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. . . . you don't hear a siren one day, . . . and think, . . somethings wrong!! 🙂
The local offy mainly sells 3 types of drink:
Thunderbird, White Lightning, Special Brew
You ask why the local cafe is closed and are told
"someone threw a grenade in to stop the drug dealers using it."
Your neighbours decide to charge people £5 to use the street and riot when the police object
Happy days 😆
things almost got ugly here when the w.i and the gardening club inadvertantly double booked the village hall last sunday.
there was a tense stand off and for a while i thought one of them was going to write a letter of complaint to the village diary.
When words like 'innit' fwee for the number 3 are heard.
When you wake you up in fear when chavs are having an shouting match...
Glad I moved to the countryside.
poor people piss me off 🙂
if you dont work then you should starve,it would be to back work houses i had my way 🙂
singletrackhor - Memberyou sure it was for not fighting?
Your uncle went into the W&H in blacon would have done it for me!
It was a few years ago and not a good place to walk around after dark, I guess it's got a bit rougher since then.
You know you live in a rough area when...
...you need to take the M6 north bound in order to get home?
...the local supermarket has run out of vanilla actimel and you have to settle for mixed fruit flavour instead. Sometimes I wake up in the night, sweating, praying I never have to go back...
You pull up outside the jewellers , get out and do a smash and grab then when you go to drive off somebody has nicked your car .
When next doors son is home on leave from Iraq (few years ago now) says he's seen more action down the local (Custom House) on the previous Saturday night than a tour in Basra.
Connah's Quay, Russell ? Lovely place....
It's OK if you are a local there is a lot worse than the Cussy, but I guess it is a bit of a shock to the system for out of towners. Then again you are in N.E Wales so you know how bad it can get in some of the villages.
When you live in a relatively rough area, but your next door neighbour is a local hardman and nobody touches his street.
I forgive him for the odd enthusiastic karaoke at 1am
social housing have a spare settee, or fridge in the front garden
That's catering an seating in case they have guests.
things almost got ugly here when the w.i and the gardening club inadvertantly double booked the village hall last sunday.
there was a tense stand off and for a while i thought one of them was going to write a letter of complaint to the village diary.
Is that in the Ramsbury/Marlborough area? Proper rough around there, watch out for the gun racks in the Range Rovers and X5's. Purdy's, of course...
...Oh, and I heard there was a drive-by shouting once... 😆
You know you live in a rough area when...
There's only one, one-way street in and out of the estate and the only car-owners who come in are full of yoofs looking for someone. Managed a booze shop in just such a place and lived there too for a couple of years, and yes; it had the plexiglass, ceiling-high barriers. But they were only installed after the axe-wielding robber took two days' profit out of the safe 😯
Nearly tried to nail him with a bottle of tonic water but decided it wasn't worth it for £50....
coffeeking - Memberwhen you see someone pissing against the front door of a house and when their finished they take out their keys and go in
Cheers, frankie
It was Billy Connolly's first - Frankie just nicked it!
seahouse - Member
when you see someone pissing against the front door of a house and when their finished they take out their keys and go in
Do you live in Edinburgh mate cause almost exactly a year ago I did that exact thing...
Met my missus that night.
When the top crime story in the local paper is some chalk getting nicked from a school.
After hearing lots of shouting and banging, you open the door and about fifty scroats are having a pitched battle with bats, bricks and knives, and when you phone the plod they say 'what do you expect us to do' 😯
You wake up at three am by the screams of your neighbour being tortured by gangsters over a drugs debt
Yes I called the plod
Yes I moved.......a loooooong way away
When asylum seekers from wartorn Rwanda and DRC are housed on your street and after awhile demand to be moved because of the crime,drug dealing,stolen cars, anti social behaviour..........no joke....I lived on that street.
They don't serve Pimms in the local.
.. when these are your local headlines from the bbc site
London
Pair deny Stephen Lawrence murder
Peer jailed for fiddling expenses
Men cleared over Wilshere 'fight'
Men in court over two bodies find
Man's body pulled from the Thames
Murder probe after man shot dead
😯
you sure it was for not fighting?Your uncle went into the W&H in blacon would have done it for me!
It was a few years ago and not a good place to walk around after dark, I guess it's got a bit rougher since then.
Was early 90's last time I went anywhere near that place.
...the only shop is an off license; where upon entering you find yourself sealed inside a corridor made of security glass, the (mostly empty) shelves being on the other side of the glass
They have exactly this in Chorlton. Two off licences in both parts. Its awful and speaks volumes. High houses prices there but the obvious signs that the credit-card gentry-crowd can't hide the area...
Binners-you bought cheap so its not a swipe at you.
I grew up with this lad: [url= http://www.britishboxing.net/boxers_9863-Billy-McClung.html ]Billy[/url]
I also remember this night well [url= http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-130909817.html ]Baseball bat attack[/url] mainly because when we got to the pub everyone was talking about how the guy managed to break the bat before Billy went down.
I knew we lived in a rough area because he got his head kicked in too sometimes. 🙄
He could brawl as well as he could box, I could do neither. I became quite handy with a pool cue though (police must have thought I loved playing pool, since every time they stopped us all I always had mine with me 😛 )
fitba strips tied to railings.