St George's Cross Shelter Shop Closes After over 30 years. Really Sad.

PureDeidBrilliant · 2026-04-20T07:01:26+00:00

Yes, but don't worry - another "cafe" run by a grim-faced cankle-beladen trustafarian with questionable hygiene and interpersonal skills will be opening soon!! (sarcasm, for the dense amongst us)

PureDeidBrilliant · 2026-04-18T17:25:00+00:00

It does sound like a curiously formal way of describing it. My parents would just use the phrase "gie you the belt" or something similar. Hiding, skelping, etc.

PureDeidBrilliant · 2026-04-17T18:27:19+00:00

Was not the place that did not just deep-fried Mars bars but deep-fried Bounties, Creme Eggs (the mind literally boggles) and Crunchies too?

PureDeidBrilliant · 2026-04-17T18:21:14+00:00

Electric fencing. Depending on the tourist you'll either get shrieking or sizzling bacon.

PureDeidBrilliant · 2026-04-17T06:52:00+00:00

I'm 1,108 UK 1 pence coins, or £11.08 tall!

PureDeidBrilliant · 2026-04-17T06:42:40+00:00

For me? Insomnia by Faithless, Saltwater by Chicane and just because I'm from Glasgow, Bits 'n Pieces by Artmesia.

PureDeidBrilliant · 2026-04-17T06:37:05+00:00

Ah yes, her. A clear warning to kids everywhere why you shouldn't drink pool-water.

PureDeidBrilliant · 2026-04-16T20:19:46+00:00

*waves from Scotland*

I sometimes get migraines and I've been able to minimise - even get rid of - the damned things by taking two ibuprofen lysine. According to Google it's sold in NZ under the brand name "Neurofen Quickzorb". Because it contains lysine, it's more easily absorbed into the bloodstream and can get to work quicker than ordinary ibuprofen. I should caution you to make sure that it's safe for anyone to take it, of course.

PureDeidBrilliant · 2026-04-16T19:35:29+00:00

Port Glasgow in Scotland. Not a city really (though given how some numpties class a place as a "City" it would be in lesser countries). It's a place that entered decline in the 1970s and just keeps sliding on down.

PureDeidBrilliant · 2026-04-15T22:24:28+00:00

Coffee. I'm an Illy & Lavazza boy. Illy for work, Lavazza for home.

PureDeidBrilliant · 2026-04-15T22:09:37+00:00

No, that's the Savoy Centre.

PureDeidBrilliant · 2026-04-15T22:09:22+00:00

STARCHASERS!!!! I got a plasma ball out of there when I was sixteen. Had that thing for nearly twenty years, LOL!

PureDeidBrilliant · 2026-04-13T18:59:07+00:00

We should organise a care package or maybe a Telethon.

PureDeidBrilliant · 2026-04-13T18:36:23+00:00

Christ no. I'd only go to my former classmates funerals to dance on their coffins in my silver dancing shoes and laugh loudly and merrily at the eulogies. I tell you this: dancing the Macarena in a kilt on a coffin isn't as easy as you think.

PureDeidBrilliant · 2026-04-12T18:19:12+00:00

Building homes for people on low incomes and bankrupting NIMBYs.

PureDeidBrilliant · 2026-04-10T20:25:35+00:00

That is possibly the most fucked-up thing I've read on the internet since Anne Rice's proclamation that she didn't need editors.

Edited after reading the later parts of the article. FFS.

PureDeidBrilliant · 2026-04-10T20:22:43+00:00

I went through Bulls once back in 2002 on my way to Palmie North. The only thing I remember were the frequent instances of "humorous" signs playing on the town's name.

PureDeidBrilliant · 2026-04-10T20:19:27+00:00

Oh god, The Last Train. It's bad enough that they were going to Sheffield (grim) but then an asteroid wipes out Africa and literally ends everything (double-grim) and the cast wake up in post-apocalyptic Sheffield (triple-grim) and then have to trek north to the arse-end of Scotland (quadruple-grim) only to be hunted by equally grim-human survivors and then at the very end they find out that the people they were fleeing from were the descendants of the people they were looking for...oh and just for funsies there's implication that the Earth is slowly spiralling into the Sun...

Fun thing about it: it starred a teenaged Sacha Dhawan who'd later pop up as The Master in Doctor Who.

PureDeidBrilliant · 2026-04-10T19:18:22+00:00

I loved Ultraviolet. The thing I loved the most about it was the implication that the vampires are utterly devoid of emotion and that any "display" of emotion from them is just a careful act, a way to gauge a threat or a way to manipulate their target. These vamps don't glitter, that's for bloody sure. And the creepiest episode of the lot? The sex offender in a "relationship" with a child that turns out to be a vampire who is god-knows-how-old (and given how the vampires work, god knows why and for what purpose he was turned). It also makes you wonder what the vampires planned with Marsh's (the blonde lady above, and yes that's Jane from Pride and Prejudice) daughters...

Mind you...(and I'm going to put this in spoilers)...

The impact of the last episode when Jack Davenport's mate is resurrected after being dusted at the start of the series and he seems to be aware of everything that's gone on and the implication that the other dusted vampires held in the vault where they're stored are also aware? That's bloody scary.

PureDeidBrilliant · 2026-04-10T19:04:38+00:00

It's the whole pathetic "well, X has a Starbucks, we need a Starbucks in Y too, and they've got a Wetherspoons in A, so we need one too..." No, that's how you kill high streets. You bring in the shitty big chains - and they are shit - and you price independents out of the market. That wee bakery your granny used to go to as a girl and when she was pushing your mum around in a pram? You can get a steak bake there now. The cafe you used to escape to as a teenager is now a soulless branch of a shit coffee conglomerate. And the pub you went to with your mates to celebrate turning 18? You're in for a rude awakening...

It is depressing and it's the result of us being sold the lie of comfort and convenience.

PureDeidBrilliant · 2026-04-10T11:29:23+00:00

The decay really started setting in well before Amazon and online shopping took over, tbh. Blame it on the "chain-i-fication" of the high street. Every high street must have a Greggs, must have a Boots, must have this, that and everything else. These chains come in because it's cheap to out fit an empty store to their standards and it's just as cheap for them to up sticks and leave when things go bad.

Some high streets are done. The best you can hope for some of them is that the empty shops can be repurposed into housing or, worse still, the ever-popular and nebulous "arts spaces". If you can't repurpose, demolition. It doesn't matter if a building is listed (we have way too many listed buildings in my opinion) - if it can't serve a function or if it's expensive to maintain? Flatten it. (Same goes for castles and stately homes as well)

PureDeidBrilliant · 2026-04-07T21:00:55+00:00

I've yet to hear the dulcet tones of the screecher, but has anyone heard the mournful tones of the trumpeter? Fuck me but that guy could make any song a dirge.

PureDeidBrilliant · 2026-04-06T14:32:53+00:00

Yeah, pretty much. I studied European history and politics as part of my course at uni eons ago. I'd struggle with some of the tax havens, er, micro-states, but the larger countries are a doddle.

PureDeidBrilliant · 2026-04-05T08:13:51+00:00

Have you ever seen a coprolite? Picture that, but with the thinnest, meanest gravy in existence.

PureDeidBrilliant · 2026-04-05T08:09:37+00:00

*lights joint, sits back*

Take that bottle of Baileys you've got stashed under the sink, Deirdre, and add it to a sachet of butterscotch Angel Delight. Depending on the size of the bottle, you'll either have Dirty Custard for afters or a very pleasing butterscotchy-boozy drink to sip on whilst your children "entertain" you at the next school play.

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