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Normal for West Reading isn't it?
Oh dear, in a moment of weakness I read the comments in that reading newspaper article:-(
Normal for West Reading isn’t it?
I believe estate agents describe Oxford Road as a vibrant community.
I'd still put more money on the story being conservative councilor stirring up trouble though than it actually having happened.
I used to live in "South Reading", which was similarly a way of avoiding saying Northumberland Avenue. It was never as bad as people made out, and I still get my hair cut, go shopping, the gym, walk home late at night etc there. If I was going to die anywhere in Reading it's going to be a badly driven BMW in Lower Earley or Tilehurst!
I used to have mates in Reading. It seemed alright. Many a decent evening in the Purple Turtle or the 'Kitten' Tree.
Reading's neighbours on the other hand... we used to do site visits to a branch in Iver and the boss would put us up in Slough. My god the stereotypes about Sluff are true, it was dreadful. The first hotel we were booked into was crawling with lice. Our bags didn't touch the floor, we went to the nearest chain hotel instead. Maybe a Travelodge, I'm not wholly sure and it's not important. It's the only 'odge I've ever visited which had a security detail on the front door.
True story while I'm here. We got a call from the Iver branch going "where are all our new laptops?" Uh, pardon? Turned out, someone had rocked up with a big van, gone "hi, we're here from IT, we've got new laptops for you all, we just need to remove all the old desktops first," stripped the building and cleared off. We went down to refit the entire building including a new server. To be fair it wasn't a large building, maybe two dozen employees, but still. A week or two later we get another call, (presumably) the same crew had been back overnight and made away with all the brand new kit we'd just installed.
On the upside, we got a lot of mileage out of "Stolen From Iver" jokes.
Oh dear, in a moment of weakness I read the comments in that reading newspaper article:-(
Schoolboy error. Never, ever read the bottom half of the Internet.
Oh dear, in a moment of weakness I read the comments in that reading newspaper article:-(
If ever there was an example of "never read the bottom half of the internet" then a small regional newsaper is it
If ever there was an example of “never read the bottom half of the internet” then a small regional newsaper is it
To be fair, the top half is rarely much better in this scenario.
loved the comments.
there was a time when that, er, article would get a single, simple online response.
Sauce?
I actually had to re-read it to see if there was one single fact in all the words.
They somehow spanner net zero into the whole situation..... Bonkers