Is Glasgow 'rough'

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Coming from near here myself I'm interested to know the views of others who have visited the city. Especially those from abroad. I shall remain impartial.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

compared to compton or the bronx or west philly or detroit or houston's 5th ward or new oreleans or? i'm guessing not. compared to candyland, perhaps.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Not as rough as Dundee.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 17:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll have you know we're the murder capital of Europe.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)

when i was there (8 years ago), i got on the wrong bus and passed through what is supposed to be the rough side of glasgow. the people i encountered, though, were REALLY nice and helped me get to where i was going (and even gave me food!) take that for what it's worth.

compared to the worst that american cities have to offer, though, it doesn't even come close.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)

the culture capital of Europe 199whatever? surely not!

― run it off (run it off), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Not as rough as The Pig's Rump pub in Newcastle which Pashmina will stumble into one day and end up getting glassed just for looking at people the wrong way and not being a nutty working class type who shaves with a carving knife and eats concrete for amusement.

― Nutty Nigel (Nutty Nigel), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

They gave you food? Er, what kind of food? Were you starving?

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.stuii.co.uk/images/sitesupport/rab-nesbitt.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

you can be lucky in glasgow and unlucky, too.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I was in a pub near the downtown bus station with a friend with dyed pink hair. A slobbering, walleyed drunk woman with two lit cigarettes pointed to us and exclaimed: "Freaks!!" She looked like something from a John Water's film.

That was rough.

― andy, Tuesday, 17 February 2004 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

It can't be as rough as Detroit.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 18:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Glasgow, home of Belle and Sebastian, Franz Ferdinand, the Pastels, the Blue Nile, Teenage Fanclub, the Bluebells and other wet fops. How rough can it be?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Then again, all my in-laws, Alex Ferguson, Tommy Sheridan, anybody called Mad Dog and Marcello C are from those parts too.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Tommy Sheridan's not hard!

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 19:12 (twenty-two years ago)

belle & sebastian = the sound of wimps singing after getting their asses kicked by glasgow thugs!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Like anywhere I've ever been, actually even more so, the rough parts are easily avoidable (unless you're actually growing up there, I guess), and even if you are there, most of the violence is thug on thug. I can't say I've ever felt scared anywhere, not matter what hour of night. Fear of crime more harmful than crime itself blah blah.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

n = glasgow thug!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 19:22 (twenty-two years ago)

the angelic countenance hides a heart of pure evil glasgow-ghetto darkness

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 19:23 (twenty-two years ago)

a legion of slender wristed bangers coming for your daughters

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought Marcello was supposed to be the Gotti of Glasgow.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)

irv gotti?

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

is rjg ashanti?

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Hm, so Ja Rule would be...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Ma$ello

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I am the Inspector Ghote of Glasgow.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Lying twee bastard.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

is ashanti pretty?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.defjam.com/murderinc/images/gangsters.jpg

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

This could take a while.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Like you don't have the time.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.audioeditions.com/covers/N6X925L.jpg

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't post photos of the truck my dad drives.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/pix/trucks/wes_bergman/album/album096_sml.jpg

But I have now.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Agree with the above - like all big cities, Glasgow surely has its rough areas, but they're easily avoidable. It would be a shame to miss out on visiting Glasgow on account of some spurious reputation.

― mike a, Tuesday, 17 February 2004 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

post pics of Glasgow to lure me there

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.planet.nl/upload_mm/9/3/8/1959583128_1999997675_MadMax3_337x253.jpg

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Like you don't have the time.

Now this is true.

Meanwhile, I look forward to Sam Dastor's Truckers' Tales, where he plays a liberal trucker on the road to East Dubuque.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

post pics of Glasgow to lure me there

Like N. and RJG aren't reason enough?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

i like their subway. essentially, it's a big circle. that's so fucking cool.

st. mungo's is a nice church, too!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:12 (twenty-two years ago)

No it fucking isn't cool. Especially when it breaks down one stop away from where you want to go and you have to go all the way back round in the other direction. Or walk.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:15 (twenty-two years ago)

*cough* ahem, ailsa.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 00:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, cozen lives there too.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 00:26 (twenty-two years ago)

haha!

; )

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 00:28 (twenty-two years ago)

What, in the subway?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 00:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Here is a nice picture of a horse statue which you can see on the way into Glasgow if you're coming from Edinburgh.
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/pipexdsl/q/aqza25/andy/horse/HO1.jpg

Glasgow is not rough. But people from there are laughing at me.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 00:32 (twenty-two years ago)

cozen lives somewhere between the cessnock and ibrox stations.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 00:33 (twenty-two years ago)

that's wrong.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 00:34 (twenty-two years ago)

in the subway? hein?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 00:35 (twenty-two years ago)

yea, why the hell IS the glasgow subway a circle anyway? i still think that shit's cool, but is there a reason?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 00:36 (twenty-two years ago)

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you write better tunes.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 22 February 2004 03:19 (twenty-two years ago)

and she was hawt? she was like a dream come from a sleep. a slap. a sleep.

and you met my flatmate's boyf?

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 22 February 2004 03:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Our Conference finishes at aboujt 6, so I'm looking like I'll be free unless there's some post-conference chat and bouze that rears its head; what time and where is this quiz thing?

Looking good so far; am posting from the taxi on the way to th'airport.

― Dave B (daveb), Sunday, 22 February 2004 06:24 (twenty-two years ago)

it's said that the quiz begins at nine PM but everyone knows it doesn't actually begin until nine thirty PM, at the earliest, but we are usually there by eight PM, or so. it is at hubbard's (which is a pub) on the great western road (between the kelvinbridge and byres road).

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 22 February 2004 06:28 (twenty-two years ago)

What tunes?

I have never heard them.

― the blissfox, Sunday, 22 February 2004 11:04 (twenty-two years ago)

the pinefox, just for you, I will send a mini-EP of two poorly-mastered songs I recorded ('when's tomorrow?' & strawberry switchblade's 'since yesterday'.) RJG writes better tunes.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 22 February 2004 12:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Better than whose? Yours? Or the FF's? Or... mine?

No, I don't believe him neither.

I like the concept of your ep. Did you record it... yourself?

― the firefox, Sunday, 22 February 2004 12:21 (twenty-two years ago)

O I'm sure they're better than mine. at least.

I recorded it myself.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 22 February 2004 12:24 (twenty-two years ago)

you didnt even mention the Fennesz mix.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 22 February 2004 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Who gives a bloody fuck? Try being a gutterpunk in Collier County Florida, one of the richest areas in the U.S. where the citizens pay the pigs to be Nazis and arrest us for being on the streets and keep us locked away for six months before being allowed to go before a judge! I've been all over the world and always check the laws where i'm at and have never found anywhere else to make it against the law to be homeless. You'd think you could make hundreds sparing these millionaires for change, but it's actually the opposite. They lock your ass up and tell Bubba this one's on them. I was locked up for thirty days, charged with indigeancy, and almost spent twenty five to life for attempted murder when three assfuckers tried to get hold of me! Well, i've gotta go, shout out to the Bayshore Bums and the LInwood street crackheads. Be on the lookout for our new band, the SuicIdols. See ya'll in the squats. Smash

― scott gregory (smash), Sunday, 22 February 2004 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

cook said I write better tunes. I was surprised at first but now I realise he is correct.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 22 February 2004 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)

you write songs better than cook?

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 22 February 2004 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Hang on - what the hell is that post above yours?

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 22 February 2004 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

C-Man.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 22 February 2004 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I had to direct those germans (?) to the 'seventh heaven' strip club, N., just after they asked (propositioned?) you.

Actually it was me who recommended it to them. I had to talk them out of going to an indie disco. I thought they were Norwegian, though.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 22 February 2004 14:03 (twenty-two years ago)

And if they're Norwegian, that makes it even worse.

I don't get what RJG is saying. Than whom is he better?

Cozen?

― the firefox, Sunday, 22 February 2004 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

The Fiery Furnaces, I think.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 22 February 2004 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

cook said than fiery furnaces. I like the girl too much to agree with him unreservedly, though.

crosspost

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 22 February 2004 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

RJG is a total pussy, though - he wouldn't start up a conversation with her when she was standing right behind him after the show.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 22 February 2004 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I talked to her brother.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 22 February 2004 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Did you?

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 22 February 2004 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah. they'll play in glasgow in a year or so and I am playing the long game.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 22 February 2004 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Glasgow - further to my question somewhere above - who is playing, if anyone, at the March 13 Winchester?

I'm glad the FFs were good. I am going to make sure I speak to the woman on Tuesday so, in one way at least, I will have outdone The Bear.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Sunday, 22 February 2004 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Some band called the Poppadums, Jerry. They're not even Indian and I suspect they may be racist.

The long game is totally for suckers, RJG. Cozen will sneak along and grab her behind your back. QUITE LITERALLY.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 22 February 2004 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, thanks for the imploration, JtN. tell her I love her :'''''''(

I don't know about march 13.

I am a sucker, yeah, but I am also old enough to be cozen's dad and he wouldn't ever dare do anything that could upset me.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 22 February 2004 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I hate my father.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 22 February 2004 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

what is this chord

E X
A 0
D 4
G 4
B 4
e 0

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 22 February 2004 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

it's a droney B/A. thanks MUCH, fuckers.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 22 February 2004 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)

are people going to a quiz tonight? can i come too as my quiz team for tonight have maybe stood me up?

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

E X
A 0
D 4
G 4
B 4
e 0

When chord books put an 'x' next to a string, to show that it shouldn't be played, as in the example above, does anyone actually obey?

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

it sounds pretty nasty with that bass-y big E ringing away. it's easy enough to just let your thumb peek over the top of the fret-board.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

the bottom?

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

the lack of question mark in the title is beginning to bug me.

are you not quizing, N.?

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 22 February 2004 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

No, not tonight.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 22 February 2004 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)

for what it's worth, i was un-stood up by one of my quiz team, and we won £30. yay us.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 23 February 2004 00:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I wish I was going to be in Govan tonight.

I also think I am missing RJG, as I was thinking of him at the weekend, so played some Steely Dan in his honour.

― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 23 February 2004 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

awwwww!!

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:53 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

3 years ago...

I still haven't fapped. I'd be too afraid to.

― *rumpie*, Thursday, 10 May 2007 12:58 (eighteen years ago)

i wouldnt bother

― 696, Thursday, 10 May 2007 12:58 (eighteen years ago)

Glasgow: Are ILXors 'rough'?

― Tom D., Thursday, 10 May 2007 12:59 (eighteen years ago)

Comparison with badger's arse not favourable.

― Madchen, Thursday, 10 May 2007 13:08 (eighteen years ago)

i mean, i would. i just dont think they like you

― 696, Thursday, 10 May 2007 13:10 (eighteen years ago)

You're probably right, it's touching to see someone tracking my web-life. How kind of you.

― *rumpie*, Thursday, 10 May 2007 13:17 (eighteen years ago)

i'm intrigued by strongo's ghetto patriotism

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 10 May 2007 13:20 (eighteen years ago)

i didnt mean it to sound mean

― 696, Thursday, 10 May 2007 13:21 (eighteen years ago)

take their guns and friends away and let's see how big they really are.

― blueski, Thursday, 10 May 2007 13:22 (eighteen years ago)

its difficult to tell how big someone is if your view is obscured by guns and friends

― 696, Thursday, 10 May 2007 13:30 (eighteen years ago)

"Run it off" - European Cultural Capital 1990.

"Glasgow Smiles Better"

― AndyTheScot, Thursday, 10 May 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

Rumpie, you should. Glasgow FAPS = same old faces. I think everyone's scared of us.

― ailsa, Thursday, 10 May 2007 17:42 (eighteen years ago)

I did my study abroad in Glasgow . . . god! six or seven years ago? I attended uni for a semester and I loved that damn city. L-O-V-E-D it. Mostly because it was a real working city and not a museum piece like other cities. (a-hem! I'm talking about out Edinburgh).

― Caledonia, Thursday, 10 May 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

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