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To shout I'M PROUD TO BE A WEEGIE!

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Weegiemum · 03/12/2013 18:18

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?

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PosyNarker · 03/12/2013 19:58

Not sure I want to know what Cruella aff the telly said..

I'm a west coater (Ayrshire, not weegie) who now lives in Edinburgh. I love both cities, but would probably pitch for Glasgow with more jobs and Edinburgh Barbados weather Grin

15 years here, cannae get am heid roon aw this salt & sauce shite Grin

MrsWedgeAntilles · 03/12/2013 19:58

I love Glasgow, always have. I' wasn't born a Glaswegian but coming into the city over the Kingston Bridge always gives me a wee thrill.

I love the cultural phenomenon that is the wee Glasgow woman. I love that she comes in all different shapes and sizes and colours and is totally ready, willing and able to wade into any situation with her battle cry something along the lines of "Haw, wait a minute now, son". I am very much looking forward to being one.

I love the chat, I love the flashy dressers and the bling, I've even got a wee soft spot for the neds.
I love the egalitarianism, I love the nonsense, I love that people in the street can make you laugh out loud and its ok.

Glasgow's always struck me as a city for the Glaswegians, but that's fine because as soon as you settle there that's you, you're a Glaswegian too.

Cannae whack it! Wearrapeepel, right enough.

Didyeaye · 03/12/2013 20:04

I can say, with more certainty than ever before, YADNBU!

Great place! But it's home to me, so I would say that! Grin

30SecondsToVenus · 03/12/2013 20:09

I love Glasgow. Its by far my favourite city even though I live in Edinburgh.

I am seriously considering moving to Glasgow in the future. The culture is like no other and every time I visit I feel welcome. I love the way strangers just chat away to each other in queues and on the street.

KittensoftPuppydog · 03/12/2013 20:10

Moved here a year ago.
Anyone who doesnt like it, I say
Pick a windae, yer leavin.

PacificDogwood · 03/12/2013 20:13

I'll always remember the mother who came seeking advice about her 5 year old's swearing and said "I don't no were the fuck he's got it from" Grin. She did not believe me either when I pointed her last sentence out to her Grin.

She didn't whack me one either, but cackled with me.

Not sure whether the weans language ever improved or just got more colourful...

ArtisanLentilWeaver · 03/12/2013 20:14

I'm not from Glasgow but raise a Wine to the wee blootered man who gave me the perfect directions to the motorway when I was lost.

"Roondaboot, roondaboot, roondaboot, oot!" Grin

Trooperslane · 03/12/2013 20:16

Belfastian but Weegie for 7 years and dd will def have the Weeginess.

I love it. We're so happy here though I miss Belfast like mad. Grin

Yama · 03/12/2013 20:17

"We're a' Jock Tamson's Bairns" - not a Glasgow saying but definitely true of Glaswegians.

Trooperslane · 03/12/2013 20:19

Yeas Weegiemum Yeeeass!

SmartiesMakeMeNaughty · 03/12/2013 20:21

Another weegie signing in. Although I did grow up in a suburb considered to be snooty and posh.
I love it here: the parks, the gigs, the galleries & theatres. I love the patchwork of old and new buildings. Crossing the river on a cold crisp morning.
Not to mention the fact that you overhear something hilarious or have something hilarious said to you most days.
Such as the recent gem of female ned to male ned after a spectacular high decibel row in the street. "I fucking love you. Mind an' buy me they fanny pads." Brilliant.

WilsonFrickett · 03/12/2013 20:26

Who gives a shite what that auld crone says?

Here's tae us, wha's like us? Gie few and they're aw deid.

I heart the weedge.

JockTamsonsBairns · 03/12/2013 20:34

Thanks Yama Grin

Glasgow - there's no place on earth like it. The pride and sadness which has engulfed this city over the past week makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end.

BakerStreetSaxRift · 03/12/2013 20:34

I love Glasgow! Love love love it. Been here 10 years (since going to Glasgow Uni), very settled. I love the architecture, the buildings are the most beautiful of any in the UK, in my opinion.

I love the humour. I love the people. The public transport is good and cheap. I love that this is my second week at a new job which has meant for the first time in my life I need to get a bus train snob and on a packed bus this evening a the little scary looking weegie man who I thought was going for my handbag was actually reaching to pull down the fold-down seat for me to sit on Grin true gentleman.

I love the mix of people. As a previous poster said, I love that there is nowhere that I would be out of place here. I love the restaurants, so varied, the seafood is phenomenal. It's close to some of the most spectacular scenery in the U.K.

I love all the regeneration that's going on. I love the beautiful tenement flats. I love walking round all the parks. I love the shops. I love Cafe Gandolfi and Two Fat Ladies at the Buttery, and Booly Mardy's. I love the curries. I love the taxi drivers' patter.

And yes, that people sprinted towards the Clutha to help save people just melts my heart.

PoppyAmex · 03/12/2013 20:36

I'm from Southern Europe, (married a Glaswegian) and have lived and worked in a few different countries in the past 15 years but Glasgow is by far my favourite city.

It's a bit gritty, a bit edgy but has bags and bags of heart and soul and you'll never find warmer people.

BakerStreetSaxRift · 03/12/2013 20:37

Artisan Grin

Had to read that one out to DP!

MrsWedgeAntilles · 03/12/2013 20:41

Artisan, that excellent, I can just see that happening :)

DukeSilver · 03/12/2013 20:46

I could honestly jump up and down shouting how proud I am to be a weegie. I love this city, it really gets into your blood and becomes part of you.

Catypillar · 03/12/2013 20:51

yer maw's yer da

I'm from Paisley though

Lorelilee · 03/12/2013 20:52

Smarties - Your one made me howl! I have had to share with some friends on FB, hope you don't mind.

AngelinaCongleton · 03/12/2013 20:52

Yes I love Glasgow. I never understand the pitying looks you get when you say your from Glasgow, or the disbelief that you can string a coherent sentence together and yet still be GLasweigian.

I love the architecture, the rich cultural life, the greenery, the shops, the support of state schooling, the west end, the smelly bridge, how easy it is to get anywhere, its roughness....etc etc.

It's just so authentic. When I go to amazing places for dinner or theatre or whatever in London, it just feels so plastic. I love do love London too but I like the mix in Glasgow.

SmartiesMakeMeNaughty · 03/12/2013 21:03

Of course I don't mind.

squoosh · 03/12/2013 21:09

Not from here but have lived here for 10 years.

I love the West End, I love that I can live in a really nice flat in a really nice area whilst on a modest enough income. Great pubs, great architecture, good sense of humour, not quite on a par with Dublin's humour but not bad.

The men are really short though!

steeking · 03/12/2013 21:20

went to uni in Glasgow and loved every minute. love going back.
Where we live now has a very negative view of the place with an unrealistic fear of being stabbed. It puts people off applying to uni there and it makes me cross!!!

PumpkinPositive · 03/12/2013 22:54

The men are really short though!

So are the women.

At my cousin's wedding in Blantyre a few years back, out of 80 or so female guests, I spotted only one who was taller than me. I am dead on 5 2".