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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Local papersNot strictly about a place, but I'm sure representative of many little shitholes with their pointless local rags.
On a long drive a few years ago we stopped off for some food in a village. On the way into the corner shop where we purchased a great deal of diarrhoea inducing yet supposedly edible produce, I noticed the local newspaper; more specifically the headline. It read (and I quote verbatim):
"Man, 86, dies"
How exactly was that a surprise?
(, Tue 3 Nov 2009, 22:39, 4 replies)
Perhaps the headline meant to readMandie's 86" ... (which would be a surprise) but the typesetter messed up the punctuation.
Actually, I read the story you mentioned and boy, it was a STUNNER!
(, Tue 3 Nov 2009, 23:13, closed)
'Mouse Not Murdered, Says Mouse Breeders Club'That one courtesy of the Birmingham Post, circa. 2004.
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Glasgow papers"Suicide Pact Man is Dead" was one of my particular favourites. Closely followed by the classic Evening Times headline "You're All Dead Wrong, Says Woman".
We never found out what we were all wrong about.
(, Tue 3 Nov 2009, 23:31, closed)
Occasionally there's a good one:Clowns in Race Terror Attack
I didn't want to look at the newspaper because whatever had actually happened wouldn't be half as funny as the image in my head.
(, Wed 4 Nov 2009, 13:19, closed)
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