The Ranting Room

Edited by darqDean - January 22 2008 at 08:54

Geck0 wrote: To make Andy happy (or not):<font ="" color="#505050">Mooney _WRITES "Well, where can you start!!!!Bracknell, one of the worst places to get mugged in England or RAPED, as recent events and the news have shown. It's dirty, grimy, chavvy and you're the local hero, if you pass A you're GCSE or ,maybe even college, but don't go to far. The part of Harmans Water is where you get beaten up for looking simply at a lamp-post. Property is hard to find once you want to move out of the council flat, as youre windows are broken and the pigeons keep on flying in sh*tting on you're car boot sale sofa.You've seen nothing like Great Hollands, just mentioning the name screws you up!! As you can see, "Bracknell, well worth a visit!", according to the mayor."

I wont stand for that at all!!

It's not Harmans Water where you get beaten up for looking at a lamp post, it's Priestwood! I wish these researchers would get their facts straight..

As for Great Hollands..'gulp'..I've just had a flash back. I used to live there as a kid. At primary school I was known as 'Andy of the 'Ollands' Seriously..

A couple of years ago, someone made a sign saying 'Twinned with Beirut' and attached it to the Great Hollands road sign, where it stayed for two days before being ripped down. It even made the local paper. But, attracted letters of complaint, probably from the only two people on the estate who could write.

Geck0 wrote: ...'' The part of Harmans Water is where you get beaten up for looking simply at a lamp-post. "

In the 1970s I used to get beaten up for looking like a lamp post...Ah! those were the days    

Edited by Man Erg - January 22 2008 at 09:07

Geck0 wrote: Did you live in Harmans Water then, Lee?

Somewhere much rougher.I grew up in...Deptford!!!

Blacksword wrote: A couple of years ago, someone made a sign saying 'Twinned with Beirut' and attached it to the Great Hollands road sign, where it stayed for two days before being ripped down. It even made the local paper. But, attracted letters of complaint, probably from the only two people on the estate who could write.

Similarly:

There's an area of Stevenage called Chells; some time ago, one of the roadsigns was altered with a little white paint to read "hell" - it's never been changed back.

Give you an idea what the place is like, two of our friends moved away when their son was being threatened on a regular basis by local lads with baseball bats; the reason? Long hair... Their ages? About 5 (as were the bullies concerned ).

Problem was, the place they moved to in Peterborough (frying pan to fire situation, unfortunately) later became a "sink" estate, where the problem recurred & became worse as their daughter passed a certain age...

Our friends now live in a nice village in France.

NaturalScience wrote: After reading all this, all I can say is, "big ups" to my fellow GRoomers and Ranters!  Fo' real, yo!

I allow free use to all friends ; here's another one to describe a scutter sub-species: ICBM

Irretrievably
Common
Breeding
Machine

There's another one in development too:

Fat
Ugly
Common

Can't quite finish that one... somehow King Crimson fan doesn't seem appropriate

Ch-Ching!

Cheers, Andy

Edited by fandango - January 24 2008 at 05:33

A B Negative wrote: Who in their right mind would be presumptious enough to think "what that tune needs is to take off Keith Moon's drums and replace them with asomething a bit more dancey"? I'm talking about you, CSI producers!  If you think The Who's music is actually improved by replacing one of the best rock drummers with an indie-dance beat worthy of such musical greats as The Paris Angels or Northside, you should be forced to eat your drum machine!

Sounds like you're describing a very definite crime against music and good taste! This would be like replacing Bonhams drum track on 'When the Levee Breaks' with some ghastly hip hop drum loop, complete with scratches.. Offensive!

The producers should be forced to EAT Phil Collins CD's for a month..