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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link
where always is since the early 90s
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 29 June 2018 19:01 (five 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 (five years ago) link
omg
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 20:40 (five years ago) link
Amazing.
― Madchen, Thursday, 5 July 2018 05:22 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
I'm doing my annual pilgrimage home next month, cannae wait
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 24 August 2018 21:50 (five 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 (five years ago) link
Is that a Harry Potter shop on big bus street?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 31 August 2018 15:39 (five years ago) link
I don’t know. Union street?
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Friday, 31 August 2018 15:56 (five years ago) link
Yes, I barely know the names of any streets.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 31 August 2018 16:06 (five years ago) link
Should be renamed to big bus street.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 31 August 2018 16:10 (five years ago) link
it's such a tip.
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Friday, 31 August 2018 16:44 (five years ago) link
― 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 (five years ago) link
damn.
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Friday, 31 August 2018 17:08 (five 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 (five years ago) link
How long are you going to be around for Jim?
― brain (krakow), Friday, 31 August 2018 17:19 (five years ago) link
not long, ten days, usual paucity of annual leave problem
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 31 August 2018 17:45 (five years ago) link
Let's fail to organise a FAP! It's what we do best.
― ailsa, Saturday, 1 September 2018 00:22 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link
*may*
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 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link
just what our fair city neededlike 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link
It's supporting (at least) two in Edinburgh!
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 2 September 2018 19:14 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
shawlands?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 09:18 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link
negotiating tool that is
― Burt Bacharachman-Turner Overdrive Like Jehuman League (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 10:43 (five 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 (five years ago) link
Three beds and you need more space? God I miss Glasgow sometimes
― stet, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 13:44 (five 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 (five years ago) link
cheers ailsa!