Petty Things That Get On Your Nerves...

[coprolite]

15 hours ago, Newbornbairn said:

70% of the population live in the central belt and every town has a problem with bg empty retail spaces.  They won't just be for office space, they'll be used as student study pods, pop-up craft centres etc. 

It's good that people are thinking creatively about how to use those spaces but they're going to have to do a lot to convince people to go to "pop up craft centres". All sounds very like hipster based wishful thinking. 

[scottsdad]

15 hours ago, Newbornbairn said:

70% of the population live in the central belt and every town has a problem with bg empty retail spaces.  They won't just be for office space, they'll be used as student study pods, pop-up craft centres etc. 

I'm sure we had a thread here trying to define the central belt. Some folk suggesting Ayr was in the central belt but Stirling wasn't. Utter madness. 

[Hedgecutter]

Defrosting the water feeder in the garden only for the birds to ignore it, even when it's dripping and clearly showing a liquidous state.

Ungrateful little sh*ts.  I'll be claiming that 10p of kettle lecky back through putting out slightly less food in the spring.

I mean, look at this little dumbf*** sparrow c*** just staring at it:

Edited December 13, 2022 by Hedgecutter

[invergowrie arab]

22 hours ago, Newbornbairn said:

70% of the population live in the central belt and every town has a problem with bg empty retail spaces.  They won't just be for office space, they'll be used as student study pods, pop-up craft centres etc. 

Just because there is empty retail spaces doesnt mean plucking any old idea out of thin air is a solution to that.

There's also a massive over provision of office spaces and university and college owned buildings in town centres.

Twenty minute neighbourhoods refer to walking, not trains and cars so in the absence of people actually living in city centres this idea doesnt qualify for that either.

Still, I'm sure the pop up craft market will be just the thing to save the high St.

[Mark Connolly]

It's annoying enough that I ended up reading an article from the Telegraph, but who the f**k calls Finnieston "WeMo"?

Quote

Long gone are the days when Glasgow’s Finnieston neighbourhood was a raffish and rundown ramble of houses built for workers powering the city’s burgeoning shipbuilding industry. Today ‘WeMo’ (West of Motorway), as local WAGs have dubbed it, is the city’s go-to hipster hub. The savvy set from Byres Road have upped sticks here, bringing their creativity and energy, whilst Finnieston retains enough of its raffish vibe to spice up the grand old sandstone buildings.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/britains-15-coolest-neighbourhoods-how-see-like-local/

[Miguel Sanchez]

3 hours ago, Mark Connolly said:

It's annoying enough that I ended up reading an article from the Telegraph, but who the f**k calls Finnieston "WeMo"?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/britains-15-coolest-neighbourhoods-how-see-like-local/

Local WAGs. Did you miss that bit?

[Mark Connolly]

Just now, Miguel Sanchez said:

Local WAGs. Did you miss that bit?

Wankers and Gimps?

[Miguel Sanchez]

1 minute ago, Mark Connolly said:

Wankers and Gimps?

^^^ raging that the Byres Road Savvy Set have upped sticks and left him behind

[Mark Connolly]

Just now, Miguel Sanchez said:

^^^ raging that the Byres Road Savvy Set have upped sticks and left him behind

ByRo, if you don't mind

[TxRover]

On 12/12/2022 at 12:22, Sergeant Wilson said:

I'd say the biggest problem in Glasgow city centre, is not enough people live there. Workers will come and go, albeit in smaller numbers. But if more people lived there shops and pubs etc would be busy with residents. An effort to have affordable housing replacing redundant commercial space might solve the over and under provision of each type of property.

While it’s an interesting idea, the demographics are wrong. In the City Center, the weekday/working hours people support a totally different business and service ecology than 24/7 residents support, especially if you focus on the affordable housing. For affordable housing you need to locate in an area that is not within a food desert (and lovely term, designating a locale with no supermarket or similar grocery store within a reasonable distance) and that allows for the provision of social services (often required in affordable living demos) within a short distance. You also need employment, and while some of that would come hand in hand with the developments associated with the new residents, that wouldn’t be sufficient. Then you have the lack of transportation service outside “conventional” hours, where many people in affordable housing have jobs with non-conventional hours.

The more successful developments recently have tended to be more boutique, with a shopping cluster co-located with housing, but the housing has been for the upper middle and lower upper class, generally, as they also have the income to support the development overall. The provision of the core customer base encourages stores and businesses to locate in the area, which then results in more custom from people from outside the immediate area due to variety, however, this also results in a business mix skewed toward a more affluent clientele.

[Cosmic Joe]

21 minutes ago, TxRover said:

While it’s an interesting idea, the demographics are wrong. In the City Center, the weekday/working hours people support a totally different business and service ecology than 24/7 residents support, especially if you focus on the affordable housing. For affordable housing you need to locate in an area that is not within a food desert (and lovely term, designating a locale with no supermarket or similar grocery store within a reasonable distance) and that allows for the provision of social services (often required in affordable living demos) within a short distance. You also need employment, and while some of that would come hand in hand with the developments associated with the new residents, that wouldn’t be sufficient. Then you have the lack of transportation service outside “conventional” hours, where many people in affordable housing have jobs with non-conventional hours.

The more successful developments recently have tended to be more boutique, with a shopping cluster co-located with housing, but the housing has been for the upper middle and lower upper class, generally, as they also have the income to support the development overall. The provision of the core customer base encourages stores and businesses to locate in the area, which then results in more custom from people from outside the immediate area due to variety, however, this also results in a business mix skewed toward a more affluent clientele.

You haven't been to Methil recently have you? 

[TxRover]

24 minutes ago, Cosmic Joe said:

You haven't been to Methil recently have you? 

That’s not a City Center, that’s a open sewer., 

[Cosmic Joe]

Just now, TxRover said:

That’s not a City Center, that’s a open sewer., 

A bit harsh on a former coal mining community. 

[Newbornbairn]

Never the same since the Wonder Store shut 

[Cosmic Joe]

4 minutes ago, Newbornbairn said:

Never the same since the Wonder Store shut 

Or the demise of Oliver's International Hair Stylist.

 

Okay, cheating. That was Leven. 

 

 

[Empty It]

New minis being the same size and often larger than normal cars, the whole fucking point of the things is that they were MINI.

[scottsdad]

At work today. Nobody at home, and Evri have sent a picture of a parcel they delivered. Sitting on the front doorstep.

99% chance of it being nicked before anyone gets home.

[hk blues]

2 minutes ago, scottsdad said:

At work today. Nobody at home, and Evri have sent a picture of a parcel they delivered. Sitting on the front doorstep.

99% chance of it being nicked before anyone gets home.

Where do you live?

 

[Granny Danger]

1 minute ago, hk blues said:

Where do you live?

 

Falkirk.

[hk blues]

Just now, Granny Danger said:

Falkirk.

Not you.  We've seen your photos and know you're living in Beirut.