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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.

flatulence
― 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

xxxp
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

I think it's good. This (the first image on their site rather than one hand picked is a perfectly decent reflection of the flavour of the thing. It carries on like this.

http://www.colinsackett.co.uk/images/books/kbspreadone.jpg

you'll come round glum

― ogmor, Friday, 7 December 2018 14:09 (nine minutes ago)

Mate I've been hating London most of my life. Only in the last decade actually have I come to love it, and that's not through thinking of it as a political-economic superstructure for perpetuating Empire. I teach people from Southern Europe, China and the Middle East here, and most of my friends and acquaintances are immigrants too. I don't think of them as unwilling appendages of Imperial expansion or accessories of its effects. Maybe I should?

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?

― biliares now living will never buey (Noodle Vague), Friday, December 7, 2018 2:39 PM (fifty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes!

lol amazing

can u advise that ur linking to an actual terrorist organisation next time u post a hyperlink kthx

^^^there's a bit of that famed london preciousness for you

thread delivers

i feel this interesting debate could be continued on a more focused thread:

https://i.imgur.com/waCoBx8.png?1

https://i.imgur.com/nrpG0ba.png?1

etc

those threads are propaganda. there are a few big metropolitan areas in england, all of them bear scars of industrialisation and empire and have cosmopolitan features like international educational institutions; being unwilling appendages of imperial expansion or accessories of its effects is our shared condition.

there's a weird paradox with 'london' as a way of understanding that part of SE england. on one hand there's the fiction that it's still fundamentally one place and can function as such if ppl will just congest themselves enough, on the other, an erasure of its hideous suburban periphery. just as the sterility of leeds & the deprivation of bradford are linked and should be understood in light of each other, the liberal, labour-voting urban areas shld be understood in relation to the commuter belt tory strongholds which surround & sustain them. anyway, i propose we split it into a dozen cities and dig a pit to hell in the centre

"and dig a pit to hell in the centre"

apparently that is what they recently did in Bradford City Centre. Haven't seen it yet, it was still a site last time I was there.

tired: water features and museums
wired: yawning abysses and the ever-more distant screams of the damned

pit to hell in the centre

camden ready-dug, saving time and money

breaking: hell erupts onto the streets of bradford, causing tens of millions of pounds' worth of improvements

the liberal, labour-voting urban areas shld be understood in relation to the commuter belt tory strongholds which surround & sustain them

other way round

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― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Friday, December 7, 2018 1:55 PM (two hours ago)

Wait is this a post you were going to make elsewhere and thought better of or did you actually have this thread bookmarked? Because why the hell would anyone do that?

I have it bookmarked for the drama and views from the provinces

Yes but imagine keeping it bookmarked for the oblique bitchiness and then deciding that this particular round of British metropolitan defensiveness is just too much for you.

By now I thought it became an ILX meme that just means "This conversation has devolved beyond the point of no return and I'm checking out"

it's a space to have conversations that won't be derailed by tetchy brexit hypothesising

it's amazing all these posts here today that are responses to other threads bc they all seem to be in conversation with each other but i know that's not true

We blether where we like up here in the North

By now I thought it became an ILX meme that just means "This conversation has devolved beyond the point of no return and I'm checking out"

― Evan, Friday, 7 December 2018 16:17 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fp'd u for this

what about it

well u see

"fp'd u for this" is an ilx meme that just means etc etc

cheers for the Kevin Boniface tip off, Tim. First thing I saw on his obscure twitter account was a very nice pic from near the Gas Club car park. I wish there was an e-book version, but might have to buy the paper version for my step-dad as an xmas pressie and then knick it back off him.

Pleasure.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/content/dam/animals/thumbs/rights-exempt/mammals/g/groundhog_thumb.ngsversion.1484690405320.adapt.1900.1.JPG

shaaaadup

http://wgo.to/kouwes/henkvisser.jpg

shaaaadup

― imago, Monday, 10 December 2018 09:51 (thirty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

aw whatmi missin

ILM, most likely.

Imago is just busy speaking truth to power

Less that, more rambling like a sophomore student, yo

Of all the hills to die on, nobody had that one in the sweepstakes.

is there a british ilx equiv of gabbneb in the "bad american cities" thread?

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― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, December 10, 2018 11:20 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Your mom

Wow, it's 2018 and there are still people going online without an ad blocker.

The problem is that Americans don't know shit about anything outside the US, and then they conclude that must mean nobody else can now anything about what happens outside their country.