Admiral - City Centre Slophouse Closing

I was actually querying why these type of places exist and not just that particular one ....but why pick out certain parts of a post to try and appear wise...seems a tad pedantic ...i woulda thought
 
Although I was aware it was run by a tim, I've had many good nights in there. Techno nights downstairs were excellent with a great crowd. I worked on the same street and never saw so much as a monobrow in there.
 
Forget the street. Wellington?

Walked by it many a time and giving it socialist stuff in flyers outside and thought nothing of it.

I should have known.

Only in this fcuked up hole are scummy, little RC fascists allowed to identify as socialists.
 
GForce said:
The man in question lives next to me. I am yet to have a conversation with him where he dosent drop a famous name in. I mean like passing in the street saying hello he Will mention Fran Healey or Bobby Gillespie
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He's a Whank.
 
Whilst I welcome the news of any Beggar establishment closing down, I'm curious that the council has agreed that a building that fits in entirely with the adjoining premises, can be demolished and replaced by a new construction.



I'm no expert on architecture ( :rolleyes: ), but the building, whilst hardly outstanding, looks fine to me.

Of course, Glasgow has an atrocious record regarding its built heritage, so the decision to allow demolision, is par for the course: and par for the same, one can be allowed to speculate on the process that has facilitated this.

No doubt it's going to be replaced by one of those standard, off the shelf, rectangles that already proliferate in the city centre.

Regardless, I raise a glass to the demise of the Admiral and it's dubious clientele.
 
scoobytwo said:
I'll be honest, I'm guessing that most folk commenting on the Admiral being a slop house have never been in it, or at least recently. It's a pub for office workers and focuses on food. My office was almost next door and we'd be in every Friday lunchtime and at least once a week after work. At no point was there ever any hint of it being a Tim pub, or any other club side. I would not have went to the place if it was a Tim pub.
I cant really comment on the events in the basement as I'd never been. To me it always seemed to be club or mod nights.
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I used to work next to it for years, went in a couple of times a month lunchtime/ after work it was fine. Went in about 10 years ago myself when working a rare Sunday, fhilth game was on and it was 100% wall to wall fhilth to fhilth with dubious songs. Quietly left
 
TimzRFudz said:
That speccy, fantasist turd who runs Lost Glasgow was having a cry-wank about this the other day. I didn’t appreciate it was a slop-house until this thread as it’s not where I would normally go drinking. All falls into place though…
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I used to follow Lost Glasgow on FB but left due to his obvious snp love- in and anti Rangers pish.
 
TimzRFudz said:
The guy is a dangerous Walter Mitty type. Matter of time before something comes out I reckon.
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There is 100% something creepy about him.
He posts some great pics but he is totally insufferable. Did you know that he nearly died from a bowel condition and loves Paris? Of course you did because he only posts about it three times a day.
Have also never known a guy who gets taxi drivers etc from far flung corners of the world who treat him as a brother and want to introduce him to their culture/family- oh f.uck off!
 
Had many a night in here in the mid eighties whilst we were all just leaving school and heading to uni so I guess 83/84. Then latterly working across the road in the then Scottish Power building from about 98-01 it was an easy after work pint. Can’t say it had any affiliation with the dark side in those days.

Don’t think I’ve been there since, think they served grub and the Mac n cheese was excellent. Oh that and the local hookers used to drop in pre/ post/ during shift.
 
Blue Lew said:
There is 100% something creepy about him.
He posts some great pics but he is totally insufferable. Did you know that he nearly died from a bowel condition and loves Paris? Of course you did because he only posts about it three times a day.
Have also never known a guy who gets taxi drivers etc from far flung corners of the world who treat him as a brother and want to introduce him to their culture/family- oh f.uck off!
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Used to be a great site but he’s ruined it by being overly political. Spouting his usual pish about the red flag in George Square last week.
For some reason he also uses words and phrases that you only see in The Broons or that your granny might have used fifty or sixty years ago.
Name-dropping middle-class socialist Fanny.
 
Dave Ross is unquestionably in the top 3 worst people I’ve ever come across.

I hope he reads this thread and if so I just want to say, get it up you ya horrible cretin!
 
TimzRFudz said:
The guy is a dangerous Walter Mitty type. Matter of time before something comes out I reckon.
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Middle class. Hutchie boy. Pretending to he edgie. Wore shorts until he was about 18.
Although according to him he was drinking gin out of cracked cups with Howling Wolf back in the 1970s when he was about 10.

I'm sure he was the sub editor of the Herald at some stage.
 
scoobytwo said:
I'll be honest, I'm guessing that most folk commenting on the Admiral being a slop house have never been in it, or at least recently. It's a pub for office workers and focuses on food. My office was almost next door and we'd be in every Friday lunchtime and at least once a week after work. At no point was there ever any hint of it being a Tim pub, or any other club side. I would not have went to the place if it was a Tim pub.
I cant really comment on the events in the basement as I'd never been. To me it always seemed to be club or mod nights.
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I've never been in the place but I've seen plenty of videos from old firm days from mates and colleagues who've been in and it's a place best avoided. On the basis of what they allow on OF days I wouldn't be rushing in at any other time.

This is obviously the same in reverse for the Rangers minded pubs across the city, but the loss of an openly mentally challenged friendly pub isn't something I'm going to be too arsed about. There are plenty other places to nip into for a quick pint after work.
 
Never knew it was a tim shop. We have an office round the corner and we go sometimes for lunch when in Glasgow. They do a decent Mac and Cheese but the place is always freezing. %^*& them then. Lol
 
AlbertaBlue said:
I thought it was a gay bar back in those days, not that I’m say you are.
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Never been a gay bar. Was one of the few pubs in the city centre with regular office type people straight from work, still is apparently but also frequented by SNP/Sinn Fein/IRA types by all accounts
 
Calio said:
Good riddance. Another slop house going is great news.
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It’s not really great news as the clientele will just move on to another pub before long getting that closed down and before long some really good pub will be their new target and take over. There has to be pubs like the Admiral to make other bars safe to drink in
 
I still remember confidently uttering “Two pints of heavy” in The Admiral in 1978 as a 14 year old and getting served. Wasn’t quite sure what I was drinking, but I had arrived!

Pretty sure they served any age in those (glorious) days.

[Never a gay bar. I, naively, used to get served in The Muscular Arms at the same time and could never work out where the females were!]
 
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Unclerico27 said:
I still remember confidently uttering “Two pints of heavy” in The Admiral in 1978 as a 14 year old and getting served. Wasn’t quite sure what I was drinking, but I had arrived!

Pretty sure they served any age in those (glorious) days.

[Never a gay bar. I, naively, used to get served in The Muscular Arms at the same time and could never work out where the females were!]
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As a young apprentice we stumbled into the Vintners one Xmas drink up,swiftly left but not before I'd clocked a kid from school who was always a tad "theatrical"......
 
Hadn't realised it was one of their places. Been in from time to time as work on that street. Not a great loss then, but another pub bites the dust, and one of the cheaper ones for beer.
 
gabrielamato said:
The guy that owns it is a Celtic fan, but it's not really a Celtic pub. It's right in the middle of Glasgow's IFSD, so it's populated by after-work folk, more than anything else.

Great wee pub being bulldozed in order to build another faceless office building. Bad news for Glasgow city centre, imo, despite the ravings of some.

The owner got involved with the Thornwood when the building application was originally touted. The Admiral's closure's been on the cards for a number of years, but it was hoped that it could be saved.
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This is how I always knew it and had many a good piss up after work in it - but I heard a few stories about it also being a ‘go to’ bar for weekend celtic games - guess they were able to keep the two personas separate as the after work crowd would have no reason to be near it on the weekend around matches.
 
Blue Lew said:
There is 100% something creepy about him.
He posts some great pics but he is totally insufferable. Did you know that he nearly died from a bowel condition and loves Paris? Of course you did because he only posts about it three times a day.
Have also never known a guy who gets taxi drivers etc from far flung corners of the world who treat him as a brother and want to introduce him to their culture/family- oh f.uck off!
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Spot on mate. He’s an absolute bullshitter of the highest order. He’s been called out for it a few times now, he doesn’t seem to know / care that some folk are observant and don’t button up the back.
 
scoobytwo said:
I'll be honest, I'm guessing that most folk commenting on the Admiral being a slop house have never been in it, or at least recently. It's a pub for office workers and focuses on food. My office was almost next door and we'd be in every Friday lunchtime and at least once a week after work. At no point was there ever any hint of it being a Tim pub, or any other club side. I would not have went to the place if it was a Tim pub.
I cant really comment on the events in the basement as I'd never been. To me it always seemed to be club or mod nights.
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So you're guessing that most folk commenting on the pub being a slophouse have never been in it , yet you comment on the events in the basement , on your own admission , having never been in it...?
 
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Totti10 said:
Dave Ross is unquestionably in the top 3 worst people I’ve ever come across.

I hope he reads this thread and if so I just want to say, get it up you ya horrible cretin!
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Was he not involved in running one of the Dance Halls? Night Clubs years ago?
 
Stv news done a piece on the closure tonight. No indication it was a slop house.
Put it across as a bit of an institution???
 
The gay bar people are mistaking it for I think is the Waterloo round the corner.

DR is a bitter lady's front bottom and gets away with some of his shite at Glasgow Life events.

I have pretty incrimaniting picture but I cant seem to post it.....
 
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