when you think about the town (or area) you live in, what comes to mind?

flamingoes neon crockett and tubbs alligators palm trees

Snow, snow, snow, ice, sleet, snow, snow, cold.

That's just this week.

Pit stacks Chavs Glory (LUFC) Shame (Shannon Mathews) Family ties

Plastic Gangsters Cement It's 30 minutes on the train to Birmingham in one direction and 50 minutes to London in the other.Although most of the time they are doing works that fcuks up the entire network

Ugly town in a beauttiful county (Warwickshire). Poor relation of the area compared to Leamington , Warwick and Stratford Upon Avon.

This could have been written by me.

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Canberra

for bogan and yobbo see here.

This was actually filmed in my suburb. I've just been out to get the paper and there's a fookin smashed beer bottle just up the street.

shit.

and steel.

but mainly shit.

also, you'd think 'the scunthorpe problem' would refer to the mere fact of its existence, but no:

if typhoo put the 't' in britain, who put the 'cunt' in scunthorpe?

a friend of mine's on the shaun keaveny breakfast show (6music) next wednesday doing 'toast the nation'. i'm hoping she'll mention that the book from which 'get carter' was adapted was originally set in sunny scunny.

oh, and the baths hall here was the only place peely continued doing an annual djing gig long after he'd stopped playing everywhere else...

My town consists of posh c___s with massive houses. And a massive coke epidemic.

Its also supposedly and amazingly the birthplace of punk, Daylight saving, a famous chicken, and former home to exiled French leaders Napoleon III and Charles de Gaulle.

lOVELY surrounding COUNTRYSIDE

BAD PUBS

TERRIBLE CLUB(one ONLY)

CHAVS

and often you see local celeb walking along to THE SLIPPED DISC.....ROCKET MICK.

SHEDs

Football, The Moon, Maria, M25, DB, The Old Red Lion, Arsenal, Al Jarvis, High Barnet (tube), Music, New Barnet (train), The Queens, Sam, DG, The Co-op, Bonz hotel, Waitrose, The Present, GUD, Odeon Cinema, Football firms, Champagne Coctails, Leggy D, Odeon cinema steps, BP petrol station, the church passage, Joe, Lock - ins, Mays Lane, world cups, 307 bus, 184 bus, the circle, Love Will Tear us Apart, Starbucks, freedom, Wood Street Surgery, Happiness, countryside, euros championships, London, giving birth, losing, hangovers, Barnet General, Ford, Crystal Autocare, Eastenders, Coopers, tears, Surrachi, late night off licenses, New Order, Brandy Cocktails, Missy Jem, the police, spizzico, winning, SM, driving, sadness, the actual church, viking tattoos, red wine, Borehamwood, laughter, Wembley, Nanny Ryan, pissing Nan off by rolling in lagging drunk and caning her booze stash on too many occassions, walking down the hill from the tube.

Never remember bad things, no matter how bad - only good things.

palm trees lawns houses on top of each other consumerism race of 'beat thy neighbor' surfing hot, dry heat

ROCKET MICK wrote: lOVELY surrounding COUNTRYSIDE

BAD PUBS

TERRIBLE CLUB(one ONLY)

CHAVS

and often you see local celeb walking along to THE SLIPPED DISC.....ROCKET MICK.

SHEDs

That sounds exactly like Welwyn Garden City!

Anyway, the 2nd Garden City - yup, this was the blueprint for New Towns...

Used to be the drug capital of the UK (apparently) via The Cherry Tree pub (was a bikers pub, now a Waitrose).

The Cherry Tree used to host bands such as The Sex Pistols (before Manchester!), etc, etc.

There used to be a film studios here where "Brighton Rock" was filmed...

Erm, Nick Faldo and David James (Pompey goalkeeper) were born here - they've both now left!

Barry Norman, Brian Wilde (RIP), and Lewis Hamilton live in nearby Tewin (although Stevenage normally claims them)...

Erm, it has a John Lewis... And some trees... Naff-all pubs... Erm, and it's full of chavs...

And that's about it...

dry turd(s)

Animadversion wrote: dry turd(s)

Yes, but no longer white...

elephant shite

Charles Trénet wrote la mer between Sète and Montpellier during a journey by train.

The song is known in English as beyond the sea.

Neds, football, buckfast, sectarianism, soapbar, junkies, pubs, No Mean City, gangsters, nightclubs, tenements, deprivation, River City, the Clyde Home

Gazman wrote: Neds, football, buckfast, sectarianism, soapbar, junkies, pubs, No Mean City, gangsters, nightclubs, tenements, deprivation, River City, the Clyde Home

And what about the BAD points?:p

ROCKET MICK wrote:

Gazman wrote: Neds, football, buckfast, sectarianism, soapbar, junkies, pubs, No Mean City, gangsters, nightclubs, tenements, deprivation, River City, the Clyde Home

And what about the BAD points?:p

Rangers FC :barf:

Right now,

country quietness suburb in the middle of nowhere rural

metro station grocery drugstore peaceful Mario Lemieux (as he grew up over here) bowling hall (as I live just in front of the building) buses

hippies entitlement self righteous vegans who secretly drink the blood of newborns

mountains crippled pedesrians drunk frat boys greedy panhandlers

Hills Trams Staffordshire Bull Terriers

flat university bicycles students

Snorri xxx

portishead?

the band of course!

Continuous change. Incomers.

The good: World class ceramics (before all of the industry disappeared) Oatcakes Stoke City FC Stanley Matthews Staffordshire Moorlands

The bad: Chavs Druggies Port Vale FC The bus station in Hanley - that needs bombing!

Expensive houses Expensive shops Pubs Half built shopping centre Football players Rock stars Shit football team Metrolink