Liverpool Bud Posted January 22, 2007 Report Share Posted January 22, 2007 1 History of the city 2 Architecture - the finest in the Empire 3 The sights / sounds and smells of the city as you step off the train at Central after a journey home from "down south" 4 The pubs / clubs / restaurants /theatre /sport and galleries 5 Its not in England Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krt Posted January 23, 2007 Report Share Posted January 23, 2007 1 History of the city 2 Architecture - the finest in the Empire 3 The sights / sounds and smells of the city as you step off the train at Central after a journey home from "down south" 4 The pubs / clubs / restaurants /theatre /sport and galleries 5 Its not in England 1. The people - always really polite/chatty - most of the men talk shite, but............... 2. The accent - you can't beat a proper Glasgow accent ....................................... so it doesn't matter if it is all shite 3. The City - lots to see and do 4. The football - whether saints win or lose the fans are great, the atmosphere is great, even the Bovril tastes ok - and you get real meat in the pies at Inverness!!!! 5. It's not in England, but it feels like home as soon as you get off the train or out of the car can't wait to get there in February even if it is just for a couple of days and I know its a top five but if i can have a number 6 - City of Glasgow Tartan is gorgeous and makes a lovely hanbag Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Shadow Posted January 23, 2007 Report Share Posted January 23, 2007 Glasgow's a f**kin shithole. More bigots per head than Paisley. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs SFS Posted January 23, 2007 Report Share Posted January 23, 2007 1. Bus to Paisley 2. Train to Paisley 3. Easily wound up citizens/bigots 4. It's down wind of Paisley 5. It has a big airport Oops, naw it doesn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Svensen Posted January 24, 2007 Report Share Posted January 24, 2007 1. The people - always really polite/chatty - most of the men talk shite, but............... 2. The accent - you can't beat a proper Glasgow accent ....................................... so it doesn't matter if it is all shite 3. The City - lots to see and do 4. The football - whether saints win or lose the fans are great, the atmosphere is great, even the Bovril tastes ok - and you get real meat in the pies at Inverness!!!! 5. It's not in England, but it feels like home as soon as you get off the train or out of the car can't wait to get there in February even if it is just for a couple of days and I know its a top five but if i can have a number 6 - City of Glasgow Tartan is gorgeous and makes a lovely hanbag Are you shitting me mate, it's full of bams and junkies, I think Glasgow's pish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krt Posted January 24, 2007 Report Share Posted January 24, 2007 Are you shitting me mate, it's full of bams and junkies, I think Glasgow's pish. So is every city - it doesn't stop them from being great places. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorizaar Posted January 24, 2007 Report Share Posted January 24, 2007 4. The football - whether saints win or lose the fans are great, the atmosphere is great, even the Bovril tastes ok - and you get real meat in the pies at Inverness!!!! St Mirren mentioned in a "Top 5 Things You Love About Glasgow" thread? WTFF? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EL NOMBRE Posted January 24, 2007 Report Share Posted January 24, 2007 St Mirren mentioned in a "Top 5 Things You Love About Glasgow" thread? WTFF? I was wondering how Inverness came to be part of Glesga?....I've been stiffed on bus prices then... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krt Posted January 24, 2007 Report Share Posted January 24, 2007 4. The football - whether saints win or lose the fans are great, the atmosphere is great, even the Bovril tastes ok - and you get real meat in the pies at Inverness!!!! /quote] I must have been getting carried away and that one is a reason why i love Scotland as a country - not Glasgow as a city Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Svensen Posted January 24, 2007 Report Share Posted January 24, 2007 You get real meat (allegedly) in the 'buddie' pies at love st anaw... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Svensen Posted January 24, 2007 Report Share Posted January 24, 2007 So is every city - it doesn't stop them from being great places. Don't know if its to the same extent, I've never heard the equivalent of some junked up bam in the centre of lets say Chigaco shouting at his 5 year old wean "Fkin shut up , are ye f**kin stupit, fking shut up" as I did on the way into work the other day. Glasgow's pish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howard Hughes in BlueSuedeShoes Posted January 25, 2007 Report Share Posted January 25, 2007 Don't know if its to the same extent, I've never heard the equivalent of some junked up bam in the centre of lets say Chigaco shouting at his 5 year old wean "Fkin shut up , are ye f**kin stupit, fking shut up" as I did on the way into work the other day. Glasgow's pish It's not even as good as that. A murder rate worse than New York, filthy, cracked pavements, punters tapping cash non-fúcking-stop, lassies walking about totally orange (is there any place in the WORLD with more fake tan?). The buildings might be nice but ye cannae see them for all the scaffolding. The Old Firm, for fúck sake! How can any place be good with those tow gargantuanly bigotted parasites? As for the punters, well try this; a 21-year-old student was killed last year one Saturday night in renfield Street. How did this happen? Well. He smacked his head off a kerbstone. How did he hit the kerbstone? He was pushed over by a random stranger. Said randon stranger was out with his mate celebrating his 22nd birthday. In order to help them celebrate they got blitzed then walked down Renfield Street randomly punching, kicking and barging anyone in their way because they were "Glaswegian an' hard!". The student was thumped into by one of these pillocks, fell and knocked himself dead on the pavement. Yeah, really friendly people. Glasgow accent? That whiny, nasal thing? Only accent worse than that is a Scouse one. Whoops! Drop a bomb and tidy the place up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bernard albrecht Posted January 25, 2007 Report Share Posted January 25, 2007 1. Cnuts fae Paisley that noo stay therr..... can't think of another 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Street Central Posted January 25, 2007 Report Share Posted January 25, 2007 Tottie in George square at lunchtime on those lazy hot summer days Tottie going for a bevvie in the bars after work in the city centre great choice of restaurants west end and botanic gardens - wee bit better that Barshaw going to greyskull and coming away with a point Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howard Hughes in BlueSuedeShoes Posted January 25, 2007 Report Share Posted January 25, 2007 Will you be visiting that day? I'll be flying the bomber. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Sanchez Posted January 25, 2007 Report Share Posted January 25, 2007 Don't know if its to the same extent, I've never heard the equivalent of some junked up bam in the centre of lets say Chigaco shouting at his 5 year old wean "Fkin shut up , are ye f**kin stupit, fking shut up" as I did on the way into work the other day. Glasgow's pish This is it. In most big cities you need to head to the darkest depths of the schemes before the ratio of losers and menaces:normal people starts to increase. For me,that's what separates Glasgow from the other big cities I've been to. Right there,in yer face,in the city centre,you rarely have to look very far for someone you'd rather cross the street to avoid. You see all the same problems in most cities,but it's so much more persistent and obvious in Glasgow. In all the time I spent in London in the 90s,I can honestly say I was only blatantly approached by one beggar. In Glasgow I routinely get stuff like the Neds who I refer to as 'voluntary workers' who loiter and helpfully offer their services to assist you with car park ticket machines and ATMs. These guys also specialise in tear jerking sob stories about how they've been robbed that day,or something similar. What they need is something like Giuliani did to New York,where all the crap just wasn't tolerated any more,resulting in the centre of town flourishing and becoming unrecognisable to the jungle it was before. It actually a pity that this stuff taints some of the decent points made in the first post on this thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simon templar Posted January 25, 2007 Report Share Posted January 25, 2007 I'll be flying the bomber. I'll be in the f**king passenger seat, pressing the button... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shull Posted January 25, 2007 Report Share Posted January 25, 2007 I'll be in the f**king passenger seat, pressing the button... Gies some notice so i can get myself and my cab tae f*ck oot of there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simon templar Posted January 25, 2007 Report Share Posted January 25, 2007 Gies some notice so i can get myself and my cab tae f*ck oot of there. Me and HHiBSS on the attack... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howard Hughes in BlueSuedeShoes Posted January 26, 2007 Report Share Posted January 26, 2007 Yep, that's the one. To paraphrase Billy Connolly, "I wouldn't even fly over the place. Unless I was in a Lancaster bomber full of horseshit". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facepainter87 Posted January 26, 2007 Report Share Posted January 26, 2007 In all the time I spent in London in the 90s,I can honestly say I was only blatantly approached by one beggar. Me too. I only ever met one beggar in London when I lived there but he was from Glasgow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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