smpar Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 Maybe Dunfermline will get a direct train link to Glasgow now?If there’s one change we’ll see after achieving city status, I hope it’s this. I don’t see how it’s so difficult to have a direct rail link from Dunfermline to Glasgow via Alloa/Stirling. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 On 20/05/2022 at 20:11, BFTD said: Stirling's not a city either, and it's one of my favourite places in Scotland. Had to lasso the population of the surrounding villages across to the Trossachs to appear more impressive. Something that I can't help but notice any time I'm in Stirling is the unusually high proportion of stereotypical neds in the town city centre, which by my reckoning is significantly higher than any other comparable settlement outhwith Strathclyde or West Lothian. Absolutely no surprise that the town is full of OF fans who have never (and will never) set foot in Forthbank/Annfield. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smpar Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 I’m sure it’s Stirling where the local goths hang about an area where an Argos is and they are nicknamed the Argoths. Deserves its city status for that incredible piece of patter alone. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted May 22, 2022 Share Posted May 22, 2022 2 hours ago, Hedgecutter said: Something that I can't help but notice any time I'm in Stirling is the unusually high proportion of stereotypical neds in the town city centre, which by my reckoning is significantly higher than any other comparable settlement outhwith Strathclyde or West Lothian. Absolutely no surprise that the town is full of OF fans who have never (and will never) set foot in Forthbank/Annfield. Or Ibrox/Parkhead for that matter… 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted May 22, 2022 Share Posted May 22, 2022 JICYMI 15 hours ago, Zen Archer (Raconteur) said: #You built this city on Jock and rolls# 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishBhoy Posted May 22, 2022 Share Posted May 22, 2022 It really should have been Paisley, and it makes a mockery of the whole decision process that somewhere like Dunfermline was chosen. As far as I’m aware Dunfermline doesn’t have an internationally recognised airport where people like Lionel Messi and Barack Obama have chosen to fly in to. It also boasts an expansive University complex, an educational home to students from places like Spain and even France, as well as natives from places such as Linwood and Dumbarton. Another thing that Dunfermline definitely doesn’t have either is Paisley Abbey, an architectural masterpiece that dates back to the 7th century, a building that the people from the UNESCO World Heritage Society once said ‘doesn’t come close to qualifying as one of the wonders of the world’, although they did admit the building was structurally sound. -5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Chief Toffee Teeth Posted May 22, 2022 Share Posted May 22, 2022 Thank goodness the Dumfries bid flopped. Led by the biggest bunch of chancers and self-servers outwith Westminster. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted May 22, 2022 Share Posted May 22, 2022 43 minutes ago, Big Chief Toffee Teeth said: Thank goodness the Dumfries bid flopped. Led by the biggest bunch of chancers and self-servers outwith Westminster. Dumfries 'City' Bid: 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted May 22, 2022 Share Posted May 22, 2022 On 20/05/2022 at 19:53, Detective Jimmy McNulty said: Nothing against Dunfermline, it's a nice place, but it's not a city. City status is an important economical and geographical function, just chucking it about to places who said they loved the Queen the most, including *checks notes* a fucking rock in the South Atlantic populated by penguins. Stupid country. How else was Margaret supposed to stick one up Johnny Foreigner to get the seething right wing masses on board? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted May 22, 2022 Share Posted May 22, 2022 Let’s not forget, Barack Obama follows Stephen’s The Bakers on Twitter. I expect he put in a word. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted May 22, 2022 Share Posted May 22, 2022 5 minutes ago, Shandön Par said: Let’s not forget, Barack Obama follows Stephen’s The Bakers on Twitter. I expect he put in a word. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clown Job Posted May 22, 2022 Share Posted May 22, 2022 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerthewitness Posted May 22, 2022 Share Posted May 22, 2022 A city place with a city club & city fans... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted May 22, 2022 Share Posted May 22, 2022 5 hours ago, IrishBhoy said: It really should have been Paisley, and it makes a mockery of the whole decision process that somewhere like Dunfermline was chosen. As far as I’m aware Dunfermline doesn’t have an internationally recognised airport where people like Lionel Messi and Barack Obama have chosen to fly in to. It also boasts an expansive University complex, an educational home to students from places like Spain and even France, as well as natives from places such as Linwood and Dumbarton. Another thing that Dunfermline definitely doesn’t have either is Paisley Abbey, an architectural masterpiece that dates back to the 7th century, a building that the people from the UNESCO World Heritage Society once said ‘doesn’t come close to qualifying as one of the wonders of the world’, although they did admit the building was structurally sound. Paisley isn't even a town any more so your bid is as pointless as 'South Ayrshire's' nick of an effort. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigkillie Posted May 22, 2022 Share Posted May 22, 2022 Making the Glasgow suburb of Paisley a city would have been a bit like that weird thing where Westminster and London are separate cities. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted May 22, 2022 Share Posted May 22, 2022 5 hours ago, IrishBhoy said: It really should have been Paisley, and it makes a mockery of the whole decision process that somewhere like Dunfermline was chosen. As far as I’m aware Dunfermline doesn’t have an internationally recognised airport where people like Lionel Messi and Barack Obama have chosen to fly in to. It also boasts an expansive University complex, an educational home to students from places like Spain and even France, as well as natives from places such as Linwood and Dumbarton. Another thing that Dunfermline definitely doesn’t have either is Paisley Abbey, an architectural masterpiece that dates back to the 7th century, a building that the people from the UNESCO World Heritage Society once said ‘doesn’t come close to qualifying as one of the wonders of the world’, although they did admit the building was structurally sound. I'm still trying to suss out whether this was written tongue in cheek (seeing as sarcasm doesn't carry well in text)? The highlighted bits in particular have me falling on the piss-take side of the fence. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted May 22, 2022 Share Posted May 22, 2022 1 minute ago, craigkillie said: Making the Glasgow suburb of Paisley a city would have been a bit like that weird thing where Westminster and London are separate cities. Or Salford in Manchester. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishBhoy Posted May 22, 2022 Share Posted May 22, 2022 3 minutes ago, virginton said: Paisley isn't even a town any more so your bid is as pointless as 'South Ayrshire's' nick of an effort. Oh it’s not a town anymore? What is it then as I genuinely don’t know? A village? A village with a population of 85,000. I assume from your username that you reside in the vicinity of the industrial wasteland that is known as Inverclyde. And I will also assume that your gripe towards the TOWN of Paisley stems from the rivalry between your football team and that of St Mirren. As I said in the quoted post, Paisley possesses buildings that an entity like UNESCO deem worthy of acknowledgment. Somehow I don’t think they bothered to travel along the M8 to see such wonders as Port Glasgow or the scheme flats in Greenock. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishBhoy Posted May 22, 2022 Share Posted May 22, 2022 5 minutes ago, craigkillie said: Making the Glasgow suburb of Paisley a city would have been a bit like that weird thing where Westminster and London are separate cities. I think you are getting mixed up with Westminster and ‘City of London’. Westminster is a London borough that sits north of the Thames, and is very much a part of London. The City of London is the area that has been segregated, and has its own Police force and other anomalies which categorise it as a separate City. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ftk Posted May 22, 2022 Share Posted May 22, 2022 Should have been South Ayrshire -International Airport,3 open golf courses,Worlds most famous poet Robert Burns,Robert the Bruce birthplace,Scotland's best racecourse andSomerset Park a world heritage site. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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