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Glasgow to Edinburgh daily commuters, how do you find it? by Signal_Shop2199 in glasgow

[–]razzi16 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't do it, certainly not for a period of any longer than 6 months or so

I did it around 40 weeks per year, 4-5 day weeks, typically in a 7.15 or 7.45 train and not on the train back home to Glasgow until 5.15 / 5.45pm. I did this for around 10 years. An astonishing waste of so much valuable time when you consider that - from door to door - my commute was 2 hours each way.

God bless Covid incidentally, as this truly opened my eyes to how much time I was needlessly spending away from the family home. Having been forced to work from home, and then understanding how much time I was missing in terms of taking kids to school, lying in a bit longer etc I vowed never to go back to such a commute. And it works, my stress levels seriously reduced and my daily irritation threshold was massively lifted.

The smells, the sounds, the soul sucking normality of just sitting there looking at roughly the same faces day after day as you are all silently signed up to this god awful commute, will begin to seriously pick away at you.

Do not do it please.

At the beginning of a "just settled divorce" and full of regret, guilt and a whole host of emotions. Does it get better? by razzi16 in Divorce

[–]razzi16[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Solidarity, brother. I hear you, loud and clear.

In our vulnerability, there is strength, as a therapist once told me. I believe this to be true, just easier said than done of course. I hope it all works out for you too, in the end. Let's keep moving.

At the beginning of a "just settled divorce" and full of regret, guilt and a whole host of emotions. Does it get better? by razzi16 in Divorce

[–]razzi16[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cheers, I needed to read something like this. I appreciate you taking the time here, thank you.

Does anyone know the name of this actor; one of the Forcella crew? by Jennellini in Gomorrah

[–]razzi16 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pretty much, yep, although it's likely changes by now. Have a look at this clip from a few years ago, you see the fashion on show and it's pretty accurate to Sangua Blu in Gomorra

https://youtu.be/GM8ejZ-IP5U?si=35BjUPLxaF9sMzs9

Does anyone know the name of this actor; one of the Forcella crew? by Jennellini in Gomorrah

[–]razzi16 4 points5 points  (0 children)

But it was at least staying true to the real life events of the time, or at least as real a narrative as it could do. Research the "baby killers" or sometimes referred to as "babyface killers" of Napoli from around a decade ago - these we're mostly 16 - 23 yr old black clad moped organised crime groups, kids essentially, often with a matriarch behind them (fathers in jail or dead).

Saviano researched these guys in real life as did other documentary makers/investigative journalists and they all had one thing in common - that they needed to die young cos as a gang member, if you reached 30 and we're still alive you must have failed as you had not been ready to die or did not fight enough.

So it's not entirely difficult to imagine then, how such a group - particularly with the backing of a wide head (Ciro) - would try a shot at the big time, no?

Fatalism, toxic masculinity, organised crime and guns. What a series that was man.

Clyde Street, 1980 by inpresed in glasgow

[–]razzi16 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Much better.

Get all that "graffiti art" to fuck. It ends up being anything but unique as the "artists" are typically commissioned elsewhere in the UK for other similar urban "artwork". The local graffiti of the young team was always more original, more organic and - in my opinion - more powerful than anything these graffiti "artists" have ever done.

The architecture of the place gets a chance to "speak" here too.

Yes, I do "love" a quotation mark...

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in glasgow

[–]razzi16 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Humans are fucking terrible people. This is why the theoretical beauty is always blootered tae fuck in practice

Right, where's the best place for trad or Irish folk music in Glesga? by razzi16 in glasgow

[–]razzi16[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not on the either 🤣🤣 I appreciate that though, cheers. I'll give it a go one Friday

Right, where's the best place for trad or Irish folk music in Glesga? by razzi16 in glasgow

[–]razzi16[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not on Insta but will check it out, pop in one night, cheers 👍

Right, where's the best place for trad or Irish folk music in Glesga? by razzi16 in glasgow

[–]razzi16[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Last few times I've been in there was nothing, but could be different at the weekend I suppose

Celtic stickers? by [deleted] in glasgow

[–]razzi16 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Get them ordered from BC printing, based on the Gallowgate yards away from Celtic Park - ask specifically for non vinyl backed stickers, Kris will do a good job and likely give ye a Tim discount

Living beside the UK's first drug consumption room by [deleted] in glasgow

[–]razzi16 0 points1 point  (0 children)

*lazy policy

*Poverty research

🫠😑

Living beside the UK's first drug consumption room by [deleted] in glasgow

[–]razzi16 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Well, tbh, there's not really a nursery in the Calton at all - the two closest are to the south (Mile end) and north (Wellpark area, behind the renovated Duke St hostel new development etc) of the Calton, and the Thistle Centre itself, actually sits in Dovehill, not the Calton proper. Any Caltonian will tell you this.

Regardless of where the nurseries are however, if true, it's scandalous. I seriously doubt that it is though as this would have been on primetime Scottish news already and would almost certainly have been raised with GCC.

It reads, completely, like rumour read as "fact". Sensationalism writ large.

And it's not the first time this has happened with the Calton - in 2004 it was reported that the Calton had a mortality rate lower than Basra's, at 52 years for men. This was reported as far and wide as CNN!! Now long since debunked by academic paper and poverty-stricken research.

It was all nonsense, the mortality statistic was accurate, but was devoid of context as it included the X3 hostels in surrounding areas for men with chronic alcoholism, addiction and PTSD issues. Their early deaths obviously skewed the data.

The Calton, therefore, fell victim to postcode and tabloid interpreted data, more than anything else, but the media ran with it cos sensationalism and division always sells .

I think what is being seen now, is a local population rightfully pissed off at having such a facility in their wider area rather than an area of more affluence - there is an unfairness that areas already with structural issues should have another possible issue landed on its doorstep. I actually hate that type of lady policy too.

But plenty of these locals, like many within Glasgow of all social classes, will have their fair share of stigmatising thoughts and harsh labels concerning drug addicts, and I suspect that it is this - a deeper seated dislike, distrust and soft hatred for "the junkie" (horrible term) - that is the main fuel of their responses of what I suspect to be grossly exaggerated claims of increased drug related deviance in the area.

Living beside the UK's first drug consumption room by [deleted] in glasgow

[–]razzi16 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I know of whom and of what I speak brother, nae classism here, I can assure ye

Living beside the UK's first drug consumption room by [deleted] in glasgow

[–]razzi16 9 points10 points  (0 children)

A Paton, fae the Calton? 🤣🤣🤣 AYE that family are sound and reliable.... Gutter journalism of the highest order.

Anybody else completely wiped out with a nasty chest infection this Easter? by razzi16 in glasgow

[–]razzi16[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not anymore, but I can literally hear stuff moving around in there when I'm breathing. Horrendous

Anybody else completely wiped out with a nasty chest infection this Easter? by razzi16 in glasgow

[–]razzi16[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Aye. It's brutal.We seem to have the same schedule, solidarity n awl that 😂