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boyslayer would have won

eesh

Because they are made out of mealworms?

No you haven't!

Hey grandma, get out of our Young Folks thread

grampa bush doo doo doo doo doo doo, grampa bush doo doo doo doo doo doo, grampa bush doo doo doo doo doo doo, grampa bush!

you and the entire world have all lost your goddamned minds

Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one more traveled by,
And laid the groundwork for boring the fuck out of anybody who's remotely interested in difference.

who cares about philbin i want techno

when you just don't have the heart to click the "Skipping 34030430 messages" button because you're pretty sure you can see all the context already

the London with 3m immigrants from around the world? the London with predominately Labour control, enthusiastic support for JC and McD and some of the most leftwing voters in the country? that London? Because assuming you're not an idiot you must mean "Westminster". But that doesn't apply to the rest of us.

what we hate most abt these so-called 'londoners' is their characteristic blend of bellicose hubris, myopic narcissism, strained humourlessness and chippy provincial bad manners

some of us are actual londoners, and not 'so-called londoners', whoever the fuck that is. we live and work here, and exist in the most multi-culturally diverse environment the world has ever seen, a massive population of such. your problems with -so-called londoners' seems rather provincial in that light

oh, and good luck on relying on having a Labour government without London

https://media1.tenor.com/images/a2cc56eb3405af92ac993ec5da30c02b/tenor.gif?itemid=12341169

ok H Enfield is a good example of what ogmor was referring to, i agree

Isn't this all a misunderstanding? I live in London and I still say fuck London tbh.

Fuck civic pride.

you can lead a horse to water

I don't have civic pride as such, but I do think it's a little odd to have a problem with the most multi-cultural city on Earth. Kind of, er provincial, almost.

you can lead a horse to water

― ogmor, Friday, 7 December 2018 12:59 (three minutes ago)

you don't miss it till your well runs dry

A pencil must be lead etc.

even in dilapidated Dewsbury where I live, local ppl complain all the Kirklees funding goes to fucking' Hudders, which has just been polled as the worst town in England to live in. Got to admit I feel a swell of civic pride in that accolade!

everything you say about London is true, glum, but surely you can see how even the word "provincial" contains within it a slice of what makes us stage provincial long to rip the piss

(xp) Tell me about it, stuff like this is the only time Paisley comes top in anything.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/958836/highest-murder-rate-UK-scotland-police-division-renfrewshire

Huddersfield only wins by default because all the other shitholes around us have City status!

xxp Yeah. I'm fine with ripping the piss. In the uk politics thread it comes across as actual prejudice, though.

ogmor of course not at all coming from a place with pound for pound more bloviating self-regard than london, oh no

hey guys let's all just agree that Leeds can fuck off

huh the turd city of the Northern Powerhouse? don't talk to me about sophistication .. etc

I like most cities I know and I think about Leeds and come up more or less empty. Maybe some of the buildings round the town hall are alright?

I've been there a couple of times. It isn't a lovable place at all but I do recall it having some sort of Christmas market at least. Generally to be avoided though

Christmas markets, where you can pay delightfully fairy tale prices for shit gluhwein and fudge

without turning into Scruton here, I think most of the new buildings in Leeds are a fucking eyesore. And that Bridgewater building that somehow the architects have turned into the perfect wind funnel is a hilarious classic though. It actually causes people to be blown in the air like confetti and blew over a large HGV one day.

Leeds Market is not bad tbf, but hardly worth travelling to.

Which reminds me, have we had this year's "£25 a head Christmas theme park in a disused industrial estate turns out to be shit" story yet?

the dangerous myth of 'london' is an affront to my cosmopolitan values as a citizen of nowhere. "i live in the most multicultural city on earth" the acolytes chant every morning for the duration of their 60 minute commutes. the myth makes working in a sprawling powerhouse of empire more appealing. "diversity is the thing that makes this thing better than the other things" they chant as they pay grossly inflated prices to their overlords.

sadly, rather than take heed of the more philosophically-sound rhizomatic structures of the north of england, where ppl live in a variety of more streamlined locales kept separate by an appropriate level of animosity, the cult of centralisation is being spread. a second powerhouse is proposed, a counterbalance, another pole to offset some of the more egregious effects of the island's cunt-magnet.

leeds has been turned into a Big Modern City through various arms of the hegemony. you can't judge it by itself, you have to factor in bradford and w yorks in general

I like Bradford a sight more than Leeds

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Bradford is an absolute classic. Some wonderful buildings and pubs all over the place, used to love working there.

Leeds's post-1980 architecture is fairly uniformly awful, but that's true of most of the UK. It has at least as much decent Victorian and Edwardian neoclassical and gothic revival as anywhere in Yorkshire, and the university is by my reckoning the second-best brutalist building in the county. And there's the Whitelocks. Anyway I like Leeds, I liked living there, so (I understand I'm going to be onto a bit of a loser here.

nice little arty cinema in Little Germany which is the building where the Labour party were formed.

sorry xp, not interrupting Tim's fine flow.

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― ogmor, Friday, 7 December 2018 13:49 (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Trying to disguise your bigotry under layers of mutually annihilating irony doesn't make you seem like any less of a cunt, tbh, but I chuckled at some of the billious jokes. Having said that, Stewart Lee will need his fee for that post.

sorry everyone, please continue with the fine chat about british cities. Glad my ill temper has led to something worth reading.

(since we're on the subject of Yorkshire, Calz have you come across this book called Round About Town by Kevin Boniface? I think it's great. It's the observations of a Huddersfield Postman.)

Every city and every building is good.

you'll come round glum

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no, I'm a bit suspicious of locals Tim. Especially that clot from Marsden who writes bad poetry! But I'm presuming this might be worth checking out on your word and I'll look into it. On our football page they all rave over some 70's/80's hooligan memoir called Come On Then!

Treesh you have never seen Tamworth railway station