try glasgow more

to be closer to you conrad

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.

but i live in london

how come you moved to london conrad

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.

i'm an economic migrant ;)

:*(

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)

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.

Um, that's a Glasgow landline number I think, unless I'm being particularly dense?

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).

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!

cheers ailsa - feel free to come along for an Xmas pint courtesy Santa tho if you want!

Would love to, but even getting into Glasgow is a wee bit of a trek. Thanks for the offer though!

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.

Yep, hope it's a longer and larger FAP next time, Fizzles - and that there isn't another six-year gap.

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

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

what's glaswegian for 'crowdsourcing, go figure'

"cunts, eh?"

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!

is "jobbie" glaswegian?

That's nationwide, if Edinburgh mates are anyone to go by.

haw Danny Boyle, here's how you open a ceremony ya tube

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-26857816

Letters hand-delivered this morning *after* the press are all over it. We're dead good at PR, us.

Nothing crass about this whatsoever...

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.

Tickets taken

I grew up near Leuchars

this thread ain't what it used to be

Glasgow ain't what it used to be. Everyone moved away.

:*(

Oh, whereabouts, Paulo?

st andrews

Oh, right, me too. Went to Madras. You?

yeah it was shit

and what's an asshopper anyway

I...don't know. Nor do I know what you're referring to.

The Art School is currently on fire with black smoke billowing down Sauchiehall St

Pictures look horrible :(

just came to post that as i saw it on tv

:(((((

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.

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.

^^
rooting for you glasgow

library and archive can't be in good shape and all that work gone too :-(

Does anyone know how much of the building went on fire?

I have seen chatter on Facebook and Twitter it started in the basement but the pictures seems to show flames at the very top

yeah the whole building has been affected by the look of it

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.