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St Asaph???? Where the fuck is St Asaph!
Stupid cunts don't know good potential cities if the punched them in the face.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 12:35, 152 replies, latest was 13 years ago)


(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 12:39, Reply)
Is that Wales?
Dear me no.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 12:40, Reply)
Population of 3500
and it's now a city. Stupid fucking pricks.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 12:41, Reply)
Oh actually Lisa from steps comes from there.
I withdraw all my objections.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 12:43, Reply)
was lisa the dark haired one? she can fuck right off out of it

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:36, Reply)
Ha your miserable little parochial town is still just that
a miserable little parochial town
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 12:44, Reply)
Little? It's 80 times bigger than some cities!

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 12:46, Reply)
Don't you need to build a cathedral or summat?

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 12:48, Reply)
They need to be just a bit less shit

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 12:50, Reply)
Got one.

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 12:51, Reply)
And still?
Gosh, that does seem a bit unfair, I wonder why they are neglecting you.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 12:53, Reply)

b3ta.turb0t.net/questions/offtopic/post1559035
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 12:54, Reply)
Only one?
We've got threeish
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 12:59, Reply)
Less important than a collection of mud shacks
filled with 3.5k sheep farmers.

Ouch.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 12:47, Reply)
I heard it was the extremely high levels of date rape and reliance on paperclip manufacturing that ruined MK's chances

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 12:48, Reply)
I love how all you backwards little villages and stuff care weather they're a village/city/town/whatever.
I've never heard someone from a decent place care about that.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 15:06, Reply)
Is that a lot?
I have no clue. I live in London, you see, which is a proper city, so I have no idea what these silly little places would call a population.

Edit: just googled, nearly 8 million of us it seems, can see get a special category?
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 12:46, Reply)
London is the only real city
none of the others even manage 1m people
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 12:49, Reply)
Damn right.
I think we should go for independence and let the rest of this os-called 'country' sink under the e=weight of it's own mediocracy.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 12:51, Reply)
Not a bad idea, however I would probably like to keep the everywhere South of Oxford across to cornwall
I need somewhere to have a second home
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 12:53, Reply)
Sounds fair.
A bit of coastline is nice. Can we loose Essex though?
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 12:57, Reply)
Yeah and Kent, pointless fucking county
I would have suggested south of th m4 but I wanted Oxfordshire
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:01, Reply)
Kent's a lot less nice than it makes out.
If you make the border the M4, then I wouldn't be in the good bit of the country. I'd have to move back to Guildford before the borders shifted :(
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:03, Reply)
we'll cut you a penninsular
it'll make an interesting feature
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:08, Reply)
Kent is pretty enough
But it is full of arseholes.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:08, Reply)
it's also in the way when you want to go to France

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:09, Reply)
Depends which way you go really.

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:10, Reply)
the correct way

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:14, Reply)
Via Agincourt?

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:17, Reply)
Huzzah, I do declare us victors on this St. Crispins DAAAAAAYYYYY!

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:18, Reply)
Oh god, please do
the sooner we can place a huge export duty on everything into London the better for all of us. Except london.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 12:56, Reply)
Aww bless!
I think we'll live without the tartan tea towels and..... um other vital stuff you chaps make.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 12:59, Reply)
I like shortbread

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:00, Reply)
Well, yes
So do I, but I reckon I could make my own, if needs be.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:01, Reply)
With all the flour grown in London.

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:02, Reply)
We're keeping some countryside
See above.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:03, Reply)
sorry, can't have you changing the goalposts now. you wanted just London

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:03, Reply)
You don't get a say Jocko
Myself and Mr. Ape are dividing things up here.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:28, Reply)
course you are.

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:30, Reply)
Really?
You want to play "The area where you live is not self-supporting"? Oh I shall laugh if you guys ever get independence. I've never understood why anyone on this side of the boarder was against it. Last poll I saw, more English were for it than Scotts, which show's you're not all stupid at least.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:36, Reply)
it's no more or less self supporting than London.
You can't eat money. especially pretend money.

I've no interest in scots independence, i'm not scottish for a start, but the idea that London could be self sufficient is breathtaking in its idiocy, mate. what are you planning to eat and drink?
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:42, Reply)
CQ isn't exactly known for his intellectual capacities, he just likes to puff out his chest and bellend it up.
As any fule kno.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:47, Reply)
Course, not, it's a joke at the end of the day
rather loike scotch independence.

it's=d be interesting to see how much the money would buy though. I reckon if we kept the bet bits of the south, as suggested by APe, we could make it work and probably be better off.

I think we'd do better to kick Scotland out and most of the north, and such, never seen what we gain from hanging on to the shit bits.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:49, Reply)
scotland is responsible for a hell of a lot of governments revenue right now
but mostly what you gain is not having the crushing certainty of the tories in power for the rest of time. you may wish to consider this.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:52, Reply)
This is a good point, well the torries bit anyway
I suspect the revenue comes form Oil and I suspect we'd keep that.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 15:03, Reply)
Either you want Scotland and their contribution to the economy or you don't.
The oil comes mainly from Scotland. The rest from the English side of the North Sea.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 15:11, Reply)
Scotland, or the waters around?
fuck it, point less arguement. I'm not running this country, or things'd be run betterer.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 15:14, Reply)

"Even if all revenue from North Sea oil and gas had come to Scotland, the country would have had a 'persistent deficit'," says Professor Arthur Midwinter, an adviser to the Scottish Executive's finance committee.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 15:16, Reply)
Everything else I've read on the subject says quite the opposite.
That if Scotland had gained independence first time around in the 1970s it would now be as wealthy as Norway or Switzerland.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 15:19, Reply)
boo fucking hoo
It's our oil now
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 15:28, Reply)
Course, not, it's a joke at the end of the day
rather like scotch independence.

it'd be interesting to see how much the money would buy though. I reckon if we kept the bet bits of the south, as suggested by APe, we could make it work and probably be better off.

I think we'd do better to kick Scotland out and most of the north, and such, never seen what we gain from hanging on to the shit bits.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:50, Reply)
oh does scotland grow everything it eats itself?

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:50, Reply)
nope
although it could. but I was thinking much more base then that - London has no power generation and nowhere near enough water.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:53, Reply)
But as CQ rightly points out, it's not really a serious consideration

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:57, Reply)
And, as you point out
SO is Scotish devolution.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 15:20, Reply)
Scotland had devolution back in the 1990s you twat.

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 15:21, Reply)
independence then you irrelevant fuck-nugget

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 15:23, Reply)
dunno, maybe we could try, maybe, importing stuff

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:04, Reply)

www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1559051
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:05, Reply)
Yeah, I reckon we could be self financing on tourist money alone.

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:05, Reply)
I bought a tartan scarf when I was in Edinburgh.
I'm not sure whether the fact that is was in my own family's tartan makes it more or less of a lame touristy thing to do. I shan't be wearing it. It's just nice to have.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:02, Reply)
I was tempted to do the same.
I settled for a little silver badge with the family motto and crest on it, and some Edinberg Rock, as I was there.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:05, Reply)
I bought a tartan scarf from TK Maxx

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:05, Reply)
TK MacX

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:06, Reply)
I have bought a jacket and jeans from TK Maxx in the past.

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:07, Reply)
This should have a thread of its own
Have you ever bought something from TK Maxx?
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:09, Reply)
(!)

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:09, Reply)
I'm not thinking of Scotland
I mean "all of th UK bar London" and specifically how you were planning to import everthing you will need - ie everything - into a landlocked state without being raped for import taxes?
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:02, Reply)
Meh, we have all the money
I reckon once we stop having to support you lot, we should have a bit spare.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:29, Reply)
we'll just take it off you
what with you not having natural resources or power generating capacity. Or enough water.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:31, Reply)
I wonder how much power the Thames tide could generate

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:32, Reply)
I can answer this for you
"about enough to power my telly"

even the planned offshore one in Scotland across one of the most powerful tidal races in the world will barely do a small town
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:38, Reply)
Surely it would depends on the amount of turbines you place across it?
Plus London's got quite a number of now underground tributaries in it. Whether the cost vs benefit would make it worth it is probably an entirely different story, one to which I do not know the plot.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:44, Reply)
not really, it's an effeciency of KE transfer thing I think
you maybe right though. although it's much less than you think
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:54, Reply)
I'm certainly not suggesting it'd be enough to power even part of the city
I was just curious.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:59, Reply)
we'll just sneak up the m1
and take it for free.

not the deep-fried mars bars though. you can keep that kind of crap.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:31, Reply)
I thought you like the Scots?

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:33, Reply)
that's your wishful thinking talking

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:34, Reply)
Yep.

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:34, Reply)
they are only for tourists, you know that?
good luck drving the water and the electricity down the M1 though.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:39, Reply)
You know the M1 stops at Leeds, right?

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:49, Reply)
darling i don't go further north than halifax
i so can't pull this off. unlike my desperately posh colleague arabella who, in an interview, covered up shocking ignorance about not knowing where birmingham was by drawling:

sweetie, i've never left zone one.

they thought it was funny and she got the job.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:54, Reply)
Fuckssake, are people still called Arabella?

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 15:31, Reply)

op art
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:55, Reply)
Dunstable is over 10 times bigger
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_United_Kingdom_settlements_by_population
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 12:49, Reply)
And Milton Keynes?
How does that stack up?
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 12:52, Reply)
We've got about 200,000

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 12:54, Reply)
It seems like they're doing it via relative importance
rather than sheer size. In this, as in other things, just battering away at the gates is not as important as using what you have well.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 12:56, Reply)
Why the fuck does anyone chose to live in Dunstable? It's a shitpit

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 12:53, Reply)

dunstable MK
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 12:55, Reply)
urrrgh
i am just dealing with a break notice for a big building in the "town centre". the client wants me to go on a site visit. i am thinking of doubling my hourly rates just to avoid it. it's bad enough having to go to northampton for an arbitration in a couple of weeks.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:33, Reply)
but Glasgow is already a city and St Mungo sounds way better :(

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 12:54, Reply)
Nick Clegg was "moved" by the civic pride.
Urgh, he got a boner.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 12:59, Reply)
I bet he was moved b ack and forth and back and forth all afternoon
until his was so swollen with "pride" he had to go home and sleep it off
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:02, Reply)
Ha, Stay classy Coventry
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-17352008
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:25, Reply)
Sales of Elizabeth Duke jewellery were down today.

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:33, Reply)
But Cash for Gold are up 25% on last week.

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:34, Reply)
One of the few remaining decent historic buildings in the city centre
The old main post office, was turned into a cash for gold place.
It's like the city planners are actively trying to make things shitter.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:36, Reply)
'We'll show you how to really ruin a city, Fritz'

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:39, Reply)
They really fucking did
A policy that still exists to this day.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:40, Reply)
Buckfast, it worked for Scotland now let it work for Coventry

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:40, Reply)
Actually the last looting incident I can recall in Coventry took place in Argos.
As you say: classy.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:35, Reply)
Psssst, wanna buy a very small biro?

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:36, Reply)
I've got myself a perpetual money making loop.
I steal pens from Argos and sell them to William Hill before nicking them back and selling them to Argos.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:38, Reply)
This is better than any of chompy's money making schemes.

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:39, Reply)
What, his indoor composting business hasn't taken off? Say it ain't so.

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:40, Reply)
It has faltered I'm afraid.
Too many nappies.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:42, Reply)
I'm going to turn your thrown out crap into gold

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:47, Reply)
They need to get their stuff back somehow.

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:37, Reply)
I see a member of QOTW was assaulted by police, also.

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:39, Reply)
What you gonna do with the money?

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:41, Reply)
I haven't decided yet

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:44, Reply)
Buy a swimming costume.

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:46, Reply)
well he's not gonna need it for sunday is he?

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:47, Reply)
This both made me smile and reminded me to get something for my mum.

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:50, Reply)
That's right, rub it in

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:52, Reply)
he doesn't know how lucky he is saving all that money

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:00, Reply)
Took me far too long to get this
Well done.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:55, Reply)
Oh, well played.

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:03, Reply)
Haha

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:24, Reply)
Alright gay shift?

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 13:55, Reply)


(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:02, Reply)
You terrible pederast.
a/c
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:12, Reply)
today i am wearing a white shirt with thick pink, purple and blue stripes on it
louise pointed out taht i look like the candy man from the old willy wonka film, and got me a bowtie from the joke shop down the road

i now look like a paedophile and keep singing 'who can take the sunrise..'
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:17, Reply)
You always looked like a paedophile.

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:18, Reply)
aw, hurty feelins :(

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:19, Reply)
this bloke

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:19, Reply)
I bet you look more like this bloke

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:20, Reply)
naw, too skinny
but i did have to undo my collar cos the circulation stopped and i got a headache
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:21, Reply)

the circulation stopped and i got a headache my head dobber started to fall off.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:22, Reply)

haha
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:23, Reply)
That's a nice shirt.

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:25, Reply)
thanks man, mine is nicer but i do think i look like an ice cream salesman

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:28, Reply)
paedo.

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:30, Reply)
i don't care if i fuck kids, i've got a lollipop and a penguin now

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:33, Reply)
there's a shop in farringdon
one of those funky boutiquey places which had the BEST t-shirt in the window with a penguin on it. it was super-cute. i just couldn't think of anyone who would look good in it, or i would have bought it for them.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:36, Reply)
i saw a similar hoodie once, the penguin looked dead cute

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:39, Reply)
this is it
it's cute but..... who would actually wear it?

magma, that's what the shop was called. they have some v funky home furnishing shit as well.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:51, Reply)
it looked like something a girl might wear around her house on a cold winter evening
(shut up talking to me about shopping woman, i have it bad enough with the girlfriend)
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:53, Reply)
i fucking love penguins
best of all the animals
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:53, Reply)
marmoset there'd be days like this

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:53, Reply)
isn't that a kind of monkey?
i'm picturing a lemur type thing with mahoosive eyes
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:56, Reply)
kind of a little monkey, but you're thinking of a bush baby or a loris
and lorises are poisonous
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 15:01, Reply)
i don't mind monkeys
but i prefer penguins. comedy gold.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 15:04, Reply)
Eye-eyes are pure, distilled evil.
They're an evolutionary off-shoot of the species that evolved into the Sith. Fact.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 15:06, Reply)
Han shot first

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 15:15, Reply)
It stands for Tiberius.

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 15:19, Reply)
that video is fucking brilliant.

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:56, Reply)
i only watched a few seconds but it made me chuckle

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:59, Reply)
*coughs*
I look great in everything. Former catalogue model.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:40, Reply)
i don't think Spanners Monthly counts as a catalogue

(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:42, Reply)
i have tried a new thread to raise the dead
but i don't hold out much hope.
(, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 15:31, Reply)

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