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Post by Totheleft on Mar 4, 2024 2:57:02 GMT
It is where the M1 ends and leads into London and by God it is bleak. Everything is grey and glum and with potholes the size of the Hyde Park boating lake and it is the entrance to the best city in all the world, but has all the charm of a totally charm free zone.
We ought to paint the bridges and plant flower gardens and have children handing out sweets to visitors, but we don't.
A massively uninspiring shit hole Which can very much be said of Britain today, thanks in most part to your beloved Tories. Want to live in a shit hole? Vote conservative! Dont ForgetFinchley was Maggie constituency what's just a stone throw away from the Area there on about. |
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Post by seniorcitizen007 on Mar 4, 2024 3:35:31 GMT
The part of Cricklewood where I was brought up is now almost 100% Asian.
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Post by buccaneer on Mar 4, 2024 4:19:59 GMT
It is where the M1 ends and leads into London and by God it is bleak. Everything is grey and glum and with potholes the size of the Hyde Park boating lake and it is the entrance to the best city in all the world, but has all the charm of a totally charm free zone.
We ought to paint the bridges and plant flower gardens and have children handing out sweets to visitors, but we don't.
A massively uninspiring shit hole I totally agree. I used to pass through it regularly for work and it's been a shit hole for decades. Same. But then again even though it looks like a dirty, grimey, grey communist junction for onward travel. That's all it ever was to me. When I eventually got to work in places like Wembley, Willesden, Slough, Southall and Harlesden I realised what a shit-hole really was. These places today are the pits. And yet, they're probably still not the armpit of London! Can you believe it?! |
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Post by Dogburger on Mar 4, 2024 8:12:34 GMT
Don't really know what people expect . Just look at the towns and cities of the Indian sub continent of the Middle east or Africa and you can see your future if you live in one of ours.
Mass immigration first affected inner London boroughs ,it is now spreading out to the suburbs .Cash strapped councils ,too many people , poor management ,dirty bastards .
Welcome to Londinistan
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Post by The Squeezed Middle on Mar 4, 2024 8:59:02 GMT
Don't really know what people expect . Just look at the towns and cities of the Indian sub continent of the Middle east or Africa and you can see your future if you live in one of ours. Mass immigration first affected inner London boroughs ,it is now spreading out to the suburbs .Cash strapped councils ,too many people , poor management ,dirty bastards . Welcome to Londinistan You say that, but there's been plenty of shit holes in London since well before mass immigration was a thing. |
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Post by Dogburger on Mar 4, 2024 9:34:32 GMT
Don't really know what people expect . Just look at the towns and cities of the Indian sub continent of the Middle east or Africa and you can see your future if you live in one of ours. Mass immigration first affected inner London boroughs ,it is now spreading out to the suburbs .Cash strapped councils ,too many people , poor management ,dirty bastards . Welcome to Londinistan You say that, but there's been plenty of shit holes in London since well before mass immigration was a thing. For sure there were poor areas but even after the second world war up till the 70's when bomb damage was still evident people would would take pride in their street and put the broom over the front step . Its definitely a population issue for me ,over development ,overcrowding and poor services . We are not far off 10 million people ,about the same as Portugal or twice the population of Denmark |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2024 9:35:57 GMT
Which can very much be said of Britain today, thanks in most part to your beloved Tories. Want to live in a shit hole? Vote conservative! Possibly, but the area in question is a labour party stronghold.
It is a shit hole and has been a shithole ever since they invented shit holes because every time folk realise it is a shit hole and think aha, why is this place a shit hole, you and your mates look through your miasma of self pity and squeal, it is the Tories, it is all the fault of the Tories !
Thats because it usually is, lol |
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Mar 4, 2024 14:32:11 GMT
It is where the M1 ends and leads into London and by God it is bleak. Everything is grey and glum and with potholes the size of the Hyde Park boating lake and it is the entrance to the best city in all the world, but has all the charm of a totally charm free zone.
We ought to paint the bridges and plant flower gardens and have children handing out sweets to visitors, but we don't.
A massively uninspiring shit hole I think most places have declined in the last ten years. There is one exception though and that is where I live. When I arrived this place was heading towards economic decline, but now it has turned a corner. For example every property on the high street is a going concern. People have renovated old buildings and the house prices have risen quite considerably. |
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Post by borchester on Mar 4, 2024 20:00:00 GMT
It is where the M1 ends and leads into London and by God it is bleak. Everything is grey and glum and with potholes the size of the Hyde Park boating lake and it is the entrance to the best city in all the world, but has all the charm of a totally charm free zone.
We ought to paint the bridges and plant flower gardens and have children handing out sweets to visitors, but we don't.
A massively uninspiring shit hole I think most places have declined in the last ten years. There is one exception though and that is where I live. When I arrived this place was heading towards economic decline, but now it has turned a corner. For example every property on the high street is a going concern. People have renovated old buildings and the house prices have risen quite considerably. I also live in a pleasant part of town. It is that whenever I have to visit the lesser breeds without the law and the M25, I am forced to pass through Staples Corner |
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Post by wapentake on Mar 4, 2024 20:05:21 GMT
I have gone through it once, in the 1990’s, in a car with CD plates driven by a bloke in the pay of the United Nations in possession of a diplomatic passport. It is on a par with bits of ghettos in Leeds. At about the same time I was peddling along the nearby Hendon Flyover when a lady from the Crown Prosecution Service ran me down, which resulted in me getting £2000 compensation and a new mountain bike. That was before the compensation culture really got underway and when mountain bikes were quite the thing, so I was well pleased about both and for a long time was quite sentimental about West Hendon. But as the years went by, cold reality set in and I had to admit that levelling the west side of the M1 as far as the Welsh Harp and turning it into allotments might not be a bad idea. So what were you purveying.  |
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Mar 4, 2024 20:21:16 GMT
I think most places have declined in the last ten years. There is one exception though and that is where I live. When I arrived this place was heading towards economic decline, but now it has turned a corner. For example every property on the high street is a going concern. People have renovated old buildings and the house prices have risen quite considerably. I also live in a pleasant part of town. It is that whenever I have to visit the lesser breeds without the law and the M25, I am forced to pass through Staples Corner Yes I was just looking at some pictures and it was about what I imagined. The architecture is foul. It looks like the back end of an industrial estate. Most of the country looks pretty shit in fact. Fortunately my neighbours are good gardeners so walking along my road in the spring is a really uplifting experience, like loads of sweet floral scent in the air and the chatter of birds. |
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Post by borchester on Mar 4, 2024 23:03:25 GMT
At about the same time I was peddling along the nearby Hendon Flyover when a lady from the Crown Prosecution Service ran me down, which resulted in me getting £2000 compensation and a new mountain bike. That was before the compensation culture really got underway and when mountain bikes were quite the thing, so I was well pleased about both and for a long time was quite sentimental about West Hendon. But as the years went by, cold reality set in and I had to admit that levelling the west side of the M1 as far as the Welsh Harp and turning it into allotments might not be a bad idea. So what were you purveying. Prior to the accident, a sound back.
Actually, it was not so bad afterwards. After a couple of weeks at home I felt fit enough to return to work, where my manager put up with me for a few days until she said she had enough of my moaning and farting (for some reason landing on my backside resulted in an enormous build-up of methane and such and which in turn produced window rattling explosions) and told me to clear off and not return until advised otherwise.
But the real eye opener were the lawyers. I never thought to sue anyone until they got involved and by God they were crooked sods. The only good thing about them was that they were on my side.  |
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Post by wapentake on Mar 4, 2024 23:47:19 GMT
So what were you purveying. Prior to the accident, a sound back.
Actually, it was not so bad afterwards. After a couple of weeks at home I felt fit enough to return to work, where my manager put up with me for a few days until she said she had enough of my moaning and farting (for some reason landing on my backside resulted in an enormous build-up of methane and such and which in turn produced window rattling explosions) and told me to clear off and not return until advised otherwise.
But the real eye opener were the lawyers. I never thought to sue anyone until they got involved and by God they were crooked sods. The only good thing about them was that they were on my side. You were selling your back,the mind boggles. |
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