try glasgow more

Are there any decent pubs in the city centre to watch football at?

Rhoderick Dhu has plenty of screens and the service is usually quick, even on busy nights. There's also Bar Drop a couple of doors along which is a sports bar with screens everywhere. The Admiral's good too - some booth seating with screens in each booth, a couple of big screens and 2-for-1 pizzas.

All these pubs are in the five minute walk between my work and Central Station - you can tell I'm something of an explorer.

Those are the three I would have suggested, but mostly because my football-watching in Glasgow is usually only when meeting onimo out of his work after i get off a train at Central. Admiral can get quite busy, though you can ring them or tweet them and get a booth reserved easily enough. Their pizzas are pretty decent.

sad to hear that the volcanic tongue shop has now closed (mail order to continue).

If anyone is at The Last Big Weekend on Saturday or Sunday, watch out for me taking photos.

jesus, horrible news about the lorry crash in george square. really hoping it's not as bad as it appears to be.

Aye, absolutely horrific.

Fielding many phone calls as I'd left my other half to go shopping and he had no idea where I was going, thankfully chose to avoid the city centre.

Hope everyone here and their loved ones are safe.

christ, awful

this is so sad. hope all glasgow ilxors and yr family/friends are ok.

six confirmed dead, more injured. just tragic

FAP action being planned over here: --- glasgow ----

NOT MONO.

I would like to suggest the Vic bar at the art school - the Music is not too loud and you can eat and drink pretty cheaply. The food is especially cheap and good. It also has a Good selection of beers and also decent talent.

That's a good idea! I so rarely go out in Glasgow these days, I can never remember places.

Since they reopened the vic last year you don't have to be a student or be with one to get in and it's actually a nice varied clientele especially in non term time. It's v nice.

I'm the last person in the world to get sentimental about Glasgow, but a friend just posted this on Facebook:

Entrance buzzer goes in flat.
Me: 'hello?"
Response: first part is sung - 'is it me you're looking for?.....how you doing? it's the bin man '

In 1974 I was an undergraduate in Glasgow Veterinary School. After a hard afternoon dissecting dogs, I was on my way home to my flat. It was cold and wet and I was hungry. I passed a pub with a sign outside that read ‘Hungry, thirsty? Come in for a pint, a bite to eat and a few kind words’. Moments later I was sitting at the bar with a pint of flat, dull beer and a meat pie in front of me. The surly barmaid was handing me my change when I remembered something. ‘What about the kind words?’ The barmaid leant over the bar, took my hand and whispered in my ear, ‘Dinna eat the pie’.

Did you eat it?

it isn't my anecdote - it's one told by the uk's chief veterinary officer nigel gibbens

it was actually the deputy chief veterinary office alick simmons - my apologies

I'm glad it wasn't your anecdote because I was about to point out that 'Dinna eat the pie' is not remotely Glaswegian.

"Gie the pie a bodyswerve"?

"Ah widnae if ah wis you, mate"

Boufin'

Love the bin man story.

I believe the barmaid in the anecdote was an australian lady

I'm unconvinced by that one.

an austrian lady?

The only person I've ever heard use the word 'dinna' like that is Aberdonian.

could pass for dundonian but it would of course be 'peh' rather than 'pie'

Think Dundonian would be "dinnae" rather than "dinna", but who knows at what point between Perth and Aberdeen the pronunciation warps?

perhaps she was an aberdonian lady

I think that is a pretty reasonable conclusion.

I thought there was a by-law to prevent Aberdonians being employed in Glasgow.

I was born in Aberdeen and grew up in Glasgow, suddenly all those failed job interviews make sense :/

xpost, not in my old workplace, there were fecking hunners of them (well, about five). Even had a wee Aberdeen supporters club of their own!

I once worked with an aberdonian man in glasgow - what he would do is when someone had a roll and referred to it as a roll he would say "that's not a roll"

i read that dinna eat the pie thing today - do i work in the same government department as you, conrad? (at least until i finish here on friday)

you work in the same government department as my girlfriend ;)

ah but of course

I once worked with an aberdonian man in glasgow - what he would do is when someone had a roll and referred to it as a roll he would say "that's not a roll"

was it rather a buttery? seven years living in dundee and i don't think i ever managed to discern what the precise difference is

havent eaten a buttery in years, closer to a crossaint than ordinary rolls iirc. now I want to eat one dammit.

It's not a roll if it hasn't come from Roland Butter?

What do they call a roll? I know that the older ones call oatcakes "bread" and they call bread "loaf".

it's a buttery - a flattened heavy salty buttery thing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buttery_(bread)

Oh I know about buttery's I just wondered what they call rolls.

oh i see yes! I have no idea

they call rolls softies apparently

Haha!

You can get butteries in Aldi, I discovered last week. Food of the artery-blocking gods.