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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Over the years as part of my job I've been round the UK to far and wide towns I'd otherwise never visit. Where have you been that was better/worse than you expected?

Where in the UK would you like to go/never visit EVER again?
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:13, 185 replies, latest was 11 years ago)
I once had to spend a week in Northampton on a course.
What a shit-hole.
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:15, Reply)
Do you think Southampton threw it away?

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:16, Reply)
Not far enough.

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:42, Reply)
Did you ever visit any near and narrow towns?
Alt: Unbelievably, Blackpool was even worse than I expected.
I will never go there again.
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:18, Reply)
I visited Redcar
Thats fairly near, but not narrow
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:18, Reply)
You never visit me :(

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:20, Reply)
I have never been to Coventry

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:24, Reply)
Then you have never lived.

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:25, Reply)
This is true

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:25, Reply)
Anywhere outside the M25 is full of inbred alcoholic rapists.

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:18, Reply)
Too fucking right it is
You should try it. Great fun!
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:19, Reply)
But I thought Battered lived IN London?

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 16:37, Reply)
Corby. Truly awful.

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:19, Reply)
Isn't that "Bill Clay's" stomping ground?

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:20, Reply)
No idea.

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:21, Reply)
Yes it is
One of our sites is right in the concrete town centre.
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:24, Reply)
Yet, impeccably creased trousers.

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:24, Reply)
The standard line of defence is "Well, at least it's not Wellingborough"

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:33, Reply)
Is all of Northamptonshire grim?
I visited Daventry once.
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:34, Reply)
I call my toilet the Daventry

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:41, Reply)
daveavinapee more like

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:44, Reply)
8==D----------------------------------------------------

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:45, Reply)
COS ITS SHITTER?

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:45, Reply)
It's alright
Good bits, bad bits, usual stuff. Corby has a bad reputation but there was such epic mishandling of the place prior to the rug being pulled by the steelworks closure that there were bound to be problems.
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:41, Reply)
I went to Middlesborough.
It was great seeing that the stereotypes are true. I actually saw a women wearing a dressing gown, slippers and hair rollers, smoking a fag and heading into a bingo hall.
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:21, Reply)
Middlesbrough is fucking grim beyond words

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:25, Reply)
I was born in Middlesbrough. I escaped. Anything is possible.

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:35, Reply)
Well done you!

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:39, Reply)
\o/

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:43, Reply)
3rd raised bed done at the weekend
Broccoli, cauli, turnips and cabbages in
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:44, Reply)
Excellent. My allotment's starting to really come on in the last couple of weeks.

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 16:08, Reply)
I went to folkestone at the weekend, it was worse than I remembered.

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:22, Reply)
I went to Dundee once.
It wasn't very nice.
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:23, Reply)
Been there a few times
It were "alright". We had a stag weekend there years ago
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:25, Reply)
I might have a bath & get dressed in a bit.

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:27, Reply)
Fuck that shit
Unless you plan on leaving the house
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:27, Reply)
Need to buy food & cigarettes.

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:28, Reply)
Planning fail

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:32, Reply)
I wasn't expecting to still feel this grim.

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:35, Reply)
Can of coke and a pastie

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:40, Reply)
He needs to wash some clothes though

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:28, Reply)
I'd quite like to visit some place that swipe mentioned on here once, that I can't remember the name of.
A village in Dorset (I think) that has lain deserted since WWII
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:30, Reply)
Why did Iain desert it?

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:31, Reply)
BECAUSE HE NEVER LOVED IT.

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:32, Reply)
Stupid Iain

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:32, Reply)
Because he spelt his name wrong.

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:32, Reply)
Are they still MEGALOLZ nonces if spelt that way?

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:37, Reply)
Probably best to put their windows in anyway, just in case.

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:38, Reply)
Also fuck their kids first, out of spite

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:40, Reply)
would be the other way round
it deserted iain

o village, why has thou deserted him?
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:56, Reply)
here you go
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyneham

well worth a trip - beautiful beaches etc (enid blyton based the famous 5 on the beach/corfe castle) as well as tyneham. which is amazingly sad and historically fascinating and yet what a great thing for the wildlife - it's quite a conflicting emotional place to visit.
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:46, Reply)

Please treat the church and houses with care; we have given up our homes where many of us lived for generations to help win the war to keep men free. We shall return one day and thank you for treating the village kindly
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:47, Reply)
which they didn't, the buildings are utterly derelict, apart from the church
but all the rare plants and animals thank them for it, so.
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:48, Reply)
Never heard of that
Its cool
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:47, Reply)
my friend and i went to dorset for a girly weekend, and just happened to drive through a random gate
we only found out afterwards that we were really lucky with the timing, as it's only open on bank holidays - the rest of the time it's closed. such a beautiful spot.
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:49, Reply)
Ta.
Planning a visit to this place in the summer
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oradour-sur-Glane
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:50, Reply)
jesus
that looks fascinating and grim in equal measures. kind of like a trip to auschwitz, i imagine.
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:53, Reply)
Indeed.
Still debating whether to take my eldest and scare the bejaysus out of him.
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:54, Reply)
if he doesn't fancy it, take monty
it'd be like a day on youporn for him
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:58, Reply)
Oradour-sur-GAYne more like!!!

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:55, Reply)
What's more bent than dead Frenchies, eh?

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:56, Reply)
Jay.

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:56, Reply)
Also: fat & bald

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:57, Reply)
Screws on plastic ears etc

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:58, Reply)
budgies?
hamsters?
second hand cats?
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:57, Reply)
E cigarettes

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:58, Reply)
I loathe Blackpool
That is all.
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:39, Reply)
Not been to Blackpool in over 30 years

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:40, Reply)
I'm pretty sure it hasn't got any better.

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:41, Reply)
I can guarantee it will be the same.
The front has been sand blasted
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:44, Reply)
Unlike your back
which has been man blasted
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:45, Reply)
dur

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:46, Reply)
Is it acceptable to like Eat Static these days?
I'm rather enjoying a set by them.
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 14:48, Reply)
ask McBeef
He's your age.
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:02, Reply)
Alright Russel Kane.

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:10, Reply)
The North

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:01, Reply)
Devon?

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:03, Reply)
Anywhere past Bude

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:04, Reply)
at least the sun knows how to shine up north
stupid rainy cornwall
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:04, Reply)
I find it fucking hilarious that we have had glorious weather except the few days stunned poster was here
and the few days you were. MEGALOLZ
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:08, Reply)
convenient

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:15, Reply)
I had a feeling you would say that so I went out on my balcony and took a picture
So there Ranga!
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:18, Reply)
Is all that building on the left your house? Impressive.

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:19, Reply)
i heard that home ownership brings out the WORST kind of snobbery

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:32, Reply)
Own a home you say? I own a home, so I am better than ALL renters.

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:33, Reply)
Thats my gym and pool area, its next to my courtyard.

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:51, Reply)
I have a balcony at work
Sorry for the confusion.
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:51, Reply)
I bet your house is even BIGGAH

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 16:03, Reply)
hahaha
what do i have to do, to get you to jump off it?
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:32, Reply)
Now thats just uncalled for
it's not my fault you brought shit weather with you.
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:50, Reply)
I've had some wonderful times in Devon.
And will be in Cornwall this weekend.
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:15, Reply)
bit gay

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:17, Reply)
Taking the lady horse riding.
Proper Gay.
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:19, Reply)
Horses? With a lady????? you fagit

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:20, Reply)
Proper.

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:22, Reply)
Why do you lot seem to think its OK to come to Cornwall without asking my permission first?

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:58, Reply)
Burgh Island
Looks nice. I'd quite like to go there and drink gin.
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:05, Reply)
Asides from all of the cottaging, why do the London parks smell of spunk?

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:09, Reply)
Because YM farts and queefs her way around them all day after meeting all the men in the world.

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:10, Reply)
Really?
What a slag!
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:16, Reply)
I know! YM!!! ha ha classic stuff

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:16, Reply)
You mean you were joking?
I'm starting to regret telling my dad now.
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:20, Reply)
I was joking if i'm being honest, I have never even met your mum. Soz.

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:21, Reply)
You should.
She's really quite pleasant, although she is losing it a bit.
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:23, Reply)
gaz me her 'digits' and i will call her for a polite conversation

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:24, Reply)
I've done a bit of travelling recently.
Basically, London is a lot better and a lot worse than I thought. The only place I really felt let me down was Coventry and Belfast. Although I liked bath more than I thought I would.
Oh, and Bristol, didn't like Bristol.
Worst place ever, Newport.
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:14, Reply)
Oh, and the Isle of Wight was ace.

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:16, Reply)
Really?
A lot of it is grim, which makes me mistrust your opinions in the post above this.
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:20, Reply)
Well, the bit of the Isle of Wight I went to was nice.
And you're just upset I didn't like cov
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:21, Reply)
You might've liked it if you met me :(

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:22, Reply)
I'm there for the next 2 weeks.

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:23, Reply)
See, you do like it really!

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:25, Reply)
if you wire it all up wrong
the whole thing will go up in flames.

proper OBE territory right there.
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:34, Reply)
Donald Gibson got a CBE for his part

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:41, Reply)
i thought cheltenham would be nice
it's a fucking shithole.

i would like to go to ireland. i will never again go to newport, cardiff, swindon, coventry, and would like to say stoke-on-trent, but my train frequently passes through it. i would also like to say milton keynes, but i have occasional client meetings there. concrete shudder.
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:17, Reply)
Bits of Cheltenham are nice.
But yeah, shit.
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:19, Reply)
The traffic system there is a fucking disgrace

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:25, Reply)
^blatantly over 40^

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:26, Reply)
Not until December

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:34, Reply)
PAAAARTAAY!!

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:35, Reply)
Damn straight
Mrs Cow is getting on my tits by asking me what I want to do for my 40th. Its 7 fucking months away!
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:52, Reply)
Tell her you want her and the kids to fuck off for the weekend.
That'll shut her up.
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:54, Reply)
These guys get it

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 16:02, Reply)
Tell her you'd like her to look after the kids whilst you go out with the #LADZ

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:54, Reply)
These guys get it

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 16:02, Reply)
I'm 41 next week.

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 16:09, Reply)
Elephant and Castle has to be the most depressing place on the planet.

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:24, Reply)
It sounds so exciting though!
Elephants AND castles?!
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:25, Reply)
You should see Cov swimming baths

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:26, Reply)
+v

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:31, Reply)
Nope, can't work out where this is supposed to go.

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:48, Reply)
It's my wedding night all over again :(

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:48, Reply)
Excellent!

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:57, Reply)
It's a sham, sporters, they say it's a castle but it's more of a roundabout and series of mugging points.
And as for the elephants, there's some PHAT A$$ MAMAZ there, but that's about it.
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:36, Reply)
Nick nick

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:26, Reply)
^ showing his age
er, me too, I guess
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:27, Reply)
I put it to you, Bill Clay ITIYRN, that you and I are the same age.

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:28, Reply)
Half a mo', I'll just count the rings

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:29, Reply)

www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post2294843
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:29, Reply)
You cheeky young whippersnapper!

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:30, Reply)
What was it like during the war Grandfather?

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:31, Reply)
he fought to save people like you

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:33, Reply)
Tangles would have been a conscientious objector, the dirty cowardly beatnik

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:34, Reply)
Damn straight

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:37, Reply)
I would have pretended to be a peace loving hippy just to get out of fighting and possibly dying

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:38, Reply)
na-nick-nick-nick... nicalodian.

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:37, Reply)
^ showing an entirely different age

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:38, Reply)
I haven't watched cartoons in decades =(

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:40, Reply)
what do you mean you don't like my thread?

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:32, Reply)
+s

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:33, Reply)
It's your own fault for asking autistics about emotions.

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:33, Reply)
wtf
metro.co.uk/2014/06/02/restaurant-launches-2500-calorie-burger-with-17-types-of-beef-for-fathers-day-4747164/
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:34, Reply)
That looks rank

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:37, Reply)
What do you mean?
Aren't you a proper bloke? Real man like meat and that.
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:38, Reply)
I like meat, but I don't want everything I consume to be a man vs food challenge, maybe I am gay after all

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:39, Reply)
I like meat but I'm not a MEATSNAKE

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:56, Reply)
Create your own meatsnake by consuming more than your entire body mass of food

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 16:07, Reply)
I went to Red Dog Saloon last week.
It fucking kicks ass.
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:39, Reply)
The food from that place is incredible
But that's too much, even for my liking.
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:40, Reply)
That's just silly.

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:46, Reply)
* boke *

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:52, Reply)
NOM

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:52, Reply)
There's absolutely no need for that.
Im feeling the heart attack just from looking at it.
Surely that can be classed as abuse?
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 15:55, Reply)
They also do a 2,000 calorie donut burger
I think I want to try it...
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 16:03, Reply)
Suckling pig banquet
truebarbecue.com/course/feasting-plates/
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 16:08, Reply)
I've had 'The Feast' from there, went in the week it opened
Huge amount of food, all was incredible.
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 16:11, Reply)
The only place I've ever been to that wasn't sigificantly better than the place I live
is Watford. Dreadful place.
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 16:05, Reply)
Scarborough was nice, although apparently it's shit come Winter. YM's dirtbox was quite nice to visit too..

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 16:13, Reply)
In fact, most of the NE coast is worth a visit.

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 16:46, Reply)
Thanks 'alan thicker'

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 16:48, Reply)
You're not playing nicely.

(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 16:56, Reply)
Bristol.
Even worse than Coventry or Colchester.
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 16:37, Reply)
Barrow in Furness
Like a pimple on Scarlett Johanssen's bottom - a piece of ugliness surrounded by beauty.
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 16:40, Reply)
All the worst places are in Cornwall,
Camborne, Redruth, Bodmin and Liskard.
(, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 17:06, Reply)

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