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SIGNS YOU'VE BEEN IN LONDON TOO LONG
1. You say 'mate' constantly.
2. You think it is perfectly normal to pay over £4.00 for a pint.
3. Anyone not from London is a 'w*nker'.
4. Anyone from outside London and north of the Watford Gap is a 'Northern
Wa*ker'.
5. You have no idea where the North is.
6. You see All Saints in the Bar Med (again) and find it hard to get excited
about it.
7. The countryside makes you nervous.
8. Somebody speaks to you on the tube and you freak out thinking they are a
stalker.
9. American tourists no longer annoy you.
10. You talk in postcodes. "God, it was really warm round SW1 the other day".

11. You can't remember the last time you got up to 30 mph in your car..
12. You didn't realise that 'Paddington Green' is REAL.
13. You pay £2.95 for a frig*ing caramel frig*ing crapachino Starbucks muck
coffee


SIGNS YOU'VE BEEN IN MANCHESTER TOO LONG
1. You go mad when somebody who is not from Manchester says 'mad fer it',
"Nobody says that EVER!" you scream.
2. You say 'mad fer it' when back in Manchester.
3. You think fisherman's hats are attractive.
4. You support Man City out of principle.
5. You see Coronation Street stars all the time and think nothing of it
6. You think Londoners are 'soft southern wa*kers'... until they kick your
head in at a footie match.
7. You get a freckle and consider yourself 'sun-tanned'
8. You deny that it rains all the time.. as you struggle home with the
shopping in yet another torrential downpour.
9. You won't pay more than £1.50 for a wrap of skag.
10. People start yawning when you talk about how great Manchester is.


SIGNS YOU'VE BEEN IN LIVERPOOL TOO LONG
1. You have an urge to steal.
2. You think Brookside is a 'glamorous' soap.
3. You think Hollyoaks is 'posh'.
4. You keep going on about how great Liverpool and Scousers are.
5. To you, organised crime is putting petrol in the getaway car.
6. You start to cry when you hear 'Ferry cross the Mersey'.
7. You think anyone from Liverpool has a great sense of humour.
8. You often wonder why you don't hear of many Scouse comedians any more.
9. You think everyone's heard of Greg Pateras.
10. You start thinking that Plymouth sounds nice.


SIGNS YOU'VE BEEN IN GLASGOW TOO LONG
1. You say 'pi$h' all the time.
2. You say 'aye' all the time.
3. You end sentences with 'like' i.e. 'I'm no goin' there, like, it's pi$h'.
4. You think McEwans beer is great, ignoring the fact it 'tastes of pi$h
like'.
5. You get an urge to punch everybody you meet.
6. You punch everybody you meet.
7. You get drunk before, after and during punching everybody you meet..
8. You are incomprehensible.
9. People seem to be scared of you when you say where you are from.
10.You automatically get the urge to kill on hearing the words 'Edinburgh' or
'England'.
11.You have heart disease aged 26 due to all deep-fried pizzas you have
consumed since birth.


SIGNS YOU'VE BEEN IN DUBLIN TOO LONG
1. You say "I'm Grand" all the time.
2. You think of Guinness as if it is the sixth food group.
3. You disagreed with 2. - Guinness is the FIRST food group.
4. You're pale and white... yet compared to others your suntan looks good.
5. You say "Are you Grand ?" all the time.
6. You say "Isn't it grand" all the time.
7. You say "That'd be grand" all the time.
8. You can pronounce names like Eoghan, Niamh and Siobhan.
9. You take 4 hours to get home on a Saturday night and think nothing of it.
10.You don't eat anything cold, uncooked or not resembling meat, bread or
potatoes
11. You say "Your man" all the time.
12. You say "Your woman" all the time.
13. You say "It's grand that your man asked if I'm grand" all the time.
14. You find yourself still living with family and having dinners cooked for
you by someone's mammy - at 30.
15. You talk about 'dinners' and 'mammys'.


SIGNS YOU'VE BEEN IN CARDIFF TOO LONG
1.You are still there.

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James Blast wrote:SIGNS YOU'VE BEEN IN GLASGOW TOO LONG
1. You say 'pi$h', 'whut', 'get tae f***' and 'you ya c***' all the time.
2. You end sentences with 'pish'' i.e. 'I'm no goin' there, it's pi$h ( - ya c*** (optional))'.
3. You think Tennants Lager is great, ignoring the fact it 'tastes like pi$h' (but still tastier than Carling or McEwans).
4. You get an urge to punch everybody you meet.
5. You punch everybody you meet.
6. You get drunk before, after and during punching everybody you meet..
7. You are incomprehensible.
8. People seem to be scared of you when you say where you are from.
9.You automatically get the urge to kill on hearing the words 'Edinburgh' or 'England'.
10.You have heart disease aged 26 due to all deep-fried pizzas you have consumed since birth.
Updated Mr Blast's post, as only southsiders drink McEwans :twisted: (and all of the above is true about me! :eek: )
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James Blast wrote:SIGNS YOU'VE BEEN IN LONDON TOO LONG
1. You say 'mate' constantly.
2. You think it is perfectly normal to pay over £4.00 for a pint.
3. Anyone not from London is a 'w*nker'.
4. Anyone from outside London and north of the Watford Gap is a 'Northern
Wa*ker'.
5. You have no idea where the North is.
6. You see All Saints in the Bar Med (again) and find it hard to get excited
about it.
7. The countryside makes you nervous.
8. Somebody speaks to you on the tube and you freak out thinking they are a
stalker.
9. American tourists no longer annoy you.
10. You talk in postcodes. "God, it was really warm round SW1 the other day".

11. You can't remember the last time you got up to 30 mph in your car..
12. You didn't realise that 'Paddington Green' is REAL.
13. You pay £2.95 for a frig*ing caramel frig*ing crapachino Starbucks muck
coffee
Sublime :notworthy:

Makes me realise Antwerp is very much like London :lol: :lol:

which is a double joke really, but I doubt you get that one outside of Belgium, my location will point you into the right direction, though
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I DO NOT live in Cardiff - I cannot afford it and the parts I could afford are worse than the best bits of "Glasgow" ;-)

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Signs you've been in Leeds too long:
1. You see Jimmy Saville and don't get excited about it
2. You know your Big Issue seller's name
3. You pluck up the courage to drive on the inner ring road
4. You spit outside the Hugo Boss shop every time you pass it
5. Haworth and the Worth Valley Railway seems like an exciting day out
6. You talk in postcodes. "God, there were loads of skag-heads round Leeds 6 the other day".
7. You've lived at least once in each of Leeds 2, Leeds 3, Leeds 4, and Leeds 6. Added points for Leeds 5 and Leeds 7
8. You can work out a "ratrun" route between any two places in the aforementioned postcode districts

I can't think of any more.
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markfiend wrote:Signs you've been in Leeds too long:
1. You see Jimmy Saville and don't get excited about it
2. You know your Big Issue seller's name
3. You pluck up the courage to drive on the inner ring road
4. You spit outside the Hugo Boss shop every time you pass it
5. Haworth and the Worth Valley Railway seems like an exciting day out
6. You talk in postcodes. "God, there were loads of skag-heads round Leeds 6 the other day".
7. You've lived at least once in each of Leeds 2, Leeds 3, Leeds 4, and Leeds 6. Added points for Leeds 5 and Leeds 7
8. You can work out a "ratrun" route between any two places in the aforementioned postcode districts

I can't think of any more.
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Nice stuff. It's reasonably related, but when I went to the Leeds Armouries, it took us ages to find the exit out of the city. An hour, in fact.
So my friends and I, very late at night after at least 6 hours of nonstop Halo Two, decided we don't like anywhere and made the following list of cities:

Leeds - The City With No Exit
Liverpool - The Plaguéd Lands
Oswestry - The City Where Nobody Lives *
Manchester - One Big Multistorey Carpark
Birmingham - The City That Doesn't Really Exist
Lincoln - The Pointless Lands
London - The City That Smells Of Chips And Smoke
Canwick - The Land Of The Dead (AKA Graveyard Zone)

Canwick isn't a city, but a small village outside of Lincoln where my friend lives. And nothing interesting EVER happened there, or ever will. It doesn't really have a graveyard, but it faces onto a golf course.




*And if you need proof of this, we found a website with pictures of Oswestry on it. Only TWO pictures had people on them, and I have a sneaking suspicion at least one is the cameraman.
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Dark wrote: Canwick - The Land Of The Dead (AKA Graveyard Zone)

Canwick isn't a city, but a small village outside of Lincoln where my friend lives. And nothing interesting EVER happened there, or ever will. It doesn't really have a graveyard, but it faces onto a golf course.




Ahhhhh, is that where you live? Will beep as I pass tomorrow morning. I have a pal who lives just outside Canwick on the way to Heighington. You might have a golf course and a cemetry...but at least you don't have the s**t pits like poor old Washinborogh does :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Debaser wrote:
Dark wrote: Canwick - The Land Of The Dead (AKA Graveyard Zone)

Canwick isn't a city, but a small village outside of Lincoln where my friend lives. And nothing interesting EVER happened there, or ever will. It doesn't really have a graveyard, but it faces onto a golf course.




Ahhhhh, is that where you live? Will beep as I pass tomorrow morning. I have a pal who lives just outside Canwick on the way to Heighington. You might have a golf course and a cemetry...but at least you don't have the s**t pits like poor old Washinborogh does :lol: :lol: :lol:
Nah, it's my mate Alex who lives there. I live in Boultham. ;)
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and for those not familiar with Boultham - it's pronounced Bootham :D :D :D

Ach I know a few peeps down Boultham Park Road (Opposite the...the Ship??...oh and Gaz's dad lives just off there :D :D :D
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Dark wrote:Nice stuff. It's reasonably related, but when I went to the Leeds Armouries, it took us ages to find the exit out of the city. An hour, in fact.
So my friends and I, very late at night after at least 6 hours of nonstop Halo Two, decided we don't like anywhere and made the following list of cities:

Leeds - The City With No Exit....
:lol: nice.

Welcome To Leeds - You'll Never Want To Leave
*cue thunder, lightning and "Mwahahahahahaha!!!!!"
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Sorry, probably shouldn't say this given the 'regional bias' on the forum, but Derby pisses on Leeds as a place its impossible to escape from. I've spent years on the Derby Ring Road trying to find the right lane for the exit...

BTW I LIKE LEEDS (espescially since I don't have to go to that really s**t car-park and shack-style coach station...)
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:lol: I've never driven in/through Derby, and I'm used to Leeds now.

Milton Keynes is a ba$tard to drive in because it all looks the f*cking same.
Manchester one-way system is legendary; the only place where you can travel one mile in a straight line and end up back where you started.
I've heard very bad things about driving in Cambridge.
And finally, London is simply not designed for cars. Come to think of it, I'm not sure that London is designed for people.
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markfiend wrote:
Dark wrote:Nice stuff. It's reasonably related, but when I went to the Leeds Armouries, it took us ages to find the exit out of the city. An hour, in fact.
So my friends and I, very late at night after at least 6 hours of nonstop Halo Two, decided we don't like anywhere and made the following list of cities:

Leeds - The City With No Exit....
:lol: nice.

Welcome To Leeds - You'll Never Want To Leave
*cue thunder, lightning and "Mwahahahahahaha!!!!!"
@ Markfiend

I am sure you must remember the 80's Spectrum/C64 game "Impossible m*****n"

The opening words were "Stay A While, Stay Forever (Evil, Manical Laugh)"

BTW I never go round to completing it either :-(
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Red Orc wrote:Sorry, probably shouldn't say this given the 'regional bias' on the forum, but Derby pisses on Leeds as a place its impossible to escape from. I've spent years on the Derby Ring Road trying to find the right lane for the exit...

BTW I LIKE LEEDS (espescially since I don't have to go to that really s**t car-park and shack-style coach station...)
I have to disagree....Derby is the place you can't get into because of the ring road...Leicester is the place you can't escape from :x :x That night after the Smurphs at the Charlotte is ingrained on my mind....nearly an hour it took me to escape - and that was only because I decided to head to Market Harborough and then get back to Lincoln from there!!! (Saying that, as soon as I decided to do that, miraculously the signs for Lincoln appeared :roll:
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Andy TG wrote:@ Markfiend

I am sure you must remember the 80's Spectrum/C64 game "Impossible m*****n"

The opening words were "Stay A While, Stay Forever (Evil, Manical Laugh)"

BTW I never go round to completing it either :-(
Indeed ;D You can download a version for Spectrum emulators at this clicky.
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James Blast wrote:I'm sayin' Nowt! :twisted:
Quite possible the better course of action....
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