3,000 Photographs of Glaswegians
July 13, 2006 3:43 PM Subscribe
3,000 photographs of Glaswegians taken by Glaswegians, between 1989 and 1992.
I had a glass wegian once, but it fell off the shelf and cracked.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 4:21 PM on July 13, 2006
posted by mr_crash_davis at 4:21 PM on July 13, 2006
Nice post, thanks.
posted by languagehat at 5:08 PM on July 13, 2006
posted by languagehat at 5:08 PM on July 13, 2006
I wonder how long it took from this picture being taken to the photographer experiencing extreme malky?
(note to non-Glaswegians: orange walks are not quaint folk traditions. Stay the hell away if you value the ability to walk again.)
posted by scruss at 6:32 PM on July 13, 2006
(note to non-Glaswegians: orange walks are not quaint folk traditions. Stay the hell away if you value the ability to walk again.)
posted by scruss at 6:32 PM on July 13, 2006
Hey Kronoss - great find. I didn't know that Jay Leno was a Glaswegian.
posted by scblackman at 6:39 PM on July 13, 2006
![Leno](http://fapac.wcu.edu/Images/Leno.jpg"){kind=link}
posted by scblackman at 6:39 PM on July 13, 2006
Hoo, scblackman broke the thread!
An girl I knew told me of the time she broke the walk (ie crossed the road in the middle of an Orange Walk, which is a big no-no) completely unaware of the dangers until someone, apparently hearing her say "Excuse me" with an accent, shouted out to the bowler-hats around "It's all right, she's an American".
In July it's generally an OK excuse to be late for work because you couldn't get past the walk. And the buggers wake you up at a stupid time with their big ol' drums.
Nice site Jack. I've been on it before and frustrated by the tags and the small pictures, but it's weird finding myself nostalgic for really not terribly long ago, and finding pictures from city that doesn't exist any more.
(Aisforal: Me, Len and Jack at the last meetup.)
posted by bonaldi at 7:28 PM on July 13, 2006
An girl I knew told me of the time she broke the walk (ie crossed the road in the middle of an Orange Walk, which is a big no-no) completely unaware of the dangers until someone, apparently hearing her say "Excuse me" with an accent, shouted out to the bowler-hats around "It's all right, she's an American".
In July it's generally an OK excuse to be late for work because you couldn't get past the walk. And the buggers wake you up at a stupid time with their big ol' drums.
Nice site Jack. I've been on it before and frustrated by the tags and the small pictures, but it's weird finding myself nostalgic for really not terribly long ago, and finding pictures from city that doesn't exist any more.
(Aisforal: Me, Len and Jack at the last meetup.)
posted by bonaldi at 7:28 PM on July 13, 2006
Orange walk. Hmm.
Of some 2,300 or so annual parades throughout Northern Ireland, only some half dozen to a dozen are considered 'contentious' in that their routes pass near Nationalist areas where trouble often occurs.
*blink*
2,300 parades per year, in Northern Ireland? And you can't cross them?
No wonder they drink all the damn time. *I keed, I keed*
posted by Ynoxas at 8:07 PM on July 13, 2006
Of some 2,300 or so annual parades throughout Northern Ireland, only some half dozen to a dozen are considered 'contentious' in that their routes pass near Nationalist areas where trouble often occurs.
*blink*
2,300 parades per year, in Northern Ireland? And you can't cross them?
No wonder they drink all the damn time. *I keed, I keed*
posted by Ynoxas at 8:07 PM on July 13, 2006
How do you pronounce "Glaswegian"? Like "Norwegian"?
posted by zorro astor at 9:36 PM on July 13, 2006
posted by zorro astor at 9:36 PM on July 13, 2006
bonaldi, did you mean this city that doesn't exist any more? Your link 404s, which the site handles in an amusing way.
posted by scruss at 12:03 AM on July 14, 2006
posted by scruss at 12:03 AM on July 14, 2006
How do you pronounce "Glaswegian"? Like "Norwegian"?
No. They're different words. But the last bits sound the same.
Does any of these 30,000 pictures have a non-white person in it? Or at least a sober person? Wait, I think I found some kids who are neither white nor drunk. But it takes a bit of looking. Are black men still so rare that you'd call a black boxer Black Flash? Or is that a very old photo?
posted by pracowity at 12:37 AM on July 14, 2006
No. They're different words. But the last bits sound the same.
Does any of these 30,000 pictures have a non-white person in it? Or at least a sober person? Wait, I think I found some kids who are neither white nor drunk. But it takes a bit of looking. Are black men still so rare that you'd call a black boxer Black Flash? Or is that a very old photo?
posted by pracowity at 12:37 AM on July 14, 2006
That's 30,000.
Oops, sorry about that.
Re: breaking the walk. I used to live on a marching route, and a friend, drunkenly making his way to my flat, turned a corner and got halfway across the road before he noticed the was about 200 yards away from the marching Orangemen and their terrifying followers. He was wearing a Celtic top. We heard the roar of hatred from our place, and if he hadn't had the sense to come to the back door of our close, I imagine we'd've had bricks through the windows, followed by heavy beatings.
Also, for some reason (slight ginger cast, presumably?) I look a bit Catholic to the sort of mouth-breather that attends these parades, and have had barrages of abuse from them - the only times an English accent has come in handy in Glasgow!
Are black men still so rare that you'd call a black boxer Black Flash? Or is that a very old photo?
Well, no older than 1989. Glasgow is way, way more diverse on that front than when I moved here 11 years ago, when two black blokes I vaguely knew at University would jokingly refer to themselves as 'the black community', but it's still basically a white and Asian city (and is so home to one of the prettiest-sounding English accents in the world, 'Glasgasian').
posted by jack_mo at 1:29 AM on July 14, 2006
Oops, sorry about that.
Re: breaking the walk. I used to live on a marching route, and a friend, drunkenly making his way to my flat, turned a corner and got halfway across the road before he noticed the was about 200 yards away from the marching Orangemen and their terrifying followers. He was wearing a Celtic top. We heard the roar of hatred from our place, and if he hadn't had the sense to come to the back door of our close, I imagine we'd've had bricks through the windows, followed by heavy beatings.
Also, for some reason (slight ginger cast, presumably?) I look a bit Catholic to the sort of mouth-breather that attends these parades, and have had barrages of abuse from them - the only times an English accent has come in handy in Glasgow!
Are black men still so rare that you'd call a black boxer Black Flash? Or is that a very old photo?
Well, no older than 1989. Glasgow is way, way more diverse on that front than when I moved here 11 years ago, when two black blokes I vaguely knew at University would jokingly refer to themselves as 'the black community', but it's still basically a white and Asian city (and is so home to one of the prettiest-sounding English accents in the world, 'Glasgasian').
posted by jack_mo at 1:29 AM on July 14, 2006
Thanks scruss! Yep, that's the one. Walking along the clyde and in Govan area is unsettling -- you can see evidence that it used to be used for something, and there are huge strange pieces of iron lying around -- but there's nothing there now except some grass and bams.
Are black men still so rare that you'd call a black boxer Black Flash?
With the same American I went to a gig, and she was freaking out in the first 10 minutes about it being like a "Klan rally or something" there were so few black faces.
Home to one of the prettiest-sounding English accents in the world, 'Glasgasian'
You're not wrong there. It's amazing how nice Glasgwegian can sound when all the harshness and fricatives are stripped out
posted by bonaldi at 5:39 AM on July 14, 2006
Are black men still so rare that you'd call a black boxer Black Flash?
With the same American I went to a gig, and she was freaking out in the first 10 minutes about it being like a "Klan rally or something" there were so few black faces.
Home to one of the prettiest-sounding English accents in the world, 'Glasgasian'
You're not wrong there. It's amazing how nice Glasgwegian can sound when all the harshness and fricatives are stripped out
posted by bonaldi at 5:39 AM on July 14, 2006
But why are they called "Glaswegians"?
It seems to have been modeled either directly on Norwegian or after Galwegian, the adjective to Galloway (a district in southwest Scotland), which was itself modeled on Norwegian (Norroway was an older variant of Norway). First OED cite:
1818 SCOTT Rob Roy xxii, The Glaswegian took him by the hand.
posted by languagehat at 6:09 AM on July 14, 2006
It seems to have been modeled either directly on Norwegian or after Galwegian, the adjective to Galloway (a district in southwest Scotland), which was itself modeled on Norwegian (Norroway was an older variant of Norway). First OED cite:
1818 SCOTT Rob Roy xxii, The Glaswegian took him by the hand.
posted by languagehat at 6:09 AM on July 14, 2006
Never mind "Glaswegian", I'd just like to inform our American chums that it's pronounced Glas-GO, not Glas-GAOW.
posted by Decani at 6:30 AM on July 14, 2006
posted by Decani at 6:30 AM on July 14, 2006
Just once in my life I'd like to see Glaswegians wearing Bass Weejuns.
posted by George_Spiggott at 8:52 AM on July 14, 2006
posted by George_Spiggott at 8:52 AM on July 14, 2006
This is great. And it's making me very nostalgic for the bits of my childhood I spent in Glasgow. No sign of the Buck Rogers burger joint, though, but then maybe it closed before 1989 ...
posted by Len at 8:59 AM on July 14, 2006
posted by Len at 8:59 AM on July 14, 2006
Just once in my life I'd like to see Glaswegians wearing Bass Weejuns.
It's commonly abbreviated to Weegies, so better yet: Weegies in Weejuns!
More than a decade after first seeing a reference to them in Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City, I just found out what Bass Weejuns are. Hideous.
posted by jack_mo at 10:23 AM on July 14, 2006
It's commonly abbreviated to Weegies, so better yet: Weegies in Weejuns!
More than a decade after first seeing a reference to them in Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City, I just found out what Bass Weejuns are. Hideous.
posted by jack_mo at 10:23 AM on July 14, 2006
brautigan said 'Optimo hasn't changed much. Optimo.'
Hee!
posted by jack_mo at 4:42 AM on July 15, 2006
Hee!
posted by jack_mo at 4:42 AM on July 15, 2006
Optimo hasn't changed much.
It's not as good as it used to be, though ...
posted by Len at 5:25 AM on July 15, 2006
It's not as good as it used to be, though ...
posted by Len at 5:25 AM on July 15, 2006
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