Ive just been for a wee walk around.....

ExigeKen · Post by **ExigeKen** » Thu May 10, 2007 9:33 pm

Dominic wrote:
dezzy wrote:Spent most of my teenage years in Paisley, !
Ah... that explains quite a lot

Cruel but funny

dezzy · Post by **dezzy** » Thu May 10, 2007 9:35 pm

Dominic wrote:
dezzy wrote:Spent most of my teenage years in Paisley, !
Ah... that explains quite a lot

I only say I'm from Paisley if I want people to be scared of me!

rossybee · Post by **rossybee** » Thu May 10, 2007 9:37 pm

Had a night out years ago in Paisley (maybe 15yrs ago?

)

Never seen so many fights and they had a curfew thing on whereby if you weren't in a licenced establishment by 10pm (IIRC) you were farked for getting mair bevvy

This was about the same time as the knife amnesty

And that's from a fecking Dundonian!

All this because I was chasing a bit of half-norwegian skirt who was studying at the hossie there..... the things you endured in the quest for getting yer toffee-roll, eh?

Dominic · Post by **Dominic** » Thu May 10, 2007 9:37 pm

dezzy wrote:
Dominic wrote:
dezzy wrote:Spent most of my teenage years in Paisley, !
Ah... that explains quite a lot

I only say I'm from Paisley if I want people to be scared of me!

Be Afraid...... be VERY Afraid!

cla5h · Post by **cla5h** » Fri May 11, 2007 10:39 am

I think the truth probably lies somewhere between andy_snap and rossybee's views.

In terms of curfews, knives, etc, yes that was the case around '92, but it was the same in a lot of places (Glasgow also had the curfew.)

I still drink there on a regular basis, was at the beer fest the other week and had a great night.

Unfortunately, like most towns these days, the town itself has died a death. Shop units are either empty, or used by charities.
People seem to prefer shopping at out-of-town, indentikit, enormoparks.

I remember, as a lad, getting taken up Paisley High St by me ma and pa on a Saturday afternoon. The town was throbbing, we'd constanlty have to stop and talk to people we knew, and there was always a man with a wee monkey on his shoulder playing a drum. Halcyon times.

ExigeKen · Post by **ExigeKen** » Fri May 11, 2007 10:48 am

scottydog wrote:I think the truth probably lies somewhere between andy_snap and rossybee's views.

Scott couldn't agree more my girlfriend lives in Paisley so I am often there and there are good and bad parts & people just like in most places.

rossybee · Post by **rossybee** » Fri May 11, 2007 12:23 pm

scottydog wrote:and there was always a man with a wee monkey on his shoulder playing a drum. Halcyon times.

Wasn't that Pencaitland?

<BG>

ExigeKen · Post by **ExigeKen** » Fri May 11, 2007 12:26 pm

rossybee wrote:
scottydog wrote:and there was always a man with a wee monkey on his shoulder playing a drum. Halcyon times.
Wasn't that Pencaitland?

He is still there and is playing the acordian

rossybee · Post by **rossybee** » Fri May 11, 2007 12:36 pm

ExigeKen wrote:
rossybee wrote:
scottydog wrote:and there was always a man with a wee monkey on his shoulder playing a drum. Halcyon times.
Wasn't that Pencaitland?

He is still there and is playing the acordian

As long as it's not the pink oboe

ExigeKen · Post by **ExigeKen** » Fri May 11, 2007 12:58 pm

wil_scotland · Post by **wil_scotland** » Sat May 12, 2007 5:28 pm

I dont believe Paisley is getting abuse from someone who lives in the Gorbals

Wil

PS I dont actually live in Paisley, I live in The Dales, which is on the outskirts

RDH · Post by **RDH** » Sat May 12, 2007 6:03 pm

NOOPS 160 wrote:
There's a wee man in Pencaitland often seen with a wild bird on his arm.......

Mags isn't that wild!

Lazydonkey · Post by **Lazydonkey** » Sat May 12, 2007 9:00 pm

wil_scotland wrote:I dont believe Paisley is getting abuse from someone who lives in the Gorbals

Wil

PS I dont actually live in Paisley, I live in The Dales, which is on the outskirts

Merchant City South actually

..........and i'm still in Hamilton at the moment

rossybee · Post by **rossybee** » Thu May 17, 2007 10:39 am

RDH wrote:
NOOPS 160 wrote:
There's a wee man in Pencaitland often seen with a wild bird on his arm.......
Mags isn't that wild!

She was when she got out my car after a few laps of KH!!!

Dominic · Post by **Dominic** » Thu May 17, 2007 12:23 pm

Lazydonkey wrote:
Merchant City South actually

Yeh, like I'm in 'Lower Bearsden', or 'Upper North Kelvinside', or Killermont.............. No MARYHILL!