Thoughts on Glasgow
8:53 am on the 14th of March, 2005croila has written about what the atmosphere was like in Edinburgh yesterday with the Welsh invasion, it was a bit like that in Glasgow yesterday too. Even though the game was in Edinburgh there were still hoardes of Welsh roaming the streets between train journeys and waiting for the pubs to open.
It made it seem much friendlier than usual. It seems whenever a large group of one nationality or other are in town the mood of the natives lifts. There’s big talk of the Glasgow banter and how the weegies are really friendly but I’ve never seen it except when they are talking to outsiders.
It reminds me of the couple in Father Ted who are always fighting and arguing untill the see Father Ted when they become lovely and happy and chatty.
Like that couple the glaswegians seem to hate each other but love everybody else.
I am fond of sweeping generalisations, they’re so much more fun than being diplomatic.
March 15th, 2005 at 8:35 pm on the 15th of March, 2005
I like the new page design - very smart!
Interesting what you write about Weegies. How strange that they’re nice to outsiders but not themselves! I work with a Weegie and a lot of his attitudes are a bit, um, well, different to what I’m used to shall I say. Funny how he hates Edinburgh but still works here …
March 15th, 2005 at 10:52 pm on the 15th of March, 2005
Thanks about the design, my girlfriend came up with the rather good background pattern.
I find that on the whole the weegies are fine, you don’t notice that they’re any different untill you find one that’s a nasty piece of work. Edinburgh’s nasty-pieces-of-work are so much nicer than Glasgow’s.
But maybe I’m just biased, I am very much an Eastie-coastie at heart.
August 9th, 2005 at 5:02 pm on the 9th of August, 2005
think what you say about glasgow is totally biased! i think that this is the attitude of scotland as a whole. i think that you can’t make the same reflections on edinbuggers as you never meet any natives
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