try glasgow more

21st party is planned to be outdoors (15 people, 5 households), weather permitting. If the weather is bad there's no point even attempting anything as we're already a family of five over two households so we couldn't even allow e.g. girlfriends or grandparents under current guidelines.

I can get on my bus at Shawlands, ride it through East Ren and into East Kilbride, work 8 hrs in my shop with two colleagues as a few hundred strangers come through the door, get the same bus home and get food from Lidl on the way... but I can't have anyone sit in my front room. Hmm

I agree this looks like it makes no sense but it's down to most of those things being managed at reasonably low risk while bangers are having 20 man gaffs. It's not aimed at your responsible visitor, it's aimed at the bangers.

Thing is though, how does changing guidance affect people who ignore guidance? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I've been to the pub once and a restaurant once but I've been at work full-time in a retail space since lockdown was eased. Based on what I've seen of the public and how they've behaved, it really does feel like most people don't care about this anymore. The prevailing attitude seems to be that if we all wear masks we don't need to be using sanitised or social distancing. Even the bus is a nightmare as people sit where they want and slide off their masks. I'm not convinced I'm going to be any safer by the end of house parties - the people who have already taken the risks are still able to get out and about, to come into my shop or whatever, and there's only so much you can do to make people behave responsibly. When people break the guidelines you can tell them off, ask them to back away etc, but the damage is already done and the threat of infection cannot be undone. It feels like closing the gate after the horse has bolted.

Also I'm so sorry about this ruining the 21st. This is all so rotten :(

https://www.instagram.com/p/CFSamcppwss/

Bears letting it loop a few times to catch all the adverts & local touches in there. Made me chuckle at least.

I know Alec M, who made this, and he's a neighbour of yours in Dennistoun, Krakow (as long as you're still in Dennistoun - I'm not). Really cool guy.

Update.Glasgow 2020 pic.twitter.com/2anJrp2cF3

— Stephen61 (@Stephen6112) September 20, 2020

I know the fella in this pic.

Haha that's quite gid that.

he's definitely a very good guy but i'm slightly sad that the element of mystery has been removed.

also sad that the one in the middle isn't in there (a diptych that should have been a triptych) The middle one, after the first was painted over was, of course, BORIS JOHNSON IS STILL A PURE FANNY.

(Aside to Ward Fowler... yep, I'm still in Dennistoun/Haghill.)

i thought you were going to say still a pure fanny :D

For some reason I can't see the name "Nocturno Culto" without thinking of it in a total ned voice.

Does anyone know the name of that glasgow goth scientist with super long hair who was tumblr famous? I think she moved country but I've totally forgotten her name.

https://i.imgur.com/RYQnLv8.jpg

From two years ago but I hadn't heard about it and I'm sad to hear about it now. I didn't know this sort of thing was still going on but I have to wonder if attacking her for being a goth was just a cover for attacking a black person.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-44644067

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/tributes-pour-after-beloved-nice-23421754

big john the doorman at sleazy's died.

:(

i was reflecting with friends on how he was always very decent when he - quite rightly - gave me the knock-back on various occasions.

It's incredible and heartening the impact that this story has had. RIP.

memories of a friend taking a bottle of wine in my bag into Sleazies and him saying "just dont open it or drink it" and then his face when said friend proceeded to pour into a plastic cup, "why are you making my life difficult"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVGQfdxkIiQ

look who's back!

Amazing today. So rare to have a protest that has a good result, on that day, right in front of your very eyes.

<3

'mon the shielders

yeah. there should be songs about this. they were there for more than SEVEN HOURS blocking that home office van.

I used to live on that very street. 'Mon the Sooside Resistance!

Superb stuff, 'mon the Glasgow.

yeah. there should be songs about this. they were there for more than SEVEN HOURS blocking that home office van.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, May 13, 2021 4:31 PM (nineteen minutes ago)

oh wow, I've only seen a very short video clip, that is fantastic!

fucking GALLUS!

went down for the last hour. police presence was ridiculously disproportionate

I was out with a friend today for a walk/drive and as we arrived in Govanhill we counted ELEVEN police cars/wagons, one after the other, sirens blazing as they made their way to Kenmure - and this was at 4pm!

scenes today are really make me despair

Where does the anger come from, among each other?? I honestly don’t get it 🤷‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/IjEQBZgNpT

— Tonto67 (@tic1967lisbon) May 15, 2021

FUCKING HELL. #GeorgeSquare #Glasgow pic.twitter.com/1raSTWazT1

— Alex Tyler (@AlexTyler94) May 15, 2021

At least they left Cafe Andaluz alone, #savethetapas #glasgow pic.twitter.com/3B5yjh7tRT

— Billie Jones (@BillieJ66089099) May 15, 2021

Protect the statues!

see as someone who likes a drink and a carry on... how is any of this even fun for those taking part? What joy is there to be had in smashing up a local space, getting into fights and risking a fine or jail?

I really don't know but I doubt it's even about fun, I think fighting is just so deeply ingrained in them.

Scotland is full of crazy people, is how I explain it to non-Scots.

I don't know if we litter worse than other countries but it does annoy me to no end that people go out to pretty places in the countryside and litter there so much. I think the idea of having a good time and carrying your rubbish just doesn't work for them so they'd rather spoil the pretty places and assume someone else will clean it up. What's even worse is when people throw their litter out of their cars... just why?

The place is an absolute tip.

https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/19561614.mike-dailly-glasgow-leader-susan-aitken-left-city-bamboozled-filthy-streets-denial/?ref=twtrec

So many rats running about.

ugh. Thankfully I haven't seen any but have heard stories.

about a month before lockdown I took a few sick days. I had to phone the council because I looked out my window at 4pm ie still daylight and saw rats charging through the communal bin area in the garden that backs on to our garden. It's disgusting. Even in the two years or so I've been living in Govanhill the fly-tipping seems to have gone from sofas and wooden furniture to piles of dumped bags of rubbish.

I was in Maxwell Park yesterday around 4pm doing some scavenger hunt game for someone's birthday, and one of the tasks was to take a photo of a wild animal that wasn't a dog or a bird. I thought, that's easy, I'll just go find a rat. And so I did.

Jeezo.

Someone else got a devil's coach horse, which I thought was quite impressive.

Why do people bag their dog's shit and then just leave it wherever? They've just doubled the mess. Do they think there's some guy who finds all the bags and collects them?

What's Govanhill like to live in these days?