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looking at wikipedia famous Leiecestarians...i thought Diesel Park West were Scottish!

― blueski, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link

they has a bucket.

That reminds me of a old joke:

(interior of record shop)
Customer: "Have you got anything by the Doors?"
Sales Assistant: "Yes, a bucket of sand and a fire extinguisher"

― Tom D., Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link

belfast: bombs
birmingham: jasper carrot
bristol: skins and trip hop
cardiff: a street full of takeaway shops
edinburgh: kilts and people talking "quite nicely".
glasgow: rickets and fighting. and my dad.
leeds: leeks
leicester: cheddar with food dye in it.
liverpool: Bill Drummond
manchester: people being shot in nightclubs in the early 90s
newcastle: jacketless people going "givusareegananyatits!"
nottingham: a wood. for some reason.
sheffield: the boardwalk

― the next grozart, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I suspect I may be the only person voting for Bristol here.

i nearly voted for it. i really liked it, although people there kept warning us about how dangerous it was and made it seem like getting stabbed by a crackhead was inevitable.

― lauren, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link

how absurd.

― blueski, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 14:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I like Bristol but I'm always drunk when I'm there and never get to see much beyond the route from whatever hotel I'm in to whatever pub I'm meeting friends in.

― onimo, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link

it seemed pretty absurd. though actually a fair number of brits seem to like to tell americans how dangerous their cities actually are, like it's some sort of transatlantic contest.

― lauren, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 14:38 (seventeen years ago) link

actually i seem to have lost the ability to write clearly. gah.

― lauren, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 14:38 (seventeen years ago) link

a fair number of brits seem to like to tell americans how dangerous their cities actually are

When none of them are that dangerous really

― Tom D., Tuesday, 24 April 2007 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

ive never been to a dangerous uk city

― 600, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link

belfast: hellhole
birmingham: apparently it has a harvey nicks?
bristol: awesomely awesome
cardiff: driven through
edinburgh: typical festival-skewed londoner perspective ie <3
glasgow: lol indie
leeds: imposing buildings
leicester: '... i'm not going there again'
liverpool: docks
manchester: studenty
newcastle: "regeneration"
nottingham: confuse with northampton
sheffield: trams

― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Belfast: Can't think of any reason I'd ever want to go there
Birmingham: Boring, even if it isn't
Bristol: Lovely
Cardiff: No idea
Edinburgh: Sure I'd love it, usual middle class student festival things
Glasgow: Used to be hugely underrated, I love it
Leeds: About 10million bars
Leicester: Eat a dick
Liverpool: Never been
Manchester: Didn't see what all the fuss was about
Newcastle: Good bridge
Nottingham: Scariest town centre ever on a Saturday night. Binge drink Kaiser Chiefs hell
Sheffield: Classic for sentimental reasons. Good view over the city from the hills above Hillsborough

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link

^^ when were you in leeds/sheffield?

― 600, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Belfast: Can't think of any reason I'd ever want to go there

Belfast is the next Glasgow

― Tom D., Tuesday, 24 April 2007 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link

bristol: awesomely awesome
edinburgh: typical festival-skewed londoner perspective ie <3

nrq liking things! this is wonderful to see, i think happy nrq could be a good thing...

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link

first (and in some cases the only) time i went there:

birmingham: 1988 (a day trip whilst visiting grandparents in tamworth)
bristol: 1999 (en route to glastonbury)
glasgow: 2005/6 (for Hogmanay)
leeds: 2000 (went to the carling festival)
liverpool: 1997 (day trip to see art/design stuff)
manchester: 2003 (to DJ at a club)
nottingham: 1988 (a day trip whilst visiting grandparents in tamworth)

― blueski, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I have been to shockingly few of these cities (not counting passing through them by car or coach or train) - obviously I know Glasgow, but apart from that I personally only know Edinburgh, Leeds and Newcastle. Pitiful, really.

Cities I know like the back of my hand not included in the above list: Brighton, Dundee, Cambridge, Lincoln, Norwich, Oxford, York.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Cities I know like the back of my hand

When I close my eyes I find it difficult to visualise the back of my hand but it's easy to visualise a walk around Glasgow or London :-/

― onimo, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I found Belfast and Glasgow to be incredibly similar.

― leigh, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I find Glaswegians and people from Belfast/Derry to be similar, but no surprise there

― Tom D., Tuesday, 24 April 2007 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Sinatra: "Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back!"
"No' in fuckin' Parkheed ya cunt!" BIFF POW OOF!!
**dooby dooby doo**

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link

i voted for newcastle because i remember they used to have a really good record store downtown. also, it was christmas when i visited awww.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link

600 - I was in Leeds in... summer 2000 I think, staying with a friend then going to the festival.

Sheffield in late summer 96 and 97, staying with cool holiday friends.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

No Inverness, no credibility :-(

― ailsa, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Gutted not to see Norwich. I voted for Manchester. I wish I could go to Glasgow.

― admrl, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I actually quite like Leeds, too.

― admrl, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

It's clear that Norwich could have garnered at least two or three votes had 600 not been so strict.

― admrl, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Belfast - train station like a nuclear bunker aqnd a shop called O'Hara's
Birmingham - future systems Selfridges (is it?)
Bristol - Mental Boyfriend
Cardiff - dunno, Carlotte Church?
Edinburgh - Genteel old women and narrow closes.
Glasgow -
Leeds - People ~~talking really loudly~~ shouting.
Leicester - ?
Liverpool - Fred's weather map.
Manchester - Gallaghers.
Newcastle - people with really good manners and people with really bad manners & no in between
Nottingham - dunno, robin hood?
Sheffield - dunno, the wedding present?

― jed_, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Another Norwich fan here.

― blueski, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Norwich thirded.

― chap, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, where is Brighton? Surely there's an ILX contingent from there.

― chap, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link

i recall encountering quite a bit of Brighton hate when i first started posting on ILX

― blueski, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link

well ilx veterans are notoriously homophobic.

― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Birmingham - the way you can walk from the Ikon gallery to the aforementioned future systems Selfridges along mostly car free roads.
Bristol - SS Great Britain (but really so much more)
Cardiff - National Assembly building
Edinburgh - Arthur's seat
Glasgow - GoMA (does anyone in Glasgow actually call it this?)
Leeds - Shopping
Leicester - The people (i.e. me and my friends) are really very nice, the largest covered market in Europe, also my son says I have to say the the National Space Centre.
Liverpool - I'm very much looking forward to the new Museum of Liverpool
Manchester - Oklahoma/Pelicanneck
Newcastle - ~~virtually naked women~~ amazing bold architecture
Nottingham - The Broadway - the best cinema in Britain
Sheffield - Hilly

― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Leicester - ?

Actually I'm quite happy with this...

― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Belfast - the why don't you gang
Birmingham - heavy metal
Bristol - trip hop and the clifton bridge
Cardiff - welsh people
Edinburgh - home
Glasgow - tongs/partick thistle
Leeds - corn exchange
Leicester - never been there
Liverpool - curly hair
Manchester - bez
Newcastle - brown ale
Nottingham - B&S 1998/The road to Jerusalem
Sheffield - Threads

― Keith, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link

im strict.

i also hate gays

― 600, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago) link

meant to say i would have said sheffield was underrated

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

bump

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

Leeds is wonderful you fool.

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

Crystal and tin, yes.

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

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