In what 2 tough Uk Townships(1 a City) do you want to avoid a "Kiss"off the boys (some girls too)
Helpful NOTE:The City version is better Known Nationwide
And it you know what this is.What Town is "your town" when these are "dispensed"

What's a 'UK township', Bedstor? Isn't that something that they have in South Africa e.g Soweto ? I know that Britain has changed over the years, but surely not that much

Glasgow is the city, but I've no idea what the town is. The 'Glasgow kiss' is butting someone hard in the face, a familiar form of greeting outside Glaswegian pubs of a night time.Sometimes Glaswegian etiquette demands the introductory question 'Does your mother sew?' followed by a short pause and 'Then she can stitch this' and then the glassing (use of a broken glass or bottle) or use of the head.It's important to know these subtleties. It makes a visitor's stay in the city so much more enjoyable.

By the way, Glasgow was chosen "European City of Culture" in 1990.

Well Fred, I think it's nice to see Bedstor embracing the multiculturalism of the new Britain.
We have townships in Canada too, btw.

Love ain't like the movies
it blisters and bruises
and knocks you about with its fists
It Leaves you a wreckage
all postaged and packaged
and sealed with a Glasgow kiss


If that's a Glasgow kiss, then surely the same must hold true for that other great centre of culture, Liverpool?

I suppose the other one might be The Gorbals which is an area of Glasgow?

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Originally posted by dance girl:

If that's a Glasgow kiss, then surely the same must hold true for that other great centre of culture, Liverpool?

No.1) Liverpool is a city too, not a town.
2) Nobody in Liverpool fights. This is because the ancestry of the citizens is predominantly Irish.Irish people sometimes call it 'the capital of Ireland'. As is well known to all of us of such ancestry, Irishmen do not fight outside pubs, or at all. We don't but we confuse English people, who are, of course, too drunk to discern. What they think of as Irishmen fighting is two men with their jackets half off,both yelling in unison to their colleagues who are holding them back, as though they were fighting dogs straining at the leash, "Let me at him, I'll kill the b....!!! "

Note that no blows are struck.

Ah, but I was thinking of Alan Bleasdale's, "Boys from the Blackstuff"? Who can forget Yosser "gissa' job!" Hughes? It was set in Bleasdale's home town of Liverpool.
But I accept the correction, and my answer will therefore be The Gorbals.

The Glasgow Kiss ( or The Glesga Kiss. )
is the easy one to find
And yes It is a specific district of Liverpool that has the lesser known Version named after it.
But which One?

PS I've Had It done to me without warning ended up with a bust nose!

Fred? A Glasgow "smile" is a Glassing (Universal)

Kirkby kiss?

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Originally posted by Jenny Roberts:
Kirkby kiss?

Ah..but of course! (dg slaps herself on the head for not thinking of this one)