Q309: What's Barlinnie Prison Like? Ian ‘Blink’ MacDonald

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  • @gordonlove7717
    @gordonlove7717 3 роки тому +14

    Ian is a really engaging story teller. He has a gift.

  • @pureloyalist9277
    @pureloyalist9277 Місяць тому

    One of the most genuine guys lve ever listened to, your a Big Gentleman lan l wish you all the best in your task to enlighten the younger generation, take care and as always all the best 👍

  • @caragray7010
    @caragray7010 4 роки тому +53

    Heard this guy before on UA-cam, defo the real deal, a true Glasgow hard man, great at telling stories, the bank robbery story is good.

    • @leighwingate6222
      @leighwingate6222 3 роки тому

      Cara Gray live by the sword that guy,his deed now

    • @spence7884
      @spence7884 3 роки тому +2

      @@leighwingate6222 wit guys dead now blink ain't dead

    • @gaz8177
      @gaz8177 3 роки тому +5

      @@leighwingate6222 no he isn’t ya rocket

    • @fightingirish6773
      @fightingirish6773 3 роки тому +2

      @@gaz8177 blink is still alive and kicking my friend.

    • @fightingirish6773
      @fightingirish6773 3 роки тому +2

      @@20FreeWill your a bit of a rocket, ya banger.

  • @jeanthornton2107
    @jeanthornton2107 4 роки тому +7

    Fascinating interview , thanks Shaun ❤

  • @alanhenderson7989
    @alanhenderson7989 4 роки тому +4

    Did you know that hundreds of inmates took the Scottish government to the European court over “sloping out”? The practice was deemed a breach of their human rights and compensation was paid. I’m unsure of the year, maybe late 90s or early 2000s. Cash compensation of various amounts was paid into accounts of serving prisoners to enjoy on release. Typical award was £500-£700 per month they had to endure it.
    The same cells are still in use to this day, all with a very unprivate toilet.

    • @paulglancy3867
      @paulglancy3867 4 роки тому

      £2,100 you got, I never bothered putting in for it.

    • @saoralba4236
      @saoralba4236 2 роки тому +1

      I was in A Hall summer of 2002 during the world cup , Lockerbie bomber was still being held there in his own we compound "Gaddafi's cafe" and slopping out was still going on then... although I think some of the other halls were being refurbished with toilets at the time if I recall correctly.. but A Hall was still slopping out in 2002

  • @garymccallum667
    @garymccallum667 3 роки тому +9

    "Bar-L is a hellhole" wow, I was a kid on remand in the late 90s, when I first experienced it, HMP Polmont Y.O.I.was much worse than Bar.

  • @jmcc2k10
    @jmcc2k10 4 роки тому +20

    One of the things that makes barlinnie a lot worse than other jail's in UK is that's it's 23 hour lockup. It's monotonous being locked up in a cell 23 hours a day and some days it's 24 hours if the guards can't be bothered giving you the hour exercise that you are entitled to. Also the fact it's an old Victorian jail that used to do executions etc gives it a creepy vibe. Overcrowding is rampant and you can end up sharing a cell with a psycho.

    • @SuperKarinaG
      @SuperKarinaG 4 роки тому +4

      That's just not true. Unless you are talking about years ago. All the guys go to education, out to play football, the sheds to work on the bikes and make stuff. Aye a lot of the suicide risks, escape risks and those on protection are dubbed up 23 hours a day

    • @carlstirling103
      @carlstirling103 3 роки тому +2

      I'm a psycho I always get the singles and usually left to me devices but the search team are bastards

    • @alanmctavish4802
      @alanmctavish4802 2 роки тому

      Kar fc, thats true. Becouse every one i knew that was in barlinnie had to work. Maybe except guys that were only doing 7 to 14 days. But most guys doing a long sentence had to work. My mate was working on the garden work party in bar-l about 9 years ago and he said it was like a fucking golf course, it was huge lol.

    • @alanmctavish4802
      @alanmctavish4802 2 роки тому

      Karfc, thats true. All the long term prisoners i knew had to work in bar. But i thinck if you were doing 7 to 14 days to 28 days you were locked up 23 hours a day. And the screws made you work. Its a hard big jail and no doubt!

    • @jmcc2k10
      @jmcc2k10 2 роки тому +2

      @@SuperKarinaG It is true because ive been in it and experienced it and the fact you think its not true tells me you havent so stop talking like you know what your on about, listening to stories passing it on as fact. Everyone doest need to work theres not enough jobs for everyone to works theres over a thousand prisoners, do you think theres that many jobs inside a prison, also not everyone goes to education etc because like i said theres over a thousand prisoners, the guys who work in gardens or cooks etc used to be housed in letham hall
      and have different priveledges to guys in a,b,c hall, 12 year ago since i was last place.

  • @Roberto77771000
    @Roberto77771000 4 роки тому +11

    Just wanted to ask if you will be doing a cast about Assange's prison experience. How would they treat him. Thanks

  • @BeneathTheGold
    @BeneathTheGold Рік тому +2

    “It’s a hell hole of a prison”
    That is a severe understatement. Its absolutely disgusting. It was so bad back in the day that cons sued them for breaching their human rights and won. Every con that done time there could claim against them and get a few geez.

  • @alanmctavish4802
    @alanmctavish4802 3 роки тому +6

    Tavy@ i like blinks storys hes still got a great sense of humour considering the amount of jail time hes done. Hes proper old school!!!!

  • @WILLIAM1690WALES
    @WILLIAM1690WALES 4 роки тому +8

    I love it when Scottish people make anti-English statements as we all know throughout their entire history in Scotland the most dangerous thing for a Scotsman is another Scotsman. In the TV comedy still game Jack and Victor would have called it a pish pot.

  • @gavmackenzie
    @gavmackenzie Рік тому +2

    Love the look on Sean’s face when he’s told about a mars bar on his face

  • @davidmcclymont6326
    @davidmcclymont6326 2 роки тому +5

    Great guy met him few months back on the train n got into a conversation with him about the rangers brilliant genuine guy 💯

  • @Craig.Fawley
    @Craig.Fawley 4 роки тому +14

    why can't people hear him? i'm yorkshire and i can understand everything he says.

    • @smackedinthejaw
      @smackedinthejaw 4 роки тому

      I can understand MOST of what he says and I am from the West Mids.

    • @thesatisfiedcustomer4869
      @thesatisfiedcustomer4869 3 роки тому +2

      It’s only Americans and cockneys that can’t understand blink

  • @DavidBrown-jd2st
    @DavidBrown-jd2st 4 роки тому +6

    Wait a fookin minute, I says do ya think I’m in here for Recreational purposes 🤣🤣🤣

  • @Bad_Gnasher
    @Bad_Gnasher 4 роки тому +57

    Love his explanation of a Piss Pot
    "It's a pot and you piss in it"
    😂😂😂

    • @s0lid_sno0ks
      @s0lid_sno0ks 4 роки тому

      pess*

    • @WILLIAM1690WALES
      @WILLIAM1690WALES 4 роки тому

      From TV comedy still game Jack and Victor would call it a pish pot.

    • @scottkennedy203
      @scottkennedy203 4 роки тому +1

      Well that's what they were called, disgusting smell of stale piss every slop out in mornings 🤮lol

    • @oscarslife5497
      @oscarslife5497 3 роки тому

      😂

  • @johnbutler3654
    @johnbutler3654 2 роки тому +1

    hi shaun i done 112 days corrective training in a miliatry jail for assult 14 days in a civillian jail for 900 pounds motoring offences in the seventys and never wanted to go back which i havent how do these blokes like blink get through big sentences as i would shudder at 16 to 20 years

  • @tanilorn
    @tanilorn 4 роки тому +9

    Met a few Scottish people in winson green. And the stories of that place where crazy. Pp9 battery in socks. Sugar water. Morning body bags and breakfast on hold lol

  • @thomasanderson6562
    @thomasanderson6562 4 роки тому +4

    What’s a piss pot? A pot you piss in.....brilliant 😂😂😂😂

  • @alanhenderson7989
    @alanhenderson7989 4 роки тому +2

    Screws called “chewing gum” gang is hard to understand when chewing gum is barred from all prisons. It can get pushed into locks blocking doors.

    • @canneybe266
      @canneybe266 4 роки тому

      When he mentions the chewing gum gang he means they were swaggering about just like a bunch of bullies team handed. Not literally chewing gum as your right it's not allowed in prisons

    • @thebrightsideofthemoon5829
      @thebrightsideofthemoon5829 4 роки тому +1

      Smack isn’t allowed in but you get it , if ye want , it’s the 80’s and it was corrupt screws doin the chewin

  • @allanwalsh4199
    @allanwalsh4199 11 днів тому +1

    Can I swear,swearing is ingrained in our language,we need to swear,🤣🤣🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  • @CarolineDocherty-m1b
    @CarolineDocherty-m1b Місяць тому

    Why cant people under stand him hes great speaker godbless u mate wish u well carlyx

  • @StuartHanson-fo7iw
    @StuartHanson-fo7iw 5 місяців тому

    What I love about the rangers boys is u never ever doubt them, they are British and proud of it, in these uncertain times I faking love that🇬🇧👍

  • @santoy1000
    @santoy1000 4 роки тому +24

    You know it’s bad when prison officers are slashing prisoners lol

    • @scottkennedy203
      @scottkennedy203 4 роки тому +3

      That's definitely true ,the screw he means ended up a deputy governor to,the guy he slashed tried to slash somebody else ,that's why he dun it,he was a nasty bastard

    • @paulglancy3867
      @paulglancy3867 3 роки тому +1

      @@scottkennedy203 Slasher Gallagher in 1980's.. One for one. Cheers.
      PS He was Thee Governor, not a one two three, or Hall Governor, he was the Boss of the full Jail.
      He got slashed by prisoner, gave ultimatum, you done me, now I'll do you, and that's that.

    • @bowjana8128
      @bowjana8128 3 роки тому

      @@paulglancy3867 who's slasher Gallagher

    • @juliestevens5764
      @juliestevens5764 2 роки тому

      @@bowjana8128 A governor that was in Barlinnie prison in Glasgow
      In early , mid 80s .

  • @haroldmcfarlane4160
    @haroldmcfarlane4160 4 роки тому +13

    Scheme, great band in early 89's

  • @colinwilliamson2012
    @colinwilliamson2012 2 роки тому

    BRILLIANT. What a guys Bringing back the memories.

    • @ianmacdonald2903
      @ianmacdonald2903 2 роки тому

      Aye Colin mate but the Place needs Demolished 💯💯💯

  • @santoy1000
    @santoy1000 4 роки тому +12

    Shaun actually looks quite nervous here

  • @jimleishman785
    @jimleishman785 4 роки тому +6

    Lol.
    Blink should pack in the life of crime and become a comedian,
    I'd love to hear all his stories.
    I've just bought his book from Amazon.

  • @ianbutton9804
    @ianbutton9804 3 роки тому +3

    life is very different in different places

  • @lisawhiteman9780
    @lisawhiteman9780 4 роки тому +20

    He's hilarious at telling his stories😁👍

  • @gordonwilson1032
    @gordonwilson1032 4 роки тому +2

    scheme songs is the best thing about the 80's......Blink it was a soundtrack to us in/out jail...time goe's a bye

    • @bazglsgw1208
      @bazglsgw1208 3 роки тому

      You fucked up another 5 years haha Black & White ma man 👍

  • @gavindoherty8883
    @gavindoherty8883 2 роки тому +1

    Blinks a pure legend

    • @ĶennethNicholson-y7p
      @ĶennethNicholson-y7p Місяць тому +1

      Big man was next door to use wee good party's he end Wendy then wee. Dixie dead nice you see doing well

  • @richardvaldes3959
    @richardvaldes3959 4 роки тому +14

    " im gonna slash one of them"

  • @adytowe7969
    @adytowe7969 3 роки тому +2

    I love blink he's one of the boys a top lad nice guy but don't take the with him because you will lose every time good luck mate hope life is good for you take care mate

  • @dfrsdgtrdhurtew5hyjr
    @dfrsdgtrdhurtew5hyjr 2 роки тому

    Where are the subtitles when you need them ?

  • @ljr1977
    @ljr1977 4 роки тому +6

    I’m sorry the prison was so corrupt

  • @davym23
    @davym23 3 роки тому +1

    Blink n Johnny boys stories are the best

  • @johnbull9195
    @johnbull9195 4 роки тому +3

    Dartmoor is the setting for Hound of the Baskervilles

    • @raymondmcdonald355
      @raymondmcdonald355 3 роки тому

      Seldon 😁😁 the notting hill murderer 😁😁👍👍

  • @excemptfrombs2124
    @excemptfrombs2124 4 роки тому +14

    Shauns looking slightly uncomfortable here

  • @billyfivefive.
    @billyfivefive. 3 роки тому +4

    Mystery bowl, 23 hour dub-up, hug cockroaches in the dog boxes, D hall in the 80's taxing at it's finest, red and white con-shirt in reception meant remand fk'all out my peter on the hunt.

    • @jamesclarke8726
      @jamesclarke8726 3 роки тому

      The eld riot bun at 8 bells ma man wi the plastic tea urns fkn hell memories man .

  • @Time-traveller777
    @Time-traveller777 2 роки тому

    I used to pass going to smithycroft never thought I'd see inside you can smell the misery and history in the cells.

  • @tramlad2
    @tramlad2 4 роки тому +2

    To be fair prisons are not meant to be nice, now the Hilton hotel, that should be nice, wee moral, don't break the law and you wont end up in jail. Blink is a character to be fair, love his stories, mad a s fuck

  • @colshythecomedian
    @colshythecomedian 4 роки тому +2

    Ernie Barrie definitely did not do that Clydesale bank in Blantyre!

  • @LeeabEnglish
    @LeeabEnglish 4 роки тому +4

    Hello Shaun and Ian my grandad is a MacDonald

  • @pj1909
    @pj1909 3 роки тому +2

    My dad was a hardy wee man but he hated going into the Bar L to see his brother

  • @ĶennethNicholson-y7p
    @ĶennethNicholson-y7p Місяць тому

    I have still got scars on this wrist lock 1_2and turkey bunsh

  • @woody816
    @woody816 4 роки тому +13

    Still had to slop out in 2000 wen I was there

    • @stuartmc6377
      @stuartmc6377 4 роки тому +2

      Woody81 so did i m8 did u get your slopping out money ?? i got £2,100 in 2005

    • @woody816
      @woody816 4 роки тому

      @@stuartmc6377 no I didnt know u could. I did it in polmont aswell. Fuck it was awful as it wasnt only your own as in polmont we shared. I can smell it now. 1 boy threw his down the stairs and broke his porto loo. Dam it was bad. The block smelt so bad for weeks

    • @planesstevee
      @planesstevee 4 роки тому

      yep in 1999 i was sloping out in exeter

    • @planesstevee
      @planesstevee 4 роки тому +1

      @David Charles Francis Topham de Vere Beauclerk I was in for GBH a couple of guys started on me and a friend walking home from a pub one night. My so called mate legged it and i was left to deal with them, And i bit half of one guys ear off. Got 3 years. spent time on remand in exeter then when sentenced was shipped out to guys marsh

    • @stuartmc6377
      @stuartmc6377 4 роки тому

      David Charles Francis Topham de Vere Beauclerk attempted murder basically gang fighting and we done two people i got 7 year

  • @James-cf6ky
    @James-cf6ky 4 роки тому +3

    I spent 2 weekends in barlini on my way to longriggend . was grim as fuck but longriggend was worse😂

  • @billyfivefive.
    @billyfivefive. 3 роки тому +2

    The Bar-l Mantra "Don't Ask Cause Your No Getting"

    • @spence7884
      @spence7884 3 роки тому

      Ain't that the truth 🤣🤣🤣

  • @jyoung8161
    @jyoung8161 4 роки тому +1

    Slasher sounds like the governor guy from the film brawl in cellblock 99

  • @stuartjamieson9096
    @stuartjamieson9096 3 місяці тому

    Time definitely goes quickly in Barlinnie...

  • @lc8361
    @lc8361 4 роки тому +3

    Shaun can't be arsed with this...

  • @ianbutton9804
    @ianbutton9804 3 роки тому

    i am so sorry society has neglected you i wish you all the best

  • @scottrobertson5610
    @scottrobertson5610 4 роки тому +5

    Every one should read his book great book

    • @pamelayates6790
      @pamelayates6790 3 роки тому

      who's book please tell me Mr Robertson, ta x I may read, if ya tell me

    • @theapavlou3030
      @theapavlou3030 4 місяці тому

      Been wanting to read his book. Recommend Noel Razor Smith's A Few Kind Words... book too

  • @wehavehugeproblems4857
    @wehavehugeproblems4857 4 роки тому +1

    I love your channel . Fair play the chaps you get on here are some big boys . They all have respect for you . Keep up the great work and please no more David ICKE even tho I love his work you must keep your distance please !

  • @paulglancy3867
    @paulglancy3867 4 роки тому +1

    That's it, just spent over an hour writing my experiences from being Liquid Koshed at age 12, to having an affair with female staff member in St Mary's Approved School in Bishopbriggs only for this to cut out as I'm finishing, so cut a long story short, been there, seen it, got the"T" Shirt, just need a book publisher and I've a bad story to tell. Barlinnie back in the day 80's, brutal. Though not that bad. My lawyers suing, so payout due no doubt about it. Must go before this screw's up again. If you want more Shaun, put your email up. You'll like what I've got to say. Catch you then... Paul.

    • @paulglancy3867
      @paulglancy3867 3 роки тому

      @Madd McGhee Naw mate, but I keep getting asked "are you related to the Glancy's faw Govan, and the thing is, my name at birth was Glancy, then this stepbastard came along, and he was violent tae me, I grew up, as in, 55 now, and he's been punished lots of times, and I've done sentences cause of him. So after 40 odd years I made a statement to polis, he got guilty and only got an 18 moon Community Payback Order. I should have stuck the kitchen devil in his chest at 7-8 years of age, and nothing would've happened. I still feel this way, but I'm not doing life at 55. Anyway thanks for asking, sorry its a no, but might be good to know. Cheers.. Paul.

    • @paulglancy3867
      @paulglancy3867 3 роки тому

      Cheers "Mad McGhee" Some folk don't forget. Keeping my nose clean, but can't keep the piss clean. Auld School. Thanks for getting back.. Paul.

    • @georgeadams5970
      @georgeadams5970 3 роки тому

      @ paul glancy, you know wee stuart glancy as its not that common of a second name and soz for asking as a see in your comment other ppl ask lol. cheers bud

    • @paulglancy3867
      @paulglancy3867 3 роки тому

      @@georgeadams5970 Sorry George, never even noticed your question. Though I'm in a "funny" situation now. One of my posts mentions everytime someone asks about my surname they say "you related too Glancy's from Govan, well I'm not, but I'm in a place called The Crisis Centre, and guess who's two doors down?" Another Glancy, and yeah he's from Govan, so we finally meet today, as I'm isolated for 7 days, man he was full of questions. Maybe he's got a brother called Stu, I'll ask him next time I see him, I'll get back on this. Cheers.. Paul.

    • @georgeadams5970
      @georgeadams5970 3 роки тому

      aww the best paul a was in there this time last year btw and a went to the stabilisation unit after tht and am still cool mate its a canter to stay aff it mate and just stick to yer script just take it easy and dont think too much about the morra bro 1 day at a time eh! tell big wullie a said hello if hes working, so stick in there bro 👍👏

  • @bluespig1
    @bluespig1 3 роки тому

    Having spent equal years in 100+ year old gaols & newer modern prisons, I much prefer the older.

  • @Wearethewingmakers
    @Wearethewingmakers 3 роки тому

    A formidable Looking place when you drive down the m8 to the city centre horrendous

  • @ianbutton9804
    @ianbutton9804 3 роки тому

    never give up shaun

  • @craftskills123
    @craftskills123 3 роки тому +2

    For the viewers a piss pot is a... Eh.. A pot ye piss in 😂😂😂

  • @jeanpaul2nd465
    @jeanpaul2nd465 4 роки тому

    Don't know if its any different noo but back in the day the pipes in the halls would go oan about 3ish,and would fkn clunk clunk for hours,noisy as fuck

  • @rorymacoasisfan6118
    @rorymacoasisfan6118 3 роки тому +1

    Geez a line blink! Well tell yir on the Charlie haha

  • @sootycat1601
    @sootycat1601 2 роки тому +1

    Blink biography movie is what we need, ferris got a movie...Blink bigger Star

  • @roderickmacdonald8099
    @roderickmacdonald8099 4 роки тому

    Spent 5 weeks at Barlinnie before I moved on to Lowmoss.The Prison is old but I liked it their.Had a great cell mate. Worked in the kitchen I was in A Hall.

  • @sunglassesron9464
    @sunglassesron9464 4 роки тому +2

    What's Barlinnie Prison Like?
    Shite.
    Next?

  • @LVPAcharn
    @LVPAcharn 3 роки тому +1

    "Aw fuck yer gonny get some doin, dae ye think they'll batter me? " l nearly died laughing,,

  • @robertcarter565
    @robertcarter565 4 роки тому +1

    I've got a Mars bar look
    An Shawn says ye an does not look
    You think he said something to him before interview

  • @anniedixon6774
    @anniedixon6774 3 роки тому +4

    All screws are brave when there mob handed

  • @larry90944
    @larry90944 4 роки тому +4

    Spent my entire 20s in barlinnie. Actually had some really good laughs in the place considering. I used to do bio hazard clean ups so I got all the good gossip when people were slashed or smashed. I met one of the roof protesters. Big Buttsy lol screws were petrified from him. Also scheme were an amazing band, check them out on Spotify

    • @parthenipirate
      @parthenipirate 3 роки тому

      Bio hazard ? Is that what we used to call " bomb disposal" 😂😂

    • @scoot8534
      @scoot8534 2 роки тому

      Tick ticking away

  • @braveconcepts
    @braveconcepts 3 роки тому

    The thing is, "Barlinnie" sounds nice if you don't know what it is.

  • @constantlimbo-vb6iy
    @constantlimbo-vb6iy 4 роки тому +1

    i love piss pots,got over 2 grand after having to use them in HMP Saughton in the late ninties,as the EU told them it was way past the date we should have had real bogs,Shaun you'd get slashed from your cell mate for shitting in a piss pot,in Scottish prison you shit in a bag and fling it out the window (a shite bomb ),some poor prisoner had the job of picking up the shite bombs every morning

    • @blueoranda5724
      @blueoranda5724 4 роки тому +1

      In Armley, you wrapped your shit in newspaper and flung it out the window, the nonces had the job of clearing it up. You can ring the buzzer all day long, nobody comes to let you out for a shit.

    • @constantlimbo-vb6iy
      @constantlimbo-vb6iy 4 роки тому

      @@blueoranda5724 yes mate,no Scottish screw is going to open your door for a shite,we used the empty plastic bags off the loaves of bread,we used to get the empty bags off the pantryman,it wasn't the beasts up here that picked up,although it should have been the nonce bastards job,it was some poor cunt from each hall got shite bomb patrol each morning,they used to rake them to see if any parcels got chucked out by mistake LO FUKIN L !

  • @scotchrobo
    @scotchrobo 4 роки тому +1

    Been in barllinie myself and I'm English it's a fucking dump

  • @monstermonster99
    @monstermonster99 4 роки тому +5

    This Guy isnt exactly feared in Glasgow and was a Shoplifter then Tried Armed Robbery and was quickly caught.Could Talk for Scotland.

    • @GlasgowBandit
      @GlasgowBandit 4 роки тому +1

      You don't have a clue then kid

    • @monstermonster99
      @monstermonster99 4 роки тому +2

      @@GlasgowBandit if a glasgow hard man heard blink was after him he would burst out laughing.Im from there he grafts earns money but hes not feared by other guys.

    • @GlasgowBandit
      @GlasgowBandit 4 роки тому +1

      @@monstermonster99 ok well I'm from Glasgow aswell I would beg to differ just because he stays quiet he's still a very respected and dangerous character

    • @monstermonster99
      @monstermonster99 4 роки тому

      @@GlasgowBandit You from Glasgow oh well carry on Mate.

    • @terencetrentwatford.632
      @terencetrentwatford.632 4 роки тому +1

      Feared men in cities are ten a penny . I'm harder than you , my dad's harder than your dad , I've been to more jail's than you . Bloody hells fire 🔥

  • @gavinbrown6651
    @gavinbrown6651 3 роки тому

    As an English man I've been with a govern girl an I can say I do ney give a duck just poor men with nothing to do but fight poverty created a breed of men like the Scots

  • @seanhiggins1183
    @seanhiggins1183 4 роки тому +2

    There’s no way that guys on drugs! Your all wrong....

  • @darrenfry4695
    @darrenfry4695 2 роки тому +1

    Why's he called blink ?

    • @Geeeeg1223
      @Geeeeg1223 3 місяці тому

      Because he will slash you in a blink of a eye

    • @darrenfry4695
      @darrenfry4695 3 місяці тому

      @@Geeeeg1223 lol 😂🤣 more like because as a kid he has an eye tick that made him blink lol 😂slasher lol he's no hard man, money getter yeah but not no gangster.

  • @craiga4329
    @craiga4329 4 роки тому +3

    The year 2000 while I was just beginning a four stretch , very first afence, was 4/5 doors down landing (E hall 3rd flat) from carri. Me and him got on quite well and carried would have down what he could to help me out. Carri had just started a 9 stretch but you could tell he was familiar with the ins and outs of the system, he was very switched on. Carri actually put a good word in so I could landing pass job and all he wanted in return was to make sure I got him the best shirts and trousers: shoes. I. Good deal I thought cause the passmen were always getting a certain amount of brand new clothing after kit change we new who wanted the new clothing. Apart from carri you always got a little snout some choco bars for the service. Carri always looked out for me cause I was the freshes of all meat. He did hold a level of respect but didn’t shout it from the chimneys. In summary carri was old school and I think the majority of merchandise. We both bought on the outdside came from possible. He took to me straight away, and I don’t think I would have got through the first six months with a different mind set. He ) carri) Once I got the pass job things changed over night. You just had to be very cautious. In summery Carri was/ is a top block . Other may disagree but I am sure giving face to face interview may uncover

    • @carycarbin2156
      @carycarbin2156 2 роки тому +1

      I'm the son of Cary carbin my father has passed and your comments I've just seen is respectful in every manner and I salute u my friend I'm glad my old boy could help that's what real men do never one to bully same as myself were all cut from same cloth I send my respects to you and very grateful for Ur comments thanks young Cary carbin

    • @carycarbin2156
      @carycarbin2156 2 роки тому +1

      If ever need help on outside give me holla as I'm glad with remarks and things said bout my da mate really am my old boys gone to the other side I'm Cary Joseph carbin his son I respect all men never one to bully it's good to hear he helped someone in the situation yous landed in he was switched on it wasn't his first rodeo as they say excuse the pun very grateful young Ary Kia

    • @craiga4329
      @craiga4329 2 роки тому

      Are you still in possil? Or have you moved. Was in killie with a couple of lads from there, they were good lads to but your old man took a bit of beating after all he was the movie star and a star he was 👍

    • @carycarbin2156
      @carycarbin2156 2 роки тому

      @@craiga4329 aye still in posso pal never new my old boy was in Killie prison tbh wae u and he took a bit of beating as in verbally or physically as u said first I've heard of it mate each to there own

    • @carycarbin2156
      @carycarbin2156 2 роки тому

      Wouldn't say he was movie star for getting 20 seconds of air time in movie about ex drug addicts tbh would say he was in movie that's as far as it goes mate were u from yourself pal

  • @Ukvideoclips
    @Ukvideoclips 4 роки тому

    Thank you for posting, I believe Mr MacDonald.

  • @patrickpirelli7897
    @patrickpirelli7897 2 роки тому +1

    We had that curry in armly and it was fecin horrible that was back we had to piss in a bucket, I use to put orange peel in the bucket to make it smell a little better. And if ya wanted an shit ya made a parcel and through it through the bars for the garden party the next day.

  • @scotishjohn
    @scotishjohn 3 роки тому +7

    The bar' L '

  • @Oldgold-zo3et
    @Oldgold-zo3et 4 роки тому +4

    That place sounds like hell on earth

    • @Oldgold-zo3et
      @Oldgold-zo3et 4 роки тому

      @Chris I bet. Proper hard time

    • @robbiethompson2778
      @robbiethompson2778 4 роки тому

      @Chris yea I'd be one of them u fraggle

    • @Oldgold-zo3et
      @Oldgold-zo3et 4 роки тому

      @@robbiethompson2778 you'd be one of the scared ones that wouldn't survive?

    • @RobertMcnulty-j8u
      @RobertMcnulty-j8u 11 місяців тому +1

      It is I just got out last week the food is crappie!

    • @Oldgold-zo3et
      @Oldgold-zo3et 11 місяців тому

      @@RobertMcnulty-j8u i hope you enjoy your christmas out mate

  • @comets00
    @comets00 4 роки тому

    Shaun's face when Ian says "Mars bar", must be think what the fuck lol

  • @scottkennedy203
    @scottkennedy203 4 роки тому +3

    Back the day u were doing well if got a pillow when you were a yo, passing threw bar.l going to polmont or long riggend ,

    • @scottkennedy203
      @scottkennedy203 4 роки тому

      @@chunknorris2627 lol longriggend long ago pal, polmont n long ,glenochill y,os, back the daft days ,94/95/96 lol 👍

  • @simoncampbell3144
    @simoncampbell3144 2 роки тому

    I can understand every word

  • @alanmctavish4802
    @alanmctavish4802 2 роки тому

    I have heard from lots of my mates that before the mid 1990s that barlinnie was just a pure dump of a hell hole and most of the screws were just pure bullys. My mates would say to the bullys "a take it you got bullied when you were younger as well and thats why you took this job to get your own back on men you dont even know you sick sad bastard. Then after they put toilets and sinks into the cells about 1996,97 they said the screws were still bastards but it wasnt as bad as it used to be. A few of my mates have been dubbed up (meaning locked up) with 3 to a cell and with no deodorant between them so the cell would be stincking especialy during the weekend 23 hour a day lock up. And maybe thats why the screws wernt as bad becouse there was no slopping out by then. But 3 to a cell fuck that! And the cells in barlinnie are small, smaller than most jails. But its just an allocation jail really so thats why theres 3 to a cell at times? If your doing 7 year in the early 1980s when blink was talking about you could stay in barlinnie for 2 year till they moved you out to another jail like perth wich was massive as well btw with 5 big main halls like bar-l and some guys thinck perth was maybe bigger than bar-l or at least the same size. But my mate said "when i went into that perth prison i had no idea it was as big as that, it was huge and that was in 1989, i expected it to have 2 or 3 halls but when i was being taken to it there was another 4 cons in the van and one said "here boys have yous seen the size of perth? And my mate said naw why is it big? The other guy said "big, its massive mate. Its got 5 main halls 4 flats each and thats just what i have seen when i was in it in 86 wait till ye see this" and he wasnt wrong blink. It was older than barlinnie and the screws were just as hard and big, maybe even harder. It was an old dank dungeon of a place that had rats in the halls and seemingly at night when every one was sleeping the rats crawled over you as well as the cock roaches too. In big jails like that back then if you asked for nothing you got nothing. But keep the storys coming blink i love listening to them!

    • @ianmacdonald2903
      @ianmacdonald2903 2 роки тому

      Well said Alan mate 👍💯🎤

    • @saoralba4236
      @saoralba4236 2 роки тому

      I was in A Hall summer of 2002 , Lockerbie bomber was still being held there in his own we compound "Gaddafi's cafe" and slopping out was still going on then... although I think some of the other halls were being refurbished with toilets at the time if I recall correctly.. but A Hall was definitely still slopping out in 2002

    • @mrnice7570
      @mrnice7570 4 місяці тому

      See it from my bedroom window 😂

  • @carlstirling103
    @carlstirling103 3 роки тому

    Jails a gift if you just be a nuisance.

  • @jamesconnell1531
    @jamesconnell1531 4 роки тому +1

    Went to visit ma da and all he wanted was fuckin jaffa cakes what a place

  • @johnnomcauley4052
    @johnnomcauley4052 2 роки тому

    Funny and serious👍🏻

  • @Thedevilisinthedetail
    @Thedevilisinthedetail 2 роки тому

    I was in E hall when you were in the Wendy

  • @henryclarke5363
    @henryclarke5363 2 роки тому +1

    just like the screws in wandsworth

  • @robertmcphee4942
    @robertmcphee4942 4 роки тому +1

    Did he just grass slasher Gallagher in this public interview 🤔 or am I missing something ?

  • @adriankingdon3055
    @adriankingdon3055 4 роки тому +2

    He talks to his cell a lot

  • @zenlunatic25
    @zenlunatic25 4 роки тому +4

    Great stories, but even with subtitles I couldn’t have caught more than 20% of what he actually said.

    • @barneytorr1
      @barneytorr1 4 роки тому +14

      As someone from Glasgow I suggest politely you fuck off, did you catch that?

    • @BoqPrecision
      @BoqPrecision 4 роки тому +1

      Amazing how it's considered English language...Arabic and Hebrew have more in common than the standard American English accent and, whatever this is...To me it's just Gaelic or something, with a veneer of English

    • @davemojarra2666
      @davemojarra2666 4 роки тому

      He mainly mumbles. Incomprehensible.

    • @allisonmackay6730
      @allisonmackay6730 4 роки тому

      @@BoqPrecision good

    • @StevieH-1872
      @StevieH-1872 4 роки тому +5

      Boqoreh It’s called slang, like Scouse etc and I find your Hebrew and Arabic comparison laughable! 🖕🏻

  • @shaundstone
    @shaundstone 4 роки тому +1

    Fascinating, highly intelligent man, but fuck me, this story is horrific (from HIS point of view!) why on earth would you make these life choices where you end up banged up a fucking 12 in Barlinnie!? I wouldn't last 12 minutes mate!😳😂

  • @Jimbobbybob
    @Jimbobbybob 2 місяці тому

    Did you hear about the lonely prisoner
    He was in his cell. 😂

  • @barrypurches309
    @barrypurches309 4 роки тому +1

    This guy is some character honestly his banter is quite laughable eh.anyway blink the bank rober stay safe matey

  • @NyxGamingAU
    @NyxGamingAU 4 роки тому +2

    I cannot understand the guy on the right for the life of me.

    • @deancurrie2850
      @deancurrie2850 4 роки тому +1

      That's Scottish for you. If you can understand the Scottish you can understand anyone 😂

    • @thebrightsideofthemoon5829
      @thebrightsideofthemoon5829 4 роки тому +1

      Oooooh get you 😂

    • @NyxGamingAU
      @NyxGamingAU 4 роки тому

      D C It’a strange, because I’m Australian, so I really should understand 😂

    • @paulglancy3867
      @paulglancy3867 4 роки тому

      Hi there, well with a name like Miriam Perkins I'm not surprised "Dear" Only pulling your leg, no don't get me started there. Have a nice day, just a bit of humour. Glasgow is pronounced Glesga too lol. x.

  • @spence7884
    @spence7884 3 роки тому

    Do u mind me swearing no u can do wit you want. Is that Gary Moore hes talking about going to vist

    • @juliestevens5764
      @juliestevens5764 2 роки тому

      I don’t think it’s Gary Moore
      He’s going on about.

  • @timtillidie1888
    @timtillidie1888 Рік тому

    Its 😊meant to make you never want to go back dog boxes ect

  • @hardstylemystyle1817
    @hardstylemystyle1817 4 роки тому +4

    Blinks a midnight mass real Gs don’t speak FAX

    • @20FreeWill
      @20FreeWill 4 роки тому

      Wit

    • @hardstylemystyle1817
      @hardstylemystyle1817 4 роки тому

      Will BLINKS A GRASS REAL GANGSTERS DONT GIVE INTERVIEWS DO YOU UNDERSTAND?

    • @20FreeWill
      @20FreeWill 4 роки тому +1

      @@hardstylemystyle1817 well aye I do understand cause it was in fuckin english the 2nd time . Calm doon big man

    • @hardstylemystyle1817
      @hardstylemystyle1817 4 роки тому

      Will sorry for shouting 😭😭

    • @annwelsh4976
      @annwelsh4976 3 роки тому

      SLOP OUT