GrahamJags Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 That was absolutely chronic. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pie Of The Month Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 Aye that was awful. You seem like a pair of c***s too which makes it even worse. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
velo army Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 I like that you're doing this, it's an excellent project. You'd done your research and knew about Davie McParland, which is more effort than scottish sports hacks go to. You try too hard with the comedy angle and it comes off as seriously cheesy and condescending. The pub conversation at the beginning nearly put me off entirely, and undid a lot of goodwill I had as I started reading. People from the middle classes getting a kick out of Glasgow patois and working class "authenticity", while turning their nose up at the people who talk in that way are becoming more of a thing now (see "scottish twitter", and your article) but the side-eye swipe at Maryhill's "unique character" left me fuming. Who do you think you're writing for? Do you think all the Jags fans reading that article are from Milgnavie? Most Jags fans on here will have supported them because of locality, either their own or, in my case, my father's. My granny lived in Maryhill, so I have nothing but affection for it, and growing up it was one of my favourite places to visit. As I said I like that you're doing this project, but you have to bear a few things in mind. You're highly privileged being able to do this. Being able to fund your own trips to these grounds, while having weekends off to do it, it something most people don't have, so be aware of this privilege and show compassion for those who don't. It's called humility and, if you can show that in your writing, you'll have a tonne of goodwill. For whose edification is this? This article is written as if the whole project is to promote yourselves, with the club and it's supporters secondary characters. It has the feel of a victorian explorer reporting back on his trip to the Congo as if he was in amongst absolute savages instead of being in a complex culture he was delighted to be able to learn from. You guys are young, and having grown up in social media you won't have learned humility yet. It's a hard road, but it's the difference between being a McIlvanney, or a Graham Speirs (and always, always try to be a McIlvanney). This will probably play well amongs the wee dafties in our support whose ideas (never mind their physical selves) haven't started shaving yet as it is similar to a lot of social media output. Don't be discouraged though. Just be yourselves and be genuine. Good luck. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pull My Strings Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 3 hours ago, Tour of the Terraces said: We are 2 bloggers who travel around all the clubs in Scotland as part of our Tour. We write about our experiences at the club and analyse our day out, rating the visit. Look to see what we said about YOUR club, Partick Thistle when we attended Firhill. Follow us on Twitter: tourotterraces https://touroftheterraces.wordpress.com/2018/08/16/partick-thistle-f-c-the-match-programme-5/ Oooft, what a pair of c***s. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
velo army Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 I just read the "rating our visit" part of your original post. Shove that. Thank you. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoBNob Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 3 hours ago, Tour of the Terraces said: We are 2 bloggers who travel around all the clubs in Scotland as part of our Tour. We write about our experiences at the club and analyse our day out, rating the visit. Look to see what we said about YOUR club, Partick Thistle when we attended Firhill. Follow us on Twitter: tourotterraces https://touroftheterraces.wordpress.com/2018/08/16/partick-thistle-f-c-the-match-programme-5/ Only managed to read half of that, condescending pish with a good amount of "patter" that was chronic, trying far, far to hard to push that into the article. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D'Jaffo Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 Only managed to read half of that, condescending pish with a good amount of "patter" that was chronic, trying far, far to hard to push that into the article. Fair play I only managed the first few lines. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyline Drifter Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 3 minutes ago, D'Jaffo said: Fair play I only managed the first few lines. Yeah, I think I managed most of it. I gave up at their individual viewpoint stuff at the end. It's absolutely chronic. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cilitbang Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 I couldn’t make it past “Oryt” 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VictorOnopko Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 I was wondering what Joe Hart the comedy goalie was up to these days. He's gone back to uni and is writing eye-bleedingly bad blogs. "We’re sure a conversation resembling this has happened somewhere in the annals of a Weegie boozer" Are you, aye? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NavyBlueArmy1876 Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 4 hours ago, Tour of the Terraces said: We are 2 bloggers who travel around all the clubs in Scotland as part of our Tour. We write about our experiences at the club and analyse our day out, rating the visit. Look to see what we said about YOUR club, Partick Thistle when we attended Firhill. Follow us on Twitter: tourotterraces https://touroftheterraces.wordpress.com/2018/08/16/partick-thistle-f-c-the-match-programme-5/ Well that was absolutely terrible. No wonder us millennials get such a bad reputation. f**k sake. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D'Jaffo Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 I was wondering what Joe Hart the comedy goalie was up to these days. He's gone back to uni and is writing eye-bleedingly bad blogs. "We’re sure a conversation resembling this has happened somewhere in the annals of a Weegie boozer" Are you, aye? I stopped here How many fans have been barred from pubs because they support Thistle? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
velo army Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 And how many pubs have annals? It's an appalling sentence. All of it. "we're sure such a conversation resembling this" would have had my P7 teacher throwing my jotter in the bin. Close to heads gone over this now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fae_the_'briggs Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 Glad I'm not the only one who thought it was over-long, mostly tedious, self-promoting piss. A good concept ruined. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pull My Strings Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 17 minutes ago, Fae_the_'briggs said: Glad I'm not the only one who thought it was over-long, mostly tedious, self-promoting piss. A good concept ruined. I'd take issue with the 'mostly' in there. Suggests some of it wasn't tedious piss. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reid Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 That ‘conversation’ at the start was brutal. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 Velo Army is the only one deserving of any credit here for just about restraining himself enough to offer some constructive advice. Unfortunately I am in the same camp as everyone else. f**k off, pair of wee gimps. Dont come to TFS. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaggymct Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 We are 2 bloggers who travel around all the clubs in Scotland as part of our Tour. We write about our experiences at the club and analyse our day out, rating the visit. Look to see what we said about YOUR club, Partick Thistle when we attended Firhill. Follow us on Twitter: tourotterraces https://touroftheterraces.wordpress.com/2018/08/16/partick-thistle-f-c-the-match-programme-5/It's a Mural not a fkn Mosaic btw 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
velo army Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 The inference of you being privileged (and that doesn't mean you're gentry any more than "middle class" does) was in the condescending and fairly out of touch manner with which you presented. On retrospect I do think it was that you were trying to hard to play to a demographic you don't adequately understand. You're young, though, and you'll hopefully learn from that. I did get the nuggets of affection for the club, and for scottish football. I really enjoyed the pictures (I forgot how lovely our pitch is, for example) and, as I said, the attempts to provide historical context were nice. Just stick to what you're good at and what you know. The paragraph at the start with the fictional conversation in the pub was unnecessary and will have put people's backs up from the get go. That doesn't seem to be your strength. You're not Thistle supporters or, by the looks of it, Glaswegians. Own that, and own that you don't understand the city. Being honest about that will get people on side, especially when you show you've taken the time to read up on the club, and to praise the cracking mural outside (a lot of people don't know about that, for instance). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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