Your most despised town in Britain...

[J]

i know how to pick em son..

surprised they have pub's up there..

(most people might not get that)

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Quote[/b] (hexagon_sun @ Sep. 05 2006,13:20)]

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?

 

Art Deco was a collaboration between Mr. Garfunkel and the Portuguese midfield maestro in a sort of 70s ballads meets Lisboeta Fado - truly revolutionary stuff.

 

[Vange Shrimper]

Quote[/b] (Matt the Shrimp @ Sep. 05 2006,13:43)]

Quote[/b] (hexagon_sun @ Sep. 05 2006,13:20)]

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?

Art Deco was a collaboration between Mr. Garfunkel and the Portuguese midfield maestro in a sort of 70s ballads meets Lisboeta Fado - truly revolutionary stuff.

Matt the Shrimp trying to be funny again...

Oh dear.

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Quote[/b] (Wessex Blue @ Sep. 05 2006,13:37)]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 majority of both cities would be a blessing from an aesthetic perspective.

Hmm... since the wife has Weedgie blood in her, not sure I can agree to that!

Personally, I've always thought that Scousers and Weedgies aren't a bad lot at all - far nicer than their stereotypes would have you believe.

How they got a bad name, whilst the people of (say) Hull got off so lightly truly baffles me... I mean, their national representative is John Prescott. Need I say more?!

 

[Shrimpersarmy]

I vote for Hull.

Honourable mentions for Doncaster, MK, Grimsby, Bradford and Rotherham.

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Quote[/b] (Vange Shrimper @ Sep. 05 2006,13:45)]Matt the Shrimp trying to be funny again...

Oh dear.

 

Better my half-arsed attempts at humour than some of the bile that has been spewed onto these boards recently... I head off for 4 or 5 days, and all hell breaks loose.

Can't say I'm particularly happy about it, nor am I 100% clear as to what I and my fellow owners should do about it.

 

[hexagon_sun]

Quote[/b] (Shrimpersarmy @ Sep. 05 2006,13:52)]I vote for Hull.

Honourable mentions for Doncaster, MK, Grimsby, Bradford and Rotherham.

South Yorks and the southern end of North Yorks aren't faring to well here. It's surprising that area has so many sh!tholes as North Yorkshire (the area around the NYM National Park anyway) is probably my favourite place on the planet.

 

[Maldon Blues]

Quote[/b] (C C Csiders @ Sep. 05 2006,13:03)]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:

I think Bath is a beautiful place.

I think a lot of people are judging these places on residents, and yes it has to be taken into account, but some of these places are what makes English heritage so brilliant!

Liverpool too, has its 'scallies' as they say, but a more unique place you will never find. And, as previously stated, a fantastic night out!

Been up there for a number of weekends, most recently when england played Paraguay in the World Cup - had a great time and, for the record, some of the fittest girls you will ever see! (although granted there is a bit of a language barrier!)

 

[Jonny_Stokes]

Quote[/b] (Smiffy @ Sep. 05 2006,11:35)]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!.

Good old Essex, eh?

 

[Vange Shrimper]

I hear that South London's meant to be a bit of a hole too.

 

[Stats]

I'm gonna go one better here and rather than go for a town I'll go for a region

East London - The place is just one big sh!thole, a big concrete jungle, shocking architecture, & every postcode within the region you have to speak a different language, jeez I could go on forever!!

The east end of london used to have a bit of character about it from the war days but now its just full of imigrants and villans.

Souless place.

They knocked down all of Docklands and re-built that in fine style, & now they've got the olympics coming to re-develop the majority of stratford. All we need now is for the rest of it do be bulldozed and re-built, kick out the villans & imigrants sponging off the state and we'll have a decent area again.

STAT RANT OVER

 

[hexagon_sun]

Quote[/b] (Jonny_Stokes @ Sep. 05 2006,14:08)]Good old Essex, eh?

Ahem, that's north Essex - BIG difference.

 

[Vange Shrimper]

Quote[/b] (statski77 @ Sep. 05 2006,14:10)]I'm gonna go one better here and rather than go for a town I'll go for a region

East London - The place is just one big sh!thole, a big concrete jungle, shocking architecture, & every postcode within the region you have to speak a different language, jeez I could go on forever!!

The east end of london used to have a bit of character about it from the war days but now its just full of imigrants and villans.

Didnt used to be like that back in the 80's. Oh how times have changed....Was actually a nice place when I lived there...

 

[Hong Kong Blue]

Quote[/b] (statski77 @ Sep. 05 2006,14:10)]I'm gonna go one better here and rather than go for a town I'll go for a region

East London - The place is just one big sh!thole, a big concrete jungle, shocking architecture, & every postcode within the region you have to speak a different language, jeez I could go on forever!!

The east end of london used to have a bit of character about it from the war days but now its just full of imigrants and villans.

Souless place.

They knocked down all of Docklands and re-built that in fine style, & now they've got the olympics coming to re-develop the majority of stratford. All we need now is for the rest of it do be bulldozed and re-built, kick out the villans & imigrants sponging off the state and we'll have a decent area again.

STAT RANT OVER

Statski

Don't be fooled by the Claret and Blue. They actually support Wet Sham not Aston Villa.

 

[Jonny_Stokes]

Quote[/b] (Vange Shrimper @ Sep. 05 2006,14:10)]I hear that South London's meant to be a bit of a hole too.

Well, Matt the Shrimp lives there - it's probably him that's dragged the area down.

Having said that, I am yet to see anywhere worse than Scunthorpe appear on this thread.

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Quote[/b] (Vange Shrimper @ Sep. 05 2006,14:10)]I hear that South London's meant to be a bit of a hole too.

Yes, that's the official party line, just to make sure that we scare off any itinerant Cheltenham Uni graduates looking to relocate to the capital...

 

[Vange Shrimper]

Quote[/b] (Matt the Shrimp @ Sep. 05 2006,14:36)]

Quote[/b] (Vange Shrimper @ Sep. 05 2006,14:10)]I hear that South London's meant to be a bit of a hole too.

Yes, that's the official party line, just to make sure that we scare off any itinerant Cheltenham Uni graduates looking to relocate to the capital...

 

[Jonny_Stokes]

Quote[/b] (Vange Shrimper @ Sep. 05 2006,14:38)]

Quote[/b] (Matt the Shrimp @ Sep. 05 2006,14:36)]

Quote[/b] (Vange Shrimper @ Sep. 05 2006,14:10)]I hear that South London's meant to be a bit of a hole too.

Yes, that's the official party line, just to make sure that we scare off any itinerant Cheltenham Uni graduates looking to relocate to the capital...

 

[Sao Paulo Shrimper]

1. Hartlepool.

2. The medway towns, ie: Gillingham, Dartford, Sittingbourne.

3. Hounslow.

4. Bradford.

If i ever had to live in places like those above i would kill myself.

All full of horrible chavy skumbag people who should be locked up or put on some island somewhere in Northern Scotland.

 

[SUFC_Spike]

I'm going to second Gloucester as a dive. Unfortunately though, it's the only place with a near half decent club to go to when I'm back at home!

Also like to add Bristol (personal dislike of the place) and Doncaster (hardly looked the nicest of places when I visited a few years back and I wouldn't have thought much will have changed sinse then!).