28 (twenty years ago) link

A bell or something, not anything else.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:28 (twenty years ago) link

there is a fake cozen? glasgow has adventures.

I will be here on friday, do you want to see me?

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:34 (twenty years ago) link

it's sad funny that 'here' still equates with glasgow.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:39 (twenty years ago) link

I'll see you!

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:41 (twenty years ago) link

if I am to go to the RAF club on friday, some things will have to happen:

a) someone will have to be gracious & offer me a bed;

b) someone will have to ordain attendance in a suit;

c) someone will have to direct me to this 'RAF club'.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:45 (twenty years ago) link

oh, and before I go: I am free from 5pm on friday.

argue amongst your selves.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:45 (twenty years ago) link

b) someone will have to ordain attendance in a suit;

I can take care of that one (ordination runs in the family). And I will wear one (my) here in sympathy.

― Mooro (Mooro), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 19:09 (twenty years ago) link

one down.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 19:12 (twenty years ago) link

Perhaps Alba means the RAFA club (that little A makes all the difference)

http://www.myvillage.press.net/arts_events_list_title.php?eventid=2167722&town=Glasgow&maincat=all&subcat=all&myreg=&domain=myglasgow

― Mooro (Mooro), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 19:19 (twenty years ago) link

still: '... and there's a picture of cozen on the poster!'?

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 19:22 (twenty years ago) link

L A D Y S O V E R E I G N - Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee

GLASGOW - THURSDAY 21/10/2004
At the Observatory, 138-140 Elderslie Street, G3
8.30pm - late. £5 (donation)
DJ's Maggie Jones, Mot + support

EDINBURGH - FRIDAY 22/10/2004
S T E T
At the Bongo Club, Moray House, Holyrood Road, EH8
11pm - 3am. £6
DJ's Maggie Jones, Mot + support.

DUNDEE - SATURDAY 23/10/2004
At Sessions, Session Street, Dundee, DD1
10.30pm - 2.30am. £7
DJ's Maggie Jones, Mot + support.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 19:48 (twenty years ago) link

Blimey - it doesn't stop. I'm up for that, I think, maybe? I've never been to the Observatory. I've never seen Dundee, either.

Errr - RAF, RAFA, what's an A between friends? Are they nothing to do with one another? Is it like the difference between the army and the Boy's Brigade?

Cozen - you can stay here on Friday nigth as long as you don't mind an airbed and don't make a mess.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 20:15 (twenty years ago) link

I thought I saw cozen, in sainsbury's, earlier, but I didn't.

cozen can stay here, on friday, too.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 20:47 (twenty years ago) link

We'll toss for him.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 20:51 (twenty years ago) link

I think you've just sweetened the deal, more than I am willing to.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 20:53 (twenty years ago) link

Sweetened or spiced? (cumin)

― Mooro (Mooro), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 20:56 (twenty years ago) link

lady sovereign, my goodness.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 21 October 2004 07:48 (twenty years ago) link

You folk are being funny, again, on this thread. Congratulations.

Lara, it was my next editor who scotched the claims.

― the bluefox, Thursday, 21 October 2004 08:07 (twenty years ago) link

I've never been to this RAF club. Does it look like this?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v384/lucyald/dancers.jpg

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 21 October 2004 11:28 (twenty years ago) link

I say, is that Lady Sovereign I see?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 October 2004 11:29 (twenty years ago) link

"I was wearing NAAFI jeans and a tank top"

― L Ron Mother Hubbard, Thursday, 21 October 2004 11:43 (twenty years ago) link

Hey, hands off, bucko.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 21 October 2004 11:46 (twenty years ago) link

I've been told to go to the Arches on Friday, for this:
http://www.subcity.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=69&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 21 October 2004 13:37 (twenty years ago) link

should I e-mail you my correspondence address, alba?

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 23 October 2004 17:33 (twenty years ago) link

Yes, do that.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 23 October 2004 17:35 (twenty years ago) link

alba i just gmailed u - i dont have the other addy. if u cant access gmail then mail me instead.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 23 October 2004 17:38 (twenty years ago) link

No - I can, as I'm at work. Ta.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 23 October 2004 17:45 (twenty years ago) link

Hurrah - we're the second happiest city in Europe:

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 25 October 2004 16:03 (twenty years ago) link

I have just phoned the place we were going to go last month for dinner and they again don't have a table for 8 for Saturday night. Any suggestions where else we could try?

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 08:33 (twenty years ago) link

I am in glasgow on nov. 2nd, I will probably be available 3-5pm. it's a small window.

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 09:46 (twenty years ago) link

The Konaki on Sauchiehall Street is nice, and has the advantage of being very near my house. It is Greek, but no plate-smashing I don't think. I went last Saturday night and it wasn't that busy.

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 15:13 (twenty years ago) link

The Thai Fountain does cheapo and v. nice half-price food between 5 and 7, if people are up for earlier eating (I am, obviously, inviting myself out, I trust this is OK - I will be a lonely soul as the mister is off being rowdy in Morecambe this weekend).

But I like Cathy's idea too.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 15:28 (twenty years ago) link

I prefer the greeks, to the thais.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 15:37 (twenty years ago) link

I got a job!

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 17:58 (twenty years ago) link

Well done! Is it nice?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 18:04 (twenty years ago) link

I start in 2006. it's my real career and it is real nice.

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 18:05 (twenty years ago) link

Is it lawying?

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 20:17 (twenty years ago) link

well done cozen - is it in Glasgow?

2006!

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 21:48 (twenty years ago) link

: )

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 21:49 (twenty years ago) link

Hurrah for Cozen!

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 09:07 (twenty years ago) link

This is old news. What about dinner?

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 4 November 2004 01:46 (twenty years ago) link

that is even older news.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 4 November 2004 01:57 (twenty years ago) link

Old news is good news. I am on holiday.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 4 November 2004 02:05 (twenty years ago) link

sweet relief!

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 4 November 2004 02:19 (twenty years ago) link

Why are you up so late? Why am I up so early?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 4 November 2004 07:12 (twenty years ago) link

What about bonfires?

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 4 November 2004 09:11 (twenty years ago) link

What about malfires?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 4 November 2004 09:38 (twenty years ago) link

Do they have bonfires, where we're going?

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 4 November 2004 09:48 (twenty years ago) link

hell is one big bonfire.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 4 November 2004 09:50 (twenty years ago) link

no sparklers, mind.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 4 November 2004 09:50 (twenty years ago) link

Ally, yes, but it's the Guy that starts them.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 4 November 2004 09:52 (twenty years ago) link

QUESTION TIME, next week, is from Glasgow.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 5 November 2004 09:01 (twenty years ago) link

Will there be a bonfire at question time?

― 3underscore (___), Friday, 5 November 2004 09:17 (twenty years ago) link

I applied to be on Question Time. I do hope I get picked.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 5 November 2004 09:24 (twenty years ago) link

You normally have quite a good chance. It is more difficult to get to actually ask a question. My ex went to it in Manchester, and (as it turned out) her now boss was on the panel.

― 3underscore (___), Friday, 5 November 2004 09:30 (twenty years ago) link

A guy I went to school with asked a question on Question Time once. I can't even remember what he asked because I was so amazed at seeing somebody I knew on telly. The same guy also turned up on Blind Date. I can't remember if he was the picker or pickee, but he looked like a right idiot when he bought his date a tacky, red velvet, heart-shaped cushion thing. She gave him what for and the audience sided with her, quite rightly I thought.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 5 November 2004 10:38 (twenty years ago) link

madchen, do you speak italian? could you aid in the purchase of a t-shirt?

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 13:14 (twenty years ago) link

could I resist a 'deleuze' t-shirt?!

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 13:15 (twenty years ago) link

I could!

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 9 November 2004 13:39 (twenty years ago) link

Cozen, I'd resist anything sold as 'highbrow streetwear'.

But the answer is yes, I do. Pick your colour:

(background/writing)
white/black
black/white
royal blue/white
navy blue/white
red/white
english green (bottle?)/white
yellow/white (this seems like a silly colour choice unless you want people to squint at your chest)

Men's sizes - this is for you, right?
XS - age 12-13 (48.5 x 65 cm)
S - continental size 36-38 (48.5 x 69.5 cm)
M - continental size 38-40 (53.5 x 72 cm)
L - continental size 40-42 (56 x 74.5 cm)
I'm not sure which of the centimetre sizes are chest and which are length - get a tape measure and compare with a t-shirt you already own.

The t-shirts cost €31.20 including VAT. However, they only do mail order to people in Italy. However again, Ally and I will be in Milan from 11th to 14th December, so we could track down the Deejay Choice shop and make a purchase on your behalf if you wish.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 13:43 (twenty years ago) link

will you buy me glass polar bears?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 14:27 (twenty years ago) link

yes, 'highbrow streetwear' ugh and also the rest of the designs (exc. maybe 'lacan') are rub rub rubbish.

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago) link

oh! thank you madchen, for your kind offer, and the translation. I will think about whether I want to pay £24 (??) for a 'deleuze' t. and then get back to you.

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 18:13 (twenty years ago) link

I'm pretty sure, that you don't want to.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 18:15 (twenty years ago) link

I'm so sure myself but I ought to think.

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 18:20 (twenty years ago) link

Where is Glasgow going?

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 18:37 (twenty years ago) link

hollywood.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 18:48 (twenty years ago) link

Bollyrood.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 18:48 (twenty years ago) link

Glasgow (well, the Renfrew division) will be going to the pub tomorrow night. Do you fancy some united-across-the-Old-Firm-divide football watching, Ally (and anyone else?). It was so much fun the last time we watched an Old Firm game together...

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 18:57 (twenty years ago) link

my friend had a D&G t shirt that said "Deluze and Guattari" under it rather than "Dolce and Gabbana".

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:40 (twenty years ago) link

I wish I'd been around a few posts ago to make an ill-thought out "don't be saussure" joke at cozen. Oh well, next time.

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 22:00 (twenty years ago) link

hahaha

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 22:11 (twenty years ago) link

I'm sure I don't want one.

there's a thread around, with a string of posts with puns on intellectuals' names.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:20 (twenty years ago) link

Sorry Ailsa, didn't watch the game in the end. You'll be glad I missed the opportunity.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 11 November 2004 01:05 (twenty years ago) link

Just mentioned that on the thread started by the amusingly named Billy Mason!

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 11 November 2004 01:06 (twenty years ago) link

goodness nick, 'the boiler', what a horrible song.

― cºzen (Cozen), Monday, 15 November 2004 14:59 (twenty years ago) link

I had the delightful experience of hearing Isobel Campbell wheeze sing two songs last night.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:23 (twenty years ago) link

I don't have a lot of experience.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:29 (twenty years ago) link

Lay it on us, Madchen, preferably via the medium of Sinister.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 15 November 2004 17:29 (twenty years ago) link

It was as expected. She has very long hair now.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 15 November 2004 19:19 (twenty years ago) link

Where do you see such things? How do you know about such things? If I had known, I would have been there with a waterpistol and a pile of rotten tomatoes or something.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 15 November 2004 19:27 (twenty years ago) link

Poor Isobel. Always misunderstood.

Maybe you're all just jealous.

― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 15 November 2004 19:58 (twenty years ago) link

I didn't know. She just....appeared. She is fairly awful but obviously we would all still like to sleep with her, anyway.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 15 November 2004 20:38 (twenty years ago) link

In your flat? In the street? Out of a magic lamp?

I don't want to sleep with her.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:20 (twenty years ago) link

Yes, you do.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:23 (twenty years ago) link

I wouldn't fit in the bed beside her arse for a start. *chortle*

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:27 (twenty years ago) link

I would get a bigger bed.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:27 (twenty years ago) link

You are weird. I don't want to sleep with Isobel Campbell. Secretly or otherwise.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:29 (twenty years ago) link

Maybe she wants to sleep with you. Are you coming to my birthday party?

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:33 (twenty years ago) link

Where is your birthday party? Is it on your birthday? Do I have to sleep with Isobel Campbell?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:34 (twenty years ago) link

I'd do it in my flat, in the street or out of a magic lamp.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:35 (twenty years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/RJG/invite.gif

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:23 (twenty years ago) link

Does this answer, everything?

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:25 (twenty years ago) link

WOWEE!

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:26 (twenty years ago) link

There's still the question of whether or not that date is your birthday or not, and whether Ailsa has to sleep with Isobel.

― KeithW (kmw), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:28 (twenty years ago) link

No and no.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:29 (twenty years ago) link

Ow, and wow, in equal measures. Yes, thank you. I may be there. Is it really five years since the legendary one?

xpost -it's not his birthday, and I'm not sleeping with Isobel. Pervert :)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:29 (twenty years ago) link

being the queen, that he is, his real birthday is a private affair, a couple of days after (it is not on the weekend, so no-one will care).

ailsa doesn't.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:30 (twenty years ago) link

It wasn't my question! It was yours!

― KeithW (kmw), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:31 (twenty years ago) link

RJG will not be there, not on my birthday, so it's OK for evryone to come.

RJG may be there. He is raising money, though.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:31 (twenty years ago) link

I am confused.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:32 (twenty years ago) link

Isobel Campbell will not be there. Does that make things clearer?

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:35 (twenty years ago) link

I will be there, and I will make an extra effort to stay up past 12.

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:37 (twenty years ago) link

No. Will RJG be there? He both is, and isn't, according to you. Or is he? There are too many "not"s in that sentence. (xpost)

On a totally unrelated note, if Andy Walker mentions the totally-made-up-word "bouncebackability" one more time on Scotsport just now, I will scream. Can one of you run down the road to the STV studios and hit him for me?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:39 (twenty years ago) link

My appearance at your birthday is not contingent on RJG's being there, or not, incidentally I just like to know these things.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:40 (twenty years ago) link

I remember when Andy Walker said he "rose like a salmon". Why does that stick in my mind?

I think RJG will be there.

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:41 (twenty years ago) link

OK. RJG may be there for some, but not all, of the time.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:45 (twenty years ago) link

Your search - "andy walker" "like a salmon" - did not match any documents

I'm going to ask my dad if this is an imagined memory.

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:46 (twenty years ago) link

I think this phrase is quite commonly used.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:48 (twenty years ago) link

you may be shotts of me, for the evening.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:49 (twenty years ago) link

You're going to jail?

― KeithW (kmw), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:50 (twenty years ago) link

I just googled "rose like a salmon". The first quote is "Hartson rose like a salmon - one which had eaten another salmon for its dinner at half past two ". It seems to be quite a common phrase amongst football reporters.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:54 (twenty years ago) link

I don't think I'm going to jail but they haven't told me, yet.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:56 (twenty years ago) link

This Australian bloke Jamesy I used to work with once got a taxi from Dunoon to Shotts. He was a bagpiper and was at the bagpipe championships or something. It cost him 125 quid.

Thing is, someone I know was in a taxi the following week and the taxi driver was going on about this daft bastard who'd got a taxi from Dunoon to Shotts.

There was another unusual incident where Jamesy got in a taxi and discovered the driver was wearing his jacket that had been nicked a few weeks earlier. He must've had a thing about taxis.

― KeithW (kmw), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:59 (twenty years ago) link

£125? WTF? Was it a helicopter taxi or something? Or are Australians just gullible?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:02 (twenty years ago) link

He was a bit of a dafty at times. He couldn't get any transport out or anywhere to sleep. I reckon I would just have walked around all night. I t was the middle of summer.

Does sound a bit over the top doesn't it. We've had a taxi from Glasgow to Edinburgh before for 40 quid, which was actually cheaper than the train (with four of us), and door to door.

― KeithW (kmw), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:05 (twenty years ago) link

is this the longest thread on ilx yet?

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:07 (twenty years ago) link

Was the meter running while the cab was on the ferry? Or did the taxi go the long way round? Either way, £125?! For a taxi?!

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:08 (twenty years ago) link

I like them long.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:10 (twenty years ago) link

I guess it probably went gone the long way round. Unless it was a boat taxi, like Thunder in Paradise with Hulk Hogan.

― KeithW (kmw), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:11 (twenty years ago) link

Oh, I would totally pay £125 for that!

http://www.mrbensons.co.uk/sl/l/3/S_V0031983.jpg

I am horrified to see that Thunder in Paradise had two sequels.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:15 (twenty years ago) link

Haha!

Crime fighting specialized vehicles really were on their last legs at that point.

― KeithW (kmw), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:16 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.mrbensons.co.uk/sl/l/3/S_V0033648.jpg

Thunder in Paradise 3 has replaced the one being blown up there with a teenyweeny little shitty boat.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:19 (twenty years ago) link

I like it. The story's probably got a more human angle, rather than just concentrating on the technology. The poster is a design classic.

― KeithW (kmw), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:20 (twenty years ago) link

You just like it because there's a semi-naked woman on it.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:23 (twenty years ago) link

Haha! On that note, I'm off to bed.

― KeithW (kmw), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:25 (twenty years ago) link

Is the meter running on this thread?

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:25 (twenty years ago) link

Is this the longest thread on ILX? Those Antipodeans keep diversifying into new threads, but we Glaswegians and interlopers just keep plodding along...

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:30 (twenty years ago) link

Sally will be going. You might be able to shag her instead (nb. I haven't checked this with her)

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 08:54 (twenty years ago) link

I have just had to sit through this whole thread.

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 10:44 (twenty years ago) link

Excuse me!!!!

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 12:26 (twenty years ago) link

Sinister is aware.

Ailsa, would your other half be interested in a job teaching MS Office/ECDL to students and staff at this here university (city centre campus)? It's perm and the salary looks pretty good, although I don't know what he's on at the moment, plus 31 days holiday. The people I've met from that department are really nice, too.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 13:41 (twenty years ago) link

akufen, this friday.

I bet cozen could even sleep, in cookie's bed!!!

I won't say he can, though.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 13:58 (twenty years ago) link

Ooh, Madchen, he might. If you are still at work, can you email me the details? If not (like if you don't phone me) I'll speak to him when he gets home and I'll phone you.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:43 (twenty years ago) link

Don't worry - got the details off the website. Looks good, he will be applying tonight. Thank you x

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 19:02 (twenty years ago) link

wow

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 22:06 (twenty years ago) link

2000

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 22:07 (twenty years ago) link

I can't believe it.

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 00:19 (twenty years ago) link

Ooh good, glad you found it. I did try to ring your mobile but I'm not even sure if it's still the right number. Good luck Mr Ailsa!

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 13:12 (twenty years ago) link

akufen. board? breakfast? is it ticketed? see you around!

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:26 (twenty years ago) link

No one should be forced into my bed.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:29 (twenty years ago) link

it'll be just like in my dreams.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:31 (twenty years ago) link

I woke up, screaming.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:36 (twenty years ago) link

(fri.) 10/12/04 - dundee - kill your timid notion
(sat.) 11/12/04 - aberdeen - optimo
(sun.) 12/12/04 - dundee - kill your timid notion

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:44 (twenty years ago) link

(fri.) 19/11/04 - glasgow - akufen
(sun.) 17/12/04 - glasgow - optimo?

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:45 (twenty years ago) link

I should do this for the rest of my life.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:45 (twenty years ago) link

I think you are.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:45 (twenty years ago) link

17/12/04 is a Friday. I think you should maybe get a calendar before proceeding.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:04 (twenty years ago) link

Are you all going to a disco?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:26 (twenty years ago) link

it's a sunday where I am.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:40 (twenty years ago) link

Aberdeen has its own calendar now?

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:48 (twenty years ago) link

dundee?????

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:00 (twenty years ago) link

dundee. I will probably only go on friday now. to dundee.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:08 (twenty years ago) link

Friday the 10th. Yet seven days later, on the 17th, it will be Sunday. The East Coast is weird.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:12 (twenty years ago) link

ailsa, you know I'm a fool.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:13 (twenty years ago) link

I just like slagging off Aberdonians (it's an Inverness thing). You are the closest there is right now - until I get to launch a full scale assault on Russell Anderson after the football tonight :)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:15 (twenty years ago) link

I'd go to dundee.

would I have fun, though?

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:16 (twenty years ago) link

www.killyourtimidnotion.org

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:18 (twenty years ago) link

looks a bit poncey.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:21 (twenty years ago) link

I'll look at it, anyway.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:21 (twenty years ago) link

you know me.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:21 (twenty years ago) link

oh, it's at the DCA. I know the guy that designed that.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:22 (twenty years ago) link

me too.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:38 (twenty years ago) link

well, I know what his name is.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:40 (twenty years ago) link

you win then.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:48 (twenty years ago) link

okay, I think I know what his name is.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:52 (twenty years ago) link

i think I know what his gaydar profile is ;)

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 20:03 (twenty years ago) link

haha!

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 20:06 (twenty years ago) link

cut out this moody brooding.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:28 (twenty years ago) link

justus kohncke at the art school on saturday

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 19 November 2004 00:19 (twenty years ago) link

yes.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 19 November 2004 01:28 (twenty years ago) link

I think akufen may be sacrificed, as a result.

will the moody brooder be in town?

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 19 November 2004 01:29 (twenty years ago) link

yeah fuck akufen. actually just fuck dancing in the CCA.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 19 November 2004 01:35 (twenty years ago) link

justus will be done.

― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 19 November 2004 10:42 (twenty years ago) link

why are there fireworks, over (what I think must be) george square, for the last twenty minutes?

is it christmas, now?

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 21 November 2004 18:45 (twenty years ago) link

It is, yes. Well, the lights were being switched on today. We had ours yesterday, switched on by Darius. Woo.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 21 November 2004 18:52 (twenty years ago) link

yes it's christmas day, didn't you know?

How was the-man-whose-name-will-never-be-spelled, Glasgow?

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 21 November 2004 18:53 (twenty years ago) link

that's silly.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 21 November 2004 18:54 (twenty years ago) link

oh, conk (as cozen calls him) was good. my gin & tonic kick isn't giving me much of a kick, though, and I let myself get a little preoccupied. the others seemed to enjoy it. yeah, I think I saw shell, for a moment, running, like she was in a hard day's night but not being chased. there was a little bit of saluting but not in too nasty a way. we met a medical student, on the stair, and cozen was making fun of her. that was good, too.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 21 November 2004 18:57 (twenty years ago) link

Anyone know what the End of the Month club is like?

― Bernard the Butler (Lynskey), Sunday, 21 November 2004 19:19 (twenty years ago) link

I can't remember making fun of the medical student.

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 21 November 2004 20:30 (twenty years ago) link

O I do.

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 21 November 2004 20:31 (twenty years ago) link

you were making fun of lynskey, too, remember?

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 21 November 2004 20:39 (twenty years ago) link

That's nice, Cozen! I'll be there erm the end of this month.

― Bernard the Butler (Lynskey), Sunday, 21 November 2004 20:45 (twenty years ago) link

maybe we could fight.

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 21 November 2004 20:47 (twenty years ago) link

That's nice, Cozen! BTW this is cheeky but if anyone's got a floor to crash on for me and Jarlr'mai it would be HORRENDOUSLY appreciated.

― Bernard the Butler (Lynskey), Sunday, 21 November 2004 20:50 (twenty years ago) link

Ha! That shut you up, see you there.

― Bernard the Butler (Lynskey), Monday, 22 November 2004 14:31 (twenty years ago) link

looks like i will be trying Glasgow this NYE - am v keen on the Optimo

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Monday, 22 November 2004 14:41 (twenty years ago) link

who else is coming & going?

― cºzen (Cozen), Monday, 22 November 2004 14:43 (twenty years ago) link

oh that's good Stevem - i will be there also.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 22 November 2004 19:37 (twenty years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/RJG/dec.jpg

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 26 November 2004 12:48 (twenty years ago) link

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4044259.stm

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 26 November 2004 13:02 (twenty years ago) link

wow.

I wish I had looked, now.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 26 November 2004 13:05 (twenty years ago) link

I would like to apologise for waking Ally C at 8.25am with this exciting news on his day off. Perhaps the explosion at 8.30am would have woken him anyway.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 26 November 2004 13:08 (twenty years ago) link

Glasgow is ON FIRE, man!

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 26 November 2004 13:10 (twenty years ago) link

We've just been evacuated too - fire in a staff room or something. Good job it's fairly warm and sunny. One of the fire engines came all the way from Springburn because they're using so many at the Shackfire.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 26 November 2004 13:13 (twenty years ago) link

QUICK - I need a very cheap place to stay in the town centre. Probably in the next hour. I'm stumped.

― Bernard the Butler (Lynskey), Friday, 26 November 2004 13:23 (twenty years ago) link

Do you mean a hostel? Go to the Eurohostel near Central Station, that's cheap.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 26 November 2004 13:40 (twenty years ago) link

Or did you mean a different thing?

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 26 November 2004 13:40 (twenty years ago) link

No that sounds good I'll have a look now.

― Bernard the Butler (Lynskey), Friday, 26 November 2004 13:45 (twenty years ago) link

It's on Jamaica Street, just along from Richer Sounds.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 26 November 2004 13:52 (twenty years ago) link

it's on clyde street, by the clyde.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 26 November 2004 18:09 (twenty years ago) link

fire engines, on st. vincent steet, near cookie's work, as I walked home.

bath street closed, from blythswood street.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 26 November 2004 18:10 (twenty years ago) link

Is Lynskey in Glasgow? Is he torching it bit by bit as he goes looking for somewhere to stay?

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 26 November 2004 18:13 (twenty years ago) link

Also, Trembling Blue Stars!

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 26 November 2004 18:21 (twenty years ago) link

Lovely smokey smell all up Sauchiehall St. Seems the building is just a hollow shell, which they'll have to knock down. Shame.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 26 November 2004 18:55 (twenty years ago) link

sham

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 26 November 2004 19:27 (twenty years ago) link

69.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 26 November 2004 20:03 (twenty years ago) link

Ally,

Sorry I didn't make it to your birthday do; I kind of overcooked it a bit the night before and wasn't able to make it.

Some time soon though, I'll get through for a drink with you guys.

― KeithW (kmw), Sunday, 28 November 2004 23:23 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah Ally, sorry, I did text you about midnight to say I fell asleep and we, er, couldn't be arsed driving through that late at night once I woke up. Hope it was fun.

Keith, come to Glasgow for my birthday!

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 28 November 2004 23:28 (twenty years ago) link

Cool!

When is it?

Also, come to Edinburgh for mine in January.

― KeithW (kmw), Sunday, 28 November 2004 23:29 (twenty years ago) link

18th December. It's a Saturday! I have made no plans, but maybe, if Glasgow is up for it, we could do something. In the evening, that is, I will be at Parkhead in the afternoon.

I haven't been in Edinburgh since I wrecked my leg at the Usher Hall. A trip through would be a good thing, I think.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 28 November 2004 23:34 (twenty years ago) link

jeez, did anyone go to ally's birthday? : /

I apologise, I'm sorry, I wish I could have made it down, not least to meet lara. : /

― cºzen (Cozen), Monday, 29 November 2004 00:22 (twenty years ago) link

I am back in glasgow, the end of next week.

if you'll have me.

― cºzen (Cozen), Monday, 29 November 2004 00:22 (twenty years ago) link

I didn't know Lara was there (not that that would have woken me up, but still...)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 29 November 2004 00:25 (twenty years ago) link

Cook phoned me earlier in the evening and said "it would be funny if no-one turned up".

I wonder if it was.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 29 November 2004 00:26 (twenty years ago) link

I lost my virginity in the Eurohostel back in the days when it was a hall of residence.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Monday, 29 November 2004 00:30 (twenty years ago) link

lots of people turned up. south africans, even. we should have guessed.

I tore my trousers, for ally.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 29 November 2004 04:08 (twenty years ago) link

Seven. A. M.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 29 November 2004 10:27 (twenty years ago) link

IT WAS GOOD.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 29 November 2004 11:53 (twenty years ago) link

happy birthday though.

― cºzen (Cozen), Monday, 29 November 2004 12:49 (twenty years ago) link

happy birthday, Ally!!

It was the best party I've been to all year.

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 29 November 2004 13:01 (twenty years ago) link

R.I.P. McWitch

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4052617.stm

― KeithW (kmw), Monday, 29 November 2004 21:32 (twenty years ago) link

I feel dead ropey. I don't think I'm going to get a good, long night's sleep until tomorrow.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 14:57 (twenty years ago) link

hey glasgow more, do you want it?

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 22:52 (twenty years ago) link

I'm never stopping.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 01:54 (twenty years ago) link

start stopping.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 01:56 (twenty years ago) link

Sleep lots.
Sleep lost.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 02:03 (twenty years ago) link

Gies yer Jaekit

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 02:05 (twenty years ago) link

I didn't know Ailsa was a 'teuchter'. Is anybody else a 'teuchter'?

― Puddin'Head Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 10:23 (twenty years ago) link

come on glasgow, six cheeseburgers!

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 12:59 (twenty years ago) link

I watched the polar bears on BBC1 last night, & thought of RJG

― Mooro (Mooro), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 20:38 (twenty years ago) link

: )

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:14 (twenty years ago) link

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― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:15 (twenty years ago) link

> > > > You know you've been living in Glasgow too long when..........
> > > >
> > > > 1. YOU SAY "PI$H" ALL THE TIME!
> > > >
> > > > 2. YOU SAY "AYE" ALL THE TIME!
> > > >
> > > > 3. YOU END SENTENCES WITH "MAN"
> > > >
> > > > 4. YOU THINK McEWANS LAGER IS GREAT, IGNORING THE FACT IT
"TASTES OF
> > > > PISH MAN"
> > > >
> > > > 5. YOU GET AN URGE TO DECK EVERYBODY YOU MEET.
> > > >
> > > > 6. YOU DECK EVERYBODY YOU MEET.
> > > >
> > > > 7. PEOPLE SEEM TO BE SCARED OF YOU WHEN YOU TELL THEM WHERE
YOU'RE
> > FROM.
> > > >
> > > > 8. YOU AUTOMATICALLY GET THE URGE TO KILL ON HEARING THE WORDS
> > > > "EDINBURGH" OR "ENGLAND"
> > > >
> > > > ARE YOU LIVING TOO CLOSE TO GLASGOW? THE TELL TALE SIGNS ARE:
> > > >
> > > > 1. YOUR MISSUS HAS A POSTER OF ANDY GORAM SMILING.
> > > >
> > > > 2. YOU LET YOUR 12 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER SMOKE AT THE DINNER TABLE
IN
> > FRONT
> > > > OF HER KIDS.
> > > >
> > > > 3. YOU'VE BEEN MARRIED THREE TIMES AND STILL HAVE THE SAME
IN-LAWS.
> > > >
> > > > 4. YOU THINK A WOMAN'S "OUT OF YOUR LEAGUE" BECAUSE SHE ASKS FOR
A
> > GLASS
> > > > WITH HER TENNENTS SUPER.
> > > >
> > > > 5. THE PHRASE "THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO!" REMINDS YOU THE OFF-LICENSE
HAS
> > > > JUST OPENED.
> > > >
> > > > 6. YOU WISH YOUR TOILET WAS AS CLEAN AS THE ONE IN THE BUS
STATION.
> > > >
> > > > 7. AT LEAST ONE MEMBER OF YOUR FAMILY HAS DIED RIGHT AFTER
SAYING
> > "HEY,
> > > > WATCH THIS!"
> > > >
> > > > 8. YOU THINK DOM PERIGNON IS A MAFIA LEADER
> > > >
> > > > 9. YOUR WIFE'S HAIRDO IS RUINED BY A CEILING FAN.
> > > >
> > > > 10. ONE (OR MORE) OF YOUR KIDS WAS CONCEIVED ON A PUB POOL
TABLE.
> > > >
> > > > 11. YOUR BACK DOOR COAL BUNKER IS IDEAL FOR THE ROTTWEILER TO
RAISE
> > ITS
> > > > PUPS.
> > > >
> > > > 12. YOU ONLY NEED ONE MORE STAMP ON YOUR CARD TO GET A FREEBIE
AT
> > TAM'S
> > > > TATTOOS
> > > >
> > > > 13. YOU CANT GET MARRIED TO YOUR CHILDHOOD SWEETHEART BECAUSE OF
THE
> > > > CURRENT BESTIALITY LAWS.
> > > >
> > > > 14. YOU THINK "LOADING THE DISHWASHER" MEANS GETTING YOUR MISSUS

> > PISHED.
> > > >
> > > > AND FINALLY.....
> > > >
> > > > 15. THE SOUNDTRACK ON YOUR WEDDING VIDEO ENDS WITH THE
LOUDHAILER
> > > > MESSAGE: "THIS IS THE POLIS!"
> > > >
> > > >

― Puddin'Head Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 2 December 2004 17:37 (twenty years ago) link

I'm moving.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 2 December 2004 17:47 (twenty years ago) link

can I come to glasgow on friday?

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 2 December 2004 20:54 (twenty years ago) link

three weeks pass...
I last tried Glasgow over 6 months ago. I wish I were going there again soon, like Sally is.

Here are some pictures from the last visit (apologies for non-topicality):

http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/david.moore99@btinternet.com/album?.dir=cedc

― Mooro (Mooro), Friday, 24 December 2004 12:53 (twenty years ago) link

They are very good, those pictures.

I like the one, where a quiff protrudes into the corner of the frame, but its owner is nowhere to be seen.

Does RJG work in an ironmonger's?

― Puddin'Head Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 24 December 2004 13:40 (twenty years ago) link

Several billion posts up there, Miss Madchen suggested that Mr Ailsa should apply for a job. Mrs Ailsa is pleased to report that Mr Ailsa has been selected for interview.

Merry Christmas Glasgow xx

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 24 December 2004 17:32 (twenty years ago) link

I keep getting bigger.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 24 December 2004 20:45 (twenty years ago) link

Merry Christmas you cheeky monkeys. I'm totally bored already.

― KeithW (kmw), Friday, 24 December 2004 21:11 (twenty years ago) link

Yay Mr Ailsa!! *crosses fingers*

― Madchen (Madchen), Saturday, 25 December 2004 10:17 (twenty years ago) link

You glaikit sumph, Keith!

― Puddin'Head Miller (PJ Miller), Saturday, 25 December 2004 10:20 (twenty years ago) link

Apparently it snowed in Glasgow yesterday. Which was nice. Especially for Stephen, who placed a bet (at 6-1) on that happening back in October.

So ker-ching for him today!

― Mooro (Mooro), Sunday, 26 December 2004 12:13 (twenty years ago) link

lucky him!

ph as v, though?

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 26 December 2004 14:31 (twenty years ago) link

Y, e, s, to ph, rather than, v.

― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 27 December 2004 01:49 (twenty years ago) link

two weeks pass...
http://www.jointhedots.tk/

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 10 January 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago) link

wow i know not of this band's formation nor their appearence at the winchester club. now i'm sad that i've missed their debut show.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 10 January 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago) link

I think somebody should Report Back on the Doctor Doc gig.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 10 January 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago) link

It's Doctor Cock.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 10 January 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago) link

(S. Murdoch has not been so excited about a band since The Rapture)

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 10 January 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago) link

I wonder what his favourite band was, then.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 10 January 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago) link

The computer has eaten my breathlessly excited contribution to this thread.

― Puddin'Head Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 10 January 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago) link

I stood next to Alex Kapranos at the Woody after the Doctor Spock gig. Except he didn't arrive in time to see Ally. Shame on him. He missed some spectacularly out-of-tune guitaring and some arse wiggling (it got much better though). He's also much shorter than he looks, and in need of a shave. Not the dapper young man I think he thought was.

I will be out of the country the next time D2D play, which is rather a shame. I would maybe have become their stalker or something otherwise.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 10 January 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago) link

I walked past the cathedral last night where the next gig will take place. I burst out laughing. I think I said 'fucking hell' out loud.

It is very big.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 10 January 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago) link

Oh, AND - Winchester sold out for the first time ever! 300 bodies crammed together! A strangely fitting occasion, I suppose.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 10 January 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago) link

Winchester Cathedral.

― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 10 January 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago) link

Ally, Lucy has just said that "dot to dot are the most exciting band since the Rapture" on the Winchester club list... Who said it first, her; you; mental man Murdoch? Is it just coincidence. I think the Rapture are rubbish.

― KeithW (kmw), Monday, 10 January 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago) link

I don't like The Rapture much myself. Murdoch, apparently, said it first. Maybe he doesn't like Ther Rapture either and that was his point.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 00:52 (twenty years ago) link

I'm sure not Ally. I just found out you're in the band. I take it that's wee Patrick singing. Glad to hear it went well. Will come and see you when you play and I'm better.

― KeithW (kmw), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago) link

Damnation, I missed the programme about Lincoln Cathedral last night.

I prefer Big Audio Dynamite to The Rapture. Both bands feature references to horses on tracks, I think.

― Puddin'Head Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 10:01 (twenty years ago) link

Did Ally C wear Mooro's RAF jacket?

― Puddin'Head Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 10:01 (twenty years ago) link

Lincoln was good. There were crappy collapsing rose windows and a mad swan.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 10:53 (twenty years ago) link

I'm saving the RAF jacket for when I play at the RAF club. February 18th.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago) link

Good God, you get around.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago) link

I'm BRAIN WILSON!

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago) link

indeed you are

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago) link

black bunny on friday?

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago) link

Where, this time?

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago) link

oh!

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago) link

Glasgow! Home of Optimo! Requires further study, yes.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago) link

I have to write.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago) link

Glasgow is windy. I think my windys are coming in.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago) link

they come in draughty and more draughty. what a choice.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago) link

It's windy here too. I think the whole country may be razed to the ground by the morning. Best protect and survive.

― KeithW (kmw), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:21 (twenty years ago) link

here it's windy.

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago) link

My Mum phoned me at work to tell me to beware of wind. I promised her I would also put on a vest and eat properly.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago) link

I wish I had some vests.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago) link

I knew I shouldn't have built my house out of straw.

― KeithW (kmw), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago) link

I wish I could eat properly.

There's a wolf, at the door.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:31 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, not only are there wolves around here too; there are fucking pork sausages in the fridge.

― KeithW (kmw), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago) link

ally's room is like a fridge except that his light doesn't come on when you open his door or, even, when you switch the light switch.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago) link

I bet he doesn't defrost it either. Bloody students.

― KeithW (kmw), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago) link

I bet he uses more clingfilm, in there, than he does, in the fridge.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago) link

As a preservatif?

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 23:28 (twenty years ago) link

Has he done his windies?

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 11:56 (twenty years ago) link

oh, I had forgotten about the clingfilm on windaes "idea".

I just meant because he uses no clingfilm, in the fridge, whatsoever.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 11:58 (twenty years ago) link

I remember when I was a student, we spent several hours with a hairdryer trying to extract a packet of fish fingers that the freezer compartment had started to eat. That was in Edinburgh as well, where you might've expected people to have giant stainless steel fridges stuff full of things much posher than fish fingers. We saw a live fish finger at deep sea world once.

― KeithW (kmw), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago) link

We defrosted our freezer recently - this involved me and RJG battering at a wall of ice with kitchen utensils until they all broke.

I should work the clingfilm idea.

I use TUPPERWARE, in the fridge.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago) link

but not in the sink.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago) link

I like this manly approach to defrosting. I will try it next time I have to. Although, I might have one of these anti-defrost fridges now. We did try that with ours years ago, but it was difficult; all we had was a spoon. It was like Escape from Alcatraz. Plus we got scared about knocking a hole in the "fridge magic" pipes that were kicking about.

― KeithW (kmw), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.bestlaidschemes.com/

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago) link

the car.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago) link

thanks a lot!

PF gave me a good tip, last week, which turned out to be christopher harvie's "deep fried hillman imp".

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 13 January 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago) link

It's an amazing website that best laid schemes thing. My mother got all excited cause she could see Mosspark boulevard from the top of the rollercoaster at the Empire Exhibition in 1938... Quite amazing colour footage.

― KeithW (kmw), Thursday, 13 January 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago) link

OK scratch the RAF thing - I'm not playing that anymore. Perhaps at a later date.

Maybe I should wear the jacket, now, in the cathedral, next Friday. I wonder if Mr watson would come through?

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago) link

Ally "No Email" Cook,

I'd love to, but my arse is currently broken in half. I fell on the ice on the 28th December and have fractured my hip, so I'm pretty much out of action for at least the next six weeks, possibly up to 10 weeks.

So sorry about that, but will have to get together for some drinks, chat and see your band and so on when I get better. Have fun and be excellent to one another.

I'm quite upset that news of my injury hasn't travelled the country, like in Ferris Bueller's day off.

― KeithW (kmw), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago) link

Incidentally, my injury clearly rules out asshopping.

― KeithW (kmw), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago) link

Also, in case that sounds a little worrying, broke in half is overstating it. I've fractured my right acetabullum, which is the kind of bit at the back of the ball and socket joint in your hip.

― KeithW (kmw), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago) link

Keith, have you become an old woman?

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 14 January 2005 01:00 (twenty years ago) link

I am very sorry to hear about your old woman injury how mean of you cook.

hope you aren't too bored, while it heals!!

ally could send you a bootleg, of one of his gigs, that would ensure you would be, for a little while.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 14 January 2005 01:09 (twenty years ago) link

Poor Keithy. Have you asked the National Health to send a busty nurse to come and bathe you daily?

Oxfam are saying this is the hat from Dog On Wheels. I'm not so sure - I think they nicked it off that Pratchett bloke. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=58711&item=3865489681&rd=1#ebayphotohosting

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 14 January 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago) link

Yes, Cookie, wear the jacket. I vote that you wear the jacket. You could do a gig at Keith's house, just for him. In fact, all bands could do that, it would be Keithfest.

― Puddin'Head Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 14 January 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago) link

How about a Nazi uniform, they're all the rage.

― KeithW (kmw), Friday, 14 January 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago) link

An RAF jacket with a swastika armband for maximum crossover appeal.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 14 January 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago) link

The brim on that hat looks too wide for it to be the DOW vid one.

DOW vid FEATURING ALLY'S GRANDAD I meant to say.


Keith, if you poor arse is broken in half, do you consider it half full or half empty?

― Mooro (Mooro), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago) link

That's a bit of a half-arsed effort isn't it?

― KeithW (kmw), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago) link

Are Oxfam selling my Grandpa, too?

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 14 January 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago) link

I bought him. very cheap. affordable, nice too.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 15 January 2005 00:00 (twenty years ago) link

a lie.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 15 January 2005 00:04 (twenty years ago) link

He's not nice.

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 15 January 2005 02:06 (twenty years ago) link

Ally, you're so rude. He looks a very nice, helpful man, in the film.

(Not clingfilm.)

― Mooro (Mooro), Saturday, 15 January 2005 11:41 (twenty years ago) link

Mark E Smith dun his hip in as well, same way, but in Newcastle.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 17 January 2005 13:20 (nineteen years ago) link

There's another thing I have in common with him then.

― KeithW (kmw), Monday, 17 January 2005 13:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Actually, hang on, I've nothing in common with him at all.

― KeithW (kmw), Monday, 17 January 2005 13:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Smith was well hard, he checked himself out before he was mended and got a pal to drive him back to Salford.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 17 January 2005 16:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Keith, didn't you ever run into Mark E Smith when he was an Edinburgh Man?

― Puddin'Head Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:07 (nineteen years ago) link

From: Lynsey
Q.Hey Stevie, hows it going? Hope the new year finds you well! I may be abusing the Q & A section here, but are you playing a solo show in Glasgow on the 21st by any chance? I heard something about St Mary's Cathedral but I can't seem to find any concrete details, times etc, anywhere...?

A.

Yes well there is a Small Creatures show on friday at St Mary's also featuring Dot2Dot and some films..I'm going to be on first crooning some country numbers to try and get used to singing again. I get pretty freaked out by these things so I've not been telling anybody so keep it under your hat..okay!

Stevie - 17/01/05


(I doubt very much St Mary's Cathedral is made of concrete.)

― Peter Stringbender (PJ Miller), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:18 (nineteen years ago) link

what is the world coming 2?

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Like the Prince-style talk there...

Mr.Stringbender, sad to say no, although several legendary people that no-one seems 2 know but everyone knows about said they met him when he lived here. Grimly Fiendish, who posts on ILM lived in a flat opposite an address that's mentioned in one of his songs.

I don't know 4 how long he was an "Edinburgh Man" for 2 be honest. I'm not a huge fan of the band, though he's very funny. There's a bit in Stuart Maconie's biography that's him interviewing Smith in a pub that I go to quite frequently.

― KeithW (kmw), Monday, 17 January 2005 22:09 (nineteen years ago) link

I can see this numbers game being a continuing problem...

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 00:49 (nineteen years ago) link

That wasn't Cathy, it was RJG and so is this.

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 02:04 (nineteen years ago) link

How disappointing, I thought you were going to say it was Prince.

― KeithW (kmw), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 15:01 (nineteen years ago) link

well, in a way!

when I get signed to rough trade, I am going to release an album of amyl nitrate-fuelled prince covers called "the prince & the poppers".

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 15:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Is St Mary's Cathedral *the* cathedral, the one near the necropolis? I thought that was St Mungo's. Perhaps it is just a clever name for a bar.

― Peter Stringbender (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link

That's what I thought; St.Mary's Cathedral is in Edinburgh. On Palmerston Place.

― KeithW (kmw), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link

st. mary's is on the great western road.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 16:33 (nineteen years ago) link

The Gilbert Scott church?

― Peter Stringbender (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 16:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Where's St.Midge's?

― KeithW (kmw), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 16:34 (nineteen years ago) link

st. mary's edin.=GGS, yes.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 16:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Funny, I haven't seen Mary, Mungo and Midge since I was a kid, but a quick look up the web reveals its "gritty" nature, something I never noticed before:

http://www.davethewave.co.uk/mary-mungo-midge/

― KeithW (kmw), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 16:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Dot to Not in Metro.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:24 (nineteen years ago) link

I am trying Spain more at the moment, but am trying Glasgow in spirit, or something. Have fun tonight kids.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:36 (nineteen years ago) link

No, *you* have fun.

― Peter Stringbender (PJ Miller), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:38 (nineteen years ago) link

the grapevine says 'the best band in the whole fucking world' are playing tonight.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh OK, have fun. More than Ailsa.

How exciting. Go, Dot2Dot, go!

― Peter Stringbender (PJ Miller), Friday, 21 January 2005 14:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Doctor Doctor even have their own thread on the Bowlie board. Amongst what Carslime calls the 'Kitchenettes'.

― Mooro (Mooro), Friday, 21 January 2005 16:46 (nineteen years ago) link

.2. CorD? Thread now.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 21 January 2005 16:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Ha ha - Carslime!

― Lara (Lara), Friday, 21 January 2005 21:51 (nineteen years ago) link

We need some hardcore Reporting Back, either here or ELSEWHERE (but not the Kitchenettes, I can never remember where it is).

― Peter Stringbender (PJ Miller), Saturday, 22 January 2005 09:10 (nineteen years ago) link

.2. amongst Kitchen Devils = http://www.bowlie.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7179

― Mooro (Mooro), Saturday, 22 January 2005 11:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Cheers, Moorinho!

― Peter Stringbender (PJ Miller), Saturday, 22 January 2005 11:56 (nineteen years ago) link

hay guys try glasgow more but will rjg fuck me

― John (jdahlem), Saturday, 22 January 2005 11:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Tsunami relief concert tickets on sale now - line up includes Frank Ferguson, Band S and Mogwai.

http://www.secctickets.com/

Reporting back: The band played better in general than at the Winchester, but the sound was shit. The wife of a record label wants to see them in a smaller venue with proper sound. They have nifty under-pew heating in churches these days. Three strange people danced in the aisle. A lot of people left after the main attraction so the Main Attraction had a smaller audience. Momus' cousin sang backing vocals for Stevie Reverb.

― Madchen (Madchen), Sunday, 23 January 2005 11:10 (nineteen years ago) link

I have just realised I will be in London on Saturday 19th February, so I have four standing tickets for the Tsunami gig for sale at exactly the price I paid for them - £28.67 each. Yes, I did gift aid. :((((

― Madchen (Madchen), Sunday, 23 January 2005 13:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Colin MacIntyre of Mull Historical Society said the natural disaster has shaken everyone: “I don’t think there’s been anything like this in our lifetimes.

“I’m already playing on February 19 at King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, and I was planning to have a collection . I’m still going to play both gigs, so I’m going to have a drumkit in each venue and whip across Glasgow, like Phil Collins in Band Aid, but with more hair.”

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Sunday, 23 January 2005 13:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Me and my friend have done a night out in Glasgow and Edinburgh on the same night. This I feel was more in the spirit of Collins at Live aid.

― KeithW (kmw), Sunday, 23 January 2005 13:49 (nineteen years ago) link

So I take it NO ONE will be coming to the gig I'm putting on on the 19th? If I can find a venue...

Peachy.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 23 January 2005 14:49 (nineteen years ago) link

OK maybe I will just cancel that gig. Ugh.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 23 January 2005 16:13 (nineteen years ago) link

saturday looks bad.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 23 January 2005 16:39 (nineteen years ago) link

I would come Ally.

― Peter Stringbender (PJ Miller), Sunday, 23 January 2005 20:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Alba's last words to me this morning were to try Glasgow more.

― Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Sunday, 23 January 2005 21:00 (nineteen years ago) link

he says that on his death bed.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 23 January 2005 21:01 (nineteen years ago) link

I thought alba hated "try glasgow more".

perhaps, this means he hates you, too. sorry.

still, I don't think anyone else here hates you, yet, so, yeah, try!!

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 23 January 2005 21:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Try and be hated more?

Well, I'm off to a great start with Alba then! He also said he'd never speak to me again. Mind you, that was before the Glasgow suggestion. Maybe he works his hate out systematically?

― Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Sunday, 23 January 2005 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't know--he can get quite violent, at times.

I doubt he actually hates you, though.

: D

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 24 January 2005 00:09 (nineteen years ago) link

I wouldn't hate you, or would hate you, if I knew who you were.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 24 January 2005 00:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Me and the boys are doing a tsunami relief thingy on Saturday at *cough* Fury Murrays. There's an underground station nearby...

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I got thrown out of fury murray's, once.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 24 January 2005 01:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Furry Muffs. I hate you all.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 24 January 2005 13:36 (nineteen years ago) link

You ASKED to be thrown out of Fury Murrays. And you had to CONVINCE them to do so.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 24 January 2005 18:00 (nineteen years ago) link

you had to get my jacket, for me.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 24 January 2005 18:27 (nineteen years ago) link

I had to get his jacket, for him.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 24 January 2005 18:30 (nineteen years ago) link

This is like the two ronnies.

― KeithW (kmw), Monday, 24 January 2005 18:55 (nineteen years ago) link

They are the two bonnies.

― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:13 (nineteen years ago) link

I'd like to report that mr ailsa successfully got through the first round of interviews for the job madchen mentioned upthread. (L., I left a message on what I think is your mobile today to say thanks, but i'm not sure if it's the right number i have).

Is any of Glasgow going to the tsunami gig? I have no ticket, but would like to go. Madchen, I will buy a couple of you if you still have them.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 27 January 2005 20:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Well done Mr.Ailsa.

Try Paisley less, right now.

― KeithW (kmw), Thursday, 27 January 2005 20:28 (nineteen years ago) link

yes, I wondered whether anyone cared enough to see if i'd been stabbed (not being a bloke, I assumed you'd know I hadn't, but still).

One of the stabbings was about 200 yards from my work, outside the pub I would have been in had our monthly staff meeting finished early.

We went for a couple of pints after work, and everyone in the pub was talking about it. We tried to get the barman to subsidise taxi fares so we could continue to utilise his pub having not been brutally stabbed, but he wasn't having any of it.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 27 January 2005 20:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I've just realised I offered to buy two Madchens up there. That wasn't what I meant, exactly.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 27 January 2005 20:49 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm sad I haven't managed to see dot-to-dot yet. I hope to rectify this btw.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 27 January 2005 21:04 (nineteen years ago) link

You have seen Ally wiggling his arse though. It's like that. But with (different) music.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 27 January 2005 21:06 (nineteen years ago) link

it sounds like the best thing in the world.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 27 January 2005 21:12 (nineteen years ago) link

don't dash, between them.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:00 (nineteen years ago) link

.2.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:00 (nineteen years ago) link

don't dash, between them.

The Pinefox should appear here, to express admiration.

― The Morsefox (Mooro), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:14 (nineteen years ago) link

No dashes.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v517/AllyCook/dottodotmarys11.jpg

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 28 January 2005 00:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Just dots.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 28 January 2005 00:08 (nineteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v517/AllyCook/dottodotcolour5.jpg

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 28 January 2005 00:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Sorry, those are big Dots.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 28 January 2005 00:26 (nineteen years ago) link

I just noticed.

you are back-to-front.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 28 January 2005 00:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah. At first I thought - BUT SHE WAS OVER THE OTHER SIDE! WHA?! HOW?! HUH?!

Then I realised.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 28 January 2005 00:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Southpaw Bummer.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 28 January 2005 00:36 (nineteen years ago) link

I emboldened those dashes, not that you'd notice.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 28 January 2005 00:37 (nineteen years ago) link

I just flipped it. Someone it's....not as good.

I notice nothing.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 28 January 2005 00:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Cor!

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 28 January 2005 10:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Do Michelle Dotrice (as I shall call them) do angular white-boy funk, as seems to be popular these days? They look very AGGRESSIVE, like a throwback to the days of BOVVER. Do they do slap bass?

That is quite a nice photo, backwards or not.

They said the stabbings were at something called Renfrew, on the radio. I should have paid more attention.

― Peter Stringbender (PJ Miller), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Four of the stabbings were in Paisley, two quite near my work and one on my way home - I saw the police and ambulance in attendance at all three of those on my journey from work to home on Wednesday, except I didn't know that all three incidents were related at that time, or even that they were all stabbings, I just thought the police and ambulances were particularly busy that evening. The last one was in my lovely home town of Renfrew, but I was safely ensconced in a pub in Paisley at the time blissfully unaware that some knife-wielding nutter was rampaging around the area. Got out of the pub at midnight to get a lift home, switched on car radio, husband's all "I can't believe you went out on your own when there's a knife-wielding nutter about".

It's kept everyone in town talking for a few days, and was making everyone a bit wary of blokes. On my way up the road last night, there were no people walking about on their own, and police on every street corner in the town centre.

About half a dozen blokes in the pub last night were daring each other to see who would go out for fags. "It's like Russian Roulette, can you make it round to Newsbox and back without getting stabbed?". The bloke who went got a round of applause when he got back in.

This is what passes for excitement round here. You could all try it, if you are fed up of trying Glasgow.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:20 (nineteen years ago) link

My very first though was: "OMG hope Mr Ailsa is OK!"

SOMEHOW. Not SOMEONE.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 28 January 2005 19:51 (nineteen years ago) link

THOUGHT. I am so DRUNK.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:40 (nineteen years ago) link

blah blah blah

(I can hear you)

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I saw someone get arrested the other day, just out the back here. I don't think he had stabbed anyone though. It was like one of those COPPERS CATCH PEOPLE programmes on the television. Thank you, Ailsa, that was very good. I must find out if my mate who works in Paisley got chased or anything.

― Peter Stringbender (PJ Miller), Saturday, 29 January 2005 12:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Fury Murray's, doors 7:30. Whoop!

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Saturday, 29 January 2005 14:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Ailsa, I thought of your hubby (not you because they said it was chaps, innit). I have two tickets left - they be yours. They arrived yesterday.

― Madchen (Madchen), Sunday, 30 January 2005 09:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Thank you. Shall we go to the pub sometime to exchange money for tickets? In fact, the mister was mithering me about the fact we haven't all gone out for a meal since the time Vicky and Chris were here (I kept your poor organisational skeez out of it - he thinks we're all crap) so we should maybe do that.

Does Glasgow want to go out sometime?

Thankfully Paisley is safe(r) now in time for me to venture unaccompanied to the pub for the Celtic v Kilmarnock game.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 30 January 2005 11:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Glasgow would like to go out. When?

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 30 January 2005 14:43 (nineteen years ago) link

at the end.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 30 January 2005 14:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I would like to sleep with an Indian man. So, ok.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 30 January 2005 17:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Would an Indian's man, do?

― Mooro (Mooro), Sunday, 30 January 2005 18:20 (nineteen years ago) link

very nice photos, Ally C. I would excelsior the dash-dot exchange (culminating with The Morsefox's post!) if I were not so lazy.

― youn, Sunday, 30 January 2005 18:28 (nineteen years ago) link

so, i have a ticket booked on national express from liverpool to glasgow on the 20th.

yes, liverpool. don't ask.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 3 February 2005 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link

No return ticket? Most unwise.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 3 February 2005 15:55 (nineteen years ago) link

i might stay forever!!

but probably not. someone else is handling all of that. i think she's taken the need to get back to london into account. i'm certainly not going back to liverpool.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 3 February 2005 15:57 (nineteen years ago) link

stay forever lauren!

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 3 February 2005 16:42 (nineteen years ago) link

stay forever!

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 3 February 2005 16:45 (nineteen years ago) link

staying in glasgow forever would probably take like 30yrs off my life expectancy. and i mean that in a good way.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 3 February 2005 16:50 (nineteen years ago) link

We will all hate you when you're old. Stay forever.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 3 February 2005 19:14 (nineteen years ago) link

2 hearts under a skiiieeeiiiscraypurr.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 4 February 2005 13:48 (nineteen years ago) link

asshoppers need not apply

-- RJG (r_gil...), February 5th, 2004 2:41 AM. (RJG) (5 trackbacks)

Glasgow has been tried more for one year today.

Happy Birthday Trying Glasgow More

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Saturday, 5 February 2005 14:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Aww. A shame RJG has gone Swiss.

Dot To Dot, in the studio, tonight. It could all go howwibly wong.

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 5 February 2005 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link

I met tim finney yesterday. I forgot to say.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 5 February 2005 16:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Tell us about Dot 2 Dot, in the studio, last night.

― Peter Stringbender (PJ Miller), Sunday, 6 February 2005 09:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I, 2, wish 2 hear about .2.. In the studio.

Moorover, I wish to hear .2., in my ears (2).


Ally, do you have a recording or 2, that you could send 2 me, please?

― Mooro (Mooro), Sunday, 6 February 2005 11:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Like Gilbert, we will. Soon.

Dot TO Dot in the studio, last night. 8pm-3.45am. A 'session', no doubt.
What took the most number of takes? Patrick's 15 seconds of harmonica, fading out. 'When do you want it from?' 'About 3.15' had the crowd in raptures. Documentary evidence may be available, some day.

I heard things I had never heard before. Strange. Nice. I like it, pretty much. Two songs. 'Any Day But Tuesday' and 'Upside'.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 6 February 2005 13:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Thsi excites me hugely (not just the bit about Patrick and his harmonica).

― Lara (Lara), Sunday, 6 February 2005 19:31 (nineteen years ago) link

That is very late, at night.

― Peter Stringbender (PJ Miller), Monday, 7 February 2005 09:19 (nineteen years ago) link

It was booked until 6am! I say they is wusses.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 7 February 2005 13:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Although they were not allowed to drink anything.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 7 February 2005 13:17 (nineteen years ago) link

This reminds me of that Natasha Bedingfield song, the one what goes, 'you know, I had some studio time booked, but I just couldn't find the right hook'. Except here it would be, 'but I just couldn't get the mouth organ bit right'.

― Peter Stringbender (PJ Miller), Monday, 7 February 2005 13:40 (nineteen years ago) link

It was the last thing, on the record. Fatigue will be the excuse. Pictures, maybe later.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 7 February 2005 13:49 (nineteen years ago) link

As promised.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v517/AllyCook/P2050329.jpg

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 7 February 2005 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v517/AllyCook/P2050335.jpg

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 7 February 2005 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v517/AllyCook/P2050334.jpg

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 7 February 2005 18:48 (nineteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v517/AllyCook/P2050333.jpg

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 7 February 2005 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Sorry, I suppose those aren't really that exciting. I'm just documenting, here.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 7 February 2005 18:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Is that SAE?

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Monday, 7 February 2005 18:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes!

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 7 February 2005 18:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Shurely SACB?

(Sensational Ally Cook Band)

― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 7 February 2005 20:18 (nineteen years ago) link

patrick's t-shirt doesn't have an ! and it should.

I have never told him this, to his face.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 7 February 2005 20:23 (nineteen years ago) link

You're missing pancakes, tomorrow, RJG. I hope you're having a nice time anyway.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 7 February 2005 20:30 (nineteen years ago) link

We are having pancakes tomorrow too.

I guess I should document that the Renfrew branch of the Try Glasgow More bunch tried Madchen's Sunday lunch more yesterday. It was grebt. Renfrew wants to try some Glasgow more in return. All of you. Give us names and a suitable date. I fancy some mass catering, but only if I can borrow Madchen's ice cream maker (but i can make a mean lemon meringue pie if this is not an option).

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 7 February 2005 21:11 (nineteen years ago) link

I did some recording in there once. Very nice.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Monday, 7 February 2005 21:28 (nineteen years ago) link

how do you make pancakes?

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 7 February 2005 21:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Pancake mix in tesco = 11p a bag. It works (and there are instructions on the pack)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 7 February 2005 21:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Or:

100g of flour, a pinch of salt, 300ml milk, 1 egg.

Put flour and salt in a mixing bowl, make a little hole in the middle, put the egg in and half the milk, mix it until it's smooth, gradually adding in the rest of the milk as you do so. Voila.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 7 February 2005 22:03 (nineteen years ago) link

voila!

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 7 February 2005 22:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Now you are ready, my son. Go pancake.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 7 February 2005 22:06 (nineteen years ago) link

(leave to stand for an hour)

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 10:30 (nineteen years ago) link

pancakes, schmancakes.

I have sunburn.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link

You set fire to a newspaper?

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 15:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Nice!

― KeithW (kmw), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 15:26 (nineteen years ago) link

That was awful. RJg you only left us £190. You pig!

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 17:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Only enough for 2 upper case letters :(

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 18:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Does anyone think that the famous Glasgow "patter" would flow better on a shiny new thread. Even broadband's having trouble keeping up with this gargantuan beast of a thread...

― KeithW (kmw), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 18:29 (nineteen years ago) link

I think starting a new thread goes against the spirit of this thread.

If you change the Show Messages bit in your Setting to 'Last 50 Answers', it gets less gargantuan.

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 18:38 (nineteen years ago) link

more try glasgow more

― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 18:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Also, can we have pancake day again, for RJG (and me)?

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 18:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Thanks for that. That's much better.

― KeithW (kmw), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 18:40 (nineteen years ago) link

asshoppers have applied.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 21:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Which asshoppers?

― KeithW (kmw), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link

I tried starting a new thread, but the rest of Glasgow wasn't having any of it, so I ignored them all for a bit but was lured back by the sparkling conversation. The moral: don't try it because you will be outcast.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 09:50 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.popjustice.co.uk/ivestoppeddancing.gif

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 09:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Cathy, you had pancakes. Stop being fat.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 13:45 (nineteen years ago) link

The moral: don't try it because you will be outcast.

I think I've already blown it there... At least with m family, by living in Edinburgh.

― KeithW (kmw), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 13:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Hey I know that guy below the drummer! He goes out with Stacey who was on my journalism course. I drunkenly chatted to them at the Winchester a while back. The small world of ILX eh?

Oh, and I like the Orange Juice t-shirt.

― stew, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 13:52 (nineteen years ago) link

That will be the bass player.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 13:54 (nineteen years ago) link

how to asshop?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:25 (nineteen years ago) link

4/23/05: Subcurrents Festival - Glasgow, Scotland
Double Leopards, Wolf Eyes, Tony Conrad, Cul de Sac, Dacaer Pinga vs. Smack Music 7

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v384/lucyald/tuning.jpg
picture by matteo

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 20:42 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.sonymusic.com/artists/G3/g3liveindenver_z2_150.jpg

― KeithW (kmw), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 21:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha. That was me de-tuning.

Stacey will be home, soon!

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 22:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Asscrockers welcome, Keith.

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 10 February 2005 13:17 (nineteen years ago) link

I fancy dundee.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 11 February 2005 15:46 (nineteen years ago) link

You'll take anything.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 11 February 2005 19:21 (nineteen years ago) link

what would glasgow cake be like?

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 11 February 2005 19:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Less fruity.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 11 February 2005 19:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Do Dot 2 Dot use decks?

― Peter Stringbender (PJ Miller), Saturday, 12 February 2005 09:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I hope so. Ooh, that scratching is making me itch.

― KeithW (kmw), Saturday, 12 February 2005 11:22 (nineteen years ago) link

they use a patio and that's it.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 12 February 2005 11:47 (nineteen years ago) link

They buried their dads under it.

― Madchen (Madchen), Sunday, 13 February 2005 08:28 (nineteen years ago) link

the 20th: celtic Vs. rangers, lauren Vs. glasgow, me Vs. optimo?

I will only go to optimo if it goes to dublin.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 13 February 2005 19:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I must come to Glasgow again soon. If for no reason but to meet Cozen. Am I deluded?

― Lara (Lara), Sunday, 13 February 2005 20:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Actually, is anyone alive enough to tell tales of the Lynedoch Crescent festivities last night?

― Lara (Lara), Sunday, 13 February 2005 20:51 (nineteen years ago) link

you're potentially deluded!

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 13 February 2005 21:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I must come to dublin as well though. it is like 5p on ryanair.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 13 February 2005 21:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I'd like to feed some ducks.

lynedoch crescent had funnies and fannies, in unequal measure. I drank vodka then vodka then water then repeat. maybe I am growing up.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 14 February 2005 01:29 (nineteen years ago) link

I mean, throwing up.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 14 February 2005 01:32 (nineteen years ago) link

I remember The Crescent being drunk and then this girl started talking to me and RJG and she was so boring I just had to walk away. Apart from that, OK.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 14 February 2005 12:04 (nineteen years ago) link

she'd been to italy.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 14 February 2005 12:28 (nineteen years ago) link

That place can do terrible things to a body.

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 14 February 2005 12:51 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm looking forward to the weekend. there are glasgwegians with me now, whetting my appetite.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 14 February 2005 15:47 (nineteen years ago) link

There are no Glaswegians with me. There rarely are.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 14 February 2005 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Should I be trying Glasgow on Wednesday? At what time?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 14 February 2005 22:09 (nineteen years ago) link

I already asked the question, the 20th: Vs. day?

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 14 February 2005 22:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Wednesday. 9pm. Queens Club. Queen St. I will not be going to Optimo, I shouldn't imagine. Unless you can REALLY persuade me.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 00:39 (nineteen years ago) link

boo

― stacey, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:07 (nineteen years ago) link

my head hurts. i forgot how tiring glasgwegians can be. i escaped to bed at 4.30, but i had to leave a bottle of vodka in the front room to pacify them.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 13:03 (nineteen years ago) link

re: optimo - i think everyone should come, but my judgement is often poor.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 13:13 (nineteen years ago) link

when are you in glasgow until, lauren?

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 13:41 (nineteen years ago) link

wednesday morning.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 13:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I have decided to attempt Glasgow, or at least to try it.

But not until April.

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 13:46 (nineteen years ago) link

When are you in Glasgow, Lauren? Hopkins has had a good idea.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 18:20 (nineteen years ago) link

hopkins need not apply.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I have classes on a thursday ally c :(

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 19:02 (nineteen years ago) link

This thread makes me sad now.


I will not be able to look at it for a few days, I think.

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm sorry.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:25 (nineteen years ago) link

I apologise too.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 02:09 (nineteen years ago) link

thank you.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 10:35 (nineteen years ago) link

we're arriving early afternoon sunday.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 11:29 (nineteen years ago) link

This Sunday? When there's an Old Firm game on? Good luck. Don't wear anything blue, green or orange.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 20:09 (nineteen years ago) link

or brown.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 22:51 (nineteen years ago) link

I hope glasgow is treating you well, lauren.

― tudor baloney (Cozen), Sunday, 20 February 2005 20:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Excuse me, peoples of the good, but I would like to visit Glasgow between July 11 and 13th when I come galumphing over to the UK again. Would anyone care to deal with me or would you prefer I slump in the streets crying or...?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 20 February 2005 20:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha, Ned kills thread! I will be superbusy with work so I couldn't put you up, but I would be most happy to squeeze fappage into my schedule.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 10:29 (nineteen years ago) link

I will fap too, if I'm here.

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 13:47 (nineteen years ago) link

*merry* :-) Well I'll be trying to book my tickets soon here via EasyJet -- before the dollar completely goes in the toilet ;-) -- and I shamelessly admit knowing I have a place to stay will help! So, please, if I could beg borrow or steal a place to crash for those two nights from anyone, let me know -- and rah to FAPping!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 16:33 (nineteen years ago) link

you can stay, with us, ned, but it won't be until july and I have no idea what will be happening, then, in lives. you can stay, with us, but you may have to fend for yourself, more-or-less, other than the staying with us. you can stay, with us, though, ned.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link

It's a sign! :-)

Thank ya, oh comma-laden sir, yer a good man. Fending for myself is no worry, I will go and hunt wild game as need be. (Also, since it's a vacation and all, I know I'm going to want to spend some days where I just go and find a good library/bookstore/coffee place/whatever and spend a chunk of time doing nothing but zoning, reading and relaxing.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 24 February 2005 16:51 (nineteen years ago) link

You could spit at this from RJG's window.

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 24 February 2005 17:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Hey, neat! :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 24 February 2005 17:38 (nineteen years ago) link

i just realised that the two times i tried Glasgow this year had prompted a message that said "Poor Ken"! Yet I still long to return soon.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 28 February 2005 14:39 (nineteen years ago) link

both prompted

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 28 February 2005 14:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Last nite, I dreamt that I was at a Dot to Dot gig. One of the songs had slap bass and sounded like The Killers.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 28 February 2005 14:44 (nineteen years ago) link

all the songs are like that.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 28 February 2005 15:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Hey, Jack, get school work done early, and get money, so you can come to Lakeside - with me, and Kelly, and Cook.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Monday, 28 February 2005 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link

I have to be examined, at the start of june, and cook (despite being a bender) won't bend.

: ((((((

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 28 February 2005 16:10 (nineteen years ago) link

the eastenders revealed special about june brown on bb3 last week was called dot to dot. i wanted to alert ally to this, but i was too weak from flu. also, not sure if he would care.

― lauren!, Monday, 28 February 2005 16:15 (nineteen years ago) link

we don't get digital, in the house.

I think this is, in part, to be thanked, for cook's band's raw and blinkered sound.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 28 February 2005 16:19 (nineteen years ago) link

i want to hear this sound, soon.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 28 February 2005 16:21 (nineteen years ago) link

it is easily imitated, using a CD of whale sounds, a tray of dishes and an empty stair.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 28 February 2005 16:24 (nineteen years ago) link

I meant, recreated.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 28 February 2005 16:26 (nineteen years ago) link

the dishes, ideally, should be dirty and so should the CD.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 28 February 2005 16:27 (nineteen years ago) link

:(

That's not fair.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Monday, 28 February 2005 16:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Is this the longest-ever thread on ILX now? I think it might be.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 28 February 2005 16:32 (nineteen years ago) link

i have almost all the ingredients. i'll try it tonight but will have to substitute in a manics CD and an empty stare.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 28 February 2005 16:33 (nineteen years ago) link

(I have been to Glasgow once. It was raining.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 28 February 2005 16:33 (nineteen years ago) link

what did you do there?

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 28 February 2005 16:34 (nineteen years ago) link

mandee: I know.

ken: it should work fine.

jaymc: I don't know.

I carried an umbrella about, all day, yesterday, and it didn't rain, at all.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 28 February 2005 16:36 (nineteen years ago) link

you should come back, john. it won't rain.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 28 February 2005 16:36 (nineteen years ago) link

no matter how hard I try.

I think it was spitting, this morning, but I wasn't awake, in time.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 28 February 2005 16:37 (nineteen years ago) link

I was there with my dad. We were only there for a day. We went to the Gallery of Modern Art, then walked up and down the streets looking for a Rangers jersey for him, and then I think we just sat in a pub and read the newspaper.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 28 February 2005 16:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Woking face a tough tie away to Burton Albion in the FA Trophy.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 17:35 (nineteen years ago) link

I wonder if there are any other Woking fans, in the whole of Glasgow.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:38 (nineteen years ago) link

i;m going there in April for the Subcurrent festival: i'm not gonna read this thread, so what should i do in the day/where can hang out?

― Tannenbaum Schmidt (Nik), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 00:27 (nineteen years ago) link

What's the point in telling you if you're not reading?

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 00:44 (nineteen years ago) link

there is no point.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 02:19 (nineteen years ago) link

What, Woking or Burton? They have a beer festival in Burton, but I think that's all.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 11:12 (nineteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/RJG/march.jpg

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 4 March 2005 04:07 (nineteen years ago) link

My lengthy commentary on this poster/flyer has been lost.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 4 March 2005 11:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Do Glasgow know that Mr Ailsa actually got the job upthread? Hurrah for (1) mr ailsa and (2) miss madchen for mentioning it to us in the first place? Hurrah!!!

Glasgow, let's go out for a meal. Or a pint. Or something.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 4 March 2005 19:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, well done Mr. Ailsa and Madchen!

― Cathy (Cathy), Saturday, 5 March 2005 00:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Which White Town track will you be playing?

― KeithW (kmw), Saturday, 5 March 2005 00:23 (nineteen years ago) link

I only mention it because I remember a long time ago I did a club at the Potterrow and I had "Age of Chance" on the flyer. A friend of mine pointed out that I might as well have put "Age of Chance: Kiss" on it.

― KeithW (kmw), Saturday, 5 March 2005 00:27 (nineteen years ago) link

ally and I both have the LP, with "your woman" on it, and, apparently, they will be playing the full length, of both copies, on loop, during the whole night and for a week, leading up to it, out of sync, by 1.5 seconds.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 5 March 2005 02:12 (nineteen years ago) link

If you're ever in Wolfits cafe on Rose Street, Edinburgh, check out the door chimes; they sound like "Your Woman". Alternatively, they sound like when Darth Vader turns up on the scene in the Empire Strikes Back.

― KeithW (kmw), Saturday, 5 March 2005 11:40 (nineteen years ago) link

I have that White Town album too: can they use a third copy?

― Mooro (Mooro), Saturday, 5 March 2005 12:55 (nineteen years ago) link

It is a good album.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 6 March 2005 03:04 (nineteen years ago) link

I wish PJM's commentary hadn't been lost!!

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 7 March 2005 12:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Ailsa, when hubby gets home, ask him if his new co-workers instigated a 'coincidental' conversation about Neighbours today.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 7 March 2005 13:16 (nineteen years ago) link

!!!!!!!

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 7 March 2005 13:18 (nineteen years ago) link

I do not know White Town, unless it is that group where in the video the singer's butterfly tattoos turn into real butterflies.

Amongst other things, the commentary was about ospreys and fish eagles in general. I am quite glad it got lost.

Well done, Mr Ailsa.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 7 March 2005 14:06 (nineteen years ago) link

that's crazy

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 7 March 2005 14:47 (nineteen years ago) link

town

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 7 March 2005 14:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Righto.

Thank you.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 7 March 2005 14:48 (nineteen years ago) link

I'll try to put them on the next poster.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 7 March 2005 14:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Splendid!

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 7 March 2005 15:05 (nineteen years ago) link

wait, you either thought mooro, cookie and I all owned a full length record by these guys or you are kidding? either one is very funny.

http://us.ent2.yimg.com/musicfinder.yahoo.com/images/yahoo/columbia/crazytown/crazytown_4.jpg

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 7 March 2005 15:28 (nineteen years ago) link

I wasn't kidding. I was a bit surprised though.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 7 March 2005 15:33 (nineteen years ago) link

try crazy town more.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 7 March 2005 15:34 (nineteen years ago) link

if glasgow=crazy town, garnethill=the lead singer.

he's crrrrazy.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 7 March 2005 15:37 (nineteen years ago) link

buttefrly tattoos turn into real butterflies in a video.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 7 March 2005 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link

that sounds really good.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 7 March 2005 15:39 (nineteen years ago) link

the winchester should play hongroe, I maintain.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 7 March 2005 15:54 (nineteen years ago) link

White Town, mostly (only?) famous for 1997 worldwide hit "Your Woman", see

http://www.whitetown.co.uk/

― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 7 March 2005 16:11 (nineteen years ago) link

I missed that one, in 1997.

When I say real butterflies, I mean realler than the ones in the tattoos, but not actually real, still pretend.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 7 March 2005 16:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Come, my lady.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 7 March 2005 18:23 (nineteen years ago) link

come, come, my lady.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 7 March 2005 18:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Ailsa, when hubby gets home, ask him if his new co-workers instigated a 'coincidental' conversation about Neighbours today.

He says "ha ha very good" so I take it that was a yes :)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 7 March 2005 19:35 (nineteen years ago) link

You're my butterfly.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 7 March 2005 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link

sugar.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 7 March 2005 20:01 (nineteen years ago) link

I got a promotion!

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 10 March 2005 11:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Yay Madchen!

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 10 March 2005 11:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Would anyone fancy a post-work celbratory FAP this evening? I am open to suggest re. pub.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 10 March 2005 13:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Well done. Did you get your actuals looked at? If that is what they were called.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 10 March 2005 13:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Congrats Madchen ;0)

― smee (smee), Thursday, 10 March 2005 13:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I am dying of flu, or would otherwise be amenable to pub-going. Maybe tomorrow, or at the weekend, we could go out and drink some booze, if you want. But not today, as I am malingering away from work so shouldn't be venturing up town, even if I didn't feel like shite.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 10 March 2005 13:23 (nineteen years ago) link

well done, madchen!

was the last time I saw you really when chris & vicky were up?!

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 10 March 2005 13:27 (nineteen years ago) link

I think so, Cozen.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 10 March 2005 13:30 (nineteen years ago) link

CCA, 6pm, Tonight.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 10 March 2005 16:29 (nineteen years ago) link

I will try!

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 10 March 2005 16:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Boo. That's three invitations to the pub I've had today. No-one ever asks me to go anywhere, and now that I can't, they're all falling over themselves to get me to go out.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 10 March 2005 16:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Saturday Winchester?

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 10 March 2005 16:59 (nineteen years ago) link

I may be getting two whales in a ka, on friday, unfortunately.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 10 March 2005 17:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Maybe, Madchen, depends if I shake off this flu. I asked the mister if he wanted to go to the CCA with you tonight, but he didn't fancy it on the grounds that "it's miles away". Which, of course, it isn't. What he should have said was "I'm a lazy git".

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 10 March 2005 17:32 (nineteen years ago) link

baby.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 10 March 2005 17:35 (nineteen years ago) link

the CCA isn't miles away, if you are me, but it is, if you are a lot of people.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 10 March 2005 17:38 (nineteen years ago) link

and thanks, cook.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 10 March 2005 17:38 (nineteen years ago) link

But Neil isn't miles away, he's just the other side of George Square. Which is maybe a mile away at most. I would have walked that far to buy Madchen a G&T. But then I'm not a lazy git :)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 10 March 2005 17:41 (nineteen years ago) link

oh, he is a lazy git!!!!!!!!!!!!

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 10 March 2005 17:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Lucky for us lazy gits the pub is next to our house.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 10 March 2005 17:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Was it your idea to go there, by any chance?

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 10 March 2005 17:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I just got this e-mail:

______________________________________________________

Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:23:27 +0000
From: "Alameda Boggan"
To: r_gxxxxxxxxx@yahoo.com
Subject: Darcey Ashford


Carm Blumer
______________________________________________________

?

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 10 March 2005 17:48 (nineteen years ago) link

No.

and

That is strange. But most emails these days are.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 10 March 2005 17:49 (nineteen years ago) link

tunnels under london.

has anyone walked the tunnels under glasgow?

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 11 March 2005 14:58 (nineteen years ago) link

I know some people who went through, or part way through, the one under Kelvingrove Park. One of them posts here occasionally, so hold on to your hollyhocks.

Personally, I wouldn't dare.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 11 March 2005 15:04 (nineteen years ago) link

there are tunnels? take me there

― dahlin, Saturday, 12 March 2005 13:04 (nineteen years ago) link

hidden glasgow.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 12 March 2005 13:19 (nineteen years ago) link

what are you doing online cozen? shouldn't you be out discovering glasgow r something?

― dahlin (dahlin), Saturday, 12 March 2005 13:24 (nineteen years ago) link

I like how there is a thread on that site's forum where people are weeping and wailing over the downfall of the English language, yet the description of Hampden on the site contains the phrase "it has went through some changes".

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 12 March 2005 13:24 (nineteen years ago) link

I am biding time, until the winchester, and reading about tunnels & bunkers.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 12 March 2005 13:32 (nineteen years ago) link

isn't that just a sewer? hmmmm....
ahhh doocots... i once wrote about the doocots of moray. fascinating.
i once lived near a doocot in maryhill. i always wondered what went on in there...

"The often misunderstood doo-cot is used in a complex game of pigeon "kidnap". Many people still believe the doo-cot is the inner city equivalent of the suburban pigeon loft. This could not be further from the truth.

The concept: let one bird out to bring a neighbour's bird back to your doo-cot. On entering the doo-cot, the neighbours bird is captured and becomes the property of the capturer.

Techniques: All sorts of techniques are used, of which seduction is one of the most common.
A female in a particularly attractive condition seduces another person's amorous male back to her loft or to his, depending which one wins.
If seduction doesn't work, then aggressive males will bully another bird back to their doo-cot, often with heavy blows from the leading edge of their wings."

sounds about right...

― dahlin (dahlin), Saturday, 12 March 2005 13:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Americans keep trying to kill this thread.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 13:48 (nineteen years ago) link

NO SURRENDER

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 13:54 (nineteen years ago) link

NEVER

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 14:03 (nineteen years ago) link

OH WELL THEN

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 14:08 (nineteen years ago) link

I see Burton beat Woking, then.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 14:09 (nineteen years ago) link

What do you care?

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 14:09 (nineteen years ago) link

do the english hate the scots?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 14:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes. That is why the English keep voting the Scottish accent as the world's sexiest accent.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 14:24 (nineteen years ago) link

you'd think they'd do something more hurtful.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 14:27 (nineteen years ago) link

it's a curse and a burden.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 14:36 (nineteen years ago) link

do the scots hate the english?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 15:11 (nineteen years ago) link

That's a bit generalised (I like Madchen, so, no)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 15:13 (nineteen years ago) link

do the english hate the germans?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 15:22 (nineteen years ago) link

I was disappointed to learn last night that a team of nitwits from Edinburgh University had beaten the team from Glasgow University some weeks previous.

I think Scotland is a charming region, and its inhabitants of great anthropological interest.

I sometimes go to Burton, Madchen, when I can't get out of it. I thought you knew. A bit of lighthearted banter is all I ever get out of it. Today I have been subtitling a video with footage of a bus on its way to Burton. I nearly announced it to everyone.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I had no idea about the Burton Connection (it's like French Connection, but upstairs from Dorothy Perkins). Germany has this nice icecream thing called Spaghettieis, so I quite like it there.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 15:55 (nineteen years ago) link

I knew two of the Glasgow nitwits!! The Edinburgh team captain was unbearable.

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link

she took it a bit forfar.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:03 (nineteen years ago) link

She was pretty, but not terribly bright. I once knew all of a Glasgow team (just after I graduated - I think it was the year they brought back UC) - they were totally dreadful and an affront to such a fine academic institution.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:08 (nineteen years ago) link

I think Balliol could win it.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Back in my day, the team was stuffed full of GU bigwigs.

I think the Edinburgh captain might have appeared brighter if Paxman hadn't been ribbing her all the time. I didn't fancy her much though. The mysterious lady above her was more my type.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link

PJ OTM.

both of the captains had expressions, that they kept doing, that I had a hard time being bothered to try to believe.

balliol(?)'s was very "oh, well, I don't mind" and the edinburgh one (emily drayson, I remember, for some reason) was a bit "hehehehe!".

I bet it was nerves, though, and doubt any of my expressions would hold up, in a similar situation.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link

The Glasgow team I knew were the clique from the student paper. They probably thought they were bigwigs, but, er, they weren't.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I was going to type "I don't know anyone, who has been on university challenge" but I did meet one of cathy's pals, who was on, and there was a lady, from architecture (or, perhaps, building science!!), who was on, last year, maybe, and who was in some classes, with me.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:52 (nineteen years ago) link

DAPPERS!

Or, perhaps more correctly in this context, Liz:x (or however its supposed to be: I think my colon is out of order)

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:48 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't hate the Scots, I even like some of them a little & a few of them a lot. They are best when they are not hating the English.

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:49 (nineteen years ago) link

I only hate the English when they are being insufferably smug about being better than us at football/rugby/whatever. And then, it's not so much "hate" as "am jealous of".

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:53 (nineteen years ago) link

do the english hate the french?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 18:01 (nineteen years ago) link

I love the french, with their goose livers and their wild boar.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 18:06 (nineteen years ago) link

I love a woman speaking English in a French accent.

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 18:15 (nineteen years ago) link

I love everything.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:19 (nineteen years ago) link

No you don't. You hate cheese.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't hate the english.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:50 (nineteen years ago) link

do glaswegians hate apple?

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't hate cheese. I don't hate apples.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 00:48 (nineteen years ago) link

OK, but you don't love it either. Therefore YOU ARE A LIAR.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 00:53 (nineteen years ago) link

We're all liars, darling.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 01:08 (nineteen years ago) link

and you all rally around your common hatred of the americans...

― dahlin (dahlin), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 15:41 (nineteen years ago) link

I was thinking about getting an iPod, I think.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 16:01 (nineteen years ago) link

do they make them in america?

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 16:03 (nineteen years ago) link

and cheap too. send ally out to get you one

― dahlin (dahlin), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link

ayePod

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 17:11 (nineteen years ago) link

are there any clubs in glasgow that play reggaeton, baile funk, dancehall all in the same room?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 19:50 (nineteen years ago) link

are there any clubs that play pagodge, forro, ache, batucada all in the same room?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 19:58 (nineteen years ago) link

not as far as I'm aware.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 20:22 (nineteen years ago) link

haha

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 20:33 (nineteen years ago) link

haha

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 20:37 (nineteen years ago) link

zappy would.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 20:38 (nineteen years ago) link

"Yo dude skippy my main man, me did a block bookin and got some of them at 6 pound or less except tomorrow night which was a bit dearer but it was just as easy to book it along with the rest. NOTE SUN 10th April is the 1310 bus out of glasgow as it was only 3 pounds.

SEEYOURAMORRADUDE
Love Dad"

"Yo dude see attached
slappin man!"

haha I love my dad!

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 17 March 2005 01:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Will Glasgow be joining us indeed?

Am I allowed to plug the wee club thingy that I am starting up in Edinburgh this weekend?

It's a treaty at Harthill.

― KeithW (kmw), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 21:59 (nineteen years ago) link

king of commady.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:48 (nineteen years ago) link

My house, Monday, 2pm, Pecan & Honey/French Vanilla Ice Cream, nearly thirty.

― Madchen (Madchen), Saturday, 26 March 2005 13:38 (nineteen years ago) link

You're doing pecan and honey because you found out yesterday I don't eat nuts, aren't you...

(I bought shoes today! In a shoe shop! On a Saturday! What have you done to me?)

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 26 March 2005 13:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Wow. Dot to Dot tonight, in Govan, if anyone wants some rock action. You might even get to see the footie first.

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 26 March 2005 13:51 (nineteen years ago) link

I would like to be going to this. Instead I am going to see Ally's friends The Chalets, in Dublin, for a bit.

― Lara (Lara), Saturday, 26 March 2005 15:05 (nineteen years ago) link

It's a transirishsea night of wonder, to be sure. I hope Lara will be trying Glasgow again, soon.

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 26 March 2005 15:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I forgot an important question when saying I might do a cross-Glasgow dash for Dot to Dot. What will it cost me to get it? My presence hinges on this.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 26 March 2005 15:19 (nineteen years ago) link

if you pay me, a small fee, I will help you understand it.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 26 March 2005 15:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Gratuit.

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 26 March 2005 15:30 (nineteen years ago) link

nuts.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 26 March 2005 15:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Cozen's love don't cost a thing?

― Lara (Lara), Saturday, 26 March 2005 15:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha, "get it". I mean "get in". I may, maybe, make it. Depends on other, family-type commitments (which I shall be on the periphery of as long as there is a TV I can be watching)

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 26 March 2005 15:51 (nineteen years ago) link

bot to bot, more like.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 26 March 2005 16:31 (nineteen years ago) link

I think Keith told me his friends thought I had a nice bot, last night. Unfortunately I think they were all men. "Unfortunately". Haha.

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 26 March 2005 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link

This reminds me of Cook-Ass-Dance-Inferno.

― Lara (Lara), Saturday, 26 March 2005 19:12 (nineteen years ago) link

your bottom is your most overrated feature.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 26 March 2005 21:09 (nineteen years ago) link

ally's, I mean, obviously.

it would quite difficult and pointless to overrate lara's.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 26 March 2005 21:09 (nineteen years ago) link

The way I feel right now, there may not be any Midori left in the whole of Glasgow. Ailsa, I am also making Vanilla (it is not the boring option when I make it).

― Madchen (Madchen), Sunday, 27 March 2005 09:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Your vanilla icecream is teh biz, madchen. Midori, on the other hand, is the drink of Satan.

That pub, last night, was fun. Of sorts. When we went for a taxi outside, we randomly met that white-shellsuit-top guy from Pop League, who was wandering about with his mate looking for the Pearce Institute.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 27 March 2005 10:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, we rounded them up and took them back to Campbell's. Under his jacket, he was wearing a pink cardie!

― Madchen (Madchen), Sunday, 27 March 2005 10:30 (nineteen years ago) link

He was a funny man. Sorry, Glasgow. Dot to Dot were Shit to Shit.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 27 March 2005 15:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Were you as bad as the Soul Men in Brechins, one of whom I may have gone to school with? They were bad.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 27 March 2005 15:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Also, are you playing tomorrow or not?

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 27 March 2005 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link

No, not.

― Madchen (Madchen), Sunday, 27 March 2005 15:23 (nineteen years ago) link

:(

Do you want me to bring BOOZE tomorrow? Or anything else?

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 27 March 2005 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Bring booze please, everyone who is coming.

― Madchen (Madchen), Sunday, 27 March 2005 15:46 (nineteen years ago) link

am I glad I missed bot to bot, on this occasion?

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 27 March 2005 16:32 (nineteen years ago) link

You are always glad.

We were worse than we seemed.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 27 March 2005 16:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Don't have too much ice-cream without me, Glasgow.

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 28 March 2005 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link

It's not quite gone, but it will be, soon.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link

hi glasgow!

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 17:37 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm going to the subcurrent festival next month but i'm only hanging out w/ dopesmokers

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 18:19 (nineteen years ago) link

THE POPE SMOKES DOPE

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 19:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Hi Cozen (I am not Glasgow, but please accept my "hi" in the spirit with which it is offered).

I tried Glasgow on Friday and Saturday. Yay me. I would have tried on Monday too, but I was too tired, sorry Madchen, the combined effort of shoes, shopping, Pop League and Govanaoke was too much for me.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Hope everyone is still alive after that friendly little get together!

― KeefW (kmw), Sunday, 3 April 2005 20:32 (nineteen years ago) link

keith, you peed in the corner of my room. naked. it's ok... I think

unless it was another keith, or it wasn't keith at all.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 3 April 2005 22:25 (nineteen years ago) link

what a world!!!!!!!

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 3 April 2005 22:35 (nineteen years ago) link

the best of all possible.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 3 April 2005 22:36 (nineteen years ago) link

I posted about it, on my blog.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 3 April 2005 22:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Cozen, the Laughing Cavalier.

Keith, the Pissing Somnambulist.

That was a fun party.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 3 April 2005 23:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Highlight of my highlight-free week in Glasgow: last Tuesday, milling around the Food Hall downstairs at M&S, Argyle Street, minding my own business, a middle-aged lady rushes up to me excitedly and asks me (a) if I am "That Actor" and (b) do I know a "Rosemary Purdom" (Google proved unhelpful) who apparently also knows "That Actor." Sadly I could only reply to either question with a courteous, if bemused, negative.

I watched River City that evening and was satisfied that I resembled no one in the cast. Has Mac really been set up by Alice vis-a-vis the child porn or was he a perv to begin with?

Also, and finally, I have no intention of heading for the Bed Shed.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 4 April 2005 09:52 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't know, where it is, your blog, RJG! I would like to read it!

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 4 April 2005 09:56 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm sorry, I don't really have a blog, PJ.


: /

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 4 April 2005 10:09 (nineteen years ago) link

has anyone been to the timorous beasties shop on great western road? i want everything in my house re-covered with glasgow toile.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 4 April 2005 10:16 (nineteen years ago) link

(unfortunately, it's £62/metre.)

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 4 April 2005 10:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, you are a tease, RJG!

It's never too late to start a blog.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 4 April 2005 10:27 (nineteen years ago) link

cozen, the spilling cavalier.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 4 April 2005 11:03 (nineteen years ago) link

you were right, of course, pr:'bali funke'.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 4 April 2005 11:42 (nineteen years ago) link

says who?

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 4 April 2005 11:49 (nineteen years ago) link

there is a song on diplo's 'favela on blast', the guy pronounces it like that. that's not really definitive I suppose cs it cd be singing intonation.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 4 April 2005 11:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Yet again, I totally forgot to try Glasgow more. Why didn't someone remind me. Though if Keith was naked, perhaps it was wise that I stayed away.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 4 April 2005 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I blame the victory.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 4 April 2005 15:49 (nineteen years ago) link

V for Victory

― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 4 April 2005 16:30 (nineteen years ago) link

I just found a copy of Monday's Metro lying round the house. I wouldn't describe Cook as "enigmatic". I forgot to ask you why you are the chosen band for a night dedicated to female-led music?

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 22:40 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm trying my glasgow trip again - fri 4/15 to sun 4/17.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 7 April 2005 12:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Metro? What is that? A homosexual magazine?

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 7 April 2005 12:10 (nineteen years ago) link

haha

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 7 April 2005 12:20 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/images_movie/soundofmusic_56.jpg
Strength doesn't lie in numbers.
Strength doesn't lie in wealth,
Strength lies in nights of pissful slumbers,
When you wake up, wake up! It's healthy!

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 7 April 2005 12:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Winchester. Tonight. There will be homosexuals there, I hope. Do come.

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 9 April 2005 11:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, I have no money since the exhaust just fell off my car. Give me a good reason why I should go (like, tell me who's playing, tell me I can stay at your house, tell me I can get in for nothing and have drinks bought for me all night, etc).

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 9 April 2005 11:50 (nineteen years ago) link

fergie's playing.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 9 April 2005 11:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Barry? Sir Alex? The Duchess of York?

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 9 April 2005 11:58 (nineteen years ago) link

I forgot about Fergie! I have been feeling not that excited about tonight, somehow. Now I am excited about tonight.

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 9 April 2005 12:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I was thinking of visiting but I don't know.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 9 April 2005 13:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Think on.

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 9 April 2005 13:55 (nineteen years ago) link

fergie's playing with what exactly?

― sarahluv, Saturday, 9 April 2005 14:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Wait and see!

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 9 April 2005 14:59 (nineteen years ago) link

I think I will wait and not see, actually.


fergie's hard life is reflected in his hard playing; it's so hard, in fact, that it's impossible.

it's a shame, to miss it.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 9 April 2005 15:03 (nineteen years ago) link

cook! you haven't? have you? bad cook.

i'm tired...i don't know which records to play. bah

― sarahluv, Saturday, 9 April 2005 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link

fergie just sent me a message, asking if I could arrange an electro-acoustic guitar, for them, for tonight, because theirs is broken.

I can't.

can you?

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 9 April 2005 15:19 (nineteen years ago) link

i don't think so.

i am guitarless.

― sarahluv, Saturday, 9 April 2005 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link

anyone is welcome, to try.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 9 April 2005 15:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Glasgow was good to me, tonight. I got to dance to my own song, then Pat Nevin gave me a lift.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 10 April 2005 02:54 (nineteen years ago) link

I read your txt message in my sleep.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 10 April 2005 07:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Theo Parrish anyone? Lauren?

http://www.djbillywoods.com/images/odApr05a.gif

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 10 April 2005 10:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Does Glasgow fancy helping the homeless on Thursday night (14th April)?

My boys Dead City Radio will be joined by very nice people Down the Tiny Steps, The B-Men, Adam Beattie and Therisingson at a benefit we've organised for the Big Issue.

It will take place at Barfly doors at 7pm.

Interested and kindly people can e-mail me for tickets or pay at the door!

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Sunday, 10 April 2005 15:20 (nineteen years ago) link

ally, you met pat nevin? I am online for about a minute, but if you are pub quizzing text me and i will try and convince the mister to come with me...

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 10 April 2005 17:36 (nineteen years ago) link

ailsa, I saw you today. in glasgow central. you were five yards away, I should have shouted. I apologise for not shouting.

hi!

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 10 April 2005 20:39 (nineteen years ago) link

I was in Glasgow Central lots. First time, I was in a hurry, second time I was just ambling and trying to blend in with Hearts fans since I'd just got off a train with about a thousand of them, third time I was a bit tipsy. I didn't see you anyway.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 11 April 2005 05:10 (nineteen years ago) link

jed, i believe ally's band is playing on friday. also, there's an optimo-related fundraiser for sudan relief efforts at the brunswick hotel.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 11 April 2005 09:50 (nineteen years ago) link

"alice band"

― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 11 April 2005 10:10 (nineteen years ago) link

oh, i didnt know about either of those thing lauren. you're going home on sunday? no optimo!!!????!!?!?!?!??!?!??!?!?!??!!!

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 11 April 2005 11:45 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm barred on the order of my boss.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 11 April 2005 11:49 (nineteen years ago) link

but now, you know about those things and can plan accordingly.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 11 April 2005 11:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Did you find a guitar for Fergie?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 11 April 2005 12:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I wondered why she wasn't at the wedding.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 11 April 2005 13:54 (nineteen years ago) link

poor old fergie.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 11 April 2005 13:54 (nineteen years ago) link

I can provide an electric, for what it's worth...

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Monday, 11 April 2005 14:25 (nineteen years ago) link

browsing ths thread just got rid of my hangover. result!

lauren - the brunswick hotel fundraiser is actualy optimo unrelated. however, you should come on sunday for one drink. i can arrange for the doormen to have you escorted from the premises on the stroke of midnight to allieviate any concerns of missing monday. if not, enjoy yr glasgow weekend!

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Monday, 11 April 2005 16:43 (nineteen years ago) link

what is the brunswick thing stir?

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 11 April 2005 16:45 (nineteen years ago) link

The line up at present is as follows;

Penthouse;

B-Ding
The Buff
Papacool
Gospel Choir
*.*
Thcai-ovna
Live Sitar, live trunmpet, percussion etc.

Bar:

Freekmenoovers
Casa Futura
Bebado
LiveVevil
Club69
Franz Ferdinand and Bloc Party DJ sets
Dirty Basement


Club: (all live acts)

The Invisibles
Josephine
Sound Development Agency
Mellow Submachine
+4 other bands still to be confirmed.

Sambayabamba will be playing in the street.
A cinema will be set up in the car park.
Installations/performances from freinds of the chateau.

Tickets will be on sal for £15-00 each
All money will be going to charity. The Sudan appeal at present will receive all the money, although this may be changed prior to the gig.

We are also hoping to have some comedians/poets/maniacs performing between the bands on in the club.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Monday, 11 April 2005 16:52 (nineteen years ago) link

thanks! sounds good.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 11 April 2005 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link

What time are you on at on Friday, oh Dotty one? I have to go out for a work-colleague-type meal at best restaurant in Paisley (yes, I know, but it is really nice, notwithstanding the lack of competition) straight after work, but can be in Glasgow later. But will I get there in time?

I am so out of touch with popular culture, Franz Ferdinand are the only people I have heard of on stirmonster's list. Oh, and Club 69, but only because their flyers are on the counter of the place I buy my lunch. (OK, maybe I am aware of their existence on more levels than that).

I think I may have encountered Samba YaBamba at some point also, but alcohol was probably involved so I've forgotten again. Nice name, though.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 11 April 2005 17:31 (nineteen years ago) link

I am so out of touch with popular culture

join the club! supposedly they're all glaswegnas but i've hardly heard of any of them either. perhaps i should get out more?

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Monday, 11 April 2005 17:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, I missed Bloc Party. I've heard of them too. They aren't Glaswegian though.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 11 April 2005 17:42 (nineteen years ago) link

thanks, for the offer, scotstvo, but the problem must have been solved, I imagine and hope.

I'm going to be in glasgow, tomorrow, for the afternoon, and I will be back for good, for better or worse, from friday.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 11 April 2005 17:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't know when we are on. It opens at 8. Maybe 9 or 10, I suppose. Mr Twitch's things always scare me a little, but I'm sure it will be fun.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 11 April 2005 18:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I will be in glasgow, from thursday.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 11 April 2005 18:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Mr Twitch's things always scare me a little

ha ha! how so?

i wonder how long this thread takes to load on dal up?

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Monday, 11 April 2005 18:16 (nineteen years ago) link

on the internet in india, you mean?

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 11 April 2005 18:17 (nineteen years ago) link

*groan*

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 11 April 2005 18:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, I should be finished pigging out on our company expense account by then. Cozen, I shall rectify our near miss at Central by saying hi to you, if I see you.

(xpost - or maybe not, if you are going to make puns like that)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 11 April 2005 18:20 (nineteen years ago) link

that should of course have read 'dial up' and above should have read 'glaswegians'.

my poor wee computer's keyboard is dying.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Monday, 11 April 2005 18:25 (nineteen years ago) link

there's an h in dhal

stir, go to settings at the bottom of the page and check the box where it asks you something like "display last 50 answers only"

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 11 April 2005 18:28 (nineteen years ago) link

also good for the monster kompakt etc threads on ilm (you can override that option at any point an each thread).

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 11 April 2005 18:29 (nineteen years ago) link

thanks for the tip jed! i should have sussed that years ago.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Monday, 11 April 2005 18:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Mr Twitch's things always scare me because they are established as very cool and are full of very cool people and I am not very cool. But I have learned to not be scared of lots of other things, over the years, so it's OK. I have also learned that not being cool is not necessarily a barrier.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 11 April 2005 22:40 (nineteen years ago) link

ally cool

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 11 April 2005 22:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Richie Rich.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 11 April 2005 22:59 (nineteen years ago) link

you're trying to refute my claim by making a completely outrageous counter-claim?

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 11 April 2005 23:02 (nineteen years ago) link

being cool is the pits, don't be cool, be interesting!

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 11 April 2005 23:08 (nineteen years ago) link

or if you can't be interesting just be nice!

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 11 April 2005 23:08 (nineteen years ago) link

and if you can't be either just be quiet and mysterious.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 11 April 2005 23:09 (nineteen years ago) link

people trying to be cool or thinking they are cool has always bewildered me as it just seems such a waste of energy. perhaps i'm subconciously jealous as i'm a blundering uncool bufoon. i sometimes think you are either born cool or uncool and in general the 'cool' gene is pretty scarce in scotland. this might be a good thing.

another thing that bewilders me is when people go to a club / bar etc. because they think it is the 'cool' place to go. what an odd reason to base your night out choice on.

jed is pretty cool though and manages to carry it off quite pleasantly.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Monday, 11 April 2005 23:26 (nineteen years ago) link

and also unable to spell buffoon. good spelling skllz r cool.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Monday, 11 April 2005 23:29 (nineteen years ago) link

aw man... :)

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 11 April 2005 23:40 (nineteen years ago) link

coolness can stop you from doing all the things in life you'd like to.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 13:07 (nineteen years ago) link

I think I may have encountered Samba YaBamba at some point

They played a pre-match thing at Celtic Park, shortly after we signed Rafael Scheidt. You may have erased this period from your memory.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 13:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Most people seem to have encountered Samba Ya Bamba at some point. I saw them at an International Refugee Week party, or maybe it was One World Week. I think G4vin Dunb4r may hate them more than any band on the face of the earth.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 13:17 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah they totally do my tits in as well.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 13:23 (nineteen years ago) link

the name doesn't inspire confidence.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 13:25 (nineteen years ago) link

There is quite a lot of pressure I think in the Spanish department to like Sambayabamba. All the social events seem to revolve around them, somehow, and all the staff and the students go on about how amazing they are. I have managed to avoid them so far.

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 14:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, thanks Gerry, I think that was where I saw them, and why I have chosen to forget them. They were probably also involved in my one and only excursion into Glasgow at Hogmanay, but the sheer volume of alcohol that was needed to get me into Glasgow City Council's idea of organised fun would mean I wouldn't remember that either.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:30 (nineteen years ago) link

the only time I ever went to the hive I encountered sambayabamya.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:37 (nineteen years ago) link

As if going to The Dive wasn't bad enough in itself...(although I can't remember hearing Sambayabamba, I'm taking it as read that they are rubbish)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Who the fuck are Sambayabamba?

I looked in my wallet today and saw that I had a ticket for ESG, which I'd forgotten about. So that's good! (possibly).

I think I base my uncoolness on not having any idea what 'micro-house' means. Dastoor knows. He's coming over in a sec. I will try to steal his cool.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 17:22 (nineteen years ago) link

sambayabamya.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 17:32 (nineteen years ago) link

I wouldn't worry about not knowing who Sambayabamba are, since they so bad they are playing in the street outside the venue. Imagine being so bad that are you booked to not be in the venue, AND STILL AGREEING TO DO IT. I bet they're not as good as Murdoch, Jackson, Martin, Cooke and my old upstairs neighbour outside Bowlie.

I'm glad its not just me who doesn't know stuff about anything. I don't care about "cool" (I've just typed "cook" three times whilst trying to type "cool", but I don't mean it Al, honest), but I don't like it when whole big bunches of everything pass me by.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 17:48 (nineteen years ago) link

SambaYaBamba - Brazilian Rhythms, Glasgow Style!

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 18:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, God.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 18:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Today, Dot to Dot were described in the Metro as "belle and sebastian endorsed".

Tomorrow (in fact, later on today), alcohol permitting, I shall be trying Glasgow more.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:25 (nineteen years ago) link

I will try glasgow, more, today.

what time are the festivities?

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 15 April 2005 06:06 (nineteen years ago) link

festivities for the restivities!

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 15 April 2005 06:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Wear your endorsement with pride, Dotters!

When will we have Dot to Dot recordings? I'm surprised Mooro isn't distributing them yet. I think his label should be called Professor Mooro Arty.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 15 April 2005 07:11 (nineteen years ago) link

sot to sot.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 15 April 2005 07:36 (nineteen years ago) link

My several requests to Cookie96 for recorded product have been studiously, lively and steadfastly ignored.

He can dance to his song in a club but I can neither dance nor sing, nor get my pained ass up to a place to hear him play.

Sigh.

He is just too big a cool pop star for me now, I guess.

― Mooro (Mooro), Friday, 15 April 2005 10:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Our time will come, Mooro.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 15 April 2005 11:59 (nineteen years ago) link

doors open at 8. don't be late. or you just might not get in, what with all this crazy metro publicity and hype. woo! plus, you'd miss my amazing DJ debut. god forbid...

― dahlin (dahlin), Friday, 15 April 2005 12:02 (nineteen years ago) link

I am trying Glasgow mayer next week. I think I get over on Friday, and go home on Monday evening. Maybe Optimo on Sunday too? Any other stuff on?

I'm looking forward to it.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 15 April 2005 12:14 (nineteen years ago) link

optimo should be a given fercryinoutloud. other stuff? yeah Tony Conrad and Wolf Eyes! i'm looking forward to seeing you.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 15 April 2005 12:28 (nineteen years ago) link

when are dot to dot?

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 15 April 2005 12:29 (nineteen years ago) link

what is happening tonight anyway? i'm going to listen to theo parrish but when and where are you meeting and what time and how much does it cost to look at ally c?

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 15 April 2005 12:31 (nineteen years ago) link

arse! i'm going to miss tony conrad and wolf eyes as i will be in sunny dundee. ronan - you should deffo come to optimo and get a jed hug™. they're grrrreat!

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Friday, 15 April 2005 12:31 (nineteen years ago) link

oh the "maybe" was only directed at you Glaswegians, I certainly intend to go, Saturday may be a day of R and R.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 15 April 2005 12:34 (nineteen years ago) link

I found out.

ronan, ISS.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 15 April 2005 12:39 (nineteen years ago) link

wolf eyes, ronan, and optimo, all in the one weekend!

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 15 April 2005 12:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Glasgow is going to break the band for the next 3 weekends.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 15 April 2005 12:41 (nineteen years ago) link

It should be noted that Tim H arrives in Glasgow on 22nd April.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 15 April 2005 12:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Ah that's great! Tim H too!

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 15 April 2005 13:01 (nineteen years ago) link

all this weekend needs now is ferrero rocher!

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 15 April 2005 13:06 (nineteen years ago) link

toblerone carte d'or

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 15 April 2005 13:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Don't forget that all Popkins activities must be planned around a possible trip to Carlisle! Who are playing at Burton this week, I believe, so they'll be bouyed up by a comfortable victory prior to the Exetr game.

Oh look, I missed an 'e' out of Exeter! Now they look like a Primal Scream B side.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 15 April 2005 13:54 (nineteen years ago) link

They should make XTR t-shirts. They'd make a fortune.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 15 April 2005 14:08 (nineteen years ago) link

so, what's the 411?

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 15 April 2005 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link

lauren and teamy are at stereo, waiting for a friend.

ally and me and cathy and patrick are in THE GOAT but there's nowhere to sit.

bot to bot are on stage at 9:30. does anyone, except them, care?


just kidding.

ally is crying, now.

― RJG at THE GOAT, Friday, 15 April 2005 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link

awww...damn the tube strike :(

― sarahluv, Friday, 15 April 2005 22:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Ally is the Bez of Dot to Dot. Cathy's new hair is ace. No-one came to Pin-up Nights but you all lose because it means you didn't get to dance to Mr Blue Sky. We gave up on it eventually, went downstairs to the real Fury Murrys and danced to Guns'n'Roses and Tiffany and Madonna and stuff instead.

Cozen, if you see this, I have a great big stinking hangover, but I may still be going for a hair-of-the-dog type recovery pint. I'll phone you if I don't die before then.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 16 April 2005 08:23 (nineteen years ago) link

thanks for the mobile broadcast, ailsa!

― ken c (ken c), Saturday, 16 April 2005 08:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Thanks, ailsa. I think I have decided to like my hair, or at least to stop whining about it. Although when I woke up this morning it looked scarily like ihttp://www.gokuboso.com/blog/archives/chucky.jpg

― Cathy (Cathy), Saturday, 16 April 2005 08:55 (nineteen years ago) link

my phone died, ailsa.

I'm sorry I couldn't receive your call, if you called.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 16 April 2005 11:03 (nineteen years ago) link

i want to see Cathy's hair!

― ken c (ken c), Saturday, 16 April 2005 11:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I washed it and now I look like this again.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/graphics/2001/03/08/ecnmod08.jpeg

― Cathy (Cathy), Saturday, 16 April 2005 11:14 (nineteen years ago) link

The upside is that Ally Cook is a very lovely man, today.

― Passive Little Mooro (Mooro), Saturday, 16 April 2005 19:07 (nineteen years ago) link

I see how long this thread is and feel like trying Glasgow again, even.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Saturday, 16 April 2005 22:33 (nineteen years ago) link

I didn't mean he looked like Bez, rather that his role is to dance inconsquentially shaking a tambourine whilst others do the difficult stuff. (this may only be for one song, however, he does do stuff the rest of the time).

Cozen, I texted you after the match to apologise for not phoning you before it. You'll find out if your phone resurrects itself. I didn't know it had died, my condolences.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 17 April 2005 11:06 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.kasule.co.uk/kasuleadvert.jpg

I might be trying this, in Glasgow.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Sunday, 17 April 2005 11:26 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm trying the extreme music from Finland next Friday myself.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Sunday, 17 April 2005 12:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I would like to go to that. But then I would also like to go to the other thing, RJG has told me.

I do sing a chorus too, on that song. It's not completely inconsequential. I can't do difficult things.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 17 April 2005 16:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes you can, you can spell inconsequential, which is more than I can manage, apparently.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 17 April 2005 19:58 (nineteen years ago) link

I met Cozen at Dolly Mixture. He was rather freaked out!
That was a cool night. Three cheers for Sharon and her team and Dot To Dot!

― Stew (stew s), Sunday, 17 April 2005 21:30 (nineteen years ago) link

I didn't meet Lauren at Dolly Mixture, but I stood next to her for a bit without knowing who she was, and RJG said "Have you met Lauren" but she left. Oh well.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 17 April 2005 21:37 (nineteen years ago) link

it was nice to meet you, stew.

I was a little freaked out, but good freaked.

it was nice to meet you, too, lauren.

hi nick!

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 18 April 2005 09:28 (nineteen years ago) link

thank you for the book. it made the ride home that much more pleasant.

at this point, i fear that i'll never meet jed.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 18 April 2005 09:58 (nineteen years ago) link

It is remarkable and good that Dot to Dot get so much better as time goes by without ever actually hearing them. I feel sorry for thsoe of you who have heard them and cannot share in my joy and amazement at their improvement.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 18 April 2005 10:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I have got an mp3, of Dot to Dot!

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 18 April 2005 12:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Go on, tell them all you described it as

"superior jingle-jangle with a manic edge."


Some cookie96 fans would probably prefer their edges more Manc than Manics.

― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 18 April 2005 13:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, I thought it was going to be post-punk angular funk, like The Pop Group or something. But it now transpires that it is in fact superior jingle-jangle with a manic edge. Identifiably Glaswegian, I thought, kind of like The Sound of Young Scotland with senile dementia. I'm not surprised Murdoch likes it, the self-perpertuating ponce. Is Cookie96(tears) singing? I thought the chorus was very good. Well done, Dot to Dot. I think you should get a SUPPORT SLOT.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 18 April 2005 14:08 (nineteen years ago) link

On Friday, we supported ourselves. Quite successfully. We will almost certainly come to London this summer. Begin the preparations.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 18 April 2005 16:16 (nineteen years ago) link

sorry i missed you lauren. my excuse is boring as well as rubbish so i'll spare you it.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 18 April 2005 16:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Come to Maidenhead! Captive audience at Smokey Joe's!

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 11:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Am I right that Maaaaster Haaaapkins is coming to Glasgow on Friday?

― KeefW (kmw), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 17:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Haaapkins begins the Devonian crusade in two moons time I believe.

I would like an MP3 of dot to dot, I think it would be a hoot

― Porkpie (porkpie), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 18:04 (nineteen years ago) link

He gets in Friday lunchtime I think, and I can't leave work until four so if anyone without a job wants to entertain him for a bit please feel free.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 18:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Cool. I won't be drinking cider, but I will visit; although I do have a job so it'll be later. Maybe a cider-drinking crusty could entertain him by juggling, in the meantime. Can we assume 'plans' will be posted here?

― KeefW (kmw), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 18:09 (nineteen years ago) link

I would like to take Tim to the Steps on Glassford Street. Probably just for one, because I think it's a Tennents pub, but I think he'll appreciate the decor.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 18:29 (nineteen years ago) link

One Step closer to Belhaven.

I know. I know.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 20:32 (nineteen years ago) link

!

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 07:39 (nineteen years ago) link

wow. it's freezing here so any heat would be an improvement.

I get over on Friday morning at about 9, such are the times of cheap flights.

Is Tim going to come to the Arches?

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 08:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't know. There is football in Carlisle the next day, so bedtimes may have to be taken into account if he's feeling old and codgerish. Shall I text him?

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 09:11 (nineteen years ago) link

what are you doing during the day on friday, ro?

I get home thursday night.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 10:20 (nineteen years ago) link

my back hurts.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 10:24 (nineteen years ago) link

football update:

Exeter can still reach the playoffs IF:

1. they beat Carlisle
2. any two of Morecombe, Aldershot and Stevenage don't win and/or also that Woking don't win by more than 4 goals than we do...

Exeter have the hardest game of the five teams fighting for the last two play-off slots...

i don't think i'm speaking out of turn to say that Mr H will definitely be attending said match...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 10:28 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't support Exeter, but I will keep my mouth shut :)

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 11:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Will Rozen/Conan be in the pub on Friday afternoon? That would be an incentive to leave work early, perhaps.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 11:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Ronan. where are you staying?

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 12:02 (nineteen years ago) link

turns out I have an interview at 9.30 on friday, in aberdeen.

I should be in glasgow before, hopefully, 3pm.

afternoon pub is plausible. bagsy being conan.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 13:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Mayer tickets are only £10 in advance (if paid with cash) from the Arches. I might go and get some after work. Who wants me to get one for them?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 13:33 (nineteen years ago) link

me, please.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 13:35 (nineteen years ago) link

I am staying in my sister's, it's here

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=254943&y=667551&z=1&sv=woodcroft+avenue&st=6&tl=Woodcroft+Avenue,+Glasgow,+G_11&searchp=newsearch.srf&mapp=newmap.srf

where is here? pretty central I guess.

I think pub on Friday afternoon would be good, though maybe not all day until the Arches.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 13:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Here is West End, not too far from town.

Nick, I suppose you should get me a ticket too. Is anyone going out to watch the footie tonight? I might.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Ronan, I work in the big yellow gap to the left of Chamberlain Road in the top left square! I would invite you to join me on the number 44 into town, but I suspect you'll have been in the pub for a couple of hours by then.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I may be back home again, I don't know it's hard to plan!

Is it a bus journey away then? Or taxi? I really can't wait for this little trip, I haven't been away for a weekend in 9 months or so.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:29 (nineteen years ago) link

sorry I mean, I may be back at my sister's, after a few hours, on my way back in!

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Nick, I suppose you should get me a ticket too.

Such enthusiasm in one so old!

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Pl keep other out-of-towners posted abt the pub venue on Friday - I'm off to see the hairy Finnish hippies in the evening, but it wld be nice to have a drink w/ the ILX diaspora in the afternoon - cheers

I trust everyone who has posted on this thread is going to see Double Leopards and Wolf Eyes on Saturday

― Andrew L w/ a fucked password, Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:32 (nineteen years ago) link

it is a bit away from the underground line. there are buses, yes, or trains, even. it is a bit away from the centre centre--it'd be a fair old walk. not too far from the west end, proper, though.

I hope I feel better, by the weekend.

get me a ticket, please, nick.

: (

crossposts

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:33 (nineteen years ago) link

The 44 will take you into town in about 20 minutes - you could get it on Crow Road or Clarence Drive. Cheaper than a taxi at one pound! And it's quite a nice ride, past the other university and a dinosaur.

Anyway, haven't heard from Tim yet. He is obviously a diligent worker.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:49 (nineteen years ago) link

I should add that if anyone wants my mobile number who hasn't got it, email me at lucyalder c/o google's email service.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:51 (nineteen years ago) link

optimo

Sunday April 24th - Jeans Team

We have a late addition for this Sunday and are delighted to welcome the return of electronic pop maestros JEANS TEAM from Berlin. They last appeared at Optimo back in the day when Optimo was temporarily residing at Mas and were most, most excellent. You can see some crazy clips of them playing live and the video to their current single 'Oh Bauer' on the downloads page of their site. Great, great fun and only a quid extra!


i'm going to see wolf eyes/tony conrad on saturday i think.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:52 (nineteen years ago) link

I had a dream about Tony Conrad.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 15:16 (nineteen years ago) link

it would quite difficult and pointless to overrate lara's [bum].

Oi!

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 16:27 (nineteen years ago) link

I cannot skive off work early, but we are having booze at work so will be suitably lubricated and can be in Glasgow by about half five. Can someone text me and tell me what pub you are in, or I will have to spend some of my last-week-before-payday money on top-up credit rather than booze.

I'm going out to watch the football tonight, Ally, but not in Glasgow. You can come to Paisley and watch it with me if you like!

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 16:32 (nineteen years ago) link

get well, soon, rich.

wolf eyes and optimo is so enticing.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 16:54 (nineteen years ago) link

thanks, cozen, and sorry, lara.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 17:04 (nineteen years ago) link

OK, have heard from Tim, who is planning to be (dum dum daaaaa) off the wagon this weekend. I also don't have to be at work until 10 o'clock on Monday, so might be amenable to more ruin than usual on Sunday night :-/

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 21 April 2005 08:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Hello! I am looking forward to trying Glasgow's patience more in around 24 hours.

It is my intention to see a bit of art on Friday afternoon, but that's thirsty work and so I'm betting I'll be ready to darken the doors of some alehouse or other before work kicking-out time.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 21 April 2005 09:03 (nineteen years ago) link

HI DERE! I GO GLASGOW!

I'm in town Friday & Saturday, possibly Sunday too (though I may be going to Edinburgh to discuss urgent & key issues with my real friends). I'm going to the prog rock gigs in the CCA on Friday and Saturday. What's this sunday gig about? Do I need to tell my friends in Edinburgh to shag off and go to it instead?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 21 April 2005 09:45 (nineteen years ago) link

jeans team were really, really fun when i saw them a few years ago. i would imagine they'd be even more so in the optimo atmosphere.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 21 April 2005 10:33 (nineteen years ago) link

oooh it's a veritable invasion this weekend! i wanna play! and drink! lots! preferably friday afternoon. i'll actually be in town and available from about 2pm, if anyone needs entertaining. not like i know any of the new arrivals, but as my gran used to say, there aren't any strangers, just friends you haven't met yet. actually, she never said that, but i read it on a bus once. so yeah. keep me in the loop yo.

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 21 April 2005 12:31 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't have my mobile phone.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:50 (nineteen years ago) link

well, that's pretty silly.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 21 April 2005 14:10 (nineteen years ago) link

It seems that the art I'm going to see is in a kind of long, shallow triangular area with the CCA, St Margaret's Place / Bridgegate and Central Station as its points.

Someone should name a place at which we can congregate on Friday afternoon, if we wish to. Shouldn't they?

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 21 April 2005 15:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Someone possibly should. But I suppose we have to make sure that people will not be waiting around by themselves for hours in a pub if no one else is there. Will have a think.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 21 April 2005 15:41 (nineteen years ago) link

I have just listened to my second Dot to Dot recording, 'Dusty Cover'. It is more angular funk than the first one. My only criticism is that I can't imagine any members of Dot to Dot not wanting to be anybody's lover. I bet they're all straining at the leash at the slightest whiff of loverdom. Unless it is a song about a bag lady or some other form of fleabag. They would have a dusty cover.

Tim, you can see Whistler's brushes in Glasgow, if you haven't already.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 21 April 2005 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm amenable to getting pissed up on both Friday and possibly even Sunday since I am ON HOLIDAY for the next two weeks.

Let's get ready to rumble!

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 16:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I am sick as a parrot that I'm not going to be in Glasgow this weekend! When's the next Dot to Dot thingummy? Is Renfrew street prepared for another invasion?

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 21 April 2005 16:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Hey, I hear it's a Rangers-Celtic match day on Sunday.

PREPARE TO BE DESTROYED, UNDERRACE SUPPORTERS OF AN INFERIOR TEAM.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 21 April 2005 17:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha, Cook, I think he's talking to you.

Can someone do a plan already, I am ILX-less at work.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 17:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Just think Lara, all of Glasgow will be sick as parrakeets when you enjoy your girlie weekend in Madchester.

I bet at least one of you three buys a pair of shoes ...

Shit! I though that that .2. track was an interpretation of a Dusty Springfield song!

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 21 April 2005 17:37 (nineteen years ago) link

If I were you, I'd rewrite the song to exploit that lyrical ambiguity, Cook. As it stands, PJ Miller's criticism is devastating.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:06 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm probably going to that Caribou/Kasule gig I mentioned upthread. If I get to finish work early enough it would be nice to meet some ilx people trying Glasgow for a quick drink beforehand.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:12 (nineteen years ago) link

The Herald says Dot To Dot are a "handsome Glasgow indie 'boy' band".

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Funny, that's exactly what the List said too.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link

is that what it says on their press release?

i look forward to hott london .2. action :)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 21 April 2005 19:38 (nineteen years ago) link

.2. looks like a member of the 'handsome' 'Glasgow' 'indie' 'boy' 'band' upside-down.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link

where, on friday? and when!

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 21 April 2005 19:57 (nineteen years ago) link

I've been asking that! No-one is telling (or else they are arranging stuff elsewhere and I'm not allowed to come out to play but everyone's too scared to tell me to my face)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 19:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Tim,

I look forward to this. I haven't seen you since Bowlie!

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 19:59 (nineteen years ago) link

glasgow disorganised? who'da thort it...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, normally Glasgow is well ahead of the game... I'm thinking of things like tuberculosis vaccinations and so on.

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Also, does Glasgow know their underground system is on strike tomorrow? So no poncey west end pubs plz.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:12 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't mind sitting on my own in the pub, as long as sitting alone (with an English accent) doesn't result in violence against my person. However, since I don't know any boozers in Glasgow I am relying on you to name a place where I can pleasantly and safely sit and wait and maybe meet some of you all. Any chance?

I am sure I'll be ready for the pub by half four at the latest.

Keith I *must* have seen you since Bowlie! I haven't learned anything about ROCK since I last saw you, by the way, except what you and PJM have taught me.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:16 (nineteen years ago) link

You realise that you've just set yourself up for a few lectures at the university of ROCK after a few pints?

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't be arsed sending this to the UK general election thread, but I'm finding it particularly funny that the UKIP says it's not a problem that Joan Collins has stopped supporting them because they've got Rustie Lee standing as a candidate!

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:22 (nineteen years ago) link

(xpost)
As long as you don't mind auditing a MSc course at the Polytechnic of P!O!P!

I can't wait.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:25 (nineteen years ago) link

I wouldn't expect anything less!

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:26 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't finish till 6 and have to go home briefly before I come out. Err.. go out.

You have my mobile number, Tim, so call me if no one else is around and you need pub advice.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:33 (nineteen years ago) link

OK. Tim is putting the squeeze on.

The Drum And Monkey, St Vincent Street, handily across the street from my work.

OK?

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:35 (nineteen years ago) link

I've been putting the squeeze on, but not as effectively as Tim, obviously.

Last time I was in the Drum and Monkey with Ally C, they were playing Momus.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Won't all the city centre pubs be a bit unpleasantly packed on a Friday evening?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, so we may as well just choose any one and be done with it. Like Ailsa said, no tube to get west end and most folk will be in town anyway.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I was thinking of THE CARNAVON.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:49 (nineteen years ago) link

THE CARNARVON, rather.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Carnarvon = pain in the arse for me to get to. Therefore I'm ruling it out for everyone else too, because I'm like that.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, OK. Drum & Momus it is then.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:53 (nineteen years ago) link

I think Tim is more built for squeezing than Ailsa. I also think that he would appreciate the Carnarvon's style.

Are the buses & cabs on strike too?

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:55 (nineteen years ago) link

No, but they brought in immigrants to drive them. It's very dangerous.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Is there not somewhere in town that is like the Carnarvon, maybe? (I can only think of about six pubs in Glasgow city centre and they are all a bit rubbish). Can we please not go to that place with the inappropriately-named cocktails and poncy candles that we went to with the pinefox, please? That, and ease of me getting there from Central Station without having to spend any more money than is strictly necessary, would be my criteria. But it's not my choice, is it?

We could go somewhere rubbish that after-work-type people don't go, like Fat Boab's Alehouse, or Times Square, or that pub opposite where Tower Records used to be.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:59 (nineteen years ago) link

The Carnarvon is in town! Even from Central Station, it's only 20 mins walk. Maybe I walk fast.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:02 (nineteen years ago) link

I think we should stick with the D&M. That way, if it's packed and we get into a fight, we can blame Cook.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Town = not over the motorway from Charing Cross. I hate walking. Oh, go to the sodding Carnarvon, I'll get the bus.

(xpost, or that)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:04 (nineteen years ago) link

(N.B. *I* am an after-work-type person!)

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, you know what I mean. Actually, given that it's been six years since I last worked in an office with more than four people in it, I have no idea what the drinks-after-work crowd is any more. I know I go to old men's pubs in Paisley after work as the bigger pubs are full of the kind of people I think I mean.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:07 (nineteen years ago) link

(girls who drink pitchers of brightly-coloured things that come with straws, and guys who end up with their ties tied round their heads - maybe they don't exist outside Renfrewshire anymore)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Hey - *I'm* a guy who ends up with his tie tied round my head!

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:19 (nineteen years ago) link

His head. Hang on, whose head?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:20 (nineteen years ago) link

isn't the carnarvon no more? or perhaps i just dreamt that.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Can this be true?? I was only there... about six months ago.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Alba, you're a big fat thin liar.

I wouldn't be sad if the Carnarvon wasn't there anymore.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Anyway - let's settle on the D&M, yes?

Stirmonster - I heard you lost a toss for tomorrow! As I typed that, 'The Sky Was Pink' came onto a mix I was listening to...

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Me, on a typical Friday night:

http://index.hu/cikkepek/0501/kult/rambo.jpg

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:28 (nineteen years ago) link

I shall expect nothing less.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Googling "tie head" threw up this excellent example.

http://www.carlofamily.org/photoalbums/domcinweddingpics/picspages/images/eric_tie_head.jpg

I will attempt to be in the Drum & Monkey around teatime, though I don't know what anyone looks like.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:40 (nineteen years ago) link

word about my tossing activities spreads fast alba! i am getting more sure that last time i passed the carnarvon it wasn't there any more. just not 100% sure yet.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Alba will have a tie tied round his head. Simple yet effective recognition tool! It can be like the upside-down-badge of ILX.

(xpost)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link

The woman behind is doing her best to look unimpressed.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link

That's a wedding photo? Dullest wedding reception EVER!

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Where is the Carnarvon?

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Unless you mean Wales...

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Dull? He has a tie around his head!

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:01 (nineteen years ago) link

I guess, there's a guy in a shiny shirt too. It's F!U!N!. Whoo! (let's discount the fact that there doesn't appear to have been anyone anywhere near any of the other tables in the background so either no-one has been coming near tie dude all night, or else he's having that much fun before anyone else even gets there)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:04 (nineteen years ago) link

I will attempt to be in the Drum & Monkey around teatime, though I don't know what anyone looks like.

Me, some moments ago:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/albaalba/ilx/tiehead.jpg

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha,

That'll help

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Anyone going to the Plan B night at Sleazy's on Fri?
Christ! Red Well! The Magnificents!
Should be ace and it's only £4!

― Stew (stew s), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:10 (nineteen years ago) link

As long as you turn up looking like that...

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:10 (nineteen years ago) link

That's nothing like you, yet it is, somehow. That tie also bears an uncanny resemblance to the curtains in my primary school assembly hall.

Onimo, you posted on a photo thread. Therefore if you wear a Celtic shirt and surround yourself with small excited children, you will be recognisable!

I might not be there until after six now, due to having to go for a pint in Paisley with a work colleague.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:13 (nineteen years ago) link

OK... It's the drum and monkey I see. I'll be over about 8 or so I guess. Nick, can you let me know by text if you're going somewhere else? Cheers.

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:14 (nineteen years ago) link

The Carnarvon is not the Carnarvon, it is now called Oscar Slaters.

OK, D&M it is. I will be there at 4.30-5pm.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Talking of Paisley, I'm listening to Gerry Rafferty's 'Night Owl'.

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Btw, that is my favourite picture of Dastoor ever.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:17 (nineteen years ago) link

I was hoping that everyone would post a picture of themselves with a 'tie head', for Gerry's benefit.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:20 (nineteen years ago) link

(NB. not Gerry Rafferty's benefit)

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:21 (nineteen years ago) link

I was hoping you did requests and you could do a black and white minstrel show thing

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Good work team! Proper little Steering Committee! Look forward to seeing you tomorrow.

Onimo, I'll be the disgusting, drooling drunk whose alcohol tolerance has crumbled under the wheels of a particularly large wagon. I'm deliberately not packing a tie.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Good work Tim! That'll make you easily recognizable in a pub on a Friday night.

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:31 (nineteen years ago) link

I was hoping you did requests and you could do a black and white minstrel show thing

I might do that at the Gerry Rafferty benefit (in the back room of Oscar Slaters, Saturday).

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:33 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't get this 'Gerry Rafferty Benefit' thing... Can you fill me in?

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:34 (nineteen years ago) link

No, but here's a picture of Tim:

http://www.nodata.org/honey/sinister/people/TimPopkins.jpg

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Ha!

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:36 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't have any photos of me, but I look a bit like this, sometimes.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v710/muppetbaby/southpark.bmp

If anyone links to any pictures of me on Sinister, I'll stab them.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Which begs the question: who is best at Pinteresque pauses these days?

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:37 (nineteen years ago) link

(he was talking about Wolf Eyes, btw)

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:37 (nineteen years ago) link

x-post

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:37 (nineteen years ago) link

I thought he was talking about Dot to Dot.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:38 (nineteen years ago) link

This is me:

http://www.kmwatson.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/me.jpg

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I certainly think .2. should include more Pinteresque pauses in their set. Many more.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Keith, have you seen the national Pop League photos for last month? There's one that I'm pretty sure is you http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/groups/g_4987371/NPL40+250305/4015.jpg?bcI4DaCBQM.3PDPc

I also think that's the back of my head in the foreground.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Hmm, not sure... I look as though I'm dancing with the crusty guy I argued with at Ally's party. So maybe not... The face looks right, but not sure about the ears. Don't know!

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I was hoping you'd have one of me with arms in the air on the stage!

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:43 (nineteen years ago) link

A member of Dot to Dot Juniors:

ihttp://www.nodata.org/honey/sinister/people/AllyBeach.jpg

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:43 (nineteen years ago) link

damn.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Is Matt a crusty guy? Also, do you even remember arguing with anyone at Ally's party?

They aren't my photos, they are off the NPL yahoo group. I'm just glad there isn't one of me jumping up and down to My Sharona.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Actually, no... Matt is not. But there was another guy who looks like Matt I argued with.

The song 'My Sharona' was the highlight of the night. And maybe my life.

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link

ally hasn't had a party, this year.

I wonder why!!

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh yes! Sorry... Richard's party!

Bedtime anyway... Catch you lot tomorrow.

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link

I know who he means. I think it is stretching it to say he is crusty. He's very tall though.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link

See you, Keef!

RJG - are you feeling better yet?

I have 4 tickets for BRWHBTW.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:49 (nineteen years ago) link

I do feel a little bit better, thank you.

since it only really hurts when I nod, I should be fine, to hang out, with you lot.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Jings, crivvens, help ma boab etc, it's really late and I've got to get up and go and do shopping on my way into work!

See you at the Drum & Monkey, people.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:51 (nineteen years ago) link

See you at the Drum & People, monkeys.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:56 (nineteen years ago) link

why aren't we going to the carnarvon? oh, well.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Don't interlude now, Gillanders.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 21 April 2005 23:17 (nineteen years ago) link

well done.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 22 April 2005 06:27 (nineteen years ago) link

It would break my heart to see the Carnarvon now it has become Oscar Slaters. I'm pretending it never existed. See you in the Drum and Monkey then!

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 22 April 2005 07:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I was surprised to hear from diehard Carnarvon fans (i.e. Gav) that Oscar Slater's is, if anything, an IMPROVEMENT!

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 22 April 2005 08:02 (nineteen years ago) link

But they CHANGED THE NAME to SOMETHING CRAP!

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 22 April 2005 08:36 (nineteen years ago) link

when is the earliest person getting to the drum & the monkey?

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 22 April 2005 08:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I just got a job at marks & sparks.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 22 April 2005 08:45 (nineteen years ago) link

HAHA no way.

Oscar Slater's may be crap but at least it is HISTORICAL.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 22 April 2005 08:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Well done, Cozen. I got one too, but I chickened out because I would have had to listen to Christmas carols for six weeks. They had a lot of targets and stuff up on the walls backstage. Sales targets, not dartboards. Did you have to go out and accost a member of the public as part of your interview? I didn't like that bit, I felt like a twat.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 22 April 2005 09:02 (nineteen years ago) link

this "oscar slater's" news is disturbing.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 22 April 2005 09:17 (nineteen years ago) link

this "oscar slater's" news is old news. where have you been?

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 22 April 2005 09:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I felt like a twat too, PJ.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 22 April 2005 09:55 (nineteen years ago) link

I've been lots of places.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 22 April 2005 09:55 (nineteen years ago) link

I will recognise ailsa easily, she appears to be my wife.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 22 April 2005 10:08 (nineteen years ago) link

HABEMUS FAPAM

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 22 April 2005 11:40 (nineteen years ago) link

This is an unexpected turn.

I may bring a person, or two, from work, for a bit. Please try not to scare them.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 22 April 2005 11:44 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm already at the drum and monkey. no, i'm not. but nearly. i'm a few doors down the street at easyeverything or easyinternet or whatever the hell it's called, bored out of my skull, trying to be OCCUPIED. so the earlier the better for me. besides the fact that i, too, have just landed not only a new ace JOB but also a new ace FLAT with such luxuries as an american size stainless steel fridge and dishwasher! crazy! so let's get drinkin already!
are these the screaming 'ally is love machine' workmates you planted in the front row at your latest gig?

― dahlin (dahlin), Friday, 22 April 2005 12:49 (nineteen years ago) link

WHEN. IS. THE. PARTY. ?.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 22 April 2005 13:06 (nineteen years ago) link

I've been lots of places.

why did you go to Salt Lake City?

― $V£N! (blueski), Friday, 22 April 2005 13:08 (nineteen years ago) link

did i mention the new place is located smack dab between hubbards and the woodside? dangerous! party will be soooooooooon. you'll be the first invited ms juicy!

― dahlin (dahlin), Friday, 22 April 2005 13:17 (nineteen years ago) link

isn't smack dab between hubbards and the woodside, er, in the river?

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Friday, 22 April 2005 16:25 (nineteen years ago) link

FAP on a raft.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 22 April 2005 16:31 (nineteen years ago) link

I went to salt lake city.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 22 April 2005 19:25 (nineteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v384/lucyald/fap.jpg

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 22 April 2005 21:21 (nineteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v384/lucyald/fap2.jpg

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 22 April 2005 21:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Who's the guy in the photo with the ace quiff?

― New to town, Saturday, 23 April 2005 06:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Thank you for not posting that picture of the side of my nose. What a good night. It was lovely to see Tim for the first time in ages, and to meet Onimo, and Scotsvo. The mister brought some workmates who (1) didn't think going for a pint with internet mentalists was weird and (2) were really really nice people. Ally C's Dad turned up. My head is sore, and I still can't think of a proper reason for the SPL split. But it was a good night out (sorry I didn't stay out, but we had to eat and get a train).

I missed the best opportunity to make Onimo look really stupid. When he wandered over, looked a bit shifty and asked "are you ILX people?" I really should have thought of something more liable to make him feel stupid, rather than being so welcoming. Oh well.

Also, dahlin, I know I mentioned it about a million times and told the whole pub, but, really, you do have the best new job in the world.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 23 April 2005 06:58 (nineteen years ago) link

By the way, that first photo is the perfect illustration of total disinterest in proceedings. Keith and Cozen are looking for a way out, Ally C is more interested in stirring his poofy girlie drink, and, er, I can't think of anything about RJG. Maybe it was all his fault that everyone else was so bored.

Did anyone find Ronan?

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 23 April 2005 08:33 (nineteen years ago) link

You seem like a nice bunch.

I went to a pub last night. It was terrible.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Saturday, 23 April 2005 09:01 (nineteen years ago) link

not in the river, but on the river..well, er, the banks of it.
as for my new job.... the expectations from my public seem to be high, i'll do my best to keep up the high standard of psychoticness... which means some ilx letters could very well make it in!
i hear mr cook is just going to his bed now! lordy! what did i miss? i should have got drunker.

― dahlin (dahlin), Saturday, 23 April 2005 09:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Is more ruin planned for the rest of the weekend? I am broken, I think, but may endeavour to try more, if pushed. I know people are en-route to Carlisle, but later?

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 23 April 2005 10:37 (nineteen years ago) link

hmm, i really do pick my moments to take my first look in months at ILE. such as, er, the day after an FAP. bugger.

did any of you see arthur scargill last night, then? this little bloke with bad hair and a funny nose came up to me on argyle street and asked for directions to the radisson. mrs fiendish and my mates swear blind it was scargill. fucked if i recognised him, though. whoops.

still, no wonder thatcher triumped: we watched "arthur" hove off under the heilenman's umbrealla, stand outside the hotel but fail to notice it, then wander the wrong fucking way up hope street.

i shall be at the isis gig in G2 on sunday night if anyone else is gonna be there. by my sideburns shall ye know me.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 23 April 2005 12:27 (nineteen years ago) link

It was nice to meet Glasgow last night. Lots of nice and funny people, none of whom looked like their photographs (or South Parkalikes). Shame I had to leave so early to cath that band (who ended up delayed by over an hour).

Thanks for not humiliating me ailsa. Good strategy from scotstvo: "I just headed for the crowd of obvious computer people"

I'm going to nurse this hangover by listening to the footy and composing a letter to dahlin that ends with "What are the chances of that?"

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Saturday, 23 April 2005 12:58 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm still upset that Alba didn't have a tie round his head. Or, come to think of it, any other part of him.

I think I'll write stacey a letter about people with ties round their head, since there are two excellent photographs on this very thread for that crucial "(pictured)" kudos.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 23 April 2005 13:15 (nineteen years ago) link

are we really that obvious? egads

― dahlin (dahlin), Saturday, 23 April 2005 17:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Evidently we are, because it worked.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 23 April 2005 18:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Stevie Jackson, answering the question "Have you seen any good bands recently?" on the B&S Q&A page:

"... Dot to Dot are pretty good, they've got early Orange Juice guitars, ..."

― Mooro (Mooro), Saturday, 23 April 2005 19:51 (nineteen years ago) link

try ally c more.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 23 April 2005 20:52 (nineteen years ago) link

I did.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 24 April 2005 08:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I pal.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 24 April 2005 08:49 (nineteen years ago) link

I am a pound.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 24 April 2005 08:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Hooray, Restless Natives is out on DVD. Technically, this should be on an Edinburgh thread, but there you go.

― KeefW (kmw), Sunday, 24 April 2005 15:10 (nineteen years ago) link

I was there, at the bottom of The Mound, when they filmed that. I had a kilt on, so they asked me to stand and wave and cheer, but you can't see me.

Ronan, I am sorry I never got to meet you. I phoned Ally C for meeting-up-type things today, so you can blame him for lack of co-ordination of stuff.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 24 April 2005 17:11 (nineteen years ago) link

close your eyes & wet your lips.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 24 April 2005 20:37 (nineteen years ago) link

I tried Glasgow and it was good.

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 25 April 2005 12:07 (nineteen years ago) link

great to see you, again, tim!

great to meet you, ronan!

I wish I could have made it out, on saturday/sunday.


it was nice to meet gerry and john, too.

: )

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 25 April 2005 12:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Glasgow has not been tried this hard for a while.

The verdict = convicted of FUN.

It has only just struck me that RJG and Ronan had never met before. That seems strange.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 25 April 2005 12:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Nice to see you, Tim! Nice to meet you, Ronan, Scotsvo and Onimo!

I am never going to make it to Optimo, am I?

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 25 April 2005 12:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Hey!

You told me on Friday that there 'could never be a club like Optimo in Edinburgh'... Now, not withstanding the fact that Mr.Twitch ran a night for a DECADE here before Optimo and that Mr.Barnstorm now DJs with MY FRIENDS at Radio Babylon, you now say you haven't been to Optimo!!!

― KeefW (kmw), Monday, 25 April 2005 13:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Ps... Nice to meet/see you all again

― KeefW (kmw), Monday, 25 April 2005 13:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh yeah, I forgot you, Keith :) Did I tell you that before or after the five pints of pale ale?

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 25 April 2005 13:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Why did you not go to Optimo, silly girl?

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 25 April 2005 13:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I think of was after five pints of pale THE ALE. Good fun!

― KeefW (kmw), Monday, 25 April 2005 13:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Did you ever go to 1992, Keith? It was Belgian Nu Beat.

I have just seen the Optimo CD in Fopptimo, but it looked like just one CD instead of two CDs. Was that a limited edition thing, or whattimo?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 25 April 2005 13:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Peter, I'm still trying to figure out how to get back to the 1970s, but 1992 might be on the agenda. Tag's told me all about Belgian nu beat. I hope it's as good as Plastic Bertrand and Front 242.

― KeefW (kmw), Monday, 25 April 2005 14:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Everyone dropped out. I had shaved my legs and everything! (I had to shave around the bruises, ouch OUCH)

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 25 April 2005 14:06 (nineteen years ago) link

You people.

― Alix with an i? (alix), Monday, 25 April 2005 14:13 (nineteen years ago) link

oh, and "New to town"?

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 25 April 2005 15:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Dahlin, can you REPORT BACK on your excellent new job please?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 25 April 2005 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Glasgow has so many questions, to answer.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 25 April 2005 15:33 (nineteen years ago) link

I would like to ask Glasgow why

― Alix with an i? (alix), Monday, 25 April 2005 15:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Keith, it *is* Front 242. And all the little Front 242s.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 25 April 2005 15:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Ah... Well, I guess that answers your question. A guy who sat next to me at work used to listen to Front 242. Despite his big expensive headphone and the amplifier he bought to put on his desk at work, it still sounded like the road gang with pneumatic drills to me.

― KeefW (kmw), Monday, 25 April 2005 15:54 (nineteen years ago) link

what a glasgow.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 25 April 2005 16:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Did you ever go to 1992, Keith? It was Belgian Nu Beat.

it was a bit more than that but i am astounded anyone recalls that night.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Monday, 25 April 2005 16:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, I don't recall it... Where was it?

― KeefW (kmw), Monday, 25 April 2005 16:34 (nineteen years ago) link

jesus.....

a crazy weekend, in every sense.

I must be getting old cos last night I went for a meal with Linds instead of going to Optimo, we could have gone after but I am pretty sure I actually said "let's go home and watch TV".

On the other hand Friday was a long night of exertion. Mayer was amazing, he really is an amazing DJ, I've never seen anyone mix tracks in and out at the right time, so many times, makes it clear why so many of those tunes don't work when I play them!

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 25 April 2005 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link

'old'

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 25 April 2005 20:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Ronan, you have finally joined the rest of us boring bastards. Oh well.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 25 April 2005 20:26 (nineteen years ago) link

my bones ache!

it was nice to meet you Lucy, and Richard too, for the first time, and Cathy aswell, and to see everyone I'd met already again. I wish I was still there, not back in Dublin to my bloody thesis!

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 25 April 2005 20:31 (nineteen years ago) link

It was nice to meet you too Ronan! I am unfortunately far too boring to go to Optimos and Whorehouses. On Sunday, I was even too boring to go to the pub quiz. Oh well! Glad you had a good Glasgow.

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 25 April 2005 20:41 (nineteen years ago) link

It was cool to meet you too Ronan. Lovely to see the rest of you again too.

It's the first night of my holiday and I've spent the entire night watching Jimi Hendrix videos. Can any of your readers beat that?

― KeefW (kmw), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:31 (nineteen years ago) link

well apparently they want to use my old news skills before letting me loose on the letters, unfortunately, so i spent a few hours writing stories rather than editing them. hmmmm. then they sent me home absurdly early and told me to come back at noon. it might mean my byline in the paper tho, so look out for my stunning handiwork in the next few weeks.
i wish i could have optimoed. instead i was stuck doing the most mind numbingly boring shift at the smirror, during which the rest of the staff buggered off to the pub for two hours and i was left to get a manicure from a beauty school student. journalism eh?

― dahlin (dahlin), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:34 (nineteen years ago) link

you've never met me ronan!

report from mayer upcoming, soon.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 06:24 (nineteen years ago) link

I cannot beat that, Keith, no. But I have got a Clash DVD.

Another holiday already? You've only just finished you arse holiday.

Yes, it was more than Belgian Nu Beat. I think I remember Asbestos Lead Asbestos. Which Belgian Nu Beat group did 'White Rabbit'?

I can't remember the name of the palce, but it was upstairs from a club inhabited by Glaswegians of a certain age on the razzle. You'd go down for the fag nmachine and end up entranced by all the dodgy old geezers on the pull.

It was between the chip shop and Queen Street station. Which probably makes it Queen Street.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 09:39 (nineteen years ago) link

The Airplane Crashers did White Rabbit.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 09:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Thank you! Very prompt.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 10:30 (nineteen years ago) link

I will resist the urge to dig out EBM and nu-beat records when I get home.

I am trying Arab Strap at the Tron, in Glasgow, on Sunday.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 10:46 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm glad you capitalised that, to avoid possible confusion.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 11:17 (nineteen years ago) link

it was upstairs at 46 west george street / daddy warbucks. it only ran for 6 weeks.

'white rabbit is becoming a habit...'

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 11:52 (nineteen years ago) link

I had fun in Glasgow too. I went to the CCA on Friday to see weird Finnish bands. On Saturday I spent some time in Mono, and then went to the CCA to see weird experimental bands from all over the shop. Sunday I went to Mono again for breakfast, then to the Byres Road area for fun, then back to Mono for pints. I didn't see anyone from ILX, unless some of the people I did see are secret ILX posters.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 16:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Glaswegians of a certain age on the razzle

I think this is basically me now. Although I think I might think of myself as from Edinburgh now... Altogether classier.

Obviously the term 'Belgian nu beat' passed me by back then. I'm kind of glad it did in some sense. It was something to do with a guy swimming. On the chart show at least.

It doesn't sound like your sort of thing Peter...Did you go to this '1992'? Amongst others, I went to a semi-crusty club called 'Delerium' in 1992. They played Ozric Tentacles.

― KeefW (kmw), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 17:01 (nineteen years ago) link

DV, i was at CCA. I was often in the downstairs bit at 4pm playing chess on a napkin with my friend, drinking beers and eating chips and smoking.

Finnish bands were amazing. Wolf Eyes blew me away.

I randomly got spotted at Mayer thing by ILX dudes, who were all lovely people... it was great to meet some real ILXers.

I think my friend's friend Marceline actually lived in the flat ILX dudes went back to.

― Tannenbaum Schmidt (Nik), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 17:26 (nineteen years ago) link

just to add confusion, '1992' was actually in 1989.

i don't think i spotted any ilx or ilm'ers all weekend. perhaps name badges would be a help in future? i might have seen some at mayer but much had been drunk by that point in time.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 17:29 (nineteen years ago) link

she does, yes.

it was nice to meet you, too.

crosspost

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 17:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh I see... It was a kind of 'European Union' thing going on. I think I may have met you before briefly in the old 13th note Mr.Stirmonster maybe five years ago... You know Joss Moorkens don't you?

Mr.Stringbender, I am intrigued by your Belgian Nu Beat past. Incidentally, my current plan is to come to London for a 'knees-up' around the old Joanna, maybe Sunday/Monday/Tuesday next week? How does that sound?

― KeefW (kmw), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 17:37 (nineteen years ago) link

today i graduated to letters! woo hoo! so you'll have me to thank tomorrow for photos of tom selleck and poison.

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 17:39 (nineteen years ago) link

jed and I, at least, saw you at mayer, stirmonster.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 17:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, was the Colin guy I shook hands with Jed then?

― KeefW (kmw), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 17:46 (nineteen years ago) link

oh, yes, sorry.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 17:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Don't be sorry! That's cool!

― KeefW (kmw), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 17:48 (nineteen years ago) link

: )

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 17:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh I see... It was a kind of 'European Union' thing going on

yes. it was a really bad concept based around 'music without frontiers'. sadly it wasn't a knockout.

and RJG, yr right, i did see jed and yrself.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 17:53 (nineteen years ago) link

oh yes, and i do know joss though we seem to have lost touch now.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 17:57 (nineteen years ago) link

We should organize a Scotland knees-up the next time Joss is over. I'm off for my own mini-knees-up now.

― KeefW (kmw), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 18:04 (nineteen years ago) link

I was sorry not to hook up w/ Tim H and other ILXers - my friend Frank, who I was staying w/ in Dennistoun, took me on a fantastic walking tour of the city, from the Necropolis to the University, and by the time that had finished I had to head straight to the CCA.

I also enjoyed the Finnish hippies on Friday - particularly ES - and lots of the noizemakers on Saturday night, tho' I found Wolf Eyes a bit jockish this time round (w/ his meaty arm punching and freshly shaved head John Olson now looks like one of the High School Nazis in Animal House or something...) - INSANELY loud tho

My highlight was actually Hototogisu on Thursday night - Matthew Bower and Marcia Bassett from Double Leopards making VAST drones from just gutted gtrs microphones and amps - pure white light from the mouth of infinity - Virgin Eye Blood Brothers also dished up some gd sick shit right after

I sort've fell in love w/ Glasgow

― Andrew J L, Tuesday, 26 April 2005 18:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Glasgow is so confusing. I need a lie down.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 18:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Take a large measure of Orange Juice

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 18:27 (nineteen years ago) link

People I was confusedly burbling to in the pub on Friday about someone called Andrew something that posted on the Try Glasgow More thread and might be supposed to be being in the pub, Andrew JL would be that same person I meant.

Ally C, are you going to watch Chelsea v Liverpool tomorrow in a pub?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 18:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm game.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 20:22 (nineteen years ago) link

i might have seen some at mayer but much had been drunk by that point in time.

me to sam on saturday " i dunno why i feel so bad today, i wasn't that drunk"

him " er... are you joking? you were FUCKING WASTED"

:-/

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 20:48 (nineteen years ago) link

haha you were too!

but no matter. it's all part of the fun. I saw that Fabrice Lig track in Rub-A-Dub the next day but didn't listen to it, I'll be gutted I bet when I download it off your gmail and like it.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 20:52 (nineteen years ago) link

i didn't make it to optimo on time - glad to hear i didn't let you and alba down. i wonder if Nick schmidt went?

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 20:55 (nineteen years ago) link

stirmonster, I have an M&S badge though I can only wish it said 'cozen'.

yeah, colin, you were kinda drunk.

ronan, it was really cool to meet you. I was telling amanda about your 'shall we look up the definition of a song' spiel, it was v.funny.

well done to RJG as well for spotting t.schmidt. it ws nice to meet you too nick, we should grab a drink at sonar.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 11:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Andrew, you were staying round the corner from where Tim was staying with me.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 11:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't think I am up for football tonight anymore - I didn't get enough sleep last night and earlys start zzz.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 11:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Stacey, were you responsible for "Chariot of Fur"?

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 14:57 (nineteen years ago) link

i wish! nah... and now i'm back to writing about lovelorn cows and their mechanical diggers... bah.
i can't believe no one has mentioned the hilarious dot to dot list review yet!

― dahlin (dahlin), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 20:32 (nineteen years ago) link

believe it.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 21:00 (nineteen years ago) link

"naive" - The List

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link

"lost" - The List

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 22:21 (nineteen years ago) link

"the end" - The List

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 22:23 (nineteen years ago) link

I didn't make it to Optimo, jed.... well I did but it was at 11:30 the queue looked too long, so we stayed in the cab and went to NiceNSleazy and then home.

Had fun in Stereo earlier watching karakoe and then some kaelie (sp?)

Glasgow is a grand city, I loved Kelvinhall park.

Cozen, Sonar beers soon come.

― Tannenbaum Schmidt (Nik), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 22:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Ceilidh.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 22:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Aye.

― Tannenbaum Schmidt (Nik), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 22:32 (nineteen years ago) link

karaoke

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 22:41 (nineteen years ago) link

devil in disguise.

phew, nick, i'm glad i didnt miss anyone at optimo (except stirmonster, i think he goes every week).

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 28 April 2005 01:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Kelvingrove.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 28 April 2005 07:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Was it better than my review?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 28 April 2005 08:12 (nineteen years ago) link

I actually can't remember what spiel my "look up the dictionary definition of a song" thing was, was it a rant at Alba? I did a few of those I think but it's a blur now!

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 28 April 2005 08:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Does anyone want to join me for FREE WINE on 12th May at 6pm? It's at the SECC and you have to pretend you're interested in antiques. I can take 3 people with me. Do you need persuading? FREE WINE.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 28 April 2005 13:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Free wine? That sounds like exactly the kind of thing that floats my boat. I watch Bargain Hunt sometimes, does that qualify me to kid on I care about antiques?

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 28 April 2005 15:29 (nineteen years ago) link

It'll do!

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 28 April 2005 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link

I met an old woman who was thrown out of aberdeen graveyard for singing christmas carols in april, today.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 7 May 2005 17:10 (nineteen years ago) link

This is not about Glasgow. Either I had a dream about Cozen or I just thought about Cozen, yesterday. I wonder if there is still time to try Aberdeen.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 8 May 2005 13:36 (nineteen years ago) link

I might try Edinburgh.

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 9 May 2005 13:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I just saw Patrick at Queen Street Station. I was with two work people and we both acted embarrassed.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Patrick is taking my picture, tonight!

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:35 (nineteen years ago) link

what about glasgow?

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Hopefully see you, in the house, in Glasgow, RJG!

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 9 May 2005 15:00 (nineteen years ago) link

It's funny, I was in the Architecture Building and I wondered, as I always do, if I would bump into RJG. Patrick at Queen Street I'd never have guessed.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 9 May 2005 15:01 (nineteen years ago) link

I am only ever in the AB 10PM-10AM.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 9 May 2005 15:12 (nineteen years ago) link

I think you should actively look for RJG in the Architecture Buildings, by peeping through the little windows in the doors. Hopefully, somewhere they will be having a slide show, probably of buildings, and you will spot RJG by his massive quiff casting a mighty shadow over the screen.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 9 May 2005 15:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Madchen, please tell me about FREE WINE! I am currently drinking nearly free wine, as Tesco across the road from my house are selling their own brand Australian Red for £1.89 per bottle, with a 5% discount if you buy six bottles. This is, like, almost free. And I don't have to go to the SECC to drink it (however, I also don't have Madchen's company, so swings and roundabouts, innit)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 9 May 2005 15:36 (nineteen years ago) link

But does it taste like vinegar?

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 9 May 2005 16:31 (nineteen years ago) link

No, it doesn't. It is surprisingly OK for the price. Offer ends tomorrow so I may go and buy more.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 9 May 2005 16:33 (nineteen years ago) link

surely, every building is an architecture building.

yes, that was twatty.

sadly there is no time left to try aberdeen.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 9 May 2005 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Why? Did you destroy it when you left?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 9 May 2005 16:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Tim, it would be rude not to!

― KeefW (kmw), Monday, 9 May 2005 17:02 (nineteen years ago) link

(Although I thought you'd weaned yourself off of ILX)

― KeefW (kmw), Monday, 9 May 2005 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link

'off of'?

― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 9 May 2005 17:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Is that ungrammatical? I wouldn't know.

― KeefW (kmw), Monday, 9 May 2005 17:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Great Jefferson Starship record by the way... Cheers!

― KeefW (kmw), Monday, 9 May 2005 17:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Aberdeen weekend after next? Not possible?

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 9 May 2005 22:26 (nineteen years ago) link

I'll see what I can do.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 06:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Ailsa, I'm not sure I can go any more - I am going away on Friday morning and if I don't do some packing between now and then I will have nothing to wear and I am already doing stuff tonight and tomorrow so Thursday is my only chance. There are no names on the tickets, so I can post you them if you want. I got another one the other day, so there are now 6 free places if you want to take people. Sorry! I am disorganised and should have done less faffing at the weekend.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 09:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, don't worry about it. I'm not that desperate for free wine, honest, I just thought it would be a good excuse to go out with you for booze. Where are you going, when are you back and do you want to take me shopping, with me providing food/booze/coffee breaks as and when required?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:51 (nineteen years ago) link

are we at the beginning of the end of an era?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 16:57 (nineteen years ago) link

What, me starting voluntarily going shopping, or me turning down free booze? Or something else entirely?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 17:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Goodbye, 148.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 17:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Where will I go?

: ((((

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Eh? What? Where are you going?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 17:27 (nineteen years ago) link

I used to go to 148, far too often. Maybe now I'll have to go to Spain.

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 17:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Who is having to move out of R3nfr3w Str33t, & why, please?

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 18:27 (nineteen years ago) link

WE DEMAND ANSWERS!!

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 21:25 (nineteen years ago) link

They finally caught up with Khan. Glasgow, find us a beautiful 3 bedroom place by July, please.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 07:03 (nineteen years ago) link

...that is cheap, central and has understanding neighbours...

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 07:34 (nineteen years ago) link

...and at least one warm room.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 07:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Ailsa, I'm being organised and Thursday could be back on - call me!

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 07:35 (nineteen years ago) link

You live on Wenfoo Stweet? I don't know why it has to be in code, but still...

I think, where I would most like to live in Glasgow, now, in my 'middle youth', is in the Merchant City.

Sadly, I believe this is impossible.

I would also like to live in Marlow, I have decided.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 07:46 (nineteen years ago) link

they are building 10000000000 new flats, every day, in the merchant city, PJ.

unfortunately, all 10000000000 of them cost 10000000000 pounds, probably.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 08:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Nah, the new ones are all for students (probably the ones who will have to live there once they've sold off Jordanhill). I live in Merchant City East, according to some estate agents.

I am waiting to find out when I can Try Dublin More.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 08:59 (nineteen years ago) link

It was the students I was hoping to avoid. I will have to think again.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 09:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Now I want a house. Probably in Portland.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 09:35 (nineteen years ago) link

miller is moving to glasgow?
i'll find you guys a new flat. i've already spotted a few contenders.
you can even get a house - including 'bathroom with shoer' - for a measly 525 a month! in beautiful milngavie.. muahahaha
i'm watching a fascinating show about a sausage competition... ah, the joys of daytime television. just killing time till i can edit those all important letters. why haven't i gotten any from you???
'for keith it's sausage heartache. it's alan who takes home the bacon...'

― dahlin (dahlin), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 10:44 (nineteen years ago) link

No, I'm not moving to Glasgow. I am just idly speculating on where I'd like to live if I did. But I'm not. I doubt I ever will. But I wouldn't mind, all else being equal. Which it isn't.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 10:57 (nineteen years ago) link

are they tearing 148 down?

just when you find out nitsuh lives below you, too.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 13:03 (nineteen years ago) link

do I want to interview ariel pink?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 13:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, poor Nitsuh. Ask Ariel Pink if he is a dick.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 13:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Matthew Dear @ subclub on friday. I'm going - are you?

also that smirnoff experience thing at the arches on sunday - Lindstrom (from Norway) is playing at it, go here for free tix.

http://www.smirnoffexperience.co.uk/

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 13:52 (nineteen years ago) link

there's basically no chance you won't get on the "guestlist".

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 13:55 (nineteen years ago) link

direct link

http://www.smirnoffexperience.co.uk/SmirnoffSVX/glasgowRegister.do

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 14:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm tearing up.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link

PJ's last post=the 3000th

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 17:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Madchen, I tried but failed to get a picture of Bonzo. BONZO!

Glasgow missed an excellent evening of pervy men in bed in their kilts, free booze, women who looked like they had been drawn by Terry Gilliam, slimy bruschetta, Miss Marple hats, Wee Andra from Rab C Nesbitt, Paul Young (the fishing one, not the Love Will Tear Us Apart murdering one), drunken cheque wielding and racist cartoons. Antique fairs RULE! (also free booze and men with little sausages)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 12 May 2005 22:19 (nineteen years ago) link

What the fuck are you talking about! That lot were exhibiting themselves; in their kilts; in bed!

Do you mean BONZO from LED ZEP?

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 12 May 2005 22:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Sorry about the language; I am enjoying being mildly drunk.

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 12 May 2005 22:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Hooray! Me 3000th!

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 13 May 2005 13:58 (nineteen years ago) link

No, I mean a little dog called Bonzo. That I can't find a picture of on the internet. I am in love. With a little blue doleful pottery dog.

A man was exhibiting a bed by being in it, in a kilt, and pointing out (to anyone who wasn't scared off) a video that he had playing continually in his little stall of him on telly with Nicki Chapman talking about furniture. He was really really creepy.

I had a thought about Glasgow last night whilst walking over the wee metal bridge that's next to the Bells Bridge and that thought was that I DIDN'T RECOGNISE GLASGOW ANY MORE. It kind of freaked me out, all these swanky flats and shiny buildings and regeneration projects. I looked around and if it hadn't been for the Finnieston crane and the top of the University tower, I could have been anywhere and it didn't feel like home.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:41 (nineteen years ago) link

I have been rereading this thread. It was funny, in late February and maybe March 2004. I'm not saying it's not now. Or that it is.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 14 May 2005 12:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Matthew Dear was rubbish/relentless/dull - crazy techno people too. i've got such a bloody headache. is anyone wanting to see Lindstrom tonight? i think i can get people on teh guest list, just holler!

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 14 May 2005 13:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, I thought you said that was Sunday.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 14 May 2005 13:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Anyway, it's not. I would like to go, in a way, but on the other hand I am feeling somewhat ropey. I think, on balance, no.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 14 May 2005 13:18 (nineteen years ago) link

I feel a bit dopey

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 14 May 2005 18:34 (nineteen years ago) link

you rang?

I have an exam in edinburgh tomorrow.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 08:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, so that's why you're coming. Maybe it is a bad idea to try Aberdeen, on balance. Perhaps we should concentrate on EUROVISION PARTY instead. It is the 50th one!

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 10:49 (nineteen years ago) link

ooh, Eurovision Party Please!

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 10:55 (nineteen years ago) link

fancy dress.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 11:00 (nineteen years ago) link

I have already been invited to one.

So ner.

I shall not attend.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 11:01 (nineteen years ago) link

an obvious choice of party, for you, I think. what's your platform?

two crossposts

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 11:01 (nineteen years ago) link

who can teach me evidence?

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 11:06 (nineteen years ago) link

I think you know enough--it's usually very easy to tell what you're thinking.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 11:07 (nineteen years ago) link

The Eurovision can fuck off. I want Aberdeen.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 11:28 (nineteen years ago) link

So more Alba, less Eorpa?

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 12:17 (nineteen years ago) link

More Eeyore less Haw-Haw.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 12:24 (nineteen years ago) link

The early stages of senility are difficult to come to terms with.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 12:53 (nineteen years ago) link

My wife's got no nose.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 12:56 (nineteen years ago) link

How can you tell?

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 13:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Who knows.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 13:19 (nineteen years ago) link

terrible

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 13:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Hardly "racist" though.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 13:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Unless your wife is black.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 13:23 (nineteen years ago) link

I assure you she is not.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 13:44 (nineteen years ago) link

this thread was good.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 13:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't have time to believe you.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 13:53 (nineteen years ago) link

What is in Aberdeen?

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 13:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Only Cozen, and Amanda.

I say, only.

Yeah. Only.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Perhaps it is ripe for a takeover.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:09 (nineteen years ago) link

I was thinking about having a Eurovision 'do'. Should I not, now?

Ailsa, it looks like I was a drunken fool with my chequebook. Also, his name is officially Byngo. He's Bonzo to me, though.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=70086&item=7322231129&rd=1

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:13 (nineteen years ago) link

The only thing about you having a party is that it will depress me that 12 months have passed. Unless I'm in Aberdeen.

Those dogs are lusty.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:22 (nineteen years ago) link

You should have one, Madchen. I don't think anyone else could top the cheese-on-cocktail-sticks brilliance of last year.

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:26 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't remember last year.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Last year was great! You had prepared melons! (Or were they pineapples?) I can't remember anything about the actual Eurovision though, except Britain being awful.

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:33 (nineteen years ago) link

I remember last year. It also depresses me. My place is bigger than your place. But I suppose we should consult the consensus. Plus, if it's at yours, I won't have to tidy up.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:34 (nineteen years ago) link

I remember a lack of room at Madchen's. I think tiered seating might have to be introduced. Or sitting on laps. I don't mind Ally sitting on my lap, or Cathy. I think I draw the line at RJG.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Melons? Really? Was it not cheese/pickled onion/pineapple on sticks, stuck in a foil-wrapped grapefruit?

I can re-arrange the furniture no problem. It is a big room, but I usually have it arranged to encourage a feeling of cosiness.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:40 (nineteen years ago) link

I think the time for retro 70s nibbles has passed. I demand retro 90s nibbles - sun-dried tomato canapes and a pipe of Pringles.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Also, Latvian whores.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Perhaps Aberdeen will serve me better.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:46 (nineteen years ago) link

I think ice-cream would probably do.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, OK.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:47 (nineteen years ago) link

'Prepared Melons'. Phrase of the thread.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:10 (nineteen years ago) link

cheese/pickled onion/pineapple on sticks, stuck in a foil-wrapped grapefruit

That's it! That was the most sophisticated nibble I have ever had.

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:22 (nineteen years ago) link

It's time you tried other places.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha, Madchen, maybe I should bid for him on ebay and we can have one each and split the difference in cost since I drunkenly egged you on.

Does Glasgow fancy a pint on Thursday? The mister is going to see Star Wars and we are going out for a meal first then I will be abandoned whilst he goes geeking at the cinema. I believe we will be in Budda for food and drinks (the West End version) should anyone wish to meet me for West End drinks and stuff afterwards.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link

"pipe of pringles"??????????????

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Poor N., trying to look cool in the '90's by smoking his Pringles ....

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 17:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Madchen, I'm not sure that cheap Bonzo on ebay is a real Bonzo. Look at this one, it's much nicer...http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=65007&item=7322180395&rd=1

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 18:38 (nineteen years ago) link

He still costs £27.99 less than I paid! Actually, I think those three dogs in the one lot are real, but the seller doesn't quite know what she's got, so she hasn't used the right keywords for searchers and has just called them 'sylvac style' which would put a lot of people off them.

Anyway, right, I have decided I will definitely be doing Eurovision at my house again. The show kicks off at 8pm, so I'll be ready for you from 6pm, OK? No showing up after the first song like last year please. I'll make some proper food to go with Alba's pipe.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Hurray! Do you have teletext?

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 20:04 (nineteen years ago) link

yes

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 20:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, Moldovan gypsy-rawk funsters Zdob si Zdub present their nation's first ever entry into Eurovision! HAI!

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 08:40 (nineteen years ago) link

www.eurovision.tv has all the lyrics, so I may print off song books for us all!

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 09:05 (nineteen years ago) link

well that was neither helpful nor useful.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 11:32 (nineteen years ago) link

it'll be fine.

anyway, thank you glasgow, again.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 11:44 (nineteen years ago) link

New

Sainsbury's
Taste the Difference

Glen Cova Raspberry Yoghurt

extra thick and creamy
yoghurt made in Somerset
with a sweet, fragrant compote
of tart Scottish raspberries

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 12:26 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm going to somerset, next month.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 12:28 (nineteen years ago) link

And I'm a Scottish tart.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 12:42 (nineteen years ago) link

You wish.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 13:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Sigh.

There is that Joy Division tribute night tonight, which I'd completely forgotten about, but which Glasgow should be going to since we'll lose money if it doesn't.

It's at The Queens Club, on Queen St, from 9pm onwards.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 15:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Does no-one want to go for a pint with me tomorrow then?

*cries*

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link

No. We hate you.

Actually it may be possible, only I had planned to perhaps do some shopping and then some washing and then nothing much. I will see how things go. Come out tonight!

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 15:32 (nineteen years ago) link

What Joy Division tribute night? There is one on 6 Music, but it's a tribute day.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 15:37 (nineteen years ago) link

You don't have to meet me until after 8 when the mister goes to the pictures. Plenty of time to shop and wash and stuff. I might just go home though, so don't worry.

Tonight I have to go win lots of beer vouchers in the pub quiz so I can celebrate/drown sorrows on Sunday. Also, I don't want to listen to Joy Division all night. Sorry.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 15:39 (nineteen years ago) link

It is Gav's thing, I dunno. It's the 25th anniversary of Curtis' death. Some bands will be playing JD covers, I think. I'm scared no one will be there.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link

what's neil seeing at the flicks? {a joke I can't think of}?

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link

http://daily.greencine.com/archives/faster-pussycat.jpg

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.dacre.org/flash/www/ar_00371.jpg

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 17:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, I'd go with him if it was that. Sadly it will be that Star Wars episode 3/6/who-the-fuck-cares thingymajig that is quite popular with and important to some folks who aren't me.

erm, xpost. Though even that looks better than Star Wars

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 17:19 (nineteen years ago) link

One day, everything will be in Galvision.

And I will sit playing with myself.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 17:21 (nineteen years ago) link

I know Lili Palmer's son.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 17:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Galvision, oh Galvision
I am so afraid of dying
Before I dry the tears she's crying.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 17:49 (nineteen years ago) link

There's no way Jimmy Webb looks 58.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 17:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Wait, he does. That was just a rogue photo in Saturday's Herald.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link

lonely toronto comma man

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 19:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Similarly, William Hague doesn't look 44 either:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/politics97/news/06/0619/hague5.jpg

― KeefW (kmw), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 20:23 (nineteen years ago) link

None of you Weegie bastards want to meet me for a drink. I hate you all back.

(I can't check ILX at work so people will have to text me tomorrow if anyone does want a drink as I'm going out straight from work)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 22:04 (nineteen years ago) link

there's always the metro's meet-up for tall people at the counting house tonight... ahhahahahahahaha i've become sad.
wow.. eurovision singalong... pineapple on sticks... does it get any better?

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 19 May 2005 09:39 (nineteen years ago) link

meet up for tall people? for real?

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 19 May 2005 09:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Blatant stirring yesterday with that "it's okay to call them Pakis and Chinkies" letter. Goodness knows how that got past the editor...

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 19 May 2005 09:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Colin, you should go!

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 19 May 2005 10:08 (nineteen years ago) link

i must say i'm tempted!

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 19 May 2005 10:12 (nineteen years ago) link

You could go on my shoulders, in a long coat, like in The Broons.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 19 May 2005 10:29 (nineteen years ago) link

How tall is tall? Does one have to be able to dust the Counting House's ceiling?

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Thursday, 19 May 2005 10:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Didn't tiny boys on sticks used to be employed for that task?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 19 May 2005 10:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Tackling a tricky bit of cornicing
http://people.uleth.ca/~ross/leth/photo/2001/010203/sean1.jpg

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 19 May 2005 11:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Jumping over people from Poland is great.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Thursday, 19 May 2005 12:00 (nineteen years ago) link

i stopped by after work, but everyone was sitting, so i couldn't tell if they were tall! damn...
yes, i am responsible for inciting racial and religious spats. and some other stuff i won't mention. but not for tomorrow's page. i was too busy writing about brats being bribed to eat healthy. with ipods! lucky dolts.

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 19 May 2005 21:48 (nineteen years ago) link

heathily, surely.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 19 May 2005 23:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Are ipods strictly edible?

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 19 May 2005 23:37 (nineteen years ago) link

it's a strict diet.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 20 May 2005 06:27 (nineteen years ago) link

What are you doing up at this time?

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 20 May 2005 06:32 (nineteen years ago) link

it isn't that early.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 20 May 2005 08:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Not any more it isn't, silly.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 20 May 2005 08:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Does Glasgow (or any subset thereof) want to go and see Roddy Frame + Trash Can Sinatras with me on 10th June? I am hoping it will not sell out before I get paid next week.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 22 May 2005 10:40 (nineteen years ago) link

I would have liked to, but I am still on holiday.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 22 May 2005 10:41 (nineteen years ago) link

10th June is my birthday and I have to go to someone else's sodding birthday party and watch them get lots of presents and cake :-(

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Sunday, 22 May 2005 11:24 (nineteen years ago) link

I was going to work, madchen.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 22 May 2005 13:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Half of Glasgow is blue, today. The other half is blue.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 22 May 2005 16:21 (nineteen years ago) link

As I already said in a text message, Ally C, I love you, I respect you, but really, fuxor off already (or something).

Also, Madchen, I hope you got my answering machine message, and I hope Glasgow (1) had fun and (2) voted for Moldova.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 22 May 2005 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link

madness.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 22 May 2005 19:58 (nineteen years ago) link

oops


I just remembered ned etc.

ned, it turns out that ally and I (etc.) may have been turned out, of our flat, by the beginning of july. it's the law.

hopefully, we will have moved into a new flat, by then, too, but nothing is set in stone, unfortunately.

so, well, I guess, it SHOULD be OK but, I suppose, if it ISN'T, we could, probably, point you in the direction of an inexpensive guesthouse. here's hoping, though, & I hope there is, too.

: )

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 23 May 2005 04:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Congratulations Glasgow Rangers and one of their supporters on a tremendous achievement.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 23 May 2005 07:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Why, thank you Peter.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 23 May 2005 08:02 (nineteen years ago) link

U R welcome

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 23 May 2005 08:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Jandek anyone?

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 23 May 2005 10:13 (nineteen years ago) link

tonight.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 23 May 2005 10:14 (nineteen years ago) link

You've gone too far, this time.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 23 May 2005 11:23 (nineteen years ago) link

jandek supports rangers.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 23 May 2005 11:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Jandek "Follow, follow" Tour '05.

We're up to our knees in droning guitar.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 23 May 2005 11:59 (nineteen years ago) link

none of this sectarian nonsense, please.

I bet jandek is more of a ping pong kind of a guy.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 23 May 2005 12:01 (nineteen years ago) link

scandalous.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 23 May 2005 12:04 (nineteen years ago) link

re. tonights show, an email from my mate (who went to see him in gateshead at the weekend) states:

Apparently Jandek is going to do a new piece called (I think) "The Cell" and has warned the easily-offended to attend at their own risk.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 23 May 2005 12:05 (nineteen years ago) link

in that case, ally should definitely go.

I will be in school, tonight, I should think.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 23 May 2005 12:07 (nineteen years ago) link

jandek should do "the cell" in marks & spencer.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 23 May 2005 12:11 (nineteen years ago) link

"the cellophane"

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 23 May 2005 12:15 (nineteen years ago) link

a clifford t. ward cover?

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 23 May 2005 12:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Now I know how Robert Browning must have felt.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 23 May 2005 12:26 (nineteen years ago) link

she's the tear-me-up and throw-me-down; a delicate, see-through summer gown

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 23 May 2005 12:32 (nineteen years ago) link

M&S is doing pasta, pesto and cherry tomato salad lunchboxes for just 80p at the moment. Team that with one of their £1.20 (and tasty) cheese & celery sandwiches and you've got the kind of value meal that one would never associate with Marks & Spencer quality.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 23 May 2005 13:24 (nineteen years ago) link

are you their publicist?

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 23 May 2005 13:27 (nineteen years ago) link

I thought cozen was working for M&S

crosspost

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 23 May 2005 13:29 (nineteen years ago) link

I am not employed by M&S. I just think they offer some great value these days and are worth a visit by the price-sensitive, who might think the shop is not for them.

It's terrific that Cozen is lending them his services. I hope it is the start of a long and productive relationship.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 23 May 2005 13:37 (nineteen years ago) link

You're a fruitcake.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 23 May 2005 14:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Fuck you.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 23 May 2005 14:49 (nineteen years ago) link

jandek was incredibly great, one of the top 5 live musical experiences of my life.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 00:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Does anyone know when the WolfEyes / Marceline (sp?)'s band gig at Mono is?

Thanks

Cozn I am Sonar

― Tannenbaum Schmidt (Nik), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 04:44 (nineteen years ago) link

bugger, totally forgot jandek was on though i don't know if my head was in the right place for that and it would have meant missing corrie.

wolf eyes is june 19th.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 06:03 (nineteen years ago) link

thank you, alba.

nik, e-mail me.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 06:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Wolf Eyes/Üter @Mono = 19th June.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 07:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Wolfsbane, more like, you Blaze Bayley bum bandits.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 07:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, that was already said.

I'll say something else.

No, thank you cozen.

x-post

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 07:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Everyone is focussing on the slump in M&S profits announced this morning, but let's not forget that they still exceeded city expectations.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 07:22 (nineteen years ago) link

And they have "laid the foundations for recovery". Be patient.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 07:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I didn't hear them mention Cozen, but I was half-asleep.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 11:08 (nineteen years ago) link

No, it was Cozen who released the statement.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 12:19 (nineteen years ago) link

He's so great.

Declan from Üter lives on a diet of cheese & onion crisps. My colleague told me, but you can see it in his sunken eyes.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 12:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Marceline lives on a diet of crushed Pokemon.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 12:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Does she home-crush?

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 12:49 (nineteen years ago) link

someone make a joke so I can type *rimshot*

oh, I just made a joke

*rimshot*

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 12:51 (nineteen years ago) link

She has a machine, yes.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 12:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Stace, did you edit out my greengrocer's apostrophe?

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 27 May 2005 08:39 (nineteen years ago) link

I've been trumped - my temp is having an article published in Le Monde.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 27 May 2005 15:52 (nineteen years ago) link

RJG/Cathy - are you watching BB tonight?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 27 May 2005 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link

i was in paris being cultured and sweaty (unrelated). was there a greengrocer error? uh oh... the place falls apart without me, i swear... and bb! what have i missed?

― dahlin (dahlin), Sunday, 29 May 2005 13:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I wish I were, alba, but I am in the cauldron.

cathy probably wishes she were, too, but she may have gone to wales and I don't think they have TVs, there.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 29 May 2005 14:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Check the datestamp buddy.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 29 May 2005 14:15 (nineteen years ago) link

no

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 29 May 2005 14:16 (nineteen years ago) link

http://img66.photobucket.com/albums/v200/9505367/Deathwatch/PDVD_033.jpg

Harvey did

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 20:53 (nineteen years ago) link

It doesn't properly capture the amount of mud there was around at the time.

― KeefW (kmw), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 20:58 (nineteen years ago) link

I was just going to say. But aw! anyway.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 20:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Although, I don't know when these photos were taken, they could be post-mud, pre-cleanup!

― KeefW (kmw), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 21:03 (nineteen years ago) link

That golden age.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 21:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Indeed... That would around about the "Glasgow's miles better" plastered comically on the gas works age.

― KeefW (kmw), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 21:10 (nineteen years ago) link

the age of golden and green buses.

or 1982

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 21:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Hehe, yeah it would be 1982 that. I remember first seeing the Glasgow's Miles Better thing just coming over the motorway and being annoyed with my mother for turning the radio off as "Come on Eileen" was on. I tried to reason with her - you can't turn it off, it's number 1!

Beats me how she didn't fall for my logic to this day.

Now I'm older and I can play "Come on Eileen" any time I like.

― KeefW (kmw), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 21:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Although in an amusing memory fuck up, this web page claims the "Glasgow's Miles Better" campaign started in 1983. The wonders of the human brain. Must be two separate incidents.

http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/EEA47F10-283B-41D1-ABBB-E7A49BF8A384/0/GasCycl.jpg

― KeefW (kmw), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 21:23 (nineteen years ago) link

SMILES BETTER

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 21:24 (nineteen years ago) link

glasgow's meat's miles better!

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Can you still get mugs with that on? I want one.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 06:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Glasgow's meat's gone. I don't know who got Mr Happy. He might even be lying there still, under the rubble.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 07:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I am sad that I missed so much BB. But yesterday I met (and flirted with, momentarily) Piers Morgan! Wahey, wahoo.

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 09:44 (nineteen years ago) link

You will end up in his next diary.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 10:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Prize Moron's Bizzerk!

― KeefW (kmw), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 10:23 (nineteen years ago) link

how the hell did you manage that cathy? PIERS MORGAN! wow. a modern sleaze icon. i heard loads of er... nice... things about him during my brief stint on the mirror sports desk. was he HOTT? did he tempt you with come hither glances?

― dahlin (dahlin), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 11:09 (nineteen years ago) link

I used to enjoy his Christmas cards he got whilst on Bizarre at the Sun. Each year he used to get signed Christmas cards from his 'pop pals', who included the likes of Jason Donovan, Phil Collins and the boys from Bros!

― KeefW (kmw), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 11:15 (nineteen years ago) link

I loved that sign! We always knew we were getting close to town whenever we went into town shopping, or going to the cinema, or the museums.

― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 11:28 (nineteen years ago) link

a woman bought me two strawberry tarts.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:15 (nineteen years ago) link

a sailor gave me a penny

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:32 (nineteen years ago) link

I met him at the Hay-on-Wye festival, where he was talking and signing things. You have trumped that x1000 for working at the Mirror sports desk...please tell me Piers gossip!!

What happened between me and Mr. Morgan is a private matter, of course, but I can confirm that yes he was HOTT and maybe there were come-hither glances.

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Dahlin, good work on the headlining of teh letters page today!

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I have been off sick and missed the Metro yesterday and today. Has WW3 erupted over Italian grammar, or was I ignored? And what was today's headline?

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:51 (nineteen years ago) link

It involved the phrase "get me away from here I'm dying" so I'm guessing our Dahlin was involved in it.

Have you been writing in, Madchen? I have been driving to work and haven't seen the metro for weeks, but I was seconded to Glasgow today and got the train.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 17:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I was in print on Friday but it seems I may have done it without Dahlin's help. I hope so - it would feel like an even greater achievement (no offence).

Cathy, your Piers Luv baffles me a bit.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 17:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Madchen, me too! It has been on-off for about four years now, but in the last few weeks it has really peaked. I think it is the hot weather. I think I will shut up about him now though.

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 17:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Does Glasgow (or any subset thereof) want to go and see Roddy Frame + Trash Can Sinatras with me on 10th June? I am hoping it will not sell out before I get paid next week.

OK. It didn't sell out and I just bought a ticket. Does anyone want to come with me then, or do I stand about like a jangly-pop-loving loser on my own (alternative, anyone Fancy A Pint?)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 17:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Like I said.

Denver had Glasgow style rain, for a couple of days, I'm sure you'll all be glad to know.

Cathy, this Piers thing will have to be explained.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 23:29 (nineteen years ago) link

it was during the war

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 2 June 2005 00:33 (nineteen years ago) link

glad you liked the headline ailsa, esp as it made no sense really. any other lyrics i should try to work in? i already snuck in a camera obscura title, tho i doubt anyone noticed.
yea lucy, your letter(s?) got in wholly on their own merit! woo hoo! cathy: all the goss involved various liasons with female staff who were later mysteriously moved around the company (and UK) with strange made-up job titles when things went sour.
ally: you'll have to try providence more soon! do let us know how she treats you.

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:45 (nineteen years ago) link

STUDENTS: Want a job? Be my conference minion for £250 for 5 days work from 31st July to 4th August (you'll probably get the afternoon of the 3rd off and a free dinner/bash at the Arches as well). Dahlin did this job two years ago and survived without too much mental scarring, I think. Email isec dot 2005 at strath dot ac dot uk if you're interested.

Stacey, the second letter wasn't from me - I noticed the name, but it's pure coincidence. That's why I was surprised you had nothing to do with it!

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 2 June 2005 11:15 (nineteen years ago) link

"Cock Fun"

I mean the titles to be used thing, not being Madchen's minion.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 2 June 2005 11:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Madchen - what does yr minion need to do? i may know someone who could do a good job of it.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 2 June 2005 12:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Can I be your minion please? That's the first week of my fortnight's holiday, I was planning going to Benicassim but that's not looking likely now. So I could earn an extra £250 quid then go on holiday the second week with some spendy money. Huzzah!

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 2 June 2005 15:39 (nineteen years ago) link

What was Lucy's letter about?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 3 June 2005 10:05 (nineteen years ago) link

They are going to build a skyscraper in Glasgow. It is not for the oldies, apparently.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 3 June 2005 10:06 (nineteen years ago) link

today i went for a star wars thing with 'Beasties bite back: Return of the midges'
took 20 minutes to come up with that. i suck

― dahlin (dahlin), Friday, 3 June 2005 10:45 (nineteen years ago) link

ps: lucy is an ace boss!

― dahlin (dahlin), Friday, 3 June 2005 10:45 (nineteen years ago) link

happy burpday cozen!

― dahlin (dahlin), Friday, 3 June 2005 10:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Colin, I need 25 minions (!) to be part of my Conference Crew. Basically, they'll be helping out 1000 international delegates with things like finding their way around campus (Strathclyde, city centre), sorting out data projectors that are doing things they shouldn't, attending to keynote speakers, journalists, exhibitors... anything that might crop up really. It's really varied. If the person you know is IT literate, a team player, has good social skills and maybe speaks a foreign language (that bit's from the advert), I'm interested.

Sorry Ailsa, students only!

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 3 June 2005 11:36 (nineteen years ago) link

cheers Madchen, i'll give Sam your contact details, he's a student at Glasgow (not strathclyde) but who knows.

in other news...

i saw Miranda Sawyer on byres road yesterday, i had a strange impulse to go and speak to her even though i couldn't think of anything to say. thankfully i resisted.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 6 June 2005 08:51 (nineteen years ago) link

i saw Miranda Sawyer on byres road yesterday, i had a strange impulse to go and speak to her even though i couldn't think of anything to say. thankfully i resisted.

i heart miranda sawyer. i saw her at t in the park a few years ago and in an exceedingly drunken state went over and told her how lovely i thought she was. i am still cringeing from that memory.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Monday, 6 June 2005 13:30 (nineteen years ago) link

I think Alba might be a bit fond of her too, although I should let him speak for himself probably. He was getting a tan in the S of F last time I heard, though.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 6 June 2005 18:59 (nineteen years ago) link

I speak foreign languages. But I'm not a student. And I'm going to Benicassim. Rawk!

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Monday, 6 June 2005 22:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I can pretend to be a student (I have badly dyed hair and a dubious dress sense). I'd rather be at Benicassim but this is looking less likely by the day.

Why does no-one want beer with me on Friday?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 6 June 2005 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link

i suggest everyone runs out and gets a copy of the metro tomorrow

― dahlin (dahlin), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 20:19 (nineteen years ago) link

More Madchen madness?

― Peter Stringbender (PJ Miller), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Not guilty!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 9 June 2005 09:15 (nineteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v384/lucyald/rjg.jpg

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 9 June 2005 09:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Also, was the Abi Stabber/Happy Slapper combo on p.20-21 done on purpose?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 9 June 2005 09:19 (nineteen years ago) link

goodness gracious me!

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 9 June 2005 09:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Who's going to write in to keep this U&K topic alive?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 9 June 2005 09:57 (nineteen years ago) link

i was only responsible for the letters page lasnight
i was really bored actually.
today i have to venture to the SOUTH SIDE to the lost property office at the bus depot to collect some keys. i'm scared
also, i'm scared of RJG

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 9 June 2005 10:47 (nineteen years ago) link

the bus depot? south side? pah, that's the south side for pussies. it's eglinton toll! you can *see* the river from eglinton toll.

if you're, umm, very, very tall. or in a plane.

the real south side starts at battlefield, yo.

anyway. while you're at the bus depot, can you call them a bunch of total and utter cunts for scraping my car with their no 44? thanks.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 9 June 2005 11:44 (nineteen years ago) link

.. holy shit!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 9 June 2005 11:56 (nineteen years ago) link

RJG looks odd, in that picture.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 9 June 2005 11:57 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't think he's seen it yet - he was puzzled by my txt.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 9 June 2005 11:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Hello Glasgow. I can't afford to visit you. I am sad about this.

― Alix with an i ? (alix), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Aw Lixi, even with free board and lodging?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 9 June 2005 13:05 (nineteen years ago) link

RJG looks odd, in that picture.

If he had his tie done up tight he would look like one of the Krays.


I have been listening to 'Showbiz Kids', the Steely Dan compilation, over the last few days & thinking of RJG.

Mädchen, did you know that there is a Haribo museum in France? see
http://www.haribo.com/planet/fr/info/frameset_musee.php?musee=1&frame=musee

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:07 (nineteen years ago) link

I do love the RJG photo there.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Stacey, you are the greatest human being ever to walk the earth. I just about wet myself with laughter when I picked up the Metro at work. Thank you!

I considered a response, but couldn't quite find the right words. Has anyone else taken up the gauntlet?

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Have a good holiday, Nick? Hope you are well and will see you soon. You should come through tomorrow evening for Neil's club thing (and pop quiz!) if you've nothing else to do.

― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 10 June 2005 21:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Crackign hols. Can't make it to Edinburgh tomorrow as it's the Winchester and I'm a guest DJ. Genuinely excellent band Foxface are playing too - should be good.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 10 June 2005 22:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha! "Genuinely" excellent band.

No bother. Actually, pity I miss your guest DJing. I hope you will play "Ride the Tiger" by Jefferson Starship.

― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 10 June 2005 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link

THEY ARE "GENUINELY" EXCELLENT

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 10 June 2005 22:33 (nineteen years ago) link

(Jefferson Starship that is - Foxface are really a load of old rope)

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 10 June 2005 22:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha. I never thought a lot of Jefferson anything or Starship either until Mourinho gave me "Dragonfly", by Jefferson Starship. It's terrific, and I've listened to all the other 70s Jefferson Starship records and great they are too. I'm currently getting my friend into them.

― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 10 June 2005 22:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Though, I did like "Jane". But then, who could blame me?

― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 10 June 2005 22:37 (nineteen years ago) link

anyone (smog)ing?

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 10 June 2005 22:39 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't know what you mean.... I'm currently Billy Ocean-ing.

― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 10 June 2005 22:39 (nineteen years ago) link

when the going gets tough...

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 10 June 2005 22:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Red light spells danger...

― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 10 June 2005 22:45 (nineteen years ago) link

what was the name of the postman that got to number one?

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 10 June 2005 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link

No idea... Did a postman get to number 1?

― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 10 June 2005 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm sorting out what I'm playing tomorrow.

Possibly starting with new wave stuff. Are we all bored with new wave stuff now? I will smell the crowd and see. I hope there is a crowd.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 10 June 2005 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Annoyingly I think I am bored with New Wave stuff. I was a huge fan when I was 17. Still, if you did "Diamond Smiles", which might go with the G8 thing I would like it. That said, I won't be there! So just do what you like!

― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 10 June 2005 22:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Though I'm impressed by Mr.Stirmonster's recent Mr.Research advocacy.

― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 10 June 2005 22:50 (nineteen years ago) link

it was boris gardiner "i wanna wake up with you"

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 10 June 2005 22:51 (nineteen years ago) link

play that Nick!

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 10 June 2005 22:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Was he a postman?

― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 10 June 2005 22:52 (nineteen years ago) link

he was!

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 10 June 2005 22:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh yeah - I remember now. He was indeed! I'm not playing him though. I might play the Belle Stars.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 10 June 2005 22:53 (nineteen years ago) link

I used to work with the drummer from the Belle Stars!

― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 10 June 2005 22:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Tell him to come along!

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 10 June 2005 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link

We used to drag her (Judy Hancock nee Parsons) along to the 80s club that Sim0m St3rt used to love and get them to play "sign of the times".

― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 10 June 2005 22:55 (nineteen years ago) link

The only things I'm certain I'm of playing are the Gipsy Kings and Björk.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 10 June 2005 22:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Good calls. I love DJing. The last time I DJd, I played "Paperlate" by Genesis, twice.

― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 10 June 2005 22:57 (nineteen years ago) link

You can't argue with that. Or perhaps you can. Did anyone argue with you? I forgot that I'm definitely playing Kid Creole & The Coconuts as well.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 10 June 2005 22:58 (nineteen years ago) link

And Kelis. I think I have too many certs now. I should get to DJ more often. Then I would be more relaxed about not playing things.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 10 June 2005 22:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Which one? I'm a big fan of "Annie, I'm not you're daddy", but also the word "Stool" out of "Stool Pigeon".

― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:00 (nineteen years ago) link

My next DJ exploits will definitely involve "Figaro" by the Brotherhood of Man.

― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:01 (nineteen years ago) link

the words "stool pigeon" give me a horrible mental picture.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:02 (nineteen years ago) link

I've run out of wine, what am I going to do about it?

― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I have played Annie I'm Not Your Daddy the last three times I've DJed (at different places) so I think maybe it's time for swtich to stool, exciting as daddy has been. Actually I think last time I played it twice by mistake but it was only a friend's party so who cared?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm drinking V&T and frankly I'm sick of it.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Cup of tea has to be the answer for me I'm afraid. I'm listening to Sylvia's Mother sung by Dr.Hook now.

― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:06 (nineteen years ago) link

white wine - will be moving on to tea soon.

xp!

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:07 (nineteen years ago) link

He he!

― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:08 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't remember the time I made myself a cup of tea after nightfall. PERHAPS I NEVER HAVE.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:12 (nineteen years ago) link

"last time", anti-crypticians.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:13 (nineteen years ago) link

I once made a tomato juice and worcester sauce.

― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Except I made it from PLUM TOMATOES and HP SAUCE. It didn't work.

― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:14 (nineteen years ago) link

it worked it just didn't taste nice (i guess).

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:15 (nineteen years ago) link

What happened was that it sat still until it was 90 degrees above my face, and then it fell on it. I gave up seconds after.

― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:16 (nineteen years ago) link

On life?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Now that you mention it...

― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Though I'm impressed by Mr.Stirmonster's recent Mr.Research advocacy.

that comment had me baffled for a minute or two but yes, i fully advocate mr. research.

x post x about 43

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:18 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.candyboots.com/wwcards/cardscans/jelliedtomato2.jpg

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:18 (nineteen years ago) link

My friend at work was a pal of Mr.Research at school. How did this possibly baffle you? It was only about a week ago! Do you have lots of friends called Mr.Research!

― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:19 (nineteen years ago) link

well mr. research and i come from the same village and there's a big research clan there. i thought it might have been old shuggie research you were referring to.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Ah OK

Are you from Currie/Balerno then?

― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Hmmm...perhaps I'll rethink my playlist entirely and base it around a centerpiece of 'Rebel Rebel'.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:21 (nineteen years ago) link

i am indeed. a balerno boy.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:22 (nineteen years ago) link

old shuggie research

http://www.tangents.co.uk/tangents/main/2005/february/graphics/tom_weir3.jpg

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:22 (nineteen years ago) link

I've found "Paperlate" works as a a good centerpiece in the past.

― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Stirmonster, ah! Do you know Dave Gibson then?

― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:23 (nineteen years ago) link

that's the fellow jed!


dave gibson? there used to be a dave gibson who bullied me relentlessly. i wonder if it's the same one?

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Hmmm... I doubt it.... Very skinny bloke... I will check though.

― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Twitch - you should come to the Woodside tomorrow, not to see my insult to the DJing profession but for Foxface - do you know them? I think you'd like them.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:25 (nineteen years ago) link

how old would he be?

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:25 (nineteen years ago) link

That said, what's your actual surname? Dave would be I think late 30s/40 now.

― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:26 (nineteen years ago) link

alas alba i have to work but i would very much like to hear you play (and see foxface) even though being in a nightclub voluntarily is a very rare occurrence for me.


my surname is mcivor, keef. i am in my mid (heading to late) 30s.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:28 (nineteen years ago) link

I'll check with Dave come Monday...

― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:29 (nineteen years ago) link

That's a shame, though the Woodside hardly counts as a nightclub in my book.

This is like Surprise Surprise.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:30 (nineteen years ago) link

You are joking. The Woodside is second to only the old Potterrow as the best night out in Scotland in the last 20 years I reckon.

― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:31 (nineteen years ago) link

it would bring a tear to a glass eye.


xp

haha

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:31 (nineteen years ago) link

yr right, it's not a nightclub. actually the woodside is more my type of place than yr average city centre niterie. and within stumbling distance of my abode too. bonus! i used to heart potterrow.

do check dave. ask him if he has a brother called peter. if so, tell him he's a bully!

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Anyone else who happens to be reading this, do come to the Winchester Club tomorrow.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:33 (nineteen years ago) link

er, check WITH dave.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha! OK I will check...

― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Keith (W) - I like the Woodside. I just meant if someone didn't like nightclubs then they might consider that it didn't really count as it's well... a bit different. Which I'm sure Keith (M) knows. I was just saying. Something. I don't know now.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:34 (nineteen years ago) link

yes, i'm drunk too.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:36 (nineteen years ago) link

People used to not consider Potterrow as a nightclub because it was a student union, which is of course bollocks, it's just building with booze and music, which is the same thing whatever. I like the Woodside. Home of the boys' bridgade.

― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:37 (nineteen years ago) link

jed, yr a lush.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:37 (nineteen years ago) link

are you sober?!

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:38 (nineteen years ago) link

sadly yes. do my posts have an air of intoxication about them?

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Nick, any prog rock lined up for tomorrow?

― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:42 (nineteen years ago) link

not at all, it's just that time of night!

xp

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:44 (nineteen years ago) link

No prog. No samba. No fun.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Pity. I always find that "Supper's Ready" gets the party started.

― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:49 (nineteen years ago) link

are you not getting samba ya bamba to accompany you, alba?

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:50 (nineteen years ago) link

samba ya bamba playing along to alba playing 'supper's ready. now that would be a real treat.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:53 (nineteen years ago) link

With Max Carlish as freaky dancer. Up Kate.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:55 (nineteen years ago) link

stirmonster - your services are required here

ways in which your street differs from [UK Soap] street.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Goodnight! I'm off to bed.

― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:56 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm not entirely sure I have ever heard 'Supper's Ready', though I have read about it a lot. I did download 'Follow You Follow Me' yesterday though. It's a treat.

Night Keith. Think I am too. I'm actually working tomorrow, prior to the Samba Y Phila explosion.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:57 (nineteen years ago) link

ok jed i shall check out yr soap thread before heading of to bed too. night all.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Saturday, 11 June 2005 00:00 (nineteen years ago) link

I was just talking about the Woodside with Ally C, last week. I wish I could be there. Ggod night, glasgow.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 11 June 2005 00:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I knew I'd regret stacey's new job

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 11 June 2005 15:31 (nineteen years ago) link

o no....


hello. is this the real, glasgy thread?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Saturday, 11 June 2005 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link

is there an end-of-148 party?

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 11 June 2005 17:53 (nineteen years ago) link

It's already been demolished. Look sharp grandad.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 11 June 2005 18:22 (nineteen years ago) link

how was your gig, Alba?

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 12 June 2005 11:59 (nineteen years ago) link

party in the rubble.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 12 June 2005 12:00 (nineteen years ago) link

It was OK. Foxface were good again but it was bit empty and I went on first so my DJ skills were not really tested.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 12 June 2005 12:08 (nineteen years ago) link

What 'bombs did you drop'?

― KeefW (kmw), Sunday, 12 June 2005 12:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Does stopping the wrong CD deck twice count as dropping a bomb?

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 12 June 2005 12:11 (nineteen years ago) link

word. i've been there.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 12 June 2005 12:13 (nineteen years ago) link

That's a bonus. I'm a big fan of DJing mistakes. It adds character.

― KeefW (kmw), Sunday, 12 June 2005 12:13 (nineteen years ago) link

There was hardly anyone there at that point, so there were no ironic cheers. In my defence, the CD player in question's LCD backlight was broken so I kept forgetting it was the one playing.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 12 June 2005 12:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Sorry I didn't come out to lend support. But at least I have recovered from the land of the free. It is nice to be home. I was immediately bathed in sunshine and rained on at the same time. What a fucking beautiful country.

End of 148 party to be announced, soon.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 12 June 2005 23:46 (nineteen years ago) link

it's been knocked down. keep up grandpa.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 13 June 2005 06:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I could not see it, the photograph.

― Peter Stringbender (PJ Miller), Monday, 13 June 2005 06:35 (nineteen years ago) link

So did one of you lot write into the Metro for today under a pseudonym or does RJG really have an admirer amongst the Metro-reading massive?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 13 June 2005 16:00 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't follow this because I walk everywhere

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 13 June 2005 16:37 (nineteen years ago) link

There are copies on the pavement, now.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 13 June 2005 17:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I lied

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 13 June 2005 17:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Johnny from Yorkhill, wasn't it?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 13 June 2005 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link

ooh what does this admiration letter say!?

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Monday, 13 June 2005 20:19 (nineteen years ago) link

: (

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 13 June 2005 22:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Ten steps.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 13 June 2005 22:29 (nineteen years ago) link

I think I am Trying Glasgow More next Monday evening.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 12:01 (nineteen years ago) link

I can be persuaded to have a post work pint next Monday evening.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:15 (nineteen years ago) link

I am waiting for my flight and hotel reservations to be confirmed. (Thursday before I know)

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Stirmonster,

Yes it's the same Dave; at least, he has a brother Peter. He claims the only thing he got involved in at school was in the early '70s when a bloke with a bicycle was mimicking an Evel Knievel stunt and attempting a jump over a number of schoolkids. One kid wouldn't join in, so Dave smacked him to get him to lie down!

Apparently, the guy became a motorbike stunt rider ultimately.

He doesn't remember your name though.

― KeefW (kmw), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:12 (nineteen years ago) link

I am off work monday and tuesday next week.

I'm tempted by wolf eyes on the sunday evening.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 18:58 (nineteen years ago) link

What - they were only here last month. I thought they were American or Canadian or somesuch. Go home!

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:07 (nineteen years ago) link

yes, all north americans should just give up and go home

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:26 (nineteen years ago) link

If Wolf Eyes get a job at the Metro, they can stay.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:28 (nineteen years ago) link

tell me what happens with metro

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 20:59 (nineteen years ago) link

We are playing on Sunday too. We are competing with Marceline!

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 21:42 (nineteen years ago) link

hey keef. i think it was the brother peter i knew. he tried to beat me up and steal an ac / dc album from me when i was about 11.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 01:30 (nineteen years ago) link

nothing much happens at metro

― dahlin (dahlin), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 18:12 (nineteen years ago) link

dahlin i have an urgent question and i feel that i need to consult the metro for advice, how might i contact them?

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 18:17 (nineteen years ago) link

dahlin, I passed a whole wall of posters today which said "dahling" on them today and bright and cheery letters. Your shameless self-promotion is a wonderful thing.

Cook, when and where are Doctor Dot playing?

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 18:51 (nineteen years ago) link

hey keef. i think it was the brother peter i knew. he tried to beat me up and steal an ac / dc album from me when i was about 11.

Dave wasn't in work today, but I'll let him know. I'm sure he'll be glad it wasn't him. He doesn't really seem like the type, right enough. Still, at least when his brother beat you up it was to steal an AC/DC album.

― KeefW (kmw), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 20:37 (nineteen years ago) link

www.jointhedots.tk

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 22:06 (nineteen years ago) link

what's .tk ?

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 22:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, some geocities thing. I don't know details!

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link

oh i was trying to work out what country it was.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 22:19 (nineteen years ago) link

www.dot.tk

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 22:21 (nineteen years ago) link

There we are.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 22:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I am definitely Trying Glasgow More next Monday - although I don't know where I'm staying yet. I should be available for FAPpage from about 7.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 16 June 2005 08:16 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.dot.tk/vc00806.html#a

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 16 June 2005 08:35 (nineteen years ago) link

urgent eh?
critics@metroscot.co.uk
as for the posters... what can i say... a girl's gotta put herself out there these days, and it beats hanging around blythswood square

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 16 June 2005 09:08 (nineteen years ago) link

I find myself put out, too

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 16 June 2005 09:15 (nineteen years ago) link

dahlin, I passed a whole wall of posters today which said "dahling" on them today and bright and cheery letters. Your shameless self-promotion is a wonderful thing.

I pass a load of these on a closed shop on Argyle Street on my way to work, so I think of dahlin every day!

Aldo, I'm available for FAPping on Monday, assuming you'll be somewhere fairly central.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 16 June 2005 09:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm staying in the West End, but can get anywhere central, obviously. Make a suggestion and I'll be there.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 16 June 2005 09:56 (nineteen years ago) link

I am going to the czech republic, tomorrow

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 16 June 2005 09:58 (nineteen years ago) link

if there's pint action on monday, can i hoy along and say hello? not sure when i'll be finished work, but if it's somewhere central then hopefully i can be there by 9ish.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:35 (nineteen years ago) link

I am going to the czech republic, tomorrow

Try bekerovka more!

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:38 (nineteen years ago) link

wow, is this another of those elusive glasgow faps? quick, somebody disorganise it!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Drum & Monkey ok al? You can get a Caledonian 87. I can get a cold fizzy chemical drink.

I'll probably be there a wee bit early as they kick us out of the building at 6.30.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I have to show prospective tenants around the flat upstairs that evening, but I will try to arrange viewings so I can come out and play afterwards.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:45 (nineteen years ago) link

OK, Drum and Monkey no problem. I should be there about 7 I think - flight due to land just after 6, and an hour should be enough to check in etc.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:52 (nineteen years ago) link

The bus from the airport stops conveniently close by.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 16 June 2005 11:04 (nineteen years ago) link

'zat the thing on the corner of renfield street and ... er ... st vincent street? near the pie shop that became a muffin shop that burned down?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 16 June 2005 11:11 (nineteen years ago) link

That's the one.

x-post Yes, but I need to get changed out of work clothes. Will check in then get the underground from Hillhead.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 16 June 2005 11:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Aye, 93 St Vincent St.
http://www.mbplc.com/managed_content/components/navigator/images/about_drum.jpg

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 16 June 2005 11:13 (nineteen years ago) link

top. mere seconds from my office of doom.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 16 June 2005 11:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Gah, band practice for me on Monday evening. Might pop along after 9 if it's all really going to happen. It can't really though, can it?

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Thursday, 16 June 2005 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Ooh, it's a Glasgow FAP. Count me in. (I am poor but D&M does quite cheap bottles of wine, doesn't it?)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 16 June 2005 15:52 (nineteen years ago) link

onimo, ailsa, aldo, scotstvo
A Scottish Football Predictions Reunion FAP!

I'm filling up here
*sniff*

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 16 June 2005 15:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Will you be bringing the celebratory champagne? Which we all get to share for being rubbish and letting you win?

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Will you be bringing my prize money? :-P

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link

I get a big stick with a nail through it I suppose?

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:25 (nineteen years ago) link

oooh i can nip out of the office for a quick drink too! nothing like sneaking off mid-shift for a topple. actually, it's kinda encouraged here. we just had an ascot party. there was champers! . 2 . tomorrow at fury's. anyone going?

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Scotstvo, I can bring a wooden spoon and you and Ally C can fight each other for it. Or with it, should you prefer.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Is anyone dotting the dots tonight?

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 17 June 2005 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link

I am, though I don't really know where this Fury McFilthy's is.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 17 June 2005 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link

I am planning to go after the 9 o'clock Big Brother and video the 10 o'clock...I don't know where it is either. Where is it?

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:04 (nineteen years ago) link

96 MAXWELL street.

Ally says he's on at 9. Possibly.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:06 (nineteen years ago) link

9? Oh, perhaps I'd better video the lot and come sooner. I thought it was doors at 9....
Maxwell street? I'd better get out my A-Z.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:09 (nineteen years ago) link

I'd better stop saying I'd better.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Back of St Enoch Centre. Round the corner from where the old 13th Note Club (now Barfly) was. I'm leaving in a couple of minutes, if you name a pub, I can meet you and show you...

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Thanks ailsa, I think I know where it is now. See you there.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Maybe it is doors at 9. I don't know. He just said 9. I hate him.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:39 (nineteen years ago) link

It was doors at 9. I can't be expected to be more specific than that, surely?

I think I kind of had fun. My beard itches.

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 18 June 2005 00:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Shave it off then, you skanky bastard. I sort of had fun, but may have had more fun if the Plimptons hadn't been so twattable (are they related to the Hector Collectors?) and I hadn't been almost asleep. And if the telly in Fat Boab's had been showing Big Brother instead of the bloody golf.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 18 June 2005 10:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I enjoyed the Plimptons.

― Cathy (Cathy), Saturday, 18 June 2005 10:50 (nineteen years ago) link

OK, I have googled and they are indeed related to the Hector Collectors. I should by rights like the Hector Collectors (and I guess the Plimptons) as they are like a Scottish Half Man Half Biscuit, but I don't. Perhaps I should try harder.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 18 June 2005 11:04 (nineteen years ago) link

I only liked them because I thought they were quite funny. And I like the Adam one, he is cute when he sings. I don't like Half Man Half Biscuit at all.

― Cathy (Cathy), Saturday, 18 June 2005 11:21 (nineteen years ago) link

I woke up this morning with a Dot to Dot song in my head (the one where Ally goes "woah woah woah woah woah" a lot). This worries me.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 18 June 2005 11:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Don't worry, everyone wakes up that way eventually.

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 18 June 2005 11:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, I forgot to ask you last night if I could get one of your demos please. Who was the bloke taking notes?

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 18 June 2005 11:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Stuart Murdoch.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 18 June 2005 13:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Is there more dot to dot tonight?

― Cathy (Cathy), Sunday, 19 June 2005 16:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, at Nice and Sleazys. I'm not going, as I am v.v. poor and v.v. tired. Are people Drum and Monkeying tomorrow, and at what time?

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 19 June 2005 16:39 (nineteen years ago) link

I am Drumming my Monkey sometime around 7 tomorrow. aldo should arrive shortly afterwards as long as his flight's on time.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Sunday, 19 June 2005 18:52 (nineteen years ago) link

well, i'll come along when i've finished work, which will probably be some time after 8. it'll be good to meet you all (especially after the ATP disappointment in february). i'll be the one with the sideburns and the shabby suit, going up to the wrong group of people and looking like a knob.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 19 June 2005 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link

If, by some kind of disaster, I fail to meet Gerry I will be easily recognisable by my Secretly Canadian tshirt. I'm sure it'll be the only one there.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 20 June 2005 10:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Or you could just post one of yer Whovian geekfest pics here...

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 20 June 2005 10:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Or people could look on the Who thread.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 20 June 2005 10:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Are you at work today Gerry? If so, email bridge fuXor3d. Anyway, did you remember my Singing Mechanic CD?

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 20 June 2005 11:03 (nineteen years ago) link

At work, network dead or dying, CD in my bag

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 20 June 2005 11:11 (nineteen years ago) link

I may, or may not, be there around 8-ish.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 20 June 2005 15:41 (nineteen years ago) link

I think I have left my purse at the office and I have no money. If it has been stolen, I need to cancel cards and I'm meant to be paying for my car tomorrow!

I have an offer of cash to tide me over tonight, but it depends on how long it takes me to sort all this out :(

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 20 June 2005 16:26 (nineteen years ago) link

The jannie has found my purse! Laters, peeps.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 20 June 2005 16:34 (nineteen years ago) link

I may, or may not, be there around 8-9 ish. I have to try and find somewhere to live first.

Woo purse!

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 20 June 2005 16:34 (nineteen years ago) link

OK, I *will* be there about 8-ish. I have very little money, but have managed to convince the mister to give me a lift to the station and back. Should be able to survive on £10 thereafter, as I seem to remember teh D&M having a cheapo wine list. We should have arranged to go to O'Henrys as that is a £5-bottle-of-wine shop of horror, as I found out to my ruin after my last staff meeting.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 20 June 2005 16:40 (nineteen years ago) link

wine? oh fuck.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 20 June 2005 16:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I am coming from the czech republic, today

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 20 June 2005 21:27 (nineteen years ago) link

I just came, actually

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 20 June 2005 21:28 (nineteen years ago) link

gross, jack.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Monday, 20 June 2005 21:35 (nineteen years ago) link

i booked a flight to Glasgow today.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 20 June 2005 21:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Ooh, now I remember why I don't go to the pub on a schoolnight any more. And I didn't actually drink that much. It was excellent to meet aldo and grimly fiendish (going to up to a table of strangers in a pub and saying "are you ILX, I'm grimly fiendish" is the best thing I've heard for a long time), and I suppose it was OK to see the rest of you mob as well :)

I cannot get a decent night's sleep after booze on a schoolnight, I always fear I'm going to sleep in and miss work, so I just don't sleep properly. Result = knackeredness disguised as a hangover.

Well done on giving up smoking boys!

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 05:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Glad you had a good time, Ailsa. You should be careful though; there are lots of bloody weirdos on the internet.

― KeefW (kmw), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 06:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Sorry I couldn't make it. Stevem - when are you coming here?

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 07:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Made it in to work at 9.55. Feeling surprisingly chipper tbh - having to leave for the last train is a blessing in disguise. It was nice to see everyone again and to meet grimly fiendish, who was neither grim nor fiendish but did have a devilish line in facial hair.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 08:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Well done on giving up smoking boys!

gaaaaAAAAAaaah. plums. arses. etc.

absolutely fantastic to meet you all (including the brief cameo by mr ailsa at the end): it was a top night. i feel better this morning than i have any right to; i'm still expecting some kind of delayed-hangover action to kick in.

looking forward to doing it all over again in two weeks, only a) for two nights, and b) with added ned.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 08:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I got up at 6.30 this morning to put clear my back bedroom for the workmen who arrived at 8.00. My dustsheet laying could have been neater. I feel very six hours sleepish now. Still, all this is good practice for the forthcoming schoolnight nedfap.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 09:05 (nineteen years ago) link

isolée in july, anyone?

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 09:26 (nineteen years ago) link

si rien ne change dans les prochains quinze jours

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 09:57 (nineteen years ago) link

aye me, cozen.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:07 (nineteen years ago) link

RJG, those endings are beautifully matched.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 14:10 (nineteen years ago) link

I had help

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 14:48 (nineteen years ago) link

I suspected as much.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 15:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Hello Glasgow. Me and Steve will be coming to visit you lot on the July of 22nd, and leaving you on the 25th the July. We wouldn’t mind being ‘put up’, in fact our budgets demand it. We will, of course, shower you. With nice things.

― Raston Warrior Robot (alix), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 15:19 (nineteen years ago) link

That sounds weird. Don't use it.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 15:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Isn't 148 going to be out of action? I could provide accommodation, but I am, shall we say, not terribly central. I'm sure someone will offer something better.

The knackeredness disguised as hangover mutated into a hangover somewhere around eleven o'clock. I therefore made the wise move today of booking a day of annual leave the day after the Ned/Dot to Dot summit.

Madchen may have been misleading you all with the two weeks till NedFAP line she was peddling last night. Too much IPA young lady, it's definitely three weeks.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link

my hangover still hasn't kicked in. this means i'm either a) rock or b) on the fast track to alcoholism. or, perhaps, c) still pissed.

and yes, you're right: it's definitely three weeks till nedFAP. which is just as well because next week i have a two-night pan-scotland booze marathon, and no time off work. my poor liver needs all the rest it can get.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 16:16 (nineteen years ago) link

How many times did ailsa say "I didn't think anybody read what I posted"?

Anyway, it was grebt (I can't believe I managed to pronounce that) to meet you all. I will be Trying Glasgow More again in the summer, I suspect, after today's meeting.

I wasn't hung over at all. I put this down to alcoholism.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 17:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh no! I can't believe people remember what I say in the pub!

Haha, I totally forgot about "grebt". I also put this down to alcoholism.

I still remain staggered that there exists an ILXor who doesn't know who Ned is (even though his doppelganger was at the bar). Three weeks time, this will be put to rights, I'm sure.

Can we not pick the D&M next time - bar staff far too insistent on observing drinking up times, rubbish seating arrangements, Escheresque path to the ladies loo. Also proximity to station = I don't need to leave just yet to get the train --> oops I missed the train.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 18:01 (nineteen years ago) link

if it's a week day i suggest the living room, just up the road. it looks well posh inside, but i think it's quite cheap, with amazingly cheap grub as well.. something like 1.50 starters, 3.50 mains and 1pound desert! plus they have these enormous 10-seater booths that you can close off with curtains! mmmmmm

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 22:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't remember it being that cheap

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 22:37 (nineteen years ago) link

I have a spare room with a comfy bed and should have a new bathroom by then too, Lixi & Stevem. I also have a *CAR* and can pick you up from the airport, if that is how you're coming, as long as it fits with my working hours. Is that luxe enough for you?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 11:22 (nineteen years ago) link

That sounds more than marvellous. I think we may have to get teh train from the airport, i think the times are not work friendly. I never even knew you could drive. Whatever next?

In other news: I have spilled very orange food down my pale green top.

― Raston Warrior Robot (alix), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 11:34 (nineteen years ago) link

that's not like you.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 11:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Burp.

― Raston Warrior Robot (alix), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 11:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Filth. Ah, it looks like you're coming in to Prestwick anyway. I haven't driven that far yet - I only got it last night. The first thing I did was go to Sainsbury's and buy way more than I could ever carry on the bus.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 11:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha. I think I would have done something similar, possibly also driving very slowly past a bus stop near a supermarket and laughing at the people waiting. I thought that Prestwick was the only airport in Glasgow anyway?

― Raston Warrior Robot (alix), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 12:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Prestwick isn't anywhere *near* Glasgow. They call it "Glasgow Prestwick" so they can roffle at tourists coming off planes wondering when Glasgow became a deserted coastal backwater under the banner "Pure Dead Brilliant".

The *actual* Glasgow Glasgow Airport is in Inchinnan, near Paisley, 8 miles from Glasgow. It doesn't have a train station.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 12:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Prestwick is only 5 miles closer to central Glasgow than Edinburgh airport (thanks AA).

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 12:44 (nineteen years ago) link

it's a nice drive out from glasgow to prestwick, though. well: as nice as zooming through ayrshire gets. ok, the scenery's not the most exciting but it's quite a fun road (at least, it was at 6.30am on saturday, which was the last time i did it). and, ahem, i don't think there are any cameras. maybe one.

christ, i'm turning into an A77 bore. fuck.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 12:45 (nineteen years ago) link

The most important question though, is how much does a ticket cost? and possibly how long does the train take?

― Raston Warrior Robot (alix), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 12:48 (nineteen years ago) link

train tickets are teh fux-all from what i remember. but whatever you do, don't arrive on a sunday. it's all specially timed so the train leaves just as you're pegging it along the walkway thing, meaning you have to wait for an hour under the stairs in a stinky wee metal shed. brr, i hate prestwick.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 12:52 (nineteen years ago) link

o, and it takes

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 12:52 (nineteen years ago) link

fucking hell. that didn't work, obviously. what i meant to say was: the train takes less than an hour.

or you can pay something horrific like 35 quid for a cab.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 12:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Also: if you're coming in on Ryanair, show your boarding pass on the train for a half-price discount. Not many people know this, sometimes including the guards so be arsy if required. It does exist, honestly, and I think the end price is less than a fiver.

The trains are quite nice when you're on them, and do whizz you to Central, but like Fiendish says the Sunday service is plums.

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 13:48 (nineteen years ago) link

although unlike wot he did, there's no obligation to wait in teh smelly shed: you can go back into the 1960s wonderama of an airport and pay £17 for a cup of tea.

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 13:50 (nineteen years ago) link

the 1960s wonderama airport with its £17 tea is actually marginally more depressing than the shed.

this conversation actually happened, about a year ago, when i was flying to dublin.

me: "hello there, mr food bloke. can i have one of those pies?"
bloke: "no."
me: "?!"
bloke: "pies is lunch food. we're only doing breakfast now."
me: "what time does lunch start?"
bloke: "noon."
me: "it's 11.58."
bloke: "yus. breakfast time."
me: "look. the pie's sitting there. why can't i have it?"
bloke [not arsey, just painfully shocked]: "but ... but ... pies is lunch food. before noon is breakfast."
me: "right."
[taps foot, whistles, scratches arse for two minutes]
me: "can i have that pie, please?"
bloke: "certainly, sir. that'll be £8."

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 13:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Maybe he got arsey at being called Mr Food Bloke.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:06 (nineteen years ago) link

If your train is due in 15 minutes and it's not worth going back into the airport, stay on the bridge where it's warmer and dryer and look down the track. When you see your train coming (you can see the next station along the line from up there), stroll down the escalator and out onto the platform, beating the people in the cold shed who won't have spotted it yet. I've flown from Prestwick a few times before, can you tell?

I think it's £2.60 single if you've got your Ryanair printout. You have to have the bit of paper - they won't accept "this is my booking reference" as proof, even though it's good enough for the airline.

Also, I'm sure you already know that Prestwick Airport is the only place in Britain ever visited by Elvis.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:07 (nineteen years ago) link

i love the prestwick airport!

probably one of my top 10 funnest moments was on the train from prestwick going into glasgow, my sister and I were talking about something dumb and we were laughing so hard we were weeping...

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:13 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/upload/020605npure2.jpg

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:14 (nineteen years ago) link

i want a ride in jason! maybe we could take a swing by a garden centre, as i need dirt and am too embarassed to go out back with a spoon to get some.
(and RJG, you were right, as always. i was reading the children's menu. which led to an amusing - and ultimately expensive - misunderstanding at lunch today)

― dahlin (dahlin), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Maybe he got arsey at being called Mr Food Bloke.

[abandons plan for lengthy and unfunny thing about the noble family line of "food-bloke"; settles instead for going ":p"]

Also, I'm sure you already know that Prestwick Airport is the only place in Britain ever visited by Elvis.

yeh. no wonder he decided to go off and live on the moon.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:17 (nineteen years ago) link

jason!

this is the car's name, right?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm sure you already know that Prestwick Airport is the only place in Britain ever visited by Elvis.
Which is probably why they keep it like that. "Ooohh! Elvis looked at this sign! We'll never wash it again". I mean, a manual departures board. Well, really.

xpost

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:19 (nineteen years ago) link

grimly if you're willing to pay £8 for a pie than you deserve contempt from the surly relinquishers of said baked goods.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Jason is a good Greek name.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:37 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah what idiot OKd that "pure dead brilliant" advert campaign?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:38 (nineteen years ago) link

x-post: you have a greek car?!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Yaris sounds Greek to me. You arrived after that conversation, I think.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:51 (nineteen years ago) link

oic! that makes sense.

i think.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Jason? Keep well clear of dockyards, Madchen...

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 15:25 (nineteen years ago) link

I thought you were going to call it the Argo?

I have tons of free time to take off work and can easily come down to Prestwick to get you in my sadly-nameless Fiesta. The A77 is a fab road and even if it wasn't it's better than being in work. If anyone wants to come with me and tie it in with a visit to a garden centre, there are two very nice ones in the vicinity of Prestwick.

Alternatively, if your flight times are not that work-friendly, you can get off the Prestwick-Glasgow train at Paisley and I can skive off work and show you some "lovely" pubs until Madchen gets out of work. (Madchen, should I take them to Langs?)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link

In fact, if you aren't coming until 22nd July I might not even *have* a job to skive off by then.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 15:39 (nineteen years ago) link

xx post.

a cab to glasgow from prestwick will actually set you back about £70 so don't do it. i got one once in an emergency and nearly had a heart attack when presented with the total.

the facilities at prestwick have actually improved quite a bit recently. they're pretty much on a par with the awfulness that is glasgow airport's catering now.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:00 (nineteen years ago) link

But hey, there's not much fog at Prestwick!

― KeefW (kmw), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:04 (nineteen years ago) link

train from prestwick airport to glasgow central, what, £7 return, plus you get a discount with your boarding pass, or have I missed something?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:09 (nineteen years ago) link

I just noticed Gerry slipped the word "roffle" into a sentence up there. Good work, sir.

Cozen, the thing you have missed is that we are being *nice* to our visitors. And I want a skive off work.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:35 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't even know who is visiting.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:50 (nineteen years ago) link

a cab to glasgow from prestwick will actually set you back about £70

!

a minicab or a hack?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:51 (nineteen years ago) link

I passed my exam.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:52 (nineteen years ago) link

it was a troon minicab. maybe he was at it?

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:01 (nineteen years ago) link

he sounds a little at it, tbh.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:02 (nineteen years ago) link

well done, cozen!
(which exam?)

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 23 June 2005 08:47 (nineteen years ago) link

oh yeah... wills graduates today! how come no one organised a stalking trip to st andrews? hmph.. woulda been a fantastic maiden voyage for iason/argo

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 23 June 2005 09:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I have just led the procession into graduation. They forgot to get me a Manchester hood for the second year running. These things are important when your hood is furry and nobody else's is. I had to be a faux Strath BA in boring blue and white.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 23 June 2005 09:27 (nineteen years ago) link

BA humbug
BAstards

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 23 June 2005 10:21 (nineteen years ago) link

btw madchen and ailsa, i took your advice and ventured off the glasgow thread. i think it's gotten me in trouble

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 23 June 2005 11:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Do you know who Ned is now?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 23 June 2005 11:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, I noticed you'd been spreading your wings. Like giving Ally a guitar and making him a pop star, WE DID THAT TO YOU!

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:46 (nineteen years ago) link

not only do i know him, but i think i've managed to make an enemy of him. oops. you've created a monster!

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 23 June 2005 16:33 (nineteen years ago) link

What is this thread of which you speak?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 24 June 2005 08:41 (nineteen years ago) link

I am reviving this thread because it is quite obvious that Dahlin and I are both bored and still at work.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:17 (nineteen years ago) link

I will keep posting until she does.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:17 (nineteen years ago) link

(x-post)

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:17 (nineteen years ago) link

tap...tap...tap...

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Can I interrupt? The tennis is off due to rain and the mister is watching Enterprise and I am bored.

Are you dotting on Saturday (is it the St1ng one this time round?)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Hey! I'm at my grandmother's ninetieth birthday in Chesterfield this weekend I'm afraid. I want to see Sting Junior but there we are. Somebody should take a photo and post it here.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:23 (nineteen years ago) link

gosh i'm slow

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Are you avoiding me? Every time I suggest we go out, you keep going to Eng-ur-land.

You have to take me clothes-shopping, the wedding approaches. I will repay you with a photo of Sting Jr.

(xpost)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Okey dokey.

(Did you hear something? I'm sure I heard something.)

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:27 (nineteen years ago) link

hello? hello? i'm here!
... and having surreal conversations about amputated arm stumps with me editor. hmmmm...

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Ah, there you are.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:32 (nineteen years ago) link

I have just starting thinking about making a deep fried pie pie. This is wrong in so many ways. However, the mister is watching Enterprise which currently involves Sam Beckett from Quantum Leap snogging a woman with green skin, so I am allowed some form of distraction, however unhealthy.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Mormon pie with jelly in it?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:37 (nineteen years ago) link

jell-O darling, jell-O
ewwwww (to all of the above)

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:43 (nineteen years ago) link

make the pie! make the pie! then send a slice by taxi to grimly fiendish's desk of working-long-into-the-evening doom, c/o hell, renfield street. even pastry-driven cardiac arrest would beat this particular magazine-related misery.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:57 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't have ingredients to make pies just now (also I'm watching CSI). I bet if you wandered out to the Blue Lagoon they would dip a scotch pie in extra batter and double fry it for you. Do it!

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Post some to me. I would wait three days for a deep fried pie pie. I mean, it's not like it's going to go off in the interim, is it?

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:08 (nineteen years ago) link

I feel some pressure to actually come through with this now. Perhaps I shall bring some to Ned-FAP.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:16 (nineteen years ago) link

if it's going to be over two nights, we'll need sustenance :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I have cleverly taken time off work during Ned-FAP as that last Monday wasn't too good for me and that was only about three and a half hours of booze. I am a big pansy girlie these days.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:21 (nineteen years ago) link

i can't wait to meet ned. tho i meet neds every day, i think this one will be special. plus, to see grimly in a linen suit... aye cor-rhumba!

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:30 (nineteen years ago) link

a pinstripe linen suit, no less.

right. my work here is done, and i live to sub another day. i'm off to watch big brother, hurrah.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:35 (nineteen years ago) link

i outtie! laterz suckazzzzz

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link

I tried the ABC tonight, for the first time. It was...wonderful.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 21:33 (nineteen years ago) link

i cant wait to hear about Sting Jr!! I bet he doesn't shit right for weeks!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 21:39 (nineteen years ago) link

It's very nice, isn't it. It has a ridiculously well stocked bar with a lot of bar staff, which is always a bonus compared to the horror that is the upstairs bar at the Barrowlands. (I still haven't tried the Carling Academy yet, but I was really impressed with the ABC). It has a very large mirrorball, which is also nice.

(xpost, eewww, thanks Mandee)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 21:40 (nineteen years ago) link

The ABC? The cinema?

― KeefW (kmw), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 21:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, do keep up.

(It was a cinema, is now a NICE place to see bands live, none of yer manky Barrowlands pish, but maybe it was nice because I was in a room full of OLD PEOPLE when I was there who don't behave like a Barrowlands crowd)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 21:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I was not in the Mirrorball room, I'm afraid.

Jake is getting the boning of his life, Mandee. I'll be thinking of you.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 21:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I misread that as "Jack is getting the boning of his life" and, well, you can guess the rest...

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 21:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Dahlin, just in case you wanted to know, there used to be a very irritating bloke round these parts whose surname had the same first four letters as your user name - he was banned from ILX. Someone has therefore decided that you might be him and has asked if you are or not - details are on this thread but I've stuck up for you as not being him, so please don't tell me that you used to be an attention-seeking boy in a previous incarnation or I'll look stupid.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 05:07 (nineteen years ago) link

cross my heart and hope to die
thanks love

― dahlin (dahlin), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 09:29 (nineteen years ago) link

I am off on sunday

― c/n (Cozen), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:10 (nineteen years ago) link

are you going to BRWH on saturday then?

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:13 (nineteen years ago) link

oh my!

― c/n (Cozen), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:14 (nineteen years ago) link

basteroid says yes

― c/n (Cozen), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:15 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm not sure. i'll see if i can do it.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:17 (nineteen years ago) link

paging alba and RJG

― c/n (Cozen), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:21 (nineteen years ago) link

ok. i'll go if we get a crew.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Dot to Dot are playing with the offSting on Saturday, which may divert me from Live8 for a while. (Ally C v Joss Stone FITE!)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:28 (nineteen years ago) link

hey jed, do you need to go out team handed these days?*

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 19:01 (nineteen years ago) link

*haha like you didn't always

― cozemonster (Cozen), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 19:05 (nineteen years ago) link

hahahahahahaha

I'm crying.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 19:11 (nineteen years ago) link

don't cry jed. i'm sure some of the big boys will be round to hold yr hand.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 19:14 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm sure of it!

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 19:18 (nineteen years ago) link

btw jed, what's the name of yr friend who always acts (unnecessarily) sheepish after that time he was super pissed? i'm always seeing him about but can never remeber his name.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 19:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Niall. he's sheepish at the best of times though.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 19:28 (nineteen years ago) link

thanks.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 19:35 (nineteen years ago) link

basteroid roll call?

― c/n (Cozen), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:00 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm actually pretty excited now, having listened to some of his live DJ sets

― c/n (Cozen), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:28 (nineteen years ago) link

yes me!

i dont have a phone at the moment so let me know whats happening on here. or your welcome to come along eith me if no one else is up for it cozen, just let me know so we can organizize.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 1 July 2005 22:55 (nineteen years ago) link

i have a crew! of two!

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 1 July 2005 22:56 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm team handed!

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 1 July 2005 23:01 (nineteen years ago) link

ok, jed, I'll keep you updated.

going to see dot to dot definitely, in the early evening.

maybe just see you in basteroid?

― c/n (Cozen), Saturday, 2 July 2005 00:02 (nineteen years ago) link

if you are also team handed then yes.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 2 July 2005 00:04 (nineteen years ago) link

I might be alone handed.

we'll see, I suppose.

― c/n (Cozen), Saturday, 2 July 2005 00:09 (nineteen years ago) link

I would like to be part of a team. Any team.

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 2 July 2005 00:42 (nineteen years ago) link

not sure you're a team player tho, cookie

― dahlin (dahlin), Saturday, 2 July 2005 13:56 (nineteen years ago) link

I wonder if he'll play any funky house

― c/n (Cozen), Saturday, 2 July 2005 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link

the plug will be pulled!

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Saturday, 2 July 2005 15:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Are people going to see Dot to Dot then? It's that or being dragged to see War of the Worlds against my will, or watching Live8.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 2 July 2005 16:15 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm curious as to why Dot to Dot aren't part of Live8. Or War of the Worlds.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 2 July 2005 16:44 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm not there - i hope this doesn't mean cozen is on his own

:/

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 2 July 2005 21:12 (nineteen years ago) link

We missed you, Colin. Keith, you were good. You should get Cut Copy the next time they come over. They would be a perfect Optimo band, for me.

Two ABC visits in a week. I practically LIVE there.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 3 July 2005 02:11 (nineteen years ago) link

the ABC was far, far, far too hot. you'd think if they could spend a million pounds plus doing the place up they could at least put in some air conditioning. and it took an hour to get a drink at the bar, and the sound system was way too quiet..moan moan moan.

anyway, despite gripes glad to hear that you were there ally. i knew jed wouldn't make it as i had a feeling his 'team' would let him down.

as for cut copy, i would love to have them play. i saw them earlier in the year and they were great fun. i just don't know how to go about contacting them. how about dot to dot playing some time? we could do a big discount for ilx'ers.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Sunday, 3 July 2005 02:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Blimey, we would LOVE to play. But would people accept a bunch of indie no-hopers? We might get lynched!

The heat was palpable, yes, but not as bad as the Woodside! The bar queue annoyed me when I wanted to dance to 'Maps' etc in a great 20 minute section and was stuck there. The sound was loud enough I guess, but was that it at it's limit? The ABC seems an OK place, overall.

I am listening to 'Sailing' by Christopher Cross. This is making me very happy before I go to sleep.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 3 July 2005 02:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Sorry I couldn't make it. I didn't finish at work till 12.30 and wasn't really in the mood. I like the ABC though. I've been there twice in a week too, but I guess Anthony & The Johnsons didn't need to be so loud or cool. Maybe I like the ABC2 more.

Blimey, we would LOVE to play. But would people accept a bunch of indie no-hopers? We might get lynched!

Just play a 30 minute extended version of that opening instrumental and you'll be fine.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 3 July 2005 09:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Sorry I couldn't make it either. I couldn't be arsed.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 3 July 2005 09:51 (nineteen years ago) link

i knew jed wouldn't make it as i had a feeling his 'team' would let him down.

i always come to BRWH's! i think i've been to every one since Raumschiere (sp?). however, you are right, i'm crap to have missed it :(

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 3 July 2005 10:28 (nineteen years ago) link

dottodot@optimo cool!

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 3 July 2005 10:29 (nineteen years ago) link

we missed you, colin.

stirmonster, you practically made my year with the perfect twenty minute section starting w/the mingling bells of mayer's maps and brutalga square and the 5, 10, 15 minute wait for the main line of dexter to come in.

I should have some pictures of basteroid up on flickr soon enough.

― c/n (Cozen), Sunday, 3 July 2005 15:07 (nineteen years ago) link

I didn't notice the heat really but the volume level was really strange - it would have perfectly easy to hold a decent conversation in there. in fact, they could have had newsnight review or question time in there. maybe you could book them for the next brwh?

― c/n (Cozen), Sunday, 3 July 2005 15:11 (nineteen years ago) link

spawn o sting looked creepily like his daddy-o
and was equally as non rockin', with an odd chicken pecking head tic as he strummed his plugged-in acoustic guitar. the drummer circulated among the 25-strong crowd afterwards asking people to sign his guest book.mailing list thingie. then the painfully awkward banter-making bassist put them all to shame when he literally got on his knees before ally, begging him to buy a £5 tee-shirt. wow. desperate is not the word. sad, perhaps?
what a gig.

― dahlin (dahlin), Sunday, 3 July 2005 16:54 (nineteen years ago) link

An experience, at least.

All eyes on NEDFAP now, I suppose. But before that:

Friday, 8th July - GOODBYE 148 PARTY, 9PM ONWARDS. ALL WELCOME. xx

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 3 July 2005 21:39 (nineteen years ago) link

YES MORE ROFFLES PLEASE

― c/n (Cozen), Sunday, 3 July 2005 21:43 (nineteen years ago) link

can we have a FAP a week on Friday? or Saturday? what else is happening in two weeks? a separate thread seems a bit excessive...

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Sunday, 3 July 2005 21:50 (nineteen years ago) link

look here now

I hope I'm able to be around for both nedfap and stevalixfap

― c/n (Cozen), Sunday, 3 July 2005 22:02 (nineteen years ago) link

i kept thinking i was coming over in two weeks not three...stupid me. this is excellent timing with Isolee then - fantastic.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Sunday, 3 July 2005 22:21 (nineteen years ago) link

isolee when? i thought it was july 24th?

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 3 July 2005 22:53 (nineteen years ago) link

at optimo i mean.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 3 July 2005 22:53 (nineteen years ago) link

ah thats right then, *confusion*

result!

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 3 July 2005 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Argh, Isolee is the Sunday night before the busiest week of my life. Argh.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 4 July 2005 12:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Are tickets in advance needed for Isolee/Optimo then?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 4 July 2005 12:07 (nineteen years ago) link

no.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 00:39 (nineteen years ago) link

goin early and queing is though.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 00:40 (nineteen years ago) link

i think stewart should do a feature on ally and his new facial hair for beard. i definitely think it's been a major influence on dot to dot's new RAWK direction

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 11:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I quite fancy a drink and a look at Ms Lander in the cellar. Does anyone else? RJG? Ally C? It won't be your local for long.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 17:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Alba, when is this? Tonight?

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 17:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh yes, just now, I meant.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 17:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I haven't had my tea, yet, and we are supposed to be packing

I will shout "cook"

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 17:48 (nineteen years ago) link

I phoned him

he says he hasn't had his tea, yet, either but that we could go for "one"

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 17:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Neil is at the pictures all night and I am bored. I phoned Cook earlier and he was supposed to be packing when I requested him for a diversion from watching shit telly. I am up for a pint if this is happening (I don't even know what is happening, does it involve Camera Obscura?).

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 17:52 (nineteen years ago) link

I think it's a BYOCO party.

I'll pop over to the old 148 ranch and see if I can rouse the troops.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 17:54 (nineteen years ago) link

I am wearing shorts

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 17:55 (nineteen years ago) link

stirmonster, you practically made my year with the perfect twenty minute section starting w/the mingling bells of mayer's maps and brutalga square and the 5, 10, 15 minute wait for the main line of dexter to come in.

:-o

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 17:55 (nineteen years ago) link

I am wearing shorts

:-o

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 17:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Should I move from my house Glasgow-wards and wait for a phone call (I think only Ally has my number?)? Or should I continue watching Coronation Street and being bored? Will someone tell me if something is going on that will relieve my boredom?

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 17:57 (nineteen years ago) link

I think "one" may only mean "two", in this instance, so I don't know how worthwhile an excursion it'd be if it isn't on your way home from work or down the hill from your flat

: /

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link

I am going to their decaying house and they are going to eat their tea and then I will try to persuade them that boxes are for squares and they need to have a drink at the Brunswick Cellars, where CL may be barmaiding and shooting us 'ha ha' looks every now then. If this sounds interesting then do join us.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 18:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Fucking hell these chocolates are good.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 18:00 (nineteen years ago) link

oh and big brother is on at ten, so

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 18:00 (nineteen years ago) link

I have no better options, so I may jump up by teh BC. Please come out as it will be a wasted trip otherwise (I am eating my tea so you have about fifteen minutes to post back if this is the case)

I didn't know CL had a real job. I should get out more.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 18:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I will come out.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 18:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I am just miffed because there are three pub quizzes on in Paisley tonight but the mister has gone to the pictures, leaving me with a free evening, and has kidnapped all of my local mates to go with him thereby robbing me of my pub quiz team. bah. I might come out, if I do I will be in the Cellars within the hour.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 18:08 (nineteen years ago) link

what a world

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 11 July 2005 10:45 (nineteen years ago) link

It sure is a sunny one.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 11 July 2005 11:11 (nineteen years ago) link

I haven't looked at this thread, for quite a while.

It no longer makes any kind of sense.

Ally C, you should ask Steady Mike to play you his 'wonky' version of 'Sailing' by Christopher Cross, one day.

― Peter Stringbender (PJ Miller), Monday, 11 July 2005 11:20 (nineteen years ago) link

hey. anyone trying anything in glasgow this weekend?

― dahlin (dahlin), Friday, 15 July 2005 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link

i'll be trying to get out of bed at 5am to go to arran for the weekend.

5am!

buggery bollocks.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 15 July 2005 16:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I have a carefully planned menu of utterly bog all.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Friday, 15 July 2005 16:41 (nineteen years ago) link

OK here is the skinny

I am moving back to glasgow, provisional upon:

M&S announce 6 new jobs at sauchiehall store on weds

I will transfer there if I can get a job, with adequate hours &c.

so:

I am looking for a) a flat & b) a flatmate:

a) ally c said there was a 'nice' flat available above you, lucy, what can you tell me about it? e-mail? the one here is good

b) RJG said he knew someone who was looking for a flatmate.

so.

I won't know for sure if I can move back in 'till wednesday

and then I can start catering to my two part flat conundrum

hi glasgow

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 15 July 2005 17:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Terrific. Can't help.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 15 July 2005 17:17 (nineteen years ago) link

What good news! I do hope you come back, cozen. Can't help either, though.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 15 July 2005 17:19 (nineteen years ago) link

my friend is nice and irish and an architecture student but lives almost next door to us.

why do you keep saying funny things, cozen?

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 15 July 2005 17:35 (nineteen years ago) link

peculiar or haha?

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 15 July 2005 17:45 (nineteen years ago) link

don't make me choose

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 15 July 2005 17:47 (nineteen years ago) link

With the kind of timing only Telewest can manage, my email account has been suspended, whatever that means. I am quietly confident that anyone who needs to know will eventually click on this thread, except my cousin in Australia, who is the only person liable to get the hump about me not answering anything.

― Peter Stringbender (PJ Miller), Monday, 18 July 2005 09:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Looks like we won't be able to try Glasgow this weekend now :(

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 18 July 2005 09:16 (nineteen years ago) link

How come?

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 18 July 2005 09:19 (nineteen years ago) link

mailed you

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 18 July 2005 09:25 (nineteen years ago) link

: (

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 18 July 2005 09:29 (nineteen years ago) link

: (

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 18 July 2005 10:02 (nineteen years ago) link

:(

But :) for Cozen moving.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 18 July 2005 10:05 (nineteen years ago) link

()-- for Cozen's tennis.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 18 July 2005 10:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Peter,

Andy's asking for your new home address on robots...

― KeefW (kmw), Monday, 18 July 2005 10:24 (nineteen years ago) link

oh yeah, how was tennis?
and madchen.. what happened to your media lockdown? tsk tsk

― dahlin (dahlin), Monday, 18 July 2005 10:47 (nineteen years ago) link

that's good cozen, that was funny RJG, that's a shame stevem. Ally C i am a dick! i will try you soon i hope.

isolee roll call?

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 18 July 2005 11:04 (nineteen years ago) link

I think I'll be too knackered. Media black-out starts again... NOW.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 18 July 2005 11:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Keith, tell him I'll get back to him on that one when we're up and running. I can't remember the postcode, although I did have a clever way of remembering it. Also, please tell him I am doing quality control for the Mighty Boosh, so he'll soon be bale to watch it without a logo.

Did you got to that Harry Potter thing at Edinburgh Castle?

I bet you did, you puff.

― Peter Stringbender (PJ Miller), Monday, 18 July 2005 11:27 (nineteen years ago) link

No problem.

I didn't go to Harry Potter no. I don't know anything about Harry Potter, though I did enjoy Paul Daniels' Magic show.

― KeefW (kmw), Monday, 18 July 2005 11:29 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm afraid I won't be trying Edinburgh or Glasgow this weekend, for sadly obvious reasons. Sorry to mess you about, Keith.

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 18 July 2005 11:39 (nineteen years ago) link

oh god, i just made a comment, upthread, about it being a shame stevem wasn't coming that might have seemed a bit glib, sorry. i am sad that neither Tim nor Stevem are coming to glasgow :(

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 18 July 2005 11:46 (nineteen years ago) link

I guess we'll all be happy to see people if they can make it up later in the summer / year tho'.

I queued for an hour with C to get a HP book on Friday. We arrived at c. 11.45 and the queue went from Waterstones round the Burger King to the Guildform Arms. This may only make sense to other Edinburgers hiding out on this thread.

― alext (alext), Monday, 18 July 2005 11:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Tim, it's no problem.

Any other time is fine, just let me know, though I'll be in Dublin the week beginning the 8th.

― KeefW (kmw), Monday, 18 July 2005 11:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Alex, yes, Matthew Atk1nson was saying there were loads of people dressed up as wizards and gnomes and stuff on the street.

― KeefW (kmw), Monday, 18 July 2005 11:53 (nineteen years ago) link

madchen, I might have to phone you, to enquire

RJG, you too, or I could e-mail

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 18 July 2005 12:34 (nineteen years ago) link

I'd like to go see isolée

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 18 July 2005 13:25 (nineteen years ago) link

feel free!

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 18 July 2005 16:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Would that be a Wednesday in 2001?? Has this thread gone into a timewarp?

― alext (alext), Monday, 18 July 2005 21:17 (nineteen years ago) link

No, the whole of ILX has gone into a timewarp.

That would be Wednesday as in not tomorrow but the day after.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 18 July 2005 21:23 (nineteen years ago) link

try new lanark more

― dahlin (dahlin), Monday, 18 July 2005 21:28 (nineteen years ago) link

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT, for ALLY C:
tennis was fully booked up, through tuesday

― czn (johnson), Monday, 18 July 2005 21:39 (nineteen years ago) link

I wish I had tried New Lanark more. It looks very nice (I was at a wedding there once, but it was dark and I was drunk so I don't remember it looking that pretty).

You should try hills up the back of Greenock more. That's what I did on Sunday. I got sunburnt.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 18 July 2005 21:42 (nineteen years ago) link

(that isn't my photo, and that's not my dog)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 18 July 2005 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link

johnson?

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 18 July 2005 21:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I think this may be a good thread to introduce myself to some of you(If anyone cares...).
Longtime lurker of about 3-4 years. (I think i posted on a pfunk thread some years back actually). I know quite a few ilxors from outside of ilx but none in Scotland.

My name is Kerr and i'm 32.
I'm not from Glasgow but i'm not far away. I've been in Hamilton for 14 years now. Before that I lived in various places including East Kilbride, Blackwood and before I moved to Hamilton I lived in Prestwick for 8 years, where i attended secondary school in Ayr.

Main interests are music and football(im an Accies fan for my sins, as well as Liverpool).

Ned insists you're a friendly lot.

So hello everybody!

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Monday, 18 July 2005 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link

hello pfunk. post more. it could create a new pfunk era.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 18 July 2005 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Ned's a liar. We're all horrible.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 18 July 2005 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Ned's a liar. We're all horrible.

Well thanks for the warning!

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Monday, 18 July 2005 22:15 (nineteen years ago) link

jedpost - czn stole my pc

― jeffrey (johnson), Monday, 18 July 2005 22:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Hi pfunk! I work with an Accies fan, from Hamilton.

Ailsa's lying. Only some of us are horrible.

It's gone 2am - get to bed Gerry!

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 00:06 (nineteen years ago) link

yes, get to bed gerry!
hi kerr.. i think i have your number. ooo-er!

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 08:18 (nineteen years ago) link

greetings, kerr. hamilton, eh? i've been to the bus station there. and i've met some of mogwai.

when i met the glasgow ILX chapter in the flesh, they gave me chinese burns and swirlies. especially that dahlin: you want to be watching her.

sorry. er ... not sure i can do a wednesday pint, but post any details here anyway and i shall try.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 08:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Wednesday is .2. night, innit. Buff Club.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 08:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm not leaving Edin. until we have moved flat on Friday. (Others have much worse things to do that day I know.) I am now wondering where on earth I can get legal advice about how not to be stitched up by dearly beloved partner in the process ;-)

― alext (alext), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 09:20 (nineteen years ago) link

i bite. CHOMP
no, madchen darling, today is TUESDAY. TOMORROW is wednesday. i know you've been working hard and all, but REALLY...
yes, buff club it is
BUFF
CLUB!
woo hoo!

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 09:23 (nineteen years ago) link

i think she meant "dot to dot" night? or dot-to-dot night, if you're going to be really pedantic about the punctuation.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 09:42 (nineteen years ago) link

grimly understands

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 10:14 (nineteen years ago) link

oh yes, i like that.

― grimly understands (grimlord), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 10:15 (nineteen years ago) link

I've never met any of Mogwai but I did use to see Stuart reading the music mags in John Menzies/WH Smiths before and after mogwai started.
You occasionally see him around town. His mum is my mates GP.

Havent been to an Accies match for a few years Gerry but I wouldn't be surprised if I did know or know of your workmate. Though I am terrible at matching names with faces.

Ailsa , when I took Ned to Avalanche Records I showed him the celtic shop next door and he mentioned your name saying you were a keen Celtic fan.
So I guess you hate Motherwell just as much as I do now :)

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 10:51 (nineteen years ago) link

We should try Hamilton more. I went to school there.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 15:52 (nineteen years ago) link

I like your pictures, Stacey.

I would only be able to drink tonight, formally. Tomorrow is rock n roll.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 15:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Tonight I am going to the pub in Paisley to watch a pre-season friendly (Celtic v Leicester) such is my dedication to booze Celtic.

I knew tomorrow was Dot to Dot, hence why I suggested it. Thursday onwards would be out since people are going to Liz' funeral.

I vote for the Hamilton Palace. I used to go out with someone who used to drink there. Cheap drinks, tarty women and neddish blokes to laugh at, and the chance to dance to Copacabana! What more could you want.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 16:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Also most of the 4th, 5th and 6th year from my alma mater too. Rowr!

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 17:13 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm really excited about moving back to glasgow

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 18:25 (nineteen years ago) link

are you coming on sunday?

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 18:39 (nineteen years ago) link

ally - rock n roll my ass. as if you can't do both. in fact, isn't drink intrinsic to rock n roll? and i've shown you mine, where's yours?
ailsa - sounds palatial indeed. where is this... er... gem?
colin - i don't believe you really exist.

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I hope so, colin

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 19:04 (nineteen years ago) link

so do i.

dahlin, i'm real baby!

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 19:05 (nineteen years ago) link

prove it

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 20:12 (nineteen years ago) link

I am maybe, now, too poor to go out tomorrow night.

Dahlin, here is a guide to nights out in Hamilton. The Palace doesn't come out of it too well. I also used to go out in Coatbridge in my younger days. It was crap as well. People, does Lanarkshire have any redeeming features (nice photos of New Lanark notwithstanding)?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 20:50 (nineteen years ago) link

redeeming features? er: it's not that far from civilisation glasgow.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 21:35 (nineteen years ago) link

I just remembered, it used to have T in the Park when T in the Park was good and I was the owner of one of the fifty or so tents at the first one. Norman Blake told stories about the mausoleum thing.

There's a statue of Davie Cooper out the back of the Hamilton Palace somewhere. Near Asda.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 21:39 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't recommend Blantyre's David Livingston Centre highly enough. Also, the Clyde Valley is great for summer days. And er, that's it.

Oh, except the Tabac at Hamilton train station.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 23:22 (nineteen years ago) link

OK, now I need to find a flat or flatmate.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 17:06 (nineteen years ago) link

best of luck

will keep my eyes peeled and my ears whatever their equivalent is

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 17:11 (nineteen years ago) link

thank you

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 17:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Ned's a liar. We're all horrible.

So not true. Anyway Kerr is a good sort. Hope everyone is doing well!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 21 July 2005 07:41 (nineteen years ago) link

you miss us, don't you ned?
once you pop, you can't stop...

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 21 July 2005 07:57 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm down for isolée

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:05 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.optimo.co.uk/Isolee.jpg

me
cozen

you?

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 23 July 2005 19:53 (nineteen years ago) link

WEAREMONSTERS

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 23 July 2005 19:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh - I read it as Weare Monsters and thought it was some mythical beast. Me, yes.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 23 July 2005 20:04 (nineteen years ago) link

yes, me

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 23 July 2005 20:09 (nineteen years ago) link

:)))

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 23 July 2005 20:13 (nineteen years ago) link

yes

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 23 July 2005 20:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Colin - I think we're going to be doing the pub quiz at Hubbard's beforehand.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 24 July 2005 17:43 (nineteen years ago) link

coz sez jed sed he'd check queue at half ten and if it's small go for pint

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 24 July 2005 17:51 (nineteen years ago) link

yes - i don't like to miss the first hour and i think i might be longish by opening time - half ten and if no q see u in the crystal palace (is it called that?).

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 24 July 2005 18:00 (nineteen years ago) link

I think it is, yes, okay!

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 24 July 2005 18:26 (nineteen years ago) link

No Fair this weekend.

i might be longish by opening time

This seems implausible.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 24 July 2005 18:44 (nineteen years ago) link

i was waiting for that.

so, good?

hahaha. RJG - WHATEVER! LOSER!

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 25 July 2005 10:54 (nineteen years ago) link

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b339/dahling007/london/nipple3.jpg

― dahlin (dahlin), Monday, 25 July 2005 10:56 (nineteen years ago) link

I'll have to come through sometime. It doesn't seem right that i'm arranging my second london fap but i've still not made it across the M8 to meet the weegie contingent.

― leigh (leigh), Monday, 25 July 2005 10:59 (nineteen years ago) link

who is Ally C trying?

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 25 July 2005 11:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Mr Grant, nouveau Londoner. How was last night?

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 25 July 2005 11:23 (nineteen years ago) link

messy, good, great fun. even RJG was dancing!

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 25 July 2005 11:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Lordy.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 25 July 2005 11:37 (nineteen years ago) link

(x-post leigh...)
yeah, wassup wit dat!
we're nicer than that london lot anyway
mmmmm

― dahlin (dahlin), Monday, 25 July 2005 11:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Messy! Wish I'd been there.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 25 July 2005 11:46 (nineteen years ago) link

for an example of just how crazy it was have a look at

explain me "beau mot plage"

and download the ysi stirmoster just posted there.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 25 July 2005 11:52 (nineteen years ago) link

haha!

YOU KNOW IT

I won't deny that I enjoyed last night a million percent

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 25 July 2005 12:56 (nineteen years ago) link

I even stopped drinking, at one AM

water at £1.60 a bottle is unfortunate

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 25 July 2005 12:59 (nineteen years ago) link

You were drinking water, RJG?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 25 July 2005 13:07 (nineteen years ago) link

And dancing?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 25 July 2005 13:07 (nineteen years ago) link

oh, sorry, I was drinking alcoholix before one AM and water after it

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 25 July 2005 13:09 (nineteen years ago) link

"dancing"

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 25 July 2005 13:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Drinking water > dancing > unsurprising.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 25 July 2005 13:29 (nineteen years ago) link

you'd be surprised!!!!

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 25 July 2005 13:32 (nineteen years ago) link

You are allowed free tap water you know, RJG. It was v.hot, or maybe I am just feeling the warmth in my old age.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 25 July 2005 13:37 (nineteen years ago) link

I will TMOB, next time, for the free tap water

one of those ones, with a spout, from a bike, I think

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 25 July 2005 13:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Anyway, are we going drinking any time soon?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 25 July 2005 14:09 (nineteen years ago) link

I think I might go out, tomorrow evening, with some of my pals

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 25 July 2005 14:23 (nineteen years ago) link

... and I have found a flat.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 25 July 2005 14:27 (nineteen years ago) link

tell us

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 25 July 2005 14:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Which pals?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 25 July 2005 14:31 (nineteen years ago) link

biff, enda, ferg, tommy

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 25 July 2005 14:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Tell Ferg never to get his hair cut.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 25 July 2005 14:34 (nineteen years ago) link

st. vincent cres., after all

a very long street

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 25 July 2005 14:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Have you really got a friend called biff?

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 25 July 2005 14:42 (nineteen years ago) link

kind of

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 25 July 2005 14:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I will tell him, madchen!

you are welcome to join us, if we do go out, of course

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 25 July 2005 14:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I will be seeing Batman Begins tonight, as step three in my campaign of overusing a UGC Unlimited Card in order to make me end up hating all cinema.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 25 July 2005 14:50 (nineteen years ago) link

unbelievably gallus cineworld

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 25 July 2005 14:54 (nineteen years ago) link

London has broken me (and my bank balance) and so I cannot go boozing until Friday. I shall be trying NPL more then though. The nouveau Londoner pictured up there breastfeeding Ally is coming back, so I feel I should make the effort since I haven't seen him since, erm, Saturday.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 25 July 2005 15:29 (nineteen years ago) link

I am having second thoughts about the wisdom of opening the Renfrew Street fridges.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 25 July 2005 15:31 (nineteen years ago) link

the renfrew street fridges>>the doors of perception

you sounded quite like an authority, so I trusted you


haha, cozen messaged me, today, asking if he thought he could get a room at renfrew street!!

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 25 July 2005 15:35 (nineteen years ago) link

HE ASKED IF I THOUGHT!!!!!!

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 25 July 2005 15:35 (nineteen years ago) link

We were talking, last night. We thought, Wednesday, in The Lansdowne again, for drinks. Whaddaya thinks?

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 25 July 2005 15:40 (nineteen years ago) link

On the one hand, it's true that the fridges will become increasingly terrible if you leave the doors shut and the electricity off.

On the other, the horror will be contained until they are opened by Khan or his minions.

I'm worried that the stink will get so bad now that the other flats will think there has been a murder.

I feel this dilemma must have been prefigured in classical mythology somewhere. Can any scholars help?

What was in the fridges, by the way? I was too scared to look.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 25 July 2005 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link

You crazy ravers.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 25 July 2005 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Look out for our fridge antics on the DVD of It's All Gone Pete Tong.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 25 July 2005 15:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I second that Fergie should not get his hair cut.

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 25 July 2005 16:06 (nineteen years ago) link

I think there was some butter and white wine and pineapple & coconut juice in the fridge and maybe something else

did you open both fridges? what about the freezer?

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 25 July 2005 16:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Shoulda left a bag o'prawns.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 25 July 2005 16:11 (nineteen years ago) link

I opened everything.

I think there was some butter and white wine and pineapple & coconut juice in the fridge and maybe something else

Ready Steady Cook!

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 25 July 2005 16:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Ready Ally Cook
Ready Steady Mike

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 25 July 2005 16:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Cock in the hole.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 25 July 2005 16:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Can Eat Indie Chicken, Will Eat Indie Chicken

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 25 July 2005 16:28 (nineteen years ago) link

if I moved into 148 I would make the kitchen my bedroom

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 25 July 2005 17:49 (nineteen years ago) link

i am responsible for the pineapple and coconut juice

― dahlin (dahlin), Monday, 25 July 2005 19:40 (nineteen years ago) link

if I moved into 148 I would make the kitchen my bedroom

Great. I'll make the bedroom my toilet.

― KeefW (kmw), Monday, 25 July 2005 20:55 (nineteen years ago) link

wahey!

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 25 July 2005 20:57 (nineteen years ago) link

I would suggest that those readjustments had already been made, if I were rude.

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 25 July 2005 21:46 (nineteen years ago) link

en-suite kitchen

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 25 July 2005 23:04 (nineteen years ago) link

ally says it's all set up--there's a pillow in the oven, for you

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 25 July 2005 23:40 (nineteen years ago) link

I like this new dentist already!

i. the secretary was kind of loopy, and at points ws just plain ignoring me
ii. my appointment is at the quite-odd time of 7:25pm

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 10:37 (nineteen years ago) link

I should have explained that it is a "wacky practice".

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 10:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Please, remember to turn the oven on first.

Also - tell me where dentist. I really need one.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 10:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Maybe I should be charging for providing the details of this magic dentist of mine.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 10:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Or maybe I'll be THROWN OUT of the magic dentist circle for revealing its secrets.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 10:53 (nineteen years ago) link

What is this evening dentist? I dumped mine at Christmas after shopping traffic made me arrive 15 minutes late for my 5pm appointment and they refused to see me, so I need another one.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:14 (nineteen years ago) link

is this the mad-mental art dentist on bath street, alba?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Ouch.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:59 (nineteen years ago) link

No, it's Woodside Crescent.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 13:25 (nineteen years ago) link

It's a husband and wife team. She's the brains behind the operation and he's the muscle (handy for extractions).

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 13:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh MAN I hate being at work late with tons of stuff to do and I can't concentrate.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:26 (nineteen years ago) link

The Campus Bar? Don't try it.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 21:37 (nineteen years ago) link

haha, you fool

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 21:38 (nineteen years ago) link

did you get whaled on by jocks, alba?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 21:55 (nineteen years ago) link

No, I just felt funny.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 22:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I went to the lansdowne and the liquid ship


I am ill

: (

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Glasgow has let us down.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 22:09 (nineteen years ago) link

it was GRATE i dunno what you're talking about
next time i get FREE POPOCORN!
i thought lansdowne was tomorrow night?

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link

next time i get FREE POPOCORN!

i know i'm going to regret asking, but how does this come back/get free popcorn thing work?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 22:14 (nineteen years ago) link

popocorn, even.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 22:15 (nineteen years ago) link

I am falling apart, I never knew teeth were so integral

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 04:08 (nineteen years ago) link

The Lansdowne was meant to be tonight. Will you go again? I really need a drink.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 06:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Lansdowne is tonight. RJG just made an independent break. That's why he got sick.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 07:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Was there actual upchucking? Did he christen the new flat?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 08:41 (nineteen years ago) link

free popocorn = COUPON!
lansdowne tonight = YAY!

― dahlin (dahlin), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 09:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I am just fluey or something like it

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 09:16 (nineteen years ago) link

You should see my dentist.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 09:17 (nineteen years ago) link

they're that good?

I have a dentist but he's in bathgate

: /

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 09:26 (nineteen years ago) link

No, I just mean you should see my dentist|!

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 09:27 (nineteen years ago) link

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 09:29 (nineteen years ago) link

are you from bathgate?

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 09:37 (nineteen years ago) link

nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnno

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 09:42 (nineteen years ago) link

billy is from bathgate, isn't he?

― dahlin (dahlin), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 09:52 (nineteen years ago) link

"EXCUSE ME I'M TALKING ABOUT BILLY BATHGATE"

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 09:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Has your quiff wilted because of the flu, RJG? I need to get a good strong mental picture.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 10:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I haven't actually had a quiff (I am still not sure about this word) since my last haircut--my usual "stylist" was off. flu, maybe.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 10:54 (nineteen years ago) link

"stylist"

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 10:56 (nineteen years ago) link

her name is "morvern"

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 10:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Morvern Callous.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 11:00 (nineteen years ago) link

she's the best "stylist" I've ever had!!

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 11:02 (nineteen years ago) link

If she sang in a barbershop quartet she might be Morvern Callas.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 11:08 (nineteen years ago) link

bingo hall: morvern caller

any more?

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 11:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Morvern Callbox.

She's confused about her body. Or something. I dunno.

― Raston Warrior Robot (alix), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 11:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Morvern Uproar?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 11:17 (nineteen years ago) link

morvern afeeling

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 11:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I know I shouldn't be here, but if she was a gas heater she would be Morvern Calor Gas Heater.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 11:23 (nineteen years ago) link

I might try Glasgow more next Thursday, I am trying Aberdeen more for my girfriend's sister's wedding on Saturday, but was half thinking of flying to Glasgow and spending a night there, and buying lots of records.

Is Thursday good?

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 11:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Thursday 4th August?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 11:32 (nineteen years ago) link

I am going to a wedding, on saturday, too!

I think thursday is good but unremarkable, so far

crosspost

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 11:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Ronan, you should be here.

Peter, you should always be here.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 12:04 (nineteen years ago) link

So what you're saying is that if Ronan were always here, you would disapprove?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 12:08 (nineteen years ago) link

He wasn't saying that Alba, you twister.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 13:08 (nineteen years ago) link

It was the clear implication.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 13:10 (nineteen years ago) link

That reminds me, anyway. If Ronan comes, can we play TWISTER MOVES?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 13:11 (nineteen years ago) link

yes and the glasgow taxi game and trivial pursuit globetrotter?

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 13:13 (nineteen years ago) link

If we play twister moves, will Ronan come?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 13:13 (nineteen years ago) link

That's ADULT TWISTER MOVES.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 13:14 (nineteen years ago) link

: (

I've never even looked in the box but I assume it comes with a plastic sheet?

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 13:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I would like very much to try Glasgow more, but Ryanair has not yet included MAD (despite this great airportish acronym ) in their flying list...:-(

However any dates from September on particularly recommended?

― arantxa, Wednesday, 27 July 2005 13:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Can anyone remember the name of that dance music shop across the road from the solid rock cafe next to the entrance to central station? It shut down a few years ago. Used to go in there a lot.
Is the one near sound control still there?
Only one I still know of is 23rd Precinct and I havent been there in years. Didn't think Ned would be interested in visiting that shop especially due to it's bad reputation of being elitist.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 13:23 (nineteen years ago) link

bomba. rub a dub is still there.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 13:26 (nineteen years ago) link

I think I was in 23rd Precinct, it wasn't so good. Rub-A-Dub was pretty great. I didn't even find Mono or Monorail or whatever. probably just as well, I spent about 50 quid in Rub A Dub.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 13:27 (nineteen years ago) link

I am currently being asked whether I want to Try Glasgow More with work w/c 22nd August or w/c 29th August (although neither is definite yet, and probably less than 50% for it going ahead before the end of September instead).

As everyone knows, I am perfectly willing to let social events influence my work obligations, so is there anything on that makes either week more attractive?

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 13:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Arantxa - not the last weekend in September because I'll be in Dublin.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 13:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Monorail is the other end of Argyle St. Near the trongate.
Great shop that. Known dep about 14 years since he worked in missing. I always spend a fortune in there.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 13:33 (nineteen years ago) link

I definitely cannot on 1st-2nd Oct, work conference taking place in Madrid itself...12th Oct is Bank hol here, Wednesday. Perhaps I could take 10th/11th off or 13th/14th.

― arantxa, Wednesday, 27 July 2005 13:52 (nineteen years ago) link

As everyone knows, I am perfectly willing to let social events influence my work obligations, so is there anything on that makes either week more attractive?

Dinosaur Jr at the ABC on 29th?

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 13:57 (nineteen years ago) link

That's a half-decent opening bid.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 13:58 (nineteen years ago) link

this is probably as good a time as any to mention that i shall be drinking heavily in mono from about 8.30pm on saturday night. stet will be there too. if anyone fancies coming along, it would be lovely to see you.

the occasion is related to an anniversary that happens with crushing regularity on the same day every year. i'm told that this time it's marginally more important than it has been for the past nine, although to be honest i don't give much of a toss about these things. still: any excuse for a piss-up.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 14:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Will you dye your sidies in celebratory colours?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 14:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Dinosaur Jr at the ABC on 29th?

I'm thinking about going to that.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 14:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Will you dye your sidies in celebratory colours?
If he doesn't, I'm doing it with menaces. That's a great idea.

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 14:16 (nineteen years ago) link

a dinosaur jr FAP would rock. why these things always have to be on mondays, i do not know. moan drone chiz.

mädchen: aargh, what horror have you unleashed? he really will try to do this now. fuck.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 14:21 (nineteen years ago) link

also: i would like to meet ronan. but his original message has already disappeared off the top of the last 20 posts, and i'm fucked if i'm letting this slow-ass system attempt to load 3,700 messages. so, er, whatever.

have fun in the lansdowne tonight too, whoever's going.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 14:23 (nineteen years ago) link

You can set it to 50 if you want.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 14:35 (nineteen years ago) link

i tried that. it was unwieldy.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 14:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm ill too. : (

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 14:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Holy shit Dinosaur Jr is £15 + all the crap booking fees and shit.
I'm still waiting to see if my mate is going. He's skint. If it doesnt sell out I may get a ticket nearer the time.

Whats the capacity for the ABC?
Is it like the garage where you can park/get dropped off outside the venue by car?

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 14:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Lansdowne tonight, perhaps 7pm, for anyone who fancies a pint. Not sure whether to eat there or not, but after the day I've had I bloody well need a drink.

P.S. I love Ronan.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:03 (nineteen years ago) link

ABC1 capacity is a bit less than Barrowlands I think. 1200?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Dino Jr should be well worth the £15. That's not a lot to pay for a gig these days, what with Brian Wilson being £50 and all.

There's also gonna be a Plan B all day event on the 28th in Mono. Discussions on independent labels and publications and some bands in the evening. Everett True is staying home to look after his baby, which is a shame, cos I'd imagine hearing him speak could be quite entertaining.

― Stew (stew s), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:17 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah but with booking fee/postage/CC fee it will be nearly £20.
If it doesn't sell out i'll prob go and just buy tickets from monorail next time i'm in glasgow.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:23 (nineteen years ago) link

I am thinking Lansdowne. Who's going, and can I watch the Celtic game?

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:36 (nineteen years ago) link

I wish I was in the pub. Ailsa, I hope to leave work at 9 so I'll be there by 9.30. Text Ally - he was talking about going for 7.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:37 (nineteen years ago) link

"If it doesn't sell out i'll prob go and just buy tickets from monorail next time i'm in glasgow."

Fair enough. Monorail are doing them for £16 inc booking fee. God bless Monorail.

― Stew (stew s), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:41 (nineteen years ago) link

I am off next thursday and friday!

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:49 (nineteen years ago) link

... and I will live in glasgow by then!

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:51 (nineteen years ago) link

I heard, last night, that the SS lives on lansdowne crescent.


this will mean nothing, to anyone, except, perhaps, colin (by SS, I mean the canadian fanny from strathy).

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 17:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Hey, I am off next Friday as well, if you mean the 5th!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 17:21 (nineteen years ago) link

I might email dep and ask him to keep me one then stew.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 17:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Ailsa is on her own in the pub. This is dreadful. I thought Glasgow had learned how to do FAPs. Oh well, I suppose I'll have to leave work early and go rescue her, what a shame.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 18:00 (nineteen years ago) link

And Celtic are losing 1-0. She won't be very happy.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 18:12 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm afraid I am too poor and sniffly to go to the Landsdowne. Have fun Glasgow.

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 18:26 (nineteen years ago) link

um thats 4-0 celtic are losing now. Wouldn't want to be in Glasgow tonight.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 18:40 (nineteen years ago) link

PROPOSAL:
friday 5th august, expedition to gauguin exhibition, "the academy", edinburgh

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 18:41 (nineteen years ago) link

ihttp://www.impressionniste.net/gauguin_vision_sermon.jpg

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 18:45 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.impressionniste.net/gauguin_vision_sermon.jpg
?

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I want to go, but not on the 5th.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 18:59 (nineteen years ago) link

to hell with you

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 19:02 (nineteen years ago) link

francis bacon also.

RJG i don't know a canadian SS i don't think.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 19:12 (nineteen years ago) link

I think he's canadian, anyway.

people do impressions of him like impressions of loyd grossman.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 21:11 (nineteen years ago) link

um thats 4-0 celtic are losing now

I needed Glasgow sympathy tonight.

Thanks to those that didn't laugh, and to Onimo for support via text message.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 22:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I didn't laugh!
I only laugh when Motherwell Or Airdrie lose 5-0.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 23:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I eventually laughed. When the Guinness had dulled the pain.

Motherwell robbed us of our title. They are, er, not the sort of team that exist in my mind. Unlike Airdrie, who don't even really exist at all.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 23:22 (nineteen years ago) link

It was amazing how each time a goal went in the commentators kept saying how thats they still thought celtic could win at parkhead. "now celtic need to score five " "now celtic need six"

That team looked like they could score everytime they went up the park.
And I can't believe that miss from two yards. And I'm an accies fan who has witnessed some seriously bad strikers over the years!

And correction. I laugh everytime Motherwell & Airdrie lose.

Celtics 1st game is Motherwell away this weekend isn't it?

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 23:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Poor Ailsa.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 28 July 2005 07:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Messages of support? I thought they were more like "Yer right ailsa this is fucking abysmal!" - I suppose that counts as empathy :-P

I came into work this morning to face a slagging from the Bluenoses - the first person I spoke to was my boss - "Sorry Gerry, you didn't get a bonus." - way to cheer me the fuck up boss!

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 28 July 2005 09:54 (nineteen years ago) link

i bumped into my hoops-mad mate tony in the canteen this morning. he looked a) hungover and b) crushed, and was almost crying into his toast. apparently he started getting abusive texts from a friend in australia the second the match was over. (if you come to mono on saturday, ailsa, you can form a small support group with him.)

it's at times like this i give thanks that i care not an iota of a fuck about teh football :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 28 July 2005 10:22 (nineteen years ago) link

(x-post)

"Gerroff, you bugger!"

"I'll give you a fucking deadleg in a minute!"

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 28 July 2005 10:31 (nineteen years ago) link

oops. i laughed. in text form too.
thanks for not whacking me, i suppose

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 28 July 2005 11:18 (nineteen years ago) link

OK, who is going to help me solve the mystery of my mystery Bowlie crush? Dahlin, is this you up to no good?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 28 July 2005 18:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Bowlie was 6 years ago, Mädchen. It's time to move on.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 28 July 2005 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link

ooooh, what Bowlie crush?

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 28 July 2005 19:04 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't know if this is the appropriate thread or not but i'll ask anyway since I introduced myself on this thread.

What sort of music are you all into?

My mates think i like a lot of crap

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 28 July 2005 19:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Wow, that is A LOT.

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 28 July 2005 19:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Hello Kerr!

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 28 July 2005 19:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Hi! (Have we met?) You missed 2 words at the end of your reply hehe.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 28 July 2005 19:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Nice to meet you and everyone else btw. (I pressed enter then got poxy fuled)

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 28 July 2005 19:53 (nineteen years ago) link

god bless wee billy!

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 28 July 2005 20:21 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't tend to wear my chart on my sleeve

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 28 July 2005 21:06 (nineteen years ago) link

didn't you already introduce yourself kerr boy?
and madchen, i know not to what you refer! and why do you assume i'd be up to no good??? and bowlie! i avoid! hmmmmm

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 28 July 2005 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link

I did , but I didnt mention any music. Since i'm boring and only interested in music ;) I thought i'd ask what people were into and I didn't want to start one of those introduction threads.

Instead I made a crap joke that I mustve met Cathy before because she agreed I liked a LOT of crap hehe.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 28 July 2005 22:15 (nineteen years ago) link

watch it this morning!

I liked your dentist a lot nick, though perhaps a touch exhorbitant.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 29 July 2005 05:25 (nineteen years ago) link

I thought NHS rates were standard. Or did you "go private"?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 July 2005 05:30 (nineteen years ago) link

he said he doesn't do much NHS work anymore "for adults". I had the tooth dealt on the NHS because it was an emergency, but the course of seven fillings I need and have needed for 2 years is going to cost me £600 if I go with him (£200 if I go NHS, with his partner paul.)

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 29 July 2005 05:32 (nineteen years ago) link

I thought he was married!

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 29 July 2005 06:13 (nineteen years ago) link

by habit & repute

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 29 July 2005 06:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, is Paul the young (idealist?) guy? I had him for my last check-up.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 July 2005 06:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't know; I saw billy

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 29 July 2005 06:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I am willing to see an idealist!

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 29 July 2005 06:51 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm not sure that idealism and dentistry mix.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 July 2005 06:55 (nineteen years ago) link

I registered with Bowlie about three years ago to do some sneaky club promotion and haven't been on it since. Now I get an email saying somebody has a crush on me! Maybe they just fancy the memory of my youth. I certainly do.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:56 (nineteen years ago) link

£600 pounds is chicken feed for dentistry.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 29 July 2005 12:16 (nineteen years ago) link

What do you want for Christmas, Peej?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 29 July 2005 12:20 (nineteen years ago) link

A new front tooth?

― Mooro (Mooro), Friday, 29 July 2005 12:42 (nineteen years ago) link

That is a very kind offer, you two. I accept.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 29 July 2005 12:51 (nineteen years ago) link

I read about some wooden ones, somewhere. Maybe I could make one.

What is the origin of the expression "toothy *pegs*", anyway?

― Mooro (Mooro), Friday, 29 July 2005 13:26 (nineteen years ago) link

i wouldn't worry too much about the bowlie crush thing mädchen - I got two once when i posted, to ask for spare Belle and Sebastian gig tickets.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 29 July 2005 13:30 (nineteen years ago) link

They have crushes? How 1997!

Mooro, I don't know. It is the root, rather than the tooth itself, that is the real problem.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 29 July 2005 13:52 (nineteen years ago) link

This sounds suspiciously like dental idealism.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 July 2005 13:54 (nineteen years ago) link

i want to hear about this person wanting the soundtrack to one of my favorite films

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 29 July 2005 14:24 (nineteen years ago) link

did anyone else just get katrina's out of office reply message in their inbox out of the blue? the subject was "re: ilxor.com: try glasgow more"

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 29 July 2005 14:41 (nineteen years ago) link

yes, I thought it was just to me, because I started the thread, but it looks like it goes to each person, as they post.

KATRINA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:03 (nineteen years ago) link

how crazy!!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:12 (nineteen years ago) link

I have two crushes on Bowlie without ever posting once. I suspect it is an automated system to make us all feel better. Damn you, K*tch*n.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:17 (nineteen years ago) link

haha that's awesome, luring fools in with vague suggestions of possible sex.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:19 (nineteen years ago) link

How weird... I just got a new front tooth today.

― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Just like... out of nowhere?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:21 (nineteen years ago) link

excellent, keith. we can try to knock it out tomorrow night by flinging peanuts at it.

actually, no. we shan't do that. not now we're all growed up and mature.

another reminder, then: beer/birthday action, tomorrow (saturday), mono, 8.30 on. everybody welcome, whether we know each other or not.

you might even get to see stet humiliating me in a painful way. the git.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 29 July 2005 16:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Alba, no, it's a crown. Had a rather unfortunate incident a couple of months ago. You going along tomorrow night?

― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 29 July 2005 16:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes. I'm working till MIDNIGHT, though. Can I assume you'll be in Barfly by then?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 July 2005 16:22 (nineteen years ago) link

probably. unless we're standing outside mono having a FITE about where to go (as usual).

"right, barfly."
"nah. woodside."
"blue dog."
"GARAGE!"
"fuck off!"
"bleeeeugh, spew."
"you cunt, those are my best keks."

etc

text us (my mobile works fine in barfly, which always surprises me).

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 29 July 2005 16:33 (nineteen years ago) link

I wish I could come : /

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 29 July 2005 17:11 (nineteen years ago) link

maybe I can!

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 29 July 2005 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link

cook, i think i was one of your bowlie secret admirers

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 29 July 2005 17:15 (nineteen years ago) link

nevermind, i was not - i dont admire you, that much, i guess

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 29 July 2005 17:28 (nineteen years ago) link

They have crushes? How 1997!

They are secret admirer messages, sent by Cilla Black. Recently I got 2 bowlie Secret Admirer Matches. (For once it was pretty easy to guess the people who sent the admiration.)

― Mooro (Mooro), Friday, 29 July 2005 17:49 (nineteen years ago) link

(nudie pics were attached)

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 July 2005 17:52 (nineteen years ago) link

humiliating me in a painful way
grimly will also be proudly unveiling new civic art.

― stet (stet), Friday, 29 July 2005 18:17 (nineteen years ago) link

(nudie pics were attached)

No nudes, is good nudes.

― Mooro (Mooro), Friday, 29 July 2005 19:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I just checked the email account I used to register with ILX and i found an email from someone called Katrina too. I don't know anyone by that name.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Friday, 29 July 2005 22:38 (nineteen years ago) link

miller. i did meet you after all. or see you at least. mmmm
simon and co. looks like there might be a RAWK party at our friend's castle tomorrow night, so i might try to steal ppl after mono. including you. but it looks like maybe you have other plans? barfly? hmmmm.
the benefit of the castle is that it never closes. and .2. might play a special secret set JUST FOR YOU!

― dahlin (dahlin), Friday, 29 July 2005 23:07 (nineteen years ago) link

You sound like a deranged stalker.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 July 2005 23:15 (nineteen years ago) link

yes

― dahlin (dahlin), Friday, 29 July 2005 23:30 (nineteen years ago) link

I will be in Mono tomorrow. Then maybe at the RAWK party despite not technically being invited (but I heard about it anyway, nothing involving booze gets past me).

Tonight I stood behind Stew Beardmag in the queue for the bar at the Woodside for about half an hour. I debated whether to talk to him, but then everyone in the Woody decided to queue jump by being his mate, so I decided not to bother and stood silently fuming instead. Then bought four Bacardi Breezers so I didn't have to go and queue ever again. I hate NPL bar queues.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 30 July 2005 00:28 (nineteen years ago) link

I am at work. I have to be at work tomorrow as well. At eight. It is going to take mucho booze to persuade me to go to the Castle :((((

― Mädchen (Madchen), Saturday, 30 July 2005 07:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Sorry, did I say mucho booze? :))))

― Mädchen (Madchen), Saturday, 30 July 2005 07:31 (nineteen years ago) link

ronan, bring your copy of pro evo 4!

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 30 July 2005 07:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Is this "castle" what I think it is?

― KeefW (kmw), Saturday, 30 July 2005 08:30 (nineteen years ago) link

yes, I will.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 30 July 2005 10:19 (nineteen years ago) link

yes, it is, keith

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 30 July 2005 10:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Great. You coming to Mono?

― KeefW (kmw), Saturday, 30 July 2005 10:29 (nineteen years ago) link

I have been being ill, all this week, but I think I will try!

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 30 July 2005 10:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Not so good... Hope to see you later.

― KeefW (kmw), Saturday, 30 July 2005 10:57 (nineteen years ago) link

booze is a good cure for illness, RJG. alcohol kills all known illness dead. a night out will be good for your body and soul.

castle? keith, i might be calling you about this :0

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 30 July 2005 11:45 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm intrigued and excited now. which is a fun combination. coo ur, better lay off the jelly and ice cream.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 30 July 2005 11:48 (nineteen years ago) link

what you need is CAKE
king of the castle!

― dahlin (dahlin), Saturday, 30 July 2005 13:59 (nineteen years ago) link

"Tonight I stood behind Stew Beardmag in the queue for the bar at the Woodside for about half an hour. I debated whether to talk to him, but then everyone in the Woody decided to queue jump by being his mate, so I decided not to bother and stood silently fuming instead. Then bought four Bacardi Breezers so I didn't have to go and queue ever again. I hate NPL bar queues."

Oh gosh, I'm really sorry! I didn't recognise you. Sorry about the queue jumping, I think that was a friend's camp work mates turning up. That queue was bad though, especially when it was so hot. I went to Optimo a couple of weeks ago and that was like a Sauna, but this was possibly even worse.
We ended up going to a party afterwards where that old guy with glasses who does amazing interpretative dancing was at. He's called Andrew and has written most of the staff recommendations on the first floor of the Sauchie Hall St branch of Waterstones.
I saw Dahlin on the dancefloor but didn't get a chance to chat to her. I did talk to Mr Dahlin though.

― Stew (stew s), Saturday, 30 July 2005 17:06 (nineteen years ago) link

I am so tempted by mono.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 30 July 2005 17:20 (nineteen years ago) link

give in

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 30 July 2005 17:27 (nineteen years ago) link

I know Andrew.

― Cathy (Cathy), Saturday, 30 July 2005 17:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Cool. He was a nice chap. I'd always wondered if you get paid extra for those book recommendations, but alas, 'tis not the case.

― Stew (stew s), Saturday, 30 July 2005 17:49 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah, he is very enthusiastic and fun to talk to. whose party was it?

― Cathy (Cathy), Saturday, 30 July 2005 18:27 (nineteen years ago) link

A guy called Mark, who's a friend of a friend. I think one of his flatmates works for Waterstones so there was a whole crew of bookshop employees there.

― Stew (stew s), Saturday, 30 July 2005 18:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Don't worry about it, Stew. I was queue jumping with the best of them last time, and I was so knackered I couldn't be bothered speaking to anyone anyway.

Thanks to Glasgow for another excellent night of ruin. Glasgow, you're good. Barfly, on the other hand, is rotten. Apart from when they played Doctoring the Tardis. That was fun.

I suppose I'd also better apologise to Madchen and Stet for any nasty diseases transmitted by Ryan's "toilet treasures". Hehehehe.

How's the head, grimly? You seemed rather, erm, pished.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 31 July 2005 09:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Grimly is an excellent drunk.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Sunday, 31 July 2005 09:46 (nineteen years ago) link

astounding

― dahlin (dahlin), Sunday, 31 July 2005 10:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I need to work on my drunk skillz. I would love to be a comedy and entertaining drunk, but I'm a maudlin and grumpy old sod.

Grimly was so entertainingly drunk that he singlehandedly managed to convince my husband that not all mentalists are actually mentalists. The mister was all "S1mon ROCKS! He's excellent". Normally he's "your friend are all off the internet. LOSER!!", but somehow he's now been convinced that this is, in fact, an OK thing.

I'm not sure how one conversation with a very drunk bloke is more important evidence than, you know, the fact that he's known all my perfectly normal internet mentalist companions for ages.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 31 July 2005 10:25 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm sorry I didn't come. I just felt too damn sober after leaving work at 12 to enter a world of drunkenness.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 31 July 2005 10:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Hello everyone. I miss y'all. Except Alba, who cruelly avoided meeting me. *cries*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 31 July 2005 10:32 (nineteen years ago) link

I would've liked to come, but felt too ill. Instead I went to bed and had two terrifying nightmares. The second one was about armed police threatening to shoot me, and zombies. : (

Hello Ned! Where are you now?

― Cathy (Cathy), Sunday, 31 July 2005 10:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Hulloa. I R home in California, jet-lagged like crazy which is why I am up so early (it's just now 5 am and I have been cat-napping on and off all night, I suspect tonight things will readjust properly).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 31 July 2005 11:08 (nineteen years ago) link

It was great to meet you, even though it was very brief!

― Cathy (Cathy), Sunday, 31 July 2005 11:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Yus indeed! :-) You must post many stories about Spanish adventures.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 31 July 2005 11:27 (nineteen years ago) link

I will do.


Also:

As it is my birthday on Tuesday, would Glasgow like to come out with me on Friday, for celebrations? I want to go to the Konaki on Sauchiehall St because it is my favourite restaurant ever, but then we could go somewhere else afterwards to meet up with non-Greek-eaters. It is quite near Stereo, but I kind of hate Stereo. It is also quite near The Tap, which has just been painted black, but I don't know whether that means it is any better than ever before. Still, who wants to come to the Konaki?

― Cathy (Cathy), Sunday, 31 July 2005 12:12 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm afraid I'm in London on Friday. But I'll see you on Tuesday, maybe?

I'm going to the park now, I think. I don't know why I didn't before.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 31 July 2005 12:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, waah! You're always going to London.

― Cathy (Cathy), Sunday, 31 July 2005 12:15 (nineteen years ago) link

If I'm not on holiday, then I would like to come out and eat Greek food with you. I like how Glasgow's got really sociable these days (except for Alba, obviously).

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 31 July 2005 12:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Ooh, do come ailsa. If lot's of people hate Friday, it could just as well be Thursday...

― Cathy (Cathy), Sunday, 31 July 2005 12:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Thursday, I could do.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 31 July 2005 12:18 (nineteen years ago) link

I am not working this week at all so I can come out any night (not Tuesday itself as I will be watching Celtic being humiliated by a bunch of under-rated kids from Slovakia). We are currently trying to get away somewhere on some sort of cheap last minute type thing, but it's not happening as cheaply as I'd like. If I am here when you go out, then I will be there. If you see what I mean.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 31 July 2005 12:22 (nineteen years ago) link

I like Thursdays. I probably won't want to stay out too late, for anyone that has a job to go to Friday. Madchen said she will have finished her conference and may be in a party mood Thursday, anyway. I might miss Question Time, but at least I won't miss the BB eviction...

― Cathy (Cathy), Sunday, 31 July 2005 12:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Hi Ned!

Last night; Simon was having a nice time. We actually went to The Garage. I'm not sure exactly how bad it was, but it wasn't exactly good. But RJG's arm danced. And we found a flapjack girl.

Another Bowlie admirer vote, which I hope is from Mandee.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 31 July 2005 12:23 (nineteen years ago) link

What happened to the Castle?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Sunday, 31 July 2005 12:40 (nineteen years ago) link

I wish I had gone to the Garage. Barfly was rubbish and warm and busy and not at all conducive to fun. Yeah, the Castle. What happened to that?

More importantly, what happened to your beard?!

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 31 July 2005 12:44 (nineteen years ago) link

It was sieged.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 31 July 2005 12:44 (nineteen years ago) link

(Ally C that was directed to, Madchen doesn't have a beard. Mind you, neither does Ally C any more. What am I talking about?)

(xpost - someone sieged your beard?)

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 31 July 2005 12:45 (nineteen years ago) link

hell's bells!

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 31 July 2005 12:52 (nineteen years ago) link

What, no more beard??

― Cathy (Cathy), Sunday, 31 July 2005 12:56 (nineteen years ago) link

shave and a haircut, no bits

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 31 July 2005 12:58 (nineteen years ago) link

They shaved his bits?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 31 July 2005 13:00 (nineteen years ago) link

This is the post where I say hi back to Ally C and RJG and ask if they have had occasion to use the gift of hot sauce yet.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 31 July 2005 13:01 (nineteen years ago) link

no bits


I put a coupla drops (scared) in a pasta sauce that cathy and I made, a coupla weeks ago. I could taste it but cathy said she couldn't. I thought it was nice!

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 31 July 2005 13:03 (nineteen years ago) link

:-) Up the amount a bit as needed until you find the right medium for all.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 31 July 2005 13:06 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm going to optimo tonight - let me know if you're planning to go along (anyone).

guest - Sir Richard Bishop from the Sun City Girls. Woot!

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 31 July 2005 13:15 (nineteen years ago) link

oh my god i want konaki!!!
but i wouldn't be able to do thursday. and are people trying edinburgh on friday or did i dream that?
i can't believe you tried the garage! i might have been convinced...
home ned! wow. does that mean there will be more photos? what did your mum think?

― dahlin (dahlin), Sunday, 31 July 2005 13:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Now you mention it Jed, have you heard that Sun City Girls are playing Instal in October? People might even dance, rather than stroke their chins.

― Stew (stew s), Sunday, 31 July 2005 14:27 (nineteen years ago) link

does that mean there will be more photos?

I will be posting something to that effect later today.

what did your mum think?

Of my trip? It got her to actually write her First E-mail Ever to me in response to my blogs. A momentous occasion.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 31 July 2005 14:41 (nineteen years ago) link

I hope you can fix those 2 photos with photoshop that you took for your mum in George Square.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Sunday, 31 July 2005 17:14 (nineteen years ago) link

ooooooooooooooooh.

me fuckin' head

thank you all. it was absolutely fantastic to see you. reading this and speaking to some of the others, it sounds like i had a fantastic time. fucked if i can remember, though.

i liked barfly, although they could have been playing acker bilk's greatest hits and i'd still have been happy.

the effort of typing this is all but killing me. shit.

thursday, then. hoo jesus.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 31 July 2005 18:09 (nineteen years ago) link

stew - i heard about that. good news! Pauline Oliveiros too :) i had a look at my finances and will have to give tonight a miss, never mind. maybe i'll bump into you at the 'mo one night.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 31 July 2005 18:16 (nineteen years ago) link

also: i apologise wholeheartedly for failing miserably to do any introductions. i think i might have introducted dahlin, ally and RJG to mrs fiendish, and that was it. god damn.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 31 July 2005 19:45 (nineteen years ago) link

yo, you spent about thirty minutes wandering about the room saying "and this is X, who is X, and this is Y, who is X's girlfriend. Please meet Z." Sometimes even quietly to yourself.

― stet (stet), Sunday, 31 July 2005 19:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Sometimes even quietly to yourself.

that might have been where i went wrong.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 31 July 2005 19:51 (nineteen years ago) link

What a world.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 1 August 2005 06:57 (nineteen years ago) link

hey glasgow. do any of you want to try edinburgh on friday? not only is there the gauguin exhibit during the day, but there are loads of fringe festival preview shows by night, including this one. Or Hedwig! Anyone? Anyone?

― dahlin (dahlin), Monday, 1 August 2005 08:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Ooh, that (first one) looks like it has the potential to be head-shakingly awful. Count me in! (if I haven't made it out of the country)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 1 August 2005 10:40 (nineteen years ago) link

I shook Princess Anne's (gloved) hand.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 1 August 2005 16:25 (nineteen years ago) link

my dad accidentally waved his arse at princess anne, many moons ago. or was it margaret? i forget.

more recently, i snubbed prince philip. he stood behind my desk and tried to engage me in conversation about sub-editing. i ignored him, because i disagree with his right to exist. he fucked off to talk to my boss instead; i tried to run over his foot with my chair but missed and knocked over my bin instead.

ah, it's all coming back to me, the great royal visit of ... whenever it was. stet wore a suit especially for the occasion, the big royalist lickspittle. i think he even combed his hair into a forelock so he could tug it.

there was an unfunny incident with a singing fish as well. crappy days.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 1 August 2005 16:30 (nineteen years ago) link

In other news, I will no longer be coming out for Cathy's birthday greekness, neither shall I be going to Edinburgh. Instead I shall be in Spain! On holiday! Wooo!!

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 08:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Well done, Madchen. I nearly bumped into her when I was a small child, and I got the autograph of that bodyguard who saved her from an assassin's bullet, or something. It was at some kind of horsey eventing event. Splish splash went the horseys in the pond.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 08:39 (nineteen years ago) link

where was anne?
and what the hell was prince phillip doing in the newsroom? a royal visit to the h3rald???
woo hoo spain!

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 08:44 (nineteen years ago) link

and what the hell was prince phillip doing in the newsroom?

a downtable shift.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 08:52 (nineteen years ago) link

I nearly trod on the Queen Mum at the Durer show at the Royal Academy many years ago. Turned around after scrutinising a picture close up and thought 'who is that tiny irritating woman with the hat.. and the burly minders... oh...' Underwhelming, since my republican hackles hardly rose at all. Sorry grimly.

― alext (alext), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 09:14 (nineteen years ago) link

i had loads of fun stalking charlie around moray. i very nearly got to peek up his kilt as he climbed onto a lifeboat. but... why would i want to? yuck!

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 09:20 (nineteen years ago) link

hello folks

i am going to be trying glasgow hopefully for just the one night on the 13th august (that is the saturday). Hope to see some of yous there... driving up in the morning or maybe PLANE (i haven't checked the practicality of this).. i think i'm going to be socialising at the woodside in the evening. perhaps sneak to that pub across the road for a quick karaoke (if that still happenes), i don't know if i still remember any words for any songs though.

(happy birthday cathy!)

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 09:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I will definitely be Trying Glasgow More at some point in September.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 09:56 (nineteen years ago) link

That pub is shut, Ken, you won't be trying that.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 09:59 (nineteen years ago) link

ah well. (burnt down i bet?)

are there other places that i should try pre-winchester?

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:01 (nineteen years ago) link

The landsdowne! As featured in the Herald!

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:08 (nineteen years ago) link

aw, fuck: i'll be on arran that weekend, ken. plums.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:10 (nineteen years ago) link

ooh it looks very posh

xpost aw :\

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:14 (nineteen years ago) link

arran sounds fun though!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:16 (nineteen years ago) link

It's not that posh. They let me in. And Shearer.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:21 (nineteen years ago) link

shearer! in that case definitely not posh.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:22 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't think I can come out for dinner, cathy

: /

I am working on thursday & friday, too

: /

I may get to be a lawyer soon, though

: )

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:40 (nineteen years ago) link

You could be the ILX lawyer as we engage in corporate takeovers.

Ken should go to the Landsdowne to follow in my holy footsteps.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:45 (nineteen years ago) link

having long hair does not make you jesus ned.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 11:31 (nineteen years ago) link

You need a beard too!

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 11:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Jesus, Ned.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 11:36 (nineteen years ago) link

my lawyer advises me not to make a joke about all the beer in the lansdowne mysteriously turning into water.

not because it would be libellous; just unfunny.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 11:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Visions all, if somehow inappropriate.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 11:40 (nineteen years ago) link

oh no beer turning into water doesn't sound good :(

i hope they serve big portions of bread and fish anyway

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 11:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Couldn't someone have arranged for a miracle last Wednesday when I was in there watching the Artmedia Bratislava debacle? Like turning Mo Camara into a footballer or something?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 11:46 (nineteen years ago) link

mo camera mo' problem

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 11:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I am around Thursday night, though I am still fucking sick and pretty miserable just in time for my holiday : ( Nonetheless I'd love to see people Thursday night, providing I'm not feeling extremely bad, I'm around in the day too pretty much and will probably go record shopping.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 11:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Tonight's prediction: Celtic 14 Artmedia 10.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 11:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Where were you when the puns were flying on this thread - UEFA Champions League 05/06, this is the thread for ?

(xpost to Ken)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 11:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Ronan, unless you are at Glasgow Airport at six in the morning on Thursday, it is unlikely that I will see you :(

Ally, I hate you. (though that is the most likely prediction I have heard so far)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 12:12 (nineteen years ago) link

rats' cocks, this thursday-night thing sounds fun but now i don't think i'm going to be able to make it either. jism. what exactly is the plan: food and then beer later?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 12:32 (nineteen years ago) link

By Thursday I will be ready to go out on the razz. Oh yeah.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 14:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Just as I leave the country. I will miss Cathy's birthday, and Ronan. I will be back in time for Ken though, oh yes.

I like how Glasgow has got a whole lot more social though, recently.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 14:06 (nineteen years ago) link

lucy you'll save some razzage for a week on saturday i hope

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 14:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Last night we tried to try the Garage. The bouncers took one look at us and said "you don't look like regulars, sorry". Then proceeded to ID a bunch of large-breasted 15 year olds and let them all in. bastards.

Instead we went to Blanket and danced to Huey Lewis and the News, Phil Oakey & Giorgio Moroder, and 5ive. It was much fun.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 14:33 (nineteen years ago) link

aw no my breasts aren't very big :(

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 14:34 (nineteen years ago) link

The Garage is rubbish anyway. But it was Monday, it was someone's birthday, we were drunk. Blanket on the other hand was excellent. Chesney Hawkes! Whitney Houston! The Killers! Franz Ferdinand! Salt'n'Pepa! Technotronic! Kaiser Chiefs! MC Hammer!

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 14:37 (nineteen years ago) link

hehe. well i like MC hammer! \o/ |o_ |p/

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 14:39 (nineteen years ago) link

You went out on a MONDAY?

And here I thought you were old.

Sorry.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 15:24 (nineteen years ago) link

stet wore a suit
Yes, because I heartily support the royals. Without them I don't get to be Lord Stet of McSub and bank at Coutts.

Working on thursday, more's the plums, but should be out after.

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 16:04 (nineteen years ago) link

who was talking about butteries? i just had my first ever buttery (from Tesco). it was rank!

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 19:56 (nineteen years ago) link

4008

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 20:00 (nineteen years ago) link

whoops

me

4009

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 20:02 (nineteen years ago) link

I was talking about butteries, elsewhere. They are great, but not the ones from Tesco. Go to Aberdeen and get a real one.

I feel old today, Ally. I only went out on a Monday because I don't have to go to work for a fortnight.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 21:05 (nineteen years ago) link

i hate butteries
i didn't think anytone got rejected by the garage bouncers!
is friday happening or non?

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link

I think three blokes the wrong side of thirty (the mister, his mate Ryan who was out with us on Saturday, one of Ryan's mates) in denim jackets, rubbish clothes and brandishing fearsome beerguts, together with the least glamorous female club-goer in the world (me) are not the desired clientele for a "young" and "happening" place like the Garage.

I don't care as the Garage is rubbish anyway. Grumble. And I bet I couldn't have danced to "Together in Electric Dreams" in there.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 22:16 (nineteen years ago) link

or electric youth. ah, sweet debbie gibson

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 23:07 (nineteen years ago) link

we are going to book the konaki, soon, for tomorrow night

definites (I think) are:

1. cathy
2. RJG
3. ally
4. madchen
5. alba
6. cozen
7. susan
8. duncan

waiting to hear from:

9. annie
10. david
11. richard
12. patrick
13. matt
14. nal
15. isabelle


and ronan? you're hear thursday night? do you have any dinner plans, with your sister or so? this is at eight o'clock. you're more than welcome, to join us!!

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 12:09 (nineteen years ago) link

here me now

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 12:10 (nineteen years ago) link

my richard is in durham so no konaki :(

― dahlin (dahlin), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 12:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Is there a plan for post-Konaki yet?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 13:14 (nineteen years ago) link

It is a pity I cannot attend this goodness.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 13:24 (nineteen years ago) link

does anyone have a number that I could konaki ronan on?

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 14:21 (nineteen years ago) link

i have his mobile number - i think it would be ok to send you it?

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 14:24 (nineteen years ago) link

I think so!

COLIN, would you like to come out, on thursday?

grimly and stet and dahlin are all working, I think.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 14:26 (nineteen years ago) link

i think i'll come out for a drink - i'll check on here to see what happening or text on thursday.

shall i send it to rjg at email?

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 14:28 (nineteen years ago) link

maybe you could even give me your own mobile number at the same time, too?

crosspost

yes, please!

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 14:30 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm sorry I put you off going to the Konaki on Friday. Look what you're missing.

Has anyone booked the table yet?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:01 (nineteen years ago) link

I am glad we are not going for Greek Party Night, it would only distract from Cathy Party Night. I rang up to ask if I could book a table for up to fifteen people and Mr. Konaki said "Fifteen, wow! Fantastic!" in an amazed voice like they'd never had that many people even in the restaurant before. I really love the Konaki. I have to ring tomorrow afternoon to say how many will actually be coming...it looks like 12 or possibly 13 at the moment.

When I got home just now, there was an exciting package waiting for me. And sure enough, it was my birthday present to myself, via Amazon. It is the first volume of Alan Clark's diaries. I got it for 1p! (+P&P). What a great week.

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:23 (nineteen years ago) link

I wish I was coming. Have a lovely night Cathy.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:26 (nineteen years ago) link

mr konaki and i once had a conversation - in greek! wahay!
pressies! wahay!

― dahlin (dahlin), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:31 (nineteen years ago) link

(x-post ... how did i know it'd be dahlin? :)

indeed. have a top time, cathy ... if there are any advance pub plans for later, post 'em here, although i'm 99% sure i won't be able to make it. i shall buy you a birthday drink at the next FAP, tho'. yay for leos :)

and ailsa: you two have a top holiday! bring us back a stuffed donkey and a sombrero.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:34 (nineteen years ago) link

(because i RAWK? and live to make your life difficult?)

― dahlin (dahlin), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:40 (nineteen years ago) link

I am sorry that you can't come, ailsa, and dahlin, and grimly. See you at my 21st!
I will think about where would be good to go to afterwards...not stereo! Maybe the goat. Maybe one of those weird celticky pubs around there. I can say for sure that we will not be going to Ashton Lane. Perhaps we will walk up Sauchiehall St and go to Stavka. I think I might really want to go to Stavka, actually. I like the little cocktail bar at the top. And it is big enough for lots of people. But every time I suggest going there people laugh at me...

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 22:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Are you out of your tiny mind?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link

N., are you Alvin Stardust in disguise?

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 4 August 2005 08:03 (nineteen years ago) link

There is no disguise involved.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 4 August 2005 11:24 (nineteen years ago) link

disguise crazy

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 4 August 2005 11:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Do you have a cigar?

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 4 August 2005 11:48 (nineteen years ago) link

What time is the Konaki booked?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 4 August 2005 16:34 (nineteen years ago) link

8pm. There won't be any Nal or Isabelle or Patrick or Matt. I hope everyone else is still coming!

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 4 August 2005 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link

ronan can't but says "hello, everyone" and "happy birthday, cathy"

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 4 August 2005 17:13 (nineteen years ago) link

We are dropping like flies. I hope some people turn up.

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 4 August 2005 17:15 (nineteen years ago) link

I am really hungry.

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 4 August 2005 17:21 (nineteen years ago) link

hell's bells

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 4 August 2005 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link

sorry.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 4 August 2005 23:00 (nineteen years ago) link

the enigma that is jed continues.
thanks for konaki cathy! enjoy your fluff!

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 4 August 2005 23:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Cook vs Cozen, 2005.

6-3 6-7 (4-7).

I Picked up an injury midway and let him off the hook.
He turned it on when he needed to and I faded, from 5-4 matchpoint.

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 6 August 2005 13:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Can't wait till next year!

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 6 August 2005 13:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Thanks for the fluff, dahlin. I never did work out whether you meant to give it to me or I just stole it. Too late now, anyway!

― Cathy (Cathy), Saturday, 6 August 2005 13:24 (nineteen years ago) link

awesome golfers

― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 6 August 2005 13:31 (nineteen years ago) link

an enjoyable game!

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 6 August 2005 13:36 (nineteen years ago) link


hello glasgow!

i've just got a job in harrods.

fancy, n'est pas?

― michael grant (michael digby grant), Monday, 8 August 2005 00:33 (nineteen years ago) link

ooooh
and what are you doing there?
you're not one of those perfume squirters are you?

― dahlin (dahlin), Monday, 8 August 2005 08:46 (nineteen years ago) link

hey guys fancy a game of tennis on sunday morning? i'll bring my racquet if so!

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 8 August 2005 09:49 (nineteen years ago) link

michael grant you coming dancing on friday?

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 8 August 2005 09:50 (nineteen years ago) link

i have a job in the new hmv they're opening in harrods. i think it's going to be hilarious.

ken - glasgow dancing? or london dancing? i gladly accept any offer of london dancing. but glasgow's a bit far just for a boogie.

― michael grant (michael digby grant), Monday, 8 August 2005 11:05 (nineteen years ago) link

actually, i just found the friday dancing thread. apoloigies.

i shall be there.

― michael grant (michael digby grant), Monday, 8 August 2005 11:16 (nineteen years ago) link

what is this?

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 8 August 2005 11:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Not Glasgow.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 8 August 2005 11:54 (nineteen years ago) link

unbelievable

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 8 August 2005 11:55 (nineteen years ago) link

I believe.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 8 August 2005 12:26 (nineteen years ago) link

sorry that friday part wasn't glasgow (just wanted to catch granty's attention!) but will be dancing in glasgow on saturday, no doubt. (except perhaps not to No Doubt)

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 8 August 2005 12:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Please, please, please will somebody at the Winchester play Candy Girl by New Edition? Please?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 8 August 2005 14:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Mädchen, are you all conferenced out now?

All went swimmingly & now you are ready to dance?

― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 8 August 2005 14:56 (nineteen years ago) link

YES!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 8 August 2005 14:57 (nineteen years ago) link

It is a sunny day and I am feeling it.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 8 August 2005 14:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Well done you! Hope you can now get lots of high quality relaxing time.

― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 8 August 2005 15:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Nobody relaxes on my watch.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 8 August 2005 15:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, I suppose the hands tickle.

― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 8 August 2005 15:03 (nineteen years ago) link

You know me so well.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 8 August 2005 15:04 (nineteen years ago) link

it's hard to rolax with ally's watch

ahh xxpost

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 8 August 2005 15:07 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm going to be of my UGC card again tonight I think, by seeing the one-off showing of The Wicker Man. Does anyone fancying joining me for the Britt Ekland shuffle?

By the way, this thread now takes ages to load, 20 Messages shown or not. I am worried it is breaking ILX and would be happy to call it a day.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 16:33 (nineteen years ago) link

no

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 17:58 (nineteen years ago) link

RJG in wanting to b r e a k ilx shocker!

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:26 (nineteen years ago) link

oh crap, just a one-off showing? we were just talking the other day about how topp that film is.

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 19:13 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm not sure it is top. The tone never really does it for me. It's all too stagy, clumsily cut and the music just doesn't work as a soundtrack to creepiness. Or is it not supposed to be creepy? Scary? Matter of fact paean to paganism? I dunno.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 20:38 (nineteen years ago) link

The ending is the most upsetting thing to ever happen in a horror movie.

― jeffrey (johnson), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 20:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Why am I not upset by it at all? I'm not a heartless man.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 20:41 (nineteen years ago) link

The defence on The Wicker Man - C/D? I find most convincing is Momus's.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 20:50 (nineteen years ago) link

i saw it when i was young and the image is burned onto my eyes maybe the reason. The only other thing i've seen where you have to sit and watch someone in agony for what seems like an hour is audition. That is also a v. upsetting thing to watch.

― jeffrey (johnson), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 21:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Audition is horrific, yes.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 21:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Deathwatch is on at the GFT again this month. I don't like Wickerman or find it scary.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 00:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, I thought you meant *The* Conference.

Apparently Burton's new ground is very nice.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 06:50 (nineteen years ago) link

deathwatch is the glasgow-harvey keitel-harry dean stanton one that there were stills from somewhere online.

I would like to see that!

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 09:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Bertrand Tavernier. I have done a book about this. He thought Glasgow looked like how things would look in the future, ie falling down and crumbling. Also stars the woman from Remy Schneider or whatever her name is, who died not long after, I think. My memory is not what it used to be. But I would like to see the film, yes.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 09:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I´ve got a book ("Cinematic cities/landscapes" might be the title, is that right? My memory is not waht it used to be either...) where I remember reading that quote about Glasgow, but I haven´t got through all the essays it compiles carefully. Did you work at this project?

― olenska, Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:36 (nineteen years ago) link

No, it was a book about Tavernier, for the San Sebastian Film Festival Tavernier retrospective. My first ever book, in fact. I was just the translator, mind.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:39 (nineteen years ago) link

deathwatch is the glasgow-harvey keitel-harry dean stanton one that there were stills from somewhere online.

somewhere in the dark history of this thread in fact.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 12:13 (nineteen years ago) link

so "deathwatch" is "la mort en directe"? Took me a while to realize...don´t know memory but neither my Eng/French are what they used to b

― olenska, Wednesday, 10 August 2005 12:31 (nineteen years ago) link

hiya!

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 14:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Glasgow is giving blood tomorrow, after 5, if anyone would like to join the party.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 15:10 (nineteen years ago) link

I gave on THE BLOOD BUS not so long ago, but maybe it was longer ago than I think.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 15:12 (nineteen years ago) link

What do you call a bulgarian car thief..???


Ramavandoonaditch....

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 11 August 2005 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link

I thought they turned you down last time, N?

The wouldn't let the wee yin donate, anyway :( Although apparently the nurses thought she had "a lovely wee figure".

Meanwhile, The Bear's stuff was pure flyin' oot, whereas mine took a more cautious approach to the whole business (I could almost hear it saying "Are you SURE you can afford to lose me?").

Afterwards, we went to the pub without dinner. This didn't turn out as bad as you'd think.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 12 August 2005 09:03 (nineteen years ago) link

You don't know how bad I'd think.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 12 August 2005 09:07 (nineteen years ago) link

I will be making good my threat to try Edinburgh, and to try Glasgow, and I will be doing so on the weekend of the 9th September. So watch it.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 12 August 2005 09:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Hurrah!

I shall be trying Glasgow, tomorrow.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 12 August 2005 11:18 (nineteen years ago) link

What about TONIGHT?

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 12 August 2005 13:52 (nineteen years ago) link

yay ailsa!!

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 12 August 2005 13:55 (nineteen years ago) link

I think tonight sounds fine. I need to dye my hair first.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 12 August 2005 14:21 (nineteen years ago) link

black?

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 12 August 2005 14:41 (nineteen years ago) link

I might try it tomorrow

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 12 August 2005 17:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Cozen, you're dying your hair black?

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 12 August 2005 17:42 (nineteen years ago) link

don't try it

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 12 August 2005 18:03 (nineteen years ago) link

tennis, ken?

l'uomo e cacciatore

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 12 August 2005 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Ooh, I could play tennis. But not in shorts, as I have squinty crap sunburn on my legs.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 12 August 2005 18:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Is Glasgow fapping tomorrow? Or just going straight to the Winchester?

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 12 August 2005 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link

oooh yes cozen! i'll bring my racquet - let me know where and when... discuss tonight? (or txt me or if anyone wants to meet up before winchester my number is

0
7
9
6
7

7
5
5
4
4
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i am off in about 30 mins and will get to glasgow just after 4 i hope!

― ken c (ken c), Saturday, 13 August 2005 07:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Glasgow, are you doing anything?

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 13 August 2005 16:56 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm hurting.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 13 August 2005 17:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Aw. I'm waiting for my dinner to finish cooking. I will be out later when I can dance but not have to listen to stinky bands.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 13 August 2005 17:33 (nineteen years ago) link

if anyone reads this: Cherubin(?) on Great Western Road for lunch 1:30pm if you FAL:fancy a lunch!!

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 14 August 2005 10:43 (nineteen years ago) link

... and if anyone fancies a game of tennis at 6pm - it's booked - text me.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 14 August 2005 13:56 (nineteen years ago) link

FAGOT

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 14 August 2005 13:58 (nineteen years ago) link

who won?

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 15 August 2005 07:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Stephen Pastel?

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 15 August 2005 11:40 (nineteen years ago) link

I would like Glasgow to know that Alba licked my nose. JEALOUS?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 15 August 2005 12:33 (nineteen years ago) link

noes

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 15 August 2005 14:51 (nineteen years ago) link

how did it smell?

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 15 August 2005 14:52 (nineteen years ago) link

WHERE'S MY BLIND GIRL?

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 15 August 2005 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah, my temporary filling has completely buckled now.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 15 August 2005 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Are you blaming me?

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 15 August 2005 16:05 (nineteen years ago) link

if the crown fits.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 15 August 2005 16:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I think, pending final confirmation, I am Trying Glagow More again with work the week of the Bank Holiday Monday (i.e. in a week and a half).

Since I'm not sure what work plans are (I may be changing jobs, so there's probably dining out in there somewhere) and ABSOLUTELY NOT TO MAKE A COUPLE OF HOURS TRAVELLING TIME AT DOUBLE TIME NO WAY NOT AT ALL PERISH THE THOUGHT I was thinking I might come up on the Monday afternoon. This may also avoid the feeling of DRINKING ON A SCHOOL NIGHT that characterised my last visit.

IS GLASGOW AVAILABLE?

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 11:44 (nineteen years ago) link

this bit of glasgow will be working on the monday (the 29th, yeh?) as usual, but will certainly come out to join you later. insensible though you almost certainly shall be, having been drinking all afternoon.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 11:48 (nineteen years ago) link

No. I don't get paid until 31st, but if you choose to go somewhere that takes cheques...

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 22:52 (nineteen years ago) link

the tennis courts provide endless amusement:
"what those people don't realise is we're all one big family" [pause] "a lot of in-breeding in croatia."

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 20 August 2005 16:50 (nineteen years ago) link

i was watching the scottish weather on ITV this evening and the guy reading it reported "a chance of spurious showers for tuesday".

!

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 21 August 2005 23:12 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't believe it.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 22 August 2005 07:02 (nineteen years ago) link

i didn't record it so i can't prove it unfortunately.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 22 August 2005 10:02 (nineteen years ago) link

let's just wait and see what happens, tomorrow

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 22 August 2005 10:14 (nineteen years ago) link

try scotland more

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 22 August 2005 16:05 (nineteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v87/jazoo/cityproject/city003.jpg

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:17 (nineteen years ago) link

haha I want to go here

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:26 (nineteen years ago) link

OMFG Meteor Glossary

Spurious Showers.

If the paths of two meteors are projected backwards there is a 50% chance that they will intersect somewhere in the sky. By chance, other the paths of other unrelated meteors may also project back into this area of sky and the discovery of a new meteor shower is claimed. The higher the sporadic rates, the greater the likelihood that such chance lining-ups will occur and a few misidentified major shower meteors can also be included.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm not waiting around, to see if he was right

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:52 (nineteen years ago) link

the central belt will be decimated!

where are you going? anderson shelter?

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:53 (nineteen years ago) link

anderson campus! to the concrete-lined laser laboratory, I think

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:55 (nineteen years ago) link

How does one GET to Glasgow?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:03 (nineteen years ago) link

practise practise practise!

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:09 (nineteen years ago) link

boom boom!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:13 (nineteen years ago) link

really, now you've suggested it, it sounds like a good idea.

I see the train goes there? VIRGIN train? I've never been on one of those.

Is it a nice ride? Will I see beautiful Scottish scenery?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:14 (nineteen years ago) link

yes a train comes to glasgow! amazing isn't it? get the GNER east coast line that goes via embra and you will see some amazing scenery althought the best of it is in Engeland (Northumberland) not Scotland.

it's a very good idea!

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:17 (nineteen years ago) link

GNER?

Hmmm...what should I do? Should I go to Optimo? Can I buy a GLASGOW t-shirt?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:19 (nineteen years ago) link

there are lots of different routes/ companies that run from London to Glasgow but the GNER route (from Kings Cross i think?) is the most scenic.

xp Optimo!

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm hoping to try Glasgow soon

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:21 (nineteen years ago) link

What record shops can I go to? Or museums or galleries? Where can I eat a Glasgow meal? Can I see Celtic? What's the weather like?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:23 (nineteen years ago) link

What's the most Glasgow thing one person could possibly do?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:25 (nineteen years ago) link

fail to attend a FAP!

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:27 (nineteen years ago) link

That sounds a bit San Francisco to me.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Looking at the general logistics of the thing, it could just work. Crazy! Optimo!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:51 (nineteen years ago) link

yay! again!

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 22 August 2005 23:01 (nineteen years ago) link

You should probably see Hearts, instead.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 07:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I would like a Glasgow t-shirt, with Mr Smiley on it. Do they still do them?

On the other line, you get to see the Lake District, or a bit of it. The bit of Scotland you see is... tranquil.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 07:07 (nineteen years ago) link

If you want beautiful Scottish scenery, you want to come up on the bus, through the Borders on the M74 is much nicer than the powerstations and seagull shit that characterizes the A1. Also the bus costs £1 if you book it early enough.

If you want really beautiful Scottish scenery, don't stop at Glasgow, keep going.

You can quite easily get tickets for Celtic games if you know when you are going to be here, they aren't playing away, and they aren't playing Rangers. The only home game that's on when you are over is versus Aberdeen on 10th September. Tickets on sale now, but only to people who have registered a previous interest. If you really want to go, let me know, and I can sort this out for you.

But really, they're crap. Go and see, erm, Hearts, like what Ally C said.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 07:46 (nineteen years ago) link

did you win?

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 08:57 (nineteen years ago) link

second, by one point

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 09:21 (nineteen years ago) link

we threw away, at least, three points

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 09:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Willie Nelson.

We still got a £10 voucher. Apparently the food is good.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 09:54 (nineteen years ago) link

I got preoccupied & a black pudding supper

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 09:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Hearts, then.

If you want really beautiful Scottish scenery, don't stop at Glasgow, keep going.

I wish I could!
I think I might actually come up, though I don't have very much time.

How long does the bus from London take?

I guess I am looking at September 11th for Optimo. I'd like to see some of the city before I go, but I may only be around for a day or two.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:52 (nineteen years ago) link

i went to optimo on sunday, for the first time in two years. it is still absolutely the greatest thing ever. they played the instrumental of "the things that dreams are made of", FFS.

unfortunately i also got mashed, had folk back to the flat, and was sick in my bedroom bin at about 6am. o well. it just shows i had a good night. or something.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:52 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm thinking of going to the Instal Festival in Oct - Sun City Girls! Pauline Oliveros! - can anyone tell me what 'The Arches' is like?

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:58 (nineteen years ago) link

I want to do that please!

xp

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:59 (nineteen years ago) link

The Arches is a great space and can be a good atmosphere, though unfortunately sometimes the sound can be quite bad.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I just ordered a book from a shop on The Great Western Road - sadly that's the closest I can see me getting to trying Glasgow for the foreseeable future.

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:09 (nineteen years ago) link

It is fun being able to post to this thread. Though I do have a tendency to take over threads.

Hi glasgow thread!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:32 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't understand. Is cozen in Glasgow? I thought he was going to Vancouver.

I think I owe him something.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:35 (nineteen years ago) link

the arches is awful and a horrible space and the sound can be bad too

but I will be at instal

gotta buy that ticket soon, while I still have a student discount

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:43 (nineteen years ago) link

I am where the heart is

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link

bummer (abt the arches)

i thought the CCA was gd, for subcurrent

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:46 (nineteen years ago) link

i like a seat, for my fat arse - are there any seats, at the Arches?

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:47 (nineteen years ago) link

cozen, that was a question

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link

they will have seats in the arches for instal but there won't be enough. because of the acoustics, the sound in there is really bad for any music that is intricate or has melody. i really wish sun city girls were playing somewhere else but at the end of the day i'm happy enough that they agreed to play glasgow at all.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:59 (nineteen years ago) link

: )

I am in glasgow adam and look forward to your arrival!

to be fair to the arches I have never been to a 'rock' gig there

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I hate the Arches. I have my reasons. Grimly, you'd fit right in at the next Girlie Weekender in Dublin. Sick In Bins is what we do.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 20:15 (nineteen years ago) link

But you owe it at least for that pretty picture, surely?

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 07:09 (nineteen years ago) link

No, I owe Beverley, who took it.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 08:28 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't think you're giving due credit, here.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 08:39 (nineteen years ago) link

i have never been to optimo
i am incomplete

― dahlin (dahlin), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 12:30 (nineteen years ago) link

i have been to the arches tho. it was OK
anyone picnicing this weekend? there may be baseball! and cake!
also.. jens on sunday? anyone? anyone? beuller?

― dahlin (dahlin), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 12:33 (nineteen years ago) link

In response to two ilXorZ not having money till payday*, I have slipped my trip by a week and will now be in Glasgow 5th till the 9th.

I know of no plans, but I will make sure I get out. Best chance of success is probably the Monday night.

Do your magic, Glasgow, and decide on a pub.

*This is a lie. My contractor's subcontractor can't keep to programme.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 12:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Saturday - we are having a flatwarming party. Everyone is welcome, of course.

Sunday - Jens, yes. Also Marceline on an indie panel answering questions with Stephen Pastel! Quite ridiculous. Then Optimo. Hope Jens does not play too late as Optimo will be BUSY.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:12 (nineteen years ago) link

bus from london to glasgow takes about 8 hours. (there are fun overnight ones, too, if you are good at sleeping on a chair it's a great option cos it's like you haven't wasted any time commuting)

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Well, my friend says he could be up for this, so we might do Sep 11-13.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:24 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.optimo.co.uk/echatio/read.php?board=1&id=13226

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 21:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Does Stirmonster read this thread?

"Optimo DJs" were going to be playing San Francisco later this year, but now the dates seem to have disappeared! What happened?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 21:31 (nineteen years ago) link

sometimes but not often. he may well do if he reads the referral logs to echatio (if that's what you call them).

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 21:33 (nineteen years ago) link

have you heard the Gavin and Delia record, jed?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 21:34 (nineteen years ago) link

no, have you?

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 21:35 (nineteen years ago) link

well that's exciting!

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 21:35 (nineteen years ago) link

yes i have.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 21:36 (nineteen years ago) link

isn't it!

xp

how?

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 21:37 (nineteen years ago) link

... and are you sharing?

: )

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 21:39 (nineteen years ago) link

did u slsk?

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 21:40 (nineteen years ago) link

I am on slsk, if that's what you meant

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 21:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I didn't get it from slsk but I am sharing it. I haven't been able to hear the whole thing yet but what I did hear was good and makes me wish I had a better stereo. Actually I don't have a stereo at all.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 21:42 (nineteen years ago) link

i can't work slsk.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 21:45 (nineteen years ago) link

but i have a good stereo!

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 21:45 (nineteen years ago) link

have you tried ssX (soulseeX)?

that's what I use, without any problems

except I had to open some ports to listen, I think

I get a bit vague on ports

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 21:46 (nineteen years ago) link

It's not hard, cozen figured it out!

xp-I would happily trade use of slsk for a good stereo!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 21:46 (nineteen years ago) link

cozen I got your messages on slsk but days after you sent them because I switched to SSx and I can't figure out how it works.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link

you homo

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 21:48 (nineteen years ago) link

no, actually I'm "nordicskilla"

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 21:49 (nineteen years ago) link

what's glasgow's best building?

what's on Sauciehall street? Did there used to be a Saucy hall there?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link

sauchiehall street is the name of Ivor Cutler's pet cow.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 21:58 (nineteen years ago) link

adam - yes i do read this thread from time to time. it was only ever very vague that we would be playing san francisco,

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:59 (nineteen years ago) link

:(

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:00 (nineteen years ago) link

flatwarming eh? when we were going to get our invites? hmph. you suck
oooh could this weekend see my optimo cherry popped?!

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 25 August 2005 08:04 (nineteen years ago) link

this weekend sounds like it's going to be a great one, but i have to work. booo! be sure and have a drink for me on saturday, glasgow. it's my birthday, and i'll be far, far away from home.

― michael grant (michael digby grant), Thursday, 25 August 2005 10:34 (nineteen years ago) link

I want to be on a pastel with Stephen Panel too.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 25 August 2005 10:38 (nineteen years ago) link

awww poor michael. happy birthday lovey!

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 25 August 2005 10:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Hurrah for aldo's work meaning I don't have to raid the petty cash tin at work for booze money on Monday! My pub suggestion = not the Drum and Monkey (non-smoking now, innit, so opportunities to laugh at lapsed ex-smokers gagging for cigarettes limited) and not the Lansdowne because we've been there twice recently and it will bring back horrible memories of (1) being stalked by the paparazzi and (2) the Artmedia Bratislava horrorshow.

Other than that, I have no idea. What about that Station Bar place near grimly fiendish's work?

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 25 August 2005 17:29 (nineteen years ago) link

I think I might be an asshopper.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 17:57 (nineteen years ago) link

APPLICATION DENIED

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 25 August 2005 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't know if I can do this now, I am bad at making decisions.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 18:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I would like to meet you

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 25 August 2005 18:06 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm shy

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 18:10 (nineteen years ago) link

actually, it's that my schedule would be 4 days in london, 3 days in berlin, one day in london, two days in glasgow, 3 days in london.

is that...too mad?

or not mad enough?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 18:33 (nineteen years ago) link

I should post, on this thread, more

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 25 August 2005 18:39 (nineteen years ago) link

hello RJG

: )

do you really get e-mail notifications when someone posts to this thread?

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 25 August 2005 18:43 (nineteen years ago) link

your hair has looked great the past few times I saw you

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 25 August 2005 18:44 (nineteen years ago) link

is that true?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 18:44 (nineteen years ago) link

is it?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 18:44 (nineteen years ago) link

don't be shy adam! come!

i'm shy too.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 25 August 2005 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link

It could be too mad!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 18:49 (nineteen years ago) link

I do not get notifications, no


thanks, about my hair, but I think it's getting a bit bushy or long, anyway

maybe I will get it a fancy haircut

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 25 August 2005 18:51 (nineteen years ago) link

I wonder who does get the notifications

I know k. house does, perhaps it is just her

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 25 August 2005 18:52 (nineteen years ago) link

denny vertigo?

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Playing at Optimo?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:09 (nineteen years ago) link

dinnae vertigo

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:13 (nineteen years ago) link

I know k. house does, perhaps it is just her

Katrina? She doesn't read this pish does she?

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I hope not

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:15 (nineteen years ago) link

katrina gets e-mail notifications i think, i got her out of office reply once...

also, i am jealous that you all get to meet adam. me and gravel puzzleworth decided adam is one of our 5 favorite ilxors. NOT LIKE HE DESERVES IT.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:23 (nineteen years ago) link

enough talking, more grapes

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Glasgow, YOU DECIDE.

The three nights I actually need to be there (Mon, Tue, Wed) I can't get out of evening activities. So, I need to extend by one night:

Which is better for you lot - Sunday 4th or Thursday 8th? I'm able to do either, and have no real preference. Sorry for the school nights, not much I can do about that.

(A prompt decision would be nice, so I can book flights/hotel)

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 26 August 2005 07:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Hello Katrina!

RJG, Cabbage's hair is looking a bit bushy too.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 26 August 2005 08:03 (nineteen years ago) link

i get email notifications
i'm a dork
jed is so shy he never comes out in public! some of us aren't sure he really exists!
and my vote is for THURSDAY

― dahlin (dahlin), Friday, 26 August 2005 09:10 (nineteen years ago) link

THURSDAY is my preferred option of the two, now I think about it.

I can't book it before Tuesday now, so any nay-sayers by then please.

I should note I WILL BE BRINGING ALL OF LOST for Gerry. Whether he is inclined to do them for other people (I've noticed Simon on the UK Lost thread) is between you. (I may be able to do another couple of sets with enough notice, however)

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 26 August 2005 11:48 (nineteen years ago) link

notifications, dahlin?

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 26 August 2005 12:05 (nineteen years ago) link

why do you get them, dahlin?

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 26 August 2005 12:05 (nineteen years ago) link

notifications for every post, dahlin?

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 26 August 2005 12:06 (nineteen years ago) link

isn't that really annoying, dahlin?

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 26 August 2005 12:06 (nineteen years ago) link

I think I'd be annoyed, dahlin.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 26 August 2005 12:07 (nineteen years ago) link

very few of these posts would be worth notification of, in my opinion, dahlin.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 26 August 2005 12:07 (nineteen years ago) link

I suppose it's up to you, though, dahlin!

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 26 August 2005 12:07 (nineteen years ago) link

I should note I WILL BE BRINGING ALL OF LOST for Gerry

cooooOOOOO. [imagines entire life dissolving]

must ... turn down ... kind ... offer ... must turn it down ... must ... not ... succumb ...

thursday would be best for me too, al.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 26 August 2005 12:08 (nineteen years ago) link

so this is an easy way to annoy dahlin?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 26 August 2005 12:09 (nineteen years ago) link

yes

― dahlin (dahlin), Friday, 26 August 2005 12:16 (nineteen years ago) link

yes it is

― dahlin (dahlin), Friday, 26 August 2005 12:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I won't do it then.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 26 August 2005 12:17 (nineteen years ago) link

i get em cos i can't load the thread at work cos it crashes the system. and because i am lame

thanks aldo. and i am also a lost addict... hmmmm

― dahlin (dahlin), Friday, 26 August 2005 12:18 (nineteen years ago) link

i get em cos i can't load the thread at work cos it crashes the system

no way! teh h3r4ald has better tech than the mighty associat3d pr3ss? hoo.

you are lame, though :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 26 August 2005 12:28 (nineteen years ago) link

yes
thank you
you miss me, don't you?

― dahlin (dahlin), Friday, 26 August 2005 12:42 (nineteen years ago) link

POLITE NOTICE:

If anyone knows of anyone nice in Glasgow who is looking for a flatmate they are to let me know.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 26 August 2005 14:57 (nineteen years ago) link

poor, shy jed!

Any hotels/otherwises I should know about?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link

you cunt!

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:59 (nineteen years ago) link

: )

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 26 August 2005 16:00 (nineteen years ago) link

you miss me, don't you?

i thot you were on holiday. i was. well: on holiday at home. the best way.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 26 August 2005 16:00 (nineteen years ago) link

adam e-mail me

this address is good

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 26 August 2005 16:00 (nineteen years ago) link

no it's not

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 16:06 (nineteen years ago) link

holiday! ha! no. as if. no holidays for me till november yo.
bah. adam, are you really coming? will you be here on the saturday? cos if so it's winchester. mmmm

― dahlin (dahlin), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link

If I come, it will likely be on the sunday. what is this "winchester"? Is it like this winchester?

I don't know if I can come though. I'm such an asshopper. I'll email cozen.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:01 (nineteen years ago) link

stew beardmag, have I met you? when dot to dot played ladies night at stereo?

I know someone who knows you anyway

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:22 (nineteen years ago) link

aldo, can i please please please have a copy of Lost please? I promise to keep Hibs-slagging to a minimum in return (I may also buy you a pint or two).

I have a day-long interview/assessment session for a new job on the Thursday, so will (1) be in Glasgow and (2) in dire need of beer. Count me in for drinking that day. (though I could do the Sunday too, if need be).

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Right, as long as Gerry confirms Thursday is OK, then Thursday it is. And I will be the Lost Santa, bringing presents for good boys and girls.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Saturday, 27 August 2005 07:55 (nineteen years ago) link

I might go to the grand ole opry

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 27 August 2005 12:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Thursday is fine. Then I can have a Lost weekend.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Saturday, 27 August 2005 12:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Oddly enough, I'm just back from a cheap hotel in Amsterdam.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Saturday, 27 August 2005 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I have half a mind to jump on the overnight bus from London to Glasgow this evening. Should I?

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Saturday, 27 August 2005 17:06 (nineteen years ago) link

!

we are having a party, in a couple of hours

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 27 August 2005 17:08 (nineteen years ago) link

what is happening tomorrow and why?

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 27 August 2005 17:09 (nineteen years ago) link

I am eating indonesian food

then to the grand ole opry

then there is a party, in a couple of hours

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 27 August 2005 17:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Will your party still be raging on at 6 in the morning?

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Saturday, 27 August 2005 17:20 (nineteen years ago) link

perhaps!!!!!!!

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 27 August 2005 17:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Do come, marianna!

I ate Korean food today, and watched cozen. Where did you get Indonesian?

― Cathy (Cathy), Saturday, 27 August 2005 18:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, Marianna, come to Glasgow.

I ate Spanish food and laughed at miserable-looking Rangers fans. I ain't going to no party :(

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 27 August 2005 19:11 (nineteen years ago) link

stew beardmag, have I met you? when dot to dot played ladies night at stereo?

I know someone who knows you anyway.

-- cozen (skiplevel...), August 26th, 2005

Yes, I recognised yr picture from the thread and said hello at Dolly Mixture. Think you were rather taken aback to be such an internet celeb but there you go!
As for the someone who knows me...maybe Marceline from Diskant? And I went to uni with Dahlin' of course.

So is there a FAP on Thurs? I really should come along and meet you all properly. I'm starting a mind numbing temp job on Monday so I could do with a trip to the pub.

― Stew (stew s), Saturday, 27 August 2005 19:14 (nineteen years ago) link

There is a FAP not on Thursday, but a week on Thursday, venue to be decided. (not Mono (no Guinness) or Drum and Monkey (no smoking) please?

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 27 August 2005 19:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Shit, that's the night of the Josh Pearson (troubled frontman of apocalyptic desert rockers Lift To Experience) gig at Tut's, but I can always come along for a wee while.

― Stew (stew s), Saturday, 27 August 2005 20:06 (nineteen years ago) link

We could FAP downstairs in King Tuts and you could run down to drink beer when the band isn't on (or when they are on, if they are shit)

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 27 August 2005 20:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Well, that would be very nice of you, but I don't want everyone to build their night round me. It's quite nice it Tut's though if it's not too busy. I'm only go see Josh Pearson cos he's the man (and the lovely people at Hermana can set me up with a freebie, ahem, I mean press ticket) so I won't need to scoot off until 10.

― Stew (stew s), Saturday, 27 August 2005 20:36 (nineteen years ago) link

phil from skeleton bob, stew

: )

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 27 August 2005 23:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Stew, I just remember the hassle last time we tried to organise a FAP, so I thought if a pub presented itself as an easy option, then it would be a start. Also, I like Tuts if it's not busy (though it's a nightmare if it is).

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 28 August 2005 08:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha, I was going to be really shit when Stewbeard mentioned that and say I wanted to see him as well, but g00gling reveals he plays Bristol at the end of September so I can see him then. As you were.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Sunday, 28 August 2005 11:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Be as shit as you like, as long as you bring my LOST dvds with you.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 28 August 2005 11:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Cool, sounds like a plan. Yay, Skeleton Bob, they're a great wee band. You should check out Jode's new DJ slot at the CCA on Thursday. It's called Buckaroo and he plays lots of country and folk. Ace!

― Stew (stew s), Sunday, 28 August 2005 11:35 (nineteen years ago) link

momus is in glasgow

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 28 August 2005 13:46 (nineteen years ago) link

oh no

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 28 August 2005 13:49 (nineteen years ago) link

wow!

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 28 August 2005 15:00 (nineteen years ago) link

let's all zoom to mono and noise him up.

actually: i'm just back from driving 450 miles, so ... let's not. zzz sleep etc.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 28 August 2005 17:28 (nineteen years ago) link

I am sad to report that I will not be trying Glasgow this year. It breaks my heart, but it just wasn't meant to be. :(

Thank you for all your help, though, glasgow people!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Sunday, 28 August 2005 20:13 (nineteen years ago) link

:(

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 28 August 2005 20:18 (nineteen years ago) link

I will make my very best effort to try it soon, though!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Sunday, 28 August 2005 20:24 (nineteen years ago) link

I had considered going to Mono earlier today, but the thought of Momus, Stuart Braithwaite, Stephen Pastel and Isobel Campbell in one small pub was a little too much for me.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 28 August 2005 20:34 (nineteen years ago) link

: /

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 28 August 2005 20:40 (nineteen years ago) link

it was fucking amazing. well, jens was. *swoon*
momus WAS there! with an eyepatch! ha! he was on my bus. i had no idea. he left early tho.

― dahlin (dahlin), Sunday, 28 August 2005 23:02 (nineteen years ago) link

cozen why are you in?

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 28 August 2005 23:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Hey Dahlin, that's the Plan B people put to bed and me about to crash. What a lovely night. Jens was indeed swoonsome musically speaking. His songs and performance really touched me: so warm, romantic and lovely. Aaaahh. Momus was indeed there but left before we plucked up the courage to say hello. Oy vey!

― Stew (stew s), Monday, 29 August 2005 00:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Hey did anyone try the Pixies more in Edinburgh last night? It was pretty excellent, although I had been a bit dubious beforehand.

― alext (alext), Monday, 29 August 2005 06:36 (nineteen years ago) link

my friend, fergie, did

phoned me up, during "where is my mind?", I think!


I said hello, to momus, last night.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 29 August 2005 09:24 (nineteen years ago) link

i got a text from my pal phil saying: "debas**er!!!!"

what did momus say? did he hail the might of RJG, fellow elder statesman of ILX, or did he just peer at you and do that slightly funny chin thing he does?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 29 August 2005 09:28 (nineteen years ago) link

he said "ah, you're RJG. I think we may have crossed swords, in the past, but probably agreed about other things, too" and that we must do one of the impromptu ILXer sightings things

he was borrowing a chair, from my table

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 29 August 2005 09:34 (nineteen years ago) link

so, a bit of both

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 29 August 2005 09:36 (nineteen years ago) link

you had discourse

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 29 August 2005 09:47 (nineteen years ago) link

so are any of you going to DinosaurJr tonite in the end? I haven´t heard anything good from their Benicassim show...

― olenska (olenska), Monday, 29 August 2005 09:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I am going to go to the quiz at the liquid ship, tonight, I think

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 29 August 2005 09:52 (nineteen years ago) link

I tried to blag free tickets. It didn't work. Anyway, I feel ill and have been up all night vomiting so wouldn't have been able to go anyway.

We need REPORTING BACK from the party! Did anyone pee in a corner? Did anyone turn up? (Scotstvo, I didn't get your text until Sunday morning and I don't have any credit in my phone to reply anyway, sorry).

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 29 August 2005 09:54 (nineteen years ago) link

our party?

lots of people turned up

it was quite civilised (no peeing, that I saw, at all)

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 29 August 2005 09:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, your party. Sorry I didn't come, I was too lazy to be bothered moving, and also talking to people. I'm glad it was good.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 29 August 2005 10:08 (nineteen years ago) link

it was civilised! there were SNACKS and plastic cups, arranged neatly on a table!
and the place was CLEAN!
except ally's room which smelled like boy. yuck

― dahlin (dahlin), Monday, 29 August 2005 10:19 (nineteen years ago) link

where boy = fish

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 29 August 2005 10:21 (nineteen years ago) link

where fish = don't ask

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 29 August 2005 10:27 (nineteen years ago) link

This all sounds very non-148-like (xpost - I meant about the snacks and tidiness, not the odd smells). It may have confused me. Actually I don't think I've ever been to one of your parties. I don't really *do* parties.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 29 August 2005 10:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Where don't ask = no really, don't ask.

I liked the civilisation. Luckily there was a big crazy party across the street which people who wanted that kind of thing were quite happy to go to after spending a while being civilised at ours.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 29 August 2005 10:31 (nineteen years ago) link

148 was usually pretty tidy, for parties, and we had snacks, a few times

I think, unfortunately, people often confuse dilapidation for untidyness

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 29 August 2005 10:32 (nineteen years ago) link

I think I may be guilty of that. And I really can't now recall ever having been at one of your parties, but I'm sure I must have been at at least one.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 29 August 2005 10:34 (nineteen years ago) link

I saw someone pee in a bottle at the party.

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 29 August 2005 11:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Take that back.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 29 August 2005 11:03 (nineteen years ago) link

...to the shop for 20p?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 29 August 2005 11:08 (nineteen years ago) link

: (

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 29 August 2005 11:08 (nineteen years ago) link

The LOST fairy was here during the night and left presents for the four of you.

Had I been awake, I would have asked why she couldn't have left them at your houses.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 29 August 2005 11:19 (nineteen years ago) link

GOOD! Because that stinky nasty cricket over-ran on Sunday and meant they cancelled the repeat of the episode I didn't see on Wednesday because I was out bouzing, and I have teh fear of downloading stuff myself.

Also, thanks! Have you thought of a PUB yet?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 29 August 2005 11:34 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm happy to do whatever Glasgow wants. If downstairs at KT's is the best venue then that's OK.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 29 August 2005 11:40 (nineteen years ago) link

why not? it's quite good down there. especially when there's a gig on upstairs and it's empty :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 29 August 2005 11:46 (nineteen years ago) link

oh, I had forgotten it was BH over there. And here I am suffering to stay awake at work. madchen, are you about? Talked yesterday seriously with boyfr aboud trying Glasgow soon

― olenska (olenska), Monday, 29 August 2005 12:53 (nineteen years ago) link

I am here, but confused as to your identity, mystery person!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 29 August 2005 13:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Try @r@ntx@ s@nz g@rci@

― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 29 August 2005 14:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Madchen, the "big" day approacheth and I have NOTHING TO WEAR! Let's go shopping! I will buy you lunch/booze/presents in return. I went briefly with my mum, got as far as Wallis and H&M and got teh shopping fear. Please come hold my hand and make me buy nice things.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 29 August 2005 15:20 (nineteen years ago) link

what, we all have to buy new clothes for aldo's visit?

:)

i might wash my pants, i guess.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 29 August 2005 15:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Just keep the soup out of your 'tache and you'll be fine.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 29 August 2005 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I went for a trim and he gave me a haircut

: (

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 29 August 2005 15:49 (nineteen years ago) link

fancy that

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 29 August 2005 15:55 (nineteen years ago) link

on nick's recommendation, I am going to try COBALT, soon

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 29 August 2005 15:56 (nineteen years ago) link

cobalt? the metallic element, number 27 on the periodic table, with similarities to nickel, from which a blue pigment is derived?

or a new bar, the appearance of which - because i am rapidly becoming quite old and sad - has passed me by?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 29 August 2005 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Hairdressers, innit?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 29 August 2005 16:06 (nineteen years ago) link

I might try COBALT too, on nick's recommendation

they better not do to me what they did to nick

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 29 August 2005 16:11 (nineteen years ago) link

or CUSP

but not KROMA

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 29 August 2005 16:18 (nineteen years ago) link

stop getting fucking haircuts

you're like hen broon

crosspost

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 29 August 2005 16:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I'll get as many as I want!

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 29 August 2005 16:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Hairdressers, innit?

yes, that occurred to me several minutes after i hit "send".

green's on king street is da bomb. seven pound fifty, including sideburns. and hopefully moustaches.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 29 August 2005 16:40 (nineteen years ago) link

I think I am looking for something a bit poncier

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 29 August 2005 17:38 (nineteen years ago) link

they have a ladies' section?

:)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 29 August 2005 17:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I will call, tomorrow

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 29 August 2005 18:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I think you should just walk in. It would be cheaper.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 29 August 2005 18:32 (nineteen years ago) link

(however, if they say they have no standbys going, then don't carry on walking in - it is polite to come back another time in this situation)

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 29 August 2005 18:33 (nineteen years ago) link

you boys and your fancy haircuts. i just give richard a pair of scissors.

― dahlin (dahlin), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Anyone go to Dinosaur Jr then? It was fucking IMMENSE! I'm half deaf and I had ear plugs in for half of it. Took em out for my favourite songs. Sludgefeast was the highlight. Truly lived up to its name. A glorious sprawl of noise and melody. Oh yeah!

― Stew (stew s), Monday, 29 August 2005 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link

aww. do you get this excited about every gig you go to? bless...

― dahlin (dahlin), Monday, 29 August 2005 22:52 (nineteen years ago) link

my flatmate's boyfriend went

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 29 August 2005 23:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I hope Glasgow is going to come to a pub to see me on my last night (that is tonight!). Especially Madchen! I don't know what pub but maybe the Liquid Ship, at about 8, if I have finished my packing.

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 08:12 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm free!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 08:25 (nineteen years ago) link

hooray!

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 08:28 (nineteen years ago) link

i can't make tonight, sadly. but have the bonnest of voyages (only in, er, spanish) and keep flying the "try glasgow more" flag.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 08:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Need you ask? Yes. OK. Yes.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 10:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Cathy, Glasgow te desea un buen viaje, y pide que lo intentes más.

Is the AldoFAP on Thursday of this week or next?

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 15:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Next week (8th).

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 15:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Cathy, I didn't know! If someone had told me, I would have been there! (I don't get ILXing at work). We were randomly pubbing in Paisley, and Glasgow could have been an option had we known!

Bon voyage (yes, I know that's French, I know my parents live in Spain and I should know the right terminology. Er, what Scotstvo said, if that's not rude - I think it means "Glasgow wants you to enjoy your trip and want you to try it more" but I'm not sure)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 22:30 (nineteen years ago) link

10/10

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Thursday, 1 September 2005 06:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Bye Cathy!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 1 September 2005 07:54 (nineteen years ago) link

my goodness!

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 1 September 2005 08:51 (nineteen years ago) link

something to look forward to eh cozen?

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 1 September 2005 09:16 (nineteen years ago) link

How did you get a job like that?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 1 September 2005 09:17 (nineteen years ago) link

lawyers don't help

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 1 September 2005 10:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Cathy, I wish you well in Leon.

It is Leon, isn't it?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 1 September 2005 10:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, it is Leon. That's okay, ailsa, we didn't go to the pub in the end, and opted for farewell Pictionary. I will be back for a bit at Christmas, I'm sure. Unless I decide to Try China More.

Goodbye Glasgow!

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 1 September 2005 10:44 (nineteen years ago) link

DON'T GO

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 1 September 2005 10:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Now I will know 2 beautiful girls in Leon. Although the other one might still be working in Poland.

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 1 September 2005 10:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Who do you know in Leon, David?

(I haven't actually gone yet. I am in the iCafe. I go at 3)

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 1 September 2005 10:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Fibber, you're not going until the end of the month.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 1 September 2005 10:59 (nineteen years ago) link

try china more!

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:02 (nineteen years ago) link

ni sh' piou-lang nu-ren!

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:03 (nineteen years ago) link

A girl from the Spanish B&S list, 'segundosdeluz', called Maria.

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:03 (nineteen years ago) link

ooh. Maybe I should join a Spanish B&S list. Or maybe, just for fun, I should make some friends that don't like B&S.

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:07 (nineteen years ago) link

you should join me in joining
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/slipknotfanclub/

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:11 (nineteen years ago) link

most recent message

I'm bored and very hot
What is up! I'm hungrey and tierd. Go to my site it's: loser-land666.piczo.com
Posted - Mon Aug 29, 2005 1:40 am

rofl!

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:12 (nineteen years ago) link

ni shi hen hao-kan di nan-ren, cozen!

I knew enough slipknot fans in Rugby : (((

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:13 (nineteen years ago) link

i've seen cathy and cozen's pictures and i can confirm

i hope the slipknot fans in rugby aren't also hungrey and tierd

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Maybe I should join a Spanish B&S list.

you could e-mail segundosdeluz-subscribe@yahoogroups.com , then. Actually, most of the time they don't talk about B&S!

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:19 (nineteen years ago) link

It is always pleasant when, in the course of daily business, I get to write cheeky emails to solictors. Such as today, when one sent me 17 entirely useless and in fact OFFENSIVE (to me) sheets of paper.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:31 (nineteen years ago) link

What have you got against paper?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:34 (nineteen years ago) link

well, if it was izal medicated ...

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:35 (nineteen years ago) link

I suppose it was more about what was on the paper.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm not sure I want to read about what might be on izal medicated (although nothing sticks to it, so I'm not sure what it could be).

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:40 (nineteen years ago) link

the following space has been left blank for your own message.

http://www.whom.co.uk/chairs/izal_sheet.jpg

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:43 (nineteen years ago) link

"Throw It"

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:45 (nineteen years ago) link

ally were these alleged pages faxed or e-mailed?

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:54 (nineteen years ago) link

They were sent IN THE POST!

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 1 September 2005 12:01 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't want to try Rugby anymore.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 2 September 2005 00:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Did we decide on downstairs at King Tut's?

I will be without ILX from Sunday until the FAP so relying on a decision or Gerry texting me. LOST is at stake.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 2 September 2005 09:25 (nineteen years ago) link

i thought we'd decided on downstairs at tut's, aye.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 2 September 2005 09:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Decide on it for what? Some kind of bombing campaign?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 2 September 2005 09:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Bombing & Budvar

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 2 September 2005 10:10 (nineteen years ago) link

I am 80% sure the guy who just served me in pret a manger was on ecstasy

!!!

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 2 September 2005 11:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Was there tooth griding and/or an unusual display of affection? Did he lack inhibition?

Did he have any of the paraphernalia normally associates with ecstasy use?
• Pacifiers
• Lollipops
• Candy necklaces
• Glow sticks and/or glowing jewellery
• A child-like backpack
• Mentholated rub
• Surgical-type masks

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 2 September 2005 12:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Did he try the stroke-your-hand trick as he gave you your change?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 2 September 2005 12:29 (nineteen years ago) link

I handed him a bundle of loose change

then we started chatting a bit

I asked him "is that the right money?"

he just looked at the coins and said "yeah yeah that's cool totally, why not?"

!!!

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 2 September 2005 12:31 (nineteen years ago) link

If anyone in Glasgow is trying TEH SMYTHS at the Woodside, I will see them there.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:18 (nineteen years ago) link

I told my boss and now he thinks I do drugs

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:20 (nineteen years ago) link

You see, this what happens.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link

I miss Glasgow.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:39 (nineteen years ago) link

I miss glasgow

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 2 September 2005 20:48 (nineteen years ago) link

It seems that the Josh Pearson gig has moved to Barfly on the Monday. He's on first before a bunch of inferior talents, but at least that means I can leave after him and go to the King Creoste gig at Mono.
Anyway, this means we don't necessarily have to FAP in Tuts on Thurs. Any alternative suggestions?

― Stew (stew s), Sunday, 4 September 2005 10:35 (nineteen years ago) link

if there are, we'd better make 'em quickly 'cos aldo needs to know today. tut's is fine by me. anywhere's fine by me, really.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 4 September 2005 10:39 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm fine with Tut's but just thought I'd throw it open. As there won't be a gig on there now it should be quite quiet, which is definitely a positive.

― Stew (stew s), Sunday, 4 September 2005 10:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Gerry can always text me with any venue change, but Tuts is fine, aye.

btw Gerry, interested in a Royal Burger on Thursday?

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Sunday, 4 September 2005 11:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Royal wid cheese? Sounds good.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Sunday, 4 September 2005 11:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I should be done by the time you're finishing work so I can meet you somewhere handy.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Sunday, 4 September 2005 11:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Hello! My name is Chris and I know some of you - this thread took me so long to open that I wanted to leave my mark! I hope you are all well and that. I'm looking forward to seeing the clientele at the winchester next week. Are you? Is Keith coming through for it? I can't keep up with this ilxor stuff. Cheerie!

― Chris Leonard, Sunday, 4 September 2005 18:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Chrys,

Yeah probably. They're at Backpackers here on Friday; where you were a few weeks ago, as will be Tim, who's staying with me. I'll most likely come through on Saturday. Let's rock!

― KeefW (kmw), Sunday, 4 September 2005 19:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Last Wednesday's gig was the best I have ever seen The Clientele play & the material from the new album is excellent: I hope that they are in the same form for Glasgow (& Edinburgh)!

― Mooro (Mooro), Sunday, 4 September 2005 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link

My flat smells of fireworks right now.

― KeefW (kmw), Sunday, 4 September 2005 20:11 (nineteen years ago) link

I mean literally!

― KeefW (kmw), Sunday, 4 September 2005 20:12 (nineteen years ago) link

KeefW - cool, see you next week! Please pass on my fond regards to Tim.

My flat smells of dog farts right now (at least I am blaming the dog and haha, get this - he can't talk to defend himself. Sucker!)

ug ug ug (like popeye)

― Chrys Lynyrd, Sunday, 4 September 2005 20:39 (nineteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/RJG/sept2005.jpg

I will be in spain, though

hi chris! if you register and login and pish, you can go to "settings" and change "messages displayed" or something, to "last 50"

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 4 September 2005 21:34 (nineteen years ago) link

I am lookimg forward to trying Edinburgh and Glasgow next weekend, especially now I have dangling before me the prospect of a rare sighting of the Lynyrd. But I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of you too. I'm not looking forward to seeing RJG next weekend, though. I'm looking forward to seeing him, at some other time.

DMCUK is right about The Clientele, but then you wouldn't expect anything else. Would you?

― Tim (Tim), Sunday, 4 September 2005 21:49 (nineteen years ago) link

thanks for the top tip RJGillanders man! I might just do that! I looked upon that very Winchester poster with my eyes in MONO earlier today. I chortled at the michael jackson - dot to dot - felt bit. Just slipped the "dot to dot" in there, you cheeky wee dotters! Good stuff. Sleeka Sounds Corporation.

I have no idea who "Annie" or "Rocketship" are - is that like..an ilxor thing? If so hello!

Or is it "Annie the musical" and that it means "starship" instead of "rocketship" like Jefferson Starship? I feel stupid. Have Rocketship not heard "we built this city"? Is it a tribute band? If not, hello!

And yay, Tim - I look forward to seeing you!

― Chris......., Sunday, 4 September 2005 21:55 (nineteen years ago) link

annie - current norwegian pop singer

rocketship - '90s californian indie band


I never know what to put on the posters since no-one talks to me

I just put on two or three things I know that winchester people like and fill the rest in myself. I think my choices very rarely get played but I don't mind since I very rarely go!

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 4 September 2005 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Glasgow stunned me today, at times, with it's beauty and youth and adventure, on a perfect summer day. I almost wished I had had someone to share it with, but also I was glad to be alone and observing. Trusting in prudence.

Goodnight, Glasgow. I still love you.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 4 September 2005 22:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Dear Prudence.

― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 5 September 2005 03:00 (nineteen years ago) link

i tried glasgow for two years and apart from its roaming aggressive 10 year olds, it was very good to me.

hello to people i know, people i don't know, and people i might know but have tricky coded names!

― Kate B (kate b), Monday, 5 September 2005 07:18 (nineteen years ago) link

hi kate

: )

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 5 September 2005 09:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Hello Kate!

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 5 September 2005 10:45 (nineteen years ago) link

kate!!!!
*bone crushing hug*
glasgow misses you terribly!

― dahlin (dahlin), Monday, 5 September 2005 10:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Hi Kate! Hi Chrys!

RJG, I think that is the best poster yet. I love the way the bling fits the text.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 5 September 2005 10:49 (nineteen years ago) link

ta

: )

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 5 September 2005 11:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Hi Lucy! Hi Kate! Thanks for the top tips RJG, I have registered and managed to open this page in record fast time!

I think the poster is nice too, well done!

― Chrys Lynyrd (chrys), Monday, 5 September 2005 12:45 (nineteen years ago) link

i like the poster/flyer a lot. i'm particularly impressed by the attention to detail with "abba".

i also like the sound of the club, and if i'm back from perth in time next saturday, i shall try to attend.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 5 September 2005 13:06 (nineteen years ago) link

nice poster : )

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 5 September 2005 13:13 (nineteen years ago) link

I shall, maybe, be in attendance. I too like the poster, but I feel like I'd just be copying everyone else by saying so. So I won't.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 5 September 2005 15:57 (nineteen years ago) link

: )

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 5 September 2005 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link

I'll have hers: i like the poster.

― stet (stet), Monday, 5 September 2005 16:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Everyone: shut up about the poster.

Nice poster.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 5 September 2005 16:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I might steal one

― cozen (johnson), Monday, 5 September 2005 17:22 (nineteen years ago) link

i like that poster.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 5 September 2005 17:24 (nineteen years ago) link

RJG is a diamond geezer

― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 5 September 2005 17:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Diamond Dick.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 5 September 2005 18:00 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.the-forum.com/books/images/dick592.jpg

RJG, yesterday.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 5 September 2005 19:10 (nineteen years ago) link

The Yellow Peril!

Lynyrd! B*****!! So much Glasgow love! We just won anotehr £25 at the pub quiz!

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 5 September 2005 21:33 (nineteen years ago) link

not anotehr £25

we won £10, last time, but OK!!


that comic does look great but nothing like any of the close shaves I've experienced, in my time

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 5 September 2005 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link

hello glasgow!

i have a whole day of work ahead of me, don't go to bed!

what good things have happened to glasgow in the last year?

― Kate B (kate b), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 00:00 (nineteen years ago) link

We just won anotehr £25 at the pub quiz!

I'm sure there are other things

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 00:07 (nineteen years ago) link

that'll do, RJG :)

new in melbourne: my sister has stayed home from school today to finish a 5000 word story for her english class, which has to be written in the style of a mills & boon novel. the class is supposed to be demonstrating writing clichés that should normally be avoided and yet it's the longest essay (x 5) they've ever been assigned. i think the teacher has plagiarism in her sights, otherwise it doesn't make sense. my only memory of this teacher is that she was allergic to solvents and would run out of the classroom whenever anyone brandished a wite-out.

― Kate B (kate b), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 00:32 (nineteen years ago) link

I think of plagiarism as kind of a cliché

I am going to spain, on thurs, with cathy, until mon, to help(?) her look for a flat (she is going there, to live, for ten months, as part of her course, and we were there, already, at the end of july or so, to see what it was like, and it was nice)

then I am going to apply for some jobs

I wrote a bit of a C.V., today

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 00:39 (nineteen years ago) link

very exciting news about spain!

i'm going to mount baw baw with my dad on the weekend. glasgow taught me to find humour in the name of the place.

― Kate B (kate b), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 01:00 (nineteen years ago) link

poor old baw baw

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 01:08 (nineteen years ago) link

glasgow is beautiful this morning

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 06:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Lucky old baw baw.

OK, a furtehr £25.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 10:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I am going to Spain, on Saturday. But not Leon.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 10:52 (nineteen years ago) link

It is a good poster, yes. But you left off "Tim H".

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 10:53 (nineteen years ago) link

i kinda miss university.

― jeffrey (johnson), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 11:00 (nineteen years ago) link

me too


where are you off to, PJ? barcelona?

thanks, about the poster. I will put tim H on the next ten

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 11:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Good. Then he will have to go to all of them.

I am going to San Sebastian. Well, near there. Renteria. My mother-in-law's. If we take a shine to it, we may stay.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 11:11 (nineteen years ago) link

there's a job going in the listings section of the metro, yo
(interested, stew? i thought of you)

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 11:22 (nineteen years ago) link

ah, we are flying into the ryanair bilbao-santander airport and staying in blibao, on thurs night, and, then, to leon, until monday, and home!

crosspost

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 11:23 (nineteen years ago) link

We are flying to Bilbao-Bilbao. I don't know about Bilbao-Santander.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 11:26 (nineteen years ago) link

it is probably in santander

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 11:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Bilbao is increíble. I recommend you try Antxokia more when you're there. Bilbao airport is in Bilbao. Santander is quite a bit away. Further than Prestwick even.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:32 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm reading things

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I heard something about you

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Bilbao airport is in Sondika.

Beat that for smarypantsness.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link

I heard something about me

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:59 (nineteen years ago) link

glasgow has been twinned with turin, rostov-on-don, dalian, havana and nuremberg

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 15:00 (nineteen years ago) link

I was told that Rostov-on-Don was the serial killer capital of the world a few years ago. It may since have been overtaken by somewhere else.

Bilbao airport is in Sondika.

Beat that for smarypantsness.

Ez.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 15:02 (nineteen years ago) link

there's a job going in the listings section of the metro, yo

I need a job since my redundancy is getting ever more imminent. Does one need experience for this sort of thing? Or even some sort of clue as to what is going on in Glasgow these days? I am a failed student journalist, so am obviously well equipped to write about shit that goes on in Glasgow pubs.

Today, I saw Dahlin's name in a byline in the Metro. I tried, and failed, to impress my kiddies at work by going "that's a friend of mine". Philistines. If I wasn't me, and I knew a top ace reporting journo type, I'd be impressed. Maybe.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:16 (nineteen years ago) link

ha! top ace reporting journo type... i spent the day making cinema listings fit on one page. grrr...
no clue how that story got my name on it. and it had mistakes in it too! embarassing. :(
considering the blondes who currently do the job, i doubt it requires much specific experience... there's an ad in today's paper. and there will be another one in thursdays

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Pat Lally is running for the Cathcart seat. Glasgow is safe for us all now.

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:13 (nineteen years ago) link

We once went to the fireworks in Glasgow and they appeared to be burning an effigy of Pat Lally atop the bonfire. That was fun.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:45 (nineteen years ago) link

i know this is a fun thread but...

i take it you guys heard about the sickening (and baffling) attack on Gibson street on monday morning. If any of you live round that area, be careful.

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/46497.html

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 01:08 (nineteen years ago) link

: (

: (

I hadn't heard anything about that

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 01:11 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah absolutely crazy

: /

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 06:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Ugh.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 07:05 (nineteen years ago) link

What a terrible thing to happen.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 09:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Yick.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 09:58 (nineteen years ago) link

BLAG:
does anyone have a spare ethernet DSL modem going?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 12:18 (nineteen years ago) link

ethernet?

we have an ADSL one that isn't in use

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 12:22 (nineteen years ago) link

is it USB?

I think they're normall USB or ethernet, how they connect to the computer

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 12:24 (nineteen years ago) link

I have a USB modem but it crashes my computer

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 12:25 (nineteen years ago) link

oh

it is probably USB

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 12:30 (nineteen years ago) link

I'll try my USB one first

ta

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 12:33 (nineteen years ago) link

FAP:
Al & I will be eating first and then heading up to King Tut's around 6pm tomorrow evening. He has Lost goodies for those who requested copies.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 12:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Let's all congratulate Ailsa on her new job!
Stacey, I saw your better half walking to school today!
See you tomorrow!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 12:53 (nineteen years ago) link

top ace reporting journo type

pah. fuck 'em. top ace sub-editing journo types pwn them.

see youse tomorrow, probably about 8pm-ish.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 13:00 (nineteen years ago) link

I saw Germaine Greer today in Leamington Spa! I don't miss Glasgow anymore.

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 17:37 (nineteen years ago) link

aww but glasgow still misses you!
what is this new ailsa job???
as for tomorrow.. i might head there straight after work at 6pm too! then later i must pop out to retrieve an american girl from the train station. i may - or may not - return with her in tow. it depends how well behaved you all are.

― dahlin (dahlin), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:01 (nineteen years ago) link

I'll be there between 7-8pm. Should be able to muster some emergency funds before getting paid on Friday. Thought I was ok, but then the bloody phone bill came through. Grrr.

― Stew (stew s), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 20:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Yay new job!

I now have the same sort of job I had before, but with more money and less chance of getting made redundant (hopefully!). Start soon as I get out of my old job. I shall be in pub once I've come home, had my tea and recovered from teh hangover of death brought on by hearing about new job and toasting Kenny Miller.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 8 September 2005 06:18 (nineteen years ago) link

top stuff, ailsa: hurrah!

irritatingly, there's now a 50% chance i won't be able to make it tonight (tedious, not worth explaining here). i should know for sure later today. assuming i don't, i would suggest the usual replacement of dragging some bearded, ranting tramp off the street and sticking him in my place.

like i say: i should know for sure later on.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 8 September 2005 08:25 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm going home to ditch the car and have some healthy dinner first, so I should be there around eight.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 8 September 2005 08:28 (nineteen years ago) link

I might go to the movies first.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 8 September 2005 11:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Although

Claim ref 7883972 - Claimant slipped on wet floor/back injury.
Claim ref 7887262 - Claiment walking into cinema when automatic doors opened and trapped her foot/cuts & bruising left foot.
Claim ref 7887264 - Child slipped on wet fllor in toilets/brusing to head.
Claim ref 7889556 - Claimant tripped on fallen wet floor sign/injury to right arm & shoulder.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 8 September 2005 11:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Jesus, I should check these things over sometimes.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 8 September 2005 11:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Is that your job, Ally? Or have you been random googling?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 8 September 2005 11:46 (nineteen years ago) link

The first one.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 8 September 2005 11:46 (nineteen years ago) link

That last one's brilliant, tripping over a hazard warning :-)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Is number 2 a drunken duck-billed platypus?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Perhaps just over-eager.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:18 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm at the daylight end of a 24-hour shift. Attendance tonight may be affected.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:23 (nineteen years ago) link

I've got herpes, so I can't come out.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:55 (nineteen years ago) link

roll call

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:59 (nineteen years ago) link

I might come over for a couple after work

where and when?

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Downstairs in King Tut's. Early arrivals at 6, stragglers to follow.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:06 (nineteen years ago) link

I'd like one of these for glasgow

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 8 September 2005 14:13 (nineteen years ago) link

I've already seen a few ipods in Glasgow.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Thursday, 8 September 2005 15:02 (nineteen years ago) link

reet, tonight: i should be able to hoy down for 9.30 or so. i'm on a not-drinking tip at the moment anyway (no, really, i am - honest), so i'll bring the CAR. woo.

and my BEARD.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 8 September 2005 15:28 (nineteen years ago) link

i shld be down about 10.30, depending

― stet (stet), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:06 (nineteen years ago) link

on whether you can walk after i punch you the bolls.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:15 (nineteen years ago) link

you'll need stepladders

― stet (stet), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:19 (nineteen years ago) link

what, have they not dropped yet?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:55 (nineteen years ago) link

no. post-puberty I'm going to be a fearsom beast

― stet (stet), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Gents, gents, gents!

Bedtime now. Goodnight everyone.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Thursday, 8 September 2005 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link

christ, you made good time getting back! i'm just in the door. (mind, it would have been nice if the council had told me the bloody M8 on-ramp was shut.)

top night. exceptionally good to see everyone. al: the photos. you know what i mean :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 8 September 2005 22:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Typing this, I've just realised my flies are down. I'm embarrassed, even though there's no one here. Cheers, Glasgow.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 8 September 2005 23:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Glasgow, I love you. Let's go curling!

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 8 September 2005 23:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Scotstvo was in the mr ailsa cab (via the Gardener Street hillstop horror!) hence home early.

Thanks for the rendition of "Where Do You Go To My Lovely", guys. That ended the night in top form.

You all owe me beer for the rest of all time due to ROUND OF HORROR!!! In case I never mentioned it at the time.

Hahahaha, scotstvo has a driving lesson tomorrow. hahahahhaa.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 8 September 2005 23:13 (nineteen years ago) link

(also, we are posting to ILX as soon as we get home! mentalists.)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 8 September 2005 23:15 (nineteen years ago) link

yes, but i'm sober. i have an excuse.

actually, no. that makes me worst of all. christ.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 8 September 2005 23:34 (nineteen years ago) link

i want a tuts' pint!

hope spanish flat-hunting is going well for cathy.

dahlin, i need your address again - i have something to send you!

also, is ally wearing multiple trousers or does 'fly' get pluralised in scotland? i hope it's the former.

― Kate B (kate b), Friday, 9 September 2005 00:49 (nineteen years ago) link

I am wearing trousers made of a spider's web.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 9 September 2005 07:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Woo! 2 hangovers in a row and now it's the weekend!

Nice to see you all again. Good night apart from from my (completely non alcohol related) attempts to crush dahlin.

Duds are classic! This candy is of no nutritional value whatsoever and has 3% less fat than an old chip pan.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 9 September 2005 07:50 (nineteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v384/lucyald/FAP10.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v384/lucyald/FAP9.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v384/lucyald/FAP8.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v384/lucyald/FAP7.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v384/lucyald/FAP6.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v384/lucyald/FAP5.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v384/lucyald/FAP4.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v384/lucyald/FAP3.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v384/lucyald/FAP2.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v384/lucyald/FAP1.jpg

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 9 September 2005 08:16 (nineteen years ago) link

cool! it was almost worth being blinded several times for those.

why do i always have to flip the bird at cameras?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 9 September 2005 08:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Jeez, we're a handsome bunch of internetty types, aren't we?

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Friday, 9 September 2005 08:23 (nineteen years ago) link

I am still freaked out by that last photo.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 9 September 2005 08:26 (nineteen years ago) link

And Grimly, you look like a tramp.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 9 September 2005 08:27 (nineteen years ago) link

In that first photo, I mean. You look dead hard in the other one.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 9 September 2005 08:37 (nineteen years ago) link

scotstvo's smoking a torch

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 9 September 2005 08:41 (nineteen years ago) link

weirdos

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 9 September 2005 08:42 (nineteen years ago) link

in the first photo, i am wondering what's happened to my retinas.

i can't believe none of us took a photo of you, mädchen. that was an oversight. quick: zoom back to tut's and take one of yourself, to complete the set.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 9 September 2005 08:43 (nineteen years ago) link

I will be in Tut's tonight so I will do that if I remember (which I won't).

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Comparing notes: Paranoia inducing new-found fun!

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 9 September 2005 16:08 (nineteen years ago) link

I am still freaked out by that last photo.

I did point out to Ally C and Stet that they were the poster boys for the "we're just out of work and going for a pint" brigade. That's maybe not what's freaking you out.

Can we all NOT give money to Grimly since he's totally cheating on the moustache front?

Also, you have a photo of teh mister. bwahahaahahah. I am disturbed by that photo of me and aldo where I look menaced and scared. I don't even REMEMBER that.

I liked the automatic sanny bin. Flashing blue lights!! (note to boys: YOU WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND, IT'S A GIRL THING)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Also, you never took a photo of the RAWK \m/ dude. He was great. Onimo, I've forgotten whatever joke it was that you told that made everyone pish themselves. The Nakamura song, the Du Wei shirts joke and the Linford Christie nonsense have been entertaining me all day.

For posterity:

"what do you call a calf wearing a No 7 football shirt and touting an AK-47?"

"A right-wing military coo".

*cue last orders cymbal thingie*

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 September 2005 18:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, I just remembered Christine the random and confused interloper talking to Scotstvo...

"You seem nice but when smile you scare me. You look like a used car salesman."

Is Glasgow trying the Winchester more tomorrow? I am poor (yeah, yeah, round of horror, blah blah) but it would be good.

Also, eating out and curling. And Bristolian cider-fest. Let's do it.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 September 2005 20:28 (nineteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v319/deadcityradio/Untitled-1.jpg

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Friday, 9 September 2005 21:26 (nineteen years ago) link

I remembered Onimo's joke. It was about Norman Tebbit and it wasn't really that funny, except in the context of all that had gone before it.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 10 September 2005 08:53 (nineteen years ago) link

¡buenas fotos glasgow!

I have found a flat and I am about to pay a deposit. It is a lot skankier than I would have wished, but I am running out of options. Actually, it is a bit of a hovel. Oh well. It is only €120 a month.

― Cathy (Cathy), Saturday, 10 September 2005 12:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Send me your address, Cathy!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Saturday, 10 September 2005 12:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Thanks Glasgow for a great night out again.

I have absolutely no idea what I am doing in that photo with ailsa, it looks possibly like Lenny Hanery's impression of David Bellamy (which I don't recall doing).

Simon, are you talking about the Jim Moir photos?

Although I am implicated in the Peter Sarstedt story the tape wasn't in my car now, was it...

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Saturday, 10 September 2005 12:48 (nineteen years ago) link

I stood one foot in front of stacey today and she didn't seem to notice

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 10 September 2005 15:20 (nineteen years ago) link

It's not my car. It's Neil's car. (OK, it was my tape though).

I have decided to stop referring to Neil as the mister now, as he's getting a bit pissed off with people calling him Mr Ailsa in real life. Let's see if he gets more pissed off when he realises I talk about him and mention his REAL name.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 10 September 2005 16:28 (nineteen years ago) link

did you? damn. scary. you shoulda thrown your whole body in as well, then maybe i would have. i'm no good with feet
lucy and nick.. thank your lucky stars you didn't come out with us post stars... oh. my. god.
tales at winchester for all who care to hear.
and thanks for putting up with the interloper.

― dahlin (dahlin), Saturday, 10 September 2005 17:02 (nineteen years ago) link

in fopp, union street

I made sure I looked creepy as all hell

you looked oblivious

then I creeped away

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 10 September 2005 17:06 (nineteen years ago) link

hmmmm.. ooook
btw aldo/alan: thanks so much! i owe you a nice plate of cookies or something! i should have given YOU the milk duds.

― dahlin (dahlin), Saturday, 10 September 2005 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link

I had a good time after Stars!

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 10 September 2005 18:27 (nineteen years ago) link

i should have given YOU the milk duds
sobs quietly through gummed-up teeth.

― stet (stet), Saturday, 10 September 2005 18:28 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm glad

― dahlin (dahlin), Sunday, 11 September 2005 00:48 (nineteen years ago) link

I forgot to come out last night. I was sitting in the pub in Paisley thinking that I should have been doing something else. Then I remembered, but I couldn't be arsed. Sorry Glasgow, don't take in personally.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 11 September 2005 08:36 (nineteen years ago) link

"it"

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 11 September 2005 08:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Simon, are you talking about the Jim Moir photos?

you knows it.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 11 September 2005 11:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Thanks!

Tried Glasgow,

― Mooro (Mooro), Sunday, 11 September 2005 20:12 (nineteen years ago) link

am glad to see you made it home alive. Those two comedy drunk funsters didn't grab the wheel or cover the car in sick, then?

― stet (stet), Sunday, 11 September 2005 20:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Mooro, I didn't know you were trying Glasgow - no-one tells me anything these days :(

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 11 September 2005 21:25 (nineteen years ago) link

No wheel grabbing, no honking, thank goodness. No sleep (or not much) either, so the second half of the 880 miles was a little trying!

The East coast road is so slow, I must remember not to go home from Edinburgh again.

Try Edinburgh less - although thanks very much to Keith for his hospitality!

― Mooro (Mooro), Sunday, 11 September 2005 21:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Good to see you last night El Mooro - also really good to see "Slim Boy" Tim H. Hopefully when we get some money together we will be trying London more and catch up with you lot!

― Chrys Lynyrd (chrys), Sunday, 11 September 2005 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Now I *am* pissed off - Mooro, Tim H and Mistopher Chris in the same place. It's like 1999 all over again.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 11 September 2005 21:55 (nineteen years ago) link

(sorry, I appear to have become the sort of person I was slagging off in the pub the other night "oh woe is me, my life is so rubbish and everyone hates me". Just ignore me.)

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 11 September 2005 21:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Nice photos, heh!
Been trying Aberdeen this weekend so haven't had a chance to say how much I enjoyed the FAP.
I was a bit tired at work the next day, but hey, I ain't working there any more cos I got dismissed in a pretty outrageous manner.
Cos the place was a shambles (don't ever get a mortgage from the Clydesdale) I was stuck in a corner. Some fellow office minion said it was a shame I was there. I replied that it was alright cos I could get away with doing nothing. A bit of banter which was overheard by the humourless boss. They didn't say anything during the day. I only discovered that they had taken this seriously when the agency phoned me up after work. They also said I had done enough work, which is baws. Only reason I didn't have enough work was cos the incompetent manager kept passing me on to the other temps. What a shambles, but the agency aren't holding it against me. Oh well, it means I can sit up an watch Smoke tomorrow night.

― Stew (stew s), Sunday, 11 September 2005 22:22 (nineteen years ago) link

were you working at the clydesdale bank?

40 st. vincent place?

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 12 September 2005 05:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Nah, their office out at Clydebank. Quite glad I'm no longer there, it was pretty dull. Shows how few rights temps have. No way a permanent member of staff could be dismissed like that.
No matter - I'm going to be doing some helpline thing for adult illiteracy instead. And then I'll get the Metro job (positive thinking!)

― Stew (stew s), Monday, 12 September 2005 09:09 (nineteen years ago) link

: )

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 12 September 2005 09:12 (nineteen years ago) link

optimo was good.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:51 (nineteen years ago) link

I saw stirmonster in booksetc., at stansted, today

he didn't see me!!!

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 12 September 2005 21:55 (nineteen years ago) link

I thought he was talking about Keith, at first.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 12 September 2005 23:21 (nineteen years ago) link

I didn't realise he was talking about Keith, you see.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 12 September 2005 23:21 (nineteen years ago) link

haha, he was going to ibiza to play with Juliet Lewis and the licks! (not his choice i'd guess!)

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 12 September 2005 23:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Jim Moir evidence:

http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/ContentResources/171.$plit/C_17_Articles_152734_BodyWeb_Detail_0_Image.jpg

But which of the two of us is it?

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 15 September 2005 10:59 (nineteen years ago) link

la lanterna, hope st.

nice food, charismatic service

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Charismatic?

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:19 (nineteen years ago) link

One of the waitresses looks like JCM.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:30 (nineteen years ago) link

"you gone, she gone, everybody gone! gone gone gone gone."

"pepper pepper pepper pepper?"

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:36 (nineteen years ago) link

I hate that kind of act.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:37 (nineteen years ago) link

eh?
i was off sick today and had a full fledged lost marathon
THANK YOU ALDO!
*sneeze*

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 15 September 2005 19:15 (nineteen years ago) link

It's a series that really should be watched 5+ episodes at a time.

I AM NOT SURE I WILL SUSTAIN THIS THROUGH SERIES 2.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 15 September 2005 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Way to break a lunch date, sicko.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 15 September 2005 21:57 (nineteen years ago) link

We are all Lost out round Renfrew way. Every plan I try to make is countered with "but we could stay in and watch Lost instead..."

(we are just back from the casino where we failed to win a car)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 15 September 2005 23:19 (nineteen years ago) link

But which of the two of us is it?

given that it's off the manchester evening news's website, i'm going for jim.

but, you know, i'm ready to be disabused of that notion ...

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 16 September 2005 08:54 (nineteen years ago) link

I went to Glasgow. I've almost recovered.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 16 September 2005 08:57 (nineteen years ago) link

I went to bilbao. I've almost dried off.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 16 September 2005 09:15 (nineteen years ago) link

RJG you should have said hello. i had a 5 hour wait there and was going nuts with boredom. the only good thing about stansted is ponti's cafe.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Friday, 16 September 2005 10:26 (nineteen years ago) link

cathy had just bought her book, when I saw you, and she had to go and catch her train and I had to go through to my gate and I imagined I may well see you there until I remembered that the fire engines had been playing the night before

should have said hello, really, though

hope you had fun in ibiza!

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 16 September 2005 11:33 (nineteen years ago) link

ibiza was ok. i probably wouldn't try it more if i wasn't going for work. having had almost no sleep, i would probably only have babbled incoherently had you said hello anyway.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Friday, 16 September 2005 11:43 (nineteen years ago) link

That is the best bookshop ever.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 16 September 2005 13:30 (nineteen years ago) link

finished lost today. and ARGH! bring me season two NOW!
i then napped and dreampt lost dreams. and then i woke up and thought a giant spider was swinging down at me.
i think i need a hot toddy.

― dahlin (dahlin), Friday, 16 September 2005 18:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Hey Dahlin. Are Metro still going through those applications?

― Stew (stew s), Friday, 16 September 2005 19:02 (nineteen years ago) link

yup. she was sifting through them today. a million overqualified journalism grads, i was told. she said your cv was impressive. dunno if that's a good or a bad thing! think she's handing the interview decision over to wanker chris.

― dahlin (dahlin), Friday, 16 September 2005 20:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Better to be overqualified that underqualified I suppose. That said, I tend to find I'm overqualified for some jobs and slightly underqualified for others. What's a boy to do? Still, fingers crossed.
My new helpline job is ok though. We're allowed to read between calls, so I ploughed through most of Hemingway's Fiesta today. Not one of his best, but entertaining in a ridiculously macho way. "She had curves like a prize yacht" etc...

― Stew (stew s), Friday, 16 September 2005 20:21 (nineteen years ago) link

what do Glasgow, Galway and Norway have in common?

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 22:59 (nineteen years ago) link

there's an a&w in each?

ours is on renfield street

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 23:10 (nineteen years ago) link

no.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 23:13 (nineteen years ago) link

it's not just something they have in common but something they share with no other places on the planet.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 23:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Enlighten us, Colin.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 23:28 (nineteen years ago) link

one of them is a country, too

I will be interested to hear the answer

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 23:31 (nineteen years ago) link

glaswegian
galwegian
norwegian

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 23:32 (nineteen years ago) link

are the only -wegians.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 23:32 (nineteen years ago) link

ahhhhhhh

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 23:33 (nineteen years ago) link

INTERESTING.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 23:37 (nineteen years ago) link

i stole that tidbit from Robbie Lumsden so it must be true.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 23:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Those from Tasmania are Taswegians.

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 02:49 (nineteen years ago) link

but I can't think of any more.

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 02:50 (nineteen years ago) link

apparently that's the informal and "tasmanian" is correct.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 09:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Etymology

Royal Australian Navy about 1930. A blend of Tasmanian and Glaswegian

Proper Noun
Taswegian

A Tasmanian seaman
(Australian, jocular) An inhabitant of Tasmania, often used in a derogatory sense

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 09:36 (nineteen years ago) link

An owl hooted in the vacuum of understanding.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 12:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Roll call. Who in this bitch actually reads this thread?

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 21:34 (nineteen years ago) link

read is a strong word

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 21:35 (nineteen years ago) link

We were discussing, in the pub, whether anyone who isn't us lot in Glasgow, actually reads this shit.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 21:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Me

― KeefW (kmw), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 21:38 (nineteen years ago) link

And why are you back from the pub so early?

― KeefW (kmw), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 21:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Because I was in Glasgow. We aren't as sophisticated as you posh East Coast types... (also you don't count as "not one of us lot in Glasgow" because you, sort of, are)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 21:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes I suppose so. My work colleague continually gives people grief for being weegies. This happens a lot at work. The real joke is in the fact that every last man jack of us is actually from Glasgow.

A work meeting once went:

Person A: Don't speak to him, he's a weegie
Person B: I'm from Glasgow
Me: Me too
Person B: Person A, aren't you from Glasgow?
Person A: No way! I'm from Bellshill.

― KeefW (kmw), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Was it Norman Blake?

(you are totally ONE OF US)

I was in the pub with Onimo tonight, we had last orders called at 10.30. If I knew how to make that in big letters to show my surprise, I would. You should all Try Renfrewshire More. (land of alkies, innit?)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Jesus wept. You should try here more. The pub round the corner from me in Polwarth used to call last orders at 10:30 and it was the earliest closer in the city.

― KeefW (kmw), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 21:49 (nineteen years ago) link

This pub was in Glasgow. I defied last orders caller until he looked too scary (i.e. I couldn't be arsed drinking any more). I walked to the station, got a train, got back to Paisley, if I hadn't gone home I could have gone to the pub and have been drinking a pint still (and we left the pub an hour ago). Renfrewshire ROOLZ...

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Is Renfrewshire not a bit... Banjoey?

― KeefW (kmw), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 21:55 (nineteen years ago) link

BUT OUR PUBS STAY OPEN PAST ELEVEN!!!

(also, YOU LIVE IN EDINBURGH!!! Isn't that a bit, erm, posh?)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 21:56 (nineteen years ago) link

erm, you're posh = lamest insult ever

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 21:58 (nineteen years ago) link

I wasn't having a go! My Aunt May lived in Paisley. So did Gerry Rafferty. I've often wondered what it is makes Edinburgh posh. It might just come down to there being (perhaps) less outdoor toilets twenty five years ago, I think.

― KeefW (kmw), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 22:00 (nineteen years ago) link

I just misread that as "it might just come down to me being there". Which would have been my explanation.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 22:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I read this shit, and may not be considered one of you lot in Glasgow.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 22 September 2005 08:30 (nineteen years ago) link

I read this also, and I would not like to be considered one of you lot in Glasgow because I'm not. One of you lot, in Glasgow, that I'd be pleased about.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 22 September 2005 08:38 (nineteen years ago) link

i read this shit. i'm not sure if i count as 'one of us lot' or not. especially seeing as i only started reading after i'd left glasgow.

― michael grant (michael digby grant), Thursday, 22 September 2005 09:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I read this, and from next week I'll be back to commuting to Glasgow four days a week, but I still don't think I count as 'one of us lot'! PS get some decent weather, coming out of the tube was like walking into a cold sauna this morning.

― alext (alext), Thursday, 22 September 2005 09:29 (nineteen years ago) link

The trick is to be naked and whipped with twigs.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 22 September 2005 09:37 (nineteen years ago) link

he does that every morning anyway.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 22 September 2005 09:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Cozen, should I encourage D Betts onto ILX?

D Betts fanclub FAP!

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 22 September 2005 11:21 (nineteen years ago) link

no

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 22 September 2005 11:23 (nineteen years ago) link

ok

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 22 September 2005 11:37 (nineteen years ago) link

I'd forgotten about him. Yes please.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 22 September 2005 12:07 (nineteen years ago) link

who?
hello

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 22 September 2005 17:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Remember we were talking about all going out for a meal together, Glasgow people? We should do this. I propose next Saturday, since it's just after payday. And not a school night. And I'm not doing anything except celebrating the day after my last day at work. So, let's eat, Glasgow.

Someone suggest a restaurant because I never go out in Glasgow anymore.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 22 September 2005 18:11 (nineteen years ago) link

There's alext! I was talking about him today.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 22 September 2005 18:16 (nineteen years ago) link

RJG, sorry about that, my computer just blew up. It's a bit flaky at the moment. On the laptop now, but need to sort out instant messaging!

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 22 September 2005 18:25 (nineteen years ago) link

I may be able to make next Saturday, but it seems a little doubtful. Still, it is a good idea whether I can or not.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 22 September 2005 18:28 (nineteen years ago) link

: )

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 22 September 2005 18:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Next week I am going to a wedding on Monday, we are chucking a party at work on Thursday before me and the boss leave, then going out for a meal with my immediate colleagues, and on Friday we have a proper leaving do with all my other colleagues. So more booze and food will be just what I need by Saturday.

Doesn't have to be next Saturday, but people say if you want to go and recommend restaurants and we'll take it from there.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 22 September 2005 18:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Dunkin' Donuts

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 22 September 2005 18:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Next Friday, I am going to Dublin!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 22 September 2005 18:43 (nineteen years ago) link

night-time Madchen on ILE, hura hura.

― stet (stet), Thursday, 22 September 2005 18:45 (nineteen years ago) link

It would be totally awesome to get Dicky Betts on ilx. He could show Keef how to like play all his guitars & stuff.

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 22 September 2005 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Who's Dicky Betts?

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 22 September 2005 19:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Plays the guitar on the Top Gear theme tune (or at least their theme when they still used the original Allman Brothers version of the tune 'Jessica')

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 22 September 2005 19:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh right, yeah. I know it. I've got it actually. I like the photo on the sleeve of that record. Looks like me when I was a kid. Because it looks like a small kid.

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 22 September 2005 19:07 (nineteen years ago) link

I have heard the latest work by Betts is quite something. If somebody wanted to email it to me, I would be a happy bunny.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 22 September 2005 19:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Now I am in gainful employment I'd be up for a meal. How about the Cossachok for goulash and vodka? And it's very near Mono for further boozy fun...

― Stew (stew s), Thursday, 22 September 2005 21:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Hey, that sounds good!

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 22 September 2005 21:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Despite knowing where both venues are, I can do neither. (Although I am not 'of Glasgow' anyway)

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 22 September 2005 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Goulash is hardly good Russian fayre. However, the borshch and khachapuri are very good, as is the range of vodkas on sale. I'll check my shifts.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Thursday, 22 September 2005 22:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Mmmm, borschch. What's khachapuri?

― Stew (stew s), Thursday, 22 September 2005 22:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Ah, now I know. Georgian cheese bread...

http://filchyboy.typepad.com/filchyboy/2003/11/khachapuri.html

― Stew (stew s), Thursday, 22 September 2005 22:33 (nineteen years ago) link

And well worth it too. It seems I'm supposed to be working on Saturday, but I'm about due a weekend off, so I may try and wangle that.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Thursday, 22 September 2005 22:49 (nineteen years ago) link

I have £70 to last me until next Thursday and that must include some food shopping and some petrol! Don't go eating Russian this weekend, pleeeeease!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 23 September 2005 12:21 (nineteen years ago) link

http://zebro.everperfect.com/allman/images/cv-dbgsabd.jpg

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 23 September 2005 12:53 (nineteen years ago) link

i read this thread in the misguided hope that everyone will be talking abt the instal fest

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Friday, 23 September 2005 13:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Do you mean read or read?

I hate instal.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 23 September 2005 13:08 (nineteen years ago) link

hate is a strong word

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Friday, 23 September 2005 13:17 (nineteen years ago) link

I have £70 to last me until next Thursday and that must include some food shopping and some petrol! Don't go eating Russian this weekend, pleeeeease!

b-b-but it's next saturday, isn't it?

either way, i cannae make it (arran this weekend, rhodes next weekend. ooh, and skye last weekend. it's, er, "island-hopping". i think.)

i would, however, be up for stuffing my face with beetroot and vodka at some point in the future.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 23 September 2005 13:26 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't know about russian food

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 23 September 2005 13:26 (nineteen years ago) link

You could learn

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 23 September 2005 13:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Dublin next weekend. Ireland hopping.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 23 September 2005 13:31 (nineteen years ago) link

the theory, perhaps

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 23 September 2005 13:31 (nineteen years ago) link

I am moving to glasgow next weekend. Can someone summarise this entire thread for me. 'tis very long.

― hmmm (hmmm), Friday, 23 September 2005 13:35 (nineteen years ago) link

asshoppers need not apply

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 23 September 2005 13:37 (nineteen years ago) link

You are such a meanie.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 23 September 2005 13:38 (nineteen years ago) link

:' (

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 23 September 2005 13:38 (nineteen years ago) link

don't worry, hmmm, i ass-hopped my way in here and i think i got away with it.

see you at a FAP soon, then, i guess!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 23 September 2005 13:44 (nineteen years ago) link

a better summary would be "four pints of guinness, six bottles of lager, three pints of lager, a vodka and cranberry juice and a gin and orange for stet."

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 23 September 2005 13:45 (nineteen years ago) link

We went to a Russian restaurant in Exeter. OMG THE PORTION SIZES.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 23 September 2005 13:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Ordinary, Medium, Gigantic?

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 23 September 2005 13:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Gigantic. Starter at least as big as an average main course.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 23 September 2005 13:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I went to cineworld, on wednesday, to see howl's moving castle, and had a very small laugh at the fountain drinks cup sizes

children's (big), regular (huge), large (very gigantic)

maybe it's been longer, since I last went to the cinema, than I had thought

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 23 September 2005 13:51 (nineteen years ago) link

there was some talk of gin and orange?

― stet (stet), Friday, 23 September 2005 14:02 (nineteen years ago) link

is howl's moving castle good, rjg?

― stet (stet), Friday, 23 September 2005 14:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I liked it, a lot

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 23 September 2005 14:04 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't like cineworld because the popcorn cartons say salty on one side and sweet on the other and it's all confusing. Lords of Dogtown was pretty good.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 23 September 2005 14:07 (nineteen years ago) link

I asked ally out, to the cinema, last night, to see it, but he had "band practice"

I wish he'd bothered to make up a believable excuse

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 23 September 2005 14:10 (nineteen years ago) link

I might actually have that record, Tim!


Anyway, who or what is the current D Betts & what is the "latest work" of which Mädchen speaks, please?


I am sure that Doctor Cock need a lot of practice.

― Mooro (Mooro), Friday, 23 September 2005 14:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Band practice: the new hairwashing?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 23 September 2005 17:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Why doesn't porkypie post here any more? He was quite funny, back in March 2004.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 23 September 2005 17:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Reading old Ilx threads on a friend night: the new flower-pressing ;)

― stet (stet), Friday, 23 September 2005 18:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, "band practice" was Scotstvo's excuse for not coming to get very pissed watch Celtic with me and Onimo on Wednesday.

Vodka and beetroot night can be postponed for a week to accommodate Madchen and Grimly, if only for the comedy of seeing Grimly with beetroot stuck in his moustache. Also, we could scare welcome hmmmm accordingly.

Can someone in the know please advise what time .2. are playing at Mono tomorrow?

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 23 September 2005 18:15 (nineteen years ago) link

why do you hate instal, cathy?

besides the silly surrounding rhetoric

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 23 September 2005 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link

it goes a little bit like this

http://asame2.web.infoseek.co.jp/mariof184.png

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 23 September 2005 18:37 (nineteen years ago) link

if only for the comedy of seeing Grimly with beetroot stuck in his moustache

but it gets the chop at the end of the month! (i'd quite like to keep it, actually, but mrs fiendish will rip off my bolls.)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 23 September 2005 19:55 (nineteen years ago) link

bad music, terrible people, unbelievably wanky. I went to instal 03 and the bands were alternately so loud I was deafened or so quiet I could hear my own boredom. It was about the least fun I could imagine having.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 23 September 2005 20:00 (nineteen years ago) link

hello, I still read this thread, mainly as I love Glasgow but see it so rarely. I'd like to try it before Xmas, but I don't think I have the time (or rather, the available holiday now I am invading the low countries next weekend)

― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 23 September 2005 20:02 (nineteen years ago) link

bad music, terrible people, unbelievably wanky. I went to instal 03 and the bands were alternately so loud I was deafened or so quiet I could hear my own boredom. It was about the least fun I could imagine having.

-- Cathy (cathyleec...), September 23rd, 2005.

Adopts pompous, outraged David Keenan like tone:

Well, I guess you just didn't get it! ;)

Nah, fair enough. I went last year and heard some really interesting and powerful stuff like Steffan Basho Jungans and Richard Youngs, but there was an awful lot of boring noise and farting about. And the audience were so bloody po-faced, as if they didn't want to look "square" by laughing or yawning or just looking bored. The playful side of experimental music was sorely missing.
Le Weekend in Stirling is much better. More relaxed, more varied and more FUN! It also gives electronic music a look in, something Instal no longer does.

― Stew (stew s), Friday, 23 September 2005 20:48 (nineteen years ago) link

bad music, terrible people, unbelievably wanky

see that's how i'd describe national pop league or something.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 23 September 2005 21:15 (nineteen years ago) link

at any rate, what's the point of hating something that has a limited and targetted audience and comes round but once a year.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 23 September 2005 21:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Well, I don't hate it all year round. I guess I am not the target audience.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 23 September 2005 21:23 (nineteen years ago) link

bad music, terrible people, unbelievably wanky

see that's how i'd describe national pop league or something.

-- jed_ (colin_o_har...), September 23rd, 2005.

I've been to Pop League AND Instal. Both have their merits, both have their bad points. But at least you can dance at Pop League and it has prettier girls. :)

― Stew (stew s), Friday, 23 September 2005 21:41 (nineteen years ago) link

there were some hotties there when boredoms played :)

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 23 September 2005 21:48 (nineteen years ago) link

oh, glasgow

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 24 September 2005 02:30 (nineteen years ago) link

We are on at 6.30 tomorrow. We will be dreadful, I'm actually quite scared.

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 24 September 2005 03:21 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm not sure RJG is right.

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 24 September 2005 03:31 (nineteen years ago) link

GO EASY ON THE NOISE GUYS.
THEY MEAN WELL.

― , Saturday, 24 September 2005 03:37 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't mind a bit of Noise, it's just all the rhetoric surrounding it, the "subversive fallacy" as Simon Reynolds put it in Blissout.

― Stew (stew s), Saturday, 24 September 2005 06:13 (nineteen years ago) link

oh

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 24 September 2005 06:16 (nineteen years ago) link

the reynolds fallacy"

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Saturday, 24 September 2005 09:54 (nineteen years ago) link

exactly.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 24 September 2005 10:34 (nineteen years ago) link

what is up with all youse guys and your HOLIDAYS. bastards. instead, i work three weeks straight without a single day off :( which, incidentally, means no russian for me either that weekend. but i really want to go! and i worry that trying it in our numbers on a weekend is a bad idea as it seems TINY and we are LARGE.
noize boyz are from RHODE ISLAND! yeeeeeah!
madchen.... lords of dogtown??? er... WHY?
grimly.... 'tache update required! what was that site again?
i feel so goddamn out of the loop these days :( bah...

― dahlin (dahlin), Saturday, 24 September 2005 10:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Dahlin: for the cute long-haired louts. Also, I was under the impression that the Metro is only published five days a week ...

― Mädchen (Madchen), Saturday, 24 September 2005 12:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Madchen, have you seen Dogtown & Z-Boys? If not, I will loan you it.

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 24 September 2005 12:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes please, I would like to see it.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Saturday, 24 September 2005 14:22 (nineteen years ago) link

No weekend off for me, so Russian is out for me that day too. I cannae go the following Saturday either, as I'm going to the Scotland vs Belarus match that afternoon and expect to be unable to display adequate table manners in the evening.

Dot to Dot might be a goer tonight though.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Saturday, 24 September 2005 15:23 (nineteen years ago) link

I think they're on in an hour

I better think about leaving

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 24 September 2005 15:35 (nineteen years ago) link

The Reynolds fallacy? Ho ho, but that's not much of a counter argument.
I know Reynolds is anathema to noise fans cos he likes girly things like danceable rhythms but his argument is all the more relevent now. Rather than enjoy noise for its own sake, its rhetoricians have to peddle the same old line about how it challenges everything and totally freaks out the squares man. But today's noise artists are shocking no-one, they're preaching to the converted. That sort of thinking only flatters the artists and listeners and reinforces elitism.

― Stew (stew s), Saturday, 24 September 2005 15:43 (nineteen years ago) link

sounds about right

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 24 September 2005 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link

no it doesn't.

I know Reynolds is anathema to noise fans cos he likes girly things like danceable rhythms but his argument is all the more relevent now. Rather than enjoy noise for its own sake, its rhetoricians have to peddle the same old line about how it challenges everything and totally freaks out the squares man.

i don't hear any of these arguments from anyone. the people i know who like experimental music like it for its own sake, not because they think it's freaking out squares or anyone else apart from maybe the people who listen to the music (and often want to be freaked out by it). i feel like i am bombarded by noise music day after day and it often does my fuckin head in, it's just that that brand of noise is made by pussycat dolls or rachel stevens or franz ferdinand and is almost unavoidable. it's not all total shite but it often depressesor annoys me after the 20th listen. People who make experimental music are not under any illusions that it's permeating the mainstream or "freaking out" the general public. they are well aware of it's limited audience but thank god it's an audience that is fairly well catered for in Scotland. a great deal of the music is so quiet people would have a hard time hearing it even it it was playing.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 24 September 2005 16:23 (nineteen years ago) link

the last 5 things played on my itunes are

Oxtongue - Delight
Damien Marley - Welcome to Jamrock
Terry riley - Persian surgery dervishes
Coil - sex with sun ra
& Roisin Murphy - If We're in love

none of it extremely noisy but if people can find pockets to hear the music they want to (even if it's their own living room) then thats a good thing, after all. i'm not saying that anyone on this thread is saying otherwise (even cathy ;-) )


― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 24 September 2005 16:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Fair enough, I'm not saying the average experimental music fan thinks like that, but you do occasionally see such arguments in the Wire.
I love freaky music and am not arguing against its potency. It's just that I'd rather freak out to Sun Ra than Whitehouse.
Oh, and Rachel Stevens>>>>Wolf Eyes ;)

― Stew (stew s), Saturday, 24 September 2005 16:37 (nineteen years ago) link

i agree and wolf eyes (thankfully) easier to avoid!

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 24 September 2005 17:06 (nineteen years ago) link

I missed most of Dot to Dot due to being inadvertantly waylaid drinking Cosmopolitans in a gay bar.

Stet, were you there? As I was leaving, I saw someone who looked like you sitting at the bar but I couldn't be arsed going over to find out if it was or not. If it wasn't you, you have a doppelganger of sorts (I only had one contact lens in, so I may be very wrong).

Anyway, RJG, Alba, Dahlin, Stew were all present and correct, making it a mini-FAP in separate parts, I suppose.

But... Scotland v Belarus! I'd forgotten about that.

What about the Friday of that week?

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 24 September 2005 20:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Fine by me, I think.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Saturday, 24 September 2005 21:01 (nineteen years ago) link

sounds about right

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 24 September 2005 21:32 (nineteen years ago) link

I forgot to mention that the Stet-a-like was sitting down, so not immediately obviously a big tall lanky chap, hence confusion.

Z-list celeb count = Stephen Pastel, Gerry Love, Duglas T Stewart. There must have been more, but I was only there for about half an hour, minus one contact lens.

I keep getting Dot 2 Dot songs stuck in my head. This must be some sort of good. But not for me, haha (this morning it is "Dusty Cover").

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 25 September 2005 06:35 (nineteen years ago) link

i hardly count as being there, as i arrived late, and cranky, fled for food, and did not return. ah well.
now friday i could probably do!
and yes, the metro is only published five days a week, but i've taken on sports shifts at another paper too! crazy i know, but £142 for five hours (half-assed) work is nothing to be sniffed at. er... that's the wrong phrase innit? hmmmm....
anyway... back to work...

― dahlin (dahlin), Sunday, 25 September 2005 10:21 (nineteen years ago) link

OK, so Friday 7th October would appear to be some sort of concession. Can we get some idea of numbers so we can work out if Cossachok is a goer, or whether we have to choose somewhere else that can accommodate us?

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 25 September 2005 10:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Ooo, I wonder who my doppelganger is then. Sorry, it wasn't me, I was filling my face with nachos. Mmmm. More apols: Can't do the 7th either -- am working, curses.

Dahlin: Wot paper is this that you're volunteering to be sporty for??

― stet (stet), Sunday, 25 September 2005 14:00 (nineteen years ago) link

I am free on 7th Oct and would like a piece of Russian.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Sunday, 25 September 2005 14:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Me too, I think. But this place is very small.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 25 September 2005 16:16 (nineteen years ago) link

This is why I wanted to know about numbers. So we could decide on a venue. We could go somewhere else (suggestions?) if we have a larger number, and go to Cossachok some other time.

We talked about this before and decided it would be nice to make it a semi-regular occurrence, rather than just drinking --> falling over in a ruined heap. So perhaps little Russian place some other time, if there are too many people this time.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 25 September 2005 16:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I've got a wedding on the 7th. I'll drink some Russian vodka.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Sunday, 25 September 2005 17:18 (nineteen years ago) link

I'd like to come along, but I said I'd meet up with Cla1re T1mmins at Modern Lovers here that night.

Ooh those Russians!

― KeefW (kmw), Sunday, 25 September 2005 20:06 (nineteen years ago) link

oh i know cla1re t1mm1ns!

a wee bit.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 25 September 2005 20:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Everyone I meet knows Claire.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 25 September 2005 21:51 (nineteen years ago) link

i don't know claire

― dahlin (dahlin), Monday, 26 September 2005 08:36 (nineteen years ago) link

You should. She's very nice. Keef, tell her I said hi.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 26 September 2005 09:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Tell her from me too! (I know her)

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 26 September 2005 10:16 (nineteen years ago) link

it would be nice to make it a semi-regular occurrence, rather than just drinking --> falling over in a ruined heap

Better to eat some Russian first, and then do that? Cossachok is rather small, but I don't know that it's ever particularly busy either. If the average FAP attendance is, say, 10 then perhaps a table should be booked for slightly over that number? And the reservation made under the name 'Ilks' to hide any possible embarassment. Ho!

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Monday, 26 September 2005 21:20 (nineteen years ago) link

ooh. count me in - provisionally - for anything that might be happening on the 7th. (i'm pissing off on holiday tomorrow and i'm not back till the 5th.)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 07:10 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm in

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 07:14 (nineteen years ago) link

me too
ps: i do believe today is another interesting metro day

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 08:31 (nineteen years ago) link

More Madchen?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 08:32 (nineteen years ago) link

nah, something about some tit with a moustache.

and an exciting page-three lead by some work-experiencer :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 08:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, I have just been looking at the tit.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 08:43 (nineteen years ago) link

boys like the tits

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 09:26 (nineteen years ago) link

I await my suggestions.

Great golf article! (There really is NO NEWS, is there?).

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 11:57 (nineteen years ago) link

good news

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 12:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Anyone got a scanner?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 12:00 (nineteen years ago) link

I do, but I don't have a copy of the Metro.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 12:04 (nineteen years ago) link

I

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 12:05 (nineteen years ago) link

oh

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 12:05 (nineteen years ago) link

you

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 12:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Eh!

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 12:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Right, food roll-call so far.

Me
Madchen
Ally C
RJG
Cozen
Dahlin
Stew (can't see a yes or no, but it was his idea)
Scotstvo
Grimly

Will other non-ILX types (e.g. Mr Dahlin) be joining us, or can I just leave Neil at home and we'll just go ourselves?

http://www.cossachok.com/

Mmmmmmmm...........

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 12:32 (nineteen years ago) link

I never agreed to anything, ever

some things happened, though

what is happening, now?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 13:23 (nineteen years ago) link

What about the Friday of that week?

-- ailsa (ailsa_watson7...), September 24th, 2005 10:58 PM. (ailsa) (later)

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

sounds about right
-- RJG (RJ...), September 24th, 2005 11:32 PM. (RJG) (later)

That sounded like agreeing to me (though, possibly not). Cossachok, round the corner from the 13th Note, next Friday, to eat Russian food and drink vodka.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 13:35 (nineteen years ago) link

I think I was talking about something else

next friday? not this friday?

I don't know what I am doing

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 13:38 (nineteen years ago) link

No, next Friday. The 7th. Not this Friday as this Friday is payday, last day of work evah (till I start my new job on Monday) and possibly NPL if I can still stand after going to the pub for three nights in a row with my colleagues.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 13:39 (nineteen years ago) link

ally, if you read this:

phone me, please

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 14:16 (nineteen years ago) link

OK.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link

thanks

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 15:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Also, I like what Ailsa has done. Ridiculous, but sweet.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 15:20 (nineteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/RJG/oct2005.jpg

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 15:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Also, I like what Ailsa has done. Ridiculous, but sweet.

What *are* you talking about?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 15:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Which Winchester DJ likes Robert Palmer?

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 15:34 (nineteen years ago) link

zx spectrum fontage on the flyer, yo!

well, almost.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 15:41 (nineteen years ago) link

You should update your website, sometime.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 15:41 (nineteen years ago) link

I should teach Ally how to update the website properly, sometime.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 16:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Somebody should thoroughly redesign the website, sometime.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 16:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Or else just stop advertising it on the flyers.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 16:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes. Maybe I'll do it tonight!

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 17:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Not until you tell me why I am ridiculous but sweet.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 17:10 (nineteen years ago) link

there's another dapper young man lurking in cowcaddens with a crazy 'tache apparently. he wrote to me today. ha!

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 21:19 (nineteen years ago) link

It still hasn't got Tim H on it, the flyer. I shouldn't have got my hopes up.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 07:02 (nineteen years ago) link

I saw that crazy tache thing in the letters page yesterday, appropriately enough while my bus was passing through Cowcaddens. A cursory look around revealed that Mr G. Fiendish was not in the area.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 10:36 (nineteen years ago) link

I saw it today. you should have actually put a picture of GF in there instead.

Ally C, I have just suggested on the Shimura Curves thread that they should come and play in Glasgow. Make them come and play at the Winchester, please.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 16:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Yep, 7th should be ok. Web has been down in Beard Towers for the last couple of days, hence my disappearance!

― Stew (stew s), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 16:54 (nineteen years ago) link

don´t like spain : (

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 29 September 2005 10:24 (nineteen years ago) link

:( Why not?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 29 September 2005 11:06 (nineteen years ago) link

It's early days yet.

I see you have the funny apostrophe keyboard.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 29 September 2005 11:15 (nineteen years ago) link

It goes the wrong way!

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 29 September 2005 11:27 (nineteen years ago) link

It is, in fact, an accent.

You can go through my posts and ascertain whether I am using a Spanish keyboard or not by the presence or otherwise of said funny apostrophe.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 29 September 2005 11:41 (nineteen years ago) link

keyboards are daft, food is bad, bloody foreigners etc.

love it really : )

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 29 September 2005 19:04 (nineteen years ago) link

puesto las pilas

: )

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 29 September 2005 19:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Unhappy in Spain? Pídete un calimotxo!

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Thursday, 29 September 2005 19:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Should I book a table for 10 at Cossachok next Friday then?

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 29 September 2005 20:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Да, ты так должна. Yes. Who's up for some Zubrovka?

According to legend, Zubrowka yields medicinal benefits, and imparts the strength of the bison to all who drink it. The vodka contains no bison, but is flavoured using bison grass which grows in small clumps in the glades of the Bialowieza Forest on the border between Russia and Poland. The grass is harvested in the summer, when its aromatic qualities are at their optimum and then placed over sieves through which the spirit is then passed several times. The spirit is then mixed with a high quality dry rye vodka made from a secret ancient recipe and left for a few weeks to infuse together. At bottling, a single blade of the grass is then added, by hand, to each bottle. The vodka was traditionally drunk at the end of a good day's shooting by hunters, and it is now the most popular flavoured vodka in Poland.Very interesting flavour which you either love or hate. It has complex flavours of lavender, thyme, and coconut, with the aroma of freshly mowed grass A wonderful vodka, delicious neat and chilled, or mixed with English apple juice.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Thursday, 29 September 2005 23:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Honey, I have half a bottle of it in my cupboard! Makes the best bloody marys. If you mix it with apple juice, it's called tatanka. TATANKA!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 30 September 2005 05:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes I have half a bottle of this in my freezer. yum yum yum.

― alext (alext), Friday, 30 September 2005 06:58 (nineteen years ago) link

TATANKA!

imparts the strength of the bison to all who drink it

Best booze ever?

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Friday, 30 September 2005 07:55 (nineteen years ago) link

gosh, my friends are true boozers eh?

― dahlin (dahlin), Friday, 30 September 2005 08:06 (nineteen years ago) link

and oh yeah... reservations sounds good ailsa. mr dahlin might come.

― dahlin (dahlin), Friday, 30 September 2005 10:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Madchen made me taste a TATANKA once. I can report that it was disgusting.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 30 September 2005 10:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Tatanka!!

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 30 September 2005 10:58 (nineteen years ago) link

I am going to make a better drink, called Mr Perfect.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 30 September 2005 11:00 (nineteen years ago) link

the hulkamaniac

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 30 September 2005 11:02 (nineteen years ago) link

jimmy fly snuka

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 30 September 2005 11:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Or even a Big Boss Man.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Friday, 30 September 2005 11:43 (nineteen years ago) link

The Randy Savage

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 30 September 2005 11:52 (nineteen years ago) link

i invented kinder shots. creme de menthe and a splash of milk, drank from the shell of a kinder egg. mmmmmm

― dahlin (dahlin), Friday, 30 September 2005 12:32 (nineteen years ago) link

the hulkamanic - one part ribena, three parts mello yello, two parts gin, two parts vodka, two parts white rum, one part torn simmet

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 30 September 2005 12:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Whatcha gonna do when the largest cocktails in the world wrap around you?

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 30 September 2005 15:29 (nineteen years ago) link

drink up?
that sounds vile, rjg

― dahlin (dahlin), Friday, 30 September 2005 17:01 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.alvarezwaxmodels.com/Images/Wax%20Images/hulk-hogan.jpg

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 30 September 2005 17:06 (nineteen years ago) link

I have just been enjoying a guide to Cozen's desk on Flickr.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 3 October 2005 06:47 (nineteen years ago) link

What an interesting afternoon. I saw TV's Ricky 'Alrigh laaa' Tomlinson in Borders, closely followed by politics' Nicola 'Growl' Sturgeon in the Post Office. He was signing copies of his new book. She was getting some post redirected. I couldn't make out her address on the form.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Monday, 3 October 2005 12:28 (nineteen years ago) link

I think stalking Nicola Sturgeon would be a ridiculous venture.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 3 October 2005 12:34 (nineteen years ago) link

It'd be totally excellent!

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Monday, 3 October 2005 12:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Well I'm not getting involved.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 3 October 2005 13:02 (nineteen years ago) link

You cannae anyway. I couldn't make out her address on the form.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Monday, 3 October 2005 13:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I sat opposite Nicola Sturgeon on the train about 3 weeks ago. She is tiny and has very lovely eyes. Her briefcase seemed to be very well organised. She got off at Falkirk High as far as I remember.

― hmmm (hmmm), Monday, 3 October 2005 14:22 (nineteen years ago) link

aww wee billy god bless him I don't think he fixed my toof

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 3 October 2005 15:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Hope this isn't a stoopid quetion but has the Cossachok been booked for Fri? Count me in, is all.

― Stew (stew s), Monday, 3 October 2005 15:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Yo Neil. I see you've joined in the try Glasgow more thread! Settled in OK?

― KeefW (kmw), Monday, 3 October 2005 15:43 (nineteen years ago) link

What a ridiculous venture.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 3 October 2005 16:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Hope this isn't a stoopid quetion but has the Cossachok been booked for Fri? Count me in, is all.

Funnily enough, I did that very thing today. Provisionally booked for 10 people for 8pm under my name. I need to call back with credit card details or go in with a deposit of £5 per head to confirm. I can stump up £50 just now if need be, but any chance of a head count?

I make it:

Me
Neil
Madchen
Ally C
Cozen
Dahlin
Mr Dahlin
Stew
Scotstvo
Grimly

RJG, are you coming too? Cozen, are you a definite? The table's booked in my surname and will be paid provisionally by this time tomorrow. I don't see there being a problem with us adding another place or two if required.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 3 October 2005 17:11 (nineteen years ago) link

SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

; )

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 3 October 2005 17:24 (nineteen years ago) link

I am definite!

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 3 October 2005 17:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Some of my post seems to have been eaten up by the ILX gremlins. It consisted of me hoping that 8pm was OK, I figured that would give people time to get places after their work, go home and get changed, or go to the pub for a while.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 3 October 2005 17:34 (nineteen years ago) link

I am a definite!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 3 October 2005 19:09 (nineteen years ago) link

article?

― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 3 October 2005 19:53 (nineteen years ago) link

I have discovered the next going-out venue. Sunday afternoon cocktails at the 500 Club! We were there on Sunday and drank cocktails and ate excellent food and it wasn't that expensive and it's a nice place! Hurrah! I have being trying Glasgow more, and I've decided I quite like it.

Also, I work there now (Glasgow, not the 500 Club).

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 3 October 2005 19:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Where is it?

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 3 October 2005 21:21 (nineteen years ago) link

See if you paid attention instead of calling me ridiculous, you would know.

(Round the corner/up the street from the 13th Note)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 3 October 2005 21:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, you're talking about the 500 club! I am ridiculous, and do not pay attention.

It's next to the Three Judges in that swanky new block where the Volcano used to be.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 3 October 2005 21:26 (nineteen years ago) link

swanky new block, the one you can see, from byres road

where 4|21|< lived?

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 3 October 2005 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link

The covers.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 3 October 2005 22:17 (nineteen years ago) link

the fear


come to think of it, I saw a sign, for the 500 club

that block would an "s" short of "swanky", if "wanky" meant "bad"

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 3 October 2005 22:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Yo Neil. I see you've joined in the try Glasgow more thread! Settled in OK?

asshoppers need not apply

Apparently.

― hmmm (hmmm), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 08:31 (nineteen years ago) link

hi neil

you should come to cossachok

: )

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 08:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I am unnerved by the requirement for a deposit.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 09:21 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm going!

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 09:23 (nineteen years ago) link

I may come along. When do I need to decide by?

― hmmm (hmmm), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 09:33 (nineteen years ago) link

HI DERE I PO8====DING FROM GRASSGROW

― HP3NCi1, Tuesday, 4 October 2005 11:17 (nineteen years ago) link

The deposit is now paid. PJ, the need for a deposit is because it is a wee place and if we made them reserve lots of tables then never showed up they would be turning away lots of business.

Hmmm, they said it would be OK if another couple of folk showed, though I guess a final number by Thursday evening to phone ahead and confirm would be OK.

RJG, 500 Club looks wanky, but it's nice. I forgot about the existence of 4r1|

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 19:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, bugger the crappy HTML-interpreting thing that gets rid of half my sentence. Anyway, 4r1k, I forgot about him, despite having been talking about him the other day for some reason I can't really remember now.

Also, FAP before food? 13th Note? I will be going home to get changed after work, back in for about the back of seve, probably.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link

i Tried Cobalt More today, in the footsteps of RJG and N. I think my hair's now too cool for my head. but at least it smells nice.

(have fun on Fri everyone, I'm working even later than usual so won't see you)

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 19:48 (nineteen years ago) link

oh, I thought someone said you were available

I will leave the plans, to continue to be made. it seems to be going swimmingly, so far

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 19:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Plans are made. Table booked for ten.

Those ten are:

Me
Neil
madchen
Ally C
RJG
Stew
Cozen
Scotstvo
Grimly
Dahlin
Richard

Which is actually 11, plus other Neil (hmmm) as well which is now twelve. Oh fuck it, I tried.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 20:04 (nineteen years ago) link

my favourite ten and another two

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 20:21 (nineteen years ago) link

8pm?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 20:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Tough shit, Cozen, I paid the deposit, I'm coming anyway. Who's the other one?

(xpost, yes, 8 o'clock, they couldn't do earlier)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 20:22 (nineteen years ago) link

the other two:
ally (pillock!) and grimly (you promised me 10,000 word features!)

: )

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:34 (nineteen years ago) link

what's a nice central, café / bar for spending a lazy, hour-long lunch with?

preferably around the st. vincent place & buchanan st. area

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Bar 91?
The Brunswick Hotel Bar?
Republic Bierhalle?

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:51 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't know. Those are probably rubbish suggestions. I don't know anything good.

http://www.mixedbizness.co.uk/images/06Oct05.gif

?

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't think a lazy lunch can be had in a hour, by the way.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link

wagamama

but what alba said too.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 22:19 (nineteen years ago) link

there's a nice cafe called cafe wander on west george st. the otherwise scary revolution bar across from the odeon is usually very quiet at lunch and does surprisingly good and cheap food (tho limited menu)

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 22:20 (nineteen years ago) link

cook was talking about this sharon jones, too

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 22:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I was talking about that one.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 22:45 (nineteen years ago) link

dap-kings is a bit weird sounding

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 22:46 (nineteen years ago) link

You lot not off to bed yet?

― KeefW (kmw), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link

FUCK BED

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 22:57 (nineteen years ago) link

too squeaky

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 23:01 (nineteen years ago) link

FUCKING MICE

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 23:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Sorry... Couldn't reply to this last night - had gone to bed.

― KeefW (kmw), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 06:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Up with the larks, eh, Keith?

OK, I will let them off about the deposit. They seem like a nice bunch.

Dap-Kings maybe comes from Dap-Walk. We are not the wiser.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 06:41 (nineteen years ago) link

I saw you:
ONIMO, ambling through central station at 5.30pm

sorry I didn't say hello I was a. very tired after work and b. feeling a bit spacy and sick, coming up on my co-codamol

: )

see you friday

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 16:43 (nineteen years ago) link

No you won't, he's not coming. Unless I have fuxored up the table-booking even MORE.

Cozen, did you find somewhere nice for lunch? I work near there and need some suggestions too (I shall be trying Cafe Wander tomorrow as it looks nice)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 16:46 (nineteen years ago) link

No, he just decided to get tanked up on co-codamol and go to Burger King.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 16:51 (nineteen years ago) link

burger king : co-codamol :: pret a manger : ecstasy

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 16:52 (nineteen years ago) link

... : ketamine?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link

bar transit

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 16:54 (nineteen years ago) link

oh sorry ailsa, no I didn't find anywhere - all I was looking for really was somewhere to sit with a coffee and my paper that wasn't starbucks or costa

I don't think there's really anywhere at that pace within the centre

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link

heard about you

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 22:39 (nineteen years ago) link

I saw you:
ONIMO, ambling through central station at 5.30pm

sorry I didn't say hello I was a. very tired after work and b. feeling a bit spacy and sick, coming up on my co-codamol

: )

see you friday

Do I amble? I never realised. I probably don't notice anyone when I amble.

I am going to the wedding of someone I don't know on Friday. I will try eating in Glasgow if it happens again.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 6 October 2005 08:51 (nineteen years ago) link

I want to see photos of this picture of Chris Tarrant.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 6 October 2005 09:26 (nineteen years ago) link

I will try to remember to take one.

(I was telling Al: this reception is in a Masonic Hall that has a picture of Her Majesty The Queen at one end and a picture of King Rubberfaced Twat at the other).

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 6 October 2005 09:40 (nineteen years ago) link

I will not be able to make it I'm afraid. Thanks for thinking of me. I'd very much like to come but I have an amusingly large amount of stuff on at the moment. Next time...

― hmmm (hmmm), Thursday, 6 October 2005 09:57 (nineteen years ago) link

x-post

You definitely amble, Onimo - sort of a "got-all-the-time-in-the-world-nothings-that-important" type of amble. Its rather feaching, a modes of walking go.

I would like to see a picture of both pictures if possible - sort of a scan from Tarrant to the Queen. Take a video camera.

― Guilty Boksen (Bro_Danielson), Thursday, 6 October 2005 10:31 (nineteen years ago) link

I've just remembered, doesn't Stacey get notification emails when someone posts to this thread?

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 6 October 2005 12:21 (nineteen years ago) link

maybe

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 6 October 2005 12:28 (nineteen years ago) link

maybe not

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 6 October 2005 12:29 (nineteen years ago) link

only she can tell us

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 6 October 2005 12:29 (nineteen years ago) link

I suppose

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 6 October 2005 12:29 (nineteen years ago) link

unless someone else knows

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 6 October 2005 12:29 (nineteen years ago) link

for definite

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 6 October 2005 12:29 (nineteen years ago) link

and so on

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 6 October 2005 12:29 (nineteen years ago) link

I was sure she said once she did.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 6 October 2005 12:31 (nineteen years ago) link

I just thought if that was the case, it'd be really bad to get so many mails about Gerry going to a wedding.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 6 October 2005 12:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Or how he walks.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 6 October 2005 12:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Which is definitely an amble, in my opinion.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 6 October 2005 12:32 (nineteen years ago) link

She has nobody to blame but herself.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 6 October 2005 12:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Well, quite.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 6 October 2005 12:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Although that could be construed as harsh.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 6 October 2005 12:39 (nineteen years ago) link

I mean, I'm sure once she xplained why she did it, and it wasn't that bad a reason.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 6 October 2005 12:39 (nineteen years ago) link

I was very conscious of how I was walking at lunchtime thanks to this thread. I ambled over to St Enoch's and back. Maybe I should listen to faster music.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 6 October 2005 12:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Sigur Ros cause ambling, you heard it here first.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 6 October 2005 12:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Glasgwegians: never rent a mobile phone in America :(

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 6 October 2005 13:57 (nineteen years ago) link

yes, i do. and thanks for flooding my inbox with such amazing musings!
the reason i do it: this thread breaks my computer at work. so in order to keep abreast of breaking glasgow news and important developments, i need only check my excite account. tho for some reason RJG's posts tend to get sent directly to my 'trash' folder. hmmmm
madchen: when did you hop the atlantic? i thought you were just going to dublin.

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:42 (nineteen years ago) link

She did, but for some reason she decided to hire an American mobile phone for the trip, hence her problems.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link

April, 2004.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 6 October 2005 17:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Tardy cunts.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 6 October 2005 17:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Ally sums up my thoughts exactly. I am hoping they are mistaken tardy cunts. Mistaken to the tune of €555. Euros!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 6 October 2005 18:24 (nineteen years ago) link

ey up glasgow, i'm back.

and i think i can help solve tomorrow night's space problems, 'cos i'm not gonna be able to make it now ... i'd kind of overlooked the fact that the 7th is my best mate's birthday. erk. this is an unfortunate clash, because i was rather looking forward to trying out some of my new-found greek skills on dahlin.

apologies if this fucks anything up, but to be honest it sounds like i'll be doing you a favour. if there is any deposit misery, let me know and i shall bung a fiver towards the ailsa beer fund.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 6 October 2005 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link

My birthday is the 7th Jan... You must've made a mistake.

Birthday or not, you won't be trying out your 'greek' skills on me!

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 6 October 2005 20:23 (nineteen years ago) link

gosh i'm confused. no matter. all shall be revealed tonight i'm sure
8pm? i hope so.
later taters

― dahlin (dahlin), Friday, 7 October 2005 09:03 (nineteen years ago) link

So is the prematch build up in the note?

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Friday, 7 October 2005 14:27 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm going to the gym (!!!) so I'll see you at the Russian at eight. Cheerio!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 7 October 2005 14:54 (nineteen years ago) link

I didn't make it to the gym. Hahahahahaha!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:44 (nineteen years ago) link

That was good. Thanks again, Glasgow, we're getting quite good at this now. Mmmm vodka.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 8 October 2005 09:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Mmmm, nail varnish remover.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Saturday, 8 October 2005 10:19 (nineteen years ago) link

so what did i miss? how was the beetroot? i was in the lismore, which was full of men with moustaches. i felt bereft.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 8 October 2005 10:53 (nineteen years ago) link

You missed vodka which tasted like mango-flavoured nail varnish remover. Nice food. Beer. A phone call from Barry Lasagne. A bill in excess of £200. And a laugh.

And we missed you. *cue violins*

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 8 October 2005 11:12 (nineteen years ago) link

aww! *touched*

"barry lasagne"?!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 8 October 2005 11:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Markelby. (see Internet Hardman requires new moniker for details)

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 8 October 2005 11:41 (nineteen years ago) link

ha! superb.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 8 October 2005 11:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Chris Tarrant has been removed from the masonic :(

Glad you had fun (if drinking nail varnish remover constitutes fun, that is).

I got very very drunk until 5am. Now I have to go get drunk again and watch Scotland.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Saturday, 8 October 2005 11:50 (nineteen years ago) link

one would have to be drunk to do that, yes

― dahlin (dahlin), Saturday, 8 October 2005 17:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Pity poor Scotstvo who had to stand at Hampden in the pishy horrible hailstones sober and watch it. At least it was bearable in the pub (by virtue of beer, free pies, no hailstones and the bar staff turning the TV over just in time to see Beckham getting sent off).

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 8 October 2005 17:09 (nineteen years ago) link

oh, football

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 8 October 2005 17:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Top night everyone. On the way home I got abuse from some pissed lassie who said I should have gone to specsavers. But I DID go to specsavers, I drunkenly pointed out, which left her rather confused.

Anyway, I didn't get the Metro job. :( Oy vey. Better things await me...one day.

― Stew (stew s), Saturday, 8 October 2005 17:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I almost got in trouble, for bringing a friend along
it was okay, in the end, though, I think

a good night but wish I hadn't had anything to drink

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 8 October 2005 17:53 (nineteen years ago) link

You didn't get in trouble, though, and all was well, once we'd completed our takeover of all the tables and menus in the place. Has he remembered how he knows me yet?

I wish I had had more similar things to drink rather than a variety of vodka and red wine and nasty Sam Smith stout.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 8 October 2005 18:23 (nineteen years ago) link

i got specsavers abuse in stirling, funnily enough
sorry about the job! maybe it was a blessing in disguise.
i've just spent the past hour doing long-term financial planning. how scary is that? it's official: i'm an adult now

― dahlin (dahlin), Saturday, 8 October 2005 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I too am the recipient of specsavers abuse, from a drunk guy carrying a bottle of buckie along princes st.

I'm going to see Deerhoof tonight at Mono. One D.Geraghty may well be coming along also.

― hmmm (hmmm), Monday, 10 October 2005 14:23 (nineteen years ago) link

deerhoof are good live

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 10 October 2005 14:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, I saw them play almost 2 years ago in Edinburgh. They were tight and funny. The new album has moments of absolute genius so I'm really excited about it.

― hmmm (hmmm), Monday, 10 October 2005 14:40 (nineteen years ago) link

I'll be at Deerhoof too. Hurrah! They were tip top at ATP in Feb.

― Stew (stew s), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link

And they were even better tonight. Fucking incredible.

― Stew (stew s), Monday, 10 October 2005 23:37 (nineteen years ago) link

I thought the last 2 songs were really incredible. The rest, I wasn't conviced about. The songs from the new album seemed to have difficulty translating to a live performance. Also, the sound in mono is really quiet.

― hmmm (hmmm), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 07:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Quiet? I had my earplugs in for about half of it. It was fine.

― Stew (stew s), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 09:04 (nineteen years ago) link

hmmmm, I don't think I'm particularly deaf. I was standing under the dome so that may have had an effect.

― hmmm (hmmm), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 09:15 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm with hmmm, when I saw them in Bristol last week the last two songs were amazing but the rest of it was only OK (and I really enjoyed them at ATP). It was very quiet here as well.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 09:32 (nineteen years ago) link

I saw Deerhoof play a couple of years ago. They were boring.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:00 (nineteen years ago) link

"don't let the post-rock put you off!" simon reynolds, village voice

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:12 (nineteen years ago) link

details of the sounds of myanmar record I was talking about

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 07:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Hi Glasgow.

Wet isn't it?

I am jealous of yr Instal festival on the weekend and sorry I will be in London rather than grooving to the out-there sounds.

― alext (alext), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 08:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, I got f***** soaked on the way to work today... Again.

― KeefW (kmw), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 17:06 (nineteen years ago) link

I wish I hadn´t missed the Russian FAP.

I love you, Glasgow!

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 17:50 (nineteen years ago) link

that 'sounds of myanamar' just came through my letter box today. i shall peruse after tea.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:00 (nineteen years ago) link

it is really great, stir, my favourite is track 3...

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 13 October 2005 07:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I give in... would anyone be so kind... can a glasgow ilxor with a full copy of lost season 1 make me a copy, please?

in the meanwhile, I'll see if I can get the start to season 2 through the usual channels... I can't watch telly programs weekly anymore... torrents and DVD has ruined me

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 13 October 2005 19:25 (nineteen years ago) link

WILL TRAVEL FOR LOST

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 13 October 2005 19:25 (nineteen years ago) link

I would (and will) offer, but I bet someone else more efficient actually comes through with the goods before me.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 13 October 2005 19:27 (nineteen years ago) link

I have lost

so much

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 13 October 2005 23:46 (nineteen years ago) link

A new month is approaching and my mind turns to Big Dinner: can Glasgow ILX manage two in two months? The Greek thread is making my eyes water. Shall we continue our culinary odyssey at Konaki?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 12:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Somewhere new please.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 20 October 2005 12:34 (nineteen years ago) link

your new flat?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 20 October 2005 12:35 (nineteen years ago) link

hogmanay!

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 20 October 2005 12:37 (nineteen years ago) link

room

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 12:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Not my new rooms. No one enters my new rooms.

New Year, yes. I was thinking about that yesterday. I'm going to be up here, I think.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 20 October 2005 12:42 (nineteen years ago) link

joanna blythman said it was sexy and seductive

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 12:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't want to go to room

48's bistro

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 12:43 (nineteen years ago) link

travelling up then isn't exactly a bargain, but i was expecting that to be the case.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 20 October 2005 12:43 (nineteen years ago) link

I liked it last time and anyway it's only new for the people who went out for Cathy's birthday and anyway I've been told that Antonious is inferior.

I am going to be here for Hogmanay too.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 12:44 (nineteen years ago) link

la lanterna

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 12:45 (nineteen years ago) link

optimo espookio

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 12:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Room pisses me off. There's Glasgow's really smart, elegant top-end hotel, 10 Devonshire Gardens, wins awards and that, Clooney stays there. Then the whole look gets ruined by a tacky (lop-sided) sign outside for Room saying virtually: "Come on in! Hen parties welcome, children's menu available, Happy Hour all day Wednesdays!"

It's bringing down the area.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 20 October 2005 12:46 (nineteen years ago) link

I might text the Metro about it.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 20 October 2005 12:46 (nineteen years ago) link

We were asked to consider Room's rather unimaginative Christmas menu at work the other day. I think we're just going to one of the hotels up the end of Argyle Street now.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 12:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Also, its logo is really naff.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 20 October 2005 12:49 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.roomrestaurants.com/images/logo_no_flash.jpg

Hate the Room!

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 20 October 2005 12:50 (nineteen years ago) link

easyjet or ryan air??

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Easyjet!

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:03 (nineteen years ago) link

room sounds kinda contrived.

we should go to the greek golden kebab on the south side. and no, not just because it's a bawhair away from my house.

failing that, we should just go to the PUB.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:04 (nineteen years ago) link

room's logo looks like a weirdo's knuckleduster

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:06 (nineteen years ago) link

A mutant's handcuffs.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha, Grimly thinks he can tempt ilx sarf of the river. Ooh, but there is that good-looking Kurdish place on Pollokshaws Road which I want to try.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:13 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't want to pull a good-looking Kurd. Actually maybe I do. I was assuming it was all men, for some reason. How sexist. Or is it homophobic? Or racist?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Hang, on. We're not going out on the pull, are we? I'm getting confused with the conversation I am having with my colleagues about our Christmas do.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:15 (nineteen years ago) link

bollywood lounge

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:16 (nineteen years ago) link

:-(

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:16 (nineteen years ago) link

... gave me a dickie tummy. (crosspost)

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:17 (nineteen years ago) link

:-D

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:18 (nineteen years ago) link

:-O

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha great minds, kinda.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:19 (nineteen years ago) link

:-?

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:20 (nineteen years ago) link

are there any turkish restaurants, in glasgow?

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:20 (nineteen years ago) link

not that'd I'd go

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Cafe La Padella is kind of Turkish.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:26 (nineteen years ago) link

that good-looking Kurdish place on Pollokshaws Road

koshkemeer? YES, IT LOOKS ACE. let's go there. now.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:27 (nineteen years ago) link

I tried and failed to persuade Stet to go there last night. There was one near the Snaffle, but I think it's closed down. Aren't a lot of the Turkish people here actually ethnic Kurds who have done a runner?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:27 (nineteen years ago) link

ethnic Kurds

I think

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Let's talk about Turkey's human rights record, for Cathy.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:31 (nineteen years ago) link

There = Padella. He is up for 'the Kosh'.
(X-post again, I can't keep up)

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:31 (nineteen years ago) link

the argan cafe?

seb's?

mediterranean, more than turkish

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:33 (nineteen years ago) link

I tried and failed to persuade Stet to go there last night

tell him he's a big chumper.

and to check his e-mail.

i'm not really up on the turkish diaspora, but i do know that lots of people have told me koshkemeer - which styles itself "scotland's first kurdish restaurant" - is absolutely MIGHTY. as long as you like lamb, that is.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:34 (nineteen years ago) link

When I worked in the tall flats on Red Road, there was a lovely Kurdish woman called Neriman whose dream it was to own a cafe. She was doing her food hygiene certificate and looking at a place near the university at the time (about 3 years ago). I've often wondered what happened to her.

She used to sing me the Turkish version of Kiss Kiss too!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:39 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't like lamb

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:41 (nineteen years ago) link

you worked in the red road flats?

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, for about 3 months in summer 2002. It was by far the most interesting, friendly and thoroughly good place I've worked since I've been here. I was just very overqualified and underpaid.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't like lamb

you and mrs fiendish both (hence my not having been to koshkemeer yet).

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 20 October 2005 14:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Does she like pork?

― alext (alext), Thursday, 20 October 2005 14:17 (nineteen years ago) link

very forward

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 14:19 (nineteen years ago) link

(trying to earn my ASBO)

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 14:19 (nineteen years ago) link

The List says you don't have to eat lamb; chicken and fish are also available. Also, it is BYO = key I'd say.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 14:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Does she like pork?

no, but she enjoys tiny chipolatas very much.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 20 October 2005 14:31 (nineteen years ago) link

very backwards

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 14:32 (nineteen years ago) link

are there any good mexican restaurants in glasgow?

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 14:33 (nineteen years ago) link

BYOASBO

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 20 October 2005 14:36 (nineteen years ago) link

This is totally the year of the sausage. (for me I mean).

― alext (alext), Thursday, 20 October 2005 14:37 (nineteen years ago) link

If we're not going to ATP we should totally go somewhere with sausages.

― alext (alext), Thursday, 20 October 2005 14:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I wouldn't call Pancho Villas good, but by UK standards it's acceptable. (crosspost)

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 14:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Anyway, how does Friday 11th November suit?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link

november 11 is good by me.

If we're not going to ATP we should totally go somewhere with sausages

you sausage-obsessed poltroon :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 20 October 2005 15:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I've had more sausages than are good for me. They're on sale in Sainsbury's on woodlands road, sossidge fans.

I tried and failed to persuade Stet

She did:

Stet: Where shall we go for to eat?
Madchen: Well, there's this cafe down woodlands rd.
S: O? Wot do it sell tell me o you mite
M: I've no idea. It's a cafe, I think. It mite be closed, too.
S: Any idea what it sells at all?
M: Um, no. It's a cafe. O the rain's on now too.
S: Let's go somewhere good instead.
M: OK.

Hey! I'm off Friday 11. I can come too. The Kosh then?

― stet (stet), Thursday, 20 October 2005 15:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Hello Glasgow. Sorry to interupt your thread, but I wanted to communicate with Alba D. (Not that the rest of you aren't lovely)
Nick, do I have your correct mobile number? I have three email addresses for you, but they are all very old. Could you email me?

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 20 October 2005 15:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Hi Anna!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Hi Madchen!

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 20 October 2005 15:17 (nineteen years ago) link

oh noes! rumpie, on the greek food thread, says bad things about koshkemeer.


No! I had an awful time in the Kurdish place. Please do not go! My lamb kebab tasted, as Mr Rumpy so elegantly put it "Like a punch in the face".

The soup was like really watery tinned Spaghetti Hoops, and Mr R's lamb kebab variation (the menu was mostly takes on lamb kebabs) tasted as though it had been steeped overnight in battery acid.

The decorations were, typical Kurdish? I don't know, but the Mournful Girl picture made me feel guilty for eating.

They do not take credit cards either meaning an embarrassing jog to the cash machine down the road.

Puding, if memory serves me correctly consisted of milk and egg yolks. I didn't order this.

The bread was DIVINE. Perhaps my palate is just not refined enough for Kurdish eating.

i vote fuck it, we go anyway. fatslim ron liked it, and so did some bloke who wrote a letter to the evening times. and it smells lovely.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 20 October 2005 16:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Hi Anna! My mobile phone number will not have changed. I will email you anyway though because you are nice.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 20 October 2005 16:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Stop flirting, everyone.

I am free, 11.

New year: staying in is the new/old going out.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 20 October 2005 16:25 (nineteen years ago) link

I have just marked November 11th on my calendar as "GOING OUT TO EAT FOOD WITH MENTALISTS". Count me in. And is it wise to rely on Madchen to book restaurants in a timely fashion?* (Neil just said "but doesn't she organise these sorts of things for a living?", and he has a point). He's probably coming too, so you can poke him with a kebab skewer then if you like.

* only joking

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 20 October 2005 16:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Aww, I want exciting Kurdish food.

I really love Seb´s café at the top of Argyle Street but it is too small to fit more than four people in really. Seb is Kosovan. I think the Argan café looks good but I haven´t been. The Korean buffet that replaced the Indian buffet is good. Best of all is the Thai Siam. There´s really no reason to ever leave Argyle Street. Except to go to the Konaki. Don´t go to Anonious, it´s BAD!!

Let's talk about Turkey's human rights record, for Cathy

Just to clarify, I am not an apologist for Turkey´s bad human rights record! I have a pedantic pet-quibble about people saying that countries have a "bad human rights record". I think you should have to be more specific. You should say, I don´t like Turkey because they burnt all those Kurdish villages, or yeah China is okay but they´re always torturing prisoners. I don´t mean that you should have to say that in Turkish and Chinese restaurants, this is a separate thing.

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 20 October 2005 18:06 (nineteen years ago) link

I make a point of saying "China is okay but they're always torturing prisoners" to the waiting staff whenever I eat in a Chinese restaurant. Is this bad form/morally courageous?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 20 October 2005 18:12 (nineteen years ago) link

It was Antonious Place I went to with the auld man. Can't remember being overly impressed but the atmosphere was nice.

Skint this weekend, will be hibernating until payday. Spent thirty five quid on cheese, mussels and salmon up at Loch Fyne on friday, another tenner on petrol. Now I'm living on crackers and said cheese :-(

― Rumpie, Thursday, 20 October 2005 18:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Aww, I want exciting Kurdish food.

And I want to be in Spain. Swap with you, if you want...

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 20 October 2005 18:17 (nineteen years ago) link

ally talk to your little man for me huh?

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 18:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I love seb's too!!

I haven't been in a while : /

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 18:19 (nineteen years ago) link

morally outrageous

x-posts

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 18:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Average-ish review from The List. Though according to the crappy google map, it's situated in Neil's uncle's house, which would be handy, if true.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 20 October 2005 18:24 (nineteen years ago) link

can we go dancing again soon?

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 18:29 (nineteen years ago) link

there's a greek food thread? and i'm missing it!?!?! bah!
looks like i'll also be missing fancy food fapping, as i'll be on a plane to the promised land... where the food is far superior! ha!
the south side greek place is disappointing. and TINY. unsuitable for fappage.
and um... the 'turkish version of kiss kiss' is the ORIGINAL FAR SUPERIOR version by TARKAN, Turkey's very own Michael Jackson! i have it on tape!
i love Turkey! mmmm. (not turkey tho, which makes the prospect of thanksgiving in america less exciting)
((apologies for the cross posts times 100, but i've been unable to post at work and was waiting all night to reply and.. yeah, i'm LAME))

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 20 October 2005 19:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I've just been watching Alba's dad on the telly.

You might not get turkey for Thanksgiving in case it's been infected by bird flu (but you're a veggie anyway aren't you, so it's all academic).

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 20 October 2005 20:11 (nineteen years ago) link

If you can drag your sorry Glasgow arses through to Paisley some time, I cannot recommend this place highly enough for future feeding extravaganzas.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 20 October 2005 20:24 (nineteen years ago) link

we nearly moved to paisley a few years ago. raeburn's sounds cool. paisley FAP! then a saunter to feegie park with a big fucking chib. ROCK.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:09 (nineteen years ago) link

dalry - saltcoats road FAP

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:10 (nineteen years ago) link

braidwoods is meant to be brilliant, yes. [reads] fuck me, it's got a michelin star! let's roll.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:13 (nineteen years ago) link

I can confirm, it's fantastic.

I went on an anniversary

ooh la la

we're not still together & I'm miserable

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Dang, that's the same night as Sleater Kinney. Maybe we can meet in the pub somewhere afterwards...

― Stew (stew s), Thursday, 20 October 2005 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Incidentally, when are we having an old-man-tastic-FAP in the Station Bar Cowcaddens as proposed way back in the mists of time?

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 20 October 2005 22:25 (nineteen years ago) link

5013

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 20 October 2005 22:58 (nineteen years ago) link

My little man says - dancing, yes.

Fuckin sweatball.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 20 October 2005 23:31 (nineteen years ago) link

i wanna to go to Braidwoods and i wanna dance.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 20 October 2005 23:59 (nineteen years ago) link

There's a restaurant in DALRY that has a Michelin star? Well fuck me. And to think I went to the bloody Dalgarven Mill that one time instead. Anyone fancy PayDayFAP tonight then?

― stet (stet), Friday, 21 October 2005 00:05 (nineteen years ago) link

on second thought: if it's that good, reservations could be hard to get. God, what a novel thought: an Ayrshire restaurant you can't just walk in to.

― stet (stet), Friday, 21 October 2005 00:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Another quote from Rumpie on the Greek Food thread: "I think my fussiness may make it difficult to consume anything" :)

Mr Ailsa is right, I should be able to get my arse in gear and organise this. I'll call today and provisionally book a table for 10 at the Kosh on the 11th and we can sort out numbers properly after that.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 21 October 2005 06:09 (nineteen years ago) link

braidwoods would be too small for all of us I think and also too difficult to co-ordinate

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 21 October 2005 07:00 (nineteen years ago) link

I wish I could have watched Alba's dad on the telly :-(

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 21 October 2005 07:23 (nineteen years ago) link

You could listen to him on the radio instead if you like!

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 21 October 2005 07:27 (nineteen years ago) link

anyone know anyone

who teaches french lessons?

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 21 October 2005 07:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I just listened to him! I didn't realise it was him until they read the credits at the end. My poor Mum will never get to see/hear him. She's in Barbados at the moment.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 21 October 2005 08:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Cozen: http://www.afglasgow.org.uk/

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 21 October 2005 08:04 (nineteen years ago) link

i was in the station bar last night. it was quiet but topp. quality guest ale, as usual.

i'd be up for fappery there any time (tho not tonite, stet: i'm going to teh gym, and have to set off at the crack of dawn tomorrow for this goddamn wedding).

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 21 October 2005 08:48 (nineteen years ago) link

saw your little man

not impressed

― c7n (Cozen), Friday, 21 October 2005 11:43 (nineteen years ago) link

consolevania

― c7n (Cozen), Friday, 21 October 2005 11:55 (nineteen years ago) link

OK, Alba! Here goes!

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 21 October 2005 11:57 (nineteen years ago) link

That was lovely, Nick.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 21 October 2005 12:17 (nineteen years ago) link

I would be well up for a PayDayFAP but unfortunately it is still ten days away from payday, so it won't be tonight. Instead I shall sit at home and do nowt. Now where's that "happy with your social life?" thread.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 21 October 2005 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Also, I just work round the corner from you meeja types now, so any post-work old-man-tastic pint-drinking would be most welcome.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 21 October 2005 18:52 (nineteen years ago) link

I second the post work old man Fap. Work at Skypark, so I can be at any of the meeja land boozers within twenty minutes. Being a temp every Friday is payday, so I'm flexible.

― Stew (stew s), Friday, 21 October 2005 19:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh yeah, I'm going to be an extra in a Belle & Seb BBC special. Anyone else joining in the twee fun?

― Stew (stew s), Friday, 21 October 2005 19:15 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't dress up on request

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 21 October 2005 19:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Look like you're from the 70s? Fuck that.

― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 21 October 2005 19:38 (nineteen years ago) link

cozen, what about isabelle?

I´m so annoyed to be missing alba´s dad.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 21 October 2005 21:09 (nineteen years ago) link

oh, I´ve just remembered she´s in leeds. never mind.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 21 October 2005 21:10 (nineteen years ago) link

try the south side less

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 21 October 2005 21:11 (nineteen years ago) link

I had a french tutor in glasgow for a while. His name was bertrand and he was belgian. He was really great. I think I´ve lost his phone number though. If you go into the modern languages building there will be lots of notices up about people giving french lessons, and much much cheaper than the alliance francaise.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 21 October 2005 21:12 (nineteen years ago) link

but grimly where was that? govan, govanhill, shawlands?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 21 October 2005 21:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Near that dodgy kebab shop you're forcing us to go to?

(Please tell everyone, for a laugh, that it was in Battlefield. The ironing, etc)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 21 October 2005 21:19 (nineteen years ago) link

it was RIGHT OUTSIDE THE KEBAB SHOP IN BATTLEFIELD, yes!

(or is it langside? i've lived here for five years and nobody seems able to tell me where one starts and the other ends.)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 21 October 2005 21:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Langside is where the college is, Battlefield is where that daft wee restaurant on the traffic island is. They are across the road from each other though, and I have no idea where they extend to from there.

I was in Langside Jobcentre the other day, which is on Battlefield Road. And right between the college and the stupid wee restaurant. Perhaps it is the dividing point between Langside, Battlefield and whatever else is that way.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 21 October 2005 21:28 (nineteen years ago) link

your still not together with who C?

― Auryn (Auryn), Sunday, 23 October 2005 00:21 (nineteen years ago) link

?

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 23 October 2005 00:27 (nineteen years ago) link

ally's shapeshifting sibling?

― c7n (Cozen), Sunday, 23 October 2005 07:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Sorry to hear someone popped a cap in your bus Simon.

Dave D and I years ago decided we would like to go to work in one of these:

http://highlights.ultimatedvd.org/starwars/movie_stills/episode-5/AT-AT006.jpg

― KeefW (kmw), Sunday, 23 October 2005 10:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Ailsa, you can tell your other half that he is right, I am capable of organisation sometimes. I have booked a table for 10 at 8pm on 11th November. The list so far looks like this:

Me
Stet
Grimly Fiendish
Ally C
Ailsa
Mr Ailsa

Who else? I guess I can up the numbers if necessary, as long as I don't leave it too late. Any more takers?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 07:06 (nineteen years ago) link

c7n

― c7n (Cozen), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 07:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Mr and Mrs Onimo are probables, we just need to arrange a babysitter.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 07:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Whereabouts is this taking place?

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 08:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, and the 11th, like the last time, is the day before a Scotland match, so no excuses this time Ailsa.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 08:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Koshkemeer on the Southside.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 08:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Are you coming out to play, scotsvo?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 08:53 (nineteen years ago) link

No excuses for what, exactly?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Also, looking at the people going out, are we like a dinner party where we've set Grimly and Ally C up on a surreptitious blind date?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Not AGAIN.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:14 (nineteen years ago) link

But think of the effect of the combined facial hair (oh wait, you've both shaved, never mind)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:16 (nineteen years ago) link

november 11? that's plenty of time to grow more.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Not excuses for not going, of course! I may come out and play that night. Mark me in for a might-do.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Woo, cheap(ish) tickets for Scotland game on sale next Friday. I therefore think we should move the meal back to the Saturday so I don't have to venture south of the river two days in a row.

(casually ignoring the fact that I live south of the river anyway)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:06 (nineteen years ago) link

I think Saturday might be the Winchester Club.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Only joking about switching day. Anyway, I have now found out that the Scotland game is on the telly. So, hmmm, tough decision, hike over to the south side for the second time in two days and spend £12 on standing in the freezy cold watching Scotland get their arses kicked by teh 'merkins, or spend £12 on nice booze in a warm pub whilst watching Scotland getting their arses kicked by teh 'merkins. Oh, what shall I do?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:08 (nineteen years ago) link

The former would be more character-building.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:09 (nineteen years ago) link

If by "character-building" you mean "shite", then yes, it would.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Seeing Sleater-Kinney have cancelled, I'm in!
Haven't been down Battefield way in a while. What's the best tube/low level station to get this Partick resident to the restaurant?

― Stew (stew s), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 19:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Train to Queen's Park. Perhaps a pre-meal city centre pint would be in order for people who don't know where they are going?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 19:29 (nineteen years ago) link

i'll stand on top of the bandstand at queen's park and guide you in with those flag things.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link

We'll all go to the pub and laugh at you. Suit yourself.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 19:40 (nineteen years ago) link

watching Scotland getting their arses kicked by teh 'merkins. Oh, what shall I do?

Go out, get thrashed and do your duty to the Tartan Army. Easy! Easy!

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 19:46 (nineteen years ago) link

City centre pint sounds like a good idea Ailsa.

The Belle & Seb TV recording was fun. Hopefully you'll be able to spot me in the crowd shots with my big stripy scarf on. Played 8 new songs which were pretty sweet, although I'm not sure I heard anything to match the best stuff from Dear Catastrophe Waitress (ie Stay Loose and Wrapped Up In Books). They've got a nice wistful ballad called Mornington Crescent and one that sounds like Jean Genie and has Stevie playing a ROCK geetar solo. Well, as ROCK as B&S can be... There's also a few swears in the new song. What is the world coming to?
Disappointingly the Beeb only gave us orange juice and water though. When I was in the audience for Trial By Night at Grampian studios a few years back we got wine and snacks!

― Stew (stew s), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:01 (nineteen years ago) link

That's because you would have to be pissed to be in any way involved in Trial By Night. God, that was horrendous television (of course, I watched it every week).

Were Belle and Sebastian all 70s-ed up as well? There are people complaining on s*n*st*r that Belle and Sebastian are wrong to start dictating what sort of style of clothes and hair their fans can and can't wear, as if they've gone down the route of creating some sort of Stepford Fan rather than, you know, asking extras in a TV show to dress appropriately for the TV show.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:08 (nineteen years ago) link

hopefully I will LIVE in glasgow by 11/11

this should make the south side venture much more viable

― c7n (Cozen), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Belle & Seb were dressed in their normal manner, so kinda 70s I suppose. Stuart had his stripey school blazer on, Mick had an excellent printed shirt, Stevie was in black as always ;) Richard was the only "modern" one, along with the sk8r boi sax player. Thing is most Belle & Seb fans look 70s anyway. It wasn't especially strict, they just wanted it to look a bit retro, hence using one of the older studios in Queen Margaret Drive. I defied the no trainers rule by wearing my converse - well, they're more authentically 70s than most shoes. The dressing up was fun anyway. Can't wait until Halloween Pop League.

― Stew (stew s), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I actually spoke on one episode of Trial By Night. Thankfully I've never actually seen it cos I forgot to set the video. Alan Taylor of the Sunday Herald was arguing that Princess Anne should be Queen Of Scots, to which my finger wagging 18 year old self replied "The monarchy is an undemocratic anachronism and should have no place in the devolved Scotland". Boo ya! I must have sounded awfully pompous, but it's fair enough. I suggested an Irish style presidency, to which AT said, "Many people consider Mary Robinson to be rather impotent", prompting much sniggering at the back.
When I was doing work experience at the Sunday Herald a few years later AT was doing the rounds, harumphing about "that bloody Rowling woman". I didn't bring up the Trial By Night thingy, maybe I should have...

― Stew (stew s), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:27 (nineteen years ago) link

yes, you should. although i can only assume that AT's stance on the original show was one of pure devil's advocacy.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 09:03 (nineteen years ago) link

can anyone tell me about the maps/diagrams in buchanan st bus station, they are large floor mounted ones with raised profiles, designed for visually impaired people. anyone know what i am talking about? they sound pretty cool, at any rate. i am trying to find out what people think about them

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 12:58 (nineteen years ago) link

they do sound cool, but ... i've not been in the bus station for ages, and i certainly didn't notice them last time i was there. sorry.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 15:08 (nineteen years ago) link

See the bit under 'Accessibility' on this page:

http://www.spt.co.uk/buchananbusstation/passenger_help.html

― Mooro (Mooro), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 17:26 (nineteen years ago) link

i've noticed that map, ambrose. seemed like a good idea but the map seemed to be oriented on a different axis from the station itself which was confusing. also it wasnt that well made so bits were coming off of it.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:01 (nineteen years ago) link

i can only assume that AT's stance on the original show was one of pure devil's advocacy.

-- grimly fiendish

Yeah, I thought as much. I never had him down as a monarchist.

― Stew (stew s), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:26 (nineteen years ago) link

I'll try go up during the week and take some pics ambrose

― c7n (Cozen), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Can I just make it clear that I thought the guy on s*n*st*r accusing Belle and Sebastian of Stepfordising their fans was a bit out of order.

I don't look 70s at all. I wouldn't have got in.

I liked Alan Taylor's devil's advocate role on Trial By Night. I seemed to spend a lot of time shouting at the telly at the gross stupidity and annoyingness of that Charlene person who used to co-present, was she deliberately hired to make AT look better?

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 21:29 (nineteen years ago) link

That's cool Ailsa, I didn't think you were agreeing with the s*n*st*r bloke.

I think we're talking different Alan Taylors here. Was the presenter called AT as well? That guy disappeared off to Sky, haven't seen him for years. The guy arguing the devil's advocate Queen Anne of Scots thing was Alan Taylor, Sunday Herald diarist and JK Rowling dissenter.

Went to see Part Chimp at Stereo this evening. Was a bit of a mini TGM outing as I saw Ally and his lovely flatmates there. Ver Chimp rrrrrocked!

― Stew (stew s), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 23:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Only one flatmate, one part-time flatmate. Was pretty rockin', anyhow! I stayed at the back most of the time like a wuss.

I saw at the gig a girl who used to be in my little brother and sister's year at school (who I haven't seen for years), who will shortly be working for the paper I will be interviewed by next week, who was at the same party as me on Friday without me knowing and whose old next door neighbour was the guy who emailed D2D yesterday asking to be on the mailing list. This is why I love Glasgow.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 23:22 (nineteen years ago) link

What paper is your interview with? Good luck, I should add.

― Stew (stew s), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 23:33 (nineteen years ago) link

What I really hated about that s*n*s*e* post was the guy began "I am writing with reference to Lucy's post". Also, he was a twat. Like a good girl, I kept my response off list.

What paper?

Is anyone else coming out on the 11th? RJG? Alba? I have a possible 11, so will need to know if numbers are to increase further.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 27 October 2005 06:06 (nineteen years ago) link

A quick google shows that Alan Tyler was the presenter of Trial by Night, which is who I thought you were talking about.

As you were...

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 27 October 2005 06:35 (nineteen years ago) link

that's why you love glasgow?!

crosspost

― c7n (Cozen), Thursday, 27 October 2005 07:25 (nineteen years ago) link

heard about me

― c7n (Cozen), Thursday, 27 October 2005 07:36 (nineteen years ago) link

MMORPG property sells for $100,000

as previously discussed at cossachok

― c7n (Cozen), Thursday, 27 October 2005 09:31 (nineteen years ago) link

that Charlene person who used to co-present

aye, who's now news editor of the sunday herald.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 27 October 2005 10:06 (nineteen years ago) link

anyway, mädchen: how were the penises?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 27 October 2005 10:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Purple, by the end.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 27 October 2005 10:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Also, they cured of my KFC addiction. Just like that.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 27 October 2005 10:28 (nineteen years ago) link

er... what?

charlene is news editor now?? insane...

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 27 October 2005 10:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Was she just putting that stupidity act on for the telly then, or was she just not a live telly kind of person?

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:04 (nineteen years ago) link

let's talk about that in koshkemeer.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, that would be an idea :)

I am looking forward to Koshkemeer. Eating out seems so much more civilised than mere fappage.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, just that 'Skinny' thing.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 27 October 2005 23:26 (nineteen years ago) link

The Skinny are interviewing people? I thought it was unpaid?

― Stew (stew s), Friday, 28 October 2005 07:41 (nineteen years ago) link

i got an e-mail today from j45per at skinny, oddly enough.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 28 October 2005 08:59 (nineteen years ago) link

drinks after work?

I'm already drunk

― c7n (Cozen), Friday, 28 October 2005 12:04 (nineteen years ago) link

stet and i are going to the relaunch of the cathouse tonight. i hope mädchen is going to come too.

it will hopefully ROCK (\m/) and not SUCK (8==o)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 28 October 2005 12:54 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm coming, grimly. I will try not to point and laugh.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 28 October 2005 14:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, he was a dick. It was like the Golden Age of Sinister all over again.

Can I be on the D2D mailing list Ally? Otherwise I will be out of the loop.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 28 October 2005 14:52 (nineteen years ago) link

I'll come on the 11th if that's OK. I don't understand this Cathouse prank.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:29 (nineteen years ago) link

ps. who is a dick?
pps. Ally and I are going to Optimo next Sunday (6th Nov). Advance notice. I don't think the band playing looks very good, but you never know. They said that about Van Gogh.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:32 (nineteen years ago) link

I'll come on the 11th if that's OK. I don't understand this Cathouse prank.

yay the 11th. as for the cathouse: as you well know, it's a ROCK CLUB for people who ROCK. or for very sad old men hoping for a glimpse of robert plant squeezing his lemon into some unsuspecting girl's G&T.

somehow i didn't think this would float yr boat, alba.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I was told it was more of a goth club. Do you dress up in PVC and that when you go?

or for very sad old men hoping for a glimpse of robert plant squeezing his lemon into some unsuspecting girl's G&T.

I assume this is some sexual practice I don't know about. Educate me!

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:54 (nineteen years ago) link

I used to like the Cathouse years ago. I haven't been for about four or five years, but I bet it hasn't changed much.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 28 October 2005 16:07 (nineteen years ago) link

I like seeing the goths queueing outside the cathouse. It makes me nostalgic.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 28 October 2005 16:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Ah, misunderstanding. I am not being interviewed for a job.

A girl at work says the Cathouse at Halloween is where pervy old men go to look at young girls in red pvc outfits. I trust that Madchen will have her boys under some form of control.

PS Yeah, Optimo.
PPS Done, PJ.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 28 October 2005 16:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Boys means boobs, yes?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 28 October 2005 16:42 (nineteen years ago) link

It's not Hallowe'en yet though. So no perving tonight. Except at Madchen's out of control boys, obviously.

Paisley will be awash with girls in nasty PVC nurses uniforms like Lesley out of Big Brother this weekend (as it was last year around Hallowe'en time). Possibly exacerbated by the recent opening of a "lingerie" shop in the town centre which sells "sexy" outfits of that nature. I will be avoiding like, well, like I normally avoid Paisley at the weekend.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 28 October 2005 17:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Is it true that they do actually still have the Plague in Paisley?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 28 October 2005 17:10 (nineteen years ago) link

There is a plague of women who think they look attractive in PVC nurses uniforms at least.

Paisley, however, is lovely otherwise (honest) if you stay in the town centre and I repeat my request for you all to come through and eat nice food at Raeburns some time. We can go straight back to Glasgow for pubbage afterwards though.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 28 October 2005 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link

no goths at the cathouse

just the myspace street team

― c7n (Cozen), Friday, 28 October 2005 17:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Ally could go there and be fellated.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 28 October 2005 17:21 (nineteen years ago) link

And then chased with an axe.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 28 October 2005 17:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Not again.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 28 October 2005 17:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Have dot2cock made a video yet?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 28 October 2005 17:34 (nineteen years ago) link

When you say "Ally could go there" are you talking about paisley or the cathouse?

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 28 October 2005 17:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, I meant the Cathouse.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 28 October 2005 17:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Getting fellated and getting chased by an axe-wielding maniac (as opposed to just an axe) are the sort of things that could happen to him in Paisley too. I was just checking.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 28 October 2005 17:44 (nineteen years ago) link

on a more salubrious note, ailsa: how did you get on with mister charlie chuck, glasgow's leading mountain-climbing editor?

alba: this should enlighten you. pip pip.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 28 October 2005 18:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Grimly, we are running quite late.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 28 October 2005 19:32 (nineteen years ago) link

I feel quite rough today, for some reason.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Saturday, 29 October 2005 12:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Grimly, events overtook me at work and I never got a chance to call him. I'll be doing so on Monday.

Madchen, good, serves you right for texting people at ungodly hours when they are asleep and waking them up by making their phone going beep :)

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 29 October 2005 12:26 (nineteen years ago) link

You mean people don't switch off their phones? Sorry :)

― Mädchen (Madchen), Saturday, 29 October 2005 12:36 (nineteen years ago) link

No, I like to have my phone on in case anyone wants to contact me urgently. Like to tell me they are dancing to Bon Jovi :) It's my own fault for being so un-RAWK and being in my bed at midnight.

I might be trying Glasgow more later on today. I tried it last Saturday too, but I had a sore leg and couldn't be bothered walking very far (we got as far as the door of GoMA before I started crying and wanting to go home). We went to Underworld and ate fajitas instead and drank wine until my leg didn't hurt anymore (thus proving it wasn't gout).

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 29 October 2005 12:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Also Madchen, I posted a link to a recipe for pumpkin ice cream (!) to your ILCooking thread. Greatest idea ever! Tomorrow will be spent doing pumpkinny type things chez W as well.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 29 October 2005 12:46 (nineteen years ago) link

o dere godd. the new Cathouse, btw, is the same as the old one except: the floor's not as sticky, the bouncers shout at you when you jump around, they play mash-ups of Killing in the Name and Mr Boombastic (genius) and they don't give you back yr jacket at the end of the night.

They still give you horrid hangovers tho.

― stet (stet), Saturday, 29 October 2005 13:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't think the band playing looks very good

i think they look pretty good. whether they sound any good is another matter entirely.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Saturday, 29 October 2005 16:36 (nineteen years ago) link

the bouncers shout at you when you jump around

yes! i'd forgotten about that. it was like the fun police, patrolling the dancefloor and making sure everyone was just doing a gentle polka.

that said, it's the only place i've ever been where the bouncers are more reasonable than the cloakroom staff. what a bunch of hopeless mooks.

rocking night, though.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 29 October 2005 16:57 (nineteen years ago) link

(even though i did have to throw myself out of a cab to escape being dragged to the west end by mrs fiendish instead of going HOME to be angry about my coat)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 29 October 2005 16:58 (nineteen years ago) link

last weekend was my pumpkin weekend. three pies and one risotto later, i'm all pumpkined out. now i've moved on to apples. mmmmm
cathouse.
my god.

― dahlin (dahlin), Saturday, 29 October 2005 17:29 (nineteen years ago) link

I can hardly talk. Goody by Chatty McChat :( Pumpkin ice-cream is an aces idea! Cheers Ailsa. I shall have a bash at that one, I think.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Saturday, 29 October 2005 18:11 (nineteen years ago) link

can't hang around all day folx

― c7n (Cozen), Saturday, 29 October 2005 18:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Child.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 30 October 2005 03:45 (nineteen years ago) link

heard about me

― c7n (Cozen), Sunday, 30 October 2005 05:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Is anyone else going to see Architecture in Helsinki on the first?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Sunday, 30 October 2005 13:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, I didn't know about that, but I would really like to. *quickly googles* Do you think you would just be able to buy tickets on the door, or would I have to go up and buy them on my lunch hour?

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 30 October 2005 13:31 (nineteen years ago) link

I am going. There will probably still be tix.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 30 October 2005 17:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Shall we go drinking first? Ally, someone will have to text you and let you know how badly Rangers are doing against ArtBrats.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 30 October 2005 17:48 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't think I will go to this restaurant, by the way

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 30 October 2005 18:03 (nineteen years ago) link

:(

― Mädchen (Madchen), Sunday, 30 October 2005 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Voice update: almost completely gone! Strepsils making zero difference.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 31 October 2005 13:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Poor Madchen! Get well soon.

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 31 October 2005 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Alcohol might make a difference, as might food, i.e. would you like to go do something after work tomorrow so I don't have to go all the way home then all the way back into Glasgow again to go and see Architecture in Helsinki.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 31 October 2005 18:10 (nineteen years ago) link

We just made a pumpkin lantern and put it in the window and we've had our first trick or treaters for a few years.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 31 October 2005 18:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Ailsa - not sure. Booze in a smoky atmosphere is what disappeared my voice in the first place. I'll text you tomorrow and let you know how I'm feeling. Still want to go to the gig, though, because I don't know when I'll get to see AIH again. Poor Madchen :(

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 31 October 2005 20:29 (nineteen years ago) link

We could go booze (or not booze, eat, whatever) somewhere non-smoky if you want - I did that on Saturday night and it was suprisingly OK. Drum and Monkey would be OK, and has food.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 31 October 2005 20:43 (nineteen years ago) link

I hope that you feel a whole lot better soon, Armes Mädchen.

― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 31 October 2005 21:21 (nineteen years ago) link

OK, but I need to get changed out of my work clothes first. If you don't fancy hanging around town, I could pick you up on the way and you can come and laugh at my lack of bathroom.

Thank you Mooro. I feel OK in myself, really. I just sound horrific.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 31 October 2005 21:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Plus the usual snot etc.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 31 October 2005 21:22 (nineteen years ago) link

o god, we broke mädchen :(

i hope you're placing all the blame where it belongs: ie squarely on stet's shoulders.

seriously: hope you start to feel better v soon indeed.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 31 October 2005 23:09 (nineteen years ago) link

pöor poör mädchen, aww, there there.

Stet will be blaming mädchen if he catches it.

― stet (stet), Monday, 31 October 2005 23:17 (nineteen years ago) link

i hope you're placing all the blame where it belongs: ie squarely on stet's shoulders

Would you like to borrow a step ladder?

Grimly, I got to speak to Charlie-boy's secretary today. She wasn't much use, but thanks anyway.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 31 October 2005 23:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Also, thanks for offer Madchen, but I've decided to take the car and go home and get changed after work then come back into town. I'll phone/text you later.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 07:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Would some nice Glasgow person Try & record this for Moore, please?

"The Music Show programme B&S filmed for the other week starts this Friday November 4th on BBC Two Scotland. It airs between 11.35pm and 12.05am and one of the new B&S tracks will be on it, so tune in!"

Video would be nice, DVD even nicer :)

Thanks!

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:14 (nineteen years ago) link

If Glasgow can be bothered, Dead City Radio will be appearing in Nice and Sleazy around 9pm ce soir.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:17 (nineteen years ago) link

You should have appeared at around 11 pm last night. We'd have seen you then :)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Why, what happened?

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Thursday, 3 November 2005 08:30 (nineteen years ago) link

We were in Nice'n'Sleazy on Tueday. Well, me, Madchen and Ally C were at any rate. And we would have seen you. Whereas I didn't see you last night because I wasn't there. Having spent all my money being out the night before. Do you see?

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 3 November 2005 18:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Alles klar!

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Thursday, 3 November 2005 18:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Also, I'm not going to the Scotland game because I'm spending all my money on Belle and Sebastian tickets instead. And they don't show Belle and Sebastian live on the telly, so they win.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 3 November 2005 19:02 (nineteen years ago) link

£18.50 + booking fee? They can piss off. Sell outs!

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 3 November 2005 19:03 (nineteen years ago) link

AND you need the secret password. Pfft. I bought tickets for the third night, anyway.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 3 November 2005 19:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Me too (the third night tickets - I had briefly entertained the idea of going to all three before I saw the ticket prices and my bank balance). I was also debating shunning the three-gig-Glasgow-extravaganza altogether in favour of a trip to sunny Hammersmith, but decided that would be foolish. Though I may yet change my mind before the night is out.

I think the first time I saw B&S it was about £5 a ticket. How times have changed.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 3 November 2005 19:29 (nineteen years ago) link

The first time I saw B&S they paid ME to see them.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 3 November 2005 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link

For £18.50 + booking fee, I'd want to see all four Beatles.

I'm spending all my money on Belle and Sebastian tickets instead. And they don't show Belle and Sebastian live on the telly, so they win.

Maybe the SFA are missing a trick here and should sack their usual half time entertainment in favour of lilting West-End balladry. That'd get the indie kids in.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Thursday, 3 November 2005 20:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Shameless plug - I'm guest DJ at Pin Ups at the Woody tomorrow night, should anyone care to drop by. :)

― Stew (stew s), Thursday, 3 November 2005 21:28 (nineteen years ago) link

That is very expensive!

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 4 November 2005 09:06 (nineteen years ago) link

AND, some of the agencies are sticking nearly £5 quid postage on top of the booking fee!


Oops, I just realised that you meant Ailsa's £5 ...

― Mooro (Mooro), Friday, 4 November 2005 10:51 (nineteen years ago) link

I suppose it is to subsidise the press pack in London, which usually makes up about half the crowd.

£5 postage! They're having a laugh!

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 4 November 2005 11:22 (nineteen years ago) link

too much

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 4 November 2005 11:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Way too much.

I would like to go, though.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 4 November 2005 12:03 (nineteen years ago) link

ok I'll stop tht fkn insufferable mugging now

...and the OC's in the post, I wasn't being bad I swear, just lazy

― carrey degeneres seinfeld (Cozen), Sunday, 6 November 2005 16:55 (nineteen years ago) link

I doubt I will be going. But you never know.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 6 November 2005 18:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I doubt I will be going and you always know


mugging?

heard about you

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 6 November 2005 18:39 (nineteen years ago) link

£5 postage! They're having a laugh!

I think you'll find that should be a 'giraffe', now that you're a proper metrosexual. I mean, you have taken to using 'Magnus', etc.

― Mooro (Mooro), Sunday, 6 November 2005 20:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Top Poptimo tonight! My first in 6 months or so, a real treat. Blondie, The Meters, Kraftwerk, Chris Isaak and the usual pretty beats. Plus a chilly fire alarm. And the band weren't bad. Hot singer/bassist. I'm going to sleep happy. Thanks, K.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 7 November 2005 05:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Ally, try sleeping more!

― KeefW (kmw), Monday, 7 November 2005 08:30 (nineteen years ago) link

I did.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 7 November 2005 16:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Can I transfer my invitation from the previous fap/dinner, which I did not accept, to the coming fap/dinner? Apologies for the late notice. I have not had internet in my flat until today and the firewall at the library had an issue with the content of this thread.

― hmmm (hmmm), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 13:13 (nineteen years ago) link

you can take my place : )

― soul provider (Cozen), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 13:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't think we can get a babysitter for Friday but if not I may leave Mrs O at home and come along myself.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 13:21 (nineteen years ago) link

you can take my place : )

-- soul provider (skiplevel...), November 8th, 2005.

sweet. Would anyone object if I invited David & Lorna?

― hmmm (hmmm), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 13:27 (nineteen years ago) link

I just had a larry david moment:
the other day I went into pret and bought a sandwich and a coffee. I bought off this cute, enthusiastic eastern european girl who is usually very cheery. as she was reading out my order I laughed a little because I thought her accent was cute. she looked at me then resumed my order but was impercebtibly more curt. today I go in to nab a coffee on my way back to work, black americano as usual. the guy taking my order says something to the girl beside him and then shouts 'black americano' and turns back to talk to the eastern european girl who is making the coffee today. as she's completing making the coffee she dabs some milk into my cup and hands it to the guy, saying 'black americano'. the guy says 'black americano', smirks, and I leave. I get back to the office and only then realise that the dab of milk was going into my cup and not some other. now I'm left sitting here with my milky coffee and this story. I can picture larry's face had it happened to him.

― soul provider (Cozen), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 13:48 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't get it. Do you think she's racist?

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 13:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Actually, this sounds like the ravings of someone suffering from schizophrenia, or high on pot. Have you sent your stolen O.C. DVDs back yet?

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 13:53 (nineteen years ago) link

she thought I was laughing at her for not speaking english well

― soul provider (Cozen), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 14:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, I understood really. Next time you see me though, I want to hear you bark "Black Americano" and see if it turns me against you.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 14:17 (nineteen years ago) link

maybe she put pot in the milk

― soul provider (Cozen), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 14:17 (nineteen years ago) link

"I will show zis laughing racist!"

― soul provider (Cozen), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 14:17 (nineteen years ago) link

I once made a tape for a girlfriend and called it Soul Provider.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 14:18 (nineteen years ago) link

I've only just twigged that it's a pun.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 14:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Oi oi. Let's do a new list for Friday:

1. Me
2. Stet
3. Grimly
4. Ally C
5. Ailsa
6. Mr Ailsa
7. Stew
8. Alba
9. HmmOnimo (?)
10. Scotsvo (?)
11. Dave (?)
12. Lorna (?)

I'll need to know if the (?) people are coming or not pretty soon so I can phone up and change the booking if necessary. Anybody else to add to the list?

The table is booked for 8pm so shall those of us not already Southside (yeah) meet in town for a drink first and then pile into taxis?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 14:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Health update: Stet has caught it.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 14:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I'll speak to David tonight and will post as soon as I have a definite answer. Meeting beforehand sounds good as I'm still getting my bearings.

― hmmm (hmmm), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 14:51 (nineteen years ago) link

I am uhming and ahing; I might go now : /

― soul provider (Cozen), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link

I will e-mail you tonight lucy

― soul provider (Cozen), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Okey dokey.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 14:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Health update: Stet has caught it.

the big wuss :)

re friday: i'll be at the restaurant for 8pm. mädchen: don't let stet do his usual trick of being three hours late. and hmmm - looking forward to seeing you again after all these years!

actually, looking at that list: the HmmOnimo dual-headed monster sounds scary.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 15:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Where are we meeting in town for a non-southsider drink?

― Stew (stew s), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 18:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Just spoke to David. He can't confirm either way until tomorrow I'm afraid.

I'm not bothered where we meet for drinks. Ideally, it would be somewhere good that I haven't been before and would preferably be towards the west end but I really don't mind if it's not.

― hmmm (hmmm), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 19:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Cozen is in real trouble.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 19:45 (nineteen years ago) link

would preferably be towards the west end

noooo! you'll all be late enough as it is ;)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 20:04 (nineteen years ago) link

I think Grimly has a point and we should stick to the city centre, or maybe the Merchant City?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 20:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Mono!

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 20:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm not that interested in what you've caught.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 20:44 (nineteen years ago) link

"Change settings to default?" Y

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 20:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I've got band practice till 9 on Friday, so I'm not going to be able to go along.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 23:26 (nineteen years ago) link

You'll catch it, Alba

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 23:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Mono is quite handy for hopping into a taxi to the south side, being near the river and all...
Just a shame they've done away with the weissbier on tap. Ochone, ochone...

― Stew (stew s), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 23:30 (nineteen years ago) link

the bottled organic lager rules, though. esp the reidenburger (sp).

the bottled organic cider is, er, interesting. mädchen will be able to talk more about the effects it had on me.

"apparently robert plant is going to be there!"
"yes, you just said that. twice."
[beat]
"apparently robert plant is going to be there!"

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 23:43 (nineteen years ago) link

the bottled organic cider is, er, interesting. mädchen will be able to talk more about the effects it had on me.

I was going to say something very similar. Except it made me helpless apart from mumbling, so I don't have an amusing anecdote.

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 23:55 (nineteen years ago) link

I am flying from prestwick at 0715 on thurs

the first train gets there at, like, 0643

there is a bus that gets there at, like, 0530 (leaving buchanan st at 0445)

anyone know of anything better?

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 00:56 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm afraid not. i had to stay with my sister in Ayrshire the night before i flew out and she drove me there early.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 00:58 (nineteen years ago) link

ah well, 0445 from buchanan st it is

more time at prestwick, I suppose!!!

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 01:02 (nineteen years ago) link

i didn't know about the 4.45 though so that's useful. luckily for you Prestwick a pure dead brilliant place to hang out.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 01:06 (nineteen years ago) link

haha, yeah, I never considered using prestwick until they introduced that slogan

or maybe I never considered not using it

either way--the power of marketing

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 01:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Are you checking in bags, RJG? If not, I've got on flights with about ten minutes to go at Prestwick.

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 01:28 (nineteen years ago) link

REALLY...

hm

I could TRY not to have bags. it would be handy. I will see

ten minutes? how accurate is that? checked in how many mins before scheduled departure?

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 01:32 (nineteen years ago) link

It was about a year ago, I turned up all sweaty, with 11 minutes to departure time, skipped the ticket desk queue and said "I'm not checking bags, can I just get on" and she pointed me in the right direction. I skipped the security queue, and that was it. Got some scowls on board, tho.

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 01:36 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah, better not

was just thinking: best not rely on trains

shame, if you're supposed to be there 40 mins before and I would, in theory, be there 32 mins before

I can read a book, probably

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 01:37 (nineteen years ago) link

If there is a spare place going on Friday, my pal Ryan who some of you have met would quite like to come along too. So he can be on the subs list if it drops below whatever number we actually settle on.

RJG, if my car hadn't broken down I'd have given you a lift - I love the road to Prestwick at that time in the morning. I have done it a couple of times for friends/family.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 10:25 (nineteen years ago) link

RJG, as long as you are there 25 mins before an internal flight, you'll get away with it...anything after 25 mins and they are bastards and don't let you on...

How come you lot have faps everytime I'm not gonna be around....tis a conspiracy I tell ya!

― smee (smee), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 10:48 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm not going to be there on Friday :-(

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 11:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, there you are, save me sending you an email/text. I've got an unexpected day off today, so will just be driving to the football in the mister's car tonight - let me know if you want me to pick you up somewhere/give you a lift home.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 11:05 (nineteen years ago) link

have fun folksies! i'll miss you!
(and mono? god you're uncreative. you should do the victoria bar! or clutha vaults!)

― dahlin (dahlin), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 11:45 (nineteen years ago) link

god you're uncreative.

The thing about Mono is that it is fucking excellent. It was a significant factor in my decision to move through here.

― hmmm (hmmm), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 12:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Horrible wine though.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 12:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I still don't quite know what to make of Mono. It needs the full range of Sam Smiths, a lower ceiling, different chairs and tables and proper food. The homemade lemonade, ginger beer and that new berry drink I tried the other night are aces though, as is Monorail. It's easy for me to get to as well, being close to the number 40 route.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 12:47 (nineteen years ago) link

ailsa I emailed your gmail

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 13:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Cheers.

Can it not be Mono please? I think we should find somewhere new for a change. Also if we went somewhere central we could get buses/train to the south side rather than getting taxis.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 13:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Don't take any risks, RJG!

I am getting an 11.30am train to catch a 6.30pm flight. So I had better take a book too.

It seems like Glasgow has stepped up the fapping a lot since I left.

I really like Mono, but they need more and better chairs, and yes, Madchen is right, proper food. Who are the people on the ceiling supposed to be?

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 13:47 (nineteen years ago) link

If there's four or five of us in each cab it'll be cheaper than the bus. But yeah, I agree not Mono this time. I would love to nab the snug at the back of the Steps, but every time I suggest that pub there is some resistance.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 14:00 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm running late, but I'll see you in there

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 15:06 (nineteen years ago) link

one day when you say that, you're going to find yourself losing your nuts.

two hours later, when you finally turn up, that is.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 15:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Please don't remove his nuts thx.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:07 (nineteen years ago) link

David and Lorna are a no for dinner on Friday.

― hmmm (hmmm), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:44 (nineteen years ago) link

OK, that's our table for ten!
1. Me
2. Stet
3. Grimly
4. Ally C
5. Ailsa
6. Mr Ailsa
7. Stew
8. Alba
9. Hmm
10. Ryan

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Only two girls, and all those chaps. Internet communities, eh?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link

oh... have you booked it? : /

I forgot to e-mail because my heart was distracting

― soul provider (Cozen), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 18:12 (nineteen years ago) link

You and your bloody heart.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 18:29 (nineteen years ago) link

tom cruise does remind me of you

crosspost

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 18:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Please don't remove his nuts thx

i was rather thinking that you might snap and do it one day.

or is he on time for you? the bastard!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 18:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm only ever late when you're about GF, because it winds you up. I'm known for my timekeeping elsewhere

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 18:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Cozen: I booked it weeks ago, but could phone up and change the booking. Are you definitely coming now?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 20:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Only two girls, and all those chaps. Internet communities, eh?

Sausage party,

Also: Mono suX.

Also: I will be trying Glasgow less in the future.

― alext (alext), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 21:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Also: I will be trying Glasgow less in the future.

?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 21:43 (nineteen years ago) link

I will be trying Glasgow on the 18th Nov. Unfortunately it will only be long enough to get from central to buchanan st on my way to visit my friend in Linlithgow, as she's recently produced a sproglet. Also unfortunate is the fact that due to being miserly I won't be coming back the same way as I bought very cheap singles and am returning gner, so won't be able to meet anyone for drinks. Assuming anyone would be up for that.

But Chris and I will be trying Glasgow at some point in the future.

― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 22:22 (nineteen years ago) link

I will be trying Glasgow less in the future

yes, and this is a GOOD THING :)

(sorry i haven't rung you yet, alex! i will soon, i promise. maybe even in the next five minutes.)

vicky: that's a crap excuse for not coming to the pub.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 22:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Good thing = new job, not in Glasgow! But not far away :-)

― alext (alext), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link

aw, i was trying to be mysterious.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 23:00 (nineteen years ago) link

I didn't want to bust it either. Congrats Alex! I give it six months before plagiarism is rife again, with people using those fangled internets to "paste and cut" under snoozing profs' noses again

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 23:31 (nineteen years ago) link

I see that sentence structure has already gone to hell

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 23:32 (nineteen years ago) link

alex, you have one month left to save the poor boy.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 23:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Madchen, guess who I was stood next to at half-time at the football (if you aren't reading the ILX Celebrity Sightings thread)...

http://bigbrother.gonna.co.uk/pics/dermotoleary1.jpg

I was wishing I had a camera on my phone so I could have taken a picture and sent it to you.

Vicky, I work between Central Station and Buchanan Street. Can you not even spare half an hour for a cup of coffee?

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 23:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Ailsa, you sound like a panhandler.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 10 November 2005 08:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Alex, S1mon (and anyone else who fancies it), we should sort out that night out, in an attempt to at least make one of the crazy plans come true... Some time next week maybe? Trying Edinburgh I think, though. I want to go to the soft rock night at the Pond, but don't know anything about it. I'll have to find out.

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 10 November 2005 08:59 (nineteen years ago) link

I haf bought my ticket, and being a cheapskate it is non-negotiable. Also, I can't remember what time I get into Central Station, I don't get into Linlithgow until after 8, so i think it's after finishing time. I guess I could buy a single from buchanan st to linlithgow, depending on the timings.

― Vicky (Vicky), Thursday, 10 November 2005 11:45 (nineteen years ago) link

But we will be trying Glasgow properly in the new year sometime. I tried to buy tickets last night, but there appears to be engineering work or something on the west coast line in January which would mean three changes and leaving london at 5pm and only arriving in glasgow at a couple of minutes to midnight.

― Vicky (Vicky), Thursday, 10 November 2005 11:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I am coming

I can phone up and change if you wish?

― soul provider (Cozen), Thursday, 10 November 2005 13:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I tried to buy tickets last night, but there appears to be engineering work or something on the west coast line in January which would mean three changes and leaving london at 5pm and only arriving in glasgow at a couple of minutes to midnight.

What about the east coast line? I seem to usually end up using that anyway cause it usually has cheaper offers.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 10 November 2005 13:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Cozen, yay! Probably best if you do it because I am rub at these things. You can find the number on the internet can't you? Booking's in my surname I think. (Confession: I didn't actually book it either, for delegation is the key to getting things done, I find.)

Alext, yay! Are you going somewhere posher?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 10 November 2005 14:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Ailsa, cor!

Vicky, soon!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 10 November 2005 14:11 (nineteen years ago) link

gner's site was playing up as much as thetrainline last night, I got frustrated and gave up.

― Vicky (Vicky), Thursday, 10 November 2005 14:39 (nineteen years ago) link

booked for 11

― soul provider (Cozen), Thursday, 10 November 2005 15:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Good lad :)

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 10 November 2005 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Are we any nearer to a pub yet, or are we stuck with Mono?

Also, have the Koshkemeerers remembered that it's a BYOB sort of place with a £2 corkage charge and no actual bouze being sold on the premises? Just thought I'd remind you so you can get your asses down to Vicky Wines in your lunch hours rather than chasing up dodgy Pollokshaws Road offies on the way...

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 10 November 2005 18:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I like Mono, these days. I had my doubts at first.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 10 November 2005 19:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Vicky - check out Air Berlin's new STN-GLA service - £38 return if booked well in advance, last time I looked. Comfy seats, leg room, refreshments included.

I am not on commission, btw.

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 10 November 2005 20:51 (nineteen years ago) link

worst thing abut Mono = staff who chat to their cool mates and ignore the fact you have been standing at the bar for 5 minutes.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 10 November 2005 20:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Try flying less! (the environment and that) (mind you I'm flying home at Christmas but there are reasons)

gner's site was playing up as much as thetrainline last night, I got frustrated and gave up.

But thetrainline is where I usually book my (east coast) trips! It's not just for Virgin. I never specify which line, but I suppose if you put 'via Edinburgh' then it should work. Or just say you only want one change, if the west coast is making you change three times cause of engineering work.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 10 November 2005 20:56 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't say I've experienced that, jed, but I do get a bit freaked out by the general indie-cool vibe of Mono sometimes. I'm like "You're fucking indie kids - you can't be all 'cool'. This is all wrong! It's like they tell me it is in America or something! Smile you twat!"

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 10 November 2005 20:59 (nineteen years ago) link

jed OTM, but utter uselessness of those bar monkeys is more than that. They all serve like it's their first night on the job. Befuddled expressions in place, they pick at random from the bar instead of sticking to one section --- which means they're always falling over each other; they seem surprised that they sell drinks:
"a pint of blanc please"
"a what?"
"a pint of blanc please"
"uhh okkaay"
And then when the money bit comes they look like scared little boys if you give them a credit card, or if it's cash they mill hopelessly around the till prodding the big buttons like 85-year-olds at a hospital WRVS trying to work their new espresso machine.

And to top it off, they use warm glasses fresh from the washer.

― stet (stet), Thursday, 10 November 2005 22:17 (nineteen years ago) link

The best thing about Mono - knowing one or two of the bar staff who will see you and serve you quickly. And give you chilled glasses from the fridge. Different strokes.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 10 November 2005 22:43 (nineteen years ago) link

So what you're saying is that you're becoming some kind of cunt?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 10 November 2005 22:58 (nineteen years ago) link

but that's true of any pub -- it's just that you can go in those pubs for the first time and not feel like you're witnessing When Barmen … Attack!

That blanc thing happened to some poor chump ahead of me at the crush on Saturday night. I stood for about five minutes watching various people get mauled in the apathy engine, and wandered off righteously angry. Er, and went back ten minutes later to buy a drink. Can't beat the man.

(Sorry if they're your friends though)
xpost

― stet (stet), Thursday, 10 November 2005 23:15 (nineteen years ago) link

yes

xpost

yes!

who cares whose friends they are. stet OTM.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 10 November 2005 23:41 (nineteen years ago) link

OK, if we go to Mono, I'm giving my money to Ally C and letting him go to the bar.

I take it we *are* going to Mono then, despite grumblings to the contrary. What time?

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 10 November 2005 23:48 (nineteen years ago) link

I am not 'becoming' a cunt. I have been a cunt for quite some time, now.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 11 November 2005 00:31 (nineteen years ago) link

If we go to Mono, we let Ally go to the bar and pay for us with his own money.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 11 November 2005 06:55 (nineteen years ago) link

It's going to be a bit windy, I here.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 11 November 2005 07:01 (nineteen years ago) link

In my defence, I have just woken up.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 11 November 2005 07:07 (nineteen years ago) link

The bar staff in Mono are lovely. I know it can take ages to get served when there's a gig on, but then that's the case everywhere. Paul and everyone were really helpful and accomodating when we did the Beard 4 launch there. So nyaahh! ;)

― Stew (stew s), Friday, 11 November 2005 08:15 (nineteen years ago) link

That's because your Beard magazine was a passport to indie scenesterism, Stew.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 11 November 2005 09:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Take care when driving on exposed routes such as bridges, or high open roads, delay your journey or find alternative routes if possible.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 11 November 2005 12:07 (nineteen years ago) link

lovely != efficient, stew :)

that said, i now get chilled glasses with a coating of ice on them. for some reason.

so, tonight. shall i just meet you all in koshkemeer at 8, then?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 11 November 2005 12:36 (nineteen years ago) link

OK, if we don't get blown off the bridge.

Nonsouthsiders: Mono any time before about 7.30pm?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 11 November 2005 12:50 (nineteen years ago) link

what time are people going to mono? straight from work?

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 11 November 2005 13:15 (nineteen years ago) link

I'll be at Mono by 7, hopefully sooner. As long as Skypark doesn't get blown down that is.

― stew (logged out), Friday, 11 November 2005 13:39 (nineteen years ago) link

I'll be there 6.15 or so.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 11 November 2005 13:40 (nineteen years ago) link

I guess I'll go ogle women in borders again

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 11 November 2005 13:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I leave work at 5.00 but want to have a bath or maybe a shower if time's short. I can't see us getting to Mono before 7pm, especially with Stet's tardy habits.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 11 November 2005 14:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Are you two still infectious?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 11 November 2005 14:57 (nineteen years ago) link

I'll be in mono at some point. Not too sure when. No later than 7 I would imagine. I am also slightly handicapped by only knowing a couple of other people who are going. Would it be useful if I posted a photo of myself, if I can find one?

― hmmm (hmmm), Friday, 11 November 2005 15:28 (nineteen years ago) link

yes.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 11 November 2005 15:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Right, hang on.

― hmmm (hmmm), Friday, 11 November 2005 15:32 (nineteen years ago) link

if i try flying less, i won't be able to try glasgow for nye. environment loses out in the face of my unquenchable appetite for party.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 11 November 2005 15:36 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.geocities.com/simpsonneil/board6.jpg

I am on the left.

― hmmm (hmmm), Friday, 11 November 2005 15:36 (nineteen years ago) link

you should change your name to mmmm.... ;)

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 11 November 2005 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link

jed, are you coming?

I heard DFA are in town... anyone?

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 11 November 2005 16:05 (nineteen years ago) link

hmmm, were you at Dave's birthday thing at what used to be the Carnarvon, or am I confusing you with somebody else?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 11 November 2005 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link

hmmm, if it wasn't for the fact i know i know you, if you see what i mean, i wouldn't recognise you at all. you look utterly rockin',

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 11 November 2005 16:49 (nineteen years ago) link

hmmm, I think that was an insult

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 11 November 2005 16:51 (nineteen years ago) link

no i am going to a birthday dinner.

who told you the DFA are in town?

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 11 November 2005 17:46 (nineteen years ago) link

in my world, nothing rocks more than "rockin'".

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 11 November 2005 17:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Sigh, here I sit ready to leave, jacket on and quiff sharpened, yet Madchen's chattering on the phone to her sister and listening to De La Soul while futzing with make-up. What's a stet to do?

(We'll be late)

― stet (stet), Friday, 11 November 2005 19:11 (nineteen years ago) link

you'll be kicked in the nuts.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 11 November 2005 19:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Get a room.

― alext (alext), Friday, 11 November 2005 23:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Thank you Glasgow. My head hurts. You rock, you lot, you really do.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 12 November 2005 11:26 (nineteen years ago) link

bah. while you lot were off misbehavin, i was lolling around rejkevik alone with the cleanres like a moron while all my fellow passengers took advantage of the FREE LAYOVER TRIP TO THE BLUE LAGOON. duh! i am SUCH an idiot. btw, any requests for goods while i'm here (here being america, not iceland)? already on the milk duds, stetty boy.

― dahlin (dahlin), Saturday, 12 November 2005 11:41 (nineteen years ago) link

dahlin: nothing less than dick cheney's head on a silver platter will do.

that was a top night. thank you all. sorry about forcing you to walk quarter of a mile in the pouring rain to the world's shuttest venue, but i'm sure you'll agree that the eventual choice was well worth it in the end. even though i've never, ever seen it before. actually, i'm not even sure it'll be there today when i look.

i trust everyone managed to find their way back north of the river again without being eaten by wolves/shot by bandits/etc?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 12 November 2005 14:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I had a nice taxi driver who played Sam Cooke all the way home. When I say "had" I mean I did it with him.

Sorry if I faded as the evening wore on. I made the mistake of listening when Ally whispered his theories of why our lives are a pathetic sham and the case he made was convincing.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 12 November 2005 14:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Me and Hmmm managed to grab a taxi just outside Syxties. We didn't get any Sam Cooke. :(
Top night though. Nice to see the Bizarro World Glasgow (aka the South Side).

― Stew (stew s), Saturday, 12 November 2005 15:26 (nineteen years ago) link

We had to wait sodding ages for a taxi. Then the cab firm phoned my back and said "your cab is outside". "I am outside" "Yeah, it's outside the Arches" "That's not much fucking use, blah, blah, blah".

I just read my emails and realised someone on the NPL mailing list had emailed to say "come to my jangle pop indie night on teh southside". It was very odd. But in a good way.

I feel quite broken today. I may have to pass on the Winchester.

In other news, I have just provisionally booked a table at Raeburns in Paisley for 10 people at 7pm on Friday 9th December. Doesn't have to be confirmed until the week before, but I thought with it being Christmas I would get in early - we can always change if that doesn't suit, but I thought I would take the early initiative. We can deal with it nearer the time.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 12 November 2005 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Thinking about it, it wasn't really very jangly at all.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 12 November 2005 15:46 (nineteen years ago) link

I have MEMORY LOSS.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Saturday, 12 November 2005 17:53 (nineteen years ago) link

his theories of why our lives are a pathetic sham

are they the same as mine?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 12 November 2005 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link

I just remembered THROWING TABLE MATS LIKE FRISBEES! And SETTING FIRE TO TABLES!

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:00 (nineteen years ago) link

(I mean I just remembered *about* those things, not that I actually *did* them)

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:02 (nineteen years ago) link

stet getting bollocked by the old woman in syxties was deeply amusing. i didn't know he did "contrite" as an emotion :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:05 (nineteen years ago) link

That woman was rubbish. She poured me about three quarters a pint of Guinness then had to apologise that there wasn't any more left, so I got a bottom-of-the-barrel not-quite-a-pint and hmmm got a pint of lager. And I didn't get any money back. Though complaining may have been churlish since she could well have been within her rights to say "yes, but your lot set fire to a table".

Is this refreshing your memory any, Mädchen?

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:10 (nineteen years ago) link

mädchen: could your memory loss by any chance be related to the jim beam and lemonade? that was weird. it tasted like a drink, only ... wrong.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:14 (nineteen years ago) link

It was her timing that got me all contrite. I looked up in a brief moment of lucidity to find everyone pointing at me and goin "it was him!" and she looked well cross, so while I worked out what I'd done I thought the face-for-getting-a-row-from-a-teacher was the best plan.

Our taxi driver on the way home told exactly the same sorts of stories as the one on the way there -- the night the steeple fell down on Sauchiehall street -- but his were vastly more entertaining. And we were drunker, which could have had an effect.

Christ, 14.5% wine on an empty stomach. Mistake. Woodside anyone?

xposts

― stet (stet), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Madchen sez: "OOHHH COMMEE ONN!?"

(she's watching some football thing)

― stet (stet), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:16 (nineteen years ago) link

we think we're going to stay in. although it's early days yet. we'll decide later. we're going out tomorrow for mrs fiendish's sister's birthday, and i could really do with a night off.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:21 (nineteen years ago) link

I would really like to go out for more booze and fun tonight, but I feel a bit ill (I had half a pint of shandy whilst watching the Scotland game in the pub across the road) and I really don't think listening to the Hector Collectors will do anything to make that better. Some other time.

(Raeburns' house red is 14.5% as well. Just warning you, like. However random acts of violence and wilful fire-raising are de rigeur in Paisley, so you should be alright).

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:22 (nineteen years ago) link

I have a text from last night that says otherwise. Text is bond, yo.
(xpost to hrzly fiendish)

― stet (stet), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:24 (nineteen years ago) link

mrs fiendish says: "we'll see." and who am i to argue?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:26 (nineteen years ago) link

meanwhile: count me in for raeburn's. this sounds top.

mrs fiendish says she might come too. i know that isn't helpful in terms of proper booking, but hey: being organised is over-rated.

or so i'm told.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:30 (nineteen years ago) link

nb to anyone from raeburn's who might have reached this thread from a referral: we were lying about the flying table mats. and the pyromania.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:32 (nineteen years ago) link

something immense has just happened in the world of football, sports fans. I'm not sure what.

― stet (stet), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:34 (nineteen years ago) link

http://sparky.thehold.net/pix/care-o-meter.jpg

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:36 (nineteen years ago) link

England have scored. Against Argentina. It's a big deal for them, despite it being a "friendly". (something to do with the Falklands, probably)

xpost - hahaha, sorry.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:37 (nineteen years ago) link

I like very much that the care-o-meter has pi marked on it. In fact, I love that it has pi marked on it.

― hmmm (hmmm), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:38 (nineteen years ago) link

ally: what was the name of that stars track, by the way?

i wish i could remember at what point my brain decided to stop me checking out stars. even the cover of the bloody album looks familiar. gah. anyway, i thought it was fantastic, whatever it was.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:55 (nineteen years ago) link

The best Stars track is Elevator Love Letter. In fact, it's one of the two best indie tracks of this MILLENNIUM. Maybe.

I don't know if this is what Ally was talking about.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 12 November 2005 19:03 (nineteen years ago) link

it was the one they, er, played in teh club :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 12 November 2005 19:17 (nineteen years ago) link

I've just discovered the huge cut on my ear from that mat, fiendish. get one pair of running shoes

― stet (stet), Saturday, 12 November 2005 19:20 (nineteen years ago) link

*MIRTH*

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 12 November 2005 19:21 (nineteen years ago) link

no really! it's huge!

I'm going to get you. with a mat. unless mrs fiendish sees, when I'll look all contrite instead

― stet (stet), Saturday, 12 November 2005 19:23 (nineteen years ago) link

take a picture!

how the FUCK have you gone for 22 hours without noticing it? (mädchen: this q also applies to you.)

are you sure it was the mat, and not the sheer metaphorical power of that woman giving you a verbal clip round the earhole?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 12 November 2005 19:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Probably because they've just sobered up.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 12 November 2005 19:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Cozen - can I point you in the direction of the 'Hanne Hukkelberg - best thing since sliced bread' thread as I have just yousendited a sutekh mix of 'ease' which is really quite excellent.

― hmmm (hmmm), Saturday, 12 November 2005 19:39 (nineteen years ago) link

"ageless beauty", i think it was. it sounds very familiar.

"elevator love letter" also awesome, though.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 12 November 2005 20:00 (nineteen years ago) link

I did notice it the cut ear, but he was asleep so I couldn't say anything to him. I am, as M. Rossiter sang, sick, sober and sorry (that I won't be at the Winchester Club tonight). I am cradling a big cup of coffee and checking out the TV guide.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Saturday, 12 November 2005 21:46 (nineteen years ago) link

I am at tehh winhecster nad I am danicng....

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 12 November 2005 21:50 (nineteen years ago) link

with your mac?!

i am drinking wine and watching madonna on parkinson. (not literally "on" parkinson. that would be wrong.)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 12 November 2005 22:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't know anyone who works at mono

maybe cookie should get a job there instead of at a police station

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 13 November 2005 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link

is cook a cop now? my, i've missed so much...
i agree, alba. i agree
and um... yeah
my dad is cheering a football score too, but it's of the helmeted mongrel variety.
do you miss me yet?

― dahlin (dahlin), Sunday, 13 November 2005 21:05 (nineteen years ago) link

How did you enjoy Koshkemeer Glasgow?

― Rumpie, Monday, 14 November 2005 09:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Num num! Luckily Sadly, I don't think anyone took any photographs.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 14 November 2005 11:21 (nineteen years ago) link

i thought koshkemeer was superb. the kurdish kombo, or whatever it was called, was a veritable feast. hmmm's saucy thing looked tasty as fuck, and even alba's bizarre fruity dish looked, well, fruity.

it also came in at less than 13 quid a head for two courses, including corkage and service charge, which makes it a total fucking winner in my book.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 14 November 2005 11:35 (nineteen years ago) link

mediocre

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 14 November 2005 11:50 (nineteen years ago) link

yes, but you're notoriously hard to satisfy.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 14 November 2005 12:02 (nineteen years ago) link

I am

: /

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 14 November 2005 12:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh well, I'm not the Galloping Gourmet I thought then.

― Rumpie, Monday, 14 November 2005 12:21 (nineteen years ago) link

haha, the mister was so jealous of you lot with your combo thing when he just had a measly rubbish kebab. I thought it was very good. Not as good as Cossachok, but maybe I just chose unwisely this time. However, yes, under £13 with a "buy two bottles of wine get the third three" Haddows across the road meaning approx £16 each for skull-damaging levels of booze and shitloads of food gives it the thumbs up from me.

The cheapness this month means I don't feel quite so bad about suggesting an expensive place + train fares for Try Glasgow More at Christmas food :) I guess January will be 2 for £5.99 in some JD Wetherspoons then...

I had a thought for Raeburns actually. Daytime menu is a bit cheaper than evening menu, so we could go on a Saturday afternoon instead. Except it would have to be the 3rd or the 17th December as the 10th would mean that Onimo and I would be at the football. If anyone hates me for picking somewhere v.v. expensive, I haven't paid a deposit yet so we can cancel it, and go another month when the festive menus are off (it's usually about £23 a head rather than £30 for the evening menu outwith December).

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 14 November 2005 18:22 (nineteen years ago) link

i can't do the 3rd: i'm looking after my godson. no, seriously.

17th is do-able, i think, but i can't commit to daytimes quite so easily.

what does everyone else reckon? there's probably a lot to be said for waiting till the festivities are over, to be honest. i'd want a lot of value from that extra £7 :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 14 November 2005 19:18 (nineteen years ago) link

If we went on the ninth it could be problematic for me because it's the same day as my work Christmas lunch. I'm very happy for this to be my excuse to escape, but I would already have been drinking lots and would probably fall asleep or throw up or something. Also, shall I be the one to mention Christmas cash shortages? Ugh, sorry to have to bring that up *spits* but the more I think about it, the more I lean towards a January dinner.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 14 November 2005 20:37 (nineteen years ago) link

No, Mädchen, I had considered Christmas poverty too, hence why I threw it out for a suggestion so early (and I do have vague memories of you mentioning that you thought that might be your office do). We should maybe just Xmas-FAP in December and then Try Paisley More in January. I was couching it in "I don't feel quite so bad" sentiments because actually I did feel quite bad, but I didn't want to say.

May I humbly suggest Saturday December 17th for fappage since that's the day before my birthday? When is the December Winchester anyway? (I know Ally told me but I was suffering from excessive boozage at that point so I wasn't really retaining information)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 14 November 2005 22:36 (nineteen years ago) link

My work Christmas night out: 9th.
Winchester featuring Bricolage vs Dot to Dot: 10th.

'Ageless Beauty', correct. The most immediate corker from a great last album. 'Your Ex-Lover Is Dead', 'Set Yourself On Fire' and 'What I'm Trying To Say' also very good. But they're almost all good.

Good night, on Friday.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 00:56 (nineteen years ago) link

.

― Jdubz (ex machina), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 01:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I am thinking of leaving glasgow

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 03:02 (nineteen years ago) link

.

― heh, Tuesday, 15 November 2005 04:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Even if Claire Danes is here?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 10:07 (nineteen years ago) link

RJG, no! why?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 11:20 (nineteen years ago) link

where will you go?

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 13:23 (nineteen years ago) link

somewhere where no-one knows me just kidding

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 13:24 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't ever want to be leaving

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 13:33 (nineteen years ago) link

I am still trying to arrange Christmas schedules but FAPage on the 27th or 28th December may well be on offer.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 13:33 (nineteen years ago) link

I'll be back in Glasgow at about 7.30pm on 28th December.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 13:44 (nineteen years ago) link

.

― heh, Tuesday, 15 November 2005 13:50 (nineteen years ago) link

.

― Jdubz (ex machina), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 14:05 (nineteen years ago) link

very good

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 14:12 (nineteen years ago) link

aldo - when come, bring butteries (Tesco has let me down)! I may well have daughterly duties to fulfil on 27th, but I can endeavour to send the parents back northwards to freezing northland in order for 28th FAPpage. Or delay their arrival until 28th in order for 27th FAPpage. ("sorry, parents, would love to do festive things with you but I'm off to the pub with mentalists instead").

Shall I just cancel Raeburns then?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link

fappery/fappage/whatever the noun is on the 28th would probably suit me better than the 27th, but ... that all depends on how many ropey magazines i can cobble together before christmas to maximise day-off potential :)

aldo, yes, bring butteries. hundreds of the fuckers.

and yes, let's do raeburn's some time in the new year. assuming the horrific winter weather doesn't submerge paisley under 100ft of snow, or something.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 18:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Also, LET'S GO CURLING!!! Or at least ice-skating! I am awaiting the new fake-snow indoor ski thingie that's opening down the road from me (I can see it out my window) like a very excited child, but in the meantime, we should make FAP-on-ice happen.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 19:24 (nineteen years ago) link

I hope I get to Glasgow in time to go ice-skating in George Square. The boots always give me blisters and I get knackered after ten minutes but it is still worth the £8, I think.

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:07 (nineteen years ago) link

FAP-on-ice

count me the skidding fuck out. i've never been on a pair of skates in my life, and i certainly don't intend to start at the age of 30 ;)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:20 (nineteen years ago) link

also: we'd spill our pints.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:22 (nineteen years ago) link

I really meant curling, you don't need skates for that. I thought you were up for it when we talked about it when aldo was up the last time. However booze --> skating ---> more booze is good fun too. Honest. Or you can stand at the side with an over-priced mulled wine and pish yourself laughing instead.

No-one's going to want to do this, are they?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Curling! I don't know about. I'd go skating though. As long as GF wasn't allowed to stand at the side sniggering when I fell.

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:31 (nineteen years ago) link

In that sentence, does GF stand for Grimly Fiendish or GirlFriend? Can we both laugh at you?

Im totally up for curling.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:42 (nineteen years ago) link

x-post, assuming it means me:

no, when you fell i'd come slip-sliding over and drop a curling stone on your pods.

it'd be funny, honest.

as for being up for curling ... this rings a faint bell. i'd say "ah, but i was drunk" ... only i wasn't drinking that night. hmm.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Stet, I notice that Grimly Fiendish has an unhealthy fascination with causing you pain in a particularly sensitive area. I'm sure you'd already noticed.

Let's go curling in Paisley! Or between Glasgow and Paisley!!

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 21:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm sure you'd already noticed

wam! bash! zung! ooof! etc.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 23:08 (nineteen years ago) link

*cups stones*

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 23:11 (nineteen years ago) link

it's the two (amusingly mis-sized) stooges. glasgow should be delighted that it's getting all this top-quality entertainment for free.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 23:12 (nineteen years ago) link

*cups stones*

Is that a curling term then?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 23:37 (nineteen years ago) link

hello :)

cozen, no credit. yes to DFA. who else is coming?

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 23:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, sorry. Keep meaning to find out who's going and get tickets. Should just get my own, I guess.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 23:54 (nineteen years ago) link

me & ally, apparently

how much?

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 00:51 (nineteen years ago) link

eleven.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 01:02 (nineteen years ago) link

i think

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 01:04 (nineteen years ago) link

yes that's right. 11 in advance & 12 at the door.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 01:06 (nineteen years ago) link

ta

: )

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 01:17 (nineteen years ago) link

yr welcome

in advance also allows you to join the faster moving queue i believe.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 01:23 (nineteen years ago) link

try glasgow more.

― jeffrey (johnson), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 05:49 (nineteen years ago) link

"apparently"

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 10:07 (nineteen years ago) link

: )

I am going

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 10:11 (nineteen years ago) link

OK, at massive personal sacrifice I will bring my last 6 butteries. (although I think I have found a recipe and may try making some)

Curling at Paisley on Weds 28th sounds ace. There are still pubs in Paisley you don't automatically get bottled in, aren't there?

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 10:24 (nineteen years ago) link

"still"?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 10:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm presuming AT SOME POINT IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND there were. I realise this logic may be flawed.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 11:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Can anyone tell me anything about a pub called The Tap at 1055-1061 Sauchiehall Street? Apparently they have a pub quiz there on a Tuesday, and a friend is wondering if it would be suitable for a work team outing.
ta!

― alext (alext), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 12:39 (nineteen years ago) link

It is a horrid studenty place.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 12:42 (nineteen years ago) link

(I mean, a place for students who are horrid)

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 12:43 (nineteen years ago) link

not: "a place for students, who are horrid"

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 12:45 (nineteen years ago) link

So a load of civil servants will stick out like a sore bum?

― alext (alext), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 12:48 (nineteen years ago) link

I shouldn't think anyone will care. I just think it's a pretty tacky place.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 13:05 (nineteen years ago) link

it used to be nice

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 13:34 (nineteen years ago) link

We did the quiz there once and it was crap, remember?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 13:45 (nineteen years ago) link

i just opened 3 other threads and browsed ILM in another window in the time it took this one to open.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 13:53 (nineteen years ago) link

I just got DFA tix for me, Ally and Richard. I didn't get you one, David, coz I didn't know if you had one already or not. They're on sale at Art School bar (or Monorail if that's closer).

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 14:13 (nineteen years ago) link

(the woman complained that the Squarepusher tickets were easier to rip)

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 14:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Can anyone tell me anything about a pub called The Tap at 1055-1061 Sauchiehall Street?

it's where i took someone to tell them i didn't want to go out with them any more, which should tell you everything you need to know about it.

alex, you must know it. it's slap bang sod beside the university, one block north from the goat and firebird. almost at the end of university avenue, in fact. it's blue and smells of piss.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 14:35 (nineteen years ago) link

The Tap used to be lovely. We used to go there after work on fridays in 1996/7, and I had a ridiculous crush on one of the barmen. Used to have really good beer, and cask strength whiskies.

― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 14:37 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't have a ticket yet because I don't have money till friday : /

it better not sell out : /

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Doubt it will. It looked like she'd only sold about three so far from a fat book of tickets.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link

We did the quiz there once and it was crap, remember?

Oh, Madders, you are the mistress of understatement. As I remember, the bloke who ran it looked like Reece Shearsmith and got a bit upset when we called our team "You look like Reece Shearsmith". Bonus points were awarded for some bloke being able to stretch his bawbag over a pint glass, and then to anyone willing to drink from said pint glass. The tie break was settled by a race around the block.

I have no idea if this makes it suitable for civil servants on the piss or not.

However, as a pub, it has cheap drinks and a pool table and big sofas. It used to be OK.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 16:56 (nineteen years ago) link

we called our team "You look like Reece Shearsmith"

hhhahahhhAHAHAHHAHAHahH hoo, HOO!

Bonus points were awarded for some bloke being able to stretch his bawbag over a pint glass

i take it all back. the tap is obviously utterly grebt.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 17:11 (nineteen years ago) link

That is the best team name evar
*waits to be proved wrong by floods of quiz-goin ILXors*

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 17:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Actually, come to think of it, it might have been "I look like Reece Shearsmith" so that when he read our team name out it was like he was admitting to his Reece Shearsmith lookylikeyness. Anyway, the place is shit, and his poxy quiz was even shitter.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 17:37 (nineteen years ago) link

the tap is under new management (again)! we went there on a saturday afternoon semi-recently and it was dead deserted. which made it great for our purposes. i approved. they took away the tvs tho! ally was there. tell them, ally
i am so going ice skating

― dahlin (dahlin), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 18:32 (nineteen years ago) link

cozen - it won't sell out.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link

: )

the day gets better and better

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 18:48 (nineteen years ago) link

THE RISK AGENCY

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link

The Tap used to be lovely and then sunk to almost unimaginable depths of awfulness and now seems to have climbed back to a position of just kind of bad. And yeah, that quiz was the worst I have ever been to, I think. But it was like 4 years ago or something, it might be different now.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 19:05 (nineteen years ago) link

i think i must have stumbled across it just as it hit the darkest depths.

anyway, look, this is important but i'm only going to mention it once 'cos this kind of thing might not be good ILE etiquette. but if you care about scotland's finest cinema and don't want it turned into a shit pub that's probably even worse than the tap then, umm, click there.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 22:51 (nineteen years ago) link

this kind of thing might not be good ILE etiquette

All cinema saving spam should be accompanied by the atari penis face graphic. Apart from that, it's fine.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 17 November 2005 07:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Did you get that from Ath0le, S1mon? Bad news. Amazing it would even be considered, what with the festival and all that. Like any more pubs are needed.

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 17 November 2005 08:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Jesus, I grew up with Late Night Double Bills at the Cameo, closing it would be like blowing up part of my life.

The people involved need a good pistol whipping. Just for starters.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 17 November 2005 10:42 (nineteen years ago) link

erstwhile projectionist ath0le is doing his bit, keith, aye ... but big chris sent me the link first. after all, he lives above the fucking thing, so he's got a vested interest in it not turning into some shitey bar.

during the summer of 1994, i think i went to the cameo every single day. and it's where i saw trainspotting for the first time. and deliverance. and the big blue. and carlito's way. and when we were kings. i love that place; like aldo says, closing it would be like shutting the door on something monumental in my life.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 17 November 2005 11:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Do you remember seeing Trees Lounge there while revising for our finals? I can remember coming out thirstier than I had ever been in my life, and with an unquenchable desire to end up a pathetic barfly. Hey it might still happen!

― alext (alext), Thursday, 17 November 2005 11:21 (nineteen years ago) link

fuck yes!

we also went to see "beavis and butt-head do america" at the ABC, or whatever it was called ;)

god, trees lounge. what an amazing wee film.

other great cameo associations: smoke and blue in the face. i'd have given up long before if it hadn't been for those two.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 17 November 2005 11:32 (nineteen years ago) link

this is an absolute tragedy. i'm so fucking angry!

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 17 November 2005 13:14 (nineteen years ago) link

http://glasgowindieeyespy.blogspot.com/

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 17 November 2005 13:54 (nineteen years ago) link

3rd division's not bad :-)

Do you still get points for the record shop staff if you see them in the record shops? The 'Hurley from Lost' HMV guy should be included.

Um "Thursday, April 27, 2006" :-/

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 17 November 2005 14:07 (nineteen years ago) link

why did you see that, cozen?

it's awful

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 17 November 2005 15:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Is it just me or is this thread taking an order or magnitude longer to load since JW's shenanigans?

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 17 November 2005 15:57 (nineteen years ago) link

someone posted it on ILM

: /

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 17 November 2005 16:01 (nineteen years ago) link

It's taking ages to load. I think something's going to break.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 17 November 2005 16:43 (nineteen years ago) link

we're only halfway there

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 17 November 2005 16:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Not worth a thread outwith this one, but I'd just like to raise a glass to that nice wee old man who fires the one o'clock gun at Edinburgh Castle, who has died at the age of 60. He's as much part of Hogmanay as Rikki Fulton used to be. RIP, Tam The Gun.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 17 November 2005 19:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Somebody did Glasgow Indie Eye Spy booklets and dished them out at Pop League about two years ago. Sorry.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 17 November 2005 21:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I think it was the same person

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 17 November 2005 21:18 (nineteen years ago) link

And doctor cock didn't exist then, so it wasn't a very fun game. I disagree with their league structure.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 17 November 2005 21:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Is it the person I think it is?

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 17 November 2005 21:49 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't know

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 17 November 2005 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link

We went to the Cameo this evening. If you haven't been for a while, it's worth going just to remind yourself that it stinks. Literally. The main screen smells of damp so badly the freezing night air was blessed relief. So while I'd be sad if it disappeared, and christ knows Tollcross does not need a super-pub for students to tank up in before going to those shit nightclubs round the corner, if they haven't got money to fix whatever is obviously very wrong with the fabric of the building, something's going to have to change or it'll be pretty much unusable shortly.

― alext (alext), Thursday, 17 November 2005 23:01 (nineteen years ago) link

i just played 2 sides of a C90 waiting for this thread to open.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 17 November 2005 23:52 (nineteen years ago) link

even with the display last 50/20/whatever answers?

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 18 November 2005 01:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Chr1s G1lmour, yes. Boring.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 18 November 2005 01:37 (nineteen years ago) link

RJG, aye.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 18 November 2005 01:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I finished Sonic the Hedgehog waiting for it to load. But I'm on a Mac, which is doubtless why.

― stet (stet), Friday, 18 November 2005 02:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Timed it: It took two minutes to post that last comment, and two and a half to reload the thread. That's with settings at "last 50 posts".

― stet (stet), Friday, 18 November 2005 02:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I can no longer load this thread at work -- it times out!

So seriously, do we need to 'try glasgow some more'?

― alext (alext), Friday, 18 November 2005 05:36 (nineteen years ago) link

RJG will consider it his greatest defeat and there have been so many.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 18 November 2005 07:23 (nineteen years ago) link

I'd be in favour of making any new thread about a different city.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 18 November 2005 07:24 (nineteen years ago) link

wrote a novel waiting for the thread to reload

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 18 November 2005 07:42 (nineteen years ago) link

i lived my entire life, died, was reincarnated as myself, died again, was reincarnated for myself as a third time (how unlucky can you get?) and ate a slap-up tea in the time it took me to think of this deeply unfunny response.

seriously: i can live with waiting for the thread to open. it adds to the anticipation. but if glasgow is borking ILX, even slightly, that would be a bad thing. however, i have no idea whether it is or not.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 18 November 2005 11:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I started reciting the value of pi and REACHED THE END before this thread loaded.

Patience is a rare commodity these days, this thread allows us to relearn waiting.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 18 November 2005 11:52 (nineteen years ago) link

I saw continents boil into the oceans and nameless horrors swoop over the earth by the light of dying suns while this thread loaded.

― alext (alext), Friday, 18 November 2005 12:22 (nineteen years ago) link

this thread is useful

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 18 November 2005 12:47 (nineteen years ago) link

If a new thread is started, I really would like Glasgow to have a capital letter at the beginning.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 18 November 2005 12:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Indie I Spy is a missed opportunity, I think. No places, no non-performers, no questions.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 18 November 2005 13:05 (nineteen years ago) link

glasgow doesn't need a capital!

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 18 November 2005 13:23 (nineteen years ago) link

and the capital doesn't need Glasgow!!!

― alext (alext), Friday, 18 November 2005 13:25 (nineteen years ago) link

bingo!

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 18 November 2005 13:26 (nineteen years ago) link

i have looked at this thread, once or twice, and had no trouble with it loading.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 18 November 2005 13:28 (nineteen years ago) link

yes, it loads pretty instantaneously for me, too

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 18 November 2005 13:29 (nineteen years ago) link

you'd assume someone would have said something by now if this massive thread was fucking shit up elsewhere, wouldn't you?

i vote we KEEP THE THREAD ALIVE FOR EVER.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 18 November 2005 14:28 (nineteen years ago) link

It'll have to be alive for infinity. I just watched the heat death of the universe waiting for it to load.

― stet (stet), Friday, 18 November 2005 14:56 (nineteen years ago) link

are you coming to chris's leaving do tonite, stet? it's in that fucking horrific hellhole next to the post office.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 18 November 2005 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link

The Savoy Centre?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 18 November 2005 15:54 (nineteen years ago) link

o christ, I forgot. are you goin?

cobalt has gone bust, hair fans. where now for those in search of quiffage?

― stet (stet), Friday, 18 November 2005 17:27 (nineteen years ago) link

aye, we're goin'. i'll be there 7ish. then i'm off to meet j1m and p3nny for a moaning/gossip session.

why the FUCK am i google-proofing their names? ah well.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 18 November 2005 17:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Stet - I can sort you out re: cobalt with Irene's private number. Or the other one's, if you're that way inclined. She has "a chair" in another salon.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 18 November 2005 17:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Who's harder -- Chr1s or Madch3n? Because one of them is going to murder me ...

xpost: is she the Kiwi?

― stet (stet), Friday, 18 November 2005 17:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Irene's Scottish. The other one has crazy hair and I didn't think she was a Kiwi but maybe. RJG will know.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 18 November 2005 17:39 (nineteen years ago) link

she sounded like it

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 18 November 2005 18:09 (nineteen years ago) link

There will be no new thread.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 18 November 2005 18:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Look out Glasgow, we are being spied!

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 18 November 2005 18:19 (nineteen years ago) link

CHR1S G1LMOUR, YES. BORING.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 18 November 2005 18:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Boring, but happy

― Chris Gilmo (illman), Friday, 18 November 2005 19:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Chr1s spied every single member of every single band in Glasgow while he was waiting for this thread to load.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 18 November 2005 20:17 (nineteen years ago) link

I just spied Camera Obscura on the telly whilst avoiding Jamie Cullum on Children in Need. This Music Show thing looks like the sort of thing I should maybe have been watching all along (I taped the first one, but still haven't watched it yet). Why aren't Dot to Dot on it?

Maybe they are, and I just haven't known because I'm not watching it.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 18 November 2005 23:54 (nineteen years ago) link

ive quite liked everything on it so far except them. i thought they were awful.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 18 November 2005 23:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Embrace your inner tweeness, jed_. I liked those Music and Movement chappies that were on just now.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 19 November 2005 00:00 (nineteen years ago) link

lol ailsa. i liked Found (were they called?)

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 19 November 2005 00:03 (nineteen years ago) link

i fear I might be about to watch 170000000000 hours of the Lord of the Rings while avoiding Children in Leeds.

― stet (stet), Saturday, 19 November 2005 00:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha, that last band had the dude from the Supernaturals in it! (they were good though, even though there was an inappropriate apostrophe in their caption).

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 19 November 2005 00:08 (nineteen years ago) link

b-b-but stet, you'll miss Peter Andre duetting with Jordan (so good they are repeating it RIGHT NOW!)

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 19 November 2005 00:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Peter Andre duetting with Jordan

I misread that as duelling and almost regretted going to the pub.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Saturday, 19 November 2005 10:07 (nineteen years ago) link

The first The Music Show was bad. I haven't seen any since. Dot to Dot are obviously not good enough. Arse to Face, however, are on next week and will kill.

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 19 November 2005 15:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Man currently fixing pipe and heating. Phewie!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Saturday, 19 November 2005 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link

RJG says I look like Dame Edna.

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 19 November 2005 19:18 (nineteen years ago) link

dame edna isn't gay

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 19 November 2005 19:20 (nineteen years ago) link

He does look a bit like Dame Edna.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 19 November 2005 19:30 (nineteen years ago) link

I cannot wait to see these black, white and brown spectacles.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Saturday, 19 November 2005 20:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, I haven't seen them. I just meant generally.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 19 November 2005 20:04 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.designer-eyewear.co.uk/pzed/J.KEA1661.jpg

+1 attractiveness modifier

― Ally COZEN (Ally C), Saturday, 19 November 2005 20:27 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.abbiescostumes.com/catalog/images/LS8401.jpg

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 19 November 2005 20:34 (nineteen years ago) link

My second choice.

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 19 November 2005 20:57 (nineteen years ago) link

wonky but cute, was my verdict.

― Cathy (Cathy), Saturday, 19 November 2005 21:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, wonky.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 19 November 2005 21:09 (nineteen years ago) link


In case Glasgow misses it, can i say woo and indeed hoo. Teh Hoops were like Cruyffs side of the 70's today. Sparkling. What can I say, Nakmura is easily the best player to grace this soil since..............since...ever. What a glorious day. Apologies to the other sides lot but we were fantastic today.

― JohnFoxxsJuno (JohnFoxxsJuno), Sunday, 20 November 2005 00:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Can anyone recommend a reliable computer repair place in the west end? Mine broke and I don't know what to do.

― hmmm (hmmm), Monday, 21 November 2005 20:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Nakamura is easily the best player to grace this soil since, ooh, Shaun Maloney. So we beat the worst Rangers team I think I've seen in my life. This doesn't make us great. Calm yourself down.

(you're only apologising to Ally C on this thread, I think, and he's probably used to it by now anyway).

I know bugger all about computers, and probably less about the West End, hmmm, sorry :)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 21 November 2005 22:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Booze Explosion was in town last night. She didn't recognise me with my glasses. Nice dance routines, mind.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 12:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Watch out for the health inspectors knocking on your door, Mädchen.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 13:14 (nineteen years ago) link

why are you not all talking about how great Saturday night was? lovely to see all y'all. especially nige to rub glasses with ally.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 13:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm still recovering from Saturday. And still trying to get Big Fun out of my brane.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 14:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Alba, I don't live in the East End. I live in Merchant City East and we have an organic bakery now.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 14:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I danced for hours!

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 15:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Your conversation was scintillating also.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 15:20 (nineteen years ago) link

as ever

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 15:41 (nineteen years ago) link

but not on the internet eh

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, did you all have fun on Saturday when I fell asleep and didn't come out then? Bah.

I was tempted to go and see Miss Booze Explosion and her chums last night, but I have a lot on at work and going out on a school night is out of the question right now. I want my old job back with its lack of hassle and shorter hours and relatively long lie.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 17:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Saturday was superb. Last night, also very good. Had to fight my way through the slavering autograph-hunting boys to get to Paula, though.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 23:23 (nineteen years ago) link

12 days no ile! Grebt.

I will try more glasgow, sorry Peter, Glasgow, on the 2nd.

― Mooro (Mooro), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 07:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Yay!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 10:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Hooray, Mooro!

We were wondering.

As you know.

Is that 12 days without looking, or 12 days without contributing?

I need to know what to aim for.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 11:06 (nineteen years ago) link

12 days without looking, (most of) 12 days without thinking of.

During the 12 I, moore, tried Sevilla.

― Mooro (Mooro), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 11:21 (nineteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v384/lucyald/Russian9.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v384/lucyald/Russian8.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v384/lucyald/Russian7.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v384/lucyald/Russian6.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v384/lucyald/Russian5.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v384/lucyald/Russian4.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v384/lucyald/Russian3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v384/lucyald/Russian2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v384/lucyald/Russian1.jpg

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 17:03 (nineteen years ago) link

They're not very good and rather old, sorry.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 17:07 (nineteen years ago) link

I just found out I have a week's holiday in a couple of weeks and I am going to try and try glasgow!

Can we have lots of dinners?

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 17:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes. Madchen – those photos are sort of good. I like the way they are high contrast, with the background so dark or something.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 18:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I like me looking round and you with a pipe in your head.

Cathy, yay!

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 19:19 (nineteen years ago) link

internet lawyer was telling me today about s3tanta guy

get this

an hour before a game starts on s3tanta a website opens

you then either post up your user ID or e-mail it to him

it wasn't made clear

anyway

the guy then generates the PIN and sends it to you

voila, s3tanta unlocks

only works with freeview apparently

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 20:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, that was in the Evening Times, about them being cross and going AFTER people doing it. You need Top Up TV with Freeview too.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 20:38 (nineteen years ago) link

ridiculous

I have NOT done this btw

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 20:58 (nineteen years ago) link

A couple of people I know have got some kind of free sky/setanta set-up but are getting nervous because one of their neighbours got caught recently.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 21:25 (nineteen years ago) link

I am NOT a couple of people mädchen knows

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 21:38 (nineteen years ago) link

No, I should have made that clear, sorry.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 21:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I have a job interview in Erskine on Friday but I'm not totally sure how to get there. The buses don't seem to go that far out (which is a little concerning as I don't want to spend my life travelling). Do any of you know if it is possible for me to make it there by public transport and, if so, how long it will take?

― hmmm (hmmm), Thursday, 24 November 2005 15:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Have you tried asking Jess?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 24 November 2005 16:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Jess says the number 23 Arriva bus from Union Street goes to Erskine.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 24 November 2005 16:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Get the subway to Govan, aim right and 23 bus stop is opposite a bank.

xpost

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 24 November 2005 16:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Many many thanks. Jess also says that it will take 40 mins (i'm not sure if that allows for rush hour traffic or not). It's not exactly close by at the other end either. However, they are talking about paying an ok amount of money.... for a job I don't really want to do.

― hmmm (hmmm), Thursday, 24 November 2005 16:24 (nineteen years ago) link

There's an X23 from the city centre that goes on the motorway and only takes 25 mins on a good day (or at least there was when I lived in Erskine a few years back). A 22 or a 300 (I think) gets you to Erskine from Paisley via the airport.

My wife works in Erskine, in a bank.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 24 November 2005 16:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Actually, jess says it will take over an hour. Plus a bit at the other end. Too long for me. Oh well.

xpost

thanks. Even that is pushing it quite a lot I'm afraid what with having to get into town first and all that.

― hmmm (hmmm), Thursday, 24 November 2005 16:49 (nineteen years ago) link

22 goes from Paisley (just outside Gilmour Street station - take the exit onto County Square and look on the left as you come out of the station, it's across from the taxi rank on the right hand side of the road with your back to the station) but doesn't go via the airport. However there are roadworks and diversions and whathaveyou through Renfrew, which is where it does goes through on the way out of Paisley. Whereabouts in Erskine is the interview, as the buses don't serve very much of it?

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 24 November 2005 19:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Accentmonkey in Glasgow December 2nd to 4th

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 25 November 2005 13:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Anyone going to see the gussets at the barfly tonight? It'd part of some kind of night called Funhouse.

― hmmm (hmmm), Friday, 25 November 2005 18:16 (nineteen years ago) link

did you go in the end?

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 26 November 2005 11:37 (nineteen years ago) link

sorry, not funny

glasgow looked so beautiful again today

my moods are flicking like switches lately

what with all this weather

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 26 November 2005 11:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Is it snowy in Glasgow? It melted in about an hour here.

― KeefW (kmw), Saturday, 26 November 2005 12:27 (nineteen years ago) link

It appears to be wet.

I tried to go and see the gussets prior to stumbling along to pop league. I had been informed that they were going to play for about 20 mins very soon after the club opened at 1030. We arrived early, sat around while they played some horrible music, watched loads of horrible people arrive. A band came on who sounded like a shit version of Lung Leg. We left.

Not the most amazing experience of my entire life. Pop League on the other hand....

― hmmm (hmmm), Saturday, 26 November 2005 13:41 (nineteen years ago) link

badly organised mini-FAP action, yo: ailsa and i are both going to be ending up at the woodside tonight (friday) to see swimmer one et al. we were originally going to try to hook up with accentmonkey in uisge beatha on woodlands road, but that plan appears to have fallen through ... either way, i imagine i'll be in uisge beatha for about 9pm, and ailsa might be there a bit earlier.

and then woodside ho!

anyone else?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 2 December 2005 09:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Why has the Uisge plan fallen through? I'm still planning on going before going to see Camera Obscura.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 2 December 2005 09:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Also Ally, do you have birthday-type plans this weekend?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 2 December 2005 09:42 (nineteen years ago) link

he's thinking about getting the umbilical cord cut

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 2 December 2005 10:29 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm here! Hello Glasgow!

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 2 December 2005 11:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Blimey, are you back?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 2 December 2005 12:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Why has the Uisge plan fallen through?

trish said her brother had booked a meal for tonight at 7pm. didn't she?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 2 December 2005 12:44 (nineteen years ago) link

yus:

Well, my stupid brother has booked our posh food for Friday instead of Saturday. Which means we have to be at the restaurant at 7pm! V. early.

So, who will meet us for pints on Saturday instead?

-- accentmonkey (tris...), Yesterday 12:14 AM. (accentmonkey) (later)

and i cannae do saturday 'cos am being grumpy uncle simon to a six-year-old all weekend chiz chiz CHIZ.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 2 December 2005 12:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Woops, looks like she posted that at the same time I was posting, or I just didn't read it properly.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 2 December 2005 12:48 (nineteen years ago) link

I forgot to mention this but to those interested, I will be attempting to try Glasgow this New Year's Eve. Hope to see you!

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Friday, 2 December 2005 12:51 (nineteen years ago) link

stevem, that would rock. hard. although so far i think my NYE is going to involve staying sober so i can drive between two different parties. hmm. that will be ... novel.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 2 December 2005 13:26 (nineteen years ago) link

See, there's this thing called a taxi ...

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 2 December 2005 13:43 (nineteen years ago) link

On Hogmanay?

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Friday, 2 December 2005 13:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Cozen and I are hoping to go to Optimo NYE, Steve. Maybe Lauren and Ally too?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 2 December 2005 14:02 (nineteen years ago) link

I would be v keen on that (should i buy a ticket asap?), and could hopefully persude Alix if she isn't initially.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Friday, 2 December 2005 14:08 (nineteen years ago) link

I was drunk when I said that but I stand by it

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 2 December 2005 14:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm going to move fast on this. When do they usually sell out?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 2 December 2005 14:27 (nineteen years ago) link

at the first hint of success

have you read ally's latest "review"?

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 2 December 2005 14:52 (nineteen years ago) link

I am not going to any optimo

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 2 December 2005 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link

me optimo. usually sells out just before christmas, alba. they go on sale online today and mono/vic tomorrow ( i just learned from echatio).

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:31 (nineteen years ago) link

we went to optimo at the art school last year. i hope they hire some bar staff this time round :) :) :)

See, there's this thing called a taxi ...

scotstvo sadly dead-on. i have waited up to three hours for taxis on hogmanay. never again.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I tend to phone in advance. It means you can't change plans at the last minute, but that's not a bad thing at New Year.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link

LATEST NEWS: my new bathroom starts to go in on Tuesday!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:00 (nineteen years ago) link

It means you can't change plans at the last minute

exactly.

which is why i'm going to have to take the sodding car :(

anyway. like i say. it'll be a novelty waking up on january 1 and not feeling like i'm staring into the fucking abyss, with vomit on my shoes.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:09 (nineteen years ago) link

and when will it be ready to go in?

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:11 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm bursting

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:12 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm only coming to Glasgow just so i can use Madchen's new bathroom.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:14 (nineteen years ago) link

though i will be sure to 'give it a few minutes' after RJG.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:15 (nineteen years ago) link

maybe I'll take a new haunt

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link

It'll be a fortnight so you'd better find an alley for your slash, RJG.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link

SLICE

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:55 (nineteen years ago) link

no thanks, I could end up scarred, facially

crosspost

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:56 (nineteen years ago) link

I never made it out tonight due to being let down by the person I was meant to be out with and confusion as to whether I would end up a big Norma-no-mates if I went out anyway without him.

This has its advantages, as I can now stay in and anticipate Emma Pollock on The Music Show instead. Does anyone actually know if there is a plan for tomorrow? I will be in Glasgow anyway, so can someone text me if people are pubbing?

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 2 December 2005 23:42 (nineteen years ago) link

ooh god, my head.

ally, nick, stacey: i remember seeing you in the RAF club. IIRC ally was wearing some cool specs. but i have little recollection of anything else, so i apologise for whatever drunken nonsense i was no doubt spouting.

when you're drinking triple vodkas, you know you've had a good night.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 3 December 2005 12:43 (nineteen years ago) link

It was the racism I couldn't stomach.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 3 December 2005 12:55 (nineteen years ago) link

?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 3 December 2005 13:16 (nineteen years ago) link

all i remember is trying to kick your skinny ass. literally.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 3 December 2005 13:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Plan tonight: partay at my house. All welcome, natch.

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 3 December 2005 13:56 (nineteen years ago) link

unnatch

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 3 December 2005 14:04 (nineteen years ago) link

ally, have a top one. spare a thought for me, trying to find ways of entertaining my six-year-old nephew. with a hangover.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 3 December 2005 14:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Fuck, Ally, I forgot about your birthday party. Possibly because you didn't invite me. I'm glad you all had fun on Friday.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 4 December 2005 00:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, you did sort of invite me, if posting to ILE an hour after I left the house counts. Please accept my apologies for any aspersion-casting.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 4 December 2005 00:34 (nineteen years ago) link

whaddya know

there is actually an offence of "drugging"

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 4 December 2005 14:03 (nineteen years ago) link

from the "draft criminal code for scotland", which is actually an expanded version of the current common law crime of drugging - drugging someone for a laugh doesn't appear to be a crime tho


Drugging

(1) A person who administers any drug or other substance to another person

(a) with intent to stupefy that person or being reckless as to whether that person is stupefied;

(b) with intent to facilitate the commission of an offence against that person or being reckless as to whether such an offence is committed; or

(c) with intent that that person commits an offence, or being reckless as to whether that person commits an offence, is guilty of the offence of drugging.

(2) Subsection (1)(a) does not apply

(a) if the drug or substance is administered in the course of lawful medical or dental treatment; or

(b) if the other person, knowing the likely effects of the drug or substance, requested or consented to its administration.

(3) For the purpose of this section administering a drug or substance includes causing it to be taken.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 4 December 2005 14:07 (nineteen years ago) link

drugging someone for a laugh doesn't appear to be a crime tho

You don't need (1) (b) or (c) on top of (a) do you? Isn't (a) enough as long as the exclusions in (2) don't apply?

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 4 December 2005 14:59 (nineteen years ago) link

oh, yeah, d'oh

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 4 December 2005 15:07 (nineteen years ago) link

this is from the attendant commentary on the code:

The offence in subsection (1)(a) does not require an intent to do anything, or recklessness as to anything, beyond stupefying the victim. The essence of the offence is a violation of the victim’s interest in freedom of action and volition.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 4 December 2005 15:08 (nineteen years ago) link

I was half right about the current law:

At common law “drugging” would generally be treated as a form of causing real injury. There is, according to Gordon, no reported instance of a charge of drugging without an ulterior intent such as theft, but various older texts, including Alison, Macdonald and Anderson are all of the view that stupefaction without an ulterior intent would be unlawful.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 4 December 2005 15:11 (nineteen years ago) link

So that's your drugging career over then. Oh well. Time to find a new perfect crime.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 4 December 2005 15:14 (nineteen years ago) link

or courting technique

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 4 December 2005 17:34 (nineteen years ago) link

I've just had a long and apologetic voicemail from Phil, who asked me to pass on his message to those concerned. As for me, I would like to apologise to Cozen for snuggling up to him and making him sick. And for doubting his expertise in the law.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Sunday, 4 December 2005 21:18 (nineteen years ago) link

GLASGOW CAN FUCK OFF. HORRIBLE FUCKING PLACE.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 4 December 2005 22:14 (nineteen years ago) link

(because I work there and I don't want to have to go in tomorrow because I hate it)

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 4 December 2005 22:15 (nineteen years ago) link

(I am drunk and feeling sorry for myself)

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 4 December 2005 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link

snuggling up to him and making him sick

coo, the things you miss when you're at the citizens' with a six-year-old watching "charlotte's web" (which, incidentally, is astonishing and joyous and beautiful).

a painfully contrite phil asked me by e-mail to mention that he's not a complete knobhead. i can vouch for that: he really isn't. even though i get the impression he behaved like one last night.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 4 December 2005 22:43 (nineteen years ago) link

[sits very still and doesn't say much ever again]

― stet (stet), Sunday, 4 December 2005 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link

mooro-ver: i understand i met mooro on friday and didn't realise! apologies. i really am a tool.

my addled brane just remembers lucy saying: "something someone ILX somewhere" and me going: "TOP I SHALL BUY MORE BEER" and then having to make up the round on the spot at the bar because i couldn't remember what anybody wanted.

next time i shall try to have enough functioning brain cells to actually talk, mooro.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 4 December 2005 23:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, every time I open this thread I get more convinced it is my destiny to end up at home like a big no-mates loser whilst the rest of the world has large amounts of fun.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 5 December 2005 00:01 (nineteen years ago) link

go to the citz and watch "charlotte's web", ailsa! you won't regret it. whereas i do, frequently, regret consuming vast amounts of alcohol.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 5 December 2005 00:03 (nineteen years ago) link

best bit was turning up at the door of the RAFA club with grimly fiendish in tow, this wizened 1950s fighter ace opening the door, peering at us, and calmly saying "oho it's the tall one and the short one. Yous had better come in then".

I can't actually remember anything else, right enough. Except scoffing lots of Celebrations.

― stet (stet), Monday, 5 December 2005 00:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Why does everyone keep apologising? You were all fun. Ta.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 5 December 2005 00:21 (nineteen years ago) link

I had fun. Elsewhere.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 5 December 2005 00:25 (nineteen years ago) link

I hurt my knee

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 5 December 2005 01:27 (nineteen years ago) link

weird; I hurt my knee too

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 5 December 2005 10:25 (nineteen years ago) link

I have a big bruise on my shin, just below the knee.

― stet (stet), Monday, 5 December 2005 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I outrank you

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 5 December 2005 17:16 (nineteen years ago) link

mine was dislocation

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 5 December 2005 17:18 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm actually going to be in nyc on nye. very last minute. can optimo be moved?

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 5 December 2005 18:04 (nineteen years ago) link

No need to apologise, Mr Fiendish. All was explained by Mädchen, with a bit of giggling & liberal use of the word "wankered".

You bought me the right drink, as well!

― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 5 December 2005 22:19 (nineteen years ago) link

there was definitely an "-ed" on the end of the "wanker"?

i'm frankly astonished by getting the right drink. wow! good to meet you, anyway: i look forward to doing it again, properly.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 5 December 2005 22:25 (nineteen years ago) link

By the way, Mooro, I don't know if anyone mentioned it but that was a nice t-shirt you were wearing.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 5 December 2005 22:45 (nineteen years ago) link

And Grimly, I think the worst thing I said about you involved the words 'fluffy' and 'sideburns'.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 5 December 2005 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link

girls aloud, tomorrow

I'm going to tell them I did my knee in dancing to all their songs and they will kiss me

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 5 December 2005 22:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Mooro, were you up? You should've said...

― KeefW (kmw), Monday, 5 December 2005 22:59 (nineteen years ago) link

RJG, hold out for a massage.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 5 December 2005 23:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Lauren, aww.

I have no major injuries, as yet.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 00:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I wanted to see girls aloud, i didn't.

― jeffrey (johnson), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 00:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Mädchen, I seem to recall someone commenting favourably on my t-shirt, presumably because of its impeccable post-rock credentials. Possibly another member of the "wankered" group?

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 13:20 (nineteen years ago) link

glasgow's gay

― bato (bato), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 13:23 (nineteen years ago) link

GlasGAY, as any fule no.

Mooro, that was Phil, of apology fame.

They were meant to start giving me a new bathroom today :(

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 18:54 (nineteen years ago) link

^ that wasn't me.

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 18:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Hoho, you couples and your shared computer usage!

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 18:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Woopsy.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 19:00 (nineteen years ago) link

I am in Glasgow this weekend. It is going to be exiting, for me. And maybe for you too if you chose to come out and play. So, this weekend's feature is 'Lara in Glasgow: Arriving Friday, Leaving Monday and Open to Suggestion'.

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 19:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Watch Ally wiggle his arse and sing some songs!

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 19:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Lara, did your phone die? Or did the phone company just cancel your account when the call reached €100?

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 19:13 (nineteen years ago) link

it'll be nice to meet you, lara

: )

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 21:39 (nineteen years ago) link

oh and haha well done to rangers!!

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 21:39 (nineteen years ago) link

(not that the call was long, I just mean international mobile to mobile)

Rangers are funny.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 21:49 (nineteen years ago) link

I agree; a bunch of weirdoes

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 21:59 (nineteen years ago) link

YES.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Lara, one of your Friendster photos is shocking.

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 22:38 (nineteen years ago) link

fucken football fannies

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 22:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Ally, I had a selection of comedy Rangers-related text messages all ready to send you tonight. Sadly, I never got to use any of them.

Right now, on VH1 Classic, they are playing the video for Wide Boy by Nik Kershaw. This is, right now, the greatest thing in the world.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 00:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Yesterday, I tried the following things in Glasgow -

Coffee in Tinderbox on Byres Road.
Exhibition at the CCA
Burger & Ginger Beer in Mono
The Necropolis at Sunset
Ku Klux Klan Exhibition at St. Mungo's Museum.
Awesome cider at Babbity Bowsers.

― hmmm (hmmm), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 10:42 (nineteen years ago) link

not bad!

what did you make of the KKK exhibition?

heads up: free cinema tonight

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 11:00 (nineteen years ago) link

... and of the dali?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 11:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Generally, I really hate Dali. I find it all really contrived. This one, I quite liked as it wasn't quite as silly as his other stuff.

The KKK exhibition was very interesting from a documentary/political point of view. The photos themselves were pretty boring.

― hmmm (hmmm), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 11:10 (nineteen years ago) link

The Necropolis at Sunset

good work. i love it up there.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 11:53 (nineteen years ago) link

It's even better in the snow.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 12:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Most things are.

― hmmm (hmmm), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 12:10 (nineteen years ago) link

I think "contrived" is the wrong word, for once

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 12:25 (nineteen years ago) link

the beach

x-post

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 12:31 (nineteen years ago) link

I burn really easily in the sun, find sunbathing boring, don't like being too hot and don't like sand in between my toes. Hence, I would say that the beach is better in the snow.

I think "contrived" is the wrong word, for once

I find his work to be too cerebrally weird. It's all too well thought through and lacking in viscerality for my taste. His excessive skill, 'look at how odd I am' persona and ideas frequently get in the way of him doing anything that's actually worth more than a freakshow.

The christ painting works because he is working in a manner oppositie to his usual one. Rather than distorting things to create a surreal and freakish effect, he is correcting the use of such effects in historical paintings of the crucifiction. In removing the blood, nails and horror from the image of christ on the cross, he asserts his view of christ's role as a force for good, rather than an object of pity. His distortion is a return to reality, rather than an escape from it.

― hmmm (hmmm), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 13:02 (nineteen years ago) link

And my point is that the christ painting works because, although heavily considered, all of it's distortions and effects are there for a purpose rather than being there for their own sake.

― hmmm (hmmm), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 13:08 (nineteen years ago) link

It is one heck of a striking angle. Even better than Holbein's, I think.
http://www.tuirgin.com/img/christ_entombed.jpg

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 13:12 (nineteen years ago) link

A great bunch of stuff for a day, of which the Necropolis shades it. Good job.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 13:53 (nineteen years ago) link

All done in time for tea too.

― hmmm (hmmm), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 14:09 (nineteen years ago) link

for christ's sake

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 14:10 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.talyandruss.com/graphics/cds/cd-jc.jpg!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:11 (nineteen years ago) link

I find that a little contrived.

― hmmm (hmmm), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:40 (nineteen years ago) link

not at all like his other stuff

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:40 (nineteen years ago) link

He is cycling in a direction opposite to his usual one.

― hmmm (hmmm), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link

In the cycle path of righteousness is life, and in the pathway thereof there is no death unless some twat in a lorry doesn't see you.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:40 (nineteen years ago) link

I like his big yellow helmet.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:38 (nineteen years ago) link

stet again huh?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:03 (nineteen years ago) link

: )

anyway

'the burmese harp' was great

where's the beard guy with the beard details?

and I take it no-one likes d.eulberg?

x

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:07 (nineteen years ago) link

I haven't forgiven you Jesus.

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Shut it, Cozen, or I'll make you sick again using the power of snuggling.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link

: )

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 8 December 2005 13:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Did you really snuggle, like Homer & Marge?

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 8 December 2005 13:33 (nineteen years ago) link

I was really sick

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 8 December 2005 13:39 (nineteen years ago) link

I once puked after being hugged too vigorously. Poor Cozen.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 8 December 2005 17:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Yo, dudes, fancy a pint on the 18th? It's my birthday and I plan to spend the part of it after sbout 4pm in the 500 Club at the bottom of Byres Road, drinking cheap cocktails and playing board games and eating nice food. I shall be doing this anyway regardless of ILX presence, but please feel free to come and join me.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 8 December 2005 20:58 (nineteen years ago) link

as long as they do pint-sized cocktails made of beer and, er, beer, i'm there.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 8 December 2005 23:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Cozen: Option-Apple-Zero is what yr looking for in a thread I can't find.

― stet (stet), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Sorry, Option-Apple-O the letter, not the number

― stet (stet), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:02 (nineteen years ago) link

I got it stet, thanks : )

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:10 (nineteen years ago) link

If any of you Glasgovites are at a loose end tonight, Dead City Radio are appearing in Stereo with some other undoubtedly quite good bands.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Friday, 9 December 2005 17:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Aw, I have the lurgy or would love to come out. Next time, I promise!

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 17:37 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm working late, then going home to mentally and physically prepare for ALEX v SIMON v KEITH: THE BEER WAR in edinburgh tomorrow.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 9 December 2005 18:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Poor Ailsa. The other bands were quite good too, but we were throttled. Must drink less. A giggle nonetheless.

I might pop past the Winchester tomorrow to see Dot to Dot.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Saturday, 10 December 2005 02:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Last night was tremendous fun. Ta all.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 11 December 2005 15:11 (nineteen years ago) link

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH *click*

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 11 December 2005 15:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Glasgow, I'm sorry. Red wine + flu medication = horrendous drunkenness. I do apologise.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 11 December 2005 16:23 (nineteen years ago) link

I got the job! They are offering me the salary they gave me when I first started at the uni in November 2002 :( I am holding out for more, but my nerves are frazzled.

Foot update: It was a bit green this morning, so I am bandageless and trying to dry it out.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 12 December 2005 10:43 (nineteen years ago) link

v. sad to hear of your sat night

get well soon!

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 12 December 2005 10:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Congratulations Madchen! Do you that it was the pigeon joke that swung it?

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 12 December 2005 10:55 (nineteen years ago) link

well done! : )

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 12 December 2005 10:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, congratulations.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Monday, 12 December 2005 11:02 (nineteen years ago) link

I shall endeavour to try Glasgow more in the new year, only made it through twice this year.

― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 11:28 (nineteen years ago) link

DON'T EAT MY GALAXY!

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 13:36 (nineteen years ago) link

too late

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 13:57 (nineteen years ago) link

not really but it soon will be

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 14:00 (nineteen years ago) link

You know I said please come out for drinks on my birthday on Sunday? You don't have to. Well, you can still go if you like, but I won't be there. I will be somewhere, but not there. Sorry.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:43 (nineteen years ago) link

pah. be like that. see if i care.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 20:09 (nineteen years ago) link

where can I buy this stuff in town:

1. acetate CD slips
2. a small just above CD-sized box about half-an-inch thick
3. card pre-cut to CD size (wht wd the dimensions be of this, btw?)

I've tried the art store

any ideas?

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 21:11 (nineteen years ago) link

maplin in st enoch square?

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 21:26 (nineteen years ago) link

certianly for the CD slips.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 21:27 (nineteen years ago) link

1 down

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link

precut????

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 23:43 (nineteen years ago) link

he doesn't have our artistic bent, RJG.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 23:46 (nineteen years ago) link

I guess not but a square!!!

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 23:51 (nineteen years ago) link

you've heard of shredded cheese right?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 07:26 (nineteen years ago) link

anyway

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 07:31 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm not sure if stuart (beard zine) posts here under a name I don't know or not but it would be a bit handy for me to be able to drop him an email. I think I have an interview at his place of employment tomorrow. If he does not, and if anyone has any form of contact details for him then they would be quite handy.

― hmmm (hmmm), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link

He posts as Stew. You could get his address if you opened this thread fully...oh, wait, you need it before tomorrow.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 18:55 (nineteen years ago) link

I think it's beardmag@yah00.co.uk, but without the funny os.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 18:59 (nineteen years ago) link

sweet. thanks.

― hmmm (hmmm), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:14 (nineteen years ago) link

glasgow,

I've tried juggling things round in the whistlestop visit between Chrimbo and Hogmanay, but 27th is the date which is coming up best for trying glasgow more.

ISTR there were a couple of people this possibly caused problems for, is this still the case?

also, the facilitator of the presentation I was just at was Lucy's doppelganger.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 15 December 2005 16:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Facilitator? I will be trying London on 27th I'm afraid, back in Scotchland on 28th.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 15 December 2005 17:00 (nineteen years ago) link

The person who turned the computer on to run the powerpoint presentation.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 15 December 2005 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link

No can do, sorry. Parents here for a two day visit 26th - 28th, don't see them often so can't go abandoning them, not even for you. Sorry. Saying that, we are all going to the panto at the Kings (oh yes we are) on the afternoon of the 27th, so I could escape for a quick pre-dinner pint straight after it if that suits, but we are going out for food in the evening so can't hang around for full-on fap fun.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 15 December 2005 22:24 (nineteen years ago) link

i have no idea whether i'm coming or going at the moment, because some stupid bastard [1] decided we should try to do two magazines in one production week.

i will definitely be working on the 27th, but for how long depends on how much work i do between now and next thursday. however, a pint with you would be excellent, mr cowpat, and can easily be slotted in between bouts of swearing and panicking.

[1] er, me.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 15 December 2005 23:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Black Rabbit whorehouse on saturday!!!

reposted from the optimo board

To all whom have not received the email-out, which seems to be a lot of you, sincere apologies... I think the word 'Whorehouse' needs to be omitted from the subject in the future...

also, if you are not on the mailing list, or think you might not be, please send an email to optimoespacio@gmail.com and I'll make sure you're on.

thanx.

Info for the night:

The Black Rabbit Whorehouse Christmas Party
Come join us for mulled wine, and your favourite harem hymns.

Saturday, 17th December 2005
£7 includes entry and mulled wine
(For all other alcohol consumption BYOB)

Home
66 Osbourne Street, Merchant City, Glasgow
(Around the corner from the 13th Note Cafe, King Street, facing the car park)
Starts 11pm

Limited capacity.
Come early to avoid disappointment.

Due to the nature of the venue please be mindful to be as quiet as possible when coming and going.

The Black Rabbit Whorehouse will return for sporadic events in 2006.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 15 December 2005 23:05 (nineteen years ago) link

hm!!!!!! !!!!! !!!! !!! !! !

maybe

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 16 December 2005 01:00 (nineteen years ago) link

(For all other alcohol consumption BYOB)

BYOB! BYOB! BYOB! BYOB! BYOB! BYOB! BYOB! BYOB! BYOB! BYOB! BYOB! BYOB! BYOB! BYOB! BYOB! BYOB! BYOB! BYOB! BYOB! BYOB! BYOB!

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 16 December 2005 01:11 (nineteen years ago) link

just look at the watch... you are falling alseeeeepp......

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 16 December 2005 01:12 (nineteen years ago) link

omg. but i have a date with Billy Boyd on Saturday.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 16 December 2005 09:56 (nineteen years ago) link

bring Billy Boyd!

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 16 December 2005 10:45 (nineteen years ago) link

BYOBOYD

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 16 December 2005 10:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Hello, Glaswegians, sorry to intrude on your BYOB party, but really I'm trying to reach Ally C.

Just wondering if you would like to do some kind of ILX0r supergroup gig exchange thing. We're putting together a gig at the Luminaire in beautiful downtown West London, possibly in late January, and wondered if you would like to come and play with us, and then you could set up a gig in Glasgow maybe in February and we could come up and play with you (and also bring a busload of London ILX0rs who want to try Glasgow because Ed has promised he will drive).

Anyway, let me know what you think - this email address works if you want to email me. Thanks!

― Kate Classic (kate), Friday, 16 December 2005 11:07 (nineteen years ago) link

think ally might be on holiday, at the end of jan

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 16 December 2005 11:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Ah. Thanks!

Well, maybe we can move the dates around. I will speak to our manager. Either way, please email when you see this, Ally C!

― Kate Classic (kate), Friday, 16 December 2005 11:13 (nineteen years ago) link

BRWH people - i'm meeting some friends in the bruswick hotel bar at 10-30 (or a bit later if the X factor overruns!). see you later.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 17 December 2005 20:04 (nineteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/9505367/Subway%20Album/StEnochInt1.jpg

THOSE KRAZY GLASWEGIANS

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Sunday, 18 December 2005 06:35 (nineteen years ago) link

i remember Krazy house. that is a fantastic photo.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 18 December 2005 13:52 (nineteen years ago) link

where did you get that, ESTEBAN?

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 18 December 2005 13:53 (nineteen years ago) link

hey

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 18 December 2005 19:55 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm Keith Hernandez.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 19 December 2005 00:20 (nineteen years ago) link

You're OK.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 19 December 2005 13:41 (nineteen years ago) link

where did you get that, ESTEBAN?

Found it while doing some personal research on the Glasgow Subway at the HiddenGlasgow.com forums. Part of a fantastic thread full of photos capturing the days prior to the Subway's closure for modernisation in 1977...which can be accessed if you click this link.

Just don't ask me why I was doing any sort of research on the Glasgow Subway.

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Monday, 19 December 2005 15:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Wow, that Hidden Glasgow website is great.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 19 December 2005 15:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, for fuck's sake.

Allowing other people to influence any plans at all is a fucking disaster, even if you tell them exactly what your plans are first, with times of the day and everything.

I will now be about at lunchtime and early afternoon on 27th, not at any sensible time.

Please take this opportunity to tell me that suits nobody and I'm going to be a sad pathetic loser and not see any of you.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 13:01 (nineteen years ago) link

i should be able to meet you for a lunchtime pint.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 13:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I am afraid I won't get to Glasgow til the 28th : (

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 13:12 (nineteen years ago) link

I wish I could looks at pictures of Glasgow from the 70s/80s all day instead of going back to work. Bah.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 13:53 (nineteen years ago) link

did you go to an internet cafe for lunch?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 13:57 (nineteen years ago) link

What is this thread about?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 14:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Yay, lunchtime pint! I have panto-with-parents duties at the Kings at 2.00 on the 27th, so a-pre-panto-pint would be an alliterative joy!

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 18:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I guess I'll be in town from about 12. Somebody think of a handy pub for the Kings and the H3r4ld.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 18:40 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm not sure such a thing exists.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 21:08 (nineteen years ago) link

The entirety of Bath Street and most of Sauchiehall Street to thread!

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 21:10 (nineteen years ago) link

(I can also do H3rald end of the world and jump on a train/bus/taxi down Bath Street when finished drinking - like I'm going to give up valuable drinking time walking down the street, ha)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 21:27 (nineteen years ago) link

I'll still be darn sarf, Aldo, by the way. Sorry I'll miss you.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 21:28 (nineteen years ago) link

from the hidden glasgow grafitti thread

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/modernfossil/shit-to-do.jpg

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 22 December 2005 00:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Also from Hidden Glasgow, these, which I heard sung in a karaoke pub in Paisley one night.

Not as good as that graffiti, but still, little is.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 22 December 2005 00:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Glaswegian Rhapsody!

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 22 December 2005 00:36 (nineteen years ago) link

I was sitting in a pub in Paisley one night when a bloke was setting up the karaoke - we were just going to finish our pints and leave and he started singing that version of American Pie and I was roffling so much I couldn't actually stand up even if I'd wanted to leave.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 22 December 2005 00:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Anyone going to the Sunno)))/Earth gig at the ABC2 on Feb 12th?
Tix are £12.50.
I will probably be going now that Ailsa kindly told me where the ABC was.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 22 December 2005 00:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Also from Hidden Glasgow graffiti thread (OK, who's responsible, own up...)

ihttp://photos12.flickr.com/17474476_398e1a2518_o.jpg

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 22 December 2005 01:14 (nineteen years ago) link

that posh wee cunt fae Milngavie!

Do they mean Ally C?

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 22 December 2005 10:25 (nineteen years ago) link

One would hope so.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 22 December 2005 17:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Can somebody pick a pub for me on 27th? I would, but after fighting with my mother last night about Glasgow I've lost the will to live.

Her: "There's no such place in Glasgow as Hillhead, you're making it up to send me to the wrong place."
Me: "Aye there is. OK, try finding Charing Cross first."
Her: "There's no Charing Cross either. You're just having me on."
Me: "How about Kelvingrove?"
Her: Can't see that either. This has got all the areas of Glasgow on it, I can see Partick."
Me: "Right, that's a good start. So, move into town a bit - what does it say?"
Her: "Glasgow. It just says Glasgow."
Me: "What exactly are you looking at?"
Her: "A map of Glasgow."
Me: "Are you sure?"
Her: "Yes, an ordnance survey one."

1:250,000 was the scale. No wonder she couldn't find anything.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 23 December 2005 09:19 (nineteen years ago) link

the bastille

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 23 December 2005 09:34 (nineteen years ago) link

ailsa: will you be cross if i suggest somewhere like universal, or - better! - the station bar? which are really handy for me, but marginally less handy for the king's?

if so: start the bidding at the other end of sauchiehall street and we can agree on somewhere in the middle (but not that fucking sports bar thing).

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 24 December 2005 00:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Jumpin' Jacks or Campus.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 24 December 2005 00:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Universal is good for me. Station Bar less so (location not as great for escaping up Bath Street). In fact, Universal strikes me as the best suggestion we are going to get.

Ally C might be coming too, I was putting the squeeze on a bit last night, though I'm not sure I was successful.

(cozen, the bastille is miles away! - well a few hundred yards out of the area of maximum convenience)

xpost - or the "fantastic" Yates, scene of last night's Xmas party night out from hell (which probably progressed to Jumping Jaks but I escaped before getting the chance to find out)

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 24 December 2005 00:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Campus is good in the middle of the afternoon when drinks are £1 and you can play pool and air hockey. However, when other people start arriving, not so good.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 24 December 2005 00:39 (nineteen years ago) link

universal does nice(ish) food as well. and one of the barmen is a big OMD fan. so hurrah.

it can get busy at lunchtime but they let you call ahead and reserve a table for lunch, even if it is of the liquid variety.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 24 December 2005 00:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, OK, sounds good to me. I could be tempted into a bit of lunch, I suppose. I can be there from opening time until about 1.45.

I'm now going to bed, so organise away, and consider me counted in.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 24 December 2005 00:49 (nineteen years ago) link

fkn bastille; get a grip

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 24 December 2005 02:05 (nineteen years ago) link

haha sorry!!! I am v.drunk

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 24 December 2005 02:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Universal sounds like the place then. I'll work out how to get there and probably be there from about 12.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Saturday, 24 December 2005 08:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Universal is (I think) up the wee lane between the two bits of Watt Brothers on Hope Street.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 24 December 2005 10:44 (nineteen years ago) link

According to the Glasgow pub finder, it looks pretty easy to find (even for someone as geographically challenged as me).

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Saturday, 24 December 2005 11:02 (nineteen years ago) link

email me your mobile number before Tuesday and then we can communicate in case you get lost, if you want...

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 24 December 2005 11:03 (nineteen years ago) link

i'll be there for 12.30. ailsa: you have my mobile number. aldo: you don't, but e-mail me if you want (use the webmail link thing rather than my screen address: it is valid, but not desperately reliable).

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 24 December 2005 12:32 (nineteen years ago) link

what is happening... if anything... GLA?

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 26 December 2005 00:31 (nineteen years ago) link

I think it's closed

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 26 December 2005 00:35 (nineteen years ago) link

: (

I've had too much family I think

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 26 December 2005 00:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Evenin'
Hope you've had a good Christmas folks.
I'm trying Stirling more. Good food, drink and a chance to relax.

― stew s, Monday, 26 December 2005 00:40 (nineteen years ago) link

family's so funny

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 26 December 2005 00:42 (nineteen years ago) link

optimo is on monday this week

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 26 December 2005 00:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm off up the road now and won't be able to check ILX till the end of the week. See those who are coming out tomorrow, tomorrow.

ailsa, you should have my mobile number by now in yr email - if not, Gerry has it.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 26 December 2005 09:53 (nineteen years ago) link

lunchtime FAPs are the way forward.

shame i now can't be arsed doing anything other than maybe having another couple of pints, but hey.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 14:14 (nineteen years ago) link

hmm, what to do, this Friday/Saturday/Sunday?

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 14:22 (nineteen years ago) link

we were discussing this at lunch. not making plans, i hasten to add - what do you expect, blood? - but discussing.

i'm spoken for on friday and saturday - but not so spoken-for that i can't make detours. once there are firmer plans in place, i shall be able to work something out. when do you arrive?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 15:04 (nineteen years ago) link

weather permitting, late Friday afternoon. should be quite flexible so no need to plan that urgently (ha).

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 15:12 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm going to glasgow, today

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 15:14 (nineteen years ago) link

even as I type glasgow allstars Ally C and Cozen are in teh shops.

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link

I am not spoken for at all over New Year, so plan away and I will be there. Cheers for lunchtime booze, Aldo, Grimly and (belatedly as I was leaving) Cozen. Panto was excellent. As was booze. As, unbelievably, was the Daily Record. I wish I'd had the mince and tatties though. Red or brown, Aldo?

I have now drunk a gallon(ish) of shiraz and several large irish-cointreau-coffees, and need to get back into glasgow tomorrow to deliver the parents to buchanan street. Anyone wishing booze, please phone. No work until january 4th!

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 01:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Sorry Glasgow, slept through possible pintage opportunity. The sudden shock of going to bed before 5am for the first time in 5 days will take its toll tomorrow, I fear.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 01:30 (nineteen years ago) link

I do hope so

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 01:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Ah, the dickhead conundrum.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 01:43 (nineteen years ago) link

your dickhead tormentor

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 01:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Not so bad, in fact. Although this morning = coldest morning ever. Not pleasant with no heating.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 13:18 (nineteen years ago) link

How was the panto?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 13:40 (nineteen years ago) link

It was great. Pantos are brilliant! My dad (nearly 74) has never been to one in his life, and loved it. Crap jokes, ponies, sweeties, singalongs, audience participation, ridiculous costumes, all present and correct.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 14:54 (nineteen years ago) link

and now ... it's behind you.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Ha :)

Pub, tomorrow?

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 18:28 (nineteen years ago) link

aye!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 20:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Madchen and I will be there too.

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 21:19 (nineteen years ago) link

top! 'rah etc. station bar from 7.30ish, then, if anyone else is about. you'll get to meet my mate ciaran, who works for george lucas. and my mate nrom, who doesn't.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 22:34 (nineteen years ago) link

I will be in the pub too!

Except in Edinburgh, with Alan Ross's wee brother. I will think of you.

― KeefW (kmw), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 23:04 (nineteen years ago) link

al(l)an ross's wee brother! superb. i might have met him once: he was the one who looked a bit like momus, yeh?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 23:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Gah, I'm working tomorrow evening. All the same, a merry Christmas everyone, and a prosperous 2006!

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Thursday, 29 December 2005 02:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm leaving now-ish, but not staying long, I don't think. People I have to see in Paisley, that I see even less than you lot. I just want to go to the Station Bar and I will be disappointed if it is not teh greatest pub in teh world.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 29 December 2005 18:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Ally C, are you sure you're managing your profile as successfully as some of your bandmates?

http://www.srpssteam.com/images/05-06-22/DSC06928%5B1%5D.jpg

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 29 December 2005 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link

is that bernard sumner on the left?

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 29 December 2005 23:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Station Bar is teh RAWK! Big roaring fire, unintelligible but jovial barman and Springsteen on the jukebox. All FAPs should be held there from here on in.

My head is telling me I really shouldn't have stayed out drinking in Paisley until after 1 am (hurrah for ridiculous licensing laws!) when I got back though. Ow.

Yet, somehow, I will manage to struggle in this evening for Stevem'n'Alix-related bouze. Someone text me when there is a plan.

(stet, the s1n1st3r archives are knacked, so your secret's safe for now, hem hem, oops)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 30 December 2005 11:29 (nineteen years ago) link

i think i'm still drunk. hurrah! which made dealing with this a lot more bearable. jesus wept!

actually, i think that deserves its own thread. hmm.

and please keep me posted about tonight too. i can only do early, but it would be lovely to meet steve and alix.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 30 December 2005 11:35 (nineteen years ago) link

"Station Bar is teh RAWK! Big roaring fire, unintelligible but jovial barman and Springsteen on the jukebox. All FAPs should be held there from here on in."

SPRINGSTEEN on the jukebox? Aw man, all FAPs should DEFINITELY be held there from here on in.

― stew of the beard, Friday, 30 December 2005 13:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Bumpity-bump, are people going for beer tonight? I have just received an offer to go ten-pin bowling with a six-year-old girl (and her dad), which shouldn't hinder later pubbage, but it would be nice to know one way or another what plans are. (I'm not going to NPL though)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 30 December 2005 16:46 (nineteen years ago) link

I am going to NPL! Huzzah! And as Evan Dando is sold out, it looks like Mono for Hogmanay. Rah!

― stew!, Friday, 30 December 2005 16:57 (nineteen years ago) link

There are still tickets for the post-gig ABC club.

― stet (stet), Friday, 30 December 2005 16:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, but Evan Dando/not Evan Dando/Mono etc are tomorrow. What are we doing TONIGHT!?!?!

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 30 December 2005 17:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Good question. West End would be ideal.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Friday, 30 December 2005 17:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Gah, Glasgow, MAKE ONE DECISION! The window of opportunity for getting a bus is drawing near...

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 30 December 2005 19:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Three judges, everyone. Come along and bring chocolate!

― stet (stet), Friday, 30 December 2005 20:14 (nineteen years ago) link

No chocolate, but horrid levels of Scampi Fries. Erk. My head may hurt again tomorrow. Who would have thought that mobile phones were such fun?

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 31 December 2005 00:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Hey, happy New Year, Glasgow folk! Really good to make the acquaintance of some of you this year - one day, I will get to meet jed as well.

Is there farewell-to-steve-and-alix booze at any point tomorrow? I have an appointment with a First Division top of the table clash mid-afternoon, but it would nice for another chance to catch up before you two go away...

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 1 January 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago) link

KA20 4xx - life expectancy - 69.8

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 10:33 (nineteen years ago) link

sorry ailsa, we just milled around the city centre most of Monday until it was time to get the train - nice to see you and everyone else over the weekend though. we had a good time.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 10:45 (nineteen years ago) link

sorry i didn't see you. "haste ye back", as the big banners at the highland games always say.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 11:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Hey, I believe Belle and Sebastian are playing some gigs next week. So, might people be going to the pub? I'm going to the gig on Tuesday, and I believe Miss Madchen is too. Can we do some pubbing or eating or both beforehand please? If people are gigging other nights instead, I am, of course, up for pubbing. And if people aren't gigging, can we go to the pub anyway?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 9 January 2006 22:10 (nineteen years ago) link

RJG, have you heard Will Oldham's version of 'Thunder Road' yet? & if so, what do you think?

Success or sacrilege?

― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 9 January 2006 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link

All those women are shorter than Patrick, and two of them are even wearing heels!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 10:14 (nineteen years ago) link

ridiculous

no, DM, I haven't heard WO's TR but I think I did hear about it, though

I will try to download it ASAP

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 10:28 (nineteen years ago) link

The WO cover isn't bad at all. He makes the melody much more downbeat and Tortoise add some dubious but dramatic synth. Doesn't have the power of the Boss's version, but it's an interesting take, closer to the the version on the live box set as opposed to the studio original.

Bold & the Brave is a great covers album. The version of Elton John's Daniel steals the show. No shit!

Happy new year to Glasgow ILXORS! Anyone going to Herman Dune on Thurs?

― stew!, Tuesday, 10 January 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago) link

anyone stay in dundee?

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago) link

not for more than a couple of hours

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Top Ten Tourist Destination, apparently. Glasgow, I mean.

Personally, I think this is madness.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago) link

People are that keen to visit the first FOPP?

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago) link

they'd have to be pretty keen

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago) link

anyone know anything about shoe making courses in glasgow? jed?

it's not for me

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Loads of old cobblers, mate.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago) link

it's not for me

How do you know till you've tried it?

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago) link

I bought the Strokes' "Is This Is" in the Fopp in Dundee. I was not aware it was the first, merely my first.

― Gukbe (lokar), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago) link

hm; can't find any information from www.google.com

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago) link

How is Glasgow Dundee, or vice versa? I don't understand (like much of this thread). Why is no-one talking about going to the pub?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago) link

I assumed stevem had mis-spelled FAP.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Glasgow was the first, I think. The Atlantic soul triple thingy I bought when Steve and Lixi were here is a corker.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, Glasgow was the first - formerly A1 Records if I remember rightly - I went in its formative year when I was still a schoolchild, at a Glasgow University "open day" (i.e. thinly veiled excuse for record-shop-devoid schoolkid to get to the big city and spend LOTS OF MONEY). Gukbe invoked Dundee, and I wondered why?

Why aren't YOU talking about going to the pub?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago) link

wow. hello matt. hello everyone

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 23:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, I just realised that Matt was Matt. Hello Matt! Hello Dahlin!

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 23:13 (nineteen years ago) link

'sup brosephs

― alex t, Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago) link

dude!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago) link

hang on. what's with the gla.ac.uk address? you ain't no weegie now, holmes.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago) link

A nice Glasgow story:

Life Without Buildings: Classic or Dud?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 12 January 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Hello.

Belated Happy New Year to everyone. Stew and I bumped into each other yesterday as we now work in the same place. We discussed fappery. I'm working late next week so will have to skip the B&S related action but if any other plans are being made then let me know as it would be lovely to see you all.

― hmmm (hmmm), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago) link

B&S are doing an in-store thing at 5 o'clock in Virgin round the corner from my work on Tuesday. There seems little point in me going home then coming back in for the gig, so some Sauchiehall Street/Bath Street fappage action would be good. I mean, I'll go to the pub on my own, but surely other people are going? Or want to go to the pub?

Proper fappage should maybe wait until the end of the month - I can't be the only one with too much January at the end of my pay packet.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago) link

I've got January in my overdraft, credit cards, and I've tapped about a fortnight from my mates. I'm robbing February now. But I'll be out for B&S. (Madchen paid, hura)

― stet (stet), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Good. Pick a pub :)

(I am tapping from Neil and he doesn't even have a job, but that's because I've paid everything so far this month because I do have a job, but hugely underestimated the sheer volume of alcohol and resultant taxi fares that would be incurred over Christmas and also forgot that I got paid a fortnight early in December so lots of spending + extra two weeks to make money last = pov-stricken ailsa)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Is there a Winchester Club tonight? I lose track of these things.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Saturday, 14 January 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago) link

It was last week. No one went. Blame was apportioned.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 14 January 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago) link

http://geocities.com/the_winchester_club/

― Mädchen (Madchen), Saturday, 14 January 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago) link

try forcing a reload, on that, doll

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 14 January 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Nice one, peaches.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Saturday, 14 January 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Oi, Mädchen, what are you and stet doing on Tuesday, post-work, pre-B&S? Food/drink?

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 14 January 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Coming home to get out of my manky work clothes, most likely. I should be out again around 6.30pm though, if you fancy getting some pre-theatre. Stet?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Saturday, 14 January 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago) link

yay! I shall be going to in-store thing at Virgin, but pre-theatre food thereafter sounds good, and cheap. Huzzah!

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 14 January 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago) link

accidentally requiemed a chinese takeaway

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 16 January 2006 09:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Protesters are expected to target ex-US secretary of state Colin Powell when he visits Glasgow to speak at a dinner.
He will address an event organised by the Jewish National Fund (JNF) at the Hilton Hotel on Monday evening.

The organisation said it was delighted to have secured Mr Powell's attendance at the fund-raising dinner.

However, pro-Palestinian activists plan to stage a protest while human rights campaigners want to raise the issue of CIA rendition flights with Mr Powell.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 16 January 2006 09:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Mooro will try that Glasgow again this coming weekend. Garage Saturday night.

― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 16 January 2006 10:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Sometimes I think I am still there.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 16 January 2006 10:32 (eighteen years ago) link

is cafe hula nice?

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 16 January 2006 10:57 (eighteen years ago) link

So, is Winchester Club still any good? I´ve been mildly harassed onto attending 11th February, but as it has already been pointed out, geocities site is not that useful to check schedules or anything :-(

― olenska (olenska), Monday, 16 January 2006 11:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Cafe Hula is nice, yes, though the staff are a bit off-hand sometimes and they have a stupid menu board system.

The Winchester Club? It depends. Let's say yes.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 16 January 2006 11:33 (eighteen years ago) link

still going strong, apparently

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 16 January 2006 12:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Looks like they updated it just for you, olenska ...

http://geocities.com/the_winchester_club/

― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 16 January 2006 13:09 (eighteen years ago) link

OK, that just makes it look like a made-up night.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 16 January 2006 13:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Looks like they updated it just for you, Alba ...

http://geocities.com/the_winchester_club/

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 16 January 2006 13:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Galaxalicious!

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 16 January 2006 13:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Too much out of touch of your mischievous Brit humour to get the joke...I feel pathetic

― olenska (olenska), Monday, 16 January 2006 15:41 (eighteen years ago) link

no joke!!!!!!!!!

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 16 January 2006 15:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Looks like they updated it just for you, olenska ...

http://geocities.com/the_winchester_club/

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 16 January 2006 15:51 (eighteen years ago) link

unless your computer just has the old page in your cache and you haven't forced a refresh

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 16 January 2006 15:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Honestly!

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 16 January 2006 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link

OK, I´m a believer! Galactic theme makes everything look suspicious in Madrid and surroundings these days.

And how much would be for a train fare btw Liverpool and GLW, btw

― olenska (olenska), Monday, 16 January 2006 16:58 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm sorry--I don't know

I bet it...depends

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 16 January 2006 17:01 (eighteen years ago) link

You could probably walk.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 16 January 2006 17:07 (eighteen years ago) link

by february the 11th? probably

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 16 January 2006 17:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Try

http://ojp.nationalrail.co.uk/JourneyPlanner.asp?&T2ID=3231_2006116172237

Looks like you have to change trains twice, though

― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 16 January 2006 17:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Oi, Glasgow, tomorrow night. Belle and Sebastian. Virgin, ABC. Somewhere between those lies a pub. I will be in it. Will anyone be joining me?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 16 January 2006 17:54 (eighteen years ago) link

The Variety is a handy sort of bar.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 16 January 2006 20:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Last time I was there, it was me plus five gentelemen. I want to try it again!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 16 January 2006 20:05 (eighteen years ago) link

The five gentlemen or the pub? I still have no idea what I am doing - Neil is threatening to take me out for food now since I have no firm plans. Shall I text you tomorrow?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 16 January 2006 21:17 (eighteen years ago) link

(no ILX at work, innit)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 16 January 2006 22:17 (eighteen years ago) link

If anyone needs 2 tix for tonight let me know as I know someone who's trying to flog a pair for 45 quid.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 11:11 (eighteen years ago) link

nothing cheaper than 230 euros ; ryanair, why madrid is not a cheap destination? Please, hooligans of the world, start holidaying here!

― olenska (olenska), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 11:15 (eighteen years ago) link

OK, tickets are gone to some mug.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 11:27 (eighteen years ago) link

who are you taking?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 11:40 (eighteen years ago) link

impromptu ilxers meetings:
i. ailsa & lucy in the variety
ii. ally c on sauchiehall st.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 12:05 (eighteen years ago) link

stew in mono, sun night

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 12:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Impromptu ILXor meeting last night: Cozen
Not-very-impromptu ILXor meeting: Madchen and Stet
Fairly impromptu, but not entirely unexpected, ILXor meeting: Keith W
Celeb count at B&S gig: Gerry Love, Stephen Pastel (Madchen took a sneaky photo), that bird what used to do that late night debate thing we talked about upthread that Stew was on once - oh, yeah, Trial By Night.

We think Murdoch's had singing lessons.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 14:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, yeah, other celeb at B&S = Sandy Nelson who plays the postie in Still Game and was in the Century of Fakers video. Glasgow's good for liggers, isn't it?

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 21:27 (eighteen years ago) link

sandy nelson at jongleurs at the end of march

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 22:18 (eighteen years ago) link

he went to my school.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 22:23 (eighteen years ago) link

He used to be in a comedy musical thingie called Tequila Mockingbird. They were like an indie version of the Barron Knights. He used to be in my social circle when I moved in different social circles several years ago. He made a shed-load of money for being in Braveheart for about ten seconds. There ends my knowledge of rubbish Sandy Nelson facts.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 22:24 (eighteen years ago) link

rex the dog at the arches

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 22:24 (eighteen years ago) link

you said art school

I don't think I can afford either, unforunately

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 22:28 (eighteen years ago) link

pressure?

xp

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 22:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Tuesday February 7th 2006, Glasgow, Stereo (Kelvinhaugh Street), £4/8pm
Yellow Swans- 1st ever UK visit from this wild San Francisco free noise duo

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 22:29 (eighteen years ago) link

sorry, art school

£10

I'm wavering but I sorely regretted not going to d.eulberg

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 22:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Murdoch's not had singing lessons - he's just channelling Leo Sayer

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 22:37 (eighteen years ago) link

sorry, art school

�10

I'm wavering but I sorely regretted not going to d.eulberg

I too am wavering about this. I was spectacularly dissapointed with the mayer/kohnke night in april. Plus, I have to work on sunday, although not until the afternoon.

― hmmm (hmmm), Thursday, 19 January 2006 10:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Well done, Madchen.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 19 January 2006 10:25 (eighteen years ago) link

the mayer/kohncke black rabbit? I loved that!!

I don't think I can afford r.the dog but I might persuade myself

todd bodine (tresor) is playing this weekend too

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 19 January 2006 10:25 (eighteen years ago) link

I was given a banana in Glasgow this morning.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 10:28 (eighteen years ago) link

i am cripplingly and frighteningly hungover today.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 19 January 2006 11:27 (eighteen years ago) link

I haven't had a drink since last Saturday! Worrrying, I feel more fuzzy headed in the morning than I usually do. Last night seems hazy.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 19 January 2006 11:28 (eighteen years ago) link

my god. you didn't eat it did you?

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 19 January 2006 11:29 (eighteen years ago) link

(posts urban myth about heroin-laced bananas being given out on street corners)

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 19 January 2006 12:01 (eighteen years ago) link

my god. you didn't eat it did you?

(posts urban myth about heroin-laced bananas being given out on street corners)

Well it was given out along with a promotional leaflet for Gl4sg0w Ch1r0pr4ct1c - with whom I've previously associated Sc1ent0l0gy type practices (see Chiropractors...do they work?) so they may be adopting new techniques to get us all to pay cash money to eradicte musculoskeletal subluxations.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 12:12 (eighteen years ago) link

*eradicate

and no, I haven't eaten it yet, but it looks more appetising than the dry looking clementines I brougt from home.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 12:13 (eighteen years ago) link

it was given out along with a promotional leaflet for Gl4sg0w Ch1r0pr4ct1c

(posts urban myth about bananas laced with drugs that induce back pain being given out on street corners)

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 19 January 2006 12:34 (eighteen years ago) link

there's a programme on bbc2 scotland now called Cunntas

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 19 January 2006 19:16 (eighteen years ago) link

one of your own will be here - SOON

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Thursday, 19 January 2006 19:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, that's been on for years. It's one of the things we Highlanders made up to make you lot laugh :)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 19 January 2006 19:29 (eighteen years ago) link

are you wetting yourself with hott anticipation mandee? i would.
no. not really
enjoy!

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 19 January 2006 21:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Can you get off the subway at Buchanan St and get back on the same train at St Enoch's? Mebbe. See The Subway Challenge (note you probably need to Save Link As... to see the video)

― stet (stet), Sunday, 22 January 2006 22:20 (eighteen years ago) link

haw, that was rubbish! Saying that, I usually take the car to Govan and get the subway to Buchanan Street. On Friday, I left the house at the same time I usually do, but instead of going along Govan Road, I cut through the Clyde Tunnel, parked just off Dumbarton Road, and got an earlier train than I usually get by the time I've fannied about parking at Govan and getting to the station (yet, sadly, no brownie points for being in work earlier). Perhaps I should film it.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 22 January 2006 22:33 (eighteen years ago) link

they kinda set it all up first time round so that the continuity proves whether he succeeds or not. he doesn't. but then on the second try he does succeed but the continuity isn;t there. also there are too many cameras filming him coming out of the station for the second try, which there isn't first time. i caLL shenanigans.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 22 January 2006 22:37 (eighteen years ago) link

But, first time, they start by concentrating on one woman in the carriage, then once he gets off they concentrate on other people. Then, when he turns up, it's not about the people on the carriage at all. (I might not have been paying full attention, but still, surely it would be more continuity-friendly to be concentrating on the random passengers?). Seconded on the shenanigans front (hence why I said "that was rubbish" but I failed to explain why)

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 22 January 2006 22:42 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah, i guess the continuity is wrong both times.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 22 January 2006 22:44 (eighteen years ago) link

although proving that would involve having to watch it again and it was a bit of a chore first time.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 22 January 2006 22:45 (eighteen years ago) link

I reckon though, the first time when the continuity is all perfect, he's just a fraction too late. So even though the filming's a bit shoddy on the second one, he could well have made it.

I like how he puts the ticket in, even though the rules say you can break the law

― stet (stet), Sunday, 22 January 2006 22:54 (eighteen years ago) link

stet, you didn't have your top critical journalist cynic hat on when you looked at that clip, did you?

also, it's just over a week till payday. We should, like, organise a "hurrah, it's February, we survived Christmas and now can afford to go back out again" FAP for after the end of the month, shouldn't we?

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 22 January 2006 22:55 (eighteen years ago) link

I realise that suggesting the organising of a FAP at 11pm on a Sunday night is the crappest idea ever, but hey :)

STATION BAR!!!

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 22 January 2006 22:57 (eighteen years ago) link

i may even come to that, ailsa ;)

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 22 January 2006 23:16 (eighteen years ago) link

We should go on a Subway CRAWL FAP!

― stet (stet), Sunday, 22 January 2006 23:21 (eighteen years ago) link

I was in Glasgow last weekend, at the ABC Club. If you are an Oriental girl who I sat next to and we chatted about dark beer for a while, I'd like to get in touch :) I was the lanky one with the check shirt.

Who else was in the ABC club on the 14th?? I wonder how much of a small world this is......

― JTS (JTS), Sunday, 22 January 2006 23:34 (eighteen years ago) link

oh how i wish "i saw you"s actually worked.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 22 January 2006 23:35 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't know any oriental girls

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 22 January 2006 23:36 (eighteen years ago) link

racist.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 22 January 2006 23:38 (eighteen years ago) link

8 )

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 22 January 2006 23:39 (eighteen years ago) link

I saw a fight at the grand ol' opry

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 23 January 2006 10:38 (eighteen years ago) link

8 (

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 23 January 2006 10:49 (eighteen years ago) link

What, a pretend gunfight? Or cowboys slugging it out?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 23 January 2006 11:16 (eighteen years ago) link

On Saturday I saw a wall of yellow jackets across George Square & a helicopter was circling over the city centre all morning. The poor pilot must have got so dizzy.

Love On The March again, I suppose.

― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 23 January 2006 11:27 (eighteen years ago) link

there was pretend gunfighting, yes; the person whose birthday I was there for was allowed to take part in fact; he gunfought a disabled guy whose name I can't remember but I'm sure it was funny; there was a guy called 'the gifted one', for example

but yeah, an actual fight; well, I say a fight, it was more just a punch then the punched guy hit the floor and didn't get up for a while; when he finally got up he just staggered out the opry, looking a little confused

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 23 January 2006 11:30 (eighteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/RJG/opry.jpg

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 23 January 2006 11:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Do Report Back, Mooro!

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 23 January 2006 11:50 (eighteen years ago) link

The George Square business

― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 23 January 2006 13:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Disgraceful!

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 23 January 2006 13:10 (eighteen years ago) link

RJG, that's genius!

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 23 January 2006 13:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Aye, its grand.

― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 23 January 2006 13:40 (eighteen years ago) link

weds 1st feb, clogs + the books, the arches, £12?

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 01:12 (eighteen years ago) link

I will be there; as will

but will... you? no, not you; you.

: D

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 01:18 (eighteen years ago) link

sorry; opened the red wine a little late

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 01:22 (eighteen years ago) link

i like books but who is clogs?

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 01:56 (eighteen years ago) link

dunno mate

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 10:26 (eighteen years ago) link

: )

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 10:29 (eighteen years ago) link

: )

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 26 January 2006 01:16 (eighteen years ago) link

8 )

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 26 January 2006 01:20 (eighteen years ago) link

: )

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 26 January 2006 01:44 (eighteen years ago) link

well I'm going to see the books

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 15:30 (eighteen years ago) link

8 )

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 15:39 (eighteen years ago) link

haha OK

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 15:41 (eighteen years ago) link

glasgow more like frozen shithole

― fake alext, Wednesday, 1 February 2006 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Me, in mid-January: We should, like, organise a "hurrah, it's February, we survived Christmas and now can afford to go back out again" FAP for after the end of the month, shouldn't we?

What's wrong with you lot? Let's drink!

Madchen, I emailed you...

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 2 February 2006 23:28 (eighteen years ago) link

wow:

Information

Jordan Knight Live
at Jumpin Jaks - Glasgow
New Kids on the Block's Singer, Songwriter and Hearthrob Jordan Knight performing Numer One singles Hangin Tough and You've Got It

Date: 11 May 2006

Ticket Price: £3

I never thought I would go to jumpin jaks! incredible

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 4 February 2006 18:15 (eighteen years ago) link

haha 3 pounds! astounding

see you down the front!

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 4 February 2006 18:21 (eighteen years ago) link

hi dere coz

― danski (danski), Saturday, 4 February 2006 18:46 (eighteen years ago) link

oh
my
god
i bet it's sold out already. where'd you find that nugget?

― dahlin (dahlin), Sunday, 5 February 2006 03:50 (eighteen years ago) link

I want to go to that! Canwecanwecanwe?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 6 February 2006 10:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes, but. Should we tell him?

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 6 February 2006 13:34 (eighteen years ago) link

well, you can tell him here: www.myspace.com/jordan_knight
but, considering his recent venues - Washington High Homecoming, Blue Chip Casino and QVC Home Shopping Network - I think Jumpin Jacks is right up his alley.

― dahlin (dahlin), Monday, 6 February 2006 18:14 (eighteen years ago) link

jaks

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 6 February 2006 18:17 (eighteen years ago) link

I *knew* Madchen would want to go to that :)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 6 February 2006 19:07 (eighteen years ago) link

the note on the winchester site wasn't otterley correct, it seems

it is, now, unfortunately

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 11:58 (eighteen years ago) link

We should go on a Subway CRAWL FAP!
-- stet (vmdnb900...), January 22nd, 2006 11:21 PM. (stet)

I missed this!! Given the state of Grimly Fiendish on his birthday, this is like the best idea ever (unless you meant going round eating big sandwiches out of soulless American franchises, obv, in which case, worst idea ever).

Incidentally, Stet, you and your gangly legs should be travelling in comfort now.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 18:52 (eighteen years ago) link

No sandwiches, just dodgy southside pubs. Start at lunchtime, stop when we pass out.

(And lots of drink on me for the legroom, Ailsa)

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 03:35 (eighteen years ago) link

got a new job thank god

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 10 February 2006 11:38 (eighteen years ago) link

finish at 17:06 each day tho?!

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 10 February 2006 11:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Paul Le Guen is the man Rangers want as Alex McLeish's successor, with Charlton's Alan Curbishley second choice. (Record)

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 10 February 2006 12:16 (eighteen years ago) link

when do you start, cozen?

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 10 February 2006 12:18 (eighteen years ago) link

monday

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 10 February 2006 12:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Wait, is cozen the new Rangers manager?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 10 February 2006 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link

starts on monday

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 10 February 2006 14:37 (eighteen years ago) link

well, enjoy WC tomorrow. Try to make it next time ...sob

― olenska (olenska), Friday, 10 February 2006 15:30 (eighteen years ago) link

I wish Cozen well. It's one of the most demanding jobs in football.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 10 February 2006 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Stet and Madchen, Gr4eme says legroom not guaranteed but he's done his best. Apparently if you check in online as early as you can you have a better chance. Don't blame me if it doesn't work (though he's done it for me and it has).

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 11 February 2006 11:29 (eighteen years ago) link

at some point after february 20, a FAP would be an excellent idea. whether it involves the subway or not.

i feel out of touch with everything except work at the moment.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 12 February 2006 00:12 (eighteen years ago) link

(and if we feel we need an excuse, it can be "hurrah for cozen's new job, whatever it might be.")

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 12 February 2006 00:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Proper Excuse = aldo is Trying Glasgow More sometime around the end of February (last I heard). Or we could wave cheerio to Madchen and Stet before they go off on their holiday.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 12 February 2006 11:12 (eighteen years ago) link

I was, but it's now looking a bit wobbly. I hope to know this coming week.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Sunday, 12 February 2006 13:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Oooh *news* - where is Madchen going on her hols?

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 13 February 2006 00:26 (eighteen years ago) link

I was, but it's now looking a bit wobbly.

:-(

And not just because you've got DVDs for me, honest.

Lara, Madchen is going to India, fancy bird that she is. What's wrong with Benidorm like the rest of us, eh?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 13 February 2006 03:35 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm going to benidorm on wednesday

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 13 February 2006 07:31 (eighteen years ago) link

I'll be going to Bognor or something this year :-/

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 13 February 2006 10:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Lara, we're probably going to spend some time in Goa. Advice here please: I'm off to India (Alba's advice welcome too).

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 13 February 2006 11:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Dioralite (sp?)

― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 13 February 2006 11:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Thanks Mooro, but my plan is to lose enough weight in the first week to look acceptable in a bikini in the second.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 13 February 2006 11:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Haha, if I don't make the Feb dates it'll probably be April for me because I'm off to India as well.

I can post your DVDs if you're desperate.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 13 February 2006 12:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Anyone want to do LASERS next Tuesday?

The Glasgow and West Scotland Branch of the BA together with the Institute of Physics in Scotland presents:
Lasers, Proton Beams and Nuclear Medicine

Talk to be held at the Glasgow Science Centre at 7.30 pm on Tuesday, 21st February.
FREE!!! ALL Welcome!!! No tickets required, however seats in the lecture theatre will be filled on a first come first served basis.

By firing an ultra-powerful - a million billion watts - laser beam at a solid target, it is possible to reproduce conditions which have previously only been found in stars. The lasers can generate particles including protons, electrons, neutrons and positrons which are of great interest to plasma, nuclear and astrophysicists but are also exciting for medical applications. Positrons can be used to find tumours and protons can be used to treat tumours with greater efficiency than conventional radiotherapy. In the longer term it may even be possible to use ultra-intense laser beams to help dispose of radioactive waste.

This talk will be presented at a level that can be understood by non-specialists and students at both school and university. A number of laser demonstrations will be given

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 13 February 2006 16:18 (eighteen years ago) link

hay guyz what's going on in this thread?

― retarded and gay (bato), Monday, 13 February 2006 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link

"Thanks Mooro, but my plan is to lose enough weight in the first week to look acceptable in a bikini in the second."

Hmm. Pam's upsets in this area lasted for most of the 3 weeks she was there & for about a month afterwards. Hope your plan works, though. Maybe pack bikinis in a range of sizes.

― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 13 February 2006 16:54 (eighteen years ago) link

There is only one size of bikini at the moment: doesn't fit.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 13 February 2006 16:55 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm not really going to benidorm on wednesday

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 13 February 2006 17:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Science Week used to be in March. Or are they running this kind of events now all year long due to popular demand? I will be so impressed

― olenska (olenska), Monday, 13 February 2006 17:09 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm going to barcelona on wednesday

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:15 (eighteen years ago) link

we want to go to benidorm.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Today I was driving home from work just between the Western and the Kelvin Hall when who should run across the road in front of my car but Stew. I waved, but he didn't see me.

Last week I saw Manda Rin outside my work (the epicentre of celeb-spotting in Glasgow, it would seem). I might have seen other people but I've forgotten what you all look like. When are we going to the pub?

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 16 February 2006 20:39 (eighteen years ago) link

I saw you the other night.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 16 February 2006 20:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, I saw you too. And then I saw Onimo later that very same evening. I'm just being snarky because I'm wanting an excuse to go to the pub.

By the way, it just occurred to me that none of you lot probably read the ILX parenting thread, so let me throw in *another* excuse for fappage, that being Onimo's impending daddyhood.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 16 February 2006 23:31 (eighteen years ago) link

He already is a daddy, silly. /pedantry

(Woo Onimo!)

I keep forgetting to phone Jo and Ian.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 17 February 2006 09:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Has anyone seen the new easyjet routes from Glasgow. I did a search for flights to Berlin in the middle of August and got a fare of £36 inc taxes, bargain.

― leigh (leigh), Friday, 17 February 2006 10:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, my parents got mad stupid cheap flights to come home and visit from Malaga. I did point out it would have been much better had they bought mad stupid cheap flights for us to go and visit them, but, no, they had to do it their way.

Madchen, have you remembered to phone them yet? I mean, obviously you have remembered about phoning them, but have you put this into practice?

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 17 February 2006 17:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Madchen, you have mail (gmail).

It's Dahlin's birthday soon. PUB! PUB! PUB! PUB!

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 00:27 (eighteen years ago) link

No, I am still forgetting. Please keep reminding me. Darn, I wish they had email (or if they do now, I wish I knew the address).

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 05:09 (eighteen years ago) link

"Today I was driving home from work just between the Western and the Kelvin Hall when who should run across the road in front of my car but Stew. I waved, but he didn't see me."

Hi dere!

Hey everybody - come to Chris Brokaw at Mono tonight. He's great, support act Skeleton Bob are great, and my group Older & Faraway, who maybe aren't so great, are making our live debut. It's me playing geetar with Mogwai's cellist. More Americana than post-rock though.
I'm spinning some tunes too. Fiver on the door. Bargain!

― stew!, Wednesday, 22 February 2006 09:25 (eighteen years ago) link

I didn't pay

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 23 February 2006 18:19 (eighteen years ago) link

didn't stay either tho

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 23 February 2006 18:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Madchen, I have Jo's email, shall I take responsibility whilst you are sunning yourself in the name of work? And arrange something for when you come back?

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 23 February 2006 18:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Ah, Cozen you cad! You missed me mucking up a chord change and playing a mighty Neil Young esque solo during the last song.
Chris Brokaw was fantastic. Even better in Edinburgh last night.

― stew!, Friday, 24 February 2006 13:12 (eighteen years ago) link

cobalt on sauchiehall st has cunningly lost the lt and turned the b into a d, I noticed, today -- the australian/new zealandish one w/ the funny hair that cut mine ages ago was locking up

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 19:50 (eighteen years ago) link

missed the 6000th post, here

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 19:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Tried new Glasgow and old Glasgow, these past couple of nights. Interesting.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 2 March 2006 00:46 (eighteen years ago) link

you old fanny

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 2 March 2006 00:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Are people going to Belle and Sebastian at Triptych?

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 2 March 2006 00:50 (eighteen years ago) link

I'd rather go to jackson in edinburgh

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 2 March 2006 00:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Jackson is in Mississippi (this is what I learned from the pub quiz tonight).

I want to go to see the Fire Engines in Edinburgh since I missed them at Optimo.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 2 March 2006 00:56 (eighteen years ago) link

I am going to Optimo on Sunday. That's probably as far as I'll stretch right now.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:12 (eighteen years ago) link

you're going to the silver jews on fri

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Wikipedia thanks its contributors for creating over 1,000,000 articles.

Our millionth article: Jordanhill railway station.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Thursday, 2 March 2006 10:37 (eighteen years ago) link

pub quizzes are a source of knowledge that should not be overlooked by CI / BI guys. I once learnt that New Model Army´s boots were made in Northhampton.

― olenska (olenska), Thursday, 2 March 2006 10:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Presumably Cromwell's NMA and not the popular Bradford beat combo, because their clogs were made in Northallerton.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 2 March 2006 11:44 (eighteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/RJG/mar2006smallcol.jpg

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 2 March 2006 12:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Cromwell´s, indeed.

Lovely poster. But we are not going to Glasgow anymore, just London.boohoo

― olenska (olenska), Thursday, 2 March 2006 12:49 (eighteen years ago) link

B-52D?

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 2 March 2006 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link

i will be trying edinburgh and glasgow for triptych japes. i think. i need to refine my list slightly.

i'm massively and hugely up for ACR japery at optimo on the sunday. that's for sure.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:08 (eighteen years ago) link

It's just noise.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 3 March 2006 01:11 (eighteen years ago) link

The Winchester Club: da bomb

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 3 March 2006 07:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Hello!

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 3 March 2006 07:20 (eighteen years ago) link

It's just noise.

some of it might be crap.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 3 March 2006 08:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Those interested in seeing a good film and what Glasgow looked like in the late 70's:

GFT 4th March (18:30)
Deathwatch

http://www.gft.org.uk/film.asp?ID=504

― JohnFoxxsJuno (JohnFoxxsJuno), Friday, 3 March 2006 09:47 (eighteen years ago) link

that sounds superb, actually. hmm. wonder if i can convince mrs F?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 3 March 2006 11:01 (eighteen years ago) link

jed posted stills from it, um, upthread. harv outside the cathedral and walking up an empty bothwell st or so and h d stanton outside some southside pub

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 3 March 2006 11:12 (eighteen years ago) link

it's snowing

on bothwell lane, at least

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 3 March 2006 11:18 (eighteen years ago) link

it's stopped snowing

on bothwell lane, at least

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 3 March 2006 11:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Hello Glasgow, much as I'd love to come and see you all, I'm not. But I did find this headline while web browsing for work and I wanted to put it somewhere.

Alba demands Playboy pull March magazine


Why?

Resume your usual antics.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 3 March 2006 11:48 (eighteen years ago) link

I would also like to see that film. I wonder if I can get back from Parkhead on time (I'm sure I can). I might see some of you there!

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:51 (eighteen years ago) link

The chambermaid asked Harvey Keitel 'What does a wee man like you want with a big double bed?'

Good old Glasgow.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 3 March 2006 19:46 (eighteen years ago) link

jackson & his computer band?

xposts

I'm in glasgow right now; it's very exciting

except I'm in pain from more root treatment

!

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 3 March 2006 20:21 (eighteen years ago) link

heard about you

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 4 March 2006 00:08 (eighteen years ago) link

"root" treatment.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 4 March 2006 13:23 (eighteen years ago) link

as always

xpost

tell me about it

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 4 March 2006 14:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Ended up walking to the GFT from Celtic Park via the fire down near the the Barras - embdy know what building it was? The smoke drifted all the way in to the stadium mid-way through the first half - I presumed it was folk lighting fires to keep warm.
Film was pretty good - kind of a fore-runner to the Truman Show. A lot of the city centre shots were interesting as it hasn't really changed all that much.

― JohnFoxxsJuno (JohnFoxxsJuno), Sunday, 5 March 2006 12:21 (eighteen years ago) link

You don't see Harvey Keitel so much anymore.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 5 March 2006 12:21 (eighteen years ago) link

No idea what the fire was, I smelt in on the way up to the match walking up the Gallowgate, and I could see the smoke hanging over the city centre from my seat in the upper east stand.

I forgot to go and see Death Watch, instead I was forced to see the worst band in the world ever. Cockcheese, I think they were called :-) Godawful pub rock with every song run through the Status Quo filter, and a bizarre version of Under My Thumb which appeared to be the singer singing Under My Thumb as the band played Lust for Life. Redeemed by the twenty-minute soft-rock medley played between their sets. Poison! Extreme! Heart! Chicago! REO Speedwagon! Meatloaf! The Scorpions! Marillion! Also redeemed by about 95 pints of Guinness. And the company. We should have a shit-pub-bands FAP. It was top roffleness.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 5 March 2006 12:38 (eighteen years ago) link

"forced"

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Sunday, 5 March 2006 12:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Well, it wasn't my idea. Then people kept buying me beer and making me stay. My arm is so sore from all the twisting it was getting, honest guv.

(My head fucking hurts, by the way)

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 5 March 2006 12:42 (eighteen years ago) link

You arm is sore from all the elbow bending.

I'm surprisingly fresh, I ate half a dodgy curry then passed out but I seem to have had a sleep rather than an alcohol induced coma.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Sunday, 5 March 2006 12:56 (eighteen years ago) link

This is the dude from the pub. (sadly no picture of the roadie with his jammies on)

http://www.reidkerr.ac.uk/students/images/bitsnbobs/pom/JAMIE.jpg

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 5 March 2006 13:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Anyone travelling from Glasgow to that London in the next fortnight, please? If so they could do Sally a favour & help charity as well.

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 12:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, it would also involve transporting pop star wellies.

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 12:43 (eighteen years ago) link

a friend is going to london but not 'til the weekend of the 25th

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 12:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Job would require completion before the 20th :(

Thanks you very much for replying, though.

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 13:17 (eighteen years ago) link

I will be travelling to London but not til 25th, David! I´m waiting for your confirmation details :-)

― olenska (olenska), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:55 (eighteen years ago) link

This is one of those drugs mule scams, isn't it?

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:56 (eighteen years ago) link

i need to visit that london, but the chances of doing it any time soon are sadly slim.

wellies? coo ur.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 15:15 (eighteen years ago) link

This is one of those drugs mule scams, isn't it?

If the wellies would fit up your arse, then yes Alba. Thicker rubber than condoms so much safer too.

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 15:31 (eighteen years ago) link

If the wellies would fit up your arse

can we try this for a laugh anyway?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 15:33 (eighteen years ago) link

(on alba, i mean.)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 15:34 (eighteen years ago) link

poor alba

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 15:37 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm trying glasgow, in a way. i got a call at 1am last night and then my house was suddenly and unexpectedly filled with glasgwegians. they made me porridge this morning. good glasgwegians.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 15:56 (eighteen years ago) link

and they do housework! i love them.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 9 March 2006 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Can I have some, please? My house is a tip. I could do with some Glaswegian minions houseguests in that case.

― Fish is Biodegradable! (That Means It Rots) (kate), Thursday, 9 March 2006 14:23 (eighteen years ago) link

awrite kate ya fuckin' radge, gizza bottle o buckie and we'll do it for ye heheheh etc

http://www.glasgowsurvival.co.uk/pictures/nedGal19.jpg

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 9 March 2006 14:29 (eighteen years ago) link

aren't these glaswegians from fife or something?

I don't know ANY glaswegians (or anyone that purports to be) that does housework!

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 9 March 2006 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link

I was hoping more for...

http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/images_music/jesusmary_01.jpg

"Ya dinnae do winders!!!"

― Fish is Biodegradable! (That Means It Rots) (kate), Thursday, 9 March 2006 14:36 (eighteen years ago) link

I changed something, there, during the brackets

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 9 March 2006 14:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Anyway, I have a friend and ex-bandmate who is trying Glasgow right now, as we speak! Apparently she has gone to interview a band and have nummy organic beers and indie records at Mono. I am jealous.

― Fish is Biodegradable! (That Means It Rots) (kate), Thursday, 9 March 2006 14:40 (eighteen years ago) link

we'd like to help, kate, although we're allergic to windolene. can we just sit here and drink milky tea instead?

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2004/07/22/belle_narrowweb__200x201.jpg

― grimly fiendish, perpetuating out-of-date stereotypes but not really giving a fu, Thursday, 9 March 2006 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah, mainly from fife if you're going to split hairs.

50/50 chance of stacey and i stowing away in the back of the van and trying glasgow in person tomorrow.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 9 March 2006 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link

I won't split hairs but ally cook has a thing abt the "east coast"

50/50 isn't v telling!

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 9 March 2006 15:09 (eighteen years ago) link

i know, it isn't. but that's the way things stand at the moment. we're trying to decide if it's worth it as we would arrive tomorrow afternoonish then have to come back to ldn saturday morning.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 9 March 2006 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.gft.org.uk/film.asp?ID=526

Parallax View, GFT, this Wednesday 18.15. Tense.

― JohnFoxxsJuno (JohnFoxxsJuno), Monday, 13 March 2006 10:01 (eighteen years ago) link

I was sad to notice that there was no Lauren in Glasgow. However I can confirm that the Fife Glaswegians were back and in fine form on Saturday night. And by 'in fine form' I mean, of course; completely off their collective face.

Saw the Concretes last night, for free, and had some cake. Glasgow is good to me.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 13 March 2006 12:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Concretes were superb. After all the palaver of traipsing through the snow to get there and worrying about getting home (in the end we got a lift, so it was all good) they had to deliver the goods. And they did. Those Swedes know how to warm the soul.

My street (Gardner St) is in the Herald today. People were sledging down it yesterday and it was a slushy nightmare today.
If anyone lives near Clouston St go check out the awesome snowman someone built. It's like 4 massive snowballs piled on top of each other, with trees for arms (well, branches).

― stew!, Monday, 13 March 2006 12:22 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm imagining something on the scale of the Stay Puft Man from Ghostbusters, with entire tree trunks for arms. Must get to Clouston St.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 13 March 2006 13:57 (eighteen years ago) link

You're not far off, Ally.

― stew!, Monday, 13 March 2006 15:09 (eighteen years ago) link

glasgow?

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 16 March 2006 20:30 (eighteen years ago) link

I know...

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 16 March 2006 20:33 (eighteen years ago) link

I think my deferred Trying More is now confirmed for w/c 24th April (it'll probably become more definite when I'm on holiday) so I propose aldoFAP2006 for Thurs 27th.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 17 March 2006 09:29 (eighteen years ago) link

I am already quadruple booked, for thurs the 27th

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 17 March 2006 09:34 (eighteen years ago) link

I would think "washing your hair" probably counts as quadruple booking, in your case, yes.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:30 (eighteen years ago) link

: o

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:48 (eighteen years ago) link

aldoFAP2006 for Thurs 27th

triptych. mogwai. edinburgh. come.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Work. Unlikely.

Might be able to do another night that week.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Next Saturday I think I'm going to start drinking around 3pm. Wanna join me? I want to be ratfaced by midnight, when I will turn 31.
Message ends.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Saturday, 25 March 2006 16:08 (eighteen years ago) link

(You do not have to show up at 3pm - any time after that is fine. Location TBC)

― Mädchen (Madchen), Saturday, 25 March 2006 16:12 (eighteen years ago) link

(Message ends for real)

― Mädchen (Madchen), Saturday, 25 March 2006 16:13 (eighteen years ago) link

I was rather ratfaced, last night

I will try, again, next week, but it is exhausting!!!

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 26 March 2006 18:53 (eighteen years ago) link

I was also rather ratfaced last night. I am suffering today for it, but I am treating it as "practice". I shall be up for the long-haul next week, I would have thought.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 26 March 2006 18:57 (eighteen years ago) link

aldoFAP needs to be on or after the 26th for financial purposes. Otherwise I shall be sitting in the corner drinking water like a poor person.

Problem with smoking ban = lack of opportunity to laugh at pished Grimly Fiendish for forgetting he's stopped smoking and buying a whole packet of cigarettes then giving them all away because he's remembered he's stopped smoking (see also aldo and onimo).

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 26 March 2006 19:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Hello. I have quite clearly been away from the board as I have been a little busy of late. I have things to show for it which some of you may be interested in - www.updatescotland.com

Comments & crits welcome.

― hmmm (hmmm), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 12:12 (eighteen years ago) link

The requested URL /www.updatescotland.com was not found on this server.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 12:25 (eighteen years ago) link

www.updatescotland.com

― hmmm (hmmm), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 12:26 (eighteen years ago) link

hey neil! sorry i've not been in touch. things hectic and a tad shit right now. will e-mail soon.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 12:32 (eighteen years ago) link

No bother.

― hmmm (hmmm), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 12:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Right, I'm cream crackered after a week learning how to get millionnaires to give you their cash, so here is the new buffday plan:

6pm, Ichiban. Later, Mono.

I figured Ichiban is one of the few places a number of people can go to eat without needing to book a table and try to work out numbers in advance and all that malarkey. Anyone wanting to do the food bit will have to get there close to six o'clock so we can sit together, I guess.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Saturday, 1 April 2006 09:11 (eighteen years ago) link

We'll be there!

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 1 April 2006 09:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Excellent!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Saturday, 1 April 2006 10:25 (eighteen years ago) link

(can you get a millionaire to give me some cash please?)

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 1 April 2006 10:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Unfortunately, I'm not sure you have a convincing enough philanthropic case.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Saturday, 1 April 2006 12:06 (eighteen years ago) link

How do you know? Couldn't I formulate one?

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 1 April 2006 12:10 (eighteen years ago) link

You could certainly try.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Saturday, 1 April 2006 14:56 (eighteen years ago) link

We are leaving the house soon. Will you be in a pub first, or will you be in Ichiban? I'm sure we shall find you, somehow. Is anyone else going?

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 1 April 2006 14:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Happy birthday, Madchen!!

― Lara (Lara), Saturday, 1 April 2006 23:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Happy birthday, Madchen. Good photos, whoever took 'em.

Hey! I'm going to be in Glasgow again on Thursday the 13th of April for one night only. My big bro is getting married on the Saturday and half of Dublin is coming over for the wedding.

Last time I spent a night in Glasgow, I stayed in the Jurys Inn on Jamaica St because it was cheap. It was also horrible, however (I don't like coming down to my breakfast in the morning to find a load of people already milling pints. And I don't like a sign in my room that says 'we do not advise you to leave your handbag or any other valuables in your room'). Does anyone have any suggestions as to where I might stay that I won't fear getting stabbed. Note, I don't want to spend an absolute fortune either.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 3 April 2006 16:17 (eighteen years ago) link

the jury's inn's inside can't be worse than its outside

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 3 April 2006 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Are you fapping, accentmonkey?

My parents usually stay at the Premier Travel Inn at Charing Cross. Currently at £51 for the night for a room - if it's just you, that's quite near, but I guess it's reasonable if accentbloke is coming too.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 3 April 2006 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link

I am already booked, for next week

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 3 April 2006 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link

near = dear, obviously. I have no idea if it's near or not.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 3 April 2006 16:52 (eighteen years ago) link

The Travel Inn on the corner of George Street and Montrose Street is decent too.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:56 (eighteen years ago) link

My parents stayed in a nice one near the cricket gound many years ago. Do not know name or tariffs, or nearness, but you won't get stabbed.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 09:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Not getting stabbed is my number one priority. Getting Fapped is number two priority. Any suggestions?

Thanks for those hotel names, I'll swing into action immediately.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 09:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Shallow advertising: I am playing a gig in Mono on the 13th, with some other people, if you (or anyone else) would like to come. Thank you.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:04 (eighteen years ago) link

I am already booked, for next week

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:06 (eighteen years ago) link

I'll be in sunny Surrey's trendy Woking that weekend, I'm afraid.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Hey, a gig sounds fun. I'll come to that! Marvellous. Sorted.

RJG, you'll be along, won't you?

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:40 (eighteen years ago) link

I am already booked, for next week

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Now you're double booked.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:01 (eighteen years ago) link

I forgot to say, it is FREE. RJG, you'll come?

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:42 (eighteen years ago) link

I hope so. I'm excited to meet RJG, who will certainly not let me down by being somewhere else.

Right?

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:43 (eighteen years ago) link

He just called to say he is 'in the process of cancelling flights'.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:45 (eighteen years ago) link

I am sorry, I am already booked, for next week

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:29 (eighteen years ago) link

i will be in Mono watching Ally do his thing, despite my work's stupid "no day off on Good Friday" policy.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 07:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Ugh. Would anyone like to watch the Arsenal game later, in a pub in town?

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 11:53 (eighteen years ago) link

I would, but I will be watching the Celtic game in a stadium in town. Sorry.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 11:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Get your priorities straight, woman. Oh, and no 'dodgy' defeats tonight, OK?

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Who do you think I am, Jim Jeffries? (see Scottish Football Predictions thread). I hope you enjoy the game.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:10 (eighteen years ago) link

I will be watching the arsenal game, in a living room, out of town

sorry dude

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link

I am alone in the world.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 16:58 (eighteen years ago) link

But almost finished work, at least. I just found a nice little case of benefit fraud.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link

You and Gillanders had best plan your Dublin trip soon - I'm getting impatient. You should start hatching a plan for that tonight.

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, maybe.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 20:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Lara, why not come to Glasgow next weekend? There's a big Byrne wedding on you could crash. Pretend to be our cousin. I'll vouch for you.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:06 (eighteen years ago) link

can i be your american cousin?
i hear the irish do it better. i need proof.

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 6 April 2006 10:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Ask Dastoor ;-)

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Calling Ally C. I have emailed you to your hotmail email to ask your advice on something. I am temporarily without a mobile phone once more.

Accentmonkey, what time will you be doing things on Thursday? I may now not be going to see Dot to Dot, since I have another friend in another band in another venue that night. Sorry :-(

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:15 (eighteen years ago) link

I get in early on Thursday, so I could meet earlier if that's better. I've got no plans, and frankly the Vicar was giving the Glasgow massive such mad props last night that I am keen to meet as many people as I can.

Where's the gig on that you're going to, Ailsa? Is it possible to do both?

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 7 April 2006 06:18 (eighteen years ago) link

It's in Miso, which is on West Regent Street, and a very bizarre place for a gig (however the mister's cousin works there, and they serve posho nice cocktails, which is good). I've since found out that friend's band are also playing fairly locally on Saturday, so whether I go and see them on Thursday or Saturday is now entirely dependent on which, if any, day my brother comes down to see them. And whether I can get the day off on Friday (yes, I know it's Good Friday, but apparently that doesn't matter to the powers-that-decide-our-holidays).

Either way, I can be in a pub for after 5, how quickly after 5 depends on how city-centre-ish we are for early-doors drinking.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:20 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm up for some kind of beer on thursday. a surprising and slightly odd set of circumstances and happenings at work mean i've no fucking idea when i'll be able to get away. but i'll be out. somewhere. at some point.

i think.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 9 April 2006 20:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Wearing a Power Suit?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 10 April 2006 10:05 (eighteen years ago) link

(I don't know who grimly supports, but wouldn't)

Wearing a Power Rangers Suit?

(be funnier?)

― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 10 April 2006 10:34 (eighteen years ago) link

soon

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:58 (eighteen years ago) link

and for the rest of your life

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 10 April 2006 18:24 (eighteen years ago) link

glasgow seems so far away

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 10 April 2006 18:30 (eighteen years ago) link

god no

x-post

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 10 April 2006 18:33 (eighteen years ago) link

it's morphin' time

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 10 April 2006 19:14 (eighteen years ago) link

but wouldn't)

Wearing a Power Rangers Suit?

(be funnier?

yes. i'm laughing at the idea of, umm, me in a power rangers suit. where can i get one?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 10 April 2006 19:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Have a minion fetch it for you

― stet (stet), Monday, 10 April 2006 21:48 (eighteen years ago) link

I want minions.

In the meantime, here's one of my mini-yins:

http://i1.tinypic.com/v5d7di.jpg

I'm sure he'll let grimly borrow it.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 10 April 2006 22:06 (eighteen years ago) link

bet it'd fit too
OUCH!
omg how adorable is that?!?
gagging with cuteness!

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 12:02 (eighteen years ago) link

i had a dream featuring ally C and RJG and the guy who used to play sinbad in brookside.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 12:10 (eighteen years ago) link

As I predicted elsewhere, incompetent bastards at another company have delayed aldoFAP for at least three weeks, probably till the beginning of June. At least it won't clash with Mogwai.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 12:56 (eighteen years ago) link

And I should be able to go now!

Jed, sweetie, I think we need details.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 13:02 (eighteen years ago) link

I'd do a lot of things, to see Sinbad and RJG in the same room.

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 13:36 (eighteen years ago) link

how v strange!

I went to see 'anything goes', at the king's, last month, and sinbad was in it!! michael something. he was pretty good, too!! xx

ally C was not there but I DID tell him about it

: O

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link

we were in the same room!

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link

so you mean Sinbad the comedian right? this guy?

can someone photoshop him w/ RJG?

http://www.jacneed.com/PhotoFile/Sinbad.gif

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 15:29 (eighteen years ago) link

sorry, manny, this guy:

http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/images/michaelstarke2.jpg

my dad told me a funny reason why he was called "sinbad", in brookside

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 15:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Window washer thing isn't it, because he cuts the corners?

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, washed them like portholes rather than like proper windows.

Are we accentmonkeyfapping on Thursday then?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 17:13 (eighteen years ago) link

I am already booked, for this week

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 17:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Should I assume we aren't doing anything tomorrow then? Or else that you are all planning enormous amounts of fun off board and no-one is telling me.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 17:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Daer Glasgow, accentmonkey is fucking amazing, please get off your arses for your own sake. Love!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 22:13 (eighteen years ago) link

I am sorry, I am already booked, for this week

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 22:17 (eighteen years ago) link

i was looking out of my window and i saw Ally C and RJG go into the close opposite so i texted them and asked them if they wanted to visit me for a coffee and when they did they brought sinbad with them who was their drug dealer (i was surprised too) and who they had just been visiting. it was their reason to be in maryhill in the first place. there was something about there being no stairs to my flat so they had to climb up ropes to get here and when they did get here RJG was trying to steal my screensaver and i dare say other things happened but i can't really remember.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 22:24 (eighteen years ago) link

:D

i will come for an accentmonkey drink. she's one of my ILBro's.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 22:32 (eighteen years ago) link

I DID steal your screensaver!

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 22:44 (eighteen years ago) link

but you didn't steal it right out of my computer!

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 22:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Dearest Glasgow,

I don't do ILX at work, and I don't have a mobile phone. If any accentmonkey-related plans develop for after work, can someone please email me and tell me. This email address works if you alter the obvious bit.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 13 April 2006 05:31 (eighteen years ago) link

say hello to kate b for me when she arrives in your fair town

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Thursday, 13 April 2006 05:35 (eighteen years ago) link

---- -olden?

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 13 April 2006 05:55 (eighteen years ago) link

oui

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Thursday, 13 April 2006 05:57 (eighteen years ago) link

we shall! yay! next week! yay!
*happy kate dances*
i'll be at mono later. whether or not anyone else will be, i do not know. *shrug*

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 13 April 2006 09:12 (eighteen years ago) link

From the CCA toilets, I bring you:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/albaalba/ilx/whatisthisfear.jpg

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 13 April 2006 22:45 (eighteen years ago) link

That is good.

ADA on May 5th, Glasgow. I AM EXCITED.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 14 April 2006 00:05 (eighteen years ago) link

i didn't go out last night. i was at work till late. then i went home and watched "the apprentice", which i'd taped on wednesday, because i was at work late that night too. (okay: i was in the pub on wednesday. but it was with a colleague for a meeting that went much better for its lubrication with alcohol. then i bought a kebab, got half of it on my (non-power-rangers) suit and the other half on my shoes, and passed out.)

life is very bizarre right now.

but dahlin, your comment above has been noted and vengeance will be mine at a later date :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 14 April 2006 18:04 (eighteen years ago) link

I did go out. My head *still* hurts. I'm sorry I missed Dot to Dot, but the other band I ran off to see were very good.

Grimly, I'll be your minion if you like, since it would appear I am to be unemployed after 19th May. But I'm not wearing no power rangers suit.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 14 April 2006 18:26 (eighteen years ago) link

fuck! that's harsh. i'm sorry to hear that, ailsa.

i would love you to be my minion ... but unless you fancy paying the company for the privilege of doing so, i doubt they'll hire you. or indeed anyone. ever again. the tigh [+++NO CARRIER]

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:00 (eighteen years ago) link

are you the only two folk that post on here? nae offence, like.

― peter manuel, Friday, 14 April 2006 21:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, it's been a whole four posts since someone else posted.

(you want to try the Scottish Football Predictions thread if you want a thread only two people post on)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 14 April 2006 21:31 (eighteen years ago) link

What am I, shortbread?

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 14 April 2006 21:37 (eighteen years ago) link

You've been pretending you don't exist so I won't laugh at your team on holiday! And not posting.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 14 April 2006 21:43 (eighteen years ago) link

That's true. I have become the Torre Andre Flo of that thread - came with a reputation, started adequately, turned out to be pish.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 14 April 2006 21:58 (eighteen years ago) link

I like it, keep up good job !

― Alexx_STI, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 06:39 (eighteen years ago) link

so, subcurrent?

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 08:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes, Sinbad = porthole approach to window-cleaning.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 08:19 (eighteen years ago) link

: )

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 08:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Sorry to invade your thread again, Glasgow, but hurry on down to London, Dot To Dot! :-)

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 08:22 (eighteen years ago) link

I got a bit lost on Thursday night. It would be hard to say exactly what happened, but there was drink taken.

Actually "drink taken" was a bit of a feature of the weekend.

I do not recommend the Gleddoch House hotel for a wedding just at the moment, by the way. It'll be lovely when it's finished, but it's a bit, er, raw and understaffed at the moment.

Ow my head, etc.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 09:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Half of it burned down last year or the year before. I thought the work would have been done by now.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 09:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Google says the fire was January '04.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 09:21 (eighteen years ago) link

It could easily have been. Then they were doing it up, and then about two months ago the hotel changed hands, became part of a chain, and (so someone told me) a lot of the staff left. This would account for some of the annoying things that happened, like the cigarette machine not being refilled and the bar running out of both beer and vodka, but not for other annoying things like the temporary dancefloor coming apart and the band therefore not really being able to play very much.

But we managed to struggle through and have a good time anyway.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 10:09 (eighteen years ago) link

yo peeps. free gig tomorrow. info here god i hope that worked. otherwise it'll look MIGHTY silly. ah well. it's 3am. can i be forgiven? yes. thank you. summary: free. swedes. pop. rock. pizza. bar bloc. bath street. 8 or so (early enough that you can run away and do other things later!). beer. beer. swedes. ME! FREE! boy omega. martial arts. etc etc etc

― dahlin (dahlin), Friday, 21 April 2006 01:12 (eighteen years ago) link

and by tomorrow i really mean TODAY. friday. yup. good night

― dahlin (dahlin), Friday, 21 April 2006 01:14 (eighteen years ago) link

NPL: A big queue looks good on the dancefloor.

I thank you.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Saturday, 29 April 2006 08:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Scotstvo! Hello! Are you going to Benicassim this year? I am giving it serious consideration (or was until I got made redundant - though I have a few interviews lined up so this might not be an issue), and the Neil-friendly line-up means this is the best chance I have of getting him there.

Bah, one of the few times NPL coincides with me getting paid, and I didn't go. They should bring back Little Leagues soon, and I might actually go to one of them.

Yesterday I walked past Stew outside Partick Station and I waved at him and said hello and he didn't see me.

Is anyone going to see Belle and Sebastian tomorrow?

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 29 April 2006 09:26 (eighteen years ago) link

I quite fancied NPL, and then my parents showed up. To make up for it we went to the Transport Museum, the Hill House and New Lanark and they bought all my dinners for me. New Lanark has a crazy ride! Is Alba drinking tomorrow?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Sunday, 30 April 2006 15:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Did you not get my text?

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 30 April 2006 15:41 (eighteen years ago) link

What is the crazy ride at New Lanark?

― Cathy (Cathy), Sunday, 30 April 2006 18:13 (eighteen years ago) link

mr. owen's wild ride

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 30 April 2006 18:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I think it's called the Millennium Experience. It's like a very slow gondola that doesn't go up or down, just round corners. And there are some bad waxworks of people in long frocks.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Sunday, 30 April 2006 18:43 (eighteen years ago) link

ooh. I wonder if it is like the one at the Jorvic museum in York.

One of my very early memories of pure terror is of being taken to the Chamber of Horrors at Madame Tussaud's, and feeling claustrophobic and panicked. I just looked at the website and it says it is only suitable for over 12s, but I must have been about 5, I'm not sure why I was let in.

Anyway, I am very distrustful of anything underground with waxworks, that calls itself an Experience. Especially anything with piped-through "historical smells". The Jorvic museum thing smelt of smoke and piss, on purpose, to create atmosphere. It was rancid.

― Cathy (Cathy), Sunday, 30 April 2006 18:55 (eighteen years ago) link

wine and piss...and death's desire

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 30 April 2006 19:01 (eighteen years ago) link

No Benicassim for me this year I'm afraid. I'm giving up the world of gainful employment and going to do a postgrad this coming term, rendering me virtually penniless and in no way able to go to Spain for dancing. Still though, I highly recommend it!

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Monday, 1 May 2006 09:21 (eighteen years ago) link

At least four of us are collecting Panini. There was a vague plan to meet up tomorrow after work to do swopsies - who's up for it?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 10:41 (eighteen years ago) link


Is the new lanark thingie called The Annie McLeod Experience? I can vaguely remember that from a school history trip.

They should stick the falls of clyde back on to the cover of the phone book for Lanarkshire again.

― JohnFoxxsJuno (JohnFoxxsJuno), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:35 (eighteen years ago) link

No, it's definitely a Millennium Experience. Mostly it's a hologram of this girl called Harmony from 200 years in the future wearing dodgy lycra and silver facepaint. Anne McLeod does crop up as a waxwork lying on her sickbed, and there is also an Annie McLeod Tour of the schoolhouse.

They had opened the barriers at the top of the Falls of Clyde so it was at maximum gush for the bank holiday, but I didn't notice any difference tbh.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:42 (eighteen years ago) link

There was a vague plan to meet up tomorrow after work to do swopsies - who's up for it?

I have emailed Onimo about pre-match pints and this could and should be extended to swapsieing as well. It might encourage me to go and buy some bloody stickers - I have lost all enthusiasm for it due to lack of, erm, enthusiasm.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:56 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't find anywhere selling the damn things. Ally C says Woolworths is the place so I'll go tomorrow.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 17:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Every shop I went into today just had SPL stickers.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 17:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, I'm getting the same thing :(

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 5 May 2006 10:44 (eighteen years ago) link

is it world cup stickers? they had some at the wee shop at st. john's hospital in livingston, yesterday

you should just do what your adult income allows which is order a crate of stickers and sit and open them all in one go and fill the book!

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 5 May 2006 10:52 (eighteen years ago) link

I think the Co-op is the best place for Panini FIFA Fussball-Weltmeisterschaft Deutschland 2006 stickers.

Sorry I couldn't make the swapsie meeting (did it happen?), I was ill.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 5 May 2006 10:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Yesterday I walked past Stew outside Partick Station and I waved at him and said hello and he didn't see me.

-- ailsa (ailsa.watso...), April 29th, 2006.

Oops, sorry! Was in flitting mode. Stress!

― Stew (stew s), Friday, 5 May 2006 10:59 (eighteen years ago) link

OK, aldoFAP is looking more likely now. Almost definitely I will be up 22-25 May - can do any night Mon-Weds, could almost certainly do Sun 21st as well if needs be. GET YOUR BIDS IN NOW FOR PREFERRED EVENING/LOCTAION.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 5 May 2006 11:29 (eighteen years ago) link

I'll be unemployed! I can go every night if you like! (I may be poor though, but not poor enough to not buy you beer in return for lots of DVDs)

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 6 May 2006 05:31 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm on 2-10 shifts the week beginning monday 22nd, so sunday night would be good. failing that, i can just meet you later somewhere. any day, i think.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 6 May 2006 09:52 (eighteen years ago) link

I know ailsa said NOT SUNDAY elsewhere, but it really is sort of my preferred day. Failing that, Monday. I need an answer by lunchtime tomorrow at the latest, so FITE IT OUT please glasgow.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Sunday is OK, really. I might have a job (whoo!) now, so any evening is much of a muchness. My prediction that I wouldn't be too poor to buy you beer may have been a touch rash, however. Will you accept some good wishes and a pint of water instead?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 16:02 (eighteen years ago) link

I would prefer Monday.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 16:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh for fuck's sake - FITE!

(In other words, is that "would prefer" or "must be", since Si can't do any other day practically?)

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 18:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Well I'm expected at a family thing on Sunday at 5pm and would therefore arrive in Glasgow quite late, if at all, and have to leave quite early as Sunday trains = shit (particularly this weekend as there's a shittier than shit replacement bus service).

Then again I saw you only yesterday so it's not a big deal if I miss out.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 19:48 (eighteen years ago) link

OK. I will plan for Sunday, but it will be dependent on flights and hotel availability. As you said, we've just been to Camber.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 20:35 (eighteen years ago) link

I need to know too, like NOW, because if, as hoped, I am offered a job, I want to tell them what day I can start on, and hangovers may be a factor.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 20:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Or I could exercise some restraint, seeing as how I am teh poor an' that.

Al or Gerry, can you let me know when a decision is made tomorrow please, so I can negotiate my future career accordingly?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 20:59 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't tell before I check flights and hotels, lunchtime tomorrow is the best I can do. If this isn't OK we'll have to say Monday and Si will just have to turn up when he can.

(This is pretty much since the four of us are the only vocal ones and nobody else seems to be throwing numbers either way)

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 21:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Actually, I'm not that bothered either way. It's really "taking sides, Onimo vs Grimly", innit, for Monday vs Sunday?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 21:04 (eighteen years ago) link

My actual real preference is for Sunday now, I think, because I can tell teh new work something, and then start on Tuesday and get myself a long lie on Monday. I shall be boozing with Onimo tomorrow, so I think I can survive not seeing him on Sunday. Also, if Grimly is going, we can form a two-person steering committee and nominate the Station Bar. Is reasonably early doors an option?

I realise you won't know until tomorrow lunchtime. I don't do ILX at work, so will need communication via email or text please...

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 21:18 (eighteen years ago) link

hmm. i'm going to blair drummond safari park with my nephew on sunday now, and i've no idea when i'll be back. certainly in time for some beers, though; i'll probably be able to get to a pub for half-eight. but if monday's better for everyone else, don't worry about it; i'll come along as soon as i get out of work.

see? i refuse to fite. i'm compromising instead. verily, i am the peacemaker. or something. the pissmaker, maybe. certainly after five pints of IPA in the station bar.

is anyone else up for this? is anyone else even reading this thread?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 22:30 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm reading it!

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 22:33 (eighteen years ago) link

so am i!

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 22:36 (eighteen years ago) link

are you coming to the pub on sunday or monday?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 22:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't think so : (

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 22:38 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm going to blair drummond safari park with my nephew on sunday now

You're just hoping to see a bear eat a monkey.

― KeefW (kmw), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 22:52 (eighteen years ago) link

you beat me to it.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 22:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Sunday yes monday no. Hopefully not the station bar though.

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 00:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Fuck, you lot are rubbish. I vote SUNDAY. SUNDAY!!

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 05:47 (eighteen years ago) link

You're just hoping to see a bear eat a monkey.

we're going prepared, just in case of disappointment.

http://www.allfancydress.com/images/products/12511.gif

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 06:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Bollocks, I've now been told I have to come back down on Tuesday during the day, then back to Glasgow Tuesday night to work in the evening... this is all too rushed, I'm going to have to dip out of this altogether. Sorry glasgow. ailsa, you should get your dvds tonight off Gerry anyway. Can somebody who can use their phone at work text her and let her know? Ta.

I'll come up in the summer when I have some ACTUAL TIME.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 08:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Your employer is crap.

I'll text ailsa.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 08:44 (eighteen years ago) link

They certainly are.

Ta.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 08:53 (eighteen years ago) link

What's this about Sunday?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 09:46 (eighteen years ago) link

ailsa would like a pint with someone and I've let her down.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 10:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Talking of crap employers...

I got the sack yesterday for reading my email. No warning, just one strike and out. It was all over in a matter of minutes. Cunts.

So me and Hmmm are no longer colleagues. Boo!

― Stew (stew s), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 12:15 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't really want a pint on Sunday, I would have preferred Sunday for aldo-FAP is all. The rush to notify me so I could negotiate a start date with my new employer which didn't coincide with a hangover was all in vain, since they haven't actually phoned to offer me the job. Thanks for the DVDs anyway, Al, which I am leaving to go and pick up in a matter of minutes. *checks watch, panics*

Aw, Stew, I'd just applied for a job with your work as well :-(

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 16:31 (eighteen years ago) link

The management there have turned evil. Don't believe all the "you're an associate not an employee" pish! All the best with that though, a job's a job!

― Stew (stew s), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link

bloody hell, stew! that's deeply harsh. fucking hell.

but hey, glasgow. we can still drink without aldo. when shall we do it?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 19:56 (eighteen years ago) link

So me and Hmmm are no longer colleagues. Boo!

Oh no! Should they not have instigated some sort of disciplinary procedure rather than just asking you to leave?

Shits.

― hmmm (hmmm), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 22:36 (eighteen years ago) link

So me and Hmmm are no longer colleagues. Boo!

Oh no! Should they not have instigated some sort of disciplinary procedure rather than just asking you to leave?

Shits.

― hmmm (hmmm), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 22:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Talking again of crap employers, my trip next week has just been fucking cancelled. Since I can't rant and shout in the office I'll do it here instead.

CUNTS CUNTS CUNTS CUNTS CUNTS CUNTS CUNTS CUNTS CUNTS CUNTS CUNTS CUNTS CUNTS CUNTS CUNTS CUNTS CUNTS CUNTS CUNTS CUNTS CUNTS CUNTS CUNTS CUNTS CUNTS CUNTS CUNTS CUNTS CUNTS CUNTS CUNTS CUNTS CUNTS CUNTS CUNTS CUNTS CUNTS CUNTS CUNTS CUNTS CUNTS CUNTS CUNTS CUNTS

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 18 May 2006 14:22 (eighteen years ago) link

try glasgow LESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 18 May 2006 16:46 (eighteen years ago) link

aldo, i emailed you to your work because i couldn't remember what variant of your name you used for your email. however, it was to offer to buy you beer in glasgow, so i guess it doesn't matter if you didn't get it.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 18 May 2006 18:10 (eighteen years ago) link

anyone been to the new comme des garcons?

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 21 May 2006 07:09 (eighteen years ago) link

I have no idea where that is but I'm intrigued. To the google machine!

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Sunday, 21 May 2006 14:14 (eighteen years ago) link

wow i didn't know about that CDG. maybe it's gone by now.


anyway: i saw jandek walking down buchanan street today WTF?!!!!!!

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 19:23 (eighteen years ago) link

did you try talking to him?!

― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 19:49 (eighteen years ago) link

no, i looked at him and he saw some sort of flicker of aknowledgement in me before looking down and walking past.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 19:54 (eighteen years ago) link

You'll be glad I've got a lovely new temp job at Yell, starting at the end of next week. It's an ok place to work apparently as most of the people are over-educated slackers like myself.

ATP was rad!

― Stew (stew s), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 13:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Hurrah for Stew! I need a temp job too, but I can't actually be bothered going any further than Paisley to look for one.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 13:41 (eighteen years ago) link

no-one at my work is an "over-educated slacker"

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 13:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Perhaps "arts graduate" is a better and more accurate term!

― Stew (stew s), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 13:52 (eighteen years ago) link

dunno how many, of them, we have, either

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 14:04 (eighteen years ago) link

no-one at my work is RJG. Or Stew, either.

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 14:30 (eighteen years ago) link

comme des garcons is here for a year I think

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 15:58 (eighteen years ago) link

let's go

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 16:15 (eighteen years ago) link

OK

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 16:24 (eighteen years ago) link

how was it?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 21:30 (eighteen years ago) link

(that didn't work. i thought it would look funnier. sorry.)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 21:31 (eighteen years ago) link

http://static.flickr.com/72/157126562_4174628273_o.jpg

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 10:31 (eighteen years ago) link

9/10. You were docked a point for not reversing the B in ABBA.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 10:43 (eighteen years ago) link

I had I promise!!!

whoops!

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 10:45 (eighteen years ago) link

http://static.flickr.com/75/157127898_71c710fedb.jpg

silly me : )

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 10:46 (eighteen years ago) link

http://static.flickr.com/56/157136132_870aea79f5.jpg

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 10:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Cor, World Cup + Winchester = fantabulous amounts of boozing. Hurrah! (I probably won't be there, like, but, y'know...)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 10:54 (eighteen years ago) link

9am-2am

:O

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 10:56 (eighteen years ago) link

I won't be there, either!

I am going to suffolk


crosspost

SHIIIIIIIIT!!!

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 10:56 (eighteen years ago) link

that's very good.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 10:59 (eighteen years ago) link

9AM-2AM for only £4??

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 11:02 (eighteen years ago) link

It's an all-dayer in honour of your birthday, Onimo.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 11:05 (eighteen years ago) link

http://static.flickr.com/56/157141163_05183390ab.jpg

phew, hope ally hasn't printed, yet, but it is his own fault : )

thanks jerry & gerry & jed, btw

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 11:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Nice flyer, RJG.

GLASGOW: FANCY A PERSIAN?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.reasoner.org/wp-content/photos/IRI999c.jpg

cathy says she thinks this one is "hot" but I think he dresses far too casually

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 17:09 (eighteen years ago) link

I'd totally do a Persian.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 20:43 (eighteen years ago) link

That's sick - *he* looks like your Dad playing St Paul!

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 20:46 (eighteen years ago) link

persian sounds good. this sounds worth a try too, for BEER. anyone been yet?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 21:09 (eighteen years ago) link

cozen talks about it as he does most things

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 22:25 (eighteen years ago) link

I really really like the look of the Persian but I am leaving tomorrow : (

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 1 June 2006 07:16 (eighteen years ago) link

I like the look of Persian and also of Glasgow Green beer place. Let's go out, Glasgow!

Those of you who don't read the Watercooler thread may or may not know that beanz who posts on ILX is coming up to Glasgow today until Sunday. Drinking may occur at some point.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 1 June 2006 09:40 (eighteen years ago) link

i won't be here. bugger.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 1 June 2006 10:08 (eighteen years ago) link

I will!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 1 June 2006 11:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Shall we drink and watch England v Jamaica on Saturday? C'mon teh reggae boyz!

(2pm kick-off, pick a pub, swapsies optional for those not participating in this form of abject torture and mentalism)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 1 June 2006 11:48 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm trying glasgow in exactly one month, for the first time.

is arriving at glasgow central at 13:49 to get to a c. 15:00 appointment at the gilmorehill centre at glasgow university a viable plan of action, people who know?

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Thursday, 1 June 2006 11:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Westbeer is great. It's absolutley huge. You can sit and watch them making up the beer too! It's never really busy either.The bratwurst is excellent, but the Kaesespaetzle isn't - it's a bit like baby food. Try the Weihenstephaner (wheat beer) if you get the chance.

― JohnFoxxsJuno (JohnFoxxsJuno), Thursday, 1 June 2006 11:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes, no problem at all. Get out of the station on the right hand side, cross Hope Street, stand at bus stop, get on 44 bus, pay the driver, sit there for a bit, get off 44 bus, voila, you are at Glasgow University. Approx half an hour including hanging out waiting for bus time. Alternatively, get out of station, get a taxi, shell out less than a fiver, bob's yer uncle.

(xpost)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 1 June 2006 11:58 (eighteen years ago) link

sweet as a nut.

taxi it is!

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Thursday, 1 June 2006 12:09 (eighteen years ago) link

enrique, i sincerely hope you'll be sticking around long enough to join us for pints somewhere?

maybe even westbeer. which sounds mighty!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 1 June 2006 12:11 (eighteen years ago) link

that would be cool!

i am staying over, on the saturday.

and don't plan on hanging with these guys.

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Thursday, 1 June 2006 12:20 (eighteen years ago) link

well, some of them are ok, especially one ilx0r's dad.

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Thursday, 1 June 2006 12:24 (eighteen years ago) link

That Persian restaurant is absolutely ace.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Thursday, 1 June 2006 12:27 (eighteen years ago) link

I get paid on 29th June - shall we go Persian then? Otherwise, if we want to go to on a Friday or Saturday it needs to be dopo il calcio now.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 1 June 2006 15:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Ooh, get you and your fancy Italian! 29th = fine by me.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 1 June 2006 15:46 (eighteen years ago) link

nrq i'd really like to meet you! stay on sunday too and come to optimo.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 1 June 2006 15:55 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm all talk : (

I have been to west and the lebanese on gibson st. but not to the persian


― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 1 June 2006 15:59 (eighteen years ago) link

lesbianese amirite?

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 1 June 2006 16:01 (eighteen years ago) link

dopo il calcio suits me. I'll need sthing to look forward to :( :(

― stet (stet), Thursday, 1 June 2006 16:09 (eighteen years ago) link

falafel now

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 1 June 2006 16:09 (eighteen years ago) link

want to go to fazzi's and kokuryo

has anyone been and will you recommend?

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 1 June 2006 16:10 (eighteen years ago) link

kokuryo is poor. fazzi's not been for years but i went through a phase of preferring sarti's before i learned to make that kind of typical italian food much better myself.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 1 June 2006 16:16 (eighteen years ago) link

fazzi's not that great, really.

― stet (stet), Thursday, 1 June 2006 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Oi, stet and madchen, stop communicating in teh foreign, you're like Glyn and Imogen.

(I babelfished it, so I know what you are on about now, though I had a kind of idea anyway)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 1 June 2006 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link

"dopo il calcio" is a superb phrase. i'm swiping it.

fazzi's is average. nothing to write home about at all.

can't do june 29th - will be on late shifts that week.

saturday 1st is a definite for NRQFAP. i'm kinda triple-booked that weekend but fuck it, i'll work something out.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 1 June 2006 17:02 (eighteen years ago) link

btw, Grimly, Onimo has a lovely picture of some comedy sideburns on his phone which you are going to be challenged to grow this year instead of a silly moustache.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 1 June 2006 18:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Don't forget Hmmm's gig tomorrow night folks!

Here's what he has to say about it:

I'm playing at the 13th Note this Friday as part of an evening of awesome droney goodness.


The line up is as follows ....

Hotel, hotel
www.myspace.com/hotelhotel
"austin's hotel, hotel...playing quiet waves of noise that are light on form and heavy sleepy wandering..."
"evocative, harrowing, and elegant fare "
"atmospheric, heavy on the violins, wavering between pastoral and apocalyptic"

(Please check the tracks on the myspace, especially 'acceptance'. I reckon they're going to be pretty amazing)


PLUS


Lanterns
www.myspace.com/lanterns

d. abraham turner
www.myspace.com/dabrahamturner

Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.


Hope to see you there!

Neilx


doors 8.30 £3
13th Note [50-60 King St, Glasgow, G1 5QT]
Friday 2nd June 2006.

― Stew (stew s), Thursday, 1 June 2006 20:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Stet can't do the 29th either, so dopo il calcio it is.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 2 June 2006 10:10 (eighteen years ago) link

jed -- argh would but can't re sunday, but sat 1st: must fap.

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Friday, 2 June 2006 10:41 (eighteen years ago) link

I am already quadruple booked, for sat the 1st

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 2 June 2006 10:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Oi, Glasgow, are we going to watch football tomorrow?

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 2 June 2006 10:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Where? What time?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 2 June 2006 10:56 (eighteen years ago) link

It's a 2pm kick off.

http://www.cocolapalm.com/images/red-stripe.jpg

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 2 June 2006 11:08 (eighteen years ago) link

FANCY A PERSIAN?

Do you get to pick your own chicken from a tank hen run?

― Mooro (Mooro), Friday, 2 June 2006 11:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Pub, people! I probably think it should be Walkabout, as that seems to be the Englishers pub of choice, but would happily countenance O'Henrys and its lovely bottles of wine for a fiver wonky tables under the big screen telly, or, actually, anywhere at all.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 2 June 2006 17:02 (eighteen years ago) link

MacPhabbs is good for teh telly footy, I'm told. Or tennants?

― stet (stet), Friday, 2 June 2006 17:35 (eighteen years ago) link

bottles of wine for a fiver?!

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 2 June 2006 17:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Auctioneers = bottles of wine for £4.69 - this almost killed me on my leaving night from work. We were there for seven hours!!

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 2 June 2006 18:57 (eighteen years ago) link

this thread should be renamed try eating in glasgow more or something
june 29=SOS (sounds of sweden) #2 at MacSorleys on jamaica street
cute swedish boys+music+alcohol+me
yeah!

― dahlin (dahlin), Monday, 5 June 2006 12:18 (eighteen years ago) link

This thread should be entitled "no-one goes out in Glasgow (except when food is involved) so stop trying to try it more"!

Cute swedish boys + music + alcohol + dahlin sounds like a top night. You might see me there!

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 5 June 2006 15:48 (eighteen years ago) link

this thread should be retitled "fuck gasgow, it never loads and when it does it take ages".

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 5 June 2006 16:16 (eighteen years ago) link

"glasgow: is it really worth it?"

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 5 June 2006 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link

"fuck gasgow, it never loads and when it does it take ages".

..and when it does, it's never worth the wait :-(

Will the arrival of a new Glaswegian ILXor warrant a FAP, do you think? Our visitor from the big down south didn't :-(

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 5 June 2006 16:46 (eighteen years ago) link

who was that?

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 5 June 2006 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Those of you who don't read the Watercooler thread may or may not know that beanz who posts on ILX is coming up to Glasgow today until Sunday. Drinking may occur at some point.

-- ailsa (ailsa.watso...), June 1st, 2006 11:40 AM. (ailsa) (later)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 5 June 2006 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Maybe if Beanz or somebody else had started a FAP thread, or if somebody had sent text messages or maybe an email...

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 05:49 (eighteen years ago) link

I posted it here! You replied about two posts later! I suggested going to watch the England game! It all faded out shortly thereafter. (it's not a big deal, really).

We manage to organise aldo-FAPs on here, why not anyone else's?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 06:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Anyway, Monday, there's a World Cup Pub Quiz on in Russells. (part of West End Festival, details here). Ally C to thread, etc.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 07:23 (eighteen years ago) link

i think i shall be avoiding pubs for the duration of that football thing.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 07:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Even for Onimo's birthday on Saturday? (dependent on Mrs Onimo letting him out, I think)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 07:51 (eighteen years ago) link

i'll be up north on saturday night. bugger. sorry, onimo!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 08:13 (eighteen years ago) link

You about on Friday? Ath0le and I are coming through, I think.

― KeefW (kmw), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 13:39 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't know what's happening on Saturday yet. Mrs O is off the booze and all day drinking and watching three football matches isn't really appealing to her, despite me promising to fit "a nice meal" in there somewhere :)

I'll talk to her tonight and try to formulate some kind of plan.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 13:43 (eighteen years ago) link

We manage to organise aldo-FAPs on here, why not anyone else's?

Because I am special in everyone's books (except RJG's).

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 18:04 (eighteen years ago) link

(real answer - this thread is taking 6 years, 3 months and 8 days to load again)

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 20:17 (eighteen years ago) link

And why are we still here? Because it's worth it...

(Will Glasgow pay Jennifer Anniston to endorse it's thread, I wonder?)

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 21:32 (eighteen years ago) link

You about on Friday? Ath0le and I are coming through, I think.

piss. i'm working till fucking midnight. you can come and keep me comp ... no, scratch that.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 21:48 (eighteen years ago) link

can i come?

― dahlin (dahlin), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 08:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Yet again, work is almost organising me to be in glasgow, this time w/c 26th June. Having noted grimly's bemoaning of lack of FAP action, aldoFAP some time this week? Best option, as has been seen in previous years, is Thursday 29th which this time has the added attraction of NO FOOTBALL so we can all pay attention to each other. The best other option is probably the Sunday before (25th), but this may well have ENGERLAND FOOTBALL ACTION attached to it.

NB: My attendance is currently "80%", according to the company.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:28 (eighteen years ago) link

once again, i recommend thursday, june 29 at macsorleys. yeeeeeaaaah
(no self interest here at all! noooooooooooooooooo)
and speaking of football, if anyone wants to come together to watch sweden (hopefully) kick some engerland ass on tuesday, i'll also be at macsorleys for that, with potentially free meatballs. mmmmmm meatballs.

― dahlin (dahlin), Friday, 16 June 2006 09:56 (eighteen years ago) link

That sounds like a PLAN - the football thing, not the cute swedish boys in bands thing. (have you become Swedish when I wasn't looking?)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 16 June 2006 10:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Sounds like a plan to me, as long as somebody lets me know where that is.

How did I guess the person with email notification would answer first?

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 16 June 2006 10:01 (eighteen years ago) link

I may manage the 29th. I'll get grief as it's last minute holiday packing night but I can have a last minute hungover holiday packing morning instead :)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 16 June 2006 10:02 (eighteen years ago) link

MacSorley's is on Jamaica Street - next to the Crystal Palace.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 16 June 2006 10:03 (eighteen years ago) link

It's where I watched the peerless Gratis Quo.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 16 June 2006 10:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Really? You should mention that sometime... ;-P

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 16 June 2006 10:12 (eighteen years ago) link

I suspect a snowball has more chance of survival in hell than I do watching England in MacSorley's! /big wuss

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:09 (eighteen years ago) link

25th or 29th OK by me.

I have a proper real job with proper real money to start on Monday! Coo!

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:13 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.delargy.com/tn/..%5Cimages%5CScotland2001%5Ccoo.jpg

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Not that sort of coo! (though Highland coos are teh greatest thing ever)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:17 (eighteen years ago) link

The missus and I are also thinking of trying Glasgow from the 29/6 - 3/7. Will foax be up for a full weekend of fappage?

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:25 (eighteen years ago) link

God, yeah. 29th should henceforth be marked in diaries as aldo-and-the-nipper-and-mrs-the-nipper-FAP.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 16 June 2006 21:55 (eighteen years ago) link

RAWK

― dahlin (dahlin), Saturday, 17 June 2006 10:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Trousers!

― KeefW (kmw), Saturday, 17 June 2006 10:27 (eighteen years ago) link

"I have a proper real job with proper real money to start on Monday! Coo!"

Congrats Ailsa. So do I. Well, another temp job at least - filing at the Procurator Fiscal's office. Big fun!

29th a possibility...

― Stew (stew s), Saturday, 17 June 2006 11:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Yay for jobs! Yay for pubs! hurrah!

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 17 June 2006 11:31 (eighteen years ago) link

top work, ailsa. i shall buy you a congratulatory pint once all the stuff with the balls and the grass has finished.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 17 June 2006 11:39 (eighteen years ago) link

It never ends! Celtic's pre-season friendlies start during the World Cup!!

Yay free pints!

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 17 June 2006 11:45 (eighteen years ago) link

BRWH on saturday.

also

when i find the person responsible for putting up those hideous Camera Obscura flyposters on every street corner in glasgow i intend to track them down and kill them. hideous. is it not illegal to do this? it should be.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 20:47 (eighteen years ago) link

did i say hideous?

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 20:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Does everyone know Carey is a first-class brainbox?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 22 June 2006 10:55 (eighteen years ago) link

I did suspect

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 22 June 2006 11:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Well done, The CareBear.

We are now going to be arriving in Glasgow on the 30th rather than the 29th, if anyone fancies coming out two nights in a row.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 22 June 2006 11:24 (eighteen years ago) link

carey = cilla black?

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 22 June 2006 11:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Fridays = much better idea for beer (also, Pop League). Any progress on aldo-FAP?

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 22 June 2006 14:29 (eighteen years ago) link

A hotel is being booked as we speak, in the centre.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 22 June 2006 15:38 (eighteen years ago) link

yay! Will you be up in time for early-doors drinking on Sunday? Plan a FAP please.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 22 June 2006 15:57 (eighteen years ago) link

No, it will be Thursday, I'm afraid. I thought we said McSorley's? Time = whenever. Gerry, I can probably manage a Royal Burger before.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 22 June 2006 16:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Doesn't McSorleys on Thursday involve music and dancing and Swedish indie boys and things? Not that I don't like music and dancing and Swedish indie boys and things, but, y'know, ease of conversation and that?

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 22 June 2006 16:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Does it? I was just following Stacy's suggestion ^^^^^.

I dunno then, did Glasgow do that brewpub near the Green?

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 22 June 2006 16:13 (eighteen years ago) link

june 29=SOS (sounds of sweden) #2 at MacSorleys on jamaica street
cute swedish boys+music+alcohol+me
yeah!

I can't believe I loaded all million answers of this thread to copy'n'paste that.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 22 June 2006 16:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Dahlin's creaky old work computer won't let her open to this thread. So she's asked me to post this.

thursday is SOS, yes, with live music and all that, yes. there happens to be a wetherspoons directly across the way, however, with large open spaces, (semi) quiet atmosphere and cheap food and beer. so y'all could do a pre-SOS dinner meet-up there if you like. alternatively, you could snag a table in the upstairs mezzanine/loft area of macsorleys to be a bit removed from it all.

as for friday, if you don't fancy the crowded heat of the woody, i will likely be a guest DJ at the chill ABC polar bar for dolly mixture's new night. so lots of space, girly tunes and air conditioning.

Now, I'm not convinced about the JD Weatherspoons pub across the road (Crystal Palace) being open, since it seemed quite closed the last time me and Onimo tried to go in for a pint. That was a few weeks ago, mind, perhaps it is back open again. But upstairs in McSorleys sounds good. I can be there very early doors indeed. (note hint at impending ruin)

I'm also theoretically up for the ABC on Friday as well. I HATE the lack of air-con in the Woodside, so cool places are, well, cool.

Basically, yay for Dahlin, a wise woman with GOOD IDEAS.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 22 June 2006 17:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Upstairs at McSorley's sounds fine to me too. A plan.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 22 June 2006 19:05 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm working till 10 on the 29th but my route home takes me past mcsorley's door. i shall pop in for a pint or some.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 22 June 2006 20:20 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm thinking I may schedule some sort of "meeting" away from the office on Friday (or ask for the morning off)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 22 June 2006 20:23 (eighteen years ago) link

I am already booked, for the 29th.
:(

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 22 June 2006 22:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh well, I will see you on your holidays.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 23 June 2006 05:59 (eighteen years ago) link

I am already booked, for the 29th

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 23 June 2006 10:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh well, I will not see you on your holidays.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 23 June 2006 10:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Bumpity bump. Pub tomorrow, folks! Is NipperFAP happening also?

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 16:39 (eighteen years ago) link

I am already booked, for friday. :(

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Try other excuses, Glasgow :-)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 17:03 (eighteen years ago) link

is henry still coming?

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 17:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, yes, that's Saturday as well, isn't it? (I will be in a pub watching the football, as I imagine Enrique would like to be)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 17:40 (eighteen years ago) link

I'll be popping along to McSorleys tomorrow for a friend's birthday (money permitting, fuck knows what the dole are doing) so I'll pop upstairs to see y'all at some point.

― Stew (stew s), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 17:54 (eighteen years ago) link

I thought you had a job again? I can't keep up.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link

I had forgotten people were visiting!

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 18:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Would it be controversial if we started a new thread titled in such a way that people would be aware that people are visiting?

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 19:02 (eighteen years ago) link

it certainly seems like it, yes

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 19:07 (eighteen years ago) link

i will be trying glasgow, in august

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 19:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Start a thread!

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 19:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Me and Mrs the Nipper will be arriving in Glasgow on Friday afternoon at the Bothwell St Holiday Inn. Our guts will be shrieking for pints if anyone is around Friday eve...

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 19:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Ailsa - I do have a job but pay is a week in arrears, so I get my first weeks wages on Friday.
The problem is the dole STILL haven't paid me for a claim beginning on June 12. I'm phoning them tomorrow and demanding a full explanation. Grr!

― Stew (stew s), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 19:27 (eighteen years ago) link

i shall hoy along to mcsorley's tomorrow night at about 10.30ish.

friday i can't do. sorry, JtN, it would have been good to meet you.

saturday is up in the air and i've no bloody idea what i'll be up to, where i'll be or who i'll be with. however, i'd like to meet (h)enr(y)que and will aim to do so.

[waits for someone else to make plans, as usual]

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 22:27 (eighteen years ago) link

will JtN & mrs & others be up for drinks on saturday since enrique will be here?

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 22:36 (eighteen years ago) link

I have no plans, for Saturday.

― stet (stet), Thursday, 29 June 2006 00:10 (eighteen years ago) link

I'd prefer Saturday, but could do Friday if that was only chance of Nipper-FAP.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 29 June 2006 05:44 (eighteen years ago) link

My plans for Saturday night will involve drink, whatever happens.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 29 June 2006 08:07 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm working till 10 or so on both Friday and Saturday. I think I might be going with cozen to see Ellen Allien at the Sub Club on Friday. Late Saturday and all day Sunday I'm anyone's.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 29 June 2006 08:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Cor!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 29 June 2006 12:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Ailsa asked me to post this about tonight as she's at work:

A quick shufty through the Metro shows that, although Dahlin's Sounds of Sweden night sounds aces, it also costs £4 to get in. Now I don't want to deny her the chance to make a quick buck at ILX's expense, but this may deter the casually-dropping-in punter (Grimly? anyone else?). Aldo concurs. Should we make an alternative plan? Perhaps the Crystal Palace so that Dahlin can nip over the road and join in the merriment when hott Swedish boys get too much? (I *know* it's a Weatherspoons, but I can't really be bothered thinking of anywhere else right now).

Debate amongst yourselves, and when a pub decision is reached an email to (my first name).(my last name)@gmail would be a good thing. Or a text. I can let Aldo know if he hasn't checked in himself - snce he's left this in my allegedly capable hands, I'm guessing maybe he won't?

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 29 June 2006 12:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Don't all rush at once folks! I'm guessing me and Aldo will maybe go to the Crystal Palace and try and get a seat looking out at MacSorleys to grab any random passers-by (well, maybe not that random...). Or else we'll just be in MacSorleys anyway.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 29 June 2006 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Ooh do you reckon there will be tickets on the door for Ellen Allien?

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 29 June 2006 15:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, I'd have thought so. I don't have an advance one anyway. Fancy it then?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 29 June 2006 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Absolutely, as long as we're not too knackered by midnight.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 29 June 2006 16:06 (eighteen years ago) link

last weekend I opened a book and out fell an old flyer for Cleopatra's

90p vodka

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 29 June 2006 16:10 (eighteen years ago) link

I am down for ellen allien (fri) & drinks with henry (sat)

I move, tonight; at some point

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 29 June 2006 17:46 (eighteen years ago) link

good luck with that, cozen. Feel your life expectancy rise!

― stet (stet), Thursday, 29 June 2006 17:56 (eighteen years ago) link

is henry still coming?
-- jed_ (colin_o_har...), June 28th, 2006.

Oh, yes, that's Saturday as well, isn't it? (I will be in a pub watching the football, as I imagine Enrique would like to be)
-- ailsa (ailsa.watso...), June 28th, 2006.

if i told them once i told them a hundred times, to put enrique first, puppet show last...

15.30 - 16.45

[...]

CW2 British cinema
• Stella Hockenhull – University of Wolverhampton
Neo-Romantic landscapes: aesthetic approaches to the 1940s films of Powell and Pressburger
• Henry K. Miller – Birkbeck College, the University of London
A mirror to darkness: the cinema of J. Maclaren-Ross
• Jim Ellis - University of Calgary
Humphrey Jennings, Derek Jarman, and the tense of national belonging

MOTHERFUCKERS. i'm not Mr Football but, well, ya know... ANYWAYS really hope to be through for AT LEAST the second half, so shout me a holla as to where youse lot will be. will be ilxing tomorrow but really MUST write this darned talk now....

is jtn in glasgow on saturday?!

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Thursday, 29 June 2006 20:51 (eighteen years ago) link

wow, yr really called Henry Miller! where's the seminar?

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 29 June 2006 20:55 (eighteen years ago) link

glasgow uni -- it's more of a gangbang than a seminar, rly; strictly for the CV!

http://www.screen.arts.gla.ac.uk/pages/conference.html

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Thursday, 29 June 2006 21:05 (eighteen years ago) link

cool, i just emailed you my number.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 29 June 2006 21:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Ally C dropped by McSorley's earlier this evening to inform me y'all were hiding out in the Crystal Palace. Well, fair enough, the Swedish bands weren't amazing, but you could have heard my amazing story about how I received a phonecall from the legendary Kim Fowley this morning...

- awaits amazed posts expectently... ;)

― Stew (stew s), Thursday, 29 June 2006 23:25 (eighteen years ago) link

You got a call from Kim Fowley?!

― stet (stet), Thursday, 29 June 2006 23:36 (eighteen years ago) link

this morning?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????!

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 29 June 2006 23:39 (eighteen years ago) link

hic

hic


hic

haec

hoc

stew, tell yr kim fowley story.

enrique, arrange with someone who is not drunk where to meet and i shall be there. hoo, i am drunk. yo. that cidreH^Her rocked, yo.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 29 June 2006 23:53 (eighteen years ago) link

you guys suck

― dahlin (dahlin), Friday, 30 June 2006 09:06 (eighteen years ago) link

au contraire

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 30 June 2006 10:09 (eighteen years ago) link

blow?

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Hmm. Me and Neil are now thinking about going to the West End somewhere tomorrow to watch the football and laze about and drink and stuff. Enrique, I'll email you my mobile number. Will probably be out most of tomorrow so can't check email, but get in touch via mobile. But surely someone somewhere somehow will be in touch with some people who, between us, have all the other people's phone numbers. Yes?

GF, how teh fuck were you drunk? You didn't get to the pub until FIVE HOURS after me. I got up for work still drunk this morning. Yay me.

Top night, btw, cheers dudes. Dahlin, I did try to make people go over to SOS, even for a wee bit. Madchen felt inappropriately dressed. Sorry :-(

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 30 June 2006 18:36 (eighteen years ago) link

cozen and i have henry's and i take it cozen has everyone's? see you the morra! :)

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 30 June 2006 18:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Cozen probably doesn't have my number any more, since I've changed it fairly recently. However, Ally C & Madchen (amongst others) have it, so, yeah, stuff will happen. Hey! We're not so shit at this fun-organising!

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 30 June 2006 18:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Anyone Pop Leaguing it tonight? I am!

Kim Fowley - ok, a friend who works for the SCottish Music Centre had been in contact with him and sent him a Beard. This was a couple of months ago. Then out of the blue I answer my phone and it's like "Hi this is Kim Fowley!"
He sounded me out about Glasgow music and stuff. We had a nice chat. He referred to himself in the third person a number of times as only a true star can and reeled off his record sales like that. What a guy!
He's coming over later in the year and was like, "Maybe we can go to Mono and watch some rock n roll bands!" Yeah!

― Stew (stew s), Friday, 30 June 2006 18:55 (eighteen years ago) link

I thought about Pop League, but last night sort of killed me. Then I went out for a couple of pints to watch the football after work today and have just realised that I'm completely and utterly knackered. So quiet night in to get ready for tomorrow.

(Stew, we did wave at you out of Crystal Palace window. Also, Kim Fowley-FAP!)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 30 June 2006 19:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Ah,sorry I never bother to look into pubs! Was I eating a minging bag of chips?

― Stew (stew s), Friday, 30 June 2006 19:33 (eighteen years ago) link

You were striding purposefully in, maybe about 9/9.30-ish? We waved at lots of people, then decided this was a shit policy because no-one looks into random other pubs and started delegating me into running across the road to talk to people.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 30 June 2006 19:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Madchen felt inappropriately dressed.

I agreed with he, in a completely non-sexist manner, I seem to recall.

Cheers glasgow, you were aces, as ever.

I won't mention blue prawns (except to remind journos that they were offended by it, and they should remember what they threatened to do).

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 30 June 2006 20:23 (eighteen years ago) link

heard about you

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 30 June 2006 20:39 (eighteen years ago) link

We shall meet some day, I am sure.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 30 June 2006 21:01 (eighteen years ago) link

I will wear a bulletproof vest

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 30 June 2006 21:03 (eighteen years ago) link

http://gifdepot.com/albums/Animals/newthreadcat.gif

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 30 June 2006 21:08 (eighteen years ago) link

^^^

― stet (stet), Friday, 30 June 2006 21:25 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm sad that it's come to this

: (

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 30 June 2006 22:17 (eighteen years ago) link

What? No! I mean the bity-hand bit. Even tho it takes weeks to load this ting.

― stet (stet), Friday, 30 June 2006 22:25 (eighteen years ago) link

technology has let us down, again

--- glasgow ----

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 30 June 2006 22:26 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...
can someone tell me about these places?

king tut's
13th note/barfly?
liquid lounge
abc
barrowlands

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:05 (eighteen years ago) link

not on this thread, no. follow me ...

--- glasgow ----

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:11 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...
--- glasgow ----

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 06:27 (eighteen years ago) link

three months pass...
http://www.bassinvaders.net/images/jan07front.gif
http://www.bassinvaders.net/images/jan07back.gif

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Let's go it!!!

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Hey, even this thread loads (fairly) quickly. coo.

― stet (stet), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:30 (eighteen years ago) link

zoom zoom zoom.

hello Glasgow.

― alext (alext), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Though it'll be the first to contribute to the poxy fules!

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Cozen and I are going to the eats tapes thing. Anyone else fancy it? I get out of work at 10 so a drink then would be good.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 5 January 2007 18:21 (eighteen years ago) link

BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL + RICHARD YOUNGS/ALEX NEILSON DUO + OPAQUE
TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2006, 8PM, 5pounds
Glasgow, 13th Note, King Street

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Friday, 5 January 2007 18:46 (eighteen years ago) link

I read that as 'eats tapas', and was momentarily excited. unfortunately I don't think I'm that interested in tapes.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 5 January 2007 19:13 (eighteen years ago) link

what's the SECC like? i'm toying w/ the idea of going to see Dylan there on the 11th April (shld prob. see him before one of us kicks bucket, etc)

also tempted by Dick Gaughan performing Handful of Earth at the City Halls on the 22nd Jan

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Sunday, 7 January 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago) link

the secc is like a big shed with terrible terrible sound.

i think i'll go see Birchville Cat Motel although i really preferred his set as Black Boned Angel at Instal 2005.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 7 January 2007 21:56 (eighteen years ago) link

hmmm sounds like wembley arena, one of my v. least favourite venues

yeah i agree w/ you abt Black Boned Angel vs. BCM, but I still enjoyed BCM, and it's always gd to see Richard Youngs

i hope we can finally meet up at this one, jed (since I've moved to Glasgow, quite a lot of ppl have said "you look like John Peel" to me, fwiw)

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Sunday, 7 January 2007 23:00 (eighteen years ago) link

I saw the OO there once, and it was good, but my flatmate saw the Pixies and the stage fell off, so that wasn't as good. Hard to tell. Dylan would probably be good, if I liked him, which I don't.


I don't think Jed looks like John Peel.

― KeefW (kmw), Sunday, 7 January 2007 23:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Sorry, the you in that sentence refers to me ('ward fowler', or Andrew L) not Jed

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Sunday, 7 January 2007 23:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Ah... Sorry, carry on.

― KeefW (kmw), Sunday, 7 January 2007 23:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Sorry about that... Bad joke and something to do with Blackadder.

― KeefW (kmw), Sunday, 7 January 2007 23:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Triptych presents: Terry Riley
(Playing with Gyan Riley; Sarah Cahill; Joe Kubera; Willi Winant; Mikail Graham)
25 April: Edinburgh Usher Hall (In C; Works for Percussion and Guitar plus Solo Piano
26 April: Glasgow Tramway (Rainbow in Curved Air (Revisited); Book of Abbeyozzud)
27 April: Aberdeen Cowdray Hall: Solo Piano and Duets with Gyan Riley.
Tickets on-sale now: Edinburgh £22.50-£24.50; Glasgow £24.50; Aberdeen £21.00
Doors: 8pm
Available from www.triptychfestival.com, Tickets Scotland (0870 220 1116), Ripping Records, One Up and relevant venues.

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Sunday, 14 January 2007 20:37 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...
Reading some of this thread for research purposes, or something, I note that Gareth said he was trying Glasgow more last August. Did that happen? Also, Stew was meant to be bringing Kim Fowley to the pub. Did that happen as well?

When are we going to the pub?

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 4 February 2007 08:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Mono?

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 08:48 (seventeen years ago) link

three weeks pass...
bumping because this is fast in nulix

and also because there are now chuggers in Byres Road, the bastards. I see they had to import London staff though.

― .stet., Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

i didnt try glasgow more last august. i'd like to try it more this year maybe though.

well, ive never tried it before, so maybe i'll just try a little. if thats ok with everyone?

― 688, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't get to try Glasgow this St. Patricks Day weekend. Stupid dogs, not able to take care of themselves for one lousy weekend. Grumble, mutter, complain.

― accentmonkey, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Hang on! This thread has gone all sorted in chronological order so that weird timeslip day in 2003/4 when all the posts pretended they were in 2001 for a laugh has arsed this all up. And it now looks like I started this thread to get people to go to the pub and it took three years for someone to reply. And call me an asshopper.

This seems wrong. Make that first post of mine go away, Glasgow-thread-reading mods!

Also, boo to accentmonkey's non-appearance, except I wasn't going to be here anyway, so sort of yay really. Or something.

Gareth, you may indeed try Glasgow more. I don't suppose anyone will mind.

― ailsa, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Ailsa, it's because of a short period you might remember where old ILX fucked up and dates went all bananas.

Sorry...

― Keith, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh yeah, and you just said that!

― Keith, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link

But hey, it loads much faster, doesn't it!

― Keith, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link

weird!

― RJG, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link

And call me an asshopper.

Ha ha, asshopper. Not you, it's just a funny word. Asshopper.

― accentmonkey, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

can ilx be programmed so that on the 27 june every year all the posts in a thread will appear in random order?

― ken c, Friday, 2 March 2007 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, boo to accentmonkey's non-appearance, except I wasn't going to be here anyway, so sort of yay really. Or something.

Actually, a quick convo with Mister Monkey and the blood moon outside convinced me that it would be pure stupid not to come to Glasgow on Patricks Day and see the brothers. So, all four Byrne siblings will be at Andrew Maxwell's Full Mooners on March 17th. If anyone is coming, give me a yell and we can hook up. Or something.

― accentmonkey, Saturday, 3 March 2007 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...
Just so as you guys know too... Party:

http://keithmatthewwatson.googlepages.com/Poster.png/Poster-custom;size:519,734.jpg

― Keith, Monday, 19 March 2007 23:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, we missed accentmonkey. Aw. Not that I was here.

― ailsa, Monday, 19 March 2007 23:43 (seventeen years ago) link

with luck i'll be able to bring australians and new yorkers and brazilians whom i've not yet met to club mook, keith. but whatever happens, i'll be nozzled by the evening, as i think i explained - so coming to edinburgh might be logistically difficult.

is internet legend KEN C still coming to town?

― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 00:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Me and teh other half were planning a weekend in Edinburgh soon, to use up some hotel vouchers we have come by. I wonder if he'd object to an evening of Keef-music? (answer: almost definitely)

Let's go eat food, Glasgow.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 00:36 (seventeen years ago) link

club mook it is for me as well. Probably without Australians or New Yorkers, but I'll see what can be done on the Brazilian front.

― .stet., Tuesday, 20 March 2007 00:36 (seventeen years ago) link

the horror

― RJG, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 00:43 (seventeen years ago) link

It won't be just me... Alex will be playing too. With any luck, he will play DJ Rankin. My friend Matthew yesterday sent me a copy of his ZZ Top 20, which I might have to play some of too.

― Keith, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 08:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Is Club Mook the same as Keith and Alex's thing? I want to have my birthday stuff in Edinburgh this year.

― Madchen, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:34 (seventeen years ago) link

hello!

i am still planning on coming yes - except i'm really stretching the word "planning" slightly here as I hadn't sorted out anything with trains or planes and that.. i don't think i'll be driving up though (after the France trip last weekend I think Nigel needs to go to services before I trust him to go anywhere far). So I'm 70% certain I'll be there.. only thing that would stop me is if the trains turn out to be MEGA expensive.

Wait: I forgot about MEGA BUS.

Is there anything fun happening on the Friday? I have that day off so will prolly come up then.

― ken c, Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Friday = NPL, innit.

― ailsa, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I've no idea what CLUB MOOK is, but ALEX PARTY is a week on Saturday.

― Keith, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:48 (seventeen years ago) link

NPL = next Friday. Club Mook* = Alex Party = next Saturday.

Ken, be careful thinking you can get back from Edinburgh to Glasgow afterwards. As you may well be aware from my adventures last time you were up, it's a bit tricky.

I'm thinking there's a good chance we might make it for Madchen-birthday-Edinburgh-FAP. I haf vouchers to spend in a hotel so no rushing off back home for me (I'm guessing Keef and Alex have already been inundated with requests for places to crash).

*club night run by mooks, I'm guessing

― ailsa, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link

i've got as far as planning going to edinburgh, but i've no idea how we'll get back to glasgow again :/

isn't there a late-ish bus of some description?

― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 22 March 2007 23:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I think we'll be staying in Edinburgh for club mook, then Madchen Birthday FAP on the Sunday.

― .stet., Thursday, 22 March 2007 23:15 (seventeen years ago) link

hmmm, right.

― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 22 March 2007 23:17 (seventeen years ago) link

OK, hotel-booking plan is scuppered as hotel appears to be full and I don't have enough money to pay for a real hotel that I don't have free vouchers for. Oh well. Enjoy yersels. I might come over for a pint or two anyway.

― ailsa, Friday, 23 March 2007 00:39 (seventeen years ago) link

There are buses, like there are the other way, pretty late. I used to do this a lot. 12, 1:30 and 3:30 from memory. The 3:30 is largely to be avoided, if possible, but should be easy, because the bus station is 5-10 minutes from ALEX PARTY.

― Keith, Friday, 23 March 2007 01:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow, so there are! Cool! (there weren't when I got stuck in backpacker hostel hell last summer)

― ailsa, Friday, 23 March 2007 01:36 (seventeen years ago) link

b-b-but what about hotel keith? nae beds, but check out the after party!

― byebyepride, Friday, 23 March 2007 01:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I've heard about Keith after parties.

― ailsa, Friday, 23 March 2007 01:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah.... Trouble is, the place is a disaster area at the moment as I've been scraping walls and knocking in fireplaces and stuff.

― Keith, Friday, 23 March 2007 09:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I heard Keith doesn't have a pot to piss in, so I wouldn't want to impose on his hospitality :)

― Madchen, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Hurrah, Madchen gets it!

(btw, aren't we supposed to be lunching/dinnering with J & D at some point now that I'm back?)

― ailsa, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Anyway, here's another blatant plug.

― Madchen, Friday, 23 March 2007 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

i've now booked a megabus!!

are you guys going to NPL on friday night? I think I'll be..

― ken c, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Ooh Ken, will you be there? In that case, I might just!

― Madchen, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

yes i will! i'm boarding the megabus at 23:45 tonight overnight! It's very exciting!!!

see you there??

also: FAP anybody?????

― ken c, Thursday, 29 March 2007 12:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Top. Are you going to Alex Party on Sat night?

― stet, Thursday, 29 March 2007 12:08 (seventeen years ago) link

i think so... that's keith's thing in edinburgh??

btw! if any of you have any floorspace for me for fri and/or sat night i'd really appreciate it! i haven't gotten myself yet a B+B argh!

― ken c, Thursday, 29 March 2007 12:21 (seventeen years ago) link

also: my number is
07_852 and then
307__610. please text me any pre-npl plans in case i don't get to internet!

wooo! haven't glas-GOed for it for ages!

― ken c, Thursday, 29 March 2007 12:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Just call Calumn, Ken.

― Keith, Thursday, 29 March 2007 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

ok i'll call him ken!

see you on sat xxx

― ken c, Thursday, 29 March 2007 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link

AYE

― Keith, Thursday, 29 March 2007 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link

woohoo!

i'm at the easyinternetcafe just now...

gonna meet up with st4c3y + m1ch43l gr4n7 in a bit!!!!!!!!!!!!111

― ken c, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Will hopefully meet you all at the party tomorrow.

― leigh, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Am thinking about Edinburgh. Just thinking at the moment. Let's see what alcohol does to thought process...

― ailsa, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

am sorry to miss keith/alex party and missing glasgow

― RJG, Friday, 30 March 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

aw, RJG, y'big soft get.

hope you're all rocking shit up at NPL. tomorrow: my plan remains the same, ie former colleague's retirement do during the day, then head through to edinburgh in the evening. warning: this means i will probably be arseholed.

― grimly fiendish, Friday, 30 March 2007 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

come to edinburgh grimly! do it!

― ken c, Saturday, 31 March 2007 10:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Ow my head hurts. Ow. No Edinburgh for me. Have fun!

― ailsa, Saturday, 31 March 2007 10:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I've got a sore head and i didn't even drink last night - i fear the onset of the hayfever season may be to blame. I will load up on painkillers and make the trek tonight though.

― leigh, Saturday, 31 March 2007 11:15 (seventeen years ago) link

glad you made it back okay last night ailsa!!

― ken c, Saturday, 31 March 2007 11:18 (seventeen years ago) link

see some of yous at teh party later... hopefully i'll be able to find it!

― ken c, Saturday, 31 March 2007 11:19 (seventeen years ago) link

i can see no reason at all why i won't be able to make it. unless i dissolve my liver first.

see you all later.

― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 31 March 2007 11:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Ken has left the City. Last seen heading East.

Ailsa was nagging me to stop lurking, so I have - see I do listen.

I'm too frazzled to come through, so have a good time in the 'burgh.

― Calumn, Saturday, 31 March 2007 13:25 (seventeen years ago) link

calumn!

― RJG, Saturday, 31 March 2007 13:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Calumn!

― Keith, Saturday, 31 March 2007 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Anyone got Ken's mobile number, so as we can explain if he gets lost?

― Keith, Saturday, 31 March 2007 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh Grimly, Ath0le and Chr1s are come along too. You might want to let Ph1l know. I don't have contact details for him.

― Keith, Saturday, 31 March 2007 14:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Forget the Ken thing; I've just read above.

― Keith, Saturday, 31 March 2007 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Have fun! I apologise to all and sundry for drunken bumbling.

― ailsa, Saturday, 31 March 2007 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry for missing it but a combination of antihistamines and an afternoon snifter in the canny man led to me nodding off at six and not waking again till 10.

― leigh, Saturday, 31 March 2007 23:06 (seventeen years ago) link

i am back. I salute you for being able to have had a drink in the Canny Man.

― Keith, Sunday, 1 April 2007 00:58 (seventeen years ago) link

rock the f*ck out. Canny Man is great -- peanuts on trays and general salubriousness. ok alex party has ruined me.

― byebyepride, Sunday, 1 April 2007 01:14 (seventeen years ago) link

FUK U!

― Keith, Sunday, 1 April 2007 01:15 (seventeen years ago) link

WHERE'S MA CHEAP TRICK CD!

― Keith, Sunday, 1 April 2007 01:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Surrender, dude. ma and pa = all right, I think.

― byebyepride, Sunday, 1 April 2007 01:26 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm back in glasgow!

keithalex party was fun!

grimly's jacket has nice lining!

lucy's flat is swish!

i haven't listened to my mystery CD yet.

Calumn has a thing that makes his XBOX play all his computer's music and videos!

― ken c, Sunday, 1 April 2007 11:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I didn't think they'd serve us, it was very nice though.

― leigh, Sunday, 1 April 2007 19:12 (seventeen years ago) link

ken: it was a joy to see you, as always. your coat is very comfortable. haste ye back.

i think i had fun at club mook, but to be honest i was so drunk i can't quite remember :)

― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 1 April 2007 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, you were doing pretty well weren't you? So was I for that matter.

― Keith, Sunday, 1 April 2007 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link

that was a glasgow-to-edinburgh drinkathon i did, keith. testing the waters, like. we need to do this properly, for sure.

maybe once stet and i have done our trans-europe road race. in a citroen DS.

― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 1 April 2007 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Aye, that keeps getting talked about and never really done. Bevvying at Harthill Services, yo.

― ailsa, Sunday, 1 April 2007 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

No WAY am I stopping anywhere in the middle!

Did Phil Collins stop off at Ascension Island?

― Keith, Sunday, 1 April 2007 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link

aye, for a pie and a piss.

― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 1 April 2007 22:58 (seventeen years ago) link

three months pass...

what's up, Glasgow?

― jed_, Thursday, 26 July 2007 12:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm coming home

― RJG, Thursday, 26 July 2007 13:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Are you FOOTBALL?

― aldo, Thursday, 26 July 2007 13:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm not football

― RJG, Thursday, 26 July 2007 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks for clearing that up.

― aldo, Thursday, 26 July 2007 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link

don't come home too soon, rjg

― Gukbe, Thursday, 26 July 2007 14:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm leaving.

― Madchen, Thursday, 26 July 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

DEAR GLASGOW

does anyone want to FAP with a mongrel on either October 20th before Carter, or October 21st before/and thence Optimo?

― energy flash gordon, Monday, 17 September 2007 07:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I tried Glasgow recently. I went to SLEAZY'S and I also went to MONORAIL but did not imbibe anything. I thought it looked OK though, if a bit out of the way. Handy for Argos though. I bought two unlistenable Lou Reed albums.

I think Glasgow has changed a lot in 20 years, but at the same time it is still the same.

Also, I met RJG and Cathy, but not in Glasgow.

― PJ Miller, Monday, 17 September 2007 09:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd like to play pool for cheap in Glasgow, but not in a snooker club.

Any suggestions?

― *rumpie*, Monday, 17 September 2007 11:43 (seventeen years ago) link

rumpie: i'm shit at pool but always enjoyed playing in sleazy's.

energy flash gordon: too right! just don't expect any firm plans to be sorted out until, ooh, october 19th at the earliest.

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 17 September 2007 12:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Rumpie: Woodside Social Club, upstairs.
EFG: Grimly makes a good point.

― Madchen, Monday, 17 September 2007 13:47 (seventeen years ago) link

EFG i wld def like to go for a FAP w/ you, why not come and see Boredoms at the Arches on the 23rd Oct too

― Ward Fowler, Monday, 17 September 2007 14:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I am going to see Carter along with Grimly Fiendish and Andrew Farrell, and would also be up for a pint or six beforehand. Bagsy not Mono, even if it is handy for the Barrowlands. 13th Note, maybe?

OTM re Woodside - upstairs at the Scotia is also good, if a little, um, rough. Also, Rumpie, since you are in our area, they've just knocked the price of pool upstairs at Varsova in Paisley High Street down to 50p a game. However oddly positioned pillars make for some interesting tactical games (i.e. when getting gubbed by my brother, I tend to spend long games just knocking the ball down to that wee bit where it's really awkward for him to hit it)

― ailsa, Monday, 17 September 2007 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link

There's that nice pub opposite the Barrowlands, what's it called? The Something Head?

― Madchen, Monday, 17 September 2007 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I figured asking this early (and naming one event some Glasgowers were already going to) would be the only hope of actually getting anything sorted!

Ward I will be in London seeing LCD Soundsystem that night (otherwise would totally), but I wld also like to FAP with you and urge you to come to whatever is sorted on the 19th.

― energy flash gordon, Monday, 17 September 2007 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link

aye: ward and i were discussing glasgow beer on the wales thread (like you do) ... my life's such a bizarre (and non-glasgow-based) affair right now that pubs seem little more than a remote possibility. but a full-on FAP that just happens to be pre-carter is a superb idea.

madchen: the saracen head? not been in there for a long time; was astonishngly drunk and had just had a gun pulled on me in the new monaco bar (which is showing this story's age ... christ's teeth, that would have been christmas 1997), so ... yeh, ISTR it was okay a FUCKING DECADE AGO. [pause while grimly feels old.] and it makes it easy to get to the venue, natch.

Rumpie: Woodside Social Club, upstairs

hmmm. i've only been up there once since the smoking ban kicked in and it was cold, bleak and empty. has it repopulated a bit?

― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 11:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Cheers muckers, since I've cut down on the booze I find myself getting itchy feet in pubs and wanting to do something with my hands, (phnar phnar)

I can now totally understand how ex-smokers feel.

― *rumpie*, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 11:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I am going to be trying Glasgow more this weekend for my nephew's christening, I think I'll be around on Friday, certainly in the daytime on Friday, and will definitely be free on Sunday afternoon/evening.

So would be nice to see some ILXors if anyone's free....

― Ronan, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 10:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Sunday suits me, Friday not so much. Are you still on the mobile that ends 533?

― Alba, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 10:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Sunday or Friday suits me I think. Most Glasgow ILXors have my phone number for arrangement purposes.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 10:59 (seventeen years ago) link

yay! drink definitely. optimo? or do you have an early start on monday?

― jed_, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 11:00 (seventeen years ago) link

shit yeah, optimo! never even thought of that. that would be amazing. I'm still kinda sick but I think I'd be okay, barring a really bad day. Also never been to Optimo and Jonnie played for us just last week. Could be a plan. Drinks on Sunday maybe and then possibly Optimo?

and Alba, yep, still that number.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 12:33 (seventeen years ago) link

oh yes, this will be good then. hope you feel up to it Ronan.

FAPtimo!

― jed_, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I may have Friday and Monday off work (I'm meant to have all this week off, but it's not working out that way at the moment) so Optimo sounds most excellent to me. If you want to do someting Friday, send me an email.

― Madchen, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd like to have west beer in the east sunday afternoon or so but will bow to peer pressure as always

― RJG, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link

West Beer sounds good to me. Madchen, if you are off on Friday and/or Monday, let me know and we can go and see Kylie's pants etc since I am not working at the moment.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Excellent. Will let you know when I'm sure I'll be off work - it's all a bit in flux at the moment.

― Madchen, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

not sure i'll do optimo -- i mean, i've got 9am starts now i'm a (part-time) FUCKING STUDENT again -- but sunday-afternoon beer would be excellent (west is a vg idea) and it'd be superb to meet you, ronan.

― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 23:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Come on, nobody expects you to go to a 9am lecture on a Monday (or Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday).

― Madchen, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 12:23 (seventeen years ago) link

yes grimly, get into the college spirt! just don't let the crusty old dean catch you.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 12:38 (seventeen years ago) link

unfortunate typo...don't pay heed to it

― Ronan, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 12:38 (seventeen years ago) link

heh ... ew ... crusty spurting ... where were we? o ye: how can i be KEEN MATURE STUDENT DUDE if i'm skiving lectures already, eh?

plus: the two i've had so far have been abso-fucking-lutely fascinating and i'm genuinely loath to miss 'em.

then again, optimo.

hmmmmm.

one to play by ear.

― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 12:51 (seventeen years ago) link

how can i be KEEN MATURE STUDENT DUDE if i'm skiving lectures already
ahem cof cof wot was I to do this am again? o dear.

Anyway, you're quite right. The thought of students going to Optimo is scandalous.

― stet, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 14:21 (seventeen years ago) link

ahem cof cof wot was I to do this am again? o dear

DUDE.

tell me you've at least got yr hetherington key?

― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link

what's the script?

― jed_, Friday, 28 September 2007 23:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I think it's time we at least started considering a plan.

― Madchen, Saturday, 29 September 2007 09:25 (seventeen years ago) link

i concur, heartily. i thought RJG's westbeer idea was a good one.

btw: are any of you lot skilled in photoshop and illustrator and looking for -- say -- a week's casual art-desk work at a newspaper?

or do you know anyone who etc etc etc?

― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 29 September 2007 10:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I like to go to west say when

― RJG, Saturday, 29 September 2007 11:23 (seventeen years ago) link

is that the place in glasgow green? will ronan find it okay?

― jed_, Saturday, 29 September 2007 11:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I love west.

― Cathy, Saturday, 29 September 2007 12:27 (seventeen years ago) link

MAP

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1229/1457489369_b37733d74c_o.jpg

― RJG, Saturday, 29 September 2007 12:51 (seventeen years ago) link

West is gut. I am in Mono.

― czn, Saturday, 29 September 2007 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link

i'll come for a bit, hopefully - i'm having some food earlier and then heading to macsorleys about 10 but might have time in between.

― jed_, Saturday, 29 September 2007 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

what time, then?

― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 29 September 2007 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link

5?

― Alba, Saturday, 29 September 2007 23:55 (seventeen years ago) link

bit early for me but i can be there ... some point after. will text you, N.

― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 30 September 2007 09:56 (seventeen years ago) link

See you at five then. Ailsa, are Kylie's pants on or off?

― Madchen, Sunday, 30 September 2007 10:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Will be there at some point, depending on Kylie's pants.

― ailsa, Sunday, 30 September 2007 12:35 (seventeen years ago) link

me toooooo

― RJG, Sunday, 30 September 2007 12:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Ronan will be around from about 7.

― Alba, Sunday, 30 September 2007 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll be at West by 5.30.

― Alba, Sunday, 30 September 2007 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link

i'll be there ... dunno. about 5.30, too. maybe slightly later.

― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 30 September 2007 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Stet and I will be there by six.

― Madchen, Sunday, 30 September 2007 16:00 (seventeen years ago) link

We may or may not be there later since I fell asleep and I just woke up feeling a bit groggy and West is MILES away.

― ailsa, Sunday, 30 September 2007 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link

aw, howay. it's miles from me, too (okay, not as many miles, but still a few) but i am hoying there right now. come on ;)

― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 30 September 2007 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link

sorry not to make this but so v. broke and I have work tomorrow

still hoping to come out for Kit's drink up on the 19th

― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 30 September 2007 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link

who is kit?

― jed_, Sunday, 30 September 2007 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link

kit = energy flash gordon

― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 30 September 2007 22:16 (seventeen years ago) link

drink not on the 19th though, that's just grimly's predicted date for organisation! 20th at the Saracen Head seems to be a pencilled plan though. I'm plenty keen for additional or alternate FAPtimo on the 21st too.

― energy flash gordon, Monday, 1 October 2007 03:25 (seventeen years ago) link

that was a top night. thank you all. good to meet you, ronan: haste ye back, and stuff.

how was optimo?

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 1 October 2007 06:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Aye, good night everyone, cheers, next time I shall actually talk to Ronan rather shouting obscure bits of TV trivia down the table on request :-)

btw, grimly, yr Denise van Outen knobfest was called Something For The Weekend, I think, but didn't think you'd appreciate a text at 4 am telling you that...

― ailsa, Monday, 1 October 2007 08:30 (seventeen years ago) link

That was the show where she had a quiz called Private Dicks, right? Where the girl had to pick her boyfriend out of a line of cocks disguised as detectives?

― aldo, Monday, 1 October 2007 08:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes! We were talking about it in the pub last night, specifically about people recognising their partners by their knobs. There was a thinly disguised air of scepticism around the rest of the table.

― ailsa, Monday, 1 October 2007 08:46 (seventeen years ago) link

That's pretty much the only thing I remember about the show. Wasn't it hauled off the air mid-series for being, well, crap?

BE SCEPTICAL ABOUT THIS, REST OF THE TABLE:

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ajs/tvsometh.gif

― aldo, Monday, 1 October 2007 08:53 (seventeen years ago) link

It was quality pub chat all the way, as far as I remember. Good to see you, Ronan. Grimly, we didn't go.

― Madchen, Monday, 1 October 2007 09:23 (seventeen years ago) link

btw: Lou and Andy from Little Britain in Neighbours.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=sv7CvsEKe2g

(if I can (a) find it and (b) work out how to do it, Neil's appearance will go up there one day)

― ailsa, Monday, 1 October 2007 13:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Marvellous! Second in the set: Pet Shop Boys
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-JWScLDoLe8

― Madchen, Monday, 1 October 2007 13:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Just got back late last night.

Great to see everyone again, Glasgow has a great bunch of ILXors!

I didn't realise that that was you Ailsa, and your husband, until I read this thread! When I came in it was a big table and I didn't know if I could say "hey are you on ILX" to you in case you were just a friend of everyone else and thought I was a mental case.

So sorry for the confusion on that. Good to meet Stet and Simon too. I had fun, maybe Optimo another time.

Hopefully I'll be back soon, I really like Glasgow, being able to go out and then get a 5 minute taxi home is amazing.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link

sorry ronan, it was my birthday and i had already made plans for earlier in the evening. i didn't get around to optimo or much else after dinner.

― jed_, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

was it? a mightily happy belated birthday, jed_.

― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link

thanks!

― jed_, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link

well it was actually my birthday on saturday but i had my birthday dinner on sunday because my mum was in hospital for a minor thing until sunday afternoon.

― jed_, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah - late-o birthday wishes, jed. Great to see you again Ronan. Come over for Optimo whenever you like. I had an idea for another Guardian tech feature too - will email you!

― Alba, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

That'd be great, my full name as all one word @gmail.com is an address I use more often.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 10:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Right Glasgow, we have a mongrel and a farrell in attendance at Carter at the Barrowlands on Saturday. We need a plan for boozing. Please bear in mind that there is an Old Firm game on at lunchtime (at Ibrox), so Gallowgate boozers could be a touch iffy dependent on the result. I'm ruling the Saracen's Head out right now, also Mono because it sucks.

― ailsa, Monday, 15 October 2007 10:00 (seventeen years ago) link

bah.

if it's not gonna be mono, then what was yr other suggestion ... bar 91? that's good by me.

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 15 October 2007 11:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Bar 91 on Candleriggs seemed a good one, yes. What sort of time are we talking about? What time's the doors at, I would quite like to see support acts.

― ailsa, Monday, 15 October 2007 12:01 (seventeen years ago) link

bah 91

― RJG, Monday, 15 October 2007 12:05 (seventeen years ago) link

ban 91

― ailsa, Monday, 15 October 2007 12:06 (seventeen years ago) link

iMono

― onimo, Monday, 15 October 2007 12:07 (seventeen years ago) link

o91mo

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 15 October 2007 12:27 (seventeen years ago) link

er ... yeh, anyway ... who are the support acts? mega city 4? the senseless things? kingmaker? :)

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 15 October 2007 12:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Chris T-T and the Frank and Walters :-)

― ailsa, Monday, 15 October 2007 12:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought it was supposed to be Sultans of Ping?

― onimo, Monday, 15 October 2007 12:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Sultans are supporting them in London.

― ailsa, Monday, 15 October 2007 12:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Where's ma jaykit?

― onimo, Monday, 15 October 2007 12:42 (seventeen years ago) link

gies yer fuckin jaiket

― RJG, Monday, 15 October 2007 12:51 (seventeen years ago) link

fuxxake. i've seen SoPFC once in my life -- in 1992 -- and that was one time more than i'd like. they'd better not be doing any surprise glasgow appearances.

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 15 October 2007 12:56 (seventeen years ago) link

ask chris t-t to sing that song about how nuclear bullets give children cancer!

it's er interesting

― ken c, Monday, 15 October 2007 12:59 (seventeen years ago) link

and the one about the hedgehog

― ken c, Monday, 15 October 2007 12:59 (seventeen years ago) link

nominate other places ludicrously close to the Barrowlands? the venue, train station and my hostel all seem to be within a penny's roll of each other, would be amusing to not leave a couple of blocks space in the first 24 hours there.

I'm good for anywhere from 4pm on, def want to see Frank & Walters but as long as they play This Is Not A Song last am not panicked about getting in on time.

also: Ward, if you can't make it, are Sunday or Monday any better for a quieter meet-up?

― energy flash gordon, Monday, 15 October 2007 13:49 (seventeen years ago) link

hang on, woah, were you being serious about the F&W, ailsa? GOD FUCKING DAMN! i hope they play all the po-faced stuff from the later albums. heh.

but i'll settle for the happy busman and fashion crisis, natch.

4pm might be a bit early ... some time between 5 and 6 is more likely for me. EFG: be warned, glasgow FAPs have a habit of starting at least an hour later than the advertised time.

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 15 October 2007 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, I was being serious about the Frank and Walters. Where are you staying, EFG? Still waiting on Andrew to let me know what time he's getting in at. I shall be ruinously early in pub due to football, but should take some time off between that and afternoon/evening drinking.

― ailsa, Monday, 15 October 2007 13:59 (seventeen years ago) link

i bet you don't :)

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 15 October 2007 14:00 (seventeen years ago) link

doors are at 7, according to the handy reminder e-mail i just got from ticketbastard.

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 15 October 2007 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Kit, I can do Saturday afternoon/early evening, tho' I am not going to see Carter (saw them in New Cross in the early 1990s, appropriately enough)

Barrowlands is v. near to one of Glasgow's two major comic shops but it's really shit - Mono, on the other hand, has a v. good rec shop that is prob worth a visit if you're in the area

― Ward Fowler, Monday, 15 October 2007 14:29 (seventeen years ago) link

(note, this doesn't mean you have to stay in the pub there)

― ailsa, Monday, 15 October 2007 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link

^^^ good work ailsa

― aldo, Monday, 15 October 2007 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link

get it RIGHT up yiz, fuckers.

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 15 October 2007 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks aldo, I try. What I want from my pubs is not a soulless cavern, sullen (and useless) bar staff and a minimalist range of drinks which doesn't even include Guinness or non-horrible wine.

― ailsa, Monday, 15 October 2007 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I think if you want to avoid drunken football nutter types (present company excepted) iMono is the ideal place. Shame about the lack of Guinness all the same.

― onimo, Monday, 15 October 2007 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

who needs guinness and wine when you've got organic cider?

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 15 October 2007 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link

also: they're not sullen, just shy indie mokes. (who are sometimes useless, yes.)

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 15 October 2007 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

It's been so long since I went to Mono that I've decided I quite like it after all.

― Madchen, Monday, 15 October 2007 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link

hey guys when is a good time to visit glasgow in november?

― ken c, Monday, 15 October 2007 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link

any time is ken time, ken!

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 15 October 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Totally!

― Madchen, Monday, 15 October 2007 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

is there going to be good dancing going on 3rd/4th?

― ken c, Monday, 15 October 2007 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link

you asking?

(© 2007 clapped-out glasgow vernacular jokes inc)

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 15 October 2007 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link

i dislike mono a fair bit and find the staff not shy but downright rude much of the time (worst offender that fat prob. gay guy). having said that though ailsa's mono hatred has taken on a life of its own by this point but on a day like this it's probably the best option - especially since she always recommends scary places. she's ruled out the saracen head this time but i'd be absolutely terrified to go in there regardless of the day.

not that i ever get round to coming so disregard all that if you wish.

― jed_, Monday, 15 October 2007 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

My Mono hatred is mostly self-parody these days. There are better pubs though - the one right across from the road from it at least does a proper pint. The Sarry was, I think, Grimly's idea originally, prior to me informing him that there was an Old Firm game on.

― ailsa, Monday, 15 October 2007 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

oh i know that, ailsa. i do exactly the same.

― jed_, Monday, 15 October 2007 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

re the self parody i mean.

― jed_, Monday, 15 October 2007 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

It should perhaps be noted that my original proposal of the Saracen's Head was a joke. That I was taken seriously surprised me a little!

― Madchen, Monday, 15 October 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

(Saracen Head not scary pre-Barrowlands gigs, depending who's playing. I'm guessing it will be quite scary this week, which is why it's not an option. Embrace your fear of not-really-scary Glasgow pubs!!)

― ailsa, Monday, 15 October 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

exactly. it's a cracking pub.

however: even the best pub in the world becomes a spunkpit once it's full of football fools.

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 15 October 2007 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm thinking me and grimly's ideas of cracking pubs are quite similar, and not really to everyone else's taste :-)

― ailsa, Monday, 15 October 2007 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

except for the fact i think mono is cracking, too!

but yeh: i like old pubs full of old mentalists.

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 15 October 2007 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

jed_'s fat mono ugly-david-van-day guy is a total dickhead, yeh

bar 91 is fine, in reality. just haven't been in there in a while because I always used to go there

not that I am going to be around for this, probably

― RJG, Monday, 15 October 2007 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

david-van-day guy

:)

i nearly got battered in bar 91 once -- with really good reason, too. i'm not promising i can recreate this on saturday, but you never know: another dude with a long-standing and legitimate grudge against me might well be sitting by the door when i walk in. bloodsport for all, etc.

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 15 October 2007 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link

good to see the usual solid working-towards-a-consensus in progress! someone sort it aaht by Friday arvo when I can look at an internet in Brixton.

Where are you staying, EFG?

3uro H0stels Glasgow, I think on Clyde St. Happy to go anywhere though (old mentalists fine, football mentalists no), I should be able to get the stage times on Thursday morning to assist in planning.

― energy flash gordon, Monday, 15 October 2007 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Is the Hielan Jessie scary? I often admire its architecture from the number 40.

― Madchen, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 11:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I may be paying a work-related visit to the SECC on the 26th this month. Are weegeez around for drinks that weekend?

― Stevie T, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 11:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Are you going to the Arcade Fire gig then? accentmonkey is over for that as well, so there are tentative drinking plans afoot.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 11:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Grand - I missed the monkey when she was in London!

― Stevie T, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 11:28 (seventeen years ago) link

:(

― RJG, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 13:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Saturday stage times:

Chris T-T @ 7:15
Frank & Walters @ 7:55
Carter @ 9pm.

Now someone tell me where to be! (it's going to wind up being Mono, isn't it...)

― energy flash gordon, Thursday, 18 October 2007 12:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Yup

― Madchen, Thursday, 18 October 2007 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Mono at ... 5 o'clock?

― Madchen, Thursday, 18 October 2007 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Hang on, what time is rugger?

― Madchen, Thursday, 18 October 2007 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Hmmm. 7.30pm. Walkabout after Mono anyone?

― Madchen, Thursday, 18 October 2007 14:01 (seventeen years ago) link

bugger rugger

― RJG, Thursday, 18 October 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

hang on, i thought we were doing bar 91?

― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 18 October 2007 21:31 (seventeen years ago) link

As always, everythings defaults to fucking Mono

― ailsa, Thursday, 18 October 2007 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link

bar 91

― RJG, Thursday, 18 October 2007 23:52 (seventeen years ago) link

BAR 91, PEOPLE. WE'RE GOING TO MEET IN BAR 91.

― grimly fiendish, Friday, 19 October 2007 07:52 (seventeen years ago) link

(because if we do go to mono, ailsa will spend all night knacking my nads about it, and i really don't want that.)

― grimly fiendish, Friday, 19 October 2007 07:52 (seventeen years ago) link

i will be there at 6pm.

― grimly fiendish, Friday, 19 October 2007 07:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I said it's fine. I haven't been to Mono in ages anyhow. Anyway, any pub is basically OK with the right people in it.

― ailsa, Friday, 19 October 2007 09:46 (seventeen years ago) link

THIS IS NOT HELPING US REACH CONSENSUS.

BAR 91?

― grimly fiendish, Friday, 19 October 2007 12:00 (seventeen years ago) link

It's not a Glasgow FAP thread if there's consensus, FFS.

― ailsa, Friday, 19 October 2007 12:01 (seventeen years ago) link

i know. but a man can dream.

― grimly fiendish, Friday, 19 October 2007 12:05 (seventeen years ago) link

"to dream the impossible dream" :-)

― ailsa, Friday, 19 October 2007 12:06 (seventeen years ago) link

hahahahahah :)

hmm, wonder if they'll play that? wow.

anyway. my quest tomorrow will be to drink beer and i think bar 91 should be the place, yo.

― grimly fiendish, Friday, 19 October 2007 12:10 (seventeen years ago) link

hmm, wonder if they'll play that? wow.

I can answer this if you want spoilers?

― energy flash gordon, Friday, 19 October 2007 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

anyway someone text a definite time and location to 07942691272 sometime! where is Bar 91?

― energy flash gordon, Friday, 19 October 2007 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes! I mean no! I...oh, go on then.

Dude, don't put your phone number on the internets (though guess grimly can use his modding powers to take it back down).

Bar 91 is on Candleriggs in the Merchant City, quite near the Barrowlands. Though Andrew has just thrown up the possibility of the 13th Note since he has friends playing there. OH NOES WHAT TO DO.

― ailsa, Friday, 19 October 2007 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link

The number's only relevant for the three weeks I'm in the UK, I'm not mega-panicked.

YES THEY WILL (one of three covers in the Glasgow set, you can probably guess the other two)

― energy flash gordon, Friday, 19 October 2007 16:09 (seventeen years ago) link

EXCITED!!

― ailsa, Friday, 19 October 2007 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link

see you all in Bar 91 then. or Mono. or the 13th Note.

― Ward Fowler, Friday, 19 October 2007 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I've still got your phone number, Ward, if it's the same number you had at ATP in December. Think everyone going to the pub has mine. Can someone reach a fucking consensus. I'm going to Bar 91, if that helps.

― ailsa, Saturday, 20 October 2007 10:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll be in Bar 91 from 6pm whatever you fuckers decide.

― Madchen, Saturday, 20 October 2007 10:29 (seventeen years ago) link

me too. bar 91. hurrah!

though guess grimly can use his modding powers to take it back down

you wot? ain't no modding powers here. i had them on the sandbox, right enough, but never on real-ILX.

for which you should all be v grateful.

― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 20 October 2007 10:52 (seventeen years ago) link

alright, Bar 91. Ward if yr going to be out before 6 then text me as above!

― energy flash gordon, Saturday, 20 October 2007 14:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Me and Andrew are heading into Glasgow just now. Will be in Bar 91 for 6, though could be earlier if needed. Text me if any changes of plan.

― ailsa, Saturday, 20 October 2007 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link

apols

― RJG, Saturday, 20 October 2007 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link

fantastic night. i am suffering slightly for it today. andrew, chris: superb to meet you.

carter for life!

― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 21 October 2007 12:03 (seventeen years ago) link

so glad i came out last night, had a superb time too - glasgow ilxors always make ppl feel welcome, and it was wicked to meet new ppl, just sorry i didn't get a chance to talk to chris and hayley for longer.
not being much of a boozehound i am v. much feeling the effects of four pints of blanc drunk rather too quickly, apols if i got slightly incoherent/sweary - today i'm staying in feeling sorry for my poor aching head

EVERYBODY SHOULD COME TO BOREDOMS AT THE ARCHES ON TUESDAY

― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 21 October 2007 12:18 (seventeen years ago) link

i will very much try to do that.

apols if i got slightly incoherent/sweary

what, you turned into me? brilliant!

― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 21 October 2007 12:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I would very much like that also, but I think I'm broken. Will attempt to recover for monkeyfap next week. Top night, all.

― ailsa, Sunday, 21 October 2007 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

shame to miss Ward Fowler

― RJG, Sunday, 21 October 2007 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link

i will be boredoms

― jed_, Sunday, 21 October 2007 20:49 (seventeen years ago) link

what about the rest of them RJG?

― jed_, Sunday, 21 October 2007 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link

We all missed him!

― stet, Sunday, 21 October 2007 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Also great to meet you Chris and Andrew. I hope the fat men jumped.

― stet, Sunday, 21 October 2007 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't know now

― RJG, Sunday, 21 October 2007 21:03 (seventeen years ago) link

i didn't go to the boredoms. didn't get out of work till 9pm. now i feel i should have made the effort.

― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 23:32 (seventeen years ago) link

you didn't miss anything, it was a tub of shite.

― jed_, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 00:09 (seventeen years ago) link

oh jed

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 06:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Glasgow: I will not now be trying you this weekend - I've been redeployed to NYC instead. See you soon, though.

― Stevie T, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 07:07 (seventeen years ago) link

lol i just had my shower and was still brooding on jed's diss cos i totally thought this was the best ive ever seen boredoms, they went flat out right from the start, more aggressive, louder, more hardcore than before - friend i went with, who had never seen them before, was also raving afterwards - different strokes i guess but wld love to hear jed's objections (poor old M Gira really suffered from bar chat overspill during his set)

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 07:08 (seventeen years ago) link

why is this thread always just revived whereas threads of lesser magnitude are replaced by new ones with numbers on the end?

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 08:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Because we are hard.

― Alba, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 09:41 (seventeen years ago) link

This one works.

xp that too

― onimo, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 09:42 (seventeen years ago) link

uh

― jed_, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 10:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I heard a rumour of Accentmonkey: is it true?

― Madchen, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 13:05 (seventeen years ago) link

oh jed, were you telling grimly boredoms were shite to making him feel better abt missing em? my irony detector always seems to go on the blink when I'm on ILX

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 13:16 (seventeen years ago) link

"to make him"

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 13:17 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm in a training course today being run by a dude who's a huge fan of japanese psych-rock antics. i know he was going last night, too. i haven't yet asked: "what did i miss?"

curses.

― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 13:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I heard a rumour of Accentmonkey: is it true?

Yes, West Beer, Saturday, 5-ish, I think (unless it gets MONOed).

― onimo, Thursday, 25 October 2007 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

not by me, it won't: i'll be away. curses and indeed boo. say hello to accentmonkey for me, dudes: she appears to rock, and i'm annoyed i won't be about to test that hypothesis.

― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 25 October 2007 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link

hello glasgow! it was good to meet you! shame it was so fleeting

― energy flash gordon, Friday, 26 October 2007 08:15 (seventeen years ago) link

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2253/1755456791_133fe3392a.jpg%3Fv%3D0

― RJG, Friday, 26 October 2007 08:29 (seventeen years ago) link

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2253/1755456791_133fe3392a.jpg

― RJG, Friday, 26 October 2007 08:30 (seventeen years ago) link

TM Glasgow, more.

― Alba, Friday, 26 October 2007 08:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Who is the other person?

― Madchen, Friday, 26 October 2007 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, I have just found out the answer. Hoping it's senior and not junior, otherwise bye bye yet another crush of my youth (Tim Burgess fell away last night).

― Madchen, Friday, 26 October 2007 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link

EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) — Sixties pop singer Donovan and cult film director David Lynch unveiled plans Friday for a new university in Scotland, where students will learn regular subjects while adhering to the principles of twice-daily transcendental meditation.
Donovan, whose hits include "Hurdy Gurdy Man" and "Mellow Yellow," announced he will open the Invincible Donovan University in either Glasgow or Edinburgh, bringing the hippy dream of world peace to his home country of Scotland.
The singer was joined by Lynch, an equally unlikely academic who directed film classics like "Blue Velvet" and the television show "Twin Peaks." The pair are part of a British tour to promote transcendental meditation, or TM, as a means of reducing violence, crime and stress in schools and colleges.

― stet, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

ah, TM.

― grimly fiendish, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link

i was, for about two days, a PPC for the natural law party for the 1997 election.

i told them my finals were probably more important.

some of what they said contained a fair degree of sense.

some of it was absolutely fucking barking.

TM is a very good technique, which sadly i don't seem to have time to practice more. TS: getting up 20 minutes early, or giving it big Zs.

i should, of course, do it in the evenings, but i was never any good at getting into that habit.

― grimly fiendish, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

practise! not practice. bloody hell, simon.

― grimly fiendish, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Hello Glasgow types. It was lovely to see you all last night. I'm sorry if I talked about myself all the time. I do that.

― accentmonkey, Sunday, 28 October 2007 11:29 (seventeen years ago) link

You're doing it now :)

Great to meet you all too. Sorry for nerding out on Mr Monkey!

― stet, Sunday, 28 October 2007 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link

hello yes, it was very lovely and please apologise again to mr monkey that we vanished off while he was in the loo (we never made the train, but we raced it down the motorway and got them on it at a further away stop!)

― ailsa, Monday, 29 October 2007 10:18 (seventeen years ago) link

It was lovely to meet Accentmonkey, Mr Monkey, Brother Monkey and Mrs Brother Monkey. I left West with aching cheeks, which is a sure sign a good time has been had (other sure sign: headache next morning). I invented a new pome, as follows:

Beer then gin & tonic
Feeling chronic

― Madchen, Monday, 29 October 2007 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link

lol at "mrs brother monkey" - I already left a message on facebook calling poor L3sl3y "monkey-in-law" :-)

― ailsa, Monday, 29 October 2007 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link

hey guys i'm so going to be in glasgow the 10th november one night only (+ sat afternoon i guess, and sunday morning).

hope to see some of youse.

― ken c, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link

top. if i'm about, i'll be out.

― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link

BE about, grimly

― ken c, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll do my best to manage out. (+ obligatory NOT MONO plea)

― ailsa, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link

13th note cafe then?

― ken c, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link

why not? i've not been in there for ages and have many happy memories of it.

― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link

ah topp

― stet, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Last time I was at the 13th Note, it smelled like a tramp's trousers. I'm working that afternoon, but should be free from about 6pm, I think.

― Madchen, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

If it starts smelling like a tramp's trousers from about 6pm, the evidence will start to become compelling.

― Alba, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link

The same will be true if it doesn't, I guess.

― Madchen, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link

There we are, then.

― Madchen, Friday, 9 November 2007 12:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I think you should put in your application for a hot-dog licence immediately.

― Alba, Friday, 9 November 2007 13:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I may try renting out my flat to some Aussie swimmers.

― Madchen, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link

(I have a long enough bed)

― Madchen, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Is that statement in relations to your post before, or a clumsy chatup line?

― aldo, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link

hey guys i'm arriving around 2:30 and will probably find myself a pub to settle down in and will call you guys!

actually i might be on this thread on the way up cos GNER has WIFI!

― ken c, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link

gonna go to winchester in the evening i think.. hear it's at a new venue that sounded like heaven.. well it has air conditioning anyway, i hear

― ken c, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link

But no punters.

― Alba, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Just like the winche-- baboom

― stet, Friday, 9 November 2007 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Ken, I'm really sorry but I'm going to miss you tonight - I managed to fall arse over tit down North Portland Street last night and now have a plastercast on my left leg. This is not some contrived excuse, honest! Hopefully catch up with you between Christmas and New Year.

― Madchen, Saturday, 10 November 2007 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Cor, Madchen in a stookie, hope you're all right. I am attempting to get out tonight, but due to being really sleepy this seems pretty unlikely.

― ailsa, Saturday, 10 November 2007 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha, yes 'stookie' was the new word I learned last night.

― Madchen, Saturday, 10 November 2007 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link

i hate it when glaswegians moan about the weather, every fucking year "oh we had a shite summer"..."nice weather fir ducks". ram it. but fuck me, it's been freezing for november hasn't it?

― jed_, Friday, 23 November 2007 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

hoy, funsters. anyone fancy a pint, then? figure if i post this now, we might be able to get something organised by this time next year.

― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 17 January 2008 22:26 (sixteen years ago) link

for fuck's sake.

― grimly fiendish, Friday, 18 January 2008 11:23 (sixteen years ago) link

yes

― onimo, Friday, 18 January 2008 11:29 (sixteen years ago) link

I *always* fancy a pint. Bagsy not Mono. Or West. There's a wee challenge for you.

― ailsa, Friday, 18 January 2008 11:36 (sixteen years ago) link

This is an excellent idea. Should we have dinner too?

― Madchen, Friday, 18 January 2008 12:58 (sixteen years ago) link

Mmmm, dinner.

Me and Neil went here and it was nice:

http://www.salsa.5pm.co.uk/menus.cfm?id=20&menuid=3347&menuno=4

― ailsa, Friday, 18 January 2008 13:17 (sixteen years ago) link

occasional poster pandaloo, who helped keep that rob newman thread alive, is up for meeting us all -- yes, really -- and suggests yon stereo place on renfield lane. which i've not been to yet. i understand it's run by the mono dudes, right enough ;)

salsa: that's the one just over the bridge from barfly, yeh? i've eaten there, and i can't remember a fucking thing about it (it was a birthday thing for one of mrs F's friends, and i drank myself insensible; actually, i remember sitting on my own at the bar for at least half an hour, which suggests i managed to pass the point where common decency goes out the window). i'm up for going back, aye.

dinner, beer, whatever: all good to me.

― grimly fiendish, Friday, 18 January 2008 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link

pl count me in, esp. if a restaurant is involved - its one of my new year's resolutions to sample more glasgow eateries

going to see Earth and Sir Richard Bishop at Stereo in a cpl of weeks, and of course there's Instal at the Arches mid-Feb - really looking forward to seeing Marginal Consort do their marathon improv-drone thing

― Ward Fowler, Friday, 18 January 2008 23:12 (sixteen years ago) link

Hello thread. yes a glasgow eat and drink would be nice. Ailsa - i know you don't i? (remember the Patrick Duff incident?)
suggestions welcome.

― Pandaloo, Friday, 18 January 2008 23:17 (sixteen years ago) link

um, yeah, the patrick duff incident. Dear God. who are you?!?!

― ailsa, Friday, 18 January 2008 23:33 (sixteen years ago) link

I mean, there is only one person who knows about that, I thought, maybe two. Neither of whom are left in Glasgow, as far as I know.

― ailsa, Friday, 18 January 2008 23:34 (sixteen years ago) link

*intrigued*

― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 19 January 2008 00:18 (sixteen years ago) link

right, i now know who pandaloo is, which makes sense, and shows how time skews my memory something rotten. As you were.

grimly, yes, that's the very place. Neil remembers it when it used to be some country'n'western dive bar, and the decor remains as such even though it's all mexican food now. It's not very big, but there were a couple of large-ish parties in when we were there, so pre-booking would get us a place no bother, I would have thought, also v. near to town for going drinkying afterwards if required.

― ailsa, Saturday, 19 January 2008 09:25 (sixteen years ago) link

(I have no idea what Neil was doing hanging around c'n'w dive bars, btw, nor do i want to know)

― ailsa, Saturday, 19 January 2008 09:26 (sixteen years ago) link

Ailsa... i bought him the pint. you know me now? still here!
sorry didn't mean to be so cryptic...

― Pandaloo, Saturday, 19 January 2008 18:12 (sixteen years ago) link

Yes, I know who you are - last ran into you at malaga airport, yes? I am CRINGING at what a monumental arsehole patrick duff was.

― ailsa, Sunday, 20 January 2008 11:58 (sixteen years ago) link

When are you all thinking of? (Daft question)... Maybe I could join you.

― Keith, Sunday, 20 January 2008 12:40 (sixteen years ago) link

Ailsa - yeah i'd forgotten that! the random factor!

― Pandaloo, Sunday, 20 January 2008 16:36 (sixteen years ago) link

so. when?

― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 16:15 (sixteen years ago) link

ach, you decide. any time is OK with me, probably.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 16:42 (sixteen years ago) link

i start the bidding with next friday, feb 1. and i think we should do food.

― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 16:57 (sixteen years ago) link

fine by me. people will have been paid = always a good start.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 16:57 (sixteen years ago) link

exactly.

― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 16:58 (sixteen years ago) link

*forlorn bump*

― grimly fiendish, Friday, 25 January 2008 10:28 (sixteen years ago) link

Me and Neil will eat food with you, even if no-one else will.

― ailsa, Friday, 25 January 2008 10:29 (sixteen years ago) link

yay!

― grimly fiendish, Friday, 25 January 2008 10:33 (sixteen years ago) link

I am trying Glasgow more for Easter, arriving on Thursday the 20th of March and leaving again on the Monday. Who's around? I have plans for the Friday night, which involve going to a gig in the comedy festival.

― accentmonkey, Friday, 25 January 2008 11:12 (sixteen years ago) link

I will be in Spain, which is basically good, but annoyingly badly timed, not least because i want to go to said comedy festival gig. and drink with monkey(s), obviously.

― ailsa, Friday, 25 January 2008 11:15 (sixteen years ago) link

I will too... Just make sure you let me know the plan...

― Keith, Friday, 25 January 2008 17:09 (sixteen years ago) link

umm. fuck this for a lack of interest, then.

― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 21:16 (sixteen years ago) link

Hey, I'll come and drink with you! I said I would! (sorry that this isn't good enough) Is anyone else from Glasgow even on ILX any more?

― ailsa, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 22:07 (sixteen years ago) link

Sorry. I am. What's the plan?

― Alba, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 22:09 (sixteen years ago) link

I'm in Glasgow, but social cripple status hampers my ability to go out and meet internet folks.

― krakow, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 22:44 (sixteen years ago) link

ha, i know, ailsa: sorry, that was meant to be more tongue-in-cheek than it perhaps looks.

also: i can't actually do friday any more anyway. sorry. verily, i am shit.

krakow: being social cripples hasn't stopped any of us so far!

― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 22:51 (sixteen years ago) link

I have been paid today so drinking and eating out are options once more.

― Madchen, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 13:56 (sixteen years ago) link

Glasgow, you are fucking pathetic. no wonder the other regional threads laugh at us :-)

― ailsa, Thursday, 31 January 2008 20:09 (sixteen years ago) link

sorry glasgow, my computer was out of action for the last week or so, but at the moment i am superbroke so can't really afford to go out eating/drinking anyways (don't think I can afford Earth @ Stereo, either) :-(

still hoping to see an ILXOR or two at INSTAL in a couple of weeks, and there's some good shit on at the Glasgow Film Festival in Feb - I'm def. going to attend the all-day FRIGHTFEST event, it was terrif last year

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 31 January 2008 22:22 (sixteen years ago) link

http://images.usatoday.com/life/_photos/2006/04/17/inside-duffy.jpg

― wanko ergo sum, Thursday, 31 January 2008 22:27 (sixteen years ago) link

Spending 24 hours in Glasgow this Saturday-Sunday. Never been before! What should I do?

― G00blar, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 20:27 (sixteen years ago) link

organise a fap that no-one will go to!

― ailsa, Thursday, 7 February 2008 00:50 (sixteen years ago) link

That sounds a bit harsh, ailsa!

What kind of things do you like doing, G00blar?

― Alba, Thursday, 7 February 2008 09:23 (sixteen years ago) link

Sorry, meant "try and fail to organise a FAP", it's what we do.

G00blar, a walk around the shops on and around King Street (off the Trongate) tends to be a pleasant way to pass time - don't miss going into Mono (pub in Kings Court) which has a fine little record shop inside.

― ailsa, Thursday, 7 February 2008 09:38 (sixteen years ago) link

Thanks, Ailsa.

I do have friends coming in from Edinburgh (they used to live in Glasgow) to hang out with me Sat evening, so coming up with a night's plan shouldn't be a problem. I guess I'm just *really* excited to finally get to Glasgow! My grandfather was born there, I've always wanted to go, but it's just never happened. It's only happening this weekend 'cause a free ticket has fallen into my lap.

― G00blar, Thursday, 7 February 2008 11:32 (sixteen years ago) link

Weather's meant to be a bit miserable on Saturday, but I like a good old walk round the necropolis (spooky but lovely graveyard).

http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/Residents/Parks_Outdoors/HeritageTrails/GlasgowNecropolis/necropolisheritagetrail.htm

― ailsa, Thursday, 7 February 2008 11:51 (sixteen years ago) link

Yeah, I was going to say the Necropolis would be worth a visit, and you're not too far away if you're in the Mono area. You could combine it with a trip to the People's Palace on Glasgow Green, which is a slightly cheesy but fun local history museum. Perhaps there'll be a picture of your granddad.

― Alba, Thursday, 7 February 2008 13:34 (sixteen years ago) link

the People's Palace on Glasgow Green, which is a slightly cheesy but fun local history museum and is right next to the West Brewing Company.

― onimo, Thursday, 7 February 2008 13:37 (sixteen years ago) link

Autechre are playing glasgow march 1st, prob gonna go to that

― Ward Fowler, Saturday, 9 February 2008 00:33 (sixteen years ago) link

I was at Earth last night. I have a feeling there might have been some other ILX people there too, but I didn't really hunt about to identify any.

I'm also considering Autechre. How about Instal next weekend?

― krakow, Sunday, 10 February 2008 08:33 (sixteen years ago) link

How were Earth? Did you see Rick Bishop too?

Have my Instal ticket and holiday time booked, getting excited now

― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 10 February 2008 08:49 (sixteen years ago) link

Earth were absolutely tremendous. I wasn't expecting to like it that much, because I'm not wholly convinced on them via their albums, at least the recent ones, but they were just so tight and together and the sound was massive, yet somehow restrained/sparse (in a good way) at the same time that I was totally absorbed. Each slow thud of the bass hit you full on at their relentlessly mournful pace. It was great.

I made sure to get there in time for Sir Dickie B. since I'm a massive fan of him, and he was great, as expected. He played electric guitar, which although not quite as captivating as when he did acoustic in Mono a couple of years ago, was still pretty amazing. All kinds of Spanish and then later Indian influenced playing going on. He is a total demon on solo guitar.

Overall, much enjoyment was had. I'll try and get some photos done for later perhaps, if there's any worth posting.

I too have the weekend booked off for Instal and should be there in spades. The sad death of Yasuhi Ozawa doesn't bode well for the Sunday though.

― krakow, Sunday, 10 February 2008 11:34 (sixteen years ago) link

for the first time since year 2 i'm not going to instal. the line up does nothing for me (as far as i could tell anyway, the site is near impossible to make hear or tail of) and, if last year was mostly awful, this year looks even less enticing.

― jed_, Sunday, 10 February 2008 13:48 (sixteen years ago) link

OK. I'm definitely on board for the whole of Instal. I'll be there taking photos, so look out for the guy crawling around annoyingly with the camera at the front of the stage in a manky blue cycling jacket.

― krakow, Friday, 15 February 2008 10:21 (sixteen years ago) link

SEE YOU THERE:

SKULLFLOWER
FAMILY UNDERGROUND
MICHAEL FLOWER
NACKT INSECTEN

CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
Saturday 8th march, 8pm, £5

― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 22:07 (sixteen years ago) link

Will there be pie?

― Madchen, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 22:16 (sixteen years ago) link

Sick Skullflower Revive

Also: Jack Rose, The Admiral Bar in Waterloo St on Sunday at 8pm (as seen in today's Metro!) - four quid

THERE WILL BE PIE (maybe)

― Ward Fowler, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:34 (sixteen years ago) link

I'll be at both of these, pie or no pie.

― krakow, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:41 (sixteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

I'm going to both of these concerts next week - tickets are FREE!

Ircam, the famous Paris-based research and performance centre for new music, collaborates with a British orchestra for the first time in this exciting week of concerts and workshops exploring the astounding sound worlds opened up when the latest technology meets acoustic instruments.

Each of our two big concerts is divided into several sections, with intervals between them, so you can choose to attend one or more parts as you wish.

Thursday 10th April 2008, 7.30pm
City Halls : Grand Hall
Candleriggs
Glasgow, G1 1NQ
0141 353 8000

French clarinettist Alain Billard kicks off this evening with a classic work by Ircam’s founder, Pierre Boulez. Then Ilan Volkov and the BBC SSO play a piece for orchestra and electronics by a rising star of contemporary music, the Korean Unsuk Chin, and a recent work by Dutch-based English composer Richard Ayres.

Jonathan Harvey’s epic Fourth String Quartet - a major piece with live electronics - is played by the acclaimed young Diotima Quartet from Paris, and the evening ends with the first of our tributes to the late, great Karlheinz Stockhausen.

The concert will be recorded for future broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

Saturday 12th April 2008, 7.30pm
City Halls : Grand Hall
Candleriggs
Glasgow, G1 1NQ
0141 353 8000

After the incredibly evocative and moving Stockhausen tape masterpiece, Gesang der Jünglinge (Song of the Children), the Scottish Ensemble makes a guest appearance with two pieces by Xenakis, who could create a unique sound-world using only acoustic instruments.

Leading French trumpet virtuoso Laurent Bômont performs a piece with live electronics by Yan Maresz, and then one of the true originals of electro-acoustic music, Trevor Wishart, performs some of his extraordinary compositions.

The excerpts from Jonathan Harvey’s recent opera Wagner Dream make a powerfully dramatic end to an extraordinary week.

Presented by Roger Wright, Controller BBC Radio 3 and Director BBC Proms, together with Jonathan Harvey, the concert will be recorded for future broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 3 April 2008 12:50 (sixteen years ago) link

we did a pretty decently sized feature on them the other week. sadly, i'm working till 9 every day.

― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 3 April 2008 16:22 (sixteen years ago) link

thanks for the heads up WF! have you seen any performances in the city halls? the acoustics are INCREDIBLE (even for someone like me who doesn't usually notice such things).

― jed_, Thursday, 3 April 2008 16:28 (sixteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

How was the Xenakis? I wish I'd spotted it was on the City Halls are a brilliant space for sitting down and listening music.

― Sandy Blair, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 20:18 (sixteen years ago) link

try doomsday more

― czn, Thursday, 8 May 2008 19:50 (sixteen years ago) link

Look out for my flat.

― krakow, Thursday, 8 May 2008 21:05 (sixteen years ago) link

!

― jed_, Thursday, 8 May 2008 22:47 (sixteen years ago) link

a friend from nz'll be in glasgow soon ... apart from going to optimo (she's pretty keen to see no age), what else is there around & about to do? &, uh, what's the flatting/job situation like for yr artist types?

― etc, Monday, 12 May 2008 10:37 (sixteen years ago) link

Depends on the sort of job/flat she wants. Flathunting is fast-moving at the moment (excuse the pun) because it's the end of the student year so loads of people are moving out of halls and into private accommodation, or from one shared flat to another.

― Madchen, Monday, 12 May 2008 14:26 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/renting.rsp
http://www.s1rental.com/

― Madchen, Monday, 12 May 2008 14:27 (sixteen years ago) link

this is me at the research club on saturday attempting to sing "islands in the stream" with rvth l34sk:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MLRzUKQt-M

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 12 May 2008 14:28 (sixteen years ago) link

and here is donald from the 1990s doing both parts of "to all the girls i've loved before":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyllSQOtYc8

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 12 May 2008 14:29 (sixteen years ago) link

highlands industry, that is what we are

― jed_, Monday, 12 May 2008 15:11 (sixteen years ago) link

i will be trying glasgow more for the first time may 29-june 4; anything exciting happening around then?

― impudent harlot, Monday, 12 May 2008 15:15 (sixteen years ago) link

Hey Jed, did you go and see the Necks in the end? I was too broke to attend but found out after the fact that I could've blagged a freebie - dbl bummer! The City Halls is indeed a lovely lovely venue, wish more 'rock' acts played there...

Cpl of gigs I'll be going to this week -

STARS OF THE LID @ Stereo on Thursday 22nd May

TIMES NEW VIKING @ Captains Rest on Saturday 24th May

See you all there (hope springs eternal)

― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 18 May 2008 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link

Ward, i missed the necks due to illness, double bummer :(

― jed_, Sunday, 18 May 2008 19:48 (sixteen years ago) link

I'll be at Animal Collective & Stars Of The Lid this coming week.

I'm another one who failed to see the Necks, despite really wanting to. For me it was monetary reasons and a general lethargy.

― krakow, Sunday, 18 May 2008 21:00 (sixteen years ago) link

i might be at SotL; not sure. fuck me, these past few weeks have sucked, blown and honked in various different ways.

we should, at some point, drink.

― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 18 May 2008 22:22 (sixteen years ago) link

Hope you do make it along on Thursday, Grimly, and that things improve for you soon. I'm going to the gig with my friend Marc, who teaches illustration at Glasg0w Sch00l 0f Art - he's a great geezer and I think you two wld hit it off.

― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 18:28 (sixteen years ago) link

Is there an ILX handshake or signal for if we think we've spotted other ILXers?

― krakow, Wednesday, 21 May 2008 07:26 (sixteen years ago) link

Animal Collective were awesome last night by the way. Psychedelic joy.

― krakow, Wednesday, 21 May 2008 07:28 (sixteen years ago) link

i categorically won't make it, which is a bummer. thanks for your kind words, ward: it'd be awesome to catch up with you soon, anyway.

rememberremember is supporting, apparently. i fucking love that dude an' all.

― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 21 May 2008 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link

shite, i missed both Animal Collective and Stars of the Lid at ATP, and now have missed/will miss both in Glasgow too. Ah well.

Ward, I thought I saw you in the airport on my way to ATP, but given your posting times here, I guess it wasn't you.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 21 May 2008 19:14 (sixteen years ago) link

i'm going to be meeting up with Joe (aka impudent Harlot) at some point when he's in glasgow. he has friends here and he's going to be heading to optimo this sunday so maybe we can have a FAP on the sunday evening/night. i think Mono would be a good place since i think he's into his music. ailsa, i'm not trying to piss you off ;) but if anyone would like to meet there this sunday then maybe we can head somewhere else. possibly McSorleys? it would be nice to see as many people as possible and a visitor from elsewhere is a good enough reason to unite the motley crew.

also Ward Fowler - could you email me on colinohara at gmail dot com? cheers.

― jed_, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 23:14 (sixteen years ago) link

I'm up for Sunday.

― Alba, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 23:28 (sixteen years ago) link

i'm theoretically up for it, though i have a nagging feeling i'm already doing something (this is not an excuse to avoid mono)

― ailsa, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 23:32 (sixteen years ago) link

I'm in Krakow (appropriately), so I miss the chance of my first Glasgow ILX meet-up.

― krakow, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 19:59 (sixteen years ago) link

damn.

― jed_, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 20:13 (sixteen years ago) link

i wish i'd went to see the 39 steps at the gft. glasgow, fuck you. i will try you more in a while.

― Dy, Thursday, 29 May 2008 02:09 (sixteen years ago) link

i think i'm going to be at the theatre tomorrow night, so won't be able to make mono. wank.

― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 31 May 2008 10:33 (sixteen years ago) link

Fiendish! I was praying you were on!
*high five*

― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Saturday, 31 May 2008 10:38 (sixteen years ago) link

I gotta say I really enjoyed this phenomenon when I was on vacation recently (in Hollywood, CA) where I would stay up late enough to actually encounter Brits on ILX. I did that many nights, and it seems I'm doing it again. Hello! It's 4 AM here. But I'm happy.

Hallo!

― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Saturday, 31 May 2008 10:41 (sixteen years ago) link

i'm going to meet impudent harlot at mono at around 8 o'clock.

well, i haven't actually arranged it yet but i think he will come. i have a phone number and will arrange it so who is in?

― jed_, Sunday, 1 June 2008 00:49 (sixteen years ago) link

Oh yes.

― Alba, Sunday, 1 June 2008 01:27 (sixteen years ago) link

good.

― jed_, Sunday, 1 June 2008 01:33 (sixteen years ago) link

I'm sorry...I opened my wallet and moths flew out...just can't afford to go drinking right now :-(((

― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 1 June 2008 07:36 (sixteen years ago) link

ha! sorry, bimble, i was on and then off again in a flash (ooer).

― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 1 June 2008 10:29 (sixteen years ago) link

I'll be at Mono, though I have a 7.45am flight tomorrow so I'll be going home fairly early I'm afraid.

― Madchen, Sunday, 1 June 2008 15:10 (sixteen years ago) link

i won't, i'm afraid. sorry!

― ailsa, Sunday, 1 June 2008 16:59 (sixteen years ago) link

didn't go to the theatre ...

... and totally forgot about this until 30 seconds ago. fucking hell. sorry. hope you had a top night.

― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 1 June 2008 21:34 (sixteen years ago) link

that a a good small gathering. had fun in the pub and impudent harlot did a good job of joining in on our UK (big brother!) chat. some good optimo too!

― jed_, Monday, 2 June 2008 15:43 (sixteen years ago) link

we should try to drink more this summer. i've not seen some of you in aeons. i'm cross i missed this, especially through my own dickwittery.

― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 08:58 (sixteen years ago) link

yes! we should try drinking more, especially as I've finished school now.

p.s. hello krakow! nice to see you join the ranks of glasgow ILXors.

― Cathy, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 09:21 (sixteen years ago) link

especially as I've finished school now

yay! didn't realise that. congrats.

that reminds me ... i'm due some results. should go and look, i guess :/

off to the library later to pick up a load of stats books. light summer reading :(

― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 09:48 (sixteen years ago) link

I really must try and get through to Glasgow at some point this year. It would be good to meet you fine people in person.

― treefell, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 09:49 (sixteen years ago) link

that would rock, too. and, to be honest, give us the kind of impetus we need to actually organise some kind of beer action.

― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 09:50 (sixteen years ago) link

I might even try and make it up for that.

― aldo, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 10:03 (sixteen years ago) link

LET'S DO IT.

― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 10:05 (sixteen years ago) link

yeah scottish football prediction FAP (I promise I will buy treefell that pint I have been promising him all season)!

― ailsa, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 22:40 (sixteen years ago) link

I was wondering if it would be a good idea to come through for one of the euro2008 games this month?

It's easiest for me to do a Saturday or Sunday but I suppose a Friday after work is possible too.

Unfortunately with me living in Fife I need to get the 10pm train from Queen Street to be sure of catching the last train back home (9.30pm on a Sunday!).

― treefell, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 10:53 (sixteen years ago) link

i'd certainly be up for that. onimo's off the internet at the moment, but i'll find out when i'm next speaking to him if he's not back by then.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 12:47 (sixteen years ago) link

weekend might be better so we can involve non-football types at some point rather than gawping at a telly all night...

― ailsa, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 12:52 (sixteen years ago) link

er, yeh.

― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 23:23 (sixteen years ago) link

Hi Cathy. Real life people on the internets, shocking!

Krakow was amazing by the way.

― krakow, Friday, 6 June 2008 09:15 (sixteen years ago) link

i want to try glasgow in the summer.

― ken c, Friday, 6 June 2008 09:21 (sixteen years ago) link

GOOD LAD. bring a nice jacket for me :)

(actually: that was edinburgh, wasn't it? even so.)

― grimly fiendish, Friday, 6 June 2008 09:29 (sixteen years ago) link

ken c, you must try glasgow ASAP. it has been far too long.

krakow, I'm glad you liked krakow. perhaps if you hadn't it would've triggered some terrible identity crisis. I have never been but people always tell me how nice it is (followed by "don't go to warsaw it's rubbish".

― Cathy, Friday, 6 June 2008 09:42 (sixteen years ago) link

Yeah, I heard that latter Warsaw sentiment a couple of times while I was over there too.

― krakow, Friday, 6 June 2008 09:54 (sixteen years ago) link

maybe they meant walsall.

glasgow will be tried. hopefully will actually get to FAP with some of you this time too ;) ;)

― ken c, Friday, 6 June 2008 09:58 (sixteen years ago) link

It would be great to see you, Ken. It was great to see Impudent Harlot. I hope Optimo was good.

― Madchen, Friday, 6 June 2008 13:26 (sixteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Hello people, some of us are going to see My Bloody Valentine on the 3rd of July, there might even be some out-of-towners around. Shall we go to the pub?

― ailsa, Monday, 23 June 2008 07:26 (sixteen years ago) link

oh, sound, are you going on the 3rd? i thought you were one of the kool kids who'd bought their tickets quickly and were going to the first night.

anyway, yeh, i suggested this on the MBV thread too, and it's a good idea.

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 23 June 2008 09:06 (sixteen years ago) link

Monkeys will be knocking around Glasgow for that whole entire weekend, if peeps want to do anything.

― accentmonkey, Monday, 23 June 2008 10:49 (sixteen years ago) link

yes!

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 23 June 2008 11:45 (sixteen years ago) link

Well, Ailsa and Madchen both have my number, and I will hopefully see you on the Thursday night, so we can make some kind of ear-soothing plan for later in the weekend. Hooray!

― accentmonkey, Monday, 23 June 2008 12:00 (sixteen years ago) link

Excellent. I already have permanent tinnitus, so won't be going to MBV, but a MonkeyFAP would be great.

― Madchen, Monday, 23 June 2008 13:05 (sixteen years ago) link

i can't post it on the appropriate thread without ruining the flow, but ailsa: i was hoping you'd do exactly that with the "post in the style of the poster above you thing". perfect :)

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 23 June 2008 16:15 (sixteen years ago) link

it was too good an opportunity to miss!

― ailsa, Monday, 23 June 2008 16:20 (sixteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/9505367/Hidden%20Glasgow%20Misc/TinParkAd.jpg

― czn, Saturday, 28 June 2008 12:17 (sixteen years ago) link

When did you move to Shotts?

― Alba, Saturday, 28 June 2008 12:30 (sixteen years ago) link

we had that in the diary a week ago :p

― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 28 June 2008 17:02 (sixteen years ago) link

Right, peeps, can we get some drinking plans organised for Thursday if we're going to. I should be around from 5-ish. My vote = NOT MONO (will be heaving pre-gig, would have thought)

― ailsa, Monday, 30 June 2008 20:55 (sixteen years ago) link

You will be heaving pre-gig! Nice one! I have a cold and my ears are a bit blocked up so I might not be able to hear anything but nonetheless I will probably be going on Wednesday, so I guess will miss you lot.

― Keith, Monday, 30 June 2008 21:02 (sixteen years ago) link

bah, that's not what I meant and you know it :-)

I suspect you will still be able to hear them even with blocked ears. Anyone know about the support yet for Thursday, you Wednesday mob are getting the Pastels apparently.

― ailsa, Monday, 30 June 2008 21:20 (sixteen years ago) link

though the beer in Mono is quite like to make me heave, bleurgh.

― ailsa, Monday, 30 June 2008 21:20 (sixteen years ago) link

just name a place and i shall be there!

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 30 June 2008 21:54 (sixteen years ago) link

(i need to hook up with three other dudes too, so make sure it's not a totally obscure and impossible-to-find place. i can't think of anywhere better than mono, but hey.)

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 30 June 2008 21:55 (sixteen years ago) link

The Pastels! Fucking superb! What time do they end?

― Keith, Monday, 30 June 2008 22:47 (sixteen years ago) link

The Pastels never end.

― jed_, Monday, 30 June 2008 22:58 (sixteen years ago) link

Yeah you might be right there. Well as long as they're carrying on somewhere I'm not.

― Keith, Monday, 30 June 2008 22:59 (sixteen years ago) link

hey, it never occurred to me to post here!

anyone need two standing tickets for mbv at barrowlands on thursday?

i can't go anymore, i'm in london but can next-day-deliver - at my expense - if you can stump up face value (22.50 each) or thereabouts.

i just don't want them to be wasted, especially since i saw mbv at the roundhouse last week and am still reeling with the wonder of it :-(

― CharlieNo4, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 09:59 (sixteen years ago) link

OK, so what is the plan for tomorrow? I'm not going to the gig, but wouldn't mind a drink after work.

― Madchen, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 16:32 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.mybloodyvalentine.net/smf/index.php?topic=655.60 seems to be good for finding out who is support

― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 16:33 (sixteen years ago) link

oh no it's le volume courbe on thursday. I'm coming in late then.

― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 17:18 (sixteen years ago) link

I believe there are tentative plans afoot for The Red Lizard on the corner of Bell Street and Albion Street at after-work o'clock.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 17:48 (sixteen years ago) link

Last EVER NPL on the 25th this month!

― JohnFoxxsJuno, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 20:22 (sixteen years ago) link

WAHT?

― ailsa, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 20:25 (sixteen years ago) link

finally

― czn, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 20:31 (sixteen years ago) link

I haven't been for about three years and I can't say I've missed it tbh. I'm just not the kind of gal who wells up whenever I hear Almost Prayed.

― Madchen, Thursday, 3 July 2008 08:29 (sixteen years ago) link

I will be at the Red Lizard though!

― Madchen, Thursday, 3 July 2008 08:29 (sixteen years ago) link

red lizard? i'll be there. won't be much before 7, mind. this not-working-full-time lark seems to make enormous demands on my time!

― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 3 July 2008 10:52 (sixteen years ago) link

I haven't been to NPL for ages, but it's nice to know its there for all your Altered Images and Mark E Smith needs, if you have such things. Perhaps we're all too old now. I shall be red and lizardy though (this plan is subject to minor fluctuation depending on seating and eating requirements, but we won't be far away and most glasgow peeps have my mobile no and its on my facebook page if you don't and you can't find us and you're my friend)

― ailsa, Thursday, 3 July 2008 11:01 (sixteen years ago) link

heheheh. text us if you've moved on somewhere and i haven't turned up!

― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 3 July 2008 11:02 (sixteen years ago) link

that was tremendous. low ceilinged venues are where it's at, if you want to channel noise into your brain. the pastels sweet blends were pretty great too.

― schlump, Thursday, 3 July 2008 12:05 (sixteen years ago) link

i am psyched to fuck about this.

― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 3 July 2008 12:07 (sixteen years ago) link

wtf

― conrad, Thursday, 3 July 2008 12:39 (sixteen years ago) link

i am psyched to fuck about this.

Really? Oh, I thought you were talkign about the final NPL.

My left ear feels kind of bruised and I can't hear properly. I don't know if this was the volume or sticking the earplug too far into my lughole.

― Alba, Thursday, 3 July 2008 12:43 (sixteen years ago) link

Erm you guys, does anyone know anyone with spares for tonight? SOMEONE WHO SHALL REMAIN NAMELESS has just looked at our tickets and OMG they are for YESTERDAY! HELP!

― ailsa, Thursday, 3 July 2008 12:55 (sixteen years ago) link

Yikes. Where did Charlie's end up?

― Alba, Thursday, 3 July 2008 12:57 (sixteen years ago) link

Don't know, but they have gone. I'm going to be off the internet in about half an hour, can you or grimly or someone keep checking for me and let me know via the magick of phone? There are three of us going, at least I'M not the one who flew over to go to the gig without checking which date we were going on....

― ailsa, Thursday, 3 July 2008 13:00 (sixteen years ago) link

(I've posted this on the ILM MBV thread as well)

― ailsa, Thursday, 3 July 2008 13:00 (sixteen years ago) link

If i hear anything i'll text grimly and ask him to text you (no facebook or anything to get your no)

― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 3 July 2008 13:31 (sixteen years ago) link

Cheers. There are three of us, we'll take anything going.

― ailsa, Thursday, 3 July 2008 14:12 (sixteen years ago) link

ailsa dude on the MBV forum is selling 3 tix on ebay. he says you can pay cash to him at gig if you dont wanna paypal.
His phone number is there if you wanna make sure its legit
http://www.mybloodyvalentine.net/smf/index.php?topic=953.0

― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 3 July 2008 14:21 (sixteen years ago) link

ive texted grimly to let you know

― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 3 July 2008 14:23 (sixteen years ago) link

... and i've just texted ailsa! i've given her the dude's number, too, so she can ring him if she wants.

not much more we can do, i guess :/

― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 3 July 2008 14:27 (sixteen years ago) link

ok!

― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 3 July 2008 14:28 (sixteen years ago) link

It's started pissing down here. I dont wanna have to wear a coat, it's too warm! Argh

― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 3 July 2008 14:28 (sixteen years ago) link

i've just been wandering around the city centre getting soaked. as soon as i got home, it stopped raining. fuxxake.

― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 3 July 2008 14:34 (sixteen years ago) link

The Pastels are support tonight. Onstage at 7.45pm.
MBV are onstage 9pm (approx) and off at 11.
(I phoned up the barras to ask)

― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 3 July 2008 14:40 (sixteen years ago) link

That's a much longer set then, they were on at 9 and off at 10.30 in London.

― aldo, Thursday, 3 July 2008 14:42 (sixteen years ago) link

well i wont be surprised if they dont come on at 9

― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 3 July 2008 14:42 (sixteen years ago) link

my mate who saw them last night said they came on about 9.15 and were off 10.45, so i think it's the same kind of set and the barras don't do minutes :)

― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 3 July 2008 14:44 (sixteen years ago) link

ailsa says it looks like they might be sorted, and to tell you thanks, herman :)

― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 3 July 2008 14:47 (sixteen years ago) link

well at least that means i dont need to rush out at the end and can just take my time. Getting picked up at 11.
I usually leave by the fire exit at the back right of the hall if they still allow that. Not been to the barras in years.
And that's great if they got the tix.

― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 3 July 2008 15:03 (sixteen years ago) link

SOMEONE WHO SHALL REMAIN NAMELESS has just looked at our tickets and OMG they are for YESTERDAY!

i've done this. with a plane ticket. (glad all's - apparently - sorted now!)

― CharlieNo4, Thursday, 3 July 2008 15:34 (sixteen years ago) link

Aw man it's thunder and lightning here now with unbelievably heavy rain.

― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 3 July 2008 16:00 (sixteen years ago) link

If anyones still looking for tix, there'll likely be loads going on the door. About 20 people selling last night as we went in. Weren't even going for free...anyone say cReDiT cRuNcH

― yungblut, Thursday, 3 July 2008 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link

Aye, we got sorted, cheers Herman :-)

― ailsa, Thursday, 3 July 2008 23:25 (sixteen years ago) link

You're welcome!

― Herman G. Neuname, Friday, 4 July 2008 18:26 (sixteen years ago) link

if anyone cares, momus seems to be playing stereo on the 27th. i can't make it -- will be at a wedding -- but thought i'd mention it.

i like the fact there's one confirmed attendee on last.fm ... which is momus himself.

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 7 July 2008 11:24 (sixteen years ago) link

I'm going to Glasgow...but only for one night! I'm going to be hanging out at Optimo on the 27th.

― dan selzer, Thursday, 17 July 2008 12:51 (sixteen years ago) link

fyi, glasgow: dan and his gf are wonderful people.

i encouraged him to post on this thread, and now i feel like a mother who has pushed her kid into the sandbox.

― lauren, Thursday, 17 July 2008 13:36 (sixteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Cpl of gigs, glasppl

TUESDAY 16TH SEPT 13TH NOTE

STARVING WEIRDOS / VODKA SOAP / NACKT INSECTEN / SINGLE HELIX

FRIDAY 19TH SEPT CCA 8PM £10/£8

APPROXIMATELY INFINITE UNIVERSE:
A CARAVAN OF RAW SOUND MAGIC FROM FINLAND AND THE US

KEMIALLISET YSTÄVÄT & AXOLOTL
ES & FURSAXA
ISLAJA, BLEVIN BLECTUM & SAMARA LUBELSKI
DREAM TRIANGLE (TOMUTONTTU & SKATERS)

― Ward Fowler, Monday, 1 September 2008 18:42 (sixteen years ago) link

Anyone got plans for Doors Open? Not much is grabbing my attention, tbh.
http://www.glasgowdoorsopenday.com/buildings/

― Madchen, Friday, 12 September 2008 15:01 (sixteen years ago) link

Nothing jumping out at me, but if anyone cares to suggest something, I might be amenable to coming along. I shall be in town anyway on Saturday as I'm lunching with my mum, so would be nice to catch up with folks since I've been in credit-crunch-induced hibernation for what seems like forever.

― ailsa, Friday, 12 September 2008 15:15 (sixteen years ago) link

That's one of ours, I think, but I can't quite figure out a way to claim going up to Glasgow to look at pretty buildings as a business expense. yet.

― Our Friend The Atom (Masonic Boom), Friday, 12 September 2008 15:15 (sixteen years ago) link

Stet and I might go to Traffic Control Central and start a fight with the person responsible for traffic lights.

― Madchen, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 12:50 (sixteen years ago) link

FRIDAY 19TH SEPT CCA 8PM £10/£8

APPROXIMATELY INFINITE UNIVERSE:
A CARAVAN OF RAW SOUND MAGIC FROM FINLAND AND THE US

KEMIALLISET YSTÄVÄT & AXOLOTL
ES & FURSAXA
ISLAJA, BLEVIN BLECTUM & SAMARA LUBELSKI
DREAM TRIANGLE (TOMUTONTTU & SKATERS)

― cozen (cozwn), Friday, 19 September 2008 13:47 (sixteen years ago) link

That looks great

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 19 September 2008 13:48 (sixteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

i fancy a day out in the capital, and am intrigued by the thought of a william bennett 'demonstration' - anyone got any w33d??

Cut Hands II

The second Cut Hands night will commence on Saturday the 18th of October at Henry's Cellar Bar, doors are at 7pm, and we'll be joined by the legendary drone/experimental act Skullflower.

Skullflower live performance!
+
Cut Hands (William Bennett) DJ set + short talk/demonstration!

― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 12 October 2008 17:52 (sixteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Hello, it's me.

Mrmonkey and I will be trying Glasgow more at the end of January, if anyone is about. We have a party to go to on the 31at, but will be around for a few days if people want to hang out.

― accentmonkey, Sunday, 23 November 2008 13:46 (sixteen years ago) link

I should be available for some hanging out, if required.

― ailsa, Sunday, 23 November 2008 13:57 (sixteen years ago) link

Yup, me too.

― Madchen, Thursday, 27 November 2008 12:40 (sixteen years ago) link

This would be good. Count me in.

― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 27 November 2008 12:48 (sixteen years ago) link

I would like to come along to this, if I can - don't think I've seen any Glasgow ILXors since that drink-up before the Carter gig

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 27 November 2008 13:00 (sixteen years ago) link

Top! Be excellent to see you.

― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 27 November 2008 13:01 (sixteen years ago) link

Yes, Carter was A YEAR AGO. Who says Glasgow doesn't FAP, eh?

― ailsa, Friday, 28 November 2008 14:56 (sixteen years ago) link

Top! Be excellent to see you.

You too. There was something I needed to have a big argument with you about. I can't remember what it was, but I've written it down, I'm sure.

Oh, Dead Set, that was it. Yes. Have your points on index cards for that weekend, please.

― accentmonkey, Sunday, 30 November 2008 02:22 (sixteen years ago) link

yes, it will be great to see grimly but he is DEAD WRONG abt DEAD SET

― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 30 November 2008 07:30 (sixteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

festive FAP anyone?

before christmas or between christmas and hogmanay?

― jed_, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 02:07 (sixteen years ago) link

also, i just had to draw your attention to this from the gays thread:

Kevin J. Bozelka just called me "Sugar Bear Booger Britches". LOL!!!

Also an ilxor sent me a photo of another ilxor dude who um...is really GOTH AND HOTTTT. Or at least he was in the 20 year old pic on his last.fm page!

― Cheap Uptown Dirt (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Saturday, December 13, 2008 7:39 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark

Also an ilxor sent me a photo of another ilxor dude who um...is really GOTH AND HOTTTT. Or at least he was in the 20 year old pic on his last.fm page!

lol, is this crutis?

― Matt P, Sunday, December 14, 2008 6:21 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark

Haha no. Check this out:
http://www.last.fm/user/ilx_onimo

― Cheap Uptown Dirt (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Sunday, December 14, 2008 10:40 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark

o_O

― jed_, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 02:11 (sixteen years ago) link

haha Bimble is hott for the young onigoth.

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/126/18366277.jpg

He'd only be disappointed with the older heavier boring me.

Some creepiness going on from ILX's resident last.fm stalker all the same.

― dj onimotian (onimo), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 09:18 (sixteen years ago) link

before christmas or between christmas and hogmanay?

After Hogmanay would be good for me; all else is fucked.

― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 09:33 (sixteen years ago) link

i am 'down south' until the 3rd jan :-(

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 10:36 (sixteen years ago) link

I'm off work until the 5th, so I could probably make it to a Festive FAP.

― treefell, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 11:27 (sixteen years ago) link

I am in glasgow area between Christmas and Hogmanay.

― straight outta Easter Compton (aldo), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 12:34 (sixteen years ago) link

I'll be back on the 27th. Does anyone fancy larging it with me at that FAC 51 thing?

― Madchen, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 13:08 (sixteen years ago) link

I've considered it, but I fear it will be absolutely appalling :/

― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 15:12 (sixteen years ago) link

My plan would be to get so drunk it doesn't matter.

― Madchen, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 17:26 (sixteen years ago) link

I am not sure what between Xmas and New Year plans are yet, but if I'm around, would be up for fappage. I'm in up in Inverness for Christmas, but am not sure if we're staying up for New Year or not. So I vote for Grimly's after-Hogmanay plan as well!

― ailsa, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 17:42 (sixteen years ago) link

Was that not last Sat? Is there another? Xp

― stet, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 17:55 (sixteen years ago) link

It got moved, according to a poster I saw somewhere yesterday.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 18:02 (sixteen years ago) link

Yeh, it was meant to be last Saturday. I was quite pleased: I was away, so couldn't have gone, and didn't need to feel guilty about betraying the Spirit of Wilson.

To be honest, though, I think the Spirit of Wilson would think the whole thing was gonna suck dick. I mean, it'll be full of ageing professional northerners girning about people playing the wrong mixes (ie cunts exactly like me).

― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 18:12 (sixteen years ago) link

I had an early night instead, and was up with the lark yesterday to do a mountain of washing. This is, perhaps, the very definition of old.

― Madchen, Monday, 29 December 2008 10:49 (sixteen years ago) link

A mate just rang me and asked where (other than the Apple Store) I'd go to get an iBook repaired in Glasgow. Good question: the Apple Store's kind of wiped out a lot of the competition.

So: has anyone got any computer-repair recommendations to share? (Personally, I think he should just take it to the Apple Store, but hey.)

― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 8 January 2009 14:58 (sixteen years ago) link

is the shop at the whiteinch end of dumbarton road closed?

― ur bisexual btw (cozwn), Thursday, 8 January 2009 15:01 (sixteen years ago) link

Didn't know about that one ... hmm, is that the one Stet referred to as being "in Maryhill", I wonder? Any idea what it was called?

― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 8 January 2009 15:05 (sixteen years ago) link

"in maryhill" o_O

um, I can't remember its name sorry : /

― ur bisexual btw (cozwn), Thursday, 8 January 2009 15:07 (sixteen years ago) link

I think it was called justmac but it appears the dumbarton rd. store closed in 2006

however http://www.justmac.co.uk/ : D

― ur bisexual btw (cozwn), Thursday, 8 January 2009 15:09 (sixteen years ago) link

Maybe Stet said "in Clydebank" and this is getting twisted through all manner of "yeh, someone said X said Y said Z" nonsense. Or it could be me, being a cock. Either way: Stet appears to be OTM, as indeed do you. Thanks.

― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 8 January 2009 15:15 (sixteen years ago) link

I did say in Clydebank, you chod.

― stet, Thursday, 8 January 2009 16:34 (sixteen years ago) link

Aye, well, even a stopped clock is right twice a day <ducks>

― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 8 January 2009 16:35 (sixteen years ago) link

PAIN JERK + EMERALDS @ the CCA on Tuesday 20th Jan

DAVID GRUBBS @ Mono on Wednesday 21st Jan

am also going to see THE MONKS documentary @ the GFT on Sunday 25th Jan 7.40pm

― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 18 January 2009 16:17 (fifteen years ago) link

I'll be at the CCA on Tuesday night. Down front taking photos, probably wearing a scruffy blue cycling jacket & carrying a khaki messenger bag. Say hello!

― krakow, Sunday, 18 January 2009 19:44 (fifteen years ago) link

I was there, precisely fitting my above description. No one said hello. :-(

― krakow, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 07:51 (fifteen years ago) link

See? Glaswegians. Unfriendly as f***.

― Keith, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:21 (fifteen years ago) link

to see the japanese noise band?

― cozwn, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:32 (fifteen years ago) link

No offence, Krakow: much as I would have been interested to meet you and find out what Pain Jerk + Emeralds sound like, it clashed with something quite interesting on telly.

― Madchen, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:56 (fifteen years ago) link

sorry krakow, i have not been v. well for the last couple of days so i didn't make it along to pain jerk (and i'm not going to grubbsy tonight) - wld love to hear a report, esp. gutted to have missed emeralds

will def. be going to instal, so maybe an ilx-related hookup then?

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 19:38 (fifteen years ago) link

talking of instal, there is a slightly more substantial line-up given in the latest wire - herman nitsch, ultra-red, sachiko m & otomo yoshihide, joan la barbara, radu malfatti & klaus filip, phil minton's 100 member feral choir, jerome noetinger & jean philipp gross, tetsuo kogawa, rolf julius

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 19:42 (fifteen years ago) link

Ah, if no-one was there, then fair enough, all is cool. I thought there were secret ilxors hiding in the shadows ignoring me.

Yeah. I'm up for Instal.

― krakow, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 21:22 (fifteen years ago) link

who's the george of george square? internet is no help on this one.

― jed_, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 01:54 (fifteen years ago) link

some king?

― jed_, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 01:54 (fifteen years ago) link

uh, internet better, George III.

― Bone Thugs-N-Harmony ft Phil Collins (jim), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 01:56 (fifteen years ago) link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Square

― Bone Thugs-N-Harmony ft Phil Collins (jim), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 01:56 (fifteen years ago) link

ok, some king. thanks bones.

― jed_, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 01:57 (fifteen years ago) link

Hello Glasgow. Was in the pub with some Glasgow types last night, and thought it might be a good idea to try and do some more drinking. So, erm, should we try to do some drinking in the same place at the same time one day?

― ailsa, Sunday, 1 February 2009 10:11 (fifteen years ago) link

^ this.

― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Sunday, 1 February 2009 12:19 (fifteen years ago) link

After last night I don't think I want to touch alcohol ever again.

― Madchen, Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:38 (fifteen years ago) link

Ach, it was fun. But I might have to detox for a few weeks before doing it again :-)

― ailsa, Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:40 (fifteen years ago) link

You pair of lightweights.

― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:43 (fifteen years ago) link

I am Out of Practice - first proper actual drinking session of 2009, that. Also had shared a bottle of wine over dinner before even getting to pub.

― ailsa, Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:45 (fifteen years ago) link

Hello Glasgow. Was in the pub with some Glasgow types last night, and thought it might be a good idea to try and do some more drinking. So, erm, should we try to do some drinking in the same place at the same time one day?

― ailsa, Sunday, 1 February 2009 10:11 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^ this.

― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Sunday, 1 February 2009 12:19 (Yesterday) Bookmark

^that.

anyone got a grudge against stereo? what about this coming weekend?

― jed_, Monday, 2 February 2009 00:27 (fifteen years ago) link

no grudge against Stereo, they do real beer, none of yr weird Sam Smiths shite - also nearer train station than Mono Seats are a bit wobbly and it has a tendency to be a bit busy though.

― ailsa, Monday, 2 February 2009 00:31 (fifteen years ago) link

^ insert full stop between Mono and Seats.

― ailsa, Monday, 2 February 2009 00:31 (fifteen years ago) link

true but if you get the sofa you are set for the night.

also, the staff are decent and some are actually pleasant! it's hard to believe it's a mono offshoot.

― jed_, Monday, 2 February 2009 00:34 (fifteen years ago) link

seats are from ikea is why they're wobbly.

― jed_, Monday, 2 February 2009 00:35 (fifteen years ago) link

the food is pretty dece too

― cozwn, Monday, 2 February 2009 00:36 (fifteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Chris Corsano, Heather Leigh Murray Duo, RM Hubbert and Burnt Altar, Sat 28 Feb 7:30pm, Stereo, Glasgow, 0141 222 2254 £5

- saw corsano/murray at the CCA a cpl of months back and they were awesomely awesome, dunno the other two acts on the bill

my clubbing pal who used to run the 'open' nights up here is also taking me to see monolake at the sub club on friday 6th, wld love to score some smarties for that

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 26 February 2009 22:07 (fifteen years ago) link

FAP plan disintegrated, didn't it? Shall we try again? I'm not organising, like.

― ailsa, Thursday, 26 February 2009 22:30 (fifteen years ago) link

What's Heather's contribution to the duo? Is Corsano on straight-up drumming?

― krakow, Friday, 27 February 2009 07:52 (fifteen years ago) link

yeah, last time round corsano was full on improv attack and heather was screamy guitaring

― Ward Fowler, Friday, 27 February 2009 20:41 (fifteen years ago) link

hi, glasgow

― nabisco, Friday, 27 February 2009 20:45 (fifteen years ago) link

hi nabisco.

ok ailsa, i'll bite! friday the 6th of february at stereo.

― jed_, Friday, 27 February 2009 20:47 (fifteen years ago) link

(i don't know when simon, nick et al work nights, just throwing that out there)

― jed_, Friday, 27 February 2009 20:48 (fifteen years ago) link

I think I'm OK for the 6th March. Might need a time machine for the 6th of February though...

― ailsa, Saturday, 28 February 2009 09:31 (fifteen years ago) link

:D

― jed_, Saturday, 28 February 2009 14:18 (fifteen years ago) link

I'm going to take a miss on tonight. As much as I'd love to see Corsano, I just have too much other stuff to do, or at least prevaricate over.

― krakow, Saturday, 28 February 2009 20:35 (fifteen years ago) link

my desire to see corsano is massively outweighed by my desire to not-see david keenan or hlm.

― jed_, Saturday, 28 February 2009 21:02 (fifteen years ago) link

There is that.

― krakow, Saturday, 28 February 2009 21:16 (fifteen years ago) link

I don't think tomorrow night is any good at all for me. Sorry. I assume I'll be stuck at work until late.

If anyone wants to see me make a twat of myself, I'm chairing the Julian Baggini/Complaint session at Aye Write! on Saturday (Mitchell Library, 4.30pm).

― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 5 March 2009 13:56 (fifteen years ago) link

Tomorrow night at the CCA: Eric Carbonara, Ben Reynolds & The One Ensemble. I'll be there, if anyone fancies it, should be a good night.

― krakow, Thursday, 5 March 2009 19:04 (fifteen years ago) link

Sorry - am cooking for friends tomorrow night.

― Alba, Thursday, 5 March 2009 20:05 (fifteen years ago) link

i just stood on my own for 90 minutes then fucked off. thanks.

― jed_, Friday, 6 March 2009 22:21 (fifteen years ago) link

shite, i totally forgot :-(

sorry, jed. Jesus, Glasgow deserves its reputation for being pish at fapping.

― ailsa, Friday, 6 March 2009 22:49 (fifteen years ago) link

:-( sorry ailsa, i was joking, i didn't mean to give you a guilt trip. shit joke, i know, but we should all meet up for real. i know it's hard to organise because several of the glasgow people work nights etc.

i wonder if ward f. is getting mad for it at the sub club tonight?

― jed_, Friday, 6 March 2009 23:11 (fifteen years ago) link

Ha, no, I had vague plans to meet a mate tonight and was seriously going to swing by stereo just in case anyone else showed, but the plans got nixed so I just scooted off homewards without remembering why I'd said stereo in the first place :-)

It was a general sorry for not being more specific earlier in the week, to be honest. We really are shite at this.

― ailsa, Friday, 6 March 2009 23:32 (fifteen years ago) link

yes, we are. i've been totally shite in the past and only showed up at one fap so far but i think it needs to happen soon.

― jed_, Friday, 6 March 2009 23:37 (fifteen years ago) link

Visitors from elsewhere or restaurant bookings seems to be the key to successful previous attempts.

― ailsa, Friday, 6 March 2009 23:44 (fifteen years ago) link

(I don't even want to think about how many grammatical errors I made there)

― ailsa, Friday, 6 March 2009 23:44 (fifteen years ago) link

I'll pop across and make you meet up if you like.

― Keith, Friday, 6 March 2009 23:48 (fifteen years ago) link

hello! yes, good idea.

― jed_, Friday, 6 March 2009 23:50 (fifteen years ago) link

I heartily endorse a plan for Keith-FAP

(do not make it the 29th March, because several of the people you know in Glasgow will be in Edinburgh, which I will discuss with you at some point elsewhere)

― ailsa, Friday, 6 March 2009 23:59 (fifteen years ago) link

Oh OK. Are you going to the zoo?

― Keith, Saturday, 7 March 2009 00:00 (fifteen years ago) link

No, we are going to see Cabaret at the Playhouse.

― ailsa, Saturday, 7 March 2009 00:05 (fifteen years ago) link

Though zoo would be good as well.

― ailsa, Saturday, 7 March 2009 00:06 (fifteen years ago) link

hey folks any of you about today (sunday) afternoon for a roast and a pint perhaps??

― \∫Öζ/.... argh oh noes! (ken c), Sunday, 15 March 2009 03:01 (fifteen years ago) link

im in toon today!!

― \∫Öζ/.... argh oh noes! (ken c), Sunday, 15 March 2009 03:01 (fifteen years ago) link

text me, anyhow, my phone is lacking juice but it is full of textability

― \∫Öζ/.... argh oh noes! (ken c), Sunday, 15 March 2009 03:04 (fifteen years ago) link

ooh seven eight five tae three ooh seven six one ooh

― \∫Öζ/.... argh oh noes! (ken c), Sunday, 15 March 2009 03:06 (fifteen years ago) link

Nads. No Ken do, I'm afraid.

― Atoms are "balls" (grimly fiendish), Sunday, 15 March 2009 11:44 (fifteen years ago) link

I'm at the football this afternoon, but could give you a shout on the way back, maybe, if you're still around.

― ailsa, Sunday, 15 March 2009 11:46 (fifteen years ago) link

yeah let me know later.. what time does footie finish? going to have dinner with swedish people later on but i dunno when that will be yet!

― \∫Öζ/.... argh oh noes! (ken c), Sunday, 15 March 2009 12:46 (fifteen years ago) link

I'm free! But still in my PJs. I'll text you.

― Madchen, Sunday, 15 March 2009 14:03 (fifteen years ago) link

I'm in Edinburgh you daft twat.

― Keith, Sunday, 15 March 2009 14:14 (fifteen years ago) link

(Ken, that is)

― Keith, Sunday, 15 March 2009 14:15 (fifteen years ago) link

£2 Comedy Festival tickets for anyone who's interested:

Mick Sergeant
Sunday 22nd March at Brel, Ashton Lane, show starts at 9pm
The unemployed Geordie superhero tries to stay positive while wrestling with the notion of identity.
"…a believable, layered personality, rich with subtle touches and – more crucially – great gags ... a barnstorming act, such is his brilliantly nuanced characterisation." Chortle

Phil Differ: Never Felt Better
Sunday 22 March at Blackfriars Basement, show starts at 8.30pm
Join Scotland’s brightest old comedian as he revels in the glories of growing old disgracefully. Phil is also known as an occasional columnist, feature and travel writer for The Scotsman and Edinburgh Evening News.

Daniel Rigby: The Mothwokfantastic
Tuesday 24th March at Brel, Ashton Lane, show starts at 9pm
An hour of award-winning sketch, character and musical comedy performed with the help of a robot.
“His act works wonderfully as he starts talking about rubbish, only to wind up with sublime and surreal diversions.” Chortle

Wil Hodgson in Chippenham on my shoulder
Thursday 26th March at Brel, Ashton Lane, show starts at 9pm
Punk rock folk storyteller returns with more tales of Spice Girls dolls, street fighters and small town alienation
"This teddy bear-loving ex-wrestler neither exaggerates nor apologises for his improbable identity, but merely reports on the scrapes it leads him into." The Guardian

Call 0870 013 5464 and quote ‘£2specialoffer’

― Madchen, Friday, 20 March 2009 16:19 (fifteen years ago) link

one month passes...

FAPpery: a modest proposal

Obviously, this will take months to organise, so let's start now and try to time it with the Scottish summer ...

― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 12:37 (fifteen years ago) link

I will be in Glasgow the first week of August -probably around on 2nd or 3rd for a FAP

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 12:55 (fifteen years ago) link

yeah grimly, it would indeed be good to catch up w/ you and other glasilxors, tho i'm out of town quite a bit in May/June - still want to meet Jed and cozwn, and I'm pretty sure i've seen krakow taking pics at things like instal

think this cld be quite a special gig, btw:

http://www.sublimefrequencies.com/eurotour.html

oh and a Dr. C FAP in August would be sweet!

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 12:58 (fifteen years ago) link

Nice one, WF: that'd be superb. I'm away at the end of May as well ... which means I'm going to miss that rather-fantastic-sounding Sublime Frequencies thing, as well as some stuff I'd have liked to see at the Perth Festival ... but let's keep checking in here and see if we can sort something out.

Dr C: rocking! Have pencilled that into my diary.

― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 13:04 (fifteen years ago) link

I'm up for a drink. i didn't know nick had moved away from glasgow!?

― jed_, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 16:14 (fifteen years ago) link

Sounds cool

― Keith, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 16:25 (fifteen years ago) link

I mean a drink, not Nick having moved away.

― Keith, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 16:25 (fifteen years ago) link

Aye, without great fanfare he headed off down south.

― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 17:13 (fifteen years ago) link

As a result of Nick's leaving do, I am shifting my statutory NOT MONO stance to be NOT 13th NOTE. Actually, I was in Mono for the first time in aeons the other day, and they appear to serve actual real Guinness now (except I wasn't drinking) so I might even agree to go back.

Dr C, that is the first weekend of my summer holiday! Hopefully we won't have gone anywhere that early, and we can go drink booze.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 17:20 (fifteen years ago) link

Hurrah! What was so bad about the Note, then? Last time I was in there it was a bit shit, but that was aeons ago.

― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 17:25 (fifteen years ago) link

Allan said it was metal, like that was a bad thing!

― Keith, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 17:27 (fifteen years ago) link

It was loud, and full of smelly metallers. Whenever the band did metally things downstairs, the floor rattled beneath our feet. Also almost £5 for a glass of wine, so fuck that. WetherspoonFAP plz! (actually Wetherspoon real-ale-festival FAP actually would be good*, because I am getting quite into cheapo stouts for less than £1.50)

* good company countering the fact that, y'know, it's Wetherspoons

― ailsa, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 18:12 (fifteen years ago) link

Dr C, that is the first weekend of my summer holiday! Hopefully we won't have gone anywhere that early, and we can go
drink booze

Great! Having looked at the calendar, I think my most likely free evening is Monday 3rd - I'm possibly around on Tuesday 4th, but may have a party of Chinese, Koreans, Japanese and Brazilians to look after on that evening! I may not be there on the Sunday - I dunno yet.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 19:05 (fifteen years ago) link

hi ailsa, ppl always tell me that the veggie food in the 13th note is much better than the food in mono, but i've only eaten a perfectly acceptable veggie chillie in the latter - i have seen a cpl of amazing gigs at mono, whereas my experience of the 13th note is of a crowded, hot, bad sounding shithole - not that keen on stereo either as a venue but they have some gd gigs there, too

i like the cca! but poss not as place to 'hang out'

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 19:21 (fifteen years ago) link

I like the CCA, the food is free! At least, it was some years ago.

― Keith, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 20:07 (fifteen years ago) link

Anyone going to Hinterland?

@Ward Fowler, I think I've spotted you too, but never gone up to attempt saying hi yet - next time... if you see me, say hi too. I'm friendly, promise.

― krakow, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 20:59 (fifteen years ago) link

I had thought about Hinterland, but it's all a bit too condensed into things I like all on at or around the same time, so I'm going to sit at home and recreate the magic in a slightly less clashing, if not quite live, format via the magic of Spotify, iTunes, and a bottle of wine. Or something.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 21:13 (fifteen years ago) link

i would be down for fap in the summer, i know krakow totally independently of ilx anyway so that would make things easier for fairly shy me.

― Suggesteban Cambiasso (jim), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 22:23 (fifteen years ago) link

I'll fap

― zinguist (cozwn), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 22:35 (fifteen years ago) link

I'm in.

― krakow, Thursday, 30 April 2009 09:39 (fifteen years ago) link

I'd be up for a Glasgow fap at some point

― treefell, Thursday, 30 April 2009 09:50 (fifteen years ago) link

Superb. Of course, the tradition with these things is everyone says "aye, go on" and fuck all happens.

Early May is good for me but probably not for Ward; late May's out for me ... shall we try to plan something in June? Ward ... do you know when you'll be about for sure that month?

― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 30 April 2009 09:52 (fifteen years ago) link

Loads of free Hinterland tickets floating about, which suggests sales haven't been too good. No wonder: at £25 for about 4 bands it's just not value for money. Shameless plug: I'll be playing with the Guanoman Big Band at Nice & Sleazy's tomorrow around 9pm. Ridiculous cosmic proggy noise rawk. You know it makes sense! Krakow and I shall be running between Sleazys and the Arches tonight: RememberRemember, DeSalvo, The Fall and then Rustie at the SubClub.

― Stew, Thursday, 30 April 2009 13:13 (fifteen years ago) link

where are they floating? i'd like to see the fall but i'm not paying to not-see a load of pish as well.

― jed_, Thursday, 30 April 2009 13:16 (fifteen years ago) link

me too...

?

― zinguist (cozwn), Thursday, 30 April 2009 13:22 (fifteen years ago) link

Yeh, Hinterland just didn't excite me at all. Mind, I'm just -- as in within the past hour -- emerging from a month of essy woe, so I've not been paying much attention. (Has a look ...) ... nah, still not very excited at all.

― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 30 April 2009 13:40 (fifteen years ago) link

Er, "essay" woe. Christ, let's hope I've done a better job of typing than that, eh kids?

― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 30 April 2009 13:41 (fifteen years ago) link

I hadn't even heard of Hinterland, and I pride myself on hearing about things. Weird lineup, a couple of big bands, a couple of reasonably big bands, and lots of nobodies (not that there's anything wrong with being a nobody), with not much in between. Spend all their money on The Fall, did they?

I haven't been to Glasgow for so long that anybody who happened to recognised me as that guy who's around must think I'm dead or far away. :'(

― Ralph, Waldo, Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 30 April 2009 14:05 (fifteen years ago) link

"I hadn't even heard of Hinterland, and I pride myself on hearing about things."

me too kinda. i only heard about it this past weekend.

― jed_, Thursday, 30 April 2009 14:07 (fifteen years ago) link

If anyone does genuinely want tickets then I have a couple going free. Let me know and we can hopefully arrange a mutually-convenient meeting point.

― krakow, Thursday, 30 April 2009 14:36 (fifteen years ago) link

i'm away from glasgow between 1st May to the 4th May, 28th May to the 1st June, 19th June to the 26th June - all else is good!

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 30 April 2009 14:53 (fifteen years ago) link

going free as in free or as in available?

― zinguist (cozwn), Thursday, 30 April 2009 15:20 (fifteen years ago) link

Free as in available for nowt, costing zero pounds and pence (I don't drink, so you can even be beholden to buy me a beer), and generally frollicing unhindered across mountain meadows.

― krakow, Thursday, 30 April 2009 15:22 (fifteen years ago) link

can I bagsy two?

― zinguist (cozwn), Thursday, 30 April 2009 15:25 (fifteen years ago) link

Just sent you a webmail.

― krakow, Thursday, 30 April 2009 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link

If there are any other free tickets going for tomorrow, please webbymail me. I didn't want to spend lots of money that I don't have, but if they are just being given away, I would be up for it (would need two to drag mate along as well). Would have liked to have seen The Fall, but am too tired for going out on a schoolnight, but could go a couple of gigs tomorrow if it wasn't costing owt more than a few beers. Basically, I am not paying £23.50 to see iLiKeTrAiNs.

― ailsa, Thursday, 30 April 2009 16:35 (fifteen years ago) link

yes (predictably!) i'm up for freebies too.

― jed_, Thursday, 30 April 2009 16:40 (fifteen years ago) link

I've not heard back from cozwn yet, so not sure what the state of play is, but I've arranged to give one away elsewhere. If you can make it to Avalanche Records then there could be more free tickets available there if you know the secret word.

jed_ are you wanting to go tonight or tomorrow?

― krakow, Thursday, 30 April 2009 16:49 (fifteen years ago) link

if you have unlimited can jed grab two for me, if you only have the two you offered me, give them to jed :D

― zinguist (cozwn), Thursday, 30 April 2009 16:52 (fifteen years ago) link

sorry I didn't respond, been busy : )

― zinguist (cozwn), Thursday, 30 April 2009 16:52 (fifteen years ago) link

Haha, give me a minute to get my head round that...

No worries cozwn, life is always getting in the way.

― krakow, Thursday, 30 April 2009 16:53 (fifteen years ago) link

I definitely have two put by, which initially had your name on them cozwn, so it's your call whether you or jed get them. There may be more, but I don't know till later...

― krakow, Thursday, 30 April 2009 16:55 (fifteen years ago) link

ha, I just mean I'd like some but if they are limited then pls give them to jed cos I can't make it in to collect them

presuming jed can make it in to collect them here; we live on the same street, see

― zinguist (cozwn), Thursday, 30 April 2009 16:56 (fifteen years ago) link

won't avalanche be closed now?

― jed_, Thursday, 30 April 2009 16:58 (fifteen years ago) link

Late night Thursday - open till 7pm.

― krakow, Thursday, 30 April 2009 17:00 (fifteen years ago) link

If you can get there tonight then let me know and I'll give word to the folks behind the counter that you're to get some of my tickets as I'm not in. I'll be there tomorrow though.

― krakow, Thursday, 30 April 2009 17:02 (fifteen years ago) link

oh right, i can't get in before then. i don't want to cause any fuss & thanks but will probably just give it a by. cheers!

― jed_, Thursday, 30 April 2009 17:02 (fifteen years ago) link

No worries. Tomorrow could be Ailsa & friend's lucky night then! ;-)

― krakow, Thursday, 30 April 2009 17:06 (fifteen years ago) link

me either :D

thanks fr the offer

― zinguist (cozwn), Thursday, 30 April 2009 17:11 (fifteen years ago) link

Remember Remember were very pretty and fun, if a wee bit rough around the edges, the Fall were "alright", but Desalvo... wowzers, sooo good. Best thing I've seen for ages.

Still plenty of free tickets at Avalanche if any of you do want them after all the above confusion and back and forth. Just drop by at some point today and there should be some (there were 6 unspoken for when I was there last night), though no absolute promises of course...

― krakow, Friday, 1 May 2009 07:23 (fifteen years ago) link

Thanks krakow, both for the tickets and the Remember Remember tip-off (it's not a festival if a couple of random members of Belle and Sebastian don't turn up on stage somewhere). Had a top night, bumped into a zillion people I know and haven't seen for years (not one of them had paid!), and am now dying of hangover.

I can't see it ever happening again due to a presumed enormous loss, but hey, it was like a wee ATP in the city (the one-out-one-in massive queue for Jeffrey Lewis was the clincher for ATP comparisons), and for that, it has to be praised for effort, if not for execution.

― ailsa, Saturday, 2 May 2009 07:58 (fifteen years ago) link

Did you see Jeffrey Lewis then? I thought it would be uber-busy so didn't even try. His new album is awesome though.

― krakow, Saturday, 2 May 2009 20:23 (fifteen years ago) link

I didn't, no, by the time we got up there, it was mad busy, so we didn't bother hanging around.

― ailsa, Saturday, 2 May 2009 20:56 (fifteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

How about the Sublime Frequencies event at Stereo on Friday - anyone else going to be there? Promises to be quite special.

― krakow, Thursday, 21 May 2009 11:18 (fifteen years ago) link

sounds cool, but i am way skint unfortunately.

― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Thursday, 21 May 2009 11:18 (fifteen years ago) link

Maybe see if the dentist will give you any money under the counter for some of your teeth, might be a market for that kind of thing?

― krakow, Thursday, 21 May 2009 11:20 (fifteen years ago) link

No word of a lie my dentist once said to me "if i had teeth like yours i'd be living in a bigger house" (I know it makes no sense) perhaps that is what he was getting at all along.

― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Thursday, 21 May 2009 11:23 (fifteen years ago) link

saving my money for aeroplane at stereo next week.

― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Thursday, 21 May 2009 11:30 (fifteen years ago) link

Can't wait for Sublime Frequencies gig. Really psyched about this.
Also, Pocahaunted at Arc Studios, of all places, on June 15. Smashing!

― Stew, Thursday, 21 May 2009 14:26 (fifteen years ago) link

if one of you can get a venue to put on the Red Bull Dozers i think it'll make a good premise for a FAP

― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Thursday, 21 May 2009 15:03 (fifteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

hi guys,

need some help.

is there any way one can get from glasgow (paisley in particular) on a sunday morning to brighton in time for early/late afternoon???? is preswick the only airport? why is it halfway down england??

― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Friday, 12 June 2009 11:18 (fifteen years ago) link

Paisley's right next to Glasgow airport... Does that help?

― Keith, Friday, 12 June 2009 11:24 (fifteen years ago) link

maybe!! i'm going to check this out

― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Friday, 12 June 2009 13:21 (fifteen years ago) link

thank you keith! £40 easyjet one way. sorted.

― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Friday, 12 June 2009 13:27 (fifteen years ago) link

Kenneth, does this mean you are attending The Wedding? Whoo! Do you have somewhere to stay already, because we will be there, and we live right next to Glasgow Airport and have a sofabed/sofas for crashing on if necessary.

― ailsa, Friday, 12 June 2009 16:37 (fifteen years ago) link

ailsa that will be amazing actually - i am catching the plane that goes away at 7am the next morning though would that be a problem????

― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Friday, 12 June 2009 20:18 (fifteen years ago) link

Not really, no, we'll sort you out with taxi numbers and that, it'll be fine. Just come back to ours after the wedding and we'll take it from there. Absolutely no problem at all.

― ailsa, Friday, 12 June 2009 22:07 (fifteen years ago) link

thanks ailsa that's great see you v soon!

― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Saturday, 13 June 2009 12:34 (fifteen years ago) link

can anyone tell me who "sarah bash" was? it's definitely a glasgow/west of scotland thing, i think, that people called sarah a generation or two ago were nicknamed "sarah bash" but i can't find the origin of it.

― jed_, Sunday, 14 June 2009 22:07 (fifteen years ago) link

Anything to do with this lady?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Franklin_Bache

― Madchen, Thursday, 18 June 2009 18:54 (fifteen years ago) link

this is literally incredible. the most amazing thing on the internet!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIl_rPRl4Fk

― jed_, Thursday, 25 June 2009 14:20 (fifteen years ago) link

and thanks madchen - it could be!

― jed_, Thursday, 25 June 2009 14:21 (fifteen years ago) link

i couldn't make it through that but yeah, pretty special!

― suggestzybandias (jim), Thursday, 25 June 2009 14:31 (fifteen years ago) link

Glasgow: Less grey than it's said to be

― stet, Thursday, 25 June 2009 15:00 (fifteen years ago) link

I kept hoping I'd see RJG and Ally C.

― Alba, Thursday, 25 June 2009 18:05 (fifteen years ago) link

haha, me too.

― ailsa, Thursday, 25 June 2009 21:10 (fifteen years ago) link

the most amazing thing on the internet!

it's like Hongroe without the autotune

― fucken cumstomers (sic), Friday, 26 June 2009 02:35 (fifteen years ago) link

At least the internet can see where that blonde piece lives.

― Dalzinho, Friday, 26 June 2009 08:02 (fifteen years ago) link

It's gone. :/

― Alba, Friday, 26 June 2009 11:51 (fifteen years ago) link

yeah :(

― cozwn, Friday, 26 June 2009 11:53 (fifteen years ago) link

Did someone upset Luca on the YT comments?

― Alba, Friday, 26 June 2009 11:54 (fifteen years ago) link

I didn't quite understand the blonde girl's place in the whole thing. Did Luca just spy on her over the road? Or were they friends from the start?

― Alba, Friday, 26 June 2009 11:55 (fifteen years ago) link

Actually, there were two blonde girls, weren't there? Anyway, the one who lived opposite.

― Alba, Friday, 26 June 2009 11:56 (fifteen years ago) link

OK, I didn't watch this. I had a very, very quick look and went "meh, OK, some kind of in-joke or something". Can someone explain what I missed, taking care to distort and exaggerate as much as possible? Ta muchly.

― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Friday, 26 June 2009 23:42 (fifteen years ago) link

thank christ this is gone. i watched it 20 times yesterday and it woke up with it playing in my head. i spent all of today with it stuck there, i thought i was going crazy.

― jed_, Friday, 26 June 2009 23:54 (fifteen years ago) link

You missed our hero coming over from Milan on Ryanair, finding out that Glasgow occasionally has a bit of blue sky, visiting two people he barely knew who lived on Clouston St, meeting their blonde pal who sings songs, eating cake, smiling a bit, then in the super feel-good finish, coming to live here. On - yes! - Clouston St. best video yet made.

― stet, Saturday, 27 June 2009 00:08 (fifteen years ago) link

you missed out the bit where he includes lots of shots of the outside of the blonde pal's house.

― jed_, Saturday, 27 June 2009 00:36 (fifteen years ago) link

(who was in my friend's son's year at school!)

― jed_, Saturday, 27 June 2009 00:36 (fifteen years ago) link

more info plz

― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Saturday, 27 June 2009 01:08 (fifteen years ago) link

It's gone? Never mind, I still have it on the brain. Catchy as crabs, that tune.

― Madchen, Saturday, 27 June 2009 08:32 (fifteen years ago) link

hi guys im looking for either ailsa or ally's number (or yours!) is it at all possible to text me on 07852 three 07610? i have um, misplaced a wedding invite and have no idea where to go for the evening....

― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Saturday, 27 June 2009 09:05 (fifteen years ago) link

Clouston Street!

― Alba, Saturday, 27 June 2009 09:13 (fifteen years ago) link

(Will text number)

― Alba, Saturday, 27 June 2009 09:14 (fifteen years ago) link

Thanks Alba, facilitator of social networking!

What's on fire, Glasgow? There's a rather inconvenient house in the way not letting me see where all the smoke is coming from across the river from my house.

― ailsa, Saturday, 27 June 2009 09:35 (fifteen years ago) link

all sorted cheers guys! waiting for plane now xx

― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Saturday, 27 June 2009 10:45 (fifteen years ago) link

What is on fire is the same scrapyard that was on fire before. It's this side of the river, and was causing delays to flights because it was blowing smoke all over the flightpath to Glasgow Airport, but Ken will be delighted to know it's calmed down a bit now.

― ailsa, Saturday, 27 June 2009 11:39 (fifteen years ago) link

So, tomorrow I will be at the 13th Note's "Rumble In The Jumble" event in the afternoon from 12pm onwards showing off and selling prints in my Crimson Glow Photography guise.

There's lots of other arty/crafty/bric-a-brac stalls, cocktails, food, board games, DJs and then bands in the evening. Free entry, of course.

If anyone fancies it, then please do come along for a browse, maybe even buy something, and at the very least say hi!

― krakow, Saturday, 27 June 2009 23:10 (fifteen years ago) link

clouston street is back!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkfH64K2eaM

this version features less shots of the outside of the girl's house!

― jed_, Monday, 29 June 2009 10:29 (fifteen years ago) link

omg i want to live in clouston street

― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Monday, 29 June 2009 10:52 (fifteen years ago) link

wow tht blond lady is beautiful

got to say tho I can't imagine tht voice coming out of tht dude

― cozwn, Monday, 29 June 2009 11:11 (fifteen years ago) link

so is that dude now boning the blonde lady or not?

― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Monday, 29 June 2009 11:20 (fifteen years ago) link

(strawberry blonde?)

― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Monday, 29 June 2009 11:22 (fifteen years ago) link

This is gold. I live just off Clouston Street, in Sanda Street. I have fond memories of Clouston St. Ken - our mutual friend Kate used to stay there in a great party flat. The wall between the kitchen and the lounge had been knocked down, so you had this massive open plan room. Perhaps I should write a song about Sanda Street. Unfortunately I don't have any beautiful girls living next door, at least as far as I know.

― Stew, Monday, 29 June 2009 12:25 (fifteen years ago) link

Try to chain it down to Glasgow Cross :)

― scotstvo, Monday, 29 June 2009 12:37 (fifteen years ago) link

I wish the video still had lyric subtitles.

― Madchen, Saturday, 4 July 2009 13:38 (fifteen years ago) link

A wee plug for myself for anyone in Glasgow over the last two weeks of July...

Crimson Glow Photography presents "It's Not Red", a solo photography exhibtion at the 13th Note, Glasgow, from Monday 20th July to Sunday 2nd August 2009.

An exhibition of live music photography and sonic terrorism in visual form, from the depths of Glasgow's own underground weirdness to the hallowed international heights of touring musical marauders.

http://krakow.zenfolio.com/img/v3/p438758894-11.jpg

Entry, as ever, is free. Please do come along at some point during the exhibition to take a look. Features Throbbing Gristle, Hermann Nitsch, Richard Youngs, Glasgow Implodes and many others...

http://krakow.zenfolio.com/img/v6/p538505263-11.jpg

Prints are now available to buy in Avalanche Records, Glasgow and should also be available in Monorail Music before too long and from the 13th Note during the exhibtion itself, as well as directly from myself, of course.

http://krakow.zenfolio.com/img/v8/p329600658-11.jpg

Vist my website for plenty more photographs from Glasgow's gigs and beyond and feel free to contact me with any photographic requests or enquiries, be it for prints, photo usage, or photography work.

Email: itsnot✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧

Thanks very much for reading.

Alex @ Crimson Glow Photography

― krakow, Monday, 13 July 2009 12:03 (fifteen years ago) link

I am still plannin' to come to Glasgow - Aug 4th looks like my evening of potential ale.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 14:13 (fifteen years ago) link

krakow, soon as i get some dough im gonna buy one yr one prints, am leaning towards that great shot of omar souleyman clapping his hands

dr c - dated noted in diary, im sure we'll meet in mono (joek)

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 14:16 (fifteen years ago) link

Stereo? (Not joek :)

That's superb: I'll try to make sure I get an early finish that day.

And Krakow: I'll definitely try to pop along and have a look at your wares.

― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 14:50 (fifteen years ago) link

i'll come to see Dr C. 4th is a tuesday night though :s

― jed_, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 14:59 (fifteen years ago) link

i went to stereo last time i tried glasgow!

― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 15:43 (fifteen years ago) link

was disappointed it wasn't twice the size as mono

― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 15:44 (fifteen years ago) link

The seats are rubbish in Stereo. Should be quite quiet on a Tuesday, right enough. That's the first week of my holiday, so I might not actually be here if we get something booked/organised, which would be a shame, but if I'm around, I will be in a pub with you lot.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 16:21 (fifteen years ago) link

78 is the best of the lot.

― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 16:33 (fifteen years ago) link

Is that the "old" Stereo on Kelvinhaugh Street? Still not been since it reopened, although I walked past it the other week and it looked ace.

― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 16:47 (fifteen years ago) link

Sure is. It's really cosy and they have Samuel Smith's cheap and tasty Taddy Lager on tap.

― Stew, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:17 (fifteen years ago) link

i was at 78 last wednesday for their 'dub and grub' night - place was REALLY busy/crowded

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:26 (fifteen years ago) link

I am tempted to believe it is better than Mono and Stereo, yes. Also nearer the Clyde Tunnel for taxis home, which makes it a winner in my book. Those wobbly high seats in Stereo are totally rubbish, I was in with Madchen and Stet last week and we were all rather precarious. Mono has gone up a wee bit in my estimation since they started serving real Guinness and not that Sam Smith's shite, and also by comparison to the Note, which was full of smelly metallers.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:27 (fifteen years ago) link

The sofa was good, though.

― Madchen, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:44 (fifteen years ago) link

sofa so good

dr c might like the rec shop in mono?

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:49 (fifteen years ago) link

Sofa was good, yes, until I had to try to manoeuvre my broken arse out of it (though after six pints, two ibuprofen and two co-codamols, I'd stopped feeling anything the pain by that point)

― ailsa, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:04 (fifteen years ago) link

Am I to understand there is a meet-up in the works? If I'm about I'll put my social hat on and come along.

― krakow, Sunday, 19 July 2009 09:41 (fifteen years ago) link

food is best in stereo; anything else is just challops

― cozwn, Sunday, 19 July 2009 12:56 (fifteen years ago) link

When I come I don't need food, just ale. Food is OK if general concensus though. What are Mono and Stereo?

Hope you can make it Ailsa!

― Dr.C, Sunday, 19 July 2009 14:27 (fifteen years ago) link

shame the west brewery is stupidly far away from everything. st. mungos beer is A++

― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Sunday, 19 July 2009 14:32 (fifteen years ago) link

though obv i am a total west-ender, and going east of saltmarket is just inconceivable

― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Sunday, 19 July 2009 14:33 (fifteen years ago) link

bad but understandable attitude

― conrad, Sunday, 19 July 2009 14:56 (fifteen years ago) link

I'm up for a meat up. Haven't seen some of you for a while.

― Keith, Sunday, 19 July 2009 15:16 (fifteen years ago) link

meat up

Dr Freud! Quick, come and see what he's said now ...

― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Sunday, 19 July 2009 15:24 (fifteen years ago) link

Well, believe it or not it was actually just a subtle 'can we not go to Mono' point!

― Keith, Sunday, 19 July 2009 15:38 (fifteen years ago) link

Tuesday is now fine because the football's on the Wednesday, was going to have to be a pub with a telly if the Champions League qualifier second leg was on the Tuesday. My attendance is entirely dependent on holiday plans now. Hopefully we can make it though, would be good to meet Dr C.

― ailsa, Sunday, 19 July 2009 18:01 (fifteen years ago) link

hello
coming to glasgow sept 4-11
who wants to translate?

― El Tomboto, Sunday, 19 July 2009 18:29 (fifteen years ago) link

Not me, you won't understand a word I'm saying. But we're nice to our visitors.

― ailsa, Sunday, 19 July 2009 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link

you'll be okay El Tomboto

― conrad, Sunday, 19 July 2009 18:33 (fifteen years ago) link

Hey Tom - sounds cool, should meet for some sweet beers

― Keith, Sunday, 19 July 2009 18:34 (fifteen years ago) link

Gukbe: they sell St Mungo's in the Bier Halle on GWR. They even have the West stein-style glasses. Also I think maybe the Goat? Should check it out.

(Hello all. To the people I know: yes, I've not been around in a while, but I am trying ILX more.)

― mdg, Sunday, 19 July 2009 18:40 (fifteen years ago) link

Count me in for Tombot beers too, aye.

― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Sunday, 19 July 2009 19:02 (fifteen years ago) link

def. up for that

― stet, Sunday, 19 July 2009 19:08 (fifteen years ago) link

I will do all these beers, I think.

― Madchen, Sunday, 19 July 2009 19:23 (fifteen years ago) link

Definitely in for Tombot beers, will try to be in for Dr C beers.

― ailsa, Sunday, 19 July 2009 19:32 (fifteen years ago) link

I will tombot and dr. c

― cozwn, Sunday, 19 July 2009 20:11 (fifteen years ago) link

why u in glasgow tombot and dr.c, if yous don't mind me bein nosey?

― cozwn, Sunday, 19 July 2009 20:12 (fifteen years ago) link

To drink beers with you.

― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Sunday, 19 July 2009 20:14 (fifteen years ago) link

I am cool, I must admit

― cozwn, Sunday, 19 July 2009 20:35 (fifteen years ago) link

i will tombot beers, on holiday for dr c beers.

― De Mysteriis Dom Passantino (jim), Sunday, 19 July 2009 21:09 (fifteen years ago) link

I'll do both, if my busy social schedule allows. I'm interested to meet real-life ILX folks.

― krakow, Sunday, 19 July 2009 21:20 (fifteen years ago) link

you've met me, for about thirty seconds!

(I like how we've all arranged tombot beers, even without tombot asking for beers)

― ailsa, Sunday, 19 July 2009 21:29 (fifteen years ago) link

it's the protocol!

― El Tomboto, Sunday, 19 July 2009 21:47 (fifteen years ago) link

Aye, we'll just go for beers every day for a week. Turn up whenever.

― ailsa, Sunday, 19 July 2009 21:52 (fifteen years ago) link

so , yes.... Ñext tuesday?

― Dr.C, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 22:00 (fifteen years ago) link

I'm in. I'm 99% sure I'll be on a 10am start that day, so I should be done by 6.30-7pm and can hoy along and glug beer wherever you and the others might choose to meet. (Note how I'm absolving myself of any responsibility for choosing a venue there.)

― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 22:03 (fifteen years ago) link

I'll be there

― Keith, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 22:48 (fifteen years ago) link

Wherever there is

― Keith, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 22:55 (fifteen years ago) link

Mono!

― Madchen, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 13:33 (fifteen years ago) link

Gah!

― ailsa, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 13:38 (fifteen years ago) link

I have it in my head that Dr C is a real ale kind of guy. that requires a real pub.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 13:38 (fifteen years ago) link

How do people feel about the Pot Still? It is great, and we have been there before with little dissent.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 13:56 (fifteen years ago) link

I have it in my head that Dr C is a real ale kind of guy. that requires a real pub.

Ha, yes- real pubs are very much appreciated, but I'll leave it up to you folks. The Pot still looks great - my drinking capacity is somewhat reduced at the moment, so I won't be demolishing gallons of whiskey. Good ales are OK though.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 14:32 (fifteen years ago) link

the pot = the pewter pot?

― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 14:42 (fifteen years ago) link

No, Ken, the Pot Still is a real pub.

http://www.scotchwhisky.net/bars/potstill.htm

(don't click the link to www.thepotstill.co.uk, as it doesn't go anywhere?)

― ailsa, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 14:57 (fifteen years ago) link

no idea why I put a question mark there, sorry.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 14:57 (fifteen years ago) link

These things happen Ailsa, don't beat yourself up about it!

I will email a couple of people my mobile number before tuesday just in case my plans go awry - Shall I send it to Ailsa and Grimly?

I hope to have time to visit Fopp before ale - which one is best/biggest? Or is there anywhere else better for cheapo recds? I can't be arsed to trek too far though as I think I will be arriving around 4pm, so won't have much time.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 15:16 (fifteen years ago) link

Aye, send away, I've got most people's number who might want to go.

You probably want the Fopp on Union Street. Where are you arriving from/where are you staying/how long are you around? Mono, much as I can't be arsed with it, has a good record shop just off the bar (though not particularly cheap).

― ailsa, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 15:20 (fifteen years ago) link

dr c, neither of the fopps in glasgow are as good as the one in central london, sadly

just round the corner from fopp, underneath the railway arches (and virtually next door to The Arches venue) is a 2ndhand shop called missing, which does have some bargains and would be well worth a browse

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 15:25 (fifteen years ago) link

Oh aye, missing is pretty good. I guess, depending on what you're after, should recommend Avalanche as well, since at least one potential pub companion works there...

― ailsa, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 15:27 (fifteen years ago) link

Avalanche is on Dundas Street, by the way, just up the steps from Queen Street Station (between Queen Street Station and Buchanan Street Underground)

― ailsa, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 15:29 (fifteen years ago) link

Thanks - all sounds good. Wish I was staying longer...

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 15:39 (fifteen years ago) link

pot still is, i think, quite close to stereo? so we could do both pubs potentially. old man and pale vegan.

i will come for sure.

― jed_, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 16:00 (fifteen years ago) link

This is exciting! (bet we get a last minute holiday deal and fly out on Tuesday afternoon or something now)

― ailsa, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 16:16 (fifteen years ago) link

Wow, I'm out of touch - I thought Missing shut about a decade ago.

― Keith, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 18:16 (fifteen years ago) link

Last time I was in Avalanche the exciting new release was the Felt DVD. So not that long ago really. Last time I was in Missing they were playing something involving a little kid talking about sucking tits. It later transpired that is was the This Is England soundtrack.

― PJ Miller, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 18:34 (fifteen years ago) link

keith, it reopened a year or so ago, i think.

― jed_, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 19:15 (fifteen years ago) link

there's always been a missing in glasgow since i moved here (august 2006) - they used to be round the corner from their present location - and i think they have a second shop, too

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 19:27 (fifteen years ago) link

Ah OK, that would explain this then, Jed. There certainly used to be more than one - one was on Oswald Street, I think, and another on Wellington street. Can't quite remember all the timings. One on Gt. Western Road too at one point.

― Keith, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 19:50 (fifteen years ago) link

Pot Still is great, I like it there.

Come browse in Avalanche, I'm the potential pub companion that works there. Although I may be contractually obliged to recommend a look, I also mean it genuinely. We're about the closest to the Pot Still too.

― krakow, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 19:53 (fifteen years ago) link

There is a Missing in Paisley as well, but I always forget it's there. I have no idea how it survives, because every time I remember it's there, there's never anyone else in it.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 23:40 (fifteen years ago) link

I pretty much stopped going to Missing when they stopped selling new stuff - probably about 5 years ago. They used to be good for new releases on Constellation & Southern & other post-rocky type labels. This is before I realised I could sit on the Internet and never need to enter a record shop again, obv. I think they stopped selling gig tickets as well - I can't imagine there was much demand for that with Tickets Scotland about 4 doors along.

― Hypnagogic Poop (onimo), Thursday, 30 July 2009 11:10 (fifteen years ago) link

Missing sounds like my kind of shop. However I've just been looking at guitar shops online and there's a couple that I really ought to go to. So dunno if I'll get time for recd shops - we'll see.

― Dr.C, Thursday, 30 July 2009 15:16 (fifteen years ago) link

So do we have a plan here? Pot Still... But when?

― Keith, Sunday, 2 August 2009 19:50 (fifteen years ago) link

Tuesday, was it? I usually finish work between five and five-thirty so any time after that is fine by me.

― Madchen, Sunday, 2 August 2009 19:51 (fifteen years ago) link

Cool. Well I'll probably pop through during the day as I might as well, being on holiday... Will give you guys a call, but maybe assume around six or so...

― Keith, Sunday, 2 August 2009 19:53 (fifteen years ago) link

We're on holiday as well, so we thought we might grab a bite to eat first then pop into the pub.

― ailsa, Sunday, 2 August 2009 21:00 (fifteen years ago) link

Not had a chance to post here in the past few days but aye, Pot Still sounds good ... like I say, I'll come along once I've finished work. Madchen/Ailsa/Keith: you've got my number, so text me if any changes of plan.

I'll be the one with the pronounced limp, having knackered my foot running frantically around Coatbridge wearing Converse All-Stars. Christ, I manage to land myself with some utterly laughable injuries.

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 3 August 2009 10:24 (fifteen years ago) link

I'm sure there's a question you're dying for someone to ask there.

― ailsa, Monday, 3 August 2009 10:25 (fifteen years ago) link

No: whatever you imagine is probably more entertaining than the reality. As is usually the case with me.

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 3 August 2009 10:27 (fifteen years ago) link

I forgot I have a meeting in Aberdeen tomorrow, so I'll be back a bit later than expected, but I will be there. In a suit.

― Madchen, Monday, 3 August 2009 21:59 (fifteen years ago) link

We'll be there sometime between half six and seven, I would imagine.

― ailsa, Monday, 3 August 2009 22:00 (fifteen years ago) link

I am in Pret on Sauceyhall street. Can any readers beat that?

― Keith, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 15:43 (fifteen years ago) link

Ow my head hurts. Stupidest idea ever = going to terrible club PLAY after pub. I remember being in there one night with a pal and there was a wee separate late quiet bar rather than TERRIBLE STUDENT NIGHT full of pished weirdos on the pull. Still, beer = £1, so slight win.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 10:43 (fifteen years ago) link

Was good fun though, nice to meet you Mr. C!

― Keith, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 10:45 (fifteen years ago) link

sorry to have missed this, shit happened

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 10:58 (fifteen years ago) link

£1 beer!!!!

― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 11:13 (fifteen years ago) link

Drink alcolol responsibly.

― Keith, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 11:15 (fifteen years ago) link

£1 beer does not render the concept of a club where you have a sticker with a number stuck on you then people write rude messages about what they'd like to do to a person of a certain number and put it on a wall any more bearable. We lasted approx half an hour, and that was just for beer. I'd actually rendered myself back sober again by this point.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 11:17 (fifteen years ago) link

this sounds like the kind of outing i could have gotten behind

― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 11:59 (fifteen years ago) link

Hang the FUCK on, how come my round of four beers cost me £12, then?

And is that what the numbers were for? I didn't even question that. Holy hellfire, I was drunk. Today is proving very, very tough.

Awesome night, anyway. Dr C fucking rules.

― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 12:13 (fifteen years ago) link

Special Brew was 3 quid a can

― Keith, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 12:16 (fifteen years ago) link

Miller was £1 a bottle, you should have asked. The only reason to go into twatty clubs is to ask the barman what is on promotion, then drink that.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 12:24 (fifteen years ago) link

this sounds like the kind of outing i could have gotten behind

― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 11:59 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^ otm

― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 13:26 (fifteen years ago) link

I bought bloody Miller! Fuck's *sake*. Irritating piss-taking club fuck-ends.

― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 13:44 (fifteen years ago) link

sorry I cdn't make it dr. c

can we do the same for tombot tho?

(I can't remember my password for my login :/)

― cozwn (webinar), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 13:57 (fifteen years ago) link

Did you not buy Corona rather than Miller?

We were discussing upcoming Tombot FAP last night. Any excuse for more beer (though not as much as last night, unless it is a weekend or I have the day off. I'm just starting to feel vaguely human again) is good for me.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 14:07 (fifteen years ago) link

AH. That might have been it. Something yellow and fizzy in a bottle, anyway.

Tombot FAP: were we discussing that? I don't really remember ... oh, no, hang on, that was round about the time of the wasabi peas, wasn't it? Aye, it'd be good to get some unkent faces along, too: Krakow, Jim and anyone else who might fancy it?

― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 14:52 (fifteen years ago) link

weird night with added chilli puffs

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 15:09 (fifteen years ago) link

but it was an absolute pleasure to meet everyone - Ailsa, Mr. Ailsa, Grimly, Stet, Keith and Lucy - you were fantastic company.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 15:16 (fifteen years ago) link

Yeah was great to meet you too... Until the next time.

― Keith, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 15:19 (fifteen years ago) link

Dr C, excessive alcohol has ruined me, so can't take you out for Celtic-watching japes. Was great to meet you though, sorry for lapsing into incoherent gibberish by the end of the night.

Grimly, tombotFAP was discussed earlier in the evening when we were still in the Pot Still.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 15:31 (fifteen years ago) link

It's OK Ailsa -I have a whiskey-tasting reception that I have to go to in an hour. Despite being in good shape this morning considering the ruin of last night, I shall not be partaking of any scotch just in case. Re: gibberish - I will try to email you later if I get the chance.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 15:41 (fifteen years ago) link

Sorry. I bailed. I just wasn't feeling into it last night.

― krakow, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 21:06 (fifteen years ago) link

Hi Dr C! It was good to see you. I can't believe you guys went to a student night six weeks before Freshers' Week ffs. Very glad I didn't partake of the poundbeers what with my early meeting and that.

Also, we did it! We organised a Glasgow FAP! Looking forward to seeing Tombot soon.

― Madchen, Thursday, 6 August 2009 11:16 (fifteen years ago) link

I may be able to make the Tombot FAP, depending on the day it happens.

― Greig (treefell), Thursday, 6 August 2009 11:41 (fifteen years ago) link

i should have gone for fish & chips with you madchen!

― Dr.C, Thursday, 6 August 2009 13:39 (fifteen years ago) link

and thus avoided club ruin

― Dr.C, Thursday, 6 August 2009 13:41 (fifteen years ago) link

can only post few words at a time on telephone thing

― Dr.C, Thursday, 6 August 2009 13:44 (fifteen years ago) link

so will have to say fragmentedly...

― Dr.C, Thursday, 6 August 2009 13:46 (fifteen years ago) link

goodbye glasgow, as i am now on mr branson's...

― Dr.C, Thursday, 6 August 2009 13:49 (fifteen years ago) link

..train. Found missing recds & bought stuff but...

― Dr.C, Thursday, 6 August 2009 13:53 (fifteen years ago) link

didn't get to eat mock chops. So must return one day to do that!

― Dr.C, Thursday, 6 August 2009 13:57 (fifteen years ago) link

It was very bad, cheap Chinese rather than F&C so you had a lucky escape. I forgot mock chops.

― Madchen, Thursday, 6 August 2009 16:39 (fifteen years ago) link

did you have a mock chop suey instead?

― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Thursday, 6 August 2009 16:40 (fifteen years ago) link

When's the next one then?

― krakow, Thursday, 6 August 2009 21:18 (fifteen years ago) link

Lance Armstrong is in Glasgow today en route to the Tour Of Ireland on Thursday and he's doing an open invitation ride at 12pm from Paisley today! I'll be there! How excited am I? Very!

"Hey Glasgow - group ride starts at Ashtree House Hotel. 9 Orr Square. Paisley, Scotland. See you there at noon!!"

― krakow, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 09:03 (fifteen years ago) link

Graeme Obree turned up for the ride as well, along with about 300 others. There are a couple very jealous cyclists at work here who missed out on it.

― firestorm of twat rage (onimo), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 15:06 (fifteen years ago) link

Were you there? I rode harder and faster then I ever have in my life. It was an amazing experience, I'm still on a high from it. Being part of 300 cyclists blasting out of Paisley at >20mph in the pouring rain following Lance was a stunning thing.

I'm also on BBC Reporting Scotland: http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/player/?item=44534835
Report starts at 9:30 minutes, you can see me in the blue jacket and black cycling cap taking my gloves off right in front of the camera at 9:52 onwards for a good few seconds.

I rode it fixed, with a laden courier bag, no lycra in sight, and managed to hold my own. Roadies eat that!

― krakow, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 22:43 (fifteen years ago) link

Bah, most exciting thing to happen in Paisley for years, and I was stuck at work.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 22:56 (fifteen years ago) link

I was at work as well. Good job Lance didn't give people much notice or he'd have given the police a big headache on U2/Arsenal chaos day.

Krakow where did the ride go? I heard they covered about 40km in just over an hour. Apparently Obree cycled up from Ayrshire and had already covered 52km before he arrived.

Couple of photos on this guy's flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazzargh/

― firestorm of twat rage (onimo), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 09:45 (fifteen years ago) link

Here's the route: http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Tour-de-Paisley

It was a bit more than an hour, but not as much as 90 minutes. Like I say, I've never ridden so fast in my life though.

Obree was there. Everyone would have ridden the 10 miles out to Paisley from Glasgow and then a hard going 10 miles back afterwards!

― krakow, Thursday, 20 August 2009 20:59 (fifteen years ago) link

Except for Lance of course. Bloody lazy bones got a taxi!

― krakow, Thursday, 20 August 2009 21:00 (fifteen years ago) link

update on TOMBOTFAP?

― ailsa, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 21:14 (fifteen years ago) link

I've heard nothing!

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 2 September 2009 13:11 (fifteen years ago) link

are you coming?

― cozwn, Wednesday, 2 September 2009 13:18 (fifteen years ago) link

So I've heard!

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 2 September 2009 13:26 (fifteen years ago) link

I should probably just e-mail keith and stet my phone number and we'll settle on details later

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 2 September 2009 13:26 (fifteen years ago) link

Right, so Tomboto in town this Fri to next. Guessing he'll be asleep on Fri and leaving the next, when in between suits?

― stet, Wednesday, 2 September 2009 15:38 (fifteen years ago) link

I have to get up at 5.30am on Sunday, so would prefer not Saturday night if possible!

― Madchen, Wednesday, 2 September 2009 16:18 (fifteen years ago) link

Anything suits me really, I think.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 2 September 2009 17:24 (fifteen years ago) link

No longer jetlagged!

― El Tomboto, Sunday, 6 September 2009 10:18 (fifteen years ago) link

we're near Central Station if that helps

― El Tomboto, Sunday, 6 September 2009 10:19 (fifteen years ago) link

what happens?

― conrad, Sunday, 6 September 2009 16:25 (fifteen years ago) link

what is up with all y'alls forty-year-old dudes sporting cargo pants with hoodies and trainers like they're nineteen

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 14:05 (fifteen years ago) link

tombot beers tomorrow night?

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 14:23 (fifteen years ago) link

Mono @ 8pm Wed is the place for a tombot beer.

(Tom: it's at King's Court. If you tell your cabbie it's opposite the 13th Note he'll know how to get there)

― stet, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 15:37 (fifteen years ago) link

I'm too destitute to come out to meet the legendary hardman but surely 8pm on Wednesday isn't optimal since Scotland are playing the Netherlands at 19:30?

― BIG jock KNEW aka the steindriver (jim), Tuesday, 8 September 2009 15:42 (fifteen years ago) link

Your average Mono drinker appreciates football as much as he likes a juicy steak.

― Hi, Super Nintendo Chalmers! (onimo), Tuesday, 8 September 2009 15:49 (fifteen years ago) link

Aye, you'll have to count me out for tomorrow then, since I have an appointment in any pub/house with a telly. Sorry, Tombot.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 17:10 (fifteen years ago) link

sorry dude, watching football

― capn save a noob (cozwn), Tuesday, 8 September 2009 18:05 (fifteen years ago) link

do not watch football but will not be in glasgow tomorrow which is a smallish shame - hope you are having a nice visit tombot

― conrad, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 18:10 (fifteen years ago) link

also lol at avoidance of terrible Glasgow steering committee "not mono" nonsense and just plumping for mono anyway.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 18:37 (fifteen years ago) link

shame there aren't any public spaces where people can gather that serve drinks and display sporting events.

― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Tuesday, 8 September 2009 18:42 (fifteen years ago) link

There are plenty! I'll be in one!

― ailsa, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 18:45 (fifteen years ago) link

I will also be in one

― capn save a noob (cozwn), Tuesday, 8 September 2009 18:47 (fifteen years ago) link

i will be in a domicile imbibing 2 cans of special brew.

― BIG jock KNEW aka the steindriver (jim), Tuesday, 8 September 2009 18:49 (fifteen years ago) link

But I didn't organise this thing, so, aye. Shame, would have been good to cower in the presence of a proper internet hardman.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 18:49 (fifteen years ago) link

We cld meet you guys after, or poss Tom is able and willing for two nights of beer?

― stet, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 19:52 (fifteen years ago) link

Aye, might be in Glasgow to watch it, not sure. If not, aye, Tom, don't let them break you tomorrow and we could do it all again on Thursday. Early doors on Thursday though, maybe six-ish?

― ailsa, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 22:05 (fifteen years ago) link

Both Wednesday and Thurday are fine for me. Perhaps I'll do both! Is Thursday OK for Tom?

― Madchen, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 11:48 (fifteen years ago) link

Glasgow full of Orangemen today, I thought the council were trying to ban that.

― Hi, Super Nintendo Chalmers! (onimo), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 11:52 (fifteen years ago) link

people in orange KILTS v. disturbing, also the man with the tartan flag painted on his face, wearing a kilt and a HOLLAND HOODIE: just wants to get in a fight with everybody, or simply taking dual citizenship to an extreme?

early doors tomorrow evening (somewhere in merchant city or nearby?) seems perfectly acceptable.
see some of you tonight!

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 13:34 (fifteen years ago) link

Aye, will be up for that tomorrow. Just that I live out of town, so later means hanging around, or going home and coming back. And after football means late night and transport nightmare getting home, especially with added football traffic.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 16:01 (fifteen years ago) link

I feel a bit groo today.

― Madchen, Thursday, 10 September 2009 12:25 (fifteen years ago) link

getting up at ten before two is the key to a full and happy life

― El Tomboto, Thursday, 10 September 2009 12:28 (fifteen years ago) link

"Monorail Music is extremely proud to present a very special performance from Edwyn Collins and
Teenage Fanclub playing Orange Juice classics and Edwyn favourites at Mono, King Street tonight.
Doors are from 9pm and this event is FREE so obviously we recommend getting there early to avoid
disappointment. Hope to see you there."

― zappi, Thursday, 10 September 2009 12:30 (fifteen years ago) link

I saw that on the notice board when we were there last night, but they way they phrased it made me think it was some kind of tribute band.

― Madchen, Thursday, 10 September 2009 12:35 (fifteen years ago) link

Is there a plan for tonight? If there is, I'm sticking to Diet Coke.

― Madchen, Thursday, 10 September 2009 15:17 (fifteen years ago) link

I think we're planning on having dinner at around 1830 at the All Bar One @ st vincent & west nile, but one of our US cadre seems determined to go to Trader Joe's on hope street.

I got my little "The Millars" learn-all-about-your-scottishness-in-only-twelve-pages-of-eighteen-point-type "book" today!

― El Tomboto, Thursday, 10 September 2009 16:44 (fifteen years ago) link

I have just come home due to absence of plan, but I like the sound of that Mono thing. Dunno what to do.

Is not a tribute band thing. Anyone? http://www.edwyncollins.com/

― ailsa, Thursday, 10 September 2009 16:52 (fifteen years ago) link

Went to Edwyn. Was ace. Thanks for the heads-up, you guys. Am sorry to have missed drinking last night, but am not sorry to have missed the hangover.

― ailsa, Thursday, 10 September 2009 23:44 (fifteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PtXEAgFD3E

Glasgow needs more of these pubs still open. Old man pubs are great.

― ailsa, Sunday, 20 September 2009 10:57 (fifteen years ago) link

is there some shit up w/the post or something? I'm getting nothing

― cozwn, Sunday, 20 September 2009 22:52 (fifteen years ago) link

We had a lightning postal strike at work on Friday - no collections all day.

― Madchen, Sunday, 20 September 2009 23:02 (fifteen years ago) link

hmmmm - http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=19052

― cozwn, Sunday, 20 September 2009 23:07 (fifteen years ago) link

Unofficial postal strikes on Friday and Saturday and the official one today. It's going to be messy for a while.

― krakow, Monday, 21 September 2009 07:29 (fifteen years ago) link

Right, so. Have any of you lot ever been accosted in a city pub by a guy who looks suspiciously -- and I mean so much so that you're looking for the hidden camera -- like Ford Kiernan in a ginger wig, who proceeds to harangue you about pub-quiz questions?

Because me and my mate Gaj were last night, although I'm now beginning to wonder if we hallucinated the entire thing.

Awesome night, though: from the world premiere of Space And Light Revisited at the RSAMD via a sea of wine to the Pot Still and surreal "hang on, even your mate looks a bit like Boaby the Barman" comedy japes. Apparently the chap's name is Alan, and he's a regular on the pub-quiz circuit (notable also for never winning, according to another of his pals).

― What do you want? This ain't an egg shop (grimly fiendish), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 22:28 (fifteen years ago) link

Not me, since I have opted out of the Glasgow pub quiz circuit.

Have any of you seen the whale then? I work right next to where it was, but nothing on my way home last night.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 07:17 (fifteen years ago) link

I saw the whale before hearing about it, so the experience was very strange. While walking home from work down by the Clyde in front of the STV building going towards the squinty bridge I noticed something out of the corner of my eye. Looking over just in front of the City Inn I saw for the briefest of moments the back and fin of a whale submerging into the river. I stood there confused for a few minutes scanning the water but I couldn't make out any trace of the whale, the water being fairly cloudy, and it didn't reemerge. I don't watch TV and I was without internet in my new flat so I went up the road, eat, read, and went to bed. Wasn't until work the next day when I somewhat sheepishly mentioned it that someone told me it had been on the news.

― amarillo fat (jim), Monday, 28 September 2009 21:08 (fifteen years ago) link

This would have been on Tuesday that I saw it.

― amarillo fat (jim), Monday, 28 September 2009 21:08 (fifteen years ago) link

like Ford Kiernan

Braithwaite spent all Saturday night looking like him holding in a particularly awkward shit, are you sure it wasn't him?

― I thought I could make it work because you look a bit like a man (aldo), Monday, 28 September 2009 21:30 (fifteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

am thinking abt these gigs

jack rose @stereo on 7th november

espers/cave singers/woods (ugh) @stereo on 13th nov

hair police/family battlesnake @stereo on 19th nov

sunn o))) @ stereo on 6th december

lol i don't actually like stereo that much, give me the cca any day

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 17:37 (fifteen years ago) link

Have been making some sunn o))) mutterings among friends, so might be at that.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 17:41 (fifteen years ago) link

Despite the fact I'm not convinced SunnO)))'s dynamic and Stereo's sound design will be a match made in heaven, I've got my ticket for that one already. Espers: hmm. Got a promo of the new album but not listened yet. Might well try for that too.

― What do you want? This ain't an egg shop (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 17:53 (fifteen years ago) link

I'm going to Sunn O))). It'll be ear-bursting. Hopefully.

― krakow, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 20:26 (fifteen years ago) link

This isn't good news:

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/display.var.2533484.0.bar_owner_in_rates_row.php

Some grist to the mill for the "Mono is pish" crew, but if this means the venues go down the shitter -- and, despite Tannock's optimism, that's got to be a fear --then it's a major loss.

― What do you want? This ain't an egg shop (grimly fiendish), Friday, 30 October 2009 14:18 (fifteen years ago) link

Mono is pish but i'd miss stereo.

― Pedro Paramore (jim), Friday, 30 October 2009 14:27 (fifteen years ago) link

Would miss Stereo and the 78. If I had money and a record player I would probably miss Monorail.

― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Friday, 30 October 2009 14:44 (fifteen years ago) link

Why did he warn the council he was about to do the old bust-and-reborn thing? Eeejit.

I'd miss Mono, for sure/

― stet, Friday, 30 October 2009 15:07 (fifteen years ago) link

He was warned about paying his debts for Stereo but it was in one ear and out the other.

― Suggest Gandhi (onimo), Friday, 30 October 2009 15:19 (fifteen years ago) link

I'd miss stereo, it's great

those gigs look great, ward fowler

― coz (webinar), Friday, 30 October 2009 18:28 (fifteen years ago) link

great

― coz (webinar), Friday, 30 October 2009 18:28 (fifteen years ago) link

Don't honestly think I'd miss any of the venues if their ethos could continue elsewhere, if that makes sense. Had some good nights in all of them, but I used to have good nights in the Woody and the RAFA and the Bedsit and various other places as well.

Keep Stereo going til I've gone to see Sunn O))) though, eh?

― ailsa, Saturday, 31 October 2009 01:53 (fifteen years ago) link

one month passes...

anybody up for a pre-sunn o))) drink on sunday?

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 3 December 2009 12:41 (fifteen years ago) link

I'm going to probably have to dash home between work & the gig but will be there for the show if not earlier drinks.

― krakow, Thursday, 3 December 2009 13:09 (fifteen years ago) link

Aye! Upstairs in Stereo? What sort of time were you thinking?

― What do you want? This ain't an egg shop (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 3 December 2009 17:56 (fifteen years ago) link

What time is the gig? An early one anyway?

― krakow, Thursday, 3 December 2009 18:18 (fifteen years ago) link

Shit, I don't actually know if I've got tickets or not (mate was supposed to be arranging, has been remarkably reticent about it).

― ailsa, Thursday, 3 December 2009 18:59 (fifteen years ago) link

Doors 7.30, according to my ticket. Anyone know if there's any kind of support?

― What do you want? This ain't an egg shop (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 3 December 2009 19:33 (fifteen years ago) link

Bong are supporting. They are definitely worth seeing.

http://www.bongdoom.co.uk/

― krakow, Thursday, 3 December 2009 20:13 (fifteen years ago) link

Nice one: thank you. It'll be good to meet you, too!

― What do you want? This ain't an egg shop (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 3 December 2009 20:30 (fifteen years ago) link

great! see you in the bar, grimly, not long after doors open?(hope you can make it too, ailsa - just today i noticed that ticket place under the arches still had posters up for the gig, so maybe it is not sold out - tbh i thought it wld be, by now)

ty for the tip off abt bong, krakow, tho im such an old fart these days i find that one monolothic drone outfit per evening is usually enough (also, will probably be able to FEEL em through the floorboards w/ a bit of luck) - am also contemplating earplugs, which i know is kinda lame but i think maryanne amacher was my tipping point into tinnitus :-(

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 3 December 2009 21:40 (fifteen years ago) link

Bong are more psychedelic, at least when I saw them at Halloween. It's transportive.

― krakow, Thursday, 3 December 2009 21:48 (fifteen years ago) link

sold!

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 3 December 2009 21:50 (fifteen years ago) link

is this gig rly £15? :(

― SKATAAAAAAAAAAA (cozwn), Thursday, 3 December 2009 22:20 (fifteen years ago) link

Aye. Isn't sold out. Shall consult my bank balance and my mate, and possibly see some of you in Stereo on Sunday.

― ailsa, Thursday, 3 December 2009 22:41 (fifteen years ago) link

Are you all hearing these firework-sounding explosions? Loud.

― stet, Thursday, 3 December 2009 23:05 (fifteen years ago) link

Nope? No explosions on the soo'side. Probably no bad thing.

― What do you want? This ain't an egg shop (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 3 December 2009 23:17 (fifteen years ago) link

Ppl are tweeting about it coming from the southside. Hmm

― stet, Thursday, 3 December 2009 23:20 (fifteen years ago) link

Should be at Sunn O))) on Sunday. Not got my tickets confirmed but seeing as I previewed it for the List I should be sorted! O'Malley said he and Greg Anderson will be playing three full stacks each! It's gonna be ridiculous.

― Stew, Thursday, 3 December 2009 23:25 (fifteen years ago) link

Whenever I think of Glasgow I think of this great song because as an proud American I have no other point of reference

― you don't mess with the Lohan (CaptainLorax), Friday, 4 December 2009 00:21 (fifteen years ago) link

I've seen sunnO))) before but wd like to again; £15 is steep tho

― SKATAAAAAAAAAAA (cozwn), Friday, 4 December 2009 00:28 (fifteen years ago) link

Cant afford it, too close to xmas.

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 5 December 2009 22:23 (fifteen years ago) link

OK: I'll be along tonight for 7.30 or as near as dammit. Looking forward to catching up with whoever else is there.

― What do you want? This ain't an egg shop (grimly fiendish), Sunday, 6 December 2009 13:27 (fifteen years ago) link

Sorry dude, tough night of beer has wiped me out, of cash and of will to live. Enjoy.

― ailsa, Sunday, 6 December 2009 15:08 (fifteen years ago) link

Boo. Catch you soon, though, I hope.

― What do you want? This ain't an egg shop (grimly fiendish), Sunday, 6 December 2009 15:31 (fifteen years ago) link

Definitely. We should arrange some sort of Christmas-related excuse for beer, I reckon.

― ailsa, Sunday, 6 December 2009 15:32 (fifteen years ago) link

I suggest west beer as a venue

― SKATAAAAAAAAAAA (webinar), Sunday, 6 December 2009 16:23 (fifteen years ago) link

I'd be up for West-style antics, aye. The problem is never where so much as when.

― What do you want? This ain't an egg shop (grimly fiendish), Sunday, 6 December 2009 16:30 (fifteen years ago) link

(Unless "where" is Mono, natch, and Ailsa throws a strop :)

― What do you want? This ain't an egg shop (grimly fiendish), Sunday, 6 December 2009 16:31 (fifteen years ago) link

or tennents (because I'm lazy)

― SKATAAAAAAAAAAA (webinar), Sunday, 6 December 2009 16:36 (fifteen years ago) link

Well, it does have decent beers.

― What do you want? This ain't an egg shop (grimly fiendish), Sunday, 6 December 2009 16:37 (fifteen years ago) link

And a door-to-door bus service to my flat.

― What do you want? This ain't an egg shop (grimly fiendish), Sunday, 6 December 2009 16:37 (fifteen years ago) link

west beer ftw

― stet, Sunday, 6 December 2009 16:38 (fifteen years ago) link

West Beer is good, aye. As is Tennents. West End is easier for me to get home from, right enough (for easier, read cheaper, obv).

Celtic are at home on Boxing Day, which will place me in the general vicinity of West Beer, if that's a plan?

― ailsa, Sunday, 6 December 2009 16:41 (fifteen years ago) link

I still don't have my rota for the Christmas and New Year weeks: I know I'm working Christmas Day but no idea about Boxing Day. If I'm not working, though, I think there'll probably be in-law action in which I should be involved. I doubt I'll be able to persuade them to go to West.

― What do you want? This ain't an egg shop (grimly fiendish), Sunday, 6 December 2009 17:05 (fifteen years ago) link

Right, I am occupied on the 10th, 17th, 18th, 25th, and cannot go out on the 30th or any night thereafter. Otherwise, is all good. Not working between Christmas and New Year.

― ailsa, Sunday, 6 December 2009 17:07 (fifteen years ago) link

I'm going to allow a zen-like combination of "my rota" and "what dates other dudes can make" to do my deciding for me :)

― What do you want? This ain't an egg shop (grimly fiendish), Sunday, 6 December 2009 17:10 (fifteen years ago) link

We really haven't got any better at this, have we? What we need is a special guest appearance by an out-of-towner to galvanise the troops.

― ailsa, Sunday, 6 December 2009 17:12 (fifteen years ago) link

HI DERE (MIBBES)

― Never in, Kuyt (aldo), Sunday, 6 December 2009 17:32 (fifteen years ago) link

Good stuff. Knew I could (maybe) count on you!

― ailsa, Sunday, 6 December 2009 17:35 (fifteen years ago) link

west beer

― conrad, Sunday, 6 December 2009 18:34 (fifteen years ago) link

OK, SunnO))) types: I'm writing this from a small table just by the stairs down to the venue, which are currently blocked by a largely unsmiling contingent of beardedly grim men queuing to ensure they can be at the front. Given I've forgotten earplugs, I'm happy enough to be at the back :)

Will give it another few minutes and see if anyone turns up, then fuck off downstairs, where the chances of any of us finding each other are less than 0. Or even 0))).

― What do you want? This ain't an egg shop (grimly fiendish), Sunday, 6 December 2009 19:59 (fifteen years ago) link

I was there, but I didn't knowingly meet any ILXors. I was at the front, on official photo business. Awesome show. <doom claw>

― krakow, Monday, 7 December 2009 09:16 (fifteen years ago) link

Sorry I missed you Grimly - I had to wait ages for a fucking bus in Dennistoun, so I didn't get to Stereo until Bong were starting their set (which I enjoyed a great deal - reminded me of old school Skullflower in places.)

Stuck at the back of the venue for most of Sunn O))), which wasn't great - crowded, hot, lots of jostling and zero visibility - it was only abt half way in that i could make out a robed figure or two (krakow, do you happen to know what line up it was this time round?) But at that kind of volume, it was still possible to lose yourself in the drone - there were moments when my whole body seem to ripple with a kind of electrified pleasure, and i actually had the weird sensation of my scalp lifting from my skull at one point. Loved the heavy power electronics segment in particular, and kinda wish there'd been a bit more of that and maybe just a little less gothique vocalising.

― Ward Fowler, Monday, 7 December 2009 09:39 (fifteen years ago) link

this thread always a laff

― conrad, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 02:23 (fifteen years ago) link

The line up was, as far I know and could make out through the smoke, your usual Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson naturally, Attila (from Mayhem & others) stage front on vocals and Steve Moore on keyboards and a wee bit of trombone and other gubbins.

― krakow, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 11:19 (fifteen years ago) link

looking forward to seeing yr pics

― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 12:02 (fifteen years ago) link

They're great if you like grainy shots of darkly billowing smoke.

― krakow, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 12:59 (fifteen years ago) link

http://krakow.zenfolio.com/img/v4/p119279192-3.jpg

http://krakow.zenfolio.com/img/v2/p1067074997-3.jpg

― krakow, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 14:20 (fifteen years ago) link

Fucking hell, Krakow, those are awesome. Substantially better than the ones the bloke next to me was trying to take all night :)

I ended up standing on a box at the left for both sets, about halfway back, which proved an excellent vantage point for watching trombones etc emerge from the gloom -- although most of the time I couldn't actually tell how many people were on stage. I did get the awesome effect of being able to lean against the walls to "feel" the sound, too, though.

Loved the heavy power electronics segment in particular, and kinda wish there'd been a bit more of that and maybe just a little less gothique vocalising

Yes, absolutely. The whole point of this stuff, for me, is to be able to lose yourself in it: partly because of the sheer number of people, but also partly because of the vocals, that wasn't always possible. Still, when it worked, it worked awesomely.

Bong, though, were an unexpected treat. Loved every second of that from start to finish.

― What do you want? This ain't an egg shop (grimly fiendish), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 15:07 (fifteen years ago) link

Thanks.

I personally loved Attila's vocals. He was doing some great things with his voice. Gregorian chants, unearthly growls, pterodactyl screeches...

― krakow, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 09:10 (fifteen years ago) link

wtf is up w/the council? it's been freezing for 2 wks straight and I haven't seen one gritter. did they spend all the salt money on the velodrome?

― cozwn, Saturday, 19 December 2009 21:55 (fifteen years ago) link

it's the same here

― Pfunkboy : The Dronelord vs The Girly Metal Daleks (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 19 December 2009 22:20 (fifteen years ago) link

in carluke?

― conrad, Saturday, 19 December 2009 22:42 (fifteen years ago) link

no

― Pfunkboy : The Dronelord vs The Girly Metal Daleks (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 19 December 2009 22:50 (fifteen years ago) link

tho i suspect it will be the same there

― Pfunkboy : The Dronelord vs The Girly Metal Daleks (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 19 December 2009 22:51 (fifteen years ago) link

Had to push our car up Belmont St, solid ice. M8 was gritted, sidestreets total icescapes

― stet, Sunday, 20 December 2009 02:42 (fifteen years ago) link

I have to cycle to work in an hour. That's going to be fun. Wish me luck.

― krakow, Sunday, 20 December 2009 09:39 (fifteen years ago) link

Haha, I had a taxi going halfway up the hill from Belmont Street to Wilton St before rolling back down it to the bottom of the hill to have a clear run up it in first gear. He made it, other attendees at the party I was off to ended up having to walk up :-(

It's been snowing loads!

― ailsa, Sunday, 20 December 2009 10:43 (fifteen years ago) link

Was snowing in Hamilton the other day - apparently if it snows it never lies. It's lying.

Same in Muirkirk (wilds of Ayrshire) - lots of snow etc. Happily, if it keeps going, I won't get to work in Hamilton tomorrow.

― argosgold (AndyTheScot), Sunday, 20 December 2009 10:54 (fifteen years ago) link

the streets of dennistoun are full of snow and ice this morning - and random trails of grit, like skidmarks

― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 20 December 2009 13:10 (fifteen years ago) link

a taxi going halfway up the hill from Belmont Street to Wilton St before rolling back down it to the bottom of the hill

Yup: that's the one Stet and I were having COMEDY ICE FUN with. Poor Lucy's car: the smell of burning rubber was astonishing.

Huge, huge respect to the little dude who appeared from the end of Wilton Street, stopped, got out and started helping us push, without a word. We thanked him profusely afterwards. "Well, someone else just did it for us!" he said with a beam. Paying it forward: awesome. Who was that Christmas-jumpered man? Perhaps we shall never know.

― What do you want? This ain't an egg shop (grimly fiendish), Sunday, 20 December 2009 13:21 (fifteen years ago) link

Meanwhile, my big day of essay reading is fucked up by a) me not getting out of bed earlier; b) realising that if we don't go shopping today (forecast: some sun, light snow, clear skies later) then Fee will be trying to do it herself tomorrow (snow all day) or Tuesday (heavy snow all day). Knackers. Tesco here we come.

― What do you want? This ain't an egg shop (grimly fiendish), Sunday, 20 December 2009 13:22 (fifteen years ago) link

I think a Tesco trip is in order for us too. Or, realistically, me. I am going to write to the Metro and see if they'll publish a thank-you letter to the anonymous car pusher.

― Madchen, Sunday, 20 December 2009 13:34 (fifteen years ago) link

'Course they will!

― What do you want? This ain't an egg shop (grimly fiendish), Sunday, 20 December 2009 14:22 (fifteen years ago) link

There was some car pushing action going on as my taxi failed then succeeded at that bit. What time was all this? (I'm pretty sure it wasn't Madchen's car, but you never know)

― ailsa, Sunday, 20 December 2009 14:39 (fifteen years ago) link

Hmm: not sure, actually. Must have been some time after 1am?

― What do you want? This ain't an egg shop (grimly fiendish), Sunday, 20 December 2009 14:45 (fifteen years ago) link

Ah, no, this was around 8pm. It wasn't just you then. Actually I think a ton of the people at the party I was at ended up walking from the bottom of the hill due to epic taxi fail.

― ailsa, Sunday, 20 December 2009 14:50 (fifteen years ago) link

By the way, Alisa: happy birthday for the other day! Sorry, I completely forgot about this. Hope it rocked bells.

― What do you want? This ain't an egg shop (grimly fiendish), Sunday, 20 December 2009 15:01 (fifteen years ago) link

yes, happy belated birthday ailsa! x

― jed_, Sunday, 20 December 2009 17:04 (fifteen years ago) link

Thanks you guys! Are we doing drinking over Christmas at all?

― ailsa, Sunday, 20 December 2009 17:29 (fifteen years ago) link

Another we burst just there as I cycled home from work too - in shorts & all!

― krakow, Sunday, 20 December 2009 19:15 (fifteen years ago) link

Are they bothering to grit or look after the road here at all? I was (foolishly) out in Coatbridge this evening and it was a total joke. The main roads were sheets of ice, even with heavy traffic. Terrifying.

I saw a huge lorry end up stuck half-way up a hill in a slow moving two-lane traffic queue because he didn't have enough traction to continue.

― krakow, Monday, 21 December 2009 20:59 (fifteen years ago) link

THIS IS WHAT I WAS SAYING

they spent the salt money on the commonwealth games

― cozwn, Monday, 21 December 2009 21:00 (fifteen years ago) link

Was snowing in Hamilton the other day - apparently if it snows it never lies. It's lying.

Same in Muirkirk (wilds of Ayrshire) - lots of snow etc. Happily, if it keeps going, I won't get to work in Hamilton tomorrow.

It's true, it rarely lies here. Last year was the first proper snowfall in 18 years since we moved here. But that was nothing on this years.

Hah Muirkirk, in P7 my school St Ninian's (Prestwick) sent my class to some sort of outward bound centre. Kaimes or Kames or something like that. Plenty of snow there.

― Pfunkboy : The Dronelord vs The Girly Metal Daleks (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 21 December 2009 21:05 (fifteen years ago) link

they spent the salt money on the commonwealth games

I had two taxi drivers tell me this today. Pavements are lethal here.

― stet, Monday, 21 December 2009 21:34 (fifteen years ago) link

I live round the corner from the local gritter depot, and the difference in road/ice interface from their turnoff to my driveway compared to the bit from their turnoff to the rest of the world is staggering. I skidded round two corners before getting to the bit of the road the gritters go up and down, and then it was all OK. My driveway and especially back patio are very much akin to an icerink though.

― ailsa, Monday, 21 December 2009 21:39 (fifteen years ago) link

My icy wee fall has cost me a possibly fractured elbow and most likely several weeks off work (selling CDs one-(wrong)-handed isn't much good). I'm pretty angry at the council or whoever was responsible for not gritting that road or whatever was approriate. I didn't realise until I fell that it wasn't just wet, but one huge sheet of ice. It was a main road, totally full of traffic and didn't seem to have been treated at all, which is madness and dangerous.

― krakow, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 15:21 (fifteen years ago) link

do the council have a legal responsibility to grit I wonder

― thurman merman (cozwn), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 15:22 (fifteen years ago) link

That was what I wondered as I walked home. I was militantly and frustratedly musing on whether one would have any recourse for accidents like this because of the council failing to look after the roads sufficiently.

― krakow, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:00 (fifteen years ago) link

"A highway authority are under a duty to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that safe passage along a highway is not endangered by snow or ice."

― thurman merman (cozwn), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:04 (fifteen years ago) link

any thing good happening on the south side for hogmanay?

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:05 (fifteen years ago) link

I've heard that you can claim compensation for tripping over un-maintained paving stones and the like, so maybe this would be similar?

What should I do if I were to pursue this idea? I'm certainly going to be bored enough for the next few weeks.

In seriousness, because things are so diificult in the record shop, I'm almost certainly going to suffer financially because of being off work for an extended period.

― krakow, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:09 (fifteen years ago) link

IANApersonalinjuryL, best first step is to talk informally w/someone at a firm like irwin mitchell?

― thurman merman (cozwn), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:19 (fifteen years ago) link

^ Yeh, I think that's best. Approach the council yourself without any legal backup and you'll get nowhere. I don't think you'll be the only one, either ...

― What do you want? This ain't an egg shop (grimly fiendish), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:23 (fifteen years ago) link

"It’s absolutely terrible. It has taken us 10 minutes to walk less than 200 yards. The dog has already taken a tumble."

:D

― thurman merman (cozwn), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:25 (fifteen years ago) link

aye this has been fucking murder walking to work. Almost fell on my cunt too many times to count.

Sorry to hear about the arm, Alex.

― Pedro Paramore (jim), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:44 (fifteen years ago) link

I have just bought a pair of these. They'll arrive too late, but I really should have been arsed to buy them after skidding to work in last year's freeze.
http://www.yaktrax.co.uk/

― Madchen, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 21:57 (fifteen years ago) link

yup srsly considering those for running

― thurman merman (cozwn), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 21:59 (fifteen years ago) link

Ow, krakow, the partner of a girl at my work also fell over and fractured his elbow.

Those yaktrax things look ace.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 22:00 (fifteen years ago) link

ouch, krakow

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 09:11 (fifteen years ago) link

the roads round central station are lethal, this morning

worried that my train down south tomorrow won't be running :-(

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 09:11 (fifteen years ago) link

My sister & I are going to drive down to Liverpool on Xmas Eve, leaving about 11am. Where are you heading?

― krakow, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 10:36 (fifteen years ago) link

(She'd probably have a hissy fit at me offering lifts to internet peeps, but screw it, I'm serious if it did happen to fit.)

― krakow, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 10:37 (fifteen years ago) link

thank you v. much for yr very kind offer, k - my train journey goes glasgow>birmingham, birmingham>banbury, am due to catch the first train out of central station at 5.50am! my email add = my internet name (no spaces) at gmail.com, if you have a mobe i can ring on you on, should i need to head down south by other means (i could prob get picked up in Liverpool by my sister, if needs be)

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 10:48 (fifteen years ago) link

Hey Krakow sorry to hear about your accident. Hope it gets better soon. Have a safe journey tomorrow, and ward fowler and anyone else travelling.

― Pfunkboy : The Dronelord vs The Girly Metal Daleks (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 10:54 (fifteen years ago) link

No worries, just sent you a wee email Ward.

― krakow, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 11:00 (fifteen years ago) link

Thanks for the kind thoughts too Pfunk, ailsa, Ward, Jim et al. I got a much better sleep last night after dosing on pain killers just before bed and strategically placing a spare pillow as arm rest, so that's helped the mood a lot.

Not looking forward to having to drop into work now to collect some presents that I'd left there unfortunately. Sure to be awkward and guilt inducing.

― krakow, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 11:04 (fifteen years ago) link

thanks krakow, i can't check my email until this evening - meant to say that obv i will pay for petrol, should the need arise (I'm hoping for a snow free day today, so that there is a train service tomorrow...fingers crossed)

and thanks for yr gd wishes, pfunk - a safe and happy xmas to all glasgow ilxors

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 11:05 (fifteen years ago) link

three months pass...

Nurse with Wound all-day event at the Tramway:

http://www.tramway.org/performance/177/a_midsummer_days_dream_evening_live_performance/

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 15 April 2010 11:47 (fourteen years ago) link

one month passes...

I know it's a bit far off, but it looks like I'll be through in Glasgow to see Wilco in september.
I'll bump the thread nearer the time but it would be nice to meet up.

― treefell, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:46 (fourteen years ago) link

Yes, do bump nearer time, would be good to finally meet up.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 17:22 (fourteen years ago) link

ok hailstones here. huh?

― jed_, Thursday, 27 May 2010 15:43 (fourteen years ago) link

short lived but pretty hailly

― cozen, Thursday, 27 May 2010 15:44 (fourteen years ago) link

glad i missed that; i'm not long in from a wee walk down Glasgow's wanky west-end.

― No disre but maryanne hobbs is peng trust me (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 27 May 2010 15:49 (fourteen years ago) link

It's just hitting Dennistoun now.

― krakow, Thursday, 27 May 2010 15:55 (fourteen years ago) link

P.S. SLAYER tonight!

― krakow, Thursday, 27 May 2010 15:55 (fourteen years ago) link

Nina Nastasia tonight

― jed_, Thursday, 27 May 2010 16:16 (fourteen years ago) link

lol d.tr\/mp is a total fan-dan; really wish I'd saved those e-mails from his legal team I saw (at DundW) that explicitly said their aim ws to marginalise and force out the maverick landowners on the estate

― cozen, Thursday, 27 May 2010 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link

SSSLLLAAAYYYEEERRR!!!

http://krakow.zenfolio.com/img/s9/v15/p831095172-3.jpg

― krakow, Friday, 28 May 2010 00:35 (fourteen years ago) link

rangda on monday see you all there

― Ward Fowler, Friday, 28 May 2010 06:10 (fourteen years ago) link

Indeed; I'll be there. We should actually say hello for once...

― krakow, Friday, 28 May 2010 07:42 (fourteen years ago) link

one month passes...

anyone for some potted hough?

― jed_, Monday, 26 July 2010 23:24 (fourteen years ago) link

What were the flying ants all about?

― Efraqueen Juárez (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 8 August 2010 00:45 (fourteen years ago) link

it was a thing today

― heterosexist matrix of desire (Gukbe), Sunday, 8 August 2010 04:50 (fourteen years ago) link

oh man yesterday i was at the forge and these fuckin things were everywhere, flying into people's hair and clothes, it really was like the first plague of the apocalypse...bring back the midges

― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 8 August 2010 06:27 (fourteen years ago) link

I was in Edinburgh yesterday, and they were a thing over there as well.

― ailsa, Sunday, 8 August 2010 09:15 (fourteen years ago) link

Flying ant day. Pavements were crawling, too

― stet, Sunday, 8 August 2010 11:12 (fourteen years ago) link

I'm on t'other side of the country but lately we've had a plague of aphids the likes of which ye've never seen (or I've never seen, at least). A real fog of them. I'd get indoors and have to brush literally twenty off of myself. Calmed down a bit now, though.

― Merdeyeux, Sunday, 8 August 2010 12:17 (fourteen years ago) link

leave glasgow for 3 days and you miss the flying ant plague, typical!

― jed_, Sunday, 8 August 2010 12:37 (fourteen years ago) link

I moved after flying ant day in London and before flying ant day in Glasgow. Result!

― Madchen, Sunday, 8 August 2010 20:28 (fourteen years ago) link

Madchen = ant repellent in human form. Please come back!

― ailsa, Sunday, 8 August 2010 22:07 (fourteen years ago) link

dear glasgow

I will be back in you briefly, probably, on the 5th and 6th of September. anyone FAP on Sunday evening (this will be colliding with other internet friends again, though), even kicking through to nOtptimo? or a lunch/after work pint on the Monday? grimly, Ward, I'm looking at you.

love, kit

― Teddybears.SHTML (sic), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 08:57 (fourteen years ago) link

I'm down for that!

― jed_, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 10:01 (fourteen years ago) link

i mean up for it.

― jed_, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 10:01 (fourteen years ago) link

I have not seen various Glasgow peeps in approximately forever, so a beer could be added to my not-exactly-hectic social schedule, I'm sure.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 11:52 (fourteen years ago) link

A full on Glasgow FAP would be great, so my vote wld be for the Monday after work, but can do Sunday too

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 11:59 (fourteen years ago) link

http://unv20.blogspot.com/

― _________________ (cozen), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 12:00 (fourteen years ago) link

Monday after work better for me as well. Can I issue a pre-emptive "not Mono" strike? Somewhere near Central would be easier for me, because I am (1) selfish and (2) lazy. How busy does Stereo get on a Monday post-work?

― ailsa, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 12:50 (fourteen years ago) link

intense mono hate from me also. stereo good. sunday is fine by me - i may also go to Optinot, i haven't been yet.

― jed_, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 13:25 (fourteen years ago) link

Actually, we've had a couple of decent evenings in the Pot Still, and the seating is comfier and more conducive to chatting than in Stereo, if that's any help at all?

― ailsa, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 13:44 (fourteen years ago) link

hooray!

on Monday I'm prrrrrobably dashing to Fever Ray, so somewhere close to Sauchiehall St would be good, if that helps narrow it down.

― Teddybears.SHTML (sic), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 14:06 (fourteen years ago) link

i'll probably meet you on the sunday if that's okay. if you are going off to a gig on monday you'll have to leave about 8.00, which is pretty early.

― jed_, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 14:56 (fourteen years ago) link

yah I know, hence weighting it to Sunday. if the support's rubbish it gives a little leeway though, or if some people finish work at 5 there's some decent time.

if my other peeps work out a Sunday meeting place I'll post it here - probably near the station, cos one bloke's coming through from Edinburgh, but hopefully not the festering Wetherspoons right by the Sub Club.

if that's okay

it shall be a delight to meet and to rave with you.

― Teddybears.SHTML (sic), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 15:12 (fourteen years ago) link

I'd recommend MacSorley's if you're looking for something near the train station and the Sub Club.

― heterosexist matrix of desire (Gukbe), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 15:14 (fourteen years ago) link

there's a pub near the sub club that's pretty good, good music policy, DJs sometimes.. can't remember the name. it may even be owned by the subbie?

― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 15:21 (fourteen years ago) link

Tracer, that's McSorley's.

great sic, see you sunday. i think i remember from the optimo thread that krakow was up for a no-ptimo too.

― jed_, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 15:26 (fourteen years ago) link

That looks decent! Ta. (xpost)

And ailsa's suggestion of the Pot Still seems convenient enough for the ABC, so if it'll turn into cat-herding otherwise waiting for more suggestions, let's at least lean toward that for the Monday?

and yes, krakow was keen to enter the mysterious world of the "night-club."

― Teddybears.SHTML (sic), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 15:28 (fourteen years ago) link

woOo

― jed_, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 15:36 (fourteen years ago) link

Woo, Glasgow FAP!

(I have just looked at Facebook and today's recommendation of a thing I might like is "Mono Cafe Bar")

― ailsa, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 16:47 (fourteen years ago) link

The support for Fever Ray is Zola Jesus so most definitely should be seen. I will be there also.

I am indeed up for Notptimo.

Into a general FAP at some point as well. I put a whisky-drinkers vote in for the Pot Still. If you don't like Mono then going to Stereo makes zero sense to me.

― krakow, Thursday, 19 August 2010 07:48 (fourteen years ago) link

If you don't like Mono then going to Stereo makes zero sense to me.

It's nearer the train station to get home.

― ailsa, Thursday, 19 August 2010 08:02 (fourteen years ago) link

OK, it makes one sense to me.

― krakow, Thursday, 19 August 2010 08:05 (fourteen years ago) link

I'd still rather the Pot Still, whichever day/night we go.

― krakow, Thursday, 19 August 2010 08:06 (fourteen years ago) link

i really like stereo, it seems completely different to mono. it has atmosphere and the staff are nice, on the whole. well, they're at least civil.

― jed_, Thursday, 19 August 2010 09:12 (fourteen years ago) link

I really like both Mono & Stereo too, they are two of my favourite bars/venues/whatever in Glasgow.

I thought that the thing with Mono was mainly that ilx Glasgow FAPs have always defaulted to there, right? In that case it just seemed that Stereo wouldn't be that much of departure.

I'm mightily happy in any of these places.

― krakow, Thursday, 19 August 2010 09:46 (fourteen years ago) link

Thing with Mono is that a bar where people don't want to serve you doesn't make for pleasant fappery. Also, it's miles away from Central for those of us who don't live in the town.

I always find Stereo too busy (at least with Mono you can usually get a seat), but that's only because I really only go into town at weekends. We tend to end up in those seemimgly-terrible old man pubs at the bottom of Hope Street, because it is easy to get a seat in there. But I thought it would be a decent compromise, being near the station, and nearly-but-NOT-Mono.

― ailsa, Thursday, 19 August 2010 09:51 (fourteen years ago) link

i always get madly riled-up in mono. it's become "a thing" now.

― jed_, Thursday, 19 August 2010 10:00 (fourteen years ago) link

i'm actually squaring up before i even go through the door now.

― jed_, Thursday, 19 August 2010 10:01 (fourteen years ago) link

The comedically surly camp barman in Mono is one of its plus points for me. His unwavering misanthropy makes me smile.

― krakow, Thursday, 19 August 2010 10:08 (fourteen years ago) link

alpen lodge

― ___wayne_grow___ (cozen), Thursday, 19 August 2010 10:09 (fourteen years ago) link

shut it

― jed_, Thursday, 19 August 2010 10:10 (fourteen years ago) link

Fair play on its relative distance from the station though. I don't live in town either, but am independently mobile (bicycle), so such things don't occur to me.

― krakow, Thursday, 19 August 2010 10:15 (fourteen years ago) link

Rockers

― krakow, Thursday, 19 August 2010 10:15 (fourteen years ago) link

I didn't know about this shared Mono hatred! It's always seemed fine to me, although I've never been when its role is a proper pub rather than a concert venue or an eatery. But I am intuitively disinclined from using it as a pub, whereas I do like Stereo for that.

while I'm here I'll note for those interested that having passed through the Union Street Fopp today, their current book selection is pretty good - I got 'The House That Trane Built' for £4, 'Modulations: A History of Electronic Music' for £3, the Thurston Moore / Byron Coley No Wave book for £3, Bob Dylan's 'Chronicles Volume 1' for £2, and the lovely 'Horizons Touched: The Music of ECM' for £10, among other less interesting things.

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 19 August 2010 21:50 (fourteen years ago) link

highly recommend the Mono Ping Pong Tournament

― a cankle of rads (Gukbe), Thursday, 19 August 2010 22:13 (fourteen years ago) link

saw mr past3l playing ping pong at a friend's 50th bday party recently, dude is a hustler

still like mono because it is a bar WITH A REC SHOP IN IT

― Ward Fowler, Friday, 20 August 2010 08:00 (fourteen years ago) link

total hustler. he set up the first tournament and and then won it. good fun, though.

― a cankle of rads (Gukbe), Friday, 20 August 2010 12:14 (fourteen years ago) link

glasgow, "hardly a haven for models"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-11040378

― bela guolaosi (cozen), Friday, 20 August 2010 15:03 (fourteen years ago) link

*-*

― jed_, Friday, 20 August 2010 16:01 (fourteen years ago) link

*_*

― jed_, Friday, 20 August 2010 16:01 (fourteen years ago) link

Mogwai play Stereo next Sunday 29th August!

Tickets onsale tomorrow morning 11am in person from Monorail or online from Ticketmaster (link is currently non-working).

Mogwai say:

Glasgow - Stereo 29th August

We are playing a show next Sunday August 29th at Stereo in Glasgow. Moon Unit are playing too. Doors are at 8pm. Tickets will be available online tomorrow morning at 11am here . They will also be available in person from Monorail records at 11am tomorrow. Tickets are £10 and proceeds will be going to Lanarkshire Cancer Trust and aid to the victims of the floods in Pakistan.

I could pretty much explode with excitement at the prospect of seeing them at such a tiny venue!

― krakow, Sunday, 22 August 2010 19:36 (fourteen years ago) link

OMG (and I've just made not-get-out-of-able plans for next Sunday, bah).

― ailsa, Sunday, 22 August 2010 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link

Local knowledge! Would a gig at the 02 on a schoolnight Monday finish early enough to dash down the hill and be on a 23:40 train back to London?

― Teddybears.SHTML (sic), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 10:48 (fourteen years ago) link

I think it's worth phoning them to make sure but the couple of times I've been there I've been out just after 23:00 which is enough time to walk to Central.

"down the hill"? Do you mean ABC2? O2 is pretty much level with Central on the other side of the river.

― a harshbuzz to my manpain (onimo), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 10:56 (fourteen years ago) link

The ABC is an O2 venue now as well.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 11:26 (fourteen years ago) link

I can't remember what time you get out, but I can't imagine it would be after 11, and it shouldn't take more than 15 minutes to get down to Central from there.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 11:27 (fourteen years ago) link

The ABC is an O2 venue now as well.

ah ok that explains it

― a harshbuzz to my manpain (onimo), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 11:44 (fourteen years ago) link

sic: yes, the gig will be all finished by 12:00.

― a cankle of rads (Gukbe), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 14:00 (fourteen years ago) link

23:00, i meant.

― a cankle of rads (Gukbe), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 14:00 (fourteen years ago) link

Definitely finished by 11pm, yes. Headline band probably on at 9pm.

― krakow, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 18:56 (fourteen years ago) link

which is worse, drill or chisel?
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/2010/08/31/gang-chop-off-rival-s-manhood-with-chisels-days-after-twin-has-holes-drilled-in-his-head-86908-22525727/

― jozam djinn (cozen), Tuesday, 31 August 2010 08:34 (fourteen years ago) link

Ouch.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 31 August 2010 08:45 (fourteen years ago) link

Crime really doesn't pay.

― Efraqueen Juárez (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 31 August 2010 09:10 (fourteen years ago) link

I don't know, it sounds like they all had rather nice cars.

― krakow, Tuesday, 31 August 2010 09:12 (fourteen years ago) link

and they get to chisel dicks off

― conrad, Tuesday, 31 August 2010 15:46 (fourteen years ago) link

That's the life!

― krakow, Tuesday, 31 August 2010 17:17 (fourteen years ago) link

Meanwhile, 45p shots all round. Cheers!

― Madchen, Thursday, 2 September 2010 12:32 (fourteen years ago) link

Yeah, would be brilliant if that actually happened :-) Instead I'm now going to pay about a fiver for a £3.50 bottle of wine out of Tesco, and all the menko Weston's Organic Cider drinkers are going to be bankrupt.

― ailsa, Thursday, 2 September 2010 13:21 (fourteen years ago) link

sic if you're in town on sat, the magician's playing

― ultimusmoron (cozen), Thursday, 2 September 2010 21:07 (fourteen years ago) link

he is? where? and when are we getting the "vito sucks" t shirts printed?

― jed_, Thursday, 2 September 2010 21:09 (fourteen years ago) link

http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?185436

I'll wear a 'vito sucks' shirt

― ultimusmoron (cozen), Thursday, 2 September 2010 21:10 (fourteen years ago) link

that looks alright but i'm working 7am on sunday :/

― Efraqueen Juárez (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 2 September 2010 21:25 (fourteen years ago) link

it gets a thumbs up from me.

― jed_, Thursday, 2 September 2010 21:34 (fourteen years ago) link

Do we have weekend or Monday drink plans? No, of course we don't, we're Glasgow and we don't do FAPs.

― ailsa, Thursday, 2 September 2010 23:26 (fourteen years ago) link

poo, I'm getting in on Sunday arvo. esp poo as I've seen them together once and Vito solo twice!

Monday in the Pot Still, whenever people can get away from work? duck off early, tell 'em it's to go drinking with people from the interwebs - that should work, right?

jed I should be in McSorleys before Hung Up, will ilxmail you my phone #.

― Teddybears.SHTML (sic), Friday, 3 September 2010 00:57 (fourteen years ago) link

Six hours backwards on a train, with no window, and both reading lights broken. Eat my scrote, Branson.

― Teddybears.SHTML (sic), Sunday, 5 September 2010 11:06 (fourteen years ago) link

Ouch, been there. The most irritating thing is that it's just because they've installed the seats wrong - there's a luggage rack half-a-dozen rows in front that gets the window that should be yours.

― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 5 September 2010 11:49 (fourteen years ago) link

So who's going to the Pot Still tomorrow then?

― ailsa, Sunday, 5 September 2010 19:27 (fourteen years ago) link

I can't make it along tonight, unfortunately - I've fucked up my shoulder playing badminton. Was hoping it would be better by now, but I've woken this morning in absolute agony - gonna have to go for some physio asap.

Sorry to have missed you this time round, Sic - safe travels.

― Ward Fowler, Monday, 6 September 2010 06:43 (fourteen years ago) link

I'm going to come along to the Pot Still straight after work, so about 6pm, then head up to the ABC about 7pm to catch the delectable Zola Jesus before Fever Ray.

― krakow, Monday, 6 September 2010 07:59 (fourteen years ago) link

:( ward! all the best for recovery.

― Teddybears.SHTML (sic), Monday, 6 September 2010 08:52 (fourteen years ago) link

anyone else? has grimly been poked abt this?

― Teddybears.SHTML (sic), Monday, 6 September 2010 14:01 (fourteen years ago) link

I've lost his phone number and am a social-network-free zone at work, anyone else able to oblige?

Am not actually sure I'll make it myself, tbh, but I'll do my very bestest.

― ailsa, Monday, 6 September 2010 14:19 (fourteen years ago) link

Ha ha, never change, Glasgow.

― Teddybears.SHTML (sic), Monday, 6 September 2010 14:41 (fourteen years ago) link

I work in the middle of the countryside! City centre working people have no excuse though (except Ward, he has a good excuse).

― ailsa, Monday, 6 September 2010 14:42 (fourteen years ago) link

Totally late to thread, and a total stranger, but I can't recommend the five tapas for £10 deal in Stereo on a Monday enough. I've never been to the Pot Still, I must try it.

Enjoy Fever Ray, those of you going, and try not get too wound up by the over-enthusiastic security staff at the o2 ABC...

― get the fuck out of my mouth (boxedjoy), Monday, 6 September 2010 16:59 (fourteen years ago) link

it was me and krakow with sic and his mates. v. nice to meet them & no, i didn't get my ass in gear to go out last night.

earlier on today i was in town with my mum heading to john lewis along sauchihall street. just outside bhs there were some buskers playing with quite a full set up - drums, bass guitar and a singer - the singer was miked through an amp. just as i was approaching they were playing radiohead's "creep" and the singer was singing that line "i wish i was special/ you're so fucking special" and he actually sang "fucking special" which i instantly took exception to. does thom yorke sing "fucking special" twice in the song? because this singer did. it made me feel a bit depressed to hear that sung in public.

well, i got a bit riled up about it, maybe too much so. once they had finished the song i went up to the guy who was singing and told him that i really thought he shouldn't sing "fucking" on a public street (i said "the f word" even though i normally wouldn't) with families and children and whatever else walking up and down and the guy and the rest of the "band" just stared at me like i was mental, which got me even more riled up so i asked the guy if he thought that was acceptable. they all just stared at me til the guitar guy said "noted" very sarcastically and i walked away feeling like a mad person. but i think i was right to confront the guy no? i would never do that sort of thing but i don't think it was right to sing the f word.

the end.

― jed_, Monday, 6 September 2010 19:18 (fourteen years ago) link

In the original version of the song he only says 'fucking' and never 'very'.

One of the things I like about Britain is the rather cavalier attitude towards language in public places. It's refreshing and nice.

― a cankle of rads (Gukbe), Monday, 6 September 2010 19:26 (fourteen years ago) link

Sorry I never made it out, had some stuff to do on the way home from work and by the time I got a bus into town it would have been nearer seven by the time I got in, just in time to have a beer and turn round and go home again.

― ailsa, Monday, 6 September 2010 19:36 (fourteen years ago) link

That's great jed and you were right, if for no other reason than if swearing in public doesn't attract disapproval, what do you do when you really want to let rip. Also because that song is such a lame example of it. I sometimes want to do stuff like that but have no idea how to tick kids off, even the ones who were pulling my neighbour's fence apart last week. Sorry it didn't really work out.

― Ismael Klata, Monday, 6 September 2010 19:43 (fourteen years ago) link

Very pleased to have FAP'd with the select few.

― krakow, Monday, 6 September 2010 23:32 (fourteen years ago) link

I'll in be in town on the 16th (week on Thursday) to see Wilco - it would be good to meet up if anyone's available...

― treefell, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 14:38 (fourteen years ago) link

That'll be three nights out in a row next week for me if I make it into town on a Thursday - still, would be good to meet a new face and I believe I still owe you a beer for automating the SPL predictor and saving me some counting up. Tentative yes from me. Suspect Mono and the Note will be busy pre-gig (it's at the Barrowlands, aye?), so consider this request suitably NOTMONOed.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 15:12 (fourteen years ago) link

Grenades siege at city flats

― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Friday, 10 September 2010 12:20 (fourteen years ago) link

Blimey.

― ailsa, Friday, 10 September 2010 12:30 (fourteen years ago) link

try grozny more

― cozen, Friday, 10 September 2010 14:49 (fourteen years ago) link

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs414.snc4/47760_424686755913_500580913_5045339_6276547_n.jpg

― cozen, Friday, 10 September 2010 16:16 (fourteen years ago) link

this women look really familiar.

oh right, they look like every single old woman in glasgow, that's why.

― jed_, Friday, 10 September 2010 16:19 (fourteen years ago) link

Whoever invented that hairdo should have patented it.

― Madchen, Saturday, 11 September 2010 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link

My mum is completely obsessed with the fact that Glasgow women walk around in pairs looking identical. I hadn't even noticed it was a thing until she pointed it out, and it totally is.

― ailsa, Sunday, 12 September 2010 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link

I would bet good money that at least one of those women is named Jean.

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 12 September 2010 14:53 (fourteen years ago) link

wee fat coats

― conrad, Sunday, 12 September 2010 17:34 (fourteen years ago) link

I'll in be in town on the 16th (week on Thursday) to see Wilco - it would be good to meet up if anyone's available...

The Pope's got a gig on at Bellahouston Park, so apparently we're having a traffic apocalypse that day. Will absolutely try to make it though, what time you over at?

― ailsa, Sunday, 12 September 2010 17:39 (fourteen years ago) link

There's a chance I'll be shooting Wilco, if I can't get the go ahead to shoot the Pope that is.

― krakow, Sunday, 12 September 2010 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link

when i met krakow i told him i had seen him cycling along maryhill road once, from my living room window, then i saw him tonight as well and i shouted "4lex!"at him out of my window like a crazy person.

now he probably thinks i'm a nutter who stands looking out of my window all day and shouting at people.

― jed_, Monday, 13 September 2010 01:09 (fourteen years ago) link

It was a grand coincidence. I didn't mind one bit.

― krakow, Monday, 13 September 2010 07:37 (fourteen years ago) link

now he probably thinks i'm a nutter who stands looking out of my window all day and shouting at people.

It's good to have hobbies.

― Underground - Parking (2010) (sic), Monday, 13 September 2010 07:56 (fourteen years ago) link

It looked like a good window for it too.

― krakow, Monday, 13 September 2010 08:06 (fourteen years ago) link

One has to play to one's strengths after all.

― krakow, Monday, 13 September 2010 08:06 (fourteen years ago) link

I'll be in Glasgow from around 3 on Thursday (depending on how crazy the trains are).

― treefell, Monday, 13 September 2010 08:29 (fourteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znYJXIw2UKw&feature=player_embedded

!!!

― jed_, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link

Haw, that is marvellous.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link

lol

― Chinedu "Edu" Obasi Ogbuke (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link

Just a reminder for those prepared to face the travel chaos tomorrow, I'll be in town from about 3.

― treefell, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 17:00 (fourteen years ago) link

immaculate

― a cankle of rads (Gukbe), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 17:01 (fourteen years ago) link

did they set the fixture date deliberately so the rangers tards are still comatose in manchester gutters when the pope is in glasgow?

― Chinedu "Edu" Obasi Ogbuke (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 17:01 (fourteen years ago) link

treefell, can you post here or on your facebook wall (or mine) where you'll be around 5.30/6-ish and I'll do my very best to make it?

― ailsa, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 17:26 (fourteen years ago) link

I haven't actually got any plans, Ailsa. If there's any place you'd recommend, then I'll be happy to go there.

― treefell, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 17:59 (fourteen years ago) link

Mono

― jed_, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 18:12 (fourteen years ago) link

You're headed to Wilco @ Barrowlands, right treefell?

― krakow, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 20:25 (fourteen years ago) link

Yeah, that's right krakow.

― treefell, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link

Look out for the red-haired cyclist guy in the photo pit. That's me.

― krakow, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 21:31 (fourteen years ago) link

It does also make Mono rather convenient... ;-)

― krakow, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 21:31 (fourteen years ago) link

NOT FOR ME, IT ISN'T. Also, won't everyone going to Wilco be going to Mono?

― ailsa, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 23:18 (fourteen years ago) link

(though my attendance is not guaranteed, so I will just go with the flow)

― ailsa, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 23:18 (fourteen years ago) link

I want to catch Phil Selway (he of Radiohead drumming duties now playing solo) in support, so I'll head to the Barras for 7:30pm or so whatever plan materialises.

― krakow, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 23:24 (fourteen years ago) link

you cycle in the pit? v irresponsible!

ah I miss going to Glasgow + gigs. Whar's me lottery win.

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 23:29 (fourteen years ago) link

er, except that reminds me that I'm going to Joanna Newsom at the Royal Concert Hall on Monday. Good work, memory. Anyone know what time I can expect things there to end?

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 23:31 (fourteen years ago) link

it varies from artist to artist. Sometimes as early as 10, but never any later than quarter past 11.

― a cankle of rads (Gukbe), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 23:34 (fourteen years ago) link

alright, worst case scenario of missing an encore to catch the lovely last Megabus then. Cheeeeeers.

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 23:39 (fourteen years ago) link

I'll see you at Newsom. I'll be the one cycling up & down the aisles with my camera in hand.

― krakow, Thursday, 16 September 2010 07:52 (fourteen years ago) link

gonna struggle to compete with my motorbike, tbh.

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 16 September 2010 08:56 (fourteen years ago) link

Ailsa, I've sent you a message on Facebook with my mobile no. - that way you can let me know if you're going to be able to make it.

― treefell, Thursday, 16 September 2010 10:17 (fourteen years ago) link

Cheers. Will give you a shout.

― ailsa, Thursday, 16 September 2010 10:42 (fourteen years ago) link

Wilco were great. It was nice to meet you krakow. Sorry you couldn't make it in Ailsa.

― treefell, Thursday, 16 September 2010 22:31 (fourteen years ago) link

It was grand to say hello! Glad you spotted me.

― krakow, Thursday, 16 September 2010 22:35 (fourteen years ago) link

a pal was in manchester the other night and saw that bbc rangers fan live was telling me about it last night glad it turned up on youtube lol!!

― conrad, Thursday, 16 September 2010 22:44 (fourteen years ago) link

i think i've watched that 30 times. still makes me lol.

― jed_, Friday, 17 September 2010 01:12 (fourteen years ago) link

If I'm remembering my WDYLL correctly I believe I saw you tonight, krakow. Disappointingly not on yer bike, but with those steps the elf n safety fascists would snuff it out on the spot, innit.

Good, wasn't it.

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 00:53 (fourteen years ago) link

I thought it was absolutely wonderful. Totally exquisite.

http://krakow.zenfolio.com/img/s8/v11/p836337751-3.jpg

― krakow, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 09:56 (fourteen years ago) link

pl excuse the cross-posting, my friend marc has selected this film (and drawn this fab) poster for the monorail film club on sunday:

http://www.ilike.org.uk/2010/09/one_way_pendulum_monorail_film.html

― Ward Fowler, Friday, 24 September 2010 19:41 (fourteen years ago) link

one month passes...

I have a week off work coming up, and I would like to not spend it sitting in the house all day doing nothing, but neither would I like to break the bank. What would ilxors recommend for me to fill my seven days with? I'll probably do Kelvingrove and the Transport Museum at some point because, even though I've been a few times before, I never get bored of them, but are there any hidden gems or good ideas you can give me?

― get the fuck out of my mouth (boxedjoy), Saturday, 30 October 2010 10:09 (fourteen years ago) link

try glasgow more

― mist of the beats (rip van wanko), Saturday, 30 October 2010 10:14 (fourteen years ago) link

Transport museum, if I remember rightly, is closed for relocation. Sorry to drop that wee bombshell.

Cathedral?

― argosgold (AndyTheScot), Saturday, 30 October 2010 13:06 (fourteen years ago) link

people's palace :D

― conrad, Saturday, 30 October 2010 13:23 (fourteen years ago) link

Summerlee is a wee bit out the way but is an interesting (and free) way to kill a couple of hours. You get to go on a tram and down an actual dark scary mine.

http://www.visitlanarkshire.com/attractions/historic-heritage/Summerlee-The-Museum-of-Scottish-Industrial-Life/

― a fucking abortion (onimo), Saturday, 30 October 2010 13:31 (fourteen years ago) link

new lanark. annie mcleod experience will blow your mind.

― Truther Vandross (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 30 October 2010 14:02 (fourteen years ago) link

New Lanark seconded - I love that walk up to the Falls of Clyde. The Tenement House is pretty good, and handy for whatever's on at the CCA if you wanted to go there afterwards.

― Madchen, Saturday, 30 October 2010 15:23 (fourteen years ago) link

GOMA always worth a wander round. New Lanark thirded. I like the look of that Summerlee place, might suggest that as a trip for my brother's kids next summer.

If you have a car, Culzean Castle is a great wee day out. If you have National Trust membership, it's all free, but even without you can still just pay for parking and do all the walks and look at the deer and stuff. Our summer days out at Culzean alone more than justify the money we give the National Trust.

http://www.culzeanexperience.org/

Burrell Collection also worth a go, plus Highland cows in Pollok Park!

― ailsa, Saturday, 30 October 2010 16:01 (fourteen years ago) link

Spent a year living 25 miles from New Lanark - still have no idea what it is, but I've only ever heard good things about it.

Googling now...

― argosgold (AndyTheScot), Saturday, 30 October 2010 16:02 (fourteen years ago) link

Also, rather shamefully, I've never been to the fossil grove in Victoria Park. Go, and report back please.

The Botanics are lovely this time of year (if you can get a rain-free day), and you can try and get into the disused railway station.

We went to a wedding in New Lanark a few years back. It is absolutely lovely.

― ailsa, Saturday, 30 October 2010 16:04 (fourteen years ago) link

Good shout on the GOMA - back in the day I used to be one of "those" hanging around outside it, and I always got angry when I realised that I was the only one of my pals who ever actually went inside it. My week is already looking better now, thanks!

― get the fuck out of my mouth (boxedjoy), Saturday, 30 October 2010 16:12 (fourteen years ago) link

Pollok FC v Largs Thistle on Saturday afternoon in Shawlands; 2pm kick off, entry a mere £5!

― scotstvo, Saturday, 30 October 2010 23:19 (fourteen years ago) link

Jedward doing the Christmas lights at Braehead on Thursday!

― ailsa, Saturday, 30 October 2010 23:20 (fourteen years ago) link

Paisley has got Olly Murs and THE SINGING KETTLE turning theirs on a week on Saturday.

The Singing Kettle! I didn't know they were still active. Do you think it's unrealistic to hope I get picked from the audience to come on stage and sing with them as they do at their shows?

― get the fuck out of my mouth (boxedjoy), Sunday, 31 October 2010 07:19 (fourteen years ago) link

Zombie Walk today at 3pm in Kelvingrove Park.

― krakow, Sunday, 31 October 2010 09:38 (fourteen years ago) link

Yeah, we're going to see Olly Murs to continue our tradition of going to support our local council doing something and then getting cold and going to the pub and missing all the acts :-) We do get an X Factor reject every single year now for the lights or the fireworks or both, but presumably boat pushed out too much paying for Olly Murs to afford one for the fireworks, and they've got, somewhat ridiculously, a Paolo Nutini tribute act.

Zombie Walk!

― ailsa, Sunday, 31 October 2010 10:01 (fourteen years ago) link

Glasgow Zombie Walk 2010

http://krakow.zenfolio.com/img/s9/v14/p510887024-3.jpg

http://krakow.zenfolio.com/img/s8/v12/p446505621-3.jpg

http://krakow.zenfolio.com/img/s9/v14/p394194078-3.jpg

http://krakow.zenfolio.com/img/s10/v18/p36038875-3.jpg

http://krakow.zenfolio.com/img/s8/v11/p461499352-3.jpg

http://krakow.zenfolio.com/img/s10/v18/p1066075708-3.jpg

― krakow, Sunday, 31 October 2010 18:46 (fourteen years ago) link

great photos!

― ailsa, Sunday, 31 October 2010 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link

haha, I just saw an advert for the new Sydney Devine album on the telly "available from record shops and woollen mills". Love Scotland.

― ailsa, Sunday, 31 October 2010 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link

Thanks! It was great fun to watch - the costumes and dedication to the cause were a pleasure to behold.

― krakow, Sunday, 31 October 2010 19:20 (fourteen years ago) link

yeah gd fun pics kraks, zomb in pic 2 is esp impressive

have been following w/ interest ppl's tips for places to go/sights to see.... after four years here, still feel there are huge areas of the city i know nothing abt... keep meaning to buy an all-day bus ticket one day and go roaming w a map... living in dennistoun, my default 'trip' is the cathedral/necropolis... i love the views from the top of alexandra park, too

over time, i have become v attached to the rousseau and voltaire 2nd hand bkshop down otago lane, off kelvinbridge... it is proper old skool eccentric musty bibliophillia, books stacked everywhere floor to ceiling, the stock is gd and changes all the time, prices are mostly v fair, and the hippy tea shop round the corner does a delish pot of milk oolong

― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 31 October 2010 19:53 (fourteen years ago) link

Excellent pictures of the zombie walk!

― Madchen, Sunday, 31 October 2010 21:25 (fourteen years ago) link

tachai ovna is one of the greatest things about glasgow.

― jed_, Sunday, 31 October 2010 23:13 (fourteen years ago) link

... if you're a hippy. :D

― Madchen, Monday, 1 November 2010 12:10 (fourteen years ago) link

Or if you like tea (I am not a hippy and I don't like tea. I've also never been in Tchai Ovna).

― ailsa, Monday, 1 November 2010 12:12 (fourteen years ago) link

you should go, it's other-worldly!

― jed_, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 00:15 (fourteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

midnight and thick snow in dennistoun... here we go again

― Ward Fowler, Saturday, 27 November 2010 00:04 (fourteen years ago) link

Woohoo!

― krakow, Saturday, 27 November 2010 00:19 (fourteen years ago) link

Alexandra Park, Dennistoun earlier today...

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs967.snc4/76020_10150322057730022_837550021_15878515_4878288_n.jpg

― krakow, Sunday, 28 November 2010 16:22 (fourteen years ago) link

wowza. nice composition too :)

― jed_, Sunday, 28 November 2010 16:28 (fourteen years ago) link

Thanks! It was rather lovely up there.

― krakow, Sunday, 28 November 2010 16:38 (fourteen years ago) link

Everywhere looks lovely in the snow! Even Dennistoun :-)

― ailsa, Sunday, 28 November 2010 16:52 (fourteen years ago) link

v nice krakow. walking home at 3am or so last night i was sad to have used all of my disposable camera photos on people sitting around doing not much. now we have about six inches over here and it's both lovely and, when huge sheets fall off of the roofs, kinda terrifying.

(also encountered the loudest and freakiest thunderstorm i'd ever heard last night. and so did all of my friends who were woken by it. <3 u mad weather.)

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 28 November 2010 17:06 (fourteen years ago) link

oh i didn't hear that.

― jed_, Sunday, 28 November 2010 17:08 (fourteen years ago) link

Me neither.

I think I'm going to try cycling to a gig in the west end tonight. The main roads look clear but wet.

― krakow, Sunday, 28 November 2010 17:44 (fourteen years ago) link

oh no, i'm in dundee, sorry. shamefully using the glasgow thread as a scotland-wide thread here.

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 28 November 2010 17:51 (fourteen years ago) link

gtfo!

(joke)

― rappa ternt sagna (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 28 November 2010 17:55 (fourteen years ago) link

:''(

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 28 November 2010 17:57 (fourteen years ago) link

gonna go start a dundee thread and talk to myself.

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 28 November 2010 17:58 (fourteen years ago) link

i dunno, maybe some dundonian junkie will keep off selling a laptop he's burgled off someone long enough to stumble across ilx.

― rappa ternt sagna (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 28 November 2010 18:10 (fourteen years ago) link

just thinking about dundee has me googling mcgonagall:

Ye sons of Great Britain, I think no shame
To write in praise of brave General Graham!
Whose name will be handed down to posterity without any stigma,
Because, at the battle of El-Teb, he defeated Osman Digna.

― rappa ternt sagna (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 28 November 2010 18:13 (fourteen years ago) link

Wow, look at the Park! Which bit was that pic taken, over on the golf course?

― Madchen, Sunday, 28 November 2010 21:47 (fourteen years ago) link

Yeah, over the far side, but at the top of the hill. It was completely untouched over there. I went tramping across acres of totally virgin snow on the golf course, even at midday. Awesome!

― krakow, Sunday, 28 November 2010 23:12 (fourteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

i can't compete w krakow, but glasgow green was beautiful and wintry today:

http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa362/Andrew_Littlefield/Photo0008.jpg

― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 19:57 (fourteen years ago) link

The sunset this afternoon was stupendous. I was cycling back from Coatbridge to the East End and had to pull over to watch it across the snow-covered fields and misty tenements in all its blazing red and orange glory. Wonderful.

― krakow, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 22:00 (fourteen years ago) link

I'm in Glasgow next week, hopefully. Looking forward to some wintry scenes!

― Neil S, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 22:07 (fourteen years ago) link

Out the back of our house along the Black Cart last week .

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5122/5262044324_80aac77309.jpg

― ailsa, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 22:37 (fourteen years ago) link

Oh wow. Where is that ailsa?

― krakow, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 22:39 (fourteen years ago) link

Renfrew, just across the river from the airport, looking over towards Inchinnan.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 22:42 (fourteen years ago) link

Note to stalkers: it's not RIGHT outside my house.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 22:43 (fourteen years ago) link

*takes notes*

― jed_, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 22:49 (fourteen years ago) link

(that's not right as in not directly. Not not right as in left, necessarily. I just realised when I said it was out the back of my house, that you might think that my back garden looked like that. It doesn't).

― ailsa, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 22:59 (fourteen years ago) link

great pic ailsa!

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 06:54 (fourteen years ago) link

That's probably the nicest any part of Renfrewshire has ever looked, congratulations ailsa!

― o0o00h really? (boxedjoy), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 10:25 (fourteen years ago) link

yup that is nice. got it in HD?

― cozen, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 10:48 (fourteen years ago) link

Thanks all :-)

― ailsa, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 11:42 (fourteen years ago) link

I have stalked your flickr for a large version of that for my desktop :)

(and I know where you live!)

― Insane Clown 2 Electric Juggalo (onimo), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 12:55 (fourteen years ago) link

I'm looking forward to my annual thread post here tomorrow

― 486.52 (CaptainLorax), Monday, 20 December 2010 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link

on the 21st december, on the 21st december!
glasgow king tut's is the venue, glasgow king tut's is the venue!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

― 486.52 (CaptainLorax), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 06:45 (fourteen years ago) link

christmas gift-buying related question - does anyone know if the guitar shop by mono still sells those ~£15 ukuleles?

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 11:17 (fourteen years ago) link

I believe they are £20 now, but other than that yes.

The shop is called 'Strung Out' and this is their website, so you could phone and check what they have in... http://www.strungoutguitars.com/

― krakow, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link

excellent, thank you.

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 14:40 (fourteen years ago) link

No problem. Best of luck.

― krakow, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 15:20 (fourteen years ago) link

yw

― 486.52 (CaptainLorax), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:51 (fourteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Fire gutting Steak and Cherry just now; spreading to nearby flats.

― stet, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 01:35 (thirteen years ago) link

had to google S&C. that's not good!

― jed_, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 02:00 (thirteen years ago) link

Glasgow, I am up next weekend at kind of short notice. Not sure when I am available for a pint, but there will be an opportunity.

― progspeed you! black metallers (aldo), Sunday, 13 February 2011 17:46 (thirteen years ago) link

yay! There is a small football match on on Sunday, so not then.

― ailsa, Sunday, 13 February 2011 17:50 (thirteen years ago) link

Immediately after it (lunchtime kick off, no?) may be a time.

― progspeed you! black metallers (aldo), Sunday, 13 February 2011 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link

Pick a suitable (i.e. not rammed with numpties who are likely to beat me up) pub and that sounds like a plan.

― ailsa, Sunday, 13 February 2011 18:15 (thirteen years ago) link

Right, Sunday lunchtime is A Thing.

Suggestions for where would be good welcomed. I will be in town from about 1300, so somewhere I can get a nice lunch as well would be of benefit. Shame West Beer shut, that might have been a good plan.

I'm sure somebody will say NOT MONO at some point.

― progspeed you! black metallers (aldo), Monday, 14 February 2011 12:08 (thirteen years ago) link

I suspect anywhere on the east side of Glasgow will be rammed with people coming back from Celtic Park, and anywhere with a telly will be rammed full stop. Mono or the Note might actually be an option at this point due to lack of telly, but this entirely depends if your idea of a nice lunch involves tofu.

― ailsa, Monday, 14 February 2011 14:06 (thirteen years ago) link

eh when did west shut?

― conrad, Monday, 14 February 2011 14:39 (thirteen years ago) link

Ah, google suggests it is open again. It shut early last year, did it not?

In which case West seems like an option, unlikely to get a football crowd and with decent food. Any objections?

― progspeed you! black metallers (aldo), Monday, 14 February 2011 17:24 (thirteen years ago) link

Not walking through Bridgeton after an OF game :-( Wouldn't bet on it not being hoaching after the match either due to proximity to Celtic Park.

― ailsa, Monday, 14 February 2011 17:36 (thirteen years ago) link

It was open in the summer last year as we had a work day out there, btw. Someone else mentioned to me that it had shut, but I never investigated further.

― ailsa, Monday, 14 February 2011 17:37 (thirteen years ago) link

I think both Lucy and Trish have said to me independently it had shut. Oh well, pleased to be proved wrong but Ailsa probably has a point about proximity. Note, then?

― progspeed you! black metallers (aldo), Monday, 14 February 2011 18:14 (thirteen years ago) link

What about the Pot Still? Had a couple of decent FAPs in there, can't see it being an option for the football crowds? Or, if you're after food, how's the Drum & Monkey likely to be for crowds, I can't remember if they have tellies but it never strikes me as a particularly football-watchy sort of a pub?

Are we likely to be many in number, we could probably meet somewhere then find somewhere else if necessary?

― ailsa, Monday, 14 February 2011 18:26 (thirteen years ago) link

hey guys what about mono

― Gukbe, Monday, 14 February 2011 18:27 (thirteen years ago) link

YOU ARE HILARIOUS.

(I promise when you come over we will go to Mono and I won't complain)

― ailsa, Monday, 14 February 2011 18:28 (thirteen years ago) link

haha! like i could get anyone out to mono. when i come over it'll be The Belle and then Oran Mor for the more irresponsible among us.

― Gukbe, Monday, 14 February 2011 18:30 (thirteen years ago) link

Yay stupid late nights in Oran Mor :-)

(that needs a pukey hungover emoticon, tbh)

― ailsa, Monday, 14 February 2011 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link

Pot Still fine with me. As to numbers, you and I are the only ones that seem to be coming as yet since nobody else has said anything (although I am sure G will be with you).

― progspeed you! black metallers (aldo), Monday, 14 February 2011 18:38 (thirteen years ago) link

the pot still is shut!

― conrad, Monday, 14 February 2011 18:50 (thirteen years ago) link

j/k ;p

― conrad, Monday, 14 February 2011 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link

This is why Glasgow FAPs are legendary.

― progspeed you! black metallers (aldo), Monday, 14 February 2011 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link

West was open last time I heard, but I also heard that it is rammed on football days.

― Madchen, Monday, 14 February 2011 20:17 (thirteen years ago) link

aldo, just occurred to me - would you prefer a pub with a telly, or is the sight of Hibs on the telly likely to put you off your beer?

― ailsa, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 13:41 (thirteen years ago) link

The latter tbh

― progspeed you! black metallers (aldo), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 18:57 (thirteen years ago) link

Right, final decision because I'm leaving now. Pot Still, from 1300, Sunday 20th Feb.

― progspeed you! black metallers (aldo), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link

I'll not be there until later, game doesn't kick off until 12.30 so won't be back in city centre until nearer 3pm...

― ailsa, Thursday, 17 February 2011 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link

I know, I was only trying to drum up enthusiasm in case anyone is tempted to join us.

― progspeed you! black metallers (aldo), Thursday, 17 February 2011 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link

Due to lack of interest I will be an hour or so later.

― progspeed you! black metallers (aldo), Sunday, 20 February 2011 11:55 (thirteen years ago) link

Hooray for Glasgow miniFAPpage!

― ailsa, Sunday, 20 February 2011 17:20 (thirteen years ago) link

I watched it on the telly, he was a good yard onside watching it again so As You Were.

― progspeed you! black metallers (aldo), Sunday, 20 February 2011 18:49 (thirteen years ago) link

two months pass...

doing the rounds on the twitter http://twitpic.com/4rv7xw

― tending tropics (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 1 May 2011 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link

Surprised that no-one has mention the Kelvingrove thing on Friday here...

Did anyone go? What are anyone's thoughts?

― food critic-esque fanny (krakow), Sunday, 1 May 2011 21:15 (thirteen years ago) link

Ha, jim, I retweeted that earlier. Quality.

― ailsa, Sunday, 1 May 2011 23:03 (thirteen years ago) link

That was round about my hood in Govanhill—it's gone now :)

― scotstvo, Monday, 2 May 2011 11:56 (thirteen years ago) link

three months pass...

World War Z starts filming today in the city centre.

Already a bit of talk about Brad Pitt knocking about town. Apparently he went into The Good Spirits Co. to ask for Buckfast yesterday.

― just call me brian (krakow), Monday, 15 August 2011 08:04 (thirteen years ago) link

He was in Paisley last week apparently, looking around the Coats Memorial church.

― ailsa, Monday, 15 August 2011 11:56 (thirteen years ago) link

Also, they were filming World War Z in Malta when I was there last month. I think Brad's stalking me, tbh.

― ailsa, Monday, 15 August 2011 11:57 (thirteen years ago) link

Yes, that will be exactly what's happening.

― Madchen, Monday, 15 August 2011 12:21 (thirteen years ago) link

What other reason could he have for being in Paisley :)

― ailsa, Monday, 15 August 2011 12:58 (thirteen years ago) link

Prince fan?

― Madchen, Monday, 15 August 2011 13:02 (thirteen years ago) link

Probably just researching aimless shambling undead characters for his film, I reckon.

― ailsa, Monday, 15 August 2011 13:14 (thirteen years ago) link

"The location manager for World War Z said Glasgow had been chosen because of its architecture, wide roads and grid layout."

― A41 (admrl), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 18:14 (thirteen years ago) link

I am tempted to move to Glasgow. Bear in mind I've never been, but still.

― A41 (admrl), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 18:14 (thirteen years ago) link

Glasgow is great in most respects, apart from the weather.

― Neil S, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 18:45 (thirteen years ago) link

Weather gives it character.

― scotstvo, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 18:47 (thirteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

PJ Harvey tonight at the Concert Hall - is anyone else going? Could well be rather special.

― just call me brian (krakow), Sunday, 4 September 2011 11:25 (thirteen years ago) link

I was there. She sang remarkably. It was not a rock gig, despite the dancing in the aisles by one or two (which I found admirable). I've now seen her more times in Glasgow than anyone else I've seen in Glasgow. First show: 1993, Rid of Me tour, Barrowlands - I am old, maybe, but if so then so is she, but she doesn't seem old, so maybe I also am not old.

― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 21:21 (thirteen years ago) link

why are you in glasgow

― conrad, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 21:30 (thirteen years ago) link

I thought it rather sublime.

Here's a long-distance 'my seats were nowhere as good as I'd hoped' photo...

https://p.twimg.com/AYsLkuWCIAENA_Y.jpg

― just call me brian (krakow), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 21:55 (thirteen years ago) link

If conrad's question is to me: I live in Glasgow, which is the last place on the planet I would've chosen to be in, say, 2003. But for now it's home!

The photo above was my view exactly. Unless there was a lot of zoom used, the photographer must've been in my vicinity.

― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 22:15 (thirteen years ago) link

ah I thought you lived in london

― conrad, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 22:21 (thirteen years ago) link

I did from 1996-2009, so I kind of think of myself as a Londoner with a Scottish accent and I miss it much, but for now I live in a flat overlooking Saltmarket, which is constantly entertaining.

― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 22:30 (thirteen years ago) link

ah !

― conrad, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 22:33 (thirteen years ago) link

i think i saw her on the rid of me tour but had actually gone to see tricky. was that the gig?

― jed_, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 23:14 (thirteen years ago) link

Possible, though I can't remember anything about support acts. 1993 seems early for him though? If he was playing with PJ would more likely have been her next album, in 1995, I think.

― Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 01:23 (thirteen years ago) link

hey krakow (or other well-informed ilxors) - ever been to this venue? i'd like to see The Thing, I think...

http://www.platform-online.co.uk/index.html?s=events&ec=viewEvent&event_id=429

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 11:59 (thirteen years ago) link

I have indeed. It's a nice place. I would definitely recommend that you go to Eastern Promise. I will be there.

― just call me brian (krakow), Thursday, 8 September 2011 19:15 (thirteen years ago) link

cool - a friend and I plan to cycle over to m8no on sunday to pick up our ticks - think they're offering some kind of all-in bus and fest pass for not too much money - so see u there! (i wonder if grimly fiendish is a fan of to rocco rot? i think i spied him at the last emeralds gig at the arches but again, i was with people and couldn't stop to say hello...)

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 8 September 2011 20:47 (thirteen years ago) link

Yeah, there have been minibuses organised from Mono to Platform for all the gigs that I've been to there. I prefer to cycle the wild east!

― just call me brian (krakow), Thursday, 8 September 2011 21:17 (thirteen years ago) link

so yesterday we got to Mono about 6pm, bought our tickets and decided to have something to eat. The place was virtually empty, but somehow we still had to wait 40 minutes for our food to arrive (and these were not complicated dishes.) When it did finally turn up there was no apology or explanation (and my food was mediocre at best.) NEVER AGAIN, 13th Note HELLO

― Ward Fowler, Monday, 12 September 2011 10:04 (thirteen years ago) link

i stopped going there a long time ago. the staff are so fkng rude.

― jed_, Monday, 12 September 2011 12:36 (thirteen years ago) link

I'm going there right this minute (I live an egg-throw away). I always find the staff very pleasant, but they can be incompetent. You'd wait a long time for a drink if it was busy, but Mono isn't often very busy.

― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 12 September 2011 16:40 (thirteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

'Sounding A Different Way' - a fascinating, thought-provoking and amusing film by Ben Ewart-Dean, Fergus Lawrie & Neil Simpson about noise, sound & marginal music in Scotland...

http://www.vimeo.com/27681390
http://www.vimeo.com/27728493

I wholly recommend it.

― gay for gordon-levitt (krakow), Friday, 7 October 2011 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link

three months pass...

so who's left who hasn't joined the brain drain (or gone back home)!?

me, cozen, krakow, onimo eyeballs kicks, ward f plus the paisley posse? although presumably s1m0n is still here from the former ilxors?

― jed_, Monday, 16 January 2012 23:43 (twelve years ago) link

i live in glasgow.

― zverotic discourse (jim in glasgow), Monday, 16 January 2012 23:48 (twelve years ago) link

:-)

― jed_, Monday, 16 January 2012 23:52 (twelve years ago) link

Hi dere from between Paisley and Glasgow!

― ailsa, Monday, 16 January 2012 23:56 (twelve years ago) link

(are me and Tom D the paisley posse?)

― ailsa, Monday, 16 January 2012 23:57 (twelve years ago) link

i meant you and your man, i didn't know you were between x

― jed_, Monday, 16 January 2012 23:58 (twelve years ago) link

Ah, got you. Yes, we've not actually lived in Paisley for over ten years, but use it for shopping and pubbage because Renfrew is bad.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 00:02 (twelve years ago) link

the last two times i've visited home i've come back to london viciously ill, i think i'm now allergic to the west of scotland. :'(

― sunn :o))) (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 08:16 (twelve years ago) link

still here, still lovin' it, still wld like to go for a FAP one day (and one day I wld like to go and see Celtic play w/ ailsa and onimo)

shall prob be attending the next arika wankfest at the tramway (keiji hanio solo vox perf, hardcore!)

― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 10:13 (twelve years ago) link

Still very much here. Let's all meet up one night...

― only NWOFHM! is real (krakow), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 10:39 (twelve years ago) link

I don't give a care as to where, so if long-standing distastes of certain venues persevere then someone call a new one... how about Heavenly? I've not been there, but would like to try it...

http://heavenlyglasgow.co.uk/

― only NWOFHM! is real (krakow), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 10:52 (twelve years ago) link

Ward, that can easily be arranged!

I like Heavenly, because a city centre bar where you can get change out of three quid for a pint of Guinness without being surrounded by muttering jakies is something of a rarity.

Can this wait until early February? I have a lot of January left with v little pay packet to cover it.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 10:58 (twelve years ago) link

excellent, thanks ailsa! am also skint for the next month or so, but will be in touch after that...

and a Heavenly FAP sounds a good idea (a friend of mine has been there for an indie pop pub quiz or two, am sure an ILX Krew wld Klean up!)

― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 11:08 (twelve years ago) link

That would be good with me too, I'm really busy with photographing at the moment.

I've heard positive things about Heavenly. I believe that Bubblegum Records are involved to some degree.

― only NWOFHM! is real (krakow), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 11:09 (twelve years ago) link

I will be in town on 11th Feb at lunchtime - could manage a couple before you go off to the ICT match?

― Sugary pee is not normal (aldo), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 11:21 (twelve years ago) link

Me and a mate are regular second-placers in the indie quiz.

Ward, Celtic don't have a home game until mid-Feb anyway. I will warn you in advance that we sit so far away from the pitch that you may need breathing apparatus and a set of binoculars.

xpost, yes 11th Feb to be precise. I say yay to pint with aldo.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 11:24 (twelve years ago) link

I'll be working on Saturday 11th Feb, but could nip out on my break for an hour or so, depending on the time. Would be fun.

― only NWOFHM! is real (krakow), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 11:26 (twelve years ago) link

Cool, a pint with aldo and then a football match sounds like a grand day out.

― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 11:32 (twelve years ago) link

I shall investigate tickets up our bit of the stadium - there'll be plenty scope for moving a few rows or seats away as ICT games won't attract too much of a walk-up crowd unless we sign someone proper good in the transfer window that people want to see.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 11:36 (twelve years ago) link

(n.b. that is not going to happen)

― ailsa, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 11:37 (twelve years ago) link

Newbie question - what's an ICT game??

― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 11:50 (twelve years ago) link

Supercaleygoballistic etc

― Then in walked Barbara Castle with the Lady Eleanor (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 11:53 (twelve years ago) link

TY, sounds exactly the right fixture for me, think I have to work my way up to an Old Firm game (only ground I've been to in Scotland = Cappielow Park)

― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 11:57 (twelve years ago) link

Yikes

― Then in walked Barbara Castle with the Lady Eleanor (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 11:57 (twelve years ago) link

Never been to a football match in my life.

― only NWOFHM! is real (krakow), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 12:02 (twelve years ago) link

Things to do in 2012, Krakow!

― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 12:04 (twelve years ago) link

tbh don't mind going to the match myself.

― Sugary pee is not normal (aldo), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 12:13 (twelve years ago) link

What a shame that I'll be working.

― only NWOFHM! is real (krakow), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 12:14 (twelve years ago) link

Celtic v Rangers games - vastly over-rated, usually a terrible game, 90 minutes of shiting myself that the stadium is going to fall down.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 12:38 (twelve years ago) link

Surprised and pleased to be included in jed's roll call considering I rarely post on ilx. I would be very tempted to turn up at a Glasgow FAP - not this month though, for the same reason others have given.

― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:21 (twelve years ago) link

Nice bit of propaganda for Weegies. The study was written by my brother's girlfriend, but she's not biased, oh no.

― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 January 2012 13:50 (twelve years ago) link

I had done a quick scan of the thread prior to posting sorry i missed Jim or he was hidden!

I'm definitely up for a drink in february.

― jed_, Thursday, 19 January 2012 21:25 (twelve years ago) link

two weeks pass...

I would say are there any plans yet given it's next weekend, but I know what Glasgow's like.

― Aunt Acid and the Gaviscons (aldo), Saturday, 4 February 2012 16:34 (twelve years ago) link

I just remembered about this last night! I am v. skint, but am up for moderate amounts of boozing.

― ailsa, Saturday, 4 February 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link

up for't.

― jed_, Saturday, 4 February 2012 16:46 (twelve years ago) link

Are we going to the match y/n?

I guess the best place for a pint is somewhere handy for krakow to nip out to at lunchtime. Since I don't know where he works and haven't been out in Glasgow for maybe a couple of years then somebody call it. Noon?

― Aunt Acid and the Gaviscons (aldo), Saturday, 4 February 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link

krakow works near qn street station iirc.

oh is this a football thing?

― jed_, Saturday, 4 February 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago) link

Doesn't have to be - I'm not bothered either way. I had assumed ailsa and/or onimo would be going to watch the rematch of today but that was more of a guess than anything else.

― Aunt Acid and the Gaviscons (aldo), Saturday, 4 February 2012 16:59 (twelve years ago) link

Not necessarily football for everyone - onimo and I (and maybe aldo?) are going to the football that afternoon, hence early start in pub. Ward F had mentioned about maybe joining us, but I don't know if that's happening.

xpost

― ailsa, Saturday, 4 February 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link

Krakow, how long do you get for lunch and how near your work would you like us?

― ailsa, Saturday, 4 February 2012 18:25 (twelve years ago) link

... there are very few decent pubs near krakow's work, it's Wetherspoon central, mostly.

― ailsa, Saturday, 4 February 2012 18:26 (twelve years ago) link

Saying that, Wetherspoon = cheap real ales + very real likelihood of seats.

― ailsa, Saturday, 4 February 2012 18:27 (twelve years ago) link

The vale is alright iirc.

― zverotic discourse (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 4 February 2012 18:38 (twelve years ago) link

I like the Vale, but (1) don't see it as fap-friendly and (2) doesn't it get quite busy before Celtic games? It is approx 10000000000 x better than the shithole next door.

― ailsa, Saturday, 4 February 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago) link

How about Heavenly? I can take an hour & that's not far at all; I'm a fast walker.

― brain (krakow), Saturday, 4 February 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link

I'm easy though, anything within that kind of distance would suit me. I'm happy at Wetherspoons nowadays and would be interested to try the Vale if it weren't too busy. As long as I know in the morning to give my fellow workmate friend warning ahead of time so we can arrange for him to get his lunch at a decent time, I can take a break pretty much whenever.

― brain (krakow), Saturday, 4 February 2012 20:44 (twelve years ago) link

Vale is fine by me if fine with others - v handy for your work and v handy for onward travel to football. Guess being in early doors will secure seats.

― ailsa, Saturday, 4 February 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link

Cool. It would indeed be super handy. Not somewhere I would ever think to go myself.

― brain (krakow), Saturday, 4 February 2012 21:06 (twelve years ago) link

Given the random and unexpected success of fappage in the Alpen Lodge, I'm all for random odd pubs.

― ailsa, Saturday, 4 February 2012 21:10 (twelve years ago) link

Oh god, that time in the Alpen Lodge when it played all the tracks we would have on the jukebox for free.

― Aunt Acid and the Gaviscons (aldo), Saturday, 4 February 2012 21:44 (twelve years ago) link

And then played JAMC even though it wasn't on the jukebox.

― Aunt Acid and the Gaviscons (aldo), Saturday, 4 February 2012 21:45 (twelve years ago) link

Did we collectively hallucinate that? Good times!

― ailsa, Saturday, 4 February 2012 21:51 (twelve years ago) link

unfortunately i have an absolute ton of freelance work to do this weekend, subbing an old ppl's magazine, so i can't come out to play - but would still like to 'do' parkhead, at some point.

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 12:56 (twelve years ago) link

I am v. skint, so the cheaper the better if you ask me. Who's in for definite - me, aldo, krakow, jed. Jim? Eyeball Kicks?

― ailsa, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link

Yeah, I'm definitely in for a little break-time ILX meeting!

― brain (krakow), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 20:27 (twelve years ago) link

Aye, me.

G says he's taking the boys but has a spare if we meet him by the ground before.

― Aunt Acid and the Gaviscons (aldo), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link

Do we have a back-up plan in case this bomb guy's obliterated the area before tomorrow?

(aldo, I appear to have lost your phone number).

― ailsa, Friday, 10 February 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago) link

We go into Queen Street so g_d only knows where we'll end up if it goes off.

Ok. If Glasgow is blown up then Alpen Lodge. We all know where it is. I will still aim off to be wherever at about 12. For those who haven't met me before I will be wearing a grey Circle (the Finnish band) t-shirt and/or a Neurosis hoodie.

Ailsa , does your number still end FOUR ZERO? I will text you if it does.

― Aunt Acid and the Gaviscons (aldo), Friday, 10 February 2012 22:47 (twelve years ago) link

aldo, we'd better co-ordinate our Circle t-shirt choice! NWOFHM is all that I wear!

― brain (krakow), Friday, 10 February 2012 22:50 (twelve years ago) link

Aldo, no, it doesn't. email me or else get my number off onimo if you're in touch with him.

― ailsa, Friday, 10 February 2012 22:56 (twelve years ago) link

I will wear the one from last autumn with the round logo that you can't make out which band it's for. Which kind of makes my last post redundant to everyone except you. NWOFHM xpost

― Aunt Acid and the Gaviscons (aldo), Friday, 10 February 2012 23:01 (twelve years ago) link

I have just sent you my number by FB message Ailsa.

― Aunt Acid and the Gaviscons (aldo), Friday, 10 February 2012 23:05 (twelve years ago) link

Phone numbers obtained. Glasgow FAP is go! Now get this bomb dude shifted, eh?

― ailsa, Friday, 10 February 2012 23:26 (twelve years ago) link

Is that still going on? blimey.

― stet, Saturday, 11 February 2012 00:00 (twelve years ago) link

its over

― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Saturday, 11 February 2012 00:02 (twelve years ago) link

Shifted just after I asked for him to be shifted. Still on for the Vale then, chaps?

― ailsa, Saturday, 11 February 2012 00:14 (twelve years ago) link

What time is anyone turning up?

― brain (krakow), Saturday, 11 February 2012 08:36 (twelve years ago) link

I'm heading there for about 12.

― Aunt Acid and the Gaviscons (aldo), Saturday, 11 February 2012 08:49 (twelve years ago) link

Cool, I think Ailsa mentioned the same. That should suit me, but you know where I am, if I don't appear!

I'll pick out a different Circle t-shirt just now...

― brain (krakow), Saturday, 11 February 2012 08:50 (twelve years ago) link

I'll be there around 12 as well.

― ailsa, Saturday, 11 February 2012 09:13 (twelve years ago) link

In, sat opposite the door.

― Aunt Acid and the Gaviscons (aldo), Saturday, 11 February 2012 12:06 (twelve years ago) link

Good times. Cheap beer, having to obtain a key to another level to go to the ladies, being the only woman in a packed pub. Actually genuinely quite liked it! Good to catch up with aldo and krakow.

Vague plans were made for an assault on music quizzes. Anyone else up for this?

― ailsa, Saturday, 11 February 2012 18:05 (twelve years ago) link

I really liked the Vale too! It was good to meet you for the first time aldo and to catch you again a bit more properly ailsa. I hope that you had a good rest of the afternoon. It made a really nice change for a Saturday lunchtime for me. Up for an assault on various music quizzes...

― brain (krakow), Saturday, 11 February 2012 20:05 (twelve years ago) link

Forgot to show you my Circle t-shirt aldo, I was wearing the red fist...

― brain (krakow), Saturday, 11 February 2012 20:05 (twelve years ago) link

one month passes...

Glasgow, I've missed you. just arrived for a three day conferencel at SECC and staying across the road at the Campanile. currently sitting in the hotel bar and wondering whether a restaurant next door which boasts Japanese, Thai and Chinese cuisine via a large neon sign could possibly be any good

― Grandpont Genie, Sunday, 25 March 2012 21:23 (twelve years ago) link

It is, actually!

― ailsa, Sunday, 25 March 2012 21:27 (twelve years ago) link

two months pass...

Have any Glaswegians seen Tavernier's Death Watch. Don't think I've ever seen a city photographed on film so lovingly well as this.

― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 12:31 (twelve years ago) link

The first shot of the cemetery is one for all time.

― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 12:31 (twelve years ago) link

saw it at the glasgow film theater last week :-) am always keen to catch old film of my adopted hometown, and yes, loved the dusky, twilight quality to many of the images. it was interesting to see that parts of the city centre have hardly changed in thirty years - i immediately recognised st vincents street, where i work. that cemetery is the necropolis, which is a pretty photogenic place (and about ten minutes away from my flat); it also turns up in The Angels' Share funnily enough, along with other parts of the East End (Mark S wrote a v gd review of the Loach for S&S, btw)

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 12:45 (twelve years ago) link

Interested in The Angels' Share - a Ken Loach comedy, don't think I've seen one..

― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 22:43 (twelve years ago) link

I loved it.

― Madchen, Thursday, 14 June 2012 05:57 (twelve years ago) link

hi madchen!

the angels's share is v v funny in places, but one of the gd things abt it is the way that loach complicates the characters - there's a really moving and brilliantly acted scene where the lead guy is confronted with the effect of his violent behaviour. i can understand why they're billing it as 'the scottish full monty' on the posters, but of course it's not really v helpful or accurate to think of it in that way

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 14 June 2012 08:02 (twelve years ago) link

Yes, that scene was superb.

― Madchen, Thursday, 14 June 2012 10:23 (twelve years ago) link

(Hi!)

― Madchen, Thursday, 14 June 2012 10:23 (twelve years ago) link

two months pass...

"Down in the depths of the earth, an orange revolution"

Glasgow Subway 1980

― Alba, Friday, 24 August 2012 23:43 (twelve years ago) link

I think it still looks like that

― conrad, Saturday, 25 August 2012 11:42 (twelve years ago) link

t&o.xls

― sktsh, Saturday, 25 August 2012 12:28 (twelve years ago) link

Fast & Furious 6 filming is happening in town next week apparently.

― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Sunday, 26 August 2012 11:44 (twelve years ago) link

makes total sense if it's set around charing cross

― very sexual album (schlump), Sunday, 26 August 2012 11:50 (twelve years ago) link

Is Justin Lim directing or skipping this one?

― itt: i forgot that he yells at a butt (sic), Sunday, 26 August 2012 12:40 (twelve years ago) link

http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/News/Fast+and+Furious+6+soon+to+film+in+Glasgow.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-19371103

No Vin Diesel for Glasgow.

― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Sunday, 26 August 2012 12:57 (twelve years ago) link

Brad Pitt

― itt: i forgot that he yells at a butt (sic), Sunday, 26 August 2012 23:43 (twelve years ago) link

three months pass...

festivus drinks - possible or not? let's give it a bash.

― jed_, Saturday, 15 December 2012 00:02 (twelve years ago) link

I'm out of the country Christmas Eve - Hogmanay, but could maybe wring my liver out for Wed/Thurs/Fri next week?

― ailsa, Saturday, 15 December 2012 00:31 (twelve years ago) link

sounds good to me ailsa.

― jed_, Saturday, 15 December 2012 00:54 (twelve years ago) link

ten months pass...

Glasgow! I will be in you next weekend, on my apparently triennial schedule. would anyone FANCY A PINT (or possibly dram)? Sunday afternoon, or even Monday evening, would be especially suitable.

also, anything I shouldn't miss while in town?

― ͼѾͽ (sic), Thursday, 31 October 2013 11:52 (eleven years ago) link

Hi sic. Do you mean the weekend of the 9th? Could def meet you for a pint.

― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Thursday, 31 October 2013 12:22 (eleven years ago) link

whoops, yes! I meant to put "10th" after that "Sunday."

― ͼѾͽ (sic), Thursday, 31 October 2013 13:29 (eleven years ago) link

Magic!

― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Thursday, 31 October 2013 13:58 (eleven years ago) link

I could quite possibly be tempted up the road for this. Pre-emptive NOT MONO post :-)

― ailsa, Thursday, 31 October 2013 16:40 (eleven years ago) link

I should be free too & fancy a little hello.

Events-wise there are a lot of gigs happening on the Saturday night if your tastes stray anywhere into experimental, psych and other relatively under-the-radar type musical territories.
There is at least one band on each of these bills that I personally heartily recommend:
https://www.facebook.com/events/367841443346495/
https://www.facebook.com/events/341275046007896/
https://www.facebook.com/events/1421395264754949/

― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Thursday, 31 October 2013 20:42 (eleven years ago) link

That's one gig-tastic Saturday night. I think I'm going to this:

https://www.facebook.com/events/213625028805920/

― ailsa, Thursday, 31 October 2013 20:52 (eleven years ago) link

bong at the old hairdressers shld be...heavy

voting for sic sunday

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 31 October 2013 21:04 (eleven years ago) link

those all look crap you should come to my gay disco:

https://www.facebook.com/events/439163962860571

― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Thursday, 31 October 2013 21:09 (eleven years ago) link

xpost
am going to the glad cafe tomorrow to see bill orcutt - the bar/cafe area at the G.C. is much much nicer than the concert area, imho

love the park just across the way from the glad cafe - once bunked off work on a sunny day and went and sat by the duck pond there reading henry james, it was heaven on the southside, really

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 31 October 2013 21:12 (eleven years ago) link

jed, i wish you all the luck in the world w/ yr gay disco but i am solely of the seated persuasion these days

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 31 October 2013 21:14 (eleven years ago) link

^^ euphemism

― Madchen, Thursday, 31 October 2013 21:24 (eleven years ago) link

The bar staff at the Glad Cafe are the friendliest people on earth. Also, I love pubs that sell cakes.

― ailsa, Thursday, 31 October 2013 21:32 (eleven years ago) link

those all look crap you should come to my gay disco:
https://www.facebook.com/events/439163962860571
― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Thursday, October 31, 2013 9:09 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^best night in glasgow imo; great venue too

― cozen, Thursday, 31 October 2013 21:40 (eleven years ago) link

aw thanks.

― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Thursday, 31 October 2013 21:51 (eleven years ago) link

Never been to that venue, is it newish? Would go to that night if I was about.

Miss Glasgow, been away 16 months, though I was back for a ten day visit at xmas, and still no used to being so far away from the place. Lived my whole life within ten miles of celtic park until I moved :/

― tell it to my arse (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 31 October 2013 23:15 (eleven years ago) link

so, Sunday? say 3 or 4pm? jed or Ward want to nominate a place that's cosy with enough tables we can settle around one?

[or is The Glad Cafe pub-with-cakes a suggestion? all those links are facebook so it's hard for me to tell. (I don't facebook.)]

someone see if Grimly fancies coming out?

ta for all the recommendations though, I'll see what/if the folks I'm staying with might be tempted out for!

― ͼѾͽ (sic), Wednesday, 6 November 2013 16:54 (eleven years ago) link

catching the sleeper up tonight and back tomorrow too. train doesn't leave until 11:50 iirc, so there's a sort of plan that involves having a bite to eat/drink with a colleague/friend, then *finding something to do* tomorrow evening assuming I don't just stay in the pub. film seems boring but might catch any old theatrical/music shit if anyone's got any ideas.

― Fizzles, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 17:08 (eleven years ago) link

sic - glad cafe is nice, but not that central, which may be a factor for ppl on a sunday. i'm going to defer to jed or another glasgow person, i only know a few favoured haunts (inc. the outlawed Mono) that i'm not quite sure fit the bill, here.

fizzles - i am drawing a blank for tomorrow, beyond the obv (ie glasgow film theatre.) as an ilber, you should def visit this place when you have more free time in the city

http://piningforthewest.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Voltaire-and-Rousseau-2.jpg

http://www.yelp.co.uk/biz/voltaire-and-rousseau-glasgow

and if you're here on Saturday 30th Nov, this looks p special (and free!):
http://www.glasgowconcerthalls.com/events/hear-and-now-2-japanese-masters/

http://www.glasgowconcerthalls.com/events/hear-and-now-2-japanese-masters/

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 18:55 (eleven years ago) link

Thanks Ward. It frightens me what I might do in that place. Oh wait, it's Voltaire and Rousseau, I think I've heard of it even and Glasgow film theatre seems like a good shout in lieu of anything else.

― Fizzles, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 19:02 (eleven years ago) link

Just enjoyed first night in west end since moving up, can report that Hanoi Bicycle Club is llovely.

― ewar woowar (or something), Wednesday, 6 November 2013 23:23 (eleven years ago) link

Would love to geg in on this, being a stranger in a strange town, but will be working.

― ewar woowar (or something), Wednesday, 6 November 2013 23:27 (eleven years ago) link

after a spell of thinking i could live in london indefinitely i suddenly want to be in glasgow asap. who wants to house me and feed me when i'm writing up my phd with no source of income?

― Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 23:50 (eleven years ago) link

i'll let you crash for a bit but i like my own space :)

there seems to be a wave of london exiles, amongst my fiends, who are dying to get back to glasgow. they might change their minds once they get here though, it's pissin' doon.

i don't have any specific suggestions re a sic-fap location but the glad cafe, nice as it looks (and i've heard good things about it) is a little out of the way for me in my presumably hungover state. something more central would suit me more.

― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Wednesday, 6 November 2013 23:58 (eleven years ago) link

Just go to Mono :)

― ailsa, Thursday, 7 November 2013 00:06 (eleven years ago) link

SO MOTE IT BE! The scales have been struck from the eyes of the greatest unbeliever, and the pilgrims are free to go forward!

(actually was it Mono (or Stereo?) that we briefly ended up at after the Carter after-party in 2007? I was, it's fair to say, very very drunk, but recall somewhere that felt like a way-too-brightly-lit for the hour cafeteria.)

― ͼѾͽ (sic), Friday, 8 November 2013 02:38 (eleven years ago) link

I don't think that's mono you are describing, sic

There are plenty of other places to drink and eat near to mono, some of them with cheaper prices, better service, more atmos - but no record shop inside

― Ward Fowler, Friday, 8 November 2013 08:41 (eleven years ago) link

I have no recollection of anything post-Carter, but both Mono and Stereo have an air of cafeteria about them.

― ailsa, Friday, 8 November 2013 09:16 (eleven years ago) link

What start time suits ppl better - 3 vs 4?

― ͼѾͽ (sic), Friday, 8 November 2013 09:20 (eleven years ago) link

alright let's say THREE-THIRTY at MONO this SUNDAY AFTERNOON

come ONE come ALL even AILSA


my UK number is +forty-four 7four63 four62663 if anyone needs to get in touch, I won't be ILX-y much tomorrow

― ͼѾͽ (sic), Friday, 8 November 2013 20:22 (eleven years ago) link

mono? really?

― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Friday, 8 November 2013 20:55 (eleven years ago) link

the brightly lit cafeteria with the service with a scowl?

― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Friday, 8 November 2013 20:55 (eleven years ago) link

It is proper Glasgow FAP tradition to fanny around and fail to make suggestions and then end up in Mono anyway.

― ailsa, Friday, 8 November 2013 21:23 (eleven years ago) link

^ this

― Madchen, Friday, 8 November 2013 21:47 (eleven years ago) link

if I spot somewhere more interesting on the way we can relocate, but you bunch of fannies weren't coming up with anything useful

there was a place I went last time I was up that's meant to be good, down the hill from the Subbie, but we went on a Sunday arvo and they were out of everything on tap. Glasgow literally couldn't organise a piss-up in a pub, bless it

― ͼѾͽ (sic), Saturday, 9 November 2013 03:05 (eleven years ago) link

i will be at mono tomorrow aft, happy to move on elsewhere

― Ward Fowler, Saturday, 9 November 2013 09:02 (eleven years ago) link

I shall try and shake off my aversion to Mono cold and pop along for a bit.

Is that other place you went to McSorleys?

― ailsa, Saturday, 9 November 2013 09:27 (eleven years ago) link

I have a head full of sinus gloop - sorry :-(

― ailsa, Sunday, 10 November 2013 16:16 (eleven years ago) link

Is that other place you went to McSorleys?

I think so!

^best night in glasgow imo; great venue too

went along and this seems likely to be accurate. esp in favour of no illumination apart from lasers. sadly I didn't spot jed to say hello!


Ward and I had a sedate, largely tea-based FAP, and I'm pleased to report that the gentleman who served me was very smiley and helpful.

― ͼѾͽ (sic), Sunday, 10 November 2013 23:13 (eleven years ago) link

yeah, the grumpy manager wasn't there yesterday

nice to see sic again - sedate was great

― Ward Fowler, Monday, 11 November 2013 09:42 (eleven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-25163045

Bloody hell.

― ailsa, Friday, 29 November 2013 22:54 (eleven years ago) link

That's just round the corner from me. Many streets blocked off. Holy fuck.

― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 29 November 2013 23:48 (eleven years ago) link

Someone really wants to get this BBC News anchor a map of Glasgow or a phone number for someone at BBC Scotland. If I hear her ask one more eyewitness if it's a rare occurence for a police helicopter to be flying over Glasgow, I'll put my foot through the telly.

― ailsa, Friday, 29 November 2013 23:50 (eleven years ago) link

Hi Glasgow, hope you're all okay. xx

― Matt DC, Friday, 29 November 2013 23:52 (eleven years ago) link

When isnt there a polis copter flying over the west of scotland?

xp

yeah i hope no ilxors were there and hope noones been killed.

― ۩, Friday, 29 November 2013 23:56 (eleven years ago) link

Lots of reports about how bystanders ran towards the crash, not away from it. Good old Glasgow.

― stet, Friday, 29 November 2013 23:58 (eleven years ago) link

thanks, Matt x

where are we looking for updates? i can't find anything of much use.

― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Saturday, 30 November 2013 00:03 (eleven years ago) link

This BBC anchor is pure gagging for there to have been an explosion or something more exciting than your common-or-garden helicopter-crash-lands-on-roof-of-pub story. Also keeps saying "unconfirmed reports that it's a police helicopter" despite the on-screen pictures showing the word POLICE on the mangled wreckage.

― ailsa, Saturday, 30 November 2013 00:03 (eleven years ago) link

really hoping this works out as okay as possible, so awful to hear about. be okay glasgow

― love mike love (ko komo) (schlump), Saturday, 30 November 2013 00:04 (eleven years ago) link

jed_ , I'm just getting stuff from twitter.

Thanks for looking out for us, guys. Most Glasgow folk of my acquaintance seem to have surfaced on twitter or facebook now. Despite what the BBC are saying about how popular the area is, it really isn't, and it seems to be absolutely localised on that one pub.

― ailsa, Saturday, 30 November 2013 00:08 (eleven years ago) link

Sorry, should add, I'm not trivialising it at all, but it's very localised on a very small area. The fact that the crash didn't cause a fire is amazing and I'm so thankful that it didn't, and that will have aided the rescue effort tremendously.

― ailsa, Saturday, 30 November 2013 00:11 (eleven years ago) link

that's true ailsa.

it would be unlikely that a crashed helicopter on a pub would result in no casualties though but here's hoping.

― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Saturday, 30 November 2013 00:20 (eleven years ago) link

I need to step away from rolling news coverage. So much scaremongering and sensationalising that it's hard to actual just go OMGWTF A HELICOPTER FUCKING CRASHED ON A PUB without getting cross at ghouls trying to rustle up new scarier angles, so much so that I'm already starting to become desensitised to OMGWTF A HELICOPTER FUCKING CRASHED ON A PUB in its own right.

― ailsa, Saturday, 30 November 2013 00:25 (eleven years ago) link

Gordon Smart, editor the Scottish Sun, told the BBC:

I can't really believe what's happened. I was on the phone at the time and I heard a misfiring engine. Looked above me, couldn't work out where it was coming from, it got louder and louder and I just spotted a helicopter falling from the sky.

It was falling at great speed. It looked like the rotors weren't spinning but the helicopter was sort of turning in a strange position and dropping at great speed. Oddly enough there was no explosion no fire ball.

It's a busy Friday night, a lot of people have been out in the pubs, there are a lot of pubs in that area. I do fear… I would be staggered if there weren't fatalities from the area it's landed.

― ۩, Saturday, 30 November 2013 00:39 (eleven years ago) link

I don't know about whoever was in the helicopter, but it kinda sounds like it could have been a lot worse for people in the pub. There's a lot of jibber jabber going round.

― Eyeball Kicks, Saturday, 30 November 2013 00:52 (eleven years ago) link

Yeah, the pub and its clientele seem to have got off relatively lightly.

― ailsa, Saturday, 30 November 2013 00:57 (eleven years ago) link

I cant imagine anyone in the helicopter surviving but fingers crossed.

If it had exploded there could have been dozens dead inside.

― ۩, Saturday, 30 November 2013 01:01 (eleven years ago) link

Fucking Mail!

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/360189/Screen%20Shot%202013-11-30%20at%2001.54.52.png

― stet, Saturday, 30 November 2013 02:00 (eleven years ago) link

WTF?

― ailsa, Saturday, 30 November 2013 02:07 (eleven years ago) link

This is just awful, and so close to the river - wonder if that was where the helicopter was trying to get to, to avoid people. Much love Glasgow x

― Madchen, Saturday, 30 November 2013 03:17 (eleven years ago) link

Not to be a scaremonger but deaths seem inevitable.hoping that's not the case obv.what a shitty situation.

― tell it to my arse (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 30 November 2013 05:09 (eleven years ago) link

I used to work and live next to Clyde like mile west of there and choppers are always going up and down there.heliport is next to river by the secc.

― tell it to my arse (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 30 November 2013 05:13 (eleven years ago) link

On the news I keep hearing "crashed into the roof" but that doesn't give an entirely accurate picture - it's a single-story building with, at least in part, a flat roof.

― Madchen, Saturday, 30 November 2013 08:42 (eleven years ago) link

The auld Clutha, eh? Never liked it as a pub much, I must admit. I haven't been as glued to 24 hour news since Johnny Smeaton did his superhero act @ Glasgow Airport that time.

― Saturated with working class intelligence and not afraid to show it (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 November 2013 13:21 (eleven years ago) link

...goes to show the small amount of tragic news in Scotland.

― nostormo, Saturday, 30 November 2013 13:31 (eleven years ago) link

There's plenty of tragedy going on in Scotland 24/7 believe you me!

― Saturated with working class intelligence and not afraid to show it (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 November 2013 13:32 (eleven years ago) link

like in any other place, but the difference is with the numbers i guess.
one man dead = no news
10 man dead = "breaking news"

― nostormo, Saturday, 30 November 2013 13:34 (eleven years ago) link

Just been forwarded a thing on FB from a famous American (who was in a recent WDYLL with an ILXor) "storm troopers" crashed it deliberately because they suspected there was an IRA meeting in there and Britain is a fascist dictatorship targeting innocent Irishes.

Probably belongs on the o_0 thread.

― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Saturday, 30 November 2013 13:41 (eleven years ago) link

Bit of a noisy place for a meeting, there was a band going full tilt at the time

― Saturated with working class intelligence and not afraid to show it (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 November 2013 13:45 (eleven years ago) link

yeah, besides of that the theory is perfect

― nostormo, Saturday, 30 November 2013 13:59 (eleven years ago) link

Yes, there aren't a whole ton of more likely pubs just a few hundred yards up the road either. Top detective work, weirdo conspiracy dude!

― ailsa, Saturday, 30 November 2013 14:02 (eleven years ago) link

Shit. 8 people confirmed dead.

― ۩, Saturday, 30 November 2013 16:10 (eleven years ago) link

In work at a different venue in glasgow all day today and not heard a single mention of this, from anyone.

― ewar woowar (or something), Sunday, 1 December 2013 01:28 (eleven years ago) link

i only talked to 4 people today and they all mentioned it.

― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Sunday, 1 December 2013 02:57 (eleven years ago) link

Not a pub I've ever drunk in, but have still had a stream of texts from friends in England over the weekend, checking in - seems to have been a big story down South. Hoping no ILXors have personal involvement.

― Ward Fowler, Monday, 2 December 2013 09:32 (eleven years ago) link

http://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/1454724_10202747494227935_1141099317_n.jpg

― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 12:49 (eleven years ago) link

Is that the same John McGarrigle that died in the helicopter crash?

― ass pee leg wetter (onimo), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 22:08 (eleven years ago) link

it is!

― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 22:20 (eleven years ago) link

Yes it is. I saw it on the facebook wall of someone I know, who wrote: "This is written by an old friend of my Mum's who died in The Clutha on Friday night. When i was a wee girl he picked me up and threw me in a rubbish skip and told me the rats were coming. You could have heard his laugh a mile away. Thinking of his family."

― Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 22:52 (eleven years ago) link

bit reminiscent of tom leonard.

― tell it to my arse (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 23:00 (eleven years ago) link

got an office christmas party tonight in Glasgow at... The Book Club, is that a place? Will also be around tomorrow evening if anyone fancies a pint, otherwise I'll... do something else. Like have a pint.

― Fizzles, Thursday, 12 December 2013 10:25 (eleven years ago) link

Yeah, the Book Club is a fairly dece pub/bar in the West End.

A drink tomorrow sounds doable for me Fizzles - any particular place/area you fancy?

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 12 December 2013 10:36 (eleven years ago) link

how come you moved to glasgow Ward Fowler

― conrad, Thursday, 12 December 2013 10:51 (eleven years ago) link

to be closer to you conrad

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 12 December 2013 10:54 (eleven years ago) link

That'd be great, Ward - I'm catching the sleeper back from the main station but anywhere on the subway loop/an easy bus route is fine. happy to play it by ear btw, but as I say I'll be around and footloose tomorrow evening.

― Fizzles, Thursday, 12 December 2013 11:22 (eleven years ago) link

but i live in london

― conrad, Thursday, 12 December 2013 11:40 (eleven years ago) link

how come you moved to london conrad

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 12 December 2013 11:43 (eleven years ago) link

Fizzles - sounds good, I work pretty close to Central Station so I'm sure we can find somewhere that suits us, even on a Friday night.

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 12 December 2013 11:46 (eleven years ago) link

i'm an economic migrant ;)

― conrad, Thursday, 12 December 2013 11:58 (eleven years ago) link

:*(

― conrad, Thursday, 12 December 2013 16:11 (eleven years ago) link

Bumping for any other Glasgow ILXors who might enjoy fapping tonight

(Fizzles - I sent you an email via ILX with my mobe no on it)

― Ward Fowler, Friday, 13 December 2013 10:04 (eleven years ago) link

cheers, Ward. Yep, be good to see all and sundry. I've got a crippling hangover, excitingly, but I think the only thing that's going to get me through it is another drink.

― Fizzles, Friday, 13 December 2013 14:57 (eleven years ago) link

Um, that's a Glasgow landline number I think, unless I'm being particularly dense?

― Fizzles, Friday, 13 December 2013 14:59 (eleven years ago) link

Right, this is on. Sounds like it's going to be fairly sedate - it's felt like someone's been having a funeral in my brain today and at times I've wanted to curl up in a little ball on the floor - but be good to see people. Will be in the station-convenient Stereo as soon as I can get out of work (probably about quarter/half past five).

― Fizzles, Friday, 13 December 2013 15:33 (eleven years ago) link

Sorry, I have been extraordinarily careless in my budgeting and have zero money for fun between now and Christmas Eve. Enjoy sitting on Stereo's tremendously uncomfortable chairs or sofas!

― ailsa, Friday, 13 December 2013 15:50 (eleven years ago) link

cheers ailsa - feel free to come along for an Xmas pint courtesy Santa tho if you want!

― Fizzles, Friday, 13 December 2013 16:29 (eleven years ago) link

Would love to, but even getting into Glasgow is a wee bit of a trek. Thanks for the offer though!

― ailsa, Friday, 13 December 2013 16:39 (eleven years ago) link

Small but perfectly formed FAP - very good fun, great to see Ward again after a six-year or so hiatus. Slept like a log on the sleeper back to London.

― Fizzles, Saturday, 14 December 2013 10:34 (eleven years ago) link

Yep, hope it's a longer and larger FAP next time, Fizzles - and that there isn't another six-year gap.

― Ward Fowler, Saturday, 14 December 2013 12:07 (eleven years ago) link

two months pass...

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/opinion/u/the-weegie-words-20-terms-that-prove-you-come-from-glasgow.1391427597

man i wish my people had this many words

― j., Sunday, 23 February 2014 22:32 (ten years ago) link

Some of those are spelled wrong, mistranslated or just not particularly Glaswegian (stopped reading about half-way down). ILX compendium here:

This category contains Scots pejoratives

― ailsa, Monday, 24 February 2014 01:06 (ten years ago) link

what's glaswegian for 'crowdsourcing, go figure'

― j., Monday, 24 February 2014 01:15 (ten years ago) link

"cunts, eh?"

― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Monday, 24 February 2014 08:19 (ten years ago) link

I know I'm only 12 miles away from Glasgow and originally from EK which is mini-glasgow, so its possible lanarkshire/renfrewshire gets lumped in to it , but loads of those words are used here.
Gallus is a great word that no one uses it now. Even my EK friends say they havent heard it used in 30 years. Its a great Francie & Josie word though. Bring it back!

― Scooby Doom (۩), Monday, 24 February 2014 11:39 (ten years ago) link

is "jobbie" glaswegian?

― ^ 諷刺 (ken c), Monday, 24 February 2014 12:00 (ten years ago) link

That's nationwide, if Edinburgh mates are anyone to go by.

― baked beings on toast (suzy), Monday, 24 February 2014 12:03 (ten years ago) link

one month passes...

haw Danny Boyle, here's how you open a ceremony ya tube

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-26857816

― sktsh, Thursday, 3 April 2014 09:56 (ten years ago) link

Letters hand-delivered this morning *after* the press are all over it. We're dead good at PR, us.

― ailsa, Thursday, 3 April 2014 10:37 (ten years ago) link

Nothing crass about this whatsoever...

― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Thursday, 3 April 2014 10:48 (ten years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Anyone fancy a free weekend ticket to the Tectonics Festival? I don't feel well enough to go. http://www.tectonicsfestival.com/glasgow/news/line-up-announced-for-tectonics-2014 Need to let me know fast, PO closes early today. email me at kevingil142 at gmail dot com.

― Try Leuchars More! (dowd), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 09:53 (ten years ago) link

Tickets taken

― Try Leuchars More! (dowd), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 11:39 (ten years ago) link

I grew up near Leuchars

― paolo, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 13:04 (ten years ago) link

this thread ain't what it used to be

― conrad, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 13:07 (ten years ago) link

Glasgow ain't what it used to be. Everyone moved away.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 13:12 (ten years ago) link

:*(

― conrad, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 13:15 (ten years ago) link

Oh, whereabouts, Paulo?

― Try Leuchars More! (dowd), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 13:37 (ten years ago) link

st andrews

― paolo, Thursday, 1 May 2014 08:06 (ten years ago) link

Oh, right, me too. Went to Madras. You?

― Try Leuchars More! (dowd), Thursday, 1 May 2014 08:16 (ten years ago) link

yeah it was shit

― paolo, Thursday, 1 May 2014 09:31 (ten years ago) link

and what's an asshopper anyway

― paolo, Thursday, 1 May 2014 09:31 (ten years ago) link

I...don't know. Nor do I know what you're referring to.

― Try Leuchars More! (dowd), Friday, 2 May 2014 16:50 (ten years ago) link

three weeks pass...

The Art School is currently on fire with black smoke billowing down Sauchiehall St

― boxedjoy, Friday, 23 May 2014 12:43 (ten years ago) link

Pictures look horrible :(

― Madchen, Friday, 23 May 2014 12:47 (ten years ago) link

just came to post that as i saw it on tv

― ۩, Friday, 23 May 2014 12:49 (ten years ago) link

:(((((

― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 23 May 2014 13:06 (ten years ago) link

This is just horrendous. I was only up in Glasgow last week and walked right past it. I've known the GSoA practically all of my life. Apparently it was caused by an overheating projector. Jesus Christ, rebuild the whole thing in minute detail and to hell with the cost.

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 23 May 2014 13:10 (ten years ago) link

I can't imagine anything more devastating than seeing the building where all your academic work is housed going up in flames, I feel so bad for the people there.

― boxedjoy, Friday, 23 May 2014 13:39 (ten years ago) link

^^
rooting for you glasgow

― schlump, Friday, 23 May 2014 14:34 (ten years ago) link

library and archive can't be in good shape and all that work gone too :-(

― Angkor Waht (Neil S), Friday, 23 May 2014 14:40 (ten years ago) link

Does anyone know how much of the building went on fire?

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 23 May 2014 14:46 (ten years ago) link

I have seen chatter on Facebook and Twitter it started in the basement but the pictures seems to show flames at the very top

― boxedjoy, Friday, 23 May 2014 14:50 (ten years ago) link

yeah the whole building has been affected by the look of it

― Angkor Waht (Neil S), Friday, 23 May 2014 14:52 (ten years ago) link

The fire apparently started in the basement. I went by the scene an hour or so ago and fire could be seen on the top floor, both sides (Sauchiehall St and Renfrew St sides). Given that much of the interior is wooden, it's going to be very serious damage.

Degree show was supposed to be in a couple of weeks as well.

― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 23 May 2014 14:53 (ten years ago) link

The pictures look awful; it's awful to think of it gone.

― stet, Friday, 23 May 2014 14:59 (ten years ago) link

Duncan of Jordanstone art college in Dundee is also having a fire, I hear?

― baked beings on toast (suzy), Friday, 23 May 2014 15:07 (ten years ago) link

DoJ is fine, just a minor thing.

GSA are going to have a press conference in the next hour or so. Looks very bad :(.

― Merdeyeux, Friday, 23 May 2014 15:12 (ten years ago) link

Desperately sad to see another great Glasgow building destroyed by fire.

― Madchen, Friday, 23 May 2014 16:16 (ten years ago) link

Robert Bruce will be celebrating in his grave, it was listed by the Council for demolition up until the Scottish Office finally put the kibosh on it in the 50s.

Of course, architectural conspiracists will point out that Glasgow has a history of mystery fires in significant building - the most famous example being Greek Thompson's Caledonia Road church, burnt out less than 12 months after the council said it was a candidate for demolition, and in the last decade the Elgin Street Congregational church pulled down after a fire with no thought given to retaining the Ionic portico.

― Daniwa, guys! Daniwa! (aldo), Friday, 23 May 2014 17:18 (ten years ago) link

Call it by it's proper name: THE SHACK. I still find it hard to believe a building like that was allowed to become a crappy nightclub.

― Madchen, Friday, 23 May 2014 17:52 (ten years ago) link

the cultural and social landscape of the city is hugely diminished even in spite of the efforts of the firefighters. a truly awful day for the city and the world.

― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Friday, 23 May 2014 23:09 (ten years ago) link

I am thinking of moving into a flat in Govanhill but I have heard scary things about that area. Is it really so bad or is it not the sort of place where it would be a good idea to live?

― paolo, Friday, 30 May 2014 19:49 (ten years ago) link

Govanhill has its problems, like any poor area, but I think it gets a bad rap, which is partly to do with racism towards the Roma who live there. I've always found it quite a vibrant place - the most multi-cultural area of Glasgow - and there are good attempts being made by community groups to improve relations and understanding. Some really nice flats on Victoria Road and also skirting Queen's Park. The bit towards Crosshill, along Allison St and around, isn't particularly nice, but towards Queen's Park and Victoria Rd is ok. The Asian Sweet Centre in Allison St does the best samosas in town.

― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Friday, 30 May 2014 20:30 (ten years ago) link

i'd never live there and, considering i live in maryhill, that's saying something.

― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Friday, 30 May 2014 20:32 (ten years ago) link

i am a bit racist though.

― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Friday, 30 May 2014 20:33 (ten years ago) link

all the ukip/sdl supporting racists say "govanhill has been ruined and there's no-go areas"
no idea if its true but it keeps popping up in comment sections.

― ۩, Friday, 30 May 2014 20:33 (ten years ago) link

i spent the night in maryhill on tuesday. tesco mega: better or worse than the skaggy mall that was there before? (or maybe that's the wrong question)

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 30 May 2014 20:56 (ten years ago) link

meanwhile, on the south side:

http://f.cl.ly/items/1l3i080L2q1U1t013g3f/IMG_2211.jpg

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 30 May 2014 20:58 (ten years ago) link

anybody going to the east end social/duke st expo stuff tomorrow? there's nothing on the bill that particularly knocks my socks off, but seeing as it's literally happening on my doorstep i thought it would be churlish not to attend, so a friend and i have bought tix

― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 30 May 2014 21:19 (ten years ago) link

http://www.eastendsocial.com/event/duke-street-expo/

― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 30 May 2014 21:19 (ten years ago) link

Had thought about it for Admiral Fallow/King Creosote/Kid Canaveral, but am too skint.

Govanhill's a bit rough in parts, and there have been a few assaults, but perhaps I just paid closer attention when my best mate lived there and I visited regularly. I've never felt particularly unsafe there.

― ailsa, Friday, 30 May 2014 21:28 (ten years ago) link

I'll be photographing the Duke Street Expo so watch out for me running about camera in hand, as per usual!

― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Friday, 30 May 2014 21:51 (ten years ago) link

I can't believe a barbecue place has opened up round the corner from my flat now that I live in London.

― Madchen, Friday, 30 May 2014 21:54 (ten years ago) link

From my Dennistoun flat, that is.

― Madchen, Friday, 30 May 2014 21:54 (ten years ago) link

I know the bit around Victoria Rd and that's not so bad but the flat I'm looking at is over by Cathcart Rd and I'm not so familiar with that part of town so i'll go check it out when I view the flat

I'm thinking about the Paisley Road West area as well, from Kinning Park through to Govan. I know there's some nice flats there and I've got a pal who stays in Cessnock and he says it's an OK place to live

― paolo, Friday, 30 May 2014 22:00 (ten years ago) link

Re barbecue places - Buddys on Pollokshaws Road does awesome burgers/ribs/wings to take away

― paolo, Friday, 30 May 2014 22:01 (ten years ago) link

xpost
as an attempt to emulate a proper american burger bar in the east end of glasgow, it is p good and dangerously close to my flat in dennistoun, too.

krakow, i liked yr tectonics pics on the beeb website, esp yr man and his lightbulb

― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 30 May 2014 22:02 (ten years ago) link

Tracer, you were 100 yards from my flat! The megaTesco is better and worse, I suppose. I preferred the coperative (co-per-eh?-tive).

― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Friday, 30 May 2014 22:21 (ten years ago) link

My pals Sonny Carntyne are playing the Duke St Expo! I won't make it through though.

― michaellambert, Friday, 30 May 2014 22:32 (ten years ago) link

Govanhill looks scary to me but I think it's just a recent spate of crime that puts me off. I wouldn't entertain Dixon Avenue just now though.

Paisley Road West has some lovely flats on it and it's much better connected than you'd expect.

― boxedjoy, Saturday, 31 May 2014 00:16 (ten years ago) link

i'd move to another city before i moved south of the river tbh. i'm generally like wtf is this pish? whenever i happen to be there. i kinda hate it.

― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Saturday, 31 May 2014 01:25 (ten years ago) link

i know that's awful but i enjoy it. i'm voting yes btw.

― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Saturday, 31 May 2014 01:30 (ten years ago) link

bullet to The Tramway and then out.

― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Saturday, 31 May 2014 01:32 (ten years ago) link

Pollokshaws is nice, a few of my friends live there and there's quite a lot going on.

― ailsa, Saturday, 31 May 2014 08:26 (ten years ago) link

oh drunk in charge of a keyboard. apologies.

― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Saturday, 31 May 2014 10:32 (ten years ago) link

one month passes...

Do we have a Commonwealth thread?

― boxedjoy, Thursday, 24 July 2014 21:14 (ten years ago) link

bizarrely no. i shall start one.

― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Thursday, 24 July 2014 23:30 (ten years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Are there any decent pubs in the city centre to watch football at?

― paolo, Monday, 18 August 2014 07:40 (ten years ago) link

Rhoderick Dhu has plenty of screens and the service is usually quick, even on busy nights. There's also Bar Drop a couple of doors along which is a sports bar with screens everywhere. The Admiral's good too - some booth seating with screens in each booth, a couple of big screens and 2-for-1 pizzas.

All these pubs are in the five minute walk between my work and Central Station - you can tell I'm something of an explorer.

― a curious shade of pale (onimo), Monday, 18 August 2014 09:02 (ten years ago) link

Those are the three I would have suggested, but mostly because my football-watching in Glasgow is usually only when meeting onimo out of his work after i get off a train at Central. Admiral can get quite busy, though you can ring them or tweet them and get a booth reserved easily enough. Their pizzas are pretty decent.

― ailsa, Monday, 18 August 2014 10:29 (ten years ago) link

sad to hear that the volcanic tongue shop has now closed (mail order to continue).

― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 29 August 2014 15:38 (ten years ago) link

If anyone is at The Last Big Weekend on Saturday or Sunday, watch out for me taking photos.

― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Friday, 29 August 2014 20:41 (ten years ago) link

three months pass...

jesus, horrible news about the lorry crash in george square. really hoping it's not as bad as it appears to be.

― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 22 December 2014 15:21 (ten years ago) link

Aye, absolutely horrific.

Fielding many phone calls as I'd left my other half to go shopping and he had no idea where I was going, thankfully chose to avoid the city centre.

Hope everyone here and their loved ones are safe.

― ailsa, Monday, 22 December 2014 16:48 (ten years ago) link

christ, awful

― local eire man (darraghmac), Monday, 22 December 2014 17:20 (ten years ago) link

this is so sad. hope all glasgow ilxors and yr family/friends are ok.

― sktsh, Monday, 22 December 2014 17:55 (ten years ago) link

six confirmed dead, more injured. just tragic

― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 22 December 2014 18:01 (ten years ago) link

seven months pass...

FAP action being planned over here: --- glasgow ----

NOT MONO.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 18:19 (nine years ago) link

I would like to suggest the Vic bar at the art school - the Music is not too loud and you can eat and drink pretty cheaply. The food is especially cheap and good. It also has a Good selection of beers and also decent talent.

― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Thursday, 23 July 2015 00:28 (nine years ago) link

That's a good idea! I so rarely go out in Glasgow these days, I can never remember places.

― ailsa, Thursday, 23 July 2015 09:22 (nine years ago) link

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.

― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Thursday, 23 July 2015 13:23 (nine years ago) link

one month passes...

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 '

― Fields of Fat Henry (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 14:58 (nine years ago) link

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’.

― conrad, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 15:16 (nine years ago) link

Did you eat it?

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 15:54 (nine years ago) link

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

― conrad, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 16:24 (nine years ago) link

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

― conrad, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 21:49 (nine years ago) link

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

― Fields of Fat Henry (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 23:31 (nine years ago) link

"Gie the pie a bodyswerve"?

― everything, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 23:42 (nine years ago) link

"Ah widnae if ah wis you, mate"

― Fields of Fat Henry (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 23:46 (nine years ago) link

Boufin'

― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 02:08 (nine years ago) link

Love the bin man story.

― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 02:09 (nine years ago) link

I believe the barmaid in the anecdote was an australian lady

― conrad, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 08:25 (nine years ago) link

I'm unconvinced by that one.

― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 08:59 (nine years ago) link

an austrian lady?

― conrad, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 09:07 (nine years ago) link

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

― ailsa, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 09:16 (nine years ago) link

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

― Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 09:34 (nine years ago) link

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

― michaellambert, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 10:12 (nine years ago) link

perhaps she was an aberdonian lady

― conrad, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 10:37 (nine years ago) link

I think that is a pretty reasonable conclusion.

― michaellambert, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 10:56 (nine years ago) link

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

― Fields of Fat Henry (Tom D.), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 11:11 (nine years ago) link

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

― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 11:23 (nine years ago) link

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!

― ailsa, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 12:20 (nine years ago) link

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"

― conrad, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 12:57 (nine years ago) link

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)

― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 13:00 (nine years ago) link

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

― conrad, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 13:30 (nine years ago) link

ah but of course

― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 14:06 (nine years ago) link

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

― Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 14:16 (nine years ago) link

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

― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 14:29 (nine years ago) link

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

― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 14:34 (nine years ago) link

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

― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 15:18 (nine years ago) link

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

― conrad, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 15:24 (nine years ago) link

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

― conrad, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 15:24 (nine years ago) link

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

― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 15:28 (nine years ago) link

oh i see yes! I have no idea

― conrad, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 15:30 (nine years ago) link

they call rolls softies apparently

― conrad, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 15:34 (nine years ago) link

Haha!

― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 16:15 (nine years ago) link

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

― ailsa, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 18:19 (nine years ago) link

eight months pass...

Really sad that The Variety Bar is closing tonight.

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

― Pastoral Fantasy (jed_), Saturday, 18 June 2016 22:36 (eight years ago) link

That's a real shame

Macsorleys has gone this year as well :(

― paolo, Sunday, 19 June 2016 09:03 (eight years ago) link

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

― The Nickelbackean Ethics (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 19 June 2016 09:21 (eight years ago) link

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.

― Gukbe, Sunday, 19 June 2016 10:24 (eight years ago) link

Damn RIP Variety.

― stet, Sunday, 19 June 2016 14:59 (eight years ago) link

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

― boxedjoy, Sunday, 19 June 2016 17:44 (eight years ago) link

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

― paolo, Sunday, 19 June 2016 21:04 (eight years ago) link

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

― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Sunday, 19 June 2016 22:14 (eight years ago) link

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.

― boxedjoy, Sunday, 19 June 2016 22:21 (eight years ago) link

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.

― ailsa, Monday, 20 June 2016 07:43 (eight years ago) link

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

― ailsa, Monday, 20 June 2016 07:44 (eight years ago) link

toby jug

― conrad, Monday, 20 June 2016 08:23 (eight years ago) link

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

― paolo, Monday, 20 June 2016 08:41 (eight years ago) link

One of my favourites is upstairs on the patio at the chip. If you enjoy smoking obv.

― The Nickelbackean Ethics (jim in glasgow), Monday, 20 June 2016 09:08 (eight years ago) link

The Laurieston is a wonderful southside pub too.

― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Monday, 20 June 2016 10:22 (eight years ago) link

Yes! It's great in there.

― Pastoral Fantasy (jed_), Monday, 20 June 2016 11:06 (eight years ago) link

ALPEN LODGE

― Madchen, Monday, 20 June 2016 12:41 (eight years ago) link

Oh I've not been to thr Laurieston in ages, I must rectify that

― boxedjoy, Monday, 20 June 2016 13:42 (eight years ago) link

visiting the laurieston was always a rare thing for me because of its location, p much never around tradeston for any reason ever, but it is a great pub

― The Nickelbackean Ethics (jim in glasgow), Monday, 20 June 2016 16:37 (eight years ago) link

titwood

― cozen, Monday, 20 June 2016 17:45 (eight years ago) link

ALPEN LODGE

― Madchen, Monday, 20 June 2016 13:41 (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was briefly in the Alpen Lodge on Friday evening (an ill-advised "one for the road" stop). I can't remember much, other than wandering outside to pick a drunk guy up off the pavement and lean him against the wall.

― a goon shaped fule (onimo), Monday, 20 June 2016 18:55 (eight years ago) link

Apparently it was glorious madness in the Variety on Saturday.

― Pastoral Fantasy (jed_), Monday, 20 June 2016 18:58 (eight years ago) link

Heard another piece of shitty Glasgow pub news today: the landlord of the State died.

― The Nickelbackean Ethics (jim in glasgow), Monday, 20 June 2016 19:28 (eight years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Okay, so I am thinking about moving to Glasgow.

If it's not a completely stupid idea to move alone to a city you know very little about while your mental health is fucking terrible and actively debilitating (NB yes it is a completely stupid idea, I know), then maybe you can help me find out more about what I'd be getting myself into. I have a few friends up there and liked it there when I played Scottish gigs back in the day. But realistically I don't know much about what it's like now, and I never knew shit about the residential areas ever. I do know the music scene is good and my friends are mostly music people so no real questions about that aspect but my main questions are:

- Where to move to? I am currently scouting prices etc on the big property websites and looking at Shawlands/Mount Florida/Battlefield toward the South side and 'the West End' generally. Also Ibrox keeps popping up, but literally the only thing I know about that area is that every advert says 'the new BBC building is here, woo'. Am I looking in the right places? Anywhere else to look? Where to avoid?

- How are mental health services/support? I am kind of coming to a dead end with the NHS services here anyway, as they can't provide the long-term therapy they say I need, and are stopping my short-term therapy because it's not going to do enough. So I might have to *shudder* go private for a long-term therapist, but I would want to be in contact with some services. Also I notice that MIND don't cover Scotland - is there a similar group anyone would recommend?

- What's the University like? As a failed (dropout) PhD student who is idling toying with the idea of doing a second MA, am I likely to get in if I apply or should I maybe consider how much I want to do a second MA and leave moving until I've applied somewhere and got in? This is not the main reason for my wanting to move there, but is definitely a consideration. Are there regular open talks/research seminars I could attend as a non-student and meet academics?

- Is there much of a call for freelance TEFL people up there? I'm currently not in a fit state to work at all, but I am qualified to do that so it'd be good to know for the future. One of the few good things about being down here is that there are loads of foreign students/business people. (I would also be up for volunteering these services when/if I get back to health, as my CV is terrible, so if anyone knows organisations who might need that, that would also be pretty useful.)

Sorry if these questions are stupid or too specific. Any help at all would be great. I still don't know if I'm going to do this tbh but I figure the more I know then the more able I'll be to decide.

― emil.y, Friday, 8 July 2016 15:59 (eight years ago) link

1. I live in mount florida & it's quite nice. good transport links into town, quiet 'residential' vibe, though there's not much to it. couple of pubs, a chip shop, few takeaways, local greengrocers. definitely would benefit from some investment to the 'high st'. suits us tho cos the flats are big & well-priced, and commute is short (so short I sometimes even get a train which goes away from town before looping back just so I can read.) not sure I'd recommend it for a newbie. is quite 'remote' from the west end which can be an issue if ppl having drinks/events that way. that being said, highest proportion of gigs is probably in the centre and there's an even split between south & west (maybe skews more towards the west.)

I've never lived in shawlands but I get the impression there's lots of 'students' and the just-graduated. the high street always has a lot of activity but again it's a bit run down.

other places to consider: dennistoun. 'up-and-coming'. has some nice pubs, cafes etc. well located for town, w/tenement flats at reasonable rents. I've lived there. was OK. suffers again from 'remoteness' west end

west end is where the action is but you pay for it, unless you're going to live in the lower part of maryhill, or woodlands/partick (both quite studenty due to proximity to university and (relatively) lower west-end rents).

glasgow university is well-regarded. as is strathclyde for certain subjects, I believe.

TEFL... dunno. I did notice a flyer for a place doing 'welcome to britain' courses in the local kurdish yesterday. there is a large immigrant population in the area just next to mount florida (govanhill) and of course plenty of international students (tho for the most part expect they speak english.)

― cozen, Friday, 8 July 2016 17:05 (eight years ago) link

re: 'remoteness'. it's all relative. glasgow is a fairly compact city and you can cycle from where I live in MF to the west end in about 15/20 mins. plenty of students means plenty of places selling affordable pub bikes too. cycling infrastructure is not the best but you get by

― cozen, Friday, 8 July 2016 17:09 (eight years ago) link

I'll have a think about these things, but briefly:

Ibrox is (1) not great and (2) not where the new BBC building is, really. Southside around Shawlands/Strathbungo/Pollokshields is a nice area in terms of pubs, cafes, culture - I'd probably avoid Govanhill if you're looking at the Southside. It's not *terrible* but not great either, there are better areas to be. The West End is mostly OK, but I reckon the south side would be more up your street. Don't know where you're looking, but http://www.s1rental.com/Property-for-rent/Glasgow/ is as good a place to start as any.

SAMH is your first port of call for mental health services: https://www.samh.org.uk/ I've used the voluntary sector option at https://thewynd.org.uk/counselling/ and they've been excellent on a "pay if/when you can afford it" basis, which was brilliant when my benefits were stopped. I've found NHS provision a bit hit and miss, but I'm not actually in Glasgow, so it may well be different. I can ask about for you though, I certainly know enough people with direct experience of services in Glasgow if no-one on this thread can help.

Someone else can probably answer your questions about the university, but again I've got people I can ask if they can't. There are three universities in Glasgow (Glasgow, Strathclyde and Glasgow Caledonian), and the University of the West of Scotland just outside Glasgow as well, so depending on what you want to do, there are plenty of options.

My brother-in-law is/was a TEFL person, I'll ask him what the current script is when I see him. There will definitely be opportunities for volunteering - check http://www.volunteerglasgow.org/ as a starting point. Might be worth checking directly with eg the Scottish Refugee Council as well.

Are you going to Indietracks this year? Feel free to bother me with any other questions over a beer if you are :-)

xpost

― ailsa, Friday, 8 July 2016 17:10 (eight years ago) link

govanhill's quite a good place to live next to cos you have really good ~amenities~ (MILK cafe, bakery47, lidl, yadgar, kurdish, ally arms, heraghty's, that nithsdale road strip, rumshack). honestly probably wouldn't want to live there tho because I think the housing can be a bit of a crapshoot & there are some widely-reported (tho probably overplayed) social issues.

yeah, I wouldn't consider ibrox

― cozen, Friday, 8 July 2016 17:14 (eight years ago) link

Proximity to the Ally Arms = u&k

― ailsa, Friday, 8 July 2016 17:16 (eight years ago) link

i liked living in anderston and finnieston and they were very well situated but i imagine the rents in finnieston are not so cheap now

― ♫ Corbyn's on fire / PLP is terrified ♫ (jim in glasgow), Friday, 8 July 2016 17:30 (eight years ago) link

Don't know what your subject is, but Strathclyde Uni's strengths are broadly in engineering, education, pharmacy and business. I'd choose it over Glasgow Uni for those (NB I was staff, not a student). I lived in Dennistoun for eight years and liked it a lot - you get a lovely big tenement for your money and it's only a 20-minute walk to Strathclyde. Friends in the west end won't come to your parties though.

If weather affects your mental health, consider the west of Scotland's low sunlight count. My mood improved significantly after moving to 'sunny' London.

― Madchen, Friday, 8 July 2016 17:46 (eight years ago) link

Thanks so much guys, this is all really good info.

of course plenty of international students (tho for the most part expect they speak english.)

International students with English as a second or third language do often want extra tuition, as well as guidance in academic jargon, and they also (usually) have more money to spend on tutors than working immigrants. When I was doing my course I did think that I would like to specialise in academic tutoring and do a sideline in volunteer work for those who couldn't afford classes. Of course, things went to shit and I haven't used my qualification at all yet.

ailsa - no, not going this year. Just couldn't face it. I mean, I barely leave my flat at the moment so upping sticks and moving incredibly far away is kind of a ludicrous idea, but something has to change. Might as well be location.

― emil.y, Friday, 8 July 2016 17:55 (eight years ago) link

You'd certainly get a lot out of the music scene here, I think. You have friends here, and I know people who have done what you're considering and it's worked out very well for them. I think it's a city that would suit you.

― ailsa, Friday, 8 July 2016 19:25 (eight years ago) link

And I'll be sorry not to share late night beers and space-station-watching with you this year.

― ailsa, Friday, 8 July 2016 19:25 (eight years ago) link

I'm also in Mount Florida - I think Cozen and I live on the same street as we often bump into each other - and it's a nice area, but yeah, you'd maybe want somewhere a little more central as a newbie.

A friend just got a 1bed in Govanhill for £300 pm (which is what I pay for a room in a 2 bed) and it's fine. But yeah, it's a bit of a crapshoot. The bit between the Queen's Park end of Victoria Road and Pollockshaws Rd is lovely though and still quite cheap. Also proximity to Allison Arms and Kurdish is a boon. Pollockshields/Queens Park would be my ideal location - handy for town and with its own community feel.

Shawlands I'm not quite as keen on, but it certainly has its nice bits, not least the 60s modular block. Glad Cafe is really good for gigs and there are fun places like the Ex Serviceman's Club which puts on indie and northern soul dance nights, as well as the odd gig.

Southside bias, but I kinda think the West End is over. There are no gigs there anymore - other than Laurie from Golden Teacher's infamous house gigs - and while it's got some nice places to eat and drink, I do feel it's lost something of its community feel. Perhaps there's also the thing of many of my friends having left the West End, so I don't find myself going over there all the time. Living in Woodlands or Maryhill is certainly handy if you're going to shows at Sleazys, the CCA, Art School etc but it's easy enough to get the nightbus south.

For arts subjects, Glasgow Uni is probably the place. And I say this as a recent graduate of Strathclyde! The latter has become increasingly business oriented - home of "useful" learning. Still a good English department, but you'll have more choice of people to work with at Glasgow.

― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Friday, 8 July 2016 19:47 (eight years ago) link

I would agree the West End is over - I've always thought of it as just a mix of students and false glamour, to be honest. When I lived outside Glasgow I would never feel it worth the extra effort to travel a few extra miles beyond the city centre for it.

Finnieston and Dennistoun both feel like they're undergoing strong changes and while I'm a fan I might find myself less drawn to them in the next few years. emil.y I don't think you're much of a clubber at all from what I've seen of you on ILX but _jed's monthly club night near Finnieston is really good if anyone else needs to be told that.

I've only been here a few months but I really like living in the Southside. Most places are better than where I was (Paisley) to be fair, but I feel like there's so many amenities right on my doorstep, and it's so quick and easy to get into the city centre. I like being able to wander up to a main road and find a gig on for a fiver any night that I'm bored. I'm not in Govanhill but I think it gets an unfair rep - the troubles and tensions are overplayed massively, and I have friend living on a notorious street who loves his flat as it has enough room for him to have a full band rehearse.

I went to Strathclyde Uni and I didn't particularly enjoy the student culture at it. It's been nearly ten years since I started my degree, but I always felt the prevailing lad culture in the union was unpleasant in a way I've never noticed when I've been the QM at Glasgow Uni. We didn't have a student radio either but Glasgow's is really good. I'll second the postiive words about the English Dept at Strathclyde too.

― boxedjoy, Saturday, 9 July 2016 09:58 (eight years ago) link

I stay in Mount Florida too! I really like it here but there's not much of a music/pub scene nearby. It's a safe, quiet area with some really good parks nearby. I can highly recommend Queens Park, Kings Park, Pollok Park and Linn Park if you're into parks. There are good public transport links to the city centre (this applies to pretty much all of the southside) and you can cycle there in about 20 minutes or so. West End is cool for a visit but I wouldn't live there because it's expensive and there's a lot of hipster students around who make me feel old

The best areas in the southside are probably Mt Florida, Langside, Battlefield, Shawlands, Strathbungo, Pollokshields. The area around Paisley Road West (Cessnock, Kinning Park, Ibrox) is supposed to be pretty decent now too, it's an up and coming part of town I believe. I've got a pal who stays in Cessnock and he says it's cool

As mentioned above, SAMH is good for mental health advice. NHS services are about the same as other parts of the country as far as I know. Free/cheap counselling is also available from Lifelink and the Tom Allan Centre. There are quite a lot of private therapists available. You're probably aware of this, but the climate in Glasgow is pretty grim in winter especially and from November to February there's not much daylight at all.

― paolo, Saturday, 9 July 2016 10:10 (eight years ago) link

Overall, Glasgow is a great place to live if you can cope with the cold and rain :)

― paolo, Saturday, 9 July 2016 10:11 (eight years ago) link

I've got a pal who stays in Cessnock and he says it's cool

Oh hi dere.
Obviously I like Cessnock/PRW a lot but I'm not completely certain I'd recommend it to someone moving to Glasgow for the first time. I think the prediction was that the developments at Pacific Quay with the BBC etc moving in would make it into an 'up and coming', trendier area like Dennistoun or Finniestoun but it hasn't exactly worked out that way; instead it's just a fairly normal, friendly, affordable area.
Lots of decent local shops and very good transport links into town but despite that can feel oddly cut-off/separate from the rest of the city, which is why I maybe wouldn't suggest it for a newcomer. Also there's the sectarian/aggressively blue-nosed aspects that go along with the proximity to Ibrox, which I've just got used to tuning out, but sometimes you stop & realise that e.g. a pub flying the red hand flag is not normal or OK.

I agree with everyone that most parts of the Southside are a good bet. Try Southside More :)

― Option 1 : Do Nothing (Mr Andy M), Saturday, 9 July 2016 11:13 (eight years ago) link

https://youtu.be/k8WSDpz5-mk?t=2m28s

― conrad, Saturday, 9 July 2016 11:31 (eight years ago) link

Oh yeah, I should have said the same about Dennistoun re. orange walks. They're pretty regular up Duke Street at certain times of year and the noise is a pita at 8am on a Saturday morning. And noise aside, the whole thing made me feel a bit uncomfortable.

― Madchen, Saturday, 9 July 2016 11:46 (eight years ago) link

That's one of my favourite Limmy sketches but I should point out that not everyone in Glasgow speaks like that :)

― paolo, Saturday, 9 July 2016 11:58 (eight years ago) link

Hi emil.y, I moved up to Glasgow from London almost exactly ten years ago and have never regretted the decision. Glasgow has got pretty much everything you'd want from a big urban city but as cozen says it is still relatively compact and is - maybe Buchanan Street on a Saturday apart - nowhere near as 'full on' as London. Transport links are fine pretty much whatever part of the city you're in, and taxis are cheap (unlike in other parts of Scotland, where they can be shockingly expensive eg Aberdeen). And if you do decide you want a break from urban life, there's some magnificent countryside very close by - Loch Lomond, for example, is less than an hour away by train, and quite a few of the bigger islands are reachable on a day trip.

Until about six months ago I lived in Dennistoun, and was on the whole pretty happy there, although the tenement block I was in got to be quite dilapidated and dirty, a consequence of different people moving in and out. You can easily walk into the centre of town from Dennistoun, there's lot of parks, charity shops and supermarkets all around you, and as Madchen says, the only drawback is a particularly strong Orange Order presence in the area. There are definitely some boozers I wouldn't care to go in, and a few places where I would be wary of walking round after dark (Haghill!), but in ten years up here I've never once been threatened or attacked.

I would strongly suggest you getting in touch with a housing association in an area that you like, if and when you do move up here; they would take into account your mental health issues when they assess your needs, and you would have guaranteed accommodation at a low price, and no private landlord.

Good luck.

― Foster Twelvetrees (Ward Fowler), Saturday, 9 July 2016 12:25 (eight years ago) link

as someone currently at the end of his tether with london and considering heading back up north this is all good information for me too...

maybe you'll be able to answer this stew (or maybe someone else will) - what's glasgow's ~intellectual community~ in the philosophy / critical theory / cultural studies etc area like? i don't expect the london standard of 100 people turning up to see someone talk about their latest book on structuralist temporalities or whatever, but it would be nice if there was something to latch onto.

― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 9 July 2016 13:11 (eight years ago) link

Well, if I move there then you'll have at least one jaded philo/crit theorist friend.

― emil.y, Saturday, 9 July 2016 14:01 (eight years ago) link

(Btw I never did get round to reading yr thesis, I just remembered. Will make that a priority read.)

― emil.y, Saturday, 9 July 2016 14:01 (eight years ago) link

i have for a while been trying to persuade other jaded philo/crit theorist friends to make the glasgow move without being entirely serious about it myself, maybe it's finally time for us to be the vanguard

― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 9 July 2016 15:22 (eight years ago) link

Intellectual community is pretty good. Helps if you're tuned into uni/art school networks of course, but there are quite a few public events at both Glasgow Uni and GSA that will end up on Eventbrite - guest speakers, artist talks etc.

The CCA often has artist talks as well as writing groups and screenings, while community spaces like Kinning Park Complex, Govanhill Baths etc have quite a lot going on.

Glasgow Women's Library is doing really brilliant things - recent speakers have included Lindy West and Carrie Brownstein - and they've got lots of workshops, reading groups etc.

There's also a new Glasgow Autonomous Space, so it'll be interesting to see what happens around that.

Activist networks are also really strong - even if you're not interesting in activism per se, it's well worth signing up to the Glasgow AFed mailing list to get updates on events.

Happy to join any phi/crit/cultural studies groups btw! I have been thinking it would be good to join some sort of reading group for that sort of thing now I've finished my PhD. Must be something out there along those lines.

― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Saturday, 9 July 2016 16:06 (eight years ago) link

Glasgow is less of a destination for English schools than Edinburgh or Brighton but it does have quite a few students, particularly at Glasgow Caledonian, who would have issues with academic English to some degree. Glasgow, rather than Edinburgh or Brighton, also has more of a market for English leading to citizenship / settlement which may be of interest. Going down that route, it would be worth looking into developing a familiarity with the UKVI IELTS and Trinity exams as that does tend to be what a lot of people are looking for help with.

― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Saturday, 9 July 2016 16:54 (eight years ago) link

A bit tired for a full post right now, but I just wanted to give a wave from Dennistoun! I'm even a Haghill resident technically, but on the fringe, so I can actually leave the flat after darkness. :) I've been here for years and like it a lot.

I would concur with what everyone has said so far. I don't have any great fondness for the West End anymore, apart from usually heading that way when visitors come. Southside seems a lot more interesting nowadays. I love it, but I think Dennistoun maybe needs a wee while longer to really come into its own - changes are positive, but slow.

My mental health care experiences with the NHS in this area have been excellent also.

― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Sunday, 10 July 2016 13:29 (eight years ago) link

back visiting next month for a week, nowhere near long enough. mon eh glesga.

― jim in vancouver, Saturday, 16 July 2016 07:45 (eight years ago) link

Was there for a paltry 5 days last week. Never enough time, despite it's size.

― Gukbe, Saturday, 16 July 2016 08:37 (eight years ago) link

one month passes...

Our flat in Shawlands was robbed yesterday. Two laptops and a tablet stolen, and it seems to have been part of a spate of break-ins. Be vigilant, I wouldn't wish this on anybody.

― boxedjoy, Friday, 26 August 2016 08:22 (eight years ago) link

:(

― conrad, Friday, 26 August 2016 08:35 (eight years ago) link

oh scott, i'm so sorry to hear that! were you insured? I mean it's awful either way.

― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Friday, 26 August 2016 14:51 (eight years ago) link

Oh, that's shit. I have a few friends round Shawlands way, I'll be sure to let them know.

― ailsa, Friday, 26 August 2016 15:10 (eight years ago) link

I had been insured until last year. We were intending to set up a joint account to pay rent/insurance/etc that we never got around to doing. I'm more upset about losing all my photos and demos and files - my laptop had a dud battery and keys missing so the actual laptop isn't a great loss, it's just that it had basically all my life on it. His laptop was the opposite though - fairly new and a model worth over one thousand pounds. It had a fair amount of his own music on it though, including stuff for a gig a week today. It's a fucking nightmare. I've resigned myself to losing all my digital media stuff but I am desperately hoping to get the actual machines back.

― boxedjoy, Saturday, 27 August 2016 17:43 (eight years ago) link

That's awful, sorry. I hope you do get them back.

― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Saturday, 27 August 2016 20:00 (eight years ago) link

Jesus, that's terrible. I completely forget about the value in backing stuff up. A stark reminder. Is there anything any of us can do to help?

― ailsa, Sunday, 28 August 2016 01:19 (eight years ago) link

I don't think so. I've been on ebay and Gumtree and all those Facebay pages religiously but nothing has turned up yet. Thanks though, I do really appreciate it.

― boxedjoy, Sunday, 28 August 2016 08:19 (eight years ago) link

five months pass...

worth a revive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIVkfCIunLc

― Heavy Doors (jed_), Sunday, 26 February 2017 03:00 (seven years ago) link

Will never not be funny, that one.

Been a while since we failed to organise a Glasgow FAP, eh?

― ailsa, Sunday, 26 February 2017 13:46 (seven years ago) link

We were in the same room on Tuesday, does that count?

― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Sunday, 26 February 2017 16:25 (seven years ago) link

I guess :-)

― ailsa, Sunday, 26 February 2017 17:23 (seven years ago) link

lol that Rangers fan is priceless! Coincidentally I just clicked on this while listening to a radio program about swearing.

― calzino, Monday, 27 February 2017 20:25 (seven years ago) link

Is that Peter capaldi in the balmore glazing ad? 1:40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFoiJs7Injc

― Heavy Doors (jed_), Tuesday, 28 February 2017 09:30 (seven years ago) link

that is not peter capaldi :)

― conrad, Tuesday, 28 February 2017 09:52 (seven years ago) link

Is it not?

― Heavy Doors (jed_), Tuesday, 28 February 2017 10:01 (seven years ago) link

aye that's definitely no capaldi

― Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 28 February 2017 18:00 (seven years ago) link

Definitely not.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 28 February 2017 19:57 (seven years ago) link

Reminds me more of Andrew "Andy" O'Brien:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_O'Brien_(EastEnders)

― Bernie Lugg (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 28 February 2017 21:03 (seven years ago) link

actor who played him was from my home town of uddingston

― Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 28 February 2017 21:12 (seven years ago) link

It's him, I tell you.

https://www.peter-capaldi-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Love-Child.jpg

― Heavy Doors (jed_), Thursday, 2 March 2017 00:34 (seven years ago) link

:)

― conrad, Thursday, 2 March 2017 07:27 (seven years ago) link

I was just reading about it. Peter worked for Balmore Glazing and the guy who was cast didn't turn up on the day so PC had to fill in. It was how he got into showbiz.

― Heavy Doors (jed_), Thursday, 2 March 2017 08:13 (seven years ago) link

:)

― conrad, Thursday, 2 March 2017 09:40 (seven years ago) link

four weeks pass...

whit? it was actually capaldi?!

I'm going to be in the dear green place a week from now, the 6th, til the 15th. any culture happenings of note going on (other than celtic v kilmarnock which i will be attending)?

― gimp in wankouver (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 30 March 2017 17:19 (seven years ago) link

oh yeah also apart from counterflows, which i know about

― gimp in wankouver (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 30 March 2017 17:20 (seven years ago) link

Guy in the advert is George Drennan fae Kilmarnock.

― everything, Thursday, 30 March 2017 18:23 (seven years ago) link

knew it wisnae him

really specific from everything there

― -_- (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 30 March 2017 23:23 (seven years ago) link

my mate told me his address. i thought "oh that's in queens park", then i google mapped it and saw it was in govanhill, and then i realized id just been thinking of the whole of govanhill as just an extension of queen's park.

― -_- (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 30 March 2017 23:25 (seven years ago) link

like i think i thought govanhill was up near govan and kinningpark haha.

i would literally go years without going south of the river when i lived in glasgow

― -_- (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 30 March 2017 23:26 (seven years ago) link

everything in glasgow is south of the river now jim you'll be amazed

― conrad, Friday, 31 March 2017 15:46 (seven years ago) link

i'm south of the river so not everything's amazing tbf

― tony orlandoni, cheese engineer (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 31 March 2017 16:11 (seven years ago) link

all my pals who haven't moved to the suburbs, and my big brother, live in the southside

― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 31 March 2017 16:20 (seven years ago) link

marcello carlin and lena friesan are urgently looking for somewhere to stay in glasgow, details as below copied from marcello's facebook:

ATTENTION ALL GLASGOW FACEBOOKERS:
Lena and I are planning to come up there soon to see my mum. She is now in a care home and has given up her (council) house so that's not an option for us any more. Is there anybody up there who would be willing to put up with us/put us up for three nights? The care home's down Cambuslang way (probably nearer Blantyre as the crow flies but there you go) so it would be good to be able to get there easily. It would be great to see my mum, which for reasons of health etc. I haven't done since last July. If you can help, please send me a private message and I'll give you more details. Thanks in advance!

https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fmarcello.carlin%2Fposts%2F10155185981584766&width=500
^^^facebook link

or hit them up on twitter: @marcellocarlin @agincourtgirl

― mark s, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 11:55 (seven years ago) link

Any idea what dates he's looking at?

― Madchen, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 11:57 (seven years ago) link

trying to find out

― mark s, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 12:00 (seven years ago) link

found out: 18-20 April

(so next week)

― mark s, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 12:41 (seven years ago) link

Ah, can't help that soon I'm afraid. Might have an empty flat for a short time after 14th May.

― Madchen, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 13:53 (seven years ago) link

(bumping this in case it wasn't seen before)

― mark s, Wednesday, 12 April 2017 16:04 (seven years ago) link

three weeks pass...

(madchen can you email me?)

― mark s, Monday, 8 May 2017 10:28 (seven years ago) link

two months pass...

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/15417790.Man_floats_down_River_Kelvin_on_inflatable_swimming_pool_while_basking_in_sunshine/

― I'm make-believe. (jed_), Wednesday, 19 July 2017 23:36 (seven years ago) link

yas man

― -_- (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 19 July 2017 23:54 (seven years ago) link

one month passes...

A good little read... not Smeato. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/sep/01/i-stopped-a-terrorist-attack-experience

― brain (krakow), Saturday, 2 September 2017 21:19 (seven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

talk about being blindsided by unexpected emotion...

i can't see this thing without crying

http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/eccf0839ec5d425ebbc307ae9cf1612c/an-illuminated-sign-for-barrowland-ballroom-at-night-in-glasgow-scotland-d3hgcn.jpg

― Kat Slater Slag meme (jed_), Thursday, 21 September 2017 03:26 (seven years ago) link

Was there for the first time last night for lcd soundsystem and took exactly that photo. Amazing venue

― i know kore-eda (or something), Thursday, 21 September 2017 07:11 (seven years ago) link

i saw plastikman there in 1994, totally sober. it was incredible

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 21 September 2017 09:11 (seven years ago) link

A good little read... not Smeato. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/sep/01/i-stopped-a-terrorist-attack-experience

― brain (krakow), Saturday, September 2, 2017 2:19 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I threw my full weight into it. My arm and shoulder met his chest and he clattered down. I stood on his legs while the police cuffed him. One officer shouted at me, “Who are you? Get out of here.” That annoyed me. Who am I? I’m the one who’s just put him on his backside.

belter

― -_- (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 21 September 2017 16:53 (seven years ago) link

or something, I was there on Tuesday. Amazing gig. Are you Glasgow based?

― Kat Slater Slag meme. (jed_), Thursday, 21 September 2017 18:36 (seven years ago) link

Tracer, was that the time Optimo put on plastikman?

― Kat Slater Slag meme. (jed_), Thursday, 21 September 2017 18:39 (seven years ago) link

Hey Jed, yeah some show. I've been up in Glasgow area for 4 years. Somehow found myself in cumbernauld right now but still work in the west end and spend a lot of time in the city. Great place

― i know kore-eda (or something), Thursday, 21 September 2017 19:17 (seven years ago) link

Optimo didn't exist then! Neil Landstrumm opened. There may have been a DJ Twitch connection. Thinking about it now there almost had to have been.

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 21 September 2017 19:56 (seven years ago) link

There must have been. Pure maybe?

― Kat Slater Slag meme. (jed_), Thursday, 21 September 2017 20:22 (seven years ago) link

http://www.glasgow-barrowland.com/history/ballroom_historybands_pq.html

― Kat Slater Slag meme. (jed_), Thursday, 21 September 2017 20:24 (seven years ago) link

my boyfriend used to live across from the Barrowlands and I loved going up to his on a night and just catching the buzz as I walked down the Gallowgate. I love when you come out a gig there and as you're walking down those steps everyone is singing along. It's such a cliche but I really don't think you get crowds like it anywhere else in the world.

― boxedjoy, Thursday, 21 September 2017 20:26 (seven years ago) link

James Murphy:

__ >> Favorite Music Venue __

Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow, Scotland
It fits about 2,000 people, but it's completely square and the audience there is so amazing. The only thing I can compare it to, if you played a big festival or you played a huge arena rock show, and you're a band who's just getting to be that size, so the audience is still really down, and there's about 2,000 people in this square right in front of the stage losing their marbles, it's basically like the pit of a big show, and if you just got rid of everybody else, that's the Glasgow Barrowland. Literally, from the front to the back it's people totally paying attention. It's a suspended floor, so when people jump up and down it bounces, it gives, it's like a big roller rink. It's amazing, and Glasgow's the best place on the planet to play a rock show, period.

― Kat Slater Slag meme. (jed_), Thursday, 21 September 2017 22:29 (seven years ago) link

I love the barras. It really is the best. The carling academy was shite the 2 times ive been there (Kraftwerk and Janes Addiction - both over a decade ago so it may be better now)

― starving street dogs of punk rock (Odysseus), Thursday, 21 September 2017 23:25 (seven years ago) link

i think it's far beyond glasgow fap time and i'm just going to give it a date and a location.

6pm on Friday the 13th of October in the Vic bar at the art school.

we'll have to change it but there's your starting point!

― Kat Slater Slag meme (jed_), Friday, 22 September 2017 01:58 (seven years ago) link

even if it only turns out to be me and ailsa and gerty..

― Kat Slater Slag meme (jed_), Friday, 22 September 2017 02:03 (seven years ago) link

gerry, i'm calling you gerty now (autocorrect) i hope that's okay!

― Kat Slater Slag meme (jed_), Friday, 22 September 2017 02:04 (seven years ago) link

we're all fluid now, right?

― Kat Slater Slag meme (jed_), Friday, 22 September 2017 02:05 (seven years ago) link

I'll be there :)

― boxedjoy, Friday, 22 September 2017 06:42 (seven years ago) link

I'd like to try and come along

― i know kore-eda (or something), Friday, 22 September 2017 06:50 (seven years ago) link

I'm in (subject to work commitments coming up).

― brain (krakow), Friday, 22 September 2017 08:01 (seven years ago) link

I should hopefully be able to come along

― paolo, Friday, 22 September 2017 09:31 (seven years ago) link

Also subject to work commitments

― paolo, Friday, 22 September 2017 09:31 (seven years ago) link

Can't think of a good reason why not - not least because I appear to be jed's go-to answer for "who will turn up" :)

― ailsa, Friday, 22 September 2017 10:37 (seven years ago) link

If they could sort out the bar at the Barras, it'd be excellent. Shits all over the Academy though, utterly horrible venue.

― ailsa, Friday, 22 September 2017 10:51 (seven years ago) link

Date in the diary.

― Gunpowder Julius (Ward Fowler), Friday, 22 September 2017 10:55 (seven years ago) link

I always found the barras a bit scary. I've never went to a gig by myself there and I'm reluctant to do so.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 22 September 2017 11:43 (seven years ago) link

how?

― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 22 September 2017 16:22 (seven years ago) link

Just always seemed a bit rougher in that area but I haven't been there in years.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 22 September 2017 16:34 (seven years ago) link

it is a "rough area" as far as glasgow goes but nowhere in glasgow is the bronx and when a gig is on is the best time to go there as when it lets out there's a huge crowd of like-minded gig goers to walk back into town with or what have you. i am a soft middle-class want and have been to gigs there solo many times without any hassle whatsoever

― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 22 September 2017 16:39 (seven years ago) link

damn autocorrect. let me call myself a wank ffs

― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 22 September 2017 16:40 (seven years ago) link

having said that I've also drank in several of the pubs on the gallowgate as well so ymmv

― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 22 September 2017 16:47 (seven years ago) link

A pre-gig swally in the Sarrie is all part of the experience. Fuck a Mono.

― ailsa, Friday, 22 September 2017 16:48 (seven years ago) link

i wonder if they still have buckfast on the optics

― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 22 September 2017 16:48 (seven years ago) link

Alisa, do you not like Mono?

― Kat Slater Slag meme. (jed_), Friday, 22 September 2017 16:57 (seven years ago) link

I like to maintain a reputation.

― ailsa, Friday, 22 September 2017 16:59 (seven years ago) link

Been meaning to ask... I used to hear about violent attacks all the time, not just glasgow but the area around it but I never hear about it anymore, maybe it's just that the news isn't as interested in thugs anymore and I don't speak to as many people these days.

Rarely see that classic ned look anymore, did they all ditch that and get ice cream hair?

One of my friends guessed that maybe phones and computers and the increased necessity of very basic literacy has maybe decreased gang violence (or just got into cyberbullying). Sounds very unlikely but I really don't know.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 22 September 2017 17:01 (seven years ago) link

Ice cream hair!

― Kat Slater Slag meme. (jed_), Friday, 22 September 2017 17:05 (seven years ago) link

All the shitty violence is out in Paisley these days.

― ailsa, Friday, 22 September 2017 17:08 (seven years ago) link

crime has been decreasing in glasgow for the last couple of decades. it's no longer the murder capital of britain or scotland.

there seems to be a bit of a cultural change. i also rarely see a classic ned and wee guys seem to be more concerned with dressing like they were in one direction and having a good time than petty acts of nihilism. if i compare going out in the town this year - which i did when i was back for a visit in april, with when i used to go out drinking in 2002 as a teenager glasgow just feels like a palpably less dangerous place to be.

there have also been campaigns by the polis to end gang violence that apparently have been successful https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/apr/06/glasgow-murder-rate-knife-gang-crime-police

― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 22 September 2017 17:08 (seven years ago) link

Ice cream hair seemed to have started with Jedward then all these other wavy designs that are light up top.

My sister knew this American guy who came over in recent years and he said he was repelled by how shiny, groomed and fashion obsessed so many glasgow people were. I was amazed by this impression but things really have changed.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 22 September 2017 17:44 (seven years ago) link

yeah I feel like every other week I see a news story about a particularly unpleasant crime in Paisley, especially ones really near where I was living two years ago. I feel terribly guilty over my relief of moving away from the area.

Its been ages since I saw a proper "wee bam" type ned, but its also been ages since I saw a proper "mosher" too. You see the emo hang-ons at the corners of Jamaica St but it's nothing like the swathes of them who used to circle the GOMA. I think everyone younger than me looks the same now but that's probably just me not being switched on at all.

― boxedjoy, Friday, 22 September 2017 17:54 (seven years ago) link

i miss the GOMA goffs

― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 22 September 2017 17:57 (seven years ago) link

I was a fringe GOMA goff - all my pals were really into it but I couldn't get on board with nu-metal. We used to get the train up to town at 2pm on a Saturday, go to McDonalds and get a small coke but in a large cup, then go down the Clyde and get a jaikey to buy us vodka and use it to fill our paper cups so we could hang about the front of Borders drinking without getting caught. Into the Cathouse for a dance and a winch at 6pm, out at 9pm and then milling around Central until the party train home which got us back in time for an episode of CSI. Good times!

― boxedjoy, Friday, 22 September 2017 18:09 (seven years ago) link

I really wish I had been old enough for Bonkers, it sounds like it was mental, but then again also like the scariest place on earth?

― boxedjoy, Friday, 22 September 2017 18:10 (seven years ago) link

i miss the GOMA goffs

otm

― Mr. Eulon Mask, urging the UN to ban the "homicide robot" (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 22 September 2017 18:12 (seven years ago) link

I miss seeing full on goths and people who dressed in a way that made them really stand out. Where did that pvc guy with the superhero belts go?

Barrhead has really changed, it's probably still quite rough but I don't hear about peopled getting scalped or raped anymore.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 22 September 2017 18:16 (seven years ago) link

The dressed neds thing is only new in terms of scale, they've always existed.

But Glasgow has always been. City where people get really dressed up. It shares that with other v working class cities in the north of England.

If you miss seeing bam type neds you should come to ma bit. Although they're getting relatively scarce even in Maryhill.

― black cress (jed_), Friday, 22 September 2017 18:29 (seven years ago) link

It's actually neddy girls that look terrible now. V dark makeup, scouse brows and false eyelashes that are pure caked in mascara and look like they've been on for weeks.

The guys look fine generally. I've actually had sex with a few of them. Ha!

― black cress (jed_), Friday, 22 September 2017 18:34 (seven years ago) link

The dressed neds thing is only new in terms of scale, they've always existed.

But Glasgow has always been. City where people get really dressed up. It shares that with other v working class cities in the north of England.

this is very true. newcastle is extremely similar in this respect for instance. my (canadian) wife has remarked how in glasgow the women are very dressed up, they dress extremely femininely and girly and wear lots of makeup, the men are also dressed up (good shiney jeans and leather shoes, crisp white shirt, gelled hair etc), and how much perfume and cologne folk wear.

― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 22 September 2017 18:38 (seven years ago) link

nice work jed, always impressed by those willing to go the extra mile in reaching out to marginalised members of society xp

― Mr. Eulon Mask, urging the UN to ban the "homicide robot" (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 22 September 2017 18:39 (seven years ago) link

Ha!

― black cress (jed_), Friday, 22 September 2017 18:44 (seven years ago) link

Plenty of old-school ned types out east end way, Haghill and beyond.

― brain (krakow), Friday, 22 September 2017 18:58 (seven years ago) link

The dressed neds thing is only new in terms of scale, they've always existed.

― black cress (jed_), Friday, 22 September 2017 19:29

By "dressed" you mean the new shiny look? Because classic neds dressed up plenty but in ridiculous sportswear, caps and pulled up socks. I would guess the ice cream hair and new clothes is actually cheaper than the tracksuits and trainers they used to wear even though it made them look more poor(if these really are the same people).

But the ned voices are disappearing too.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 22 September 2017 19:01 (seven years ago) link

you would always have some neds who would dress up in button down shirt and shoes rather than trainers. ben sherman shirt, jeans and timberland boots with one of those whipsy fingers were a big 90s look

― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 22 September 2017 19:05 (seven years ago) link

Anyone seen the film Small Faces about 60s glasgow? I don't know how accurate it is but there'll all dressed super smart.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 22 September 2017 19:18 (seven years ago) link

That really shocked me at the time.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 22 September 2017 19:19 (seven years ago) link

They're all dressed super smart

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 22 September 2017 19:20 (seven years ago) link

you're very easily shocked. i thought it was widely known that people dressed well in glasgow in the 50s onward. my uncles were all like that - suoer neat brilliantined hair and handmade suits and overcoats that iirc were all made by one tailor next to the barras.

― black cress (jed_), Friday, 22 September 2017 23:08 (seven years ago) link

aye my granda and his brothers were brought up 11 folk in a parkhead room and kitchen with a usually unemployed alchy da but they all looked natty as anything in any pictures from the 40s and 50s.

― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 22 September 2017 23:11 (seven years ago) link

I just assumed everyone looked like Steptoe and Son.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 22 September 2017 23:24 (seven years ago) link

by the way do we all know that ailsa (oor Ailsa) was on mastermind tonight?

cracking round ailsa!

― black cress (jed_), Friday, 22 September 2017 23:25 (seven years ago) link

really? wow

― starving street dogs of punk rock (Odysseus), Saturday, 23 September 2017 00:11 (seven years ago) link

forest pines, ex of this parish was on it some years ago.

― starving street dogs of punk rock (Odysseus), Saturday, 23 September 2017 00:11 (seven years ago) link

Thanks jed_ :(

― ailsa, Saturday, 23 September 2017 00:17 (seven years ago) link

that's cool! i take it you didn't get through so commiserations. it's a tough show!

― -_- (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 23 September 2017 01:54 (seven years ago) link

I did get through!

― ailsa, Saturday, 23 September 2017 06:52 (seven years ago) link

Another thing: it's been a while since I heard any real hatred towards English people. I'm surprised that wasn't more visible during the referendum. In primary school I remember kids saying they really hated the English.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 25 September 2017 15:31 (seven years ago) link

maybe you're not hanging around enough primary schools

― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Monday, 25 September 2017 16:44 (seven years ago) link

I did get through!

― ailsa, Friday, September 22, 2017 11:52 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh, cool!

― -_- (jim in vancouver), Monday, 25 September 2017 16:46 (seven years ago) link

lol @ sic

― black cress (jed_), Monday, 25 September 2017 17:23 (seven years ago) link

because it's now hidden in the middle of the thread i should say again that we're going to have a ILX meet up (or FAP in the old currency although I'm told that that means something else now!).

Friday the 13th of October at 6pm in the Vic Bar at The Art School.

Unless it changes, which it won't

― black cress (jed_), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 19:19 (seven years ago) link

Hello! I will attempt to attend Glasgow FAP. I may fail.

― get outta the way! here comes (onimo), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 22:02 (seven years ago) link

Do try Gerty.

― Kat Slater Slag meme. (jed_), Wednesday, 27 September 2017 00:22 (seven years ago) link

Glad you saw this, because I kept meaning to text you and tell you in case you didn't, but I'm a bit rubbish and I keep forgetting.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 27 September 2017 15:04 (seven years ago) link

No sure about my new name :)

― Gerty fu ya bassa (onimo), Wednesday, 27 September 2017 20:57 (seven years ago) link

Is it just me or is Fruit Shoot sold in more shops than Ribena or any other blackcurrent drink? I tried Fruit Shoot again and its just as ghastly as I remembered.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 3 October 2017 18:06 (seven years ago) link

I tend to find Ribena widely available in Scotland's many fine stockists of juice.

― michaellambert, Tuesday, 3 October 2017 21:21 (seven years ago) link

Ribena is a widely available juice in our many cities and towns

― -_- (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 21:49 (seven years ago) link

Ribena was a popular drink and it still is.

― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 21:52 (seven years ago) link

Was there not some sort of campaign to get rid of Ribena because it was too sugary or something? Fruit Shoots are shite though, I'll give you that. Do you mean the wee ready-mixed cartons of Ribena as opposed to the bottles of concentrate?

― ailsa, Tuesday, 3 October 2017 21:59 (seven years ago) link

there was a lot of controversy when it came out, ten year ago or so, that ribena has not very much vitamin c, barely any fruit, and is basically not really any more nutritious than any type of ginger

― -_- (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 22:01 (seven years ago) link

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/mar/27/schoolsworldwide.foodanddrink

― -_- (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 22:03 (seven years ago) link

Do you mean the wee ready-mixed cartons of Ribena as opposed to the bottles of concentrate?

― ailsa, Tuesday, 3 October 2017 22:59

There was neither.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 3 October 2017 22:09 (seven years ago) link

Concentrate Ribena is rank. Pre-mixed Ribena is a nice drink.

― michaellambert, Tuesday, 3 October 2017 22:23 (seven years ago) link

Ribena is delicious. Strawberry Ribena is *of the gods*.

― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 22:31 (seven years ago) link

Ribena in a carton with a straw needed to puncture it when I was a child >>>>> most other drinks

Fruit Shoots are awful. Every time I'm in McDonalds and I hear a parent get one for their child as part of a Happy Meal I always assume the parent just doesn't love their child.

― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 3 October 2017 22:32 (seven years ago) link

Also, not enough shops carry blackcurrent Capri Sun.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 3 October 2017 22:36 (seven years ago) link

That’s because the Natural Order of Things is blackcurrant = Ribena, orange = Capri Sun.

― michaellambert, Wednesday, 4 October 2017 09:57 (seven years ago) link

asshoppers need not apply

― Gerty fu ya bassa (onimo), Friday, 13 October 2017 13:38 (seven years ago) link

I shall be trying Glasgow more later and am very much looking forward to it.

― ailsa, Friday, 13 October 2017 14:43 (seven years ago) link

I'm going to be the first asshopper to say they can't make this now, sadly.

― Ward Fowler, Friday, 13 October 2017 14:45 (seven years ago) link

this asshopper forgot (i know...) - I'll be an hour late!

― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Friday, 13 October 2017 16:21 (seven years ago) link

This asshopper is suffering a hangover and will definitely be late if he makes it out the door

― boxedjoy, Friday, 13 October 2017 16:29 (seven years ago) link

lol, never change, Glasgow :)

― ailsa, Friday, 13 October 2017 16:34 (seven years ago) link

This grasshopper is just about on time but might not be able to hang around all night for the asshoppers

― Gerty fu ya bassa (onimo), Friday, 13 October 2017 17:07 (seven years ago) link

It looked like me and missus might be trying a lot of Glasgow more, she went up and back from London on Wednesday for a job interview, 12 hours on trains :/

But it didn't happen - but we'll be trying Glasgow again in the new year.

― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 13 October 2017 17:37 (seven years ago) link

Which is to say have a nice FAP!

― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 13 October 2017 17:37 (seven years ago) link

Glasgow
The rest of the world
Thinks you're good at this
You're rubbish
Glasgow

― Gerty fu ya bassa (onimo), Friday, 13 October 2017 18:40 (seven years ago) link

Worra fucking liberty.

I had a lovely night with Alisa and Gerty nonetheless!

― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Friday, 13 October 2017 20:59 (seven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_sNJ0ODQFU

― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Friday, 13 October 2017 21:35 (seven years ago) link

Glasgow is still endearingly rubbish at fapping, but Gerty/Herpes (the king of autocorrect names) and Jed are still excellent company in a bar where I feel like people think I'm someone's mum coming to check out on them (seriously, ffs, they apparently let weans into the art school now, let's pretend I'm not old enough to actual have given birth to people who can commence further education).

Let's do this properly next time, eh?

― ailsa, Saturday, 14 October 2017 01:04 (seven years ago) link

Yeah I wasn't able to make it as a result of this and that. Hopefully next time

― paolo, Saturday, 14 October 2017 09:32 (seven years ago) link

Sorry I didn't make it, I was stuck at home working unfortunately. Another time.

― brain (krakow), Saturday, 14 October 2017 09:51 (seven years ago) link

Have occasionally been known to fap in Glasgow (with the ever-great-company Ward Fowler), so will bookmark!

― Fizzles, Saturday, 14 October 2017 11:18 (seven years ago) link

Weird ass sky today.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 16 October 2017 12:01 (seven years ago) link

Far too dark. Every light on in the house!

― boxedjoy, Monday, 16 October 2017 12:09 (seven years ago) link

I cycled home in sunshine and blue skies though earlier this afternoon. Also sat for a coffee next to a few press photographers who had been out looking for photo opportunities for and been largely short changed.

― brain (krakow), Monday, 16 October 2017 16:46 (seven years ago) link

Excuse the extraneous "for" in there.

― brain (krakow), Monday, 16 October 2017 16:48 (seven years ago) link

one month passes...

this Numbers x Warp thing at the Art School on Friday looks AMAZING, is anyone going?

― boxedjoy, Monday, 11 December 2017 12:14 (seven years ago) link

Aye, it does look ace. Unfortunately, I have a work Xmas party and, having already bailed on it last year, I probably can't two years running.

Will be at the Art School tonight for Dinosaur Jr. though.

― finlay (fionnland), Monday, 11 December 2017 12:41 (seven years ago) link

I'm bailing on my work night out for this :)

― paolo, Monday, 11 December 2017 14:04 (seven years ago) link

one month passes...

I know it's a pain for drivers and the lingering ice might be a bitch soon enough but I've been loving the snow, I had a great time today even though my socks got pretty wet.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 18 January 2018 00:33 (six years ago) link

I went sledging the day before yesterday for the first time since I can remember, which was good fun. But now I want it gone with estreme prejudice and we're due more

― i know kore-eda (or something), Thursday, 18 January 2018 06:25 (six years ago) link

When I was going to work the snow somehow compelled me to run, then I got painfully out of breath after a minute because I don't run often.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 19 January 2018 00:45 (six years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Nah man my grans notice for leaving her work 😭😭 wish a was kidding on pic.twitter.com/kHJkSEsrY6

— kaitlyn (@_kaitlynmcgrory) May 10, 2017

― Heavy Messages (jed_), Sunday, 4 February 2018 22:47 (six years ago) link

I am obsessed with all those pages like "Scottish Patter & Banter" which collect the best of Scottish Twitter, it's like a whole other world

― boxedjoy, Monday, 5 February 2018 08:21 (six years ago) link

Yee Ha

― Heavy Messages (jed_), Monday, 5 February 2018 08:35 (six years ago) link

My brother said at a metalwork place that people who came in with requests were called Judys.

Do you do road signs? = D'you do road signs? = joo dae road signs?

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 10 February 2018 13:30 (six years ago) link

we're not gonna talk about joo dae at all

― Haribo Hancock (sic), Sunday, 11 February 2018 01:10 (six years ago) link

two weeks pass...

When was the last time it was this snowy in Glasgow? I've been here ten years and I've never seen it this bad

― paolo, Thursday, 1 March 2018 11:04 (six years ago) link

Also is anyone going to Counterflows? I am tempted by the RP Boo, Mhysa and Cucina Povera shows but apart from that nothing really appeals

― paolo, Thursday, 1 March 2018 11:05 (six years ago) link

Last really bug snow I remember was about 12 years ago when a load of people had to sleep over in the Garage because they couldn’t get home. Wasn’t as bad as this, though.

― Madchen, Thursday, 1 March 2018 11:10 (six years ago) link

Had five minutes of my maw on the phone last night giving it, "Oh it's terrible, it's the worst I've ever seen, I cannae be expected to go oot in that". She's always saying that about bad weather though.

― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Thursday, 1 March 2018 11:58 (six years ago) link

seven years ago I was working in braehead and it got really bad and I spent the night in my store with an M&S ready meal.

my work is closed today and we left early and much as it is nice to be off unexpectedly I'm concerned about the impact and also the lack of food in my fride that will last beyond tonight

― boxedjoy, Thursday, 1 March 2018 11:59 (six years ago) link

We are above all this panic buying nonsense that's been going on bad are therefore snowed in with no bread, milk or eggs.

― Chunky Backgammon (onimo), Thursday, 1 March 2018 14:13 (six years ago) link

Also is anyone going to Counterflows? I am tempted by the RP Boo, Mhysa and Cucina Povera shows but apart from that nothing really appeals

It looks like a whole lot of nothing. I saw the curator at an arika thing lately and, it seems, he has been afflicted with their desire for film showings, hang-outs and discussion panels. all good things in their own right that have a kind of deadening effect on music "festivals".

I think most of this tendency is a result of the desire for people running these events to be seen as academics and intellectuals. like they are not already getting enough credit and kudos being the curators of well-funded art events.

― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 1 March 2018 14:46 (six years ago) link

Tom D, if your mum lives anywhere near me then she's right not to go out in this. There's at least 10 inches of snow on my driveway.

My work is expecting me to go in tomorrow despite there being an amber warning in place. If there's even public transport running, I'm turning up in full ski gear.

― ailsa, Thursday, 1 March 2018 16:05 (six years ago) link

Early December 2010 was pretty full-on, but I think this is a lot more severe. I'm lucky that I don't need to go anywhere that I can't walk to, so I'm loving it. Sorry to anyone genuinely struggling. Walked to work and back yesterday and today, which certainly took some time but there were lots of great sights along the way. Sneaked a couple of drams in Ally Park on my way back yesterday...

http://s98.photobucket.com/user/krakow81/media/28617263_10160073566590022_3648849124436114861_o.jpg.html

― brain (krakow), Thursday, 1 March 2018 19:39 (six years ago) link

Try again for the image...

http://s98.photobucket.com/user/krakow81/media/28617263_10160073566590022_3648849124436114861_o.jpg

― brain (krakow), Thursday, 1 March 2018 19:43 (six years ago) link

Damn you photobucket. Oh well. It was a fun photo, trust me.

― brain (krakow), Thursday, 1 March 2018 19:44 (six years ago) link

the first one works for me!

december 2010 was the most snow i can remember, from what i can see online this winter looks worse. the coldest winter in glasgow in my lifetime was 1995 (i missed the worst of it being on holiday in Chile for a month).

― khat person (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 1 March 2018 19:52 (six years ago) link

1995 was before my time in Glasgow, but I was around for 2010 and was on a bus back from the Godspeed You! Black Emperor ATP at the tail end of the first day it all hit, which was quite surreal. I need to find my photos eventually from when we got back up to within striking distance of Glasgow and encountered the post-apocalptic landscape of abandoned cars and lorries strewn all over the motorway. Will never forget that journey.

― brain (krakow), Thursday, 1 March 2018 20:16 (six years ago) link

aye my mum had to abandon her car that day (after about 6 hours in it)

― khat person (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 1 March 2018 20:21 (six years ago) link

I got a bus with no heating from London to Glasgow during the 95 freeze - we ended up getting everyone's bags out of the luggage hold to put umpteen extra layers on. I remember going a walk and it was so cold it hurt. I saw a guy skiing along the local cycle track.

I got a plane home from ATP 2010 - diverted to Prestwick because they ploughed the Glasgow airport snow onto the runway lights then it got dark :D - took about 14 hrs all in.

― Chunky Backgammon (onimo), Thursday, 1 March 2018 20:25 (six years ago) link

haha, that was a bit of a daft hing to do with the snow. someone must've got a bollocking for that.

my abiding memory of winter 2010 is wearing trainers, a light jacket, and no gloves, and trudging slowly through the snow from uddingston to bothwell with a bottle of bucky and six cans in a poly bag. the hand holding the bag was like a claw by the time i got to my pals' bit.

1995 we got back from chile and it was absolutely baltic, my great uncle was picking us up from the airport and we complained about how cold it was. his reply was "this is bloody tropical compared to what we've had the last few weeks". my school was shut for a week due to some problem cause by the freeze

― khat person (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 1 March 2018 20:27 (six years ago) link

My colleagues and I are currently engaged in a "who's got the biggest snowdrift in their garden/driveway/street" photo competition on WhatsApp. This is pretty much leading to a third successive snow day, I think, since work has now added an "if it's possible and safe" disclaimer to our requested attendance in the office.

― ailsa, Thursday, 1 March 2018 20:47 (six years ago) link

I'm having a delightful time.

― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 1 March 2018 23:16 (six years ago) link

The buses are running again, mostly, so unfortunately I have no excuse to not go into work. I just can't imagine why anyone would leave the house if it wasn't essential today though. People have been posting on the FB pages of Braehead and Silverburn complaining they couldnt walk round the centre despite the red alert which to me is crazy.

― boxedjoy, Friday, 2 March 2018 08:08 (six years ago) link

those fb commenters in full

https://deadclydeside.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/dotd3.jpg

― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 2 March 2018 08:58 (six years ago) link

Morning Glasgow.

I've been up here for twelve years or so, and this is definitely the worst weather I've ever experienced in Scotland or England. So Tom D's mother otm.

I think most of this tendency is a result of the desire for people running these events to be seen as academics and intellectuals.

Jed, this is so, so OTM. I don't think I've ever been more embarrassed than when witnessing the Arika guy pitifully trying to talk theory to Sam Delany over two separate, excruciatingly awful q&a sessions last year at the Tramway.

Agreed also on the mediocrity of this year's Counterflows line-up(I'm only booked to go and see Susie Ibarra). I know that the festival passes sold out more quickly than ever this time, so I guess they've got a loyal enough core following who will attend no matter who is on the bill.

― Ward Fowler, Friday, 2 March 2018 09:21 (six years ago) link

Buses may be running but fuck trudging half a mile through a foot of snow to get to the bus stop then trudging through Kelvingrove Park to get into an empty office on a campus my employer has warned hasn't actually been fully gritted.

― ailsa, Friday, 2 March 2018 11:37 (six years ago) link

(xp) My mother's 85 so I'm thinking she probably has seen worse tbh.

― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Friday, 2 March 2018 11:39 (six years ago) link

worse counterflows festival line-ups?

― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 2 March 2018 12:11 (six years ago) link

Och, she's always moaning about that.

― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Friday, 2 March 2018 12:25 (six years ago) link

I remember snow just as bad around a Christmas between 2000-2002.

I think some people are really overreacting in some areas. I recognize that the various locations they might have to travel are worse and genuinely difficult or dangerous but it generally isn't that difficult to get around where I am.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 2 March 2018 21:02 (six years ago) link

where in the glasgow area are you?

― khat person (jim in vancouver), Friday, 2 March 2018 21:10 (six years ago) link

Mearns/Eaglesham/Barrhead

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 2 March 2018 21:11 (six years ago) link

I didn't struggle to get from the southside to East Kilbride this morning but the way back at 6pm was a NIGHTMARE

― boxedjoy, Friday, 2 March 2018 21:29 (six years ago) link

three weeks pass...

I saw the documentary "Nae Passaran!" today that told the story about The East Kilbride Rolls Royce factory - the munitions arm of RR, not the luxury car arm - that stood in solidarity with the people Chile in defiance of Pinochet's attacks on Chilean civilians. The men at Rolls Royce were the only people that could maintain and repair the engines for Hawker Hunter military jets that had bombed locations in Santiago and elsewhere. The men of the factory refused to repair the engines of these machines of destruction instead leaving them for so long, unrepaired, that they became unusable and irreparable through corrosion. It was a really beautiful film and will be getting a fuller release later this year, so keep an eye out for that. I can assure you that many a tear was shed in a sold out GFT1 today. I was really humbled to hear the stories from Chile and from Scotland.

There were Chilean refugees in the audience who spoke a little afterwards. One man who had fled Chile as a child and moved to Scotland and has lived here since then, he's in his 50s now.

Am i mistaken in thinking that OOR Jim (not in Glasgow) lived in Chile?

― DJ U OK Hun? (jed_), Monday, 26 March 2018 02:47 (six years ago) link

this was history I knew nothing about until today! as i said, it was really very humbling to watch it but a real treat to be there.

― DJ U OK Hun? (jed_), Monday, 26 March 2018 02:51 (six years ago) link

actually the Chilean man who had been a refugee was the last person to speak at the Q&A. The convenor of the Q&A asked the director to respond to the man's comments but he couldn't. I think he was overwhelmed himself!

― DJ U OK Hun? (jed_), Monday, 26 March 2018 02:56 (six years ago) link

my parents were there at that showing, my dad is a chilean refugee. Really fancy seeing this, the story was one that I grew up knowing about because I'm from Lanarkshire and my dad was very involved in the exile organization Chile Democrático, and friendly with all the Chile solidarity folk, but not sure when I'll get a chance this side of the pond. I will definitely greet my eyes out

― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Monday, 26 March 2018 16:53 (six years ago) link

wow Jim!

― DJ U OK Hun? (jed_), Monday, 26 March 2018 16:59 (six years ago) link

one month passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkvCqmyc18U

― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 18 May 2018 00:52 (six years ago) link

I put Eno's An Ending (Ascent) on in the background for watching that.

― brain (krakow), Friday, 18 May 2018 10:27 (six years ago) link

Good to see the pleasantly 70s brutalist Western Infirmary building at the start of that video, since demolished.

― Ward Fowler, Friday, 18 May 2018 12:23 (six years ago) link

homesick watching that. sigh

― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 18 May 2018 20:10 (six years ago) link

as a maryhill boy it's kind of annoying that they end it at maryhill. maybe a logistical/ technical issue though. i'm amazed that they managed as much as they did!

― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 18 May 2018 23:41 (six years ago) link

four weeks pass...

seems that the mackintosh building at the gsa is on fire again

― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 15 June 2018 22:50 (six years ago) link

There is a fire at the Mackintosh Building. The fire brigade are currently on scene. We will report back with news updates as soon as possible.

— Glasgow School Art (@GSofA) June 15, 2018

― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 15 June 2018 23:06 (six years ago) link

what the FUCK

― CARL MARKS PRINCIPAL INVESTING AND ADVISORY SERVICES (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 15 June 2018 23:10 (six years ago) link

fuck sake

― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Friday, 15 June 2018 23:14 (six years ago) link

it honestly looks like a monster fire, i fear the building is done for.

total fucking shiter

― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 15 June 2018 23:18 (six years ago) link

it does. fuck.

― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Friday, 15 June 2018 23:20 (six years ago) link

some people are now saying it has collapsed

― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Friday, 15 June 2018 23:25 (six years ago) link

oh no :(

― CARL MARKS PRINCIPAL INVESTING AND ADVISORY SERVICES (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 15 June 2018 23:29 (six years ago) link

what a fucking shiter, also my boyfriend is working about fifty metres away in the ABC tonight and not replying to texts

(I assume he will be fine but you never can get a reply quick enough at times like this)

― boxedjoy, Friday, 15 June 2018 23:39 (six years ago) link

Came past there about an hour ago. The fire is huge. ;_;

― calumerio, Saturday, 16 June 2018 00:01 (six years ago) link

Came past the abc too - it looked fine xpost

― calumerio, Saturday, 16 June 2018 00:02 (six years ago) link

That's a relief. I assume if there was any danger etc they would have been punted out. I hope everyone is ok and I haven't seen any news of casualties yet which bodes as well as these things can

― boxedjoy, Saturday, 16 June 2018 00:04 (six years ago) link

Was just about to ask... did you manage to get hold of him boxedjoy? I assume they've evacuated the immediate area, though I guess that may not be an entirely straightforward process at midnight on a Friday.

― brain (krakow), Saturday, 16 June 2018 00:05 (six years ago) link

Still nothing yet. I know i'm just being dramatic but even though i want to go to bed (working at 9am tomorrow eek) I know i won't sleep til I get an update

― boxedjoy, Saturday, 16 June 2018 00:15 (six years ago) link

he was evacuated early and quickly and his phone and bag were left behind which is why he hadn't replied. So thankful this morning!

― boxedjoy, Saturday, 16 June 2018 04:44 (six years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/iogjReG.jpg

― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Saturday, 16 June 2018 04:54 (six years ago) link

Everyone using the word ‘heartbreaking’ and I’d say that’s accurate.

― Madchen, Saturday, 16 June 2018 05:25 (six years ago) link

Holy fuck, how could it happen for a second time. Isn’t the degree show on just now.

― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 16 June 2018 05:40 (six years ago) link

Renovations and roofing work seem to cause a lot of fires, but how exactly = ?

― StanM, Saturday, 16 June 2018 05:49 (six years ago) link

this is so fuckin sad

― CARL MARKS PRINCIPAL INVESTING AND ADVISORY SERVICES (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 16 June 2018 06:03 (six years ago) link

Rotten news to wake up to. Second big fire in the city centre within a matter of months :-(

― Ward Fowler, Saturday, 16 June 2018 06:09 (six years ago) link

oh shit that's very sad, rip iconic CRM building :(

― calzino, Saturday, 16 June 2018 07:34 (six years ago) link

"Renovations and roofing work seem to cause a lot of fires, but how exactly = ?"

Was just listening to a report that the builders renovating the roof had to relearn 100 year old roofing techniques, but I'd presume this wouldn't include forsaking all modern fire safety regs as well.

― calzino, Saturday, 16 June 2018 07:51 (six years ago) link

Glad to hear that he was safe, boxedjoy.

Does anyone know how things are this morning? There's a few photos from earlier today in this Guardian 'In Pictures' piece, but it's hard to really tell: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2018/jun/16/flames-spread-through-glasgow-school-of-art-in-scotland-in-pictures

― brain (krakow), Saturday, 16 June 2018 08:57 (six years ago) link

OK, here's my answer, from police helicopter... awful.

16.06.18 Assisted @GreaterGlasgPol @fire_scot by providing images of the damage to Glasgow School of Art and surrounding buildings. Road closures will be in place throughout the day. pic.twitter.com/3AIpi9xRdf

— PoliceScotlandAir (@polscotair) June 16, 2018

― brain (krakow), Saturday, 16 June 2018 09:04 (six years ago) link

aye looks done

― ||||||||, Saturday, 16 June 2018 09:26 (six years ago) link

This is crazy + wtf. It's like Glasgow's gone back to the 70s, when the whole place was constantly catching fire.

― We can be herpes (Tom D.), Saturday, 16 June 2018 09:39 (six years ago) link

jesus christ that picture

― CARL MARKS PRINCIPAL INVESTING AND ADVISORY SERVICES (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 16 June 2018 09:53 (six years ago) link

This is crazy + wtf. It's like Glasgow's gone back to the 70s, when the whole place was constantly catching fire.

There's a very well established theory that links all these together with planning permission denial and the plan to bulldoze all of central Glasgow and build it all again. Interestingly the School of Art was one of the properties to be demolished in the Bruce Report.

― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Saturday, 16 June 2018 11:37 (six years ago) link

Part of Sauchiehall St is already closed off because of the previous fire, and for the last few months they've been digging parts of it up, so the whole area is going to be in a right old state for months and months.

Got a text from a friend who teaches at the Art School -

"It's unbelievable! Thankfully no-one hurt and no student work destroyed, just 20 to 30 million wasted on refurb over the next few years".

― Ward Fowler, Saturday, 16 June 2018 15:09 (six years ago) link

refurb??

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 16 June 2018 15:10 (six years ago) link

If it's even possible I'd imagine the sum would be considerably larger.

― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Saturday, 16 June 2018 15:22 (six years ago) link

Alan Dunlop, the school’s professor of architecture, said: “I can’t see any restoration possible for the building itself. It looks totally destroyed.”

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jun/16/glasgow-school-of-art-may-be-beyond-repair-after-fire

― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Saturday, 16 June 2018 19:56 (six years ago) link

This theory about building new housing ties in nicely with the absurd closure of The Arches

― boxedjoy, Saturday, 16 June 2018 22:42 (six years ago) link

refurb??

I think my friend is talking about the work done on the building after the 2014 fire. And yes, the papers today are talking about £100m to rebuild this time round - so it's a goner :-(

― Ward Fowler, Monday, 18 June 2018 08:05 (six years ago) link

what happens to all the students who were at various points of their particular courses at GSoA? That would seem like an additionally expensive clusterfuck to sort out.

― calzino, Monday, 18 June 2018 08:19 (six years ago) link

I imagine lots of their work has been reduced to ash and while that may stretch some ppl's sense of "oh the humanity" :p, but still it's an absolute fucker.

― calzino, Monday, 18 June 2018 08:24 (six years ago) link

not to mention all the staff whose working lives are in chaos right now

― boxedjoy, Monday, 18 June 2018 08:29 (six years ago) link

Were any staff/students actually working out of the Mackintosh building? I thought they'd all been relocated while the refurbishment took place.

― Ward Fowler, Monday, 18 June 2018 08:41 (six years ago) link

ah right, I thought they might have still been using part of the building. I was talking to an Auntie about this last night, and she had a booze/phet assisted nervous breakdown during her fine art degree. And she was saying if her work had been destroyed it would have tipped her over the edge.

― calzino, Monday, 18 June 2018 09:23 (six years ago) link

Makes me sick to the pit of my stomach just thinking about it.

Also, RIP giant glitterball in the ABC. Fair fucks to the Garage for managing to put Saturday night's Belly gig on at very short notice. The ABC, while not as much of a touchstone as the Mackintosh building, is one of the best gig venues in Glasgow, and I have fond memories of it as a cinema where I went on some terrible dates when I first moved down here. There's a great piece on Facebook by the Lost Glasgow guy about its history as a circus and general house of awesome entertainment back in the day.

― ailsa, Monday, 18 June 2018 16:47 (six years ago) link

i hope the whole of glasgow doesn't go on fire tomorrow. 32 degrees!

― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 23:28 (six years ago) link

I'm going up there at the weekend, at least my mum can't moan about the terrible weather for a change - or can she?

― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 23:39 (six years ago) link

i literally cannae remember it being in the 30s in glasgow ever - though i understand we had similar weather in 1995 - this seems to have slipped my mind - and 1975. the latter summer was the first summer my dad arrived in glasgow from chile. he thought "this weather is no bad, quite like home" and then has complained about shitey summers for 40 plus years hence

― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 23:58 (six years ago) link

though i understand we had similar weather in 1995 - this seems to have slipped my mind

mine too.

at least my mum can't moan about the terrible weather for a change - or can she?

Yes, she can (and will if she's anything like mine)

― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Thursday, 28 June 2018 00:54 (six years ago) link

actually, that summer in the 90s is coming back to me now. everyone was telling me how tanned i was. i don't get that tanned any more, why is that?

― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Thursday, 28 June 2018 01:13 (six years ago) link

actually, i remember my mum telling me (apologies in advance) that i was "like a wee d****e"

they were different times.

― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Thursday, 28 June 2018 01:15 (six years ago) link

the current regime of buskers needs to change. Its ruining the Buchanan area.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 29 June 2018 18:04 (six years ago) link

buchanan street is murder for buskers but it's always been and it can be mainly avoided.

― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 29 June 2018 19:00 (six years ago) link

where always is since the early 90s

― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 29 June 2018 19:01 (six years ago) link

need not apply

https://i.imgur.com/ySe3i23.jpg

― Fox News' Chad Pergram contributed to this report (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 20:09 (six years ago) link

omg

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 20:40 (six years ago) link

Amazing.

― Madchen, Thursday, 5 July 2018 05:22 (six years ago) link

one month passes...

Just boarded a bus at Buchanan bus station and overheard a 20 year old and a 40 year old connecting over Belle and Sebastian in a lovely honest chat.

Glasgow is funny in that despite never living here I still miss it - the two gigs a month make me feel like I know it better than some places I’ve lived for years.

― Minister of the Pillow (fionnland), Friday, 24 August 2018 21:37 (six years ago) link

I'm doing my annual pilgrimage home next month, cannae wait

― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 24 August 2018 21:50 (six years ago) link

Jim, Nae Pasaran is on at the gft on the 12th

https://glasgowfilm.org/shows/nae-pasaran-qanda-ctbc

― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Friday, 31 August 2018 15:09 (six years ago) link

Is that a Harry Potter shop on big bus street?

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 31 August 2018 15:39 (six years ago) link

I don’t know. Union street?

― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Friday, 31 August 2018 15:56 (six years ago) link

Yes, I barely know the names of any streets.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 31 August 2018 16:06 (six years ago) link

Should be renamed to big bus street.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 31 August 2018 16:10 (six years ago) link

it's such a tip.

― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Friday, 31 August 2018 16:44 (six years ago) link

Jim, Nae Pasaran is on at the gft on the 12th

https://glasgowfilm.org/shows/nae-pasaran-qanda-ctbc

― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Friday, August 31, 2018 8:09 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

shiter, a week too early for me! thanks for letting me know

― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 31 August 2018 16:45 (six years ago) link

damn.

― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Friday, 31 August 2018 17:08 (six years ago) link

that's what you get for trying to avoid the balmy weather, i suppose.

― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Friday, 31 August 2018 17:09 (six years ago) link

How long are you going to be around for Jim?

― brain (krakow), Friday, 31 August 2018 17:19 (six years ago) link

not long, ten days, usual paucity of annual leave problem

― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 31 August 2018 17:45 (six years ago) link

Let's fail to organise a FAP! It's what we do best.

― ailsa, Saturday, 1 September 2018 00:22 (six years ago) link

well, I haven't seen you and Gerry for a while...

― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Saturday, 1 September 2018 02:05 (six years ago) link

I don't think I've seen Gerry since I last saw you both at the Art School!

― ailsa, Saturday, 1 September 2018 13:31 (six years ago) link

Let's try to meet up for a pint.

The Harry Potter shop on Big Bus Street replaced the "Stuff" shop.

It's called something like "The Boy Wizard Store" so it mat be selling unofficial Potter tat.

― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Sunday, 2 September 2018 00:01 (six years ago) link

*may*

― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Sunday, 2 September 2018 00:01 (six years ago) link

A failed organisation of drinks was where my mind was going too. Would you be up for it Jim and have time, if it happened while you're around?

― brain (krakow), Sunday, 2 September 2018 10:17 (six years ago) link

so it may be selling unofficial Potter tat.

― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Sunday, September 2, 2018 1:01 AM

Surely that's a lawsuit waiting to happen?

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 2 September 2018 10:29 (six years ago) link

It is an unofficial Potter emporium selling officially licensed Potter product (and a smattering of non-Potter tat).

― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 2 September 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link

just what our fair city needed

like there’s not enough twats playing quidditch in the grounds of glasgow uni already

― my dream is to never be a champion (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 2 September 2018 17:56 (six years ago) link

Cant believe one book/film series can support a whole shop. We'll see how long it lasts.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 2 September 2018 19:12 (six years ago) link

It's supporting (at least) two in Edinburgh!

― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 2 September 2018 19:14 (six years ago) link

one month passes...

my house is currently up for sale, and i had a classic 'glasgow is a v small place' interaction last night when duglas and chloe from bmx bandits turned up to view it

(any ilxors wanna buy a charming 3-bed southside house btw, let me know)

― Burt Bacharachman-Turner Overdrive Like Jehuman League (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 08:56 (six years ago) link

shawlands?

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 09:18 (six years ago) link

pfft like i could afford a three-bed house in shawlands! drumoyne, just round the corner from ibrox

― Burt Bacharachman-Turner Overdrive Like Jehuman League (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 09:28 (six years ago) link

I think I found it, looks like a really cool house. Do you know when it dates from?

― brain (krakow), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 09:38 (six years ago) link

telecaster in the front room, hardwood floor? if so that's ours, yeah. dates from about 1890 or so - i think it was an old shipbuilder's house

gonna miss it tbh, it's been a great home but we just need more space now we have a baby

― Burt Bacharachman-Turner Overdrive Like Jehuman League (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 09:42 (six years ago) link

Yep, that's the one I was thinking. Looks lovely, really interesting. I guess it'll be a popular sell as it's quite unusual? How's the search for a new place going?

― brain (krakow), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 10:27 (six years ago) link

we've been really surprised by how much interest we've had - it went on the market on thursday last week and we ended up with 17 viewing requests by saturday. we're probably going to be going to a closing date on friday this week *gulp*

we've got our eye on a place in cambuslang whose current owners turned down our first offer because we hadn't sold ours. off to see it again on saturday, hopefully with a sold house as a negotiating too

― Burt Bacharachman-Turner Overdrive Like Jehuman League (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 10:42 (six years ago) link

negotiating tool that is

― Burt Bacharachman-Turner Overdrive Like Jehuman League (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 10:43 (six years ago) link

Ooh, nice house. Always love those when I drive past them. Would like (would also be exceptionally handy for work). Not really in a position to sell and move though, just idly dreaming.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 13:28 (six years ago) link

Three beds and you need more space? God I miss Glasgow sometimes

― stet, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 13:44 (six years ago) link

come back and buy our house imo

― Burt Bacharachman-Turner Overdrive Like Jehuman League (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 14:19 (six years ago) link

cheers ailsa!

― Burt Bacharachman-Turner Overdrive Like Jehuman League (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 14:19 (six years ago) link

four weeks pass...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-46126508

Clubs can now stay open until 4am! It's about goddamn time

― paolo, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 17:36 (six years ago) link

I've only been clubbing about five times this year but still, it's the principle of the thing

― paolo, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 17:37 (six years ago) link

hwfg

― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 20:04 (six years ago) link

I've only been clubbing about five times this year but still, it's the principle of the thing

― paolo

we need to have a chat!

― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 21:26 (six years ago) link

The Manchester clubs open to 6am on occasion has been a revelation since I moved down here. Only a good thing.

― I like Poeltls (fionnland), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 21:29 (six years ago) link

you don't realise how huge an impact it makes, finding yourself looking for a place to go at finishing time to carry on drinking and dancing only ends in disaster. I'd be more inclined to head home at 5/6am after clubbing all night, whereas if I'm out at 3am I'm easily tempted to head off to an afters and stay up til the next lunchtime

― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 22:45 (six years ago) link

I love that this thread is always resurrected.

― Yerac, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 22:45 (six years ago) link

one can always try just a little bit more glasgow ime

― i want donald duck to scream into my dick (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 22:53 (six years ago) link

you don't realise how huge an impact it makes, finding yourself looking for a place to go at finishing time to carry on drinking and dancing only ends in disaster. I'd be more inclined to head home at 5/6am after clubbing all night, whereas if I'm out at 3am I'm easily tempted to head off to an afters and stay up til the next lunchtime

― boxedjoy, Wednesday, November 7, 2018 2:45 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i always hated ending up at someone's flat after an' aw. you know, limmy's party chat sketch basically

― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 22:57 (six years ago) link

the trick is to be the most mwi there

― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 23:09 (six years ago) link

I was talking to Twitch about this and non Glasgow and esp non U.K. people are always amazed by the Glasgow after party scenario.

― brokenshire (jed_), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 23:14 (six years ago) link

Boxedjoy: ".....ah cannae see!"

― brokenshire (jed_), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 23:15 (six years ago) link

the glasgow afterparty-at-a-flat scenario is taken for granted as an expected waypoint in the evening ime. and also ime it gets very Real very quickly

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 23:18 (six years ago) link

had some of the darker moments in my life in those flats

― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 8 November 2018 00:17 (six years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRgSCfkPRBc

― brokenshire (jed_), Thursday, 8 November 2018 01:17 (six years ago) link

... and back to Limmy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1Mq8D1FFas

― brain (krakow), Thursday, 8 November 2018 12:21 (six years ago) link

we need to have a chat!

We do! I haven't been out much lately cos I just haven't seen that many nights that I'm interested in. Was at the Numbers thing at the art school last week and that was disappointing. I'm tempted by Objekt next week and Gesloten Cirkel later in the month though

― paolo, Thursday, 8 November 2018 19:58 (six years ago) link

How's things with you anyway?

― paolo, Thursday, 8 November 2018 19:58 (six years ago) link

('you' being boxedjoy)

― paolo, Thursday, 8 November 2018 19:59 (six years ago) link

Why was the numbers thing disappointing?

― brokenshire (jed_), Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:21 (six years ago) link

Just wasn't really feeling any of the DJs/live acts really. Perko was the first DJ on in the Vic Bar and was a competent enough warmer upper but nothing special. I've heard a few Klein tunes and been into them so was looking forward to her live set, it was OK but would have been better as home listening.

I know Batu's been making a bit of a name for himself recently but again his DJ set was OK but nothing special. Giant Swan and Helena Hauff banged out a bunch of big room industrial/acid techno, maybe I just wasn't in the mood but not really feeling it. Also it was crowded as fuck (only to be expected for a Numbers night really) and the fire alarm went off for about ten minutes early in the night so we all just stood around with the music off. Meh

― paolo, Friday, 9 November 2018 09:36 (six years ago) link

God I sound like a moany old bastard. I'm not even that old :)

― paolo, Friday, 9 November 2018 09:37 (six years ago) link

Spencer is still the name I get most excited about seeing on a Numbers flyer these days

― boxedjoy, Friday, 9 November 2018 10:39 (six years ago) link

when is Gesloten Cirkel? my pal Natalie is obsessed

― boxedjoy, Friday, 9 November 2018 10:40 (six years ago) link

Saturday 1st December at La Cheetah, you want to go? I'm a wee bit obsessed myself. Submit X is one of the best techno albums in I don't know how long

― paolo, Friday, 9 November 2018 11:24 (six years ago) link

God I sound like a moany old bastard. I'm not even that old :)

No, it does sound quite shit.

― brokenshire (jed_), Friday, 9 November 2018 13:40 (six years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnPCAIU6Qe8

I couldn't decide where to put this rediscovered gem but I think here will do.

― I like Poeltls (fionnland), Saturday, 10 November 2018 22:39 (six years ago) link

Great song - love the RM Hubbert / Aidan Moffat album too.

Fun fact - that’s my friend Chris in that video.

― michaellambert, Saturday, 10 November 2018 22:42 (six years ago) link

Aye, the new one is excellent. Excited to see them play in December.

― I like Poeltls (fionnland), Saturday, 10 November 2018 22:47 (six years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Been down a science fiction blog rabbit hole and found this
http://neilcraigforukip.blogspot.com/

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 25 November 2018 02:31 (six years ago) link

commiserations, RAG.

― brokenshire (jed_), Sunday, 25 November 2018 03:00 (six years ago) link

I didn't really know him well or anything but I always had some affection.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 25 November 2018 03:53 (six years ago) link

you're gonna have to colour me out from Gesloten Cirkel now, I have work all weekend and it's looking like a challenging weekend in work, the kind that doesn't lend itself to drinking and dancing til 3am :(

I'm really glad the CCA is open again - I was in on Saturday night for a bit and it's good to have somewhere in a weekend that isn't a struggle to get a seat in

― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 10:15 (six years ago) link

Ah boo, hope your weekend goes OK, we should definitely catch up sometime. Good to hear the CCA's open again

― paolo, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 16:10 (six years ago) link

is exchanging (non-shit) CDs for money something that can still happen in the world, specifically in this city? Or are music shops so deluged by the damn things that they just do *Munch-Scream* when you show up?

― brokenshire (jed_), Thursday, 29 November 2018 01:28 (six years ago) link

discogs marketplace imo

― sans lep (sic), Thursday, 29 November 2018 01:32 (six years ago) link

if you have patience and enjoy fiddly admin

― sans lep (sic), Thursday, 29 November 2018 01:32 (six years ago) link

i love it!

― brokenshire (jed_), Thursday, 29 November 2018 01:40 (six years ago) link

whoo!

the satisfaction of knowing that things you're parting with are going to someone who was actively looking for it is pretty heartwarming too

― sans lep (sic), Thursday, 29 November 2018 02:35 (six years ago) link

three weeks pass...

this is what Glasgow looked like from The Campsies yesterday:

People of Glasgow and its environs. Here’s what your city looks like from above the thick fog that is currently enveloping it. Go a few miles into the Campsie Fells and the sun is warm, with views to leave you agog. pic.twitter.com/0cpQRAox9m

— Iain Cameron (@theiaincameron) December 23, 2018

― brokenshire (jed_), Monday, 24 December 2018 22:51 (six years ago) link

cor

― H00kup with Jaundice Singles!! (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 24 December 2018 23:09 (six years ago) link

That's pretty cool.

― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 24 December 2018 23:57 (six years ago) link

We saw something similar - though not quite as pretty - driving into town from Ayrshire. Also, the frost was so thick out in the countryside, it was like it had snowed. The trees were just beautiful.

― Madchen, Tuesday, 25 December 2018 00:04 (six years ago) link

When I was a wean my grandparents lived at the foot of the most westerly hill of the campsies, dumgoyne, and anecdotally it was generally more sunny compared to glasgow, "sunny dumgoyne" remains a family in-joke. So that video was gratifying to this emigrant

― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 25 December 2018 06:50 (six years ago) link

only just after reading that tom leonard passed away on the 21st of December

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-46649016

― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 2 January 2019 20:30 (six years ago) link

The Maryhill Olympics!

Just read that @AndersonRonnie passed away a couple of days ago. Such sad news, a wonderful photographer who gave us, amongst other incredible images, the Maryhill Olympics. #RIPRonnie 📷❤ pic.twitter.com/YW2Bqmig7H

— Vintage Wullie (@YoorWullie) January 10, 2019

― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Sunday, 13 January 2019 23:49 (six years ago) link

the full set at a better resolution is here:

https://www.facebook.com/lostglasgowofficial/posts/1799136523531529

― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Sunday, 13 January 2019 23:56 (six years ago) link

one month passes...

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/02/against-art-washing

― PaulDananVEVO (||||||||), Monday, 25 February 2019 10:44 (five years ago) link

"They (artists) were certainly blamed when Dennistoun, another working-class neighbourhood in Glasgow’s East End was gentrified and art-washed, with rents and house prices to match."

I must have missed when all this happened here.

― brain (krakow), Monday, 25 February 2019 11:00 (five years ago) link

yeah uh that does not ring true to me at all

the whole article is kinda cringey tbh

― he protec, he attac, but most importantly, he dmac (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 25 February 2019 11:05 (five years ago) link

The opening of Glasgow's newest club Room 2 (formerly Chambre 69) was somewhat eventful last night. Had to wait half an hour to get in at about eleven o'clock which I think is the longest I've ever waited to get in a club, not sure if they're trying to make it into the Scottish Berghain or what. Later on the fire alarm went off and we all had to stand around on the street freezing our nuts off for a whole goddamn hour. Twitch played a belter of a set after though so wasn't a total disaster

― paolo, Saturday, 2 March 2019 14:37 (five years ago) link

sounds classic :)

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 2 March 2019 14:58 (five years ago) link

a few of us went down about midnight but we hadn't bought tickets in advance and it was a total rammy, it was very much a 10pm "I'm in the mood to get drunk" impromptu decision to go out though so we should have known better

― boxedjoy, Sunday, 3 March 2019 10:25 (five years ago) link

how was it inside? I remember going to see Shackleton and having to wash the inside of the tote bag I had been carrying cos the place was just so manky

― boxedjoy, Sunday, 3 March 2019 10:26 (five years ago) link

It was fine inside except the bar staff insisted on pouring bottles and cans of beer into these plastic goblets that were an absolute liability on the dancefloor. Gotta say I don't remember Chambre 69 being that manky but that could have been booze related on my part :)

― paolo, Sunday, 3 March 2019 12:03 (five years ago) link

I made a New Year resolution to go out clubbing at least once a month but three out of my last four club nights out have been disappointing. The last Numbers thing at the Art School was a bit meh and went to see EZ at Subby and that was a let down too. Oh well, got to accept that you're going to get a dud every now and again I guess...

― paolo, Sunday, 3 March 2019 12:06 (five years ago) link

Anyway, we should definitely head out again sometime, I haven't got any nights out planned anytime soon but it'd be nice to catch up :)

― paolo, Sunday, 3 March 2019 12:16 (five years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Jim, Did you manage to get to see Nae Pasaran? If you haven't but still want to and you torrent then send me a webmail on here (with your email address)

― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 01:16 (five years ago) link

Hey, jed,thanks for the offer. I just dodgy downloaded it recently and will be gieing it a watch this week

― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 01:35 (five years ago) link

Nice one!

― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 01:37 (five years ago) link

Ooh, thanks for reminding me, I recorded it when it was on the new BBC Scotland channel a couple of weeks ago and haven't got round to watching it yet.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 20 March 2019 18:20 (five years ago) link

two months pass...

what the fuck is going on at glasgow's radisson red

Honestly can't stop reading this mental job advert. It's an absolute dystopian masterpiece. pic.twitter.com/4Cyz4MUsiR

— Toby Millard (@tobymillard) June 4, 2019

― can’t stop thinking about amy adams as crash bandicoot (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 13:13 (five years ago) link

Last time I was in the sky bar they had one member of staff serving and two taking part in a Instagram photo shoot and an enormous queue of unserved drinkers.

― stet, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 13:54 (five years ago) link

your ageless millennial mindset in action

― can’t stop thinking about amy adams as crash bandicoot (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 13:55 (five years ago) link

My pal's dog is the mascot of the Radisson Red. He (the dog) is some kind of brand ambassador or something. It's mental.

― ailsa, Thursday, 6 June 2019 11:50 (five years ago) link

one month passes...

mad to see Glasgow in something like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0msEbFufH8

― Funky Isolations (jed_), Friday, 19 July 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link

That Radisson advert is fucking grim. I bet that the minimum wage staff get regular bollockings for not having enough fun like that bit in Office Space where the waitress gets in trouble for not having enough badges or something.

― paolo, Friday, 19 July 2019 07:34 (five years ago) link

G-Force died a month ago? Have to say that after the imports and soundtracks were going down because internet, the shop was losing a lot of its appeal, but they stuck around a long time. Good spot in town obviously.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 19 July 2019 19:58 (five years ago) link

ma da has seen every fast and furious film so he'll be right intae that lol

― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Friday, 19 July 2019 20:01 (five years ago) link

that advert for the radisson job is awful right enough

― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Friday, 19 July 2019 20:01 (five years ago) link

RIP g-force
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvpq66YNAZw

― ||||||||, Friday, 19 July 2019 21:43 (five years ago) link

surprised it lasted as long as it did - given the high street's difficulty. best glasgow games store still probably the one that was in de coursy's (also RIP)

― ||||||||, Friday, 19 July 2019 21:45 (five years ago) link

CA Games

― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Friday, 19 July 2019 21:54 (five years ago) link

ma da has seen every fast and furious film so he'll be right intae that lol

Glasgow already played London in Furious 6 btw

― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Friday, 19 July 2019 21:55 (five years ago) link

might need to catch up with the series

― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Friday, 19 July 2019 21:55 (five years ago) link

two weeks pass...

two anecdotes:

The lads at my school used to wear Trespass jackets but they used to pronounce it like it was a French word even though they are made in Glasgow - Tray-Paaa.

The menu at The Grosvenor cafe sold many strange items - for example "Oxo Beef drink" (my dad used to drink this) and whatever you ordered was served on a red hot plate even if it was ice cream. The menu was very strangely worded too and we used to laugh at the descriptions like "half pizza pie portion" - you could also get "have pizza pie portion with fried egg" but one that remains seared on my brain was Calzino and, this is not a word of a lie, the description next to it said "An Italian bridie".

― Funky Isolations (jed_), Saturday, 3 August 2019 19:09 (five years ago) link

the first time i went to the grosvenor was 1994 and i was absolutely dumbfounded by the idea that i could get a 'burger' for less than a pound. i ordered it. and then i understood.

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 3 August 2019 20:13 (five years ago) link

we made the nytimes homepage!

obviously not for a good reason

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/07/world/europe/scotland-heroin-deaths.html

― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 18:59 (five years ago) link

*swells with national pride*

― Criss Angel Raw: The Mindfreak Unplugged (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 19:10 (five years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Crackin' photies, by the way.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-49476107

― Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 07:44 (five years ago) link

Those are super!

― Madchen, Wednesday, 28 August 2019 07:49 (five years ago) link

I'm in Glasgow for the first time 5th to the 9th September with me Dad. We like whisky, Ivor Cutler and Alasdair Gray. I think he's hoping to see a bit of heritage stuff as his family's originally from Glasgow and go way back.

― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 07:53 (five years ago) link

DL, Hillhead Tube Station, in the West End of Glasgow, has a great mural-map of the area by Alasdair Gray, worth a look if you're passing by.

The Marzaroli photos always feel (to me) much older than they actually are - the sixties as the thirties.

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 28 August 2019 08:08 (five years ago) link

The 70s in Glasgow looks older than the 70s too.

― Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 08:12 (five years ago) link

Those are lovely!

― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 28 August 2019 08:41 (five years ago) link

that St Enoch one hit me hard

― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 08:42 (five years ago) link

I love the Raintown shot

― stet, Wednesday, 28 August 2019 08:49 (five years ago) link

Coincidentally, saw this shared on Facebook today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKTKgcEqB6k&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR1Yqr88VHx1BI5heESE5j7YHEbWkmBgjRLLzNpZJYgFHfcmLWZA7DgDQ6U

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 28 August 2019 15:19 (five years ago) link

the depardon shots are always mind-blowing for me because they're only from 4 years before i was born but look like a completely different world compared to the glasgow of my childhood

― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 17:59 (five years ago) link

I've probably posted this before but it is lol af!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZL6tcQfCQs

― Funky Isolations (jed_), Sunday, 1 September 2019 23:11 (five years ago) link

ha ha ha

― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Sunday, 1 September 2019 23:54 (five years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Sir I salute you👏👏👏👏👏 pic.twitter.com/L0oQa0yZOf

— Tam sellics son (@gibbogibby1) September 21, 2019

― What a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers (jed_), Sunday, 22 September 2019 17:21 (five years ago) link

lol, what a hero

― Is it true the star Beetle Juice is going to explode in 2012 (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 22 September 2019 17:43 (five years ago) link

Did a few Glasgow Doors Open Days things yesterday, most notably Anniesland Court, the 22-storey grade a listed tower block at Anniesland Cross, which was spectacular and really interesting in its design. The visit was meant to be to the communal areas on the top floor, but the guy in the first flat there had opened up his place for everyone to wander freely. He was a lovely chap and seemed to be enjoying chatting with everyone passing through and showing us all about. He'd stuck little hand-written notes about the place to invite you to explore ("storage cupboard here, please take a look" and that kind of thing) and the place was brilliant - a neat layout and stunning views, of course. Thoroughly recommend it if it's on the line-up next year.

― brain (krakow), Sunday, 22 September 2019 17:46 (five years ago) link

that sounds excellent.

― What a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers (jed_), Sunday, 22 September 2019 21:10 (five years ago) link

Sounds great. I feel like I've run out of things to see on Doors Open Days a wee bit – will try to remember about that next year.

― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 23 September 2019 11:20 (five years ago) link

three months pass...

Bump! Am up this way end of month for a very short time. Is there anywhere that does decent steak or burgers etc? Don’t judge me, I’m asking for family. Probably won’t get to see much this time around but is there anything else I should see and do this time around if I have a spare couple of hours?

― glindr jackson (gyac), Monday, 6 January 2020 11:35 (five years ago) link

Best steaks I've had in Glasgow are at Tiffneys on Otago St in the west end

― or something, Monday, 6 January 2020 11:37 (five years ago) link

bread meats bread do decent burgers in the west end and centre of town

― hot nuts (small) (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 6 January 2020 11:51 (five years ago) link

Tiffneys or the Spanish Butcher for steak. Not been there for ages, but Bread Meats Bread has excellent burgers

Ha, xpost mindmeld

― ailsa, Monday, 6 January 2020 11:52 (five years ago) link

the butchershop bar and grill is pretty good for steaks (or at least it was the last time i was there a few years ago) and has a nice view of kelvingrove and the university if you get a window table

― hot nuts (small) (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 6 January 2020 11:55 (five years ago) link

Thanks all! If I don’t do any of these this time I will certainly next time cos I really haven’t spent enough time in Glasgow

― glindr jackson (gyac), Monday, 6 January 2020 12:04 (five years ago) link

Tiffneys always look shut when I go past it (admittedly that's mostly on a Saturday afternoon, on my way to Voltaire and Rousseau) and I'm getting this listing of their hours from a Google hit:

Address: 61 Otago St, Glasgow G12 8PQ
Hours:
Monday Closed
Tuesday Closed
Wednesday Closed
Thursday Closed
Friday Closed
Saturday Closed
Sunday Closed

If you have a couple of spare hours in the daytime, I would recommend this exhibition of Oscar Marzaroli's Glasgow photography - the gallery is situated near to both Mono and the 13th Note, both of which do pretty decent veggie burgers if you have some non-meat eaters in your party:

http://www.streetlevelphotoworks.org/event/oscar-marzaroli

― Ward Fowler, Monday, 6 January 2020 12:11 (five years ago) link

I saw those opening hours too so checked the website and they still appear to be open, only evenings tho and closed Tuesdays

― or something, Monday, 6 January 2020 13:00 (five years ago) link

I went into town to go to that Oscar Marzaroli exhibition on Friday but it was shut over the holiday period. We went to the People's Palace instead.

― ailsa, Monday, 6 January 2020 19:28 (five years ago) link

one month passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l85L7hJ0-7U

I love Scotland

― boxedjoy, Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:09 (four years ago) link

I love Sandra.

― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Thursday, 6 February 2020 22:36 (four years ago) link

gyac where did you end up eating in glasgow in the end?

― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 6 February 2020 22:54 (four years ago) link

Hey! We didn’t actually end up in Glasgow proper, we were in Troon the whole time. Well, my parents were in Glasgow, I wasn’t. But I want to go back properly, hopefully later this year, so it’ll happen then.

― hyds (gyac), Friday, 7 February 2020 08:07 (four years ago) link

you should try glasgow more imo

― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 7 February 2020 08:09 (four years ago) link

Definitely. I was very impressed by the trains while I was there (and found it a bit strange how dead Paisley Gilmour St area was around 7pm).

― hyds (gyac), Friday, 7 February 2020 09:26 (four years ago) link

i’d count yourself lucky that you didn’t receive a more traditional paisley welcome tbf

― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 7 February 2020 09:34 (four years ago) link

wee hurrie good in troon

― ||||||||, Friday, 7 February 2020 09:34 (four years ago) link

gyac closet golfer confirmed

― ||||||||, Friday, 7 February 2020 09:35 (four years ago) link

lol I’m the only member of my immediate family who’s never golfed (deems will consider this confirmation of what he posted elsewhere in the week and he’s right). No golf, just lots of rain and wind. Tbf bg a very kind man in Paisley helped me with my suitcase without saying anything to me!

― hyds (gyac), Friday, 7 February 2020 10:43 (four years ago) link

If you've got a decent description, the police might be able to get you the case back, if that's any consolation.

― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 7 February 2020 11:05 (four years ago) link

Holl', bit less o' the slaggin' Paisley aff if ye know whit's good fer ye.

― (includes digression on farting) (Tom D.), Friday, 7 February 2020 11:22 (four years ago) link

I quite like Troon but my experience of it is mostly lazing around the Marine in a white robe.

― Madchen, Friday, 7 February 2020 11:25 (four years ago) link

Same! They were doing it up while we were there and I hope part of that work is to fix up the window frames, cos they kept the wind itself out but it howled almost the whole time. Enjoyed drinking whisky by the fire downstairs though.

― hyds (gyac), Friday, 7 February 2020 11:27 (four years ago) link

Holl', bit less o' the slaggin' Paisley aff if ye know whit's good fer ye.


i’m half-buddie masel’ fwiw

― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 7 February 2020 11:30 (four years ago) link

Fair dos, big yin, ye're absolved.

― (includes digression on farting) (Tom D.), Friday, 7 February 2020 11:59 (four years ago) link

This seems neat

pink peacock (די ראָזעווע פּאַווע or di rozeve pave) is a queer, yiddish, anarchist vegan café opening soon in glasgow!

the café will be entirely pay-what-you-can down to £0 and we’ll have a free fridge

(פֿאָדעם אויף ייִדיש ⬆️) pic.twitter.com/VkCwBulVvh

— די ראָזעווע פּאַווע pink peacock (@dirozevepave) February 10, 2020

― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Monday, 10 February 2020 22:05 (four years ago) link

awesome. wonder if they're linked to this group who are campaigning to save a synagogue in my neighbourhood
https://twitter.com/irnju
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-50808796

― ||||||||, Monday, 10 February 2020 22:07 (four years ago) link

sounds great, will keep an eye out for when it opens

― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 10 February 2020 22:21 (four years ago) link

Didnt realise there were any significant number of young yiddish speaking Jewish people in Glasgow!

― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 04:54 (four years ago) link

So, it looks like I will be trying Glasgow more, possibly a lot more.

I married Jen, a Perthshire lady, last year (as at least one of you definitely knows) and so signed up to her long-term plan to move back to Scotland - we're moving partly to be nearer her folks, and the politics and climate help a bit too.

We're going to be renting for a bit after we move up, my career is pretty movable, and she's doing a masters in Library Sciences because that's what she's into.

We haven't really decided between the two big cities (NB once we have, I will obviously have to bribe a mod to come back and delete this paragraph) - we'll see where Jen gets work. We'll probably be back and forth a fair bit either way.

I don't know if you know that thing where you can't decide what to do, so you toss a coin and see what you feel about the result? Well, the first few decent job applications have been coming in, and they're all in Edinburgh, and Jen's been "Shit, I suppose I was hoping they'd be in Glasgow".

But either way, I will be trying Glasgow more.

― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 18:49 (four years ago) link

jim, Yiddish revivalism has some currency among certain young Jews for a variety of reasons, including political ones, so Glasgow's as good as anywhere else for it. Of course it is also still the living native tongue of some Orthodox Jewish communities in the US; no idea about the UK. Probably it's in a similar position to Scottish Gaelic in that regard!

― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 19:31 (four years ago) link

xp fucking hell, big move! Congratulations though! When’s it happening?

silby, I am only vaguely aware of this but it’s a diaspora thing right? I know Jewdas have links to resources about it on their site & people can take classes in learning it.

― hyds (gyac), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 19:56 (four years ago) link

congrats AF (ps edinburgh is bad not good)

― ||||||||, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 19:58 (four years ago) link

^ cosine both of the above points

― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 20:00 (four years ago) link

There's a Jewish primary school in Glasgow, possibly that may account for some young Yiddish speakers - there's a sizeable Jewish community in and around Giffnock where the school is.

(Hi Andrew, you know my answer is "move to Glasgow". So move to Glasgow)

― ailsa, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 20:28 (four years ago) link

Thanks for the info, silby.

Glasgow is bigger and better and has a more affordable housing market :)

― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 22:21 (four years ago) link

congrats AF, good luck with jobs/the move!

I've had several friends move away from here over the past year or two and another one, arguably the last tbh, just moved up to Glasgow - so perhaps I ought to try Glasgow more (well, at all)

if I do ever make it up to visit then vegan cafés will be v much on the agenda (cafés and food/drink emporia of all sorts for me but friend is vegan) and that Yiddish one sounds cool

― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 22:28 (four years ago) link

Thanks all - we're looking at moving up in May, but nothing's set until we tell the movers.

I'm moving from Stamford Hill, so any ambient Yiddish would make me feel at home!

(TIL learned that at the formation of the Israeli state, secular Jews tended towards supporting Hebrew as a nationwide language to unite the people, while the more religious tended towards Yiddish for the populace, so as to keep Hebrew for sacred matters)

― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 13:17 (four years ago) link

Who knew there was a synagogue in Langside? I've lived in the south side for years and it's the first I've heard of it

― paolo, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 13:42 (four years ago) link

irn-ju

Love it

― paolo, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 13:42 (four years ago) link

Don’t listen to them Andrew, Dundee is on the up, gets lots of hours of sunlight and less rain than the west coast, is cheap and is close to Glorious Perthshire.

― michaellambert, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 14:41 (four years ago) link

and you didn't even mention the V&A!

― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 15:49 (four years ago) link

(Edinburgh is good btw)

Who knew there was a synagogue in Langside? I've lived in the south side for years and it's the first I've heard of it

I used to live round the corner from it.

― High profile Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 15:52 (four years ago) link

Closeness to Perthshire is a carefully modulated variable, less than 60 minutes would have to be looked at very carefully.

We did spend a bunch of time using this toy, as presented by caek on the London Transport thread:

https://app.traveltimeplatform.com/search/0_lng=-4.21754&0_tt=60&0_time=d1581319810182&0_title=Glasgow%2C%20Scotland%2C%20United%20Kingdom&0_lat=55.90551

― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 15:54 (four years ago) link

Both are miles better than London, by some considerable distance.

― High profile Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 15:55 (four years ago) link

Also, I once got dumped in the Wetherspoons in Paisley.

― michaellambert, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 16:37 (four years ago) link

I then had to get back to the outskirts of Edinburgh via public transport on a Sunday, which was probably the worse bit tbh.

― michaellambert, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 16:42 (four years ago) link

one for the hypothetical ‘real scotland’ thread

― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 17:22 (four years ago) link

I'm probably overthinking this, but: that wasn't a joke about Stamford Bridge, home of Spurs, who I understand are known by a jolly racial epithet - but rather the nearby-but-less-famous Stamford Hill, which genuinely has a large orthodox Jewish population.

Anyway.

― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 22:29 (four years ago) link

stamford bridge is the home of chelsea

― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 22:30 (four years ago) link

Stamford Hill, as my friend David used to say, On Top of Old Stokey.

― High profile Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 22:31 (four years ago) link

Oh yeah that's right - I will need to study up on football and racism for Glasgow, I'm aware.

― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 23:25 (four years ago) link

you can just tell people you're a patrick thistle fan and with your non-local accent you'll be fine

― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 23:29 (four years ago) link

With your particular non-local accent I wouldn't try to convince anyone you're a Rangers fan though. Just say, "I don't know much about football and I'm not really interested in it" and people will say, "Oh you must be a Partick Thistle fan then".

― High profile Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 23:42 (four years ago) link

hey now

― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 13 February 2020 00:02 (four years ago) link

This ex-Dennistoun resident’s top tip for anyone moving to Glasgow is avoid living close to the route of an orange walk unless you like that kind of thing at 8am on a weekend.

― Madchen, Thursday, 13 February 2020 07:30 (four years ago) link

as an ex-resident of govan, i cannot fully express just how otm that tip is

― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 13 February 2020 09:28 (four years ago) link

Don't forget Glasgow's fourth team, Queen's Park, who have just had to vacate Hampden Park for a much tinier ground.

The church bells on a Sunday morning in Dennistoun were equally insistent and irritating when I lived on Roslea Drive.

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 13 February 2020 09:33 (four years ago) link

try glasgow less

LUNCH Glasgow has come up with a 'cooncil' themed wrap with a concauction of ingredients that will blow your tastebuds away.

The 'cooncil melt' was launched this morning as a laugh after a member of the public gave the eatery the inspiration for a Glasgow-themed melt on Instagram.

Already, the wrap is proving to be a huge hit for the people of Glasgow.

It contains: Turkey dinosaurs, potato smiles, chicken dippers, five spice, curry sauce and cheese.

https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/resources/images/11023906.jpg?type=article-full

― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 14 February 2020 11:21 (four years ago) link

"here we see pictured the feast before and after eating"

― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 14 February 2020 11:26 (four years ago) link

I would love that as a meal tbh

― boxedjoy, Friday, 14 February 2020 13:22 (four years ago) link

Glasgow's Potato Smiles Better.

― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Friday, 14 February 2020 13:24 (four years ago) link

hummin'

― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Friday, 14 February 2020 17:39 (four years ago) link

storm dennis is a reet xunt

― ||||||||, Saturday, 15 February 2020 15:38 (four years ago) link

A bus driver held the bus at a stop this afternoon for me until it calmed down enough for me to get off and run into a shop, there was an actual wall of water heading up the road towards the bus that his wipers wouldn't clear. It's fecking brutal out there

― ailsa, Saturday, 15 February 2020 18:17 (four years ago) link

this is a fuckin' bop tbh

Reminder that Glasgow had an anthem for its american football team (with a rap) but because it's glasgow all the joy has a backdrop of grey bleakness and it's very special. pic.twitter.com/U5wHF6LS9S

— Michael M (@michaelmphysics) February 18, 2020

― Generous Grant for Stepladder Creamery (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 13:52 (four years ago) link

The guy who did that song sometimes comes into my work to do voiceovers. He always wears a hat, which makes the office dog go crazy.

― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 20 February 2020 10:07 (four years ago) link

Played at the superbowl!

https://www.thenational.ae/sport/the-super-bowl-s-most-unlikely-half-time-entertainment-hit-1.468718

― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 21 February 2020 20:52 (four years ago) link

the singer is hudson mohawks's dad (mentioned in the twitter comments, but in case you didn't click through). just remembered that my da knew him also. I'm 4 degrees of separation from kanye west

― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Friday, 21 February 2020 20:58 (four years ago) link

I took a piss beside Hud Mo at the Sub Club once. True story

― paolo, Saturday, 22 February 2020 11:04 (four years ago) link

Which means I'm two degrees from Kanye

― paolo, Saturday, 22 February 2020 11:05 (four years ago) link

She’s turned the Waynes against us...

She’s turned the Waynes against us pic.twitter.com/u5lZfp2fWe

— Allan Price 🎙📻 📺 (@AllanGPrice) February 21, 2020

― Doubling down on out of date information (aldo), Saturday, 22 February 2020 11:40 (four years ago) link

congrats AF, good luck with jobs/the move!

― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, February 11, 2020 10:28 PM

Read this as "congrats as fuck"

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 22 February 2020 19:09 (four years ago) link

Welcome to fucking Scotland.

― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Saturday, 22 February 2020 19:14 (four years ago) link

I haven't been to East Kilbride shopping centre in a few years and I'm wondering what it's like now, because it felt to me like it's been a work in progress for at least 15 years, still busy but almost unrecognizable to what it was in the 90s when it was my cinema and main shopping destination when I was getting something exciting, and a lot of kids had birthday parties at the ice rink/food place.

Last few times I went there was something very odd about the place, not just the change but how that it looks like a place in terrible decline generally.

Thoughts, memories?

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 29 February 2020 19:20 (four years ago) link

Not safe for work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AstykDxufmg

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 29 February 2020 19:25 (four years ago) link

Classy

― paolo, Sunday, 1 March 2020 10:53 (four years ago) link

three weeks pass...

I live on the top floor of a tenement and whenever i tell older friends/relatives that they often say "ah, tap dancer?" tap dancer means top floor, has anyone else heard that? I always overthought it and thought tenement levels were called dancers, for some reason but It's surely more simple than that - that someone once made a tap-flaer / tap-dancer joke once and it gained traction in Glasgow. Probably vaudevile, maybe Francie and Josie or similar.

― current (jed_), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 23:49 (four years ago) link

I guess there's also the idea that a tap dancer could be one of the worst people to have living above you!

― brain (krakow), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 10:03 (four years ago) link

yes!

― current (jed_), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 15:11 (four years ago) link

So, it looks like I will be trying Glasgow more, possibly a lot more.

If you've thought about this, then you've probably thought "this isn't happening". This: isn't happening. Or at least it doesn't look like it for a bunch of reasons - the plan at the moment is putting everything back a year and trying again.

― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 29 March 2020 23:20 (four years ago) link

Understandable. Hope you're both ok though.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 06:18 (four years ago) link

Yeah, we're okay, a little disappointed - Jen even had a job lined up (over in the other place) but they mailed her to say that they weren't going to be hiring her - it was "we want to offer you the job, we'll make it official by the end of the month" on the 5th of March, but obviously that's a decade ago by now.

― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 18:25 (four years ago) link

Good to see barlinnie join in on the nhs clap... 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 pic.twitter.com/SttAWVlzyt

— Breezy mcg (@Breezymcg89) April 2, 2020

― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Friday, 3 April 2020 19:16 (four years ago) link

one month passes...

This looks brilliant.
https://reglasgow.com/miles-of-city-centre-parking-lanes-set-to-be-switched-to-walking-and-cycling-under-covid-19-plan/

― stet, Monday, 1 June 2020 09:25 (four years ago) link

dae it. all of it.

― ||||||||, Monday, 1 June 2020 09:35 (four years ago) link

only skimmed through - was there a suggestion in the report for summary execution of drivers

― ||||||||, Monday, 1 June 2020 09:36 (four years ago) link

looks great, just wish it hadn't taken 60,000 dead people across the uk to get the council to actually do something of value

― french flaps, sparkly letters, all the bells and whistles (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 1 June 2020 10:16 (four years ago) link

^ yeah, that. Also they've flagged the changes as "temporary" - make 'em permanent you fucks

― stet, Monday, 1 June 2020 10:51 (four years ago) link

turn pollokshaws road (from center to top of shawlands) and clydeside expressway into bikes, buses and taxis only imo

― ||||||||, Monday, 1 June 2020 10:55 (four years ago) link

two weeks pass...

check out this Reporting Scotland piece on the horrible events in George Square at the weekend. I'm actually flabbergasted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfLrjZBUPdU

― Heavy Messages (jed_), Monday, 15 June 2020 22:27 (four years ago) link

rangers fans eat a vegetable challenge

― ||||||||, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 07:09 (four years ago) link

loyalists assaulted a march in favor of asylum seeker's rights tonight in George square. never seen the like of it in Glasgow, really fucking angry and saddened

― Rik Waller-Bridge (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 23:29 (four years ago) link

demonstration more than march I should say, think it was static.

― Rik Waller-Bridge (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 23:30 (four years ago) link

The handful of videos I saw on twitter looked awful.

― brain (krakow), Thursday, 18 June 2020 09:58 (four years ago) link

Given how widely it was shared I guess most folk will already have read Tommy Ga-Ken Wan's account of his experience in George Square on Sunday, but I think it's worth sharing in case anyone did miss it. I like his writing and he's an amazing photographer, for anyone who doesn't already know him: https://www.instagram.com/tgkwan/

https://www.facebook.com/TGKW1/posts/10157510868780823

It's a public post, but I'm not sure if non-fb users will be able to read it? I'll see if he's posted it anywhere else too in case not.

― brain (krakow), Thursday, 18 June 2020 10:13 (four years ago) link

Jesus, that's rough.

― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 18 June 2020 12:56 (four years ago) link

Sad to hear all that. Hope all this kind of stuff doesn't drag on.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 18 June 2020 18:28 (four years ago) link

big explosion in the East End tonight - we can see some smoke in the sky in the southside

― boxedjoy, Thursday, 18 June 2020 21:57 (four years ago) link

https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/18527375.glasgow-houses-shake-massive-explosion-plumes-smoke-stretch-across-city-duke-street-fire/?ref=twtrec

― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 18 June 2020 22:15 (four years ago) link

Yep, just down the road from me. Most excitement the local facebook group has had for months.

― brain (krakow), Thursday, 18 June 2020 22:50 (four years ago) link

two weeks pass...

The Sub Club is in danger of closing and it would be a goddam tragedy if that happened. Bung them some cash here - https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/saveoursub

― paolo, Wednesday, 8 July 2020 07:47 (four years ago) link

If you give them a grand you get free entry for life

― paolo, Wednesday, 8 July 2020 07:48 (four years ago) link

Today, we are saying something we never thought we would have to say again - the good ship Sub Club is in danger of sinking!

We have faced many different trials and tribulations over the last 33 years, ranging from the infamous licensing curfew of the early 90’s to the building fire which forced the club’s closure in 1999 and led us to nomadic adventures, keeping the Subbie spirit alive in other venues until the fabled reopening in 2002.

We have faced countless other challenges over the years and are currently still fighting a long running and costly legal battle over noise issues arising from the grant of planning permission for a hotel development directly adjacent to the club, all of which has meant that the Sub Club has been very much a labour of love for all concerned for more than 3 decades. However, none of these situations hold a candle to the existential threat that the COVID-19 pandemic currently poses to the Sub Club, and indeed to Club Culture as a whole around the globe.

As lockdown is gradually lifted and some elements of the life we used to live slowly filter back in, what is abundantly clear is the fact that underground basement clubs will be amongst the very last things to reopen. We were the first spaces closed and we will be the last to open.

The level of UK Government support has fallen woefully short of what is required to protect the future of the Sub Club. We are very aware that many people are experiencing real financial difficulty, and for some the threat to their health and wellbeing is profound. We have had to think long and hard before reaching out to ask for your help. Nevertheless, if we want to Save Our Sub we find ourselves in a situation where we have to ask for your support.

#SaveOurSub #SubClubSOS #FeelTheFuture

― paolo, Wednesday, 8 July 2020 07:49 (four years ago) link

What was the infamous licensing curfew of the early 90’s?

― paolo, Wednesday, 8 July 2020 07:49 (four years ago) link

Asking again, @usikhushi. How much of your net worth are you donating to @SubClub? Sub Club staff are on unpaid leave while you're taking private jets to party with Peggy Gou only 2 days ago, but are still asking people to donate.

— Zab Mustefa (@ZabMustefa) July 7, 2020

Anyone got more background on this? The guys instagram no longer appears to have the shots referenced

― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 8 July 2020 08:20 (four years ago) link

There are some screenshots in this thread on twitter, plus a little further discussion...

if i was a director of Sub Club moaning about not being able to access the furlough scheme and appealing for public donations, I would probably not fill my insta feed with pics of me on private jets (or be a heir to one of Scotland's biggest fortunes 👀)

— Liam. (@parcelorogues) July 7, 2020

― brain (krakow), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 08:42 (four years ago) link

paolo, Glasgow put in place a bylaw whereby you had to be in a club by midnight, no-one was admitted after that.

― Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 08:46 (four years ago) link

That sounds a bit rubbish. And I did not know about this usikhusi character...

― paolo, Wednesday, 8 July 2020 09:18 (four years ago) link

"Glasgow put in place a bylaw whereby you had to be in a club by midnight"

aka me in my early 20s, wanting to pay £5 instead of £8 for entry because I was a cheap student, not realising that extra drink probably cost the same anyway

― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 8 July 2020 09:27 (four years ago) link

Millionaire Subby director Usman Khushi has apologised for taking a private jet to hang out with Peggy Gou but hasn't said that he'll save the club himself, even though he totally could.

https://selector.news/2020/07/09/sub-club-usman-khushi-responds-saveoursub/

― paolo, Saturday, 11 July 2020 13:15 (four years ago) link

gianluca vialli's unhappy

It's the sheer tension in this. “What is he coming back to say?” You know he's thinking really carefully before he speaks. pic.twitter.com/amwDeuorZF

— Jeremy Vine (@theJeremyVine) July 13, 2020

― the video for fuse ODG’s “azonto” (||||||||), Monday, 13 July 2020 16:00 (four years ago) link

Yeah, we're okay, a little disappointed - Jen even had a job lined up (over in the other place) but they mailed her to say that they weren't going to be hiring her - it was "we want to offer you the job, we'll make it official by the end of the month" on the 5th of March, but obviously that's a decade ago by now.

It's possible that my words here could be taken out of context, which is that they got back in contact and (touch wood) we're moving up next month - unless Sturgeon does set up barricades on the main roads which, honestly, fair enough.

― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 13 July 2020 16:05 (four years ago) link

me when someone from england crosses the border

It's the sheer tension in this. “What is he coming back to say?” You know he's thinking really carefully before he speaks. pic.twitter.com/amwDeuorZF

— Jeremy Vine (@theJeremyVine) July 13, 2020

― the video for fuse ODG’s “azonto” (||||||||), Monday, 13 July 2020 16:10 (four years ago) link

don't miss cycling in Glasgow, it's fucking shite.

good luck with the move, Andrew.

― Temporary Erogenous Zone (jim in vancouver), Monday, 13 July 2020 17:40 (four years ago) link

are you moving to glasgow or the other place, AF? I lost track

jim otm - it's getting better...... slightly..... and slowly......... the cycle super highway that's the site of the altercation above is actually pretty good (though unfinished). they need to put stuff like that all over the city (only other stretch, which is also good tbf, is on sauchiehall st)

― ||||||||, Monday, 13 July 2020 17:44 (four years ago) link

In the other place, I'm afraid - it's where Jen's job is, and it's also where my work's parent company (that I've been seconded to) has its main European office.

― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 13 July 2020 20:32 (four years ago) link

Today is a good day for my London-based Irish friends announcing their move north of the border - another mate of mine is due to rock up in Maryhill in a couple of weeks. Obviously allowing for barricades-on-the-border type shenanigans, but tbf, he's from Donegal, he's used to it.

Coming from London is about the only way to find drink prices acceptable in The Other Place, tbh.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 14 July 2020 15:26 (four years ago) link

one month passes...

"I don't actually know any [Scottish cities]"

🙈🙈🙈 pic.twitter.com/Fg3Cjopvyr

— Cazziewaz (@cazziewaz) August 24, 2020

― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 11:10 (four years ago) link

ffs

― scampo, foggy and clegg (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 11:46 (four years ago) link

I generally try to avoid posting anything just to shit on someone or something but there's a BBC Radio 4 Scotland evening topical comedy show, that consists of almost nothing but half assed jokes and fake laughter and you'd think it was made by people who didn't realize there is any other type of laughter. Like they've saw other people joking and laughing, didn't understand it but decided to mimic it on a radio show.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 29 August 2020 16:31 (four years ago) link

radio 4, ladies and gentlemen

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 29 August 2020 17:12 (four years ago) link

i guarantee you that whatever that show is gets better numbers than anything actually funny you have heard on bbc radio

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 29 August 2020 17:13 (four years ago) link

are you allowed/supposed to have tradesmen in your home? Tilers, plumbers etc. I'm doing work on someone's flat just now and will continue to do that (the owner has been away since before lockdown and won't be back for a few months) but was looking around for tilers, plumbers etc.

― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 11:49 (four years ago) link

Tradespeople and care providers
Workers can continue to go into other households to carry out work such as repairs, installations and deliveries.

Such visits should be subject to a risk assessment as well as ensuring that social distancing and correct wearing of masks is followed where appropriate.

https://www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-local-measures/pages/glasgow/

― learned lasagna (||||||||), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 12:07 (four years ago) link

Thanks for that.

― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 12:17 (four years ago) link

I can get on my bus at Shawlands, ride it through East Ren and into East Kilbride, work 8 hrs in my shop with two colleagues as a few hundred strangers come through the door, get the same bus home and get food from Lidl on the way... but I can't have anyone sit in my front room. Hmm.

― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 12:21 (four years ago) link

local lockdown is a total shiter: bidie in's sister has tickets to come up (from london) for a visit in a couple of weeks. now no longer happening of course - swear one of the worst things about this year is the lack of things to look forward to...

― learned lasagna (||||||||), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 19:28 (four years ago) link

Feart to even make plans now tbh. Will this affect the 21st party onimo?

― stet, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 19:38 (four years ago) link

21st party is planned to be outdoors (15 people, 5 households), weather permitting. If the weather is bad there's no point even attempting anything as we're already a family of five over two households so we couldn't even allow e.g. girlfriends or grandparents under current guidelines.

I can get on my bus at Shawlands, ride it through East Ren and into East Kilbride, work 8 hrs in my shop with two colleagues as a few hundred strangers come through the door, get the same bus home and get food from Lidl on the way... but I can't have anyone sit in my front room. Hmm

I agree this looks like it makes no sense but it's down to most of those things being managed at reasonably low risk while bangers are having 20 man gaffs. It's not aimed at your responsible visitor, it's aimed at the bangers.

Thing is though, how does changing guidance affect people who ignore guidance? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

― オニモ (onimo), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 23:33 (four years ago) link

I've been to the pub once and a restaurant once but I've been at work full-time in a retail space since lockdown was eased. Based on what I've seen of the public and how they've behaved, it really does feel like most people don't care about this anymore. The prevailing attitude seems to be that if we all wear masks we don't need to be using sanitised or social distancing. Even the bus is a nightmare as people sit where they want and slide off their masks. I'm not convinced I'm going to be any safer by the end of house parties - the people who have already taken the risks are still able to get out and about, to come into my shop or whatever, and there's only so much you can do to make people behave responsibly. When people break the guidelines you can tell them off, ask them to back away etc, but the damage is already done and the threat of infection cannot be undone. It feels like closing the gate after the horse has bolted.

― boxedjoy, Thursday, 3 September 2020 06:06 (four years ago) link

Also I'm so sorry about this ruining the 21st. This is all so rotten :(

― boxedjoy, Thursday, 3 September 2020 06:07 (four years ago) link

two weeks pass...

https://www.instagram.com/p/CFSamcppwss/

― brain (krakow), Sunday, 20 September 2020 11:40 (four years ago) link

Bears letting it loop a few times to catch all the adverts & local touches in there. Made me chuckle at least.

― brain (krakow), Sunday, 20 September 2020 11:48 (four years ago) link

I know Alec M, who made this, and he's a neighbour of yours in Dennistoun, Krakow (as long as you're still in Dennistoun - I'm not). Really cool guy.

― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 20 September 2020 19:01 (four years ago) link

Update.Glasgow 2020 pic.twitter.com/2anJrp2cF3

— Stephen61 (@Stephen6112) September 20, 2020

I know the fella in this pic.

― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Sunday, 20 September 2020 22:07 (four years ago) link

Haha that's quite gid that.

― rascal clobber (jim in vancouver), Sunday, 20 September 2020 23:41 (four years ago) link

he's definitely a very good guy but i'm slightly sad that the element of mystery has been removed.

― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Sunday, 20 September 2020 23:44 (four years ago) link

also sad that the one in the middle isn't in there (a diptych that should have been a triptych) The middle one, after the first was painted over was, of course, BORIS JOHNSON IS STILL A PURE FANNY.

― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Sunday, 20 September 2020 23:47 (four years ago) link

(Aside to Ward Fowler... yep, I'm still in Dennistoun/Haghill.)

― brain (krakow), Monday, 21 September 2020 18:11 (four years ago) link

i thought you were going to say still a pure fanny :D

― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Monday, 21 September 2020 18:23 (four years ago) link

For some reason I can't see the name "Nocturno Culto" without thinking of it in a total ned voice.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 26 September 2020 17:21 (four years ago) link

one month passes...

Does anyone know the name of that glasgow goth scientist with super long hair who was tumblr famous? I think she moved country but I've totally forgotten her name.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 6 November 2020 19:07 (four years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/RYQnLv8.jpg

― @oneposter (✔️) (sic), Friday, 6 November 2020 20:09 (four years ago) link

From two years ago but I hadn't heard about it and I'm sad to hear about it now. I didn't know this sort of thing was still going on but I have to wonder if attacking her for being a goth was just a cover for attacking a black person.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-44644067

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 7 November 2020 16:29 (four years ago) link

two months pass...

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/tributes-pour-after-beloved-nice-23421754

big john the doorman at sleazy's died.

― Dusty Benelux (jim in vancouver), Monday, 1 February 2021 18:56 (three years ago) link

:(

― Madchen, Monday, 1 February 2021 19:13 (three years ago) link

i was reflecting with friends on how he was always very decent when he - quite rightly - gave me the knock-back on various occasions.

― Dusty Benelux (jim in vancouver), Monday, 1 February 2021 19:15 (three years ago) link

It's incredible and heartening the impact that this story has had. RIP.

― Heavy Messages (jed_), Monday, 1 February 2021 19:27 (three years ago) link

memories of a friend taking a bottle of wine in my bag into Sleazies and him saying "just dont open it or drink it" and then his face when said friend proceeded to pour into a plastic cup, "why are you making my life difficult"

― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 14:50 (three years ago) link

two months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVGQfdxkIiQ

look who's back!

― boxedjoy, Saturday, 24 April 2021 15:02 (three years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Amazing today. So rare to have a protest that has a good result, on that day, right in front of your very eyes.

― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 13 May 2021 18:44 (three years ago) link

<3

― Madchen, Thursday, 13 May 2021 19:00 (three years ago) link

'mon the shielders

― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 13 May 2021 19:29 (three years ago) link

yeah. there should be songs about this. they were there for more than SEVEN HOURS blocking that home office van.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 13 May 2021 20:31 (three years ago) link

I used to live on that very street. 'Mon the Sooside Resistance!

― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 May 2021 20:39 (three years ago) link

Superb stuff, 'mon the Glasgow.

― ailsa, Thursday, 13 May 2021 20:50 (three years ago) link

yeah. there should be songs about this. they were there for more than SEVEN HOURS blocking that home office van.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, May 13, 2021 4:31 PM (nineteen minutes ago)

oh wow, I've only seen a very short video clip, that is fantastic!

― rob, Thursday, 13 May 2021 20:52 (three years ago) link

fucking GALLUS!

― Cocteau Twinks (jed_), Thursday, 13 May 2021 21:49 (three years ago) link

went down for the last hour. police presence was ridiculously disproportionate

― Qamon (||||||||), Thursday, 13 May 2021 21:51 (three years ago) link

I was out with a friend today for a walk/drive and as we arrived in Govanhill we counted ELEVEN police cars/wagons, one after the other, sirens blazing as they made their way to Kenmure - and this was at 4pm!

― boxedjoy, Thursday, 13 May 2021 22:04 (three years ago) link

scenes today are really make me despair

― boxedjoy, Saturday, 15 May 2021 20:18 (three years ago) link

Where does the anger come from, among each other?? I honestly don’t get it 🤷‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/IjEQBZgNpT

— Tonto67 (@tic1967lisbon) May 15, 2021

― Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, 15 May 2021 21:40 (three years ago) link

FUCKING HELL. #GeorgeSquare #Glasgow pic.twitter.com/1raSTWazT1

— Alex Tyler (@AlexTyler94) May 15, 2021

― Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, 15 May 2021 23:11 (three years ago) link

At least they left Cafe Andaluz alone, #savethetapas #glasgow pic.twitter.com/3B5yjh7tRT

— Billie Jones (@BillieJ66089099) May 15, 2021

― Heavy Messages (jed_), Sunday, 16 May 2021 00:40 (three years ago) link

Protect the statues!

― Heavy Messages (jed_), Sunday, 16 May 2021 00:41 (three years ago) link

see as someone who likes a drink and a carry on... how is any of this even fun for those taking part? What joy is there to be had in smashing up a local space, getting into fights and risking a fine or jail?

― boxedjoy, Sunday, 16 May 2021 10:34 (three years ago) link

I really don't know but I doubt it's even about fun, I think fighting is just so deeply ingrained in them.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 16 May 2021 12:22 (three years ago) link

Scotland is full of crazy people, is how I explain it to non-Scots.

― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Sunday, 16 May 2021 12:34 (three years ago) link

I don't know if we litter worse than other countries but it does annoy me to no end that people go out to pretty places in the countryside and litter there so much. I think the idea of having a good time and carrying your rubbish just doesn't work for them so they'd rather spoil the pretty places and assume someone else will clean it up. What's even worse is when people throw their litter out of their cars... just why?

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 16 May 2021 18:13 (three years ago) link

three months pass...

The place is an absolute tip.

https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/19561614.mike-dailly-glasgow-leader-susan-aitken-left-city-bamboozled-filthy-streets-denial/?ref=twtrec

― Heavy Messages (jed_), Monday, 6 September 2021 14:10 (three years ago) link

So many rats running about.

― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 6 September 2021 15:05 (three years ago) link

ugh. Thankfully I haven't seen any but have heard stories.

― Heavy Messages (jed_), Monday, 6 September 2021 15:25 (three years ago) link

about a month before lockdown I took a few sick days. I had to phone the council because I looked out my window at 4pm ie still daylight and saw rats charging through the communal bin area in the garden that backs on to our garden. It's disgusting. Even in the two years or so I've been living in Govanhill the fly-tipping seems to have gone from sofas and wooden furniture to piles of dumped bags of rubbish.

― boxedjoy, Monday, 6 September 2021 15:45 (three years ago) link

I was in Maxwell Park yesterday around 4pm doing some scavenger hunt game for someone's birthday, and one of the tasks was to take a photo of a wild animal that wasn't a dog or a bird. I thought, that's easy, I'll just go find a rat. And so I did.

― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 6 September 2021 15:52 (three years ago) link

Jeezo.

― Heavy Messages (jed_), Monday, 6 September 2021 15:56 (three years ago) link

Someone else got a devil's coach horse, which I thought was quite impressive.

― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 6 September 2021 16:01 (three years ago) link

Why do people bag their dog's shit and then just leave it wherever? They've just doubled the mess. Do they think there's some guy who finds all the bags and collects them?

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 6 September 2021 17:34 (three years ago) link

one month passes...

What's Govanhill like to live in these days?

― paolo, Saturday, 30 October 2021 13:20 (three years ago) link

I'm happy enough!

I always think moving into a flat anywhere is a gamble. You're at the behest of the other half-dozen households in your building. Our current one is fine as all our neighbours get on and a few own their homes. When I lived in Paisley I lived in a street that was known as quite rough and I never had any problems there for the same reasons. But when I lived in Shawlands we got broken into and none of our neighbours batted an eyelid because they didn't care because for anyyone else, it was just temporary, rented stopgap living.

― boxedjoy, Saturday, 30 October 2021 13:31 (three years ago) link

This made me miss Glasgow again

Conversation there on the busy tube. Eastern European couldn’t see the map. Asked an American to tell her when we got to “Patrick.” Yankee obediently started looking for Patrick.
Local said: “It’s Partick, easy mistake to make.”
A random steamer: “Aye, if yer a fuckin iPhone.”

— Jamie Lafferty (@MegaHeid) October 29, 2021

― Alba, Saturday, 30 October 2021 14:14 (three years ago) link

Glasgow (well Finnieston) is buzzing with COP 26 delegates from around the world who are fairly easy to spot as they are almost all wearing masks on the street (I wonder if they have been instructed to or they are just being cautious as there is so much Covid here?). They are also easy to spot as mnay are carrying COP 26 Hygiene Kits and multiple boxes of lateral flow tests. They all have to show a negative test before they are allowed into the COP 26 'blue zone'. Finniestion Street earlier was awash with delegates sitting on the pavement looking perplexed as they tried to comprehend the lateral flow test instruction sheets. One would have thought they might have been given some assistance. if this continues I think I may head down every day and set up a pop up lateral flow test instructions explanation workshop.

― stirmonster, Saturday, 30 October 2021 16:52 (three years ago) link

I see i can't spell Finnieston after decades living in it or next to it. tut tut!

― stirmonster, Saturday, 30 October 2021 16:55 (three years ago) link

one month passes...

https://www.zerowastescotland.org.uk/content/national-litter-and-flytipping-strategy-scotland

the Scottish Government have launched an open consultation into what can be done around litter and flytipping. Some of their proposals are terrible - a campaign to tell people litter is bad, as if we don't already know that and years of asking people nicely to not do it has worked. It takes about five mins to participate and you don't even need to answer all the questions, but I think it's worth giving them the feedback that eg arranging an uplift needs to be easier, and the Dumb Dumpers concept makes everyone feel like a grass.

― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 14 December 2021 12:47 (three years ago) link

It was great when they used to just have bulk uplift on a set day every week. So, so easy.

― Madchen, Tuesday, 14 December 2021 16:10 (three years ago) link

Does anybody have recommendations for driving instructors in the Glasgow area, preferably south side? I have to finally bite the bullet and learn to drive in the new year. On a very quick web search - driving lessons are expensive!!

― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 21 December 2021 10:10 (three years ago) link

I can’t recommend a driving instructor, but I can wholeheartedly recommend Celentano’s, by the Cathedral. The feasting menu is astoundingly good value at £38, and includes one of the best plates of food I’ve ever eaten (beef rump, for the record). Great waiting staff too. A++ would totally go again.

― Madchen, Thursday, 30 December 2021 20:28 (three years ago) link

Oh, I heard about that. Must try it soon.

― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 30 December 2021 23:38 (three years ago) link

I can also very much recommend Chateau-X which is the latest venture by Six by Nico.

― ailsa, Friday, 31 December 2021 15:55 (three years ago) link

one year passes...

Anyone going to see Delgados at Kelvingrove bandstand in August?

― Covfefe and TV (ken c), Saturday, 6 May 2023 10:09 (one year ago) link

Me!

― ailsa, Saturday, 6 May 2023 13:19 (one year ago) link

I don't have a ticket but was thinking of it as I really enjoyed the Barrowlands gig.

― brain (krakow), Saturday, 6 May 2023 17:45 (one year ago) link

Krakow, I might have a spare ticket - will know nearer the time, but it's quite likely

― ailsa, Saturday, 6 May 2023 21:48 (one year ago) link

Thanks ailsa. Drop me a line if you do end up with a spare, in case we've not bought any in the meantime (my partner would probably come along too).

― brain (krakow), Thursday, 11 May 2023 09:40 (one year ago) link

two weeks pass...

Crossposted from the thread about Gerry/Onimo from Aldo..try g___y more

Before the funeral, Ailsa and I are meeting for a beer in the scene of one of the most legendary Glasgow FAPs, the Alpen Lodge on Hope Street. So we don't go to an early morning service hanging and because it's a weeknight and we are all old it will just be a quiet few drinks and not a mad one like FAPs passing. Be in there about half 7/8 o'clock.

The Alpen Lodge, NOT ONIMONO

― ailsa, Sunday, 28 May 2023 01:13 (one year ago) link

If anyone wants details of the funeral, shout at me

― ailsa, Sunday, 28 May 2023 01:14 (one year ago) link

Oh yeah, this FAP will be on Tuesday night.

― ailsa, Sunday, 28 May 2023 01:45 (one year ago) link

I can’t come up to Scotland this week any more and am really sorry to miss the funeral. I will raise a glass in Gerry’s honour, and put virtual arms around the shoulders of those of you who are going to be there x

― Madchen, Sunday, 28 May 2023 07:26 (one year ago) link

Hope to make it along to the Lodge to raise a glass in memory etc

― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 28 May 2023 07:34 (one year ago) link

I can't make tomorrow night, unfortunately, as we'll be over in Edinburgh. Sorry not to be able to join you.

― brain (krakow), Monday, 29 May 2023 21:56 (one year ago) link

hi folks I've just this minute finished working and am absolutely knackered, so won't make it along tonight now. Apologies, and hope you have a good time. Best wishes for tomorrow.

― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 17:47 (one year ago) link

It was great to see yez - If I'd had the foresight to book a hotel, I also wouldn't have run smack into kicking out time at Bruce Springsteen at Murrayfield.

― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 21:38 (one year ago) link

Good to see folk. An excellently bizarre evening with the Alpen Lodge jukebox once more delivering the mood-appropriate goods.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 23:25 (one year ago) link

thinking of you all today.

― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 31 May 2023 08:16 (one year ago) link

Yes, same here. A hard day for everyone. x

― trishyb, Wednesday, 31 May 2023 11:38 (one year ago) link

Anyone going to see Delgados at Kelvingrove bandstand in August?

― Covfefe and TV (ken c), Saturday, 6 May 2023 10:09 (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

Me!

― ailsa, Saturday, 6 May 2023 13:19 (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

I don't have a ticket but was thinking of it as I really enjoyed the Barrowlands gig.

― brain (krakow), Saturday, 6 May 2023 17:45 (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

Krakow, I might have a spare ticket - will know nearer the time, but it's quite likely

― ailsa, Saturday, 6 May 2023 21:48 (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

Thanks ailsa. Drop me a line if you do end up with a spare, in case we've not bought any in the meantime (my partner would probably come along too).

― brain (krakow), Thursday, 11 May 2023 09:40 (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

Ailsa see you there!! We have now got ticket and (hopefully) accommodation for the weekend.
Karkow hope you can make it - there are still tickets if helpful (slightly surprised).

― Covfefe and TV (ken c), Tuesday, 6 June 2023 17:36 (one year ago) link

Yay!

― ailsa, Tuesday, 6 June 2023 22:12 (one year ago) link

three months pass...

Thanks to reddit r/glasgow for this.

A vintage tour of Glasgow n' acid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QmLd54FzMY

― brain (krakow), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 21:55 (one year ago) link

eleven months pass...

I'm going to Glasgow this weekend for a gig, never been before. Is it feasible to stay way out of the centre (cheaper hotel) or would that be a bad idea?

― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 3 September 2024 12:02 (four months ago) link

That will be fine. I'd suggest the West End or Southside (the area around Shawlands)

If the gig is in the centre of town you can get to it easily on the subway from the west end or on local trains from the Southside.

If the gig is down by the Clyde (where the Hydro is for example), I would recommend staying in Finnieston which is part of the West End and has loads of things to do - and lots of hotels around it.

― Treblekicker, Tuesday, 3 September 2024 12:38 (four months ago) link

Depends where the gig is and where you're thinking of staying and when you're heading back - taxis can be a nightmare and nightbuses are ridiculously limited.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 3 September 2024 12:52 (four months ago) link

Yeah, I'd agree with ailsa that it will depend. I don't use taxis much, but public transport options can be pretty poor

― brain (krakow), Tuesday, 3 September 2024 13:51 (four months ago) link

I live in a commuter town which runs into Glasgow and is right next to the airport and you'd think it'd be well connected and you'd be very very wrong.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 3 September 2024 14:33 (four months ago) link

The one consolation is, black cabs are (relatively speaking, and solely based on my experience) cheaper in Glasgow than in any other big city in Scotland, never mind London.

I'm intrigued as to what this gig in Glasgow is now!

― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 3 September 2024 15:16 (four months ago) link

Gig is in Calton, looking at a very cheap hotel in Crookston.

I'm going to see The Yummy Fur & Lung Leg (they are both supporting Bis)

― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 3 September 2024 15:20 (four months ago) link

Just need somewhere cheap to sleep, don't care how crap or out of the way it is, I am used to a long commute to work every day.

― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 3 September 2024 15:21 (four months ago) link

Calton? Whatever next.

― Defund Phil Collins (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 September 2024 15:26 (four months ago) link

FWIW Saint Luke's is not too far a walk from the city centre, although admittedly it has not been strolling weather up here recently. Enjoy the gig!

― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 3 September 2024 15:26 (four months ago) link

Oh yeah, I forgot that's there.

― Defund Phil Collins (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 September 2024 15:29 (four months ago) link

If it's Crookston Hotel, that's ok as it's about five minutes walk from the main road between Paisley and Glasgow so there are buses running that way and it should be fine.

Glasgow taxis are cheap until you accidentally stray out of the Glasgow city boundaries, then they go into full blown highwaymen territory with their mysterious boundary charges which they're not meant to charge but do anyway

― ailsa, Tuesday, 3 September 2024 15:47 (four months ago) link

Trains are pish just now, ScotRail running a reduced timetable. I'm planning attempting to get out of Greenock after a thing on Sunday night and it's pretty much impossible

― ailsa, Tuesday, 3 September 2024 15:48 (four months ago) link

Not sure on pricing, but there's at least two or three guest houses in Dennistoun that you could look at. Definitely avoid The Tartan Lodge, but the others might be ok. That's walkable from St Luke's, which can be handy.

― brain (krakow), Tuesday, 3 September 2024 18:14 (four months ago) link

I've booked a room for the night of the GYBE! gig to save me having to deal with late night trains back to Edinburgh

― treefell, Tuesday, 3 September 2024 18:27 (four months ago) link

I booked a hotel within 10-15 mins walking distance for the Los Campesinos! gig when it was at St Lukes…then it was moved to the QMU and we’re now looking at. 45-50 minute walk.

― hamicle, Tuesday, 3 September 2024 19:13 (four months ago) link


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