"Up here it's different"
There was an article in the Independent today about city branding. A lot of you will scoff, but it can do wonders - Barcelona is the classic example of a place that used to be known a rough and nasty that is now much beloved. Part of that is marketing the city exceptionally well.
Britain has been less successful and some of the city / town slogans chosen have been truly dire and a big waste of money.
London's is "LondON" - truly awful.
Leeds went with "Live it. Love it." - stolen from Hong Kong.
The US has a few good ones. Vegas's is the best ever: "What Happens Here, Stays Here" but my favourite is Hershey, Pensylvannia's "The Sweetest Place on Earth".
Anyway, do a comedy slogan for your town!
oops, wrong paste
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article3204075.ece
Glas-gofuckyerself,yaprick
quite apt
He he..
Good one.
better than "Glasgow - smiles better!!"
anyway!
Ha
Peterborough: 'A city to surprise and delight you'
took the words right out of my mouth
Yate's slogan is
'Something for Everyone'
what a fucking lie that is....
Bromsgrove:
Where brummies go to die.
hahahahaha
...
My friend refers to Bury St. Edmunds as Bury St. Deadmunds from time to time. Decent effort...
...if a little teenage angsty
Shit. Plentiful parking
you live in a town called Shit?
no u
never heard of it
sadly
my province's slogan used to be "friendly manitoba" and then they changed it to "spirited energy"...wtf!!!???
How about sWINdon or swindON
You cant polish a turd
:(
or FTWinchester
Hungerford - Oh come on, it was like 20 years ago, ffs.
MARveLBOROUGH
Nah!
Newbury
You'd be mad to bypass us!!
Shoreditch: You can't go any lower
OoooooH - I can't copywrite now. My heads sore.
Shoreditch: Where Nu-Rave met Old Wave.
Shoreditch: Life's a bitch.
Shoreditch: Sure thing.
Shoreditch: Banging like a shed door in the wind since 1790.
last is best
:)
hehe
I agree
SHOREDITCH - PEACE AN FUCKING, YEAH??
...
Shoreditch: It's Well Brown.
Manchester
Romance, bottled, in your face.
Saaaarfend
its got arcades and shit
Cardiff
Vive Le Cardifference!
Makes no sense whatsoever. It's perfect.
PS - "you said 'brand'! you're a cunt!" etc.
Belfast - 'It's the bomb!'
Bournemouth: It won't be long now.
is Basingstoke really marketed as
Amazingstoke?
Haha!
The Amazingstoke thing is dripping in irony and was started by Hampshire piss takers.
See also Andover ('Blandover')
^^ This
extreme lol.
Ealing, so AppEaling
Sexual Ealing
^^^^^^^ That's got me falling off my chair at work.. Priceless
:D
I will quote the graffiti artist in my home town:
PUDSEY IS GAY
Good bit of self deprecation I saw in Banff (Alberta)
Canada: It's like America on a Sunday.
East Kilbride,
often called East Kilbrilliant, in an ironic way.
BristLOL
Willesden Green - Nope, me neither
the lincolnshire one is beautiful.
oh, lincolnshire <3
Prestwick Airport motto...
'Pure Dead Brilliant'
Now, I love to hate this phrase as much as everyone else, but I reckon they should add a 'by the way' to the end and make it Glasgow's official slogan.
isn't that where that terrorost attack happened
lol if the attack had been successful
DEAD!! BRILLIANT!!
that was at Glasgow International Airport.
Prestwick is in Ayr, and nowhere near Glasgow.
I have two...
I live in Rutland but somebody beat me to it with the line I was going to use, so...
Rutland: Just like Bournemouth, but smaller.
And I'm at Uni in Sunderland...
Sunderland: Hey, at least it's not Middlesboro.
Bugger.
I was about to use that last one for Stockton-on-Tees...
How the fuck is Rutland like Bournemouth?!
.
lol
it's full of posh people waiting to die
I see!
Misconception though, neighbouring Poole is god's waiting room.
Bournemouth is a young persons town, way younger age profile than the rest of the UK.
They must...
all be hidden away when I go see my family there then. It's like a pensioner convention!
Poole and Bourenmouth are basically the same place though really aren't they. It's like Newcastle and Sunderland. Different places apparently, but the buildings don't stop inbetween lol. I jest.
I apologise, I shall fix my slogan haha.
for the record, Crazy Golf in the big park with the balloon is mint :)
Cheers!
Yes, Bournemouth is a bit of a crazy golf mecca, there's a good one in Boscombe too and a truly kick ass crazy golf course at Sandbanks.
I wish it was summer so they'd reopen!
edit (OMG!!1 MEGA LOLZ!!!11!)
Rutland: Just like Poole, but smaller
Street, Somerset
"no, not a road, a town, that's called street. funny, huh?"
Harrow
"You can at least see London from here"
life is for livingston
... if you like huge shopping centres hundreds of round-a-bouts and council scemes!
Don't
Just... don't.
anyone from Northamptonshire here?
Tell me your opinion of
Northamptonshire: 'Let yourself grow'
i've never seen this
My (little) town is twinned with Tymbark in Poland
some wag put on the welcome sign
"whaley Bridge twinned with Tymbark 2"
Stanley
Stanley, Country Durham
Where obesity statistics are the only way you'd know what century we live in.
Not catchy, but true.
.
Eastbourne - Fogeys love it
Beachy Head - The worlds favourite suicide spot.
bournemouth
"it's where posh people come to die"
Chichester
You'll Never Leave!
Derby
"at least Nottingham is only 15 minutes away"
:D
.
Brambridge: Trees, horses and shit.
WOKING!!!
Where its okay to Smoke when your pregnant.
Borehamwood
'Its not that bad, honest!'
Dublin
You must be on a stag do
Epsom
Horses And Toffs. Some People Can't Tell The Difference.
Chester
Nice looking town, awful looking people.
Yeovil
Run
Chester
Its near places you dont want to live but atleast somthing happens in.
Things happen in Chester...
like..erm...errrr...
Shit.
Biggleswade - "Yes, it is a real place...what do you mean 'I made it up?'"
My girlfriend's from Chorley
Apparently the town motto used to be, 'Beware!' but then they realised this might be a little off-putting, especially since they'd inscribed this on every public bin in town, so they changed it to 'Be Aware', which is perhaps the worst motto I've ever heard.
My home town's Worcester: "Just off the M5!"
"Stop! Hammersmith!"
:D
this was stolen from elsewhere, i must admit
can't believe more people didn't lol!
Weston super shithole!
Workington:
Working Class.
Workington
At least if Sellafield goes tits up, we'll be the first ones to die.
I don't live there no more
but there's a great tagline that's often bandied about regarding Swansea.
Swansea: the graveyard of ambition.
a friend just came up with a great one:
"Tipperary - It was a long way, but now you're here."
Brumingham
"don't be put off by us just being a car-making city, we don't make cars anymore"
Derry, Northern Ireland
Home of popular 90's act D:ream
Birthplace of Nadine from Girls Aloud
A Mecca for White Lightning enthusiasts
Sutton Coldfield
'Got too much imagination?, creativity? vision? We can cure that'
altrincham - home to the world's first games workshop
amazing
I hear the rental space in that particular city centre isn't cheap either
you can hear that over the noisy whizzbangs of WoW?
...
Manchester: Britain's Biggest Lie
Birmingham: Britian's Second Biggest Lie
you originate from both of those non-towns?
that must have been complicated.
...
Do not defame me! I am London born and bred. Hence my antipathy and contempt for every other park of the UK.
Except Aberdeen. Aberdeen is dope.
...
P.S.
Luton: The Source Of All The Evil Contained In This And Any Other Universe.
It's unwieldy, but I think, acurate.
York:
'Tang Hall is a figment of your imagination'
I used to live in Tang Hall,
well the very edge of it, so much the edge that it pretty kmuch wasn't even Tang Hall.
I have no idea why the Tang Hall working men's club next dorr to us was in the centre of Fulford!
I had to walk through it once
It was even worse than Chapelfields.
Nottingham: better than Derby.
...
It has to at least be plausible.
I suggest changing it to "Nottingham: Better Than Kandahar".
It's not only plausable but very, very true!
Almost everywhere is better than Derby.
that is why the county town of Derbyshire is:
erm ..... Matlock!