Rubbish TownsI once went to Basildon. It was closed, I got chased by a bunch of knuckle-dragged yobs until I was lost in a maze of concrete alleyways and got food poisoning off pie. Tell us about the awful places you've visited or have your home.
Thanks to SpankyHanky for the suggestion
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 11:07)
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Port TalbotDo you like the Black Lung? You fucking will do in this little shithole of a place. Actually, saying that it's not a really bad area but there is so much smog 'n' shite due to two-thirds of the town being a Corus Steelworks plant that it's impossible to remain positive.
One part of the area is a giant caravan site on mudflats by an inlet just to the side of the steelworks. This has all manner of tenants ranging from normals to nutcases in all shapes and sizes. And limbs. Probably.
Frankie Boyle recently did a gig in Swansea and had to drive past Port Talbot; he was quoted as saying that Port Talbot looked like a breeding area for guests on the Jeremy Kyle Show, and was amazed how the town resembled the Hellmouth. Tbh, I'm sure he's used those comments about 36 other towns while on tour (wouldn't suprise me).
The thing I don't really like about this QOTW is that one man's shithole is another man's mansion. We can say that we don't like an area very easily because of what we've heard, yet we don't really know what's going on there and what the tenants have to put up with. In my experience in living in various shite parts of Swansea I have come to realize that it's really how you live rather than where that makes all the difference. I currently live in such a shithole, but we respectfully look after our property and respect our neighbours.
Now where did I leave that petrol-can and me matches....
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Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 12:34,
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The only good thing...About Port Talbot is the fact that when you drive through at night, it kind of looks like the opening scene of Blade Runner with all the lights and fire. Anthony Hopkins of Silence of the Lambs fame was born there too (no wonder he emigrated to the US never to return). Apart from that, yeah it's shite (And it has the lowest life expectancy of anywhere in the UK).
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fireOoh yes, the fire gets me every time - I always think there's a house burning down. . .
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