I dare anyone
To work in Peterborough for 6 months and not suffer from depression.

I started here in March this year, bright and full of the joys of spring, and will leave the week after next, most likely sectioned under the 1984 mental health act.
(Vic Flange, Fri 2 Nov 2007, 14:44, 20 replies)

I'm with you on that...
Except my 'Peterborough' was Basingstoke.

I still shudder at the mention of the place...
(scentless_apprentice takes two bottles into the shower!, Fri 2 Nov 2007, 14:51, closed)

Ditto
A small town in Hertfordshire.

Conversation with the first guy I ever met there :-

Dobby : I've just moved here, what do you think of it?
FGIEMT : I'm moving back to London in two weeks, I can't stand it any more.

DIL? DIF.
(><(((">, Fri 2 Nov 2007, 14:58, closed)

.
Coventry
(Halfy By light alone, Fri 2 Nov 2007, 15:03, closed)

Peterborough..
. just seems to contain everything to sap the spirit. Acres of grey concrete, a shopping centre which sits like a concrete carbuncle on top of what were some quite attractive old buildings, perfectly preserved 1960's brutalist architecture tinged with decay and concrete cancer.
The rare spots of tranquility and beauty, (the cathedral gardens, Central Park) are chock full as a bowl of tracksuit clad charva males swearing, smoking and spitting, and women who wear jeans and tops 2 sizes too small for them.
This is how we know education is poor in the area. If it were more substantial, the women would know that a size 16 arse doesnt fit in size 12 jeans.
(Vic Flange, Fri 2 Nov 2007, 15:04, closed)

Narrowly missed a job in P'boro
Had two interviews and didn't see a white face the whole time I was there. They're taking over, you know...
(frankspencer, Fri 2 Nov 2007, 15:10, closed)

It is not they who dominate the place.
I walk through town at lunchtime and hear some sort of slavic mumbo-jumbo from every other mouth.
(Vic Flange, Fri 2 Nov 2007, 15:14, closed)

Racist!
Some of my best friends are fuzzies and illegal imigrants.
(frankspencer, Fri 2 Nov 2007, 15:15, closed)

Some of my best friends..
.. are on the sex offenders register.
(Vic Flange, Fri 2 Nov 2007, 15:17, closed)

Gay as a daffodil
The one and only visit to Peterborough I've made was on a site that happened to be near an infamous local meeting place for gaying. I didn't believe it until I saw a man skipping across the field into the woods.
( abefroman skating on the thin life of modern life on, Fri 2 Nov 2007, 15:24, closed)

abefroman
Yes, but did you pull?
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Fri 2 Nov 2007, 15:25, closed)

He would have to be the first heemasex...
..I'd ever seen skipping in Peterborough.
(Vic Flange, Fri 2 Nov 2007, 15:27, closed)

I once drove past Peterborough

and was sick on the side of the road, nuff said.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 2 Nov 2007, 15:39, closed)

the only saving grace of peterborough
is that the a1(m) southbound from Peterborough is nice to drive on.

also Dobby, what town in Hertfordshire did you go to. as I am from round there
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Fri 2 Nov 2007, 15:58, closed)

Has to be Stevenage
But even that is a tropical paradise compared to the Purgatory that is Peterborough,
(Vic Flange, Fri 2 Nov 2007, 16:00, closed)

LJ
Have you never been to Luton?

Shudders

I have an inbuilt loathing of P*sh anyway being a Cambridge person through and through (apart from the being born in Harlow bit)
(Halfy By light alone, Fri 2 Nov 2007, 16:17, closed)

I worked in Cambridge for 14 years
Save for a 6 month sabbatical to High Wycombe.
There is no comparison between P'boro and Cambridge, Cambridge is idyllic, pictoresque, steeped in history and a seat of learning.
Peterborough is idiotic, a toilet for every dog in east Anglia, steeped in Chavdom, and the only learning it has can be found in the 2 bookshops the town boasts.
Co-incidentally I was born in Harlow too. Class of 1972, Princess Alexandria hopital.
(Vic Flange, Fri 2 Nov 2007, 16:22, closed)

Bah.; Harlow is even worse. Will to live going in 3...2..1...
Ah, bookshops. I remember those! They had the smart... paper.. reading things.

Harlow. Even worse. No bookshops (WTF?), fuck ugly concrete all over, mugger-cheering underpasses (the only bridge in the town is on the site I work at), and a bizarre shortage of pavements.


( Labmonkey last thought about having another coffee on, Fri 2 Nov 2007, 19:26, closed)

Labmonkey
I fear you're right about Harlow.
When I was a kid I used to go back and visit my grandparents. At that age i loved it, the market sold stretch jeans, there were fast food restaurants, chip shops and all sorts of things that kids love. Even back then they had a nice BHS where my Nan bought me clothes, and Littlewoods had a really nice cafeteria where the waitresses wore frilly pinnies.
Then I grew up, I wanted nice restaurants, bookshops, challenging and beautiful architecture etc.
All things that Harlow doesnt have. I'm not suprised about the lack of bookshops. Stores will locate where the local populace will use them most, hence why there are so many mobile phone stores there. Any chav can own a mobile phone, but very few of them can read.
IIRC the only nightspot was the Jean Harlow Pub - which changed it's name to Highwire back in the 1990's. Is it still there?

Incidentally the other thing that amused me was how the pinnacles industrial estate has changed. Back when I used to go to Harlow, Johnson Matthey, Distronic, STL, Philips, Harlow Metalworks and loads of other industry was there. Now all I could see was MacDonalds, Cinemas and American Junk food emporia.
Sad now, as a country we no longer produce anything but fat, ignorant dullards.
(Vic Flange, Sat 3 Nov 2007, 11:04, closed)

Wrong Year
MHA is 1983
(kitescreech still here, Sun 4 Nov 2007, 20:25, closed)

Who give a shit?

(Vic Flange, Mon 5 Nov 2007, 10:57, closed)