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
Do we have a Commonwealth thread?
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 24 July 2014 21:14 (nine years ago) link
bizarrely no. i shall start one.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Thursday, 24 July 2014 23:30 (nine years ago) link
Are there any decent pubs in the city centre to watch football at?
― paolo, Monday, 18 August 2014 07:40 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine 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 (nine years ago) link
christ, awful
― local eire man (darraghmac), Monday, 22 December 2014 17:20 (nine years ago) link
this is so sad. hope all glasgow ilxors and yr family/friends are ok.
― sktsh, Monday, 22 December 2014 17:55 (nine years ago) link
six confirmed dead, more injured. just tragic
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 22 December 2014 18:01 (nine years ago) link
FAP action being planned over here: --- glasgow ----
NOT MONO.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 18:19 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
Did you eat it?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 15:54 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
it was actually the deputy chief veterinary office alick simmons - my apologies
― conrad, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 21:49 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
"Gie the pie a bodyswerve"?
― everything, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 23:42 (eight years ago) link
"Ah widnae if ah wis you, mate"
― Fields of Fat Henry (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 23:46 (eight years ago) link
Boufin'
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 02:08 (eight years ago) link
Love the bin man story.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 02:09 (eight years ago) link
I believe the barmaid in the anecdote was an australian lady
― conrad, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 08:25 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
an austrian lady?
― conrad, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 09:07 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
could pass for dundonian but it would of course be 'peh' rather than 'pie'
― Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 09:34 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
perhaps she was an aberdonian lady
― conrad, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 10:37 (eight years ago) link
I think that is a pretty reasonable conclusion.
― michaellambert, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 10:56 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
you work in the same government department as my girlfriend ;)
― conrad, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 13:30 (eight years ago) link
ah but of course
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 14:06 (eight years ago) link
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 (eight years ago) link