Recent content by Desi_Rable

Not really- more like I'm thinking "Man, turns out it'll be so much hard and pricier to find a suitable premises to start up that nano-brewery I wanted to locally and fix it up to meet all of the rules and regulations before starting trading, plus I want to make money and after adding up the...

So, for the past couple of years or so, I've been dipping my toes into the world of home-brewing (initially, with a view to setting up my own microbrewery, as brought up on a previous thread). Still only producing pretty tiny 10L batches though, limited by the extremely basic entry-level...

Trouble is though, as the example of my home town shows, it's not just a lack of money, investment and opportunity that can be to blame. People can be held to blame as well, for mismanagement. Slough's got tons of rich history- most of it's been bulldozed away now though. And a fair share of...

Well, at least in one regard, there's been a teensy-tiny bit of progress in this town recently. Slough chief executive Josie Wragg sacked for "gross misconduct" Too bad it's a drop in the ocean compared to everything else that's been going on here, and greatly contributed towards the...

Because I do live in one of the towns listed as worst, and wonder why it isn't higher on the list; whilst all of the places I've ever stayed in, excluding places in London, are all on that list too. Being limited exclusively to public transport, and not nearly as well-travelled as I'd like, I...

And it's not just the Russians either- now the Chinese are getting in on it... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/60524865

Combination of all of the above, along with a bunch of other potential factors. For example, lots of the places which feature highly on these lists tend to be cramped, overpopulated, and bereft of facilities, amenities and human infrastructure- 'ghettos', so to speak, seemingly designed solely...

Ah, I see. I guess that traffic didn't really factor in for me, since I'm legally not allowed to drive (epilepsy). Or if it did, the town favoring pedestrians rather than motorists registered as a positive for me instead of the negative it'd be for most people. Maybe traffic (and perhaps...

Since they don't have anywhere in Scotland or NI either, you'd have to assume so.

Would you agree with all of those, though? I'm from Slough, only 10th on that list, and having visited Aylesbury several times, I'd rather live there any day of the week.

Depends on who you are and what community you belong to, but they definitely exist. Unless you'd see this, spray-painted along a street... And still decide that "oh yeah, it's totally safe to go down here, this isn't a 'no-go zone' at all". Second of those pics is from that "Far north of...

That's more than 20yrs ago now, and I was still 14 back then, so not really.

It's certainly up there, top ten at least. But is it really the worst? Especially when you get down to the borough and district level, of bigger cities like London, Birmingham and Manchester...

Here's a topic for discussion- which place (could be a village, town, city or borough), of all the places you've ever visited yourself here in the UK, would you nominate as being the absolute worst? And why- how bad is it there, and what makes it so ****?

BTW, here's how yesterday's UN resolution went (indicating the 'lines in the sand' for this 'Second Cold War', with the green countries condemning Russia for the invasion, the red nations supporting Russia, and the blue and yellow nations effectively condoning the invasion). NATO won the last...