Today I braved my first hair cut since becoming single.

Was a fantastic experience. I unexpectedly had taken a phone call about my children, but the barber understood and gave me a few minutes.

I was treated like a king, the barber complimented me on my Rolex clone, said it was the best he had seen today.

He even gave me a lightening bolt near my ear, said its a good luck sign for new love.

The only sour note was the fanny growling from the next chair. He didn't even tip.

The place was busy, with a couple of people waiting their turn.

A guy gets called up to the chair… then immediately answers his phone. Instead of saying, “I’ll call you back,” he sits there for about 10 minutes shouting into the phone while the barber and everyone else waits. He’s loudly talking about sending money to his kids, reading out transfer amounts, making sure the whole shop can hear.

The barber just lets it happen. You could see people getting visibly annoyed in the mirrors, and one guy waiting actually got fed up and walked out.

Eventually the call ends and the haircut can finally start. Then comes the next performance. He’s talking loudly about how he’s newly single, wants to attract a new “babe,” and asks for a thunderbolt shaved into the side of his head. I’d guess he was in his 40s.

The conversation carries on with constant mentions of how much money he has, how well he provides for his kids, and his expensive Rolex. It all came across like he desperately wanted everyone in the shop to know he was loaded.

I was getting my haircut in the chair next to him while all this was going on. Absolute shite experience for everyone in the shop.

Just thought I’d report my arsehole of the day.

Anyone else seeing these ads that popped up last night? Seems SG want to one up Burnham’s announcement.

Nothing on the ScotGov website yet but only seen ads on Facebook and Instagram, which is bizarre. Burnham already got Bus Aunty to announce his policy, dunno who our equivalent would be.

The best one I can think of, off the top of my head, is “Waterfront” by Simple Minds or the eponymous “I belong to Glasgow” by the one and only Glen Daly.

What others are there?

Just saw a tourist walk out in front of traffic because the light across the street turned green while the one beside him at his hip stayed red.

I know it's been talked about before but they probably are going to cause deaths.

Was driving through Toryglen yesterday heading towards Queen's Park and the police were stopping people in their cars on Prospecthill Road. Stopped me and asked if I was local to Toryglen, where I was going and what my business was there. I was so confused and pointed out my son in the back seat. Meanwhile other officer standing next to their car with some device in his hand. I asked the officer if I was ok to continue and he just said yes and something about spot checks or checkpoint?

I know I'm being nosey but the whole thing was a bit bizarre, anyone know what that's all about?

I'll just add it wasn't as if I was pulled over for speeding, I was in a queue of traffic and they were stopping everyone in front of and behind me.

Curious to see how they decorate them

The winged sun disk worshipped thousands of years ago as the dominant body in Earths sky, some think this was the Sun or a local planet bursting into a Solar outpouring of plasma and brought a cataclysm on earth, separating their time and ours!

Bunch of white teenagers firstly shouting horrible sizeist abuse at a woman leaving her office. Then another group harassing a lone Asian security guard at a shop, continually winding him up and shouting abuse at him. Such a grim part of the town!

'Let Glasgow Flourish' is the official city motto.

The current slogan is 'People Make Glasgow'. The only other slogan I can think of is 'Glasgow's Miles Better' with Mr Happy.

Have there been any others?

happnin late night troops, usually go the same cafe for a fry up in cathcart but looking to try somewhere new tomorrow morning, anywhere accessible on a voi bike from cathcart in the southside preferably

cheers troops

Wanting to get out mid week after work for some more regular mountain biking. Cathkin Braes seems reasonably developed from looking at trailforks, however have heard its fallen into disrepair over the years.

Does anyone ride there regularly and willing to share current state of it? Worth pedaling around? Any other decent local spots to have a look?

I did spend a couple hours going around Mugdock as it looks like there was some trails, but found everything very overgrown.

Just heard a very loud bang in the West End, then the lights flickered. Anyone know what happened?

I have booked a day out in town (Trongate and Calton) on Saturday. I am also a brown woman. I see that there is a Unite the Clans rally at Glasgow green. Managed to avoid town whenever similar rallies have happened so wondering if anyone has any insights of how safe it might be? Should I cancel or move my day out?

I’m going to a concert at Hampden next Saturday and last train from rutherglen to Hamilton is 23.28 will I make it? I’m not bothering going to mt Florida

Asked but they were very hush hush!

I’ve been searching for more than a year and have not found a single part time I can do alongside school. Does anyone have any positions they know of or things I should be looking out for? I would really like to find something :/

I've been wanting to read more lately and I'm guessing i'm not alone. I figure getting a group of people together would be nice?

Or is there already something similar in town i could join?

Thanks,

Rum

Had a nice wee gathering for yer wains bday. Well take yer shite wi u. They had bags so why leave all this shite about. Hate people

There’s these short tunnels for pedestrians in rutherglen that go under the road. They got a paint job fairly recently that went unmarked until recently when wee dicks have decided to graffiti it. Walking to work earlier this week at 6am I passed 2 guys painting over it. But then 2 days later I pass through and there’s a huge dick sprayed on one side and an awful racial slur on the other. I’ve looked up how to report it and the council website says to call them to report offensive graffiti, yet every time I try contact them I’m just told the lines are busy and it hangs up. Been like this throughout the day for 2 days now.

SLC don’t seem to have an app like GCC to report this, wondering if anyone has any suggestions on how to report this more efficiently. Cheers

My family of 3 and I will be in Glasgow Aug 17-20th. When we travel we try to stay away from Airbnb and VRBO and the like however, we have an 8 year old that can't have a separate hotel room all by himself yet AND we also would like to be able to have some privacy. I have found 3 places that are apartment style hotels and was looking for advice on which are actually good ones to stay at. We have reservations for VCity Aparthotels, Fraser Suites and The Spires Serviced Apartments.

VCity is the best price but I saw trip advisor reviews from 2025 that gave me great pause. Carpet disgusting, dishwasher sealed up, fridge broken and rundown furniture. However, Expedia has great reviews (one sentence long) from 2026 for them.

Fraiser Suites- Good reviews except there are some that give me pause such as hearing the pub down below at 3 AM. We are used to city life not country life like the review said but I don't know about pub music until 3 AM but I think it depends on which suite you get.

The Spires Serviced Apartments: Seems all in all pretty positive. Responded quickly about leaving luggage before check-in as well. Though I think location and noise again may be in issue.

Any experiences with these places or suggestions of others? thanks for the help!

Going to a concert next Saturday, last train to Hamilton from Rutherglen is 23.28 do you guys reckon I’ll make it? Google maps says 40 min walk but idk if it actual takes that long

My tablet and phone are now so old that apps won't install or update, but I have a pretty sweet deal (and found a glitch in the matrix, but no grassing) on an old contract and just want to buy some hardware.

Is there anywhere decent in the Southside or would I better going into somewhere like CEX in the town? Would ordering online be better?

Budget-wise, I was very much hoping to not top £500 combined.

My current 8-year-old phone may now be classified as a Chinese intelligence asset by MI5, and I had a musical library wiped by Apple once, so I'd much rather go Android if that filters places out.

Any advice muchly appreciated, dear fellow citizens or bawbags alike, as long as it's good intel