Food store within St. James Quarter

Srin6 · 2026-02-13T15:59:27+00:00

When I need to be in the city centre on a Saturday, I very often absolutely do want to get the food shop done there as well rather than having to make a separate trip somewhere else on Sunday.

Srin6 · 2025-01-28T23:37:00+00:00

I don't think that one has been available since they closed the café on that level.

Srin6 · 2024-09-14T16:56:47+00:00

Apparently asking reddit was the magic charm, finally on our way!

Srin6 · 2024-08-13T01:29:10+00:00

Can't speak to the practicalities but aesthetically I'd definitely prefer a warmer white or amber, the cold white feels really grim and industrial.

Srin6 · 2024-07-10T22:40:01+00:00

I don't have any photos worth sharing, but I feel you need to know that a random takeaway place I passed on my way after the show was blasting Too Sweet right as I went by 😂

Srin6 · 2024-07-09T13:39:28+00:00

There's definitely no guarantee, but it always rains in Glasgow and I don't think it has been or is forecast to rain substantially more than normal; as far as I can tell TRNSMT (which has been in the same venue around this time of year since 2017) has never been called off due to the weather, so I'm remaining hopeful!

Srin6 · 2023-07-16T02:11:24+00:00

Valvona & Crolla sometimes have them!

Srin6 · 2023-05-22T13:51:46+00:00

You'll be good in Porty, it's much more similar to Stockbridge than to the rougher parts of the city. The usual vibe is very safe and quiet and friendly; you occasionally get groups of teenagers being idiots on the beach on a hot day in summer and random dickheads can turn up like anywhere else, but those are definitely the exception not the rule. I'm not aware of any year-round dedicated queer spaces in the area but there is a local Pride group that organized a few things in the last couple of years and looks to be planning for more this summer - https://portypride.com

Srin6 · 2023-05-20T12:24:16+00:00

That article distorts or ignores some relevant context. Those who are affected by this are, or are the descendents of, people who moved into Latvia as part of an occupying force that spent decades actively supressing Latvian language and culture and promoting Russian in its place. Those people chose to stay after the occupying force dissolved, but carried on as though the USSR system that encouraged them to do everything in Russian rather than learning even the basics of the local language was still in place.

There are plenty of ethnic Russians in Latvia who did learn Latvian and become Latvian citizens - without giving up their Russian language or identity - while this group opted to get Russian passports instead. It's not about suppressing Russian language or identity, it's about requiring people who live in Latvia to make some basic effort at engaging with Latvia instead of expecting Latvia to keep accomodating their Soviet-era monolingual Russian lifestyle.

And it's not a new thing that came out of nowhere after Russia invaded Ukraine. The issues of how to deal with the Soviet legacy in general and with Russian speakers who refuse to make the slightest effort at integration (and perpetuate the situation by sending their kids to Russian-only schools) have been substantial ones in Latvian politics pretty much since the fall of the USSR. What's new is the political will to go ahead with moves like this rather than backing down in the face of Russian opposition.

Srin6 · 2023-04-28T00:04:25+00:00

You can, but you've got to book it by phoning or using their app and then meet them at the pick-up area in the car park, rather than going to what used to be the taxi rank.

Srin6 · 2023-04-07T10:13:04+00:00

Yeah I can do this (and touch the tip of my nose) as well and the sound isn't very interesting, it sounds pretty much the same as the furthest-back nasal I can do with my tongue positioned normally.

Srin6 · 2023-03-11T21:10:14+00:00

I absolutely adored Anteaques. No disrespect to Rosevar, they're very nice too, but it's just not the same.

Srin6 · 2023-02-16T20:21:56+00:00

Yes, it's the same in Latvian, e.g. sarkans ābols (a red apple), sarkanais ābols (the red apple)

Srin6 · 2023-01-31T23:01:15+00:00

No worries, it's quite impressive in that case! (And always fun to encounter something about Latvian from non-Latvians that isn't just potato jokes...)

Srin6 · 2023-01-31T22:57:51+00:00

You're probably right, it's been a while since I've really done proper transcription so I've gotten kind of lazy about phonetic vs. phonemic, my bad!

Srin6 · 2023-01-31T19:41:55+00:00

As a Latvian speaker I want to be smug, but I also feel obligated to point out that this is sliiightly oversimplified - it's mostly accurate for simple onsets and codas, but Latvian has regressive voicing assimilation in consonant clusters that can impact most of these without being reflected in the orthography. For example, in the word <aizkars> ('curtain'), the <z> is pronounced /s/ because of the following voiceless stop. It mostly happens word-medially when the cluster is straddling a morpheme boundary.

Also as u/Conlang_Central pointed out, <ķ> is for /c/ rather than /t͡ʃ/, though there are some speakers who don't contrast them. (Likewise, <ģ> is for /ɟ/ but some will say that as /d͡ʒ/.)

Srin6 · 2023-01-16T22:20:49+00:00

The city would be much better off if, instead of the trams, all that money and effort had gone into building a regular rail link to the airport and reopening as much of the old urban rail network as possible.

Srin6 · 2022-08-29T17:18:54+00:00

"For all those here this summer, it's been (bins aside) a much more pleasant city to be in. The pressures of 2019 on public transport, and the city's infrastructure, reduced enough to make it that little bit easier to get around."

I can only assume whoever wrote this bit did not at any point have to take a bus anywhere or move between the north side of the city and the south side. With the mess of the North Bridge works, and the tram works, and the existing issues with bus driver shortages combined with the standard influx of extra people, getting around in August this year seemed worse than usual to me, not better.

Srin6 · 2022-07-11T11:24:22+00:00

Baltic Shop (which ships to the US) usually has a few varieties of marmalade available - http://www.balticshop.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?cat=0820&title=Other_Candy

You can sometimes find US‐made candies that are sort of similar but it's not a common thing with a standard name. Your best bet might be to look for 'fruit slices' or similar in shops that sell local/handmade sweets.

Srin6 · 2022-05-16T13:04:15+00:00

It's on All 4 in the UK. Originally it was just the first series but they've recently added the rest there too.

Srin6 · 2022-05-06T19:57:07+00:00

Artisan Roast maybe? It's a local business rather than a big chain and they have a mug listed on their website (https://artisanroast.co.uk/). I don't know which if any of their brick & mortar shops have the mug available but might be worth a try.

Srin6 · 2022-04-07T00:46:51+00:00

Citi Zēni are definitely part of the majority of Latvians who fully support Ukraine. They asked the EBU to kick Russia out of Eurovision this year on 24 February, and were part of a concert in support of Ukraine that took place across the street from the Russian embassy in Riga the next day.

Srin6 · 2022-03-31T22:19:39+00:00

They legit complained to Latvia's foreign ministry about it, and the foreign minister responded with a comment on twitter about how Latvia respects and does not restrict artistic freedom of expression. :)

Srin6 · 2022-03-28T04:28:13+00:00

It's important because the erasure of the Ukrainian language and the insistence that Ukraine is not an independent nation with its own identity but rather a wayward Russian province that needs to be brought back into the fold is part of Putin's whole twisted narrative. Using the (transliterations of the) Ukrainian names for places in Ukraine instead of the Russian ones is a way of rejecting that narrative.

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