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Post by westender on Sept 11, 2012 13:36:42 GMT -1
Freshers Week used to be a fun thing and a happy time around campus. Not any more. Now it's a scunner... and as a Glaswegian for whom Glasgow is my alma mater, it's also frankly upsetting and damned annoying. I'm just in from a stravaig round about. I went all the way through KG park, up uni avenue, through the quads and back to the park. In that time I was amidst scrums of people; hundreds and hundreds. And in all of it, I counted 23 folk speaking English. Of them, only 8 were Scottish accents. I have heard hundreds of other languages, been surrounded by way too many orientals, (their numbers in particular at Glasgow in recent times have gone totally crazy). I have seen a marked increase in the number of yarmulkes being worn, (?) the number of (allegedly) female loonies dressed as bin bags, and all the way up uni avenue there were posters advertising feckin bible study classes. This is not good. This CAN'T be good. Where are our own folk? And why are delusional religious nutters being allowed into our university? Thoroughly scunnered. 8 Scottish accents....
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2012 19:33:27 GMT -1
Same Freshers week that I've seen yesterday and today? Yeah, I saw the ads for bible study outside Wellington Church (which you'd kinda expect..) but also loads of banners for student societies and sports groups, but most prevalent of all- market stalls promoting nightclubs, music venues and sadly some pretty downmarket fast food operations. ;D You're right, Westie, there's now a huge representation of Chinese people at Glasgow Uni, they pay handsomely to come and study here as do so many other foreign nationals. I don't have a problem with that because they effectively subsidise the free tuition of Scottish students. And they bring other economic benefits to Glasgow just by living here. FACT; Glasgow Uni actually has the highest proportion of home-based students than any other red brick university. They actively work with under-performing Glasgow state secondary schools to encourage local applicants with potential--- who're so often left floundering while classes are geared towards the least able. Re 'religious nutters'; I've no issue with people following their own religion provided they don't try and impose it on anyone else. Frankly, I just feel damned sorry for young people so hogtied by religious 'rules' that means their experience of student life is so horribly restricted. Hardly a 'rounded' education... Finally, earlier on the way to town, a young African boy got on my bus at Uni complete with city map. He asked me for help with directions to his student halls. His manners and his English were both impeccable. I was happy to help; I'd wish the same for my daughter if she was studying far from home in a foreign country. Just young people, wanting to better themselves via a Scottish education and hopefully taking our principles back out into the bigger world. We should be welcoming them, shirley?
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Post by ozneil on Sept 11, 2012 21:16:41 GMT -1
Talking about "Furriners" at Uni my grandson is off to Munster University again for a cupla months. He leaves here on Saturday
The world is becoming a "Global Village" and the more interchange of people and ideas the better. Will be more understanding between people and ever so slightly reduce the chance of war. We have lots of Asians students here too and generally they are good value.
Thru Strathclyde Uni I met a some life long friends one a weejie and another from Kenya. In these days it was not usual to meet "Furriners" there
PS I met some very nice ladies at the QM on a Saturday night!!!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2012 21:49:33 GMT -1
Talking about "Furriners" at Uni my grandson is off to Munster University again for a cupla months. He leaves here on Saturday The world is becoming a "Global Village" and the more interchange of people and ideas the better. Will be more understanding between people and ever so slightly reduce the chance of war. We have lots of Asians students here too and generally they are good value. Thru Strathclyde Uni I met a some life long friends one a weejie and another from Kenya. In these days it was not usual to meet "Furriners" there PS I met some very nice ladies at the QM on a Saturday night!!! Hope the grandwean gets a warm welcome at Munster, Oz, and is made to feel at home. Some'll take the opportunity and run with it, while others'll take it then not make the most of it. Such is the way of it. I know many many people who've been to Uni but know fuck all about fuck. It's an attitude thing.
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Post by ozneil on Sept 11, 2012 22:45:34 GMT -1
You watch Westie within a year most of the chicks dressed in garbage bags now will be dressed in jeans and parkas.
Its the men "furrennur" students you have to watch!!! They grab your very best wimmin and drag them kicking and screaming to far off furrin lands to live in an inhospitable climate with endless sunshine (bed fur the skin dahling) inhabited with uncouth people who dont appreciate the finer points of Scottish epicure like deep fried mars bars and Irn bru
PS Its Grandson's 3rd stay at Munster and he speaks fluent kraut. They give him accommodation and loan him a bike to get around. He has rellies in Bavaria
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2012 18:05:59 GMT -1
You watch Westie within a year most of the chicks dressed in garbage bags now will be dressed in jeans and parkas. Its the men "furrennur" students you have to watch!!! They grab your very best wimmin and drag them kicking and screaming to far off furrin lands to live in an inhospitable climate with endless sunshine (bed fur the skin dahling) inhabited with uncouth people who dont appreciate the finer points of Scottish epicure like deep fried mars bars and Irn bru PS Its Grandson's 3rd stay at Munster and he speaks fluent kraut. They give him accommodation and loan him a bike to get around. He has rellies in Bavaria Actually that's one thing that struck me about modren students as they milled about Freshers this week; they all look the exact same!!! Girls in the ubiquitous shorts and tights combo, boys in plaid shirts and baggy jeans, Hollister style. Not a single, head-turning, stylish individual. They seem so afraid to be 'different' these days. I guess that's what global branding does..... Two more furrins boarded the bus tonight with huge suitcases-----a couple in their 40s, Ozzies! A fairly rare sight on Glasgow's buses. I peered over my homework watching their faces as we rolled down Great Western Road via the mighty Victorian WE terraces. What better introduction to Glasgow
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Post by ozneil on Sept 12, 2012 20:07:31 GMT -1
The West end of Glasgow is mighty impressive. We have nothing like it here in scale though we do have some impressive buildings For Rolo
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2012 21:50:41 GMT -1
The Queen Victoria Building! ;D
Small independent shops arranged round a central atrium, a beautiful conversion of what was I guess, Oz, an office building or a bank?
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Post by ozneil on Sept 12, 2012 23:06:31 GMT -1
The Queen Victoria Building! ;D Small independent shops arranged round a central atrium, a beautiful conversion of what was I guess, Oz, an office building or a bank? Actually it was built (late 1890s ) Originally, a concert hall, coffee shops, offices, showrooms, warehouses and a wide variety of tradespeople, such as tailors, mercers, hairdressers and florists, were accommodated. It was pretty run down by late 50s. It was then restored to its former glory by the 1970s. The statue of Vicky came from India. It was originally built during a recession to give out of work people a job. The developers did a magnificent job The clock in the above pic has just been restored. God knows where they found the clock
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2012 20:04:07 GMT -1
A silly wee story but hey ;D On the upper deck there, I bought Mr R a shirt of such a colour I've never seen before or since. The most almighty shade of soft green. Anyways he wore it to a birthday dinner recently and was complimented on it, yet again. The bloody thing's 22 year auld and just gets better with age.... ;D Bit like himself... Just on the upper right corner there, Oz, I saw the most magnificent opal on display. About the size of a dinosaur egg. I was really taken by the QVB building, so beautifully restored. Another favourite of mine is this; similar in many ways. www.gothereguide.com/galleria+vittorio+emanuele+milan-place/
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Post by ozneil on Sept 13, 2012 22:07:07 GMT -1
THat Milan Shopping centre is absolutely fantastic. A world beater.
Glad the shirt lasted Rolo
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Post by ozneil on Sept 13, 2012 22:11:10 GMT -1
I think on balance its great that Glasgow Uni has so many overseas students. I know at my uni I made friends from all over the world. My grandsons best mates are from Queensland and Perth (Scotland) a farmers son.
It is also a compliment to the standing of Glasgow Uni
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2012 20:05:42 GMT -1
Too right, Oz. ;D Great moments on the bus today; two very young Chinese students who'd got hopelessly lost, couldn't have been more than 17. Looking to arrive at a student residence in the WE, they were counting out what change they had left for the fare; exact money only in Glasgow don't you know, no change Anyways, a few people on board started to offer small change but the bus driver just motioned them on board anyways and said, don't worry, he'd shout them when it was their stop. Meanwhile two ladies in their 70s got chatting to a pair of young US students who'd just arrived to study at Glasgow and made sure they got off at the right stop for Freshers' pass pickups on University Avenue. Glasgow people at their best
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Post by notanimby on Sept 15, 2012 20:51:21 GMT -1
Whits a bus?
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Post by ozneil on Sept 15, 2012 20:56:55 GMT -1
Too right, Oz. ;D Great moments on the bus today; two very young Chinese students who'd got hopelessly lost, couldn't have been more than 17. Looking to arrive at a student residence in the WE, they were counting out what change they had left for the fare; exact money only in Glasgow don't you know, no change Anyways, a few people on board started to offer small change but the bus driver just motioned them on board anyways and said, don't worry, he'd shout them when it was their stop. Meanwhile two ladies in their 70s got chatting to a pair of young US students who'd just arrived to study at Glasgow and made sure they got off at the right stop for Freshers' pass pickups on University Avenue. Glasgow people at their best Yes thats people, most are kind and considerate & like helping. It does your heart good to see that sort of thing. These kids will get a great first impression of Scotland I was at Supermarket the other day. There was an old frail lady 2 ahead of me in the checkout queue . She didnt have enough cash to pay her bill and she was starting to hand things back, pitifully few, when the big rough tough workie behind her asked the check out chick what the old dear was short of and handed over a $10 note. He told the old lady to keep the change for her bus fare home. I like to think that could have happened anywhere in the world
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