Shelly
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according to my little book which I got for crimbo
1. Hull
2. Cumbernauld
3. Morecambe
4. Hythe
5. Winchester
6. Liverpool
7. St Andrews
8. Bexhill-On-Sea
9. Basingstoke
10. Hackney
11. Portsmouth
12. Stockport
13. Crouch End, London
14. St Johns Wood, London
15. Croydon, London
16. Islington, London
17. London
18. Peterborough
19. Wolverhampton
20. Didcot
21. Ascot
22. Brighton
23. Aldeburgh
24. Leiston
25. Ipswich
26. Hayling Island
27. Horsham
28. Mirfield
29. Tintern
30. Peterhead
31. Oxford
32. Dover
33. South Woodham Ferrers
34. Newport
35. Billingham
36. Reading
37. Maghull, Liverpool
38. Huntingdon
39. Hastings
40. Keighley
41. Dagenham
42. Slough
43. Alresford
44. Bridgwater
45. Yate
46. Skelmersdale
47. Barrow-In-Furness
48. Widnes
49. Hinchley Wood
50. St Albans
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Cavey
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Cool, i've only lived in two of them
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Trotty
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quote: Originally posted by Shelly
45. Yate
D'oh! 
To be fair I know loads of worse places though
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Shelly
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just according to my little book santa brought for me.
its called CRAP TOWNS, THE WORST 50 PLACES TO LIVE IN THE UK
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Cole
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3 within 20 miles of me and i live in the middle of em all
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Shelly
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YATE
Extruding like a textbook hernia from the soft underbelly of Bristol, the vast 1960s proto-newtown of Yate once enjoyed a claim to being the suicide capital of Western Europe, until the inhabitants acquiesced to the local anaestetic of a revamped Tesco and brand new Lidl mart.
Yate shopping centre is rumoured to have bannered itself "Yate is great", but is in truth a Stanlinist concrete shopping lubyanka - a quadrant of cold alleys perfectly designed to trap and funnel the wind.
From the centre, endless ranks of Bovis style homes radiate to the horizon over trolley packed streams and along roads with names that don't even try to be interesting.
The closest this open plan wasteland has come to being interesting is the recent committal by magistrates of Gary Glitter after service technicians at a nearby PC World discovered his penchant for paedophillia.
Fortunately, the subsequent trial didn't draw a jury from Yate itself, where there is little else to do but yearn for the relative fascination of a life in the Orkneys. Twinned not, as one graffito once quipped, with Legoland. Yate's true alter ego is Bad Salzdetfurth, which is another post-industrial abomination somewhere near Hanover but which, within all reason, can't be as wrist-slittingly forlorn as this forgotten overspill.
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Shelly
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48. WIDNES
It claims to be in Cheshire but was once in Lancashire yet should really be in Merseyside; which helps explain the horrible accent.
The Widnes-Runcorn Bridge, as seen in Merseybeat, is the last place on earth that its many suicide jumpers see. The place is consantly under the shaddow of vapour clouds from the Fiddlers Ferry power station. The rain, when it mixes with all the chemicalsin the air, must be the main reason why everybody looks like an extra from the film Deliverance.
Widnes, the place where the majority of the carcasses from the foot and mouth epidemic were incinerated.
wasnt written by me btw
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Joff
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PMSL @ horrible accent
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Shelly
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I think its one of the sexiest
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Joff
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Never heard it... but then YOU would say that
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chris_uk
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well atleast leeds aint on there
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Shelly
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quote: Originally posted by Joff
Never heard it... but then YOU would say that
Well I can't complain about the lovin from Widnesians (well one)
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jo_jess
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thank f**k for that, every one goes on about Rotherham being crap, but at least it isnt in the top 50
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Shelly
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yeah im glad clitheroe wasnt on there, imagine the stick.... having said that it should be
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Nismo
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i picked it up in WH SMiths for me dad , was good i was gutted thayt my town wasnt in there
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Shelly
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its a cracking little book, its brought a smile to my face over christmas.
i love simple but wierd presents like that
as they say... simple things
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Trotty
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quote: Originally posted by Shelly
YATE
Extruding like a textbook hernia from the soft underbelly of Bristol, the vast 1960s proto-newtown of Yate once enjoyed a claim to being the suicide capital of Western Europe, until the inhabitants acquiesced to the local anaestetic of a revamped Tesco and brand new Lidl mart.
Yate shopping centre is rumoured to have bannered itself "Yate is great", but is in truth a Stanlinist concrete shopping lubyanka - a quadrant of cold alleys perfectly designed to trap and funnel the wind.
From the centre, endless ranks of Bovis style homes radiate to the horizon over trolley packed streams and along roads with names that don't even try to be interesting.
The closest this open plan wasteland has come to being interesting is the recent committal by magistrates of Gary Glitter after service technicians at a nearby PC World discovered his penchant for paedophillia.
Fortunately, the subsequent trial didn't draw a jury from Yate itself, where there is little else to do but yearn for the relative fascination of a life in the Orkneys. Twinned not, as one graffito once quipped, with Legoland. Yate's true alter ego is Bad Salzdetfurth, which is another post-industrial abomination somewhere near Hanover but which, within all reason, can't be as wrist-slittingly forlorn as this forgotten overspill.
LMFAO, harsh, but I've gotta agree with it Tis horribly dull...
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Adam
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I'm not on there
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scoob
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1. Hull
shit and my car was broken into lastnight
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big eck
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Only 2 Scottish towns in there I see, Cumbernauld bein number 2  , must admit its a drab as fuk place, good asda, mac'ds and KFC though
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AndyW
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41 big up dagenham!!! no wonder my fuckin insurance is so damn high!
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MikeE
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i see no Milton Keynes
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Shelly
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listen to this, taken from the bit on liverpool
Liverpool has more Georgian period architecture than anywhere else in the UK except Bath. But unfortunately it is ruined by the graffitied sexual antics of the ubiquitous Sharon-Ann and a man called "Spunka".
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Shelly
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quote: Originally posted by MikeE
i see no Milton Keynes
it seems your land of concrete cows and roundabouts is safe
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Shelly
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taken from mirfield
The River Calder, which cuts through the town like a jet of piss through a festering turd, was once the most polluted in the country.
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