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Belfast - the why don't you gang
Birmingham - heavy metal
Bristol - drinking myself stupid on the Thekla, nice but too many crusties
Cardiff - cup final, marvellous, loopy beer
Edinburgh - sculpture park/museum, favourite railway station
Glasgow - lots of friends and good times
Leeds - over promise, under deliver
Leicester - bus station, teh dullness
Liverpool - Anfield & great great pubs
Manchester - moody people, great (moody) music
Newcastle - only ever ever passed through!
Nottingham - Rollersnakes & scary scary nights out, also Selectadisc
Sheffield - Wonderful times, great shops, fantastic pubs, all very much in the past

― Porkpie, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 21:19 (sixteen years ago) link

Belfast - went there in 93 (pre-ceasefire) and I'm incapable of thinking of Northern Ireland without thinking of the troubles
Birmingham - been through it, never to it, mental image = spaghetti junction
Bristol - school field trip to SSGB & Clifton Suspension Bridge in 88, nice bridge
Cardiff - never been, probably never will, mental image = rugby
Edinburgh - just been there, lots of daffodils, pretty good
Glasgow - never been, mental image = Rab C Nesbitt
Leeds - went there a few times in the early 90s but remember almost nothing about it, mental image = David Batty
Leicester - never been, mental image = Adrian Mole & crisps
Liverpool - went there loads of times in the 90s, not a huge fan, too many shellsuits (honestly)
Manchester - been zillions of times, like it
Newcastle - went once in 92, I think there was a hill, mental image = Jimmy Nail shouting incomprehensibly at a fat bloke with no top on in the middle of winter on that bridge over the Tyne
Nottingham - never been, mental image = Raleigh bikes
Sheffield - went a few times late 80s/early 90s, lots of hills and 60s estates, right next to the Peak District which is nice

― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 21:20 (sixteen years ago) link

sheffield seems pretty good, and i would have said sheffield, but its getting a lot of love here

― 600, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 21:21 (sixteen years ago) link

meant to say i would have said sheffield was underrated

― 600, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 21:22 (sixteen years ago) link

sorry, my belfast and brum went wron there as I'd copied Keith's towns and pasted them in. Mind you I've never been to Belfast and only think of the troubles when it's mentioned (although the why don't you gang is a good shout)

Brum = new street bloody station, a shithole

― Porkpie, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 21:27 (sixteen years ago) link

I just thought you were agreeing. I also think of Jasper Carrott when I think of Brum.

― Keith, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 21:32 (sixteen years ago) link

Digbeth Bus Station = seventh circle of hell. Also my parents made us go on holiday to Birmingham when we were younger for a fortnight, so it makes me think of worst holiday ideas ever.

Cardiff city centre smells of hops. Mmmmm Brains Bitter...(another crap summer holiday destination dreamt up by my parents)

― ailsa, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 21:56 (sixteen years ago) link

bump

― treefell, Friday, 27 April 2007 11:10 (sixteen years ago) link

Belfast - been there once, last year. ~~Shitehole~~ Not great.
Birmingham - been once, for Univ interview in 1980
Bristol - saw The Clash there in 1982. never been back
Cardiff - great place - rugby, superb guitar shop, market
Edinburgh - very nice, but not been in ages
Glasgow - went to a wedding there in 1997. Loved it! Might be coming back soon on business.
Leeds - grim
Leicester - does it really exist? I have never met anyone from there or who's been there.
Liverpool - had a chinese meal there once. I should go back. I suspect it's classic
Manchester - classic
Newcastle - passed through once in the way to get a ferry. No opinion
Nottingham - never been.
Sheffield - goodish

― Dr.C, Friday, 27 April 2007 11:52 (sixteen years ago) link

Leeds is wonderful you fool.

― braveclub, Friday, 27 April 2007 11:54 (sixteen years ago) link

isnt leeds made out of crystal now?

my overriding memory of liverpool is of off-licenses with grills

― 600, Friday, 27 April 2007 12:10 (sixteen years ago) link

Crystal and tin, yes.

― braveclub, Friday, 27 April 2007 12:10 (sixteen years ago) link

Leicester - does it really exist? I have never met anyone from there or who's been there.

i live in leicester. its kinda sleepy, but is arguably the most multicultural city in the list above after london (eg i have spanish couple living downstairs, polish family next door, massive sikh temple about 100 yards down road etc etc). ie TEH YUM FOOD from all over the world - the indian food especially.

― zappi, Friday, 27 April 2007 12:26 (sixteen years ago) link

after doing some googling, according to the 2001 census link

"Leicester is the most ethnically diverse of all UK cities, with a white population of 60.5 per cent. It is expected to be the first European city with a non-white majority. "

exciting!

― zappi, Friday, 27 April 2007 12:41 (sixteen years ago) link

Sheffield's gonna walk this I reckon.

― the next grozart, Friday, 27 April 2007 12:57 (sixteen years ago) link

seems that way, an unexpected success if so (though i guess sheffield university is quite well represented by ilxors?)

― 600, Friday, 27 April 2007 13:01 (sixteen years ago) link

there used to be more Mancs on ILX.

― blueski, Friday, 27 April 2007 13:21 (sixteen years ago) link

[/i]Leicester - does it really exist? I have never met anyone from there or who's been there.[i]

I live there and it's great. But people really do seem to have something against the place. A friend of mine met someone at a party and when asked where they lived said South Leicestershire even though they lived within the city boundaries.

― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 27 April 2007 13:39 (sixteen years ago) link

The someone said that not my friend I hasten to add.

― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 27 April 2007 13:39 (sixteen years ago) link

Glasgow - went to a wedding there in 1997. Loved it! Might be coming back soon on business.

Business that involves going to pubs, I hope.

― ailsa, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:42 (sixteen years ago) link

It is odd how few Mancs are on ilx these days. Is it just myself and Pisces repping for the cit-ay? What happened to Tag and Yer Mam and the rest? (a minutes silence for Graham, the boy who Manchester did mangle)

― NI, Saturday, 28 April 2007 16:16 (sixteen years ago) link

Tag thinks ILX is full of *****.

― Keith, Saturday, 28 April 2007 16:34 (sixteen years ago) link

Oh come on; Glasgow's full of shite!

― Keith, Monday, 30 April 2007 00:39 (sixteen years ago) link

But Sheffield is third... I bet it was "Threads" that did it.

― Keith, Monday, 30 April 2007 00:40 (sixteen years ago) link

a spirited try by sheffield, but in the end couldnt really compete with pre match favourites glasgow. not a bad showing by ilxs bete noir cities leeds and manchester

― 600, Monday, 30 April 2007 08:49 (sixteen years ago) link

Scottish Independence now.

― Ed, Monday, 30 April 2007 08:52 (sixteen years ago) link

I can't believe Birmingham only got 2 votes. It's the Glasgow of the Midlands.

― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 30 April 2007 09:07 (sixteen years ago) link

Liverpool sonned. I know it's always been under-represented on ILX but I didn't expect no votes at all.

Glasgow was always going to win, wasn't it?

― Matt DC, Monday, 30 April 2007 09:10 (sixteen years ago) link

fraid so, it was a mere dream to think plucky sheffield could challenge

― 600, Monday, 30 April 2007 09:13 (sixteen years ago) link

I wonder what result an STV voting system would have brought us.

― Ed, Monday, 30 April 2007 09:13 (sixteen years ago) link

never thought of sheffield as spririted or plucky

― RJG, Monday, 30 April 2007 09:17 (sixteen years ago) link

gritty and queer

― blueski, Monday, 30 April 2007 09:59 (sixteen years ago) link

sooty and sweep

― blueski, Monday, 30 April 2007 09:59 (sixteen years ago) link

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