Ned in Glasgow -- FAPs/shows/parties/whatever July 11th through 13th

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Yes, the sequel, as it were. So anyway Glasgow is the next stop on my visionquest thing or whatever this is. I appear to be crashing with RJG and Ally C if they'll still put up with me, even though I am the evil anti-Sinisterite. Grimly Fiendish was just worrying about no Glasgow talk on the London thread so this should assuage his fears. He spoke of pubs.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 June 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

But what about hangin' with Calum? I know he's not in Glasgow, but he sounds keen to see you.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Thursday, 9 June 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

Well, you know.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 June 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

Hi Ned! Ally C and RJG may be moving house then, but neither is in Scotland at the moment to confirm. Don't worry, you can always kip in the Hielan' Brolly.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 9 June 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

Moving house, yipes! I don't blame them for having other things on their mind.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 June 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

pubs, hurrah. i'm up for anything at all: and it'd be good to meet some other folk, seeing as i only actually know one other glasgow ilx0r.

irritatingly, monday and tuesday are my busiest days work-wise (ie i toil late into the evening). but i can just zoom out and meet people at a place of their choosing.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

Booze on a school night = bad idea, as shown by my Scotland-watching hangover this morning. But, for you, I guess, I could force myself to manage it.

grimly should advise all of the best pub near his work and we could go there.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

if you're serious: the station bar in cowcaddens kicks so much ass it hurts. but it is also old-man-tastic.

it has neil diamond and meat loaf on the jukebox. i think this is a good thing but others might disagree.

i thought ned might like mono? (by which i mean: i really like mono.)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

You gonna kiss me or something?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

Well, Glasgow is notoriously bad at organising drinking, so I figured if something was convenient for people who would otherwise be inconvenienced, then that would be a good starting point.

Old-man-tastic pubs with Meatloaf and Neil Diamond on the jukebox are the BEST. (but Mono would be OK too, I guess).

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

I'm up for it, although believe it or not in Hungary I think 'til the 11th. Be nice to see you lot out for a drink. Mono's cool for me. Cowcaddens is cavalcade-tastic for me too.

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 9 June 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

is it here where i can request a photo of dastoor giving ned a noogie?

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 9 June 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

! Abuse! Mockery!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 June 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

Ned, my girlfriend and some of my best buds in Glasgow. Can we please meet up with you and all take turns at laughing at you?

I need to cc this thread.

― Music Mick, Thursday, 9 June 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

Only joking Ned. I'm sure we'd all have fun with you in tow.

― Music Mick, Thursday, 9 June 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

[sigh]

er, anyway. i'm easy. mono might be a slightly better bet: easier to get a seat, less chance of hassle from old men. but ho, there's plenty of time to sort this out.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 9 June 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

There is indeed! Plot away.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 June 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

haha "easier to get a seat".

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

It's a MONDAY (or Tuesday)! Do people go out on a Monday (or Tuesday)? (I do, but in Paisley which has millions of pubs and no people drinking in most of them)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

I might, because I'm on holiday that week.

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

Come to think of it, I might see if I can hassle Doctor Tim Hopkins into visiting that week. He's been threatening of late....

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

haha "easier to get a seat".

[ponders myriad potential meanings, decides on one]

i have, on occasion or two, seen it absolutely packed in mono. there wasn't room to swing a vegan sausage.

[wonders if was missing something; goes to read big brother thread anyway]

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

sorry I was being a fanny again, I have seen it packed too. I just don't like it.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

Why not? (Not that I'm a particular fan, but I'm not all that fussy)

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

I like the sound of the place with Meatloaf on the jukebox. Keith, they probably have My Sharona as well.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

! I'm all for that!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

Ailsa, any of that's cool by me. Meatloaf... The Knack... Two out of three ain't bad.

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

actually, this thread could be astonishingly helpful given that i can never, ever think of decent pubs when i need to.

pubs in glasgow wot i like

• mono (scratty vegan lunacy, but good beer, decent music and is part of old 13th-note continuum. plus has record shop attached)

• sleazy's (for sheer obstinacy and refusal to redecorate, plus old time's sake. however: is always rammed with dobsticks)

• the station (it worries me that this might be my all-time favourite glasgow bar, it really does)

• the variety (for the music and the darknes, and the astonishingly stupid bar staff who'll charge you < a tenner for three doubles)

• christ i really can't remember other pubs i like. there's clockwork on holmlea road, but it's a) not exactly handy for anyone who doesn't live near me, and b) allegedly owned by ... actually, no, i'm not mentioning this on a public forum.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

Keith, they probably have My Sharona as well.

i'm 99 per cent sure they do.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

alba has experienced the joys of the station bar, and has seen me fall over the little step on the way to the bog. we need him to give an unbiased opinion.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

Keith, they probably have My Sharona as well.

That's impressive actually... Is it an old 45 playing jukebox? Will there be any banjo players in the pub?

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

in a metaphorical "deliverance" stylee?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

alba has experienced the joys of the station bar, and has seen me fall over the little step on the way to the bog. we need him to give an unbiased opinion.

It is not bad. Of city centre bars, I like the Griffin. And The State, though I don't think I've ever been in The State as such. Also I like The Brunswick Cellars, on a younger tip. And The Universal, on a poncier one. I do not like the Alpen Lodge.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

Ned, recently in London I told PJMiller that he was the person I'd known the longest without actually meeting, having spoken to him on the interweb since about 1996, but thinking about it, despite not conversing much, it's probably actually you, who I think I conversed with over useweb in about 1994. That's about when I met you Simon! When you had a leather jacket, a beard, and refused to listen to anyone except Yazoo!

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and on a poncy/younger crossover tip, I like the Republic Bierhalle and its newish sister bar off Sauchiehall St.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

There's a place in Coatbridge that do Bucky on tap

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

Well, I'm voting for the Station Bar (I've never been there, but grimly fiendish has totally sold it to me)

(last time I saw Keith he was bouncing around to My Sharona rather enthusiastically. One time before that we were talking about how the kids of today don't appreciate Dire Straits. I bet he wants to go to the Station Bar too)

I like Sleazys and the Griffin and the State and the Atholl and Lauders and O'Henrys and basically anywhere non-poncy that non-expensive booze.

(xpost - Sarry Heid FAP!)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

When you had a leather jacket, a beard, and refused to listen to anyone except Yazoo!

i take great exception to that. i mean, i also listened to OMD.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

Ailsa, that wasn't that last time. Met you in the Drum & Monkey when Hopkins was up...

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

and the Atholl

well, someone has to :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

Simon, sorry! You're right of course... And yes, Deliverance style banjos. I still want to know who owns that pub you were talking about. Is it the Cook twins?

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Booze and ruin and trying to explain the SPL split to Tim all took their toll. (xpost)

Atholl = cheap, next to cinema, quiz machine that always pays out, chance to bump into Jim Delahunt. What's not to love?

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

The Atholl is pretty rubbish. I did see Jerry Sadowitz through the window in there the other day though. I don't know what that "though" means, quite.

Go INTERMEZZO.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

Ailsa, funnily enough in the past, we did consider the Sarry Heid for Sinister meet ups. Quite suitable, I thought.

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

walkabout.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

It has everything.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I've been there with Calumn pre-B&S at the Barrowlands. No-one else was untwee enough to join us.

(xpost about the Sarry, I hate Walkabout with a passion, but it does have excellently big tellies for football watching purposes)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

Does the Goose still have 1970s prices? A couple of years ago I got a round in at 92p a pint in Leith. Can any of your readers beat that?

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

Apparently two Glasgow pubs have been featured on Vol.1 and 2 of Sky's Worst Pubs in Britain programme. One was the only Rangers pub in Parkhead I think and the other was somewhere in Shettleston. I don't have Sky. Can someone confirm?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

I'm pretty sure the Louden Tavern (the Rangers pub in Duke Street) was featured.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

Skipping 244 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

'private collection'
i know all about those...
we had a photographer who nipped off to shoot pretty blonde girls frolicking in fields of rape
he was short and bald and from bolton and i disliked him very much
on his last day of work, he told me about his fiancee's fucked up abusive past and how he popped her cherry. lovely. thanks.
*shudder*

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

pssst: madchen was a GANGSTA BITCH in high school!!!
proof: What were you like as a teenager (in high school)?-- a survey

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

I am amused by all this.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 12:55 (twenty years ago)

Drinking Stones Ginger Wine isn't really very gangsta.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

yes, but RED BANDANAS and SALT N PEPA are!
i'm so excited by this you know, as i have had secret gangsta aspirations myself

― dahlin (dahlin), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

Oh you badass.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 21 July 2005 07:24 (twenty years ago)

Well it was folded up into a narrow band which was wrapped around my bun, not worn headscarf style (I could never get that to work, yes I did try).

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 21 July 2005 07:28 (twenty years ago)

i can't imagine you with a bun!
i think this might require photographic evidence...

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 21 July 2005 08:01 (twenty years ago)

Mädchen, either you were wearing a transparent skirt in the Landsdowne, or the Herald has invested in x-ray cameras.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 July 2005 08:24 (twenty years ago)

I didn't notice that!

It's quite an achievement to photograph 5 ilxors and only show one and a half faces.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 21 July 2005 08:29 (twenty years ago)

hey, we only employ the best.

and me.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 21 July 2005 08:30 (twenty years ago)

shite... i won't be seeing the herald today! scan, anyone?

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 21 July 2005 09:55 (twenty years ago)

it's not worth it. unless you like the backs of people's heads, and want to know what ally and mädchen would look like if they were 2cm high.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 21 July 2005 09:57 (twenty years ago)

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 21 July 2005 10:03 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://tinypic.com/97ikg2.jpg

(sorry about the quality)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 21 July 2005 10:18 (twenty years ago)

That pub looks all right, but I think I've been put off going by the look of the clientele in that photo...

― alext (alext), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:06 (twenty years ago)

thanks bub

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)

I have a weird bubblebum thing going on there, don't I?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

I do like the fluff of my hair there.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 22 July 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

bubblebum!

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 22 July 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

Well yes. It would be wrong otherwise.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 22 July 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

OK so the server won't let me at try glasgow more so I'll post this here instead, a one-time only

M&S are tomorrow doing some weird promotion where if the cashier does not mention to you our &more credit card you can claim a free bottle of wine; I have been informed that one of the glasgow stores will be taking part in this faintly ridiculous scheme

so - I expect the M&S cashiers will be being v.vigilant in re: this policy tomorrow because it's more thn their job's worth (i.e. they're supposed to push this card every day, every transaction) but I'm sure a few bottles of wine will slip through - maybe it could be you

they will be wearing badges at the foods tills ("if I haven't mentioned our &more card by the end of this transaction you can claim a free bottle of wine") so that's how you'll know the store (argyle Vs. sauchie) is taking pt. (I think the simply food store, not g. central, is taking pt. too)

anyway, I don't know if it is worth making a specific trip out (i.e. it isn't) but if you are passing or at lunch - it's gunna be awkward not to mention annoying to mention this frkn card on transactions less than 4-5 items, so go buy a sandwich (note: don't pay at the express/ 5-items tills cs the offer doesn't apply there, loopholes loopholes) and see if you can bag a free bottle of wine

I would probably get sacked if my bosses knew about me talking about this

I am finding finding a flat a bothersome nuisance

― czn (johnson), Friday, 22 July 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

I am now a fully naturalised M&S worker

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 22 July 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

congrats. was it difficult? what does naturalisation involve? was there a ceremony? or did they just pin something on your chest?

― dahlin (dahlin), Sunday, 24 July 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

Ned said he was coming back with photos :(

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)

Ned did say he would post more photos. I took a few of him in Glasgow and he took a few pics for his mum and I emailed them to him. So no doubt when he has time he may share them. Same with the ones he took at the FAP.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

There ARE more photos etc. There is also this thing called 'limited access to Internet' at present. Give me time. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

TS: looking at pr0n v posting amusing photos. nah, no contest :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

How dare you!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

aww bless
lucy... BACK TO WORK!

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

i can't, s'boring.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

how can it be boring??? all those international educators! comeing HERE! it's... er... EXCITING LIKE!
yeah, ok, i see your point. but it pays for new bathroom units, non?

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

Shit, forgot to phone the insurance company again.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

I finally coaxed some pictures off my corrupted card. Not many, and because life works that way, they're mostly grimly fiendish. Still: Here they are.

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

I like how I am pretending to be interested in grimly's story, then turn round to snigger to madchen behind his back when he's not looking.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

it could have been much worse

did I ever post the couple of photos I took?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

i am not amused
no rjg you have not

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/RJG/lans0.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/RJG/lans1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/RJG/lans2.jpg

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

Murky. Like my soul.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 22:53 (twenty years ago)

ooh there are people there i don;t know! well, one. boy

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 22:54 (twenty years ago)

(he's starfire dave's mate)

I like how everyone in that top photo of RJG's is REALLY fascinated by Scotstvo's cigarette.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

I like how I am pretending to be interested in grimly's story, then turn round to snigger to madchen behind his back when he's not looking.

while i look really smug. "ooh, she enjoyed that story. i'm such a raconteur," i'm thinking. bah.

forgive my ignorance: but what's going on in picture 104?

and teh rampant bouze-lust in 129 is frankly worrying. we should be ashamed of ourselves.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 08:39 (twenty years ago)

forgive my ignorance: but what's going on in picture 104?

I don't know, but madchen is not much impressed by it.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

0094 should be used for all future Ned photoshoppage. RJG, I like that one of me and Cathy so much it is going on my screensaver.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

i fear the photoshop potential in picture 131. i might do it myself before stet has a go.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, 0094 trips me out. I must have been flirting with Cozen.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

I was going to chuck a hissy fit and ask for the ones of me to be taken down, but (1) they are blurry, (2) I don't look as freaky as I did in Ned's photo and (3) they are really funny.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

See, I was wondering why you had said nothing, and I was going to complain of being unfairly singled out.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

ned, when you and i are in our sixties we need to spend all our time just sitting next to each other in a bar, pulling silly faces at people as they come in the door. on this evidence, we were born to do it.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

Damn straight. We are the Statler and Waldorf of later years.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

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