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  • Water treatment plant just by the bridge. To the right in OP's photo. by 124876720 (Sun 20th Jan 2019 5:47pm)
  • I can smell this picture. by 124876720 (Sun 20th Jan 2019 5:45pm)
  • >Why would showing up early be a bad thing? In cities with functional bus systems (admittedly an alien concept to First Glasgow) people show up to the bus stops when they think the bus will come. So it's a bad look if Mabel walks to the bus stop for 10:10 to catch the 10:14 only to watch it motor past her at 10:08. First Glasgow solve this problem in their usual innovative style by conditioning customers to treat the posted timetables as abstract art rather than a guide to when the bus will appear at a given stop. >Just switch off the engine and wait at the stop till its time to leave In Edinburgh they actually do this where they can stop without blocking the road. by 124876720 (Tue 22nd Jan 2019 5:27pm)
  • Still think it is a poor decision, but at least debate can now be informed by what the Sheriff actually thought and not speculative press reporting. PS: The Scotland Judiciary website is awful and chews up links. That link worked when I posted it. However, if it doesn't, then go to http://www.scotland-judiciary.org.uk/2/0/Judgments-And-Sentences and click "sentencing statements" followed by "PF v Christopher Daniel". by 124876720 (Fri 1st Feb 2019 7:03am)
  • The last part was a quotation from the victim's family. There does seem to be a real disconnect between the Sheriff's perception of their views and their views as expressed to the press. Difficult to know why that is the case. by 124876720 (Fri 1st Feb 2019 7:43am)
  • >Do not minimise it because she was wearing clothes The sentencing guidelines, if I correctly recall, consider it a relevant factor if touching occurs over clothes vs over bare skin, with it (usually) being seen as less serious. I assume that is why Sheriff Sinclair mentioned it. I agree with the rest of your post. by 124876720 (Fri 1st Feb 2019 9:16am)
  • I'm not sure that's true. There's a huge initiative going on now about how kids' evidence is to be taken in cases like this, and kids are already given special treatment as witnesses. We also don't know what the kid said in this case. It's also not practical to defer sentencing until a child is grown up. by 124876720 (Fri 1st Feb 2019 9:38am)
  • We don't know what evidence the Sheriff heard in that regard so we can't really know that. by 124876720 (Fri 1st Feb 2019 9:47am)
  • What I do not understand is why the Crown did not appeal on the basis that the sentence was unduly lenient? The Sheriff had a shocker, sure, but that's why we have supervisory courts. It's clear that the full story isn't being told. by 124876720 (Sat 9th Feb 2019 7:57pm)
  • **The City of Edinburgh Council**: Nobody will ever top our spectacular display of spending £375m on a curtailed tram system! **Glasgow City Council**: That a fact aye? This is happening because there is a £500m hole in Glasgow's finances because GCC operated (knowingly) an unlawful pay scheme for decades. by 124876720 (Wed 20th Feb 2019 12:40pm)
  • The IRA also tried to assasinate the queen when she visited Sullom Voe in Shetland in the 80s. by 124876720 (Tue 12th Mar 2019 11:08am)
  • > I would move to Edinburgh House prices and rent are a lot higher though. by 124876720 (Sat 16th Mar 2019 12:34pm)
  • Except in Edinburgh, where the 12 year olds put their hands in the pockets of their private school blazers. by 124876720 (Mon 18th Mar 2019 9:26am)
  • This reminds me of the classic "don't ask one question too many" story just about every law student is told about cross-examination:- >Once upon a time, a man was prosecuted for biting off another's nose in the middle of a field. A witness was cross examined thusly: >**Overconfident lawyer**: So, what were you doing in the field? >**Witness:** Birdwatching. >**Lawyer:** Where were the birds? >**Witness**: They were in the trees by the field. >**Lawyer**: So you were looking at the trees and your back was to the middle of the field? >**Witness**: Yes. >**Lawyer**: So when did you know the confrontation was happening? >**Witness**: When I heard the victim's screams. >Stop here. >**Lawyer**: So, if you turned around only when the victim was screaming in pain and your back was to the middle of the field, HOW DID YOU KNOW THAT MY CLIENT HAD BITTEN OFF HIS NOSE? >**Witness**: Well...I saw him spit it out. by 124876720 (Mon 18th Mar 2019 9:25am)
  • *Daily Record* front page has it. by 124876720 (Thu 21st Mar 2019 3:31pm)
  • Something to bear in mind is that whilst Worboys was believed to have attacked 100+ women, he was only charged and convicted of attacking two. The English Parole Board mistakenly believed it could not take that into account and effectively it had to consider him as a man who had raped twice. The Supreme Court reversed that. by 124876720 (Thu 21st Mar 2019 9:26pm)
  • No. It's overrun by AirBnB sex tourists, American trophy wives, and *sex offenders*. by 124876720 (Mon 1st Apr 2019 5:28pm)
  • Write to your MP or MSP. by 124876720 (Sun 7th Apr 2019 6:59pm)
  • Take it from an Edinburgh resident: hotels are great because they keep the tourists out of the residential housing market. The alternative is an AirBnB explosion and real people being squeezed out of the market by skyrocketing house prices and rents. by 124876720 (Mon 8th Apr 2019 1:09pm)
  • Option 3: the coppers did it and he didn't want you to find out. by 124876720 (Sat 13th Apr 2019 3:09pm)
  • 1. Yes. It is one of Scotland's four ancient universities (second oldest in Scotland) and part of the Russell Group of leading research universities. I did my undergraduate degree at Glasgow and found it to be very welcoming. Unlike Edinburgh, where I did my postgraduate, it also did not have the attitude that "you are lucky to be here"). 2. Definitely. There's good nightlife, its very well-situated if you want to take trips to Edinburgh, London, Ireland, or the Highlands, it's cheap (possibly one of the cheapest big cities in the UK), there's a good student culture, and there is a whole city besides the university (unlike, for example, Oxbridge or St Andrews). 3. That really depends where and how you live. You *can* spend an awful lot if you are determined to, but in general student life in Glasgow remains much cheaper than Edinburgh or St Andrews and a hell of a lot cheaper than London. Living in Glasgow on a budget is easier than in many places. 4. Difficult to answer for a white local like myself I'm afraid. I would hope Glasgow is a welcoming place for foreigners, but not being one I can't really answer. 5. Depends on the job and your immigration status. Generally, a student visa allows you to take up some work, about 20 hours a week. There is also stewarding at football matches if you fancy looking into the darkest recesses of the Scottish soul for 90 minutes. Depending on where in India you are from, you might have the most trouble adapting to the weather. Glasgow gets 1079mm of rainfall on average per year and frequently has a grey blanket of clouds. I know that some of the people I knew from university from sunnier parts of the world found this hard to deal with. Unlike India, where I understand most of the rain comes in one go during the monsoon, this is pretty much constant. If you do come, I hope you have a good time! by 124876720 (Mon 15th Apr 2019 8:25am)
  • NO SURREND-oh by 124876720 (Fri 19th Apr 2019 12:04am)
  • This is something I've noticed as well as a big difference between Edinburgh and Glasgow - when Edinburghers strike it rich they move to nicer bits of Edinburgh, whilst Glaswegians move to the commuter belt. by 124876720 (Mon 22nd Apr 2019 8:33am)
  • It absolutely is compared to Aberdeen and Edinburgh. by 124876720 (Mon 22nd Apr 2019 8:31am)
  • Yes, but not always - Berlin used to be famously cheap (and still is compared to Hamburg or Frankfurt) and Rome is cheaper than Turin and Milan. Barcelona is more expensive than Madrid. But Scotland only really has five cities - Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen, and Inverness. If you compare them, Glasgow is bang in the middle - cheaper than Edinburgh and Aberdeen but dearer than Dundee and Inverness. If you compare it to other UK cities then it is cheaper than London (by miles), Bristol, and Manchester, more expensive than Cardiff and Belfast, and about level with Leeds. When you consider what it has to offer, I think Glasgow is an incredibly inexpensive city from a value perspective. by 124876720 (Mon 22nd Apr 2019 10:02am)
  • It is an ABC of urban planning that single-occupant cars are a bad thing because a) they are massively subsidised and b) no level of tax can recoup their huge externalities in terms of air quality, pollution, and infrastructure (look at totally car-focused cities in the USA where it is virtually impossible to live without a car). There is also the phenomenon of induced demand - building more roads only increases traffic and delay because more people take the car. The GCC are choosing to prioritise buses and active travel (Cooncil for "walking and cycling") in the hope that people take those cleaner and greener alternatives. by 124876720 (Fri 26th Apr 2019 12:32pm)
  • The trouble is if you prioritise cars then more people will drive, causing your peak demand to rise, meaning you think you need another road, causing more people to drive, causing your peak demand to rise... What people don't realise is there is a hard limit in the form of the residential streets and city centre. Even if you put in more lanes on main roads, they still feed into a system you can't expand! Building more roads in response to city traffic is like not being able to fit 2l of water into a 1l bottle and deciding you need a bigger funnel. A bus generates less emissions per passenger than any car idling, walking and cycling are emissions free. >Hiroshima Can you think of anything which might have happened in Japan around the beginning of the era of mass auto transport which might have made it easier for them to redesign their cities from scratch? by 124876720 (Fri 26th Apr 2019 1:01pm)
  • The Rangers died and the Hearts survived by 124876720 (Sun 28th Apr 2019 3:15pm)
  • The Orange Order permits ex-Shankill butchers to steward their parades and routinely honours loyalist terrorists. I think it is you who are having trouble seeing past a political position. by 124876720 (Sun 28th Apr 2019 3:23pm)
  • Cost, probably. by 124876720 (Mon 29th Apr 2019 12:00pm)
  • That happens on a single weekend each year and actually makes money for Glasgow. by 124876720 (Tue 14th May 2019 5:48pm)
  • Actually I'm well aware as I participate each year - always with a raging stauner at the thought of the Gorbals residents whose peace I shatter like the trumpets of Jericho. by 124876720 (Tue 14th May 2019 6:03pm)
  • D'you go around sniffing wankers aye? by 124876720 (Tue 14th May 2019 6:10pm)
  • Nah mate must be a Gorbals thing. by 124876720 (Tue 14th May 2019 6:17pm)
  • Username and comment not matching here... by 124876720 (Mon 27th May 2019 3:24pm)
  • Pyro...? by 124876720 (Tue 28th May 2019 12:31pm)
  • Also, hotels keep tourists where they belong: out of AirBnBs. by 124876720 (Wed 29th May 2019 9:14am)
  • I am 99% sure he is also fluffykintail/leithbeast/pyrocattuesday, a known lunatic on r/edinburgh. Exact same subject matter (tourism/AirBnB/sex crimes) and same type of posts. by 124876720 (Wed 29th May 2019 9:14am)
  • It really is pathetic. Their statement is in such obvious bad faith - "identifies you as a Protestant will lead to you walking a gauntlet of bigoted protestors who object to your presence simply because you are not of their faith." It's another example of Sartre's observation about racists: their discourse is intended to intimidate, disconcert, and discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. The OO are a classic hate group. by 124876720 (Thu 30th May 2019 12:00pm)
  • Call the Waaaahmbulance. by 124876720 (Fri 31st May 2019 8:13pm)
  • Choices for life! In Edinburgh they were out at the big exhibition space at Ingliston. I remember a white man in a fake Afro who pretended he was from New York and getting a bag with a plastic water bottle which I used for about five years after that. Looking back, it was some amount of shite. Telling 8 year old kids that if they were even in the same room as a wrap of coke they'd be hauled off to Saughton for 10 years. Scum. by 124876720 (Tue 4th Jun 2019 8:54am)
  • Good. by 124876720 (Tue 4th Jun 2019 12:27pm)
  • The grass is always greener, I suppose. To me, the only real black marks against Glasgow are the terrible public transport and cycling infrastructure and the lack of chippy sauce. And the chippy attitude some Glaswegians have about Edinburgh. You can find tramps and junkies everywhere, Glasgow's city centre is very far from "empty", Edinburgh is being absolutely hollowed out by overtourism . Leith has become a clone of every hipster hotspot in the world and Gorgie/Dalry is headed the same way. The Old Town is full of Live/Laugh/Love hen do retards or aggressive stag meatheads. by 124876720 (Wed 5th Jun 2019 9:36am)
  • So were Leith and South Queensferry, but Leith was made part of Edinburgh because there was no real border between them and South Queensferry was annexed in the 1970s to give Edinburgh politicians control of the southern end of the Forth Bridges. by 124876720 (Wed 12th Jun 2019 3:30pm)
  • Aye, but they're spoon-burning Hibee rats so who cares. Edinburgh will grow larger. by 124876720 (Wed 12th Jun 2019 8:31pm)
  • If only GCC had adopted the same pay structure as every other local authority in Scotland and not tried to design their own because "not invented here" and then it would have half a billion quid to invest in this. At least when Edinburgh wasted half a billion pounds worth of taxpayers' cash they got a train set at the end of it. by 124876720 (Fri 21st Jun 2019 5:42pm)
  • I'd agree with you if it could be said that the UK government's system for determining asylum requests is reliable and fair, but I don't think that it is. by 124876720 (Tue 25th Jun 2019 9:36pm)
  • You don't know the half of it. This poster has been spamming r/edinburgh with absolute crackpottery under various usernames for *years* (his longest-serving name was "pyrocattuesday" hence r/Edinburgh naming him "pyro"). Took about four posts from "chocolateweazel" to realise it was him. You can tell because of his obsessive hatred for *AirBnB*, tourism, hotels, *sex tourists*, sex criminals, and *random italics*. by 124876720 (Wed 26th Jun 2019 12:56pm)
  • Edinburgh City Police Board made a deal in the 1980s which effectively legalised brothels in Edinburgh. In this moon unit's wee world, this makes Edinburgh the Phuket of the UK. by 124876720 (Wed 26th Jun 2019 4:11pm)
  • They tried, but the courts threw it out. by 124876720 (Wed 26th Jun 2019 5:17pm)
  • Yeah. A lot of the issues he raises about AirBnB and overtourism in Edinburgh are real ones, but he frames them in such an OTT and nasty way. by 124876720 (Wed 26th Jun 2019 5:28pm)
  • Star Bar - 3 course for £3 by 124876720 (Thu 4th Jul 2019 3:33pm)
  • The so-called "hangers-on" are the family members of the marchers who do nothing about their behaviour because they approve of it. Scum to a man. by 124876720 (Sat 6th Jul 2019 4:32pm)
  • "Aye aye aye but she broke the ranks eh" by 124876720 (Mon 8th Jul 2019 3:14pm)
  • We don't have ABH or GBH in Scotland, just degrees of assault - assault, assault to injury, assault to severe injury, assault to permanent disfigurement, assault to the danger of life etc. by 124876720 (Wed 10th Jul 2019 9:47pm)
  • *If* he has no previous. For the average OO mutant that's hardly certain. by 124876720 (Wed 10th Jul 2019 9:46pm)
  • >Edinburgh also does not have one, do they? No, but we do have the beach at Portobello. by 124876720 (Fri 12th Jul 2019 2:31pm)
  • Ach, you were young once. by 124876720 (Fri 12th Jul 2019 9:32pm)
  • 1. Make an appointment to speak to a human being and bring as much paperwork showing you have moved in as you possibly can. 2. For bigger stuff, EMAIL COUNCILLORS DIRECTLY. Their contact info is on the GCC website. Having worked in local government I cannot stress this enough: if you go through the "ordinary" channels then you go to the bottom of the admin food chain, but if you email elected members they will usually pass your query to managers who will kick the right arses. by 124876720 (Mon 15th Jul 2019 11:59am)
  • Phone IJ Mellis on Great Western Road - they definitely sell guanciale at their Edinburgh branches so I would expect them to in Glasgow as well. You making amatriciana? by 124876720 (Thu 18th Jul 2019 4:52pm)
  • Try gricia as well! by 124876720 (Thu 18th Jul 2019 5:23pm)
  • Regarding the Rattray & Co warehouse on Miller Street: >Tillie Henderson, garment maker, commissioned Alexander Kirkland to build this Venetian Palazzo in Miller St for them. Arguably one of the city’s greatest, & least known, losses. **It succumbed after all the sinks got blocked and taps accidentally turned on** *Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.* by 124876720 (Sat 20th Jul 2019 10:36am)
  • Oran Mor, to be fair, is a theatre first and a pub second, so its quality really depends on the show they have on. by 124876720 (Wed 24th Jul 2019 6:32pm)
  • How so? Gangsters haunt? by 124876720 (Wed 24th Jul 2019 6:45pm)
  • Fun fact: a Russian Jew called Samuel Moorov used to own a drapery where the Grant Arms is in the 1920s, where he touched up his female staff. This gave rise to one of the leading cases in Scots law: *HM Advocate v Moorov*. by 124876720 (Thu 25th Jul 2019 8:41am)
  • Nah. Glasgow is rough by Scotland/Ireland/Scandinavia standards but its fine compared to some of these places in England or the USA. by 124876720 (Thu 25th Jul 2019 11:14am)
  • Agreed - absolutely scandalous the way that area has been allowed to turn into wasteland. by 124876720 (Thu 25th Jul 2019 1:33pm)
  • He's quite good you know. by 124876720 (Thu 25th Jul 2019 5:37pm)
  • I mean the entire stretch of Eglinton Street from Wallace Street down to the Star Bar. by 124876720 (Thu 25th Jul 2019 10:24pm)
  • He doesn't actually [have a choice](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cab-rank_rule) in who he defends. Not defending his weirdo politics. by 124876720 (Thu 25th Jul 2019 10:33pm)
  • Tell us how you really feel! Fair comments but. I was born and raised in Edinburgh, and whilst I take a lot of the criticism about being unfriendly etc onboard what I will say is at least we *know* that we're a middle-class city. For some reason Glasgow is full of very comfortable people pretending that because they come from Glasgow they are incredibly down-to-earth: "Oh well, life in Glasgow is tough, you know, and that builds a kind of community spirit and a gallus attitude you don't see in other places." Yeah, life in Possil is tough! *You* come from Dowanhill and went to Hutchie's! by 124876720 (Thu 25th Jul 2019 10:30pm)
  • I honestly wouldn't hold out too much hope. The scars of the Emu Wars are deep and most Glaswegians won't want to be served by an Australian after what your people did to our feathered friends. You might have some luck if you pretend to be a Kiwi. by 124876720 (Mon 29th Jul 2019 11:31am)
  • Not in banking, but I managed to get two interviews pretty quickly with a recruitment agency. Have you tried them? by 124876720 (Tue 30th Jul 2019 5:23pm)
  • Do they do offal (liver/kidneys etc)? Can't find it on their website. by 124876720 (Fri 2nd Aug 2019 4:46pm)
  • > he residents of the mining cottages on the Jordanhill side can be quite anti social You sound like you have stories here... by 124876720 (Sat 3rd Aug 2019 11:53pm)
  • The arcade was bought by Strathclyde Pension Fund back in 2016 and there were plans to pull it down and redevelop it as a mixed-use shopping/flats complex. Don't know how advanced these plans are at the moment. by 124876720 (Mon 5th Aug 2019 1:27pm)
  • Very interesting series indeed - and quite a hard watch, especially the two episodes about Julie Reilly. A bit surprised there hasn't been more buzz about it, actually. I thought it was really well put together (although the constant drone shots of Greater Glasgow by night got a bit annoying!). by 124876720 (Wed 7th Aug 2019 5:46pm)
  • As someone born and raised in Edinburgh this thread makes me feel right at home... -- I recently paid out my arse for Paolozzi in Shilling, but that's a pricey beer anyway and I might just have had my "Glasgow=cheap pints" autopilot on. by 124876720 (Fri 9th Aug 2019 10:27pm)
  • >are 576.49 for the first month. That's an insane monthly factor fee - are you sure it isn't for the first quarter and includes a float payment? Otherwise you must live in a new-build with gold lifts! by 124876720 (Wed 14th Aug 2019 2:51pm)
  • Nae Snowballs? by 124876720 (Wed 14th Aug 2019 10:09pm)
  • Get yerself a copy of the *Digger* as well. by 124876720 (Thu 15th Aug 2019 2:16pm)
  • [Still nae snowballs! >:(](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQJ_qgDcNPQ) Also get a copy of *The Digger* for a real Glasgow care package. The newsagents on the Saltmarket near the Green sell it. Best of luck on the day! by 124876720 (Thu 15th Aug 2019 4:11pm)
  • Here in Edinburgh (I know) there is an utter wank who rides a three-wheeled recumbent bicycle from his work in the town all the way to his house in Oxgangs. Unfortunately, his bike is too wide for him to move to the side and the long, mostly uphill cycle home tires him right out, so you can often see him riding, at no more than walking pace, up Morningside Road and Comiston Road, with a huge trail of cars and buses and angry commuters waiting behind him. He doesn't give a shit. by 124876720 (Wed 21st Aug 2019 10:31am)
  • It's Scotland's Philly. by 124876720 (Wed 21st Aug 2019 11:11am)
  • When you are on your deathbed (which I hope will be many happy years from now) at no point are you going to say to yourself: "Fuck me, wish I'd worked more." Take care of yourself. Ultimately, your employer will cope. The people who are making the conditions bad at your work won't even remember your name in four months. Don't ruin your life busting a gut for a company which is incapable of loving you back. Take your well-earned time off and don't feel guilty for a second. by 124876720 (Sun 25th Aug 2019 7:26pm)
  • The bus is cheapest and slowest. Get the bus to St Andrews' square and then walk if you are at the main Edinburgh campus or get a Lothian bus (contactless now) if you aren't. Driving you have the cost of petrol and you'll need to find and pay for parking at the Edinburgh end. This is probably OK if you are at Napier in Sighthill or Craiglockhart or at the "Bioquarter" out in the sticks because you can get M and A roads the whole way there, but if you are at one of the campuses in town then forget it. The time bonus will be eaten up by finding inner-city parking and you'll pay at least the same in parking and petrol as it will cost for the bus or train. The train sits in between both. They're pretty reliable if you are able to get them outside commuter times and they are probably the quickest way to get to stuff in the city centre. If it was me, I would be looking at the train as a first resort. by 124876720 (Thu 29th Aug 2019 10:15am)
  • Quality pakora, got tae protect yer scran. by 124876720 (Thu 29th Aug 2019 10:25am)
  • Good suggestions here. Caill Bruich for something more contemporary. by 124876720 (Fri 30th Aug 2019 8:49am)
  • Not be in Glasgow, I suspect. The *Guide Michelin* can't even bother its arse to go to Canada, so... by 124876720 (Fri 30th Aug 2019 12:06pm)
  • Whoever wins, we lose. by 124876720 (Fri 30th Aug 2019 10:02pm)
  • I don't want loyalists either. by 124876720 (Fri 30th Aug 2019 10:49pm)
  • > Incredibly this is getting downvoted to fuck. Is this sub full of IRA sympathisers or something ffs? I suppose its because people can sense that both mobs are full of inadequate people who take meaning from a political conflict in another country to fight in our streets. by 124876720 (Fri 30th Aug 2019 10:48pm)
  • No, they're the ones building barricades and throwing flares rather than letting a peaceful - if extremely distasteful protest take place. If it was me, I'd get orange walks and republican marches to fuck. But it isn't. If you have one, you have to have the other - it isn't like the Orange Order don't have their [own little love-affair with terrorism.](https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/news/shankill-butcher-steward-as-orange-march-passed-a-catholic-church-30446796.html) by 124876720 (Fri 30th Aug 2019 10:53pm)
  • That would presumably end up banning marches about the unrest in HK, the Syrian Civil War, Israel-Palestine, Kashmir...not exactly proportionate is it? Saoradh aren't a prescribed group either. They have rights too. by 124876720 (Fri 30th Aug 2019 10:57pm)
  • She is still appealing against her conviction, but should her appeal against conviction fail, she will be facing her original sentence of eighteen months imprisonment (of which she will effectively serve nine). Didn't even get past the sift on the conviction point. by 124876720 (Mon 2nd Sep 2019 11:26am)
  • No, she's been bailed pending her appeal. by 124876720 (Mon 2nd Sep 2019 11:44am)
  • Not really. McGarry is a non-violent first offender who poses no flight risk. She's precisely the sort of offender who should benefit from interim liberation. by 124876720 (Mon 2nd Sep 2019 1:12pm)
  • "DONUT?!?!?!" by 124876720 (Tue 3rd Sep 2019 7:50am)
  • Been thinking about walking it. Might give it a shot. Only worry I suppose is arriving at work all sweaty. by 124876720 (Thu 5th Sep 2019 11:11pm)
  • Was going to walk to Pollokshaws East. by 124876720 (Fri 6th Sep 2019 12:35pm)
  • The Labour party within Glasgow itself is historically majority-Catholic (Glasgow District had a Catholic Lord Provost for its entire existence) whilst out in Ayrshire and North Lanarkshire it was dominated by Prods, many of them Orange-flavoured. During the old Strathclyde region days there was a kind of unspoken compromise where Glasgow Labour would allow the marches for the sake of intra-party and district-region peace. That seems to have continued with Gordon Matheson's electoral pact. by 124876720 (Sun 8th Sep 2019 9:38am)
  • Once saw Alistair Darling powerwalking down Dundas Lane with a group of suited aides. This was around 2013 or so. One of his flunkies actually said "make way" like he was the fucking queen. Saw Limmy on the corner of Bank Street and Gibson Street. Didn't recognise him at first and started rudely and then when I was past him turned round to say "hang on, aren't you Limmy off the telly?" but he was too far away. Once saw Frankie Boyle in Finnieston. Didn't say hello because I've never liked him. by 124876720 (Sun 8th Sep 2019 12:39pm)
  • I was once stuck in traffic in the Clyde tunnel and saw Brendan Rodgers, so I got out of my car to go and speak to him and tell him he was a breath of fresh air for Scottish football. by 124876720 (Sun 8th Sep 2019 12:41pm)
  • Everyone has a right to the best defence m8. by 124876720 (Sun 8th Sep 2019 1:23pm)
  • He got the man who killed his football club off. by 124876720 (Sun 8th Sep 2019 3:54pm)
  • ["Have you heard of flat earth, Leigh?"](https://youtu.be/q7b3Q5H4mPQ?t=214) This is one of the top guys in Scottish flat earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELGXdlpxlNU by 124876720 (Sun 8th Sep 2019 7:33pm)
  • [Well that's the beauty of the Barrows.](https://youtu.be/7T5K1HxEBCU?t=127) by 124876720 (Sun 8th Sep 2019 7:43pm)
  • Cannae. Looks like I am fucked. by 124876720 (Mon 9th Sep 2019 5:42pm)
  • Hmm. I spoke to a guy at BT on the phone who said that the address should be able to get fibre but they aren't taking new orders for it because of volume. Says that if I order copper broadband then they might be able to change the order to fibre 72 hours before installation. Might be bullshit, but can cancel in 14 days from the installation date if it doesn't go through. by 124876720 (Mon 9th Sep 2019 5:52pm)
  • I'm a fat cunt, unfortunately. Cycling is the long-term goal, but the office has no shower and I don't want to arrive sweaty. Thanks for the advice. by 124876720 (Tue 10th Sep 2019 11:27am)
  • The OO has had fucking Shankill butchers as official stewards at their marches. They are equivalent - OO marches are full of support for loyalist terror. by 124876720 (Thu 12th Sep 2019 6:59am)
  • These were men wae a trade. by 124876720 (Mon 16th Sep 2019 5:56pm)
  • Caill Bruich is modern Scottish. by 124876720 (Tue 24th Sep 2019 4:09pm)
  • Edinburgh is £1.80 any distance. Thieving First wankers. by 124876720 (Wed 25th Sep 2019 8:55am)
  • She lost her appeal against sentence, so if she loses this appeal she will be. by 124876720 (Fri 27th Sep 2019 11:04am)
  • Lots of misinformation in this thread. Here are some facts: McGarry plead guilty to the complaint at her first hearing way back. She then, subsequently, tried to withdraw her plea on the grounds that her previous defence team had wrongly advised her that she had no defence and had threatened to withdraw from acting if she plead any other way. On top of that, McGarry avers that she suffered seriously from post-natal depression and anxiety and that this combination of factors led to her being effectively railroaded into pleading guilty despite not having committed a crime (her position - presumably she can say she was a shitty bookkeeper but not a criminal). When she appeared again before Sheriff Crozier with new briefs, he refused to allow her to withdraw her plea of guilty. She now appeals that, having regard to her position, he was wrong to do so. Separately, she appealed against Sheriff Crozier's sentence of 18 months' custody as excessive. The appeal against her sentence has now been rejected. So, if her appeal against conviction fails, she will serve Sheriff Crozier's 18 months (although because it is a short sentence she will only be inside for 9). Her appeal against her conviction is an appeal only against the refusal of Sheriff Crozier to refuse to allow her to withdraw her plea. As such, if she wins, then she will be allowed to enter a new plea of not guilty. The process is effectively "reset" to the stage it would have been had she been allowed to withdraw her plea. So she doesn't get any double-jeopardy shield, only the chance to plead not guilty and face trial. Now, withdrawing a guilty plea is very hard, because you have to answer to the court's satisfaction the bloody obvious question: "Why did you plead guilty if you didnae dae it?" The court has McGarry's answer as described above: now we will see if it is good enough. But even if she wins her appeal, all she gets is a trial (and from everything I've read, the evidentiary position against her is pretty damning). by 124876720 (Fri 27th Sep 2019 12:06pm)
  • A non-violent first offender with a supportive family and no previous convictions is always going to get bail. That's what the bail system is for: ensuring people aren't locked-up pending trial, which a) costs the state £££ and b) can operate as punishment without trial if they are found not guilty (let's say you get wrongfully accused of murder, get locked up on remand for seven months whilst the Crown prepares for trial, and then get found not guilty - you've effectively served 7 months prison for something you never did!). McGarry was given a prison sentence and she *lost* her appeal against that. Prison is rare for a first-time nonviolent offender, so clearly the court *did* recognise the appalling breach of trust on her part and sentenced her appropriately. by 124876720 (Fri 27th Sep 2019 12:13pm)
  • Double-jeopardy is a protection against being *tried* twice. McG was never tried; she plead guilty before any evidence was led. If she wins her appeal and is allowed to withdraw that plea, then she gets to plead not guilty. *Then* she will be tried. by 124876720 (Fri 27th Sep 2019 12:18pm)
  • Her position will, I imagine, be that she was so incompetent as a treasurer that she simply lost the money and her previous lawyers wrongly advised her that this amounted to criminal embezzlement. Or perhaps she simply can't take the humiliation of being done for nicking from food banks. by 124876720 (Fri 27th Sep 2019 12:14pm)
  • Balustrade Lanyard: The Man, the Legend by 124876720 (Fri 27th Sep 2019 2:04pm)
  • Someone did actually argue not that long ago that he should be entitled to time off a subsequent sentence for time spent on remand for a previous charge of which he was not convicted. Didn't impress the Appeal Court. by 124876720 (Fri 27th Sep 2019 2:00pm)
  • Terrible. Truly awful. by 124876720 (Sun 29th Sep 2019 7:21pm)
  • Sharp as a football you. by 124876720 (Mon 30th Sep 2019 11:33am)
  • Get a bus up to Saracen Street and go to SeeWoo. by 124876720 (Tue 1st Oct 2019 12:14pm)
  • Edinburgh has the lowest per head expenditure of any Scottish local authority. However, something I have noticed is that when people in Edinburgh strike it rich they move to a nicer bit of Edinburgh, whilst when Weegies strike it rich they move outside GCC's local government area. A huge amount of money earned in Glasgow is used to purchase houses and pay council tax in East Refrewshire, Lanarkshire, Stirling, Ayrshire, etc. This essentially leaves GCC with its poorest residents and a small tax base. by 124876720 (Thu 3rd Oct 2019 12:03pm)
  • http://glasgowunihumanrights.blogspot.com/ by 124876720 (Sat 5th Oct 2019 1:44pm)
  • The new Forth Bridge isn't an "Edinburgh" project, though, its a national one which benefits the entire East Coast by enabling road transport over the Forth. The tram extension is being funded entirely by Edinburgh City Council. Phase 1 received £500m from the Scottish Government in 2007. Edinburgh CC gets the lowest local authority grant per head from the Scottish Government. by 124876720 (Fri 11th Oct 2019 10:32am)
  • >y wider point is that the trams have cost £1bn at this point on their own. Of which the Scottish Government contributed £500m, 12 years ago. by 124876720 (Fri 11th Oct 2019 10:32am)
  • Question: If you take in Greater Glasgow and the posh commuter towns (Eaglesham, Bearsden, Giffnock, etc), is the life expectancy still much lower in Glasgow? I ask because as an outside from Edinburgh, one of the biggest things I've noticed is that when Edinbourgeois strike it rich they go to a nicer bit of Edinburgh (e.g, Gorgie --> Morningside --> the Moray Feu) whilst when Weegies strike it rich they move out of Glasgow council area to a commuter suburb. by 124876720 (Fri 18th Oct 2019 3:46pm)
  • > The spitting on a priest, shouts of ‘Fenian bastards’, all occurring on the steps of a Catholic church, is serious criminality aggravated by religious prejudice which, viewed in context, can properly be considered to be divisive of social cohesion and community harmony. This is really the basic position. These marches cannot be trusted to proceed without this behaviour. by 124876720 (Fri 18th Oct 2019 5:14pm)
  • "DONUT?!?!" by 124876720 (Mon 28th Oct 2019 5:19pm)
  • Completed. The key point for me is that some "frequent fliers" are allowed to game the system by submitting single applications in the name of different branches of their parent organisation. I don't begrudge - subject to them behaving themselves - the Orange order the right to march in the abstract. What is unjustifiable is the sheer volume of parades and the way in which GCC treats applications as emanating from individual branches (e.g, Bridgeton Orange and Purple, Apprentice Boys etc) rather than the Orange order as a collective. This also goes for the band of Republican terrorist-lovers who march under various guises. by 124876720 (Fri 1st Nov 2019 9:42am)
  • A day ticket is £4.70 on the buses. by 124876720 (Fri 1st Nov 2019 2:03pm)
  • The key question is: are you paid enough to offset the pain of the commute? I used to work in Edinburgh and knew people who commuted from Bearsden and Paisley every day. But they got paid enough that it was worth it. I did it for a week or so in the other direction. Not the worst thing in the world but not amazing. Wouldn't have put up with long term unless my salary had an extra 5k on it. by 124876720 (Fri 1st Nov 2019 7:08pm)
  • It's a damn shame. When Wonderland Models on Lothian Road finally goes it'll be the final death of pre-theme park Edinburgh. by 124876720 (Tue 5th Nov 2019 6:50am)
  • There was the Celtic flag beggar on Buchanan Street but he turned out to be a beast. by 124876720 (Sat 7th Dec 2019 11:45am)
  • Thanks mate. by 124876720 (Fri 13th Dec 2019 2:28pm)
  • Beautiful shot of one of our city's most famous landmarks: the pole that that guy sat on until it went up his shitey arse. by 124876720 (Fri 20th Dec 2019 10:25am)
  • r/noir would love this. by 124876720 (Fri 27th Dec 2019 10:02am)
  • Brazen Head Louden Tavern NN10 Bar 67 Bristol Bar Alpen Lodge Toby Jug Prince Regent by 124876720 (Fri 27th Dec 2019 2:57pm)
  • > You can still walk on it using Right to Roam. It's almost certainly a PROW as well. by 124876720 (Sat 28th Dec 2019 6:12pm)
  • At least when Edinburgh Council wasted £1bn of taxpayers' cash they had a tram system. GCC wasted £1bn of taxpayers' cash and all they got was a bunch of grumpy cleaners'. by 124876720 (Mon 6th Jan 2020 3:28pm)
  • Why the airport? The majority of tourists to Scotland use Edinburgh airport, which is not really that far from Glasgow at all. Surely a Metro would be better off replacing some of the existing suburban rail lines like the Cathcart circle? by 124876720 (Mon 6th Jan 2020 5:21pm)
  • It's the boot up the arse I'm needing, I'm afraid - I know what I have to do I just have trouble sticking to it! Good advice though - thanks. by 124876720 (Wed 8th Jan 2020 11:29am)
  • Thanks! I'm going to check it out and go to my local meeting. Cheers! by 124876720 (Wed 8th Jan 2020 12:10pm)
  • Sauce in Edinburgh isn't Brown sauce, its a mix of brown sauce and vinegar. by 124876720 (Tue 14th Jan 2020 7:39pm)
  • Walk purposefully and quickly past them, do not make eye contact, and if they attempt to engage you in conversation simply say "No thank you." Simple. by 124876720 (Wed 15th Jan 2020 3:37pm)
  • ...whit? by 124876720 (Fri 17th Jan 2020 2:16pm)
  • Why does the council even run GOMA? Surely an institution like that should come under National Galleries of Scotland? There does seem to be this thing in Glasgow where the council has to run everything even when it clearly isn't the best agency for the job. by 124876720 (Thu 30th Jan 2020 10:23am)
  • I suspect there's probably split blame for that as I doubt GCC would relinquish the responsibility even if it was offered. by 124876720 (Thu 30th Jan 2020 11:47am)
  • When I was younger, people in Edinburgh went to Glasgow to shop. Nobody I know has done that for years. by 124876720 (Sat 1st Feb 2020 12:07pm)
  • Came on here to recommend Aaron. by 124876720 (Mon 17th Feb 2020 4:13pm)
  • There's a rotten bastard who walks his dog early in the morning down my bit and thinks this means he doesn't have to pick it up, so when I leave for work I get to walk past a fresh dug jobby. One day I want to camp out, photograph the dirty bastard and expose him like those YouTube nonce stings. by 124876720 (Wed 19th Feb 2020 9:30pm)
  • Troop up with all yer pals and go to the Shanghai Shuffle. by 124876720 (Mon 24th Feb 2020 8:41pm)
  • No, I've lived here all my life, but I still don't like weeks of rain ya tit. by 124876720 (Sat 29th Feb 2020 8:23pm)
  • Glasgow CC has no money. by 124876720 (Sun 1st Mar 2020 7:23pm)
  • Glasgow is the Philly of Scotland. by 124876720 (Tue 3rd Mar 2020 10:49am)
  • aYe BuT wHy WhErE yOu OoT? by 124876720 (Tue 24th Mar 2020 10:14am)
  • I honestly don't understand how the spoons on Kilmarnock Road survives. You could drink in the Corona, the Granary, the Linen, Finlays, the Georgic, and the Quaich rather than the Maxwell. Must be orcs on matchdays that keep it going. by 124876720 (Thu 26th Mar 2020 12:33pm)
  • My heart pumps purple piss for them. by 124876720 (Thu 2nd Apr 2020 8:49am)
  • > If it's in an area where people will pay a premium for high-quality design, like the former RIE/Quartermile site in Edinburgh I mean, Quartermile is probably one of the best-situated residential developments in the entire UK - it's literally next to the Meadows on one side and the city centre on the other. Not hard to see why it is more popular than Ruchill. Incidentally, the gangster Ger Cafferty from Ian Rankin's *Rebus* novels starts out with a detached in Polwarth before moving to Quartermile - just like Ian Rankin himself. by 124876720 (Tue 5th May 2020 10:33am)
  • When I was visiting pals in Edinburgh I went to a place in Gorgie called Pizzeria 1926. Much to my horror, it was better than both! Need to up the pizza game soon Glasgow! by 124876720 (Fri 15th May 2020 8:17pm)
  • Is she the one who flags down taxis by the Vauxhall dealership at the crossroads of P'shaws Rd and Nithsdale Drive and then tells the drivers they can't park there? Stinks of pish? by 124876720 (Thu 21st May 2020 4:15pm)
  • Mine has actually gone up. Buy dips, people. by 124876720 (Thu 28th May 2020 10:42am)
  • > e're more tolerant than our southern neighbours Are we fuck. by 124876720 (Thu 28th May 2020 7:21pm)
  • Shawlands Academy's most famous alumnus. by 124876720 (Wed 3rd Jun 2020 8:40pm)
  • Organises parades for the Tories but are non political. Cannae be a member if you marry a Cafflick but are non sectarian. by 124876720 (Thu 11th Jun 2020 4:09pm)
  • I would hope that most Unionists and right wingers wouldn't want to be associated with loyalist thugs. by 124876720 (Sat 20th Jun 2020 11:52am)
  • I am 99% sure they are the same person. They have the same mannerisms and prejudices. by 124876720 (Sun 21st Jun 2020 5:24pm)
  • Ooft you hit a bit close to home with that one looks like. by 124876720 (Fri 26th Jun 2020 10:30am)
  • > I work with a guy from Italy that LOVES the Counting House. It's the only pub he wants to go to after work. For some reason foreigners love Spoons. Possibly because it is quite a cliched example of what a British pub is. by 124876720 (Mon 29th Jun 2020 10:21am)
  • I went in there once for a post-work pre-subway slash. Bits of foil with H residue on them, needles, shite, bloody tissues. Honestly the nastiest trip to the cludgie I've ever had, including various minging festival portakabins and literally a hole in the ground when hiking. by 124876720 (Thu 2nd Jul 2020 5:35pm)
  • > But buying a property without the intention of ever living in it solely to collect rent seems amoral to me. Homes go to the highest bidder, so every time someone buys-to-let, someone else misses an opportunity to buy. It drives up the price of property and forces people to rent long term while they save up. Indeed. Whatever you might think about the stock market, your gain is theoretically infinite. You aren't taking your stock gains from anyone else, unlike rental income. by 124876720 (Sat 11th Jul 2020 9:05pm)
  • They do a liver starter which is the fucking bomb. by 124876720 (Wed 22nd Jul 2020 6:26pm)
  • Obliged. by 124876720 (Fri 28th Aug 2020 8:38pm)
  • I honestly never thought there could be a more pathetically incompetent local authority than Edinburgh until I moved here. I mean, Edinburgh has had pickup glass, garden, food, and cardboard/plastic recycling for about 10 years now. Here there is no dry recycling, food waste is stopping, and for glass there is a dwindling number of "community recycling points" to which we are expected to schlep our empties. by 124876720 (Mon 31st Aug 2020 9:52am)
  • IJ Mellis, the fancy cheese shop in the West End (of all places), has Barry's tea for sale. by 124876720 (Mon 31st Aug 2020 1:45pm)
  • Glad to hear it. I've always thought it slightly bizarre that they sell all these £5/100g fancy cheeses and charcuterie...and Barry's tea. by 124876720 (Tue 1st Sep 2020 12:20pm)
  • Extended households can meet indoors but only if part of them live outside the restricted area and one of them lives alone. So, if you live alone in Glasgow and are in an extended household with your mum and dad in Fife, you can go and visit them at home but they can't come and visit you. by 124876720 (Thu 10th Sep 2020 3:18pm)
  • Huh, that's different from when I checked, but good point. by 124876720 (Thu 10th Sep 2020 4:25pm)
  • Looks like McNulty's wife from the *Wire*. by 124876720 (Mon 21st Sep 2020 7:42pm)
  • Thanks. Do you know where the guidance says that? by 124876720 (Tue 6th Oct 2020 12:35pm)
  • Thanks :) by 124876720 (Tue 6th Oct 2020 12:43pm)
  • Covid mate. He's referred me to physio which will be weeks away. by 124876720 (Wed 7th Oct 2020 9:08pm)
  • DELETED Sciatica by 124876720 (Thu 8th Oct 2020 5:39am)
  • My upstairs neighbour is over eighty years old and is as quiet as a mouse. by 124876720 (Thu 22nd Oct 2020 1:36pm)
  • Nah. She's stopped taking it in but, so I cancelled my own milk and take hers. by 124876720 (Thu 22nd Oct 2020 6:42pm)
  • Bootlicker. by 124876720 (Fri 23rd Oct 2020 1:10pm)
  • "Licensed cafes" can stay open, was what the government said. It would have been nice if, at any point, Scottish licensing law actually defined what a licensed cafe is. by 124876720 (Fri 30th Oct 2020 12:13pm)
  • /r/WaitingForATrain would like this by 124876720 (Fri 30th Oct 2020 12:11pm)
  • People on Reddit seem to live a demon-haunted world where everyone is a COVIDiot. Have to say that my experience walking around the city centre is that most people are sound. Subway is quiet as a mouse, you'll have plenty of social distance. by 124876720 (Fri 30th Oct 2020 12:20pm)
  • I remember seeing a post by a guy on Reddit that Brian Lamont has sadly passed away. by 124876720 (Wed 18th Nov 2020 7:37pm)
  • I was on 3 in the Southside and the service was dismal. I eventually phoned the complaints line and after about 3 hours on the phone a nice man in India explained that there was an issue with the tower in my area and they would never be able to achieve the claimed speeds. I'm now using Vodafone which seems to work much better although only 4G. by 124876720 (Mon 23rd Nov 2020 8:37pm)
  • Central station...junkies, hoors, murderers, beggars. by 124876720 (Tue 24th Nov 2020 4:28pm)
  • Your maw will need a vaccine after I've pumped her. Barred! t. Big Muhammad. by 124876720 (Thu 17th Dec 2020 9:56pm)
  • >I live in West Lothian. Then I rather think the joke is on you. by 124876720 (Tue 22nd Dec 2020 11:46am)
  • Aye, it was the cooncil. 1974, I remember that. by 124876720 (Sun 24th Jan 2021 4:08pm)
  • Outdoor transmission is incredibly rare. by 124876720 (Tue 2nd Feb 2021 3:56pm)
  • I like how Ibrox is so staunch that even Gaelic is transformed into the Queen's English GBGBGBGB NS by 124876720 (Sat 6th Feb 2021 6:21pm)
  • This is absurd. If its the "Saor Alba" guy who went viral, he said something like "no good Brit soldiers, burn ya auld cunt". Which is pathetic and crass, but shouldn't be criminal. by 124876720 (Mon 8th Feb 2021 11:39am)
  • > Jolandy's A pal and I went in there for a full English and they served it with watermelon slices. Strange behaviour. by 124876720 (Fri 19th Feb 2021 2:17pm)
  • I once had a clatty bastard leave their dug's big stinking jobby *in* our stair. Not on the grass, in the fucking stair. by 124876720 (Mon 1st Mar 2021 12:04pm)
  • Watch out for the anti-Canuck death squads and you should be fine. by 124876720 (Mon 1st Mar 2021 12:05pm)
  • > It’s mental that renters can get charged “council tax band E”‘prices because they have “very expensive properties” despite the fact they don’t bloody own it. The renter will get charged the council tax either directly or through higher rents. by 124876720 (Mon 1st Mar 2021 4:23pm)
  • As Kerry Packer said to the Australian parliament: >Of course I am minimising my tax. And if anybody in this country doesn't minimise their tax, they want their heads read, because as a government, I can tell you you're not spending it that well that we should be donating extra! I begrudge every penny I send to GCC in exchange for a litter-ridden, potholed, badly-connected city. by 124876720 (Mon 1st Mar 2021 4:25pm)
  • > I have yet to witness anyone being maliciously racist I have, on several occasions, and I'm a white Scot. Most recent was a junkie bamming up some African woman on the bus and some plooky wee spice boy shouting at some Chinese students about the corona. by 124876720 (Sat 6th Mar 2021 10:13am)
  • Outdoor transmission is very rare. The beach photos, the summer gatherings, the BLM protests all didn't cause a superspreading event and neither will this. Still, doubtless the speccy football haters and snobs will whinge away about this. by 124876720 (Sat 6th Mar 2021 6:34pm)
  • It's amazing, isn't it? There's some utter fud in another thread saying Sturgeon should call in the military because the police can't handle it. It's all a reminder about how incredibly sheltered from the real world the "Reddit bubble" is, and how fucking melodramatic Redditors are. by 124876720 (Sun 7th Mar 2021 7:27pm)
  • That the one on PRW? by 124876720 (Sun 14th Mar 2021 5:11pm)
  • Was thinking of twice cooked pork so the former. by 124876720 (Sun 14th Mar 2021 7:10pm)
  • Wish dog owners took as conscientious an attitude towards picking up their hound's shite as they do to people letting off fireworks a few days a year. Until I can walk down my street or through the park without seeing a dirty big jobby, or even worse in the country with plastic turd-bags tried to trees, I hope Rangers neds let the things off every day. by 124876720 (Sun 21st Mar 2021 10:00pm)
  • That's not the point though. Every time there is a thread about fireworks, a bunch of people give out about how they should be banned because fireworks inconvenience *them personally* as dog owners, yet they would be outraged if someone suggested banning dogs because of the amount of shite they leave everywhere (all year round). by 124876720 (Mon 22nd Mar 2021 9:32am)
  • No, but I'm increasingly convinced the problems with Glasgow go beyond whoever is in charge. by 124876720 (Mon 22nd Mar 2021 7:06pm)
  • Interesting that you say that, because in local government circles GCC has a reputation for being long on ego, short on execution. by 124876720 (Tue 23rd Mar 2021 10:06am)
  • I used to work in local government, and there are reasons for this. I won't deny there are some time-serving chancers, but a big problem, imo, is that a lot of local government jobs are impossible to do well with the resources allocated to them. It's hard to take professional pride in circumstances like that. by 124876720 (Tue 23rd Mar 2021 10:14am)
  • There seems to be no big ideas at GCC - CEC is forever talking about how they're going to pedestrianise the city centre, or expanding the trams, etc, the BioQuarter, etc. People in Glasgow act like the city is the real capital, but the Council seems content to just coast on "Glasgow's industrial past" and the 2014 Commonwealth Games rather than proposing anything transformative. by 124876720 (Tue 23rd Mar 2021 10:19am)
  • The fucked-up thing about living in Glasgow is how many things are just obviously, nakedly broken and nothing happens. The fucking burn full of hexavalent chromium in Richmond Park, the ruined buildings coming off the M74, the huge fucking hole in the waterfront by the squinty bridge, the half-ruined line of shops in Eglinton just up from the Star Bar, the Egyptian Halls scaffolded up since forever. It's ridiculous how dilapidated the city is and how little the powers-that-be seem to care. by 124876720 (Tue 23rd Mar 2021 10:51am)
  • SeeWoo by 124876720 (Tue 23rd Mar 2021 11:59am)
  • My parents stay in Edinburgh. The system is:- Grey bin - general waste. Green bin - dry recyclables Blue box - glass Food waste bin - food Brown bin - garden waste Picked up every 2 weeks. What is difficult about this? GCC is famously arrogant so no way will they copy it but their system is just so bad. by 124876720 (Wed 31st Mar 2021 11:15am)
  • People always say Glasgow is a friendly city, but in all honesty my experience is a lot of Glaswegians are pig-ignorant. by 124876720 (Thu 1st Apr 2021 11:32am)
  • He's a freeman on the land. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman_on_the_land by 124876720 (Thu 15th Apr 2021 10:18pm)
  • >Robert Sproul Famous lunatic. Prefers to be known as "the living man robert sproul". Thinks capital letters are "dog Latin". Lamentable. His YouTube channel is [good for a laugh.](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDisKLWx36wHHCMjo4kNWTQ/videos) Though it looks like he's deleted a lot of content. Possibly he's [in legal bother again.](https://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/fp/dundee-man-summoned-three-judges-to-trial-at-community-hall-over-crimes-against-the-people/) by 124876720 (Thu 15th Apr 2021 10:16pm)
  • Virgin. by 124876720 (Sun 18th Apr 2021 5:46pm)
  • I've heard more about Scottish Family Party from folk posting pictures of their leaflets than I have from their official campaign Ignore these weirdos. by 124876720 (Wed 21st Apr 2021 11:19am)
  • >Why close them? Nae cash. People talk like the problem is individual councillors, and believe me I've no intention of simping for the Frank McAveetys and Susan Aitkens of this world, but ultimately the hard reality is this: Glasgow is Scotland's youngest city, Scotland's poorest city, Scotland's least healthy city, it has the largest proportion of people on benefits, the largest proportion of families with social work involvement, the highest number of schoolchildren, the largest proportion of refugees/asylum seekers, crumbling infrastructure for a city around 1/3rd larger than it is, and a naturally-increasing population. Against all of this, a vast chunk of the professionals who generate wealth in Glasgow use that wealth to live outside the city - the most common move in Scotland is Glasgow to South Lanarkshire. So unlike Edinburgh and Aberdeen, neighbouring authorities benefit from council tax on homes paid for by Glasgow people working in Glasgow companies. So you have a local authority which, by law, has huge fixed costs in infrastructure, education and social care and which has to balance this out by making savings elsewhere, in the face of a shrinking council tax base. The result is fewer bin collections and amenity closures. by 124876720 (Wed 21st Apr 2021 11:35am)
  • Part of the reason the Council is inefficient is because a lot of people are doing the work of two or three people. It's hard to be efficient in that circumstance. People who talk about how "lean" councils should be rarely have much idea about how local government actually works. How do you do "lean" social work without people slipping through the cracks? by 124876720 (Wed 21st Apr 2021 11:50am)
  • https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/files/statistics/rgar/2018/rgar18.pdf See pg 94. I was actually wrong - its the second most-common move, after Aberdeen City --> Aberdeenshire. But the difference is that the third most common move is from Aberdeenshire to Aberdeen City, which offsets the trend for Aberdeen (i.e, young shire people go there to live, then retire back out). Aberdeen City to Aberdeenshire 3,100 Glasgow City to South Lanarkshire 2,880 Aberdeenshire to Aberdeen City 2,320 City of Edinburgh to Midlothian 1,990 Glasgow City to North Lanarkshire 1,980 --- by 124876720 (Wed 21st Apr 2021 2:03pm)
  • Waitrose sell it. by 124876720 (Thu 22nd Apr 2021 5:57pm)
  • What a fucking disgrace. by 124876720 (Mon 26th Apr 2021 10:10pm)
  • Hearts fan but will be cheering our Protestant Unionist brothers! Hands across the M8! No surrender! by 124876720 (Mon 10th May 2021 10:57am)
  • > at an open space Like George Square? by 124876720 (Mon 10th May 2021 11:02am)
  • Mark Walters. by 124876720 (Mon 10th May 2021 11:00am)
  • Ooooh patter by 124876720 (Tue 11th May 2021 2:17pm)
  • A combination of gentrification as people are priced out of the West End and also deliberate investment in the area following the Kriss Donald murder, which I think galvanised a lot of people in power into taking race relations and community development in the Southside seriously. by 124876720 (Tue 11th May 2021 3:32pm)
  • I'd like GCC to just fucking fix things. Obvious examples are the Egyptian Halls, the collapsing row of buildings just up from Eglinton Toll which is clearly falling to bits but the owners are doing fuck all, and the bit of the Clyde waterfront by the squinty bridge which has collapsed into the river and has just been sitting there for about three years. Third-world like. by 124876720 (Tue 11th May 2021 6:44pm)
  • Devi Sridhar the Clinton Foundation hack. by 124876720 (Sat 15th May 2021 12:13am)
  • For liberals, politics is just aesthetics. by 124876720 (Sat 15th May 2021 12:17am)
  • I've got no difficulty with both, since outdoor spread is very rare. by 124876720 (Sat 15th May 2021 9:53am)
  • IT'S A DISASTER! IT'S A CATASTROPHE! https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/no-major-outbreaks-as-a-result-of-rangers-celebrations-in-glasgow-3170327 by 124876720 (Sat 15th May 2021 4:59pm)
  • Boy on here should be able to hook yer neighbour's dug up with some vallies. by 124876720 (Sat 15th May 2021 5:20pm)
  • Cardonald isn't in Cumbernauld. by 124876720 (Sat 15th May 2021 6:40pm)
  • What am I meant to be looking at here? The wee fuds who swing at each other, or the bigger crowd who come in and break it up? by 124876720 (Sun 16th May 2021 4:49pm)
  • No fans at Hampden. by 124876720 (Sun 16th May 2021 4:52pm)
  • https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56675812 by 124876720 (Sun 16th May 2021 6:17pm)
  • 12,000 fans in a 50k plus stadium will be fine. by 124876720 (Sun 16th May 2021 6:28pm)
  • It's perfectly safe, but the government isn't going to make an exception for the Scottish Cup. by 124876720 (Sun 16th May 2021 6:38pm)
  • How do those boots taste, OP? by 124876720 (Mon 17th May 2021 10:48am)
  • At this stage, I actually just want Boris to take it out of the SNP's hands and pass legislation overriding the SNP's tier system and bringing us in line with England from 21st June. by 124876720 (Tue 18th May 2021 10:19am)
  • It just serves bad food. No big mystery. There are elements of serving fast food - price, quality of ingredients, service, freshness, etc - and it fails on every front. It survives because it's on the way out of town for both Strathclyde uni's main halls and Queen Street Station. It gets virtually 100% of its custom from drunk students, drunk tourists, and drunk out of towners, who aren't exactly a discerning crowd. The reason it is famous is because the location means a lot of people will have had a drunk Best Kebab, so lots of people have been "once bitten", and also because for a while on TripAdvisor someone called "Big Muhammad" who *claimed* to be the owner but probably wasn't went around replying to bad reviews with some admittedly quite funny patter. These have been since deleted. by 124876720 (Tue 18th May 2021 2:23pm)
  • Do what you like mate. by 124876720 (Tue 18th May 2021 2:25pm)
  • It's a mark of the contempt Scotland's decision-makers have for Glasgow that they haven't raised leafy East Renfrewshire despite its rate skyrocketing and Glasgow's falling. I would really like a Glaswegian regional party to run and take seats off the SNP, Labour, and Tories. People in this city need to be ruthless in our self-interest, because nobody else will. Nicola Sturgeon should not be able to show her face in this city without huge protests until we get equal treatment with the rest of Scotland. by 124876720 (Fri 21st May 2021 12:42pm)
  • It's been so disappointing throughout the pandemic to see how small-souled some people are, clamouring for the government to lock them up for longer. by 124876720 (Sun 23rd May 2021 10:12pm)
  • I'll chill out when all corona restrictions are removed completely and life goes back to how it was on 1 March 2020. I don't trust the technocratic busybodies of middle Scotland to do that for us. by 124876720 (Mon 24th May 2021 10:08am)
  • They why aren't we in level two, bugman? by 124876720 (Mon 24th May 2021 10:22am)
  • Look at level 0. This is what we are working towards. It is not "back to normal". I'm not wasting my time debating with apologists for authoritarianism. by 124876720 (Mon 24th May 2021 11:37am)
  • You realise council's can't just redraw their boundaries, right, since all of Scotland is part of a council area? I'm sure that the various Lothian councils would be pretty irritated if Edinburgh tried to annex a large part of it, or conversely give away bits it didn't want. The present-day council boundaries were fixed in 1994. Also, if you look at the *Guardian*'s map, it doesn't actually correspond to [the Edinburgh City Council boundaries](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Edinburgh_UK_location_map.svg) which include even more countryside/greenbelt land (I've been told that this is so that Edinburgh airport and the southern end of the bridges are all in Edinburgh's council area). The Guardian seems to have gone with either the actual built up area or the amount of land which is publically-accessible (i.e, not farms). by 124876720 (Wed 26th May 2021 11:06am)
  • "Haw, big man can you give us fifty pence to go and see ma maw up in the Royal" is a tale as old as Glasgow. by 124876720 (Wed 26th May 2021 1:55pm)
  • Honestly subhuman. by 124876720 (Fri 28th May 2021 11:59am)
  • Fuck Nicola Sturgeon, fuck the SNP, and fuck their simps on Reddit. by 124876720 (Fri 28th May 2021 12:48pm)
  • I've just copy and pasted u/CasperKentsHardDrive's comment into the thread there, so let's see. by 124876720 (Fri 28th May 2021 12:51pm)
  • If he had the courage of his convictions he would just open and I'd support him in that but he's a shitebag. by 124876720 (Fri 28th May 2021 12:55pm)
  • RemindMe! 1 week by 124876720 (Fri 28th May 2021 1:07pm)
  • Am no a grass. by 124876720 (Sat 29th May 2021 12:54pm)
  • Am also specky. by 124876720 (Sat 29th May 2021 2:43pm)
  • I will never understand why Redditors feel able to look down on football fans when their own obsessions like Japanese cartoons or video games could equally, if not more, be called sad and pathetic. by 124876720 (Mon 31st May 2021 10:26am)
  • I would suggest it is equally sad to be a shut-in wasting all of one's time on the electronic lotus-eating that is video-games. by 124876720 (Mon 31st May 2021 5:06pm)
  • Thanks for nothing, Nicola. by 124876720 (Tue 1st Jun 2021 2:48pm)
  • > Langside, Mount Florida and Toryglen Oh terrific because parking there is great already. by 124876720 (Sat 5th Jun 2021 6:59pm)
  • Thanks for letting me know about this, I'll be sure to throw Bucks some business this summer. by 124876720 (Sat 5th Jun 2021 7:05pm)
  • Glasgow is a poor city, part XVII by 124876720 (Wed 9th Jun 2021 6:07pm)
  • Hope the commercial tenants are good. by 124876720 (Thu 10th Jun 2021 5:46pm)
  • Nah, I fancied veal so I lifted them. by 124876720 (Fri 11th Jun 2021 10:38am)
  • I've kept half an eye on this project from the beginning, because I want them to succeed for the rather simple reason I like Jewish food and want to eat some in Glasgow without having to cook it myself. >perhaps I'm being a little unfair? I'm going to be blunt, to be honest, and say that worrying about whether there are any POC on the board of a tiny Yiddish community cafe is mad and like something the far-right think leftists would do. --- The website is *painfully* right-on, but even if the charge of them being middle-class luvvies is true, they spent Lockdown 1 feeding people for free. Fair play to them. Look forward to paying what I want for a vegan bagel when they open. Lenin was still right about anarchists though. by 124876720 (Fri 11th Jun 2021 8:11pm)
  • I think you're being a bit less than reasonable here. Point A:- The project is a "queer Yiddish anarchist" cafe. That would suggest that they want, as directors, people who 1) are LGBT+, 2) are Jewish, and 3) subscribe to the political tenets of anarchism. Such a person must also 4) want to be a director. The number of people who meet all 4 requirements must be vanishingly tiny already. To then get a POC they would need a Beta Israel or a Mizrahi Jew - who must be counted on one hand in Glasgow already. Add in "must also be an LGBT+ anarchist who can be bothered to run a community cafe", and it's probably virtually zero. Point B:- The project essentially amounts to "give people free kosher food". I don't really see why they need a POC on the board to do that. by 124876720 (Fri 11th Jun 2021 9:28pm)
  • The absolutely fucking state of free expression in this country. by 124876720 (Wed 16th Jun 2021 2:38pm)
  • There is no penalty for being the tenant of an unregistered HMO. I would avoid an unregistered HMO for the simple reason that if the landlord doesn't follow the requirements for an HMO, what else is he not following the requirements for? by 124876720 (Wed 16th Jun 2021 3:18pm)
  • Lethal traps with chocolate gets the wee bastards. by 124876720 (Sun 27th Jun 2021 4:13pm)
  • No reason why people should live with vermin for the sake of mice. by 124876720 (Mon 28th Jun 2021 11:46pm)
  • GCC seem incapable of understanding that if you make recycling a difficult chore, people won't do it. In Edinburgh, you get a green bin into which *all* dry recycleables go, a grey bin for landfill, a brown bin for garden waste, a box for bottles, and a food bin. The council regularly leaflet people to make clear when collections are and what each bin is for etc. Compare and contrast GCC, where tenement recycling is byzantine, no food bin, etc. How many people can honestly say they've never fucked a bottle or a can into the general waste to avoid having to schlep it to a community bin? by 124876720 (Tue 29th Jun 2021 10:15am)
  • Explains the plug-uglies in Rangers tops cutting about in the toon yesterday. by 124876720 (Fri 2nd Jul 2021 6:36am)
  • rip to ur lungs but i'm different by 124876720 (Sat 3rd Jul 2021 3:54pm)
  • Thanks - will check that out! by 124876720 (Tue 6th Jul 2021 4:09pm)
  • Went on their website and everything is served with injera. Thanks mate. by 124876720 (Tue 6th Jul 2021 4:24pm)
  • Check as well if he is a registered landlord: https://www.landlordregistrationscotland.gov.uk/ by 124876720 (Tue 6th Jul 2021 10:00pm)
  • Cringe. by 124876720 (Sat 10th Jul 2021 2:39pm)
  • No PR ploy, just want somewhere I can get a big plate of gabagool. by 124876720 (Tue 13th Jul 2021 9:49pm)
  • I had a 3 mobile 4G router and it was hopeless. I called them and was advised it was a fault with "the tower" and was allowed to cancel my contract gratis. Now have Vodafone. by 124876720 (Wed 14th Jul 2021 7:35am)
  • Agreed. It's a bit "jack of all trades". For branded goods, its competitors are cheaper and have a better selection. For own-brand stuff like ready meals, pizzas, sandwiches, pastries etc M&S is much better and pretty much the same price. That said, they are one of the only places you can reliably buy black garlic. by 124876720 (Wed 14th Jul 2021 12:27pm)
  • > they have a huge selection of spice mixes/pastes/jams that I struggle to find anywhere else Most ethnic shops can replace that. by 124876720 (Wed 14th Jul 2021 12:26pm)
  • Yeah, I remember that. I grew up in Edinburgh and we had to go to the Royal Highland Centre at Ingliston but it was the same thing. We had to watch this wee video at school as well about a school girl who gets sold paracetamol by her dealer and then gets lifted and sent to prison. "Scare 'em straight" lol. Think we got some merch as well. I don't remember any of the bands except for this one DJ who claimed to be from Harlem, New York (pretty sure he was a white guy in an elvis suit and an afro wig) and who made us do this thing called the "Doctor Who dance" and I only remember him because my utter sack of a teacher phoned my mum because I was pissing about with my pals rather than joining in. Still lived with his ma at the age of about 35 that wanker! by 124876720 (Wed 14th Jul 2021 8:31pm)
  • > half the staff weren’t wearing masks (when handling food), when I asked where the track and trace QR code was, they laughed at me and said I didn’t need one Sounds perfect, will definitely give them my business! by 124876720 (Mon 26th Jul 2021 7:23pm)
  • >Is the science centre any good for adults lol? Fuckin' science centre whit aboot the science ae puttin' good fuckin' boys in fuckin' work? At wis a science in ma day science wis fuckin' weldin' fuckin' ships thegither and sending them oot tae sea Billy Connolly the big yin ye know. by 124876720 (Wed 28th Jul 2021 9:57pm)
  • It's not the prisoners themselves who are the danger but their mates who might be planning to spring them. by 124876720 (Thu 29th Jul 2021 7:08am)
  • > If they arrested any cunt that sang about the killing the IRA or killing the queen Why should either of those things be illegal? by 124876720 (Sun 1st Aug 2021 11:14am)
  • What are you complaining about beyond the littering? It's not against the law to sing in a Subway carriage. by 124876720 (Sun 1st Aug 2021 11:12am)
  • Glasgow has by far and away the most do-nothing and incompetent local authority in Scotland. I used to think Edinburgh was bad, but GCC makes CEC look hypercompetent. by 124876720 (Wed 4th Aug 2021 11:19am)
  • > Their covid protections are fucking shocking in the new place though. No barrier at the counter and no staff wearing masks at all, including the servers. Sounds excellent - certain to give them my business now. by 124876720 (Thu 5th Aug 2021 5:01pm)
  • People are neurotically obsessed with this now. by 124876720 (Thu 5th Aug 2021 6:22pm)
  • Ah, I see the cognitive elite has logged on. >I’m assuming you didn’t get vaccinated ? Actually, I've had both doses, to protect myself and others. Not, of course, that people have much of a choice given participation in large parts of modern life looks set to become conditional on being jabbed, but that's by the by. I've got mine. >Really glad the general rif raf who left school with a wing and a prayer are giving us scientific advice on kebab shop covid etiquette. Nice snobbery. >God forbid you and any of your family end up on deaths door with COVID. I saw it first hand. You would change your tune quick. You use the words "God forbid" in your first sentence, yet your third drips with gleeful anticipation. by 124876720 (Thu 5th Aug 2021 8:11pm)
  • Fun fact: the premises above the Grant Arms used to be a draper's shop owned by a man called Samuel Moorov, who liked to corner his young female staff and stick his hands up skirts and down blouses. Eventually, 13 women he had so victimised came forward and a prosecution was launched - the court finding that separate accusations of the same conduct can corroborate each other, a legal principle still found today called the *Moorov* doctrine. by 124876720 (Sat 21st Aug 2021 8:15pm)
  • *Moorov v Her Majesty's Advocate* was decided in 1930. by 124876720 (Sun 22nd Aug 2021 8:45am)
  • The Wolfetones are shite because their lead singer's voice is so high-pitched. "Come out ye Black and Tans" - aye mate, let's wait until yer balls have dropped before you start paggering with the Brits. by 124876720 (Sun 22nd Aug 2021 9:16am)
  • Wings in Edinburgh. by 124876720 (Thu 2nd Sep 2021 9:03am)
  • Bar Burrito and Taco Mazama are pretty ropey. Taco Mazama used to be great but I think the owners sold it. by 124876720 (Tue 7th Sep 2021 11:49am)
  • Taquito is the best in Edinburgh imo. by 124876720 (Fri 10th Sep 2021 1:04am)
  • I don't know EK but is it just me or to the people in this video have a weird accent. The guy sounds English when he's shouting for his dog then Scottish at other points. by 124876720 (Tue 14th Sep 2021 9:54pm)
  • Also been considering Ferrograph OVD. by 124876720 (Sun 19th Sep 2021 3:16pm)
  • When you write Limmy's sketches out, he's honestly up there with Welsh or Kelman. Compare from *How Late it Was, How Late*: >Ye wake in a corner and stay there hoping yer body will disappear, the thoughts smothering ye; these thoughts; but ye want to remember and face up to things, just something keeps ye from doing it, why can't ye no do it; the words filling yer head: then the other words; there's something wrong; there's something far far wrong; ye're no a good man, ye're just no a good man. Edging back into awareness, of where ye are: here, slumped in this corner, with these thoughts filling ye. And oh christ his back was sore; stiff, and the head pounding. He shivered and hunched up his shoulders, shut his eyes, rubbed into the corners with his fingertips; seeing all kinds of spots and lights. Where in the name of fuck... by 124876720 (Sun 19th Sep 2021 8:22pm)
  • Think we might be two degrees of separation - my mate Theo Ccupier knows a chap called The Resident. by 124876720 (Mon 20th Sep 2021 3:02pm)
  • Bus transport in Glasgow is fractally worse than it is in Edinburgh. What do I mean by "fractally worse", you ask? Simply that it is worse at every conceivable scale of resolution. Zooming in on any aspect of the Glasgow bus system finds experiences which are just as inferior as the entire system. by 124876720 (Tue 21st Sep 2021 3:29pm)
  • Contrary to popular legend, rather than a pot of gold there is in fact a financed BMW 1-series at the end of the rainbow. by 124876720 (Wed 29th Sep 2021 8:10pm)
  • Aye, but I bet South Armagh also topped East Renfrewshire. by 124876720 (Fri 1st Oct 2021 11:50am)
  • Something else people don't mention: the fucking thing they do where bus drivers meet the bus at a bus station on the route. Every third trip, of course, the driver doesn't turn up and you have to sit and wait for the next one. by 124876720 (Mon 4th Oct 2021 4:49pm)
  • Is anyone else worried this will be a total fucking disaster? We've got an international summit, there's parts of the city not far from the city centre which look like total middens (I'm thinking of that stretch from Bridge St to Eglinton Toll), climate activists are threatening to disrupt roads across the city, and the whole thing is going to be relying on the piss-up-in-a-brewery merchants at Scottish Government, Police Scotland, and GCC. I don't really care if GCC and the government get humiliated, but I'll be damned if I have to listen to some NYT trust-fund creature giving out about Glasgow. by 124876720 (Wed 6th Oct 2021 7:56pm)
  • Waxys, if you have a compass and a map. by 124876720 (Mon 11th Oct 2021 8:01pm)
  • A bit of old Edinburgh lore was how to get into the Waverley toilets without paying. (There was a gate for the cleaners/service people halfway down the barrier dividing the "In" and "Out" lines, and the turnstiles were at opposite ends. So you could walk down the "Out" walkway and just go through behind the "In" turnstiles. Stole many a shite from Network Rail that way.) by 124876720 (Mon 11th Oct 2021 8:00pm)
  • Aye that's cool but is the food any good? by 124876720 (Tue 12th Oct 2021 12:31pm)
  • Thanks - seems to be CoWheels membership and Enterprise membership is the way to go. by 124876720 (Wed 13th Oct 2021 10:06pm)
  • I'd recommend the Good Spirits Company on Bath Street. But this is really quite hard to answer without some idea of your budget. In terms of what cannot be found at local supermarkets - try independent bottlings. by 124876720 (Thu 14th Oct 2021 8:26pm)
  • Lots of choice at that price. by 124876720 (Thu 14th Oct 2021 9:53pm)
  • Don't get McDonalds delivered you fucking degenerate. by 124876720 (Sun 17th Oct 2021 4:43pm)
  • Hmmm... by 124876720 (Mon 18th Oct 2021 1:48pm)
  • > "The law is utterly impartial: it forbids both the rich man and the poor man from sleeping under a bridge, and imposes exactly the same penalty on both for doing so." Anatole France: >La loi, dans un grand souci d'égalité, interdit aux riches comme aux pauvres de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain. "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets, and steal bread." by 124876720 (Tue 19th Oct 2021 3:58pm)
  • I mean you captured the sentiment 100%. by 124876720 (Tue 19th Oct 2021 6:54pm)
  • To be honest, my biggest worry with COP26 is that it is being organised by the UN, then the UK government, then the Scottish government, then Glasgow City Council - four institutions which between them would struggle to organise a piss-up in a brewery. I dread the whole thing going disastrously wrong, and having to endure sneering commentary about our city from *New York Times* trust fund scum. by 124876720 (Wed 20th Oct 2021 10:37am)
  • Most of the litter in the city centre comes from overflowing bins. by 124876720 (Thu 21st Oct 2021 9:32pm)
  • CPO it. by 124876720 (Fri 22nd Oct 2021 11:38am)
  • Aye what's up with the Co-op at the moment? Every other supermarket seems to have left the food shortages panic behind them but the Co-op is in a terrible state for empty shelves. Tesco, Morrisons, Lidl, M and S, and Aldi all seem to be fine from my experience but every time I go into a Co-op its like March 2020. by 124876720 (Tue 26th Oct 2021 11:35am)
  • Whereabouts do you want these recommendations? Southside, West End, Central, East End, etc? by 124876720 (Wed 27th Oct 2021 10:00am)
  • Is that a Rapier battery? by 124876720 (Wed 3rd Nov 2021 1:10pm)
  • Shanghai Shuffle by 124876720 (Wed 3rd Nov 2021 9:31pm)
  • Christ this makes me angry. This city has so much potential. So much potential. And what do we have for representation? Place-fillers, incompetents, carpetbaggers. It's so depressing. Is Glasgow doomed to see its historic build heritage disappear into decrepitude and ruin. The entire council administration should resign in shame at what they've let happen to this city. If the lack of money is an issue, then they should be screaming it from the rooftops. If Holyrood won't cough up, ask Westminster. by 124876720 (Thu 4th Nov 2021 12:23pm)
  • >Westminster has demonstrated for the last decade it doesn’t give a fuck. I agree, but there's no reason to let Holyrood off the hook in this way. The funding cut for local government between 2013-2018 was 7.5% in a period when the block grant to Holyrood was reduced by only 2.8%. by 124876720 (Thu 4th Nov 2021 12:56pm)
  • I fucking love the fireworks. Get it up the lot of ye. by 124876720 (Fri 5th Nov 2021 10:57pm)
  • Bingo line is here: >GMB Scotland Senior Organiser Keir Greenaway said: “It’s taken a strike to get Glasgow’s leadership in the room and acknowledge the council’s chronic low pay problems, the waste crisis in our communities, and the toxic management culture in the cleansing department. Indolent councillors and overpaid middle-management, asleep at the wheel. by 124876720 (Tue 9th Nov 2021 9:23am)
  • I'm not a "nawbag", but it may interest you to know that the rate at which the block grant has been cut is considerably less than the rate at which ScotGov has cut funding for local authorities: >Figures from the neutral Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe) show that between 2013-14 and 2018-19, the Scottish Government’s revenue budget was cut by 2.8 per cent by Westminster. >But the Scottish Government were even more brutal in their cuts to councils – hammering them with a 7.5 per cent reduction in funding over the same period. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/snp-more-brutal-tories-turbo-17372365 Anyone who has worked in government administration will recognise the pattern: Funding goes to local authorities via ScotGov. ScotGov itself faces funding cuts. Rather than pass on the impact of those cuts equally, it produces recommendations and analyses which offload a greater share of cuts to local authorities. Because it has the ear of ministers and is situated at the centre of civil power in Scotland, its recommendations are adopted. This is done to avoid redundancies or cuts to ScotGov itself. This isn't dishonesty, simply an unconscious bias among civil servants which is, for obvious reasons, strongly against recommending courses of action which might result in fewer jobs for civil servants. by 124876720 (Tue 9th Nov 2021 9:29am)
  • I've noticed in continental Europe that the service is often extremely bad compared to British standards, so a certain level of demanding chivvying is the norm in places like France. Ironically the place where it's been the worst is Finland, where I noticed everyone else was getting their food before us - and realised it was because every time the waitress came past, the Finns were telling her to hurry up perkele! by 124876720 (Tue 9th Nov 2021 9:39am)
  • There's a famous story that an aide to Harold Wilson, after some campaign event in Scotland, phoned the Rogano and asked for a table for four only to be told it was impossible. When he played the "what if I told you it was for the Prime Minister?" card, the Rogano's manager replied "I would tell you that we still don't have room for a table for four." by 124876720 (Tue 9th Nov 2021 9:36am)
  • > They’ve left their lateral flow tests, coffee cups, cigarette buts and event maps everywhere too. When in Rome... by 124876720 (Tue 9th Nov 2021 9:42am)
  • In fairness to them, Aussies have been unable to leave Australia without permission from the government since March 2020, so if I got a golden COP26 ticket to beat Aussie border control and visit the UK I would be getting absolutely fucking hammered. by 124876720 (Tue 9th Nov 2021 9:40am)
  • Thanks to climate change, we may soon have all the joys of mosquitos, tsetse flies, and other "tropical" diseases. by 124876720 (Tue 9th Nov 2021 11:47am)
  • Kilmacolm. Comes with many perks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu38ZDqL0Bs by 124876720 (Tue 9th Nov 2021 12:29pm)
  • ...because a) its not relevant to my point, given that 1.2% of a lower number is not going to offset 7.5% over four years, and b) it comes from a spokesman for the government who claims that is what SPICe says. by 124876720 (Tue 9th Nov 2021 12:28pm)
  • No, because it doesn't contradict my point. The budget was cut by 7.5% over four years. A single year's increase of 1.2% *of the already cut figure* doesn't come close to offsetting that, even if it was true. But aye, Wastemonster n that. by 124876720 (Tue 9th Nov 2021 2:37pm)
  • Two Fat Ladies at the Buttery is good. It's apparently where Obama went. by 124876720 (Fri 12th Nov 2021 11:52am)
  • First item for discussion: A heated argument over whether Pittsburgh is the Glasgow of the United States or if Glasgow is the Pittsburgh of Scotland. by 124876720 (Fri 12th Nov 2021 9:29pm)
  • Southside or Dennistoun by 124876720 (Mon 15th Nov 2021 12:57pm)
  • "Oh aye, that sounds like-" I don't give a monkeys what it sounds like hen, you're no more qualified than Dr fucking Doom. by 124876720 (Thu 18th Nov 2021 8:05pm)
  • I have no babushka. I would take bottled stuff. by 124876720 (Sat 20th Nov 2021 7:51pm)
  • Second the recommendation for Silla in Finnieston. by 124876720 (Fri 26th Nov 2021 11:48am)
  • Is that actually a crack in the underlying masonry or is it just shite paint cracking? by 124876720 (Wed 1st Dec 2021 6:36pm)
  • They're hopeless. Another cool thing they do is have the drivers meet their assigned buses at the stops (Lothian never do this). This means that if your bus arrives at its changeover point and there's no new driver, because he's off sick, or hungover, or a lazy shite, or most likely of all the idiots forgot to tell him where to be, then guess what? You all get kicked off and have to sit and wait for the next bus which may arrive...sometime? by 124876720 (Mon 6th Dec 2021 12:09pm)
  • All my Edinburgh pals call me a soapdodging weeg. by 124876720 (Tue 7th Dec 2021 9:59am)
  • McGraddies by 124876720 (Wed 8th Dec 2021 9:41pm)
  • Ooft. That's some shift. by 124876720 (Thu 9th Dec 2021 9:51am)
  • There was an even worse plan for Edinburgh, called the Abercrombie plan, which involved pretty much bulldozing the Old and New Towns and driving motorways across Princes Street Gardens and the Meadows. Leith, Gorgie, and Dalry were all to be razed to form industrial zones. Thankfully, almost none of it came to pass except for a few Princes St demolitions - which, unfortunately, included some real treasures like [the New Club.](https://www.ribapix.com/images/thumbs/040/0400894_X98713_600.jpeg) by 124876720 (Sun 12th Dec 2021 3:09pm)
  • This is the size of local authority areas. In local government terms, the phrase "City of Glasgow" means all the land under GCC's jurisdiction. That is considerably smaller than what most people mean when they say "Glasgow". One of the many problems with Glasgow is that it is drastically underbounded, and a lot of areas which are really part of Glasgow in economic and historic terms do not fall under the city council's administration. The end of the old system of regional councils has also hammered the city because for whatever reason Glaswegians who strike it rich move out of the city to places like Kilmacolm, Dunlop, Troon, etc, whilst Edinbuggers who strike it rich move to nicer bits of Edinburgh. Ending regionalisation deprived Glasgow of the council tax benefits of that. By contrast, the Edinburgh local authority area is [much larger than the actual built-up area of Edinburgh.](http://edinburghcouncilmaps.info/dev/plans/eclp/images/Fig%201_1.jpg) As I understand the reason for this is to ensure that Edinburgh Council remained responsible for managing access to Edinburgh Airport and the southern end of the Forth Bridge. by 124876720 (Sun 12th Dec 2021 4:37pm)
  • Ah, that makes sense. by 124876720 (Sun 12th Dec 2021 5:49pm)
  • Thanks mate. by 124876720 (Wed 15th Dec 2021 1:39pm)
  • >you should check out anarchy Anarchists should probably get the "take less than eighteen months to open a shite cafe" badge before they start trying to convince people to run society their way. by 124876720 (Fri 17th Dec 2021 10:09am)
  • I've just watched a YouTube video which has convinced me Covid is a fake disease seeded by the Illuminati so you can have mine. by 124876720 (Fri 17th Dec 2021 1:45pm)
  • What is cool about a Greene King chain pub? by 124876720 (Tue 28th Dec 2021 7:52am)
  • Greene King own Belhaven. There's a big "download the Greene King app" sign in the photo lol by 124876720 (Tue 28th Dec 2021 8:41am)
  • Which one is the spoons? The James Tassie or the John Stirling Maxwell? by 124876720 (Thu 30th Dec 2021 2:35pm)
  • By far the best way to consume Strange Brew's food is by takeaway. by 124876720 (Thu 30th Dec 2021 2:34pm)
  • cheers by 124876720 (Thu 30th Dec 2021 2:58pm)
  • Care to elaborate haha by 124876720 (Fri 31st Dec 2021 9:18am)
  • Chad. by 124876720 (Sat 8th Jan 2022 4:03pm)
  • Russian joke: >How do you make Turkish coffee? >Grind up a bunch of Armenian coffee beans and lie about it for 100 years. by 124876720 (Tue 11th Jan 2022 2:14pm)
  • Truly dismal is what it is. Another Council triumph. by 124876720 (Wed 19th Jan 2022 8:46am)
  • Because if your first response to a shop on a Scottish high street closing "aye but ISRAEL" then it makes you look like a bit of an obsessive. by 124876720 (Wed 19th Jan 2022 10:06am)
  • I do not understand why we offer enormous tax breaks for megacorps to peddle capeshit here. Would we not be better supporting Scottish film-makers? We obviously have the talent given that Scotland has been knocking it out of the park on the literature front for the past 40 years (Gray, Kelman, Welsh, Stuart, Rankin, etc). by 124876720 (Thu 20th Jan 2022 12:11pm)
  • > sNazionalists Hoaching patter. by 124876720 (Thu 20th Jan 2022 5:10pm)
  • Torbett was prosecuted for the first time in the 1990s. by 124876720 (Fri 21st Jan 2022 10:28am)
  • People can give out all they like about how much the council is suffering from underfunding, but that doesn't explain stuff like this: >He has been moved around several different hotels since he was evacuated from his flat on Saturday, but said communication from the council had been poor. >Initially, he was told his dogs could stay with him. But when he arrived at the first hotel they had no idea he was coming. And then he was told his pets were not allowed. >After arranging for someone to look after the dogs overnight, the next day he was moved to a different hotel - and was again told his dogs were not welcome. >He has now booked his own accommodation which will allow him to keep his dogs with him. >He said residents were not given a promised update on Monday. >"Nobody can tell me anything," he said. "I don't know what's happening." That is simply sheer incompetence and contempt for those the Council is supposed to help. by 124876720 (Thu 3rd Feb 2022 7:26am)
  • I often see people posting some variation of "is Scotland safe for brown people" on Reddit, and my advice is always the same: the vast vast majority of users on this site are white and are unlikely to have much insight, and you should seek out opinions from Scottish people of colour. One of the biggest Partick Thistle twitter personalities and self-declared ultras, for what it is worth, is a desi guy: https://twitter.com/ManpreetPTFC_V5 by 124876720 (Fri 4th Feb 2022 7:50am)
  • Oh shit really? What happened lol? by 124876720 (Fri 4th Feb 2022 8:12am)
  • What a riddy. Agree being banned from Arbroath is more a reward than punishment. by 124876720 (Fri 4th Feb 2022 8:50am)
  • Excellent news, although this bit gives me shivers: >Digital is promoted as the primary mode of interpretation, with a particular emphasis on younger visitors – 25% of digital displays are aimed at children under five – and ranging from tablet-based information to 16-metre wide immersive video projections, including images of the Burrells themselves walking through the streets of Glasgow. They did the same to the National Museum of Scotland and it was miserable. Hopefully same mistakes not made here! by 124876720 (Tue 8th Feb 2022 5:51pm)
  • >in a massive shitey superhero blockbuster? It's very unfashionable to say this now, but adults should really be reading books rather than watching Marvel blockbusters. by 124876720 (Thu 10th Feb 2022 8:44am)
  • I get that "Clowncil lol" is a bit tired, but I don't see how GCC can blame lack of funding for failing to put in decent tactile paving. by 124876720 (Sat 19th Feb 2022 8:09pm)
  • Thanks Fam by 124876720 (Mon 21st Feb 2022 12:47pm)
  • No, for the same reason I wouldn't have kept my lights off after the blackout. by 124876720 (Wed 23rd Feb 2022 11:57am)
  • What GCC should do is demand a more equitable system for funding Scotland's museums. Edinburgh enjoys: - The National Museum; - HMY Britannia - The National War Museum; - The National Gallery - The National Portrait Gallery - The National Gallery of Modern Art All of which are paid for by the Scottish or UK governments via National Galleries/Museums Scotland or the National Historic Fleet. Meanwhile, all of Glasgow's museums need to be funded via the local authority and Glasgow Life, despite the Riverside and the Kelvingrove being no less significant to Scotland's cultural life. by 124876720 (Mon 28th Feb 2022 11:35am)
  • It's simply that if a Museum is in Edinburgh, it is "national" by dint of being in the capital. The two exceptions are the National Museum of Rural Life, which is by East Kilbridge, and the National Museum of Flight out at East Fortune. GCC would almost certainly resist losing control of the museums, but so what? It will save them money and undoubtedly improve the Museums. by 124876720 (Mon 28th Feb 2022 12:32pm)
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Days_to_the_River_Rhine >The Soviets planned to use about 7.5 megatons of atomic weaponry in all during such a conflict. >Vienna was to be hit by two 500-kiloton bombs, while Vicenza, Verona, Padua, and several bases in Italy were to be hit by single 500-kiloton bombs.[6] Hungary was to capture Vienna. >Stuttgart, Munich, and Nuremberg in West Germany were to be destroyed by nuclear weapons and then captured by the Czechoslovaks and Hungarians. >In Denmark, the first nuclear targets were Roskilde and Esbjerg. Roskilde, while having no military significance, is the second-largest city on Zealand and located close to the Danish capital Copenhagen (the distance from central Copenhagen to Roskilde is only 35 km or 22 mi). It would also be targeted for its cultural and historical significance to break the morale of the Danish population and army. Esbjerg, the fifth-largest city in the country, would be targeted for its large harbour capable of facilitating delivery of large NATO reinforcements. If there was Danish resistance after the two initial strikes, other targets would be bombed. >... >Maps associated with the released plan show nuclear strikes in many NATO states, but exclude both France and the United Kingdom. **There are several possibilities for this lack of strikes, the most probable being that both France and the United Kingdom are nuclear weapons states, and as such retain nuclear arsenals that could be employed in retaliation for nuclear strikes against their nations.** I feel unsafe not because there are nukes at Coulport and Faslane, but because there are nowhere near enough. by 124876720 (Tue 1st Mar 2022 1:48pm)
  • Calder is a very ordinary surname which is what makes it funny though. It's like being called Horatio Smith or Chaloner Mackay or something. by 124876720 (Mon 14th Mar 2022 10:29pm)
  • Agreed. Architecture is fundamentally different from every other piece of artistic expression because it directly affects our built environment. If you hate modern art, or slam poetry, or whatever you can just ignore it. But awful architecture cannot be avoided, only mitigated. There's the famous story of the French writer de Maupassant, who so hated the Eiffel tower that he ate in its restaurant almost every day; when asked why he said that it was the only table in Paris from which the tower could not be seen. Architects have no right to impose their elitist preferences on everyone else. Forcing people to exist in spaces they find ugly is actively malevolent. Tear it down down down. by 124876720 (Mon 14th Mar 2022 10:28pm)
  • Just put the bag in the overhead and sit down. by 124876720 (Tue 29th Mar 2022 10:50am)
  • Nobody in here can take a joke haha by 124876720 (Thu 7th Apr 2022 9:30pm)
  • They always look good in concept photos, my issue is 10 years after they get put up with the typical British "one step above tofu-dreg" standard of workmanship and the facade starts crumbling or getting discoloured from water damage. You are right about the reversion to traditional patterns. The reception of Poundbury among the architectural highheidyins is another amusing example of this. by 124876720 (Fri 22nd Apr 2022 5:03pm)
  • Edinburgh Council, of course, at least had a tram system after it wasted one billion. All Glasgow CC got, on the other hand, was some grumpy cleaning ladies. by 124876720 (Fri 22nd Apr 2022 5:05pm)
  • > The Iranian in Great Western, near Kelvinbridge is fantastic Is this a place called the Iranian or do you mean Saffron by Paradise. If its the latter I can definitely recommend. Silla in Finnieston is also good for Korean. by 124876720 (Thu 28th Apr 2022 8:58pm)
  • Fuck sake, thought we had a good chance of flushing her. by 124876720 (Fri 6th May 2022 2:58pm)
  • Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. by 124876720 (Tue 17th May 2022 5:04pm)
  • The Indian on Skirving Street has been very good on celiac stuff whenever I've been there. by 124876720 (Wed 18th May 2022 4:49pm)
  • >I guess we could start by not trying to force drivers to accept a 2.2% pay rise when inflation is like double that? The base pay of a ScotRail driver is £48,360. They aren't starving. by 124876720 (Thu 19th May 2022 2:32pm)
  • Top rate for teachers (a considerably more important job) is just over £40k. Fuck the drivers. by 124876720 (Thu 19th May 2022 2:38pm)
  • The Shanghai metro is automated. If we had the imagination in this country there is no reason we should be held to ransom by a tiny band of overprivileged mechanics. by 124876720 (Thu 19th May 2022 2:49pm)
  • > I once reported a pub (as in, a premises selling alcohol) which had inexplicably got a charitable status (shouldn't be possible) Grass by 124876720 (Mon 23rd May 2022 5:19pm)
  • Nah, Shawarma King is good. Best Kebab is shite. by 124876720 (Wed 1st Jun 2022 9:22pm)
  • Closed down now, much to my heartbreak. That garlic bread was to die for... by 124876720 (Wed 1st Jun 2022 9:22pm)
  • They pay big fees which subsidises local students getting their university for free. by 124876720 (Mon 6th Jun 2022 4:00pm)
  • Foreign students. by 124876720 (Mon 6th Jun 2022 7:16pm)
  • Foreign fast food is never the same. by 124876720 (Sat 11th Jun 2022 9:24am)
  • Chez Jules on Hanover Street in Edinburgh. by 124876720 (Sat 11th Jun 2022 1:02pm)
  • Strange Brew are shutting down? News to me. by 124876720 (Sun 19th Jun 2022 7:33pm)
  • > it’s gotta burst? Or we end up like Ireland, where foreign investment "cuckoo" funds buy up every property in new developments in order to rent them out: https://www.irishcentral.com/opinion/others/vulture-funds-property-ireland-stopped Just because there aren't enough Scots who can afford these properties doesn't mean others can't, whether in the UK or abroad. by 124876720 (Mon 20th Jun 2022 6:56pm)
  • >Compare it with Edinburgh where when you get off the motorway you’re still another 20 minutes away. The advantage is a far more beautiful city, more walkable, better for bikes etc. by 124876720 (Fri 24th Jun 2022 5:38pm)
  • Well, its a facet of it. Glasgow was redesigned in the postwar era around the motorcar whilst the same plan was stopped in Edinburgh. Old Partick cross had its heart ripped out by the motorway, for example. by 124876720 (Fri 24th Jun 2022 5:42pm)
  • Can we also do something about the George Square megaphone gimps? by 124876720 (Sat 2nd Jul 2022 12:36pm)
  • Naw ye didnae by 124876720 (Sat 2nd Jul 2022 12:36pm)
  • >Stop doing Getting on buses to ask the driver where the bus goes, and then arguing about the answer. >should definitely do Know where the buses go before getting on them. by 124876720 (Sun 17th Jul 2022 1:40pm)
  • This is the correct response OP. I would also add that you should also contact your local councillors to kick the officers' arses and deal with it. by 124876720 (Mon 1st Aug 2022 3:28pm)
  • You can't hide murders, so that bit of the story at least is not true. Lots of hotels opened to the homeless/asylum seekers (what used to be called "DSS tenants") during COVID because it gives a guaranteed clientele and because they aren't trying to attract customers housekeeping etc can be cut way back. Pretty exploitative, but then the British (and Scottish) state is a very different beast for those at the margins than it is for most people. Dickensian, Orwellian, and Kafkaesque. by 124876720 (Thu 4th Aug 2022 8:53pm)
  • > They're filth and will never improve. Why should real humans be put at risk so that violent junkie scum can be comfortable? There but for the grace of God goes you and I. by 124876720 (Thu 4th Aug 2022 8:56pm)
  • Good response. The "get a bike lol" responses to every single public transport query are unbelievably obnoxious. by 124876720 (Wed 10th Aug 2022 8:07pm)
  • >Note that you aren't bound to give notice. You can just fuck off if you want. Technically he is, but I suspect this is a situation much like *Down and Out in Paris and London*: >'We will give you a permanent job if you like,' he said. 'The head waiter says he would enjoy calling an Englishman names. Will you sign on for a month?' >Here was a job at last, and I was ready to jump at it. Then I remembered the Russian restaurant, due to open in a fortnight. It seemed hardly fair to promise working a month, and then leave in the middle. I said that I had other work in prospect—could I be engaged for a fortnight? But at that the *chef du personnel* shrugged his shoulders and said that the hotel only engaged men by the month. Evidently I had lost my chance of a job. >Boris, by arrangement, was waiting for me in the Arcade of the Rue de Rivoli. When I told him what had happened, he was furious. For the first time since I had known him he forgot his manners and called me a fool. >'Idiot! Species of idiot! What's the good of my finding you a job when you go and chuck it up the next moment? How could you be such a fool as to mention the other restaurant? You'd only to promise you would work for a month.' >'It seemed more honest to say I might have to leave,' I objected. >'Honest! Honest! Who ever heard of a *plongeur* being honest? *Mon ami*'—suddenly he seized my lapel and spoke very earnestly—'*mon ami*, you have worked here all day. You see what hotel work is like. Do you think a *plongeur* can afford a sense of honour?' >'No, perhaps not.' >'Well, then, go back quickly and tell the *chef du personnel* you are quite ready to work for a month. Say you will throw the other job over. Then, when our restaurant opens, we have only to walk out.' >'But what about my wages if I break my contract? >'Boris banged his stick on the pavement and cried out at such stupidity. 'Ask to be paid by the day, then you won't lose a *sou*. Do you suppose they would prosecute a *plongeur* for breaking his contract? A *plongeur* is too low to be prosecuted.' by 124876720 (Sun 14th Aug 2022 11:32am)
  • Rangers fans outside PSV's hotel. by 124876720 (Tue 16th Aug 2022 3:56pm)
  • The Clachan in Drymen is also good. by 124876720 (Fri 7th Oct 2022 2:49pm)
  • >I've been looking to move out again the last 6-7 months and the housing market is unbelievable?? Don't bother. While it is certainly tragic to be a sexless twenty-something festering in a childhood bedroom, anything can be endured so long as there is an endpoint. So long as there is hope. Just as Odysseus never forgot Ithaca, the stay-at-home saver never stops dreaming about that first rung on the ladder. Cashing in on their right-to-buy ISA, and emerging from the cloying, familial cocoon. Feeling their sympathy towards planning reform evaporate virtually overnight. Finding the housing crisis secretly thrilling, checking Zoopla obsessively to see how much your asset has earned you that week. by 124876720 (Sat 15th Oct 2022 12:07pm)
  • Assuming the insurers pay out, assuming the building wasn't underinsured, assuming their policy didn't have a coinsurance clause... People think an insurance claim on a total loss commercial building fire in the city centre is like their rising damp claim. It isn't; the insurer will have loss adjusters and fire risk specialists on site tomorrow morning raking through the paperwork and the ashes for a reason not to pay out. If it was the Co-operative Memorial building, then it had at least five commercial tenants and was probably worth between £75-100k in rent to its landlord per annum. And Barclays had just opened over the road, who might well have bought it. by 124876720 (Sun 16th Oct 2022 5:42pm)
  • The council told you it was too dear when you asked, but will they say the same thing to your local councillor or MP? Use them - its what they are for. by 124876720 (Mon 24th Oct 2022 11:34pm)
  • > "ah fuck I'll need to stand up to put that ramp down, nah I'll pretend I didn't see the guy in the wheelchair" This really should be a sacking offence. by 124876720 (Mon 31st Oct 2022 9:13am)
  • > Edinburgh get their trams extended The City of Edinburgh Council chose to spend money on extending its trams. It wasn't a handout. by 124876720 (Mon 31st Oct 2022 9:15am)
  • >I imagine indy is going to happen quite soon; during that process the entire framework of govt will obviosuly change. Local government is a devolved competence. Why not start now? You're an SNP councillor. Why not propose motions at conference to have the SNP implement in full the recommendations of the 2014 COSLA report or the SGP/Wightman "Renewing Scotland's Local Democracy" report? Why not ask the leadership to explain why the Local Governance Review, promised in the 2016 and 2022 SNP manifestos, is proceeding at a pace which makes glaciers look like F1 cars, and will almost certainly now see its recommendations only be implemented in the next Parliament? Why not hold the SNP Holyrood leadership accountable for presiding over what James Mitchell, professor of public policy at the University of Edinburgh, called centralisation to "far greater levels than witnessed in the Thatcher years"? >James Mitchell, professor of public policy at the University of Edinburgh, is currently writing a book on local democracy. He claimed the SNP has taken centralisation to “far greater levels than witnessed in the Thatcher years” – describing this as a “damning indictment” of the SNP’s record. Mitchell told The Ferret: “There is more expertise in local government and our communities than exists in the Scottish central government but much of Scottish Government operates from a top-down, uniformist starting point rather than work in partnership”. Or are you afraid to rock the boat? by 124876720 (Mon 31st Oct 2022 9:32am)
  • Indeed, and then John Swinney deliberately withdrew Transport Scotland staff from the project so as to undermine it when Holyrood prevented the SNP from scrapping it. by 124876720 (Mon 31st Oct 2022 10:44am)
  • A monthly ticket is £54 so you can at least cut your bill by getting one of those. by 124876720 (Mon 31st Oct 2022 6:21pm)
  • Yes. From Edinburgh and they are absolute civic cancer. Smash the lockboxes. by 124876720 (Tue 1st Nov 2022 11:00am)
  • Not after today's result. by 124876720 (Sun 6th Nov 2022 9:52pm)
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_Nigeria by 124876720 (Mon 7th Nov 2022 4:15pm)
  • The senior management of First Glasgow deserve, unironically, to be enslaved and forced to work for nothing for a decade to pay back the people of Glasgow for all the time they've stolen from us. I'd take their pensions and their bonuses too. Incompetent parasite scum. by 124876720 (Mon 7th Nov 2022 8:23pm)
  • How do you do a SIM swap? Just go into the shop and ask them? by 124876720 (Sat 12th Nov 2022 3:34pm)
  • Shame you aren't taking them to the Southside, you could have got them the £3.50 3 course lunch at the Star Bar. by 124876720 (Thu 17th Nov 2022 11:43am)
  • 2 things about that. Plenty of racists care. The idea that only obviously spiky, abrasive arseholes can be racists is what makes it so pernicious. "Oh, but he's so *nice*" say people even if a manager treats nonwhite subordinates differently. Secondly, plenty of people go into the NHS caring and it grinds them down because its shit to work for. by 124876720 (Tue 29th Nov 2022 8:53pm)
  • Transport Scotland manage trunk roads like the M8. by 124876720 (Fri 30th Dec 2022 12:03pm)
  • Cossachok dying was a thorn. Their garlic bread was immense. by 124876720 (Tue 10th Jan 2023 12:24pm)
  • And Akiko and Bao opening next to them. by 124876720 (Tue 10th Jan 2023 12:26pm)
  • You never noticed the 6ft high lettering saying "GLASGOW ROYAL CONCERT HALL"? Remarkable! by 124876720 (Tue 24th Jan 2023 1:42pm)
  • Why are these always mocked up during either night-time or in bright sunshine. Anywhere looks good in mid-July. Can we have some renders on a dreich January please? by 124876720 (Tue 24th Jan 2023 1:40pm)
  • Although not in the Southside, the chocolate eclairs at Celino's in Partick are the size of a small torpedo and would fit the bill! by 124876720 (Wed 25th Jan 2023 8:47am)
  • You've left four comments in reply to his one and you appear to be absolutely raging. Take your own advice. by 124876720 (Mon 30th Jan 2023 10:37pm)
  • Pish. > The budget is cut to the bone because the grant from Holyrood has been cut to the bone because the funding from Westminster has been cut to the bone. Holyrood is cutting council budgets at a quicker rate than its own budget is cut. In other words, the ScotGov bureaucracy in Edinburgh passes on cuts to local authorities whilst retaining its own inefficient (and in my view deeply incompetent) staffing levels: https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/never-mind-cuts-wheres-funding >BETWEEN 2011 to 2017 the SNP Scottish government cut funding to Scottish councils by 3.7 per cent, taking a whopping £1 billion from council budgets and in turn public services. >This is despite the fact that last year Westminster gave the SNP Scottish government a revenue cash increase of 2.2 per cent — a capital cash increase of 10.3 per cent, plus it has additional borrowing powers of up to £450 million. https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/never-mind-cuts-wheres-funding >Until the UK can find a way to repay the £ 1 trillion bailout we gave to the banks in 2008 - which will never happen Nonsense. https://fullfact.org/economy/1-trillion-not-spent-bailing-out-banks/ >[T]he total government spend was £137 billion. Most of this has been paid back and around £27 billion is still outstanding. Around £1 trillion worth of financial guarantees were provided to investors—but these were promises designed to restore confidence in the banks, not cash for spending. by 124876720 (Tue 14th Feb 2023 12:00pm)
  • Pathetic. I make my renthogs pay me 24 months rent, plus tip for the privilege of paying my mortgage. >!I am not a landlord and this comment is intended to satirise the implied values of people who are!< by 124876720 (Thu 16th Mar 2023 7:34pm)
  • Chuck Berry also used to like farting on hookers, so... by 124876720 (Sat 25th Mar 2023 11:14am)
  • >Could you imagine the government not stepping in to help if this was Edinburgh assets…? Edinburgh didn't rack up £1bn of equal pay liabilities. by 124876720 (Fri 31st Mar 2023 11:43am)
  • > Happened for the Edinburgh Trams no? Actually no. Edinburgh funded the budget overruns on the trams itself. by 124876720 (Fri 31st Mar 2023 12:38pm)
  • Nothing beyond the £500m cost was contributed by ScotGov, despite the project ultimately costing £1bn+. If you actually look at council funding, Edinburgh gets the lowest per head in Scotland: https://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-local-government-finance-statistics-slgfs-2020-21/pages/3/ The average per head is £2136. Edinburgh gets £1771, while GCC gets £2290. by 124876720 (Fri 31st Mar 2023 1:11pm)
  • > My whole point was, could they have not went cap in hand and asked for help from government, rather than to private equity? No, because it was entirely their own fault and the rest of Scotland's ratepayers should not be paying for GCC's incompetence. by 124876720 (Fri 31st Mar 2023 1:33pm)
  • Extremely common capitalist W by 124876720 (Tue 6th Jun 2023 5:02pm)
  • Nah, speak. It'll be a laugh. by 124876720 (Tue 6th Jun 2023 5:08pm)
  • ![gif](giphy|9MJ6xrgVR9aEwF8zCJ) by 124876720 (Tue 6th Jun 2023 5:05pm)
  • Please explain why holding an exhibition of modern art in the Museum of Modern Art is "gentrification". by 124876720 (Thu 15th Jun 2023 12:00pm)
  • Shared Sarajevo xx by 124876720 (Tue 20th Jun 2023 5:04pm)
  • Incidentally, WASPI is one of the most outstanding pieces of boomer entitlement of all time: "I was too thick to plan for retirement or pick up that the state pension age was equalising. I'm a *victim*." by 124876720 (Thu 29th Jun 2023 8:16pm)
  • Third world city. by 124876720 (Thu 29th Jun 2023 8:14pm)
  • > Most of Europe has a tonne of graffiti but otherwise things seem cleaner and better kept because people don't fuck them up. France has just seen its second round of destructive rioting this year. Including the attempted murder of a mayor and the defacing of a Holocaust memorial. by 124876720 (Tue 4th Jul 2023 9:56am)
  • Interesting - that site looks excellent. Thanks. by 124876720 (Wed 5th Jul 2023 9:29am)
  • Having lived in Edinburgh for most of my life, now in Glasgow, whenever people ask me to compare Lothian and First, I like to say that First is fractally worse than Lothian. By "fractally" worse, I mean that First is worse at every conceivable scale of resolution. Focusing on any aspect of the First Bus experience finds services just as inferior as the entire service. by 124876720 (Mon 10th Jul 2023 9:49am)
  • TBF even without the slightly odd boundaries you have the Meadows, Leith Links, and Holyrood Park all within the city centre. by 124876720 (Wed 12th Jul 2023 2:33pm)
  • How tall are you? by 124876720 (Sat 22nd Jul 2023 8:42pm)
  • To perhaps pour a bit of cold water on the outraged in this thread: No doubt there are some dreadful examples of cynical profiteering like the (Dundee-based) dick who owns Egyptian Halls, but a large number of the vacant buildings and brownfield sites in the city centre are in multiple ownership and, especially where there has been damage by fire or some other total loss, have had policies of insurance voided or cover refused by the insurer. All of this means when you it is not necessarily a case of a greedy landlord looking for a handout from the cooncil. Sometimes they just don't have the funds to reinstate and are locked in litigation with their insurer (and then usually their broker) trying to actually get paid. Or, in the alternative, 3/4 owners want to reinstate but one is underinsured or obstructive etc and they get tied up for years. (Also, buildings that burn down are *usually* not "insurance jobs". Insurers are not stupid. If you have a policy on an abandoned Glasgow city centre building it will be *full* of special conditions about the type of locks you use, what security system is fitted, how often it is patrolled by a nightwatchman etc. Even if you have a *bona fide* fire, the insurer will have fire investigators and loss adjusters crawling all over the site finding reasons not to pay out and if you haven't complied to the letter with the conditions you won't get paid.) by 124876720 (Fri 4th Aug 2023 9:55am)
  • Just ignore them. It's a free country and, more importantly, we won. We had the enlightenment, we have LGBT rights and access to abortion in the UK. And the threats to those thing are not "the end is nigh" idiots shrieking in the street. All they want is engagement. Deny thhem it. by 124876720 (Sat 5th Aug 2023 4:24pm)
  • This is not America. There are far fewer avenues for the kind of entryism which has brought the US to where it is in Scotland. We also simply don't have a religious constituency like the religious right. This didn't sneak up on anyone in the USA - the mainstream right was open about its desire to overturn RvW for decades. And, not to belabour the point, the people who led the reaction in the US did not do it shouting in the street. Acting like this sadsack is a precursor to the end of abortion in Scotland is, politely, crackers. by 124876720 (Sat 5th Aug 2023 5:19pm)
  • The leadership contest where Kate Forbes confirmed she wouldn't seek to walk back gay marriage or abortion despite her faith? Seems to be the opposite of America. by 124876720 (Sat 5th Aug 2023 6:20pm)
  • Actually, they didn't say the exact same thing. All of them conspicuously avoided staking a position on Roe. Also, again, completely different political context. by 124876720 (Sat 5th Aug 2023 7:43pm)
  • > But you don't have them enshrined into law What do you think the Abortion Act 1967, the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013, and the Marriage and Civil Partnerships (Scotland) Act 2014 are? Guidelines? by 124876720 (Sat 5th Aug 2023 8:26pm)
  • The DUP was never part of the UK government. That's just factually incorrect. >The recent UK Minister for Health, Maria Caulfield (who was thankfully demoted by Sunak), voted against buffer zones outside abortion clinics and against legalising abortion in Northern Ireland. So what? The UK has always had a tradition of designating issues like abortion as "conscience votes" for which MPs are not whipped. It is precisely this which distinguishes us from the US where these issues are rigidly enforced by the open primary system which makes it effectively impossible for, for example, a pro-choice candidate to become the Republican nominee. >And those same US groups are lobbying hard here in the UK with the backing of big money. The Alliance Defending Freedom, for example, have a big UK presence and are regularly invited to speak on news programmes against buffer zones. How's that going for them? by 124876720 (Sat 5th Aug 2023 8:32pm)
  • Except in Scotland judges aren't appointed by Parliament, the judiciary is not politicised, conscience issues are not party-whipped, and there's overwhelming political support for abortion. Look, I know it feels good to be outraged about some sadsack shouting into a microphone, but be realistic. What access do you think this guy has to the levers of political power in Scotland? What access do you think he has to the media? The courts? Do you think the US evangelicals spending lots of money to not block the abortion referendum in Ireland or buffer zones in the UK are giving it to this guy? Get real. by 124876720 (Sat 5th Aug 2023 8:43pm)
  • >However, you seem to be unable to grasp the fact that there are people in positions in the Scottish and UK Governments / Parliaments to make regulations and laws, who have ties to evangelical religious organisations with stated aims of changing society to fit their religion. So what? by 124876720 (Sat 5th Aug 2023 9:24pm)
  • > You can't be this stupid Says the person who thinks that Acts of Parliament are not laws. by 124876720 (Sat 5th Aug 2023 9:24pm)
  • ding ding winner People always assume that TVL are some modern-day Stasi who you must appease. Nothing could be further from the truth. The best way to deal with tv licensing - is simply to make your house a black hole from TVL's perspective. Bin the letters. If you are visited by an enforcement "goon", close the door on them without speaking. by 124876720 (Sun 6th Aug 2023 4:09pm)
  • Perhaps the biggest difference between Glasgow and Edinburgh. Edinbuggers who strike it rich move to nicer bits of Edinburgh. Weegies who strike it rich leave Glasgow. by 124876720 (Sat 9th Sep 2023 2:27pm)
  • Possibly one of the worst roads in Scotland, dreadfully designed, and a horrible experience for everyone. Also a rare bit of truly shit urban planning in Edinburgh with the weird underpass gardens. by 124876720 (Sat 9th Sep 2023 10:17pm)
  • > Then submit a report online that you saw the car outside a primary school with one hand filming, the other down his pants, that's his tomorrow fucked And seeing as you have no idea where he is and he might turn out to have an alibi, and you've just submitted a report about him which will presumably lead to him passing a breathalyser (unless he really is DDing), then even Police Scotland will be able to put 2 and 2 together and fuck your day after tomorrow with a wasting police time charge. by 124876720 (Wed 13th Sep 2023 7:14pm)
  • No, I just think that making false reports people have committed sex offences because they annoy you is Bad, Actually. by 124876720 (Wed 13th Sep 2023 9:41pm)
  • I have a 11 year old Ford Fiesta. by 124876720 (Wed 13th Sep 2023 9:40pm)
  • Dreadful seats! by 124876720 (Fri 15th Sep 2023 6:54am)
  • I seem to remember it being pretty good when it opened. I think that's the model though for these places - you start off running with low margins and high quality, then sell it off along with the goodwill. by 124876720 (Thu 21st Sep 2023 9:38pm)
  • Mad how the police are more focused on vehicles which are illegal than ones which aren't. Really makes u think 🤔 by 124876720 (Mon 30th Oct 2023 4:03pm)
  • Robroyston African Dance Academy? by 124876720 (Thu 2nd Nov 2023 7:08am)
  • > Gaelic is a sign of non-British identity and culture, so suppressing and even straight up killing it is key to enforcing a unionist identity. It was the Scottish Parliament in 1616, almost a century before the Act of Union, which decreed that Gaelic should be "abolishit and removit" from Scotland, and it was Labour, a Unionist party, which introduced the Gaelic Language (Scotland) Act in 2005. by 124876720 (Tue 7th Nov 2023 9:29am)
  • That would be the Scottish King James VI and I? by 124876720 (Tue 7th Nov 2023 3:58pm)
  • The guy attributing hostility to Gaelic as fundamental to unionism is the one ignoring historical context. by 124876720 (Tue 7th Nov 2023 4:40pm)
  • What argument? The argument is simply conspiratorial smearing. The idiotic substance of your comment is belied by the condescending manner in which it is written. Every party in Holyrood declares itself in favour of the promotion of Gaidhlig. The unionist Labour party was the last to promote a Gaelic language act in the legislature. And even during the pre-devolution era there is plenty of evidence of Gaelic-speakers endorsing unionism (which rather belies the suggestion they are eternal enemies). But the fundamental point is that this is c.21 and not the 1600s and King James VI has feck all to do with unionism's position toward Gaelic today. by 124876720 (Tue 7th Nov 2023 5:53pm)
  • Vaya con dios, friend. by 124876720 (Tue 7th Nov 2023 9:09pm)
  • A lot of people are in denial about the true nature off this country, but Scotland is a very small-minded, insular place in many ways. by 124876720 (Sat 11th Nov 2023 8:26pm)
  • Have you tried clapping for our NHS a bit more? by 124876720 (Tue 14th Nov 2023 5:34pm)