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  • There's a massive mine below the Joseph Black Building at Glasgow Uni. They used to take students down there on field trips in the days before Health & Safety was a thing. by LexyNoise (Tue 8th Jan 2019 5:42pm)
  • The fact that the 1C goes to Drumchapel and the 1D goes to Clydebank has always annoyed me. by LexyNoise (Tue 8th Jan 2019 5:49pm)
  • It's true. Parking on pavements is only an offence in and of itself in London. In Glasgow, the pavement and verges are covered by the same rules as the road. Double yellow lines on the road? Can't park on the pavement. No restrictions at all on the road? Help yourself as long as you're not next to a dropped kerb. by LexyNoise (Wed 9th Jan 2019 12:43pm)
  • >I got a ticket once and most of the evidence photos focussed on a giant toy octopus I had in my car. Was it on the dashboard? They might have been close-up photos of the dashboard to show there was no pay & display ticket or blue badge on display. by LexyNoise (Wed 9th Jan 2019 12:41pm)
  • >I’ve be got a big car, arse bags out of most spaces. I’ve had a “minor warning” when I parked in George square that I might get a ticket as the arse of my car breached the space behind me. This true? You can get a ticket for that. If you're straddling two bays, it's "Not parked correctly within the markings of a bay or space" or "Parked beyond the bay markings". If you're overhanging yellow lines or an unmarked street in a restricted parking zone, it's "Parked in a restricted street during prescribed hours". by LexyNoise (Wed 9th Jan 2019 12:51pm)
  • You realise the council check the V5C address, right? by LexyNoise (Thu 17th Jan 2019 4:59pm)
  • Whitecrook isn't the fanciest place but it's not terrible. I've lived there for 7 years and I've never had anything bad happen to me, my flat or my car. I can't say the same about Anniesland (where I lived before). Plus, I have a really big two bedroom flat and the mortgage is £300 a month. by LexyNoise (Tue 22nd Jan 2019 11:19am)
  • **DO NOT try and get into this building!** The building isn't abandoned and has active businesses in the lower floors. It's just the upper floors that are empty. I got in here legally because I know people who work for the building's owners. by LexyNoise (Thu 7th Feb 2019 8:12pm)
  • I only know one other DJ who uses Serato timecode vinyl, and they're not hers. To be fair, they're only about £15 each (which is a fraction of what DJs get a night), so whoever they belong to has probably replaced them already. There are places in Glasgow you can walk into and buy them on the spot. by LexyNoise (Mon 18th Feb 2019 10:04am)
  • >Also, when are First actually going to use the LED screens on their buses to show next stop information The council have decided to rename every bus stop to Ferrograph OVD. It's easier than fixing the screens. by LexyNoise (Mon 18th Feb 2019 10:16am)
  • This doesn't go far enough. Given the number of people going to restaurants, theatres etc in the evening, it should be 8AM - 10PM Monday to Sunday. by LexyNoise (Mon 25th Feb 2019 10:24am)
  • The bus lane has been there for ten years at least. by LexyNoise (Tue 26th Mar 2019 10:09am)
  • Not specific to Glasgow, more Scotland-wide. There was a pro-independence anti-nuclear lawyer and politician called Willie McRae. While he was investigating the dumping of nuclear waste, he found something he shouldn't have. His home was burgled. No valuables were taken, but all his papers had been rummaged through. His office was burgled the same way, and his holiday home. He went missing and was found at the wheel of his car in a remote part of the Scottish highlands. There was a gunshot wound in the side of his head. The gun was found 20 metres away from the car. The police ruled it a suicide. Apparently they think he shot himself in the head, opened the car door, threw the gun across a field, closed the door and sat back down before dying. The government refused to open an investigation into his death. by LexyNoise (Wed 27th Mar 2019 2:38pm)
  • >Like I said, Jordanhill's where they change drivers, so clearly the driver's sitting at Garscadden getting his stuff together. Barely anyone gets on at that station, allowing them to exploit the time allowed to wait at there (and I've mentioned how pointless that station is. Its literally 2 minutes walk along the line from Scotstounhill - but like 15 minutes using the main road). They power on through Scotstounhill to make up for that time. Then sit about Jordanhill doing their shift change and talking to the other driver. Passengers have gotten out at Jordanhill before and yelled at the drivers to stop talking and move the train... Don't make shite up if you don't know what you're talking about. Jordanhill is where the line from Jordanhill joins the line from Anniesland, which has a much more frequent service and takes priority over the Yoker trains. Trains sit at Jordanhill for a few minutes because they're waiting for a delayed Anniesland train to pass through the junction, not because of some mad driver conspiracy theory you've just made up. by LexyNoise (Mon 8th Apr 2019 11:00am)
  • You know you can leave a club whenever you want, right? You don't have to stay til closing time. That's kind of the point of this whole thing - have everyone leave when they're done and gradually stagger home in dribs and drabs rather than everyone descending on the Gordon Street taxi rank and Glassford Street Subway at 3AM. by LexyNoise (Wed 24th Apr 2019 10:13am)
  • Yoker's weird because you've got some really nice areas two streets away from some really run-down areas. Even the bad bits of Yoker and Whitecrook aren't too bad. You only get trouble if you go looking for it. I've lived there for years with no bother. If anything, I had more bother in Anniesland. The Bulldale scheme is fine - it's down a dead end, quite well isolated from everything else. I expect it'll be pretty quiet. One thing - you might want to check those flats have gas for heating and hot water. A lot of newer-builds in that part of Glasgow have electric heating. Not sure why, but I heard it was something to do with industry that used to be in the area. by LexyNoise (Thu 25th Apr 2019 1:01pm)
  • Those Yoker flats are being demolished right now. The boarded up pub across the street is now a 24 hour Spar with a Subway inside it. There's a new Lidl where the old Scottish Power building used to be. The abandoned KwikSave is now a (pretty big) Farmfoods. The area's generally not doing too bad these days. by LexyNoise (Thu 25th Apr 2019 1:08pm)
  • >When university for non-Scottish students didnt cost 9k a year, it wasn't half as busy. 9k is the fee for English students. Those Chinese and American students you see around the place are paying between 15k and 21k a year. If they're studying medicine, dentistry or vet science, it can be up to 45k a year. That's why there's so many international students these days - big money for the universities. by LexyNoise (Thu 25th Apr 2019 9:21pm)
  • The guys who run the Slay drag events own a couple of gig venues and clubs (Audio in Glasgow, The Warehouse in Falkirk, Church in Dundee), so I wouldn't worry about them being legit. As others have said, maybe it's just a placeholder until they get an idea of numbers. It's pretty hard to book larger venues right now, because of the ABC fire and all those events being moved to other venues. 20 Glassford Street is the old Mansion House. I'm fairly well connected with the gay venues in Merchant City and I haven't heard any gossip about a new place opening (apart from the new hipstery LGBT place at the Saltmarket). If they're opening a new place and they've managed to keep it a secret from Polo and AXM, I'd be very impressed. by LexyNoise (Tue 30th Apr 2019 5:54pm)
  • Knew that was gonna be a Geoff Marhsall video before I even clicked on it. by LexyNoise (Fri 10th May 2019 11:13am)
  • You should have seen the view from the roof of the old City of Glasgow College building on North Hanover Street. You had to go up to the 14th floor above the TV studios to get out there. by LexyNoise (Fri 10th May 2019 11:12am)
  • I've only driven into the city centre on a Sunday a couple of times, and it's always been a nightmare. Every space is full all day. And on top of that, you've got cars circling round and round looking for a space. Frankly I don't see why there should be a 'special day' of the week when parking rules don't apply. by LexyNoise (Mon 13th May 2019 3:24pm)
  • The Ayr line isn't usually cancelled because it's a bit further inland. It's the other part of the line that runs right along the seafront to Ardrossan and Largs that usually gets cancelled. by LexyNoise (Mon 13th May 2019 3:27pm)
  • I had a really weird dream last night. I dreamt that a huge, tall block of student flats was built in my tenement's back garden. It was so close I could reach out of my kitchen window and touch it, and it made my flat really dark. I blame this subreddit, all its members, and Glasgow City Council for that dream. by LexyNoise (Wed 22nd May 2019 10:15am)
  • I'm a car owner and a driver, but I think this is a good thing. It's always been tough to park in this area, but since Dowanhill and Partick became controlled zones, and with Hyndland just about to go live, parking in "the free bit" North of The Botanics has gotten so much harder and it's a pain in the ass for residents. People just dump their cars there, bumper-to-bumper, right across pedestrian crossings. Those cars sit there all day from 9 to 5. by LexyNoise (Mon 3rd Jun 2019 9:20pm)
  • Wasn't it Parkmill where that happened? by LexyNoise (Thu 6th Jun 2019 1:33pm)
  • However bad the lifts of the Livi Tower are, they’re nothing compared to the old City of Glasgow College tower. Three lifts. One of them was broken for 18 months. Hundreds of students trying to get up and down every hour. People would walk up to the 2nd or 3rd floor just to get a lift going down, just to take it back up the building. So when a lift arrived at the ground floor, it was already full. by LexyNoise (Thu 13th Jun 2019 4:11pm)
  • Genuine answer here. The BDSM community is built on trust, and who knows who - because doing BDSM with people you don't know and trust is incredibly dangerous. Because of this, dungeons are very secretive and they don't advertise where they are. They're not places anybody can just turn up to - they need to know you. One of the city centre dungeons has an Open Day a few times a year, which is a great way of getting to know people and seeing the facilities. They don't give you the address of the dungeon - you have to go to a nearby bar at a certain time, find a certain table, and introduce yourself to the people there. They'll take you to the actual dungeon. It's really well hidden in an office building - you'd never find it on your own. I'm not gonna give you any details because that would be out of line, but have a browse of FetLife. You'll find certain Glasgow-based groups where people post about the open days. by LexyNoise (Mon 17th Jun 2019 11:04am)
  • We should get Connies Bathrooms to decorate the statue. Imagine how terrifying that would be. by LexyNoise (Mon 17th Jun 2019 11:08am)
  • Go on [forums.pepipoo.com](http://forums.pepipoo.com). Post a Google Street View link, a photo of the front of the PCN with your reg number blanked out (leave **everything else** intact) and a photo of the back of the PCN. You might get lucky. Glasgow PCNs were legally invalid for about two years. They didn't have a postal address you could sent payment to, which meant they didn't meet the requirements of the Road Traffic Act 1991. They still tried though, chancing bastards! by LexyNoise (Thu 27th Jun 2019 9:02pm)
  • >Slay and Audio and some other venues out east and owned and ran by the same guy, Mark Miller, who also owns Hamilton Hunter. Slay isn’t open yet and had been delayed loads in opening, haven’t heard from any of the other techs i know as to why. This is the correct answer. It's not "fishy" at all. It's a legit gig venue that's been held up massively by red tape, planning applications and building work. It was meant to be open by now, hence the shows they've got scheduled, but they're moving them to other venues they own because it's not ready yet. Mark is really into heavy metal and his husband is really into drag stuff. So if you look up the shows they've got booked, you'll see a really weird combination of metal bands and drag queen performances. It's kind of funny. On a side note, I like Audio. It's like a damper, mustier Ivory Blacks. I saw '68 there and it was a hell of a show. by LexyNoise (Fri 28th Jun 2019 12:15pm)
  • I'm a nightclub DJ. For all of June and July, it's light when I arrive at work just before 11, and light when I leave work just after 3. by LexyNoise (Fri 28th Jun 2019 8:45pm)
  • Some bands deliberately do smaller, more intimate shows if a promoter asks them - especially if they're in the country for other shows anyway and can 'piggy back' it on top of their trip. There's a relatively well-known heavy band I like called Norma Jean. They wouldn't fill the Hydro or anything, but they've done SWG3, ABC2 and places like that. While they were in the country to play a festival, a local promoter managed to book them for the tiny gig venue in The Hug & Pint. The venue is smaller than my bedroom. There were 100 people in there, and it was sold out. One of the best gigs I've ever been to! by LexyNoise (Fri 28th Jun 2019 8:57pm)
  • Parking on the pavement is perfectly legal in Scotland. by LexyNoise (Wed 3rd Jul 2019 2:15pm)
  • Glasgow's got some great brutalism too - we're not all about pretty old buildings! Sadly, unlike Strathclyde, Glasgow has a habit of doing them up and re-cladding them. Which makes them look 'nicer', but they lose their soul completely. You should have seen The Fraser Building back when it was a brutalist block. Here's a few of our better ones: * [The Boyd Orr Building](https://brutalistconstructions.com/2015/11/02/the-boyd-orr-building-glasgow/) * [The Rankine Building](https://brutalistconstructions.com/2015/11/05/rankine-building-glasgow/) * [The Adam Smith Building](https://brutalistconstructions.com/2015/11/05/adam-smith-building-glasgow/) * [The Queen Margaret Union](https://brutalistconstructions.com/2015/10/31/queen-margaret-union-glasgow/) by LexyNoise (Thu 4th Jul 2019 3:04pm)
  • I've met more people for relationships / regular play through Twitter than I have through Grindr or POF or anything like that. by LexyNoise (Thu 4th Jul 2019 3:18pm)
  • There are quite a few homeless people in Glasgow, but it's **nothing** compared to Manchester! Every time I visit Manchester it surprises me. Numerous people sleeping on benches in broad daylight, and lying in sleeping bags in shop doorways. It's really sad. by LexyNoise (Mon 8th Jul 2019 8:36pm)
  • You in Garnethill or Hillhead? They're a completely separate permit system and much older than the rest of the city's permit zones. The council has been trying to move them to the new permit system for years but the residents always put up a fight. I don't live in those areas, but as far as I understand it, it's about the bay allocation. The older system has bays that are resident permit holders only, and bays that are pay and display only. You can't pay and display in a permit space, and can't use a permit in a pay and display space. The newer scheme has mixed bays - you can use a permit or pay and display in any space. The residents don't want to give up their 'resident permit holder only' bays, even though it effectively means they can't park in half the bays in their own streets because they're pay and display only. by LexyNoise (Tue 9th Jul 2019 10:50am)
  • Literally any company that's bigger than one person will offer Barclays Partner Finance on it. As others have said, British Gas will be expensive - about a grand more than smaller companies. I went with them when I bought my first flat, knowing full well that it would be more expensive. It was my first home and it was a big job involving the removal of a back boiler and water tank and I didn't want to go with a small one-man outfit I'd never heard of. But with hindsight I wouldn't do it again. by LexyNoise (Fri 19th Jul 2019 5:02pm)
  • I always use the Flying Scot car park in Paisley. It's big, fenced-off, well staffed and there's a free minibus shuttle between their car park and the airport. by LexyNoise (Fri 2nd Aug 2019 6:00pm)
  • It's a decent venue but it's very, very loud. The acoustics in the main hall are terrible so they crank the volume to unreasonable levels to compensate. A lot of the bands I used to like played at The Garage back in the day, but most of the gigs I go to nowadays are at SWG3 Galvanisers. The music is nowhere near as loud, but perfectly fills the place and sounds amazing. I can't believe I used to think the sound volume/quality in The Garage was normal. by LexyNoise (Fri 2nd Aug 2019 6:07pm)
  • You are wrong. by LexyNoise (Mon 5th Aug 2019 11:33am)
  • The council's long-term transport strategy is that you drive **around** the city centre, rather than through it. If your destination is inside the city centre, they want you to drive around until you get to the area you want, then pull in, rather than driving straight across the centre. There's a big PDF somewhere on their website where they go into details about it. They call it the 'clock face'. by LexyNoise (Thu 15th Aug 2019 4:14pm)
  • So it's a ticket that takes people **to** Partick, and it's... at Partick? by LexyNoise (Thu 15th Aug 2019 4:18pm)
  • 1. It's about the same - it hasn't gotten better or worse. 2. I was on Ritalin when I was at school - 35mg per day. 3. No, I stopped taking it as soon as I left school. While it really did help me focus and learn stuff, it changed my personality a lot. I have a professional office job that I can focus on and do well, and I've also got an 'evening and weekend' job that's the same. I have 'manageable quirks', but not problematic behaviour. I tend to get 110% interested in a hobby for a while, then drop it for something else. Right now, it's retro gaming emulators. Generally, people with ADHD have noticeable quirks that trained medical professionals can see a mile away. When I moved home and had to register with a new GP, they interviewed me and the nurse asked me if I had ADHD without me mentioning it. She noticed my mannerisms, the way I looked around the room constantly while talking to her, and my lack of eye contact. You will find it **very** hard to get diagnosis and medication as an adult. They usually try to push people towards self-management rather than a medication. That's because the medication is a highly controlled substance and it's widely abused by people without ADHD because of the effect it has on them. by LexyNoise (Fri 16th Aug 2019 2:45pm)
  • Advertise on local radio stations. Make sure your ad starts with an annoying alarm sound and finishes with a catchy jingle. by LexyNoise (Fri 23rd Aug 2019 5:14pm)
  • Mop the close with Jeyes Fluid. It reeks of tar and the smell lasts for weeks. It'll do her head in. by LexyNoise (Fri 23rd Aug 2019 5:10pm)
  • I got a parking ticket at 23:55 once, so their bit about 'contracted hours' is a load of shite. by LexyNoise (Tue 3rd Sep 2019 10:42am)
  • That is being turned into a residents zone. Council already have blueprints up on their website for it. by LexyNoise (Mon 9th Sep 2019 10:16pm)
  • Once you go above Band D, council tax start to rise quite dramatically. by LexyNoise (Wed 18th Sep 2019 10:51am)
  • This also affects Lucky 7 Canteen and Flat 0/1. Same building, same licence. by LexyNoise (Wed 18th Sep 2019 10:56am)
  • You're responsible for a course at a Scottish University. You have a space on your course. Which of these do you pick? 1. A student from Scotland. The student pays you nothing, but the Scottish Government give you £1,600 a year. 2. A student from England. The student pays you £9,000 a year. 3. A student from the US, India or China. The student pays you between £16,970 and £47,900 a year, depending on the course. Why do you think there are so many new, private student flats being built and why do you think they're being marketed to international students who couldn't look for a private let before they arrive here? [Here's the source for those figures](https://www.gla.ac.uk/undergraduate/fees/intlfees/) by LexyNoise (Wed 18th Sep 2019 4:51pm)
  • I'm surprised it isn't covered in parking tickets. Can't park a motor vehicle in a pedestrian zone. by LexyNoise (Fri 27th Sep 2019 4:33pm)
  • It's generally considered a bad move to question your council tax band. Nothing good usually comes of it. You might find that your tax band isn't too high - your neighbours' tax bands are too low. Your appeal could put your entire street's council tax band up to match yours. Expect regular slashed tyres and broken wing mirrors if that happens. There's also the fact that your home has been extended since the "valuations" were done. You might find your tax band goes up even higher because of that. by LexyNoise (Mon 30th Sep 2019 11:55am)
  • [Enjoy that while it lasts](https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/NKNWS) by LexyNoise (Wed 2nd Oct 2019 3:29pm)
  • Partick. But it's a faster walk if you avoid Dumbarton Road. Walk out the other end of the station and walk up Beith Street instead. Looks a bit longer on the map but it's much faster. by LexyNoise (Thu 10th Oct 2019 12:29pm)
  • I have **never** seen anyone use the fish counter in a supermarket. Maybe that's why? by LexyNoise (Thu 10th Oct 2019 12:26pm)
  • >there was 2 bed flat for sale at offers over 39k last year and then a couple years ago another at offers over 30k There's a reason those flats sold so cheaply, and it's not because of any problems with the area or the building. It's an unusual 1960s high-rise building. It's listed. It has an unusual construction (deck access from an external stair/lift tower, rather than an internal 'close'). Most mortgage companies would refuse to lend on those flats, writing them off as "unusual construction". Any banks that would lend on them would require a huge deposit. Those prices are probably cash-only sales. by LexyNoise (Tue 15th Oct 2019 12:45pm)
  • You're allowed to stop on double yellows to let passengers get in and out of a vehicle. The only places you can't do that are bus stops, zig zags at crossings and schools, and clearways (like the Expressway). by LexyNoise (Wed 16th Oct 2019 11:40am)
  • >start with fucking Union St They have. It's buses and taxis only from 7am-7pm. by LexyNoise (Thu 17th Oct 2019 1:13pm)
  • It was built using an experimental concrete technique that didn't work out - the concrete is literally crumbling away. Chunks have already fallen off the building onto the street below - hence the big wire cage bolted to the building. Since the entire building is built of defective concrete, restoration is out of the question. You'd have to replace the entire building. Although it's beautiful and unique and quirky, it really needs to be demolished before it crumbles into the street and kills somebody. Maybe the council could sell the land off cheap, under the condition that any future building must have a similar profile and look to the Lion Chambers? by LexyNoise (Mon 21st Oct 2019 3:40pm)
  • The 20 zone is fairly pointless. The police still enforce it as if it's a 30 zone anyway. The council have better tools to enforce speed through the city centre. They deliberately time the traffic lights so people have to stop at every single light. That has a much better effect on traffic speed. by LexyNoise (Tue 5th Nov 2019 8:39pm)
  • Nirvana have pierced my nose twice, both times with a ring. by LexyNoise (Tue 5th Nov 2019 8:43pm)
  • It's a real venue, it just isn't open yet. Why would anyone create a "fake venue"? by LexyNoise (Tue 5th Nov 2019 9:03pm)
  • No, they can't. Only London councils can use cameras to enforce prohibited turns, box junctions, one way roads, no entry signs, school zig-zags and other moving traffic contraventions. Councils outside London only have the power to use them for bus lanes. Hopefully this will change some day. by LexyNoise (Mon 11th Nov 2019 10:52am)
  • Also, it's only between 7am and 7pm - not 24/7. by LexyNoise (Mon 11th Nov 2019 10:57am)
  • Parking on the pavement is a dick move, but it's not illegal. That's changing very soon with the new Transport Act. Right now, the pavement has the same restrictions as the road. Double yellow lines on road = ticket for parking on double yellow lines. No yellow lines on road = nothing legally to stop you parking on the pavement. by LexyNoise (Mon 11th Nov 2019 10:55am)
  • It was [Lizzo](https://youtu.be/XaCrQL_8eMY). by LexyNoise (Tue 12th Nov 2019 10:13am)
  • >Was there a pay and display machine, if there was then no hope. If so possibly as the phone number was obscured. This is not true. They need signs next to the bays. No signs, no restrictions. by LexyNoise (Wed 13th Nov 2019 11:59am)
  • The random parking slip is a test ticket from the pay & display machine. It's used to prove the machine is working. They print one and photograph it to stop people claiming the machine was broken. by LexyNoise (Wed 13th Nov 2019 12:04pm)
  • >I believe this will be subject to parking controls in the future too. It will be. They've already produced the [plans for it](https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/NKNWS) and opened it to consultation. Given the usual council timescale, the controls will probably start in early summer 2020. by LexyNoise (Wed 13th Nov 2019 12:08pm)
  • Bunhouse Road car park is £10 per day. Kelvingrove car park is £10 per day. Riverside car park is £10 per day. Lilybank car park is £15 per day. by LexyNoise (Wed 13th Nov 2019 12:12pm)
  • >get onto the pepipoo forum, they'll help you out. You should definitely do this. by LexyNoise (Wed 13th Nov 2019 6:02pm)
  • Sainsburys in Drumchapel have a metric fuckton of seitan and tempeh products in the fridge aisle. by LexyNoise (Thu 5th Dec 2019 11:23am)
  • >Aha yes so excited to not spend £15 on a double vodka lemonade Wow. The clubs I go to are half those prices and I've been complaining about them being expensive. **Two** double vodka and cokes are £15.20 in Polo or £15.60 in AXM. Also, Polo has an R&B room but they've just got a brand new DJ, so I can't tell you if it's any good or not. It's a gay club and the R&B room is lesbian city, if that's your thing. by LexyNoise (Thu 5th Dec 2019 2:57pm)
  • The "other two sides" are Saracen Street and Shettleston Road, so it's kind of understandable. They don't deserve nice things. by LexyNoise (Fri 6th Dec 2019 11:55am)
  • That sounds about right. The barrier was there in September 2003 when I started uni. by LexyNoise (Wed 11th Dec 2019 10:51am)
  • Your budget is way too low for your own place in Glasgow. £350 a month will only get you the worst of the worst flat, especially if you insist in staying within Glasgow city limits. Prices drop considerably once you leave the city limits and head to Rutherglen or Clydebank. But even then, a 1 bedroom flat that isn't particularly nice but isn't a shithole will cost you £400 a month. You should find someone and share a 2 or 3 bedroom flat. That's the only thing within your price range. by LexyNoise (Fri 13th Dec 2019 12:32pm)
  • * Glasgow Uni is building a massive new campus on the old hospital site at Church Street, so a lot of the new restrictions will make this area less hostile for pedestrians. * New 20mph zone covering all of Byres Road, Church Street, Torness Street, and Highburgh Road as far Hyndland Street. * New cycle lanes all along Byres Road, with proper ‘floating’ bus stops. * Much less parking on Byres Road. No more back-to-back cars on both sides of the road. * The bottom end of Byres Road, closest to Dumbarton Road, will become one-way (towards the Uni). * Church Street will become one-way in the opposite direction (towards Dumbarton Road). * Torness Street is currently a one-way road. It will switch direction and allow driving from Dumbarton Road to Church Street. * The junction of Dumbarton Road and Church Street will get traffic lights with pedestrian crossings on all sides. * A new pedestrian crossing will be installed on Dumbarton Road, just up from Sainsburys. * A new pedestrian crossing will be installed on Church Street, next to the council social work building. * University Place, which was an unenforced dumping ground for cars, becomes a council-enforced Restricted Zone with 8 disabled bays and a loading bay. No parking for anyone else. * University Gardens, which was owned by the University and had no parking restrictions, becomes part of the council-enforced Hillhead Resident Permit / Pay & Display Zone with marked bays. * Ashton Lane becomes fully pedestrianised, with rising bollards for enforcement. * No Entry restriction at the top of Great George Street, prohibiting turns from Hillhead Street. This stops people cutting up Gibson Street as a shortcut to get to Byres Road and forces them to go along Bank Street and Great Western Road. * The existing Hillhead Resident Permit / Pay & Display Zone will be converted into a Restricted Parking Zone, the same as nearby areas like Dowanhill and Partick. This means no yellow lines, and parking in marked bays only. * There won’t be separate Pay & Display Only and Resident Permit Only spaces any more. Permit holders and pay & display users can use any bay. * Residents will be allowed more than one permit, and the cost of permits will be reduced from £170 per year to £85 per year. * The hours of enforcement will be changed. Currently they are Monday - Sunday, 8am-6pm. They will be Monday - Sunday, 8am-10pm. * The maximum stay for Pay & Display users will be reduced from 4 hours to 3 hours. by LexyNoise (Tue 7th Jan 2020 12:14pm)
  • It's much easier than it used to be. A few years ago when it was 30p an hour to park in Hillhead, all the bays were full all day. by LexyNoise (Wed 8th Jan 2020 12:30am)
  • Is there a specific reason you want to learn to drive an automatic car (like a disability or something)? Generally I wouldn't recommend taking your test in an automatic car, because your licence will only ever let you drive automatic cars. Automatics aren't really common, so you might find it quite restrictive - especially if you need to hire a car on holiday, or hire a van for moving house etc. If you want to drive a manual car in the future, you'll need to take your test again. If you're just scared of the complexity of changing gears and want one less thing to think about, I'd just do a manual car. You get used to it pretty quickly and it isn't a big deal. Both me and my brother are... not the most co-ordinated of people with underlying issues, and both of us managed to learn, pass and drive a manual car just fine. I was a very nervous driver - like you wouldn't believe. I'd failed four tests with various instructors. Then I used a driving instructor called Kirsty Shaw - she was based in Anniesland and had a diesel Mini. She was **very** strict, and I found that really helpful. She calmed me down, showed me sense, and I passed first time with her. Also, when did you pass your theory test? Remember they expire after two years if you haven't passed your practical test. by LexyNoise (Tue 14th Jan 2020 11:42am)
  • I’ve lived under the flight path, closer to the airport than Milngavie, for 8 years. It doesn’t bother me in the slightest. Some of them do come in incredibly low though. by LexyNoise (Mon 20th Jan 2020 9:25am)
  • It's not a failure - people will **always** speed to a certain degree. Most people are "comfortable" doing 6-7mph over the limit. Reducing the speed limit from 30 to 20 would take the average speed of cars down from 37mph to 27mph, and that's a win. There are other ways to reduce speed and make driving in certain areas at certain times less desirable. Glasgow City Council is actually quite good at using them. Someone posted yesterday about traffic lights being deliberately timed so you have to stop at every single one. The part of The Broomielaw just before Central Station is really bad for that. So is the top of High Street near the hospital. Speeding in Glasgow doesn't bother me. I'd like to see more done about cars running red lights. That seems to be the worst thing right now, especially at pedestrian crossings near Glasgow Uni. by LexyNoise (Thu 23rd Jan 2020 1:54pm)
  • I once got pulled over by the police for not speeding. I was driving on the M8 through Charing Cross, doing 48 in a 50. Police car appeared behind me, put the blue lights on and pulled me over. Apparently it's "suspicious" to be driving just below the speed limit at 4AM when there's no other cars around. They checked I had a licence, checked I had insurance, and that was it. by LexyNoise (Thu 23rd Jan 2020 1:59pm)
  • >Traffic in Glasgow is a shambles thanks to the myriad of confusing traffic controls and layouts. Its no wonder people find it a challenge and that there’s significant congestion as it is now. Throwing another problem into the mix won’t help. That's literally the point of all this. The council's official mission statement is to make driving through the city centre as unpleasant and circuitous as possible, so people avoid doing it. They want people to drive around the city centre, not through it. If your destination is somewhere in the city centre, they want you to drive around in a circle until you get to the area you want, then turn into the centre. They don't want you driving across the city centre to get places. Think of the Broomielaw and Clyde Street to the south, High Street and The Saltmarket to the east, Dobbies Loan or the M8 to the north, and North Street or the M8 to the west. The official title the council give this policy is 'The Clock Face Model'. If you start planning your journeys like that, it's a lot smoother. by LexyNoise (Thu 23rd Jan 2020 2:08pm)
  • Aye, but how long ago was that? It’s much tougher now than it was 5, 10 or 15 years ago. by LexyNoise (Thu 30th Jan 2020 2:14pm)
  • All of Dennistoun is becoming a resident permit zone at the end of this year. Council have already published plans and are going through the legal consultation process right now. by LexyNoise (Thu 30th Jan 2020 2:10pm)
  • Your first point is right - there's a railway line on one side, and a main road with two petrol stations on the other side. The Yoker depot is further west, closer to Garscadden station. by LexyNoise (Thu 6th Feb 2020 1:59am)
  • If I'd put 'Whitecrook' in the title I wouldn't have gotten the Deedee related upvotes/comments. Since the train station is called 'Yoker' and the sign in the foreground says 'Yoker', I put 'Yoker' in the title. by LexyNoise (Thu 6th Feb 2020 1:55am)
  • This is true - I'm old enough to remember a time before First had the franchise. It was Arriva who ran the bright green 'Glasgow Flyer' buses, and they were just as expensive back then. I think they were around a £4.50 for a single, back when a First all-day ticket was only £2.25. by LexyNoise (Tue 11th Feb 2020 10:32am)
  • >I assume the cheap fares in other countries that other posters referenced are from state transport operators. Yes. If you're travelling from Amsterdam to Schiphol, you're using Nederlandse Spoorwegen, the Dutch state-owned railway company. They also run ScotRail. If you're travelling from Berlin to Schönefeld, you're travelling with VBB, which is Berlin's equivalent of SPT but with more balls. If you're travelling from Budapest to Ferihegy, you'll take a state-run MÁV train. Then you'll realise they moved the airport a few years ago, and the airport train station is about two miles from the new terminal. by LexyNoise (Tue 11th Feb 2020 10:43am)
  • I did when it first launched. You can buy whole cases of it from Bookers and Costco. I'm over it now. My current addiction is Monster Mango Loco. by LexyNoise (Tue 11th Feb 2020 10:47am)
  • You're wrong - it does happen. ScotRail have been fiddling with the announcement system on the 318s and 320s. They used to go "This is *a*. This train is for *b*. The next stop is *c*." at every station. Now, only some of them do that. The others don't say "The next stop is *c*." until about 30 seconds after the train leaves the station. Thought you were on a Dalmuir via Singer train? Enjoy Yoker, motherfucker! by LexyNoise (Thu 13th Feb 2020 6:37pm)
  • >In Berlin, the equivalent SPT ZoneCard card costs €34 vs £21. That's not really a fair comparison though. £21 a week gets you ZoneCard zones G1 and G2. This doesn't even cover all the Glasgow area. It only gets you as far as Hyndland, Springburn, Dalmarnock or Pollokshaws. €34 a week gets you a Berlin A+B ticket, which covers all of the city right out to the suburbs and even a couple of neighbouring towns. A fair comparison would be a ZoneCard that goes all the way to Dumbarton, Milngavie, Cumbernauld, Motherwell, East Kilbride, Neilston and Johnstone. That would cost you £75 a week. by LexyNoise (Thu 13th Feb 2020 7:00pm)
  • I'm not a fan of The Garage. The acoustics are terrible, so they compensate by cranking the volume way too loud. I'm a nightclub DJ. I like loud. But The Garage is way too loud. It's hard to pick a favourite. There's a couple that I like for different reasons. The ABC was a really good venue. The sound was nice and clear without being too loud. That giant disco ball was a nice touch too. But sadly, it's not with us any more. Galvanizers at SWG3 is a great space. The sound quality is always great, even right down at the front. It's probably my favourite 'large' venue. The basement in Stereo is my favourite small venue. Sound is loud and clear without being too much. Barrowlands gets a special mention because I just love being in that building. It's a total 1960s time capsule - like something from A Clockwork Orange. I love the fact that it's never been done up. The decor, the neon lights, the greasy onion smell of the burger stand as you go up to the main hall. There's nowhere quite like it. by LexyNoise (Fri 14th Feb 2020 11:04am)
  • Yes - I had quite a memorable night there once. Went to see a "deep south hard rock" band called Maylene And The Sons Of Disaster at Barfly. They were great, but the band supporting them had a bigger UK following. I think it was A Day To Remember. The place was packed during A Day To Remember, then everyone fucked off before Maylene took to the stage. You could tell they weren't happy about that. by LexyNoise (Fri 14th Feb 2020 11:07am)
  • Audio's great if you're into a certain type of band. It's great for heavy, screamy, loud music. The dank musty tunnel just adds to the atmosphere. I prefer it to Ivory Blacks around the corner. The same kind of bands play there, but it's not quite the same. by LexyNoise (Fri 14th Feb 2020 11:10am)
  • Yes! I've only ever been to one gig in there, and it was madness. There's a reasonably popular, loud, screamy American band called Norma Jean. They were in England playing at a festival. A Glasgow promoter managed to convince them to come up to Glasgow and play a show before they left. It was at the Hug & Pint, only 100 tickets available. And it was absolute fucking bedlam. One of the most fun gigs I've ever been to. by LexyNoise (Fri 14th Feb 2020 11:17am)
  • Ignore the people telling you it's a fake venue or a scam. It's a legit venue, it just hasn't opened yet. They were planning on opening months ago, hence all the bookings for "Slay" that have been moved to other venues recently. It's finally coming together though. They're advertising for staff on Facebook. So it looks like they're finally done with the planning, health and safety and licensing stuff, and they'll be open soon. I'm looking forward to finally checking it out, after all these delays. by LexyNoise (Fri 14th Feb 2020 11:26am)
  • I’ll tell you a gay secret. Waxing hurts like fuck. Go to Boots and get a couple of cans of the Veet spray-on hair removal stuff. It works great and will get rid of all your body hair in less than 15 minutes. You just spray it on, wait a few minutes, and scrape the cream and hair off with the included plastic tool. Your body hair needs to be dry for it to absorb into the hair, so do it before showering, not after. You’ll need two cans for your first go (full body), and less than one can to top it up every few weeks. Oh, and don’t get it too close to your bumhole! by LexyNoise (Mon 17th Feb 2020 9:22am)
  • You wouldn't get the jail for that. I've done worse round the Merchant City at 2AM. The police will just come upper a chat to make sure it's consensual and not abusive, that's all. **Edit:** That first sentence makes it sound like I'm the John Street Bollard Guy. I am not the John Street Bollard Guy. by LexyNoise (Mon 17th Feb 2020 3:22pm)
  • **DON'T DO IT!** You can't... you can't unsee that. by LexyNoise (Tue 18th Feb 2020 11:27am)
  • 'Furries' and 'Pups' are quite different things. Furries like cute animal costumes. Pups are much... gimpier. by LexyNoise (Tue 18th Feb 2020 11:25am)
  • If you've ever been in one of Glasgow's gay bars and seen a guy dressed head-to-toe in a black latex suit, and a black dog mask, with a chain around his neck... that's me. Polo used to use a picture of me to advertise their Wednesdays. [Here it is](https://www.facebook.com/clubxglasgow/photos/a.609154989172412/2505964572824768/?type=3&theater) (it's SFW). by LexyNoise (Tue 18th Feb 2020 11:31am)
  • That's getting turned into a resident permit area in the next few months. by LexyNoise (Thu 27th Feb 2020 1:16pm)
  • There's a Megabus from Glasgow to Dundee at 3:40AM. by LexyNoise (Fri 28th Feb 2020 11:05am)
  • Seconded! Sharmanka is brilliant and bat-shit weird. I've never seen anything like it. Well worth a tenner and an hour of your time. by LexyNoise (Tue 3rd Mar 2020 8:08am)
  • Bunch of conspiracy theorists who think that 5G transmitters and LED streetlights are mind control devices that also cause cancer. They waste a lot of councils' time by submitting pointless Freedom of Information requests. Aberdeen gets a lot more of them than Glasgow. [Here's an example of an FoI request](https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/5g_and_health) from one of these people, in case you want to see how batshit crazy they are. by LexyNoise (Thu 19th Mar 2020 12:58pm)
  • A lot of councils are suspending parking charges right now. Mostly so people don't have to touch the manky ticket machines. One of your biggest risks right now is touching things that a lot of other people touch and don't get washed often - petrol pumps, bank machine keypads, ticket machines, escalator handrails etc. It's worth noting that they're still enforcing all the other rules. Parking in bays might be free, but they'll still do you for parking on yellow lines or disabled bays. by LexyNoise (Mon 23rd Mar 2020 4:04pm)
  • 99% Invisible. I never thought I'd enjoy a 40 minute lecture about how the world is running out of sand. by LexyNoise (Tue 24th Mar 2020 3:04pm)
  • First floor flat. 2 Bedrooms. £5. by LexyNoise (Mon 11th May 2020 10:55am)
  • That's not normal. I live in a Band C and I pay about £90 a month. by LexyNoise (Mon 11th May 2020 11:02am)
  • >What happens if it goes unpaid? Glasgow have an enforcement policy for missed council tax payments. If you miss one payment in a financial year, you get a warning letter. If you miss a second payment in the same financial year, you lose the right to pay by instalments, they add 10% to the total owed, and hand it over to Scott & Co for enforcement. by LexyNoise (Mon 11th May 2020 11:01am)
  • Ah, yes. Because there's only one thing that causes traffic in Glasgow, and that's cars belonging to people who live within Glasgow City Limits. You couldn't possibly get traffic from people living outside Glasgow, could you? Nobody in their right mind would be driving from Dunbartonshire, Renfrewshire or even Ayrshire to Glasgow, would they? What about non-domestic vehicles on the road - buses, delivery vans and lorries, taxis? Don't they cause traffic either? by LexyNoise (Thu 14th May 2020 11:13am)
  • Mortons make them, then deliver them in vans early in the morning. I’m a nightclub DJ (well, I was before all this kicked off). I’d always see the Morton’s vans out delivering rolls as I drove home from Merchant City at 3AM. by LexyNoise (Sun 17th May 2020 1:58pm)
  • Paesano? Aren’t they the cunts that opened a pasta restaurant in Glasgow with a very generic name (Sugo, which is the Italian word for pasta sauce), then sued a wee independent restaurant in Manchester that was also called Sugo, and had been open longer than them? They can get in the sea with BrewDog. by LexyNoise (Sun 17th May 2020 2:03pm)
  • Avoid Ikea’s delivery service. It’s terrible. Ikea’s furniture is ruthlessly efficiently designed, and so are their shops with the crazy maze designed to make you buy more. So it’s a shame that their delivery service is an absolute shambles. I’ve never had an Ikea order show up on time without drama. My first order was meant to be delivered on a Monday. It didn’t arrive, which was annoying since I took a day off work, and delivery was £35! I called Ikea to see what the score was. They said they’d sort it. The order arrived on Tuesday, which was fine - I got my stuff. Then it came again on Wednesday morning. I rejected that delivery, since I already had the stuff. It came again on Thursday. I rejected it again. It came again on Friday, and I accepted that delivery just to stop the fuckers coming back. My second order was quite recent. I ordered a couple of lights. Because of the Covid-19 scenario, I had to wait two weeks for delivery. That’s not a problem, and it’s understandable. Five days before it was meant to be delivered, they cancelled it out of the blue and refunded me. So I went online, saw the items were in stock, and placed another order. Three days before the original, cancelled, refunded order was due to arrive, it was delivered. I know it was the original order because there was an extra item in the second order. Since I’d gotten the lights I wanted, I cancelled the second order and thought I’d call them to square up payment and sort it out. They cancelled the second order and refunded it. The day the original order was meant to show up, the second order came. Also, their customer services centre is closed right now, so I can’t call to sort it out. I probably shouldn’t complain since I paid for my first order and got it twice, then didn’t pay for my second order at all and got it twice. But honestly, what a damn mess! by LexyNoise (Sun 17th May 2020 2:21pm)
  • As far as I'm aware, there's no talk of removing the Wellington statue. There are five statues in Glasgow that they've got in their sights for one reason or another, but Wellington isn't one of them. * The Thomas Carlyle statue in Kelvingrove Park (for an essay he wrote about why slavery should never have been ended, citing black people as inferior and lazy) * The Lord Roberts monument in Kelvingrove Park (for setting up concentration camps during the Boer War) * The Colin Campbell statue in George Square (for his involvement in the Opium War in China, and for things that unfolded during the Indian War for Independence) * The John Moore statue in George Square (for crushing a slave rebellion in the Caribbean) * The Robert Peel status in George Square (for setting up the police, which does seem like a flimsier reason than the others) There's also, bizarrely enough, a large rock on Dunoon beach they want to break apart. It's shaped like a bird's head, and US soldiers stationed nearby in the 60s painted it to look like a crow's head and called it "Jim Crow". The name is a reference to an old blackface minstrel character from the 1830s, and the name was used for anti-black pro-segregation laws passed in the Deep South up until the mid 1970s. It's been painted over several times, but someone keeps painting the crow back on it. [There's a picture of it here if you want to see it](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jim_Crow,_Hunters_Quay.jpg). by LexyNoise (Fri 12th Jun 2020 2:18pm)
  • If a landlord or letting agent is calling that "Knightswood", they're having a laugh. Knightswood is further to the East - the area between and below Drumchapel and Anniesland. Wirran Place is right on the edge of Glasgow. You're a bawhair away from Whitecrook, which is absolutely not somewhere you want to be. I lived just on the other edge of Whitecrook for 8 years - wouldn't recommend it. It's not the best for public transport, but not the worst either. You're halfway between the Yoker Line and Singer Line, so it's about a 15 minute walk to a train station. If you want an express bus to the city centre that bypasses the west end, you've got the 1C from Duntreath Avenue. If you walk up to Great Western Road and make your way across the interchange, you've got the 3 and the 6A. Both take ages to get to the city centre, and neither shows up on time during rush hour. The 3 goes via Scotstoun and Partick, and the 6A runs all the way along Great Western Road. by LexyNoise (Thu 18th Jun 2020 7:28pm)
  • Depends on the property deeds. They'll tell you exactly what belongs to you, and what is communal, shared property for your block. You'll need to get them checked. Typically in a straight row of tenements, the garden behind each block belongs to everyone in the block. Putting up any structure without speaking to the other people in your block is frowned upon. If the garden is shared between multiple blocks, the deeds will tell you whether part of it is allocated to each block, or whether all of it is shared between all the blocks. There should be a map with shared area boundaries marked out in colour. If you rent and don't have the deeds, you can get a copy for £3 from the Land Register of Scotland. Since it's a shared area surrounded by flats, he really should have gone through the factors or maybe even the council's planning permission department - just to make sure there's not a problem with access to the bins, or fire escape routes, and that the boundary is in exactly the right place. by LexyNoise (Wed 1st Jul 2020 3:23pm)
  • Go to Screwfix. There's one in an industrial park in the pain-in-the-arse-to-get-to part of Anniesland, and there's one in Clydebank town centre. by LexyNoise (Wed 1st Jul 2020 3:28pm)
  • Not only was it unnecessary, you would have gotten a ticket anyway if enforcement was on and they caught you topping up the meter. Believe it or not, it’s against the rules. The contravention is called “parked with payment made to extend the stay beyond initial time”. In practice, it’s fairly hard to get caught. I used to do it all the time back in the good old days when the Hillhead zone was 30p an hour. But if they see you do it, they’ll go for you. The logic is that people use it to get around the “maximum stay” period. In some places, you can only pay for two hours. The council also have a lot of zones where the first hour is cheap, but extra hours after that are twice the price. So people buy a new ticket every hour to get around that. by LexyNoise (Sun 5th Jul 2020 11:32am)
  • >There's no chance I'm topping up consecutive three hour stays given the price (and I heard that's illegal anyway). Technically it is, but it's not really enforced in Glasgow like it is in London. As long as you pay and you don't replace the ticket right in front of them, they don't care. In London they note down every car they pass and take note of where the tyre fill valves are, so they know if you haven't moved when they come back a few hours later. Glasgow decided they'd rather jack the hourly price up to make it too expensive to stay all day, rather than going through all that effort. Other people have suggested the council will go easy on people when they start enforcing, as long as they're actually residents and have a pending application. If you want to go down that route, make sure you take a screenshot of any web page or tweet that says that. There have already been a few cases in England where councils have started enforcing without warning, people have gotten tickets, and tweets and webpages that say "don't worry about it, we won't ticket you" have been deleted. Doesn't hurt to cover your ass. The council do have visitors permits you could use. As far as I'm aware, they need to be collected from John Street, which could mean you're screwed right now. Those permits are £2 for 6 hours, so would be a lot cheaper than paying for parking. You don't need a resident permit to get visitors permits - just proof of address. As others have suggested, you could park a bit further out, in a free parking area. It's a bit of a nuisance having your car further away, but it wouldn't cost you anything. One last thing - if you want your permit application to go smoothly, make sure the registered keeper's address on your V5C is up-to-date and within the permit zone. They do check with the DLVA, and if the car isn't registered to a house in the permit zone, they'll reject your application. Also, make sure your property is eligible for a permit. Only properties that existed when the permit zone came into force are eligible. If you live in a block of flats that was built after the zone was introduced, or a house that is 100 years old but was converted into separate flats after the permit zone was introduced, you won't be eligible. by LexyNoise (Fri 10th Jul 2020 12:52pm)
  • If you go down this route, make sure you take a screenshot of that tweet! Councils have a habit of starting enforcement, deleting old tweets like this, then denying all knowledge when you appeal a ticket. by LexyNoise (Fri 10th Jul 2020 12:54pm)
  • [Go here and ask. These fellas know what they're talking about.](http://forums.pepipoo.com) A lot of people think private parking tickets aren't enforceable in Scotland. The fact is, they *can be*, but it's a lot more effort for the private companies to enforce than it is in England. There are a few reasons for this. It used to be believed that private parking companies could only come after you for losses they'd actually suffered. In other words, if you parked all day in a space, and that parking space would have cost £5 for the day, they could only take you to court for their £5 loss. In England, this went out the window with a famous court case ([ParkingEye vs Beavis](https://www.parkingcowboys.co.uk/parkingeye-vs-beavis/)). This set a precedent that a £100 penalty serves a genuine purpose as a deterrent and isn't an extravagant amount. We haven't had a similar ruling in Scotland yet. The few people who have been taken to court by private parking companies in Scotland have shat it and settled out-of-court. If there ever was such a case in Scotland, I've no idea how it would go. But bear in mind the Beavis case went as high as the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, which does have jurisdiction here, and they sided with ParkingEye. Secondly, England has a law called the Protection of Freedom Act 2012. This law gave private parking companies the ability to issue fines against the registered keeper of the car, no matter who was actually driving at the time. So if your partner or your grown-up kids borrow your car and break the rules in a private car park, you owe the parking company money, even though you weren't there. Scotland does not have the Protection of Freedoms Act, so **they cannot go after the registered keeper here,** unless the registered keeper was the person driving. These parking fine companies are private businesses that make money from issuing fines. They're not designed to be 'fair' or 'reasonable'. They exist to scare people into paying fines, even if they're not legally enforceable. They conveniently "forget" that Scotland is a separate country with separate laws and the PoFA doesn't apply. They also use fake made-up bailiff letters from companies that don't exist to trick you into paying them. Google the bailiff name on your letter - I bet they don't exist, or the only mention will be other people with parking tickets from the same company. Why would an English bailiff company have a warrant for somewhere outside their jurisdiction? They're supposed to transfer it to a Scottish Sheriff Court and send the Sheriffs Officers after you instead. I think the bailiff letter is a load of shite, but I'm not a lawyer. You should ask in that forum I linked you to above. The most important things are: **DO NOT** contact the parking fine company. **DO NOT** admit who was driving (this is the only thing stopping them pinning the fines on you). by LexyNoise (Fri 17th Jul 2020 10:47am)
  • Quick reminder that this advice doesn't apply to council parking tickets. If you ignore those, you get Scott&Co at your door after 3 months. by LexyNoise (Fri 17th Jul 2020 11:02am)
  • That McDonalds has a tiny car park with a short maximum stay period - designed for people using the McDonalds. The guy worked nearby and was using it as his own personal car park. He was parking there all day every day, and just taking the tickets off his car, scrunching them into a ball and throwing them on the ground. They had him on CCTV, so they knew who the driver was, and they knew he knew the rules and was ignoring them. He had over 30 tickets. They took him to court for £5,000. He shat it and settled out-of-court for £2,980. As much as I hate private parking companies, there's an element of "you kind of deserved that for ripping the arse out of it" in his case. by LexyNoise (Fri 17th Jul 2020 11:01am)
  • You'll be going the opposite way to most of the rush hour traffic, so you should find the M77/A77 part of the journey pretty easy. Watch out for the average speed cameras. by LexyNoise (Fri 17th Jul 2020 11:08am)
  • Huskies are incredibly high-maintenence. They need a lot of attention and exercise. They're well-known for being one of the hardest dog breeds to look after. It was very irresponsible to get one during lockdown. by LexyNoise (Fri 24th Jul 2020 10:48am)
  • They have a... really interesting interpretation of 'vegetarian'. by LexyNoise (Fri 24th Jul 2020 10:52am)
  • I'm from Glasgow and I've driven in Aberdeen. My boyfriend is from Aberdeen and he's driven in Glasgow. You're going to shite yourself when you get to the bit of the M8 where there's 6 lanes in each direction and they all peel off and go to different places, and you've got slip roads coming on and off from the right hand side. It's fucking wild - here's no other road like it in Britain. Glasgow has some bad drivers, but they're not as bad as Aberdeen's oil wankers, driving inches from your back bumper in their huge white BMWs with their full beams shining in your rear window. by LexyNoise (Thu 30th Jul 2020 4:46pm)
  • The Forth & Clyde canal gets bad press because it runs through some dodgy areas in Glasgow. You certainly wouldn't want to hang around the Drumchapel or Maryhill parts at night. But once it leaves Clydebank, it becomes a really nice country walk - especially in the summer. It goes all the way through Kilpatrick and up towards Bowling. There's a small nature trail in Kilpatrick, then you walk underneath the Eskine Bridge, which looks majestic as fuck from far below. Then there's a basin at Bowling with lots of boats tied up, and the canal empties into the Clyde. Just beyond the Bowling basin, there's the "boat graveyard". Loads of boats marooned in the mud, rotting away. Great to take photos of when the tide is low. by LexyNoise (Thu 30th Jul 2020 5:03pm)
  • Congratulations, you've responded to a very reasonable question with an arsey comment that has an undeserved air of superiority to it. Does that make you feel big and clever? by LexyNoise (Fri 31st Jul 2020 1:08pm)
  • >I don't think they do multiple fines for every mistake you commit. Oh, believe me they do send as many as they can. But they can only catch you if there's a camera. Most of Glasgow's bus lanes don't have cameras - only about 16 do. by LexyNoise (Sat 1st Aug 2020 7:22pm)
  • Depends whether they've put cameras up or not. Most bus lanes in Glasgow don't have cameras - only about 16 actually do. All the permanent city centre ones like Glassford Street and Nelson Mandela Place do. But Maryhill Road doesn't, and most of the ones on Great Western Road don't. If they've put up a camera, they'll probably send a Penalty Charge Notice through the post. If they haven't, there's no point worrying about it. by LexyNoise (Sat 1st Aug 2020 7:26pm)
  • Somebody moves in the same circles as Big Clive. by LexyNoise (Tue 4th Aug 2020 10:50am)
  • I used Kays last year when my old car died. I thought I was due a £2,000 bill for a new high-pressure fuel pump. So did they at first. When they had the car up on the lift, they noticed there was nothing wrong with the pump - there was a tiny crack in the fuel line. They phoned and told me the £2,000 repair bill was now £300. Made my day. Would use them again without hesitation. by LexyNoise (Wed 5th Aug 2020 5:30pm)
  • The car has to be registered at an address within the zone. The council will check the V5C address with the DVLA. The address must have existed before the permit zone went into force. Houses converted into flats or new houses built after the zone starts aren't eligible for permits. Most permit zones in Glasgow let residents apply for multiple permits if they have multiple cars (except Hillhead and Garnethill). HMOs aren't included - you're only allowed one permit per property, and only if the HMO has existed since before March 2017 and only if you also meet the two criteria above. by LexyNoise (Tue 11th Aug 2020 12:45pm)
  • The closures are real. They tend to do part-time closures on the M8 while they're working. Rather than closing part of the road for three days and working round the clock to get the work done, they'll close a section every Tuesday night between 11PM and 3AM for six months. I was a nightclub DJ before all this shite kicked off, so I used to drive on the M8 at 10PM and 4AM a couple of nights a week. I can count on one hand the number of nights in 2019 when the entire road was open. Their favourite techniques included: * You're turning left at the end of the Expressway to join the M8? Ha - fuck you! We've coned it off! Away up to the Sauchiehall Street junction and sit at those traffic lights for ages ya dobber. * We haven't coned off the Expressway entrance tonight, so on you go. Ha, fooled you! All the other lanes are coned off. You're going straight off again at the Charing Cross tunnel. * The expressway entrance isn't coned off and... yep, looks like you can merge off the slip road onto the M8. All seems good so far. Oh, wait, what's this? All four lanes are merging into one lane and everybody's getting chucked off at the Springburn exit. Got you again, ya dick! * Replacing a couple of lights in the Charing Cross tunnel with LEDs? Dunno, mate. That sounds like a big job. Better close the entire M8 every night for a month. What do you mean the lights are only above one lane? What's that got to do with it? by LexyNoise (Tue 18th Aug 2020 4:52pm)
  • Edinburgh by LexyNoise (Wed 26th Aug 2020 6:48pm)
  • [Like this flat then?](https://www.onthemarket.com/details/5803195/) by LexyNoise (Thu 27th Aug 2020 11:48pm)
  • That's a really nice flat, right in the heart of the west end. But you're paying a hell of a premium for the location! 250 grand would get you a detached 4 bedroom house with a massive driveway in other parts of Glasgow. But then you'd be living in a quiet, boring corner of the city rather than the heart of the west end. That's the choice we've all got to make! by LexyNoise (Thu 27th Aug 2020 11:54pm)
  • You sure you're not thinking of the episode of Still Game where the councillor opens the community centre and Pete is the bodyguard? by LexyNoise (Tue 8th Sep 2020 12:02am)
  • Dunno if Bifteki's still going, but I've always liked their chips and cheese. by LexyNoise (Thu 24th Sep 2020 10:09pm)
  • Seconded. I've had them do some really difficult stuff to my shitey old car and they've always done it well. If I thought it needed something expensive fixing, and they initially agreed, but it turned out it didn't, they've always told me. Saved me 2 grand on a new high pressure fuel pump when the only problem was a slightly-cracked high pressure diesel pipe. by LexyNoise (Thu 24th Sep 2020 10:08pm)
  • I was going to answer your survey (nightclub DJ). But since 99% of my work has been in gay bars and clubs, I couldn't really answer most of the questions properly. Straight people have been "the odd ones out" in the places I've worked. by LexyNoise (Fri 25th Sep 2020 11:29am)
  • Came in to say this. Dalmuir Tyres are excellent. If it was a wee old-fashioned place with wood-panelled walls, sitting on a desolate stretch of main road with nothing else around, it was Dalmuir Tyres. by LexyNoise (Fri 25th Sep 2020 11:31am)
  • If your area has separate bays for permit holders and pay and display users, you're in one of the older schemes. You're only allowed one permit, and they're quite expensive. If the bays in your area are mixed use - i.e. all the bays let you display a permit or buy a pay and display ticket - you're in one of the newer schemes. You can have two permits no questions asked, and a third if you give the council a good reason why (e.g. you're a tradie with your own van). As far as I'm aware, only Hillhead and Garnethill use the old system. The council wants to move them over to the new system but the wax-jacket Hillhead types keep protesting. by LexyNoise (Thu 1st Oct 2020 7:08pm)
  • Known issue. A lot of Macs made between 2008-2012 had GPUs that failed - the iMac and MacBook Pro were most affected. Not fixable yourself unless you want to resolder the GPU chip. It isn't something any repair place can do, it's a Louis Rossman level of job. If your machine has a built-in Intel GPU and a discrete GPU, try turning the discrete one off and just using the Intel one. The performance will be lower but it'll fix the problem. by LexyNoise (Fri 9th Oct 2020 7:47pm)
  • It's solid concrete, steel and asbestos. A fire wouldn't even damage it. I worked in that building for 6 years, building the original MyCity. by LexyNoise (Thu 22nd Oct 2020 7:29pm)
  • I pay about £32 a month for factoring and block insurance together. by LexyNoise (Thu 22nd Oct 2020 7:32pm)
  • The Q-Park at the bottom of Douglas Street is only £22.50 a day. Or you could park in the council car park next to it. That's £33 a day. Up to you. by LexyNoise (Sat 7th Nov 2020 2:42pm)
  • Is that weirdo still going? Used to get a couple of these every month when I lived in Anniesland, but it was for a 50s doo-wop band. by LexyNoise (Fri 20th Nov 2020 7:21pm)
  • Kween was a drag night in Revolution. If you liked it, check these out after lockdown is over. - Mothertucker Tuesdays in Polo - Suck Wednesdays in Delmonicas - Trigger Thursdays in AXM - Slay on Thursday nights, when it finally opens - Hellbent Sundays in The Cathouse If karaoke hosted by a drag queen is your thing, there’s also karaoke with Will & Bella in Speakeasy on Fridays and Delmonicas on Sundays. by LexyNoise (Mon 23rd Nov 2020 10:03am)
  • I know it sounds daft, but check the prices in PC World. For *some things*, they can actually be better than Priceless. Probably because they shift more stock and can respond to market prices changes more quickly. PC World are a rip-off for things the average Joe wants to buy, like HDMI and USB cables. But for internal components like hard drives and RAM where the average buyer knows what they're doing and knows to shop around, they're usually not bad. by LexyNoise (Mon 23rd Nov 2020 1:04pm)
  • You want gas if you can get it. It's much cheaper to run than electric heating. Plus, you can't beat hot water coming straight from a combi boiler - makes for an amazing shower. Immersion heaters are a pain in the ass. You tend to find electric heating in urban areas that don't have gas, and newer houses in rural areas without gas. I'm aware of a big patch of Yoker that doesn't have gas. If you've got a big old rural house in an area that doesn't have gas, you'll find kerosene boilers. They're cost effective but take up a huge amount of space. by LexyNoise (Mon 23rd Nov 2020 1:21pm)
  • It's actually decent if you sit in. I know it's a bit dingy and you can hear the trains rumbling above you, but the food is much better. by LexyNoise (Mon 23rd Nov 2020 1:41pm)
  • If you're ever in Ayr, avoid Unos. Their hygiene practices are deplorable. Everyone in Ayr knows it, and they eat there anyway. The only place I've had bad experiences with in Glasgow was Taco Mazama. I kept getting burritos with a freezing cold filling. Not lukewarm - actually freezing cold. I've no idea how they did it, because I watched them microwave the filling in front of me every time. And it was still freezing cold! by LexyNoise (Mon 23rd Nov 2020 1:40pm)
  • Public transport usually runs at a loss once you factor everything in. There's a lot of bus routes that aren't economically viable, but they have to run because people need them. In a system where the council runs all the buses, the profitable routes like the 2 and 6 would subsidise those other routes. Right now we've go a situation where First runs the popular routes as a commercial service, keeps the profit, and decides not to run the loss-making routes because why would they? So SPT has to step in and completely fund them. The technical term for this is 'tendered services'. Under a franchise system, the council could turn around to First and say "if you want to run the 2 and 6 and keep all the profit, you've got to run these other non-profitable bus services as well." It's not full public ownership but it could be a big step in the right direction. Even if public transport does operate at a loss, that's not a bad thing. It has other economic and environmental benefits that make it worth the money. It increases people's mobility which boosts the economy of an area, and it gets more cars off the road. by LexyNoise (Tue 24th Nov 2020 10:11am)
  • It's shite when sites do that. But you know you can click and hold your browser's back button to go further back than one step? by LexyNoise (Tue 24th Nov 2020 10:15am)
  • Do they still do that with all the new EU tobacco legislation? I do miss asking the checkout assistant to open the automatic gate and picking up a pack of knock-off Marlboro called Goldfield for about 40p less than an actual pack of Marlboro costs in Germany. by LexyNoise (Mon 30th Nov 2020 11:54am)
  • Generally if a post is deleted, the best thing you can do is create more posts complaining about it. This doesn't piss off moderators at all, and never results in a full-on ban. by LexyNoise (Mon 30th Nov 2020 11:51am)
  • I'll give it a miss - I've been burned by cheap supermarket 4K TVs before. There's no point having all those pixels and HDR if the colour rendition on the panels is absolute baws and the backlight is just about uneven enough to be annoying. There's a reason a Sony Bravia costs twice what these things do, much like there's a difference between a Nissan Micra and a Mini Cooper JCW. by LexyNoise (Mon 30th Nov 2020 12:00pm)
  • If you miss one payment in a financial year, you get a warning letter. If you miss a second payment in the same year, you lose the right to pay in instalments and they demand the balance due for the rest of the year up-front. If you don't pay it, they get a summay warrant from the sheriff court. You don't go to court to challenge it, and you don't even know it's happening. The court just hand it over to the council no questions asked. This increases the outstanding balance by 10%, so if you don't have a summary warrant against you yet, contact the council and try and sort it before it happens. After this, they hand it over to Scott&Co or Walker Love who will send you demand letters. You **can** contact them and arrange to pay by instalments, and it's one of the better things to do in this scenario. People make mistakes, sometimes money is short, and if you contact them and explain things they're surprisingly reasonable. They only get nasty if you ignore their letters or mess them about. If you do that, they'll either come and chap on your door, or they'll go to your employer and get your wages arrested. That's incredibly embarrassing and you want to avoid it at all costs. by LexyNoise (Mon 30th Nov 2020 12:11pm)
  • The No. 2 bus has a pretty solid service to Glasgow city centre - fairly frequent and there are night buses at weekends. It does take a while though. You'll be trundling down Dumbarton Road for about 45 minutes between Yoker and Finnieston. It's not as horrific as the 6 but it's not great either. by LexyNoise (Thu 24th Dec 2020 12:11am)
  • Shelf Life - I Am An Island Mechanical Smile - Say Goodbye Mechanical Smile - Afterlife HQFU - Dust & Dirt HQFU - Poison by LexyNoise (Tue 12th Jan 2021 10:14am)
  • That's insane. A decent one-bedroom flat in a nice tenement should be Band B. I have an old 3-bedroom house in a small village and it's a Band C. Someone I know has a huge 5-bedroom house in the countryside and it's a Band F. by LexyNoise (Thu 21st Jan 2021 3:12pm)
  • Lived near there for 8 years. That area varies wildly from street to street, from "meh" to "fairly unpleasant". It's all about who your neighbours are. Even if you pick a nice street, you'll be two minutes away from some unpleasant areas. The top end of Whitecrook in particular can get wild. It's not the kind of area where trouble will come looking for you. If you keep to yourself you won't have many issues. But you'll occasionally see a car on fire and think "they've pissed someone off". It's that kind of place. by LexyNoise (Fri 22nd Jan 2021 3:20pm)
  • A few people have already answered with parts of the story. I spent a lot of time in Hellfire during its heyday. It was a great source of band T-shirts for less-well-known bands you wouldn't find in other places, and all the staff were lovely. Being allowed into the basement unsupervised by staff was a privilege. Hellfire changed hands a few times over the years and had a couple of different owners. The person you're describing was the owner during 'peak Hellfire' when there were two shops - one on Queen Street and one on West Nile Street. The story behind the person you're referring to is a little complicated and I don't know 100% of the story - that's why I'm being vague with pronouns and haven't used their original name - I don't want to be disrespectful. Before drag became a mainstream thing in Glasgow, they moved with a lot of the underground drag crowd. They eventually transitioned full-time and adopted the name Tequila Star. They started making a lot of custom jewellery and selling it in Hellfire, but eventually sold Hellfire and moved to LA. After Tequila sold Hellfire, it started to go downhill. It wasn't entirely the fault of the new owners - the emo/goth/alternative thing declined in popularity in the early 2010s. West Nile Street closed, and the Queen Street shop moved to a different building further down the street. It was a shadow of its former self and mostly sold brightly-coloured tutus and things like that. The bald guy you're talking about was the owner during this era. They eventually closed the Queen Street shop entirely and now only sell stuff online. I haven't walked past Hellfire in a while, but last time I did there was a cheap halloween shop in there. They still had the Hellfire sign above the door, which was a bit cheeky. Aside from Tequila (and their lovely tiny dog Pi), there were two other staff that I really liked. There was a big, friendly guy with a shaved head, and a skinny punk dude called Barry with spiky hair and eyeliner. If anyone knows what happened to either of those two dudes or what they're doing now, I'd love to know. by LexyNoise (Mon 1st Feb 2021 12:53pm)
  • A group of neds broke into the drivers cab of a train and stole some explosive detonators. The police were out in force looking for them - helicopters and all. [I'm not joking](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detonator_(railway)) \- trains carry explosive detonators to use in an emergency. They're about the size of a Jaffa cake. They're strapped to the track and if a train runs over them, they make a loud banging noise. If a line is closed in an emergency because a train breaks down or a bridge collapses, they're strapped to the track to warn the driver of any train that accidentally ends up on the line. You hear the bang, you hit the emergency brake, radio for help, and don't move until you're told to. by LexyNoise (Mon 1st Feb 2021 1:37pm)
  • The thing I enjoyed most about this was the old street lights. The big curved metal poles with the long sodium street lights. The old concrete poles. They're pretty much all gone now. by LexyNoise (Fri 5th Feb 2021 8:08pm)
  • Nah man. You want to [crank this on](https://youtu.be/Rb78asrVoO8) and pretend Beat106 is still going. by LexyNoise (Tue 9th Feb 2021 10:57am)
  • Interviews can vary *wildly* depending on the place. I've been to a fair few, and I've interviewed people for developer roles as well. I had an interview for a 40 grand a year Systems Engineer job that didn't ask a single technical question. It was all crap like "describe a time you helped somebody" and "describe a time you made something better". Complete waste of an hour. On the other end of the scale, I've had interviews that involved an hour-long sit-down test in front of a computer. Once place did a multiple-choice quiz about PHP and MySQL. Another gave me a MySQL database with records and said "build a PHP page that outputs the records nicely". The most challenging interview I had was my current job, but that's because I work in a very narrow field with a very specialist system - I could name every developer in Britain who specialises in this system. The interviewer knew me and my work history and took it as an opportunity to properly grill me. He'd already decided he was hiring me - it was all for "fun". Here's a selection of the questions I've been asked: * On Linux, how would you search a text file for every line containing a specific piece of text? * What's the difference between an interface and an abstract class? * What's the difference between require() and include()? When I interview people, I tend to ask open-ended questions to judge someone's experience and what their thought process is. Stuff like: * You start to get reports that a system is running slowly. What do you do, and what kind of things do you check to identify the problem? * Someone contacts the helpdesk to say that this feature of this specialist system isn't working. What kind of things do you check? I once interviewed people for a database role and asked some absolutely cuntish questions. But that's because we wanted somebody who *really* knew databases. You won't get questions like this in an entry-level graduate role: * What's the difference between a BTree index and a Hash index, and why would you use one over the other? * What is a view, what's the biggest problem with them, and how can you overcome that problem? by LexyNoise (Wed 17th Feb 2021 4:48pm)
  • >If you have some projects handy it might be worth creating a GitHub profile and uploading them to there and include a link to that in your CV. I absolutely second this. If someone applies for a developer role at my place, the first stage is HR filtering out unqualified applicants. After that, we get a shortlist of 5-20 people for interview. We **will** look through your GitHub if you have one! Don't worry about code that isn't perfect, we don't care. We're looking for rookie mistakes like "if (x == true)". We're checking if you're using switch and case statements instead of nested if / else if / else if / else if. And we're checking to see if you're putting user-submitted stuff in SQL queries without checking it first. by LexyNoise (Wed 17th Feb 2021 4:56pm)
  • But you did have the original MyCity, built by an absolute maniac who built his own version of Facebook into it. by LexyNoise (Sat 6th Mar 2021 6:52am)
  • Me and my boyfriend both vape. We like the premium stuff and normally avoid the cheap shit like the plague. Out of desperation we bought liquid from Home Bargains during lockdown. £2.99 for a 50ml shortfill and 79p for a nic shot. Let me tell you, it’s shockingly good. Both of us are very pleased with it and we’re very fussy about vape juice. We might not even go back to VPZ when it reopens. by LexyNoise (Sat 6th Mar 2021 7:01am)
  • Top floor for sure. No upstairs neighbours walking around on laminate floors. Nobody looking in your windows. Much less likely to be broken into. by LexyNoise (Sat 6th Mar 2021 7:08am)
  • By “door sized alcove” I don’t think they mean a doorway. I think they mean the gap in the wall where the tip-up bed used to fold into, back when big families lived in tiny tenements and somebody slept in the living room. Most tenements have them. They’ve normally got shelves in them. by LexyNoise (Sat 6th Mar 2021 7:13am)
  • I lived in Clydebank for 8 years, right under the flight path. Can see planes flying past the window all day. Never had an ounce of bother with the noise. The buses driving past are more annoying than the planes. by LexyNoise (Sat 6th Mar 2021 7:20am)
  • Morrisons do have some small city centre supermarkets, kind of like the Sainsburys on Buchanan Street. Not on the scale that Tesco or Sainsburys do, but they do exist. There’s one in Manchester at Piccadilly Gardens. by LexyNoise (Fri 12th Mar 2021 3:53pm)
  • They've been demolishing it for the past year. It's mostly gone now. by LexyNoise (Sat 13th Mar 2021 9:52am)
  • Do a Lionel Hutz on the sign. Private Property? No, access to riverside! by LexyNoise (Tue 16th Mar 2021 12:43pm)
  • So I've had a good chance to play with it for a few days. Good points: * The line is quite nicely produced and looks real. * They've rendered quite far from the train line, so you can switch to the cinematic cameras. * You've got the Yoker, Singer and Milngavie branches of the line, and it goes all the way out to Helensburgh. Maybe Balloch as well, I haven't checked yet. The other end goes to Springburn. Exhibition Centre station is rendered, but I don't think it goes as far as Central. I think the Maryhill branch is there as well. * You get to drive a class 320. The engine and braking noises are spot-on. Not-so-good points * You get a pop-up message when you stop at every station. It's kind of annoying. * The door opening and closing noises aren't right, and the air compressor sounds fucked. * The brakes on the class 320 are kind of shite, especially at low speeds. Brake early! * No Glasgow Uni tower. But you do have the old Met tower! by LexyNoise (Tue 16th Mar 2021 12:48pm)
  • 1. If you find yourself choosing between two houses that are the same price - one smaller but in a nice area and one bigger but in a crap area - go for the smaller house in the nicer area. Bad neighbours and anti-social behaviour don't make up for the extra space. If in doubt, drive around an area at 10PM at the weekend. Listen for shouting and loud parties in houses. 2. Don't worry about getting a longer mortgage (30 or 35 years instead of 25). You can always overpay the mortgage if you've got extra cash. You can't underpay the mortgage if you don't. 3. If you can overpay, do it. Especially in the early years. Each £1 you overpay in the mortgage can save you £2 in interest, and interest on that interest, and interest on that interest, over the years. 4. Don't buy a new-build and expect the value to go up if you sell after a few years. New-builds are sold at a premium to begin with. You might even lose money. 5. If the house is empty but there are still pictures hanging on the walls, look behind them. It's not "free artwork the old owner doesn't want". It's covering up missing wallpaper or water damage. 6. Beware of old homes with a back boiler and water tank. Converting that to a modern combi boiler will cost you a couple of thousand. 30 year old Baxi Bermuda back boilers aren't efficient and are expensive to run, so expect big gas bills. This mostly applies if you're buying a home that an old person lived in for 30 years and never upgraded anything. by LexyNoise (Tue 16th Mar 2021 1:05pm)
  • >Who recruits the incompetent? Have you ever worked in the public sector or education? Compared to the private sector, there's no turnover at all. People stay in the same job or the same department for decades! I work in IT Services for a university. I specialise in one particular system and I've been here for five years. In the private sector, that would probably make me the longest-serving and most experienced person on a project. But I'm still the newest person on the team and I'm surrounded by people who have been doing this job for 15-30 years! by LexyNoise (Tue 23rd Mar 2021 2:40pm)
  • I don't speak Polish but I can tell you it's some sort of religious thing with a bible quote. The "1 List Jana 4:9,10" gives it away. by LexyNoise (Thu 25th Mar 2021 12:50pm)
  • I moved to Aberdeen a year ago. People here moan about the roads, but they're **amazing** compared to Glasgow. My boyfriend didn't believe me so I made him drive down South Street (a necessary and covid-responsible journey while moving house). He says he'll never moan about Aberdeen roads again. There's a short road called Sawmill Road where South Street meets the Whiteinch roundabout under the Expressway. There's been a pothole there for over a year. It's the size of a car and about six inches deep. You can't avoid it - you just need to go through it at 2 miles an hour. by LexyNoise (Thu 25th Mar 2021 1:00pm)
  • Tenements are properly built with massive joists and thick floorboards on top. You're not going to break them. If you dropped several hundred kilograms on the floor at once, you might knock your downstairs neighbour's ceiling plaster off, but you won't cause any structural damage. I've seen new-build flats that come with weight limits and warnings about maximum numbers of people in a room. Presumably if you had a big party and had 50 people standing in a room, it might cause an issue. But nothing like that for tenements. by LexyNoise (Thu 25th Mar 2021 1:08pm)
  • This has been going on for years. Big chains selling their existing food under quirky independent-sounding names, sometimes at a price premium, to trick people into buying from them. Is it allowed on Deliveroo? [It was their idea and they boast about it](https://foodscene.deliveroo.co.uk/restaurant-profiles/innovating-through-virtual-brands.html)! * BirdBox, Burger Bros and STACK are Frankie & Benny's. * Death Valley Burrito, Rebel Vegan Grill, Mayella Mexican Kitchen and Twisted Health Kitchen are BarBurrito. * Blazing Bird and BangBang Burritos are Las Iguanas. * MacShack is Bella Italia. by LexyNoise (Wed 31st Mar 2021 1:57pm)
  • Be careful if you go into the basement. There were a few Australian Redback spiders kicking around last time we went in. No clue what they're doing in Dumbarton, but they're pretty venomous. by LexyNoise (Thu 22nd Apr 2021 9:31pm)
  • If you're in the West End, a local Asian woman home-makes a batch every day and sells them to Rajou's shop. He sells them on. If you time it right, you can get a fresh hot one for about £1.50. They're huge and have just the right amount of spice. by LexyNoise (Fri 23rd Apr 2021 5:02pm)
  • There's quite a few sex dungeons / swingers clubs around Glasgow. They like to keep a very low profile - they're in discrete office blocks and industrial areas with no signs outside. They're the kind of places that don't advertise and you can't just show up - you need to know someone who can bring you along and introduce you. The kink / swinger communities go to great lengths to vet people and keep dangerous folk out. They're incredibly strict about consent and safety and things like that. As others have said, get on FetLife and look around Glasgow. At least one of the dungeons in Glasgow has open days and workshops occasionally. You can just show up to those and get to know people. But don't touch anyone unless it's agreed beforehand - instant ban! by LexyNoise (Fri 23rd Apr 2021 5:09pm)
  • [ALI! Aww for fuck's sake! Fucking hell!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myhCw1ORceU) by LexyNoise (Fri 23rd Apr 2021 5:18pm)
  • But at what cost? by LexyNoise (Fri 30th Apr 2021 11:20am)
  • You know what's not so funny? Some holocaust-denying knuckle-draggers formerly in the BNP set up a party called "Independent Green Voice" and stood on the list across Scotland. People voted for them. How many of those people deliberately voted for Manky Jacket and his arsehole pals? Probably very few. I'll bet the vast majority of them meant to vote for Scottish Greens and crossed the wrong box. The Greens missed out on a list seat in Glasgow by 914 votes. Independent Green Voice got 2,210 votes. The Greens missed out on a list seat in South Scotland by 115 votes. Independent Green Voice got 1,690. Dirty rotten bastards. by LexyNoise (Sat 8th May 2021 11:13pm)
  • Go on Google Street View and [look at which pub it's right next door to](https://goo.gl/maps/9qugRVXZuaMjjvHr9). by LexyNoise (Mon 7th Jun 2021 3:04pm)
  • There's a train every 15 minutes on the eastern side of the circle, and every 30 minutes on the western side of the circle. by LexyNoise (Tue 8th Jun 2021 5:34pm)
  • Some of the G1 venues have discount cards for the multi-storey on Glassford Street that make it £7 for 24 hours. I know the Corinthian does. Polo staff used to take them for pride weekend to park their cars when they were working all day. It’s about £22 a day without the discount card. by LexyNoise (Wed 9th Jun 2021 10:05am)
  • Just to add to what everyone else has said about Westmuir Street. The branch of Farmfoods on Westmuir Street is the only branch I've ever seen that has a bouncer. It also has a barrier between the tills and the door, funnelling everyone into a narrow stretch where the bouncer stands. That's there to stop people filling trolleys and running out of the shop without paying. Even the Farmfoods in Yoker doesn't have that. by LexyNoise (Thu 24th Jun 2021 12:09pm)
  • A lot of the Poundland cables are shite. Ashens bought a bunch of them and measured how much current they pass with a USB power meter. A lot of them were less than 1 amp. That’ll take forever to charge a phone. by LexyNoise (Wed 14th Jul 2021 9:25pm)
  • If you want to see something batshit crazy, book tickets for Sharmanka. You’ve never seen anything like it before, and never will again. There was a sculptor who grew up in the Soviet Union then moved to Scotland. He built moving mechanical sculptures out of scrap metal – old hospital beds, bird cages, shopping trolleys etc. Sharmanka is an hour long exhibition of his machines. You’re in a dark room. One sculpture is lit up by colourful lights, starts moving and music plays for a minute. Then the room goes dark and another one lights up. It’s an hour of walking around watching the machines, and it’s batshit crazy in the best possible way. by LexyNoise (Mon 9th Aug 2021 9:51pm)
  • >"Essential" stuff like lighting inspections and changing clocks on communal lighting are £90/£60 respectively, twice a year Charging you for changing the clock on the stairwell lights? That's not necessary. What are they playing at? There's a device designed to keep track of sunset and sunrise and automatically turn lights on and off at the right time throughout the year. It's called a Sangamo Timer, it costs £150 and they've been made in the same factory in Port Glasgow since 1950. They're wonderfully elaborate clockwork devices with off-centre gears that gradually move a pair of arms to change the on/off times as the seasons change. They're incredibly low-maintenence and can keep going for years. That's what makes them so popular. Every tenement I've ever lived in has a Sangamo Timer. Every supermarket car park uses a Sangamo Timer to control the lights. Your factors are taking the piss. by LexyNoise (Tue 17th Aug 2021 8:12pm)
  • I used to go to the 13th Note all the time, before it got refurbished. It had the wavey false ceiling, the old-school LED display above the door, the brown rag-rolled walls, every inch of the windows covered in gig posters. It was great in those days. The last time I went in for food was 3 years ago and I wasn't impressed. I had a bowl of soup that was actually mostly solid. No idea how they managed it, it was genuinely impressive. One thing worth noting (ha!) - the food at the 13th Note is fully vegan now. It used to be vegetarian. Does anyone know if Jo still runs the place or if it has changed hands? She's the English woman with dark curly hair and glasses. Also shout out to that skinny barman with the flat cap who has been there for at least 15 years. by LexyNoise (Tue 17th Aug 2021 8:22pm)
  • If you're into Polo, give Slay a try. It's just down the street, it's run by someone who used to do PR for Polo, and it's got one of Polo's old DJs at the weekends, and she's very good. Also, £2.50 vodka+coke at the weekends. What are Polo and AXM charging these days, £3.80 or something like that? by LexyNoise (Tue 17th Aug 2021 8:25pm)
  • They can only give one ticket to a car that's illegally parked. If it's still there days/weeks later, it's meant to be towed. They can't just keep sticking more tickets on it, but they do try. You appeal them as "continuous contravention - the vehicle was not moved between tickets". by LexyNoise (Thu 19th Aug 2021 12:28am)
  • Council parking tickets can't result in a CCJ because they don't go to court. They go straight to Scott & Co the same way unpaid council tax does. Did you piss off one of those private parking companies? That'll get you a CCJ. by LexyNoise (Thu 19th Aug 2021 12:33am)
  • In addition to the other answers, there’s also Slay. It opened a few weeks ago and it was this sub’s favourite place to speculate about before it actually opened. It’s a gig venue during the week with drag shows on Thursdays and gay club nights at weekends. The drinks are much cheaper than Polo and AXM (£2.50 vodka & coke vs £3.80 in Polo). Slay’s weekend DJ was at Polo for years and she’s *really* fucking good. by LexyNoise (Thu 2nd Sep 2021 10:59am)
  • Bonjour is a nice idea but it’s not in a good part of town. There’s a fine line between the trendy Merchant City area where the main venues are, the Trongate area where the vegan bars are, and the Saltmarket area where the court is. Bonjour is on the wrong side of that line. I wish them well but it’s not an area I’d wear drag, latex or anything flamboyant to. by LexyNoise (Thu 2nd Sep 2021 11:12am)
  • Taco Mazama was really good in its early days, when it was just the tiny one on Renfield Street. They expanded and opened a bunch of new branches (inside Central Station, Strathy Union, Byres Road, Edinburgh etc) and that's when they went downhill. They seemed to not care as much and I kept getting ice-cold burritos even though I saw them microwave the filling. No idea how they managed that. by LexyNoise (Wed 8th Sep 2021 11:23am)
  • Night buses aren't normal services. They only run from the city centre outwards in both directions. They don't run the full route and there are no buses towards the city centre. You can get an N6 from Hope Street towards Clydebank, or an N6 from West Regent Street heading out towards East Kilbride. by LexyNoise (Mon 20th Sep 2021 3:44pm)
  • Buses can be bad between 10PM and 1AM because that's when all the lightweights go home. There's a lot of noise and bravado on those buses. Night buses at 3AM are totally sound. Never had a single problem on them. They're full of people who go out to clubs every single weekend so they know how to handle their drink and how to behave. by LexyNoise (Mon 20th Sep 2021 3:40pm)
  • Iceland have vegan pizzas in their veggie/vegan freezer. Not sure if they still make the one that's topped with houmous but it was excellent. There's also a BBQ-style one with BBQ sauce and fake bacon and sausage pieces on it. That one's mediocre at best. by LexyNoise (Wed 6th Oct 2021 2:49pm)
  • >That's why the boundary with East Renfrewshire starts arbitrarily halfway up Kilmarnock Road when the houses get more posh. That's no accident. A lot of the wealthy "suburbs" of Glasgow were cut out, and it hurt Glasgow a lot. In a typical city, your richer suburbs with fancy houses pay more council tax. This helps subsidise the less-well-off inner city areas and the social services they need. By cutting the fancy surbubs out and handing them to the East/West Dunbartonshire, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire and North/South Lanarkshire; Glasgow lost a lot of its wealthy residents. A lot of those residents still work in Glasgow or visit Glasgow for leisure, so they still use the city and cause traffic but don't contribute financially to Glasgow through council tax. by LexyNoise (Wed 6th Oct 2021 3:03pm)
  • It didn't get great reviews and was cancelled so they could make a new series of Rab C Nesbitt instead. Still, at least it got a DVD release unlike Gregor Fisher's [Snoddy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snoddy) which just vanished without a trace. I'm going to take the opportunity to mention [The Tales Of Para Handy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tales_of_Para_Handy) starring Gregor Fisher and Rikki Fulton. I bought it on DVD recently and it's fucking excellent. The BBC made an earlier TV series, a low-budget sitcom called [The Vital Spark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vital_Spark), but The Tales Of Para Handy was a high-budget comedy/drama period piece with a very different tone. Totally worth watching and there are loads of cameos from well-known Scottish actors. Michelle Gomez and David Tennant make an appearance. Shug from Still Game plays a major character, and Isa appears briefly in one episode. Even Alex McAvoy, who played Sunny Jim in The Vital Spark, makes an appearance as a haggard old sea captain. by LexyNoise (Wed 6th Oct 2021 3:17pm)
  • [That's getting turned into a permit holder zone in a few months.](https://glasgow.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=48631&p=0) by LexyNoise (Wed 13th Oct 2021 2:49pm)
  • >Then just claim the ticket slipped of your dashboard. That only works if you get a ticket for "Parked without payment of the parking charge", which is precisely why they don't issue tickets for that any more. You produce a valid ticket and you're off the hook because it's proof of paying the parking charge. Instead they use "Parked without clearly displaying a valid ticket or voucher". In those cases producing a valid ticket isn't enough to get off the hook, because the ticket isn't for not paying, it's for not displaying. by LexyNoise (Thu 14th Oct 2021 2:18pm)
  • You're allowed a few minutes to go to the machine and get a ticket, but you're not allowed to wander off to a shop to get change or anything like that. The moment you've disappeared off and left your car unattended, you're fair game for a ticket as far as the law is concerned. General rule of thumb when they see a car parked without payment is they'll have a look around, see if there's anyone standing at the machines or walking down the street. If there is, they'll wait a minute. If not, they'll issue a ticket. Grace periods only apply if your car is legally parked to begin with - e.g. you've got a pay and display ticket but your time has run out, or you're parked on a single yellow line outside the restricted time, then the restriction kicks in. You're allowed a couple of minutes grace period there. It doesn't apply if the car wasn't legally parked to begin with. Your chances of a successful appeal are fairly slim on this one. Glasgow don't back down unless you get them over a barrel, which I've managed to do in the past but it's not easy. This might be one where it's worth paying the £30 before it goes up to £60. by LexyNoise (Thu 14th Oct 2021 2:15pm)
  • It's 11 minutes, and it only applies if you have a pay and display ticket and it runs out. 10 minute grace period, penalty charge issued in the 11th minute. Doesn't apply if you never had a valid pay and display ticket to begin with. by LexyNoise (Thu 14th Oct 2021 2:22pm)
  • >I was always under the impression they had to leave 15 mins between first seeing your car and then giving the ticket Depends on which rule you're breaking. Parked with a valid pay and display ticket and it runs out? 10 minutes set in stone in England, anything between 5 and 15 minutes in Scotland depending on the council. Aberdeen are the most lenient, Glasgow, Edinburgh and East Dunbartonshire are the strictest. Never had a valid pay and display ticket to begin with? 2 minutes to have a quick look around and check there's nobody using the ticket machine or walking towards it, then an instant PCN. Parked on double yellow lines? 3 or 4 minutes to check you're not loading goods in our out of the car. Parked in areas with loading restrictions? Instant PCN. Parked in front of a dropped kerb? Instant PCN. by LexyNoise (Thu 14th Oct 2021 2:27pm)
  • Pay and display bays in Merchant City are free after 6PM. You might be better parking in a pay and display bay and just paying up to 6PM. The NCP on Glassford Street has a cheap evening rate. It's £5 to park between 5PM and 2AM. But if you arrive before 5PM or leave after 2AM, they charge you the full hourly rate for the entire stay. Not just the evening rate plus an extra hours charge - it jumps instantly from £5 to £22. Which is quite cunty really. by LexyNoise (Thu 14th Oct 2021 2:35pm)
  • This isn't true. It depends on the venue, their licence, and what type of show it is. If the show says 14+, you can come in but not buy alcohol. If it says 18+, you're not getting in the door. They also won't refund you if you're refused entry for not having ID. I worked at The Polo Lounge for years. They had some celebrity from the telly in one afternoon, doing a meet and greet. All the posters and social media said it's an 18+ venue and nobody under 18 will be able to come in. There was a queue outside the venue a mile long, full of 15 year olds with their parents wanting to meet the person. Every single one of them got turned away by the bouncers. by LexyNoise (Mon 18th Oct 2021 3:24pm)
  • They *did* change the Still Game theme tune. Something about royalty payments and it being too expensive or something like that. The TV series had one song, and the DVD releases had a different song. I've got a Still Game DVD somewhere that came free with a newspaper 15 years ago. No theme tune at all - totally silent intro sequence. [This is the original theme tune as broadcast on TV](https://youtu.be/eJjTzyTYzpg) [This is the theme tune from the DVD releases](https://youtu.be/zQNrafn0Efg) by LexyNoise (Fri 22nd Oct 2021 2:32pm)
  • >having attended a bunch of gay events at SWG3 and I find it hard to believe Yeah, SWG3 is literally the venue that hosts DILF, a big kinky event for dudes wearing latex gimp suits or almost naked except for a pair of short shorts and a BDSM harness. by LexyNoise (Sat 23rd Oct 2021 2:42pm)
  • Is that why the bastarding Expressway and South Street were both closed last night? What a pain in the ass it was to get home from work at 3AM. by LexyNoise (Sun 24th Oct 2021 9:46pm)
  • This is surprisingly true. If I'm DJing in a straight bar and I notice a big table full of gays, you can bet your ass "Let's Have A Kiki" and "Telephone" are getting played! by LexyNoise (Tue 26th Oct 2021 9:16pm)
  • There's a reason they all play that stuff. Nobody wants to go to a club that plays anything different. Well, maybe you and about 15 other people, but not enough people to pay the bills. People I know have tried, and failed, to run alternative queer nights around Glasgow. I can't even remember the names of half the events. You think Polo and AXM haven't tried rock/metal nights, "alternative queer" music and a bunch of other stuff? Of course they have. No fucker ever comes to them. That's why they don't bother any more. If you start playing alternative stuff that people don't recognise on a normal club night, people leave. And if a DJ is playing stuff that makes people leave, they get sacked. That's why Hayley Kiyoko and Rina Sawayama go on before midnight, not after. It's frustrating, but that's the way it is. I was a DJ in most of the gay venues in Glasgow for a long time, multiple nights a week. It's a much harder job than you think it is. If you want to give it a shot, drop the Polo Lounge a message on Facebook. Three DJs left during and just before Covid (including me) and they're looking for people. by LexyNoise (Tue 26th Oct 2021 9:15pm)
  • Be careful with English train companies. You have no idea how chill ScotRail are by comparison. If you don't have a valid ticket on ScotRail, they'll just get you to buy a ticket at the normal price. No fuss. English train companies will either make you buy a penalty fare (twice what a normal ticket would be), or they take you to court and prosecute for fare evasion. That leaves you hundreds of pounds out of pocket and with a criminal record. English train companies seriously don't fuck about. MerseyRail takes people to court for putting their feet up on the seats. by LexyNoise (Mon 1st Nov 2021 6:21pm)
  • The company that made them hasn't existed since 2005, so there's that... by LexyNoise (Fri 17th Dec 2021 2:26pm)
  • >Though I read only very recently that the existing trains already have capability to be run remotely, and have done since they were installed 40 years ago. They just never did it. The current trains are only driven manually when they're on their way in or out of the depot. When they're in service, it's totally automatic. The driver's job is to open and close the doors, then push a button that makes the train drive itself to the next stop. They're mostly there in case there's an emergency. Driving the trains manually is difficult because the stations are barely longer than the trains - you have to stop exactly in the right place. A lot of the stations are on a hump which makes it even more difficult to time your braking perfectly. by LexyNoise (Fri 17th Dec 2021 2:31pm)
  • Wouldn't touch Sugo with a barge pole. The owners are nasty pieces of shit who sued another restaurant for "stealing their name". The other restaurant existed before the Glasgow Sugo, it's in Manchester, and sugo is just the Italian word for "sauce" so it's not even an original name. They can get in the bin. Can't stand bullies. by LexyNoise (Sun 19th Dec 2021 4:59pm)
  • I worked in that building for 6 years. A fire wouldn't do it much damage. It's a steel frame and none of the internal walls are load-bearing. Also the lifts were utter shite at 9AM and 1PM. One of them was broken for about 18 months. by LexyNoise (Wed 22nd Dec 2021 11:24pm)
  • The thing on the roof was a TV studio, and it's a protected feature of the building. The thing on the roof is specifically listed - so is the one on the neighbouring Charles Oakley Building where Central College used to be. by LexyNoise (Wed 22nd Dec 2021 11:29pm)
  • They don't. That only happens if you miss two payments in the same year and ignore the letter both times. by LexyNoise (Wed 22nd Dec 2021 11:32pm)
  • My favourite toilets in Glasgow were in the Modern Language building at Glasgow Uni. It was a really striking 1950s building full of original features - floors, light fixtures, furniture, doors etc. The toilets were in the basement, with fancy solid wood doors and walls and big ornate round sinks in the middle of the room. Had a real "they don't make stuff like this any more" vibe. Did many a classy jobby in there. About a decade ago, the Modern Language department got downsized and kicked out to a smaller building. The School of Law took over the building and totally modernised it. Ceiling tiles with fluorescent strip lights, modern floors, new furniture, the lot. They ripped out the toilets and put new chipboard walls and modern fixtures in. Absolute fucking waste. They ruined a great, unique building. by LexyNoise (Wed 22nd Dec 2021 11:42pm)
  • Never you mind. You've got no business being in Yoker. by LexyNoise (Tue 11th Jan 2022 1:01pm)
  • No idea who does Katie’s or AXM. I’ve had very little dealings with those places. Polo, Dels and Speakeasy are owned by the same company and employ their own bouncers and run things in-house. Slay uses the same company that do SWG3. Never seen a bouncer at Underground. Given it’s the bar for bigger, older gay guys I can’t imagine they get much trouble that they can’t solve themselves. by LexyNoise (Sun 23rd Jan 2022 1:46am)
  • >clubs are non existent on a Monday. ??? There are plenty of clubs open on a Monday. Why bother answering a question if you don't know what the shit you're talking about? by LexyNoise (Mon 7th Feb 2022 11:12am)
  • If you like Geoff's stuff, check out Jago Hazzard. He's very London-centric but he's an excellent storyteller. You have to take a drink whenever he mentions Charles Yerkes. It's just a rule. by LexyNoise (Mon 21st Feb 2022 1:30pm)
  • There’s also the R&B club in Polo’s basement. It’s mainstream and not edgy but that was where all the lesbians hung out a few years ago. Not sure if they still do, I haven’t been there in a few years. by LexyNoise (Mon 28th Feb 2022 5:34pm)
  • Yes - I went to a private otologist to get it done. It was a place on Crow Road right next to Jordanhill train station. Took about 15 minutes and totally worth it if £50 is affordable to you. I'm a nightclub DJ, so the health of my ears and hearing is slightly more worth paying for than it would be to the average person. by LexyNoise (Thu 3rd Mar 2022 2:19pm)
  • Glasgow is the only city I've ever lived in where it's cheaper to take the train than the bus. Yoker to Partick. £2.70 return on the train. £4.60 for the bus. by LexyNoise (Wed 9th Mar 2022 5:57pm)
  • Anniesland does have the worst pass rate in Scotland. But I passed my first test in Anniesland *easily* after failing 3 tests in Ayr. So it's not that bad. by LexyNoise (Mon 4th Apr 2022 3:57pm)
  • Draw a box on a map with Great Western Road at the north, Duntreath Avenue at the West, Crow Road at the East and Dumbarton Road at the south. That's where you'll be. Make sure you know which lane you need to be in to turn which way at Anniesland Cross. This is especially important if you're turning into Anniesland Road, where the test centre is, or going west along Great Western Road. There's a weird loop to the south of the junction that you need to use. It's not difficult but you don't want your first experience of Anniesland Cross to be on your test. You should also drive along Alderman Road. A lot of the tests routes go down there and there's a few mini roundabouts, traffic lights and speed bumps down there. Some test routes go down Yoker Mill Road and there are some give way islands down there that you should get familiar with. Be careful at the big junction where Archerhill Road, Lincoln Avenue and Baldwin Avenue meet Great Western Road. There are pedestrian crossings at the exit to the junction with separate traffic lights. You can get a green light to move into the junction, and a red light at the exit. by LexyNoise (Mon 4th Apr 2022 4:10pm)
  • I saw that post elsewhere but I think it's made up. It doesn't gel with reality. 1. It's £30 for the first 14 days, not 28. If you pay £30 after, the council are right to accept it as part payment and ask for the rest. 2. You have to appeal to the tribunal in Edinburgh before it goes up to £90. Once that happens, it's too late and they'll reject your appeal automatically without even hearing it. 3. Even if they did hear an appeal, the tribunal's only job is to consider whether a penalty charge notice was correctly issued. If you were parked next to double yellows, that's an open and shut case. They'd have found you'd paid £30 out of £60 and told you to pay the other £30. They don't give people the benefit of the doubt or let them off (they're lawyers after all). If they did, the council could demand a review of the case. 4. It's unlikely Glasgow would have cancelled the ticket because they're greedy cunts. You'd missed the appeal deadline. All they had to do was send the Charge Certificate to Scott+Co and they'd be able to take enforcement action. Doesn't even need to go through the sheriff court. They had you over a barrel for the other £60 and they wouldn't let free money like that go. by LexyNoise (Mon 4th Apr 2022 4:23pm)
  • I had the same but they still refused to cancel. It hadn't even fallen off the window - they just didn't see it. Obviously weren't looking hard enough. They said "it's not enough to pay for a ticket, it has to be clearly displayed. Yours obviously wasn't. We're not cancelling". I pointed out that they hadn't issued a ticket for "parked without clearly displaying a valid ticket". They'd issued a ticket for "Parked without payment of the parking charge", which is a completely different thing. They caved in. by LexyNoise (Mon 4th Apr 2022 4:25pm)
  • No. I used to drive through there at 10PM all the time to get to work. It's fine. Just don't turn into North Hanover Street or Cathedral Street. Those are 24/7 bus lanes. by LexyNoise (Mon 4th Apr 2022 4:30pm)
  • In the early days, prides were something of a protest. Then they became more of a celebration. Over the past decade, they've become a lot more commercial. Over the past decade, Glasgow Pride has moved from a free thing in the street or in Glasgow Green that anybody can rock up to, to a closed-off fenced-in event that you have to buy a ticket for. Manchester is even worse - they close off the entire Gay Village and you can't even walk down a public street and drink in an ordinary bar without buying a £32 ticket. This has also attracted big corporate sponsors and there has been an element of "you can't say or do anything that might annoy the sponsors". Drag queens making rude jokes? Not allowed. Big Leather Daddies walking down the street in their leather trousers and jackets? Nah, looks too dirty. Not allowed. On top of this, Glasgow Pride had a disaster of an event a few years ago. Put on a big concert at Kelvingrove Park. People who had already bought tickets were queueing outside for hours, unable to get in, because they sold a lot more tickets than they had capacity. This is why a lot of alternative, grassroots prides have been springing up everywhere. Glasgow Free Pride started because people were pissed off with it becoming a closed-off ticketed event. Mardi Gla started because of the shitshow of a Steps concert that people couldn't get into, and allegations of corruption. You know what though? The more the merrier. by LexyNoise (Fri 17th Jun 2022 7:23pm)
  • Manchester has it *much worse* than Glasgow. At least Glasgow's modern buildings are a reasonable height. In Manchester they've built huge 50-storey glass skyscrapers that utterly dominate anything around them. There's one with a design flaw - whenever it's windy, it [makes a loud humming noise you can hear everywhere in the city](https://youtu.be/UAOzegnHg1g). by LexyNoise (Fri 24th Jun 2022 12:16pm)
  • AXM are not fussy. If you have a pulse, they'll let you in. Polo are very fussy. Clothes don't matter so much, skinny jeans and a T-shirt are fine. They care more about your face. The bouncers will either never give you a problem, or they'll never let you in. No in-between. If you're worried, go on a Friday before 11PM and walk in the side door at Riding Room. Never been to Buff Club. by LexyNoise (Wed 27th Jul 2022 4:13pm)
  • They use the same licensed security company as SWG3. by LexyNoise (Wed 17th Aug 2022 4:50pm)
  • Glasgow's drag scene has established groups based around the venues and nights. If you want to be in AXM, you speak to one of the Trigger people. If you want Dels, you speak to one of the Suck people. Not sure about Polo because they moved their drag night from a Tuesday to a Sunday. Each of those groups will have a person or committee who does most of the organising, scheduling etc. You should approach them instead of asking the venue directly. by LexyNoise (Wed 17th Aug 2022 4:50pm)
  • There's a bus lane camera at the top end of Stockwell Street. If you keep driving up past the Post Office you'll get a fine. I don't *think* there's a camera at the bottom of Stockwell Street. by LexyNoise (Fri 16th Sep 2022 4:54pm)
  • You're about to – once they're finished with the area around the Botanics, "Hutchesontown and New Gorbals" is the next area to be turned into a permit zone. Then it's "Dennistoun", then "Broomhill and Thornwood". by LexyNoise (Sat 17th Sep 2022 3:54pm)
  • Do you know what you're looking for in a tarot deck? If you're just starting out, I highly recommend the Rider Waite deck illustrated by Pamela Coleman-Smith. It's the classic Margherita pizza of tarot decks. Standard imagery that's really helpful in understanding the card meanings. You can't go wrong with a Rider-Waite. You can get updated, digitally recoloured versions of the Rider Waite deck. Exactly the same imagery, just more vibrant colours. I really like the Radiant Rider Waite deck but the Universal Waite is good as well. There are other designs that are based on the same imagery used in the Rider Waite deck. Someone has already mentioned the Robert Wang deck, which is really interesting but it's a shame the pip cards aren't illustrated. There's also my personal favourite deck, the Morgan Greer, which is stunning. by LexyNoise (Tue 27th Sep 2022 5:08pm)
  • I was a DJ in The Polo Lounge for years, which meant I was often in that creepy old building alone setting up sound equipment and moving decks around. I don't massively believe in the supernatural or ghosts, but there was a lot of weird stuff that happened in that building. You'd see things out of the corner of your eye. The first time, you'd be rational and think you'd imagined it. But the fifth time you saw the exact same thing in the exact same room, you'd think "no, I definitely saw that". Things would move when nobody was in the building and it would be caught on camera - one time an entire glass shelf. You'd be alone in a room and hear chairs scrape across the wooden floor. People would hear things and see things and stories would be passed between the staff. I typed some of the stories here but the post got stupidly long, so I deleted it and here's some bullet points instead. For reference, Polo only use the ground floor and basement of the building. There are five abandoned, derelict floors above the ground floor. The only thing upstairs is the CCTV office used to watch the cameras. There's a dark, nasty staircase with no lights above the ground floor that you use to get to the CCTV office. It was common for staff to dare other staff to go all the way to the top of that staircase. I never made it past the second floor. It was just a horrible place to be. 'The nasty staircase' below refers to this staircase. * A big, bearded, biker, take-no-shit-from-anyone bouncer ran out of the building one night and refused to ever come back. He was walking down the nasty staircase from the CCTV office and he heard and felt something growl right in his ear. * One of the managers was in the CCTV office watching the cameras, with her back to the open door and the nasty staircase. She felt like something was watching her, and turned around to see a face peering round the door at her, right at the top corner. * I was wandering about the building one night, after closing time, looking for one of the managers. I walked into the small cocktail bar (Riding Room) and saw him standing at the other side of the bar. Tall figure wearing a white shirt, with black hair, facing away from me. I shouted his name and walked around the big pillar to the other side of the bar to talk to him... nobody there. I was so confused I walked back to the door to see what I could have possibly mistaken for him. There was nothing where the figure had been. Just a red curtain. Just then, a chair on the other side of the bar scraped across the wooden floor, as if someone had just stood up from the table quickly. * Several staff reported seeing a man sitting in the big upstairs lounge, reading one of those huge, old-fashioned broadsheet newspapers. If you said something, he'd completely ignore you. If you looked away then looked back, he'd be gone. * I mostly DJ'd in the small R&B club in the basement. It was a very creepy room to be alone in. I'd often see dark shadows walking around the room when I was in there on my own setting things up. A few times, I saw an old man's face peeking over the edge of the bar at me. That always gave me a wee fright. Taps would turn on full-force by themselves – you'd hear the squeak of the tap being turned. The light switch for that club is behind the bar, so if you're the first person in you need to walk through the pitch-black club to turn the lights on. Everybody used their phone flash as a torch to do that walk. * One time, while the building was empty and locked, a glass shelf went flying across the room in the upstairs lounge. It didn't fall down - it was held in by clips - it lifted up and flew diagonally across the bar. It was caught on camera and I've still got the video somewhere. **Bonus Polo Lounge Fact:** In the big lounge upstairs, there's a painting of a murder scene. It's a man lying dead on the ground, but they've hung it sideways so it looks like he's standing up. If you look at it closely you can see the guy is clearly dead and the painting is sideways. It's on the wall beside the front door, at the opposite end to the cloakroom. Have a look for it next time you're in. by LexyNoise (Wed 2nd Nov 2022 4:55pm)
  • Norma Jean at The Captain’s Rest. They’re a really heavy American band, and they were in England playing at a big festival. A cocky gig promoter convinced them to come to Glasgow the next day and play in a tiny venue - smaller than my living room - to 100 people. It was absolute carnage in the best possible way. by LexyNoise (Sun 20th Nov 2022 4:24am)
  • Don't sit right next to the fire. It's a rookie mistake. You'll walk into '78, see the table next to the fire is free, think "yes man, best table!". Then 20 minutes later you'll see why nobody was sitting there. It gets overwhelmingly hot very quickly. A coal fire is nice from 10 feet away. It's not nice sitting right next to it. by LexyNoise (Tue 22nd Nov 2022 3:53pm)
  • \> office staff \> minimum wage That's a "what the fuck" from me. When a company pays you minimum wage, that means "we'd pay you less, but it's illegal". You know that McDonalds pays **more than** minimum wage, right? And you're getting less than that to work in an office? You really want to buy them a Christmas present? by LexyNoise (Wed 23rd Nov 2022 10:39am)
  • Home Bargains sell the proper German Currywurst sauce - the same brand you'd find at any decent takeaway in Germany. It's in a small brown/red bottle, the brand name is 'Hela', and it's about £1. Pair it with any decent sausages from Aldi or Lidl and you've got your own home supply of Currywurst. by LexyNoise (Mon 28th Nov 2022 2:13pm)
  • It's definitely Stuff on Union Street. I worked in that tiny Burger King that was right next to it for years. by LexyNoise (Thu 19th Jan 2023 11:13am)
  • It was built for a college, the Glasgow College of Building and Printing. They merged with the Glasgow College of Food Technology and became Glasgow Metropolitan College. They merged with Central College of Commerce and Glasgow College of Nautical Studies to become City of Glasgow College. At this point, they were one massive college with half a dozen 1960s building scattered around the city. They built two big new buildings, moved everything into them, and abandoned their old buildings. They have been for sale for almost a decade now. No cunt wants them. by LexyNoise (Fri 20th Jan 2023 11:27am)
  • You're not wrong. The middle lift was broken for over a year (about 18 months I think). There was a disagreement between the college and the maintenance contractor about whose fault it was, and who was responsible for the cost of fixing it. by LexyNoise (Fri 20th Jan 2023 11:30am)
  • It's made of steel and asbestos. There's not much that can catch fire in the place. by LexyNoise (Sun 22nd Jan 2023 4:19am)
  • The Millennium Building was horrible. I worked in the basement of it for a year before our manager kicked up fuck and had our team moved to a vacant classroom on the 7th floor of the main tower. That was a massive improvement (apart from the lift situation). You're right - it is listed. The construction method they used was quite unusual. It's a steel structure that supports itself. The stone on the outside is just stuck on - it's not structural at all. Same with all the internal walls - they don't go above the ceiling tiles. It's not just the building that's listed - it's also the structures on the roof. They're listed separately. Another reason it won't be demolished - it's way too close to the Queen Street Low Level line. by LexyNoise (Sun 22nd Jan 2023 4:17am)
  • You know what? I used to think they were just incompetent twats who kept reporting incorrect things, but I've come to the same conclusion. They do it on purpose because according to "the algorithm" an angry comment is still a positive engagement. by LexyNoise (Tue 24th Jan 2023 8:29am)
  • I got pulled over by the police for **not** speeding once. It was 4AM. I was driving along the M8, doing 49 in a 50. No traffic, no other cars around. They said it was "suspicious" that I was driving so carefully and sticking so close to the speed limit. by LexyNoise (Tue 31st Jan 2023 10:11am)
  • Ikea's light shades are not designed to fit on standard UK bulb holders - they're designed for slightly larger European ones. If you buy light shades from Ikea there's a good chance they won't fit and you'll have to replace the entire ceiling fixture. You'll also have to replace the British bayonet bulb with a European screw bulb. It's not expensive and it's easy to do if you've got basic electrical skills but it's not something you'd want to do in a rented flat or if you've bought expensive smart bulbs with a bayonet connector. by LexyNoise (Tue 31st Jan 2023 10:47am)
  • I mean, I'd like to think it's something as simple and thoughtless as that. But I think it's likely to be something a bit more TERF-y and hatecrime-y. >Bronze statues of boys playing in high heels in Glasgow... > >...Police launched an investigation on Monday after ... the ... Gorbals Boys statues went missing > >...The statues appeared to have been cut at the leg before being removed. Weird that it was this particular weekend, isn't it? by LexyNoise (Wed 8th Feb 2023 10:30am)
  • Loading is allowed on double yellow lines, but the government has a very strict view of what counts as loading. Councils have to follow this policy. Moving goods between a vehicle and a property is loading. But only if it's some combination of big / heavy / valuable / fragile / unwieldy / inconvenient to carry a longer distance. Pick any two or three of those six and you've got loading. Moving a bed into a property is loading. Carrying multiple boxes of stuff is loading. Walking into your local Chinese to pick up a single plastic bag containing your order is not loading. (Deliveroo and JustEat drivers are common targets for penalty charge notices because, as far as the law is concerned, picking up a single carrier bag from a takeaway is not loading). Loading only includes the time it takes to move the goods in our out of the property. Once the bed is in your house, anything else isn't loading. For example, if he was moving the bed into the bedroom and then assembling it, that wouldn't count as loading. Usually, the enforcement officers will watch a vehicle for 3-5 minutes to see if there's any comings and goings. If someone comes to the vehicle and lifts boxes out, they'll know you're loading and continue on their way. If they see the vehicle sitting there unattended for 5 minutes, they'll stick a penalty charge notice on it. If you get a penalty charge notice and you *were* loading, you can challenge it. But the onus is on you to prove you were loading, and they'll want a good explanation of why the vehicle was left unattended for so long. The longer they've observed the vehicle for, the harder it will be to justify. Your driver probably has a really shitty arrangement with the company who own the van. Penalty charge notices go to the owner of the vehicle, not the driver. Some companies will let the driver challenge the notice. Some will just pay it and dock the driver's wages. If the delivery company are arseholes, he's probably worried about them docking £60 off his wages. Source: I got an unfair parking ticket once, challenged it and won. In the process, I joined a very nerdy message board where people talk about parking tickets and what exactly the law says. I still read that message board five years later because I have no life. by LexyNoise (Fri 10th Feb 2023 12:40pm)
  • I'm a parking ticket nerd, and this is pretty much spot on. The only issue I have is with the 'single package' thing. It can be under some circumstance, but not necessarily. There are a few tests that determine whether loading is actually loading or not. They're looking for some combination of big / heavy / difficult to carry longer distances / fragile / valuable. Pick any two or three of those, and you've got loading. You could still appeal and be successful, but if the attendant saw you walking down the street with one package under your arm and made a note of it, they'd likely reject your loading argument. Deliveroo and JustEat drivers commonly get penalty charge notices for parking on double yellow lines and walking into takeaways to pick up orders. It's pretty unfair because it's a shit job that doesn't pay well and puts wear and tear on your car. But the law says that walking out of KFC with one brown paper bag isn't loading, so they're basically fucked. That's an entire day's money down the pisser. by LexyNoise (Fri 10th Feb 2023 12:47pm)
  • If you're talking about Kay's Garage, I've only got good things to say about them. My car was fucked. Revs all over the place. Everyone thought it was the high pressure fuel pump, which is a £1,600 job to get replaced. That's almost what the car was worth, so I wasn't terribly happy. While they were doing it, they phoned me and said "It's actually not the high pressure fuel pump. While we were taking the car apart, we noticed a tiny crack in the high pressure fuel line. That's what was causing the problem. We've replaced the fuel line and your car is fine now. That'll be £300 instead of £1,600 (including the part, labour, and sending it somewhere else for diagnostics). They didn't need to tell me that. They could have fixed it, charged me £1,600 and I would probably never have known. by LexyNoise (Fri 10th Feb 2023 1:19pm)
  • I lived in Anniesland for years. Great transport links and convenient for shopping. The only downside to Anniesland is that it's a bit boring and soulless. There's not much going on. That could be a good thing or a bad thing. by LexyNoise (Fri 10th Feb 2023 1:29pm)
  • It wasn't a franchisee - the on-street ones in Glasgow that closed were all run by the company. I worked there when I was a student 15-20 years ago. 'Burger King Glasgow 1' was on Argyle Street. No idea what happened to it. By the time I started working at BK in 2004 it was long gone. 'Burger King Glasgow 2' was the huge one at the bottom of Sauchiehall Street. It was where the Poundland is now. It closed because the landlord wanted to jack up the rent, and thought a big company like BK would just pay it. They closed it down and opened a new place right across the street, which is still there today. 'Burger King Glasgow 3' was further up Sauchiehall Street, near Campus and the Garage. Because of its location, it wasn't very busy during the day but was rammed late at night. There was a lot of trouble and a lot of fights, even with bouncers at the door. It closed some time around 2005. 'Burger King Glasgow 4' was on Byres Road. I have no idea what happened to this one - it was gone by the time I started studying at Glasgow and working for BK. 'Burger King Glasgow 5' was on Union Street, just outside Central Station (not the one inside - that's a franchise run by SSP). It was tiny - there was only room for one person in the kitchen and everything was within arms reach. It closed when the St Enoch Centre opened its extension with a big new food court. Burger King just decided to open a bigger place in there and close Union Street. Last time I checked it was an Asian place with bright green walls. **Burger King Bonus Fact:** The McDonalds opposite IKEA at Braehead used to be a Burger King. When Braehead opened a new food court they moved in there instead. by LexyNoise (Tue 28th Mar 2023 12:51pm)
  • They're not custom-made for Burger King. Iceland sell big bags of them. It's not a knock-off or a cheap imitation - it's the same things from the same factory. by LexyNoise (Tue 28th Mar 2023 1:02pm)
  • There used to be one right outside Central Station on Union Street. So probably. by LexyNoise (Tue 28th Mar 2023 1:05pm)
  • When's the last time you were on Queen Street? Hellfire closed years ago. It was never the same after Tequila fucked off to live in LA and Barry the cute eyeliner punk left. by LexyNoise (Tue 18th Apr 2023 1:39pm)
  • Landlord is taking the piss. You pay rent + council tax + bills. Factor fees, block insurance etc are the landlord's responsibility. by LexyNoise (Wed 19th Apr 2023 1:21pm)
  • Fucking hell, I can smell the damp musty smell just by looking at those pictures. That's what people in the trade call a "dead person's house". Some old person lived there alone with no visitors for years, and that's how it ended up like that. They died, and the family is trying to offload it. My wife is a photographer for an estate agent and says it's depressing as fuck when they get a house like that. Leaves a twinge of sadness with you all day. I like looking at them - the old colourful carpets, the ancient wallpaper and light fittings. by LexyNoise (Fri 28th Apr 2023 8:09pm)
  • It’s a Restricted Parking Zone. Anywhere that isn’t a marked bay is treated the same as double yellow lines. Including pavements, verges etc. The entire West End is made up of giant restricted parking zones. It’s a mistake you won’t want to make again. Won’t cost you anything to appeal. No chance of getting the penalty charge overturned but you might be able to claim the tow was disproportionate if it was only parked for 20 minutes or so. If it was parked there all day you’ve got no chance though. by LexyNoise (Tue 6th Jun 2023 1:04am)
  • 3 years ago, I moved to Aberdeen after 15 years in Glasgow. People up here often ask me if I miss Glasgow. Things like this make me say yes. by LexyNoise (Tue 25th Jul 2023 12:59pm)
  • How about an art exhibit that involves massive clockwork mechanical sculptures, made out of junk like old hospital beds and shopping trolleys, that come to life and move and dance and spin around complete with a music and light show? It's something you can only see in Glasgow - the sculptures were made by an artist from the Soviet Union who moved to Scotland in the 90s. It's one of Glasgow's best-kept secrets that tourists don't seem to know about. It's batshit crazy in the best possible way - I don't know anyone who has seen the show and been disappointed. Tickets are about a tenner, and they're still available for the two of today's shows. I recommend buying a ticket online if you fancy it - they do tend to sell out on the day. The show is called Sharmanka. You can [see a demo video and book tickets here](https://sharmanka.com). by LexyNoise (Sat 29th Jul 2023 8:59am)
  • Which 13th Note... the one on King Street that has just closed (and was a shadow of its former self for years), or the **proper old** one on Clyde Street that became Barfly? by LexyNoise (Mon 31st Jul 2023 3:45pm)
  • I worked in the Burger King across the street from Central Station for years. A few things came and went in the old Underworld space. Originally it was Underworld. Owned by the same people as the Cathouse. Then they changed the name to Catwalk but that didn't last long. In 2010 it became a black-owned world music nightclub called Sol's. They had all sorts of club nights like Bhanghra, Salsa, Samba and Dancehall. Only lasted two months before a burst water pipe trashed the place. Real shame considering how much effort he put into it. After that it was Stairway. Looks like that shut in 2012 and it has been empty since. by LexyNoise (Mon 31st Jul 2023 3:58pm)
  • Fuck sake. Fury Murrys?!? Last time I checked there was only one Furys left. And it was in Ayr. Which says a lot about Ayr. by LexyNoise (Mon 31st Jul 2023 4:02pm)
  • The last 2 drives past central station at 00:12. It only runs once an hour after 9PM. Before Covid, they were every 30 minutes right up until 00:28. Back in 2016 when I used to get the 2 home from work, it was every 30 minutes right up until 00:58. by LexyNoise (Thu 3rd Aug 2023 4:43pm)
  • Sometimes it’s not their fault. I used to live in a tenement street with limited parking. I’d fit my wee Mini in sensibly between other cars. The next day when I’d leave the house, all the cars I’d parked between had left and other people had parked around me. The new cars were parked half a car length out of sync with mine, making me look like an arsehole. This would happen at least two or three times a week, for years. I worked nights so I’d move my car at different times to everyone else in the street. by LexyNoise (Sat 5th Aug 2023 12:27pm)
  • There’s zero chance of this following you to the US. It’s in that grey area where it’s either impossible or so damn expensive that they just won’t do it. They would have to pay £60 to take it to sheriff court in Scotland then even if it was possible to transfer the debt to the US, they’d have to pay legal costs in the US, neither of which can be recovered from you. That would cost way more than £100. They will send threatening letters hoping you’ll get scared and pay, and nothing else will ever happen. by LexyNoise (Sat 5th Aug 2023 12:37pm)
  • It's weird that there's no Westbound N2 any more. That was always one of the busier night buses. It does share the last third of its route with the N6 (between Scotstoun and Clydebank) but takes a totally different route through the West End. It's a fair walk from Great Western Road all the way down to Dumbarton Road. by LexyNoise (Tue 15th Aug 2023 10:58am)
  • That's a kick in the tits because Bunhouse Road is actually more expensive than Bunhouse Car Park. So you paid more than you should have (£3.60 per hour vs £2.50 per hour). Also, since when the fuck is Bunhouse Car Park £2.50 an hour? When I worked at Glasgow Uni a few years ago it was £1 for four hours or £2.50 for all-day parking. by LexyNoise (Tue 22nd Aug 2023 3:04pm)
  • Evening Peak only applies to trains that start at Queen Street High Level. Doesn't apply to Queen Street Low Level trains, or any trains that used to be run by SPT. by LexyNoise (Fri 25th Aug 2023 3:54pm)
  • Off-peak starts at 09:00 on the Glasgow suburban routes, not 09:15. It's a historic quirk from 20 years ago, when SPT controlled the trains. Even though they were ScotRail trains driven by ScotRail drivers, the trains and stations were painted in SPT colours with SPT logos, and SPT set the fares and timetables. ScotRail decided that morning peak ended at 09:15 and some big city stations had evening peak. SPT decided that morning peak ended at 09:00 and there was no evening peak. Even though SPT lost control of the trains and they're all ScotRail now, the old SPT peak time rules still apply on those lines. by LexyNoise (Fri 25th Aug 2023 4:06pm)
  • You need to take your vapes into the cabin with you. You can't put them in your hold luggage. Don't forget to put them in the clear plastic bag as you go through security - they contain liquid. It's easy to forget and they get a bit pissed off if you don't. Glasgow security tend to be quite friendly but Manchester in particular are nasty. If you forget something, they'll make you redo everything from the start. by LexyNoise (Tue 29th Aug 2023 10:30am)
  • They don't give permits for shared cars. It either has to be your car with your name on the V5C, or a company car with a signed letter from the company saying you're the only person who drives it. They do not budge on that or make exceptions to it. by LexyNoise (Tue 29th Aug 2023 10:43am)
  • Alliance-Francaise and the Goethe-Institut are well respected things that have been around for decades. They share a building in Glasgow and I don't think you'll have any problem with them. by LexyNoise (Tue 29th Aug 2023 10:48am)
  • Most of the big memory makers stopped making DDR3 years ago, so second-hand like CEX or eBay is your best bet. Nothing wrong with using second-hand RAM . RAM sticks *can* fail over time but it's pretty rare. If you're worried, just about every Linux installer has a memory test built-in that you can run from the boot menu. Just download Ubuntu, stick it on a USB stick, and run the memory test. You don't need to install Linux to run the memory test. Pro tip for the future: the best time to buy a certain type of RAM is just after the next type comes out. New RAM types are expensive. They gradually become cheaper and more mainstream over time. Then the next type comes out and the older type hits rock-bottom prices as shops try to shift stock. Then the manufacturers stop making it, it becomes rarer and it slowly gets more and more expensive over the years. DDR5 is just starting to catch on now, so this is a great time to max out any DDR4 machines you've got at home. 16GB sticks are going for £28 and 32GB for £54. At stupid prices like that, you might as well stick 32GB or 64GB in any machine that supports it. If it makes you feel better, I spent about £25 on 2GB of DDR1 RAM to max out a 4G iMac. Those machines have one regular DIMM slot and one laptop SODIMM slot, which is just about the stupidest thing I've ever seen. by LexyNoise (Tue 5th Sep 2023 4:14pm)
  • Sloans has some really pretty upstairs rooms you can hire. by LexyNoise (Tue 5th Sep 2023 4:21pm)
  • Weird, Arta's really more of an Italian restaurant than a club. It does technically have a club inside it somewhere but it's not somewhere anybody under 40 would really go. Arta is owned by the G1 Group and the district manager who oversees it is the same guy who oversees The Polo Lounge. Since it looks like this event wasn't run by G1 but they just hired out the venue to someone else, I'd start by complaining to G1. by LexyNoise (Thu 14th Sep 2023 9:27am)
  • I don't really understand the uproar over the whole thing. British intelligence is absolutely doing the same thing. So are our friends in Europe, America, Canada, Australia etc. But if Russia or China try and do it, there's uproar. I'm not saying we're right to do it - we're probably not and they have probably been used for horrible things. But yeah, this is the game countries play. China isn't an outlier here. I feel like this belongs here: ​ https://preview.redd.it/e8xis25kttpb1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d265d4ccee53258af5752618ccbd3c05cc56302a by LexyNoise (Fri 22nd Sep 2023 4:36pm)
  • I used to DJ in half the venues in Glasgow's gay scene. Still got most of the staff, management and DJs on Facebook. There's a lot of gossip and talk and drama, so if something happened, I'd know about it. Haven't heard anything about the polis targeting venues. The only drama I've heard recently is Polo moving some of their mid-week nights from the big main club to the smaller, stinkier club because numbers are down. by LexyNoise (Wed 27th Sep 2023 2:20am)
  • It's only the bouncers' problem if the place has an 18+ licence. Most bars and 'pure' nightclubs do. Places that also operate as gig venues like The Cathouse, Slay and King Tuts have special 14+ licences. Those places are crazy vigilant at the bars because they can't assume people are over 18 and it's usually pretty dark and crowded inside. King Tuts used to put wristbands on people who were over 18 at the door. Couldn't buy more than one alcoholic drink unless the other person came to the bar and showed their wristband as well. I remember there being some drama when The Polo Lounge booked someone who was relatively well-known and popular with young people to appear in their cabaret bar. Can't remember who - it was a few years ago. But it was clearly advertised as an 18+ event because Polo has an 18+ licence. Still, parents travelled from all across the UK to take their 12-year-olds to meet the person, then were turned away at the door. Bouncers took a lot of abuse that day. by LexyNoise (Mon 16th Oct 2023 10:35am)
  • By UK standards that's pretty cheap for a 32 mile journey. A similar distance is Sheffield to Manchester, which is £342 a month, or London to Sevenoaks, which is £401 a month. by LexyNoise (Mon 23rd Oct 2023 10:23am)
  • Colleges aren't public sector. They haven't been for a long time. They're run as stand-alone non-profit bodies and registered as Scottish Charities. by LexyNoise (Tue 24th Oct 2023 10:36am)
  • The only shops you need a membership for in this country are Costsco, Makro, and Booker. by LexyNoise (Thu 26th Oct 2023 10:25am)
  • Have worked in universities for donkeys years. This is true. A combination of visa changes and bad exchange rates has led to big drops across the board, but especially from parts of Africa. by LexyNoise (Wed 6th Dec 2023 6:29am)
  • Normal bus tickets only work on the 77 to the airport. The 500 is a special, magical bus that only accepts special, magical tickets. It’s £10 for a fucking single journey, by the way. by LexyNoise (Wed 6th Dec 2023 6:39am)
  • Depends how far you drove in the bus lane before you pulled out. You can get away with two or three car lengths, not more. Post the video on [ftla.uk](https://ftla.uk) for advice. by LexyNoise (Tue 12th Dec 2023 1:27am)