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« Reply #15 on: Saturday, June 22, 2013, 19:23:47 » |
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Poi Pet - A Cambodian border town.
You ever been to Penang mate? It's like Swindon-next-the-sea but with an army of legless beggars (well, George Town is anyway). |
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Dostoyevsky
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« Reply #16 on: Saturday, June 22, 2013, 19:24:01 » |
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To be honest it's the giant brown river through the middle of it that reflects badly on the rest. The town centre is a total dump, but the Arts Centre and the Transporter Bridge are actually quite nice.
Nemo, that river, The Usk, is truly beautiful up river, absolutely stunning, but it disgorges itself in the Bristol Channel in a very unsightly way. |
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Peter Gibbons
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« Reply #17 on: Saturday, June 22, 2013, 19:24:48 » |
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I'm told Redcar takes some beating. Not been myself though.
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« Reply #18 on: Saturday, June 22, 2013, 19:28:56 » |
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Nemo, that river, The Usk, is truly beautiful up river, absolutely stunning, but it disgorges itself in the Bristol Channel in a very unsightly way.
Oh absolutely, much of rural Wales is bloody gorgeous. Which is why Newport makes even less sense. |
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« Reply #19 on: Saturday, June 22, 2013, 19:32:10 » |
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I'm told Redcar takes some beating. Not been myself though.
Its not nice but it is Middlesborough lite - although not too lite |
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donkey
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« Reply #20 on: Saturday, June 22, 2013, 19:35:34 » |
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Bury says hello.
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« Reply #21 on: Saturday, June 22, 2013, 19:37:32 » |
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« Reply #22 on: Saturday, June 22, 2013, 19:37:59 » |
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Bury says hello.
No, no and thrice no. Black pudding. World famous market - self appointed. Its a good honest working class town. |
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donkey
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« Reply #23 on: Saturday, June 22, 2013, 19:41:35 » |
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No, no and thrice no. Black pudding. World famous market - self appointed. Its a good honest working class town.
I'll bow to your greater knowledge. I only know it from going to Gigg Lane. If they invented black pudding I unreservedly withdraw my negative comment. |
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Dostoyevsky
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« Reply #24 on: Saturday, June 22, 2013, 19:45:33 » |
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Oh absolutely, much of rural Wales is bloody gorgeous. Which is why Newport makes even less sense.
Very right Nemo, but the people in Newport are desperately poor, provision needs to be made for these impoverished folk. They have been smashed to bits. I got on well with them, when I holidayed in Merthyr Tydfil and sought out a pub because I had to change trains there, |
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Peter Gibbons
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« Reply #25 on: Saturday, June 22, 2013, 19:46:17 » |
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AHAH! Just remembered the worst place I ever visited. Fitzwilliam, near Barnsley. It's an ex-mining town. A lot of the old back-to-backs have been demolished and nothing new built, meaning there are rows of streets of nothing. Aside from that, it is one big council estate with no jobs, full of kids on (presumably stolen) motorbikes. Think 'Skint', but with fewer opportunities.
I dare say there are many worse places in the world, but I think it's the worst one I've visited.
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« Reply #26 on: Saturday, June 22, 2013, 19:47:00 » |
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newport is fucking horrid. I had to wait there's whilst my passport was processed. Blokes pissing up shop windows everything grey and dull. Proper shit hole.
Birmingham,wolves,walsall area is a right old shit pit
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« Reply #27 on: Saturday, June 22, 2013, 19:48:42 » |
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Bridgwater has to be up there, Widnes is horrible too but for me its probably Middlesbrough.
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From the station at Colchester
To the cells of Warrington
From the services at Leicester
To the slums of Northampton
We travel over England
And one day Europe too
Cos we all follow the Swindon
We're the famous Town End crew.
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« Reply #28 on: Saturday, June 22, 2013, 19:49:11 » |
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I was going to venture Merthyr, but if I did I'd be worried that Dosser would explode. So I won't.
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« Reply #29 on: Saturday, June 22, 2013, 19:52:33 » |
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Arriba,
they are very poor, there but the grace of God go us! I am pleased Newport County have regained league status.
I have a soft spot for the place because I changed there on my way to Swindon games in my teens.
That said, it is shocking!
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