LowLight
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Things You Hate About GlasgowThe destructive nature of the fuckwits.
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Alex Glass
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Is that Cranhill at Edinburgh Road LL 
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LowLight
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Sure is Alex, just before you turn up to Steppes Road.
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Alex Glass
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Just noticed the sign in the shelter 
Honest I did recognise the buildings behind the shelter 
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LowLight
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I didn't take you as a cheat. :)
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steve_zodiac
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Its just as bad down here. You'd think the bus companies or local authority would have though of a way by now to introduce some form of plastic. Still, it keeps the guy who has to keep replacing the windows in a job.
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Stuball
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Many bus shelters have got perspex on them. Usually ones that are repeatedly broken. But then they end up scratch and scuffed to a stage where you cant see through them
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Eddy
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Litter, graffiti and dog sh!t.
Le durachd,
Eddy
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Scary
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Why not just build brick shelters then ?
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wee minx
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Has there ever been, or are there any brick bus shelters in Glasgow?
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Scary
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I`m sure there was one on Langlands Road ( gone now) near the motorway in Govan / Drumoyne.
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fastnet
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It rains a lot, The ground turns to muck, If you are taking pics there is a risk of slipping.
And when you try to show the results the tripod slips in the god forsaken mud cutting your head off.
Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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Scary
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We should be thankful for small mercies
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fastnet
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B*****D.................
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wee minx
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Sorite..ah caught you with my camera
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Scary
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| wee minx wrote: | Sorite..ah caught you with my camera
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Nice bandana Fastnet
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Becky
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Being 300 miles south, my rose tinted glasses tend to make the whole of Scotland look utopian (OK, with the exception of Fife!!)
I don't know if there is much about Glasgow I don't like. I don't like the centralisation of NHS services. I think that local services are a better way to go, especially in terms of maternity care. The disenfranchised youth that many call 'NEDS' are a worry. I'd like to see something done to engage this potentially lost generation and help them to become positive contributors to our society.
Peace.
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fastnet
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| Scary wrote: | | wee minx wrote: | Sorite..ah caught you with my camera
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Nice bandana Fastnet |
Paira B*****DS..............
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cybers
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My biggest gripe about any city not just Glasgow is the socially engineered traffic jam. Stick a few one way systems in forcing everyone onto select roads throw a couple of bus lanes at it and viola instant choas.
Why when the roads are wide enough to accomodate traffic moving in both directions do neer do wells decide to mess with the strategy.
They only end up outsmarting themselves till the next guy in the job says hey i can improve this if i just reverse all the one ways the other way and not tell anyone.
KHANTS !!!!
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Becky
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| cybers wrote: | My biggest gripe about any city not just Glasgow is the socially engineered traffic jam. Stick a few one way systems in forcing everyone onto select roads throw a couple of bus lanes at it and viola instant choas.
Why when the roads are wide enough to accomodate traffic moving in both directions do neer do wells decide to mess with the strategy.
They only end up outsmarting themselves till the next guy in the job says hey i can improve this if i just reverse all the one ways the other way and not tell anyone.
KHANTS !!!! |
It's probably worth adding what seems to me to be a bizzarre design: Pedestrian crossings just yards from a major light controlled junction. (EG Allison street / Pollockshaws Road) Why not just have the whole thing combined?
Peace.
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Stuball
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A few of those junctions have been changed over the last few years... but they still have a few
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Scary
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Here`s a vid a mate of mine took today in our council housing scheme.
A real pet hate of mine 
Not just dumb dumping, but there`s domestic rubbish there too
This has been going on for years.
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fastnet
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One of my hates is washing that stays out for days on end.......
What are they waiting for ? The rinse cycle ?
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wee minx
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| fastnet wrote: | One of my hates is washing that stays out for days on end.......
What are they waiting for ? The rinse cycle ? |
Guilty ..ye see it's like this..
You put the washing out, its nice...then you turn your back and it rains...you leave it out hoping it will stop and drying will continue...but naw...it stops, you forget, it rains again..so you leave it a day more.
Eventually you take it in and think...hmmmm all that rain, probably a bit dirty...I'd better wash them all again!! 
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Stuball
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Whats the point of fly tipping domestic waste?
The worst offenders for that... just sprung to mind.... is the auld dears that put a days waste into a carrier bag and force it into a street bin. I've never understood why they do that
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cybers
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| Stuball wrote: | Whats the point of fly tipping domestic waste?
The worst offenders for that... just sprung to mind.... is the auld dears that put a days waste into a carrier bag and force it into a street bin. I've never understood why they do that |
Goes back to the old days of the coal fires Stu...
Old news papers in the street bin hot ashes in the Dunny...
Nay fires in the bin hoose
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wee minx
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| Scary wrote: | Here`s a vid a mate of mine took today in our council housing scheme.
A real pet hate of mine
Not just dumb dumping, but there`s domestic rubbish there too
This has been going on for years.
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that's awful, do you know whos is responsible for the locking of the gates?
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Scary
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Probably the cleansing dept
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fastnet
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| wee minx wrote: | | fastnet wrote: | One of my hates is washing that stays out for days on end.......
What are they waiting for ? The rinse cycle ? |
Guilty ..ye see it's like this..
You put the washing out, its nice...then you turn your back and it rains...you leave it out hoping it will stop and drying will continue...but naw...it stops, you forget, it rains again..so you leave it a day more.
Eventually you take it in and think...hmmmm all that rain, probably a bit dirty...I'd better wash them all again!! |
Minx............Yer a clatty ***
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robster
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My biggest dislike about Glasgow is the inequality, lots of rich parts, lots of poor parts. Glad to see the city council introducing their £7 minimum wage, it's not ideal, but certainly a good start  Maybes they could enshrine it in law across all businesses, now that'd be a good move.
Sorry for the deep and meaningful post, but you did ask 
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Doog Doog
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Neds
Bus lanes
Those raised speed ramps at road junctions - 'kin pain in the arse when you ride a motorcycle!
Clatty b'stards who fling their sh*te out the house window ( not just Glasgow btw)
The ancient ritual of smashing the buckie bottle when the contents have been drunk
I'll stop now before I turn into Victor Meldrew.
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Stuball
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This...
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Hopalong Cassidy
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| Alex Glass wrote: |
Just noticed the sign in the shelter
Honest I did recognise the buildings behind the shelter |
I live in that street (Crowlin Crescent) behind the shelter for 11 years
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Doog Doog
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there used to be 2 steel shelters on the Crookston Rd.
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fastnet
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| Hopalong Cassidy wrote: | | Alex Glass wrote: |
Just noticed the sign in the shelter
Honest I did recognise the buildings behind the shelter |
I live in that street (Crowlin Crescent) behind the shelter for 11 years |
Deepest regrets hopalong........
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Saltmarketeer
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Brick shelters probably don't get used because they're not modular. If they get damaged you have to send a brickie to repair them and, given the city we live in, it wouldn't belong before they were damp, full of rubbish and reeking of piss.
One thing that gets me about this City, as with any other, is the idiocy that pervades planning and highway decisions. It usually starts at middle management and bubbles all the way up to Chief Exec and Elected Member level. Public consultations are largely a joke, deals are done in secret with the ones doing them hiding their reasoning behind confidentiality rules but claiming they're doing it for the public good.
I've just came from six years of this and to be honest it makes me sick. Everything was run or decided by about six militant hippies. The level of social engineering and 'nanny knows best' thinking was truly unbelievable.
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wee minx
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Do ye get militant hippies? peace man
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Saltmarketeer
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Militancy doesn't always mean march-attending shouty people. The militancy I saw was a complete bloody-mindedness. Demanding all sorts of facilities and concessions for things which weren't required because of the personal agendas of the people doing the responses. The public were consulted but the only views listened to were the ones which aligned with the decision makers.
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