The Idler

Glasgow

If there is a more miserable, brutal, godforsaken shithole on the face of this planet, then the human race might as well let the ants take over now.

I can still recall the utter astonishment of the taxi driver I tipped last time I was there – he was clearly expecting to be robbed as usual.

The streets are paved with vomit, the inhabitants are as vicious as they are stupid, the weather is as vile as the architecture and the transport to civilisation, (i.e.Edinburgh) goes via Inverness.

Mike Simpson

GLASGOW DEFENDED! EDINBURGH ATTACKED!

Stuart Whyte writes:

Glasgow’s nice. It’s full of open green spaces and can be enjoyed at a calm, leisurely pace on the Waverley steam boat. The world’s last ocean-going paddle steamer.

All the galleries and museums in Glasgow are, and have always been, free to enter. London has only recent caught up with this idea (as we all own most of the stuff in museums & galleries to begin with, this seems fair).

Glasgow has a very well planned town centre. There are a whole slew of good bars and clubs, as well as a good handful of shit pubs for the codger-at-heart. General entertaining is cheap, restaurants are reasonable and pleasant (when not serving the local ‘diet’).

Glasgow is the birthplace of some of the most noted engineers and inventors as well the stereotypical piss-head. Granted, the one way system is bobbins, but so are cars in general. The immediate environs to the town centre are a death trap, but so are most inner suburbs.

If Edinburgh is civilisation why the fuck does it reek of brewery slops all the bloody time? And why is the castle in constant shame by having the busiest most tackily commercialised street in the city running directly opposite it? kilted tartan plastic doll.

SASSENACHS ATTACKED

Glaswegians are bloody friendly. The city is steeped in history and dramatic vistas, the clubs contain the most up for it people i have ever witnessed, and some of the restaurants are the best in the UK.

In addition to this, you will never see a sunset as dramatic within the British Isles.

Give us any more crap Simpson and I will give you an honorary glasgie kiss you SASSENACH!!!!!!

‘Sueplewes’

EVERYONE DEFENDED

Glasgow is a great city. It has more character than all of your English cities rolled together.

It has loads of free galleries, libraries, museums and so many more
Open spaces that you could never walk around all of them if you kept walking for the rest of your life.

It has lots of pubs, clubs, cinemas, restaurants and a great night life. If you go to these places, people will actually talk to you, not just ignore you, as often happens in Edinburgh pubs!

Glasgow has three decent football grounds and one of the best football teams in Europe, who, if you need reminding, were the first British club to win the European cup and who have recently managed to win against Juventus, Porto, Rosenborg, Valencia and Ajax.
I’m not anti-Edinburgh at all. Indeed I did my degree there and spent four of the happiest years of my life in Edinburgh. I am of the opinion that Edinburgh is a very nice city indeed.

However anybody who thinks that Edinburgh is full of refined Georgian buildings and wonderful palaces and castles should take a bus ride through Muirhouse or Craigmillar! (Don’t EVER think of getting off the bus in these places!)

And those of you who think that Glasgow is full of Neds while Edinburgh is crime and drug free have clearly not read any Irvine Welsh novels!!

Paul Macdonald

GLASGOW – EDNIBURGH DEBATE CONTINUES

Glasgow is a nice city. It has better shopping and better clubbing than Edinburgh. It has some fascinating buildings and pleasant parks.

All this is for naught, however, because of the inhabitants. It is true that some weegies will stop and talk to you in the street (something that a ‘burgher would never do), but you aren’t going to want to hear what they have to say even if you could understand a word of it. I lived in Edinburgh for seven years and became almightily bored of it but I didn’t see any trouble. In the year I’ve been living in Glasgow there have been two separate burglaries of flats on my stair and two cars in my street have been smashed and had their contents nicked. I live in the West End which is widely regarded as the poshest area of Glasgow!

I’ve walked through both Muirhouse and Craigmiller and, although I wouldn’t recommend it, I’ve never actually had any bother. If I walk for 20 minutes from my flat I am in one of the poorest areas in Europe and I have had the pub that you go to if you want someone killed pointed out to me on the way to work.

Glasgow is a nice city full of nasties. Edinburgh is a nice city full of bores. Six and two threes.

Alex Roberts