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This theory about building new housing ties in nicely with the absurd closure of The Arches

refurb??

I think my friend is talking about the work done on the building after the 2014 fire. And yes, the papers today are talking about £100m to rebuild this time round - so it's a goner :-(

what happens to all the students who were at various points of their particular courses at GSoA? That would seem like an additionally expensive clusterfuck to sort out.

I imagine lots of their work has been reduced to ash and while that may stretch some ppl's sense of "oh the humanity" :p, but still it's an absolute fucker.

not to mention all the staff whose working lives are in chaos right now

Were any staff/students actually working out of the Mackintosh building? I thought they'd all been relocated while the refurbishment took place.

ah right, I thought they might have still been using part of the building. I was talking to an Auntie about this last night, and she had a booze/phet assisted nervous breakdown during her fine art degree. And she was saying if her work had been destroyed it would have tipped her over the edge.

Makes me sick to the pit of my stomach just thinking about it.

Also, RIP giant glitterball in the ABC. Fair fucks to the Garage for managing to put Saturday night's Belly gig on at very short notice. The ABC, while not as much of a touchstone as the Mackintosh building, is one of the best gig venues in Glasgow, and I have fond memories of it as a cinema where I went on some terrible dates when I first moved down here. There's a great piece on Facebook by the Lost Glasgow guy about its history as a circus and general house of awesome entertainment back in the day.

i hope the whole of glasgow doesn't go on fire tomorrow. 32 degrees!

I'm going up there at the weekend, at least my mum can't moan about the terrible weather for a change - or can she?

i literally cannae remember it being in the 30s in glasgow ever - though i understand we had similar weather in 1995 - this seems to have slipped my mind - and 1975. the latter summer was the first summer my dad arrived in glasgow from chile. he thought "this weather is no bad, quite like home" and then has complained about shitey summers for 40 plus years hence

though i understand we had similar weather in 1995 - this seems to have slipped my mind

mine too.

at least my mum can't moan about the terrible weather for a change - or can she?

Yes, she can (and will if she's anything like mine)

actually, that summer in the 90s is coming back to me now. everyone was telling me how tanned i was. i don't get that tanned any more, why is that?

actually, i remember my mum telling me (apologies in advance) that i was "like a wee d****e"

they were different times.

the current regime of buskers needs to change. Its ruining the Buchanan area.

buchanan street is murder for buskers but it's always been and it can be mainly avoided.

where always is since the early 90s

need not apply

https://i.imgur.com/ySe3i23.jpg

omg

Amazing.

Just boarded a bus at Buchanan bus station and overheard a 20 year old and a 40 year old connecting over Belle and Sebastian in a lovely honest chat.

Glasgow is funny in that despite never living here I still miss it - the two gigs a month make me feel like I know it better than some places I’ve lived for years.

I'm doing my annual pilgrimage home next month, cannae wait

Jim, Nae Pasaran is on at the gft on the 12th

https://glasgowfilm.org/shows/nae-pasaran-qanda-ctbc

Is that a Harry Potter shop on big bus street?

I don’t know. Union street?

Yes, I barely know the names of any streets.

Should be renamed to big bus street.

it's such a tip.

Jim, Nae Pasaran is on at the gft on the 12th

https://glasgowfilm.org/shows/nae-pasaran-qanda-ctbc

― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Friday, August 31, 2018 8:09 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

shiter, a week too early for me! thanks for letting me know

damn.

that's what you get for trying to avoid the balmy weather, i suppose.

How long are you going to be around for Jim?

not long, ten days, usual paucity of annual leave problem

Let's fail to organise a FAP! It's what we do best.

well, I haven't seen you and Gerry for a while...

I don't think I've seen Gerry since I last saw you both at the Art School!

Let's try to meet up for a pint.

The Harry Potter shop on Big Bus Street replaced the "Stuff" shop.

It's called something like "The Boy Wizard Store" so it mat be selling unofficial Potter tat.

*may*

A failed organisation of drinks was where my mind was going too. Would you be up for it Jim and have time, if it happened while you're around?

so it may be selling unofficial Potter tat.

― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Sunday, September 2, 2018 1:01 AM

Surely that's a lawsuit waiting to happen?

It is an unofficial Potter emporium selling officially licensed Potter product (and a smattering of non-Potter tat).

just what our fair city needed

like there’s not enough twats playing quidditch in the grounds of glasgow uni already

Cant believe one book/film series can support a whole shop. We'll see how long it lasts.

It's supporting (at least) two in Edinburgh!

my house is currently up for sale, and i had a classic 'glasgow is a v small place' interaction last night when duglas and chloe from bmx bandits turned up to view it

(any ilxors wanna buy a charming 3-bed southside house btw, let me know)

shawlands?

pfft like i could afford a three-bed house in shawlands! drumoyne, just round the corner from ibrox

I think I found it, looks like a really cool house. Do you know when it dates from?

telecaster in the front room, hardwood floor? if so that's ours, yeah. dates from about 1890 or so - i think it was an old shipbuilder's house

gonna miss it tbh, it's been a great home but we just need more space now we have a baby

Yep, that's the one I was thinking. Looks lovely, really interesting. I guess it'll be a popular sell as it's quite unusual? How's the search for a new place going?