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The North will rise again...

Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 7:44 am
by daniel robert chapman_Archive
After more serious consideration:

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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 7:46 am
by Nina_Archive
I object to having Clitheroe in the danger area.

Who do I talk to to have it relocated?

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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 7:46 am
by Josef K_Archive
Nina wrote:
tommydski wrote:
Nina wrote:Wow, you're way the hell up there, Tommy!

Actually I'm a bit further east than that in a lovely little village called St. Fergus.


Ahh... home to the beautiful North Sea Gas Shore Station, I see.

tommydski wrote:I try to avoid Peterhead, it's a little bit depressing.


As depressing as Glasgow?



Oh, it can get much worse than Glasgow.

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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 7:49 am
by sparky_Archive
2207 wrote:David Cameron's favourite think tank? Full of his ex school mates no doubt. You know, the ones he fagged for in public school.


Certainly correct in the case of it current Chairman, Charles Moore.

I can imagine how the analysis went: "Only one Waitrose per 500,000 people? My God, how do these animals live!"

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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 7:51 am
by simmo_Archive
daniel robert chapman wrote:
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Manchester is just 10 miles or so from Heaven.

And how did Matt Gringo end up with so much land?

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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 7:51 am
by chairman_hall_Archive
Anyhow, I love the North. Don't think I would choose to live anywhere else in Britain.

We have fresh clean water running through our taps, it's like Evian on tap. The air, so clean and fresh. And nothing beats a brisk walk on a fresh winter Northern morning. So refreshing. My extended family mostly live in old mining towns in County Durham, places where they still use coal fires. I love the smell in the air of these villages.

The cities are clean and not overcrowded. You walk about them and you see green grass and trees, imagine that. Architecturally I think we are blessed more in the North East then other parts of the North. Newcastle City Centre is very pleasing on the eye:

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So too is Durham City:

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Here in the North, we have lots and lots of areas of outstanding natural beauty on our door steps. So handy.

And the people, so kind and considerate. We open doors for each other. Murmur awkwardly if we get in another's way. You can ask for directions and get a guided tour.

And of course the North is better at football.

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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 7:53 am
by Nina_Archive
Josef K wrote:
Nina wrote:
tommydski wrote:
Nina wrote:Wow, you're way the hell up there, Tommy!

Actually I'm a bit further east than that in a lovely little village called St. Fergus.


Ahh... home to the beautiful North Sea Gas Shore Station, I see.

tommydski wrote:I try to avoid Peterhead, it's a little bit depressing.


As depressing as Glasgow?



Oh, it can get much worse than Glasgow.


Blackburn?

Morecambe?

What is with the seaside towns in the UK being so depressing? It is quite the opposite in the states. (some exceptions apply)

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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 8:21 am
by tommydski_Archive
I'm only familiar with bits of the UK so I tried to remember where they were as best as I could -

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Toronto or New York I know very well but everywhere else is an absolute mystery to me.

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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 8:25 am
by Adam I_Archive
Nina wrote:Morecambe?


For every Morecombe there is a Hastings.

*is unsure this is true*

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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 9:06 am
by Justin from Queens_Archive
Someone posted a while back that the EA board is a more relaxed/wittier place during the few hours that most of the US is asleep and the Euros can play uninhibited.

I think this thread pretty much proves that point.

= Justin