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Adam Mint-
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I always found Manchester a cheerless place, by that I don't mean the weather, I think it is the architecture that is very dull and uninspiring, it is bad enough living in an industrial environment but if the buildings have nothing to cheer you up it can be a bit depressing, just my thoughts on the subject 
Campbell Brodie-
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Should try a week in Fort William...
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I agree, there are some impressive buildings, but there's no structure to the place, meaning you have a very nice building, and next to it is a sixties monstrosity...searcher wrote:I always found Manchester a cheerless place, by that I don't mean the weather, I think it is the architecture that is very dull and uninspiring, it is bad enough living in an industrial environment but if the buildings have nothing to cheer you up it can be a bit depressing, just my thoughts on the subject
Right in the city centre there was a piece of greenery (Piccadilly Gardens), they had been the gardens of an old hospital which was knocked down some years back and replaced with a hotel/office building that looks like an alien space ship gone wrong, the gardens were a bit run down, basically a scruffy piece of grass about the size of a football pitch, it was decide to tidy it up, there were various articles in the newspapers at the time about the infighting in the council as to what should be done with it, we'll, there must have been some big brown envelopes going around... A big square red brick office block with two or three bars on the ground floor, a concrete thing like a wartime gun emplacement which become a coffee shop, a water feature that kids play in, a lot of pathing slabs and a patch of grass not big enough for a dog to have a decent shit on, to sum it up, a fu#king mess...
Adam Mint-
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A week, a poxy feckin week, I live here, never owned an umbrella in my life until I came to Manchester...The Lone Ranger wrote:Should try a week in Fort William...
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Never owned one but sure you been stabbed with a few as the old ladies go past.
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Yip, they tend to get me in the eye with the sharp pointy bits, just one of the burdens to bare being tall, dark and handsome...
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Top 10 are all either in Scotland or Wales...Met. rainfall
Had to look up Brecknockshire...feckin' Brecon innit. (Brecknocks means "Speckled hills" in Gaelic)
Had to look up Brecknockshire...feckin' Brecon innit. (Brecknocks means "Speckled hills" in Gaelic)
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He don't give up does he...
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Manchester gets 806mm a year, just googled it, we'll it must be feckin timed to coinside with when I go to and come back from the pub...The Lone Ranger wrote:Top 10 are all either in Scotland or Wales...Met. rainfall
Had to look up Brecknockshire...feckin' Brecon innit. (Brecknocks means "Speckled hills" in Gaelic)
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Where is Feckoffshire Cam.
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This is close
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Did you know the word "sheriff" came from the two words "Shire reeve" see Wiki
Educational forum this...
Educational forum this...
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I dunno. I think Manchester has come on leaps and bounds in the last 20 yearssearcher wrote:I always found Manchester a cheerless place, by that I don't mean the weather, I think it is the architecture that is very dull and uninspiring, it is bad enough living in an industrial environment but if the buildings have nothing to cheer you up it can be a bit depressing, just my thoughts on the subject
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It wants to be something it ain't, just like Glasgow will never be Edinburgh...3rdforum wrote:I dunno. I think Manchester has come on leaps and bounds in the last 20 yearssearcher wrote:I always found Manchester a cheerless place, by that I don't mean the weather, I think it is the architecture that is very dull and uninspiring, it is bad enough living in an industrial environment but if the buildings have nothing to cheer you up it can be a bit depressing, just my thoughts on the subject
Industrial city, nothing wrong with that, just not pretty...
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Well you did help a bit, was having a late night drink with one of my mates, three/four am ish, got in the company of four big Irish guys, they were over for the Paddy's day parade, Manchester put on a big one, mate (a Mancunian) says to them, you fu#king bomb our city and now we give you a parade,,, oops me thinks, time to go...3rdforum wrote:I dunno. I think Manchester has come on leaps and bounds in the last 20 yearssearcher wrote:I always found Manchester a cheerless place, by that I don't mean the weather, I think it is the architecture that is very dull and uninspiring, it is bad enough living in an industrial environment but if the buildings have nothing to cheer you up it can be a bit depressing, just my thoughts on the subject
Just remember, I'm. Scottish, an atheist, and don't give a shit............
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Oh, girlfriend at the time daughter worked in Clinton Cards in the Arendale Centre, nobody thought it was for real, they were made to cash up etc, they were just exiting the building as the bomb went off, great threat to the world, a girl working in a card shop...
Not having a dig at the Irish, love the good ones, hate the twats...
There ain't no god you wankers, sort it...
Oh, and it rains a lot in Manchester..........................
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Oh, sorry, missed the point a bit, the Arndale Centres a feckin eyesore, wankers didnt even make a good job of it, speak to anyone in Manchester, that's the view...
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I've only been in Didsbury, BT used to have a training school down there but I think it's gone now.
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My supposed father was from Manchester, 
I remember going on a tour of his old haunts, Strangeways and those sort of places
Poor bugger, how ever he put up with my mother i dont know,
She still slags him off, Bitch
I remember going on a tour of his old haunts, Strangeways and those sort of places
Poor bugger, how ever he put up with my mother i dont know,
She still slags him off, Bitch
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Yeah, can't condone or defend those wankers. Luckily they were a tiny minority. I see there are still a few nutters that want to drag us back into the mire. The more the economy improves the more these dickheads will disappear. Can't tar everyone with the same brush though, otherwise there wouldn't be an Englishman safe in Ireland. Btw, we seem to have a huge English population over here, English in particular, not Scottish or Welsh. When I collect the kids from school, you wouldn't believe the amount of English accents I hear. I wonder why??? Must be the weather.
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No, Didsburys still there, was down that way a few weeks back having a beer...The Lone Ranger wrote:I've only been in Didsbury, BT used to have a training school down there but I think it's gone now.
Hic...