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  • Why did the Morrisons in Partick shut off their exit so everyone has to go in and out the same door? It means they have to keep telling people coming out to wait so that someone else can come in and people coming in to wait so people can come out without them bashing into each other. It seems odd to go to all the other lengths of social distancing inside and outside the store and then force people to bottleneck right there. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Sat 25th Apr 2020 4:25pm)
  • if that's their goal then it's pretty pointless considering they've got security moving people along and no one's really hanging out in the supermarket having a conversation right now. And does that mean you can't use the Amazon lockers anymore? Cos they're at that exit that can't be reached now. Their queues go all the way to the back of the building quite often - so staff at that one door are having to co-ordinate people coming, people going out, people trying to return trolleys after wheeling them to the car, reminding ppl to wipe trolleys, all with a queue of 30 people waiting their turn and dealing with the people asking to come up and skip the queue cos they are just going in for cigarettes.... It's just making life more complicated for no reason. As a general rule you want people to have MORE space in the places they have to be not less. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Sat 25th Apr 2020 6:29pm)
  • Now that it feels like news is moving slower should we do a weekly discussion rather than daily? We don't have the same avalanche of news we did a month ago. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Sun 26th Apr 2020 1:45pm)
  • Anyone else here work in social care? I'm a social care worker who works for an agency and I haven't had a single shift this month. Is this happening to others? Usually I have a few shifts each week for Glasgow council, Loretto, Blue Triangle etc etc but this month absolutely nothing. Anyone else having the same problem? Or anyone with an agency thats getting them work right now? by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Mon 27th Apr 2020 7:29am)
  • I wish takeaways would start selling milk. If they can bring me a burger and a can of irn bru they should be able to bring me a bottle of milk so I can have a cup of tea after. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Wed 29th Apr 2020 10:49am)
  • I'm a 33 year old woman. Bit late to ask me to grow into a man. And if anyone wants to bottle the breastmilk of my own species and deliver it to me I'd probably put that in my tea if it meant not having to go to the shop. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Wed 29th Apr 2020 1:55pm)
  • I've bought a few handmade ones off etsy and ebay and I messaged Tocha studio on facebook for a few of theirs too. Gonna build myself a nice little wardrobe of face masks. one for every occasion and outfit. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Wed 29th Apr 2020 5:45pm)
  • >How does that sound? I've been in lockdown so long that, frankly, that sounds like a come on. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Wed 29th Apr 2020 8:26pm)
  • What we need is a list of businesses that HAVE been good to their staff etc during this. Cos I'm seeing so many stories of businesses being shitty that I feel like when lockdown is lifted I'm still gonna have nowhere to eat but my own kitchen. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Thu 30th Apr 2020 10:38pm)
  • bizarre - especially when you consider how fast that situation seems to have escalated. Would love to know more about it - how did the 'social media friend' get involved in the first place? Why did they think the money was being transferred? Why did they agree to be involved? Cos surely carrying thousands in cash for someone you know off the internet is going to be some kind of red flag?? Was the student who was prosecuted just a pawn in the greater machinations of an actual gang? How did he get involved? Was HIS family in danger? How did customs come to raid the victims home? Cos this story is pretty wild. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Thu 7th May 2020 3:04pm)
  • It was absolutely fine until the police charged in. They'd been prowling around all day, riding through groups on the horses clearly trying to start something but everyone was happy and chill all day. Then it got to the point where the police were clearly bored and wanted to just end their shift so they CHARGED into a slap fight on fucking horseback! I had left moments before they did this - I literally got to the edge of the park and saw people fleeing and heard the shouting. Got home and watched everyone's videos of ppl messing around, laughter and then suddenly horses charging across where I had JUST been sitting. I wasn't drinking that day - just hanging out in the sun and people watching mostly - and though there was definitely a lot of drinking happening there wasn't the boozed up riot that it's been rewritten as. It wasn't a riot. It's just very good luck that the police didn't kill anyone by accident that day charging in like that. It was completely unnecessary. It's been mythologized as a riot to make the police actions seem warranted. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Thu 7th May 2020 11:03pm)
  • I wonder what's going to happen to all that student accommodation the city has been packed with in recent years? Think it's all going to sit empty? Or are they going to be able to start renting it out to the general population? There's 18000+ students living in purpose built accomodation in Glasgow - what happened to all those flats when students can't travel into the country? Or classes are being held online so they don't need to live nearby? Even after travel restrictions are officially lifted there's no reason to think numbers are going to bounce right back - lots of people are going to study closer to home rather than risk getting stuck in a foreign country in another lockdown. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Fri 8th May 2020 3:04pm)
  • Neither of these were areas of Glasgow - both a little way outside but I'm still confused by Chatelherault - especially when it's said in a Glasgow accent. Everytime I hear it I have a moment of 'they're fucking with me, that's not a local area' before I remember that yep it's out in Hamilton. Or the time I got the request 'can you go to Kilmalcolm?' and my first reaction was 'who's Malcom? And what did he do?' by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Fri 8th May 2020 9:07pm)
  • it's such fun to say by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Fri 8th May 2020 10:03pm)
  • That Morrisons in Partick has the most insane queuing system now. They shut their exit door next to the station when all this started so everyone had to come in and out the same door - which was already a weird choice. So everyone was in one long queue stretching round the side of the building. Now they have decided to split the queue - so that you have one for baskets and one for trolleys. This means there are now two queues standing NEXT to each other separated by those waist high barriers you get at gigs. So you are 6 feet from the person in front of you and 6 feet from the person behind you but about a foot from the person next to you in the parallel queue. You can't move further away cos the barriers or the supermarket wall are on each side of you. AND if you're in the trolley queue on the outside you are also in the cough zone of people going past on their way out again. This seems insane. I don't understand why they don't just open the other door, institute a one way system and then they'd be able to move people through quicker so the queue outside wouldn't build up so much. Hell maybe they could even open the emergency door right where the tills are so that people could go in through both of the other doors and then exit through that door next to the tills. Then they wouldn't have so many people bunched together. Pretty much any option would be more sensible than what theyve done. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Fri 15th May 2020 3:12pm)
  • is it? I've only ever heard it pronounced Kill Malcolm. This is like how it took me years to realise Wemyss Bay and Weems bay are the same place. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Tue 19th May 2020 3:17pm)
  • wikipedia is claiming that's pronounced Kur-koo-bree. I have never had occasion to pronounce it in any way but I can tell you that pronunciation would not have made my top 10 guesses. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Tue 19th May 2020 3:25pm)
  • I can only imagine you've misread this......I'm not saying I want to keep their mail for myself....I'm asking how long I should keep it waiting for them before I give up and contact Amazon. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Thu 21st May 2020 11:24am)
  • A story made up of ppl seeing police cars and police saying there was a 'youth disturbance' - absolutely no actual witnesses quoted, no injuries, no information on what actually happened....but the daily record still feels confident enough to call the guy who wasn't actually there an 'eyewitness' and call the 'disturbance' they have no information on a 'riot'. I say the Daily Record 'journalists' are 'shite' at their 'job'. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Thu 21st May 2020 10:09pm)
  • how many did they send a few weeks back to get one guy who was stomping round a river? The point is that the paper is claiming a 'riot' happened with absolutely no evidence of that. They have no witness, no official quote saying that or anyone except themselves describing it as a riot. They could have quoted 'large scale disturbance' and been accurate and truthful according to the information they have. They chose not to. They chose to claim a 'riot' happened with absolutely no evidence. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Thu 21st May 2020 10:34pm)
  • are you really trying dictionary definitions? They were given a quote by the police that could have been their headline and chose to run with 'riot' instead. You're defending clickbait headlines. They're trying to make 'some teenagers got arrested for drinking and fighting during a lockdown' sound like a interesting story cos they didn't manage to get any witness statements or actual information. They're assuming you'll skim the story, be distracted by the dramatic headline and not notice they've hooked you in on a flimsy premise. Why are people so desperate for news sources to mislead them? by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Thu 21st May 2020 10:43pm)
  • then you must think riots are happening everywhere all the time. Oh no there's a riot! There's another one! Until there's reports of injuries it's a bunch of kids messing about in lockdown and a media that's so desperate for a story it'll call ANYTHING a riot - even when their eyewitnesses were at home watching TV. What quote is it you're claiming they didn't make up? Cos nowhere in that article was anyone quoted as describing it as a 'riot'. The only source quoted who wasn't at home watching cars go past was the police and they did not say 'riot'. 'ooh there's a lot of police cars' is not a news article. It's barely even worthy of being a facebook post. And knowing a bit about news sources means shit. Cos you clearly haven't learned why people don't trust the news. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Thu 21st May 2020 10:56pm)
  • point to the witness quoted in the article describing it as a riot? point to even a witness quoted in that article that was a witness? Cos their 'witnesses' include what seems to be an internet post from someone anonymous saying what they claim someone else told them and some other people who saw police cars while they were at home watching TV. No one quoted in that article was an actual witness. No one quoted in that article was at that scene and no one quoted in that article describes anything as a riot. Why are you so married to this article you do not even seem to have actually read? by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Thu 21st May 2020 11:36pm)
  • we've covered this. They chose NOT to quote their only official source in the headline. You can keep twirling round in circles all night if you want but you're not changing anyone's mind right now. You're actually proving my point about lazy shitty journalism that erodes people's confidence in the news media. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Thu 21st May 2020 11:53pm)
  • I'm 100% sure I will one day. Just don't know which of my eccentricities will be the one that sticks. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Fri 22nd May 2020 12:34am)
  • I really think I want to find a new career after this. I've been working in social care the last few years and thought my life was going to be working for charities and organisations supporting vulnerable people. But those charities and organisations have behaved APPALLINGLY during this. Housing associations are still harrassing tenants for rent when even private landlords have taken a step back. They're bragging about all the good they're doing but they're actually just publicizing other orgs donations like they're involved. The charity I was working for decided they weren't going to furlough OR pay me whereas another private employer that is usually pretty evil HAS paid me. Everyone has decided that care staff aren't worth shit - clapping is free but god forbid we get paid decently. The government is fine with us dying and people will scream at you in the street if you're seen in uniform. I want to find a nice non essential job after this. One of those where I at least don't have to be surprised if my employer is a shitebag. When everything reopens I think I'll start looking for a different kind of career. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Tue 26th May 2020 12:11pm)
  • is driving not covered by 'wheel'? Or are you driving a tank with tracks? by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Thu 28th May 2020 9:13pm)
  • I can't decide if I want to go to Bellahouston or Kelvingrove tomorrow. I just want to be able to sit under a tree, read a book and be OUTSIDE! Not have to pretend I'm exercising either. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Thu 28th May 2020 9:10pm)
  • yeah my plan is to get up quite early and have had a morning in peace and sunshine before the afternoon and evening crowds arrive. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Thu 28th May 2020 9:40pm)
  • I'm so glad I had today out in the sunshine. I'm the 7am til 7pm shift tmw so I'm not going to see any of the sun tmw. Was really surprised at how busy the buses were though? I thought they were going to have passenger limits and require masks and all that? Bus was 3/4 full and I was the only one wearing a mask. Then I was the only one wearing a mask when I went to Tesco too. Baffled. Why aren't people wearing masks? Why aren't the buses doing the passenger limits they were going to have? by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Fri 29th May 2020 5:25pm)
  • My neighbours are really finding some interesting ways to be annoying with everyone home all the time. One of my neighbours is spending an hour every evening hosing down our concrete back court. The noise of the hose drives me crazy and the waste of the water irritates me too. And it's always at different times of the evening. Sometimes as late as 10 o clock at night. I don't know why she's doing this. Other than to drive me insane. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Mon 1st Jun 2020 7:09pm)
  • I bought handmade masks - a variety from etsy sellers and from [https://www.facebook.com/tochastudio](https://www.facebook.com/tochastudio) by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Mon 1st Jun 2020 11:35pm)
  • [https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/TochaStudio](https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/TochaStudio) they have an etsy but they haven't put their masks on there. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Mon 1st Jun 2020 11:44pm)
  • So what's open now? Are Starbucks shops open for take out? Or are they only doing delivery? Is Macdonalds open? Did the subway open the other side by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Tue 2nd Jun 2020 1:07pm)
  • I'm actually sat here with a Starbucks delivery right now and it's honestly probably going to be the high point of my week. The Byres Road location is delivering. I do still want to know if they're actually open for walk in orders though. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Tue 2nd Jun 2020 2:34pm)
  • I've seen some queues for Mcdonald's drive ins in the news - are they still drive in only? Or any of them delivering? by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Tue 2nd Jun 2020 5:37pm)
  • Are food delivery guys not doing the socially distanced thing anymore? Ordered dinner off ubereats and the guy got annoyed cos I wasn't opening the door. I was waiting for him to put it down and walk away like EVERYONE has for the last couple months. Are we back to actually having to look people in the eye when they bring us food? by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Fri 5th Jun 2020 5:02pm)
  • I've never been in the Opry cos I've heard about their affinity for that flag. It's a shame cos I like a bit of country music. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Sat 6th Jun 2020 7:40pm)
  • The problem here is that we lose multiple individual small businesses that provided a range of different forms of employment, bulldoze them all and replace them with one. One employer running one business. This drastically limits people's employment options. And it's in a sector that has just absolutely crumbled. Cos there's not going to be tourists for a WHILE. And even then we already have multiple hotels. And are tourists even coming to Glasgow to stay in a massive concrete and glass building? Why? Every city has these weird 'dystopian headquarters' looking buildings. When booking your holidays do you really think 'yep, I want to stay in the ugliest possible building.'? Wasn't the council talking about how they wanted to encourage people to LIVE in the city centre? How does this kind of development encourage that? Surely if they wanted to encourage people into living in the city they would leave available the kind of amenities that communities would need - like places to eat, drink, get their nails done etc. Just nothing about this development makes sense. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Tue 16th Jun 2020 6:37pm)
  • There won't be business bookings. They're not going to be hiring lots of people. Have you not switched on the news at any point in the last 3 months? We're eliminating multiple businesses for the sake of a big concrete nothing. You think at least 4 different employers all providing different services aren't providing diversity in the job pool? How does that make sense? Barstaff, cleaners, counter staff, fish fryers, bookie staff, chef, waiters - all lost their jobs for the sake of this one employer. And if you're claiming it was a 'pub nobody really goes to' then I know you're not serious. That place was always packed - they had a petition of thousands of signatures trying to save the place. There's going to be nothing left of Glasgow if we just keep selling it off to property developers and massive co-operations to build more concrete monstrosities that sit empty. Just like all the empty offices and shops in town. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Wed 17th Jun 2020 11:10am)
  • What I don't understand about this....the SDL/Loyalist/Fuckwits were at the cenotaph at 6pm. The anti-eviction protest gathered at 7pm. So why did the police let it get to the point where the 2 groups were there at the same time? They ordered the square cleared AFTER they'd arrived and the far right lot kicked off. They could have ordered it cleared BEFORE, arrested the SDL lot and then the anti-eviction demo could have gone ahead. It looks a lot like the police just sat and watched a crowd of Nazi's gather then ordered a lawful protest to leave? And the police knew in advance that all this was going to happen too - the SDL were advertising this gathering on facebook. Did the police not have a plan beyond 'watch what happens'? by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Wed 17th Jun 2020 9:06pm)
  • There's a marked difference between how the police reacted to the right wingers 'protecting statues' a few days ago and the protest today. Really can't see any doubt now whose side the police are on. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Sat 20th Jun 2020 1:26pm)
  • yeah and the police let the 'statue defenders' have their protest, sent away the anti eviction demo to let the statue wankers do what they wanted. Today they're kettling peaceful protesters who are trying to socially distance and the police presence is dramatically more than it has been to deal with any of the violent far right protests. If you can't spot the difference and figure out what is going on then you are wilfully blind. It's the EXACT same thing we've seen every time this same dynamic has played out over the years. I've watched police protect people giving Nazi salutes while pushing anti racism protesters up against walls. And still. Every single time. Everyone acts like this is a brand new suggestion. Like this is the first time it's ever occurred to anyone that the police are not on the side of ANTI-racism. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Sat 20th Jun 2020 2:29pm)
  • They just provided a police escort to the racists. 'The policing lead, CS Alan Murray, said: "We identified a group as football risk supporters, who we believed posed a threat to public safety."We spoke with this group and, at their request, escorted them to the Gallowgate area of the city where they dispersed."' [https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/18531056.watch-police-kettle-group-hundreds-turn-george-square-protest/](https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/18531056.watch-police-kettle-group-hundreds-turn-george-square-protest/) And then the local paper helpfully protrays this as the police coming down hard on THEM by 'kettling them'. Putting the police's own statement that they were helping the RACISTS at the very bottom where people are less likely to notice it. And ignoring the police ACTUALLY kettling the ANTI-racists as form of intimidation. This is what happens when everyone bends over backwards to pretend the police AREN'T on the side of the racists. They get to outright declare they provided the racists with a police escort and no one even notices. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Sat 20th Jun 2020 2:47pm)
  • General waste bins have only been patchily collected as well. Bins on my street weren't collected for 3 weeks recently. You could FEEL the relief this week when they were finally collected. We've had enough problems with rats on this street as it is. Council are always making important announcements via facebook/twitter - but forgetting they have rather a lot of people blocked on there. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Sun 21st Jun 2020 12:38pm)
  • what was the aftermath of this anyway? Did youse have any more meetups? Did he make himself known? Did anyone contact the police? Do we have ANY idea who this guy is? I mean has he shown up to any previous meetups? by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Sun 21st Jun 2020 7:35pm)
  • If we think it's daft the traffic wardens will probably think it's dafter. The unions will put a stop to any thought of that I'm sure. Honestly though - at this point the police aren't going to step in and do anything about orange order no matter what they do so why bother? Maybe the police should just stop turning up. The whole city shut down and leaves the twats to march without an audience. They would get bored of it all without being provided the attention they crave, we'd all save money on police costs. The only losers would be the businesses that would either close their doors during marches or would have no customers cos no one would go out during. THAT might lead to the end of them. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Mon 22nd Jun 2020 11:28pm)
  • no. Source: I work in health and social care. Obviously people have more time to sit at home and drink but also they're cut off from their usual support services or coping mechanisms. Quit drinking cos you didn't want the grandkids to see you drink? Well now they're not going to see you for a few months anyway. Quit to keep your job? Well you're not going to work for a while anyway. So there's a lot of FORMER hardcore drinkers who are diving back into their old habits. Not only that I have drug addicted clients who are trying new drugs cos their usual isn't available. Prescription meds are being misused more - they're more available than imported drugs like cocaine or heroin. They've been more difficult to get into the country so there's less of it available for sale. It's why there's been a spate of robberies of care homes and pharmacies as well as housebreaking. So we're probably going to see a rise in deaths from drink/drugs - cos people who have been off it are back on it, people are trying unpredictable drug combos trying to replicate what they can't get right now and people who were already struggling are sinking. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Tue 23rd Jun 2020 6:29am)
  • Any news of libraries reopening? And whether they're gonna charge us late fees for the books we took out and couldn't return during all this? Cos I forgot to even renew mine online and I'm pretty sure I'm gonna have some hefty fines by now. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Wed 24th Jun 2020 6:29pm)
  • Feels like the city has gone a bit nuts - besides everyone piling into Kelvingrove so that the police wind up evacuating the place - there have been MULTIPLE violent incidents this week Just looking at the city centre itself over the last 2 days.... At midday yesterday there was a rape just off Sauchiehall Street [https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/18541679.woman-raped-scott-street-broad-daylight/](https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/18541679.woman-raped-scott-street-broad-daylight/) At 3.40pm yesterday there was a 3 man fight on Argyle Street where a guy got injured by a hammer [https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/18541820.man-struck-head-hammer-vicious-argyle-street-brawl-involving-three-men/](https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/18541820.man-struck-head-hammer-vicious-argyle-street-brawl-involving-three-men/) A guy got stabbed at St Enoch while onlookers filmed it on Tuesday afternoon [https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/18541888.man-stabbed-chest-daytime-st-enochs-square-attack-several-parts-city-centre-cordoned-off/](https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/18541888.man-stabbed-chest-daytime-st-enochs-square-attack-several-parts-city-centre-cordoned-off/) As well as a few other incidents outside of the immediate city centre and last week's rioting, statue defending Nazis.....feels like the city's lost it's mind. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Thu 25th Jun 2020 7:45pm)
  • It's not ideal but it's nowhere near as bad as people are making it out to be. I've definitely seen it worse. After months of people posting pictures of crowds during lockdown now we've moved onto the next phase of taking photos of rubbish. There's so much going on right now I don't know how people have the energy to rage about such minor, passing problems. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Fri 26th Jun 2020 1:03pm)
  • The dye spray is what you really want. Spray it on someone and it'll get in their eyes and sting BUT IT WILL ALSO dye them a bright colour for a couple of days. Look for farbgel on amazon. And yeah - it seems a lot like certain people are using the quiet streets and the lack of police around as an opportunity. Also a lot of the support services that keep the dodgier people in town occupied and supervised to some extent aren't currently running or are trying to work from home. So the criminals have got time to do shit they're not supposed to. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Fri 26th Jun 2020 1:07pm)
  • City has lost it's damn mind. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Fri 26th Jun 2020 1:39pm)
  • I WISH they would put one at Bellahouston. If I could cycle back and forth to the gym there I would go much more often. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Fri 26th Jun 2020 2:53pm)
  • There was a stabbing in St Enoch THIS WEEK where the onlookers filmed it. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Fri 26th Jun 2020 3:33pm)
  • yep. Some of the hotels were turning away charity workers and volunteers who tried to bring the residents food. Some of them were moved OUT of flats into the hotels. And then their money stopped on the basis the hotels were providing food. So these people have been basically confined to their rooms with no human contact, no money, no information on what's going to happen - and now they are caught up in this. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Fri 26th Jun 2020 3:31pm)
  • the Reading victims were all killed by one stab wound each if I remember right. And the attacker will be running pretty high on adrenaline anyway. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Fri 26th Jun 2020 4:30pm)
  • if they're in Whitehall then they're not that well placed are they? They're like 400 miles from Glasgow. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Fri 26th Jun 2020 5:38pm)
  • I'd forgotten he even had a top to his head I've so rarely seen him without the cone on top. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Mon 29th Jun 2020 4:33pm)
  • they might not get covid but they are going to get a chill standing in the rain for hours. Doesn't seem worth it. Especially when other stores will deliver. Peacocks and Matalan are about as cheap as Primark and they both deliver. Supermarkets have clothing sections. And there's nowhere to wear new clothes right now anyway. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Mon 29th Jun 2020 5:10pm)
  • Anyone got any good recommendations for masks? I'm building a nice little wardrobe of printed cotton ones for every mood - bought a few from [https://www.facebook.com/tochastudio/](https://www.facebook.com/tochastudio/) 2 months ago - they're local and they're great but wondering if there's anywhere else that's done any interesting ones? I was looking at some very cool designs on threadless but they're an american site and will take weeks to get here. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Thu 2nd Jul 2020 10:39pm)
  • It's a pretty pointless rule change - all it does is hurt the pubs and doesn't do anything to stop people buying alcohol to drink in the park - just means the off licences and supermarkets will be the ones to make money. Just the council being dicks for the sake of being dicks. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Fri 3rd Jul 2020 8:00pm)
  • damn - if I'd realised that was open I would have gone down to take a look - I've been wanting a look down there for ages. Suppose if someone's set something on fire down there it will be locked up even tighter than ever now. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Fri 3rd Jul 2020 11:31pm)
  • I can only imagine this picture was chosen in an attempt to get the woman to come forward in defence of her looks. Cos let's face it - if we're all making fun of this picture can you IMAGINE the slagging her friends are giving her right now? by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Mon 6th Jul 2020 5:07pm)
  • Didn't this already get deleted off r/scotland cos there's no indication it's actually from Scotland and it's a repost? by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Fri 10th Jul 2020 1:48pm)
  • Govan is wearing them....sort of....people are technically wearing masks and are usually wearing them on their faces it's just that they're not actually covering their mouth AND nose. Lots of people are pulling them down so they're not covering their nose and there's a few who are pulling it up away from their mouths - often cos they're on the phone as they go round the shop. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Sat 11th Jul 2020 1:32pm)
  • This is wild - I'm avoiding going to Paisley cos it's too far and a half hour on the bus and here you are making plans for a long haul flight to a whole different country! If you're not coming here to provide your daughter with bone marrow you really shouldn't be coming. Mate's American boyfriend has been trapped in the states during all this and he's made peace with not coming back til September. He's finding that domestic travel is tough and international is all but impossible. Everything's going to be incredibly expensive, subject to last minute cancellation, even if you get on a flight you're not going to get one to Glasgow so you'll be doing your quarantine in London THEN you'd be best off hiring a car and driving north to reduce exposure. And then if you think anything it's going to be a very strange kind of normal. Basically you're going to spunk thousands of $ on flights and quarantine accomodation, waste a load of time and everyone you meet is going to be pissed off you're here. Sounds like a terrible plan. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Wed 15th Jul 2020 12:57pm)
  • You're moving from FLORIDA and you're worried about MARYHILL being safe? Well let's see....there's almost no guns, certainly no alligators and no one's ever eaten anyone's face while high on meth so I think you're going to be fine. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Thu 16th Jul 2020 7:36am)
  • Dunno what the fuck is going on but if I was approaching a building and saw 'hundreds of seagulls' sitting on it's roof I'd turn the fuck around and go home. No good can come of that. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Thu 16th Jul 2020 7:52am)
  • Most employers are having their staff back at work now so of course people are out and about again. Dine in, pubs and hairdressers are open again - cinemas are reopening (Odeon this weekend, Cineworld at the end of the month) shops are pretty much all open.... if everything's open and everyone's being called back into work then why are we railing against people being outside in public? If things are open but we're not to go out then why are they open? All this 'covidiot' rhetoric has been nothing but a cover up for governments who lost control of the country and had no plan. The goverments have allowed health systems to go underfunded, care homes to be run for profit and people's employment rights to be so flimsy that they HAVE to go to work whether they feel safe or not. If you want to reduce the chance of further deaths this winter then recognise that personal responsibility only goes so far - stop turning against your neighbours and start demanding better of the government. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Sat 18th Jul 2020 11:38pm)
  • ah it's that time of year! Where every student wants to know what their particular street is like. I miss the days before the internet where you just fucking moved to a place and found out what it was like when you got there. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Mon 20th Jul 2020 8:00am)
  • So what's happening with buses now? Are we still on emergency timetables or what? by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Mon 20th Jul 2020 8:50am)
  • Has anyone gotten a remote job - like call centre work etc? How does it work? Do you need to already own a computer that matches their specifications? Or a headset? Or do they provide all of that? Are you working off your landline? Or does it need you to have good mobile phone signal in your area? by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Mon 20th Jul 2020 5:05pm)
  • Absolutely sick of living in a permanent construction site. I'd stopped going into the city very much before all this virus stuff because the place is just a glass and concrete wasteland of empty shops and shops that will soon be empty. You can't demolish a city into greatness. Glasgow needs to stop knocking down buildings. Just stop completely. The priority should be maintaining and repairing what we have. We've lost so much already. And every time we lose something else a new campaign starts, another round of memories of the good times had in that building and no one ever learns any lesson from that. We demolish homes and small businesses in favour of massive projects, hotels and bank headquarters and then are surprised that the city centre isn't a place people tend to think of as good for living in or running a small business. I'm actually pretty worried about the developments that are happening in Govan. I suspect residents are about to be gentrified out. Govan housing association has been getting very aggressive with tenants unable to keep up with rent this summer - and they have put up the rent - all in the middle of an economic crisis. The traveller families by the river are being forced out. This is to facilitate the big waterfront projects - of which Govan Housing Association are one of the developers - this is going to provide 200 'mid market rent' properties - not social housing but properties that cost significantly more and are available to people earning £21k to £40k. That's not going to be many of the local residents that are already here. The people who WOULD qualify for that housing are more likely the staff for that university project everyone's been getting so excited about - so we're already expecting that the jobs aren't going to go to the people already here. They're going to move out govan residents, move in people to improve the area's average income and employment scores and they're going to live in their own segregated housing development that the existing residents aren't going to be qualified to live in. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Wed 22nd Jul 2020 5:41am)
  • It doesn't seem to be a new thing. I've had numerous moving van guys ghost me over the years - sometimes they would just not answer the phone in the days before the move and I would have to get someone else - once the delivery guys were find right up til the day of the move and then just didn't turn up or answer their phone. When I was trying to get my flat painted a couple years ago I got a few guys in for quotes - a few of them just came and looked around and said they'd email or call me with a quote and then never did and never answered follow up messages from me. Don't know why they bother to advertise if they don't want work. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Wed 22nd Jul 2020 6:05pm)
  • anyone else noticed how restaurants on uber eats have hiked their delivery costs lately? Sometimes to double what they are on Just eat or Deliveroo? On top of the added 10% charge that ubereats themselves have added? Hell of a money grab. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Sat 25th Jul 2020 6:20pm)
  • Have you spoken to social work? Informed them that this person's support needs are beyond what you can provide and they will shortly become homeless? When the police said that a mental health professional be involved did they refer you to anyone? by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Sun 26th Jul 2020 6:55pm)
  • I've never had a good experience with police. A lot of my work is in homeless services etc and even when I've had to call them in my professional capacity they've been rude and sneering. They usually don't bother to show up to incidents. We've called them to report a service user with a knife threatening suicide and they've told us that it's just not their problem. Outside of work - they have been much worse. I once had a former flatmate who left with a lot of my belongings and then harrassed me. They claimed they couldn't find him - turns out they had interviewed him about another matter - they told me they had gone to his address and he wasn't there - that wasn't true. Another time I was drugged in town - I'd gone out for one drink after work to watch the commonwealth games opening ceremony on a big screen - and woke up without my glasses, bag or even jacket in a doorway at dawn - I stumbled up to a security guard somewhere. Police refused to believe me, insisted I'd gotten drunk, they claimed I had wine round my mouth (I'd never drink wine as I HATE the taste) and that I had gotten drunk and lost all my stuff (including my glasses which I literally cannot see without!) they refused to take me to hospital, to take any report other than a lost property report. They did finally agree to drive me home - but they were checking my address on the way there and found that they had someone else registered living there (previous tenant I think) and they started asking if I had a boyfriend, I say no, they tell me they have a guy registered living there, I say I don't know him, they tell me they wouldn't have driven me home if I had someone to come get me, they start saying to each other that they should just pull over, leave me at the side of the road, I can get someone else to come get me, they thought it was funny. I was SO scared. If they had left me at the side of the road like they said they were going to I would have been miles from home with no way of knowing where I was. They did actually take me home though - and left me outside the door. They told me an emergency locksmith would arrive shortly as I had no keys. I THANKED them for this and they left me there. Several hours later a traffic warden found me half fainting in the street, got the whole story out of me and gave me a number for a locksmith to call. No police locksmith had ever shown up - when I called the police station to follow up on my lost property report and find out what happened to the locksmith I was told they had no record of any of this. The lost property report I had given the police didn't exist, they had no idea what had happened to me, no locksmith had ever been notified. I don't even think sending out locksmiths is something police do - but I had believed them. It was one of the most traumatizing events of my adult life. I have to work with police a lot since then but I have never trusted them. I've seen how they will treat people when they think they can get away with it. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Mon 27th Jul 2020 3:25pm)
  • DELETED Having absolutely no luck finding work now. I keep being told there's a social care recruitment crisis and the country desperately needs more social care staff. But also the agency I usually work through has only had a handful of shifts in the last 4 months, the agency I spoke to this week admits they don't have work coming in, social care jobs I apply for are turning me down without an interview, anywhere that's doing video-call interviews has every appointment full. I'm running out of money to stay afloat and my landlord has already threatened to evict me for falling 6 weeks behind on rent. I've waited all summer for things to pick up again but it's just not happening. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Mon 27th Jul 2020 9:06pm)
  • I'm actually even less likely to use these restaraunts now. Cos I already know I'm not going out to eat - that's just not going to happen. But also now I don't particularly want to get food delivered either cos it feels like I'm paying double what I should be. If that makes sense to anyone. So yeah...the governments big plan to get people into restaurant is what finally has me cooking my own meals. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Tue 28th Jul 2020 6:29pm)
  • it wasn't missing the back wall when they were living there! It was taken down to give the investigators access to the property. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Tue 4th Aug 2020 8:01am)
  • That case is so sad. So many people who should and could have stepped in or noticed she wasn't around any more. Obviously it's thrown up a lot of questions about wider society and how modern life means people don't look out for each other as much and all that but I really wonder about her family. Her mother just seemed to assume she didn't want to see her and just left it - even though she knew how vulnerable her daughter was. The mother just got on with her life and didn't try to see her or bring any of this to anyone's attention. The father seems to have just signed over guardianship of Margaret to this couple who were his friends - even though his fiancee was ready and willing to look after her - why did he do that? And then there's plenty of other family who just never went looking for her. I mean - we can question why GP didn't notice, why social work didn't notice, why society in general didn't notice she'd vanished but WHY didn't her family? If anything I feel like Margaret's family are just as guilty as the carers. As a family they signed her over to strangers and then just never contacted her or raised any concerns. What was their excuse? by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Tue 4th Aug 2020 8:07am)
  • And we never found out why she got in the car and left with him. What would get a woman to walk away from her friends in a bar and get in a car with some guy she didn't know? She told her friends she was going to the loo then just never came back. Left without her jacket. And then he killed her so quickly! She got in his car and he just bashed her over the head - one of the headlines I remember from that was about him killing her within 20 minutes of meeting her! I've never been able to wrap my head around the sequence of events in that case. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Tue 4th Aug 2020 8:14am)
  • This one's such a weird mystery. Was it connected to his work? Was it mistaken identity? Does the wife know more than she's said? Who the fuck knows? Simply bizarre. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Tue 4th Aug 2020 8:21am)
  • I spent all that time seeing her face on missing posters and it turned out she had been dismembered and some of her had been dumped literally round the corner from my flat at the time. And the stories of the fox spotted with a foot in it's mouth!! I've looked very suspiciously at foxes since that. Not even kidding. That one spooked me. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Tue 4th Aug 2020 8:26am)
  • I still think of him every time I go past that Sainsburys. Often I'll forget he's dead and wonder where he is today before I remember. He was such a fixture there. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Tue 4th Aug 2020 8:33am)
  • I genuinely believe Luke Mitchell's conviction in the Jodi Jones murder is a miscarriage of justice. He basically got rail roaded cos he was a weird kid and an easy target. They never had any actual evidence and interviewed him without an adult present. It's actually pretty disgraceful. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Tue 4th Aug 2020 8:32am)
  • Didn't he get 16 years? So if he's not out now he will be soon. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Tue 4th Aug 2020 8:39am)
  • nope. It was taken down to search the property - news articles from the time of investigation mention it https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/scottish-news/4366388/margaret-fleming-avril-jones-edward-cairney-inverkip-inverclyde-murder/ They took out the window at first to get in but when they had to go through all the property and check for any sign of margaret ever being there they took down a wall to get access. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Tue 4th Aug 2020 8:44am)
  • I always forget that was in Glasgow. For years I used to get the Angelika Kluk case mixed up with the Rosslyn Chapel rapist. So I thought Rosslyn Chapel was where her body had been hidden! Too many criminals out there to keep them all straight! by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Tue 4th Aug 2020 8:56am)
  • The Jodi Jones murder - I have some STRONG opinions on that one. Renee Macrae and her son - their disappearance is so sad and though every so often it seems like we're going to get an answer it fades again and it never really moves forward. Tony Parsons - [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-45663082](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-45663082) might not be a crime but I want to know where the hell he went! And where he was going!? Cos his decisions in the lead up to his disappearance make no sense! Was he murdered? Did he intentionally disappear? Was it a hit and run somewhere on the road and his body is in the undergrowth? What HAPPENED!? by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Tue 4th Aug 2020 9:18am)
  • That's another one who'll be up for release. He was sentenced to 20 years. In 2000. So if he's alive he's probably out already or will be soon. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Tue 4th Aug 2020 9:24am)
  • All I've found out that way are kitchens and rubbish stores - not that I have a pass of my own to get in and out of those areas. But the entire medical staff are getting changed in the ward - in the offices and in the toilets - if there are locker rooms somewhere on the floors why does no one I work with seem to know they exist? by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Tue 11th Aug 2020 1:14am)
  • Well what we got was a massive echoey space where it sounds like the world is ending when it rains (a hell of a feature in Glasgow) and makes you dizzy if you look up from the ground or down from even a few floors up. I'm sure it must be letting in SOME natural light but as the lighting looks the exact same in night or day cos of all the electric lighting it's actually a bit disorientating. Same theme of 'who knows whether it's day or night?!' that seems to pervade the whole building. It could be 3pm, it could be 3am - the only difference will be the number of people in the area. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Tue 11th Aug 2020 7:45am)
  • YES! The LIFTS! How did I forget the lifts!!! I was a bit disappointed the place doesn't have a proper canteen too - Aroma has decent food and prices are good enough - but I'm surprised they didn't give us a staff canteen. Having a cordoned off area of the big echoey atrium that's staff only at certain times isn't quite the same. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Tue 11th Aug 2020 9:19am)
  • Then why has no one told any of the new staff about these? Or made sure we have access? Cos bank staff don't get passes for the locked doors. And why does everyone get changed on the ward if they have changing facilities? Why are there lockers in the staff office or crammed into a corridor corner if there's lockers elsewhere on the ward?Why is it every time I've asked where the toilet is I've been directed to the visitors toilet on the ward? Which is also where most people get changed! Who is using these mysterious changing rooms? I feel like I've just been told there's a world of talking animals at the back of a store cupboard just beyond the gloves. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Tue 11th Aug 2020 10:08am)
  • First I'm hearing of this temporary pass! We've all been borrowing staff passes off the regular staff to get in and out. No one has offered or mentioned any temporary passes. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Tue 11th Aug 2020 10:29am)
  • Bank staff are being told that we can't get access to staff only areas until we have our manager sign off on it - we then have to bring that form to a specific office between the hours of 9am and 1pm. However we are also being told we don't HAVE a specific manager cos we're not assigned to a specific ward. So no one considers themselves able to do the form. So we don't get access. 'quirk of design' does just seem like a nice way of saying 'design flaw'. Which seems to affect a lot more rooms than you think. I was trying to figure out if it was because of which side the rooms were all on but the place is so disorientating it's hard to tell. I ask where clocks are and am told 'no idea'. They're not something that anyone's keeping behind the nurse's station or hidden in a store. More likely they've broken or been taken down for replacement batteries or something at various points and never been replaced. And then no one notices cos these things aren't checked? Repairs on TVs etc do seem to be reported but they don't seem to be anyone's priority. Especially as some of the problems seem to be expected - like how channels are in the wrong order. I can guarantee not every ward has a water cooler. Unless they're invisible. I have definitely not missed seeing them as I have been in the kitchens and I have looked at the empty space where I was sure they should be and asked 'where's the water cooler gone?'. There are a few wards I've seen that do have them but I'm also seeing wards that don't. And the ground floor rooms without TVs - well it's just wildly optimistic to say these are short stay rooms - I've been in there and met patients who've been there for days. With no tv, no radio, no visitors, no books or magazines. The rooms are so bleak already - and when I say they're bleak I'm not suggesting we fill them with nickknacks and furniture that will be difficult to clean and get in the way - I'm just surprised that there's nowhere to put photos painted the walls a nice colour or SOMETHING. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Tue 11th Aug 2020 10:26am)
  • It's funny - knowing that other staff are as baffled by the design is comforting but also it's deeply depressing. I've been wondering how people have worked here for years without going stark raving mad. Maybe despondent is the better outcome? by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Tue 11th Aug 2020 10:31am)
  • And that brings us full circle - cos the reason I can't get a pass of my own is that they require that form - which no ward manager can sign for me as I am bank and not their responsibility. I tried the number the information desk at the front gave me for the help desk. They did not answer the phone. I WENT to badge printing - which is where I got the information about the form and the manager/bank loophole that no one seems to know how to sort out. I have asked the bank directly - they say it is for the individual hospitals to sort out onsite. And so it goes on and on and on. No one knows how to fix it and no one will take responsibility for fixing it. And all the bank staff I've met have been in the same boat. by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Tue 11th Aug 2020 10:38am)
  • I don't want to start listing wards I've been to and whether they had water coolers or not cos I feel like I might accidentally dox myself doing that. If you genuinely want to know who has them and who doesn't just start calling wards and asking them? by LongjumpingAttorney5 (Tue 11th Aug 2020 10:55am)