Brighton..UK City of Culture??

[Southover Street Seagull]

exactly, a cultured society looks after it's own. We have hard working people who have saved up to buy a nice property and then the council lets a bunch of students move next door in some shittily maintained multiple occupancy heap that soon has a front garden full of pizza boxes, binbgas and vomit. And an old chair that no-one could possibly want with a sign saying "Free, please take". No you twats it's NOT free. It costs taxpayers to have it f***ing removed.

GGGRRRRRR

Let me guess, do you live in Seven Dials or Hanover by any chance?

 

[Nibble]

Lived on Dials for 10 years. Live near Queens Park now, away from Students. Dials was not too bad but Hanover and Southover are f***ing terrible.

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

all 4 on the shortlist PISS on Brighton for history and/or culture as much as it pains me to admit it. when is this mass self delusion going to stop. Its not milton keynes but its not f***ing Barcelona either. Its a seaside resort that is handily close to london a bit liberal and quite trendy. Thats pretty much it. It is NOT cosmopolitan. Birmingham is. Perhaps thats why its on the shortlist.

I love the town, but this mania and bullshit really is embarrassing.

I agree with you on the whole and do think that Brighton thinks it's a Barcelona when it is isn't.

However I don't think either Norwich or Derry have much more culture and history than Brighton and Hove, Sheffield and Birmingham I would agree with you on.

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

Lived on Dials for 10 years. Live near Queens Park now, away from Students. Dials was not too bad but Hanover and Southover are f***ing terrible.

Tell me about it!

I have lived in Hanover since 1981 and whilst the area has become perhaps a little more vibrant over the years, the mess and the lack of parking caused by HMOs is a bloody pain in the arse.

 

[The Spanish]

I agree with you on the whole and do think that Brighton thinks it's a Barcelona when it is isn't.

However I don't think either Norwich or Derry have much more culture and history than Brighton and Hove, Sheffield and Birmingham I would agree with you on.

eh? If you are talking history, there were about a total of 10 people catching f***ing fish and f***ing about with sheep in Brighton, when Londonderry and Norwich were major cities.

smiley face etc

 

[fataddick]

Glad to see the two cities with the best real ale areas in the UK (Norwich and Sheffield) made the list. Not sure where the money's going to come from for any of this, though. It's a new UK only thing (ie New Labour gimmick) rather than the more famous EU slush fund scheme it's trying to ape. Presumably funded by spare Lottery money? Hence it not starting until 2013 as the Olympics are hoovering all the cash up up between times.

 

[Nibble]

It's a shame cos they are nice areas. I know the Halls are there but they are well maintained but the bloody houses with old sheets in the windows, collapsed railings and fences, piles of crap outside etc.

Oh and while we are about it, has anyone seen the amount of dog shit on the pavements in Brighton from leafy suburban street, through crowded shopping areas to densly populated student areas noone cleans up the shit. I have never lived anywhere where you have had to pay so much and so little is done to make the place look nice. Okay there are dirtier towns but they are cheap to live in so you get what you pay for.

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

eh? If you are talking history, there were about a total of 10 people catching f***ing fish and f***ing about with sheep in Brighton, when Londonderry and Norwich were major cities.

smiley face etc

Agreed, Brighton didn't start off as early as perhaps Derry/Londonderry and Norwich, but have either of those two had a King live in the town and build a palace there?

poke tongue out smiley face...!

 

[fataddick]

Don't think history comes into this sort of thing.. If it's like the EU scheme, City of Culture basically means building something made of glass and giving loads of money to jugglers, playwrights and performance artists whose 'act' is showering themselves in shit or something. In which case Brighton, home to the second biggest festival of bollocks in the UK after Edinburgh, really ought to have been a frontrunner.

 

[The Spanish]

Agreed, Brighton didn't start off as early as perhaps Derry/Londonderry and Norwich, but have either of those two had a King live in the town and build a palace there?

poke tongue out smiley face...!

fair point. and if they did i bet they were not doing as much SHAGGING.

laughy nod thing, that sinister thumbs up one.

 

[Nibble]

I have long since harbored a desire to publish a book about all the scenesters, street performers, "DJ's", students etc in Brighton entitled Brighton's Biggest C*nts. It would be a lot like that rag You Got Papped. It would be full of pretty much the same crowd just they would be derided rather than applauded. I imagine a trip to the Mash Tun and similar venues on a friday night would fill half of it.

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

fair point. and if they did i bet they were not doing as much SHAGGING.

laughy nod thing, that sinister thumbs up one.

Just read a little bit about Norwich and it started off in Roman times and in the 11th Century was the second biggest city in England, London being the biggest, quite a lot of history there as you said, I doff my hat to you Sir!

Derry/Londonderry only really got going with the Plantation of Ulster and look how many problems that little episode in our history has caused since. Is that something you would highlight in a competition to win Britain's Capital of Culture?

smiley winky thumbs up...

 

[The Spanish]

Just read a little bit about Norwich and it started off in Roman times and in the 11th Century was the second biggest city in England, London being the biggest, quite a lot of history there as you said, I doff my hat to you Sir!

Derry/Londonderry only really got going with the Plantation of Ulster and look how many problems that little episode in our history has caused since. Is that something you would highlight in a competition to win Britain's Capital of Culture?

smiley winky thumbs up...

A history of violent crime and sectarian violence has not exactly been a barrier to a few previous holders of the title!

 

[house your seagull]

come and live with me in Manchester you fools, you'll soon be running home.

took my missus to brighton for the first time at the weekend and she thought it was amazing, she'd never seen anything like it before.

i'm sure that where she's from, Runcorn, they have no students and very good bin men, so how about you all f*** off up there and you'll soon realise what a nice and interesting place Brighton actually is.

plonkers.

 

[DerbyGull]

Glad to see the two cities with the best real ale areas in the UK (Norwich and Sheffield) made the list.

You what?!

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

come and live with me in Manchester you fools, you'll soon be running home.

took my missus to brighton for the first time at the weekend and she thought it was amazing, she'd never seen anything like it before.

i'm sure that where she's from, Runcorn, they have no students and very good bin men, so how about you all f*** off up there and you'll soon realise what a nice and interesting place Brighton actually is.

plonkers.

Has anyone said on this thread that Brighton is not a nice and interesting place?

 

[Nibble]

come and live with me in Manchester you fools, you'll soon be running home.

took my missus to brighton for the first time at the weekend and she thought it was amazing, she'd never seen anything like it before.

i'm sure that where she's from, Runcorn, they have no students and very good bin men, so how about you all f*** off up there and you'll soon realise what a nice and interesting place Brighton actually is.

plonkers.

The point is though Brighton is expensive and also claims to be amazing.

Manchester is what it is, pretends to be nothing else and is cheap to live in.

 

[Spun Cuppa]

Nell Gwynne bosching a Prince, The Royal Pavilion, Edwardian architecture, Frieze-Green pioneering cinema in St. Annes Wells Gardens, numerous high-spec murders, Graham Green novels, a racetrack, a football team, a hill-fort, a golf course, numerous 'runs' to Madeira Drive in the summer, two universities and a soon-to-be-completed mega-stadium

 

[severnside gull]

If Derry doesn't win they'll probably bomb the shit out of the others - it is after all their greatest cultural achievement

(assume pointy up finger thing and demonic laughing head follow)

 

[house your seagull]

Manchester is what it is, pretends to be nothing else and is cheap to live in.