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Re: UK cities ranking

Posted: 16 Feb 2018, 13:55
by hippopotamus

Re: UK cities ranking

Posted: 16 Feb 2018, 14:01
by hippopotamus
Ranked best to worst

I know well well
Glasgow
Edinburgh
Liverpool (I don't know as well yet.)
Oxford


ones I don't know that well
Manchester
Bristol
London
Cambridge

The rest I don't know at all
Reading
Birmingham
Sheffield
Newcastle
Hull
Leeds
Bradford
Belfast
Brighton
Nottingham
Leicester
Wolverhampton
Cardiff
Bournemouth
Portsmouth
Southampton
Coventry
Sunderland
Preston
Wakefield
Plymouth
Stoke
Derby
Swansea
York
Peterborough
Norwich

Re: UK cities ranking

Posted: 16 Feb 2018, 14:12
by naughty boy
The Great Defector wrote:Edinburgh - Love it. I have a friend settled over there and I try and get over when I can. Again good banter with the locals, and really easy to avoid dougie. Just go to the nice pubs.


:lol: :lol: :lol:

Re: UK cities ranking

Posted: 16 Feb 2018, 15:58
by Goat Boy
Cheeky fucking spud eating cunt!

Re: UK cities ranking

Posted: 16 Feb 2018, 16:03
by Dr Markus
:lol: was it something I said?

Re: UK cities ranking

Posted: 16 Feb 2018, 16:14
by naughty boy
That was quality tho’ D! Give him his due

Re: UK cities ranking

Posted: 16 Feb 2018, 16:21
by Goat Boy
He has his moments. Undeniably!

Re: UK cities ranking

Posted: 16 Feb 2018, 17:07
by KeithPratt
German Dave wrote: God knows, I always have a curry in Spain myself!


dies a death

Re: UK cities ranking

Posted: 16 Feb 2018, 17:43
by WG Kaspar
From what I've seen in the last 3 months I will place Bristol along Liverpool and Glasgow as my favorite cities. Norwich was nice but unfortunately didn't spend that much time there. And Stoke is Stoke, there's nothing quite like it.

Re: UK cities ranking

Posted: 16 Feb 2018, 17:49
by Dr Markus
German Dave wrote:
The Modernist wrote:Why? I don't think what I've said is at all contentious really. And my point was a lot of Polish food products aren't particularly good, we're not talking one of the world's great cuisines here.
.


But you're talking about a British supermarket's take on Polish cuisine. Get yourself to a proper Polski sklep an feast your eyes on the myriad cold cuts.



Get yourself to Poland and try there proper meat dishes! Delicious, the rest they can keep to themselves.

Re: UK cities ranking

Posted: 16 Feb 2018, 17:51
by Goat Boy
German Dave wrote:
The Modernist wrote:Why? I don't think what I've said is at all contentious really. And my point was a lot of Polish food products aren't particularly good, we're not talking one of the world's great cuisines here.
.


But you're talking about a British supermarket's take on Polish cuisine. Get yourself to a proper Polski sklep an feast your eyes on the myriad cold cuts.


I think he's talking about polish supermarkets in the UK. Maybe the range of fresh meat is better over there of course.

Re: UK cities ranking

Posted: 16 Feb 2018, 18:43
by Minnie the Minx
German Dave wrote:Save the fucking planet! :x


I agree! I look forward to your future tales of swimming to Spain cutting out those naughty planes!

Re: UK cities ranking

Posted: 16 Feb 2018, 19:30
by Goat Boy
German Dave wrote:He said the Polish aisle.

One thing that does get my goat, though, is Polish, Lithuanian or Turkish bottled water, all of which I regularly see. Drink local water. Save the fucking planet! :x


True but it's the same shit you get in the supermarkets, just a wider variety of Polish foods.

Re: UK cities ranking

Posted: 16 Feb 2018, 19:51
by Goat Boy
The processed meats and day to day stuff are the same which is what G and I are on about. It's the same quality you get in the Tesco aisle, just more variety. The deli counters are different but that's not what G was on about. He's on about people picking Polish mayo over Hellmans.

Re: UK cities ranking

Posted: 16 Feb 2018, 20:07
by The Modernist
German Dave wrote:
Goat Boy wrote:
German Dave wrote:He said the Polish aisle.

One thing that does get my goat, though, is Polish, Lithuanian or Turkish bottled water, all of which I regularly see. Drink local water. Save the fucking planet! :x


True but it's the same shit you get in the supermarkets, just a wider variety of Polish foods.


That's simply not true, round our way, anyway. The deli counters in the Polski Skleps are spectacular.


Just to be clear I wasn't talking about a specialised deli, but processed stuff that seems to clog up all the shelves at my local co-op

Re: UK cities ranking

Posted: 16 Feb 2018, 20:09
by Minnie the Minx
The struggle is real.

Re: UK cities ranking

Posted: 16 Feb 2018, 20:13
by KeithPratt
The Modernist wrote:processed stuff that seems to clog up all the shelves at my local co-op


What about if you said this about Indian food "clogging up all the shelves"??

You'd be roasted alive!

Re: UK cities ranking

Posted: 16 Feb 2018, 21:46
by Belle Lettre
Pot noodles

Re: UK cities ranking

Posted: 17 Feb 2018, 15:49
by echolalia
Coventry – never been
Swansea – never been
Oxford – never been
Norwich – never been
Cambridge – never been
Stoke – never been
Bradford – never been
Wakefield – never been
Bristol – never been
Cardiff – never been
Bournemouth – never been
Wolverhampton – never been
Sunderland – a dump

Reading – know quite well. I quite like it actually. I love Silchester and its Roman town.

Preston – not been since I was a kid but I remember it being nice

Plymouth – passed through it once I’m sure. My wife used to live there.

York – I spent a night there once when the train I was on broke down. York Minster all lit up at night in the pouring rain – beautiful

Peterborough – the station bar is as far as I’ve ventured

Edinburgh – place of my birth and studies. I have mixed feelings about it.

Newcastle – I used to go there a lot in the 1980s. I love the stotties!

Leeds – been a couple of times, didn’t make any particular impression on me

Belfast – liked it a lot – far more than Dublin, which I found a bit snooty

Derby – passed through; it was raining

Nottingham – been there but all I remember is the station.

Leicester – been there a few times. It’s a bit of a dump.

Sheffield – saw it through the steamy window of a bus once. It was raining

Hull – I went there once – to the ferry terminal and out again. Raining.

Portsmouth – can’t remember much about it but I remember liking it

Southampton – I think I went there once to get a ferry to the Isle of Wight

Birmingham – went there once to see a Dylan show. Didn’t like it very much.

Manchester – I lived in the Crescents in Hulme for a spell, but didn’t ever run into Nico or Alain Delon. I visit regularly. It’s not a city of grand vistas – you have to zoom in a little to appreciate it properly, I find. I agree with what Nick says about the architecture. I’m not much of a pubgoer but it has a bar I really like (Hare and Hounds).

Liverpool – I wandered round the town centre for a couple of hours on my way to Manchester last year. I liked it – a bit like Glasgow or the glaring omission that is Dundee

Glasgow – I don’t know it well on a going-out basis. My mum grew up in Denham Street and until recently I still had relatives in Possilpark. So that’s the part of Glasgow I know, mainly. And the Sarry Heid!

Brighton – I lived there for a while and have really fond memories of it. I worked for a clairvoyant - not always easy. I have a massive soft spot for Brighton novels. If ever I had to countenance living in Blighty again, I would gravitate towards Brighton.

Re: UK cities ranking

Posted: 17 Feb 2018, 16:33
by naughty boy
echolalia wrote:Sheffield – saw it through the steamy window of a bus once. It was raining


I've spent the last two summers in Sheffield and I swear to God it rained nearly every single miserable fucking day. It's only something like the tenth rainiest city in the country, however.*

I'm doing some research 'cos I'm planning my next move, and I found out the west of the country gets more rain than the east, generally speaking (I'd heard this before from a friend but wrote it off as urban myth/bollocks). So Edinburgh is drier than Glasgow and Cardiff is the rainiest city of all. This stuff's important, right?

*EDIT - nineteenth


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