One of the emerging wee clichés on here that's really starting to fuck me off is people responding "hur dur do you realise it *rains* in Glasgow!? " whenever anything is mentioned about doing things a bit differently with our streets.

Why yes, I realise this but:
1. people's aren't made of sugar, they don't fucking *dissolve* in the rain.
2. Glaswegians have been doing shit outdoors since Glasgow's existed - they had bandstands and Lidos and all sorts of outdoors stuff back when the climate was colder

I remember before the smoking ban came in folk scoffed at the idea of outdoor seating: "Hur-dur Glasgow will *never* have a café culture like abroad". Well, guess what fuckers: it happened.

Hah just remembered that our old drummer speculated before the ban that'd there'd end up being the smoking equivalent of "speakeasys" with people going to illicit dens to drag on the devil's weed, with police raids, bouncers etc.