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The those wondering, as I did, what a "Glasgow device" is, it's not a broken bottle wielded by a strung-out heroin addict.

It's actually a Glasgow Interface Explorer. [1]

[1] https://glasgow-embedded.org/latest/intro.html



You know there are people who live in Glasgow that frequent these forums that tire of these stereotyped attitudes to their city.

I lived in Glasgow for >20 years and I never saw anyone as "strung out" as the people I saw wondering around Market St in San Francisco.


I have lived in Glasgow for 32 of my 35 years and if you've not seen anyone 'strung out' here I'd be genuinely shocked as it's a multiple time a day thing (even if you live in the West End or other nice areas).


I identify as a west end wanker. I'm yet to see someone strung out on the streets.


Did you move there a few days ago?


4 years ago.


I am of course cracking a joke about the movie Trainspotting.


A film / book famously not set in Glasgow


Although a lot of it was filmed in Glasgow.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trainspotting_(film)

>The film follows a group of heroin addicts in an economically depressed area of Edinburgh and their passage through life


Glasgow is lovely, people are cunts.




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