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  • When university for non-Scottish students didnt cost 9k a year, it wasn't half as busy. People now that it's more expensive are on average way more motivated. Also there is many more international students than there used to be, which adds to the crush. by 360Saturn (Mon 22nd Apr 2019 4:19pm)
  • I feel like the contention with Byres Road comes from there not being any other straight through road that fulfils the same role though in terms of the places it connects to each other. by 360Saturn (Sat 13th Jul 2019 9:44pm)
  • Piers Morgan's sister you mean? by 360Saturn (Tue 16th Jul 2019 9:43pm)
  • Castlemilk if you never want to feel safe. Used to work there. Would not recommend. by 360Saturn (Thu 25th Jul 2019 11:09am)
  • Give them something to make them sleepy. Its only 5h and if they're sleeping they won't notice. We did it when last moving house with the cat in the car for a 6h drive. by 360Saturn (Mon 2nd Sep 2019 3:51pm)
  • Thought so! Having said that that wee stall was always pretty expensive iirc. Haven't seen the Costa open yet though so thought it might be like that ghost one at Hillhead. by 360Saturn (Wed 8th Jan 2020 11:03am)
  • Speaking personally I've found that by wearing gloves that in itself reminds me not to absently touch my face which I might otherwise do without thinking about it. Just my experience. by 360Saturn (Mon 6th Apr 2020 10:50am)
  • Interesting. Well I've been wearing disposable gloves only to do my shopping. Then binning them as soon as I get in before i touch anything (take them off inside out), and also wiping down everything I've bought with disinfectant wipes. I figured that covers everything pretty much? by 360Saturn (Mon 6th Apr 2020 11:09am)
  • sounds like something straight out of River City by 360Saturn (Fri 17th Apr 2020 12:33am)
  • How do you make the milk like they do in cafes? by 360Saturn (Fri 1st May 2020 2:39pm)
  • cheers! by 360Saturn (Fri 1st May 2020 11:39pm)
  • Are the trains still going to London right now? I figured that was against the restrictions by 360Saturn (Wed 20th May 2020 2:42pm)
  • Don't know the name of her but an older woman who dresses like a doll or a wee girl. Often see her around Cowcaddens getting on the subway. by 360Saturn (Thu 21st May 2020 4:10pm)
  • Hmm, might be! I just remember the pigtails by 360Saturn (Fri 22nd May 2020 6:25am)
  • Altho that does depend on being able to get to the supermarket. Anecdotally at my previous job only one or two of us drove, and we've all been discouraged from taking public transport or travelling further than your nearest shop for 3 months. I know people that have been exclusively shopping out of wee Co-Ops and Spars for that reason. by 360Saturn (Mon 29th Jun 2020 3:28pm)
  • Could be. Thinking about city centre, I can't think of many, if any, supermarkets that do clothes there, mind. Biggest ones that jump to mind are the Sainsbury up by Buchanan and the Aldi/Lidl by the stations, and iirc none of those do clothes. Only clothes supermarkets that come straight to mind are the big ones like Maryhill or Silverburn. by 360Saturn (Mon 29th Jun 2020 3:38pm)
  • I don't think I've ever even seen these and I've been up high in the buildings around! Wonder how much they cost to rent! by 360Saturn (Sun 5th Jul 2020 8:59am)
  • Yes; to an extent. There should be the option imo. Like you guys wfh saved me an hour's travel each way & about £200 a month in travel costs; plus the added benefits of actually having enough energy left to cook when I finished instead of every day following a full 8-9h shift with a mile walk and 40 min on public transport while carrying a heavy bag of all my work gear. by 360Saturn (Wed 15th Jul 2020 6:56am)
  • Super, thanks by 360Saturn (Mon 24th Aug 2020 10:02pm)
  • That's a positive tbh. Good to know, thanks! I don't really have room on my phone for another app! by 360Saturn (Mon 24th Aug 2020 10:01pm)
  • So we've decided to try & eradicate the virus after all then after swearing blind lockdown would only happen so as not to overwhelm the NHS which didn't end up close to happening in Glasgow. Boy I sure do love spending 100% of my time in my tiny flat I share with a stranger so that Jim and Mavis can go out without masks on and have free run of the world just like it used to be. by 360Saturn (Tue 1st Sep 2020 7:23pm)
  • The full lockdown was only meant to last three weeks initially too. Why not lock down the vulnerable to protect them and leave the rest of us be? Or at least have different levels of it, rather than mandating the same treatment across the board for homeowners and people who live in one single room? by 360Saturn (Tue 1st Sep 2020 11:01pm)
  • No, I don't accept that. Its utter bullshit to apply the same rules wholesale to people who are in wildly different circumstances. Enough is enough, and the longer this goies on the less willing some of us will be to put our lives entirely on hold for no recompense whatsoever just in order to go out of our way to - only potentially! - do something to protect the most vulnerable among us. Currently there are people locked down in whole houses to themselves with gardens, husbands, wives and families there with them, and there are people locked down in shitty shared accommodation that they only took in the first place because they never intended on spending much time within it. Broadly, the latter are doing so in order to protect the former, who trend into the at-risk groups. This is *blatantly* a total double standard. Attach a carrot and we might see people more happy to comply, but right now its a huge ask of those in worse-off circumstances that's a mental health crisis primed to explode - to say nothing of those who'll be going straight to self-harm or substance abuse. by 360Saturn (Tue 1st Sep 2020 11:20pm)
  • > You can still visit others outwith the home. Just great when its ten degrees and rainy! > I know it isn't fair, but the virus doesn't care. We need to stop the transmission - so yes, that means the people with £5 million acreages had a better lockdown than the people in studio flats. It sucks, but that's society. This is entirely my point though. The virus *does* strike differently. Older people are phenomenally more at risk, while also being phenomenally more likely to have a more positive experience of lockdown due to their financial and physical situation isolating them from the worst negative consequences. Meanwhile those *least* at risk are captured by the same most arduous restrictions as a 'just in case', which for them will actually open them to mental health vulnerabilities that they wouldn't gave to face otherwise. It's as if to protect people from an acid rain they made the policy that everyone must remain in marquee shelters - and completely swooped past the fact that some people's shelters were holey and falling apart because they'd never had the resources to patch them up in advance. Forcing isolation on people who the virus does not pose a great threat to is creating a second public health crisis completely unnecessarily. by 360Saturn (Wed 2nd Sep 2020 5:57am)
  • I'm not just complaining for me, I'm identifying a risk to people which will directly cause people to not comply. by 360Saturn (Wed 2nd Sep 2020 7:54am)
  • Aye, am not arguing with you mate, I'm just saying that if they *really* want the best outcome this might not be the best way to go about it of the options they have in front of them. Its not so far from punishing both kids when one complains another has hit them. To date people that have sacrificed and sacrificied and sacrificed for this lockdown are getting nothing back, while people who broke it left right and centre can keep going as they have been, while those who are actually the most at risk who we are doing it all for are also basically keeping going as they have been as well. At some point, the people in the first category will get more and more likely to say fuck it and snap. by 360Saturn (Wed 2nd Sep 2020 1:02pm)
  • To be honest, fair cop about the too many households thing, but I literally had no clue you're meant to stay 1m apart from your pals in bars still until this article. Communication of the exact rules remains extremely muddy imo. by 360Saturn (Sun 6th Sep 2020 12:56pm)
  • Is NASA a slur? by 360Saturn (Wed 21st Oct 2020 1:21pm)
  • Is the Patrick general store down by Kelvinhall subway stop still there? I remember that was misspelt for years, just a wee corner shop. by 360Saturn (Thu 22nd Oct 2020 1:09am)
  • As I mentioned on the other thread; these hours also all but guarantee that the demo of people who'll be out socialising and mixing the most will be retired folk. Seems a bit of an own goal. by 360Saturn (Fri 30th Oct 2020 12:17pm)
  • Very quiet! by 360Saturn (Thu 5th Nov 2020 11:42pm)
  • Fingers crossed this is three weeks three weeks and not 'three weeks aka three months' like it was when they got rid of household mixing. Obviously I'm gutted also but at least it's not til Friday. by 360Saturn (Tue 17th Nov 2020 2:47pm)
  • Of course, this will then create the problem that if people want to travel elsewhere for Christmas e.g. to family, they'll only have less than 2 weeks to do it. No doubt there'll be a bunch of bottlenecks on public transport etc. by 360Saturn (Tue 17th Nov 2020 2:53pm)
  • ...I'm just after running round all the clothes shops today thinking they'd be closed until mid December :') by 360Saturn (Wed 18th Nov 2020 3:54pm)
  • No, but I'd not bought any all year and jumpers are pretty useful come winter. by 360Saturn (Wed 18th Nov 2020 6:06pm)
  • Mozza by 360Saturn (Thu 19th Nov 2020 7:40am)
  • Super :D by 360Saturn (Mon 23rd Nov 2020 9:54am)
  • Sweet, cheers! by 360Saturn (Mon 23rd Nov 2020 9:54am)
  • My tummy says yes! by 360Saturn (Mon 23rd Nov 2020 9:53am)
  • I'm interested! it's never too late for cake ! by 360Saturn (Mon 23rd Nov 2020 12:57pm)
  • Just for people who live there specifically or nah? by 360Saturn (Mon 30th Nov 2020 8:48am)
  • Is that right? Gah. I've just had an awful day and then the website wasn't working for me. Do you know are they all open or just some? by 360Saturn (Sat 12th Dec 2020 6:00pm)
  • Any idea why that is? Do you know if other chains are open? by 360Saturn (Sat 12th Dec 2020 6:05pm)
  • Excuse you by 360Saturn (Sat 12th Dec 2020 6:23pm)
  • ...damn, I just realised I've only seen my parents in person once this whole year too. That's sobering. by 360Saturn (Sun 20th Dec 2020 1:20am)
  • Not great timing to go shopping! 💀 by 360Saturn (Mon 4th Jan 2021 4:32pm)
  • I agree. I've been dreading it too but having it happen is at least in some way better than being constantly anti-blue balls about what horrible thing is just round the corner. Though I do sometimes wonder is this Stockholm Syndrome now... by 360Saturn (Mon 4th Jan 2021 7:49pm)
  • They opened?! I've been waiting a year ,& thought they were shut still. Ffs by 360Saturn (Mon 4th Jan 2021 7:54pm)
  • That's great, thanks! by 360Saturn (Sat 30th Jan 2021 6:40pm)
  • Just asking often helps. Most places will have someone in charge of finding entertainment so it just makes their legwork easier when someone offers. by 360Saturn (Sun 31st Jan 2021 10:33am)
  • If you have some kind of portfolio link for reference that'll probably do you! Depending on the venue, but loads of venues already have trouble getting acts or events,,especially for less busy days. We had got to the stage of leasing one of the bars to a group of amateur musicians before I left my old place. by 360Saturn (Sun 31st Jan 2021 11:36am)
  • Pathetic. I don't understand why you'd just drop it. Everyone has either pockets or a handbag. by 360Saturn (Wed 10th Feb 2021 1:10pm)
  • That's really terrible about the benches. I sincerely hope the people who put them up don't see this before they're repaired. I know it's not quite desecrating a gravestone but it's not that far off. by 360Saturn (Mon 8th Mar 2021 4:00pm)
  • Pretty much strictly limits where you can go & how long for because 9/10 public toilets are now shut. With a car that's fine, can easily shift yourself to any out of town big supermarket, or even quickly home and back out again. On foot you're limited to half as far as you can go from the house because you'll need to make it back in time. by 360Saturn (Sun 21st Mar 2021 2:04pm)
  • I've seen a few litter-pickers out that look like amateurs. I actually think the council could do with creating some jobs to do that. It's something I used to do in my small town, it was work that needed doing, and we weren't expensive to employ. If it was even a part-time role now that would really help out people in the city to not be unemployed and to make the space nicer. by 360Saturn (Wed 24th Mar 2021 3:23pm)
  • We used to have an open bottle bin/skip next to my place that was used by a local restaurant and the houses on the street. Somehow, the restaurant got it into their heads that it was to be for their use only and put a lock on it. Then mysteriously about a month later it disappeared. No kind of replacement given. by 360Saturn (Wed 31st Mar 2021 6:13pm)
  • Wild how similar a lot of the places and even people look to today, minus the different fashions. I wonder when kids stopped commonly wearing shorts. Bet those lads were cold! by 360Saturn (Wed 5th May 2021 3:56pm)
  • Complain that its DIY. If its thumping all the time how are you to know that its a barbell. Even if you do know just play dumb. by 360Saturn (Sun 9th May 2021 6:29pm)
  • At this short notice I'd expect a lot of disobedience especially with no warning. Really feel for the businesses that have been fucked around too many times now too. by 360Saturn (Fri 14th May 2021 8:09pm)
  • Vaccinate the people who have the easiest time isolating. Then ringfence vaccines for them. Then keep on doing so. Galaxy brain shite. by 360Saturn (Fri 14th May 2021 8:13pm)
  • Aye after being told that they need ready for a grand opening on 17th. Plenty places have rushed to get renovations done etc. by 360Saturn (Sat 15th May 2021 3:16am)
  • Six patients who've had the vaccine including one who's had two doses, so probably older folks then, right? Excuse me while I don't start shaking in my boots right away. Obviously yes, caution, but at the same time all this reporting as if respiratory illnesses don't otherwise exist and aren't common in people at the older ages is really irritating. We already knew the vaccines weren't 100% effective even against the older variant we had before the India one. by 360Saturn (Sat 15th May 2021 12:38pm)
  • Because they didn't tell us so we assume the worst. The same way they conceal at every possible occasion that something like 95% of all covid deaths were over 80 and only something like 400 people under 40 out of over 100k have died of it. by 360Saturn (Sat 15th May 2021 6:45pm)
  • You're desperate to be offended. by 360Saturn (Sat 15th May 2021 7:05pm)
  • And the news articles fearmongering about how "what if young people won't get vaccinated!!!1!" They might as well ask why they aren't drawing their pensions. by 360Saturn (Mon 17th May 2021 11:58am)
  • Well, we have since the start of September, right? by 360Saturn (Mon 17th May 2021 12:00pm)
  • We can't talk about that because unless you died of covid we don't want to hear about your death and/or how a death affected your family. Covid is the only cause of death that matters now. by 360Saturn (Mon 17th May 2021 2:08pm)
  • The only reason we had mass deaths and overwhelmed NHS last year is because vulnerable people were mixing. Of course, that's not in the official narrative of us all being in it together and every single vulnerable person hiding away in their house 24-7 not seeing anyone and taking advantage of e.g. their prioritised deliveries. Ignoring the evidence of our own eyes and ears of retired people still meeting up in hordes in cafes with no masks and having their pals round the house just like normal while giving all kinds of justifications. 1000 over 70s a day in January were contracting the virus. It wasn't magicking its way down their chimneys. by 360Saturn (Mon 17th May 2021 4:13pm)
  • > 839 of those were 64 and under. And how many of those were 60-64? Watch it be something like 500. by 360Saturn (Mon 17th May 2021 4:16pm)
  • Good thing no-one from those few areas is out and about going to work or on public transport or shopping in city centre or anything... by 360Saturn (Mon 17th May 2021 7:25pm)
  • Haha I was past caring in January. What gets me is the narrativising around it all. The reality is that a *lot* of people who got covid and died did so after playing fast and loose with the rules while being vulnerable and getting burnt. And that the rules being as strict as they are are a backdoor attempt to control for reckless people by shutting down as many of the rest of us who could be unwitting carriers as possible. Meanwhile, let's smother any possible class- or other health- based discussion of the impact of sustained lockdowns and interruption of our natural way of life by painting anyone who even wants to bring up the subject as at best a crazy person and at worst a closet murderer. Oh and in terms of actually doing something to deal with surges? Nah mate stick to the plan cooked up 6 months plus ago by hook or by crook where we do vaccines by age only, even after its been proven jabbing people with high social contact stops them from becoming spreader vectors & cuts the issue off at the knees. Where is the realism and where is the dynamic leadership please? The situation in Glasgow is a microcosm of the wider issues and not addressing them is only leading to resentment, which ironically will increase likelihood of people breaking the rules. I mean on that note. There's zero discussion of the possibility that there might be a link between Glasgow having the most draconian rules in the country for about 8 months now *and* the fact that compliance seems now to be going out the window *and/or* people in Glasgow seem increasingly at the end of their rope, which will be adding pressure to local services. by 360Saturn (Tue 18th May 2021 4:13am)
  • Well what alarms me is hearing about how the variants might actually *be* more harmful yet nothing is done to protect us from going to work etc. It's kind of like proof in action that if covid *had* been primarily dangerous to people say, under 40 and no-one over in the first place, that maybe nothing would have been done about it and it would all have been put on the individual to try and get concessions from work etc. to keep themselves safe, just like how they handled HIV/AIDS at first by blaming gay people and pointing the finger. They can't have it both ways. If it's that dangerous we shouldn't be being asked to go to work without vaccines. And if it's not that dangerous, then we shouldn't be needing to keep being as overly cautious as we have been for 15 months. by 360Saturn (Tue 18th May 2021 8:12am)
  • Ah, the QMU. Really went downhill with its new management. Should've leaned into being a music venue instead of trying to halfarse being a bit of everything imo. by 360Saturn (Wed 19th May 2021 9:29pm)
  • What I remember is the other student union presenting itself as *the one* student union & the QMU not even trying to fight the battle by doing the same, instead going for a "and we're here too!" vibe. Always seemed a bit defeated. by 360Saturn (Thu 20th May 2021 4:36am)
  • > Their getting rid of most of their staff instead of furloughing them That's bollocks! Kept that quiet, didn't they. Bet a lot of folk would lose their fond memories of the place if they knew that. Besides that, also seems quite nonsensical given that furlough is paid by gov. Even a bit cruel. by 360Saturn (Thu 20th May 2021 9:49am)
  • What a surprise. I don't know anyone following it to the letter. I think this will majorly backfire on Nicola politically, especially by letting Moray out. by 360Saturn (Fri 21st May 2021 3:50pm)
  • May??? Sorry, but what are we continuing on with the security theatre for if *not* based on people not going in to ICU? by 360Saturn (Sun 23rd May 2021 5:16pm)
  • Yeah, this didn't work for me. Sorry OP you were misinformed. by 360Saturn (Mon 24th May 2021 9:14am)
  • Who cares about skipping the queue? This whole last year has been an exercise in some people bending over backwards for others, while other people do everything they can to live their old lives exactly as they used to. While we all continue on with the polite fiction that every single person who contracted covid and had a negative outcome did so in a tragic accident of unintentional exposure and that not a single one did so after refusing to wear a mask or to distance or isolate. by 360Saturn (Mon 24th May 2021 3:23pm)
  • Strongly doubt it. However, anecdotally I know very few people following the rules to the letter now. The only difference is not having drinks inside premises as far as I can see, and halfheartedly trying to keep to rule of 6 inside - which iirc we never even got in the first place, right? by 360Saturn (Thu 27th May 2021 9:35pm)
  • "oNE MORE WEEK!" by 360Saturn (Fri 28th May 2021 12:46pm)
  • I think the thing that gets me is that there has been so much handwringing and catastrophising for especially the last month, but also before... that if we actually *did* see soars in cases/deaths and an actual *even more* dangerous or deadly variant now (than the Indian), and actually did each and every one of us *have* to be more cautious for the sake of public health, a lot of people at this stage wouldn't believe it and wouldn't modify their behaviour, because the calls on us have been so overblown and disproportionate thus far. And then we'd really be in the shit. Hopefully it won't come to that, but they really have burnt a ton of people's goodwill and willingness to help out with this continual 'just one more week' stuff, and the continued lack of acknowledgement of the real and measurable struggles outside of covid people have been undergoing to keep to these restrictions. by 360Saturn (Fri 28th May 2021 1:00pm)
  • I said this on the other thread, but can you imagine if we suddenly did have an actual dangerous variant now that actually was significantly more deadly than the Indian one and ScotGov/Nicola said that now it was so dangerous we'd all have to be even more careful and roll back to some of the earlier rules? I honestly think people wouldn't believe them and wouldn't modify their behaviour, because we've gone so long without a pressure valve and with excessive fearmongering about the variants we have had. In terms of public health outcomes, that's dangerous territory to be in, and I think they've really messed up over the last month to create that. by 360Saturn (Fri 28th May 2021 1:06pm)
  • As far as I can make out the end game is 1) things that older folk like and/or need to be healthy are ringfenced for them as top priority and 2) things that younger folk like and/or want in order to be healthy are put to the bottom of the list and treated as "hmm, maybe you can have it one day if you're very very good" by 360Saturn (Fri 28th May 2021 2:13pm)
  • Are you even disagreeing with each other? You're both saying hospitals are busy with non-covid patients now. by 360Saturn (Fri 28th May 2021 2:45pm)
  • Yeah, and you can stop framing it as people pissed about not eating inside restaurants when that's the literal last thing most people give a shit about. It's been illegal to see a single friend or family member in your home for 13 out if the last 15 months. That's what people have an issue with. by 360Saturn (Fri 28th May 2021 10:09pm)
  • Watch out for bunnies tho by 360Saturn (Tue 1st Jun 2021 3:19pm)
  • Honestly can't believe it. Guess it goes to show that political pressure works! by 360Saturn (Tue 1st Jun 2021 3:18pm)
  • Still needing to distance outside but not in your house or garden seems a bit of a contradiction. "Sorry ma, can't hug you goodbye on the street, need to be on the doorstep for that." by 360Saturn (Tue 1st Jun 2021 3:20pm)
  • I kinda think if you're going to choose to live near an open space like a park, you should be ready for it to be used that way. I feel like if all events were halted forever tomorrow, before you know it those same people would find something else to complain about. by 360Saturn (Thu 3rd Jun 2021 8:34pm)
  • They have a drop in?? You just need to show up or what? by 360Saturn (Fri 4th Jun 2021 12:22pm)
  • When I last got one it's distanced ish. They won't sit you next to someone but you may be directly behind someone or have someone just across the aisle. by 360Saturn (Fri 4th Jun 2021 3:48pm)
  • What kind of event is it? Walking out and about? Or something more intense? by 360Saturn (Tue 29th Jun 2021 2:44pm)
  • > The Pride Outside ones I went to were just light walking about Pollock park, making some EcoArt, some meditation, sharing free food/tea, and similar activities. Most of it was done while sitting. Facilities (toilets/cafe) were nearby and the place is easy to reach via buses/trains. It was family friendly and there were couples with kids too. That sounds really chill. Is it at weekends? I might try and give that a spin. Thanks so much for your in depth reply! :) by 360Saturn (Tue 29th Jun 2021 3:47pm)
  • Semi in this boat too so hang in there! In my case a lot of my longterm friends moved away during/before the pandemic, so it's a bit of a refreshing of social circles I'm at. I guess my main interests are music and tv shows (and dragging them). As you can see I'm pretty prolific in the popheads and drag race subs on here ;) (and I need to spend less time commenting on news etc.) Despite you'd think those being common interests I actually find difficulty finding lgbtq people here with those as their major interests as a lot of people seem to be more sports/games oriented. Which I'm not totally against, I just haven't really found a starting/entry point to. Anyway, good luck! I think loads of people have had some good ideas & I would second Category is Books as a hub when it is open. Also Glasgow Zine Library at least used to have a queer meetup that I never made it to but had planned to. by 360Saturn (Tue 29th Jun 2021 3:52pm)
  • How rude that someone is downvoting you! Some people clearly should get out more! Cheers :) by 360Saturn (Tue 29th Jun 2021 5:31pm)
  • The Olio app sometimes has things on it. It is also good for free food. by 360Saturn (Tue 27th Jul 2021 3:38pm)
  • Today the Water Tribe attacked by 360Saturn (Fri 6th Aug 2021 6:27pm)
  • I pronounce those the same 🤡 by 360Saturn (Sat 14th Aug 2021 11:55pm)
  • Before all what divisive bullshit? You mean straight people being homophobic and violent for no reason to us *forcing* us to create our own spaces to be safe from the threat they posed us? by 360Saturn (Fri 3rd Sep 2021 9:43am)
  • Obviously they weren't referring to straight trans people though. by 360Saturn (Fri 3rd Sep 2021 9:42am)
  • So you, a straight person, didn't have any issues going in to gay spaces and now that *you* feel less welcome in those spaces because *you* can't respect people *who those spaces are for*, you are finding that there is an issue and *you* feel attacked??? The only person I see being divisive here is you. by 360Saturn (Fri 3rd Sep 2021 2:21pm)
  • I don't know who you're referring to and frankly it sounds like *you* are the person with an issue. Don't you think that talking about stuff like 'lunatics making up pronouns' and 'fringe mobs' doesn't sound any better than what people in the past would have said about, say, people 'making up words for not being *Normal*' i.e. straight? What exactly is making you feel 'less welcome', because you're tiptoeing around it. As far as it seems from what you've said so far it's only because you're refusing to address people as they prefer to be addressed. I don't understand why you would do that or have an issue with that. How would you like it if someone called you by the wrong name all evening after you'd asked them not to? by 360Saturn (Fri 3rd Sep 2021 2:36pm)
  • I'm not implying anything. I'm simply trying to get to the bottom of what your issue is because you're vagueposting. Maybe I'm simply lucky to have never come across the fringe mob, but, with respect, as I say, the language you're using to describe this all isn't coming off well and the vagueness that you're using is making it come across that you are overstating an issue that you don't want to be more specific on in case that makes people not agree with you. Just fyi if that isn't the case. by 360Saturn (Fri 3rd Sep 2021 3:01pm)
  • Genuinely, what is your actual issue, without rabbit holing and vagueposting? To summarize how it comes across - please correct me if this isn't the case: * You are a straight person who used to like spending time in gay spaces when you didn't feel you had to adapt your behaviour in any way * You now, as a straight person, don't feel welcome because you feel you have to change your behaviour in some way * The way that you have to change is to be respectful of others in that space and you feel that doing so is something you don't want to do because you don't feel their claims of how they want to be treated deserve to be heard * Rather than thinking that this comes from these people's true desire to be respected, you think this is some kind of Russian con that is making the community toxic * The only way that the community has become toxic is that it has made straight people who refuse to respect the people's space and how they want to be addressed feel less welcome. What solution do you possibly want here, besides forcing people to not have any space to go to at all so that you, a straight person, can personally feel more comfortable in an LGBTQ+ space and not feel the need to change your behaviour or how you are asked to treat others? Regarding pronouns and everything like that, no-one is forcing anyone to date anyone or kiss them or whatever. Your lesbian friend got hit on by someone she wasn't into. That could happen with a lesbian, a bi girl, a straight man or anyone. The pronouns thing is a smokescreen and you are the only one going for it. by 360Saturn (Fri 3rd Sep 2021 3:47pm)
  • 'the fringe mob'. 'People denying reality' etc. etc. These are all terms that have been used against gay people *and* trans people in the past. It's a bit rich a straight person coming in to decide what is and is not appropriate to be in a queer space and then acting offended if *they personally* no longer feel welcome because they're choosing to go out of their way to not respect people. I'm certainly not looking for ways to be offended *or* being oversensitive! I just don't personally understand why a straight person would go into a queer space and then refuse to respect the people already in that space. It would be like me going into a straight bar and calling every man I met Barbara and then acting like *I* was being slighted if they said they didn't like it. by 360Saturn (Fri 3rd Sep 2021 10:43pm)
  • Well, now we're finally getting somewhere. That was all I wanted because vagueposting is something that people frequently do in order to try and conceal their bigotry (e.g. homophobia, racism etc.) to try and get people on their side, like people in AmIAnAsshole do. To me there's two issues here then. One issue is people not wanting to date certain people. I think that's a personal issue. The person you were previously talking with was going on about people 'making up pronouns' etc. and to me that just sounds like drawing a line in the sand and saying this is how queer you can be and no further. I agree with you that there are some people who take things too far and try and start fights over things that are legitimately personal opinions, or that are too easily offended. However, I would try not to assume that everyone falls into that group and that I have just been unlucky to come across one particular person like that or a few - and to be honest we're talking about a place where everyone you meet probably has at the very least alcohol taken so might already be overstating their position. Maybe I'm just an optimist. We do frequently come across some people like that on some of the other subs I am frequent commenting on, but I try and take the view that those people might change their opinions or might be posting/speaking in an altered state. by 360Saturn (Fri 3rd Sep 2021 11:25pm)
  • No, that's ridiculous. We can't put our lives on hold forever. Some people have got into a spiral of putting things off until they get into the habit of always doing that. by 360Saturn (Fri 10th Sep 2021 10:34pm)
  • Whereabouts ish on Crow Rd? It's a big road. I wasn't there but maybe someone else saw something. by 360Saturn (Sun 12th Sep 2021 1:12pm)
  • Is there some kind of flu going around right now? Besides the big one. Me and one of my friends (different household) have been completely flattened this last week. Even at the tail end of it I'm getting vivid fever dreams. Not had anything like this for months or even a year! by 360Saturn (Sun 19th Sep 2021 9:50am)
  • I thought about it but it seemed kinda counterproductive. I'd have to get the bus or a taxi (spreading it) to a test centre to find out because I don't drive & don't have any local enough to walk it. by 360Saturn (Sun 19th Sep 2021 2:39pm)
  • ... I really can't believe those exist and somehow I and everyone I know totally missed that. My pal literally travelled from Springburn to Glasgow Green to do one of them tests and I thought best to just hide away. I'll do that then, cheers for letting me know about it. by 360Saturn (Sun 19th Sep 2021 2:44pm)
  • Super that's great. Kinda hope to find out I've had it now so I don't need to worry about it again. by 360Saturn (Sun 19th Sep 2021 2:50pm)
  • I've had doubt before as well from drivers. I don't know if it's how I dress, but I've literally had drivers before say to me things along the lines of "are you sure you want on this bus?" as if they think wherever they're away to is too rough for me or something. by 360Saturn (Tue 21st Sep 2021 11:39pm)
  • I saw before the idea of older people taking in carers as lodgers, which I thought was a really neat solution to a) carers being low-paid b) older people living alone in huge houses and c) older people needing care and support but not wanting to give up their independence & lifestyle. by 360Saturn (Wed 22nd Sep 2021 4:18pm)
  • I guess the over-motorway walkways. I don't know how old they are but the whole concept has a very 90s feel to me. by 360Saturn (Fri 1st Oct 2021 10:17am)
  • To me they seem very all-or-nothing in a way that I find a little offputting. Also I don't love how they've for around 2 years branded themselves as an alcohol-free safe space for queer community, as an alternative to bars etc. yet as far as I can see operate solely as a takeaway hatch where you aren't allowed in. by 360Saturn (Mon 4th Oct 2021 12:46pm)
  • I have to say that's a bit aggravating with how they market themselves though. What are they using their space inside for? Nowhere else is a takeaway hatch any more. It might not be an excuse, but it sounds like one. Personally it annoys me as well because it makes them sound like another one of the hordes of businesses that have cut a part of their essential service 'because covid' but not really. by 360Saturn (Mon 4th Oct 2021 9:15pm)
  • Kinda also think there's less to it than the articles give the impression. It's essentially one street, two if you count Alexandra Parade, and the rest is just houses and houses, one or two schools, and that gym that's never open. by 360Saturn (Tue 5th Oct 2021 10:16am)
  • Just saw on their social media they now **so generously** let you use their loo inside and also wait inside for your takeaway before they make you fuck off with what you bought 'because covid'. "Takeaway only still, masks required". Frankly don't see what the damn point of them is. Almost seems mean now always posting pics of their renovation,tables and chairs that no-one's allowed in to sit on while still swearing blind they're an alternative to bars. by 360Saturn (Wed 13th Oct 2021 12:04pm)
  • Have to say this makes me feel anxious about getting the train through there again. I felt v unsafe at Queen Street (!) on that line recently, was a crazy guy kicking and shouting at ghosts on the platform before the train came. Everyone trying to avoid eye contact unless he started on them. by 360Saturn (Mon 18th Oct 2021 12:02pm)
  • Citizen M hotel by 360Saturn (Mon 18th Oct 2021 12:05pm)
  • Ok, so like... ethically I support this, but practically I'm unsure how this is going to work? Thankfully I live close enough to a shop I can still walk it (assuming we don't have freak ice again by November) but I hope they come to an agreement soon whereby workers are offered something fair or else this is going to be really difficult for a lot of people. by 360Saturn (Thu 21st Oct 2021 5:57pm)
  • What do the meds do for you? by 360Saturn (Mon 1st Nov 2021 5:44pm)
  • Amazing view though. Hope you've got double-glazing! by 360Saturn (Wed 3rd Nov 2021 11:09pm)
  • Because blank dirty stone looks so much better? Get tae by 360Saturn (Thu 4th Nov 2021 1:59am)
  • Really? Maybe i have a low bar but I've seen much worse. I do think the council could employ some litter pickers. People shouldn't be having to volunteer to do that when there are so many folk un(der)employed in Glasgow who'd be happy to. by 360Saturn (Sun 7th Nov 2021 10:34am)
  • Looking on the booking website it still says 24 months for me. So if the guidance has been updated, staff are probably working off the website hence the confusion. by 360Saturn (Wed 1st Dec 2021 5:44pm)
  • Thanks! by 360Saturn (Sat 4th Dec 2021 7:52pm)
  • icafe does smoothies with fruit in them. In terms of milkshakey things Costa is the best imo by 360Saturn (Sun 23rd Jan 2022 12:19am)
  • Hillhead is telling anyone who'll listen how down to earth they are by 360Saturn (Fri 28th Jan 2022 3:09pm)
  • Bread Meats Bread by 360Saturn (Sat 29th Jan 2022 11:12am)
  • Just on that note... this could be a me problem, but why are all of these 'fresh produce' stores so expensive? Roots and fruits is the only one I've found that doesn't charge extortionate prices for its fruit and veg. I understand the speciality cans and packaged goods they bring in, but I'm sure I've seen Locavore charging £4 for a loaf of bread and something like 50p for an onion. by 360Saturn (Tue 1st Feb 2022 5:07pm)
  • Just say Pink Peacock 🙃 by 360Saturn (Wed 2nd Feb 2022 3:43pm)
  • Well tbf I've no been to it in about 5 year. Their fruits and veggies always seemed a fair price though & where they're located one of the few places you can buy loose abd thus not get too much and it go to waste. by 360Saturn (Wed 2nd Feb 2022 4:03pm)
  • Hope the business owners are alright. Can you even imagine fans of anything else but sport behaving like this? Aw the attendees at the Little Mix concert are out on the streets fighting and smashing windows after. by 360Saturn (Wed 2nd Feb 2022 10:01pm)
  • 😅 thats me told by 360Saturn (Thu 3rd Feb 2022 8:04am)
  • Susan Boyle needs to be on the list so you can have a susanalbumparty by 360Saturn (Mon 7th Feb 2022 1:56am)
  • Didn't we find out a while back that it doesn't transmit through surfaces? That's probably why people are more cavalier. by 360Saturn (Mon 7th Feb 2022 10:48am)
  • I don't like wearing them and the trotted out arguments that "they aren't an inconvenience at all" annoy me because obviously they are - the dividing line is just between *how* inconvenient you find them. That said I have worn one since before we were told to 'just in case' and I keep doing so because I don't want to be fined. I would prefer not to, but there's plenty things I'd prefer not to do that I'm legally obliged to. by 360Saturn (Mon 7th Feb 2022 10:46am)
  • Well, even so. The worry keeps me right. by 360Saturn (Mon 7th Feb 2022 11:55am)
  • Because it's become polarised. To even question any aspect of the rules or to point out that even *sometimes* they aren't logically consistent must mean that you're a 5G tower destroying antivax loon whose mask (heh) has briefly slipped. It can't possibly be that you are a normal person seeing and pointing out what seems an inconsistency. by 360Saturn (Mon 7th Feb 2022 5:01pm)
  • DELETED No-one said Texas yet? by 360Saturn (Fri 25th Feb 2022 11:22am)
  • Maybe if anything was open still, getting an UberEats delivery home and asking it to pick her up on the way might be a shout? No idea if they would honour that kind of request. by 360Saturn (Tue 8th Mar 2022 1:03pm)
  • Is it not likely that people are doing that to avoid getting too close to someone *because* the train's busier? by 360Saturn (Tue 29th Mar 2022 10:01am)
  • I wondered tbh if it was a cultural difference! I did figure it was unlikely all the businesses had got together to deliberately avoid customers 😅 I wonder where it comes from & if it'll change as glasgow becomes more international. As you say, unfortunate for ex-alcoholics! I know a couple as well. by 360Saturn (Sat 2nd Apr 2022 5:23pm)
  • Yeah, I wonder about it too. In the West end or studenty places it makes more sense, but outside of those the ones that only seem to be open in the middle of the day do confuse me a bit. Retired people I guess, or just people on their day off? 10-4 or even 10-3.30 seems normal. I would've thought if they were going to do limited hours they'd want to catch people going past on their way *to* or from work. I went out for a before-work walk the other day (I start at 8.30) and literally nothing was open even in city centre, it was like a ghost town with just cleaners going home from night shift and street sweepers etc. by 360Saturn (Sat 2nd Apr 2022 8:28pm)
  • I don't know this one, but Spitfire in the merchant city was open until 6 as well. Not sure if that's a chain or if there's just the one. The chains (Nero, Starbucks, icafe, Tinderbox etc.) seem to stay open later - and be quite busy well into the evening too tbh! by 360Saturn (Sat 2nd Apr 2022 8:30pm)
  • Kinda depends how you went about it. It's tricky of course to say, but a lot of people go out with their mates to have a pals night. Maybe this is just me speaking with lack of experience of other cities' scenes, but if you were trying to get in with people you didn't know it's possible you were perceived as trying to hit on one of the people in the group. by 360Saturn (Fri 8th Apr 2022 1:14pm)
  • Agree, people are just a bit wary these days. Understandably really, but it's still a pity. by 360Saturn (Fri 8th Apr 2022 8:33pm)
  • There's Ushis cafe up on West Regent St these days, its also alcohol free I think. Only open weekdays iirc. by 360Saturn (Fri 8th Apr 2022 8:35pm)
  • This is always the way with young gays. Its a power thing to be the biggest bitch in the room. I don't take it too seriously, no different to str8 boys puffing out chests etc. by 360Saturn (Sun 10th Apr 2022 12:49pm)
  • Feels a bit faceless. On the plus side, it is ambitious, and looks future-looking in terms of redeveloping what the area is used *for* longterm, instead of just changing it a bit but keeping its general use as a place people go in and out of as quick as they can. I don't love the London 2012 logo-esque decoration on the big cube. by 360Saturn (Fri 22nd Apr 2022 1:51pm)
  • "I'm a person not a human" by 360Saturn (Sun 24th Apr 2022 1:23pm)
  • Green this time. It was the only one where the councillors' team came to the door and had ideas about local issues. That's what we need. Also I didn't agree with all of Nicola's approaches to lockdown, so that has a little of an influence. by 360Saturn (Mon 2nd May 2022 7:16pm)
  • It's got to be the weather eh? by 360Saturn (Sun 15th May 2022 4:44am)
  • Men are fucking crazy, honestly. Why are we implicitly saying this is ok still in the 2020s?? by 360Saturn (Sun 15th May 2022 4:43am)
  • Really hope this means an improvement. The Greens had lots of good ideas and got my vote this time for that reason. Hopefully SNP won't hobble them. by 360Saturn (Tue 17th May 2022 3:26pm)
  • Buses just went up too. Over half an hour's min wage for a day ticket on the bus now (£5) or £2.65 to hop on is just crazy. I think there should at least be some kind of means-tested discount card. It's insane that workers have to pay to go to and from work while pensioners who could be millionaires get free bus. by 360Saturn (Thu 19th May 2022 4:56pm)
  • I'd say 30k. by 360Saturn (Mon 23rd May 2022 9:02pm)
  • I think there's been a lot of change and shift in some of the areas. Some places have got posher, a lot of small businesses have closed down or shut up shop, and the same for a number of established larger businesses. I definitely don't feel that a lot of places have the same vibe as they did 5 years ago, but maybe that's just the duration of change in a city Glasgow's size. by 360Saturn (Tue 24th May 2022 3:16am)
  • Bullshit it's that much! Take out all the high earners and it can't be? I bet the average by age is a lot lower. by 360Saturn (Tue 24th May 2022 9:41pm)
  • Isn't the point meant to be to see how most people live? I don't see how it's helpful to say e.g. on average the kids in 'insert-deprived-district' school have £50 a week pocket money because the child of a Saudi billionaire happens to go to the school and so pulls the overall average up on his own. by 360Saturn (Tue 24th May 2022 11:07pm)
  • HRM? by 360Saturn (Mon 6th Jun 2022 3:14pm)
  • What kind of thing did they do? I'm curious what kind of art young people from an oppressive regime would create, given the freedom to express themselves! by 360Saturn (Mon 6th Jun 2022 3:14pm)
  • How interesting! I think that kind of stuff is really informative. It's a shame there's the language barrier because it would be really interesting to be able to understand the perspective firsthand. When I worked at Glasgow uni, the chinese students tended to keep themselves to themselves, but I was thinking in a final show format, they would have to create something for wider appreciation. During the pandemic I got a little involved in community art and it's really interesting to see the things different groups or people from really varying situations come up with, based on what has appeal or emotional connection with where they are in their lives at that moment. I might see if there are any final shows this month that I could go to to get a firsthand look at the work! by 360Saturn (Mon 6th Jun 2022 5:50pm)
  • Sure, I didn't mean "Chinese students as a monolith" but "the Chinese students you came across". Interesting to know! Thanks for an insight. by 360Saturn (Mon 6th Jun 2022 8:22pm)
  • Right on that note how does the new card tap thing work? I know in London on the tube its tap in, tap out, but two drivers have given me different instructions now 🥴 by 360Saturn (Sun 26th Jun 2022 12:51am)
  • Do you need to be married to go to a wedding? by 360Saturn (Mon 27th Jun 2022 4:13am)
  • I kinda just wish they were a little quieter or a little less frequent. If it was just a walk rather than a marching alarm clock for hours at a time first thing in the morning at the weekend I might feel differently about it. by 360Saturn (Sat 2nd Jul 2022 6:36pm)
  • They didn't used to, this is only since covid. Everything used to be 7 minimum. It's one of the things that drew me to the city in the first place. by 360Saturn (Sat 9th Jul 2022 5:30am)
  • A significant number? > Yet it has become what people think of regarding every Pride event. Just because drag queens tend to appear? Ok, sure. That's like saying Graham Norton is what everyone thinks of when you say British tv because he happens to be on it. by 360Saturn (Sat 16th Jul 2022 12:48pm)
  • I think it's a mix of bad luck and as others have said, lockdown. People forget we had lockdown for longer than nearly anywhere else here and it's had the results: * a lot of people's social skills went down * a lot of people who needed mental health support didn't get it, including a lot of people who used to regularly get it who then got it taken away * a lot of people got PTSD from being isolated so long * a lot of people turned to substance abuse to get through it * the people that still mixed did so with smaller groups of people who largely had less respect for law-abiding in the first place, which might have pushed some people to become more so that way themselves going forward A lot of this behaviour also points to people not being aware of the people around them which also you can point right back to lockdown. We simply weren't around others for ages. The concept went out of the heads of a lot of folk, plus once we started opening up again people keep their distance from each other so no-one would tell off someone who was being a pain. by 360Saturn (Tue 19th Jul 2022 5:23pm)
  • Could be because people don't have facebook.? by 360Saturn (Thu 21st Jul 2022 10:27pm)
  • Krispy Kreme just opened there by 360Saturn (Sat 23rd Jul 2022 1:00am)
  • > freely That'll be the day! by 360Saturn (Sun 24th Jul 2022 1:04pm)
  • Ah social distancing. Aka "Whatever we want you to do because we're throwing everything at the wall under the guise of need". by 360Saturn (Sun 24th Jul 2022 1:02pm)
  • DELETED I would recommend against TheGymGroup. I tried it a few times and staff were rude and had a looking down attitude like they didn't want to be bothered. by 360Saturn (Mon 25th Jul 2022 3:49am)
  • Different gym, this was the one in city centre. Fair play. I also don't like those odd one person doors! by 360Saturn (Mon 25th Jul 2022 10:24am)
  • Misread the title as cats & was intrigued how you would've noticed! by 360Saturn (Tue 26th Jul 2022 2:52am)
  • They still do the Skinny, right? the magazine. There's always gig listings and shows etc. in that. by 360Saturn (Wed 27th Jul 2022 11:44am)
  • They aren't single. A lot of people say 'I' but they mean 'my and my partner's combined savings/salary'. Take your salary/loan and double it but you're still going for a one bed, and what you can afford *really* opens up. by 360Saturn (Wed 3rd Aug 2022 2:21pm)
  • I used to get the bus more before the price pretty much *doubled* compared to the train. Wasn't the whole point of electric buses to be cheaper? by 360Saturn (Wed 10th Aug 2022 11:35am)
  • Speaking of covid tests, I did find it hilarious that the only testing centres at the start presupposed that you would have a car and if you didn't, the only way to find out if you had covid or not was to get a bus with strangers, infectious, to the airport to find out yay or nay. by 360Saturn (Sun 14th Aug 2022 1:38am)
  • Love a thunderstorm tbh. Hopefully it brings the temp down a wee bit too, work has been hell to concentrate the last week or so. by 360Saturn (Mon 15th Aug 2022 12:09pm)
  • The transport isn't THAT bad compared to some places! by 360Saturn (Wed 17th Aug 2022 7:08pm)
  • Piece! by 360Saturn (Wed 17th Aug 2022 7:11pm)
  • It's always middle aged men, isn't it. by 360Saturn (Wed 24th Aug 2022 2:15pm)
  • Have to agree with this. I waited on 4 buses last night. One actually came and left 5 minutes *early* 💀 as if the whole point isn't when the bus is meant to go at 8 peoplewill arrive at 7.59 to catch it *at* 8. by 360Saturn (Thu 25th Aug 2022 2:31pm)
  • The low level trains just go from a platform that is located lower within the station. They don't stay 'low'. The station has just got multiple floors that trains leave from. Not sure how familiar you are with travelling by train, but there is a big display board that shows when the trains leave, and where they stop along the way. Any train that leaves for Edinburgh and has very few (4-7) stops along the way is a 'fast' train, and a train going there that has more like 10-15 stops along the way will be a 'slower' train - because it will stop at more stations before it gets to Edinburgh, which adds time to the total journey. by 360Saturn (Sat 27th Aug 2022 4:02pm)
  • 2.65! Has it bloody gone up again it was only 2.50 for a single recently? by 360Saturn (Sun 11th Sep 2022 9:30am)
  • What was she important for? For being born rich and having servants. That's no important that’s just infamous by 360Saturn (Sun 11th Sep 2022 3:32pm)
  • Because what did she do apart from existing and being well known? It's mental that people are upset that she died because it's not like she even did anything but appear on tv once a year sitting on her gold throne. If she was known for donating some of her millions or even paying her staff generously, fair play, but she wasn't. by 360Saturn (Sun 11th Sep 2022 9:38pm)
  • Have you got a car? You can drive and there's also buses, train, subway. City center is also very walkable depending on where you're living. Please don't think you'll be the only Americans. We have quite a number of American students, the city has about 40k students or more a year because it has 4 different colleges in it. What do you like doing & I'll try & recommend some stuff. by 360Saturn (Thu 15th Sep 2022 9:47am)
  • Thin Lizzy - a girl called Elizabeth who was a drug addict 😬 by 360Saturn (Fri 16th Sep 2022 8:59am)
  • Sinusitis probably. Could be a viral infection by 360Saturn (Mon 19th Sep 2022 3:27pm)
  • I didn't realise it was only on for about an hour? Swung by mid afternoon & it was pretty deserted by 360Saturn (Sat 1st Oct 2022 4:15pm)
  • Well, I tried it out finally a few weeks ago and I won't be going back I don't think, which is a shame. I'm not against what they do but they had a very holier than thou attitude as if they thought what they're doing was groundbreaking in Govanhill with the likes of Category Is books and Locavore and Milk just down the road. The staff were standoffish. And I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt regarding their prices, but I had thought since they were a local small business I would give them a bit more than their 'suggested price' for a coffee and a cake - say it was going to be £4 and I'd give them £6, but then when I went to pay the girl said it would be £6 off the bat, and frankly it wasn't worth that much. by 360Saturn (Wed 5th Oct 2022 9:58pm)
  • I agree. Also I have heard that despite claiming to be against gentrification, they bought the building outright rather than renting it, and they also (one of the ones that runs it, I don't know names) bought themselves a house outright to live in in Govanhill, not being from there in the first place. Not sure how they square that circle. by 360Saturn (Wed 5th Oct 2022 10:00pm)
  • Do you know if they've been local for a while? I've crossed paths with one of the American ones before & they seemed v all or nothing in a way I've come across before with Americans particularly. by 360Saturn (Thu 6th Oct 2022 2:36am)
  • Maybe give some detail otherwise then? Kinda hard to take you seriously when you're just jumping around the thread saying "that's not true, that's not true". by 360Saturn (Thu 6th Oct 2022 10:30am)
  • Well for starters that's better than just refuting blankly, which literally shuts out any way to possibly engage. Fair play if that's the case. I was repeating what I'd heard before, as I said. Now I've heard different. That said, my critiques of them claiming to speak for glasgow and not being from here, and claiming to run a business but asking for volunteers, stand. I think especially being located where they are that's a bit much. by 360Saturn (Thu 6th Oct 2022 10:57am)
  • Literally their whole branding is "Glasgow's XYZ". What is that if not claiming to be Glasgow and to speak for it? If they mean "this is an XYZ that just happens to be in Glasgow" then frankly I think that's incredibly disingenuous. Yes, this is a city of all kinds of refugees and immigrants, I myself am one, and where they are based especially that is the case. But part of that is learning from the local culture and adapting and adopting elements of it, in my opinion. From what I've come across them, some of their positions and the way they've approached things have seemed not to take that on at all, with the effect that it comes across that they're cosplaying - at running a business, at being Glaswegian, etc. Honestly, I like the spirit behind what they're doing, making it accessible, having the free food offers - all of that is great. I think it could use some tweaking and adjusting, but they'll learn as they go, hopefully. by 360Saturn (Thu 6th Oct 2022 12:59pm)
  • It's a big shame but kinda feels predictable these days. The only thing we were able to get England wasn't was a longer lockdown (: by 360Saturn (Fri 7th Oct 2022 8:10pm)
  • Ideal and minimum is a bit of a challenge. A lot lower than 90k though! by 360Saturn (Mon 10th Oct 2022 1:14pm)
  • On the flip if you've not grown up with that you won't think of it. I never think of foreign holidays even now I'm not on the breadline because I've only ever been abroad 2 or 3 times. by 360Saturn (Mon 10th Oct 2022 1:15pm)
  • Sure, but if you're not used to them, are you naturally going to build in a £2000 holiday every year into the budget as soon as you get a bit of cash? That was the thrust of what I meant. I think most of us if we got a bit richer would just go for getting *more* or *nicer* the things we already did, unless we had long held dreams of something specific. by 360Saturn (Mon 10th Oct 2022 5:27pm)
  • Wild mate. I was forced to move out of where I'd lived for years bc prices jumped 200 quid a month on what they had been. Honestly it just makes you feel like not trying. Better job, payrise etc. and you're still just treading water because everything goes up to match. Meanwhile older folk that own their home outright bleat on at you about following your passions and not just doing a job you don't love as if you have the choice 🙃 by 360Saturn (Fri 14th Oct 2022 9:13pm)
  • > I need to do something but I dont know what. I feel this. I also find myself going through alternating periods of hating being in the house and then hating being out of the house because all the places I would have gone to before have changed and something just feels 'on edge' about them. by 360Saturn (Sat 15th Oct 2022 8:40pm)
  • Yeah, same for me re surgeries. Still waiting on an operation I had scheduled in 2020. Hopefully next year? But it feels like life is just sliding by in the meantime. by 360Saturn (Sat 15th Oct 2022 10:14pm)
  • Well, I just thought in Glasgow we had very long lockdowns/restrictions compared to other parts of the country. Like we never even had rule of 6, in 2020 iirc we had full lockdown for 3 or 4 months, then about a month where you could have one person round the house, and then it was nobody around the house for about another 6 months. > I agree completely, but we also need to look out for that of everyone else around us. Yes and some people are really messed up by changing their lifestyle. I didn't go into this in the OP but there are a lot of people still afraid or out of the habit of socializing at all. We have started to go back in for meetings at my work and there's one woman who always has an excuse not to come, I think she pretty much doesn't leave her house now. People like that need some kind of support I think or at least they need to not be forgot about. I know also of an older woman who lived for months alone in the house in the dark because she was scared to ask someone around to help her change the lightbulbs. > Good post by the way - it's important to speak up about these things and hear others experiences. Thanks - you never know posting on this subject if someone's going to call you out for moaning or conspiracies or will try to ban you posting etc. I know people were acting in bad faith sometimes but at the same time a lot of the subs specifically about covid were weirdly punitive about anyone saying they were struggling or it had felt like things had changed so. For that reason I was a bit hesitant to post. I definitely feel in life it's a subject everyone dances around as well. by 360Saturn (Sat 15th Oct 2022 11:23pm)
  • It definitely feels like a scar. I do think the idea that people were struggling before was papered over a lot in the press releases at the time as well and people who relied on services that suddenly disappeared as well. Those people will have had real setbacks now in their journey to being healthier. Not saying that they were 'more important' than people suffering with covid or stopping the spread of covid, but they shouldn't be forgotten about or pushed under the rug. by 360Saturn (Sat 15th Oct 2022 11:27pm)
  • Thanks for the words of support. It's hard to talk about in life isn't it? I think people want to forget it happened but at the same time it's like losing two years and you realise that maybe we need to process that instead of just forgetting. Even typing that is hard mind. by 360Saturn (Sat 15th Oct 2022 11:25pm)
  • > If I was facing all this straight off the back of two year of isolating, depressing loneliness (which seems to be many if not most people's experience), I'm fairly certain I'd be an absolute fucking basket case by now. You know, this has made me make a connection I hadn't made before. I think the pandemic coming after the referendum, the Tories just getting elected again and Brexit was also the worst possible time for it, because we had just had before it three huge events in which the public were split into two camps that had polar opposite opinions and experiences. And then I think to an extent how people experienced lockdown and restrictions was another experience like that. Some people had a bit of inconvenience but also some benefits from it; while for other people it was absolute torture and really hard to deal with. But once again during the time it was at its hardest, it felt like the two 'sides' were talking past each other about their experiences and clashing instead of having dialogue and being able to help each other. What I mean is, if we hadn't just had Brexit and those other things first and we didn't *start* the pandemic as an already visibly/loudly divided society, maybe it wouldnt've been just as hard. We went into it with people primed to oppose each other and maybe even raring to disagree and it feels like there's just been a general aggressiveness since the start of it and during and after. Everyone suddenly had to have an opinion on everything instead of ever trying to see someone else's point of view or sympathizing properly. (Not saying that your comment did that, it was v balanced & just made me think further) by 360Saturn (Sun 16th Oct 2022 4:39am)
  • Pollok park? by 360Saturn (Thu 20th Oct 2022 10:34am)
  • Its moving and not reopening until end of Nov I believe by 360Saturn (Sat 29th Oct 2022 2:33pm)
  • In two separate flats now I've had neighbours who chopped down the trees in the garden. It's made me sad both times and also I don't really think they had permission. It's not like they even did anything with the garden afterwards that the trees would have blocked. by 360Saturn (Sat 5th Nov 2022 12:51am)
  • It's become a running joke in our house the things that Glasgow CC/ScotGov does "because covid". by 360Saturn (Mon 7th Nov 2022 1:15am)
  • I wonder sometimes how the climate of the city interacts with the push for more walking, biking etc. In every visualisation I see of cities and areas with more of that it's always a lovely sunny day; not bucketing it down with slippery ground and poor visibility while you're trying to hump three shopping bags about. by 360Saturn (Wed 16th Nov 2022 4:31am)
  • Who knew! Counters? How's that work? Not people counting? by 360Saturn (Wed 16th Nov 2022 1:30pm)
  • Wow, what a cool idea. Kinda mindblowing that such a thing exists! by 360Saturn (Wed 16th Nov 2022 1:48pm)
  • I think people who live in Glasgow already know this, but visitors/outsiders especially from outside Scotland always seem surprised by how much green space it has. I guess the stereotype of Glasgow specifically is that its 'industrial' and Scotland generally just that its 'grey and cold' and so I guess people put those together and expect it just to be full of stone and metal and concrete. Also could be that some other cities don't have much green space and they're expecting it to be the same. by 360Saturn (Tue 22nd Nov 2022 2:45pm)
  • I've lived here for a decade and I've still never heard it tbh by 360Saturn (Tue 22nd Nov 2022 9:39pm)
  • Get on the olio app mate people are always giving food away on it, reduced stuff thats about to turn etc. by 360Saturn (Wed 23rd Nov 2022 9:29pm)
  • Booble hats by 360Saturn (Wed 23rd Nov 2022 9:32pm)
  • I've seen a comedian describe posh Scottish accents as 'speaking like a whale' which is somehow bang on by 360Saturn (Thu 24th Nov 2022 5:33am)
  • > I would preferably be looking for a furnished place to live, is this commonplace in Scotland, or is looking for that type of accommodation a lost cause? A lot of places are furnished especially if you are looking for a house share. There is spareroom.co.uk which you could use to look, also search on Facebook for house share groups. I don't know the names of au pair organisations but it definitely exists as a concept, a woman I used to know did it and lived-in with a family. I'm not sure if she was paid or if she just had a free room in the house in exchange. by 360Saturn (Sun 27th Nov 2022 9:16am)
  • Disgusting and I'm not surprised from that jobcentre. I remember attending it during covid. The 'helpers' were all behind screens but the unemployed people were all set to mingle amongst each other with no spacing or protection up. On a rainy day people weren't allowed to bring umbrellas in "in case they were used as weapons" - they were made to leave them outside, in the rain of course. Utterly dehumanising. I would love to see the people working in those places standing up and saying something about it or at least passively resisting, but they seem to filter out and only hire cowards. by 360Saturn (Tue 29th Nov 2022 12:32pm)
  • There's one in Finnieston that has two floors, but I don't recall the name by 360Saturn (Mon 5th Dec 2022 8:54am)
  • My son is also named Shyte by 360Saturn (Sat 10th Dec 2022 12:37am)
  • There's fault here though! People with the power are **actively choosing** to underpay people and to hike up the prices. It's no sustainable and the whole system will come crashing down if they keep it up. The whole economy relies on folk buying things in the first place and if that's not happening it's all going to go off to pot. by 360Saturn (Sun 11th Dec 2022 1:40pm)
  • Think it depends what your background is. In my family mum's parents were older so she was always taught to cook from scratch, so we always had a lot of fresh food and not much frozen unless it was pre-cooked meals reheated. Whereas a lot of folk I've shared houses with are from families where they never cooked much so they got in the habit of eating a lot of frozen food and the prices of that haven't hiked up as far. For me I'd say £30-50 a week depending how well I've planned. There's not a big supermarket in walking distance so depends if I can be arsed to get the bus or do a delivery or just go to the wee ones (where everything's pricier ofc). by 360Saturn (Sun 11th Dec 2022 10:26pm)
  • Is there any advice you'd have on how best to try and fall if you do? Sorry if that's a daft question! by 360Saturn (Wed 14th Dec 2022 1:23pm)
  • Semi agree but people *decided* to charge more because of increased demand as well, no-one made them. There's a large element of greediness to it. If you're a landlord netting in circa £800 a month from your two bed with two tenants and have been for years it's pure greediness to then charge a grand for it and just pocket the extra £200. by 360Saturn (Thu 29th Dec 2022 8:10pm)
  • If I'm financially comfortable, why wouldn't I? by 360Saturn (Thu 29th Dec 2022 9:30pm)
  • But I didn't say that. My response *started* with an if statement - **if** you could afford to charge less and then decide to charge more, it's greedy. by 360Saturn (Thu 29th Dec 2022 10:13pm)
  • Mayze do lovely cake there's one in dennistoun and another in finnieston by 360Saturn (Sun 1st Jan 2023 11:40pm)
  • Hello, do you know is that the train that goes from King's Cross? I'm looking at the same travel this week by 360Saturn (Sun 1st Jan 2023 11:57pm)
  • That's such a help, thanks! I don't use twitter so totally out of the loop by 360Saturn (Mon 2nd Jan 2023 1:09am)
  • After Christmas I do think there is just a real gulf of understanding between older and younger people. I don't know where it comes from but it feels like at a certain age, at least *some* people just stop actually listening to what their younger relatives are saying and just fall back to stereotypes or things they remember. "Things are really hard today" become "they were hard for me too" and if you try to explain what's different today they just make out that you're lazy or complaining too much or something, while they themselves sit totally isolated from what you're talking about. Personally I think changing the definition of 'low income' would go a long way to actually help things. It should mean *anyone* with low income **after** overheads. Students etc. would be included too that way like they're not currently - e.g. you don't really have 'higher' income if you get given a 2k loan for 3 months that's immediately 75% swallowed up by rent. by 360Saturn (Tue 3rd Jan 2023 7:47pm)
  • Do they have the drop in still or nah? by 360Saturn (Thu 5th Jan 2023 4:14am)
  • Do none of these TERFs have jobs? 11am on a Thursday, cripes by 360Saturn (Mon 9th Jan 2023 7:19am)
  • Watch the average age of the transphobes be about 70 by 360Saturn (Mon 9th Jan 2023 7:20am)
  • Missoula! That surprises me, I always figured that has a pretty loyal customer base. by 360Saturn (Tue 10th Jan 2023 2:09pm)
  • I wondered if that was shut! I reckon the new Mayze in Dennistoun nicked some of their trade by not being quite as pricey by 360Saturn (Tue 10th Jan 2023 2:11pm)
  • Striking how similar so much of it is given that's 35-40 years intervening! The escalators with no cover from the 80s feel like they must have been a bit of a hazard given Glasgow's propensity to rain! by 360Saturn (Wed 18th Jan 2023 1:55pm)
  • Not sure how to feel about them proposing to get rid of the steps right after there was a huge protest on them against England intervening in our politics... by 360Saturn (Tue 24th Jan 2023 4:03pm)
  • They look to be replacing the steps with more steps though. by 360Saturn (Tue 24th Jan 2023 4:17pm)
  • This isnt exactly it but supermarket frozen cream donuts have a similar filling. by 360Saturn (Tue 24th Jan 2023 7:24pm)
  • Everything seems to close very early before I finish work. I understand that's businesses following market trend & service industry workers not going into the evenings, but I'd like if there were more relaxed, not too loud 'third spaces' that didn't revolve around (what's now generally extortionate) alcohol. It's part of what makes me excited for a four day week. There's so much I'd like to do in Glasgow that's pretty much inaccessible unless you're a stay at home parent or retired! by 360Saturn (Wed 25th Jan 2023 4:39pm)
  • Oop, actually I saw it in another thread earlier! Curious what that is though now! by 360Saturn (Wed 25th Jan 2023 6:05pm)
  • Ironically enough Glasgow is quite well known for being one of the cities with the *lowest* proportion of drivers though! by 360Saturn (Thu 26th Jan 2023 11:52pm)
  • Love how folk on the one hand will make a big show of caring about others' mental health and then on the other as soon as someone points out all the things that have caused everyone to go up a level in stress basically patronise anyone who was actually adversely affected. by 360Saturn (Sun 29th Jan 2023 12:27am)
  • The fact that the receptionists seem to have no common sense is the most frustrating thing of the entire endeavour to me. Isn't it logical that if someone urgently wants to see the doctor they'll go as soon as the next appointment's available **even if it's a cancellation**?? Apparently bloody not. "Oh, you should have mentioned you'd go to a cancellation appointment" like it's your fault. I've told before the story of a guy I overheard in the doctors who'd come in to pick up a doctor's note that hadn't been done because the doctor he'd been registered to hadn't been scheduled to work until Thursday and nobody in the reception team had thought to tell the guy who dropped it in *on Monday*, or had thought to ask one of the other doctors to do it as it was a generic request. That would be too sensible! by 360Saturn (Mon 30th Jan 2023 6:33pm)
  • Anti-abortion protesters aka retirees with nothing better to do with their time. by 360Saturn (Wed 1st Feb 2023 12:44pm)
  • What was there previously? I can't bring to mind. Anything before it did itself up? by 360Saturn (Tue 14th Feb 2023 10:54am)
  • There's tens of them. Tens! by 360Saturn (Wed 15th Feb 2023 10:37pm)
  • Reckon someone should mysteriously accidentally mess up the areas where they usually stand for their protest. "Oops, looks like some dogs shat all over where you'd normally stand!" by 360Saturn (Sun 26th Feb 2023 5:17am)
  • "Oops, I was taking out my bins and accidentally split them at your front step" by 360Saturn (Sat 11th Mar 2023 11:17am)
  • These people are a cult. Instead of getting a hobby like a healthy person they decide to spiral into delusion & zealotry. Disgusting that this is legal. I can't say more without breaking the TOR by 360Saturn (Sat 11th Mar 2023 11:16am)
  • Very funny. The point of asking real people is to get a recommendation from their own experience without having to trawl through 300 google results which may or may not have menus of what they do. by 360Saturn (Sat 18th Mar 2023 2:11pm)
  • Thanks! Will take a look by 360Saturn (Sat 18th Mar 2023 3:25pm)
  • Thanks! by 360Saturn (Sat 18th Mar 2023 3:25pm)
  • Aye, but all I'm wanting is something very specific pal. Not the best cafe in Glasgow, or a cafe in Glasgow that's close to me. A cafe that does a specific thing that someone can tell me. Asking the question here has got me some recommendations. I can't even google 'glasgow cafe jam pastries' because I know they aren't actually *called* jam pastries, but I knew that if I posted it on a forum someone would know what it was I meant from the description. I've been caught out before also going to what google says is a cafe and actually its a takeaway kiosk or a hole in the wall. Shockingly enough, not something I want to drag my old aunty to in the rain when all she wants is a sit down and a wee tea. by 360Saturn (Sat 18th Mar 2023 4:36pm)
  • Ta 👍 by 360Saturn (Sat 18th Mar 2023 8:02pm)
  • Cheers! by 360Saturn (Sat 18th Mar 2023 8:02pm)
  • Thanks! Never heard of that first one will need to take a nosey by 360Saturn (Sat 18th Mar 2023 8:02pm)
  • Shoot me for not being cultured? by 360Saturn (Sat 18th Mar 2023 8:01pm)
  • I think when everything stopped for the pandemic some folk just stopped trying. I still feel a bit of that in the air now. Most folk seem to have lost a bit of their get up & go. by 360Saturn (Sun 19th Mar 2023 2:58pm)
  • Does the 77 not go there any more? You used to be able to just use your all day ticket by 360Saturn (Wed 29th Mar 2023 6:26am)
  • I did it myself. I figured it was tongue in cheek! by 360Saturn (Wed 5th Apr 2023 3:53pm)
  • Well I don't. by 360Saturn (Wed 5th Apr 2023 3:55pm)
  • This is the one I came to say. Always good to support a local business & she has loads of experience by 360Saturn (Wed 5th Apr 2023 8:10pm)
  • I will say I don't understand why the bus leaves early if it gets to the stop early. I can only assume it's poor training to the drivers or maybe they just happen to be in a bad mood that day. The point of the bus going at X time is so that someone knows that's when to get to the bus stop for, not a minute or two before. I saw this happen yesterday. The bus got to the stop a minute or so early and was about to drive off when a wee guy came running up, clearly toward the bus stop, and even then the guy shut the doors & was about to turn off until he stuck his hand out in front of the stationary bus. When the bus left it still showed as 'arriving in one minute' on the bus stop display. by 360Saturn (Thu 6th Apr 2023 10:57am)
  • You're being too nice. This person stole from you if they didn't pay you for work done. by 360Saturn (Thu 6th Apr 2023 9:50pm)
  • Crazy! I would've thought one would be able to keep going. Especially since the other vegan place in Dennistoun closed recently, figured they would've had a monopoly almost. by 360Saturn (Thu 13th Apr 2023 9:26am)
  • This is a great rundown. 🥇 by 360Saturn (Thu 13th Apr 2023 10:22pm)
  • Wait, has Saramago now closed? by 360Saturn (Sat 22nd Apr 2023 7:14pm)
  • Gutted to hear this go this way. I'd been saving up all week to go and try their new menu. I'm going to have to learn to make my own vegan food at this rate! That said, as reasons go for a business closing down, disrespecting their staff and trying to fuck over their hours/pay is one of the few that I don't have an issue with. Labour costs are kinda business 101 and manipulating customers in order to try and rip everyone involved off is a shitty business practice. by 360Saturn (Sat 22nd Apr 2023 7:18pm)
  • Aye I saw the other thread just there. Really hard to imagine a) that you'd sink your whole business over not wanting to treat your staff fairly &/ admitting you were in the wrong, and b)! that a place that sold itself as ethical & vegan would have owners that would behave that way! You'd almost expect it more from a Spoons or something. by 360Saturn (Sat 22nd Apr 2023 7:46pm)
  • Sure, but most of the things that vegan restaurants have on (jackfruit, tempeh etc.) I have no idea where you buy or how to cook, especially to a chef level. I didn't mean I literally don't know how to cook vegetables x by 360Saturn (Sun 23rd Apr 2023 4:46pm)
  • > Google the recipes, experiment. I have no idea why (I presume) you're downvoting me when I said in my first comment that I would have to learn how to make vegan food. Logically that is how I would do it. by 360Saturn (Sun 23rd Apr 2023 5:11pm)
  • Honestly I do agree with this. I feel like everywhere else I visit doesn't have the same sense of being fucked up that still feels here to an extent. People have totally changed mentally and it feels like everyone is still in a state of either shellshock or denial about that. by 360Saturn (Mon 24th Apr 2023 2:07am)
  • Sorry, exactly what is this going on here? An anonymous account with no detail, actively trying to get news organisations involved, 'leaking' private conversations between employees in order to try and stir up anti-worker and anti-union sentiment? This is a really poor show in my opinion. And what's your take here OP? Did you leak them? by 360Saturn (Wed 26th Apr 2023 1:49pm)
  • Exactly. They are staff *of the business*, they aren't personal slaves who should have to never make any plans of their own or be able to take care of their personal lives because the management can't pull their finger out to do their own job of making sure it has a regular workforce. Utterly bizzare that someone would post defending this?? by 360Saturn (Wed 26th Apr 2023 1:51pm)
  • I would have said Saramago (rip) so I guess Stereo! by 360Saturn (Fri 5th May 2023 1:54am)
  • I don't think it's rough. What I will say is there's a big difference in the area when the students are there (9 months of the year) and in the summer when they aren't. While there's gentrification and some folk that live there are fine with it, I also think there's a contingent of local folk or folk that have lived there a long time that actively resist it and resent/are hostile towards people now living there that haven't always lived there. As someone that grew up in a small town it is a similar attitude imo and I haven't really come across it in other parts of the city. I feel like as well there are certain businesses that exclusively serve these kinds of local people and rebuff outsiders. by 360Saturn (Sun 7th May 2023 8:12pm)
  • Why would anybody pay to volunteer?? aka to work for free by 360Saturn (Thu 11th May 2023 1:37am)
  • Depends how many you're buying for. by 360Saturn (Wed 17th May 2023 3:51pm)
  • It's certainly depressing. I don't feel like I've progressed in my career at all although my salary is over double what it was in 2017 now. It upsets me to see moneygrubbing in other places too. I saw a flat in the southside advertised earlier, shared occupancy looking for another roommate. The landlord is charging them a grand between them rent, plus bills - for a top floor flat not even in shawlands! There's no way the mortgage is that much, even if it was recently taken out. Just greed because they can and younger folk & people without choice are growing up accustomed to it as normal. Besides that a lot of my favourite places to go are closing down & it makes me question what I even work for some days. I know benefits would be worse but I just have little sense of achievement or that its worth it. by 360Saturn (Wed 17th May 2023 3:49pm)
  • Similar thing happened to my friend. She couldn't afford the house so has had to move back in with her 70 year old mum. What kind of a world do we live in where a working adult can't afford a one bed by themself? To add insult to injury the mum has been retired for 15 years and owns outright a three bed, is always taking holidays etc. by 360Saturn (Wed 17th May 2023 5:46pm)
  • Remarkably similar to now! Thanks for sharing, I love old pictures like this. Somehow it surprises me that there was double decker buses in 1952 here. (I presume that's what those are in the back) by 360Saturn (Tue 23rd May 2023 7:05pm)
  • It was genuinely scary in town yesterday, and I'm not overreacting. Yes, some folk were just celebrating, but some men (and it was only men that I saw on this occasion) get extremely aggressive with it. On the buses is awful, stamping, shouting, yelling in your face, lunging at you, banging on the windows like it's their own private party. Kids looking scared including kids they have with them. The worst thing I saw yesterday was an older gent holding in one hand the hand of a wee girl of 5 or 6 and the other a half litre looking bottle of Bucky. What's he going to do if she runs off into the road? People need to have just a wee bit of respect and awareness of others and their surroundings. You never see scenes like this on the street when it's Pride festival or any of the outdoor music ones with folk being outright aggressive and destructive. by 360Saturn (Sun 28th May 2023 10:48pm)
  • Do you find it interesting, really? It doesn't sound like you do pal. Sounds like you want to shut it down. by 360Saturn (Mon 29th May 2023 12:08am)
  • The amount of vegan places in the city that lack any decent vegetable dish is disappointing ngl You'd think they'd all offer something like veg noodle stiry fry or risotto or even a bougie salad but nah by 360Saturn (Mon 29th May 2023 12:07am)
  • Personally I don't go in to the office that often so when I'm in it's a wee treat. Generally will pick something that is disproportionately expensive or unworkable to make one sandwich for one out of. e.g. while you could buy a loaf and a pack of ham for ham sandwiches all week, you're less likely to make yourself a week's worth of roast vegetables and go out and buy a fresh foccacia every day for them to go in, whereas on the flip I can buy one sandwich made of that on the one day I'm in. by 360Saturn (Thu 1st Jun 2023 5:38pm)
  • Ah come on pal, you might as well say a shop run by black folks 'wasn't welcoming to all because it didn't serve the local KKK family'. by 360Saturn (Tue 6th Jun 2023 2:19pm)
  • Right... Sorry but the Pink Peacock always came off as a bit high on its own supply and as a business, somewhat out of its depth. I think some of what it aimed to do was certainly admirable, *but* other aspects not so much. > The owners of the Pink Peacock Cafe faced an uphill battle against prejudice, discrimination, and hatred, making it nearly impossible for them to continue their noble mission of creating a safe space for everyone. This in particular comes off pretty culty. It's in Glasgow southside, it's not exactly standing alone as a bastion of the only safe space for queer people or XYZ for miles on end. Category Is books is just around the corner and never seems to go on tirades like this (over)selling itself and what it offers and represents for people. The statement on the website says that they're closing due to burnout and tiredness. "We've all been volunteers". Well with the greatest respect maybe that's part of the problem?? You know what group of people who already have day jobs and who already face a lot of shit in their day to day lives probably don't want to be guilted into on top of that, regularly volunteering their labour for free, especially for the service industry?! Maybe minorities! by 360Saturn (Tue 6th Jun 2023 2:18pm)
  • Care to expand on your 'gender critical' beliefs? by 360Saturn (Tue 6th Jun 2023 2:34pm)
  • > peacocking The call was coming from inside the house! by 360Saturn (Tue 6th Jun 2023 2:45pm)
  • I went in once. A very small cup of coffee, 'pay what you can' yet they strongly recommended you paid a certain minimum that felt a bit guilting in the moment (maybe I looked obviously not poor or something), then when I offered to pay more to support a local business, the girl behind the counter was very sniffy about it. Put me off a bit to be honest. I also was amused that while they were operating as a hole in the wall hatch during covid where you weren't allowed inside at all they still claimed to be a queer safe space alternative to bar culture 👀 by 360Saturn (Tue 6th Jun 2023 2:50pm)
  • No; because these people are awfully self-righteous about their 'just beliefs' that are actually bigotry - right up until you actually ask them to say outright what they're happy to hide behind weasel words. Just think it's a bit embarrassing to be both bigoted and too coward to actually say what your bigoted beliefs actually are, while sitting trying to play the victim. by 360Saturn (Tue 6th Jun 2023 3:41pm)
  • What's that now? by 360Saturn (Wed 7th Jun 2023 1:32am)
  • > should queer friendly spaces while primarily for LGBTQ+ not also support and welcome anyone to demystify queer identity and show someone who may have misgivings or prejudices that they aren’t a negative influence or anything to be afraid of Kinda yes and no. I take your point and it's good to have places like that to show that 'we are normal just like you' etc. buuuut at the same time it's sometimes a burden to put that on places that are just meant to be casual social hangout, a constant "and by the way, here's the educational bit just in case someone who isn't actually part of the community comes in the door". I think regarding this though PP is something of a unique case. I've never come across an establishment quite like it in Scotland. That's not necessarily praise. I've been to a pay-what-you-can style cafe in Edinburgh before which is also a charity shop and it has a much more relaxed vibe. With PP personally I always found a bit of a disconnect, not sure if because it was always very full on or what. (I kinda feel bad to be dragging it up and down the thread but it comes for me from a place of wanting the folk to not put their foot in it again in the future) by 360Saturn (Wed 7th Jun 2023 10:41am)
  • Kinda notable on their twitter that most of the supportive messages they're getting are from... people who have never actually been to PP but had planned to visit, from the US, England etc. Idk man it just doesn't add up to me. "Without us people will starve" is a hell of a red flag and actually comes off like a bit of a threat. Hope they donate their free food fridge, I could see a place like [Milk](https://www.milkcafeglasgow.co.uk/) across the road (literally a community space for refugee women while PP are going on about being the only thing of its kind in the area) making use of it. by 360Saturn (Wed 7th Jun 2023 10:52am)
  • Right I'm sorry to comment again but this is a genuine question, can anybody explain to me (including OP) how it lines up that you wanted to run a cafe, as a business, as a socialist project or social enterprise, and yet the staff was volunteers? Because I didn't really realise that was the case until now. I just don't understand how a space that claims to stand for doing a lot for people in poverty *also* doesn't have any way of paying the people who actually put in the labour to keep it running. Doesn't that essentially mean from the off that the only staff you can 'hire' are either people who are independetly wealthy enough to be able to do an extra job on top for free (which then undermines the principles of the place to an extent) or on the other hand, somewhat exploiting people who *can't* afford to work there for free in lieu of doing paid work? I just think the whole thing needed a bit more business planning and perhaps contingency worked into it. by 360Saturn (Wed 7th Jun 2023 3:05pm)
  • Varies each year. Basic summary, there's a parade which runs through the city. You should be able to sign up to walk in it or you can just watch somewhere as it goes by too. All the LGBTQ bars or at least most of them are in the Merchant City, around Virginia Street and John Street. Katie's bar, Polo Lounge, Speakeasy, Butterfly Lounge and Delmonica's would be the main ones. They will all have events on all through the day and in the evening. In the day you can just go in, the night events are likely pay on the door if you aren't already inside or might be ticketed. There's also Bonjour down at Trongate/Saltmarket which is more of an alternative bar which will probably also be running events on the same day. This is just a general overview, I don't know the exact ins and outs of this year's event. http://mardigla.org/whats-on/ seems there will be a day with stalls, crafts etc. based in the Strathclyde student union building too. That's also located in the Mechant city area so near the bars. by 360Saturn (Tue 13th Jun 2023 3:27pm)
  • It literally is a hobby for a lot of people like this. Personally I'd like to see them getting pushback. Folk are too polite around people intimidating others at a hospital! by 360Saturn (Wed 14th Jun 2023 3:56pm)
  • Back in the day they used to get around that with your 'work days' consisting of 3 or 4 hours paid work plus 2 or 3 hours of madatory 'volunteering' and 'teambuilding' which was of course, also work. by 360Saturn (Tue 20th Jun 2023 4:05am)
  • What a shame. It's such a great location with its balcony and riverside view. Really feels like covid has done a number on Glasgow. It isn't the same since, everything has shot up in price, so many of the small businesses that made it feel like home have gone (even medium sized ones) and the only things that have stayed are the bigger ones making it feel just like any other city in some ways. by 360Saturn (Tue 20th Jun 2023 3:35pm)
  • True but it feels like just another victim or like there's no political or social will to bring things back to normal, instead everyone and their mother jumped on covid and post-covid as an opportunity to erase what Glasgow was and bring it in line with other expensive cities. by 360Saturn (Tue 20th Jun 2023 4:39pm)
  • This is what I feel as well. The west end, or some parts of it, used to blend an alt feel with a posh feel, and it was one of the most appealing parts of it that it managed to balance both aspects. Now it feels like 9/10 of the stores and cafes etc. with an alt vibe have gone or had to close and been replaced by versions that try to recreate an alternative vibe, but it's very clearly an 'alternative style for rich kids' instead of the authentic thing. It just feels to me like more and more parts of the city are becoming exclusive unless you come from 'the right' background. by 360Saturn (Tue 20th Jun 2023 5:09pm)
  • I guess because covid was like a time freeze it was easy to forget that, or maybe it feels like the pace of it was slower or more gradual before. (idk to be honest my memories of 2017-19 are a bit of a blur as the immediate 'pre-covid' years) by 360Saturn (Tue 20th Jun 2023 5:11pm)
  • Oh aye I don't doubt it. Feel like I moved here just before we hit a tipping point. But having said that I know people who moved just recently and they still find it better than it was where they were before. Idk. Just feels like every year stuff gets harder and the definition of being successful or doing ok for yourself gets that bit further away. (I probably sound really depressed - I'm not, just exasperated) I was chatting earlier in the week with someone going to uni at St Andrews and paying 900 a month for a room in a house! I know it's St Andrews but still! You see folk paying 600, 700 for that now in Glasgow whereas just in 2019 my pal was paying 500 for a whole flat. Just feels like greed, not genuine increases that people can't help. by 360Saturn (Tue 20th Jun 2023 5:30pm)
  • Aye I'm not saying that or that it's impossible, just that area after area is shifting so it feels like it's only a matter of time til everything changes. Would be nice if you could just live in a place and expect to keep living there. Folk that grew up in southside for example then being asked to pay 600 for a room in a shared house! Either that or move away elsewhere away from your neighbourhood and your community. It didn't used to be so stark a difference in Glasgow compared to some other places and now it is. Sure, you won't have to move from the city entirely - yet - but it looks to be moving that way. by 360Saturn (Tue 20th Jun 2023 6:09pm)
  • Right I'm not saying that though at all? I don't myself live in the west end, the thread title is about a place in the west end so that's why I'm talking about it? As for bohemian I never said that, I said alt, are you saying working class folk can't like alt music or books or going to a cafe? People work in all them shops in the west end, just feels a bit shite that you can be called in to work somewhere and travel to work there and then not be able to afford to actually live near it yourself. by 360Saturn (Tue 20th Jun 2023 6:27pm)
  • Well that used to be what people said about the southside and cathcart etc. and it's starting to go the same way. Anyway no point catastrophizing now over it, change does come naturally. by 360Saturn (Tue 20th Jun 2023 6:30pm)
  • Hoping for thunder later! Tempted to leave my phone in the house and just walk out in it at some point by 360Saturn (Tue 20th Jun 2023 9:21pm)
  • In the sense of it not being in walking distance to town, universities, the west end, shopping etc. That used to be the reason given for why southside and beyond was less 'desirable' or that 'it would never be like the west end' and nowadays even despite that it's changed it's character. Point I'm making is that while people might make claims or might have *made* claims in the past that "X will never change because of this reason", if something about it does change then that seems to be a shift of everything else. Logically speaking if the artists and bohemians etc. can't afford to stay any more in the west end, or the southside, or the east end, then they're going to go somewhere cheaper and then gradually - or quicker! - that place will change too. by 360Saturn (Tue 20th Jun 2023 11:59pm)
  • Sidenote but that robe thing looks like it'd be really comfy in warm weather with shorts under by 360Saturn (Wed 21st Jun 2023 10:55pm)
  • It used to be much better. Since covid it's just been downhill, downhill, downhill. by 360Saturn (Thu 29th Jun 2023 7:52pm)
  • Which billionaire's taken a sub down the Clyde and blew up? by 360Saturn (Fri 30th Jun 2023 6:02pm)
  • Tbh I tend to think that people who don't *need* a job shouldn't be working in the first place, because you're taking away a job from someone who does actually need the money and facilitating things like the entire zero hour contract premise. At the very least there should be some kind of ratio that leans towards people who need the money and security. by 360Saturn (Fri 30th Jun 2023 6:00pm)
  • Club sandwich from Mesa in the east end. Its pricey, but stuffed full of chicken and bacon and these little fried potato bits by 360Saturn (Fri 7th Jul 2023 5:56pm)
  • Up 35%! Can't believe its that much, they've done it in increments on us. by 360Saturn (Mon 10th Jul 2023 9:54am)
  • > Not sure why people seem to grasp this idea for so many other ventures, but not with PP. Not sure why you'd make this presumption just because people are talking specifically about PP in a thread which is... about the closure of PP... by 360Saturn (Fri 14th Jul 2023 12:58pm)
  • I don't really think I can have any kind of discussion about this (nor am I particularly inclined to) because you come off like someone who has made up their mind already on the subject that any possible criticism of any Jewish person or business is *solely* because they are Jewish. PP has had several controversies in the southside including deliberately antagonizing police and on top of that, there's been question marks about their business model. They've since closed down. These things may or may not be related. I don't have a strong opinion on the matter and I am not a Jewish person, nor do or did I claim to be. As for Bonjour I was under the impression they paid their staff and didn't rely on volunteers (?) The criticism in this thread that I and others have had regarding PP's use of volunteers is that naturally that is an insecure form of labour that is if anything, *likely* to lead to burnout. That is, that relying solely on that source was likely to lead to problems down the line even in a perfect world because people's lives, health conditions, mental health etc. can get in the way and naturally volunteering is one of the lowest priority items for people who want to keep a roof over their heads. by 360Saturn (Fri 14th Jul 2023 1:41pm)
  • Children are notoriously known for being allergic to breasts... by 360Saturn (Sat 15th Jul 2023 10:31pm)
  • Such a good atmosphere! If only it could be more than once a year. It's such a joy to walk outside and feel safe. by 360Saturn (Sat 15th Jul 2023 10:31pm)
  • Could be, it feels like since covid I haven't really known what's what with that! by 360Saturn (Sun 16th Jul 2023 3:00am)
  • Making millions in profit and never even going in to your own venue and just relying on staff you're exploiting? That shouldn't bloody be legal. What a grifter. by 360Saturn (Thu 20th Jul 2023 10:20am)
  • There's Good Clean Fun which I've come across before. I'm not 100% sure if it's affiliated with AA or just a place for people who don't drink though. I think it has DJ sets more so than bands. by 360Saturn (Thu 20th Jul 2023 10:25am)
  • Jesus hope nobody was in the back of that ambulance by 360Saturn (Wed 26th Jul 2023 11:12pm)
  • Sorry but this kind of thing really pisses me off and does nothing for the morale of people in one of the places most restricted and negatively mentally affected by covid: > We haven’t staged a fireworks event in recent years Aye and at the time you said that was for public health reasons with the firm implication that you'd go back to normal as soon as it lifted. Now you're using 'we didn't do it for a few years' as an excuse as if it was a generic habit-based decision instead of what was represented at the time as something *one-off*. Feel like we see these kinds of excuses for all sorts of stuff now as if the majority of the folk of Glasgow just want everything that stopped in covid to never come back - whereas from the people I know that couldn't be further from truth! by 360Saturn (Fri 28th Jul 2023 6:26pm)
  • Mebbe you/someone could take the train in to Central with her if you were going to leave her off anyway by 360Saturn (Thu 3rd Aug 2023 5:51am)
  • Sin of course hasn't caused that tummy... by 360Saturn (Sat 5th Aug 2023 7:28pm)
  • So the women's race is today next week, are all the roads staying closed and blocked off until then or what's happening? Seems a bit daft to close the city off and then leave a week between the races! by 360Saturn (Sun 6th Aug 2023 9:35pm)
  • Anyone's Google maps update with real bus routes? Mine hasn't as a result its been a fun afternoon of going way too far and then walking back in the torrential rain, having missed what I came in to town to do 🙃 by 360Saturn (Sat 12th Aug 2023 6:30pm)
  • Agree to an extent, don't know why real negative comments are being buried when it's just folk sharing their opinion. It coulda been better organised to impact people who stay here less negatively instead of closing off the whole main city for 2 whole weeks. by 360Saturn (Sun 13th Aug 2023 7:36pm)
  • I increasingly feel this about some aspects of how Glasgow is run. It feels like it isn't (ironically, given the slogan) run for the majority of the population of Glasgow, as in, even on behalf of them. There seems to be a constant assumption from how certain things are organised that *everyone* has a choice and is *deliberately choosing* options that might be e.g. harmful to the environment, or to complain about something, just out of badness, not because it's their only practical option or because it being unworkable currently *actually affects them a lot*. That was generally what I thought about the cycling event. Yes it was a good ad for Glasgow but did it need to come at the cost of screwing over all other forms of transportation for anyone that wasn't able to walk or cycle about for two whole weeks out of the year? by 360Saturn (Tue 15th Aug 2023 10:24pm)
  • It has been very blowy today which probably hasn't helped with bins. But in my opinion the lockdown policies broke something about people in Glasgow and we could do with some kind of initiative that acknowledges that and tries to do something to fix it. People were left to go feral and try to make sense of more restrictive rules than anywhere else, predictably it became too much for some people and they went full lawless, and out on the other side of it, some folk have just gone off the deep end, in my opinion. by 360Saturn (Fri 18th Aug 2023 7:50pm)
  • For me I was just run down from work I think. Took a few days off & forced myself to rest, just go on walks & eat well & I'm feeling 10x better and more like myself. Don't count that out being part of it. by 360Saturn (Mon 28th Aug 2023 5:08pm)
  • > people who drive in and use services "free gratis" What does this mean? Surely anyone driving is already paying road tax, VAT on their petrol etc. and if they're coming in will be likely spending money in the city, no? by 360Saturn (Sat 9th Sep 2023 12:26pm)
  • But local governments are funded from central government, right? (If they aren't this is a TIL moment) by 360Saturn (Sat 9th Sep 2023 1:44pm)
  • Hmm. TIL on some of that. That seems like a strange oversight in some way. > But I can still use their museums and roads and libraries etc. etc. And these are paid for by Glasgow residents' council tax, is that it? But then couldn't you say the same for Glasgow people going elsewhere and using those things in the other place? by 360Saturn (Sat 9th Sep 2023 1:42pm)
  • That's absolutely ridiculous! Central government (i.e. Westminister?) has essentially just decided to *stop* funding local services???? What the hell is it doing with its revenue then? by 360Saturn (Sat 9th Sep 2023 2:08pm)
  • It does seem bizarre for things like that to be funded solely through *local* council tax. I always imagined before that the whole country would go into a pot and then it would be divvied back out according to need. by 360Saturn (Sat 9th Sep 2023 3:48pm)
  • That's so stupid. They should have a list of the number of institutions and their costs to upkeep and then allocate accordingly. It's mental if it's the case for example that areas of high council tax due to everyone being well-paid just have excess floating about while places like Glasgow are struggling to cover everything from local taxes because the burden falls on low and high earners alike! by 360Saturn (Sat 9th Sep 2023 5:51pm)
  • I like the fancy houses in Hyndland. The ones at Dowanhill are nice as well but kinda inconvenient for supermarkets and the like. There's no point living in a luxury house if you also have to walk out miles through a maze to get your shopping every week. by 360Saturn (Thu 14th Sep 2023 5:23pm)
  • Oh I kinda interpreted the question as "you get a free house but otherwise your life's the same". Def get a chauffeur and probably an assistant if I have money for everything! by 360Saturn (Thu 14th Sep 2023 7:12pm)
  • Most of the things I think are bad are systemic and there's probably no way to change them - like scalping landlords, prices having shot up in the last 3-5 years etc. I guess I'd like to see either a rule against profiteering in that way or a community focus on shaming people who do. Too many landlords in this city have the mortgage fully paid off and are just putting up prices on residents year on year because they can to make even more profit off of people's desperation. It's really shitty behaviour. by 360Saturn (Wed 27th Sep 2023 9:42am)
  • for what its worth, Waterstones has evening events sometimes, just so you know - but there could definitely be more. The late night bookshop with cafe in it is sorely missed. by 360Saturn (Wed 27th Sep 2023 1:18pm)
  • Had no idea that was American. What would folk here say? (Is my immigrant-ness showing? x) by 360Saturn (Wed 27th Sep 2023 1:16pm)
  • This was really it during lockdown too. No public toilets plus no businesses open plus no going to someone else's house meant you literally couldn't go further from your house than half your max distance before you'd need to go to the loo, in order to be able to get back to go in time. Not exactly ideal when everyone's meant to be getting exercise! Even something wee like more public loos in supermarkets would help out. Off the top of my head the only one I can think of with one in fairly centrally is Morrisons at Partick. by 360Saturn (Wed 27th Sep 2023 1:15pm)
  • Youd have been downvoted but to an extent I agree. It's not necessarily a bad thing but it is a cultural difference that a lot of folk in Glasgow who are from Glasgow or local area seem to tend to stick with their existing friends and have a friend circle that stays a fixed size, instead of wanting to expand it. I've lived here a decade but I'm not from here and that's just my impression. It's hard to make 'good friends' with folk if they already feel they have enough, and compared to where I'm from, the number that's 'enough' feels to me to be lower here. But like I say, that's more something I see for those of us who are new to adjust to and be aware of, than to make an issue out of. by 360Saturn (Wed 27th Sep 2023 1:21pm)
  • I did say at the start there's probably no way to change them. People could just not be cunts though and I for one am happy to do my bit to encourage people to not be selfish pricks and to point out that fleecing people for as much money as they conceivably can just because they want to, when they don't need the money, is actually quite a dickish thing to do. It may be a drop in the ocean but so what? by 360Saturn (Wed 27th Sep 2023 5:55pm)
  • ! I didn't realise they were cutting down the trees! Whose bright idea was that? I'm actually upset by this. by 360Saturn (Fri 29th Sep 2023 8:05am)
  • I know it's for the improvements but it really makes the place look grim right now, especially with so many of the shops laying empty or underutilised currently too. by 360Saturn (Mon 2nd Oct 2023 2:13pm)
  • Any one is fine in Glasgow and will have the necessary equipment to do tests and have the treatment/surgery. I had mine done at the Queen Elizabeth. As it's a common surgery, all the hospitals will have the facilities to do it. by 360Saturn (Tue 3rd Oct 2023 5:30pm)
  • I liked the wee eco shop in Dennistoun. A lot of it was fair pricey but it was a good place to get a better choice of veggies in small quantities than the Lidl, & it's always sad to see a small business shut unless they're pricks. by 360Saturn (Fri 6th Oct 2023 5:45pm)
  • Find it hilarious how Rowling still thinks/pretends she's the good guy here while turing a HUGE blind eye to the things all her good pals support yet the *second* any other celebrity or civilian has anything good to say about any trans person ever she's ready to condemn them and anything else they ever did. by 360Saturn (Thu 12th Oct 2023 5:54pm)
  • I suspect this is precisely the reason they chose Platform, in order to try and get a headline like that. by 360Saturn (Thu 12th Oct 2023 5:55pm)
  • The one that gets me is when she supported her mate saying that 'in order to protect women from being raped by men in disguise as trans women in toilets, armed men should be sent into the toilets to protect the women'. So... to protect women from men in a women-only space, you want to send in **men with weapons**? Who will be allowed to be in there? by 360Saturn (Thu 12th Oct 2023 6:02pm)
  • Definitely feels like a slippery slope though. The original 'belief' laws were meant to protect religious belief and prevent punishment due to political opinions in an era where those tended to range between two to a degree different paths toward the eventual same end goal. It feels like perverting the spirit of the law (obv not venues' fault) to reinterpret 'belief' as 'anything whatsoever that any person thinks even if that thought contravenes other existing laws'. by 360Saturn (Thu 12th Oct 2023 7:45pm)
  • Bingo by 360Saturn (Sat 21st Oct 2023 12:29pm)
  • Sorry, did you want me to give you the team of thieving bastards' names and addresses? Shockingly I didn't catch those. Your 2nd para is my exact point. People especially after a few drinks can get complacent. Its a reminder to be vigilant and not assume that just bc everyone in a bar or a place looks 'safe' there won't be some unscrupulous people among them who'll take advantage the first chance they get. I think most folk wouldn't leave a bag or a phone unattended but would think leaving it with their pals while you go to the bar or the loo is 100% safe. My point was that's not necessarily true. by 360Saturn (Sat 21st Oct 2023 12:37pm)
  • 💀 drag me Intended it to be less shitposty but did write the first post on way back from a night out that ended unceremoniously so... maybe I wasn't as well worded as I coulda been. Intention was just to warn others really bc I was a bit in shock. by 360Saturn (Sat 21st Oct 2023 12:40pm)
  • So was it your heart or was it a panic attack? by 360Saturn (Tue 14th Nov 2023 6:57pm)
  • I never understand why the chairs are so uncomfortable in places like receptions at hospital/doctors. I remember vividly when my appendix was going I had to stand in A&E because I couldn't physically sit in one of the chairs because of the angle it put pressure on me. I could've probably reclined. by 360Saturn (Tue 14th Nov 2023 6:55pm)
  • We had a Wheels as well but it was cos instead of a schoolbag for whatever reason he had one of those old lady shopping trollies by 360Saturn (Tue 14th Nov 2023 7:37pm)
  • Its reassuring to hear that. I've had panic attacks before & a lot of the panic (or what makes it worse!) is not knowing what it is! by 360Saturn (Tue 14th Nov 2023 11:21pm)
  • Why Sainsburys? I don't disagree with protests per se but I don't understand why you'd choose this specifically? Like. Why not some kind of political building? "Protest the cost of living crisis by creating work for minimum wage workers to do during their supermarket shift" by 360Saturn (Thu 16th Nov 2023 9:24am)
  • No, they are. I thought it was just assumption too but they claim responsibility for both actions on their instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisis.rigged/?g=5 and there's also a video. by 360Saturn (Thu 16th Nov 2023 9:35am)
  • Right but how does that actually impact the CEO whatsoever? It's just another empty 'raising awareness' action. I mean if you're going to break the law and cause a nuisance anyway why do something small fry like this, that's my perspective. by 360Saturn (Thu 16th Nov 2023 9:41am)
  • But does it? All it achieves in my opinion is the members of the public that will be going past now know the exact figure he's paid rather than assuming it's a lot more than the workers, which is what most of us in the world now assume anyway. And then what? They might tut and then go on home. I just don't get what the next step is here. Is it just Sainsburys or all supermarkets? Where are people supposed to shop in the meantime if what they're urging is a boycott? by 360Saturn (Thu 16th Nov 2023 9:57am)
  • Well I didn't either on the specifics but I feel like most folk with just a little political awareness these days do assume that the head of a huge business with loads of shops in the UK (or anywhere in the world) do assume that the head or owner of that business is paid a phenomenal amount more than people that work in the shop serving customers? That said if it's new and raising awareness then I think that is a good thing. Idk I feel like my comments have been interpreted as disagreeing with the action rather than just questioning if this was the most effective way of doing it. by 360Saturn (Thu 16th Nov 2023 10:04am)
  • > Even if this is all they are doing it's better than doing absolutely nothing Sorry, I don't agree with this at all. It's a 'lose the battle, win the war'/'win the battle, lose the war' thing. If these folk end up going to jail for example they've now deprived their cause of four team members to go to the next protest or do the next action. Or, if this action ends up being portrayed really negatively in the media, maybe they've turned some people who might have been neutral or sympathetic off their cause altogether. Just for two examples. I've been to a lot of trans rights protests this year and every time some chant goes too far and starts to call for violence it sets us back two steps because it's an open goal for the media to portray, to an otherwise neutral audience, everyone there as a crazy violence-monger trying to hide that under a social justice mask. But I don't disagree with the rest of your comment necessarily. I might've been overestimating how engaged with the news and stuff like that the average person is. by 360Saturn (Thu 16th Nov 2023 10:17am)
  • Doh I totally missed that! by 360Saturn (Thu 16th Nov 2023 10:38am)
  • That's an assumption and not one I agree with at all. As I've said in other comments, the opposite. I assumed that a majority of people would actually already be vaguely aware of this. And you might've missed my point as well about raising awareness; that's a point against so much activism (and even charity campaigns etc.) being about raising awareness of certain conditions or difficulties *rather than - because it costs more and/or is more difficult* actually taking PRACTICAL ACTION to do something about them or their impact on society. The problem here is that the CEO is paid more than the workers. That's what we need to fix. Making sure more people know about the specifics of how much he's paid is, in my book, a very entry level point to tackling that problem. Isn't there more we can do? Or to look at something like depression for another example. What's better, raising awareness that depression exists, or funding programmes and therapies that will help *real people struggling with depression* to manage their depression and live more fulfilling lives? by 360Saturn (Thu 16th Nov 2023 10:37am)
  • Right? I don't know how so many folk are missing the point of what I posted and throwing me in the hole with people who are opposed to all forms of protest or whatever. My point is when you've got a limited resource of protesters and a limited stock of stuff to protest with, you might as well make whatever action you take count to have the maximum impact. The whole argument strain of 'doing something is better than doing nothing' etc. misses this point. by 360Saturn (Thu 16th Nov 2023 12:24pm)
  • Even that is quite shocking to see tbh. Pre covid you wouldn't see any 2 apart from really posh for more than 800 a month, and many would be less. by 360Saturn (Sun 19th Nov 2023 11:33am)
  • Seconding the pastry place! Looks very pretty and scenic and their cakes look very pretty but most of them aren't even cakes! Just piped quite flavourless cream with a coloured icing on top. Not at all worth the price. by 360Saturn (Sun 19th Nov 2023 11:37am)
  • What an angel for the tune of 15k a year in your back pocket... by 360Saturn (Sun 19th Nov 2023 6:21pm)
  • I both agree and don't. The issue I have with student housing in the city is that it seems the majority of it that has gone up in the last few years *isn't* student housing exactly, it's luxury student housing that's expensive. That doesn't do anything for the average student as they can't afford to live there, and just spurs the universities to keep recruiting heavily for overseas students because they can point to the shiny new accommodation that's within *their* budget, which actually does nothing to resolve the pressure on housing. If they could guarantee that this would be cheap and cheerful housing then that's a different situation. by 360Saturn (Wed 6th Dec 2023 1:50am)
  • Well even so, if they are trying to get rich students over here and they can only point to, or the students that come can only feed back on, average or basic resources, perhaps word of mouth will impact as many of them coming. by 360Saturn (Wed 6th Dec 2023 2:35pm)
  • I think its pretty common in glasgow especially, speaking as an immigrant. Folk here definitely have strong relationships with their family a lot and their family can become their social circle in their late 20s early 30s in a way I'm a bit unfamiliar with even still. I don't think it's even conscious or intentional but I've had multiple friends and friend groups who've kinda slowly pulled away because every weekend they're doing something with their sisters or uncle and aunt or their cousins. by 360Saturn (Sat 9th Dec 2023 5:31am)
  • Mebbe, I even meant people that don't have kids of their own yet or don't even want them though. There's nothing wrong with it it's just a difference. Think part of it might also be that Glasgow is still a city where people who are from here might stay instead of moving away - and then have these established family links etc., whereas a lot of cities of a similar size have maybe a higher proportion of their 20s-30s people being people that have moved there from elsewhere by themselves. by 360Saturn (Sat 9th Dec 2023 2:00pm)
  • That could be it! I don't really have the perspective on reasons. I think there's part of it that's a Scottish pride thing as well. (Although I've never lived in England so it's possibly similar) in the sense that, just going from some pals I have, if they've moved from somewhere like a bit more rural Scotland to Glasgow, that's as far as they want to go because it's already the biggest city in Scotland and the idea of going somewhere that's not Scotland doesn't really cross their minds. (I guess harder too since Brexit and visas etc). Just as someone who moved from another country it's an interesting thing to come across but I understand it & it's not a bad thing like I say. by 360Saturn (Sat 9th Dec 2023 10:50pm)
  • Aye, that tracks. I wasn't just thinking uni though, even for work. I know folk that wouldn't even consider Edinburgh. by 360Saturn (Sun 10th Dec 2023 2:32am)