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as he was growing up contributed to his interest in a university abroad. I'm sure all of our travels to Europe and in the U.S. We're happy and excited for him, and not that we needed more excuses to visit Europe, but now we have another one. Student life in the '90s and 2000s in Glasgow? Completed it mate.Īrticle first published on December 9, 2019.After leaning in this direction for months, DS yesterday "hit the button" and accepted admission at the University of Edinburgh his course will be history. To be fair, there must have been more than a few of us out there that never knew that the very reason for the metallic sides were meant to be stuck to your fridge at home or in your halls or wherever.įor years you could pick your wee student discount book for free, until the late 2000s when they started charging a (nominal) fee to get your hands on one prior to the launch of the Snapfax 'Platinum' in 2010 to try and coax non-students in Glasgow to snap one up.Īnd while the booklet regarded as 'The One Stop Shop for Exclusive Offers on Student Living' may have lost popularity years ago, for anyone of a certain age that catches sight of one or hears the name 'Snapfax' crop up in conversation they know can say one thing.

Four things around Glasgow Uni that really could have inspired Harry Potter.

Unlike the Yellow card, Snapfax's magnetic sides had a habit of being able to ruin your bankcards, but that didn't stop scrambling to get their hands on theirs when they were launched and dished out by (their energetic) PRs on university campuses across the city. It made for student-centred competition as it were to the extremely popular Scream pubs such as The Arc, the Hall or Curler's Rest in its previous incarnation (as Curlers) and their 'yellow' discount card that everyone also had on them to use when they were out.

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Whether it was the cheap drinks at Ad Lib or The Monkey Bar, the £3 foot-long out of Subway and the cheap Domino's or McDonalds, it certainly went some way to saving some of those precious pennies, not forgetting the free entry (before 12 / on a Sunday) into Glasgow's student mecca/meat-market The Garage, The Cathouse or the gone-but-not-forgotten Shack on Pitt Street. Glasgow chapel hidden from view for almost 100 years revealed by hospital demolition worksīut for those that did use it, it allowed students to get fed and watered (bevvied) at various venues across the city without burning too big a whole in their student loan.

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‘This tastes boggin’ and seven other TV catchphrases repeated across Glasgow.Keys, phone, wallet and Snapfax and you were sorted for a night on the town.Īn accessory that, for those of us who could never be bothered actually using it, served as a kind of paper slinky to whip out when you were on the train or bus into town out of sheer boredom.

Freshers week is here.and it'll be like none that have ever come before it.īut as the start of term creeps up, we've found ourselves reminiscing on the days before Snapchat was ever a thing.īack then, a 'snap' of an entirely different kind ruled the roost among the student community in Glasgow.Ī small magnetic booklet that many students in Glasgow had back in the day, this was a lifesaver.