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27 minutes ago, pandarilla said:


I agree with this.

They're generally just like anywhere else - but there's more than a faint whiff of superiority in a lot of the chat.

Proper centre of the universe stuff.

Scousers and Weegies are indistinguishable to deaf people. True that.

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Both my parents are from Glasgow. Indeed they were born in the same hospital in Glasgow. On the same day. My mum's side were all from Glasgow and still live there (she has 3 brothers, two of whom are Sevco fans and one of whom is a Patrick fan). My old man's side are actually from Shetland but were living in Glasgow at the time (they moved back to Shetland then back to Glasgow then his parents moved to Shetland). He has two brothers, one of whom lives in Shetland and the other in Canada. Neither are football fans. My dad used to go to Clydebank and Partick games when he was younger then took me to Pars games but he's more of a rugby fan. All irrelevant information. Basically what I was driving at is that all the family I have from Glasgow are sound (apart from two cousins).
My older brother was born in Glasgow as well but by the time I came along they were living in Rosyth (old man was in the navy), so I was born in Dunfermline.

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12 minutes ago, BigFatTabbyDave said:

I've no problem with Glasgow, but it remains the only place I've ever seen someone try to take a shit directly into a letterbox.

Were they crouching on top? An impressive bit of gymnastic athleticism however they attempted it.

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1 hour ago, pandarilla said:

What the fucking f**k is this?

Ayr is over 30 miles from Glasgow. Don't get me wrong, we've got our own issues (itzdrk for example) but don't lump is in with this shite.

Correct!! Dundee bassa. Him not you.

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Just now, welshbairn said:

Were they crouching on top? An impressive bit of gymnastic athleticism however they attempted it.

He was bent over with his hoop pressed up against the door of a bank. Something about his manner implied that he was a bit worse for wear.

I was escorting the wife home from a late show at the big cinema on Renfrew/Renfield Street, otherwise I'd have hung around to offer encouragement. As it was, the missus hadn't been in the country long, so there was a certain amount of, "this way, dear, we'll miss the last train, never mind what he's doing".

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1 minute ago, BigFatTabbyDave said:

He was bent over with his hoop pressed up against the door of a bank. Something about his manner implied that he was a bit worse for wear.

I was escorting the wife home from a late show at the big cinema on Renfrew/Renfield Street, otherwise I'd have hung around to offer encouragement. As it was, the missus hadn't been in the country long, so there was a certain amount of, "this way, dear, we'll miss the last train, never mind what he's doing".

I see. Was thinking of a pillar box. Still impressive though, especially if he threw in a hand stand.

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15 minutes ago, BigFatTabbyDave said:

He was bent over with his hoop pressed up against the door of a bank. Something about his manner implied that he was a bit worse for wear.

I was escorting the wife home from a late show at the big cinema on Renfrew/Renfield Street, otherwise I'd have hung around to offer encouragement. As it was, the missus hadn't been in the country long, so there was a certain amount of, "this way, dear, we'll miss the last train, never mind what he's doing".

Maybe he was logging on to their 24hr banking service.

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8 minutes ago, welshbairn said:

I see. Was thinking of a pillar box. Still impressive though, especially if he threw in a hand stand.

I can't imagine anyone managing that. Then again, I couldn't imagine anyone in Glasgow city centre managing to insert a bollard into themselves in public, until someone posted the video of exactly that happening.

What a place.

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I can't imagine anyone managing that. Then again, I couldn't imagine anyone in Glasgow city centre managing to insert a bollard into themselves in public, until someone posted the video of exactly that happening.
What a place.


I actually admire the honest naming of said video.

‘Shit Pole’. Exactly what it says on the tin.
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Glasgow is generally quite a nice place but there's a few traits that the people have that really annoy me...

The first thing is the exceptionalism/centre of the universe thing that other  people have already mentioned. 

Then there's the large number of really stupid people (usually from the baby boomer generation), who never seem to have left Glasgow ever,  that have somehow managed to work their way into positions that require a high level of competence. They're like relatively well-off adult-infants who gibber on with that weird posh weegie accent but at no point does anything they say actually make the slightest bit of sense. Like David Brent with Tom Devine's accent.

There is also the nostalgic insistence by all weegie's that Glasgow is a working class city. This is despite the fact that all the people that were once working class are now either...

a) Middle Class

b)Unemployed or

c)Dead

Give it up Glaswegians, apart from a few neighbourhoods, your city is now firmly a middle class place - and you prefer it that way really. "Aye but we never had to lock our doors back in the day" - that's because you had nothing worth stealing.

The final thing is the continual insistence that Glasgow is hard done by. Anything Glasgow wants it gets - if it wants new colleges, new roads, new shopping areas/retail estates, new housing estates, new schools, concert halls, sports facilities etc. the money is invested. If you were to add up all the public and private money that's been invested in Glasgow over the last few decades it probably wouldn't be far off the total money invested in the rest of Scotland combined. Glaswegians are not victimised or oppressed, they're certainly not the underprivileged working class. They have everything they could possibly need (and some) to live successful happy lives. Not many Weegie's would give you that impression though when you speak to them. 

 

 

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