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  • My bike was pinched from the rack in Central a few years back. Someone walked through the station with a pair of bolt cutters and did away with both of the chains that were securing my bike before walking off with it. Those bike racks are right next to the British Transport Police office and this happened in the middle of the day so I wouldn't risk leaving your bike there by MildoShaggins (Fri 29th Mar 2019 11:10pm)
  • More than we currently have. The hydro etc are struggling to attract the largest acts because there's not enough hotel space to match the number of bodies flooding into the city. That keeps the cost of a hotel room sky high which isn't great for tourism either by MildoShaggins (Mon 8th Apr 2019 3:19pm)
  • It was the same throughout Dennistoun until yesterday. Part of me wonders how much the bank holiday last week plays into situations like this with reduced collections on those days etc by MildoShaggins (Wed 24th Jul 2019 10:13am)
  • Malones? Had to visit there for my boss' leaving do a few weeks ago. They were charging a fiver for entry (to a fucking pub) and a pint was £4.50ish. Unsurprisingly the place was dead by MildoShaggins (Wed 24th Jul 2019 3:50pm)
  • Ignore the people saying Jimmy Egypt - he's extortionate, especially if you're only wanting to change your pick ups. Iain's Guitar Repairs on Jamaica Street is quality and honestly about half the price by MildoShaggins (Sat 27th Jul 2019 7:41pm)
  • People are downvoting because it's not the truth. Only Bank of England notes and Royal Mint coins are legal tender by MildoShaggins (Fri 4th Oct 2019 3:02pm)
  • I agree about the raw deal GCC gets with regards to places like Kilmacolm, Giffnock, Newton Mearns etc but they don't help themselves with their own short sighted town planning. Student flats have become a bit of a meme on here but they've been popping up all over G1 and G2 postcodes, which purely by their location command the highest council tax bands. The occupiers of those flats won't be paying a penny towards their waste collection etc, so they become a drain on the city's resources whereas they could be used as a cash cow if they were luxury flats etc by MildoShaggins (Thu 20th Feb 2020 11:15pm)
  • I manage a pharmacy with just shy of 100 opiate replacement therapy patients and formerly helped to run the busiest needle exchange in Scotland, so I've gained a bit of insight into how addicts think. What strikes me is that they all suffer from a complete lack of long term thinking skills. They'll blow up in your face over the slightest thing and need to be talked down and talked through the consequences of their actions. Many of them do this despite having previous experience of being barred or being taken away by the police, and all the rigmarole that follows (their drug worker might only be able to find them a pharmacy on the other side of the city). They'll spend all of their money on a new pair of trainers leaving them with no money to feed themselves. They commit the pettiest of crimes seemingly not because they don't care about the consequences, but because in the moment they're incapable of thinking of them. Short term thinking infects every aspect of their lives, not just how they think about drugs. So many of them live so impulsively that it's not hard to see why they share needles, regardless of how plentiful the supply of free, clean needles is in Glasgow. It actually makes me wonder if there's a chicken and egg situation going on - is a certain type of impulsive person more inclined to become an addict or do the conditions that addicts live in influence people to develop such traits? by MildoShaggins (Mon 24th Feb 2020 10:12pm)
  • Can't speak for Douglas but Cumnock is an absolute cesspit. Steer clear by MildoShaggins (Thu 27th Feb 2020 1:59am)
  • For starters, I work for a large pharmacy chain and given the high street footprint of my company, it's probably the same one as the posters above and the one that you've had a problem with. From what I can see, the root cause of your frustration is a misunderstanding of the relationship between community pharmacy and GP practices. I work in what is normally one of the busiest pharmacies in Scotland right in the heart of the city centre with the majority of my patients come from the offices nearby. Those workers are for obvious reasons staying at home, so when they need a prescription done, they're phoning their GP and having it sent to a pharmacy more local to them. The thousands of patients that I normally provide for (and have the experience and staffing levels to provide for) are now dispersed and mobbing smaller, local pharmacies in Greater Glasgow and indeed, places like East Kilbride. Secondly, think of how stores receive prescriptions. A minority are handed in by the patient and during this difficult time we are seeing this less and less as GP's aren't allowing patients into their buildings and instead are relying on other, existing methods of getting a script to us. That may be via post as all pharmacies rely on, or as my store uses extensively; a prescription courier service - i.e for surgeries that you have a lot of patients with, a driver will visit those surgeries every day, collect all available scripts and deliver them to store the following day. This allows the GP to get a script to the pharmacy faster than using the post and without the cost or risk of the script going missing in the mail. The pharmacy has no control over the volume of scripts that arrive every day via post or courier and this is where the bulk of workload comes from. Many small pharmacies, whilst coping with staff shortages are having to deal with a the flood of prescriptions that my store is used to seeing and as such, are needing to open late/close early/close over lunch to blast through the workload. Lastly, you seem to have inferred at one point that the manager of the store that's put a bee in your bonnet might be somehow requesting extra prescriptions for monetary gain and that this is the reason for the discrepancy in wait times. This is categorically untrue - the pharmacy have no control over where the patient wants their script sent and given the poor state of the NHS contract there's no incentive to do more. Yes, pharmacies are reimbursed for every item that they dispense which causes stores to aim to lock in as may patients as possible with repeat prescription services. However due to how heavily those payments have been cut over the last decade, once you take away the cost of dispensing those items, there's almost no profit left. It's actually worse down in England where it's not uncommon to be dispensing at a loss. That's why Boots' profits are plummeting and why Lloyds and M&D Greens made heavy losses last year. Hopefully that clears things up. by MildoShaggins (Sat 28th Mar 2020 4:45pm)
  • There is no lock on the market that can't be broken in a minute of less. The sad truth is that a lock is just a deterrent to the lazier thieves out there. by MildoShaggins (Mon 13th Apr 2020 5:54pm)
  • It's dedicated to the Old Cameronians, otherwise known as the toxic dwarves. They apparently earned that name by virtue of being drawn from Glasgow and it's surrounding areas, which produced lads that were a) smaller than the national average, and b) scrappy and always up for a fight. They had a habit of fighting anyone they could (even friendly units in camp - hence the name toxic dwarves) which led to them being constantly deployed and as a result, they saw action in every theatre of the second world war. There's not many of them left but some of the stories that these guys can tell are mental. by MildoShaggins (Wed 22nd Apr 2020 8:41pm)
  • Counterpoint - we're staring down the barrel of another depression and we're being anaesthetised to it's effects due to government borrowing that will have to be repaid when this is all over. According to the OBR, unemployment is forecast to rise from 3.5% to at least 6.5% and that's without another wave of infection later in the year. As well as footing the bill for the furlough scheme, we're going to have to pay for these people who have been made jobless through no fault of their own. We're looking at a debt to GDP ratio similar to what we had at the end of the second world war and we're ultimately going to pay for this through significantly higher taxes and further austerity measures for a very long time. There goes proper funding for the NHS, policing, education and our already underfunded mental health services. Hundreds of thousands of people who were about to retire have just lost 25% of their retirement funds due to the market crashing. They'll now have to work long past retirement age crowding young people out of the job market and lowering the quality of life of our would be retirees. Even then, the public will still have to foot the bill for this lost income to minimise pension poverty. That means more borrowing, higher taxes and yet further austerity. Younger people who have already faced a decade of wage stagnation and competition from machines and pensioners for entry level jobs, not to mention a mental health crisis, will now have how to suffer through another decade of more of the same. We're talking about a generation who's career prospects are so thoroughly scarred that they'll have to work until they die. Too often we're painting this scenario as saving lives versus saving the economy. Unemployment is a killer - be it directly by suicide or indirectly via reduced life expectancy, higher mortality rates in preventable diseases. Those deaths are difficult to quantify but they're no less real than those caused by Coronavirus. At what point does keeping the country locked down kill more people than the virus? by MildoShaggins (Mon 27th Apr 2020 3:25pm)
  • Don't mean to undermine your point but Newton was actually wrong about gravity by MildoShaggins (Fri 8th May 2020 6:26pm)
  • Provide me with me a bottle of whisky and a set of pliers and I'll remove it for you free of charge by MildoShaggins (Wed 20th May 2020 1:01pm)
  • Mate, are we brothers? by MildoShaggins (Tue 2nd Jun 2020 11:32pm)
  • Off topic, but COVID-19 doesn't adhere to the U-shaped infection model (i.e the young and elderly being the most severely affected groups.) Guidance from Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital shows that fewer than 2% of all COVID related hospital admissions were children and that kids are less likely to develop symptoms and those symptoms are much more likely to be mild. This is true even for newborns and kids with severe health problems. It seems nitpicky, but parents are obviously protective of their kids and we're never going to get kids back to school until the public realise that the teachers are more at risk than the children. by MildoShaggins (Fri 19th Jun 2020 11:42am)
  • The big Boots on Sauchiehall Street has an opticians in it that do repairs. The opticians are shut Sunday and Wednesday though by MildoShaggins (Sat 20th Jun 2020 8:03pm)
  • I have the exact same problem going back to January last year. Reported by everyone in the block and the factor and they still haven't collected them. There's food waste that's been sitting out the back of our flat for at least a year and a half by MildoShaggins (Sun 21st Jun 2020 1:09pm)
  • It won't be there much longer. It's being removed at the end of lockdown by MildoShaggins (Sun 21st Jun 2020 11:58pm)
  • It's easily the dodgiest part of the city centre. The Dundasvale scheme is a wretched hive of scum and villainy (a large portion of Glasgow's addicts and dealers live in those flats) and there's a homeless hostel up the road in Garnethill that is a constant source of grief. I'd stay clear by MildoShaggins (Sat 27th Jun 2020 12:24pm)
  • "Shoot to injure" isn't a thing used anywhere outisde of Hollywood. It's near impossible to hit a flailing limb - even at close quarters. If the decision is made to send in armed police, then they go in fast and hard and they'll keep putting rounds into their target's centre of mass until they hit ground. by MildoShaggins (Sat 27th Jun 2020 12:34pm)
  • I manage a large retail led pharmacy and we're not enforcing face masks. We've got loads of signage up but that's about as far as we're going. It's partly for disability discrimination reasons - just today I had a patient pop in for a script without a mask. He'd been refused entry to a competitor and so came to us. Turns out the guy is recovering from throat cancer and has a rough time breathing with a mask on which you obviously can't tell by looking at him and we don't want anyone who's already vulnerable to feel intimidated. The main reason though that we're not enforcing masks is for violence and aggression reasons. I don't want any of my staff to be given aggro or be spat at over something that has become needlessly controversial. Our company's line on the matter is that it's the job of the police to enforce the law by MildoShaggins (Sat 11th Jul 2020 5:46pm)
  • The current guidance is NOT to wear a mask outdoors provided you can socially distance. Due to wind, UV etc the virus has a significantly tougher time transmitting form person to person outdoors. Additionally, if you're wearing your mask for a prolonged period of time, you'll likely find yourself subconsciously adjusting it to make yourself more comfortable and getting your hands all COVIDy in the process. You'll then touch door handles etc and spread the virus that way by MildoShaggins (Fri 7th Aug 2020 5:19pm)
  • Yes, provided you santitise your hands every time you don and doff your mask by MildoShaggins (Fri 7th Aug 2020 5:30pm)
  • Sell ASAP. There's a lot of pent up activity in the market atm (people who've been looking to buy/sell for 6 months but couldn't because the world had ended) so properties are going for 30%+ over their value. I don't agree with some of the people here that we're in a boom now and bust in 6 month's time. There's too many government schemes artificially inflating the market (help to buy/lifetime ISAs) for a crash any time soon. Even if the worst happens when furlough ends and millions of people lose their jobs, there's enough foreign investors and buy to let landlords with access to cheap credit to hoover up any forced sales. Property prices are likely to stay pretty high for the foreseeable IMO by MildoShaggins (Sat 8th Aug 2020 2:14pm)
  • I'd advise against leaving your bike in the station. I had my bike knicked from the storage there despite being secured by a hefty D lock and being secured right next to the British Transport Police station. There's apparently a gang of little shits that go in on a daily basis look for bikes to steal to order by MildoShaggins (Tue 18th Aug 2020 3:07pm)
  • The bike marking scheme has been around for a few years but it's completely useless. Your bike is marked with a serial number in invisible ink and that serial number is put on a database along with your details. The serial number will only be checked if a) the police retrieve the bike or b) if the bike is taken to a shop to be repaired. If the details associated with the serial number don't match the details of the current "owner" then the police can seize the bike. It's useful to prove your ownership of the bike if the thief tries to claim it's theirs (removes the need for providing pictures, receipts etc). The problem is that the vast, vast majority of stolen bikes will never be found so the serial number will never be checked by MildoShaggins (Tue 15th Sep 2020 4:05pm)
  • Mine was pinched from the bike lock up in Central Station - covered by dozens of cameras and literally right next to the British Transport Police station. Little shit walked in with a pair of bolt cutters and lobbed off both my chains during rush hour and just strolled out. The BTP circulated the thief's face around other police stations in Glasgow and turns out the guy was known to the authorities for you'd guessed it, stealing bikes. Police Scotland paid him a visit and arrested him but he'd already managed to sell my bike on. Little shit was 15 so he had no means of reimbursing me for my loss. In the end, I applied to a government scheme for victims of theft and ending up getting £50 back for a bike that was worth £350. It's so easy to get away with and even when they are caught, there's no real punishment by MildoShaggins (Tue 15th Sep 2020 4:19pm)
  • Steer well clear. Holding deposits and admin fees are illegal and have been for close to a decade. If the letting agents in question are willing to con you out of your money now, how much of your deposit do you think you'll get back at the end of your tenancy? by MildoShaggins (Thu 17th Sep 2020 2:31pm)
  • Ibuprofen and codeine comes in a 12.5mg/200mg strength - stronger than the 8mg cocodamol that others have recommended. The ibuprofen is also an anti inflammatory which might be better suited to whatever is grieving your leg by MildoShaggins (Wed 7th Oct 2020 9:29pm)
  • I'm sorry but you're just wrong. Year to date, the job retention scheme alone has cost in the region of £80bn (never mind the business grants, support for the self employed, income tax and NI holidays). We spend around £2bn a year on Trident - not trillions - and the entire defence budget is around £40bn. If we were to stop all defence spending tomorrow with no surprise costs, we could pay for another 3-4 months of furlough. That is the scale of the hole that COVID has blown in our public finances. So no, there isn't more than enough tax money to go around and we will need to pay for this at some point. by MildoShaggins (Sun 1st Nov 2020 3:02pm)
  • Pretty sure it still exists. They've only survived so long because there's basically nowhere nearby open past midnight. It's the last chance saloon for the folks walking home in the wee hours of the morning with a drunken hankering for shite takeaway by MildoShaggins (Wed 18th Nov 2020 7:31pm)
  • There should be a megathread for this sort of stuff. This sub turns into Instagram with an inferior UI any time the weather isn't damp and grey by MildoShaggins (Sat 9th Jan 2021 1:04pm)
  • I'd wager it's part of the infrastructure for David Cargill House. It's a fairly large care home (40+ patients pre Covid) which will have a decent sized kitchen and AC system. Your monster pipes will be something to do with that by MildoShaggins (Mon 22nd Feb 2021 1:39pm)
  • Hell will freeze over before **anyone** lets the housing market crash significantly. Individuals/investment have literally viewed the housing market to be "as safe as houses" so a crash would be devastating to anyone who has a private pension, not to mention the people who's retirement plan is to free up equity by downsizing. by MildoShaggins (Tue 2nd Mar 2021 11:05pm)
  • The UK government are introducing another Help to Buy-esque scheme to encourage banks to offer 95% mortgages with all of the risk being secured by the taxpayer. I'd be very surprised if banks get stricter with their lending with such a policy on offer by MildoShaggins (Tue 2nd Mar 2021 11:19pm)
  • Lots of people losing their jobs will indeed lead to insolvencies and forced sales, which is the perfect environment for buy to let landlords to make a killing by MildoShaggins (Tue 2nd Mar 2021 11:23pm)
  • Agreed. I don't think building more is enough since the abundance of buy to let landlords makes supply effectively limitless. Any mass building program has to be accompanied by a punitive property tax that increases with every property owned. Such a tax would encourage landlords who hoard properties to offload them by MildoShaggins (Wed 3rd Mar 2021 12:35am)
  • My company are under the impression that the Scottish Government are currently assessing all of the claims and will pay out the relevant ones in May by MildoShaggins (Mon 15th Mar 2021 7:38pm)
  • Just checked the price of a replacement screen and they look to average £125! Serves me right for getting one of these new fangled curved screens. There's a wee place on Duke Street that seems pretty respectable so I might take your advice and bring them the replacement screen. by MildoShaggins (Sun 6th Jun 2021 4:56pm)
  • Chanced my arm with Tech Bytes on Duke Street and none of their suppliers can get hold of a screen for my model of phone. Apparently my phone is pretty obscure so not many suppliers stock it during the best of times, and that problem is exacerbated by the COVID induced shortage of computer chips. They reckon it could be months before their suppliers return to normality so I've just bought a semi-shiter of a phone to see me through until then by MildoShaggins (Mon 7th Jun 2021 4:53pm)
  • Received pronunciation. Think of a 1950's BBC news broadcast by MildoShaggins (Sat 24th Jul 2021 5:51pm)
  • That's exactly the sort of attitude that the person you're replying to is talking about. In what way do local council elections affect Scottish independence? by MildoShaggins (Mon 9th Aug 2021 1:21pm)
  • You'd think so but I had my bike stolen from there a few years ago. The bike racks are right next to the British Transport Police office too by MildoShaggins (Fri 13th Aug 2021 7:36pm)
  • Unfortunately not. My bike had two good quality locks securing it to the rack, but the little shit that stole it was brazen enough to walk into the station around midday with a large pair of bolt cutters and lob them both off. The only way to keep your bike safe in Glasgow is to use a bike so shit that nobody would think of stealing it by MildoShaggins (Fri 13th Aug 2021 7:49pm)
  • Aye, you aim for centre of mass and then you keep firing because the threat isn't over until your target is on the ground. That means multiple sucking chest wounds, hypoxia and a good chance of death for the lad that you've just shot. Where the actual fuck are you getting the idea that being shot multiple times in the chest is not likely to be fatal? Source: served for four years in the army and actually know what I'm talking about by MildoShaggins (Wed 1st Sep 2021 9:30pm)
  • You empty your magazine if you need to and your police operate the exact same way - that's why people scream about police brutality whenever your police forces escalate a traffic stop into another black man turned human colander. If you've exhausted all non lethal options and the person is an imminent threat to life, then you're making a decision to kill that person and so you keep firing until they hit the ground. I always found it laughable that a police officer in the states had more freedom to shoot someone, than the law of armed conflict afforded a British soldier in Afghanistan by MildoShaggins (Wed 1st Sep 2021 9:51pm)
  • Nah, I got my understanding of what an American police officer can and can't do from an American officer who spent some time on secondment with my company. A US police officer can shoot a fleeing suspect if they perceive them to be a threat later - a British soldier (or an American one for that matter) would have committed a war crime if they did such a thing. Perhaps your bleating about ignorance is a teensy bit of projection. by MildoShaggins (Wed 1st Sep 2021 10:11pm)
  • As soon as that person stopped firing at you, they were considered to be a non-combatant and were protected by the law of armed conflict. The Taliban were well aware of this and learned to use it to their advantage in every way imaginable. These laws were rigorously enforced by a new breed of ambulance chasing lawyers who aim to prosecute soldiers who could have been perceived to have overstepped the mark in the heat of the moment. They were also enforced internally, by kicking the fuck out of lads who did commit war crimes as punishment for the shame they bring to your cap badge. It's like trying to defend yourself with one hand tied behind your back and pales in comparison to a US police officers' much more liberal right (as enshrined by your supreme court) to shoot a mugger fleeing from the scene. by MildoShaggins (Wed 1st Sep 2021 10:52pm)
  • Good grief, you know the square root of fuck all about life outside the US. I have work in the morning, so I'm going to bed. Do yourself a favour though and remove the tin foil hat. by MildoShaggins (Wed 1st Sep 2021 11:06pm)
  • Neighbouring Saltmarket is notorious for being a hive of drug dealers and the Abbey Pharmacy in Trongate is one of the busiest in the city in terms of dispensing methadone/buprenorphine. That combined with it being a busy shopping precinct, with plenty of people to scrounge change from and plenty of shops to steal from, attract the junkies in their droves by MildoShaggins (Mon 6th Sep 2021 12:37pm)
  • I have dozens of people come into my pharmacy every week looking for something for a new persistent cough etc who'll tell me "It's fine, I've had a negative LFD" not realising that an LFD is not a substitute for a PCR test. Between this and the number of false positives/negatives they produce, I wish we'd never bothered with the bloody things. by MildoShaggins (Sat 9th Oct 2021 3:40pm)
  • Merchant Chippie in the Merchant City. Nothing flashy, just old school fish and chips done really well by MildoShaggins (Sun 26th Dec 2021 8:59pm)
  • Most pharmacies aren't contracted to be open on bank holidays and given the current shortage of pharmacists, you'll be hard pressed to find somewhere that's open voluntarily. That's why I'm not open today - I'm not paying a locum £70 per hour for us to dispense £100 worth of prescriptions Almost all of the Boots in the city centre are open. The Boots in Central Station, Lloyds Alderman Road and Morrisons Anniesland are your late night pharmacies for out of hours stuff by MildoShaggins (Mon 3rd Jan 2022 1:07pm)
  • All valid criticisms. Nothing will change though whilst people's response to such gripes is "fuck off back to where you came from ya greetin' faced tadger" by MildoShaggins (Tue 18th Jan 2022 7:29pm)
  • Council tax reform was one of the SNPs manifesto pledges that brought them to power in 2007. The square root of fuck all has been reformed in the 15 years since by MildoShaggins (Wed 26th Jan 2022 3:09pm)
  • Needles. The white plastic bags are the bags that they get when they visit a needle exchange by MildoShaggins (Fri 4th Mar 2022 6:03pm)
  • They're being facetious about the new Green/SNP council coalition but there are genuine criticisms of artificial grass. It creates deserts of biodiversity contributing to ecosystems collapse and breaks down over time polluting the environment with micro plastics. Weighing that against the tiny benefit of convenience, it feels like the negatives outweigh the positives. by MildoShaggins (Tue 17th May 2022 3:08pm)
  • Counterintuitively, most people do their shopping during the normal working hours of 9-5(ish). I manage a large retail led pharmacy and we get really good transaction data from our tills telling us exactly when our customers are shopping. In every store that I've managed, the graph of that data has shown a sharp drop in footfall after 5:30pm that makes it unprofitable to trade even past 6pm. With businesses struggling at the moment to recruit and retain good people, you'll likely find that opening hours will be trimmed even further by MildoShaggins (Thu 26th May 2022 1:52pm)
  • Valencia might be my favourite city on this planet (pre-Covid, my girlfriend and I were viewing houses with an eye to moving there) and the Turia Gardens are huge reason as to why. Being able to commute from one end of a city to the other without ever feeling like you're in a city is the dream by MildoShaggins (Sun 29th May 2022 1:32pm)
  • It really did escalate quickly. Things had been by and large been pretty chill - not too many neds and the police weren't caring about how much you were drinking or what you were taking as long as you weren't being an arse about it. I came back from a quick piss against Glasgow uni to the sight of fights everywhere and mounted police galloping along the path closely followed by a guy in a horse mask by MildoShaggins (Thu 2nd Jun 2022 2:43pm)
  • You don't need a prescription from your GP. As long as you've been diagnosed with coeliac disease you can receive gluten free products directly from your pharmacy. The pharmacist will set up an initial consultation with you and if the service is suitable they'll give you an info pack and update your patient care record to keep your GP in the loop. You can then ask the pharmacy to order what products you need from the info pack and when they arrive in store, the pharmacist will prescribe the items on a pharmacist's prescription by MildoShaggins (Tue 12th Jul 2022 12:28pm)
  • Never quite understood the hype behind the view from atop the lighthouse. It's mostly just the plant rooms and AC units of the nearby buildings by MildoShaggins (Tue 23rd Aug 2022 6:15pm)
  • Gross by MildoShaggins (Tue 23rd Aug 2022 7:56pm)
  • Best: Andina in Dennistoun. Started up a few years ago by a bona fide Colombian, importing good quality coffee beans from local farmers in Colombia. Their supply chain is about as fairtrade as you can get and their house blend is a delicious medium to dark roast with notes of red berries/red wine. Worst: Definitely Willow Grove Coffee on Sauchiehall Sreet. I'm all for weird, delicately roasted specialty coffee but theirs is like drinking liquid marmalade. A horrid, unbalanced cup by MildoShaggins (Wed 21st Sep 2022 8:52pm)
  • Not really in the market for big Dutch naval ships atm. I'll let you know if anything changes by MildoShaggins (Thu 13th Oct 2022 10:20pm)
  • Free shipping, surely? by MildoShaggins (Thu 13th Oct 2022 10:56pm)
  • Sarti's hands down - especially when enjoyed with some good quality olive oil and balsamic vinegar. I love La Lanterns but their focaccia is a bit too doughy for my taste and Coia's is good but they're stingy with the rosemary by MildoShaggins (Thu 10th Nov 2022 6:22pm)
  • This may be the most painfully accurate one yet by MildoShaggins (Tue 6th Dec 2022 5:52pm)
  • Lloyd's Alderman Road are open until 11pm by MildoShaggins (Sun 15th Jan 2023 5:20pm)
  • It really says something about the state of our public services that it can be hard to distinguish between the effects of strike action and business as usual by MildoShaggins (Sun 29th Jan 2023 2:02pm)
  • Not disputing that online learning has had an impact but all of the behaviours that you're describing were rife when I was at uni over a decade ago. Most students are pretty young and for a lot of them uni is just a continuation of school but with more freedoms. by MildoShaggins (Sat 18th Mar 2023 1:11pm)
  • As others have said there's not really anywhere to curl in Glasgow anymore. Despite inventing the sport, it's always been a minority sport in Scotland. I'd recommend Greenacres Curling Rink out in the Gleniffer braes. You'd need a car to get there but it's got good consistent ice and it has two sheets hidden away from view so that when you inevitably fall nobody will see you making an arse of yourself. It's also got equipment suitable for beginners and they can probably put you in touch with a coach to get you set up with the basics. It is worth noting that the season runs from September to March so most rinks will be shutting down for the summer by MildoShaggins (Fri 24th Mar 2023 5:53pm)
  • Sounds fairly similar to the challenges in community pharmacy these days. Payment from the NHS for items dispensed has been cut year on year for 8 years now against a back drop of rising drug prices and running costs. The end result is pharmacies struggling to break even to the extent that the UK's second largest chain just put all 1300 of its pharmacies up for sale in order to stay solvent. by MildoShaggins (Wed 29th Mar 2023 3:46pm)
  • Right? The former price seems so absurdly cheap that it couldn't have been updated since the 70s surely. £12 a month for a plot of land is a bargain at twice the price by MildoShaggins (Sat 1st Apr 2023 11:17pm)
  • The same law that permits us to have a right to an allotment also allows provision for the council to charge a fair rent for that land and £12 per month as the upper limit of what they're planning to charge seems very reasonable. Anecdotally, it's significantly less than the private allotment that I live next to and none of those plots are as large as 250 metre square. I see it as no different to the council charging people to use its swimming pools, football pitches, tennis courts etc via Glasgow Life. The council is famously skint so if the increased revenue generated from these allotments contributes to better public services for us all then I'm all for it by MildoShaggins (Sun 2nd Apr 2023 1:56am)
  • Dennistoun isn't as gentrified as Finnieston (yet) so the market for niche vegan bakeries/coffee shops is signifantly smaller. The area between Duke Street and the parade is affluent enough to attract those types of businesses but the areas south of Duke Street and east of the train station are still grim as fuck. They chose to set up shop south of Duke Street away from the passing trade that the plethora of other bakeries and coffee shops benefit from which probably hurt them. Rising energy bills will be definitely be a common factor in lots of small businesses closing down but I do wonder about places like Mayze if perhaps expanding is what really did them in. Businesses that expanded 2020-2022 will have benefited from borrowing being very, very cheap. As interest rates have gone up have they found themselves over extended? by MildoShaggins (Thu 13th Apr 2023 8:20pm)
  • You made at least one person laugh Eddie by MildoShaggins (Fri 28th Apr 2023 1:24pm)
  • Good grief. Access to a public bin is in no way comparible to the rights to life, liberty and freedom of expression by MildoShaggins (Fri 26th May 2023 2:09pm)
  • Aye, and I'm sure political prisoners in North Korean work camps stand in solidarity with the people of Glasgow having to carry their rubbish home to put it in the bin. Public bins are after all a fundamental, unalienable human right like the right to freedom from slavery and torture. Get a grip by MildoShaggins (Fri 26th May 2023 11:08pm)
  • The guy I replied to who has since deleted his comment declared having access to a public bin to be a fundamental human right. It's objectively not and it's also a problem that is easily overcome by just taking your rubbish home like they do in the civilised world. Only the entitled wet wipes of this sub could make a human rights violation out of a public bin being full by MildoShaggins (Fri 26th May 2023 11:29pm)
  • You're a bit fucked. Everyone's telling you to phone the council because that's what they've done in the past which would be a reasonable suggestion if it weren't for the fact that you can't phone them anymore. You can now only: 1) Book a time for them to call you. The earliest slot available for you to book will be in a few weeks time - long after the (7 day?) deadline for you to pay the balance has expired. 2) Submit a form on the council's website to arrange an alternative repayment schedule. This will take the council several weeks to action, again long after your deadline for payment has passed. You can certainly try either of those options but they will definitely take longer than seven days to even be looked at by someone at the council (probably somewhere in the region of 2-3 weeks) and your overly threatening letter will have a disclaimer stating that payment should not be withheld under any circumstances. The likely scenario now is that the council will sell your balance plus interest off to their debt collectors and you'll be contacted by them to arrange a payment schedule. by MildoShaggins (Sun 4th Jun 2023 12:52pm)
  • The issue will be speaking to the council before they sell off the debt. It isn't possible to phone them anymore - you can now only request a call back several weeks later or submit an e-form that won't be looked at never mind actioned within seven days. By the time OP is able to speak with someone at the council, their outstanding balance will have been transferred to their debt collectors by MildoShaggins (Sun 4th Jun 2023 1:06pm)
  • I'm not sure it's a racket as much as it's all automated to avoid the expense of paying people. From the council's point of view, they issue a bill a the beginning of the year and two reminder letters if necessary which is all well and good until there's a problem at which point there's nobody to speak to. I thankfully didn't have any debt (I'm waiting on starting a new job and wanted to change my payment schedule to match when I have money coming in) but I was frustrated at how long it took them to even look at my case. I contacted them on the same day in mid April that I got the initial bill throught the door and couldn't speak to someone until 2nd of May. So long in fact, that I had missed two instalments and received one of their automated reminder letters. Fuck knows what you're supposed to do if you're in genuine hardship and need to speak to someone. by MildoShaggins (Sun 4th Jun 2023 1:37pm)
  • I wouldn't imagine so. Do you not need to book an appointment for that? by MildoShaggins (Sun 4th Jun 2023 2:03pm)
  • It's improved then. I used the same service back in April and the earliest slot available was over two weeks later by MildoShaggins (Sun 4th Jun 2023 2:29pm)
  • Aye, they are. You had much experience trying to contact the council recently? by MildoShaggins (Sun 4th Jun 2023 2:25pm)
  • I've found the food in Sugo to be very, very average and the service to be pretty awful. Walk the extra five minutes to La Lanterna for one of the best Italian restauraunts in Scotland and a much cozier, more intimate atmosphere by MildoShaggins (Mon 5th Jun 2023 7:39pm)
  • My guy, I feel your pain. My bedroom window backs out onto an allotment which attracts all manner of birds and beasts. It's the magpies now, before that it was all the wee birds screaming "SHAG ME! SHAG ME" and before that it was the foxes scrapping for territory and screaming as they made sweet, foxy love to one another. The magpies with their weird staccato cawing that pierces ear plugs are up there with the worst of it all. Nature is just so inconsiderate by MildoShaggins (Wed 7th Jun 2023 3:40pm)
  • Seconded. People spend half a month's salary on a holiday to the Med for this type of weather and here we are getting it for free. It's braw being able to sit outside and eat after 10pm by MildoShaggins (Wed 14th Jun 2023 4:22pm)
  • Nah, you weren't "just" passing a comment about water shortages. You were making a not so subtle racist dig at people you don't like by MildoShaggins (Wed 14th Jun 2023 11:55pm)
  • Interesting. Are you suggesting that there's shenanigans afoot? by MildoShaggins (Wed 21st Jun 2023 2:58pm)
  • East Yonderton farm out by Glasgow Airport would be your best bet by MildoShaggins (Sun 25th Jun 2023 9:28pm)
  • WRONG by MildoShaggins (Wed 12th Jul 2023 1:38pm)
  • It seems like a really short sighted means of supporting their members. Let's say the owners immediately submit to all of the worker's demands - they'll continue to lose business due to their reputation as that place with the cuntish owners. It doesn't exactly set the business and workers up for success. by MildoShaggins (Wed 19th Jul 2023 4:04pm)
  • It's been downvoted because it's a shite suggestion. OP clearly takes interest in good coffee and suggesting any of the big chains is like suggesting McDonald's to a foodie. by MildoShaggins (Sun 23rd Jul 2023 5:26pm)
  • I'm actually nearing the end of the journey that you're about to embark on. I Left my job at the beginning of February feeling thoroughly burnt out after a year of averaging three days off a month. My salary was pretty good and my final pay was monstrous due to all of the days off and holidays that I wasn't able to take, so money was never a worry. By April I'd found a new job that I won't start until next month which gave me the peace of mind to go out and enjoy myself. The best advice that I can give you is to invest in yourself and enjoy having little to no commitments because you probably won't experience that again until you retire. After job hunting, I've spent the past four months raising my cooking game to another level, visiting family scattered all over Scotland, flattening out my forehand, sailing round the Slate Islands, fixing bits and bobs around the house that had been bothering me for years and reconnecting with friends who I'd drifted away from due to always working/being scunnered by work. I didn't have a bucket list or anything - things have just happened organically. Everyone's different so you may want to plan out what you wish to do on a calendar, but I would recommend keeping your schedule clear and doing what you want to do when the mood takes you. by MildoShaggins (Sat 5th Aug 2023 2:18pm)
  • Your title isn't a question and therefore doesn't require a question mark. by MildoShaggins (Wed 13th Sep 2023 9:17pm)
  • I'd argue that it's the best possible place for it. Hunter Street Homeless Services next door from where many of them already collect their prescriptions and it's a 15 minute walk from their dealers down in Saltmarket and some of the busiest pharmacies offering needle exchange and ORT on High Street and Trongate. by MildoShaggins (Mon 18th Sep 2023 4:26pm)
  • Back in my pharmacy manager days we certainly received prescriptions with Hunter Street Homeless Services in the prescriber box at the bottom. Whether or not the prescriber was in that building is another question although I'm not sure of the legalty of that - especially with controlled drug scripts. I used to live round the corner on Bell Street and it's worth saying that almost everyone in the flats nearby are students who are probably the demographic least susceptible to NIMBYism. by MildoShaggins (Mon 18th Sep 2023 4:37pm)
  • I suspect that they won't but it wouldn't be too different to the current state of affairs. The health board will only approach a pharmacy to enquire as to whether they could offer needle exchange unless the already have a large number of ORT patients. Long term, they're looking at shifting these folks off of methadone etc onto a prolonged release once weekly injection called Buvidal that is apparently much better. It also has the added benefit whereby the user doesn't have to visit a pharmacy everyday and be surrounded by temptation and risk (other users selling benzos in the queue, people trying to mug them for their take home dose etc) by MildoShaggins (Mon 18th Sep 2023 4:51pm)
  • Haven't heard of Vivitrol! A quick google suggests that it's closer to naloxone than anything else which would make it an opiate blocker. Buvidal is a prolonged release injectable version of the sublingual buprenorphine (Suboxone) that some ORT patients already take. It's still looking to replace the naughtier drugs that user is wanting to leave behind but from the testimony of the patients that I "lost" to Buvidal, they swear that it's drastically improved their lives. by MildoShaggins (Mon 18th Sep 2023 5:01pm)
  • There is no curse in elvish, entish or the tongues of men for this treachery. by MildoShaggins (Mon 2nd Oct 2023 2:35pm)
  • Someone else owns the account, takes a cut of the earnings and then pays them in cash. It's wide open to modern slavery. You don't have right to work in the UK but you need money to live, so you agree to work cash in hand for a guy doing deliveries on multiple apps. He owns the bike, has you working 14 hours a day and takes a hefty cut of the earnings. If you try to leave the situation he threatens to grass you in to the authorities and have you deported. by MildoShaggins (Sun 8th Oct 2023 4:42pm)
  • That'll be a thing too. I work modern slavery/human trafficking cases for a living and see this shit all the time. Gig economy stuff like Deliveroo is rife with exploitation. by MildoShaggins (Sun 8th Oct 2023 5:00pm)
  • I suspect there'll be parts of Barassie and the area around the port that'll be quite cheap, but outside of that, I'd imagine prices trend higher than the national average (seaside retirement town, lots of large Victorian/Edwardian housing stock, easy commute to Glasgow, a very good school and a world famous golf course). Can't imagine housing is cheaper there than anywhere you've mentioned, or indeed, a similarly well connected and up and coming part of Glasgow like Springburn. It honestly sounds like OP just wants a lifestyle that they can't afford. by MildoShaggins (Sun 22nd Oct 2023 3:09pm)
  • My Dad's side of the family are from Troon and have lived there for generations. He was bequeathed my great Gran's house 20+ years ago, which is the only reason why he can afford to live down there. That said, he's managed to make a few thousand pounds renting the house out every time The Open comes to the Royal Troon. Book yourself a fancy holiday for next July and get some American golf enthusiasts to pay for it. by MildoShaggins (Sun 22nd Oct 2023 3:38pm)
  • They should have put the medium on instead by MildoShaggins (Tue 31st Oct 2023 7:58pm)
  • Do you mind sharing roughly which part of Dennistoun you're in? This is the 3rd burglary in the area that I've heard of in less than a month Like you, I'm a ground floor tenement in Dennistoun but with an allotment next door which gives easy access to our back court for anyone willing to hop a 3 foot fence. The number of recent break-ins is beginning to make me a bit paranoid. by MildoShaggins (Mon 6th Nov 2023 11:35am)
  • There were some pretty unsavoury chants of "From the river to the sea" when I jumped on the subway at Hillhead earlier. I gave the protestors the benefit of the doubt that they didn't know they were chanting anti-semitic hate speech. by MildoShaggins (Sat 11th Nov 2023 5:36pm)
  • I know where the saying came from. I also know what groups use it now and with what purpose and intent. The first line is the important one - it's the one used by anti-semites (including Hamas) to call for the elimination of Israel and the Jews living there. No reasonable people should be using that chant. by MildoShaggins (Sat 11th Nov 2023 6:34pm)
  • There's also some shenanigans at play. There were only 6 comments in total when I made my first comment, yet it plummeted to -10 downvotes within a minute of posting. Any thread about Israel/Palestine seems to be astroturfed with bots. by MildoShaggins (Sun 12th Nov 2023 1:49pm)
  • It doesn't solve the problem, but you could pop down to your local pharmacy and ask for a consultation with the pharmacist. They're not really supposed to help with chronic conditions, but if you explain your situation to them they'll probably prescribe you something on Pharmacy First to ease your symptoms until you can see the GP. I've been out of community pharmacy for almost a year but Mebeverine and Hyoscine were ever present on the formulary so I can't imagine that they've been removed. Failing that, they'll tell you what to say to the receptionist at the GP to get you seen a bit quicker. by MildoShaggins (Tue 14th Nov 2023 4:43pm)
  • It seems to be lacking in some really basic amenities like a fridge, storage etc, so I think you've hit the nail on the head with it being an ex-AirBnB by MildoShaggins (Sun 19th Nov 2023 12:38pm)
  • People will get understandably defensive when you slag their favourite restaurant. That said, I mostly agree with you. The likes of Ka Pao and Ox and Finch are held up as some of the best restaurants in Glasgow, which they absolutely are (both consistently receive a big gourmand from the Michelin guide), but they pale in comparison to what's on offer in other UK cities. For it's size, Glasgow has a really poor food scene. by MildoShaggins (Sun 19th Nov 2023 1:01pm)
  • Currently 9.7 but with the heating on we'll get it up to the dizzying heights of 16 for an hour or so. The joys of living in a ground floor, gable end tenement with zero insulation. by MildoShaggins (Sun 3rd Dec 2023 11:31am)
  • Christ, you lot are miserable cunts. The three universities are going to continue to offer courses to more students than the city can accommodate. Those students (particularly those from the rest of the world, who by definition don't have family nearby) need somewhere to stay and are putting pressure on the rental market. If they're happy to pay a grand a month for a shoebox then let them - doing so frees up space elsewhere in the market for locals. by MildoShaggins (Tue 5th Dec 2023 11:10pm)
  • I would imagine that the life expectancy of these new cookiecutter buildings is quite short - somewhere in the range of a few decades. If they're no longer suitable we'll have fewer problems knocking them down and building something else that fits the city's needs. by MildoShaggins (Wed 6th Dec 2023 8:11am)