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Post by sandbachhatter on Nov 9, 2015 9:57:02 GMT
Morning all
A bit of a twist this week from Dudders, so over to the man himself....
Listen lively my lovelies, there is one L of a selection this week!
As you may remember last time I made you select from 3 innocuous options, well this time it is three obnoxious options. Which means you will have to leave behind two options you may well want rid of!
Leeds
What is there to like about Leeds?
Charming, respectful and modest fans. Stylish, historic city with elegant roads and buildings.
Liverpool
What is there to like about Liverpool? A soothing accent and caring attitude towards non locals. No arrogance about their musical and sporting heritage and of course nothing to do with the slave trade.
London
What is there to like about London?
Great benevolence towards the rest of the country and no resentment that others are living off their wages. A wonderful financial sector that ensures fiscal reliability for our nation. No evidence of bias in the media.
Let's decide who is most deserving of eternal purgatory!
Over to you...
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Post by sandbachhatter on Nov 9, 2015 9:58:28 GMT
My vote goes to London. I don't particularly like Leeds fans, but don't mind the city. I haven't really spent much time in Liverpool, despite it being so near, so even though they would be first in if the poll was based on accents, I'm going for London. An utter toilet of a city, and one of the rudest places on earth. Fine for a few days, but could never live or work there.
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Nov 9, 2015 10:15:49 GMT
Totally agree with you there, Sandy. I would only add that Teenage Macc is now happily living and studying in Liverpool - so am keen not to see the place consigned to our vault with him in it!
London for me, too.
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Post by bringbacklenwhite on Nov 9, 2015 11:21:02 GMT
Think I have to put my "Professional Northerner's Hat" on here.
You can have me 2 minute rage or a full half hour rant !
Two of my three lads have headed to London to earn a crust, so I speak from experience. The locals are obnoxious, the parking is a joke (Brent Council I name and shame you for incompetence), the Tubes are always packed, the buses slow and a nusiance to driving and everything is overpriced. Beer is watery, food is overcooked and served without a smile. Landlords are the scum of the earth charging the earth for cupboards with a bed in them, messing around with deposits and refunds.
Need I go on .....................
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Post by countyfan on Nov 9, 2015 12:10:52 GMT
haha after spending 30 mins going on about my decision I thought I better delete it as i'd probably get death threats!!
So i'll just leave it at........Leeds!!
End.
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Post by marketharborough on Nov 9, 2015 12:45:03 GMT
It may be quicker to get to London rather than Leeds or Liverpool but I'd still rather head North. So London gets my vote
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Post by countybenno on Nov 9, 2015 12:56:41 GMT
Tough choices this week, I have nothing really against any of them, I have family that are around London, my granddad is from Liverpool and have only been to Leeds once and had a really good night out, however my vote must go to London just because of the people, they seem to think they are better than anyone else.
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Post by gazz on Nov 9, 2015 15:14:23 GMT
London for me too, nothing but an overpriced dustbin.
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Post by bigfudge on Nov 9, 2015 19:08:30 GMT
I actually really like Liverpool. I've bonded with several Scousers over our mutual dislike of all things Manc. I love The Beatles and The Beatles Museum. Generally, despite the bad press they get I've only ever found people to be nice and helpful in Liverpool.
I dont overly like London but my Grandad was a Londoner so I suppose I should vote for Leeds. A city that has never struck me as being very nice.
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Post by ceefer on Nov 9, 2015 19:36:44 GMT
I was born in London moved up to Stockport when I was young, but holidayed every year down there, so it cant be London. It's a vibrant city with a lot on offer, probably too much as you have to be careful with making sure you get back before the Tube closes down. However I really dislike the London is the centre of the universe brigade, for example - why was the National Tennis Centre set up in Roehampton instead of Birmingham or further North, so it would have been more accessible. A well known tabloid always features restaurant reviews and guess what they are always of London establishments. Do they think no one else in the country goes out eating?
Growing to like Leeds as I get to know it better. Have never been an Elland Road fan but to be honest they havent had good times for years now.
Liverpool - rubbish road system and my SatNav always gets me lost. Have never been and will never be a Beatles fan. Okay Lennon came over okay and had some good albums, but McCartney comes over as pure arrogance. Never been to Albert Dock and wasnt impressed by the University. Have been to an Everton match in the days when they thrw toffees into the crowd, but dont think I could face going to Anfield even if I was given tickets. The only thing going for Liverpool is Leon & wife from Gogglebox. So although I've moaned more about London, it's going to have to be Liverpool, purely cos the beatles were born there. Now how irrational is that....
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Nov 9, 2015 19:38:26 GMT
firstly; leeds utd is a f***ing grimy, horrible club. there are a lot of arseholes in their match-going support, and like any big city i suppose, there are loads of them in club shirts and minikits in their cars pootling around B&Q on a saturday afternoon when there's a match on half a mile away. when there's an unfortunate confluence of county's and leeds' home fixtures, it is a mammoth pain in the arse as i normally get on the M621 at elland road. for that alone i'm happy with their extended sojourn from the premier league. fortunately, their fans are such w**kers that approximately half their games are moved to 12.30 kick offs by the filth, so they're all safely ensconced in their run-down stadium, shouting offensive yaarkshire epithets at opposition corner takers, by the time i'm heading county-wards.
when i went to hull in 1989, any time i was going back to buxton i had to get the train from hull to Piccadilly and then change for buxton. the train passed through leeds, and the track was raised up to pass over the city centre. i thought it looked a shthole. i moved up here to work at the start of 1994, living in a crappy house with some annoying students, and worked in the less than salubrious suburb of beeston. it still looked a shthole, and in the january when i arrived, a draughty, grey one at that.
and now it's my city. compact city centre that still has absolutely everything you'd want of a city centre. really green in summer, particularly in the north of the city, where i live. i'm ten minutes walk away from the centre of headingley, a couple of miles from the city centre, and 10 mins in the car takes me out past the suburbs and heading in the direction of the dales or the moors. it's great and nowadays after 21 years here, i struggle to imagine living anywhere else.
that said, a lot of it's a shthole. it's just that it's my shthole, and the north of the city is mainly nice.
i definitely wouldn't want to live there, but i can still get excited by london. coming out of the exit at westminster tube where you're right under big ben, or wandering into trafalgar square and then the national gallery is great. i have no real affinity with it, but it does feel like a modern european city.
liverpool i have no affinity with whatsoever. don't know it really. had an afternoon at prenton park (birkenhead i know) and then evening back in the city centre during which everybody seemed to be wanting to kill us. yes, it has a far superior musical history to leeds, from the beatles to the crucial three's subsequent bands in the eighties. doesn't do it for me though. jimmy corkhill can f*** off to room 101.
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Post by Epworth Hatter on Nov 10, 2015 11:07:17 GMT
I work in Leeds and whilst it is far from the greatest place on earth, it isn't that bad. Ok, where my office is looks like the arsehole of a mangy cat, but the city centre is ok - in very small doses. The odd work do has been uneventful with some good pubs to be found. We have visited London for the last few years and, if you are a tourist for a few days, it's a pretty good place to go. Galleries, the eye, Big Ben, shows and the brilliant science and natural history museums. Anything longer than a few days would be torture, but if you prepare and treat it like an SAS incursion into enemy territory - get in, get what you want and get out - then it's ok. I have no affinity with Liverpool at all. My only recent experience was working for a client based there and me an a colleague deciding to wonder from the hotel into the city centre for an evening meal. We were genuinely terrified. A menacing combination of shouting, swearing, hoodies, caps on back to front, cans of beer, phlegm, skateboards and elizabeth duke gold bling seemed to follow us around. In the end we actually had a nice meal, but for the fact we knew we had to walk through it all again to get back to the hotel. Not a place I want to return to in a hurry.
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Post by gazz on Nov 10, 2015 12:05:44 GMT
I'm changing my vote. Although I currently live here, Liverpool is a sh*t hole that thinks it's better than it is. They try to claim anyone famous who has been anywhere near the place as one of their own, it's pathetic. If I hear one more person claim that "Daniel Craig is a Scouser" I'm going to punch them in the face. The majority of the people I have met are arseholes who would take your last penny, and most of the people I have worked with are bullsh*tting, workshy, two-faced b*st*rds who, if they could get away with it would do less than nothing. I am not exaggerating here either. The majority of Scousers I have met in and out of work are two-faced, sly, money-grabbing shysters. They live their lives on Facebook, constantly trying to outdo each other with what they have bought, some of whom buying them with their fraudulent benefits. The city centre is a hive of junkies, thieves and bums, and the women are mostly either wannabe Hollyoaks extras, or the greatest freak show Jeremy Kyle never had. The reputation Scousers are constantly complaining about is totally justified in my opinion. The place is a f**king rat's nest, and the first real opportunity I get back home that will improve my lot, I'm getting out of here. Vote changed. F**K OFF, Liverpool - capital of c*nture!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2015 12:15:47 GMT
I'm changing my vote. Although I currently live here, Liverpool is a sh*t hole that thinks it's better than it is. They try to claim anyone famous who has been anywhere near the place as one of their own, it's pathetic. If I hear one more person claim that "Daniel Craig is a Scouser" I'm going to punch them in the face. The majority of the people I have met are arseholes who would take your last penny, and most of the people I have worked with are bullsh*tting, workshy, two-faced b*st*rds who, if they could get away with it would do less than nothing. I am not exaggerating here either. The majority of Scousers I have met in and out of work are two-faced, sly, money-grabbing shysters. They live their lives on Facebook, constantly trying to outdo each other with what they have bought, some of whom buying them with their fraudulent benefits. The city centre is a hive of junkies, thieves and bums, and the women are mostly either wannabe Hollyoaks extras, or the greatest freak show Jeremy Kyle never had. The reputation Scousers are constantly complaining about is totally justified in my opinion. The place is a f**king rat's nest, and the first real opportunity I get back home that will improve my lot, I'm getting out of here. Vote changed. F**K OFF, Liverpool - capital of c*nture! Ranting at its best. Love it.
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Post by gazz on Nov 10, 2015 12:24:01 GMT
Ranting at its best. Love it. It was very therapeutic too, let me tell you!
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