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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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cuddlymoomoo · 03/12/2013 23:01

It is a truly fabulous place. Am currently enduring a living death in Aberdeen - but dream of being back with real people one day. Edinburgh is great too - I'm not biased Wink ), I just hate Aberdeen with a passion.

LessMissAbs · 03/12/2013 23:35

That's one of the reasons I'm currently in Belgium, cuddlymoomoo.

ICanSeeTheSeaFromHere · 03/12/2013 23:54

I'm an Ayrshire lass but married a Weegie. He works in the west end and I do too a few days a month. If you asked what our local is we would struggle to decide between the lovely pub near our house or the Chip.

We lived hundreds of miles away for a while and used to get tipsy sloshed and sing I belong to Glasgow with a wee teary eye.

I love being HOME again now.

Mymumsfurcoat · 04/12/2013 00:10

See you lot, you're no Weegies. See "wearrapeepul". That's no a weegie saying. Glasgow is about everyone. It's about inclusiveness. " wearrapeepul is the opposite of that, like the BNP at a dinner party. Just saying.

SantaIKnowHimIKnowHim · 04/12/2013 00:11

Sorry, I just came onto the thread to see what the f* a weegie was!! Grin

hulahooper2 · 04/12/2013 00:12

Hope all the non weegies will find out how great it is next year when we host the commonwealth games. I think there will be a real buzz about the dear green place .

cloggal · 04/12/2013 00:17

Mon the Weeg! Ya dancer!

Hopkins is a bawbag.

squoosh · 04/12/2013 00:39

I'm thinking of going away during the Games and renting my flat out.

ephemeralfairy · 04/12/2013 00:52

Oh I love this thread. My dad's grandparents, uncles and cousins were pure Weegie and I ended up going to uni there and loving it. Stupidly moved back down south afterwards. I went up for a week at the end of October with some old friends and had so much fun. Miss it loads! The pubs! Best pubs in the UK. The museums, the Barras, Scotland Street School, People's Palace. Lived in some beautiful flats too. I want to move back there!!

ephemeralfairy · 04/12/2013 00:57

Oh and I just remembered! A Weegie drunk shouted 'D'ya want tha boabie, hen??' at me on Great Western Road once Grin

FannyFifer · 04/12/2013 01:13

He was wanting to gie you the boaby up your lobby!

SconeRhymesWithGone · 04/12/2013 01:31

I love Glasgow. I am American, and some years ago I was a student in Edinburgh. One of my best friends was studying in Glasgow, and she and I made many trips back and forth to party like there was no tomorrow enjoy the cultural offerings of both cities.

I have been back several times, the latest being last year. I deeply love both cities, but I have to say that Glasgow has the warmest and friendliest people of all the places I have visited in the UK.

gigglestar · 04/12/2013 01:55

I moved here from lancashire a few months ago. I love it! Felt right at home from the get go,people are friendly,chatty,fuuny-not had a single 'ned' experience yet! Love the architecture, i love the hidden waterfall,the whitecart river,the public transport is so much cheaper and cleaner-and actually turns up on time!

Not done a lot of going out food n drink tasting but the chip shops are excellent. The only one downside is i can'tfind a chippy that does mushy peas!

Looking forward to building a life here! :-D

2Retts · 04/12/2013 02:19

I'm proud to be a Weegie too but nobody knows it and even my nearest and dearest deny any clue when I speak...hey ho!

One of my clients was opening the new Selfridges in Scotland and visited both Edinburgh and Glasgow...he fell for Glasgow when the (potential) client stated 'you can be a guest at an Edinburgh wedding or a Glasgow funeral...I know which would be more fun!'

Annakin31 · 04/12/2013 03:25

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cuddlymoomoo · 04/12/2013 06:40

LessMissAbs - Belgium's great too Grin. Just been trying to persuade my lot that we should go there next year actually - but my visits were when I lived in Glasgow, so the huge amounts of chips and chocolate probably crossed over!

Annakin 31 - I'd have to start another thread. I'd fill this one up if I listed all I hate about Aberdeen. I have to say the people are the main thing, which is probably because of the other places I've lived. Not all of them of course, just a huge, huge majority. It's all subjective I guess - I think the place is an absolute tip and can't wait to leave.

yetanotheranyfucker · 04/12/2013 06:44

I've only been to Glasgow once, although my great grandparents were from there.
Same here and I have been planning to find out where they were from and go back to explore that.

FrancesHB · 04/12/2013 06:53

This thread has made me so homesick. I love my city and miss it so much.

sashh · 04/12/2013 07:41

Have only been to Glasgow once, years ago, people were great.

But you have every right to be proud of the people of your city all the accounts of the people helping such as free taxis to the hospital, buiscuits for emergency workers and the speed with which a benefit has been lined up.

Plug for benefit and for donations if you can't get there

www.facebook.com/events/717458218265401/719352604742629/?notif_t=plan_mall_activity

www.make-a-donation.org/campaign/the-clutha-benefit

prettybird · 04/12/2013 08:23

Ds was involved in the "One Year to Go" celebrations for the Commonwealth Games and when he was interviewed, he said how much he was looking forward to welcoming people from all around the world to Glasgow and how much they would enjoy themselves! Smile

ssd · 04/12/2013 08:30

I'm a Glaswegian, have lived here all my life. I love Glasgow.

Can remember seeing a sign on a fridge for sale in the Barras

"£10. Working"

as if the rest weren't Grin

TiggyD · 04/12/2013 09:14

I thought a weegie was when your pants got lodged up your crack.

bunnybing · 04/12/2013 09:17

misread that as wedgie, was wondering how you could be a wedgie....Grin

LessMissAbs · 04/12/2013 09:26

Annakin what's to hate about Aberdeen?! I love it there...love all the Scottish cities though smile Aberdeen is beautiful in the summer, all the sparkly granite. Belmont St rocks. And there's a beach

Again, similar experience to cuddlymoo. I have never lived in a place with so many rude and unfriendly people as Aberdeen. There seems to be a particular speciality in older women taking it upon themselves to rant incoherently at you in all sorts of unexpected innocent situations, such as waiting for a bus, walking along a country lane, driving - oh God, don't mention the driving - the actual geography and architecture of the place is relatively nice, but I was always so nervous that I might inadvertently offend someone by existing that I became quite nervous, and I'm not a nervous person at all!

Living in Aberdeen for several years really made me appreciate how friendly and "normal" the people are in Edinburgh, Glasgow and the Central Belt in general. People in Glasgow in particular seem to have this great desire to be friendly and helpful. I think I only met 2 such people in all my 5 years in Aberdeen!