I'm a cornish gal born and bred
And Emmet Season is almost upon us.......
Wearing their "Newquay Lifeguard" hoodies, tossers.
Burnt red raw as they have no idea what that big yellow thing in the sky can do to their skin.
Making their poor kiddies play on the beach in the pissing down rain because "we're on holiday"
Blocking all our car parks, lucky WE know where the secret, cool, LOCALS beaches are. What's left of them anyway.
Jamming up our roads (A30 on a bank holiday Friday anyone?)
The list goes on and on.
The only redeeming feature they have is bringing their lovely cash into our beautiful country. BUT......
Please stop falling in love with my county and buying up second homes here, you're pushing house prices through the roof. I rent, I won't be able to own my own house until at least 3 close family members have died.
I really think we need passport and immigration control at the Tamar........

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmet_(Cornish)

However, if almost a week has gone by and this is all I can think of that bothers me, then yeah, good ol' west country laid-back-ness rules! Just don't be such a tosser when you visit ok?
( user_names_suck, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 0:37, 12 replies)

Perrenporth ftw

(Iggy Pop's Teeth, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 0:46, closed)

Perranporth, sadly, is one of the worst affected beaches around. You can't move for lobster coloured emmets! In the winter it is an amazing place, but, like Newquay, come summer, and locals just avoid it like the plague.
Godrevy/Gwithian is where it's at. Over 3 miles of sand, perfect surf conditions, views over St Ives Bay. Because it's such a massive beach, the emmets can have the bits by the public car parks, we know where the "hidden" car parks, and walkways are, to the quieter, "secret" bits. And no, I can't tell you.
You ever seen Blue Rush? It's a bit like that......
( user_names_suck, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 0:54, closed)

perfect surf?
in godrevy/gwithian? (or anywhere)... in the summer in the UK... i don't think so! it's all about winter and those secret / semi-secret spots
(#monkey is salt-trash through and through, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 10:31, closed)

I learned to canoe on the
Tamar. Pretty good at it, too, now.
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 1:07, closed)

Tough shit inbreed.
Maybe if you yokels left your villages once in a while in search of a job that pays you money rather than pasties, or had actually taken advantage of this country's free education system, you too could be able to afford a holiday home.
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Thu 8 Apr 2010, 7:06, closed)

Haha, quality reply... coffee nearly went everywhere!

(anvil, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 9:37, closed)

arf.
nice work, paedospheniscidaphile.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 9:56, closed)

I had no idea...
Royston Vasey was in Cornwall: A Local beach for local people...
( mikemystery blames the parents, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 9:37, closed)

St Ives
FTW

Brings back good memories from when I was about 8 years olds and eating a pasty the size of my head, whilst walking up the mentally steep hill in St Ives.
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 10:33, closed)

Hahahaha you love the money like you love teh cock.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 10:49, closed)

^
ha ha ha!
( @><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 11:06, closed)

You don't spell 'county' with an 'r'
Laughable antics of your 'Ooo-arr ay' freedom fighters aside, you are merely a county. Not a country. As such, anyone has a right to work, visit, whatever; your consent is neither requested nor required.

You don't get to place 'dibs' on property simply because your eleven-toed mother spat you forth into the world in that locale. By your logic, we should be banning everyone of alternative racial origin from buying a house in the UK, until all us WASPs have our own personal castle.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:10, closed)