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Old 05 May 2003, 09:01 PM
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http://www.idler.co.uk/html/frontsec..._5/england.htm

Some of the descriptions of the places are a) spot on and b) will have you laughing away
Old 05 May 2003, 09:05 PM
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No competition - Slough!
Old 05 May 2003, 09:11 PM
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No surpise lol
Town/Village: Sunderland

Not so much a town as a mortuary. Industry has long departed, leaving the residents to shuffle round the town's meagre consumer options like zombies in a George A Romero movie - while seagulls **** on them.

Old 05 May 2003, 09:16 PM
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Crap Town: Ilkeston, Derbyshire
Amenities: Market Square for fighting
Pubs: Plenty, but too scared to go in
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Old 05 May 2003, 09:18 PM
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Workington. So dirty even the seagulls fly backwards to keep the ****e out of their eyes. Inhabitants nylon clad, parking terrible, nightclubs have blu-tack instead of carpets, pavements coated with teenager puke. In short, dull, dirty and sticky - best avoided.

It does have one thing in its favour - its not Barrow....

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Old 05 May 2003, 09:19 PM
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Hello

Hastings normally wins these things. A place I remember very fondly as my father used to take me there occasionally as a child to play crazy golf.

But having visted in later life (picking up EF Students!!) it is truly awful.

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Old 05 May 2003, 09:23 PM
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Morecambe

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Old 05 May 2003, 11:15 PM
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Yep has to be .....Dirty, noisy, smelly, conjested, over-crowded ~ LONDON
Old 05 May 2003, 11:19 PM
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Hastings is OK.

Seaford and newhaven are right holes, as are some of the medway towns.

Bottom line is, if the Place has a LIDL then you know it's going to be poo! lol
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Ahh good, my old home town has made it with a fulsome review...

Town/Village: Wolverhampton

The most attractive thing about Wolverhampton was the multi-story car park on School Street, the roof level of which used to offer attractive rural vistas of Staffordshire, Shropshire and the Wrekin. However, the council knocked it down in the 90s. Now its most attractive feature is an orbital dual carriageway so impossibly difficult to negotiate (unless you're a local) that it actually performs a service to the community by keeping curious outsiders away from this gutter belch of the West Midlands.

Wolverhampton was made a city in 2001, and as the nation shrugged, TV pictures were beamed into every home by way of the 6 o'clock news, showing Wolverhampton's town crier (who reasoned that a testimony to 60s concrete renewal required a town crier?) announcing this momentous event to at least 6 interested residents gathered on Dudley Street in the pissing rain.

According to some, the night life in Wolverhampton has improved in the last few years. Yeah, it's great if you're a suede-headed moron who diligently phones each of your mates in turn before a night out to make sure you aren't all going to be wearing the same colour YSL shirt, before heading down to Yates's to pull a 40 year-old mother-of-5 and punch someone in the face for having a different skin tone to yourself.

Unemployment in Wolverhampton is, of course staggeringly high and the city is so divided along class and racial lines that it is hardly a city at all but a collection of tribal groupings. Some of its outlying suburbs (such as Heathtown) are terrifying concrete wastelands too terrible to describe (Heathtown is where the people of Wolverhampton go to die).

The town has given birth to such talent as Slade and Eric Idle. It's local politicos, whisky-supping sham socialists to the core, have the ruddy faced corpulence of the undeniably corrupt about them.

In the evenings, the smell of hops from Banks's Brewery permeates the town like the stench of a trapped animal slowly decaying in a drain pipe.

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Mitcham isn't on the list.

It should be.
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In fact, so has a place familiar with a number of scoobynetters ..

Town/Village: Sutton

If the Daily Mail were a town, it would be Sutton. The entire place reeks of intolerance, sexual repression and aspirational interior decoration.

A festering carbuncle formed on the extremity of the Victoria Line, Sutton today maintains a large population of unsuccessful middle management commuters, who can be seen of a weekend scurrying around town frantically purchasing home electronics and DIY equipment, desperately trying to anaesthetize the gaping hole in their miserable existences with rabid consumption.

Meanwhile, the local sink estates, virtually unchanged since the slum clearances of the early fifties, provide an endless supply of interchangeable bile-filled-baseball-hatted-white-reeboked-hoop-earinged ****s who would be happy to do you harm if you dare venture into the town centre and the sorry selection of themed sports bars and nightclubs on offer there.
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Excellent summary of Sutton.

They also spend their w/e at Croydon IKEA buying hideous nasty "furniture", to go in their lounges which, incidentally, are totally dominated by a huge, plasticky, **** and light covered, vulgar, TV/HiFi set up, which has **** sound and visual quality despite it's size and expense.
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hmm, that sounds like my setup in my new appt, IKEA stuff plus some nice AV kit with lots of buttons to press
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Did anyone mention Morecambe?

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Doncaster
S****horpe
Brigg
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Worst city..Hull

I live in Lincolnshire...........GET ME OUT OF HERE...
Old 06 May 2003, 10:16 AM
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Sorry to say but my home town is the worst - officially.
Newport in south Wales has the highest drink, drugs and violence related crime per had of population in the UK.
Pity because it could be a brilliant city and most of the people are great, but as usual there is s0d all to do in the towns around Newport and we have a large influx of drunken loonies on the weekend who come to fight in our pubs rather than theirs.
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Edinburgh - Glasgow debate is soooo funny.

Glasgow is worse than Edinburgh though
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Slough - couldn't agree more and the description of Croydon is also worringly close to the truth - especially the bit about West Croydon Bus Station.

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Macclesfield always was the worst place for decent signposting, just a bit worse than Leicester.

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The bit about Pompey made me laugh
Nottarf Krap = Fratton Park backwards

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Some of its outlying suburbs (such as Heathtown) are terrifying concrete wastelands too terrible to describe (Heathtown is where the people of Wolverhampton go to die).

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Trust me lads you've never seen **** all like Heathtown
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I once went to Mablethorpe... it will never ever happen again.

Do not go there... you have been warned...
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Hey Rev, I went to Runcorn once and came back with VD just from stopping at some lights (yes they were red!).

Stoke on Trent a depressed area - certainly.
Stoke on Trent full of mutants - possibly.

Where do I live, Newcastle under Lyme, right next to Stoke, alot of my mates are from Stoke and they are...........................................not mutants.

Shame on you you ransid ********.

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My vote for ****hole of the earth.....RUNCORN.
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Hey Rev, I went to Runcorn once and came back with VD just from stopping at some lights (yes they were red!).

Stoke on Trent a depressed area - certainly.
Stoke on Trent full of mutants - possibly.

Where do I live, Newcastle under Lyme, right next to Stoke, alot of my mates are from Stoke and they are...........................................not mutants.

Shame on you you ransid ********.

SKOOSH.
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My vote for ****hole of the earth.....RUNCORN.



BTW......JUST KIDDING MATE...STOKE IS A SH@THOLE.
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So bad he named them twice!


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