Tagline for your town

Tagline for your town

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Skodaku

1,805 posts

218 months

Friday 29th August 2014
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Lincoln. Home of the Tank.

Especially Friday nights on the High St.

s p a c e m a n

10,752 posts

147 months

Friday 29th August 2014
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stongle said:
Chafford Hundred, Tilbury for bank robbers.
nono The labyrinth, you'll never escape.

I can navigate most of London without a map, I regularly get lost in Chafford Hundred.

Skodaku

1,805 posts

218 months

Friday 29th August 2014
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Hull. Like Grimsby but not as sophisticated.

SeeFive

8,280 posts

232 months

Friday 29th August 2014
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Crossflow Kid said:
I've never seen deluded spelt f-o-n-d before.
Far from deluded. Great place to bring up 4 kids, the Kevin and Perrys of this world will never be satisfied because they simply want to focus on the bad, and ignore the opportunity before them.

Yes, it is not the greatest place on the planet for nightclubs etc, but nor are many other towns of its type. It has a great deal to offer families and folks that want to live a normal and varied life. Sadly, some people will never be happy. Fortunately, there are not many in our neighbourhood.

evenflow

8,784 posts

281 months

Friday 29th August 2014
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Gaspode said:
Alternatively: Last Refuge of the Defiant Ex-Hippie

But our Farmer's Market is the Dog's bks.
Yep :thumbsup:

SeeFive

8,280 posts

232 months

Friday 29th August 2014
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Nice surprise tonight. One of the kids friends (still kids at 27 !) comes back from where she had to move for her boyfriend's work in Kent every month as there is not a lot to do in her area. They have invited us to the local pub with them, so must be off.

It's not every night I get to spend time with a bunch of attractive and fun filled 27 year old girls. smile. I am sure the wife will make sure I behave - a little bit...

Happy days...

beer


juliethotel

255 posts

148 months

Friday 29th August 2014
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Farnham - Even our chavs eat caviar.

Or alternatively

Farnham - a few miles too close to Aldershot.

bluntededdie

155 posts

149 months

Friday 29th August 2014
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Coatbridge-epicenter of the tonic wine triangle

The Vambo

6,643 posts

140 months

Friday 29th August 2014
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bluntededdie said:
Coatbridge-epicenter of the tonic wine triangle
For the local only...

Coatbridge & Airdrie- proof that st can roll uphill.

drivin_me_nuts

17,949 posts

210 months

Friday 29th August 2014
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Brighton; green mince, tatty and faded. It's not London, it's different, but full of ex Londoners who can't be too far from the smoke.

anonymous-user

53 months

Friday 29th August 2014
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SeeFive said:
Crossflow Kid said:
I've never seen deluded spelt f-o-n-d before.
Far from deluded. Great place to bring up 4 kids, the Kevin and Perrys of this world will never be satisfied because they simply want to focus on the bad, and ignore the opportunity before them.

Yes, it is not the greatest place on the planet for nightclubs etc, but nor are many other towns of its type. It has a great deal to offer families and folks that want to live a normal and varied life. Sadly, some people will never be happy. Fortunately, there are not many in our neighbourhood.
Give it a rest will you?
Well done for succeeding in bland middle class middle management middle of the road mediocrity and then kidding yourself it's worth somehow cherishing.
You're blown away by Basingstoke then have the audacity to call other people dull? Has it actually occurred to you that all this "great place to bring up kids and have back-slapping BBQs with my carbon-copy neighbours before visiting Ikea" is precisely the kind of benign dreary bks so indicative of a life half-lived that makes the place so awful?
Wow. Enjoy the fake skydiving.

Edited by anonymous-user on Friday 29th August 23:24

SeeFive

8,280 posts

232 months

Saturday 30th August 2014
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Crossflow Kid said:
Give it a rest will you?
Well done for succeeding in bland middle class middle management middle of the road mediocrity and then kidding yourself it's worth somehow cherishing.
You're blown away by Basingstoke then have the audacity to call other people dull? Has it actually occurred to you that all this "great place to bring up kids and have back-slapping BBQs with my carbon-copy neighbours before visiting Ikea" is precisely the kind of benign dreary bks so indicative of a life half-lived that makes the place so awful?
Wow. Enjoy the fake skydiving.

Edited by Crossflow Kid on Friday 29th August 23:24
Thanks for being so personal. You have no idea who the fk I am, but thanks for promoting me to middle class from a really seriously gratifying life. I never called you "dull" but am sure that my life is so much more fuller than yours from the grey picture you paint. You said in your first post that your life in Basingstoke was grey and dull in your rabbit hutch. We live in the same area, and mine is so far from it, it is unbelievable. Have you never thought perhaps it is you? You appear the most seriously narrow minded, unimaginative, negative person I have ever encountered on a forum or in real life. You have no idea of my life now, or what my life was before I had kids. It is such a shame that to everyone else you appear to be the epitome of Kevin and Perry in your narrow minded "it's not fair", apparently non traveled life. I feel very sorry for you to appear to have not experienced the global st holes of this planet and to have no imagination or drive to make the best of the life that you are landed with where you live, or the reachable area.

I am not "blown away" by Basingstoke, global experiences lead me to believe that it it a good place to live and bring up a family of 4 kids a with a wide variety of facilities close to home, and connections to things that such a town could not possibly provide due to its geographical location.

Stay with your Xbox and pizza while I enjoy a varied life with many good people in a great and seriously opportunistic location.

From some wker that decides to ignore the facilities provided because the "real thing" is an hour away is so narrow minded. You ignored all of the other great things that this area has to offer like someone who has no imagination whatsoever. You are a seriously sad person who sees someone making the best of their life, giving their kids the best start possible and criticising it from a position of admitted greyness. I feel truly sorry for your sad life. Wake up tomorrow. Put a different hat on and go for it. Do you need an airfield and a cinema directly in your little grey garden because you can't be bothered to venture beyond its borders for a few miles? Take the car, or if you can't drive, take the fking bus to somewhere local. Going back to an earlier post challenge, tell me something that you cannot get within a reasonable time from here that you can get from anywhere else of a similar status. Ignore the rest of this post and do that.

My jumping days are long gone admittedly because there is more to life - I get better kicks out of life from the people I am with and the very different and varied opportunities that open up.. Life is not just a canopy...

You appear to me and no doubt many others reading this a a seriously negative trolling 1980s humour fed tt.

Sorry it is so late, but I have had a great night out with a great bunch of people from the generation below us, and a whole bunch of other strangers of mixed ages who joined us at the local. How was yours?

I have never visited Ikea, but if you want to cast aspersions that is fine. It sums you up completely as a stereotypical 80s led humorist. Very sad.




Edited by SeeFive on Saturday 30th August 02:07

DervVW

2,223 posts

138 months

Saturday 30th August 2014
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The Beaver King said:
While SeeFive may have gotten a little 'passionate', I respect his feelings towards his town.

Redditch (my town) has a reputation as being crap and a poor Birmingham overspill. Most of the locals are quick to run it down and generally bad-mouth the place.

Having lived in a few different places over the years (Linconshire, South Shields, Cambridge); I actually think Redditch is quite nice. It has its bad areas, but it is very green, has a good road network, a decent shopping centre, is sat between the shopping delights of Birmingham and the quaint countryside of Stratford-upon-Avon.

It actually has quite a lot going for it and is growing quickly.
Redditch and Telford, both places I visit often are a joy to drive around when I live in Birmingham that really isn't

Studio117

4,250 posts

190 months

Saturday 30th August 2014
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I live in mockneystoke - Surrey bumpkins who think they're from London innit. Woking massive in the house!


davepoth

29,395 posts

198 months

Saturday 30th August 2014
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A company I worked for had its head office in Basingstoke. I once drove a rental Hyundai Accent there on a business trip. After driving through the town and parking up at the HQ building, I thought to myself "this is a very apt car for the trip"; inoffensive, but nondescript and ultimately forgettable.


SeeFive

8,280 posts

232 months

Saturday 30th August 2014
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davepoth said:
A company I worked for had its head office in Basingstoke. I once drove a rental Hyundai Accent there on a business trip. After driving through the town and parking up at the HQ building, I thought to myself "this is a very apt car for the trip"; inoffensive, but nondescript and ultimately forgettable.
Fair enough, each to their own from a position of a lack of knowledge and a mundane hire chariot smile I have regularly arrived in many towns in a 400hp V8 and have felt the same all across the UK, probably incorrectly. But knowing this town intimately and the surrounding areas, I am glad I chose my family's base here and despise the irreverent and blinkered 80s comedian viewpoint. Where do you hail from sir? I will probably have visited it myself, albeit while making a lot more noise than a Hyundai could. smile. May I comment please?

wildcat45

8,056 posts

188 months

Saturday 30th August 2014
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SeeFive, I love that you are so passionate about where you live. Fair play to you, but has it not occurred to you that there is a lot of Micky taking in this thread? The whole thread invites mickey taking.

I took the piss out of my hometown Tynemouth, and someone on here from the town across the river responded, and we had a bit of banter. The fact is that I think Tynemouth is the best place to live. I grew up here, moved back here twice. We have award winning beaches, dramatic coastline, a wonderful park, a light rail system, good roads, bars, restaurants, coffee shops, flea markets, farmers markets......

It is however more fun on a thread like this to take the piss out of it, and it's core of old money "connected" and inter related residents. Very much a minority, but it makes for an amusing thread.

I am sure most places are a state of mind. My mother hated London despite the fact my old man had a great job and they lived in an amazing a flat in a very nice part of town, Highgate. She had the opportunity to live in and interact with one of the greatest cities on earth at a very exciting time (1960s) but she hated the place and didn't have a good word to say about it 'till the day she died. My Dad however loved London and would use any opportunity to get back there, even for a day.

If you have time, Google Stamford in Lincolnshire. You will see it is a beautiful place. It's tag line is "Welcome to Stamford, stay awhile amidst its ancient charms". Or something like that. Not far from London, on the A1 set amongst sleepy limestone villages. A lovely place. I lived there for 3 years as a kid and fking hate the place. Well I did. Nostalgia for my childhood means I am warming to it. I was hoping someone would come on here to mock it. It's a state of mind, my mind. I have a really lovely to some place.

I think you need to take this thread for what it is. Light hearted banter. Maybe there is milage in a thread about what people love about their home towns? Get one started.

Edited by wildcat45 on Saturday 30th August 09:15

anonymous-user

53 months

Saturday 30th August 2014
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SeeFive said:
Crossflow Kid said:
Give it a rest will you?
Well done for succeeding in bland middle class middle management middle of the road mediocrity and then kidding yourself it's worth somehow cherishing.
You're blown away by Basingstoke then have the audacity to call other people dull? Has it actually occurred to you that all this "great place to bring up kids and have back-slapping BBQs with my carbon-copy neighbours before visiting Ikea" is precisely the kind of benign dreary bks so indicative of a life half-lived that makes the place so awful?
Wow. Enjoy the fake skydiving.

Edited by anonymous-user on Friday 29th August 23:24
Lots of really angry stuff, a lot of which was wrong and really quite rude.
Calm down Petal.
A few points for you to ponder:
Don't whine about people getting personal after you've already broken the seal by referring to them as Kevin and Perry, and suggesting their home is stuffed with pizza boxes and infested by rats.
I never said my life was "grey", I said the town is. And it is.
Me? Not well travelled? Not seen the real st holes of the world? Oh dear, you're so very wide of the mark on that one it's actually funny. Trying exploring the local area a little more towards Alton and there's a very big clue.
Things you can see elsewhere...Just off the top of my head....a view of the Brecon Beacons. Will that do?
And just to put you straight, I do get out and about in the surrounding area. You appear to have leapt somewhat rapidly to the conclusion that "not liking Basingstoke" equates to "sitting at home with the curtains drawn".....and you call me narrow minded?!
The surrounding area is good but that's NOT Basingstoke is it? The town itself is very average, as others have said. It's just mediocre. An ice rink.....wow. No other town in the UK has one of them, has it? All of the things you say make Basingstoke special are in pretty much every other town in the UK. Making the most of somewhere isn't a function of where you live, it's a function of how you live.
Yet you appear to positively revel in all the franchised Anytown fluff. Good for you. It's just not for me, nor many other people.
Next you'll be saying Basingstoke is home to the tallest building between London and New York.;)

Edited by anonymous-user on Saturday 30th August 11:23

Piersman2

6,596 posts

198 months

Saturday 30th August 2014
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Perchance, is Seefive's house in Basingrad on the market at the moment? scratchchinbiggrin

SeeFive

8,280 posts

232 months

Saturday 30th August 2014
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Piersman2 said:
Perchance, is Seefive's house in Basingrad on the market at the moment? scratchchinbiggrin
biggrin.

Good thinking but no ulterior motive smile