Reply With QuoteGo on ya big softyOriginally Posted by BadgerUK
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That's fair enough, cheers mate :)
Go on ya big softy
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"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
'Populism, the last refuge of a Tory scoundrel'.
It's Helensburgh & Mackintosh. You must have been in a homage town.
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Jim.
Bradford, good Lord that place is doomed.
They need to try a lot harder 👍🏻
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Visit Hartlepool: it's not as sh*t as it was.
I remember having a few days in the Lake District many moons ago and driving to Scarborough with my wife.
I never got out the car or even stopped.
The drive through was enough.
Monstrous.
Gobsmacked Luton is nowhere on the list. The place is not so much dying as dead and rotting. If you've only visited the airport then keep it that way as the town center is an awful oubliette of chavdom and despair.
What about Scotland .Lots of candidates
Port Glasgow , New cumnock , Shotts among many other candidates
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You probably needed to be heading back anyway, long journey
Rhyl, hell’s anteroom, reserved for the junkies, piss-cans and walking compost bins that even Blackpool has seen ‘fit’ to reject.
Had a cracking holiday in Rhyll some 40 years ago. Went back about 2 years and it was awful but Colwyn Bay was worse.
A couple more for consideration
Barrow in Furness - britains largest cul-de-sec, but home to one of best chippies I ever visited.
Newport - zero redeeming features except the pollution from Port Talbot.
Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Yebbut, you've only got Cornshire to compare it with, if I remember correctly?
Corby.
Still,it's nicer than it was (which isn't saying much). That's what you get when you fill a new town with a load of Glaswegian steel workers.
Are you sure it was Scarborough and not Morecambe?
You're not a Mariners fan by any chance? I am (for my sins) but have to admit I do find it pretty sobering whenever I make the pilgrimmage to Blundell Park for a football match.. it really is pretty bleak around there. Though I appreciate that a lot of that is down to the decimation of industries that built that city, and not a comment on the residents themselves.
Very much the same. Enjoyed a few holidays there about 40 or so years ago, extended family and close friends, when we were kids.
The change has been remarkable. I don’t think i’ve ever seen such mounds of rubbish and filth collected behind closed, derelict, buildings this side of an apocolyptic/dystopian movie. It was like a more grim version of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
FTFY
Correct. Well remembered.
I am heartily glad I grew up in the country and then lived in a city - the other way round would have been horrendous.
Already out, called unsurprisingly Crap Towns by The idler
Absolutely hilarious stuff which makes you laugh out loud.
Gives a top 50 that gives both sides of the argument.
Number One in my version is Hull.
Cheers,
Neil.
Yup.
And a “last orders” if you know what one of those is
Went in one in Chorley once. One drink then gone, that's enough. Uggggghhhhh
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Echoing others thoughts, I have many happy memories of Rhyl.
The fun fair and the house of horror along with fishing at the jetty next to the blue bridge and all the arcades.
My wife and I visited in Oct 2017 when we were having 4 days in Chester.
Now it’s just like one big house of horror!
Sounds like a crap startup/crowdfund company for nasty quartz watches on cheap Nato’s
So true. And Donny hasn't had £15bn spent on a crossrail, or any rail, when it was part of the rail revolution. They are trying, the council, with a new theatre and so on, civic plazas with touristy things going on. But until the government shoves in some real money to the towns that earned them their money generations ago then it is really difficult.
Rhyll was bad enough but Colwyn Bay was just a collection of pound shops and crap pubs. I was sat waiting for my missus and saw two blokes come out of a shop where they'd robbed 2 bottles of white lightning and were made up with their haul.
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Margate for me. Full of chavs, the beach was filthy, nowhere decent to eat, hideous video arcade, single mums with scrunched back hair and hooker hoops battering their children. Hideous place
Possibly
Is it a complete shithole too?
Stevenage or Hatfield - utterly utterly soulless…. Depressingly bleak
On reflection this doesn't show the UK in a very good light, so called strong economy and so many shite towns, can't all be the fault of the EU
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"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
'Populism, the last refuge of a Tory scoundrel'.
Swindon....I win.
If it wasn't it will be in a couple of years.n2
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
'Populism, the last refuge of a Tory scoundrel'.
I'm currently in Rotherham and concur.
Wolverhampton. It's post-apocalypse personified; Many, many boarded up shops, plants growing in the guttering, pedestrian underpasses as dangerous as Raqqa, buskers singing 'Wonderwall' (cringingly badly), sales at the Pound shop(s), God-botherers, Chuggers and a pervasive smell of reasty cooking oil, etc, etc.
Just waiting for Mad Max and crew to turn up to join all the other lunatics. They'd hardly be noticed.
Went to Barrow for a meeting and decided to waste an hour waiting for the train out at the local ‘Spoons. What a strange clientele, most of whom were interbred and camped out for the day...
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How can all these places be named without mentioning LEICESTER ?? fake list imo.
Went through Wolverhampton once by mistake. What a s hit hole.
Rome the best city I've ever been to in my opinion. It's got everything.
No, not a Mariners fan. For my sins I split my allegiance between Hertha BSC and West Ham United. I know, not quite a glory hunter!
I have to agree that the area surrounding Blundell Park is rough but your comment re the decimation of the Town’s industry is spot on.
It isn’t “Give us a list of crap towns”.
It is “Are you proud of your home town?”
What a surprise, that living in a town which gets revealed as a centre for grooming gangs................. Doesn’t exactly fill residents with pride.
Slightly off the subject on Thursday I went to Newark and its the only place I've been in ages were you didn't smell dope every 10 feet and weren't being acosted by bums in between the smells of dope, and in fairness to everyone here between the late 90s and late noughtys the country seemed relatively nice decent pubs and shops it only seems to have turned in to a proper shithole since the tories got back in.
Walsall in the West Midlands as just got to be the worst most horrible Town in the UK bar none.
1. It's a city.
2. It has the best sewage museum I have ever visited. Better than Hereford.
Is it full of $h1t ?
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I bet the souvenir shop is full of crap
God the top 8 must be bad if Oldham is only 9, maybe it's perked up in the three or four years since I was there.
Surprised not to see anything from South Wales on the list, much of it is lovely but Port Talbot and Ebbw Vale are, through no fault of there own, memorably dreary.
Oh and I've just remembered Newcastle-under-Lyme, I had a meeting there once and my wife was with me and had to while away a couple of hours. She ran out of things to look at in the town centre with about 90 minutes to go.
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As a man who grew up poor in MK I whole heartedly agree. Let’s not forget the prices in this wannabe London Town.
Anyone in the north want a laugh, look up the prices in Netherfield on Zoopla
Let me guess, you are a Spurs fan😂
https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle...-a3969141.html
I live in Doncaster too, and like anywhere it has its nice parts and its rough parts. It's a town that suffered hugely from the closing of pits. Scunthorpe, Barnsley, Bradford etc. are all equally as bad if not worse.
I think it also suffers from not having a University to bring different ides/cultures etc. together. Certainly felt that way growing up.
London should certainly be on that list...
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