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16th July 2009, 11:13am
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#16 | | Registered User Editor
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| Re: [Architecture] Developments in Glasgow
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Originally Posted by Largest of Gregs  Virginia galleries will never be as good as it used to be! | True, but I suspect my memories of it have been romanticised over time. Good times there though  | 
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16th July 2009, 11:15am
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#17 | | Backwoods Motherfuckery
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| Re: [Architecture] Developments in Glasgow
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Originally Posted by Largest of Gregs Virginia galleries will never be as good as it used to be! | The nostalgia value of owning one of those flats would be amazing but. | |
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16th July 2009, 11:19am
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#18 | | Aurë enteluva Gallery SuperMod
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| Re: [Architecture] Developments in Glasgow
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Originally Posted by triggerhappy True, but I suspect my memories of it have been romanticised over time. Good times there though | You had naughty things done to you in the cafe toilets/back stairs as well then? | |
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16th July 2009, 11:45am
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#19 | | Tannhauser Gate Veteran
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| Re: [Architecture] Developments in Glasgow
"What's a Guiche? If I've got one, I'm getting it pierced." | |
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16th July 2009, 12:05pm
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#20 | | Backwoods Motherfuckery
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It makes you come if you fart on a hard surface apparently. | |
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16th July 2009, 6:03pm
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#21 | | (suicidemachine)
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| Re: [Architecture] Developments in Glasgow
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Originally Posted by The Continental The nostalgia value of owning one of those flats would be amazing but. | True. I'll buy one if it smells of a combination of old books, synthetic weed, cheap incense and gay men | |
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16th July 2009, 6:10pm
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#22 | | Filth-kitten
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| Re: [Architecture] Developments in Glasgow
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Originally Posted by poprock
Somerfield on Byres Road will be changed into Glasgow’s first branch of Waitrose, making the West End even more West End.
| Mum'll be pleased. She HATES Somerfield and isn't too keen on Tesco either, but Morrisons is ages away. | |
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16th July 2009, 11:47pm
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#23 | | pretty in pink
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I'm sorry. Morrisons is ok, but Tesco isnt? Wierd.
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16th July 2009, 11:51pm
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#24 | | LAST SONG KILL AUDIENCE
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| Re: [Architecture] Developments in Glasgow
Tesco's rep as a cheap supermarket has dogged them for generations. | |
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17th July 2009, 12:14am
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#25 | | Experimental stooge
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| Re: [Architecture] Developments in Glasgow
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Originally Posted by metallideth The corruption and/or poor planning that pervades development in Glasgow makes me want to rocket myself as far away from this city as possible sometimes. Good sites to keep up on what are more typically called 'cultural' or 'social' developments away from what the press office will tell you | Could parallels be drawn with the redevelopment of Sri Lanka after the Tsunami. IE. Redevelopment that puports to be for the benefit of a wider group and potentially further marginalises the group that occupied the land beforehand.
Or just pure and simple gentrification if you prefer. | |
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17th July 2009, 12:28am
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#26 | | He's awright.
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This is riveting chat lads. Its off the hook. Keep it up.
Subscribing to this bad boy of a thread.
Aye that'll be fuckin right
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17th July 2009, 12:50am
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#27 | | Experimental stooge
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So your a clash fan just for the music aye? | |
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17th July 2009, 8:55am
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#28 | | Registered User Editor
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| Re: [Architecture] Developments in Glasgow
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Originally Posted by Pink punk I'm sorry. Morrisons is ok, but Tesco isnt? Wierd. | Tesco Maryhill is more visibly manky than Morrisons in Partick.
They're both manky though. | |
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17th July 2009, 12:15pm
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#29 | | Purple Haze
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Originally Posted by endless psych Or just pure and simple gentrification if you prefer. | Sounds about right.
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17th July 2009, 12:54pm
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#30 | | Harvey Kartel
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Glasgow is gentrification city.
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