i’d count yourself lucky that you didn’t receive a more traditional paisley welcome tbf
― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 7 February 2020 09:34 (four years ago) link
wee hurrie good in troon
― ||||||||, Friday, 7 February 2020 09:34 (four years ago) link
gyac closet golfer confirmed
― ||||||||, Friday, 7 February 2020 09:35 (four years ago) link
lol I’m the only member of my immediate family who’s never golfed (deems will consider this confirmation of what he posted elsewhere in the week and he’s right). No golf, just lots of rain and wind. Tbf bg a very kind man in Paisley helped me with my suitcase without saying anything to me!
― hyds (gyac), Friday, 7 February 2020 10:43 (four years ago) link
If you've got a decent description, the police might be able to get you the case back, if that's any consolation.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 7 February 2020 11:05 (four years ago) link
Holl', bit less o' the slaggin' Paisley aff if ye know whit's good fer ye.
― (includes digression on farting) (Tom D.), Friday, 7 February 2020 11:22 (four years ago) link
I quite like Troon but my experience of it is mostly lazing around the Marine in a white robe.
― Madchen, Friday, 7 February 2020 11:25 (four years ago) link
Same! They were doing it up while we were there and I hope part of that work is to fix up the window frames, cos they kept the wind itself out but it howled almost the whole time. Enjoyed drinking whisky by the fire downstairs though.
― hyds (gyac), Friday, 7 February 2020 11:27 (four years ago) link
― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 7 February 2020 11:30 (four years ago) link
Fair dos, big yin, ye're absolved.
― (includes digression on farting) (Tom D.), Friday, 7 February 2020 11:59 (four years ago) link
This seems neat
pink peacock (די ראָזעווע פּאַווע or di rozeve pave) is a queer, yiddish, anarchist vegan café opening soon in glasgow! the café will be entirely pay-what-you-can down to £0 and we’ll have a free fridge(פֿאָדעם אויף ייִדיש ⬆️) pic.twitter.com/VkCwBulVvh— די ראָזעווע פּאַווע pink peacock (@dirozevepave) February 10, 2020
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Monday, 10 February 2020 22:05 (four years ago) link
awesome. wonder if they're linked to this group who are campaigning to save a synagogue in my neighbourhoodhttps://twitter.com/irnjuhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-50808796
― ||||||||, Monday, 10 February 2020 22:07 (four years ago) link
sounds great, will keep an eye out for when it opens
― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 10 February 2020 22:21 (four years ago) link
Didnt realise there were any significant number of young yiddish speaking Jewish people in Glasgow!
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 04:54 (four years ago) link
So, it looks like I will be trying Glasgow more, possibly a lot more.
I married Jen, a Perthshire lady, last year (as at least one of you definitely knows) and so signed up to her long-term plan to move back to Scotland - we're moving partly to be nearer her folks, and the politics and climate help a bit too.
We're going to be renting for a bit after we move up, my career is pretty movable, and she's doing a masters in Library Sciences because that's what she's into.
We haven't really decided between the two big cities (NB once we have, I will obviously have to bribe a mod to come back and delete this paragraph) - we'll see where Jen gets work. We'll probably be back and forth a fair bit either way.
I don't know if you know that thing where you can't decide what to do, so you toss a coin and see what you feel about the result? Well, the first few decent job applications have been coming in, and they're all in Edinburgh, and Jen's been "Shit, I suppose I was hoping they'd be in Glasgow".
But either way, I will be trying Glasgow more.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 18:49 (four years ago) link
jim, Yiddish revivalism has some currency among certain young Jews for a variety of reasons, including political ones, so Glasgow's as good as anywhere else for it. Of course it is also still the living native tongue of some Orthodox Jewish communities in the US; no idea about the UK. Probably it's in a similar position to Scottish Gaelic in that regard!
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 19:31 (four years ago) link
xp fucking hell, big move! Congratulations though! When’s it happening?silby, I am only vaguely aware of this but it’s a diaspora thing right? I know Jewdas have links to resources about it on their site & people can take classes in learning it.
― hyds (gyac), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 19:56 (four years ago) link
congrats AF (ps edinburgh is bad not good)
― ||||||||, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 19:58 (four years ago) link
^ cosine both of the above points
― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 20:00 (four years ago) link
There's a Jewish primary school in Glasgow, possibly that may account for some young Yiddish speakers - there's a sizeable Jewish community in and around Giffnock where the school is.
(Hi Andrew, you know my answer is "move to Glasgow". So move to Glasgow)
― ailsa, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 20:28 (four years ago) link
Thanks for the info, silby.
Glasgow is bigger and better and has a more affordable housing market :)
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 22:21 (four years ago) link
congrats AF, good luck with jobs/the move!
I've had several friends move away from here over the past year or two and another one, arguably the last tbh, just moved up to Glasgow - so perhaps I ought to try Glasgow more (well, at all)
if I do ever make it up to visit then vegan cafés will be v much on the agenda (cafés and food/drink emporia of all sorts for me but friend is vegan) and that Yiddish one sounds cool
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 22:28 (four years ago) link
Thanks all - we're looking at moving up in May, but nothing's set until we tell the movers.
I'm moving from Stamford Hill, so any ambient Yiddish would make me feel at home!
(TIL learned that at the formation of the Israeli state, secular Jews tended towards supporting Hebrew as a nationwide language to unite the people, while the more religious tended towards Yiddish for the populace, so as to keep Hebrew for sacred matters)
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 13:17 (four years ago) link
Who knew there was a synagogue in Langside? I've lived in the south side for years and it's the first I've heard of it
― paolo, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 13:42 (four years ago) link
irn-ju
Love it
Don’t listen to them Andrew, Dundee is on the up, gets lots of hours of sunlight and less rain than the west coast, is cheap and is close to Glorious Perthshire.
― michaellambert, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 14:41 (four years ago) link
and you didn't even mention the V&A!
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 15:49 (four years ago) link
(Edinburgh is good btw)
I used to live round the corner from it.
― High profile Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 15:52 (four years ago) link
Closeness to Perthshire is a carefully modulated variable, less than 60 minutes would have to be looked at very carefully.
We did spend a bunch of time using this toy, as presented by caek on the London Transport thread:
https://app.traveltimeplatform.com/search/0_lng=-4.21754&0_tt=60&0_time=d1581319810182&0_title=Glasgow%2C%20Scotland%2C%20United%20Kingdom&0_lat=55.90551
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 15:54 (four years ago) link
Both are miles better than London, by some considerable distance.
― High profile Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 15:55 (four years ago) link
Also, I once got dumped in the Wetherspoons in Paisley.
― michaellambert, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 16:37 (four years ago) link
I then had to get back to the outskirts of Edinburgh via public transport on a Sunday, which was probably the worse bit tbh.
― michaellambert, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 16:42 (four years ago) link
one for the hypothetical ‘real scotland’ thread
― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 17:22 (four years ago) link
I'm probably overthinking this, but: that wasn't a joke about Stamford Bridge, home of Spurs, who I understand are known by a jolly racial epithet - but rather the nearby-but-less-famous Stamford Hill, which genuinely has a large orthodox Jewish population.
Anyway.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 22:29 (four years ago) link
stamford bridge is the home of chelsea
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 22:30 (four years ago) link
Stamford Hill, as my friend David used to say, On Top of Old Stokey.
― High profile Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 22:31 (four years ago) link
Oh yeah that's right - I will need to study up on football and racism for Glasgow, I'm aware.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 23:25 (four years ago) link
you can just tell people you're a patrick thistle fan and with your non-local accent you'll be fine
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 23:29 (four years ago) link
With your particular non-local accent I wouldn't try to convince anyone you're a Rangers fan though. Just say, "I don't know much about football and I'm not really interested in it" and people will say, "Oh you must be a Partick Thistle fan then".
― High profile Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 23:42 (four years ago) link
hey now
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 13 February 2020 00:02 (four years ago) link
This ex-Dennistoun resident’s top tip for anyone moving to Glasgow is avoid living close to the route of an orange walk unless you like that kind of thing at 8am on a weekend.
― Madchen, Thursday, 13 February 2020 07:30 (four years ago) link
as an ex-resident of govan, i cannot fully express just how otm that tip is
― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 13 February 2020 09:28 (four years ago) link
Don't forget Glasgow's fourth team, Queen's Park, who have just had to vacate Hampden Park for a much tinier ground.
The church bells on a Sunday morning in Dennistoun were equally insistent and irritating when I lived on Roslea Drive.
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 13 February 2020 09:33 (four years ago) link
try glasgow less
LUNCH Glasgow has come up with a 'cooncil' themed wrap with a concauction of ingredients that will blow your tastebuds away. The 'cooncil melt' was launched this morning as a laugh after a member of the public gave the eatery the inspiration for a Glasgow-themed melt on Instagram.Already, the wrap is proving to be a huge hit for the people of Glasgow. It contains: Turkey dinosaurs, potato smiles, chicken dippers, five spice, curry sauce and cheese.
The 'cooncil melt' was launched this morning as a laugh after a member of the public gave the eatery the inspiration for a Glasgow-themed melt on Instagram.
Already, the wrap is proving to be a huge hit for the people of Glasgow.
It contains: Turkey dinosaurs, potato smiles, chicken dippers, five spice, curry sauce and cheese.
https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/resources/images/11023906.jpg?type=article-full
― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 14 February 2020 11:21 (four years ago) link
"here we see pictured the feast before and after eating"
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 14 February 2020 11:26 (four years ago) link
I would love that as a meal tbh
― boxedjoy, Friday, 14 February 2020 13:22 (four years ago) link
Glasgow's Potato Smiles Better.
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Friday, 14 February 2020 13:24 (four years ago) link
hummin'
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Friday, 14 February 2020 17:39 (four years ago) link
storm dennis is a reet xunt
― ||||||||, Saturday, 15 February 2020 15:38 (four years ago) link
A bus driver held the bus at a stop this afternoon for me until it calmed down enough for me to get off and run into a shop, there was an actual wall of water heading up the road towards the bus that his wipers wouldn't clear. It's fecking brutal out there
― ailsa, Saturday, 15 February 2020 18:17 (four years ago) link