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« Reply #15 on: Wednesday, June 10, 2009, 17:39:27 » |
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Had six weeks work in Slough a few years ago, my company arranged overnight accommodation Monday-Thursday. After two days I told them to cancel it and I would travel everyday!! They never did understand why, so I asked them to just visit the town and they would soon realise what an unfriendly dump it was!
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ibelieveinmrreeves
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« Reply #16 on: Wednesday, June 10, 2009, 17:44:43 » |
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Was good to see you Saturday mate.
Ah, cheers mate! Down there again tonight for the match. Was good to see you too - and was that Greener? It's been so long I've forgotten everyones names - bar you, Jim and Dan. |
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« Reply #17 on: Wednesday, June 10, 2009, 18:11:20 » |
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I live about 5 minutes from Slough, I try to avoid it as much as possible. You'll probably hear about 10 different languages being spoken when you walk from one end of the high street to the other (if you don't get stabbed on the way that is). I really can't emphasis enough how much of a shit hole it is. If your in the area Windsor is much nicer!
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« Reply #18 on: Wednesday, June 10, 2009, 19:06:28 » |
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It's a concrete grey hell hole that make Bracknell look appealing and Basingstoke positively a Utopian paradise. Slough should really be pronounced Sluff. Because it sound a bit like slush. After snow goes bad, slush is a grey disappointing mess that nobody likes. Which also sums up Sluff. Plus the traffic is always shit when I've been there. Have a nice time  |
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michael
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« Reply #19 on: Wednesday, June 10, 2009, 19:30:54 » |
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So in summary... the Swindon lot say that Slough is shit.
Sometimes life really does imitate art.
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« Reply #20 on: Wednesday, June 10, 2009, 20:29:34 » |
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Betjeman quite liked Swindon...well railway Swindon..he even co wrote a History of Swindon to celebrate the 50th anniversary of amalgamation of Old and New Swindon into one borough in 1950.
He was particularly fond of St Mark's church, I seem to remember. Betjeman was also a bit of a snob, if truth be told. In 'Motopolis', where he described the town/gown division in Oxford in the 1930s, he wrote: 'East Oxford, where the works are, beyond Magdalen Bridge, is indistinguishable from Swindon, Neasden or Tooting Bec.'He wasn't trying to pay any compliments to Cowley there. |
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« Reply #21 on: Wednesday, June 10, 2009, 20:59:01 » |
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I used to have a place in Bracknell which was a horrible totally soulless non-town. Sometimes when it really got me down, I'd drive over to Slough to cheer myself up. It's that bad
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« Reply #22 on: Thursday, June 11, 2009, 07:35:43 » |
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Ah, cheers mate! Down there again tonight for the match. Was good to see you too - and was that Greener? It's been so long I've forgotten everyones names - bar you, Jim and Dan.
Yeah, that was him, hoping to go up a bit more next year so should see you about more. |
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« Reply #23 on: Thursday, June 11, 2009, 08:53:38 » |
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Slough really is a shit hole. From Cippenham to Langley the whole area is just a skid mark on the underpants of society. I can't think of any reason why anyone would need to go there. Maidenhead and Windsor are much nicer.
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Bogus Dave
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« Reply #24 on: Thursday, June 11, 2009, 09:06:04 » |
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Isn't maidenhead by the seaside?
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« Reply #25 on: Thursday, June 11, 2009, 09:10:51 » |
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No.
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Bogus Dave
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« Reply #26 on: Thursday, June 11, 2009, 09:21:48 » |
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Are we sure about this?
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« Reply #27 on: Thursday, June 11, 2009, 09:22:40 » |
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Are you thinking of Minehead, Dave?
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« Reply #28 on: Thursday, June 11, 2009, 09:23:02 » |
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Isn't maidenhead by the seaside?
That's Minehead |
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Bogus Dave
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« Reply #29 on: Thursday, June 11, 2009, 09:25:44 » |
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Oh. Quite possibly
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