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  • What a shite society we've produced. by FairTrainRobber (Fri 25th Aug 2023 9:23pm)
  • DELETED Tell me the difference between tai chi and tae kwon do in a public park. by FairTrainRobber (Fri 25th Aug 2023 9:27pm)
  • I've caught kids in the act of writing on my tail lights with permanent marker in my scheme. Thought I'd mended all bridges after the initial transgression but a day later had them shouting "Fuck your baby" as my partner and I tried to take our baby and dog on a walk. Caught the wee shits on our way back and confronted them. It won't stop if these kids are your neighbours. Follow them home and speak to the parents. If they're alright kids just being wide, they'll respond to that. If they're from a scumbag family then who knows. But don't let them gain the ascendancy. Nobody else is going to discipline them in this disrespectful, shitebag society we've allowed to arise. by FairTrainRobber (Fri 25th Aug 2023 9:26pm)
  • You beat me to it, I see. by FairTrainRobber (Sat 26th Aug 2023 1:31pm)
  • Anarkali on Victoria Road. by FairTrainRobber (Sat 26th Aug 2023 1:31pm)
  • Better. I tweeted them months ago saying the current cans looked drab. Didn't like the frothing pint design. by FairTrainRobber (Mon 28th Aug 2023 7:55am)
  • I hope they incorporate the now hidden-away North Drive, walled off behind a door adjacent to the glass door entrance to the shopping centre. Retaining the old road and building entrances as front doors of flats would be very cool. by FairTrainRobber (Mon 28th Aug 2023 8:59am)
  • Folk are always trying to push the boundaries. Society needs to give people the power to counter this. Instead it takes away parents' and teachers' ability to discipline young people, it takes away ticket conductors, it gives everyone headphones to block out the boors, and it gives everyone nice material existences to want to get home to without any trouble. In short, we're fucked. by FairTrainRobber (Tue 29th Aug 2023 1:47pm)
  • That'll be the one, cheers. You're probably right about the year. It was a good wee place to nip into when in the West End, I'm hoping he maybe still operates in some form. by FairTrainRobber (Sun 3rd Sep 2023 9:55pm)
  • Yes that's the one! by FairTrainRobber (Mon 4th Sep 2023 9:50am)
  • A four-year-old girl in a white lacey dress, barefoot squatting and pishing on Howard St just off Jamaica St at the side of Curry's (I think it is), at 3am. No parents to be seen. To this day I hope I'd seen a ghost. by FairTrainRobber (Tue 19th Sep 2023 12:53pm)
  • Yes, surprise and anger a potential sleeping bear. by FairTrainRobber (Thu 21st Sep 2023 11:29am)
  • You have no idea who he is or what he's like. Telling a young woman alone and stuck in her flat to engage him with an ultimatum is dreadful advice. The police are highly unlikely to arrest him if they suspect he needs referred to social services. by FairTrainRobber (Thu 21st Sep 2023 1:56pm)
  • Just tell us which team gonnae. by FairTrainRobber (Wed 27th Sep 2023 7:52pm)
  • What an answer. Bravo, sir. by FairTrainRobber (Fri 29th Sep 2023 12:27pm)
  • Drainage on roads is a Scottish Water issue, not GCC. by FairTrainRobber (Sat 7th Oct 2023 2:33pm)
  • Presumably because it's a dual carriageway and they were unable to simply turn around and be on the correct side of the road. I'd still have cautiously gone back into oncoming traffic rather than take the dunk but I have to imagine that's the reason. by FairTrainRobber (Sat 7th Oct 2023 2:37pm)
  • It definitely is. by FairTrainRobber (Sun 8th Oct 2023 8:41am)
  • I work in drainage. The council deal with things on private property (if able to - if not, they phone us) anything beyond those limits, Scottish Water handle. by FairTrainRobber (Sun 8th Oct 2023 12:18pm)
  • Back down or double down... back down or double down... Ok compadre, I'm not going to dispute the literature. When there are chokes on a property, residents phone the council who usually phone us, although they do have their own vactors and will sometimes do it themselves. If the choke occurs beyond their property, i.e. under the pavement and roads, Scottish Water have to deal with it. These jobs tend to be West Lothian, East and West Dunbartonshire, Renfrewshire, Lanarkshire and Ayrshire. I don't know if GCC have their own vactors. I believe Damm carry out a lot of the gulley works on trunk roads, so they presumably have a contract with the government as stated in your link. If it is GCC responsible for that part of road, they will deal with Damm or somebody similar but it's odd that it's always an issue because they are based round the corner. My company do a lot of the Hillington estate but only privately owned car parks and such. Again, we're always told that any problems further downstream than the extent of the private property is a Scottish Water issue and nothing to do with us. by FairTrainRobber (Sun 8th Oct 2023 1:22pm)
  • Well, a little deference to your experience and knowledge is all I can offer at this stage. by FairTrainRobber (Sun 8th Oct 2023 1:56pm)
  • Tbf, the sub info says, "Everything Glasgow and the West" and OP does not claim to be moving to the city specifically, as opposed to the Greater Glasgow conurbation. by FairTrainRobber (Tue 10th Oct 2023 7:47pm)
  • Clearly, Glasgow can refer to the city or the conurbation. Nobody in Giffnock tells people they live in East Renfrewshire. Effectively, he is moving to Glasgow and is excited and trying to network and find advice. I doubt the Paisley sub, if one exists, would be as useful as the Glasgow sub. by FairTrainRobber (Tue 10th Oct 2023 8:03pm)
  • Not to my mind, no. I was in Paisley this morning. Love the place. To anyone not from the goldfish bowl though, I see nothing wrong with coming on the Glasgow sub and making efforts to connect with people. Just because they'll be sleeping in Paisley doesn't mean they won't work in Glasgow, go to St Luke's for gigs, shop in Buchanan Galleries, catch fried potato slices in their mouth at Sapporo, take cringe photos in the Clutha and post about being where the famous helicopter hit. All the while having a quicker journey to those places than many folk who reside within the city boundaries. Did the decision to call it Glasgow Airport really bother you? It's certainly not in Glasgow. by FairTrainRobber (Tue 10th Oct 2023 8:19pm)
  • Good karma will come your way for sharing this. by FairTrainRobber (Tue 10th Oct 2023 9:52pm)
  • There's a tiny village south of East Kilbride called Auldhouse, the pub the Auldhouse Arms certainly used to host a charming Celtic folk music jam session on - I believe - a Tuesday night. If it still runs, it's really quite a special and fun way to spend an evening, if a little out the way. by FairTrainRobber (Wed 11th Oct 2023 12:51pm)
  • Unfortunately I'll be at a wedding in Madrid this weekend. by FairTrainRobber (Thu 12th Oct 2023 5:21pm)
  • It'd be good to interview folk on arrival and see how many can articulate their reasons for "protesting". by FairTrainRobber (Sun 15th Oct 2023 11:58pm)
  • This is all deeply concerning. by FairTrainRobber (Mon 23rd Oct 2023 12:39pm)
  • Vile behaviour it certainly isn't. The manner of the cyclist in OP is cause for concern, not the act. by FairTrainRobber (Thu 26th Oct 2023 4:14pm)
  • In addition to screenshots, below is the link to West FM news article. Was also covered in Daily Record. https://planetradio.co.uk/west/local/news/cctv-images-assault-train/ by FairTrainRobber (Fri 27th Oct 2023 3:03pm)
  • Reddit is my only guilty social media pleasure, I'm afraid. I'll see if friends and family are doing so elsewhere, thanks. by FairTrainRobber (Fri 27th Oct 2023 3:01pm)
  • You're right, sometimes when I shut my eyes at night, I can still see my dad's strong, upright back before me, his helmet bobbing from side to side, hair glinting in the sun. It's led to all sorts of lifelong risk behaviours like building painful levels of lactic acid up in my thighs on a long incline or crouching low to the handlebars and enjoying a descent far more than anyone ought. by FairTrainRobber (Fri 27th Oct 2023 7:55pm)
  • You think I chose my username four years in advance of this event as some sort of elaborate long game? by FairTrainRobber (Sat 28th Oct 2023 7:20am)
  • That's the point. It's to highlight the complete idiocy of you comparing a bike seat for tots to child abuse. by FairTrainRobber (Sat 28th Oct 2023 11:34am)
  • A friend knows him well...I think I remember him telling me he was very unwell for a while over the last few years. Nice place to drop in to, hopefully whatever it was has passed. He does indeed open irregularly, though. by FairTrainRobber (Tue 31st Oct 2023 3:54pm)
  • Can't understand your downvotes. Odd behaviour to pick up clothing in the street. Even odder to try to arrange a rendezvous for the return of it. Hope they had latex gloves with them in any case. by FairTrainRobber (Sat 4th Nov 2023 2:43pm)
  • I can't imagine being so bothered about somebody else's lost clothing that I'd take it home and try to contact them. Even if I did want to return it, surely there's a police lost and found for that very purpose? by FairTrainRobber (Sat 4th Nov 2023 2:55pm)
  • Lots of great benefits to Govanhill which I'm sure I needn't list for you. Had 4.5 years there which I look back very fondly on. That being said, only after I left did I realise to what extent the constant squalor and deprivation was bringing me down every day. I'm occasionally back to visit a friend and can barely stand the place. I always accompanied my girlfriend to or from Vicky Road in the evenings for the bus or whatever, and we were in Dixon, which is quite a bit nicer than Calder. If you decide to move there, I would certainly take steps to keep yourself safe. by FairTrainRobber (Wed 8th Nov 2023 4:37pm)
  • Pita Gyros in centre of Paisley is bangin if that's not too out your way. by FairTrainRobber (Thu 9th Nov 2023 3:52pm)
  • Well, what is Maryhill? Used to just be the dock by the locks. North Kelvinside is to me a useful term for an area which is clearly not characteristic of much of the Maryhill Road sprawl. I was the postie in it for a few years, very different people from those whom my colleagues served in other parts of G20. Not a fun day for me when the British Medical Journal came out. by FairTrainRobber (Sat 11th Nov 2023 10:52am)
  • Well said. by FairTrainRobber (Sat 11th Nov 2023 6:26pm)
  • Anarkali for all your curry needs. by FairTrainRobber (Wed 15th Nov 2023 1:15pm)
  • Gogo Glen above Largs by FairTrainRobber (Wed 15th Nov 2023 5:00pm)
  • All for the crackdown on bus lane/stop parking but it seems to me that parking charges are part of the reason everyone flocks to Braehead and the Fort, leaving the city centre floundering. by FairTrainRobber (Sat 18th Nov 2023 1:35pm)
  • Well I'll be damned. Thanks for the stats. The place seems an absolute dump in parts and it can be very off-putting but obviously my impression isn't backed up by the data. Town would always be my general preference (especially towards Christmas) over the big shopping centres but it often feels like an uphill battle to make that decision. by FairTrainRobber (Sat 18th Nov 2023 2:03pm)
  • Something as simple as the Argyle Street Next closing down and passing a crowd of junkies on the walk back to Central can go a long way in one's mind, I suppose. by FairTrainRobber (Sat 18th Nov 2023 2:21pm)
  • Have a wee read of the comments, buddy. by FairTrainRobber (Sat 18th Nov 2023 4:15pm)
  • West End BMB is worth it for the German lager alone. I love the cheesy fried chicken burger, great chips too. I've actually been to the West end one and Silverburn in the past week, although not intentionally...West end was handy before Glasglow as there were lots of kids in it and we thought it'd be an OK place for the baby to have a screaming fit if need be...then it was so good we went again at Silverburn after some shopping the other day. No German lager at that one, unfortunately. by FairTrainRobber (Sun 19th Nov 2023 11:47am)
  • Tattie scone too stodgy. The only answer is bacon and egg. by FairTrainRobber (Sun 19th Nov 2023 6:28pm)
  • Before I had seen the light about this and made the change to broon, a colleague once asked me what sauce I took after discussing my breakfast roll with him. When I told him, he tutted and went, "You're a Wee Guy." (Capitalisation my own, because a Wee Guy is different to a guy who is wee). He was right. I was still a Wee Guy. by FairTrainRobber (Sun 19th Nov 2023 6:33pm)
  • Did you not read the comments? by FairTrainRobber (Mon 20th Nov 2023 10:06am)
  • Megabus as others have said but look as far in advance as you can for trains, I once got a 1st class ticket from Virgin for 30 quid. Limitless free bevvy makes up for the difference in cost and it's infinitely more comfortable than the bus, with better scenery in half the time. by FairTrainRobber (Tue 21st Nov 2023 12:06pm)
  • https://canmore.org.uk/site/44166/glasgow-bilsland-drive-forth-and-clyde-canal-aqueduct Some pictures...Google bilsland drive aqueduct and you will find plenty info. by FairTrainRobber (Tue 21st Nov 2023 12:27pm)
  • Apparently Stevenston Beach towards Ardeer. No idea how true that is but you do see it on lists of nude beaches in Scotland. Stevenston is a bit rough though. I were planning a trip, I'd be worried about local weans spoiling the occasion. Not to mention Scotland isn't the most flattering place to be nude. by FairTrainRobber (Fri 24th Nov 2023 7:58am)
  • I've never ventured beyond the normal Stevenston beach, which I often prefer to Saltcoats and Ardrossan. Locals aside, far fewer people seem to think of it compared to the ones further up. by FairTrainRobber (Fri 24th Nov 2023 8:25am)
  • The other two 'towns' are just far better known, generally. Ardrossan for the ferry and Saltcoats for...a few reasons. by FairTrainRobber (Fri 24th Nov 2023 8:30am)
  • Found this far harder than I thought I would. by FairTrainRobber (Fri 24th Nov 2023 12:08pm)
  • Hint button would be a good idea as a next step. I agree about map appearance. Just thought I'd have done better :D I put an S on the end of St Enoch and then, confused, tried adding Square before remembering the subway station is just St Enoch. Then I eventually had to look up one of the south side ones. Haven't actually lived in the city itself for 5 years and it's been longer than that since I used the subway regularly...Still fancied 100% though. Cool wee game, anyway. by FairTrainRobber (Fri 24th Nov 2023 12:27pm)
  • Bier Halle certainly used to. by FairTrainRobber (Mon 27th Nov 2023 5:10am)
  • There is more to this flag than slavery...For most of the people it's important to, slavery probably doesn't enter into their thoughts in the slightest. Have you spoken to any of them? It looks to me like you're in danger of being very high and mighty. As devil's advocate, they would say it represents the values which make the South the South, family, God, loyalty to one's community, a rustic life, being able to do things with your hands, self-sufficiency, to name just a few that people have said to me over the years. I think it's far less simple than you make out. by FairTrainRobber (Tue 28th Nov 2023 12:47pm)
  • I'm a Brit who lived in the States. Your experience is not the only one. by FairTrainRobber (Tue 28th Nov 2023 5:18pm)
  • You're telling people what a flag means to *them*. Clearly, what you've said is what it means to *you*. What the flag overtly represents isn't always what it means to everyone. What do you think the British flag means to Indians? by FairTrainRobber (Tue 28th Nov 2023 5:23pm)
  • Simplistic pish. by FairTrainRobber (Tue 28th Nov 2023 5:21pm)
  • Virtually nothing is that simple. I would hazard a guess you've never spoken to anyone from the South. But you got your upvotes so that's what matters. by FairTrainRobber (Tue 28th Nov 2023 5:19pm)
  • Doesn't seem like the time or place for jokes. Southerners, black or white, are proud of being "right from the woods", as Otis Redding sang. There's been a pride in not being metropolitan and industrial for a very long time. by FairTrainRobber (Tue 28th Nov 2023 5:25pm)
  • It really isn't. Let's take a nicely placed counter example: the star-spangled banner. Created to represent the creation of a country in which religious freedom could be practised away from the influence of the British monarchy and state control (other definitions may vary). To many all over the world, the ultimate symbol of freedom, democracy and the opportunity to improve one's standing through sheer will. America. To Native Americans, the unwanted intrusion into and subsequent domination of their lands, including the theft of their resources and the rape and slaughter of their people, and the end of their millenia-old way of life by the incoming white man. Who is anyone to deny either the millions (billions?) of people who see the US flag as the ultimate symbol of hope, or the indigenous peoples most deeply and devastatingly impacted by the emergence of the colonies and early nation-state and how they may differ in their perspective on the stars and stripes? by FairTrainRobber (Tue 28th Nov 2023 6:25pm)
  • Read the other comments, I'm not repeating myself. You're a little blinkered in your thinking, that's OK. by FairTrainRobber (Wed 29th Nov 2023 6:44am)
  • The point here is Joe Bloggs in Glasgow telling people for whom the flag is actually a relevant symbol what it is and how they ought to feel about it, even whether they should be allowed to fly it or not. You're really struggling to detach your feelings about the flag from the idea that other people may have other feelings about it. Imagine if a third party started telling Americans that their flag represents the genocide of the Iriquois people and that they shouldn't fly it. It's the same thing but because you and others think you're calling out racism, it suddenly isn't the same thing. by FairTrainRobber (Wed 29th Nov 2023 6:43am)
  • This isn't about what I think. I nothing the Confederate flag, other than liking the cover of Primal Scream's Give Out But Don't Give Up. I don't think it's OK for somebody with no link to a flag to sit there saying what can be flown and how people should feel about it. by FairTrainRobber (Wed 29th Nov 2023 11:32am)
  • Well, don't you think the GOO displaying it and Primal Scream using it for an album recorded in Memphis suggest there most certainly is more to it than that? Clearly it's become synonymous with country music, or more widely, the culture of the South, as I originally said. You don't seem to know very much about the flag. by FairTrainRobber (Wed 29th Nov 2023 1:49pm)
  • It's quite clear from the two examples cited that there are people for whom it does represent country music, as well as other things. I think your third reich flag analogy is not a very good one, though you clearly think it is your ace in the hole. 160 years is far more than half of the United States' history and slavery was left behind that entire time ago. I believe, having been told by people from the region, that there are very many people for whom the Confederate flag has in that timeframe come to mean what I've said elsewhere, and some guys in Glasgow calling them all racists and bigots is, for me, very arrogant. I don't know if you're a busy person but I am and my input will cease here. by FairTrainRobber (Wed 29th Nov 2023 6:00pm)
  • That is a very respectable bike commute. Well done you. by FairTrainRobber (Wed 29th Nov 2023 6:33pm)
  • I always take newcomers to the Necropolis. Shame the Old College Bar has closed down. by FairTrainRobber (Sun 3rd Dec 2023 8:26pm)
  • For a sporting venue, that is absolutely close enough for an unwanted moniker. by FairTrainRobber (Tue 5th Dec 2023 8:09pm)
  • Vulvae are a bit more sought-after than prolapsed sphincters. Tbf though, there's a "stone vagina" at Glasgow Uni and folk would get their photograph taken emerging from it, which I found totally cringeworthy...and I'm not exactly above crude jokes. by FairTrainRobber (Tue 5th Dec 2023 8:28pm)
  • One of those many great benefits to multicultural Govanhill that Masters theses get written about. I'd move, personally. by FairTrainRobber (Thu 7th Dec 2023 5:20pm)
  • Something for delinquents to latch on to in lieu of actual morals. by FairTrainRobber (Fri 8th Dec 2023 11:34am)
  • Yes. Life is a series of deaths and rebirths. Losing friends is part of it. by FairTrainRobber (Sat 9th Dec 2023 8:55am)
  • Glasgow's got its own coat, dontcha know...the mac. I've got a Berghaus raincoat that's done me for years, nice and cool but dry. Fucking stinks after years of rain, though. Washing it helps for one downpour (and makes it less waterproof, so hardly worth it). I've more or less relegated it to dog walks. Would recommend. by FairTrainRobber (Sun 10th Dec 2023 1:06pm)
  • Bolognese: 250g fatty mince 1 tin Oxtail soup Lashings of tomato purèe Cook the pasta to al dente Simmer for 5 more minutes by FairTrainRobber (Sun 10th Dec 2023 10:39pm)