General Chit Chat

[bwfcdan94]

Will do AG.

[Annoyed Grunt]

Will do AG.

What? I haven't done anything?

[Montreal Wanderer]

Will do AG.

What? I haven't done anything?

You must have done!

[Annoyed Grunt]

Will do AG.

What? I haven't done anything?

You must have done!

Story of my life that.....

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

Will do AG.

What? I haven't done anything?

I think he meant me. G is sort of next to T on the keyboard!

[bwfcdan94]

I did mean AT apologises to both AT and AG.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Its like a little Sheffield, but have you been to Alfreton now that is a serious dump.

Despite the ridicule Dan has received on this subject, on this occassion he is quite correct. As a resident within the bounds of Derbyshire I can confirm that Chessie is just like a little brother to Sheffield. Furthermore Alfreton, although not as shitholey as Long Eaton, say, would not produce many tears from Gaia if it were to disappear tomorrow.

[bwfcdan94]

I know when I walked up the road from the station literally every other house had loads of old sofas, cupboards and tables on the front garden, it was a hot sunny day if it had been cold and wet I would have probably turned around and gone home. On the way back down the road to the station I saw the big imposing factories at the bottom of the hill, got to the station where a drunk chav was on his phone swearing every other word to (I presume) his girlfriend, things like you f**king useless slag, you fu**ing c**t, the conversation went on like this before he came on the platform and shouted where is the f**ken train to me, I shrugged he then jumped onto the middle of the tracks to see where the train was. On the bright side the chippy was good and they now have a successful team who are 3rd in the conference. I can just see people from so called tough towns like Rochdale, Scunthorpe and Hartlepool walking down that road wishing they were home.

[bwfcdan94]

Its like a little Sheffield, but have you been to Alfreton now that is a serious dump.

Despite the ridicule Dan has received on this subject, on this occassion he is quite correct. As a resident within the bounds of Derbyshire I can confirm that Chessie is just like a little brother to Sheffield. Furthermore Alfreton, although not as shitholey as Long Eaton, say, would not produce many tears from Gaia if it were to disappear tomorrow.

Thank you for backing me up LLS. Matlock on the other hand comes across very posh.

[Bruce Rioja]

literally every other house had loads of old sofas, cupboards and tables on the front garden,

'Literally' every other house?

[Dujon]

Thank you for backing me up LLS. Matlock on the other hand comes across very posh.

I'm ever so glad you mentioned Matlock, Dan. Not that I have ever been there, but my maternal grandparents retired from Oldham to Matlock. As best I can recall the only photograph I saw of the place was the pair of them standing by their 'new' front gate with a neat garden and house in the background. Oh yes, please keep in mind that the Oldham I knew is, judging from the odd opinion expressed on this site, not the Oldham that I remember.

Perhaps you could have a chat to the A-Z people, Dan. You could make a fortune! The idea would to be produce a tourist guide highlighting the places not to visit.

[Prufrock]

A Lonely Prannock's Best of Britain.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I've always been a little scathing of some advances in modern technology, one of them being sqeezing applications onto a mobile phone... What possible benefit, I thought, could a mobile phone confer on what is basically a squeezed down laptop.
Well I eat my words.
Over Christmas I've got two apps that have transformed my life: a stopwatch and a sky map. Both would be feckin useless on a laptop, and are really useful on a small portable device. Sorry for slagging you off technology.

[bwfcdan94]

literally every other house had loads of old sofas, cupboards and tables on the front garden,

'Literally' every other house?

1 in 2

[bwfcdan94]

Thank you for backing me up LLS. Matlock on the other hand comes across very posh.

I'm ever so glad you mentioned Matlock, Dan. Not that I have ever been there, but my maternal grandparents retired from Oldham to Matlock. As best I can recall the only photograph I saw of the place was the pair of them standing by their 'new' front gate with a neat garden and house in the background. Oh yes, please keep in mind that the Oldham I knew is, judging from the odd opinion expressed on this site, not the Oldham that I remember.

Perhaps you could have a chat to the A-Z people, Dan. You could make a fortune! The idea would to be produce a tourist guide highlighting the places not to visit.

We could do a Dan's daily take on a random town section. Give me any town chances are I have been there.

[jaffka]

Thank you for backing me up LLS. Matlock on the other hand comes across very posh.

I'm ever so glad you mentioned Matlock, Dan. Not that I have ever been there, but my maternal grandparents retired from Oldham to Matlock. As best I can recall the only photograph I saw of the place was the pair of them standing by their 'new' front gate with a neat garden and house in the background. Oh yes, please keep in mind that the Oldham I knew is, judging from the odd opinion expressed on this site, not the Oldham that I remember.

Perhaps you could have a chat to the A-Z people, Dan. You could make a fortune! The idea would to be produce a tourist guide highlighting the places not to visit.

We could do a Dan's daily take on a random town section. Give me any town chances are I have been there.

are you a pikey?

[Annoyed Grunt]

Thank you for backing me up LLS. Matlock on the other hand comes across very posh.

I'm ever so glad you mentioned Matlock, Dan. Not that I have ever been there, but my maternal grandparents retired from Oldham to Matlock. As best I can recall the only photograph I saw of the place was the pair of them standing by their 'new' front gate with a neat garden and house in the background. Oh yes, please keep in mind that the Oldham I knew is, judging from the odd opinion expressed on this site, not the Oldham that I remember.

Perhaps you could have a chat to the A-Z people, Dan. You could make a fortune! The idea would to be produce a tourist guide highlighting the places not to visit.

We could do a Dan's daily take on a random town section. Give me any town chances are I have been there.

Workington...

[Bruce Rioja]

literally every other house had loads of old sofas, cupboards and tables on the front garden,

'Literally' every other house?

1 in 2

Yeah, mate, of course. One in two households in Alfreton has a pile of domestic furniture in the garden! Does that leave room for the dismantled Datsun Cherry and the cement mixer? Or are they interspersed amongst the neighbouring properties? Tit.

[bwfcdan94]

No Jaffka I am not a pike although my sister was blessed by scouse gypsies. Workington: Workington is a town in Cumbria. Like many towns in west Cumbria Workington has suffered high unemployment levels in the past due to the loss of its main industries mainly coal mining, steel production and exportation of these products through the towns docks. Furthermore worryingly Workington has become a BNP hotspot (according to Griffin anyway) with a local campaigner in the area gaining much support. The town varies massively with some areas having relatively large house and being quite desirable places to live while other being dominated by very small pebble dashed terraced houses. The key advantage the town has is being near lots of countryside something that I think is undervalued by southerners and particularly people live in London. On my visit in 2010 I can honestly say I felt safe although the people were unfriendly (unusual for that part of the world)

According to the governments deprivation index the town can range anywhere from "better than 70% of England to "in bottom 10% of areas in England". I would go again but I would avoid the docks.

[bwfcdan94]

literally every other house had loads of old sofas, cupboards and tables on the front garden,

'Literally' every other house?

1 in 2

Yeah, mate, of course. One in two households in Alfreton has a pile of domestic furniture in the garden! Does that leave room for the dismantled Datsun Cherry and the cement mixer? Or are they interspersed amongst the neighbouring properties? Tit.

On the road that the station is on my statement is entirely true, I have been up and down every street in Alfreton but given the population is less than 8000 I can say I have seen 10% of the town and thoroughly dislike it, I should point out that apart from Mr sweary the 2 other people I spoke to seemed nice.