try glasgow more

Fair dos, big yin, ye're absolved.

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

awesome. wonder if they're linked to this group who are campaigning to save a synagogue in my neighbourhood
https://twitter.com/irnju
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-50808796

sounds great, will keep an eye out for when it opens

Didnt realise there were any significant number of young yiddish speaking Jewish people in Glasgow!

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.

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!

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.

congrats AF (ps edinburgh is bad not good)

^ cosine both of the above points

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)

Thanks for the info, silby.

Glasgow is bigger and better and has a more affordable housing market :)

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

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)

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

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.

and you didn't even mention the V&A!

(Edinburgh is good btw)

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

I used to live round the corner from it.

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

Both are miles better than London, by some considerable distance.

Also, I once got dumped in the Wetherspoons in Paisley.

I then had to get back to the outskirts of Edinburgh via public transport on a Sunday, which was probably the worse bit tbh.

one for the hypothetical ‘real scotland’ thread

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.

stamford bridge is the home of chelsea

Stamford Hill, as my friend David used to say, On Top of Old Stokey.

Oh yeah that's right - I will need to study up on football and racism for Glasgow, I'm aware.

you can just tell people you're a patrick thistle fan and with your non-local accent you'll be fine

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".

hey now

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.

as an ex-resident of govan, i cannot fully express just how otm that tip is

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.

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.

https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/resources/images/11023906.jpg?type=article-full

"here we see pictured the feast before and after eating"

I would love that as a meal tbh

Glasgow's Potato Smiles Better.

hummin'

storm dennis is a reet xunt

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

this is a fuckin' bop tbh

Reminder that Glasgow had an anthem for its american football team (with a rap) but because it's glasgow all the joy has a backdrop of grey bleakness and it's very special. pic.twitter.com/U5wHF6LS9S

— Michael M (@michaelmphysics) February 18, 2020

The guy who did that song sometimes comes into my work to do voiceovers. He always wears a hat, which makes the office dog go crazy.

Played at the superbowl!

https://www.thenational.ae/sport/the-super-bowl-s-most-unlikely-half-time-entertainment-hit-1.468718

the singer is hudson mohawks's dad (mentioned in the twitter comments, but in case you didn't click through). just remembered that my da knew him also. I'm 4 degrees of separation from kanye west

I took a piss beside Hud Mo at the Sub Club once. True story

Which means I'm two degrees from Kanye

She’s turned the Waynes against us...

She’s turned the Waynes against us pic.twitter.com/u5lZfp2fWe

— Allan Price 🎙📻 📺 (@AllanGPrice) February 21, 2020

congrats AF, good luck with jobs/the move!

― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, February 11, 2020 10:28 PM

Read this as "congrats as fuck"

Welcome to fucking Scotland.