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    Quote Originally Posted by Loy Toy View Post
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    Haha.

    There is an accident 70 miles west of London on the M4. It is called Swindon.

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    Manila, proudly takes my number one slot by a country mile.

    Jakarta, definite second

    Lerwick, Shetland isles takes out third, no redeeming features whatsoever.

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    There are many. Bleak was defined by 3 days stuck in Magadan, depressing was a week in Dhaka during monsoon and Delhi in 49c 100% humidity. Stayed in some very poor, grindingly poor places and i have never found that depressing as you usually find the human spirit shining amid the desperation. The exception was a refugee camp in Ethiopia where there was just a pervasive feeling of hopelessness, took time to get over that and not something i would ever want to live through again. I'd take Grimsby any day.

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    Quote Originally Posted by strigils View Post
    I'd take Grimsby any day.
    Done deal she's all yours

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    My gaff is in Great Yarmouth- I honestly think that the Great is supposed to be said in a sarcastic tone. To be fair the town does have stuff going for it- nice beach, decent fish and chips and it can make for a fun night out if you are with the right crowd. I actually find it to be a mostly very friendly and welcoming place. Local council are a real shower of bastards though.

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    I skipped through this thread and saw that someone else has already put Stoke-on-Trent on the list. Of the places I have stayed in the UK, Stoke-on-Trent tops my list of 'never want to return.'

    I have a friend who runs a small, specialist tile business in Stoke-on-Trent. He commutes from his home in Essex every week and owns a small house in Stoke. I joined him once as a passenger on his motorcycle to go with others to the North West 200. This meant an overnight stay at his Stoke house. I couldn't believe the number of boarded up properties, the tell-tale metal grilles on some shop windows, the gloomy people, the sense of helplessness and hopelessness that seemed to smother the place. There was another overnight stop on the way home after the long run back from Portstewart. The NW200 was great, Stoke was not.

    Outside my home country, probably the least appealing place I have visited is St. Louis. We flew in over vast areas of rusting roofs and little apparent activity. The city outside the centre looked derelict and the centre had no redeeming features. I was happy to see those rusting acres from the air as I left a few days later, knowing I'd never be going back there.

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    I can't think of anywhere I've been that was particularly depressing. Stuck in the same place for too long without going somewhere, anywhere, gets me down.

    If it's different, if I get to experience changed surroundings, then I'm happy and sleep well.

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    Let's see. There is a community just outside of the Taj Mahal. I forgot the name of the place but my group had to stay at a "hotel" there because its the only one in our budget. The outside of the "hotel" is a shanty town and the "hotel" (as you may have noticed I keep adding quotation marks) does have staff, a manager, and security, but the building is a poorly put-together pieces of concrete with slim paint and cheap curtains. It was the "VIP suite". I just sometimes imagine what life is like from their perspective.

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    Just face it, even if we go back to a blank slate, putting aside wealth or poverty, skin colour or religion, of all the populated places in the world we would avoid? Africa or Siberia?

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    Australia, probably. But it ain't so bad these days.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Australia, probably. But it ain't so bad these days.
    While everyone is on a lockdown, but they reckon it will only last for a cuppla years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by deeks View Post
    While everyone is on a lockdown, but they reckon it will only last for a cuppla years.
    Except they aint on lockdown.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheRealKW View Post
    Except they aint on lockdown.
    Does anyone under the age of 40 understand what a joke is now days?

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    Quote Originally Posted by deeks View Post
    Does anyone under the age of 40 understand what a joke is now days?
    You have to be at least a tiny bit funny and not a lying cvnt

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    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    You have to be at least a tiny bit funny and not a lying cvnt

    Ever been deep sea fishing off the Sydney coast pans? no rods, only the real clamped to the side of the boat, that sinker takes a long time to hit the bottom, then you reel it up, up and up, feels the same all the way up, then *bam* you can see that you have a fish on the hook when its at the top.

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    Quote Originally Posted by strigils View Post
    ...........Delhi in 49c 100% humidity. Stayed in some very poor,............ Id take Grimsby any day.
    Guess by those statistics you were anywhere but Dehli, you lying sack of re-invented shite.

    Dehli hits peak temperatures, on average 42c, in May/June when the humidity level rarely climbs above 30%.

    Peak humidity arrives generally August after the monsoon breaks and the temperatures drop to daily average of 36c.

    Fucking silly wanker, inventing shite on a marginal cyber lay-by, for fuck's sake. What a pitiful life you must lead.

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    Quote Originally Posted by deeks View Post
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    You're certainly not the former - why keep up the pretence? You're a seppo, it's an easy tell.

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    Luton, at least it has an airport.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Seekingasylum View Post
    Guess by those statistics you were anywhere but Dehli, you lying sack of re-invented shite.

    Dehli hits peak temperatures, on average 42c, in May/June when the humidity level rarely climbs above 30%.

    Peak humidity arrives generally August after the monsoon breaks and the temperatures drop to daily average of 36c.

    Fucking silly wanker, inventing shite on a marginal cyber lay-by, for fuck's sake. What a pitiful life you must lead.

    thegent is an expert on India too

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    Parr, St Helens
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    all shit

    he landscape between Bolton and Manchester, JB Priestley, observed: "the ugliness is so complete it is almost exhilarating. It challenges you to live there."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Backspin View Post
    thegent is an expert on India too
    I know the fucking climate, I've been there enough times you knucklehead.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Seekingasylum View Post
    Guess by those statistics you were anywhere but Dehli, you lying sack of re-invented shite.
    Dehli hits peak temperatures, on average 42c, in May/June when the humidity level rarely climbs above 30%.

    Peak humidity arrives generally August after the monsoon breaks and the temperatures drop to daily average of 36c.

    Fucking silly wanker, inventing shite on a marginal cyber lay-by, for fuck's sake. What a pitiful life you must lead.
    you are right i exaggerated, it was nearly 48, keep your averages you silly wanker.

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    Bollocks, you were lying and I caught you out.

    Peak temperature Dehli=lowest humidity Delhi.

    You wee shit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Seekingasylum View Post
    Bollocks, you were lying and I caught you out.

    Peak temperature Dehli=lowest humidity Delhi.

    You wee shit.
    did i say the same time, Delhi is a hell hole in the monsoon and a hell hole in the run up to it, in fact it is a hell hole full stop as you know because you have been there as you state. Still they are sweeping away Lutyens' colonial buildings and with it the last vestiges of colonialism and your ilk, or at least the ilk you portray on here.

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