Pontypridd...
... ponty-sodding-pridd. One long uncovered sewer draped with pound shops and dodgy phone shops, with a pustule of gruesome pubs at either end. And right in the middle... the Taff Vale centre. A shopping centre which appears, at first glance, to sell only chipboard (for the purposes of replacing windows). A piss- and vomit-stained 60s concrete job, with a condemed towerblock on top. And three shops still trading.

So far, so Hartlepool, you may think. But the residents of Pontypridd live there... usually the kind of folk who moved out of the south Wales valleys for a bit of cosmopolitan buzz.

Once I mentioned to a Ponty lass that I was going to a meeting in London later that week. "London," she said "I'd hate to go there. It must be like Pontypridd on a saturday afternoon... every...single...day!"

Ponty even boasts a university, which sensibly does not mention it is based in Pontypridd and is moving to Cardiff as fast as it possibly can.
(nordelius, Fri 30 Oct 2009, 11:41, 1 reply)

"pound shops and dodgy phone shops"
isn't that most towns in the South Wales valleys?
(Rikaitch is full of crap ideas., Fri 30 Oct 2009, 17:31, closed)