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i mean aye they might end up as some dysfunctional mouth-breathing fuckwit whose only contribution to society is bootlegging compound media shows on reddit, but that chance has to be taken by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 25th Jun 2019 10:28pm)

"im too much of a shitebag to ever put any of my ideals into practice", then are you wanting to remove all the homeless people from the country, or just.....certain ones by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 25th Jun 2019 10:37pm)

>I'm not in the position to remove them why dont you work harder and then you might be in that position? are there just *no chances* for you? >"homeless" has fuck all to do with it explain how these folk are a drain on society and the general homeless arent >nor skin colour if that's what the boring pish dribbling out of you is meant to imply so then whats the difference between one of these asylum seekers and someone unemployed/on benefits (that being the worst case scenario for these people) whose family has been here forever? by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 25th Jun 2019 10:48pm)

> ...I don't want to? and maybe some kurdish guy wants to just sit in his flat and smoke weed, is that alright anaw? wheres the cut-off line here? > It has absolutely nothing to do with anything I'm talking about you claimed they would be a drain on society. the homeless are also a drain on society, at least according to how i would reasonably assume you define that term. therefore, your belief is incoherent, inconsistent and nonsensical unless you oppose both > Belonging. lmao what the fuck does that even mean ya doss cunt. did that belonging apply to all the millions of people whove fucking left scotland because it was shite? what i love about you reactionary skidmarks is that youre such shitebags you wont ever actually admit what you believe, you just dance around your actual point because for some reason youre desperate to have some layer of respectability, even though you probably shart yourselves like three times a week by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 25th Jun 2019 11:05pm)

that youre against the assimilation of these people because theyre foreigners and for no other reason despite blathering about economics or whatever. i would have thought you could have figured that out yourself really by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 25th Jun 2019 11:10pm)

that would be "racism". it was recently made hip and cool by modern day western intellectual thinkers like anthony cumia by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 25th Jun 2019 11:22pm)

which contributions to society do you make besides financial ones by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 25th Jun 2019 11:25pm)

so what are you saying, that ants paying you to post all that shit every damn day? because it doesnt seem to be paying off very well given youre getting no engagement on anything. not that i would expect a catastrophic loss of money would ever deter that moron from an investment by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 25th Jun 2019 11:34pm)

is it? please explain by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 25th Jun 2019 11:41pm)

damn. i wanted explanation man by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 25th Jun 2019 11:53pm)

im sorry im stupid. can you please explain this to me further by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 25th Jun 2019 11:50pm)

original take, hope it takes off by hamasfrontdesk (Wed 26th Jun 2019 12:42am)

had no idea either. they should really put out leaflets about it or something so folk know by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 2nd Jul 2019 8:59pm)

pretty sure they have them all over the uk wherever places need them the one in crow road certainly fucking needs one from what i heard about it when living in partick (it might have one now i dunno) by hamasfrontdesk (Wed 3rd Jul 2019 11:22am)

i suspect his lack of aggressive responses might be because most people just think hes on the wind-up by hamasfrontdesk (Wed 3rd Jul 2019 1:21pm)

they'll eat anything. including themselves: [https://www.businessinsider.com/seagulls-are-becoming-cannibalistic-2016-8?r=US&IR=T](https://www.businessinsider.com/seagulls-are-becoming-cannibalistic-2016-8?r=US&IR=T) by hamasfrontdesk (Wed 3rd Jul 2019 1:42pm)

and then folk got pissed about demolishing tenements...only to demolish every tenement in the gorbals 40 years later, whilst leaving high street to rot mon the glasgow mega snake by hamasfrontdesk (Sat 20th Jul 2019 10:44am)

american? whos funding these cunts? by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 21st Jul 2019 6:14am)

what's the point in that exactly? most of those demolitions massively predate any sort of grand ideological rationale for renewal. aye buildings got knocked down, that's generally what happens in cities by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 21st Jul 2019 9:53am)

sell the ticket hes shite by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 21st Jul 2019 10:00am)

you have to be joking, its bad enough that theres pollok, pollokshields and pollokshaws and none of them even really border on each other (*anymore*, i suppose maybe), but there was once a fourth? ffs by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 22nd Jul 2019 1:45pm)

the kelvin ones i can at least vaguely intuit some meaning out of each. kelvinside is just to the side of the river but not directly beside it, kelvindale is legitimately in the river's valley (and a lovely valley at that), kelvingrove was (before it was landscaped into a park) a forest area, kelvinhaugh would have been in the lower floodplain of the kelvin, but the pollok and govan ones....fuck only knows man by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 22nd Jul 2019 8:32pm)

isnt roystonhill just the top of royston, where the church spire is? dont know what was ever going on with "robroyston" though. that film was pish by hamasfrontdesk (Wed 24th Jul 2019 7:33pm)

cool to know, cheers by hamasfrontdesk (Thu 25th Jul 2019 3:07am)

would rather go to an absolute dive than to a sterile non-entity like oran mor tbh the idea that there are people out there who go to oran mor for a drink for some reason other than theyve just seen a show there and cant be bothered moving anywhere else horrifies me by hamasfrontdesk (Thu 25th Jul 2019 5:28am)

a vegan cafe being "like a cafe" with "exclusively vegan food". wild by hamasfrontdesk (Thu 25th Jul 2019 5:31am)

has to be robert street in port glasgow surely by hamasfrontdesk (Thu 25th Jul 2019 10:34am)

....what beautiful buildings? i mean there are a couple of pleasant old things, i guess, dont know if id call them beautiful. the only truly impressive old building around there is the old co-op building which is now some apparently pretty nice flats two great wee restaurants around there, a persian one (sholeh) and a somali/ethiopian one (horn of africa). both look like shit from the outside but are excellent by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 26th Jul 2019 12:59am)

consider this: if youre just going to the touristy parts of glasgow, youre not even seeing the litter at anything close to its worst by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 26th Jul 2019 1:11pm)

looking at it on street view there appear to be issues with damp and a fair amount of cracks towards the top around the back. iirc the only reason it hasnt been demolished is because the guy the council sent to do the survey to prove it was unsafe completely half-arsed the survey and the presiding judges response was basically "what is this shite" and it got rejected by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 26th Jul 2019 4:31pm)

the kelvin and the canal pretty much run right next to each other at that point i think by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 26th Jul 2019 5:13pm)

i get your view, but if every cunt on the green did so on a day like that, all the bins in the area would just overflow with the sheer volume and youd have barely any more convenient or pleasant a problem to deal with. i mean from the photos ive seen from trnsmt thats exactly what happened, the huge bins were surrounded by tied bags of rubbish that wont fit in the already-full bin so people just leave them there (and i get that thats a closed festival but are you really expecting someone chilling on the green to trek away the fuck into bridgeton on an expedition to find a public bin that isnt rammed?). on days like that they need to put MASSIVE open skips on the exits to the green (and kelvingrove) so people can just throw their bagged rubbish in as they leave, and then actually fucking EMPTY that (outrageous concept) at the end of the day or maybe we could throw out less packaging in general, idk. that would seem to be sensible by hamasfrontdesk (Sat 27th Jul 2019 6:50pm)

i dont subscribe to the idea of "broken windows theory" at all in the way its generally been formulated and applied, but i think it applies completely to glasgows litter problem, albeit with an injection of glaswegian laziness. i mean if the side of the road youre walking along is completely deluged in fucking litter, just fucking swamped, to the extent it looks like youd need a military operation to fully cleanse it, and its 4 am and youre holding an empty chippy box or whatever in your hand, and youve still got half a mile to walk until you get to your flat, and you look at the side of the road again and the state its in.....i cant possibly fully begrudge the person whose conclusion in that situation is "fuck it" by hamasfrontdesk (Sat 27th Jul 2019 7:03pm)

is that the impression of me you got from "maybe we could throw out less packaging in general", aye? great reading comprehension. if i had it in my power id be decreeing that everyone came equipped with reusable bottles and a litre of tupperware im not suggesting everyone leaves their rubbish where they were sitting, im saying the immediate acute problem doesnt really lie with the volume of people using the green, it lies with the council's abilities to deal with that volume of people using the green. id certainly take practical short-term solutions (like having prevalent bins which are emptied) over long-term reeducation programs (which would hopefully see the green become clean by the time when its routinely 45 degrees from june through august) by hamasfrontdesk (Sat 27th Jul 2019 7:21pm)

if you "dont drop litter" it doesnt magically evaporate the moment you reach your front door, it needs to go into a gcc receptacle for refuse eventually whether its your own bin, a bin on a lamppost, or a big dumpster by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 28th Jul 2019 9:37pm)

maryhill tesco by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 29th Jul 2019 5:28pm)

is that not that street which smells of pish by hamasfrontdesk (Sat 3rd Aug 2019 7:47am)

licensing issues? ive never got around to seeing de la but ive seen three other pre-clearance acts (public enemy, beasties, rakim) who all played shit with stuff they never cleared in it. been listening to hip hop for 20 years and didnt know this was an issue haha by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 4th Aug 2019 5:12am)

youre right, the music scene would be complete chaos if that wasnt the case. whats different is that we're talking about a backing track with samples rather than a live band, which are certainly very different things on record legally but i dont know if they are in a live setting (i really dont think they are) as someone has already said, prs stuff is the responsibility of the venue by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 4th Aug 2019 8:34pm)

this guys right, dont know why hes downvoted. musicians only interact with the prs to register their own stuff, they certainly never need to ask them for permission to play songs, which would be insane. all the responsibility of the venue by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 4th Aug 2019 8:39pm)

the lack of foresight in the demolition of that is really stunning, considering it wasnt even that long ago (and after the redevelopment craze of the 60s and early 70s). was it really hard to foresee both regular population growth and exponential car growth? glasgow could sure use an additional station there now (connected to the union line) instead of that white elephant eyesore of a shopping centre by hamasfrontdesk (Sat 24th Aug 2019 9:17pm)

no this pish again by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 30th Aug 2019 6:35pm)

i went to a very mixed school (about 50/40/10 protestant/catholic/asian) in lanarkshire and there were tons of folk who were in the bands or who in some way exhibited sectarian behaviour. the schools certainly dont help, and i agree religious schools of any kind should not be a thing, but i think the difference would be barely noticeable as regards the prod/cath divide by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 13th Sep 2019 9:35am)

the idea of lukewarm buckfast gives me the boke now. but i must have drunk it at room temperature when i was a wee guy, surely, since only one of the four of the off-licences in my town kept it in the fridge (and the one down in the scheme where i usually bought it from didnt). dont remember when or why i suddenly switched to demanding it be cold. this has been a proustian reverie about the temperature of buckfast by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 13th Sep 2019 9:46am)

this cunt was my hash dealer when i was a wee guy in lanarkshire. one of the most unpleasant people ive ever known so none of his case is surprising to me. i was the back of one of his amateur rap videos though haha by hamasfrontdesk (Thu 26th Sep 2019 12:45am)

>It works out to something mental like 22% of the city population is currently students pretty high but not unheard of. i think krakow has 30% plus by hamasfrontdesk (Thu 26th Sep 2019 2:39am)

didnt they just let a bunch of the animals roam free after they closed it? i do know the shutdown was a fucking shambles in general by hamasfrontdesk (Wed 23rd Oct 2019 8:43pm)

cant believe that perfect infrastructure would be made to look silly by some moron in a foreign car by hamasfrontdesk (Wed 23rd Oct 2019 8:46pm)

ok, fine, it was just something i heard, sorry it may have been just like very low-level reptiles and stuff by hamasfrontdesk (Thu 24th Oct 2019 11:38pm)

bloody good demolishing more like by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 1st Dec 2019 7:17pm)

>removal of industrially-contaminated topsoil fair enough if thats the case. im aware of the plans for that wider area and was assuming theyd have to do that for cowlairs "park", which theyre also planning to build housing on, but i wasnt aware of the industrial history of that particular southern part of sighthill but going by the plans it does look like there will be some greenspace so thats good. some cheek calling the park "under-used" though, given that its maintenance budget seems to have been effectively zero for years. state of that bridge ffs by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 2nd Dec 2019 1:36pm)

[https://www.thefreelibrary.com/CONCRETE+TOMB;+Repairs+may+unearth+bodies+of+gangsters.-a060143719](https://www.thefreelibrary.com/CONCRETE+TOMB;+Repairs+may+unearth+bodies+of+gangsters.-a060143719) by hamasfrontdesk (Thu 12th Dec 2019 2:21am)

it only really works if people persist day after day, i.e. hong kong by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 13th Dec 2019 9:20pm)

youre not wrong but theres no excuse to be a fucking arsehole by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 15th Dec 2019 12:28am)

or, folk just put them by the bin as people tend to do if the bins full (which given the numbers it probably was) by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 15th Dec 2019 12:32am)

we still have problems though. a jamaican-english mate of mine got stopped by the polis riding his bike on dumbarton road to get asked if it was his, for example. and the racism towards roma immigrants on the south side is disgusting too by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 15th Dec 2019 12:49am)

fuck off. youre not welcome in this city regardless of your nonsensical theories by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 15th Dec 2019 6:50am)

would just be a magnet for the bams on the other side by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 31st Dec 2019 9:24am)

[https://www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/comments/e9b3nj/sugo\_est\_glasgow\_2019\_suing\_sugo\_est/](https://www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/comments/e9b3nj/sugo_est_glasgow_2019_suing_sugo_est/) by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 31st Dec 2019 9:24am)

to some extent yes but that doesnt excuse them being complete cunts about it by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 31st Dec 2019 10:11am)

>pronouns jesus youre really hitting all the boxes on the boomer bingo card arent you by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 14th Jan 2020 3:03pm)

shite patter by hamasfrontdesk (Sat 18th Jan 2020 1:54pm)

please tell me the reasons why you should just take the train and walk by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 21st Jan 2020 3:38am)

shoosht [http://www.designcurial.com/news/the-worlds-10-best-designed-train-stations-4332733/](http://www.designcurial.com/news/the-worlds-10-best-designed-train-stations-4332733/) by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 10th Feb 2020 10:07am)

ocht away. plus the reason we dont build things with huge doric columns anymore is a matter of resources and efficiency rather than design by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 10th Feb 2020 12:12pm)

mate have you maybe considered that the reason you dont see "traditional" buildings that have fallen apart is because....they fell apart and they arent there anymore? ever heard of garscube house? new bothwell castle? springburn town hall? with very rare exceptions, buildings falling apart is about 95% the result of maintenance and 5% design (though design may necessitate a maintenance cost which is higher than whoever is responsible is able to pay, i.e. hutchie c, but thats the responsibility of the client). and that meme is moronic (which is unsurprising as it appears to be borderline alt-right). i would really fucking love to hear the explanation of the "chaos and equality" vs "order and hierarchy" part. "chaos and equality" doesnt even make any fucking sense as a phrase in that context basically if you think "traditional" buildings are immune from decay and rot, and that they automatically create a sense of place on the street, ive got a load of flats on high street id like to sell you for a correspondingly high price by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 10th Feb 2020 3:28pm)

take the loss ya wee fanny by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 10th Feb 2020 4:15pm)

ahhh fucking running scared by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 10th Feb 2020 5:35pm)

regardless, im pretty sure hundreds of buses per day trundling up hope street to get to buchanan bus station because those eejits closed anderston will be having a fairly significant effect on pollution by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 14th Feb 2020 6:08pm)

just listened to four of those bands and they all sound like the shite landfill indie i had to pretend to like to get my hole at uni in 2006 ill stick with the soundcloud ayahuasca cunts, cheers by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 14th Feb 2020 6:22pm)

did anyone even like that fucking tiger thing? its a gaudy eyesore, and its dubious origins dont help either by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 14th Feb 2020 6:31pm)

just confused at the apparent reverence for it, thats all i mean theres bad graffiti (and litter, and decay) everywhere. why fixate on this extremely shitty mural by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 14th Feb 2020 7:06pm)

you're a cabbie right? you should get in touch with the glasgow motorway archive podcast, im sure theyd be delighted to have you on as a guest. theyve already had a traffic cop, and i guess theyd be thrilled to have a cabbie too by hamasfrontdesk (Sat 15th Feb 2020 2:46pm)

this has been going on with that estate for years. firstly, its criminal that a landlord should be able to sell a property which is under potential demolition order for safety reasons. furthermore, the only reason that this entire estate hasnt been demolished entirely (its not really liveable and is only barely structurally feasible, and very probably very dangerous) is because whoever did the survey for inverclyde council severely half-arsed the job and the council subsequently wouldnt clear the demolition order by hamasfrontdesk (Thu 20th Feb 2020 10:12pm)

good views of the campsies from the lecture theatre(s?) though. used to just stare at that instead of listening to the lecture by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 28th Feb 2020 2:09am)

>We have one the busiest road bridges in Europe, and a concrete jungle beneath it if only we had a gridlocked sandstone jungle and no way to get across the river bar the bridges at the city centre and the tunnel by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 9th Mar 2020 8:36am)

>Unless you go full Charles Bronson from Death Wish 3 (not advisable) theres a happy medium between that and just clyping to generally disinterested or powerless authorities by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 9th Mar 2020 6:11pm)

> Note - property has a secure entry system via fob. (Fuck knows how they get in.) i would focus on this part if i were you i assume its a relatively new building youre in, but ive only ever lived in tenements and 90% of the problems i or my neighbours have ever had have been rooted in unauthorized access to the close (mostly people just blindly unlocking the door without checking who the fuck the cunt who just hit the buzzer is) by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 9th Mar 2020 6:23pm)

im sorry that comment just reminded me of the sandwich scene in spinal tap "everything has to be folded" by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 9th Mar 2020 6:35pm)

was your uncle played by macaulay culkin by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 10th Mar 2020 12:24am)

>I literally just told the junkies to fuck off and they cleared off at least for a little while they just literally forget about it. when was in partick i chased a bunch of the cunts off with a rambo knife but then had to do it again a month later because - going by their reaction - i guess they forgot that they cant use this close by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 10th Mar 2020 1:07am)

im a vegan but if they actually did that thats fucking amazing haha by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 10th Mar 2020 10:04am)

yeah, they also own the 13th note and harmonium in edinburgh by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 17th Mar 2020 5:34am)

Absolute bollocks. by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 17th Mar 2020 7:21am)

i think theres a happy medium between having it rammed with gardens and trees, and what it is now, which is basically just a big blank ground people walk through to get to places, constantly suffocated by traffic. i mean who who isnt a tourist ever says "oh lets just go sit in george square" by hamasfrontdesk (Sat 28th Mar 2020 11:41am)

i wouldnt necessarily object to it just being completely open. i would like to at least be *something*. at the moment it seems to commit to nothing and you get the worst of both worlds. its not nice enough to sit in as you would a park and its not particularly nice to walk through either because of the awkward layout as you mention. every time i walk through it i just feel a desperate urge to get from one side to the other as soon as possible i definitely think it should be almost entirely pedestrianised regardless of whats done with its actual layout. its literally strangled by traffic. maybe just leave george st open, cut st vincent between there and west nile street, cut queen street down to the goma, make dundas street an actual navigable street for taxi/car station dropoffs, and put in a more elaborate station dropoff facility for taxis and buses at the corner of cathedral street and north hanover street (i think something like that may already be in the queen street station redevelopment i dont remember; i know theyre doing something with cathedral st anyway). then, im pretty sure if you just ripped out everything bar the statues and made it completely flat, it would look incredible. also, since im already getting ahead of myself, we could always have both a park AND a square if you level everything in that block that has that george house eyesore and that people make glasgow even-more-eyesore in it, and put turf down. it was all (or mostly?) like that as late as the early 80s by hamasfrontdesk (Sat 28th Mar 2020 9:15pm)

i can certainly see someone missing not having to take 45 minutes through about a million traffic lights to get to the city centre like you do everywhere else, aye. fuck ye by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 31st Mar 2020 2:17pm)

my mate used to work for them and yeah their owner, petra, is bavarian. she seems slightly mental but (or thus?) is very passionate about her job. she also is in the process of moving the business into complete collective ownership, which is...wild their beers are still not really at the level of the imported stuff you can get at the cave though by hamasfrontdesk (Thu 9th Apr 2020 11:21pm)

apparently the word "queue" was only really introduced to america through napster and other file sharing programs, and a mate of mine from maryland who now lives in glasgow says he initially thought it was pronounced "kway" by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 15th May 2020 9:23pm)

they just said "line" apparently by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 15th May 2020 10:00pm)

i mean it depends what you mean by "big", there seem to have been a couple dozen at most: [https://twitter.com/STVSport/status/1262365475343826945](https://twitter.com/STVSport/status/1262365475343826945). still moronic though by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 19th May 2020 1:04pm)

thats almost certainly not the same bird. im down in lanarkshire rn and there are so many of the cunts here weve seen them actually fighting with each other by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 26th May 2020 2:30am)

>I've seen some people saying that we should put up an exhibits etc in museum's nd that unfortunately as of last summer the panel in kelvingrove museum's glasgow history section dealing with glasgow's pre-ww1 recent industrial history has some wildly irresponsible heading like "the golden age" (its not that, i cant remember exactly what it is, but its as equally bad as that). i meant to write to them about it but forgot about it til now by hamasfrontdesk (Sat 6th Jun 2020 3:51pm)

maryhills huge ya fuckin spanner by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 9th Jun 2020 8:51pm)

yes, that area is absolutely fine if you can afford it. would get an excellent balance between a quiet family life and being near things that are interesting. move to bearsden if you want to basically flush your soul down the shitter by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 9th Jun 2020 8:57pm)

I'm not wearing one at all but I've been incredibly careful since the start and havent gone out to anywhere since march (although, tesco st rollox tell your click & collect employees to stay the fuck back from me please). I do have a stockpile of masks but I'd rather retain them for if things get worse. by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 12th Jun 2020 1:03am)

I've not seen any research that suggests any correlation with hot weather. I mean it's a coronavirus, not a flu or the cold. SARS, for example, did not correspond with weather. by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 12th Jun 2020 1:07am)

My brother plays alto/tenor sax and flute (usually in London where he stays but hes up here for the forseeable moment). I can give him a shout if you're interested. by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 12th Jun 2020 3:04am)

>That's probably clouding my judgement, worst chippy in Glasgow I've always liked Blue Lagoon since I was a wee guy and using a fake id to get into clubs in the town, I've never had any problems, I don't think it's fine cuisine but it's good for what it offers. But where would you suggest instead for a place to get a fish supper that is good but not too expensive? by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 14th Jun 2020 2:44am)

that just looks like a facsimile of the absolutely shite looking premier inn a block up the road by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 14th Jun 2020 2:50am)

>Much of the path of the old rails remains wasteland the old route into it (the bridge beside the high court) is still used but only occasionally for freight and to move rolling stock around by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 14th Jun 2020 6:02pm)

>I think they were recently considering building a new St Enoch station on the two car parks to the east of the St Enoch Center, to divert some local services there as Central Station is nearly running at capacity. that would be ideal as it would allow them to revitalize the for some reason underutilized city union line (the one that goes through the gorbals). i would just demolish the st enoch centre to be honest, its a money pit and and a fucking eyesore by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 14th Jun 2020 6:00pm)

aye: [https://www.glasgowhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Saint-Enoch-Square-and-Church-Glasgow.jpg](https://www.glasgowhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Saint-Enoch-Square-and-Church-Glasgow.jpg) . stunning. but hey, it was replaced by a half-decent kebab shop and the worst hotel in the city, so whos to say by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 14th Jun 2020 6:06pm)

buddy's bbq on pollokshaws road is decent, halal and is in more or less the same vein as tgi fridays (as far as the type of food goes, anyway) by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 14th Jun 2020 6:49pm)

defending the war memorial, ostensibly. ostensibly. by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 14th Jun 2020 6:56pm)

ive never heard it being discussed as the highest point in the city. my gut feeling would be that down there glasgow ends at the road that goes around the south of castlemilk, which would make the park outside of glasgow by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 14th Jun 2020 7:05pm)

we have the best quay, don't we folks? it's tremendous, tremendous, everybody's saying it. but the media won't talk about it! they won't talk about the quay, it's terrible. bad ratings! by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 14th Jun 2020 7:18pm)

DELETED morellos on great western road. superb chips and you can get a buzz by pretending tom morello himself made them by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 14th Jun 2020 9:58pm)

DELETED potato, potatoe by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 14th Jun 2020 10:33pm)

yeah i dont intend to go past the east side of viccy road at all really by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 14th Jun 2020 10:42pm)

Only very slightly past Sainsburys. On the corner immediately opposite the "CHRIST DIED FOR YOUR SINS" sign lol by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 14th Jun 2020 10:40pm)

maybe not fish naw, but you can still get bloody chips by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 15th Jun 2020 2:12am)

och rats and shit (and cleanliness issues in general) were exactly what i was going for. alright well ill deal with it by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 15th Jun 2020 3:17am)

will this bar be so loud that you have to fucking scream in cunts ears to have a basic conversation? by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 16th Jun 2020 7:17pm)

>Key worker - financial services mhmm by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 26th Jun 2020 4:11pm)

sister? im naebodys sister. im the big man. im the guy that etc etc by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 26th Jun 2020 4:43pm)

interesting to see the downvotes on this considering it was a reply to a cunt who used the term "rougher folk" unironically by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 26th Jun 2020 5:03pm)

that right aye. what's celtic football club's present stance on predatory capitalism by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 26th Jun 2020 5:46pm)

"rougher folk" by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 26th Jun 2020 5:55pm)

green brigade, and by green i mean banknotes by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 26th Jun 2020 6:14pm)

youre seriously suggesting replacing the kingston bridge? please tell me your plan for how thats going to be achieved by hamasfrontdesk (Sat 27th Jun 2020 3:39pm)

>It’s a symbol of the destruction of large parts of the city by the motorway planners and in my opinion has very little if any architectural interest. if you enjoy taking half an hour and crawling through a million traffic lights to get to a city centre so much you could always move to manchester or liverpool and have you seen pictures of glasgow traffic in the 50s/60s? it was basically gridlocked even then, imagine what it would be like now without the motorway by hamasfrontdesk (Sat 27th Jun 2020 3:42pm)

the problem with that is that it's really an enormous pain and an environmental hazard (more so than the motorway anyway) to drive from the north of glasgow to the south (i.e. from the m8 to the m74 anyway) so if someone from say springburn wanted to drive to the airport or out to the ferries at gourock say theyd have to traipse all the way through the east end on surface roads. there was a plan to make a new road linking parkhead to the m80 following the old railway line, this is why theres that fairly pointless roundabout at the forge going up towards asda. a road was supposed to go north over the extant railway line and following the line of the old one(you can see the route clearly on google map). but if you can the m8 and build that youre just replacing one road with a far less efficient one (i dont think theres room to make it any more than just a basic road with one lane each way). also i dont want a major road right beside my allotment haha i just honestly think you were to do something like youre proposing glaswegians would regret it very very quickly. and i really dont see what the big deal is, i mean its depressed through charing cross for a reason, and whos even really hanging about charing cross anyway. and i guess the kingston might be a bit of an eyesore if youre living right by it but it just looks like a bridge to me. the only bad thing i will say about the m8 is that the bits UNDER it (in both anderston and up royston/woodside) are very unpleasant by hamasfrontdesk (Sat 27th Jun 2020 7:27pm)

deep cut by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 26th Jul 2020 12:54am)

"aw jeez lois remember the time i tried to start a pop punk band, in glasgow scotland, in the middle of a global pandemic?" im not talented enough to write the parody cutaway by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 26th Jul 2020 12:57am)

I would imagine that's how most people do it, but as I said, the windows open out so that's a no-go. by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 26th Jul 2020 7:20pm)

>Lastly Bothwell Castle near Uddingston is a nice wee trip and while u there might as well visit legendary tunnocks tearoom (not sure if they open these days, so would double check with covid and all) hearing tunnocks tearoom described in glowing terms always amuses me as i grew up in bothwell and its essentially just a greasy spoon cafe. still good but, used to get my bacon rolls out of there for school lunch by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 26th Jul 2020 8:00pm)

>Canal side walk which start from north city centre and all the way up to God knows where is amazing. the canal towpath goes all the way to Bowling marina (just east of Dumbarton). You can cycle or walk (or boat in theory but I think some of the locks might be broken the now) all the way from there along the two canals to the centre of Edinburgh. It's been a while since I've been up there but I think there's a path that continues from Bowling up to Balloch, though I can't remember how continuous it is. Talking of Bowling, it has a really weird boat graveyard thing which for some reason no one has cleared up. Just ancient rusting boats sitting in an old harbour. So visit that if you like that sort of thing and want to make a big trip to see something which is worth maybe three minutes of attention max. by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 26th Jul 2020 8:07pm)

i hear wildly disparate things about lock 27. people seem to say it's either complete shite or its wonderful. i guess its going to be fine if all you want is a pint in a nice location after a walk. by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 26th Jul 2020 8:11pm)

if you want to get nutty with it, there's a 245-year-old tunnel under the canal at the end of lochburn road that was built because that area at the time the canal was built was basically rural, and drovers needed to move their animals from, i dont know, to the market, or a different field or some shit, who cares. its known locally as the "halloween pend", "halloween" presumably being an amusing corruption of "hillend" which is the area at other end from lochburn road, and because the tunnel, being a dogleg, is pitch black and you can't see the other end when you go in it. apparently weans used to run through it as a challenge. also unfortunately the surface underfoot is just...mud at the moment. this appears to be from water leaking through the archway (or pend in scots), and im not a structural engineer but does that not mean its going to eventually collapse? but its certainly not something you'll hear about on tripadvisor springburn park is also lovely. always very peaceful and quiet for some reason, and the ruins of the old winter gardens glasshouse are unforgettable. though it also says on the glasgow parks website that it has "one of scotland's most beautiful rockeries" but its actually pish. i think maybe they renovated it a few years ago but they certainly haven't maintained it ("the council haven't maintained it" should be springburn's motto). last time i was there it was basically a swamp full of litter by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 26th Jul 2020 8:34pm)

sighthill park's a goner mate, they've tore it all up by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 26th Jul 2020 8:36pm)

fair enough by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 26th Jul 2020 8:45pm)

try cowlairs "park". the application of the word "park" to that area is one of the least accurate applications of any word in the english language to anything ever. by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 26th Jul 2020 8:53pm)

yes by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 26th Jul 2020 11:04pm)

theyre listed so you cant get rid of them, but i feel developing them into flats a la kings cross gas works in london would be very problematic without an extensive redevelopment of the surrounding area in addition (i.e. the area between germiston and the m8). and even then im uneasy about it by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 10th Aug 2020 10:01pm)

the anniesland ones are even more unlikely to be redeveloped as they're right next to an existing modern housing estate; at least the provan ones are in the middle of nowhere (by glasgow standards) and wouldnt have any credible objections. and as you say, the prices in those particular areas are not anywhere near enough to warrant the investment needed by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 10th Aug 2020 10:13pm)

afaik they have decontaminated the area as they're building there anyway regardless of the presence of the gasworks buildings. the replacement for barlinnie is probably going to be there by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 11th Aug 2020 4:38pm)

i went to bonkers a fair few times when i was a wee guy (not as often as id like as about half my pals including myself were underage and we often ended up at the moon instead). kicked off a few times but as we got the train in from coatbridge we were oblivious to all the inter-team goings on (didnt even really know the names of many bits of glasgow let alone their teams...barrowfield couldve been in california for all we knew) and just thought it was a laugh. and we were always quick to scarper at 3 am to get a taxi by the blue lagoon and avoided the resultant union st (i think thats where it was?) chaos. my main complaint with bonkers was that they let far too many cunts in and so it took you about 20 minutes to get a fucking drink the moon (or was it just moon?) was astoundingly pish. decorated like a school disco so you felt like a complete fanny. on the plus side it was relatively quiet by hamasfrontdesk (Thu 13th Aug 2020 6:19pm)

what high flats were you in? by hamasfrontdesk (Thu 13th Aug 2020 6:23pm)

it is a gym aye, just forgot what street it was on. now i think about it my main memory of coming out of there is its position in relation to the hielenmans umbrella so i really shouldnt made that mistake >The reason for the name being moon was because the Rooftops name had gotten that notorious the management decided a name change might get the licence board off their back... it became Moon because Rooftops had two letter O's in it, which meant the owner only had to fork out for two letters (the M and the N) to update the neon sign above the door. If he had managed to come up with a clever enough anagram out of Rooftops to save even more money he would have. first one i can think of is is "troops" but that might be kind of leaning into the problem by hamasfrontdesk (Thu 13th Aug 2020 7:23pm)

coke was fucking dear though. dear enough that the only time i ever did it as a wee guy was when the whole team chipped together on hogmanay for some by hamasfrontdesk (Thu 13th Aug 2020 8:48pm)

strathbungo is fine for transport links (providing you mean public transport...for cars its an fucking nightmare to get anywhere that doesnt involve the m74, and even thats a pain in the arse). im at present effectively on the boundary between govanhill and strathbungo and its really nice and really cheap. however its by no means within walking distance of the west end. whiteinch, yoker, or scotstoun might be a better idea if you want that at an affordable rate. maryhill is okay. from personal experience the flats on raeberry street are absolutely fine, for example. but it varies very quickly from street to street. southern maryhill is better than northern maryhill but southern maryhill does not have a train station. and the area around niven street as been completely redeveloped so there shouldnt be any problems, since you're kind of cut off from the rest of the world by the canal and the kelvin. the high-rise that's up there may look ominous but has won awards for being among the best kept high-rise in the city, with help from paul from still game and chewin the fat: [https://www.cubehousing.co.uk/about-us/media/latest-news/still-game-actor-paul-gives-collina-street-high-rise-the-seal-of-approval](https://www.cubehousing.co.uk/about-us/media/latest-news/still-game-actor-paul-gives-collina-street-high-rise-the-seal-of-approval) by hamasfrontdesk (Thu 13th Aug 2020 10:30pm)

that is - pre corona - not true in the slighest, which is, uh, why people kept building hotels in the first place by hamasfrontdesk (Thu 20th Aug 2020 1:35am)

kilts are for teuchters. kappa trackie and gutties all the way by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 21st Aug 2020 10:10pm)

damn by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 23rd Aug 2020 9:49pm)

i like the masochistic choice of going for "my maw" rather than "your maw" by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 23rd Aug 2020 9:48pm)

the erskine bridge is the furthest they're going to go and even that would be odd by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 23rd Aug 2020 9:46pm)

living on victoria road as of a few weeks ago and am funnelling a ridiculous amount of cash to kurdish, great place by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 23rd Aug 2020 9:56pm)

govan and govanhill are not anywhere near each other though (im living in govanhill the now it would take me 15-20 minutes to get to govan by car), whereas from what i can see possil and possilpark are close enough to be basically the same place. basically what im asking does greater possil encompass a bunch of places including "possilpark", including parkhouse and lambhill, in the same way that greater springburn incorporates barmulloch, cowlairs etc or greater easterhouse incorporates ruchazie, queenslie etc. is possilpark a subsection of possil, and if its not wheres the boundary dont make me have to hit up paul sweeney on tinder to get this information by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 23rd Aug 2020 10:07pm)

>Best to avoid the central grids between Dixon avenue and Allison Street. yeah avoid anything that isn't victoria road or east of victoria road (the queens drive conservation area around the park is fine but if you're looking for a flat "in govanhill" i dont imagine youre including that). its not dangerous or anything just a fucking tip by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 23rd Aug 2020 10:26pm)

hamas is a palestinian sunni-islamic fundamentalist militant organization. it has a social service wing, dawah, and a military wing, the izz ad-din al-qassam brigades. it has been the de facto governing authority of the gaza strip since its takeover of that area in 2007, and i am their public relations wing. i perform this duty by posting about scottish football and glaswegian arcana on reddit by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 24th Aug 2020 6:13pm)

cheers mate. can always rely on you by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 24th Aug 2020 6:13pm)

no because hamas are a bunch of arseholes but: [https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2711990-football-in-the-holy-land-the-superstar-locked-in-gaza](https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2711990-football-in-the-holy-land-the-superstar-locked-in-gaza) by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 24th Aug 2020 9:38pm)

i know i was just throwing the link out there anyway as its an excellent piece by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 24th Aug 2020 9:40pm)

>Springburn but are actually near forgotten names (a la Eastfield and Petershill) petershill still endures through football. it has a decent juniors team of the same name, and their petershill park is also the ground of glasgow city fc, who recently got to the quarter final of the womens champions league (i know they got absolutely pumped by wolfsburg in the end but who didnt expect them to....at least they managed to keep it to single figures) by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 25th Aug 2020 10:11pm)

ruchill park is less sketchy and busier, and has great views, and the surrounding area is disproportionately students (the average age is 20) who are probably less likely to hassle you than some mad cunt from the balgrayhill high flats by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 28th Aug 2020 1:37am)

id put it like: its the worst beer that i can actually tolerate. if im at a gig and all they have is tennents and, say, carling or heineken or something (im looking at you, o2 academy, not that ive been there in about 10 years), ill take a tennents (if they only have carling or heineken ill have a cider) by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 28th Aug 2020 2:03am)

it is listed but that only applies to outer appearance, not inner modification (excluding modifying the facade from the inside, even if its invisible from the outside) by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 28th Aug 2020 2:17am)

listed status (conservation area) only appears to the outer appearance of the flat by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 28th Aug 2020 2:23am)

like i said, its been a while (they may have changed it since). knew it was either heineken, carlsberg or grolsch that was their import (all equally piss) by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 28th Aug 2020 11:05am)

the really notorious bit of toryglen (the bit around prospecthill circus) has been afaik completely cleared and replaced with new builds so at the moment its reputation should really be no worse than kings park, which is fine for your price range dont know where yous are going to be commuting to but as someone suggested, rutherglen may be a good shout if you want to get ahead of the curve. perfectly ok area, lots of amenities, not completely comatose like a lot of the now-desirable areas south of queens park, only one stop from the train station to central (unless theyve stopped doing that; and even if they havent the dalmarnock-central route isnt exactly long), right on the m74 by hamasfrontdesk (Sat 29th Aug 2020 9:31am)

>Avoid Govanhill. the south west of govanhill is fine. albert drive and queens drive are so fine theyre way out this guys price range. torrisdale street, prince edward street area etc is all also perfectly fine. tired of people disparaging govanhill; yes, the north east part of it is dodgy but it can completely change character within the space of a block; on the deprivation index it runs almost the entire gamut of colours in the space of about 500m. its not really relevant to this guy who wants a quietish place for a family, but im living on a flat on vicky road that corners onto prince edward street and other than a gloomy close with shite stairs theres no problems. although i havent been able to do it as much recently its a great place when you have a day off for just wandering around, running into mates, going into the wide array of quaint local businesses (cafes, antique stores, bookshops), having a pint, going to the park for a while. i have queens park, locavore, ranjit's, cake box, milk, julie's kapitiam, the glad cafe, queens cafe, halloumi, kurdistan shawarma, category is, soy division, lucky sparrow, fyne fishmongers, and strange brew within walking distance, a train station within 2 minutes walking distance that takes 7 minutes to get to central, completely safe bike routes all the way to either the city centre or the east end, in a spacious 2 bedroom flat for under £130k. but sure, gypsies or something by hamasfrontdesk (Sat 29th Aug 2020 9:10pm)

>lived there 15 years ago, certainly not Govanhill at the price of the flats. christ mate, way to mask off. queens park is not an area, its a park (despite what the people in the conservation area, like you 15 years ago, will no doubt insist). govanhill ends in the southwest at queens drive and pollokshaws road, regardless of how much your flat cost. i mean do you think flat cost determines area boundaries or something? in support of this, i should point out [s1homes.com](https://s1homes.com) do not list "queen's park" as an area of glasgow at all >The OP might get lucky with Crosshill but you’d need to be very careful with Govanhill in such close proximity. crosshill is considerably closer to the bad parts of govanhill than where i am. and what do you mean "close proximity" anyway? what exactly do you think is going on in govanhill? by hamasfrontdesk (Sat 29th Aug 2020 9:49pm)

just saying what i paid for it 3 years ago. but the increase illustrates my point really by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 30th Aug 2020 12:27pm)

>If you go to a pals house and it's a bit manky or they have the sniffles, are you going to do that? ....why *wouldn't* you choose not to remain? by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 1st Sep 2020 7:41pm)

>It's likely that it's you seeing your 15 strong family from 8 households in the garden and sharing contaminated cutlery that's the issue, where as in a pub you're limited to 8 people from 3 and everything is being cleaned hourly. there's limited evidence that "contaminated cutlery" or surfaces are a significant factor at all when cases are at this level (i.e. about 1% positive on tests, so factoring in contact tracing bias that's less than 1 in every 100 people). in both aberdeen and glasgow, whether in pubs or in house parties, the mode of transmission has been pished morons screaming in each other's faces for prolonged periods by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 1st Sep 2020 7:48pm)

schools are fine, universities reopening is insane. schools are about more than learning how to do maths or whatever, they're basically about teaching you how to function as a human being, how to socialize, how to interact, etc. you cant deprive a generation of that. however there is absolutely no need for universities to reopen. remote learning has been going on since even before the internet, and while schoolkids generally see learning as an obligatory chore and will suffer from doing remote learning because they'll just tune out, students will be more motivated to pay attention and to actually do the work. by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 1st Sep 2020 7:52pm)

>Daily deaths have, on average, have been flat... turns out if you test more people the amount of positive tests coming back goes up. 0.1% positive a month ago. 1% today. and while deaths have been flat, hospitalizations are going back up, and it can take a while (up to six weeks) for people to die of this shite by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 1st Sep 2020 7:57pm)

>difference being McDonalds will have far stricter cleaning procedures than your house which you've been sneezing in and touching every surface. speak for your ain hoose mate by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 1st Sep 2020 8:02pm)

not gone to any but im in govanhill and from what i can see from my motor, punters in both pubs and restaurants dont really seem to be giving a fuck. and a mate of mine in dennistoun tried the duke bar for a bit and said socially distancing was basically non-existent kind of want to go to one just to see what its like, but i suspect id feel like jesse pinkman in that episode where he comes back to his house and theres cunts shagging and fighting everywhere by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 1st Sep 2020 8:08pm)

upon researching it further those kind of activities are being prioritised, and thats fine, and of course they are an exception. however, there is still no reason for basically any art or social science to be taught in person in any way at this point, socially distanced or not (and before anyone accuses me of being a stem snob, im an english lit grad). and even if they are being taught through personal interaction mostly remotely, they're still coming back to campus. and they're still going to be doing what students do by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 1st Sep 2020 8:35pm)

>Is it maybe on the basis that people are behaving better in public where they can be seen? lived in this city long, have you by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 1st Sep 2020 8:49pm)

>where the staff are working hard to keep hygiene up and distancing strict are they fuck by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 1st Sep 2020 8:54pm)

wikipedia says ibrox is *Àth Bruic* and hillhead is *Ceann a' Chnuic....* by hamasfrontdesk (Wed 2nd Sep 2020 2:47pm)

thats his brother you're thinking of. although given that the family all owns property i dont think he can be let off the hook entirely by hamasfrontdesk (Thu 3rd Sep 2020 7:46pm)

aye i know, but iirc when the shit came out about hardeeps flats they had also done a survey of the ones sanjeev owned too and they were being run ok. hes still a landlord which is in theory bad right off the bat, but i dont think hes a particularly bad one, though as i said the presumed closeness of their family enterprise (even if he himself personally doesnt technically own shittily maintained flats) puts him a bad light by hamasfrontdesk (Thu 3rd Sep 2020 10:40pm)

you can travel, you just cant meet with anyone else inside. it would be permitted for you to meet your mum for, say, a day hike in pitlochry. by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 8th Sep 2020 5:26pm)

best used bookstore ive been to anywhere in the world and its 10 mins walk from my door. dont know how they manage to keep such a consistently fascinating stock. by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 8th Sep 2020 5:56pm)

do you really think im saying the stock is the exact same fascinating one every time i go in, or that it turns around quickly enough that theres fresh new fascinating stuff every time i go in? if its the former, youre probably not the type of cunt whos mentally prepared to read books on a regular basis by hamasfrontdesk (Wed 9th Sep 2020 12:29am)

>high speed rail and an eventual airport route. aye good luck with that by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 22nd Sep 2020 5:46pm)

swear to god this gets posted here every two months by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 22nd Sep 2020 5:45pm)

mojo on kilmarnock road. book online. go for sean fade is 15 quid and you said a tenner, but thats my rec anyway by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 22nd Sep 2020 8:00pm)

nah the increase was the schools i think (and people becoming weary and just generally being more lax). it was already ticking up at a good pace before all the students came back. by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 9th Oct 2020 5:43pm)

>young people aren't affected at all by this virus (0.003%) mortality rate they may not die but there has been a pretty significant prevalence of people suffering other serious long-term effects, serious enough that they have to be on near-permanent sick leave by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 9th Oct 2020 7:55pm)

anyone know what the deal is with this wee bit? it appears not to have been cleaned along with the rest in the 80s-90s for some reason by hamasfrontdesk (Sat 17th Oct 2020 8:26pm)

if that were the case would there surely not be a lot of other bits like this throughout the city? im aware of none others, and ive been about im aware of the all-owners-agree pish as it was a nightmare getting cleanup work done on the flat i have in partick, and my landlady the now in govanhill has apparently for a while been having a nightmare trying to get all owners to approve necessary alterations to this block. so clearly its a recurrent problem. but i was under the impression the cleaning works on the tenements during the 80s-90s were basically rammed through, and the widespread efficacy of them would tend to confirm that was the case by hamasfrontdesk (Sat 17th Oct 2020 9:48pm)

ordinarily take books to a charity shop, but if theyre a load of shite no one's going to buy a lot of supermarkets have free book stalls. i know at least crown street co-op has one at present by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 19th Oct 2020 3:24pm)

shite patter by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 26th Oct 2020 4:19pm)

fuck only knows how often our blue bins are even being collected now. the fairly large hall in our flat in vicky road is like a fucking maze because there's three huge piles of recycling in it. everyone in the close has to be constantly watching for them to be picked up so they can rush down and immediately fill up half the entire closes recycling capacity before another flat does by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 26th Oct 2020 4:19pm)

the southside glasgow heritage & environment trust put together a couple of audio walking tours of the southside which are really interesting. i dont actually know if they work as literal physical walking tours as far as timing and stuff is concerned as i just listened to them like podcasts in the house or the car (i live in govanhill and am in pollok park all the time so didnt really need to). however theres only two at this stage and they seem to have stopped making them (or theyre on a very irregular schedule). if anyone knows anyone at sghet please tell them that i really loved them and that they should make more (hell if they want to give me the info ill write and record the audio myself) its here: [https://open.spotify.com/show/3ozGEXM0ZRDEjAa2q0QgAT?si=R-iv2Hp4RvmDHh2FWKOGuQ](https://open.spotify.com/show/3ozGEXM0ZRDEjAa2q0QgAT?si=R-iv2Hp4RvmDHh2FWKOGuQ) by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 1st Nov 2020 10:15pm)

get a place in yoker or clydebank. you arent going to find anything anywhere further out than port glasgow which is that price or less considering its literally the cheapest area in scotland (and its cheap for a reason). find somewhere in yoker or clydebank if you want to go cheap as possible. and whiteinch/scotstoun/knightswood are indeed great choices if you want to pay slightly more (apparently some areas of knightswood are a bit shite however i dont know what they are) by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 1st Nov 2020 10:21pm)

theres usually lots of skaters at the queens park bandstand. dont skate and im only judging from looking at them from the path that goes through the park but it seems a bit more chill than kelvingrove by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 1st Nov 2020 10:27pm)

"look guys, i am 100% sure i have secured the vaccine for scotland before christmas" THE GANG BUYS FRIDGES by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 1st Nov 2020 10:32pm)

aye i know they are but the cunts looking up sub £400 places in port glasgow for fucks sake, they dont exactly seem to be aiming high by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 2nd Nov 2020 2:47pm)

fucks sake. where are you staying at if you dont mind me asking by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 2nd Nov 2020 6:50pm)

were you or any of your neighbours in the flat at the time? pretty sure if someones doing that and is clearly out of control its very much legally defensible to grab a bottle out the kitchen and glass the cunt by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 2nd Nov 2020 7:02pm)

in dunya on duke street on the menu above the counter it says something "VEGETABLE PLATTER" and then the description below is of grilled seabass by hamasfrontdesk (Thu 5th Nov 2020 4:54pm)

if youre driving, go round to sanderling road or whatever its called, park there then pick them up when theyre through. if youre not driving, why on earth are you meeting them at glasgow airport itself but the terminal is a large well-ventilated area that you can socially distance with a mask in (im assuming its not that busy) so yeah that would be within the spirit of the law by hamasfrontdesk (Thu 5th Nov 2020 9:46pm)

im in govanhill and it was noisy as fuck down here too. mostly people just setting them off in their back court or in the park but a minority of bams chasing each other up the streets flinging them at each other. fortunately they seem to have got fed up/run out about half 10 and went up the road by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 6th Nov 2020 2:45am)

and whit's your alternative? by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 16th Nov 2020 12:48am)

to be fair some people (such as me) put it on their chin when they leave the house/car then pop it over the nose/mouth when they actually enter a shop. saves you faffing about having to take it out a bag or pocket at the door by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 17th Nov 2020 10:51pm)

All the stations from cessnock to bridge street had mental colour schemes seemingly chosen at random. Always baffled me by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 24th Nov 2020 10:13pm)

about a week ago they attempted to do a snow machine thing in the same spot as in that picture, but the fake snow combined with the wet pavement just made the fake snow look like cum. nice try though by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 29th Nov 2020 11:29am)

not too sure about the second one as at first glance it makes it look like the bird is frowning. colored one is class though by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 29th Nov 2020 6:18pm)

honestly the amount of risk if you're in a supermarket and someone's mask is only covering their mouth is low enough that its really not at all worth making a scene over it. youre FAR more likely to be at risk if you actually start shit with them and get into a full face-to-face confrontation (however masked), instead of just turning your head away, moving on, and getting on with your shop. yes those people are arseholes/idiots but just skirt by them and get on with your life. i for one dont want to be immobilized in the middle of an aisle or at the exit because you're in the midst of arguing across it with some person for not covering their nose by hamasfrontdesk (Sat 5th Dec 2020 11:04pm)

absolute bollocks. maybe on a few interchanges where they're integrated with the traffic flow and automated (like byres road/university avenue, charing cross mansions), sure, but what about say those insanely long-lasting red lights on dumbarton road. are you saying they go off on a schedule? because they absolutely dont. and any idiot could see that the lights on major interchanges are just on a cycle, your mate is not exactly blowing things open here by hamasfrontdesk (Thu 10th Dec 2020 9:06pm)

no, exhibition centre used to be stobcross. finnieston station used to be on argyle st across from lebowskis (line is still active) by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 14th Dec 2020 3:06pm)

as an idealised rail network for glasgow this is an absolute shanner. almost raging at the sloppiness of it by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 14th Dec 2020 3:09pm)

If people are going to do these endlessly would you do them properly. Missing stations, impossible lines, unused old lines. My train autism is going nuts over here by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 14th Dec 2020 4:16pm)

ah i had absolutely no idea it was called that for a while. cheers by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 14th Dec 2020 7:30pm)

well it worked on me if it was haha by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 15th Dec 2020 1:36am)

aye ok "exposing child prostitution" by filming a manky close. great job mate, on ye go after having grown up my entire life in glasgow almost entirely around so-called "white glaswegians" or "white scottish" or whatever the fuck, the absolute bare-faced audacity of some of these wrinkled old cunts now complaining about anti-social behavior and excessive littering and fly-tipping from immigrants is....absolutely unreal. would yous thick fuckers perhaps want a nice wee litter-n-dysfunction driving tour of the east end at all at some point? free of charge of course, i pay govanhill rent so i can afford your fuel by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 15th Dec 2020 1:53am)

the bit about some guy having "vampire eyes" was my favourite bit by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 15th Dec 2020 1:16pm)

i liked the part where he went barging into a close and back court all rhetorical guns blazing and then was like "oh this is quite nice actually" by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 15th Dec 2020 1:41pm)

now thats more like it would be intrigued to see what hes planning with that kelvindale line with the two stations. presuming the present station is the "north" one, im guessing the new line deviates from the old line at the viaduct, hugs the kelvin then the southern station is around kelvindale road. anyway i love it if so, hadnt thought of that WHYS HE NOT PUT KIRKLEE BACK IN id prefer any new subway loop to go north, as i think the possil/queen's cross/sighthill/ruchill areas are much more in need of it than the east, which as much as its talked about as being badly served by public transport, has a decent rail network really. the north would also be much cheaper as a lot of that land is derelict or scheduled for redevelopment, so could be done cut and cover for most of it. his plans are sensibly modest though confused by his east end plans. the most straightforward idea to me would just be to use the existing disused london road tunnel, put the parkhead station where it was before, then extend the tunnel north east with a station at tollcross before joining the line at shettleston. also put the switchback line back in, with stations at riddrie and blackhill, then going on to robroyston (though i would not envy the job of the person trying to run a rail line through the provan interchange....well actually i would) reinstating the line to maryhill central without extending it all the way to a station around stobhill? theres a tunnel there. boooo reinstating the line to linwood without extending it all the way to a second station at port glasgow? theres a trackbed there. boooo by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 15th Dec 2020 3:46pm)

&#x200B; >Celtic Park gets a train station to service it (maybe only on match days?) the old track is still visible behind that little tenement corner across from the commonwealth arena so that would be very easy. i dont see why it would only need to be open on match days, as theres lots of housing round there as well as the commonwealth arena. just call it parkhead >As you move towards the city, I'd reopen the old Glasgow Green Station (next to the WEST Brewery). It's a shame there's no station here - you've got a 1.8km stretch around the heart of the old city centre completely bypassed by trains! It'd be great for making the People's Palace and the green more accessible, as well as serving Calton and the Barras.I'd reopen Glasgow Cross too (and close Argyle Street, which offends me personally in its proximity to Central Station). If the Union Line was used as well (with lines from the Southside to the East End and/or Queen Street Station), you could build a two level interchange station in the Mercat Building at the heart the old city centre - if ever a building was meant to be a train station! yes to everything except argyle street, i think. i would ideally maybe keep that as a lower level for a new st. enoch station (and just rename it that) which would be some enormous structure stretching from the square to the union line, with the shopping centre (which doesnt make money anymore) incorporated multi-level into the train station so the passenger traffic increases footfall to the shops/restaurants. argyle st and central are very close but both stations are (or were, and hopefully will be again) rammed at peak times, and i dont think youd want to send all of argyle st's passenger traffic to central (and i dont think a glasgow cross station would absorb it, particularly if its also taking new east end-southside traffic) i had the exact same idea about the mercat building! i dont know what exactlys in the upper floors of it right now but it might be nice to take out all the floors so all the light coming in through the windows gives a grand central type effect besides new stations already mentioned on that map, id have ones at haghill (at the forge), barmulloch & germiston (broomfield rd), scotstoun (stadium), sighthill (just before the footbridge that i think might a road bridge now), cowlairs (hawthorn st), blochairn (blochairn rd), and st andrews cross (grandly situated in the old power station building on pollokshaws road) ideally the new st enoch would take most services to edinburgh as well as most south and east routes, central would take south, west, all trains to england, and the cathcart circle, with queen street focusing on north. the additional capacity this would free up at queen street high level (not so much the station itself but the incline) could also be used for a very high frequency "glasgow circle" type service which leaves queen street high level, goes out to anniesland, then runs through queen street low level and then back into high-level i would require the demolition of first's new bus terminal on crown street for all this haha. though that would probably be a lot less controversial than what no one talks about when they bang on about reopening the botanic gardens line: severing the kelvin walkway in two and destroying half of what is a very pleasant bit of green space looked out open by some pretty prestigious residences. im having an argument with their occupants in my head right now. DO YOU WANT PUBLIC TRANSPORT OR DONT YOU YA POSH PRICKS by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 15th Dec 2020 7:46pm)

you act like theres a whole area of flats or front lawns which are all like that. there are a few dotted about here and there. i know four households on what's supposedly the "wrong" side of victoria road (im on the "right" side, on the road itself), all of which are occupied by young women, all of whom have had no problems with the area. ive been in their closes, in their back courts, they are well-kept (if a little old looking) and not filled with bags of rubbish. i drive along calder street and allison street near enough every fucking day and being from glasgow i know what fucking litter looks like. those streets are no worse than the glasgow average honestly the absolute brass neck of and/or lack of self-awareness in so-called "native glaswegians" complaining about people being clatty bastarts is just unreal. we're one of the clattiest cities in europe. i think only naples is worse. like i regularly have to drive up dee street to get to my allotment and the amount of trash thats dumped along the side of that road is consistently atrocious. are the roma carting their rubbish all the way up to riddrie for some reason? if its not racism what fucking is it by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 15th Dec 2020 8:52pm)

>If the Botanics/Maryhill line was a tram and not heavy rail, I think this would go part of the way of mitigating the negative response. There still would be a negative response, but on balance, I'm convinced it's hugely worthwhile passing such a light rail line through KG. The line (basically the route of the quashed Strathclyde Tram from the 90s) would link Drumchapel and Maryhill with Hillhead, Finnieston, and the City Centre. The Strathclyde Tram route was planned to also continue east on-street through Denniestoun and Carntyne, all the way to Easterhouse. the thing is i dont think a tram would mean all that much less disruption. you would still have to rip out a whole bunch of large, verdant, old trees. i dont think the advantage of having slightly less disruption there would be worth the disadvantage of not being able to directly link with the heavy rail network, which would mean people from the city centre, lanarkshire or bridgeton/calton/dalmarnock would be able to go direct to the park/the uni/byres road what was the drumchapel link for strathclyde trams? in the copy i have of the pamphlet for it the line only goes to maryhill >On First's depot at Crown Street: why would that need to be demolished? i need to get the union line to connect with the argyle line at cathcart road and the track curve would be a bit much if you wait until after youve gone under the m74. there is a rail tunnel pre-built into the m74 future-proofed for crossrail but its just for going south (towards crossmyloof or wherever) by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 15th Dec 2020 9:12pm)

> showing the tram running on-street from Maryhill Central (where Tesco is now) NW to Drumchapel. It followed quite a winding path from what I remember, mostly following Maryhill Road then Canniesburn Road. that doesnt seem particularly great tbh. i would rather see maryhill road given separated cycle lanes, as is being done to victoria and pollokshaws roads. and canniesburn/drumchapel road is almost a country road, dont know how you would ever get trams along there > On the Union line / Argyle Line - are you maybe getting mixed up with one of the Paisley lines? The Argyle Line runs West-East under Central Station. I don't think a chord between those crossing lines near Carthcart Road will ever happen (and I don't think it's really needed!). i may be misremembering the names of the lines but what i basically mean is that i need it to get it from st enoch over the union bridge to rutherglen, so that st enoch can serve most of the lanarkshire lines as well as the edinburgh routes that go through carmyle and cambuslang by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 15th Dec 2020 10:38pm)

i live in govanhill and if i ever come across this cunt livestreaming this bullshit, his phones getting grabbed and smashed against a wall. dont give a fuck if hes supposedly an ex-marine, i can handle myself by hamasfrontdesk (Wed 16th Dec 2020 1:03am)

why did they ever go away? by hamasfrontdesk (Thu 17th Dec 2020 11:22pm)

yeah i heard it about both the magnum in irvine and some place in (i think) linwood by hamasfrontdesk (Wed 23rd Dec 2020 12:10am)

i really try to avoid publicizing things like this because the more careful everyone else is the better, but outdoors transmission is almost certainly barely a thing at all. in fact i would argue you physically going to the supermarket "for some stuff" is more irresponsible than me having a chat 1-2 metres away from a pal in the park. delivery or click and collect slots are not at all hard to get by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 27th Dec 2020 8:58pm)

ok ive blamed the virus. what do i do now by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 27th Dec 2020 9:01pm)

im not sure what youve been seeing people doing outside mate but from what ive seen in parks around the city, all available research would suggest....yes. studies (i.e. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.04.20053058v1?campaign_id=0&emc=edit_nn_20200514&instance_id=0&nl=the-morning&regi_id=0&segment_id=0&te=1&user_id=b74358c4954dc24bf1450049d7ba544b) have shown that outdoor transmission is extremely rare, and ventilation and movement of air is absolutely key to transmission. unless youre coughing or screaming directly in someones face outdoors youll be fine. the countrys parks were rammed all summer. tons of people around, only moderate distancing.....and cases stayed in single figures. it was only when things started to reopen indoors (educational settings mostly, i suspect) in autumn that scotland got a second wave and i have been to supermarkets, its impossible to fully socially distance because people just come at you and aisles are only a set width, and masks are far from 100% effective, especially if its just some shitty bit of cloth and not at least a n95/kn95. youre in an enclosed environment with limited ventilation, where masses of people are moving about unpredictably. im not an expert but from what i have seen in the literature i would unequivocally say yes, thats more hazardous than having a moderately distanced picnic in the park. and theres no mental health benefit to going to the supermarket. by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 27th Dec 2020 9:54pm)

yeah science is extremely shitty sometimes. sorry you cant lazily browse the condiment aisle with your bulletproof cotton scarf by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 27th Dec 2020 9:59pm)

again: i dont know what youve been seeing. im in govanhill and have not exactly seen any mass gatherings about, whether in the park or on the street. at least certainly not 6+, although i dont know what personal proximity youre considering to be evident of a "gathering" (do the people have to know each other? enlighten me) and it doesnt matter if youre wearing a decent facemask and everyone else is wearing a stupid scarf. they still have the potential to infect you, these things are not bulletproof. youre indoors, the space is poorly ventilated, the exhalations of dozens of people are consistently circulating, and you have no idea what people around you are going to do or what their level of caution in their lives is. if i meet two or three mates in the park for a picnic at a reasonable distance thats substantially less of a risk than you cutting about asda with a million other people. the science bears this out: ventilation and air movement are absolutely key. there are delivery slots available. use them and dont fucking judge me for having a walk in the fucking park by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 27th Dec 2020 10:29pm)

you can leave your house to buy food as much as you want mate, lots of people are, just dont try to high-side it on folk who are doing things either considerably less, or insignificantly more, risky, whilst taking additional precautions more well-judged than yours. again, the science bears this out. im not saying that should mean everyone should start gathering en masse just because its outside, but the impression i got was of you trudging along to get a thingy of butter and a punnet of grapes whilst silently seething at anyone sitting on a park bench by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 27th Dec 2020 10:46pm)

what are the two prominent high-rise structures on the horizon there? cant work it out by hamasfrontdesk (Wed 30th Dec 2020 5:50am)

the staff are as bad as the customers. no one in the crown street greggs ever has a mask on (they have a screen so from my own personal health point of view i dont care but theyre still at the risk of infecting each other, and then so on and so forth). and the costa 30 seconds over the road has all staff masked, so theres no excuse. the rate of mask usage in the victoria road sainsburys is also considerably less for staff than it is for customers. i dont want to shit on what are ostensibly frontline workers but still. just because you cant infect me doesnt mean i trust you to not infect your colleague (and, again, so on and so forth) by hamasfrontdesk (Wed 30th Dec 2020 6:00am)

the "nisa-way" on cumbernauld road at haghill school is the same. its on the way from the southside to my allotment so ive attempted to pop in there a few times to get beer before leaving very rapidly. basically no mask wearing at all by customers. guys who i guess are mostly behind screens for the day just cutting about the shop unmasked by hamasfrontdesk (Wed 30th Dec 2020 6:12am)

i hope your skiting the basket on the floor was dramatic enough to make the point by hamasfrontdesk (Wed 30th Dec 2020 6:16am)

radio buena vida just started under lockdown and is very good: [https://soundcloud.com/radiobuenavida](https://soundcloud.com/radiobuenavida) by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 5th Jan 2021 3:20pm)

great stuff. interestingly, the shipyard they show is alexander stephens, which billy connolly would have been working at the time this was filmed. by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 5th Jan 2021 3:27pm)

pretty sure ice skating would count as exercise. if fucking golf counts as exercise, as listed on the government guidelines, then ice skating surely must by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 5th Jan 2021 3:48pm)

glasgow 1980 is really making a push these last few weeks to overtake that one picture of st enoch station in the race for "most frequently posted" trophy on here by hamasfrontdesk (Wed 6th Jan 2021 10:24am)

wait, so it wasnt run by someone called dino ferrari? youd think it would have been sued at some point considering ferrari the automaker are notoriously litigious and protective of their brand especially considering dino is actually the name of one of their cars, and that they're using very similar font by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 17th Jan 2021 7:16pm)

throughout my life ive lived in south woodside street, byres road, white street, and am now (after a period of living abroad) presently on victoria road and issues with vermin and waste issues are less here than they were in all the previous places (i mean other than the council not picking up the fucking bins which i presume is a pandemic situation). i had huge fucking rats in kelvinbridge, a few wee mice in partick, i have not had a single sign of any rodents in govanhill. our back close is positively idyllic compared to all of the previous places i mentioned where they were all either a dump and/or concrete nothingness. there are some scumbag landlords cramming exploited people into undermaintained flats up the other side of vicky road and thats not good, but for the most part govanhill is absolutely fine and one of the most vibrant, enthusiastic and fun communities in the whole city. and as ive said before on here, for anyone who thinks govanhill has "waste issues" above and beyond the council, ill take you on a tour of camlachie, bridgeton or riddrie anytime you want. what differentiates those areas from govanhill, you wonder? hmm cant possibly imagine by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 18th Jan 2021 10:27pm)

i live in govanhill and if i see him coming anywhere near my close hes getting fucking wrecked. dont give a fuck if hes a ex-marine, pretty sure my old young team smarts will win out by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 18th Jan 2021 10:48pm)

what the fuck are you talking about you cunt. "westend luvvie" aye i grew up in a council estate in tannochside and moved to the west end as a student thats why i was living there. with persistent rats. anytime you want an exploratory tour of govanhill's cleanliness give me a call you wee prick by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 19th Jan 2021 6:06am)

aye "westend luvvie" im from fuckin tannochside mate and moved to the west end for uni, try again ya wee prick by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 19th Jan 2021 7:11am)

"Grow up, kid", who are you, fucking robert de niro? real classic typical working class glaswegian expression there. away back to being racist ya stupid fuck by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 19th Jan 2021 5:46pm)

the m8 is very loud if you're close to it, especially if you want windaes open in warm weather by hamasfrontdesk (Thu 21st Jan 2021 4:38pm)

pretty much everywheres better than it used to be. the thing about castlemilk is that it's so far out and so poorly served by public transport you may as well live in lanarkshire by hamasfrontdesk (Thu 21st Jan 2021 4:51pm)

was it overlooking and immediately beside the 10-lane kingston though? by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 24th Jan 2021 1:32pm)

alright, fair enough. just knew a mate who lived in the coop building and really hated the noise, and whenever i was round at hers it did seem a bit loud having said that, when i was a wean i always used to dream of living in those directly overlooking flats so i could just sit and watch the cars all day. cant say ive fully grown out of it by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 24th Jan 2021 1:44pm)

ill look more into this, cheers. by hamasfrontdesk (Wed 3rd Feb 2021 1:16am)

cheers, that seems like my best bet although it does say on their website at the moment that their "repair stop" is only doing repair for *essential* items, and i dont know if a games console would count by hamasfrontdesk (Wed 3rd Feb 2021 1:16am)

the baths are not derelict or abandoned, theyre just temporarily closed by hamasfrontdesk (Thu 4th Feb 2021 12:22am)

didn't realize there were still quite a few uncleaned tenement blocks as late as that (now theres only one afaik, in albert avenue) by hamasfrontdesk (Thu 4th Feb 2021 12:09am)

that is official policy for a lot of languages though, most notably icelandic. its awkward but the alternative is you have a hell of a lot of daft bilingual signs which just say "newton - newton". if newton is the name of a person (as in the case of hillhead) then yeah it should be just "newton", but if its called that for another reason then i would prefer for a new gaelic form to be devised by hamasfrontdesk (Sat 6th Feb 2021 6:46pm)

"language censorship" what is it you want to say and can't mate? by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 7th Mar 2021 8:35am)

i know someone who attended a lecture by the marketing folk who came up with people make glasgow, and they said it was deliberately designed to a) be able to be widely used sarcastically/negatively because that makes it more meme-able, b) not actually really promise anything, like idk "glasgow: the happiest place on earth!" or something by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 26th Mar 2021 4:17pm)

"ah tell ye whit, if you dinnae start appreciating me ill fockin leave, ehh!?" "fuckin leave then, and take that fuckin accent wi ye ya fuckin..." by hamasfrontdesk (Sat 24th Jul 2021 10:13pm)

in the most extreme modern glaswegian usage its been expanded from its original definition of just gaelic-speaking highlander to mean almost anyone scottish who speaks with a regional accent that isnt a west coast one (yes it makes no sense to call people from edinburgh teuchters but glaswegians either cant tell the difference or dont care or both) by hamasfrontdesk (Sat 24th Jul 2021 10:19pm)

Not the point. I grew up in a young team environment and we all knew where to stab someone with the least chance of it being fatal. by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 18th Oct 2021 6:43pm)

Can potentially be the best setup in the city depending on the sound guy (stereos the only other venue with equivalent muscle that isn't the concert hall). Never had a bad gig there by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 18th Oct 2021 6:51pm)

Didn't say I ever did mate. It was just received common knowledge amongst the people I came up with. But hey if you want to supply my 14-year-old self some searing critiques of the merits of gang violence you can send them back in time for me, I'm sure my pals will be just crushed by logic on the field of debate down the scheme in 2001 by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 18th Oct 2021 7:01pm)

youre right i should have put an advert in the paper and found a different peer group somewhere else in the city and taken the train to hang about with them. thats how these things work by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 18th Oct 2021 7:35pm)

so would you extend this sociological assessment outside of the west of scotland, meaning that you (apparently) believe that in every city plagued by gang violence, be it ciudad juarez, london, chicago, st louis, rio, fortaleza etc, the perpetrators are choosing to engage in said culture based on an entirely rational, informed, and fully considered choice from other choices? if so, you might as well just fast forward to the logical conclusion of that which is the "some people are just biologically evil" argument, and then just to speed things up a bit we'll fast forward even further to the part where you have to explain the weird correlation between the people you think are biologically evil and their family's income bracket by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 18th Oct 2021 8:05pm)

its not about a "sole determining factor" its about multi-generational poverty and the sense of hopelessness that creates which leads to young people finding that the only thing that actually makes them feel something inside is being popular amongst their friends, which leads to them being popular amongst a gang, which leads to them being violent as part of a gang so that their friends like them. your horizons in these communities are so limited that theres nothing else you feel you can do to sustain your worth as a person, or your future. so yeah, in the immortal words of travis view: its not ideal. but the solution to these problems is providing decent education and basic services to these communities which they do not have, to enable working class kids to have access to things that makes them feel worthwhile. but whatever im very glad you grew up in a posh bit of coatbridge and were able to safely seclude you and your pals by having my chemical romance listening parties or whatever the fuck by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 19th Oct 2021 12:07am)

peer pressure is a very strong thing and you dont always know, or care, what youre doing. im not a bad person at this point (i have a fucking doctorate) and i took part in that lifestyle, im surely not beyond contempt at the age of 14 when i was a huge moron. people grow, people grow from very bad circumstances as i did, dont damn them. and i was into the shins during their heyday too, if only reddit was about at the time. and i know sikeside very very well, the home of the best nightclub in lanarkshire, universe, and supposedly the apparent rabbit capital of lanarkshire, my ex was from there (is that you alice? for the love of god say its not) by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 19th Oct 2021 5:04am)

>So all of Scotland should pay more tax to bail out GCC? Fuck that. gcc's council revenue is already drastically reduced by all the rich outskirts of glasgow leaving for renfrewshire or dumbartonshire because the rich fucks dont want to pay for public services for the undeserving poors in springburn or haghill or wherever. by extension, if the rest of scotland doesnt want to pay to make its largest city not a shithole, well, here you have it. hope you enjoy it! this is what you want, this is what you get, this is what you want, this is what you get by hamasfrontdesk (Thu 21st Oct 2021 8:00pm)

i grew up in a similarly bad environment (i never did anything to anyone before anyone asks, the most i did was get glassed twice) and i remember the stupid shite ("mwi" included) people would post online at the time fuelling rivalries. i thought it had died out over the last decade or so but apparently not. by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 22nd Oct 2021 12:04am)

They keep the east end in shape now? by hamasfrontdesk (Wed 27th Oct 2021 11:53am)

my close in partick looked worse than this regularly and that was more than 10 years ago. there were more rats in my close in otago street 10 years ago than in my close in govanhill the now. the problems are the result of decades of neglect (sometimes deliberately: looking at you bearsden, newton mearns, giffnock....cunts) by hamasfrontdesk (Wed 27th Oct 2021 12:00pm)

Is there some reason you don't just want to go on auto trader and search on there? I would generally say just going to a used car dealer and asking what they have is a very bad idea anytime anywhere as they'll see you as a mark immediately but as people have pointed out the biggest used car supermarket chains in glasgow are particularly cuntish. If you just want a banger anyway it doesn't really matter if you end up buying from a prick independent, just check the car as best you can beforehand and check the dealer has no bad reputation. If you want you can even tell me your budget (incl. tax and insurance) and requirements (size, fuel type etc) and I'll find some cars for you by hamasfrontdesk (Thu 28th Oct 2021 10:40am)

They don't fit. No, I'm not kidding. by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 29th Nov 2021 8:53pm)

im merely concerned about the conservation area by hamasfrontdesk (Wed 29th Dec 2021 2:22am)

if it was the middle of the night and i barrelled it down university avenue at 150 mph in my saab and crashed into that, no chance that corners staying up i will die as i lived, making sure the conservation areas are ok whilst driving a saab by hamasfrontdesk (Wed 29th Dec 2021 2:29am)

aye but they dont have a decent runup for crashing into them do they by hamasfrontdesk (Wed 29th Dec 2021 2:32am)

see this is the kind of doubt-mongering i was after by hamasfrontdesk (Wed 29th Dec 2021 2:31am)

ive been doing that my whole life by hamasfrontdesk (Wed 29th Dec 2021 2:40am)

wasnt walking i was driving by hamasfrontdesk (Wed 29th Dec 2021 11:21am)

they're putting all the 1938 empire exhibition stuff back up by hamasfrontdesk (Wed 2nd Feb 2022 8:14pm)

i dont know about that (i was joking obviously) but at least redoing the landscaping and the fountains and stuff would be incredible. bellahouston could be so much better than what it is by hamasfrontdesk (Sat 5th Feb 2022 2:49pm)

bring back the railway station or gtfo by hamasfrontdesk (Sat 23rd Apr 2022 4:18pm)

doesnt really make any sense though if this is any true example of one; its a shortcut. in this case, as is the case with so much of glasgows post-war housing schemes, a result of it being designed by people who were more concerned with what they could do rather than what they should do. or by what places looked like as a scale model on a table rather than what they worked like as communal living areas by hamasfrontdesk (Wed 27th Apr 2022 11:58am)

i meant the "meandering" part specifically (though the "desire paths" term a wee bit too) by hamasfrontdesk (Wed 27th Apr 2022 6:08pm)

just drove through shawlands and theres nae cunt aboot. away tae yer bed and pish it by hamasfrontdesk (Thu 19th May 2022 12:23am)

livelihoods come with folk working in betting shops too, so what? working in a strip club is not good work. or at the very least its work nowhere near well-paid enough to make up for how incredibly shitty it is by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 20th Jun 2022 12:57pm)

>Maybe you should talk to the people who work there. The dancers. They probably make more than you. Its also a good platform to support other interstes like modelling and SW. lol. tell me youve never known anyone whos worked in strip clubs without telling me youve never known anyone whos worked in strip clubs. what did you see, a 2016 buzzfeed listicle? by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 20th Jun 2022 1:23pm)

i know you are but what am i by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 20th Jun 2022 1:26pm)

how about not ruining either the green or bellahouston for everyone else for the rest of the summer and go back to the old days, when we shipped every fucking fanny who wants to get pished in a field while listening to shite music up to some field in kinross to do it there by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 28th Jun 2022 12:29am)

fall out boy were not really any less credible in the mid noughties (their heyday) than green day and weezer were in the mid noughties (definitely not either of their critical heydays). and i mean, green day in 2006 dressed behaved and looked exactly like, and did not sound but came pretty close to, fall out boy in the mid-noughties. i would imagine that daft goth/emo/mosher/whatever-they-were-called-at-this-point kids who did not like both at that time were very thin on the ground, it would have been a whole package. and green day's popularity now is derived from that popularity as a stadium pop-punk rock band in the mid-noughties, not as the band who played woodstock 94. as their setlist reflects, i am told. as for weezer, dont know what to say about them anymore, and that my highest compliment is that if this whole entire thing is a bit, rivers, then good for you man. good for you by hamasfrontdesk (Wed 29th Jun 2022 2:31am)

You don't say by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 5th Aug 2022 6:59pm)

im sorry what does the structural integrity of a viaduct have to do with "layout and road planning" exactly by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 5th Aug 2022 9:15pm)

deadest is still funnier. "awright, its 6.30 am on a tuesday, yeah....in october...im at the anytime fitness in bishopbriggs.....and look, im gonna level wiv ya.....the only person here, right.....(points, camera pans over, zooms in and focuses)...is the fackin cleaner. yeah? (cut back to danny, who scratches beard in a concerned fashion) i am fackin brickin it" by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 5th Aug 2022 9:24pm)

Road building, that would be by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 5th Aug 2022 10:57pm)

the m8 bit that exists is half the intended ring road the other half was cancelled ya spanner by hamasfrontdesk (Thu 11th Aug 2022 1:34am)

i have some inside knowledge of the process behind that slogan and that was exactly the point of it, i.e. it was very much designed to be used negatively as well because that way its far more memeable (in every sense). and thus any negative spin it gets enhances any positive spin, but not vice versa by hamasfrontdesk (Wed 17th Aug 2022 11:39pm)

any proposal for glasgow that relates to public transport (removing the m8/expressway, pedestrianizing the entire city centre, adding a northern bypass) people should shut the fuck up about and just replace it with a proposal to massively improve public transport. all of that is dependent on that, so shut the fuck up about banning cars from the city centre and removing the m8 and start talking about public transport and nothing else other than public transport by hamasfrontdesk (Wed 17th Aug 2022 11:43pm)

probably pink peacock. best thing about them? completely uncontroversial by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 21st Aug 2022 1:33am)

tell the bin men to take that fuckin accent wi them anaw then by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 30th Aug 2022 8:59pm)

fuck off by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 2nd Sep 2022 9:20am)

why for pointing out a fucking typo? by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 2nd Sep 2022 9:42am)

im pretty sure they could very easily get on board with a movement which supported the traditional authority and doctrine of the catholic church against all so-called reformers once they discovered it was also a movement of reactionary conservative nationalism centered around royalty, violence, marching and flegs by hamasfrontdesk (Sat 10th Sep 2022 11:57pm)

its certainly a safe enough area but it will be very quiet, i.e. dead, most of the time. it looks closer on a map to shawlands/govanhill/pollokshields (i.e. places where things happen) than it actually is or feels like but if youve been in the halls in maryhill then the west end for 9 years maybe you want some peace and quiet by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 20th Sep 2022 5:35pm)

take it your wife's from flyover country then by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 20th Sep 2022 9:37pm)

Because the concept of code switching is apparently just the craziest thing in the world to her by hamasfrontdesk (Wed 21st Sep 2022 12:05am)

>McDonald’s, Coca Cola, PepsiCo etc. as they’re the brands creating the problem in the first place, make it their problem. lmao are you going to group all brands and eateries into "people who eat this are definitely the kind who litter" and "people who eat this would never think of littering"? by hamasfrontdesk (Wed 21st Sep 2022 11:44am)

and youve done what research into this? by hamasfrontdesk (Wed 21st Sep 2022 3:33pm)

you havent twigged that that's just because they make the stuff that's most often sold? by hamasfrontdesk (Wed 21st Sep 2022 6:09pm)

but theres nothing about their product that makes it more likely to be littered. what exactly do you expect them to do in response to such a reprimand? dispense chips directly into peoples cupped hands? while presumably the blue lagoon up the road is still using four layers of packaging because proportionally the blue lagoon chain doesnt contribute a significant amount to GLOBAL OVERALL LITTER OUTPUT. you're a pillock by hamasfrontdesk (Wed 21st Sep 2022 8:34pm)

they use plastic bags you fucking muppet by hamasfrontdesk (Thu 22nd Sep 2022 10:57am)

forgive me if im losing my patience with one of the stupidest conversations of all time by hamasfrontdesk (Thu 22nd Sep 2022 11:34am)

patrick will be relieved by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 4th Oct 2022 9:23pm)

yeah what if you want to "honour all the Dutch players in the team" by hamasfrontdesk (Wed 5th Oct 2022 7:07pm)

the fact that the ccp (or "the chinese government", whatever) have been spying on and intimidating chinese students living in glasgow has been common knowledge for a long time by hamasfrontdesk (Thu 27th Oct 2022 2:14am)

there's a bit of it on which you can get a fair bit away from any actual laid line but you're still technically walking around on the track bed. it may be have been left to overgrow in places (completely or partially) but it's not abandoned, the whole structure is still owned and used by network rail and you will get into a great deal of trouble if you go up there (or at the very least make a good few people extremely annoyed with you) by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 10th Feb 2023 7:31am)

no worries, its just that if you're up there british transport police and network rail will treat you as someone trespassing on the railway. which you are, even if you're safely past the point at which the remaining active line curves off. if someone spots you up there they wont know youre not a person in distress or out your nut on something (or both) by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 10th Feb 2023 4:15pm)

If you dont "sell out" at around half 6 and actually provide a functioning service all evening like a normal restaurant you'll be accused of "gentrifying" the area by failed arts professionals who only live in said area because their flat happened to be in daddy's price range. Welcome to the Southside. by hamasfrontdesk (Fri 10th Feb 2023 4:26pm)

"Sort that out" by hamasfrontdesk (Sat 11th Feb 2023 7:57pm)

Yeah that's the way it should work, good thinking dickhead by hamasfrontdesk (Sat 11th Feb 2023 9:34pm)

lived there for 5 years until the middle of last year. it can very a lot from block to block because there are a lot of maintenance and cleansing issues stemming from very dodgy landlords but on average its fine, and generally pretty much everything west of (or on) victoria road is generally better than that, at about dennistoun level. overall as far as crime/housing standard/etc its about on the same level overall as govan but with a far better buzz and mood to it by hamasfrontdesk (Sat 11th Feb 2023 10:09pm)

that is just absolute pish (lived there for 5 years until the middle of last year) by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 12th Feb 2023 2:08pm)

there havent been any wee corner shops in the gorbals for about 50 years. loads in allison street though. by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 12th Feb 2023 2:08pm)

larger parts of govan and maryhill are a shithole by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 12th Feb 2023 2:12pm)

what the fuck do you think the word "ghetto" means by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 12th Feb 2023 2:20pm)

there are a lot of roma people around the area between those two streets yes, but they arent even a plurality let alone a majority, let alone is the area some sort of exclusive enclave of them. it looks and feels like any other poor part of glasgow apart from the skin tone is (i guess) slightly darker on average. your "ghetto" contains locavore and the bell jar ffs that area has an unusually high proportion of very badly kept housing stock even for a city of badly kept housing stock but - as you said - that's entirely due to those immigrants being very easy to exploit (or exploitable to a higher tolerance point) by the worst landlords in the country. even when they arent dozens of people into one-bedroom flats they refuse to maintain anything because what are their tenants going to do about it the modern use of the word "ghetto" also suggests its full of crime, and while govanhill certainly is from a crime-free zone, if the level of crime in govanhill means its a "ghetto" then pretty much half the city is a "ghetto" by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 12th Feb 2023 4:53pm)

well the word ghetto comes from areas of cities which were exclusively jewish because thats where all the jews were sent to live. same with areas of modern cities (mostly in america) which were once almost homogeneous enclaves of italian or german or whatever immigrants. but whatever. the area has its problems, im just a bit tired of it being targeted for being a slum when its arguably considerably less so than many areas in the east and north (the areas of glasgow that dont, unlike govanhill, get a thread popping up on this subreddit every six months asking if they're okay to live in because no one ever even considers living there out of choice). anyway, no worries by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 12th Feb 2023 5:07pm)

do you remember any more about where or what this is? cheers by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 12th Feb 2023 7:09pm)

if someone said to me they live in "kelvingrove" I'd think they meant bentinck street type of area. i think people from the park district just say the name of the street if people ask where they stay by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 26th Feb 2023 2:38pm)

what a load of pish lol by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 26th Feb 2023 2:35pm)

Aye right next to the Finnieston museum and art gallery by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 26th Feb 2023 4:10pm)

no part of pollokshaws road is in govanhill, and the m&s garage is in crossmyloof not shawlands. shawlands stops at langside ave. the pollokshaws road part of crossmyloof then ends at titwood road whereupon you enter strathbungo. you briefly leave strathbungo for the eastern most extreme of pollokshields at coplaw street then you enter port eglinton/eglinton toll or whatever its called after kwik-fit. by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 26th Feb 2023 6:57pm)

doing the dance from fresh prince while holding a samurai sword by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 26th Feb 2023 7:03pm)

garngad is just royston. they changed the name i think because it had too many connotations with crime and poverty. certainly solved that problem! hangingshaw is absolutely the correct name for the bit which is definitely not toryglen, definitely not mount florida and definitely not crosshill by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 26th Feb 2023 7:01pm)

if battlefield is part of langside, a fairly large part of shawlands is also part of langside. by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 26th Feb 2023 7:08pm)

ive lain awake at night trying to reconcile my belief that north kelvinside is just maryhill with my belief that north woodside is definitely NOT maryhill by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 26th Feb 2023 7:05pm)

that and the bit around cathkin park theres a theory that glasgow corporation invented auchenshuggle because it was where the main tram terminus was and thus was displayed on the front of a lot of trams yoker-style, and so they made up a cutesy cartoon scots name to make people want to go there. ive never found out whether that was true or if there actually was anything there before the tram terminus (and then latterly the motorway services etc). the wee bit of woodland at the end of london road is officially called auchenshuggle woods though by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 26th Feb 2023 7:15pm)

a large part of shawlands is actually newlands by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 26th Feb 2023 7:33pm)

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossmyloof](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossmyloof) by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 26th Feb 2023 7:45pm)

if you turn onto coplaw street from pollokshaws road you're then in govanhill, if you just drive straight on you're in the very eastern part of pollokshields (with the tramway and the gurdwara). eglinton toll starts at about where kwik-fit and halfords are, and the gorbals starts a couple blocks after the cross (on either road) by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 26th Feb 2023 10:03pm)

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossmyloof](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossmyloof) by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 26th Feb 2023 10:05pm)

yeah the eggy toll is basically just the cross, as soon as you get past it its the gorbals i would say everything ON pollokshaws road is strathbungo (i.e. marchtown, ranjits) but as soon as you turn east off of it you're in govanhill. it changes in both appearance and rent/price almost immediately. its certainly not strathbungo (the furthest east ive seen a flat be advertised as strathbungo is westmoreland street, which you have to admire the gall of really) by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 26th Feb 2023 11:48pm)

i think george square was originally de-greened as part of the european city of culture bid, i.e. whoever judges that would be more favorable to glasgow if it had more open space for events, etc by hamasfrontdesk (Thu 2nd Mar 2023 4:01pm)

there simply isnt enough actual solid concrete in the kingston bridge for that, its largely hollow and you can go inside it ([picture here](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/842640_4e85a87bd3204217a0209e08f193c3d3~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_560,h_360,al_c,q_90,enc_auto/Kingston%20Bridge%20-%20Interior%20View%20(Late%201990s).jpg)). you would risk having legs and arms sticking out if you had tried that. by hamasfrontdesk (Sat 4th Mar 2023 5:47pm)

most of the older section of the m8 has a culverted canal under it. a lot of the m74 in lanarkshire has sub-surface heating (it doesnt work anymore). burying someone in the construction of a motorway is more bother than its worth. its also not much of a deterrent, id be thinking "well they arent going to kill me because they surely cant be bothered going to the trouble of fixing it so my corpse is disposed of as part of the dualling of the a9" by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 5th Mar 2023 2:04pm)

singing kettle by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 2nd Apr 2023 10:05am)

Don't have weans so I've no idea but that's a shame if that's the case. Bring back anti-Americanism by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 2nd Apr 2023 2:57pm)

yooooo it was bussin fam. artie is deadass lowkey bae by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 2nd Apr 2023 4:39pm)

i have a big saab estate in a tenemental urban area and i do find myself angrily giving up on trying to parallel park in smaller parking spaces quite a lot. it's all worth it for the one time in ten you absolutely nail it into an impossibly tiny space though by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 3rd Apr 2023 9:37am)

far west by hamasfrontdesk (Thu 13th Apr 2023 6:19pm)

theres already a canal all the way through the city with a freely accessible footpath all the way beside it? by hamasfrontdesk (Sat 15th Apr 2023 9:54pm)

>which has had lanes closed forever it seems with zero progress the lanes aren't closed to do work on those parts of the viaduct. the lanes are closed because they're scared the viaduct will collapse if the traffic load and speed is not reduced for the time it will take for them to figure out how to (or if they can...) actually rectify it (it wont literally collapse all of a sudden, they'll detect in advance if thats likely enough to happen to close the road entirely) by hamasfrontdesk (Sat 15th Apr 2023 9:57pm)

Did your childhood pizza close at quarter past 6 every night too? by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 30th Apr 2023 11:54am)

Three floors up, I already said by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 30th Apr 2023 11:52am)

Do you still get 24 hour tescos? I thought they were a covid casualty by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 1st May 2023 11:53am)

the same scheme that gets rolled out every 15 years then quietly binned, repeat ad nauseum by hamasfrontdesk (Sat 6th May 2023 8:33am)

absolutely no excuse, vast swathes of the city is unused (unbuilt upon) land now and even more of it was 15 years ago the clyde metro won't get built for the same reasons - its too much bother to pay to move the minimal stuff thats in the way out of it, especially when land owners/speculators are basically allowed to hold public utilities to ransom by hamasfrontdesk (Sat 6th May 2023 8:31am)

is that a reasonable explanation for them not seeing the half-dozen huge signs in front of the bridge? by hamasfrontdesk (Sun 21st May 2023 7:07pm)

if you don't allow me to consent to watching you have sex to satisfy some miserable kink, I don't need you to consent to me throwing shit at you in response by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 20th Jun 2023 2:37pm)

the post-covid afterlife of the covid protest people, where they constantly have to rack their brains to come up with new things to meet up and get mad about, would be very funny if it werent so sad by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 5th Sep 2023 3:42pm)

DELETED their intentions are pure the same way a dog's love is pure: yeah their feelings are pure, but theyre also a fucking moron. by hamasfrontdesk (Tue 5th Sep 2023 5:37pm)

you're a toilet! by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 18th Sep 2023 3:51pm)

boo hoo away and greet about it by hamasfrontdesk (Mon 13th Nov 2023 5:45pm)