To shout I'M PROUD TO BE A WEEGIE!

[Weegiemum]

Following on from the thread about the ghastly Katie Hopkins comments about Scotland after our awful tragedy last weekend.

So if you're a weegie (or just love Glasgow) pitch in.

I'm an adopted weegie, lived here during my teacher training, returned almost 9 years ago with my family.

I'm an East-Coaster, my dh is from Northern Ireland, our dc were born in the islands, speak Gaelic but are very much not-born-but-bred weegies.

I love the welcome, the people, the whole place!

What makes it your home?

Aw I know it's not all bad really. Dh is from Glasgow. Our first flat was in Glasgow too. We live just along the road in Falkirk.
Dh was actually stabbed in the head when he was 14, after someone stole his hat & he tried to get it back. Things have changed since then but that's one of the main reasons we didn't want to live there with kids. (and the inlaws )
I love shopping and drinking in Glasgow. You always make a friend it's true.

What did Katie Holmes Hopkins say?
I probably shouldn't ask - it's going to annoy me, isn't it?

My DD1 is at uni in Glasgow and she loves the place with a passion.

DD2 and her 2 besties are going over this weekend for her 16th birthday and DD1 will do her utmost to convince them that Glasgow is the ONLY uni.

I love going to see her and going out there despite being a Fifer myself!

She can't possibly think before she makes statements either. Silly woman.
I didn't even know who she was until the baby place names thing. Since then I've heard nothing but bad.

Being a sheep shagger married to a Weegie ... It's my second home. My kids are half-Weegie as I like to remind my DH when they need a bath.

One of my first visits there as an adult, I over-indulged (had been in Archaos the night before). I could hardly lift my head off the hotel bed pillow and didn't check out until 3pm. I went to a shop for some miracle hangover cure and the wee Glasgow woman at the till not only sold me some paracetamol and cold Irn Bru but gave me a sympathy hug too.

We moved from England to near Paisley, over 5 years ago - and I love Glasgow. I have met so many lovely people since we've lived up here.

The accounts of everyone rushing forward to help at the Clutha, and about the way everyone has supported the families, the injured and the emergency services, have given me a huge lump in my throat.

I love it here - I can see dh and I staying here for the rest of our lives.

If you could have Glasgow but with East Coast weather I would live there now. Cannot abide the rain though.

I've had many a fabulous night out in Glasgow. I'm from the Scottish Borders and went to uni in Edinburgh. Some of my friends went to Glasgow. They'd get the train to Edinburgh on a weds night for student night, then I'd go to Glasgow for thurs night student night. It was marvellous!

Like weegiemum's kids, I am a "not-born-but-bred" weegies and proud of it although dh tries to tell me I'm not a true weegie as I was Bearsden/Milngavie bred

My dad ran a medical conference once in Glasgow and got a complaint......, "No-one will give you directions, they always insist on taking you there themselves as they were already sort of going that way"

Pacific, every year our favourite band plays Glasgow in December.
Six of us book into a hotel, hit the bars shops, go to gig, act like teenagers then pub crawl till dawn.
I never drink, ever, except on debauchery night.
I am 44 and really should know better.

Pop you're all bailing it. This is what being a weegie is aboot!

Weegie born and bred, have lived here all my 28 years.

The chat is never shite, but on the rerr occasion it is, it's still funny. We have the best auld yins on the planet. We have the best words (my dad's written two books on Glasgow humour). We have Limmy and the weans that got turned against him.

It's a city built for its working people and you can see that. All the beautiful parks created when nobody but the very rich on the outskirts had a garden where they lived. All the free museums, full of rich history. Rolls and slice and tattie scones. Five universities in one city, a city that has always championed education for ordinary people.

I had my wedding reception in Woodside Halls in Maryhill and we all sang Ye Cannae Shove Yer Granny aff the Bus on the way there.

My mil hates that - "ye can shove your ither Grannie aff a bus!"

Since moving to Castlemilk I've become a massive connoisseur of the "Jeely Piece Song". My dd2 goes to the Jeely Piece club every Saturday!!

How does the jeely piece song go again? Remember singing it at school!

'Oh ye cannae throw pieces oot a twenty storey flat. Ten thousand weans can testify tae that...' Is all I can bring to mind!

Is king tuts wah wah hut still there?( not been to the city in years!)
Beautiful city,Glasgow. Great university,botanical gardens, the art, the architecture.The pubs! Never got the obsession with irn bru though...

Billy on Glasgow

My Northern Irish dh loves Glasgow. Like "Belfast without the Bombs" he says.

Yes we have our own troubles. But they are really subsiding (I see in teaching young women from the schemes). It will take another generation. But it will eventually go.

Ifnot if you never got irn bru then you missed the great hangover cure along with a roll and egg with a tattie scone

YANBU!

Proud to be Weegie.

wearapeepel :)

Who else has been ever been around when one swearing (drunk) weegie has felt the need to apologise for his and his pal's choice language by saying to his mate "Gonnae no swear in front o they weans, how many times have I f***g told you no to dae that" - a classic

I am not keen on Weegieland. It's always raining and as for the sectarianism...

HOWEVER I admire the way they stick together and stick two fingers up at everyone who would mess with them. Terrorists? Kick 'em in the balls? Wellington's cone? Don't you dare touch it etc.

I also do a lot of travelling for training and I know I'll get the cheekiest welcome there.

I am a weegie and very proud of my city, when I lived in London I so missed it because you have to drive for ages to see countryside whilst in Glasgow you can be at loch Lomond or other countryside areas in no time because its obvs much smaller, was so shocked by the weekend events at the Clutha but is brought a wee tear to my eye to see everyone helping each other and hear of people running over to help without thinking that it could have exploded, thats true Glaswegian grit. On a lighter note there is nothing that makes me laugh more than Glasgow humour,"I just set aboot him" to terrorist attack at airport, brilliant city. .

I didn't say it was perfect either !

Always...

Am in exile now though...

Thanks guys. I now feel the need for a curry in the west end.