r/glasgow 18h ago

Daily Chat - The Steamie - 01/09/26

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Welcome to The Steamie!

The daily place for any random chat, questions you want to ask that might be asked all the time, or anything else you want to share.

The Steamie can be whatever the sub wants it to be. If you've got any suggestions, share them in here

Getting Around & Weather

Daily Chat

What's happening:

  • The Commute: Is the M8 a car park, are the trains on time, why are First Bus shite today?
  • The Lunch: What's for lunch? Give us a score out of ten and an explanation for your lack of an easypeeler.
  • Recommendations: Looking for a tattoo artist, a decent pub, or a food spot? Ask here.
  • Moving to Glasgow? If you’ve posted in the annual moving to Glasgow megathread and it's a bit quiet, feel free to ask here for a quicker answer on specific areas or streets!
  • The Investigation: Heard a loud bang, seen a fleet of blue lights or a helicopter?

Buying & Selling

Got something you want to buy or sell? Head over to r/glasgowmarket.


r/glasgow 20d ago

Glasgow solar eclipse mega thread 2026 - all photos here.

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Today, August 12, 2026, Glasgow and the west of Scotland will experience a significant partial solar eclipse. The eclipse will begin at 18:08 BST, reach its peak around 19:06 BST, and conclude by approximately 20:00 BST..

Top Viewing Locations

Because the sun will be extremely low in the sky, viewers need a location completely free from tall buildings or hills facing west. Elevated spots in Glasgow such as the Queen's Park flagpole, Hamiltonhill Claypits, and Cathkin Braes.

Community Photo Submissions

To keep the subreddit organized during this heavily documented event, please post all of your eclipse photos directly in the comments of this thread. Standalone image posts on the main feed will be automatically redirected here by the moderation team to ensure everyone can easily find local eclipse content.

No buying and selling

There's r/glasgowmarket if you're looking for glasses


r/glasgow 5h ago

Who’s the mod on here that constantly removes everything?

247 Upvotes

There’s been a mod on here that’s been removing stuff for a wee while now for no apparent reason.

Someone on here just posted that they’re a trainee barber giving out free haircuts if you model for them and let them use it for their portfolio. Pretty nice thing. Beats the few dozen posts here every day about bins, potholes and price of a bus ticket.

Why can you not just let the sub upvote and downvote and decide for themselves what gets to the top rather than making the decision yourself?


r/glasgow 5h ago

Bus journeys in west of Scotland to be capped at £2 from Monday

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r/glasgow 11h ago

Public transport. First Bus £2 Fares as of September the 7th

218 Upvotes

A single journey to anywhere including the airport will now be £2 as of 07/09.

Return tickets will be no more. Just now a Return is £5,95, and 2 singles are £6,50. Next week 2 singles will cost just £4

No change to child singles or all day tickets

Thoughts?


r/glasgow 8h ago

Mental health support (eating disorder related so please don’t read if you are struggling with anything similar.)

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THANK YOU so so much to everyone for your replies and to those who offered to join. what a beautiful bunch of people for all of your suggestions. i will have a wee google at the ones i haven’t heard of before and see where takes my mood once i make the decision to really give it a go. thank you for all of your kind words and encouragement!

could anyone recommend me a buffet type place please?

sorry i’m trying to type something else here before i get into the story so that no one will accidentally see something that would upset them.

long story short, a 20 year long story - i have suffered with anorexia since i was 19. i’m trying so hard this time to recover and the next step i want to take is visiting a restaurant alone. as much as i’ve tried to attend places, mainly with my mum, i often feel i am holding her back if i’m eating at snails pace or else if sometimes when i start eating i can’t stop for a good while as my body tends to panic and binge eat.

for those reasons i would like somewhere where i can sample a little of many things and not feel bad if i leave a full meal that i may struggle with.

could anyone recommend somewhere in and around glasgow, that would be relatively quiet on a week day afternoon where i can go do my thing, try eat at my own pace and not feel i need to keep up or slow down and also try to build my confidence doing it on my own.

i’ve heard of marble and cosmo, which are completely fine but just wondering what some of you would recommend to be slightly less loud and busy.

many thanks!


r/glasgow 14h ago

Bygone Glasgow Glasgow ghost signs

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Took this photo of one of my favourite ghost signs the other day. It's on Oswald Street and dates back to roughly 1911. It was for a shop called Typewriter Repair Co (I believe you can make out some of the shop name under the windows) I'm always on the lookout for more ghost signs, so if anyone has any favourites of their own to recommend, please let me know!


r/glasgow 4h ago

US citizens in Glasgow

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For any US citizens in Glasgow I'd like to remind them they can vote in the upcoming US midterm elections, but must register each year. You can get voter registration help at https://www.votefromabroad.org.

There's also a Glasgow Democrats Abroad group which meets monthly, so please come join us! Next meeting on the 15th in the west end. https://www.democratsabroad.org/bethmonahan/dauk_scotland_-_glasgow_social_sept_2026


r/glasgow 11h ago

Glasgow public toilet ornate panels 'smashed to pieces' despite order to retain them

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r/glasgow 7h ago

Central station Public announcement

28 Upvotes

Hi, has anyone notice the public announcement from Glasgow central station has been very loud recently? You can hear everything on the south side across the river and on the bridges. Non stop from 7 am to late night. Such a nightmare


r/glasgow 1h ago

Public transport. What do Glasweigians think of the urban section of the M8

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Hi, Recently moved to glasgow from a quiet town in wiltshire, so its a big change. Ive always been intrigued with urbanism and glasgow has something quite unique, the m8 that goes through the city center. Ive driven on it and its quite an experience and the ammount of concrete everywhere especially at anderston is quite staggering and the fact you have to leave some junctions in the right hand lane is crazy.

Disregarding traffic. What do YOU think of it because im intrigued in what a glasweigian thinks of it. The city council calls it a ugly sc@r from the 1960s but when I read comments online from people they seem to defend it.

Do you view it as a terrible tragidy that happened to glasgow or a useful road link?


r/glasgow 15h ago

Public transport. Just a Tourist shocked at Bus prices

123 Upvotes

I used the bus number 6 with the Tap in Tap out system and 2 days later i see they took 3,25£ for a 15 min ride between the city center and the Botanic gardens. I’m so shocked. I just checked the Fare finder to check and it’s the right price between my two stations.

What justify these prices ? And i hope there are lowest prices with subscription for the citizens of the city.

It’s more expensive than a London tube ticket which I didnt even think it was possible


r/glasgow 3h ago

Mcgills bus group - unlawful dismissal

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r/glasgow 10h ago

What are your top five bands from Glasgow?

18 Upvotes

r/glasgow 2h ago

VHS bulk buy

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So my Aunt's partner was doing a clear out of the loft in his new flat and has come across over 400 VHS tapes. Think mostly film and TV box sets.

He wants to just chuck them in a skip but I'm wondering if there's anywhere in Glasgow/ Paisley area that buys this stuff?


r/glasgow 4h ago

80’s perm salon?

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Does anyone know a salon where I can get a very tight spiral perm like in the 80’s?


r/glasgow 16h ago

Photos What is the history of this display on Drumoyne Road in Govan?

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r/glasgow 2h ago

DJ Lessons

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I've been half heartedly djing at home since covid when i bought a ddj-400 to try and pass some time. I've never given it enough time but now in a position to dedicate a lot of my spare time to it. I know most people will say you dont need lessons but I'd rather have some structured guidance as i know theres a lot i have to learn. I recently upgraded to a ddj-grv6. Is there anywhere anyone would reccomend. These are the suggestions google came up with but would rather have a recommendation from someone whos clued up on it all. I play techno, tech house and house mostly

https://wearemade.io/

https://www.containerstudios.co.uk/lessons

https://glasgowmusicstudios.co.uk/dj-lessons/


r/glasgow 1d ago

Termination - Information Needed

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Trigger warning if anyone else has gone through this but posting here in the hope of any answers.

We have decided to terminate our pregnancy for medical reasons, but the only method apparently offered in Scotland according to Glasgow Princess Royal is through NHS Scotland and is a medical termination. My wife is terrified of the thought and has all these pictures in her head of a traumatic experience seeing the baby etc. Are there any alternatives to the tablets method in Scotland such as a surgical termination? She has it in her mind that she goes to sleep and then wakes up and it's over with, which seems a lot less traumatic than giving birth to the child. Is currently at 16 weeks. Please any advice or information thank you.


r/glasgow 1d ago

A Cracker’s Crash Out

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Thought I’d give spray painting a go seeing how low the bar was. First exhibition down at the Clyde legal wall, I call it the “ “.

First man to walk by with his pram said well done thinking I wrote that before catching on and asking why would I get rid of it, he wasn’t able to tell me what it was that made him proud about being white.

Somehow in the 5 or so minutes I spent there the author himself started shouting from the above bridge.

“WHAT YOU DAEING” he screams pointing his camera seeing fine well what I’m doing, “A FUCKING WROTE THAT YA LEFTIE PRICK”.

If yer da’s no taking the divorce well, consider checking up on him.

In all seriousness, I was just caught off guard to encounter him in the short time I was there, I’m lucky he just pointed his camera and argued whilst walking away. You see how emboldened racists are getting online or in headlines and there’s always a wee “aye but that’s no what folk in Glasgow are like”.

This is not my Glasgow but it’s Glasgow today.

EDIT: I regret that the choice of words used to describe the racist author who took time to try and stop somebody from covering up his rubbish took attention away from the concern surrounding those blatantly supporting “White pride”.

I believe the intent of this message is to alienate people of colour and to embolden those holding views which are responsible for the recent increase in violence towards minorities.

I personally find that a wee bit more offensive as a white man than the word cracker.


r/glasgow 1d ago

Lost&Found Found cat - Queen's Park

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r/glasgow 4h ago

Does anyone know if they are still filming Batman?

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Pretty self explanatory but I’m talking more broomielaw or near Newton Street. I know it has run late in the past at around midnight but not sure if they are still filming. If anyone could let me know that would be grand. Thanks!


r/glasgow 8h ago

Spa day recommendations?

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Hi all, looking to book a spa day for my partner and me for our birthdays. We're not fussed about massages or treatments, we just want somewhere we can go for a few hours to have a swim, sauna, use the hot tubs, etc. any recommendations?


r/glasgow 1d ago

Why do people feel so entitled to parent and child spaces cause they got a car so big they can't park?!

110 Upvotes

Today in Milngavie car park at Marks and Spencer I saw two people getting out a Ford Ranger in a parent and child space. No child seats in the back (saw when they opened the door) and no disabled badge in the front. They locked the car and walk away. I called "uh, sorry..." they both turned around. I said "you've left your kid in the car".

He said 'we're on our way to pick up" blatant lie, she mumbled "huh, very funny". The guy actually looked quite a lot like Grant Stott. Those parking spaces have the painted pram, some people are absolutely shameless.


r/glasgow 1d ago

Glasgow visitor economy reaches £2.74 billion as tourism continues to grow

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More than 31 million people came to the city last year, with visitor spending reaching £2.74 billion.