The thread where you can bitch about where you live!

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Inspired by the 'Dublin' thread! If that's a real cross-section of feeling, expect a Khmer Rouge-style rural revolt in Ireland soon! Since I found that thread so amusing, let's have more! (Maybe Ned can tell us about Richard Nixon inventing ska-punk, etc)

― dave q, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I shan't be contributing, I've already added more than enough to the library of claustrometrophobia

― dave q, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Seattle has redefined flakiness and insincerity as an art form.

― Brian MacDonald, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I live in Manchester. Why on earth would I want to bitch about where I live?

Although...I did like my ex-flatmate's story about buying a Manchester A-Z map. The shop assistant offered him a normal one or a deluxe one.

"What's the difference?" asked my flatmate. "The deluxe one hasn't got Salford on it".

― Tag, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I now haf 2 Manchester A-Zs after getting lost in Swinton. Apart from the burnt out cars and the brokenm windows Salford is wuvverly.

― Graham, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Chadwell Heath is populated by mutants who wear hoopy golden ear- rings.

― DG, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh goody.

Council workmen/builders of Worcester: You fucking lazy, slowcoach idiots. Why does Worcester look like a giant builing site all year, every year? Because you dullwits work at glacial pace, and stretch each job out over ridiculous lengths of time. A year and a half to build a cinema? And now you've taken half a year already to build a fountain - and you still haven't finished it! Not only that, you're builing it right where the river Severn floods, you dumb fucks (I was actually hoping for more 2000 style epic flooding last November, just so it would show you up as twats). I mean, it's only laying some paving slabs with pipes beneath it, what's keeping you??? No, don't worry about leaving your portaloos and digging equiptment all by the river side, it looks great, it's just what the tourists want to see each sodding year.
I walk past the fountain each morning on my way to work. I walk past at quarter to eight in the morning - you haven't even arrived on site yet. I walk back at ten to five at night - YOU'VE ALREADY LEFT! Don't work too hard will you? You fucking work-shy clowns.

And can we have some more mobile phone shops please? The hundreds we've got just aren't enough.

― DavidM, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Where I live is pretty nice, I'm afraid, so I don't really have anything to complain about on that score. Sorry.

― XStatic Peace, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My main objection today is that it's just too damn cold. You would think it was Iceland.

― Nicole, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

there aren't really any things i can think of that i dislike about london. i really do love it here.

― gareth, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Amen Gareth. I wouldn't change much at the moment.

― Andrew Williams, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think I'd like to burn it down and start again.

― DG, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't want to mention the city where I live because the bullies from the thread concerning it might come and impersonate me again the bastards. Suffice to say my phone was stolen and I was "roughed up" last night so I could go on a long rant. but I won't.

― Ronan, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

DG - you talking about London or the place where you live?

― Andrew Williams, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

London.

― DG, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

DG tricked into admitting Chadwell Heath is not London. Well done Andrew.

― Graham, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nope. I'm talking about CENTRAL London. Nice try you cheeky ginger monster.

― DG, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(me => ginger) = (chadwell heath => london), you mentalist.

― Graham, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

So you are ginger then?

― DG, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

its cold and the government is refusing to pay teachers a just wage so they are striking and i can never tell who are the queer boys and everyone is offended by the word queer and we are all mired in midcentury greenburgian modernism so trying to advocate anything not reactionary is disdianed

― anthony, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have just moved back to London and I'd like to bitch about two things:

1. the chronic stupidity of estate agents. 2. The fact that property costs an utter fortune. I just saw a flat today that cost the same as what the whole building would have cost ten years ago. Added to this that some building have been chopped up in such a cheap, money grubbing, unsymapathetic way.

― Ed, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Idiotic middle class tricycle-riding hippy-dippy psuedo- lefty "community" supposedly artists but actually arts-and-crafts crapola please just fuck off now.

Nottingham itself is alright, though. I just can't stand this funkstorung suburban hell...

― emil.y, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How the tower blocks are so grey. When the sky is grey it's so depressing you just want to pull the curtains on it all. The rubbish on the road... the smell of wee... just kidding! I *lurve* gritty realism!

― Sarah, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I hate Dublin because there is only one KFC.

― Ronan, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Actually yes I hate Brixton as there is no Burger King. However, it makes up for this with a Wimpy. Kind of.

― Sarah, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wimpy = Benders!!!!

London = I wouldn't change a thing including the fact it constantly changes.

― Pete, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Everyone in London wishes you had more (not all) of LA's weather. You just don't *admit* it, you lazy bastards! On a related note, should I risk Nicole's wrath by saying it's blue skies, bright sun and rapidly warming temperatures today?

Maybe Ned can tell us about Richard Nixon inventing ska-punk

Same basic worldview for the most part. "Be happy! Consume!"

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

good timing, i ahve spent all of today wandering round sheffields old works, factories, warehouse (old?!?!) etc etc lookig for somewhere to put on REHAB! with cylob and leila for next month, and have come up with a) a bingo hall b) a karate dojo c) "yorkshire artspace" who didnt answer the bell. its very depressing cos theres loads of neat looking places but we have noa access and no one will let us play in them eg the fire and police museum. so what to do? whats more annoying as that all of these great old redbrick industrial complex things are all in a state of Xtreme dilapidation or are being pulled down anyway; we just want to have a party in some of them before they ALL go! is that so much to ask? so, sheffield then, ripe with potential for wikked rehplexual party ZZZZZzones, but no actual to bring it about.

least i got some new garage tunes, so i have achieved something today.

actually the leading contender for venue is the Royal institute for the BLind.....

― ambrose, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

dunedin winters are deathly cold. there is too much rugby culture in this city.

― di, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"rugby" and "culture" in the same sentence has got to be a mistake.

― di, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

sydney is the ass that couldn't even make it into a william burroughs festival.

― goeff, Saturday, 19 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

LA: It's not New York. And it makes me lazy. Maybe I'll have more to say tomorrow, I don't know, zzzzzz.....

― Arthur, Saturday, 19 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

where i live is really quite beautiful, BUT:

- south eastern PA = nexus of white-trash nascar fans/yuppie main line-style twattage/soccer moms.

- you name me the last good band to come from filthadelphia. it's musical purgatory. the boils on my ass have more entertainment value than the philly "music scene."

- suburbs = strip malls and their attendant kultcha.

- dearth of anything resembling a decent restaurant. dodgy "theme" restaurants so aptly parodied in office space abound. and of course more pizza shops than right per capita.

- you live in the suburbs = you go to blockbuster = gouge yr eyes out now.

- lack of public transport and the soul-crushing need for an otherwise elsewhere useless automobile.

- decent record shoppes = 1 hour or more away.

- my job is here.

― jess, Saturday, 19 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Schoolly-D and the Nazz!

― dave q, Saturday, 19 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

you name me the last good band to come from filthadelphia

Aren't the Roots from there?

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 19 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Fresh Prince.

― Ronan, Saturday, 19 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i said good bands goddamnit. not entry-way hiphop for slacker boho fuckwits and will "someone cave his face in pleez" smith, respectively. ;)

(dave has me on schooly d, though. and that was - what? - 86?)

― jess, Saturday, 19 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i said good bands goddamnit.

Bah. Fine, Lenola, ya lamer. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 19 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Not liking The Roots is blasphemy. Besides, Jill Scott is from Philly, as is Bahamadia.

― Dan Perry, Saturday, 19 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

sydney is the ass that couldn't even make it into a william burroughs festival.

classic!

― di, Saturday, 19 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

dunedin is small and therefore quite incestuous.

― di, Saturday, 19 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

So that 2 of us that have slept with your brother then. Sorry!

― Scott, Saturday, 19 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

jess you fucker beanie sigel is from philly! and schooly d and fresh prince and jill scott and bahamadia AND the motherfucking roots.

― ethan, Saturday, 19 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jess needs to hear Winterbrief STAT. Jess needs to hear the Persons BEFORE Winterbrief.

― David Raposa, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i forgot about beans. and whatever my feelings on will "die die die die die right now" smith, j. jeff is a Very Important DJ (didn't he invent the transformer? or was that code money?) and i hate to invoke ned yet again, but: jill scott, bahamadia, and whoever else have never done anything for me. and i hate the roots.

(and the first person to mention the dead milkmen get's a sock in the snoot.)

― jess, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jess WRITE ONE VERSE WITHOUT A CURSE!

― Ronan, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

can't. and don't wanna.

― well, i do. so fuck him, and fuck you too., Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

and i hate to invoke ned yet again

Lenola, repeat after me, LENOLA. And Bardo Pond come from there as well, for fuck's sake! Your ears = clogged with goo.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'll agree that Sydney sucks, but I don't live there. Melbourne has shit weather, thinks it's far more cultured than it is, and has more bands than punters.

― electric sound of jim, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lenola! Yes! Jay and the boys cancel out all grievances.

― Curt, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

word on beans and bardo pond. and flowchart too. what you talking about jess?

― gareth, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh yeah, duh, Flowchart. Jess = ears filled with goo and then covered with earmuffs. HAHA.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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