Reading "You are awful" It's author Tim Moore driving around the worst places he can think, of staying in the worst hotels, travelling in the worst vehicle (Austin Maestro)......really is quite amusing, despite the plot.
He doesn't like Rhyl "a place where the seagulls fly uside down, because there's nothing worth shitting on"
I find it hard to think of anywhere truly grim.....though I don't like Bracknell.
Although an American I did spend a bit of time in England whilst dating the now ex. (She's from the Wirral, Merseyside to be precise.) At the time we traveled to many places in England (Wales as well) both good and bad.
I think the place I least liked was Liverpool. It just seemed to have an ominous feeling about it. Maybe it was just me.
All of the above, I think, had Liverpool as their main base port. More emigrants left from Liverpool for New York than from anywhere else. Many of those had come across from Ireland. It was a grim and depressing place when last I went by ship from there to NY.
Wolverhampton Hurricane Appeal
A major hurricane (Hurricane Shazza) and an earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter Scale hit Wolverhampton in the early hours of Tuesday with its epicentre in Whitmore Reans. Victims were seen wandering around aimlessly, muttering "kinelll".
The hurricane decimated the area causing almost £30 worth of damage. Several priceless collections of mementos from Majorca and the Costa Del Sol were damaged beyond repair. Three areas of historic burnt out cars were disturbed. Many locals were woken well before their Giros arrived.
Wolverhampton FM reported that hundreds of residents were confused and bewildered and were still trying to come to terms with the fact that something interesting had happened in Wolverhampton. One resident - Tracy Sharon Smith, a 15-year-old mother of 5 said, "It was such a shock, my little Chardonnay-Mercedes came running into my bedroom crying. My youngest two, Tyler-Morgan and Victoria-Storm slept through it all. I was still shaking when I was skinning up and watching Jeremy Kyle the next morning."
Apparently looting, muggings and car crime were unaffected and carried on as normal.
The British Red Cross has so far managed to ship 4,000 crates of Special Brew to the area to help the stricken locals. Rescue workers are still searching through the rubble and have found large quantities of personal belongings, including benefit books, jewellery from Ratners and Bone China from the Pound shop.
HOW CAN YOU HELP?
This appeal is to raise money for food and clothing parcels for those unfortunate enough to be caught up in this disaster. Clothing is most sought after - items most needed include:
Fila or Burberry baseball caps
Kappa tracksuit tops (his and hers)
Shell suits (female)
White stilettos
White sport socks
Rockport boots
Any other items usually sold in Primark.
Food parcels may be harder to come by but are needed all the same. Required foodstuffs include:
Microwave meals
Tins of baked beans
KFC
Ice cream
Cans of Special Brew.
22p buys a biro for filling in the compensation forms
£2 buys chips, crisps and blue fizzy drinks for a family of nine
£5 buys fags and a lighter to calm the nerves of those affected.
**BREAKING NEWS**
Rescue workers found a girl in the rubble smothered in raspberry alco-pop and were worried she had been badly cut...
"Where are you bleeding from?" they asked,
"Bilston" said the girl, wot's that gotta do wi yow?"
Apologies to Wolverhampton - could apply to any of a hundred towns in Britain
Although an American I did spend a bit of time in England whilst dating the now ex. (She's from the Wirral, Merseyside to be precise.) At the time we traveled to many places in England (Wales as well) both good and bad.
I think the place I least liked was Liverpool. It just seemed to have an ominous feeling about it. Maybe it was just me.
People from Liverpool who are all fur coat and no knickers always claim to be from the Wirral.
I attended Birkenhead college during the early 70's. A Bus, Train (Wigan to Liverpool Exchange) and a Ship (ferry 'cross the Mersey no less) for a year. (although sometimes used the train "under the sea"). Bugger of a trip. Birkenhead was / is / will allways be a dump - though there are some really nice places on the Wirral, just a bit further south.
I still go to Liverpool once a year, to visit my hub caps !!!!
One of my favourite City's is Liverpool, - oozing with character(s). !! Try the new "Museum of Liverpool" on the revamped Pier Head - superb.
Oh, worst place in the UK - Wigan - my home town. STAY AWAY or we will eat your babies alive (after covering them in Bisto !!!!!!!!!!!!!).
Lid
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I nominate Dogdyke (says it all really), Lincolnshire
Off the end of the Coningsby runway. 90% of housing is mobile homes. The women are so ugly that bestiality is commonplace. Woken up by jets? Naa, they're all stoned or deaf. I doubt anyone actually has a job (officially). Overheard in local pub.
"Woz yer bruvver doing these days?"
"He's inside. GBH"
"I fort 'e just got out?"
"That was last week"
Luton or Coventry. Both soulless places bombed by the Germans then finished off by 1950 and 1960's developers who left concrete carbuncles and decrepit shopping centres as their legacy.
