Blackpool - The Northern Riviera
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I hate Blackpool. Those photo's sum it up perfectly.
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see, i appreciate is a desolte depraved shithole, but for some reason dont really mind it (in very small doses)
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A couple of years back I was invited on a mate's F-i-L's works day out which, after a day of sporting activities, culminated with the coach dropping us off in Blackpool for the evening. As we alighted the coach we were greeted by the sight of a woman in her thirties squatting in Wilkinson's doorway, knickers round ankles, taking a piss, at around 19:00 in broad daylight.
I wouldn't have minded but her fanny looked like a badly packed kebab.
I wouldn't have minded but her fanny looked like a badly packed kebab.
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Aye, thats where I am too. Back in the 70's and 80's my in-laws (who were farmers) annual 'holiday' was one day in Blackpool. We'd start on the main car park, have a walk around the pleasure beach, take a tram down to the tower and spend the evening in the ballroom. Same thing for 20+ years.General Mannerheim wrote:see, i appreciate is a desolte depraved shithole, but for some reason dont really mind it (in very small doses)
Now, with the kids, we again manage one day a year but confine it to a cafe for breakfast then the pleasure beach for a few hours. I can manage that, just about.
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It's a dump, generally full of scrotes.
It does, however, probably still have the best value fun fair, if that's your bag. It was ok when I was 16, but other than taking kids to said fun fair, I wouldn't want to get any nearer to it than the opposite end of the M55.
It does, however, probably still have the best value fun fair, if that's your bag. It was ok when I was 16, but other than taking kids to said fun fair, I wouldn't want to get any nearer to it than the opposite end of the M55.
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we went last week, picked kids up from school and drove over, parked up, had no lovely fish & chips, let the dog chase seaguls on the beach for a bit, central pier, big wheel, few other rides, few games on the stalls, kentuck derby, then when it got dark jumped in the car for a length of the Promenade with the illuminations and was home for 8pm. kids loved it.
ive also had some cracking nights out there in my youth, afternoons in the tower lounge! great fun. just gotta take it for what it is. there are some ace rides on the pleasure beach too tbf.
also saw lots of scrotes, scallies, slappers, smack heads, gypsies and stag & hen troops, aaand plenty of horrendous dilapidated greasy B&B's with "NO VACANCIES" in their wondows
ive also had some cracking nights out there in my youth, afternoons in the tower lounge! great fun. just gotta take it for what it is. there are some ace rides on the pleasure beach too tbf.
also saw lots of scrotes, scallies, slappers, smack heads, gypsies and stag & hen troops, aaand plenty of horrendous dilapidated greasy B&B's with "NO VACANCIES" in their wondows
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Yeah - it's great for the kids and better value than Alton Towers etc. When they're grown-up, I don't think I'd find any reason to ever visit the place again.
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A very different Blackpool now than when we'd spend our annual holiday there at sixteen. Kids owned the place and yes, there were plenty plonkers staggering about after two halves of I.P.A or whatever, but it was fun in general and the Winter Gardens and Tower Ballroom were our Mecca (no pun intended) . A fond memory is of a gang of us strolling round the South Pier in the sunshine whilst Perez Prado's Cherry Pink Mambo blasted out over the sound system. Yes, it was a long time ago.
Last time we ( me and the wife) went, a few years back, we called in a pub near the Tower for a quick half before setting off home. Next news, a horde of bouncers are dashing next door where a rehearsal for World War III had kicked off . It was about 5-30 in the afternoon. Enough was enough.
Last time we ( me and the wife) went, a few years back, we called in a pub near the Tower for a quick half before setting off home. Next news, a horde of bouncers are dashing next door where a rehearsal for World War III had kicked off . It was about 5-30 in the afternoon. Enough was enough.
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I loved it as a kid and can remember a few good bank holidays there in the 80s. Even then, there were folks scrapping in the street and robbing the 10 penny falls. I was quite shocked when a bloke in a Leeds shirt saw my hat and shouted in my face 'Bolton bastard'. I think I was 14
Only difference I can see now, is that the women there seem so much rougher now than they did then.
Only difference I can see now, is that the women there seem so much rougher now than they did then.
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I thought what was noteworthy was that when those photo's slipped from Blackpool ones to street scenes in an Arabic city you weren't immediately certain and, if anything, they seemed to be calmer.
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I spotted that too...as I scratched my head and tried to work out where in Blackpool some of them were...bobo the clown wrote:I thought what was noteworthy was that when those photo's slipped from Blackpool ones to street scenes in an Arabic city you weren't immediately certain and, if anything, they seemed to be calmer.
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Worthy4England wrote:I spotted that too...as I scratched my head and tried to work out where in Blackpool some of them were...bobo the clown wrote:I thought what was noteworthy was that when those photo's slipped from Blackpool ones to street scenes in an Arabic city you weren't immediately certain and, if anything, they seemed to be calmer.
Quite a few of those are London too.
Quite sad, although I like the photos of the people taken through the bus/ car window with the buildings reflected on the glass/ their faces.
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the guy with the window decoration looking like an egyptian crown is well done!Gary the Enfield wrote:Worthy4England wrote:I spotted that too...as I scratched my head and tried to work out where in Blackpool some of them were...bobo the clown wrote:I thought what was noteworthy was that when those photo's slipped from Blackpool ones to street scenes in an Arabic city you weren't immediately certain and, if anything, they seemed to be calmer.
Quite a few of those are London too.
Quite sad, although I like the photos of the people taken through the bus/ car window with the buildings reflected on the glass/ their faces.
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Still think Blackpool is mint for getting laced from dinner til breakfast
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true dat.boltonboris wrote:Still think Blackpool is mint for getting laced from dinner til breakfast
also that translates to about 12 hours if youre from down south, or about 18 hours if your a double hard northern bastard!
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You bar stewards! Talk about spoiling childhood memories - sheesh.
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Moving along the coast a bit, our very first visit to Southport, the seaside, I was about seven and had never seen the sea. Not the best place to go to do it. We walked about forty seven miles (okay, maybe half-a-mile) trying to get to it and it was still miles away, then forty-seven miles back. Watched the boats on the Marina, but dad wasn't fooling us, it wasn't the sea because there was no sand. Went home feeling very cheated indeed. Not a galleon or pirate ship in sight.Dujon wrote:You bar stewards! Talk about spoiling childhood memories - sheesh.
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Good old Blackpool, the Middlesbrough of Lancashire, home to more smackheads and crackheads then anywhere else In Britain. It is of course renowned for being where all of the north west's scumbags go to live after being run out of their own towns/cities. I like the rest of you went for a few holidays there when I was little, the difference being that I went there in the 90s when it was starting to get really sh*t. One of the few places that seem to get worse every time I go there.
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