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

chavs, cotton mills, poles/nigerians clogging up bus stops, empty pubs, greatest concentration(per head)of Rolls Royces(oops that was in 1920), 20 minutes on the train to Manchester

Chris Nash wrote: Sam, you forgot to mention 'Alton Towers'

Oh yeah. Put that it the bad list.

Justin Lee Collins (what a prat) The Wurzels Blackthorn Massive Attack Slaves

On the plus side however the Clifton Suspension Bridge. A truly wonderful piece of Brunelian design, completely wasted on the people of Bristol

Ferrits whippets flat caps pigeon fanciers slag heaps wankest shopping centre in the u.k (apart from Wakefield)

Er cant think of owt good,apart from;

Excellent nightlife Cheap housing 20 mins from the peak district Hardest footy firm in the country 9Cardiff are fuckin wank!) sexy ladies Not too many Immigrants/lowest ethnic majority grouping as per 250k in the u.k

Think thats it,oh no......

Lord and Lady live there

Rivers Drains Fields Cows Potatoes Fishing Inbreeding Chavs Car crashes deaths from car crashes country roads

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

mountains crippled pedesrians drunk frat boys greedy panhandlers

i grew up in estes park, so i completely understand the people's republic of boulder!

however, you forgot: VW buses people playing frisbee with their dogs hare krishnas on the pearl street mall

and i remember another one about south florida: OLD PEOPLE!

Ranked 20something-th French town when I was born. Ranked 8th or 7th nowadays...

My pub Home friends Business Drunks (Tunja is the Colombian City where people drink the most):beer2: addicts a lot of students :sex: Farmers my job :\ohwell: Cold Stupid People :hate:
Boredom Colorado Express (The Best Hot Dog worldwide) poverty :(

Hmm. What comes to mind...

Stetson University. My McD's. Thirty-minute bus ride to Daytona. Hour drive on Interstate 4 to Orlando. Caffe da Vinci. Saint Barnabas Episcopal Church. Mainstreet [Down Town] District. Boston Coffeehouse and Coffee Bistro. Three cemetaries, one I've already explored so far. Earl Brown Park. My family. My friends.

Home.

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote:

Andrès wrote:

Farmers

erm...Andrès, that's a cowboy...not a farmer...

there is a frigging difference...

yep...you're right, there are both of them round here anyway

some people do....but usually they have this kind of boots:

nice scenery rain cold neds/chavs junkies rain crap pubs small town attitude rain 30 mins from glasgow tesco town people (usally jumkies/neds) talking with a nasal drawl. people did not speak this way 20 years ago rain all the time biggotry racist homophobic it rains often and some times it rains

home family freinds studio trees Heaton park the Ostrich hotel Mark e smith in the pub metrolink M60 moors

accrington stanley the coppice mates vikki entwistle (janice battersby) ermmm ??

Been in town tonight.Ex girlfriends and ex bosses in Bar Sport.Which ones did i decide to ignore and which ones did i decide to talk to....?

I forgot about our 4/20 fest.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBWmU_CXIYc

Old Lead Foot wrote: home family freinds studio trees Heaton park the Ostrich hotel Mark e smith in the pub metrolink M60 moors

My friend lives near you!

Dodjem wrote:

Old Lead Foot wrote: home family freinds studio trees Heaton park the Ostrich hotel Mark e smith in the pub metrolink M60 moors

My friend lives near you!

but you cant see any of that nice stuff from the boot of a car

GOOD THINGS

Some nice parks Firework displays on bonfire night or last night Peace when they're not on Two good local shopping precincts People are dead genuine Salford RLFC

BAD THINGS

Trackie bottoms tucked in socks Twats parked over our driveway Too many pound shops Girls walking round streets in pyjama bottoms (WTF)

Nevertheless it's a good area

golf,

cricket,

the f.a.cup, country pubs, country walks,

country bike rides,

and this is where i want to be.

79 order wrote:

and this is where i want to be.

Even by your standards, that's a beauty

Smog

London, then? The most toxic environment I've ever experienced.

an hour's drive to the coast......or for snow skiing (why not both in the same day?)

tree huggers vs. the tree loggers (in a BIG way)

a LOT of Deadheads (Ken Kesey was from Springfield)

the movie Animal House

Steve Prefontaine

a lot of trees in the western third of the state where most of us live. Rain to keep 'em green as well.

5 Super Bowl championships

Hot, but slightly fake women

Scorching summers

Outstanding Tex-Mex

Home of the frozen margarita

Horrible baseball

Failed F1 venue

Assassination of JFK

Friendly folks

Lots of commerce