Your most despised town in Britain...

[southend4ever]

Quote[/b] (Xàbia Shrimper @ Sep. 05 2006,10:47)]In the UK I would like to nominate Basildon.

In Spain I would like to nominate Benidorm.

b******s to u

 

[Smiffy]

I would like to nominate Jaywick, just outside Clacton...

Spent a nice weekend in a chalet in Clacton, one day thought me and the missus would go for a coastal drive....

Big mistake...

I have never ever seen such a hole in my life..

12 year old girls on street corners..

Teenage mums with 4 kids..

Chavs openly selling scag on the streets..

Numerous ****heads rolling around in the gutters..

Houses with one window, the rest being boarded up..

Torched cars..

Pubs with one letter on the front, even that was hanging off...

An obvious lack of refuse collection..

I think every resident had a tattoo..

That about covers it I think..

I couldnt drive out of the place fast enough, I knew if I stopped I would of probably lost my car, missus and my life...

Do not go there, trust me!.

 

[Smudger]

I'd like to nominate Darlington. A complete and utter sh!thole populated by the most unfriendly bunch of w%&kers I have ever met in my life. I have to go up there for work about once a month and each month I consider how I can possibly get out of it, even contemplating shooting myself in the foot in particularly dark moments. The people look and sound like the (set in the 70's) TV series "Life on Mars", the 3-eyed women should be drinking in the Space Bar in Star Wars and until I went to Grimsby I honestly felt it was as low as humanity gets......

By comparison Southend is Barbados and that's the only positive I can end on. Trips to Darlington make you realise just how lucky you are to be a Southerner.....

 

[Vange Shrimper]

Quote[/b] (Xàbia Shrimper @ Sep. 05 2006,10:47)]In the UK I would like to nominate Basildon.

Dont blame you, tis a bit of a dive!

Others in the England would be Rochdale, Gloucester and Luton.

 

[Wessex Blue]

Liverpool all the way, I'd happily drop daisy cutters on the place.

Good call by the Saarfender, for sheer soulessness Milton Keynes deserves to be eradicated as well.

To complete my hatrick I'd go for Glasgow, occupied by bucky drinking, sectarian, skaghead vermin it's the Caledonian equivalent of Scouseland and therefore deserves a good pounding by heavy artillery.

 

[Vange Shrimper]

Quote[/b] (Bluesmanager @ Sep. 05 2006,11:16)]The entire Forest of Dean for me. Nothing to do but sit at my computer all day.

Forest of Dean is nice. Ok so there isn't much people our age can do there, but it's alright for days out.

 

[Bluesmanager]

Maybe, but after living here for 5 years, it's boring as hell.

 

[Hong Kong Blue]

Quote[/b] (Matt the Shrimp @ Sep. 05 2006,10:08)]Would anyone miss Gillingham if it weren't there?  It was like a depressing northern mining town on holiday in the South of England, where it had been filled with vile, burberry clad southern oiks.

Matt

To be fair to Gillingham when you visited some, but certainly not all, of the burberry clad southern oiks were probably Southend fans, however your description still seems fair.

There isn't one town I despise, its towns as a whole I despise.

Why live in a town? I can see the attraction of living in the countryside (or in Southend's case, living by the sea) and I can see the attraction of living in a major metropolis, but to live in a town seems to me to combine the disadvantages of both with none of the advantages.

 

[Xàbia Shrimper]

Quote[/b] (southend4ever @ Sep. 05 2006,12:26)]

Quote[/b] (Xàbia Shrimper @ Sep. 05 2006,10:47)]In the UK I would like to nominate Basildon.

In Spain I would like to nominate Benidorm.

b******s to u

 

[canveyshrimper]

Normally I would advocate Tilbury to be wiped from the face of the earth, but as I work there, I guess I should nominate somewhere else.

Therefore Slough will get my vote, I think John Betjeman got it right in his poem about bombing Slough.

 

[SUFCEssex]

Luton - It's just a grim place. Last time we played there the police advised not to have anything Southend shownig as away cars are targeted by thiefs as they know you are in the ground and not likely to appear until 5 so they have a couple of hours to nick your stereo and disappear.

 

[C C Csiders]

As mentioned elsewhere the likes of Grimsby, Col******r and Gillingham should go.

But, I would like to add Bath. Can't stand the place.:angry:

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Quote[/b] (Wessex Blue @ Sep. 05 2006,11:40)]Liverpool all the way, I'd happily drop daisy cutters on the place.

Good call by the Saarfender, for sheer soulessness Milton Keynes deserves to be eradicated as well.

To complete my hatrick I'd go for Glasgow, occupied by bucky drinking, sectarian, skaghead vermin it's the Caledonian equivalent of Scouseland and therefore deserves a good pounding by heavy artillery.

Dear oh dear. By all means get rid of the Castlemilks and Govans of this world, but to condemn Glasgow as a whole is to rid the UK of some of the finest architecture and design of the early 20th Century. How many other British cities gave rise to a school of design which went on to heavily influence Art Deco and Bauhaus?

Indeed, Liverpool is also a very handsome city in parts - and a bloody great night out as well.

Why get rid of either when Betjeman's kind bombs could be doing the country a favour and getting rid of the likes of Slough, Cleethorpes, Gillingham and Darlington (good call, Smudge)?

Poor shout, sir.

 

[J]

bradford end of.. only in bradford you have to stop and ask someone if they speak english..
or london
or birmingham
or liverpool..

 

[Smiffy]

Quote[/b] (CS J @ Sep. 05 2006,13:14)]bradford end of.. only in bradford you have to stop and ask someone if they speak english..
or london
or birmingham
or liverpool..

More racist rubbish from CSJ I see...

 

[Bielzibubz]

Quote[/b] (EastStandBlue @ Sep. 05 2006,11:01)]

Quote[/b] (the_saafender @ Sep. 05 2006,10:55)]Milton Keynes gets my vote. Ok so its not rough and full of chavs but its the most soul-less place on earth! Oh yeah and we came away with nothing from our trip last season.

And nearly Froze to death in doing so

Thirded (is that a word

)

Bland, grey, soul less, ugly to name but a few.

Oh, and Abbey National have their headquarters there and for me that in itself is enough to nuke the soddin place off the face of the Earth

 

[hexagon_sun]

Quote[/b] (Matt the Shrimp @ Sep. 05 2006,13:11)]How many other British cities gave rise to a school of design which went on to heavily influence Art Deco and Bauhaus?

I'm familiar with Bauhaus's proto-goth rock but I've never heard anything by Arthur Deco - fill me in?

 

[J]

Quote[/b] (Smiffy @ Sep. 05 2006,13:16)]

Quote[/b] (CS J @ Sep. 05 2006,13:14)]bradford end of.. only in bradford you have to stop and ask someone if they speak english..
or london
or birmingham
or liverpool..

More racist rubbish from CSJ I see...

just because i pick on the scouse.. or not so scouse contingent, you feel the need to have a pop!

 

[DTS]

Quote[/b] (CS J @ Sep. 05 2006,13:14)]bradford end of.. only in bradford you have to stop and ask someone if they speak english..
or london
or birmingham
or liverpool..

Good call on Bradford but for different reasons....

In my early days as a mortgage mogel I worked for Yorkshire who's head office was in Bradford.

I had various courses up there and I can honestly say what a hole that place is. Found a pub with a taff bloke on the first night and got a drink for a £1 a pint. We say down and he said "Do you know I dont think Bradford is that bad".

Second later we saw 3 police chasing a suspect in the street and about 10 mins after that a 10 man brawl broke out in our boozer.

Taxi drivers were all mad and even the nice parts of Bradford I was taken too looked like Bosnia.

Decided it couldn't be that bad really so me and few lads went up there for our 2-0 win last season. Went into one pub and after putting all of 20p in the pool table we got the clues only to realise they were in fact bamboo canes you might use in gardening.

The Mrs called me so went outside as pub was noisey. As I was talking a boy of about three with his mum stopped and his mum lifted his liek your mum might do for a wee...

Only he didnt have a wee he had a pony.....I was mortified....

Never again - Good call CS J.

 

[Wessex Blue]

Quote[/b] (Matt the Shrimp @ Sep. 05 2006,13:11)]

Quote[/b] (Wessex Blue @ Sep. 05 2006,11:40)]Liverpool all the way, I'd happily drop daisy cutters on the place.

Good call by the Saarfender, for sheer soulessness Milton Keynes deserves to be eradicated as well.

To complete my hatrick I'd go for Glasgow, occupied by bucky drinking, sectarian, skaghead vermin it's the Caledonian equivalent of Scouseland and therefore deserves a good pounding by heavy artillery.

Dear oh dear.  By all means get rid of the Castlemilks and Govans of this world, but to condemn Glasgow as a whole is to rid the UK of some of the finest architecture and design of the early 20th Century.  How many other British cities gave rise to a school of design which went on to heavily influence Art Deco and Bauhaus?

Indeed, Liverpool is also a very handsome city in parts - and a bloody great night out as well.

Why get rid of either when Betjeman's kind bombs could be doing the country a favour and getting rid of the likes of Slough, Cleethorpes, Gillingham and Darlington (good call, Smudge)?

Poor shout, sir.

I should've explained more clearly. My prejudices are based more on the occupants of the cities not on the actual architecture of the places. On balance the destruction of the majopity of both cities would be a blessing from an aesthetic perspective.

The forced expulsion of those cities citizens to a hideous penal colony in Spitsbergen would be entirely justified in making them better places in my opinion. Then in the case of Liverpool you could admire the Victorian architecture without some whining, nasal-toned urchin trying to relieve you of your possessions.

I'd even be happy to ship container loads of Bucky, Tennents Super and smack to them in Spitsbergen, although I wouldn't go to the expense of using an ice breaker to get through in winter. Can't be fairer than that........