milton75

He's pally with Matt Forde. And is, therefore, OFTW.

As annoying as it is when people do this, I'd say that if anything people have moved very slightly away from this model in the UK, not towards it. While across the UK as a whole Labour and Conservative still hold most of the votes, and while Westminster is still mainly a 2-paerty affair, I would suggest that it is less so than 50 years ago.

Because Saturday wasn't Halloween?

You fucking hate mashed potatoes. Mashed.

That list is going to keep me going for a good while. I can't believe I worked in EK for a good 5 years and never saw the Dollan Baths. The Anderston Centre is an interesting one to me. I remember when I was young we went on a bus to Glasgow and it stopped there. The place had its own shops (I think even a music shop), its own bus station, and seemed pretty busy. By the end of the 80s it was a failed experiment it seems, although I understand that it's now a pretty decent place to live. I guess they wanted a cheap version of the Barbican, and if they'd ended up with anything like that it would have been amazing. I ended up googling stuff about it. Found some pretty cool pics.

Agree completely. Just saw this page that had a few other great photos: And on the subject of Airports, whoever allowed them to vandalise the lines of Glasgow Airport should have been strung up.

Cheers - I never knew that about the lifts. Great tower that one.

If you look at the drawings for New Towns, and indeed for some of the high-rise complexes (including their associated shopping precincts etc.), you can get a sense of why they thought that these spaces would be something positive going forward. Open spaces, clean lines, defined zones... It is a shame that so much of this was misguided; it turns out that people do respond better to organic growth and mixed-use, and as a social experiment they do seem to have failed in the main. I don't have anything new to add to commentary on breaking apart communities that hasn't already been said 1000x before in any case. WRT Le Corbusier, I think there's a practical issue to consider, and it's as basic as raw concrete looking better after 20 years in Marseille sun as opposed to in Lanarkshire rain. Using cheaper concrete didn't help of course.

If I'm not entirely mistaken, the fannies at the MOD originally said they would build this on the site of the St Enoch Station and then changed their minds, but by that time the station had been demolished. I can't help feel that converting the below to a shopping centre (or anything) would have been preferable to the monstrosity that is the St Enoch Centre:

Causewayside Garage in Edinburgh is also a treat. And I drove past this place in Girvan recently. Could do with some TLC, but nice clean lines.

My favorite Scottish Art Deco buildings are the Kelvin Court flats in Anniesland:

It's genuinely for sale and also a spoof.

Just heard a head exploding. https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/dominic-raab-hosts-offender-employment-summit

Liked this.

Looks like he's shat it and deleted the original tweet. Possibly due to being called on BS in the replies. https://twitter.com/marksandspencer/status/1448365584685674510?s=20

Mon now. I've not lived in Edinburgh for about 20 years, and everyone I knew then used that wee alley. Anyone basing "retirement age" on when they will be getting their state pension needs a major rethink and quickly. I had it pointed out to me a long time ago that if you were working, the state pension should be looked upon as a bonus, a "top up" if you like to private provision. I've been working on that proviso for decades and hope to retire certainly in the next 5 years maybe even sooner and that's a good 8-10 years shy of "the pension". Even that close I'm far from certain the state pension will be anything like it is now and I fully expect at least 1 further push back on the state retiral age. If under 40 I would simply forget you are going to get a state pension and concentrate on making personal provision. While I think you're right in practical terms, I disagree on principle. I'm paying a tax and I'm in my early 40s. Surely State Pensions should be viewed in the same way as the NHS; I'm paying in now so I can access a share of the system later. If the prevailing wisdom is that there won't be a State Pension for me, or at least not one worth banking on, then does it follow that I should take cognisance of that issue now and refuse to pay that portion of my current tax burden? I could invest it in something else instead, and use it in my dotage. It seems backwards though; I would naively posit that the point of paying into the State is that is guarantees something that otherwise might not be guaranteed, albeit at a lower payout. Paying into the State should confer a certain level of trust and reassurance, and if that's not there then all I'm doing is paying to give the current generation of old c-nts a lifestyle that I can't expect for myself. I don't think that really engenders feelings of good faith in the system.

Probs time to "tap out", as they say.

It can. There's tons of stuff that's free that actually costs you to watch because it's desperately shit. I was going to do a hilarious bit about yer maw / my maw / etc., but there's loads of stuff that actually seeps your soul by seeing it.

I pretty much hate all theme parks and fairgrounds. I get bored insanely quickly and apart from eating hot-dogs they do little for me. I quite like a go on a roller-coaster I suppose, but not enough to have to travel and queue etc. I also get bored after about 20 seconds of any firework display.

I think you replied before I realised the way my post was warded and edited it: "Cas Rock and the Studios were both a disgrace, but I felt what happened with The Venue bordered on criminal." Became: "Losing Cas Rock and the Studios was a disgrace, but I felt what happened with The Venue bordered on criminal." Slightly different meaning.

I like blocking them one by one. It's also a pointless exercise though.

Can I add to this: - The Tap o' Lauriston - Cafe Grafitti - Bongo Club (when it was on New Street behind the Station, NOT the shit version in Moray House) Losing Cas Rock and the Studios was a disgrace, but I felt what happened with The Venue bordered on criminal. Some nights like Derrick Carter and Sneak at Tribal Funktion still give me happy memories. Everyone goes on about Pure, but it was less my thing. To compare with Glasgow, it felt a bit more like going to The Arches when you actually wanted to go to the Sub. The other great thing about Tribal Funktion was that you could pop upstairs for Hip-Hop at Scratch if you fancied coming down a bit. It was an amazing place and I'm still gutted about the way it ended. Clubbing in Scotland in the 90s - early 2000s was a lovely thing tbh. It's not that surprising that when all those clubs in Edinburgh closed down I started coming through to the Subby every weekend and eventually moved to Glasgow. Having a comfortable happy space to go where there's never any shit to put up with shouldn't be too much to ask. Although... last I saw (years ago, I am over 40 now) the Sub wasn't what it used to be, and Berkeley Suite / Yellow Door is the nicest night in Glasgow now, and has been about 5 years.

I wish, but doubt it. There's too much consistency in the photos etc. It's fair enough that she's posting pics of her kids etc., but the shite on her walls and the determination by which she pursues any freebie are grim.

This person annoys me: Tweets with replies by Jodi (@jodihill01) / Twitter I encountered this account because I saw #TescoClubcard trending, which turned out to be Tesco's latest data-mining exploits. This Jodi specimen had posted some drivel on it and when I looked at her profile it seemed entirely to be grifting tweets trying to get free crap off every company going. I wish I'd never looked. The "media" on her Twitter page is a catalogue of cringey shit.

I'm not sure it's really about the population per se and more to do with the amount of stuff that exists in a locale because there is the necessary population to support it's existence; e.g. shops, entertainment and attractions, etc. So unless you're travelling to something unique such as a tourist attraction, landmark, sports game etc. it would be weird for a Londoner to travel to, say, Birmingham only to go to a shop that they could also visit in their home city. On the flipside, you see these maniacs that live in the back of beyond in places like Kansas having to travel 3 hours to get to a decent supermarket for a weekly shop.