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I grew up in Peterborough, a chavhole just an hour north of London. It was alright but it's hardly where you want to live for the rest of your life.. I don't like people saying incorrect things about Peterborough when slagging it off, but I'm more or less like that with most things..
I live in London now. Lovely place.
Hank Wiseass© wrote:
bansheeman wrote: as the sports teacher said to the scouse lad in the old milk advert "if you dont drink your milk you'll only be good enough to play for accrington stanley" the lad replied "accrington stanley,who are they?".teacher repied "exactly"
It was his mate wasn't it?
you know i think your right you have a very good memory do you drink a lot of milk?
Jonathan wrote: i defend my mama and thats about it. My hometown is buffalo, ny which catches a lot of flack and sometimes rightfully so. However, i equate it with my family so i must defend it.
Dallas > Buffalo
Two (out of five) Super Bowl victories and a Stanley Cup says so! :D :D :D
Jonathan wrote:
twist wrote: My hometown sucks. If you go to college you are likely not to return to live there. I did have my wedding there and the friends that I invite who never been there were impressed. But the city once of 30K has been steadily dieing since 1972.
my hometown, buffalo, had pop. of 600,000 in the 60's. Now its just under 300,000. Just another dying industrial city. Thankfully, buffalo has no chance of getting whipped by hurricane. Incomptent elected officals and segregated city would doom the city.
perhaps buffalo is hurricane safe, but one day the sky will open up and all the snow ever created by the earth's atmosphere will dump on the city like a massive turd.
the sky will then set its sites on cleveland.
AgentWood wrote:
Jonathan wrote:
twist wrote: My hometown sucks. If you go to college you are likely not to return to live there. I did have my wedding there and the friends that I invite who never been there were impressed. But the city once of 30K has been steadily dieing since 1972.
my hometown, buffalo, had pop. of 600,000 in the 60's. Now its just under 300,000. Just another dying industrial city. Thankfully, buffalo has no chance of getting whipped by hurricane. Incomptent elected officals and segregated city would doom the city.
perhaps buffalo is hurricane safe, but one day the sky will open up and all the snow ever created by the earth's atmosphere will dump on the city like a massive turd.
the sky will then set its sites on cleveland.
i do hope your not slagging off someone elses Hometown!!
AgentWood wrote: i will always defend estes park, fort collins or denver, colorado, whenever someone else puts them down. i've been guilty of dissing them myself, but no one else may do so.
Well, I do believe that I may join my female cousin in dissing Fort Collins ( she told me she wouldn't go back there, but that may have a lot to do with her dickhead ex-husband 
); so she moved to Colorado Springs to be closer to her parents, my uncle retired a couple of years ago from the Air Force.
My town's got a decent central location in the Willamette Valley; an hour to Portland, an hour to the coast, an hour to Eugene, an hour for snow skiing, an hour to get to part of the desert country on the east side. Only problem is the odor of the paper companies, which is why on a bad day people drive by on I-5 with their windows rolled up. Many of those plants are located in Millersburg though, which doesn't really matter to the general public it seems.
I think I love my hometown (London) mostly because it changes so rapidly (2 million foreign born immigrants and God knows how many incomers from the UK, native born Londoners must be a minority). Even the buildings don't seem to last very long - my grandparents houses all gone, my old school, gone, my old 6th form college, turned into an industrial storage unit.
Getting a bit irritated with excessive gentrification though - the places I grew up in are unrecognisable, overrun with rich City-worker types. And the cost of housing is ludicrous.
Hmm, out of curiosity looked up the stats, and London has about the same proportion of foreign-born residents as NYC, which puts it second to LA (with an amazing 38% in 1990), but is ahead of both of them in terms of current inflow.
This blue-eyed boy that wants to be wrote: I was born and raised in Philly and like most Philadelphians, I slag it off all the time. But, when I'm at school or in the suburbs - the suburbs of Philly aren't part of the city - I stick up for my hometown, despite the sordid state, the violence, the awful "education" system, and the expressway.
Isn't it also home to the fattest population of any city in the US? Did I not read recently that the Mayor had gone on a diet to set an example?
patrick stewart appreciation society wrote:
AgentWood wrote:
Jonathan wrote:
twist wrote: My hometown sucks. If you go to college you are likely not to return to live there. I did have my wedding there and the friends that I invite who never been there were impressed. But the city once of 30K has been steadily dieing since 1972.
my hometown, buffalo, had pop. of 600,000 in the 60's. Now its just under 300,000. Just another dying industrial city. Thankfully, buffalo has no chance of getting whipped by hurricane. Incomptent elected officals and segregated city would doom the city.
perhaps buffalo is hurricane safe, but one day the sky will open up and all the snow ever created by the earth's atmosphere will dump on the city like a massive turd.
the sky will then set its sites on cleveland.
i do hope your not slagging off someone elses Hometown!!
i sure am. ever been to buffalo or cleveland?
sorry, jonathan.
I know what your saying Christy, but given a choice i would chose to live in buffalo over florida. Sure florida has its finer points but whenever i go i want to leave. I cant put my finger on. If your in buffalo for an extended period of time you would discover its charms.Of course, I wouldt suggest the winter. Buffalo is very prepared for a snowstorm because the public gets very involved. It is close knit in that kind of way.
Jonathan wrote: I know what your saying Christy, but given a choice i would chose to live in buffalo over florida. Sure florida has its finer points but whenever i go i want to leave. I cant put my finger on. If your in buffalo for an extended period of time you would discover its charms.Of course, I wouldt suggest the winter. Buffalo is very prepared for a snowstorm because the public gets very involved. It is close knit in that kind of way.
believe me, i'm in florida by necessity not by choice!
404 error wrote:
This blue-eyed boy that wants to be wrote: I was born and raised in Philly and like most Philadelphians, I slag it off all the time. But, when I'm at school or in the suburbs - the suburbs of Philly aren't part of the city - I stick up for my hometown, despite the sordid state, the violence, the awful "education" system, and the expressway.
Isn't it also home to the fattest population of any city in the US? Did I not read recently that the Mayor had gone on a diet to set an example?
It was the fattest city in the US about 3 years ago, but I think Detroit or San Antonio holds that now. However, with cheesesteaks, hoagies, scrapple, Tastykakes, and soft pretzels, I'm not surprised.
A cheese steak:
Scrapple:
Tell your kids never to eat a piece of meat that looks like a shingle on your house.
A box of Tasty Kakes:
They taste good but have about 20g of fat per serving, so don't eat them often.
And a hoagie:
Now, if these are foods that you can buy at every convience store and and pizza place in the city, no wonder Philly was the fattest city.
AgentWood wrote: my dad, being a native philadelphian, grew up on the crap they call scrapple.
I never ate the crap. I remember seeing it at a diner when I was a kid and it reminded me of the shingles that were falling off the sides and roof of my mother's house. Although I ate cheese steaks a lot when I wasn't a vegetarian. My mother used to go to the local deli and get some "chipped steak" and made cheese steaks, but they're the worst thing you can put in your body. I still eat cheese hoagies (you don't put mayo on them, but oil) and Tasty kakes, but I'm not fat, yet.
R U Kidding? Defend? Technically I don't live in Brum now - and if you'd been here you would know why. Dump.
This blue-eyed boy that wants to be wrote:
AgentWood wrote: my dad, being a native philadelphian, grew up on the crap they call scrapple.
I never ate the crap. I remember seeing it at a diner when I was a kid and it reminded me of the shingles that were falling off the sides and roof of my mother's house. Although I ate cheese steaks a lot when I wasn't a vegetarian. My mother used to go to the local deli and get some "chipped steak" and made cheese steaks, but they're the worst thing you can put in your body. I still eat cheese hoagies (you don't put mayo on them, but oil) and Tasty kakes, but I'm not fat, yet.
Give it time. :D
bLuE oRdEr wrote:
This blue-eyed boy that wants to be wrote:
AgentWood wrote: my dad, being a native philadelphian, grew up on the crap they call scrapple.
I never ate the crap. I remember seeing it at a diner when I was a kid and it reminded me of the shingles that were falling off the sides and roof of my mother's house. Although I ate cheese steaks a lot when I wasn't a vegetarian. My mother used to go to the local deli and get some "chipped steak" and made cheese steaks, but they're the worst thing you can put in your body. I still eat cheese hoagies (you don't put mayo on them, but oil) and Tasty kakes, but I'm not fat, yet.
Give it time. :D
I realize that my summer diets of Chinese food and ice cream will eventually catch up with me, but then again, I see my peers in college ordering Domino's at 11:30pm and I figure they'll be worse off.
It's easier to keep it off now than it is to take it off later.
A word of advice from the skinny guy who used to order three breakfasts at Denny's after the clubs closed.
The town I live in is a complete chavhole. Its also full of racists & bigots. Roman Catholic homes, migrant workers homes, chapels, churches & schools have been attacked with petrol, pipe & paint bombs. Its also the drug capital of Northern Ireland. My town has no decent pubs or nightclubs to go to on weekends and our football team are shite too 
Snoopy wrote: The town I live in is a complete chavhole. Its also full of racists & bigots. Roman Catholic homes, migrant workers homes, chapels, churches & schools have been attacked with petrol, pipe & paint bombs. Its also the drug capital of Northern Ireland. My town has no decent pubs or nightclubs to go to on weekends and our football team are shite too
I take it you dont work for the Ballymena tourist board then :D
I gave up defending my home town years back, after all it's just roads & buildings, there are thousands of 'Manchesters' all over the world, and people tend not to change much wherever you go.
The most embarrassing thing about my town is the council. In the early 90's ELO were going to play a gig in our town but some of the local councillors kicked up a fuss because ELO's music was evil and odd. The gig didn't go ahead. I not a fan of ELO but fss, how embarrassing.
Barney Army wrote:
I gave up defending my home town years back, after all it's just roads & buildings, there are thousands of 'Manchesters' all over the world, and people tend not to change much wherever you go.
very true, there are bad things and good things about everywhere. i like Manchester better than I used to, but that's probably because I went to live in Leeds for a bit,and you don't appreciate what you've got... The good thing about living in an average sized city is that bands come to play there, you don't have to wait months for something decent to come on at the cinema and foreign food isn't restricted to chinese and curry (although those are both well catered for in Manchester), there is also actual access to art, museums and an interesting history. Unfortunately there is still a slight air of parochialism compared to London, and the people aren't as good-looking. But then the beer is cheaper, so that's that sorted.
sugarcane wrote:
Barney Army wrote:
I gave up defending my home town years back, after all it's just roads & buildings, there are thousands of 'Manchesters' all over the world, and people tend not to change much wherever you go.
very true, there are bad things and good things about everywhere. i like Manchester better than I used to, but that's probably because I went to live in Leeds for a bit,and you don't appreciate what you've got... The good thing about living in an average sized city is that bands come to play there, you don't have to wait months for something decent to come on at the cinema and foreign food isn't restricted to chinese and curry (although those are both well catered for in Manchester), there is also actual access to art, museums and an interesting history. Unfortunately there is still a slight air of parochialism compared to London, and the people aren't as good-looking. But then the beer is cheaper, so that's that sorted.
WHATS WRONG WITH LEEDS!!!!!?
I don't consider the place I was born as my home town, seeing as we left there when I was four months old. Worcester is where I was brought up, and as much as I hated the place a lot of the time when I lived there, I can now see its good points (mind you, even Chatham has good points when compared to fucking Gillingham!). Believe it or not, I miss living in London now, even though I work there 5 days a week. It's little things like having to leave gigs early to get the last train home (fuck knows what I am gonna do tomorrow night!!)
even though the tourists get on my tits.
Was down there this weekend for the Monday Night football game. Lifelong Steelers fan. Good drinks at The Green Flash and nice weather the entire time. Not my place to live, though.
AgentWood wrote: my dad, being a native philadelphian, grew up on the crap they call scrapple.
that shit is awesome. you don't know what you are missing. it is like all the greatness of sausage, and then some.
i wish we had in out west...
and Green, do you remember a record shop in Corvalis named "Uncle Hungry's?" turns out my roommate is friends with old paul (the owner)... he lives down here now, and pops by from time to time.
periwinkle wrote:
AgentWood wrote: my dad, being a native philadelphian, grew up on the crap they call scrapple.
that shit is awesome. you don't know what you are missing. it is like all the greatness of sausage, and then some.
i wish we had in out west...
and Green, do you remember a record shop in Corvalis named "Uncle Hungry's?" turns out my roommate is friends with old paul (the owner)... he lives down here now, and pops by from time to time.
I've never tasted it, but have you ever read the ingredients label for scrapple? It lives up to its name well.
