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bobsmetalmob

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  • Yeah it’s horrible. I’ve just seen hundreds walk past my flat and one of the pricks just smashed a window across the street, not one of the others batted an eye. They’re all scum! by bobsmetalmob (Sat 6th Jul 2019 12:46pm)
  • Not really, I’m still super unclear about where the gigs actually take place as that address specified is an empty building. by bobsmetalmob (Sun 20th Oct 2019 1:35pm)
  • There’s another location in Trongate that’s really good, but their menu is a little limited. by bobsmetalmob (Tue 5th May 2020 1:09pm)
  • The food waste bin for my block of flats and all the others round me haven’t been picked up since March! We’ve now got rats and have to weigh the lids down with bricks. Yet they’ve been round at least twice a week for the other ones. by bobsmetalmob (Sat 8th Aug 2020 1:44pm)
  • On the council website there are some details about a new collection system but that... “The food waste collection service for flats and tenements remains suspended in the South and North East of the city for the time being and residents there should continue to use their general waste bin for food waste.” Good job someone told me I was supposed to be using the general waste bins /s by bobsmetalmob (Sat 8th Aug 2020 10:38pm)
  • At this point I’d be happy if they took ours away, I was thinking of tipping it into the big general waste bin but it’s now so full and heavy that even with the help of my neighbour (big rugby player bloke) we couldn’t lift it between us to empty. by bobsmetalmob (Sat 8th Aug 2020 11:02pm)
  • Thanks, the cookies were what was stopping it from appearing. by bobsmetalmob (Wed 4th Nov 2020 12:41pm)
  • Bridgeton here too, just had some guys running down the street screaming their bloody heads off then what sounded like a car full of fireworks all go off at once. by bobsmetalmob (Sun 7th Mar 2021 2:13pm)
  • Get a lawyer! The least you’ll get out of that is some proper professional legal advice and may be able to start building a case for yourself. It’s all about protecting yourself and your daughter. Your ex’s family have no need to know you have a lawyer. PS your ex’s family sound Fucked up. I wish you luck and hope things work out for you. by bobsmetalmob (Tue 30th Mar 2021 7:24am)
  • I’ve spent a year trying to get my pals to go do something (when allowed by the restrictions), picnic, footie in the park, hillwalking, zoom chats etc whatever and got nowhere but now with the pubs open I’ve got three meet ups already. It’s just the shit end of the culture here, drinking is synonymous with social life. by bobsmetalmob (Wed 28th Apr 2021 10:56am)
  • I’ve seen a few people still wearing masks. Mostly the elderly and the Chinese students, who always wore them anyway. But as cases are increasing again I’ve seen a few shop staff wearing them again. The Levi store the other day everyone was wearing masks. I’ve also never seen anyone discouraged from wearing them, you may get a few odd glances but who cares what other people think. by bobsmetalmob (Fri 24th Jun 2022 10:35am)
  • We must be neighbours, my bedroom also looks onto James street, and along with the weird acoustic phenomenon that I can hear even a quite conversation in the street as if it was right in my room it’s becoming a nightmare living here in the summer, got to keep my window closed all the time. Maybe we can lay a spike strip down on the street after midnight or something by bobsmetalmob (Sat 16th Jul 2022 10:24am)
  • You had me in the first half not gonna lie. by bobsmetalmob (Sun 21st Aug 2022 6:10pm)
  • You can use the websites MarineTraffic or Vessel Finder to see the locations and details of ships as long as they have their AIS (automatic identification system) online. From a quick look the only vessel I can see nearby is the Ambition a cruise liner. It’s currently not displaying any branding in your photo so it may not be functioning as chartered cruise ship and might be one of the floating accommodation for Ukrainian refugees. by bobsmetalmob (Sun 11th Sep 2022 2:03pm)
  • I mean I’m an early 30s single straight white man, there are millions of me, why is it me that gets picked by bobsmetalmob (Thu 26th Jan 2023 6:40pm)
  • I’ll have to check up on that because my last attendance was only the end of last summer I think. by bobsmetalmob (Thu 26th Jan 2023 6:48pm)
  • Pre-booked holidays is the one thing they told me they’d discharge you for. Plus 15 days is a very long trial, they’re maybe more forgiving for that. I got out of one citation because the clerk was very nice on the phone and asked if it would cause any major problems, so I said yes it would and she said she put me at the bottom of her list and I ended up clear for that one.. two months later I got another citation haha. by bobsmetalmob (Thu 26th Jan 2023 6:46pm)
  • Well hopefully the method of waiting on a phone call on the morning of the citation is still the way they do it and I can just tell them then. Otherwise it’s a day off work to wait in the court house to do the same thing. by bobsmetalmob (Thu 26th Jan 2023 6:52pm)
  • Yes that rings a bell, will check it out. by bobsmetalmob (Thu 26th Jan 2023 7:01pm)
  • I mean I’d like to think an unbiased opinion, good listening and evaluation skills, and the ability to make rational choices but then again how would they know that, I could just be a bam haha by bobsmetalmob (Thu 26th Jan 2023 7:09pm)
  • That’s an interesting theory, my last name doesn’t look very unusual as it’s been anglicised (and it is quite common in its original form in other countries) but, and this is only as far as I can tell, there are only five of us in Scotland, and they’re all directly related to me. Until recently I was even the only one in Glasgow so you may have a good point. by bobsmetalmob (Thu 26th Jan 2023 7:06pm)
  • No, it wasn’t directed at anyone, I hadn’t seen your post till now. Just seen a lot of posts in the past asking the most basic googleable questions about jury service, yours looks like a much more detailed question. You do get a form to get signed everyday to say you were there for the jury service that you use when applying for funds and missed earnings but I’ve never been self employed so couldn’t say how it works, the most I ever claimed back was travel expenses. by bobsmetalmob (Thu 26th Jan 2023 7:42pm)
  • Some of that post covid backlog must be a thing as my last citation was issued around the same time as two of my coworkers from totally different courts a well. by bobsmetalmob (Thu 26th Jan 2023 7:47pm)
  • You can get a job a sea. Sailors don’t get called. On a serious note, if your autoimmune disease is something like celiac that affects your diet, you should be able to get a doctors line excusing you. I have family that got excused like that because if they went the court would end up poisoning them at lunch time. by bobsmetalmob (Sat 11th Feb 2023 9:46am)
  • I’ve done jury service a few times (even posted in this sub a few days ago about getting out of it too. I got out of it because I served last year and I shouldn’t be eligible for another 5 years) They will ask you if there is any reason you should be excused either on the phone or in person when in court. They purposely call in more than is necessary incase I’d last minute excusals. by bobsmetalmob (Sat 11th Feb 2023 9:55am)
  • My family members were a Chief engineer and 2nd mate and both of them had exemptions by bobsmetalmob (Sat 11th Feb 2023 3:51pm)
  • Well I can’t speak for all seafarers but those I know don’t get contacted, perhaps it’s just that they haven’t appeared in the ballot since by bobsmetalmob (Sat 11th Feb 2023 7:09pm)
  • That looks great! How do I get involved? by bobsmetalmob (Tue 21st Mar 2023 8:38pm)
  • It’s probably a fan convention of some sort like Comic-Con. There’s a few different ones I believe throughout the year and always have fans in costumes around the city centre at that time. And that statue is Donald Dewar the first First Minister of Scotland by bobsmetalmob (Sat 22nd Apr 2023 10:09am)
  • You’re welcome. I think regardless of politics, ours or his, we all should really know who that man was as it’s an important part of our collective history! Also I’m laughing that seeing Power Rangers on Buchanan Street brought you into reality haha by bobsmetalmob (Sat 22nd Apr 2023 10:22am)
  • Depends how heavy you want to go, Black metal/ Thrash - Hellripper, Oban based Hardcore punk - Piss Bath, Glasgow Rock/indie - Gallus, Glasgow by bobsmetalmob (Sun 16th Jul 2023 11:38am)