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bazzargh

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Baldy bespectacled beardy, beer breathed, B- bloody biker.

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thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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A ghost sign on Yorkhill Street in Glasgow. I've not been able to track down who's Family Department it points towards.

bazzargh,
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@Andy_European @thisismyglasgow it seems unlikely as the hospital's the other way. This old description of the horseshoe https://www.followfollow.com/forum/threads/an-old-story-about-a-pub-in-the-gorbals-from-the-30%E2%80%99s.220180/ and a more recent one https://www.oldglasgowpubs.co.uk/sylvesters.html suggest Family Department is just what they used to call the family area of the bar - that building's been a pub since the 1880s

... better link: George "McCallum’s brother John was the first to introduce the family department system to Glasgow pubs" https://oldglasgowpubs.com/the-big-glen

simonvarwell, to random Esperanto
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Imagine if the Three Wise Men had brought gold, frankincense and mirth.

Things would have been so different.

bazzargh,
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@simonvarwell imagine if they had brought gold, Frank (incensed) and myrrh. Frank'd probably still be complaining about it now.

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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11 and 13 University Gardens in the West End of Glasgow. Designed by John James Burnet in a Classical style and built in 1882, they're all that's left of a terrace of similar buildings which once lined this side of the street. Originally private houses, they're now part of Glasgow University.

bazzargh,
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@thisismyglasgow the door on the right used to be the Research Club, the union for postgrads, until inexplicably they failed to make money selling beer to students. I was on the board there at one point; we tried to get a blue plaque because the story was that it was at a dinner party there that Margaret Todd suggested Frederick Soddy use the word "isotope" for his new discovery (that got the Nobel). But, we were a couple of years late to find any living attendees

simonvarwell, to random Esperanto
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Overheard from a passer-by just now:

“There’s one in Dornoch. There was one in Tain, but it got vandalised.”

You can now join me in wondering what they were talking about.

bazzargh,
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@simonvarwell Harry Gow Bakery. Vandals filled all the holes in the doughnuts

foone, to random
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I had a weird realization today:
You know how I make terrible keyboards? It turns out I can also made good keyboards!

Well, kinda. I had this silly gamer keyboard I kept around because it was small and I used it when I needed a random USB keyboard, but it was horrible to use. No contrast on the key labels...

but wait I have a bunch of keycaps since I'm a keyboard-making punk. what if I just put some onto it... and now it's readable! and looks snappy!

bazzargh,
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@foone Those are nice, but, does the clarity even matter? I got milkshake weirdos on mine because they look cool when I'm not using them, even tho they'd be awful for finding keys if I didn't touch type. I took them off to clean on sunday and put half of them back on upside down in the wrong places! I think I'd quite like a set that was more abstract art, das keyboard but by jasper johns

bazzargh, to Montreal
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Cloud creeping in in but at this point the is still visible...

bazzargh, to Montreal
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Glorious weather in for the today

7:45 am at the Kandiaronk Belvedere on Mount Royal. Haze in the distance, but clear blue skies

simonvarwell, to random Esperanto
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Watching the Scotland-Northern Ireland match. A pathetic territory that’s not even a proper country, packed with funny accents, bedevilled by identity issues and riven by deindustrialisation and sectarianism, versus…

bazzargh,
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@simonvarwell ehh I am out but was about to book my hotel in Munich ... dont tell me, I think I can imagine well enough from trips past

bazzargh,
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@simonvarwell I'm not even getting to a game! Meeting a mate who is-he kept his travel club in the first draw after 20 years of living in the states by having his brother go to the hampden games. finally paid off

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Church in the Broomhill area of Glasgow. Built in the early 1960s, it was designed by Charles W. Gray.

bazzargh,
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@thisismyglasgow it was going to be Our Lady of Perpetual Soccer but then they realised those were tennis courts opposite.

Richard_Littler, to random
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Wow. Even after all this time, @scarfolk can still attract interest. Apparently, the blog was visited by 25k people yesterday.

bazzargh,
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@simonvarwell @Richard_Littler @scarfolk In the hacker news thread that led to that flood of interest I commented about a couple of lesser known grims of the mid 70s, the sugar and potato shortages, and for the first time realised the latter coincided with my dad planting the entire garden with potatoes (it was a new house with crappy clay soil that needed broken up too, but too much of a coincidence? We lived off those tatties for years)

bazzargh,
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@simonvarwell @scarfolk @Richard_Littler well I wasnt up on geopolitics being 6 at the time but my understanding is that there was a shortfall of imported sugar from the carribean. Potatoes had a poor harvest so old potatoes ran out before the new potatoes came in. There also seems to have been panic buying and stockpiling (like TP in lockdown), which led to supermarkets rationing sugar

geomannie, to cycling
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I am pretty hardened & streetwise in cycling in traffic, but today I experienced the awful experience of a . Approaching a roundabout I was suddenly overtaken by a van giving ~25cm clearance. Van then cut in clipping my pedal and then sped off without stopping.😡😡😡

What is in the mind of these people? I don't think they want me dead, yet their action was so close to achieving this I can't fathom what their thought processes are. Still a bit shaky.

bazzargh,
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@geomannie @simonvarwell may be video from nearby buildings or cars behind. My experience has been they don't do much these days without video anyway.

bazzargh,
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@geomannie @simonvarwell I know, I'm here too. My recent experience was being assaulted in glasgow while out running; they did come and ask questions, but when they couldn't turn up video, that was the end of it.

bazzargh,
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@geomannie @simonvarwell it was just a dozen young teens, the one ringleader was a bad lot tho, he tried to hit me in the face with a half brick (I stopped that) but did hit me over the head with a stick - fortunately not a big stick, it bounced off my headphones and made a loud noise that mad the chasing group pause, and I got away. They did all this because I shouted at them for pelting another runner with stones ahead of me.

kim_harding, to random
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‘National scandal’ as shock report reveals Rwanda plan costs to top £500m
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rwanda-plan-rishi-sunak-cost-millions-b2504975.html?utm_source=press.coop
Just 300 asylum seekers will be sent to Rwanda at a cost of £1.9m each, the National Audit Office report found

bazzargh,
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@kim_harding can't we just give them all life peerages? The house of lords does seem like the cheaper option right now, and they might vote for something more sensible.

CultureDesk, to UnitedKingdom
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Police were called to a Willy Wonka event in Glasgow after angry parents demanded refunds of their £35 (US$44.37) fee. Organizers House of Illuminati had promised a "journey filled with wondrous creations and enchanting surprises at every turn" but discovered a sparse warehouse with a bouncy castle. The Independent has more.

https://flip.it/0pmt8p

#UnitedKingdom #Lifestyle #Glasgow #WillyWonka

bazzargh,
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@CultureDesk wait is this not exactly the plot of the Scot Squad Christmas Special, "Christmassy Wonderland"? (10m in) https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b086zs3d/scot-squad-christmas-special

simonvarwell, to random Esperanto
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I’ve just been put in charge of the rail network, and honestly it’s hard to keep track.

bazzargh,
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@simonvarwell I hurt myself at a hypnosis show last night. He convinced me I was part of a steam train, then a pound note - and that's when I fell off the stage.

I'm still tender.

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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This rather gorgeous five-storey tenement on University Avenue is on my list of 'Why the heck is it not listed?' Glasgow buildings.

bazzargh,
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@thisismyglasgow 3&7 are ground floor main door flats, upper 8 flats are no. 5. Emblem above no. 5 says '1901'?

All student flats now I think (opposite the noisy GUU Beer Bar) but the original occupant of no. 7 was Bennie Simons when he was involved in founding the Pavillion Theatre. http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/Glasgow/Pavilion.htm http://www.glasgowwestaddress.co.uk/University_Avenue/7_University_Avenue.htm

dragfyre, to random
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Speaking of #spam, did you know that open registrations on your instance can lead to another, somewhat less irritating, but no less spammy type of spam?

Here are some fake businessperson profiles that were created recently on the instance mstdn.business (@jraitamaa did you notice these?). They're actually pretty funny, so I figured they were worth more than just a simple report.

bazzargh,
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@dragfyre @jraitamaa I for one am glad spammers have someone they can trust for their cerebral bypass surgery

NanoRaptor, to random
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Sticker idea.

A photo of a pack of Smoeltjes speculaasjes on a white background, proudly displaying a NON TOXIC! starburst sticker.
A photo of a can of IRN BRU on a white background, proudly displaying a NON TOXIC! starburst sticker.
A photo of a family pack of Tim Tams chocolate biscuits on a white background, proudly displaying a NON TOXIC! starburst sticker.

bazzargh,
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@NanoRaptor well there's a couple of those I've survived so now, I like the cut of this sticker's jib, I'm emboldened to take my chances and hang the additives, they're probably just something benign like tar

bazzargh,
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@NanoRaptor a "less than 0.58% tar!" sticker would settle it tho

simonvarwell, to random Esperanto
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fit d’ye caa an Aberdonian in the gym

bazzargh,
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@simonvarwell How was this guy a government minister?

bazzargh,
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@simonvarwell why oh why oh why is the toy spelled like that?

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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I've really got no idea what to call this feature on one of David Barclay's glorious townhouses on Dowanside Road in the west end of Glasgow, but I love it. You can't quite tell from this photo, but it's projecting from the side of the building rather than sitting on the ground. I'm presuming it dates from around 1900 when the building it's attached to was constructed.

bazzargh,
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@morgrugyn oh! I was about to apologise that @thisismyglasgow's original toot says this isn't resting on the ground, but I didn't remember that from passing it (it's about 500 yards away) and thought about walking up to peek. But then I spotted the google maps pics showed it had been sold recently...which means there's a schedule https://assets.savills.com/properties/GBGLRSGLS200080/GLS200080_GLS20001232.PDF , pic shows it rests on ground but way better-there's a spiral stairwell in there!

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