try glasgow more

Ice cream hair!

All the shitty violence is out in Paisley these days.

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

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.

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.

i miss the GOMA goffs

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!

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?

i miss the GOMA goffs

otm

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.

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.

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!

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.

nice work jed, always impressed by those willing to go the extra mile in reaching out to marginalised members of society xp

Ha!

Plenty of old-school ned types out east end way, Haghill and beyond.

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.

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

Anyone seen the film Small Faces about 60s glasgow? I don't know how accurate it is but there'll all dressed super smart.

That really shocked me at the time.

They're all dressed super smart

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.

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.

I just assumed everyone looked like Steptoe and Son.

by the way do we all know that ailsa (oor Ailsa) was on mastermind tonight?

cracking round ailsa!

really? wow

forest pines, ex of this parish was on it some years ago.

Thanks jed_ :(

that's cool! i take it you didn't get through so commiserations. it's a tough show!

I did get through!

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.

maybe you're not hanging around enough primary schools

I did get through!

― ailsa, Friday, September 22, 2017 11:52 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh, cool!

lol @ sic

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

Hello! I will attempt to attend Glasgow FAP. I may fail.

Do try Gerty.

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.

No sure about my new name :)

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.

I tend to find Ribena widely available in Scotland's many fine stockists of juice.

Ribena is a widely available juice in our many cities and towns

Ribena was a popular drink and it still is.

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?

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

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/mar/27/schoolsworldwide.foodanddrink

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.

Concentrate Ribena is rank. Pre-mixed Ribena is a nice drink.

Ribena is delicious. Strawberry Ribena is *of the gods*.

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.