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Vanessa Feltz's armpit.
Directly in front of
Trevor Brooking when he talks.
Kensington High Street
The Pleasure Unit
My girlfiends car
She has Good Charlotte in her cd wallet
Wherever Ricky Wilson is
any public toilets
in parks/stations
PROTESSSSSTTOOMUCH???!!!!
EH!!!!
sorry
not necessarily
I'm sure I could change your mind, the problem Is I cant remember where it is.
Bracknell
I'll see you Bracknell
and raise you Chatham
*your
I dare you to name
any future offspring
'Chatham'
OK, I will take up that dare
and will make people pronounce it Chay-tham.
PS I'm infertile.
argh!!!
the horror of the place
greasy spoons, late nights in takeaways
old man's pubs.
The first and third of those
are brilliant. Mentalist.
especially the first
old man pubs
are the best kind of pub
And greasy spoons
are the best kind of cafe!
^this
I proper, proper love old mans pubs and greasy spoons!!
you would spunk.
I hate them and someone knows something considering how old man's pubs are dying out in favour of the gastro variety.
Yeah, me!
I know that most people have sickeningly bad taste.
pends who you are
I don't get stared at walking in gastro pubs even if they are souless and greasy spoons depress me. Also any place where you have to queue or wait to have things done to you:
Dentist surgeries
walk in clinic in soho
hospital
banks
I really dislike
gizzard pubs. Especially if they're in an 'up-and-coming' area. Ick.
^^ this
I am hoping for an old mans pub for our book club.
it's pretty trad
dog and fire. Not that many old men though.
Old man pubs are great.
All you need: 1 lager, 1 stour, 2 mild/bitter and generic vodka, gin and whiskey.
Perhaps some navy rum.
NO POOL.
NO JUKEBOX.
The stench of death is preferable to actually remind you that you are alive and should be grateful.
They are brilliant
for in old mans pubs its all about the DRINKING!
^ this
and gastropubs are overpriced filth. and they NEVER SELL SNACKS! Why would you go into a pub that DOESN'T SELL SNACKS?
Oxford Circus Tube Station
I'm amazed I make it out alive every time I'm there
Good choice.
And then, when you finally make it out to street level, gasping, head-spinning..
you realise you're in Oxford Circus. ARRRRGHHHHH
DON'T BE A SINNER
BE A WINNER!
St Mary's St in Cardiff
on a weekend evening
Agreed...
it's God's ashtray.
Ooooh, good call
If you're walking through the thick of it while sober, and you happen to see someone else not oinked off their tits, there's often this moment of clarity and solidarity between you: "it's okay, just keep walking, we'll get through this; you and me both."
Then a hen party spontaneously combusts on the other side of the road, showering the entire street in a hail of Barcardi Breezer, kebab meat, and little sparky angel wings.
:D
first LOL of the day.
I'll see your St Mary's Street
and raise you a Chippy Lane, Cardiff, at kicking out times on the weekend.
A friend came to visit Cardiff once and we showed her this site post-Twisted. She was horrified, stating "it's like a zombie apocalypse. With chips."
it was utterly alarming
and where do all the hen parties come from? Why do so many more people get married there than anywhere else?!
They are bussed in from the valleys.
This effect is a little more subtle than in Swansea, where the same thing occurs on The Kingsway. However, in Swansea, if you park yourself in a bar there on a Saturday night that looks onto the road, you will actually see coach after coach pulling up to desposit screaming hoards of people. All tinsel wands, lambrini, lost-looking young men with toothbrushes in their pockets.
i did a sponsored sleep-out once when i lived in cardiff
and at about 5am we went to chip alley (having failed to do any sleeping). The sight of the whole of chip alley post-chip-shop closing but pre-street-cleaners-turning-up is surely what the apocalypse will look like.
but at least there's no pretension on chip alley. we're all slags when we go to chip alley.
Portsmouth
St Austell
Exeter
Thatcham
Milton Keynes
Swindon
and probably some others
good call...
...on St. Austell. Absolutely no redeeming features.
Some bits of St Austell
are very lovely.
The tower block in St Austell makes me laugh
I think it's the only one in Cornwall. It looks so out of place.
Compared to other places on this list it's not THAT bad.
I'd take St.Austell over Egham, Staines or Slough anyday.
like me old housemate Lola.
what have you got against Exeter?
Croydon
*end thread*
I have only been to Croydon once.....
And i must say that it is fairly shit, It sort of depressed me when i was there, and that is coming from somebody from Blackburn, which itself is very shit.......
I spent the first 18 years of my life there
It could be worse actually.
24 hour trains to the middle of London that only take 15 minutes, some big parks, the guarantee of seeing a burnt-out tram every time England lose in a major football tournament, the racist kebab shop (customers, not staff - who at one point had to take to wearing stab vests and employing a bouncer), Beanos (RIP - was europes largest used record shop) and last but not least the god-given right to claim you are "straight outta croydon".
also,
the pure comedy self belief of the local council, who actively market the town to filmmakers as a stand-in location for Manhattan, on account of the tall buildings.
Yeah, but
You get Benga in front of you in the queue for fish&chips from the weekly van.
Hype.
I go to work
there every day and feel a wave of grot disipate once I leave Croydon station.
Still even though I'm not fond of it, I have seen worse than Croydon. Newport is particulary grim. Always glad I'm travelling through rather than staying there.
any Post Office
No way.
Rural post offices/village shops can be lovely.
And,
stocked to the hilt on great pron titles. Such as 3D Bigguns.
See also - Superslappers
Garston Crematorium
St.Davids
Bristol Academy
Close second: Stevenage, Slough, seventh circle of Hell.
ha.
Bristol Academy.
how so
god if they still did vodbull
on a thurs, that actually was disgusting!
stevenage
yes. horrible.
fratton
sutton
minehead when its not atp?
Radlett
St.Albans
Welwyn Garden City
WIGAN
I'm going to kill you
Borehamwood
Stevenage
Hemel Hempstead
Hatfield
Tunbridge Wells
Tunbridge Wells > London
boston/scunthorpe
/end thread
Luton.
...
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By several country miles.
^end of thread
HULL
one letter away from both DULL and HELL.
Also, Middlesborough.
Middlesbrough*
Hull is definetly worse than Boro. It's really not that bad.
The majority of Manchester is really, really awful.
The majority of Manchester is not awful silly boy
fuck off
lol
didnt see your reply
Hull
Grimsby
Went to Uni at Hull and thought the place was the pits. Actually bought the house I lived in as student with a mate who lived in it rent free. In five years it's doubled its value and i think it's still only worth £8K!
:D
fuck off
Anywhere filled with unpleasant people
^ this
examples include london, bristol, birmingham, sheffield, manchester, liverpool, leeds, newcastle and glasgow
Telford town center
excluding the ice rink and the big spider climbing frame, which are pretty cool.
*
centre.
can't disagree
but then it could be argued that it is one of the better parts of Telford, given all the shit towns and villages around it, which make up Telford. Telford is a confusing and rubbish place (apart from those witches hat climbing frames).
you mean all the kind of...
purpose built villages, with the identiket houses? Yeah. Do you come from Shropshire?
yes
Bridgnorth. You?
Yup.
Near Wroxeter, in the middle of nowhere. Kind of in between Shrewsbury and Telford.
I've been to the Wroxeter Roman site loads of times
as my Dad is slightly obsessed with the Romans. It's not quite the Colosseum is it, but for Shropshire I suppose it counts as impressive.
Other Shropshire attractions:
West Midland Safari Park
Severn Valley Railway
the Cadfael experience (so rubbish)
I doubt no one will even notice this
and i don't even know why i'm bothering to correct, but West Midlands Safari Park is in Bewdley. Which ain't shropshire last time i checked.
an embarrassing mistake
it is Worcestershire indeed. Well spotted
I used to love the quest!
My granny would take us there. I think it's the base for the Shropshire Wildlife Trust now, which is a bit more worthy.
How about Buildwas Power Station and Blists Hill?
Blists Hill
I loved that. Changing money at the bank so you could spend it on candy crooks. Exciting times.
I worked there once
as a street urchin.
I'm sure I grace the back pages of a few german tourists' photo albums circa 1992. Good times indeed!
Wow what a job
(unless it was a full-time profession).
What did the job entail? Harrassing people for cash? Selling candles? Just walking around looking authentic?
Did you have to colour in your teeth black and wear some silly Victorian headwear?
I liked the old woman who sat in the cottage with a cat on her lap all day.
She was cool.
No, I was about 9! I wore a Victorian outfit, with a kind of bonnet. I walked around looking ye olde street urchin, and played with hoops and things.
Nelson
Or any of those villages between Newcastle & Hehxam
Mind you, Scunthorpe is pretty horrible too.