Good week to not be English
2007-10-28
Good week not to be English.
Last week English teams choked not once, not twice, but three times. The football team lost to Russia so now it looks like they won’t qualify for Euro 2008, Lewis Hamilton threw away the F1 Championship by choking on the last two races and the English rugby team lost to South Africa in the World Cup final.
I had my first Watching-English-sports-in-Walkabout-pub experience during the English football loss. Oh my god, I have never seen a bigger bunch of knuckle-dragging gene pool bottom feeders in my life. You know when you’re at home and your team scores, you give out a “YES!” even though no one can hear you? Well at Walkabout pub, they sing complete footy songs. To the screen.
As if getting pummeled on a national scale wasn’t bad enough, The city of Nottingham was named the fourth worst place in the UK to live, while Rushcliffe (Nottingham suburb) was named 14th best place to live in the country.
What kind of utter shit is that? How is Rushcliffe it’s own city?
Take a look:
West Bridgford (arguably the nicest part of Rushcliffe) is pointed out with the green arrow. If you close down the location bubble you will see Sneinton (Nottingham shithole), and Nottingham’s biggest slum, St Anne’s. St Anne’s is not marked on the map, but it is the area between Mapperley and Thorneywood. Sherwood (where I live) can be seen if you move the map up. Sherwood is part of Nottingham, but West Bridgford is not, even though it is closer to St Anne’s than I am.
The solution is simple, annex Rushcliffe. Sorry, Rushcliffe, but the gravy train is over. You use Nottingham’s roads every day, use our theatres, shops, libraries and unless you run the local West Bridgford organic-free-range-gluten-and-lactose-free-granola-shop, you make your living in Nottingham as well.
Six of the top ten cities in their list were located in Surrey and every single one of them were described by that doughy location location location chick as “boring”. How can cities where a weekend consists of knitting doilies and watching airplanes land get on the top ten list?!
I guess it makes sense when you see the two responsible for the best and worst lists. Look at these two twats:
Where is a St Anne’s gun-toting gang member when you need him?