11-01-2020, 03:25 PM
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Re: Top 10 Worst Places to live in the UK
Originally Posted by Tiffany
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I could say far worse than those 10, but won't. The main one I loath was also disliked by John Betjeman.
O r will it be life threatening?
Donkeyman!
11-01-2020, 03:35 PM
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Re: Top 10 Worst Places to live in the UK
Originally Posted by swimfeeders
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HiA bit of fun.
https://www.ilivehere.co.uk/top-10-w...ive-in-england
Some of the comments are very funny.
11-01-2020, 03:59 PM
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Re: Top 10 Worst Places to live in the UK
Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now,
There isn't grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death!
Come, bombs and blow to smithereens
Those air -conditioned, bright canteens,
Tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans,
Tinned minds, tinned breath.
Mess up the mess they call a town-
A house for ninety-seven down
And once a week a half a crown
For twenty years.
And get that man with double chin
Who'll always cheat and always win,
Who washes his repulsive skin
In women's tears:
And smash his desk of polished oak
And smash his hands so used to stroke
And stop his boring dirty joke
And make him yell.
But spare the bald young clerks who add
The profits of the stinking cad;
It's not their fault that they are mad,
They've tasted Hell.
It's not their fault they do not know
The birdsong from the radio,
It's not their fault they often go
To Maidenhead
And talk of sport and makes of cars
In various bogus-Tudor bars
And daren't look up and see the stars
But belch instead.
In labour-saving homes, with care
Their wives frizz out peroxide hair
And dry it in synthetic air
And paint their nails.
Come, friendly bombs and fall on Slough
To get it ready for the plough.
The cabbages are coming now;
The earth exhales.
11-01-2020, 04:53 PM
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Re: Top 10 Worst Places to live in the UK
Originally Posted by The Artful Todger
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Slough.Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now,
There isn't grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death!
Come, bombs and blow to smithereens
Those air -conditioned, bright canteens,
Tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans,
Tinned minds, tinned breath.
Mess up the mess they call a town-
A house for ninety-seven down
And once a week a half a crown
For twenty years.
And get that man with double chin
Who'll always cheat and always win,
Who washes his repulsive skin
In women's tears:
And smash his desk of polished oak
And smash his hands so used to stroke
And stop his boring dirty joke
And make him yell.
But spare the bald young clerks who add
The profits of the stinking cad;
It's not their fault that they are mad,
They've tasted Hell.
It's not their fault they do not know
The birdsong from the radio,
It's not their fault they often go
To Maidenhead
And talk of sport and makes of cars
In various bogus-Tudor bars
And daren't look up and see the stars
But belch instead.
In labour-saving homes, with care
Their wives frizz out peroxide hair
And dry it in synthetic air
And paint their nails.
Come, friendly bombs and fall on Slough
To get it ready for the plough.
The cabbages are coming now;
The earth exhales.
Someone did their home work.
11-01-2020, 05:21 PM
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Re: Top 10 Worst Places to live in the UK
Originally Posted by Tiffany
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I lived there for 6 years, it was dire.
But I agree with you - not the most charming spot in the world.
11-01-2020, 05:56 PM
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Re: Top 10 Worst Places to live in the UK
Originally Posted by The Artful Todger
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Amongst the other English lit. books etc that we had to read for GCE were a selection of works by Betjeman, the rather well known "poet and hack" as he described himself.
John Betjeman was poet laureate in the 70s wasnt he?
Donkeyman!
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