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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Sunny Bournemouth!Its not bad, actually. It does get the sun a fair bit. Also, in summer it is a heaving mass of attractive foreign students wearing Not Very Much. Bit dead in winter, but mostly Bournemouth is ace!
Of course, it wasn't always this way, oh no. It used to be the place where you sent your unwanted maiden aunts to die. Thus, the entire town used to be run by the kind of shrieking NIMBYs that local newspaper editors learn to know and fear. They used to have a garrotte hold on this place - crowds of them walking really slowly through town centre, right in front of you when you were in a rush. The local rag's letters page ought to have been renamed 'a festial of whingebag harridans'.
The town council was ruled over by them, and would staunchily oppose any suggestions more exciting than larger print in the local libraries. It was horrific living here back then; I'm surprised they didn't try to ban Being Young. Everyone knows a NIMBY but Bournemouth was the OAP dumping ground for the entire south!
Oh yes, things have changed so much for the better in Bournemouth. But like the tiresome plot of any RPG, the hack-toothed NIMBYs just lie in wait, plotting in the darkness, waiting for the chance to be released unto an unsuspecting world once more...
I wonder if Torquay is still the same dump that Bournemouth used to be?
(, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 13:27, 3 replies)
Torquay = Over-run by druggiesThe public toilets on Torquay sea-front have needle bins - says it all.
Also: Bill Bryson started his career at the Bournemouth Daily Echo - also says it all.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 13:30,
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Bill Byrson eh?If it was before 1985, he was probably driven into running off and writing all them travel books by the small-minded NIMBY squads of Bournemouth.
But these days - why, the town centre hardly smells of wet dog anymore. Now thats worth celebrating.
(, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 13:48, closed)
Are you kidding?Bournemouth is like paradise compared to Torquay.
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