An Interview!

[The Fish 10876]

Well I work with a lad who lives in Reading and he hates the fucking place. He's happiest when he's railing against the place. And to put it into context he moved from East London.

 

So I'm sure there are lovely places in Reading, but there are lovely places in the North East and the minute Danny goes to visit properly, I'll happy go look around Reading. Until then I'll avoid it

[Danny CL 0]

Until then I'll avoid it

 

The town weeps. Congrats on the job by the way. who are you working for?

[Tom 14013]

He licks Ross Noble's balls for £5 a time whilst hearing empty promises of a two minute warm up set.

 

That's showbiz.

[Meenzer 15561]

I don't mind Reading. It's not a shithole, it's just rather bland. Still happier having Fulham as an away day next season though.

[Meenzer 15561]

He licks Ross Noble's balls for £5 a time whilst hearing empty promises of a two minute warm up set.

 

That's showbiz.

 

Hey, it worked for Jo Caulfield.

[Billy Castell 0]

I think Reading stands accused of being souless. It may be affluent and all that, but dull. I've only been for the festival in 2000, and passing through en route to Devon so I don't really know the place well enough to comment. Milton Keynes however is a dull place thatt is bad for your car's tyres due to all the roundabouts. The only thing going for it is Bletchley Park.

[Kitman 2207]

Reading is basically a new town like Milton Keynes. Reading 8th Century, Milton Keynes 1967

its high street is dead. During the day as most of inhabitants will be in work

There are lots of featureless business parks like Arlington (which is probably where Danny works) which all look the same. Offices? What are they for?

Most places up and down the M4 in that area like Slough and Bracknell are shit holes. Agreed

ethnic tension There are black people who live there. I can't remember the last racist crime in the area

and the rich live in little ghettos in Thames side villages. Like Henley and Sonning some of the most picturesque affluent area in the country

In my experience many of the people are mean, money obsessed, weasely characters. Basically people with jobs rather than dole bludgers

 

What a load of rubbish. There's little left of central Reading that's older than 1980, beyond a couple of churches, Victoria St and a few pubs. Even the train station's been largely remodelled. It's completely soulless, man! Most of West Reading's a sewer iirc and Earley's a giant housing estate. Unemployment was historically low but not everyone has jobs (and I expect the situation's got worse lately). There's also plenty of poor people who live there who'd laugh at your description of the place as some kind of shangri-la. For every place like Henley, which is nice to look at but full of horrible people, there's places like Slough or Didcot just down the road. And Sonning? Don't make me laugh, it's blighted by traffic morning and night and that wanker Yuri Geller lives there. Theale's also a shit hole, completely blighted by the M4 and traffic to Newbury.

[Danny CL 0]

Reading is basically a new town like Milton Keynes. Reading 8th Century, Milton Keynes 1967

its high street is dead. During the day as most of inhabitants will be in work

There are lots of featureless business parks like Arlington (which is probably where Danny works) which all look the same. Offices? What are they for?

Most places up and down the M4 in that area like Slough and Bracknell are shit holes. Agreed

ethnic tension There are black people who live there. I can't remember the last racist crime in the area

and the rich live in little ghettos in Thames side villages. Like Henley and Sonning some of the most picturesque affluent area in the country

In my experience many of the people are mean, money obsessed, weasely characters. Basically people with jobs rather than dole bludgers

 

What a load of rubbish. There's little left of central Reading that's older than 1980, beyond a couple of churches, Victoria St and a few pubs. Even the train station's been largely remodelled. It's completely soulless, man! Most of West Reading's a sewer iirc and Earley's a giant housing estate. Unemployment was historically low but not everyone has jobs (and I expect the situation's got worse lately). There's also plenty of poor people who live there who'd laugh at your description of the place as some kind of shangri-la. For every place like Henley, which is nice to look at but full of horrible people, there's places like Slough or Didcot just down the road. And Sonning? Don't make me laugh, it's blighted by traffic morning and night and that wanker Yuri Geller lives there. Theale's also a shit hole, completely blighted by the M4 and traffic to Newbury.

 

I think you are confusing a city that has grown from fairly modest beginnings at a unbelivable rate with a town that has deserted its history.

 

Surely Jimmy Page cancels out Uri Geller?

[Tom 14013]

Page is from Middlesex.

[Danny CL 0]

Page is from Middlesex.

 

Sonning resident iirc

 

I am pretty sure Uri geller wasn't born in Berkshire

Edited July 13, 2010 by Danny CL

[Guest Gordon McKeag]

Reading is basically a new town like Milton Keynes. Reading 8th Century, Milton Keynes 1967

its high street is dead. During the day as most of inhabitants will be in work

There are lots of featureless business parks like Arlington (which is probably where Danny works) which all look the same. Offices? What are they for?

Most places up and down the M4 in that area like Slough and Bracknell are shit holes. Agreed

ethnic tension There are black people who live there. I can't remember the last racist crime in the area

and the rich live in little ghettos in Thames side villages. Like Henley and Sonning some of the most picturesque affluent area in the country

In my experience many of the people are mean, money obsessed, weasely characters. Basically people with jobs rather than dole bludgers

Utter wank compared to the Tyne Valley. I'm as passionate about this area (north of the tyne anyway) as I am about the toon, and I'm telling you this now, there's no where in the Thames Valley as nice as round here and west there ye are. That's not being biased neither, I bet you think it's full of bamps, to be honest there's as many stuck up cunts as you'll find in the south, but you don't get many places like Wylam etc.. Corbridge, even Hexham in the UK and that's forgetting about Northumberland further up.

[Guest Gordon McKeag]

I think Reading stands accused of being souless. It may be affluent and all that, but dull. I've only been for the festival in 2000, and passing through en route to Devon so I don't really know the place well enough to comment. Milton Keynes however is a dull place thatt is bad for your car's tyres due to all the roundabouts. The only thing going for it is Bletchley Park.

You're unbiased, I'm sure you've been to every big city in this country watching Blackburn, tell me somewhere nicer on the eye than here, with better locals.

[Guest Gordon McKeag]

Reading is basically a new town like Milton Keynes. Reading 8th Century, Milton Keynes 1967

its high street is dead. During the day as most of inhabitants will be in work

There are lots of featureless business parks like Arlington (which is probably where Danny works) which all look the same. Offices? What are they for?

Most places up and down the M4 in that area like Slough and Bracknell are shit holes. Agreed

ethnic tension There are black people who live there. I can't remember the last racist crime in the area

and the rich live in little ghettos in Thames side villages. Like Henley and Sonning some of the most picturesque affluent area in the country

In my experience many of the people are mean, money obsessed, weasely characters. Basically people with jobs rather than dole bludgers

 

What a load of rubbish. There's little left of central Reading that's older than 1980, beyond a couple of churches, Victoria St and a few pubs. Even the train station's been largely remodelled. It's completely soulless, man! Most of West Reading's a sewer iirc and Earley's a giant housing estate. Unemployment was historically low but not everyone has jobs (and I expect the situation's got worse lately). There's also plenty of poor people who live there who'd laugh at your description of the place as some kind of shangri-la. For every place like Henley, which is nice to look at but full of horrible people, there's places like Slough or Didcot just down the road. And Sonning? Don't make me laugh, it's blighted by traffic morning and night and that wanker Yuri Geller lives there. Theale's also a shit hole, completely blighted by the M4 and traffic to Newbury.

Reading reminds me of Presto's at West Denton Shopping Centre in the 1980s

[Tom 14013]

Page is from Middlesex.

 

Sonning resident iirc

 

I am pretty sure Uri geller wasn't born in Berkshire

 

Well Page grew up in Surrey but went on tour for a band at 15 or just older and played a gig a night all around the country till he took ill from the work load.

 

What the fuck has he got to do with Reading?

[Danny CL 0]

What the fuck has he got to do with Reading?

 

As much as Uri Geller does.

[Tom 14013]

Nothing then.

[Danny CL 0]

Nothing then.

 

Winner.

[Tom 14013]

I'm a bit tired so I'm going to assume I have missed something and that something is quite fundamental in whatever the point was.

 

Anyway I love Jimmy Page so have a picture.

 

[Guest Gordon McKeag]

As you get past Heathrow and Windsor Castle, what a waste of time. You could cut the country off there, big part ofthe country, I bet it brings in 5% of the money, it's David Brent/that shit comic with three names in his name territory. You just forget places like Bristol, Reading, Swindon, and Plymouth exist. They're just there. I think it's the same with the West Midlands. Only five places with any identity in this country are London and to be fair you could have three or four offshoots, Liverpool, Manchester, Yorkshire (for being typically northern horrible tight arsed cunts, southerner who say "up north" mean them cunts not us) and Newcastle. The rest of the country doesn't even exist.

Edited July 13, 2010 by Gordon McKeag

[Guest Gordon McKeag]

I remember I went to Blackpool about 12 years ago just a kid really, we played Man Utd on the Sunday drew 0-0 and Paul Dalglish missed a sitter, and this fuckin nobhead, we were stayin in these digs £15 a neet. There was 3 of us, and the two lads I was with were younger and smaller than me significantly, these mugs from Milton Keynes walk in about ten of them "have you been slaggin Milton Keynes off???" I didn't know the cunt from Adam, I said "I don't even know where the place is ya daft cunt", I can't remember the rest but he piped down, and his mates did fuck all, but that summed up these people from these non event places, fuckin mugs, Milton Keynes.

[Kitman 2207]

Reading is basically a new town like Milton Keynes. Reading 8th Century, Milton Keynes 1967

its high street is dead. During the day as most of inhabitants will be in work

There are lots of featureless business parks like Arlington (which is probably where Danny works) which all look the same. Offices? What are they for?

Most places up and down the M4 in that area like Slough and Bracknell are shit holes. Agreed

ethnic tension There are black people who live there. I can't remember the last racist crime in the area

and the rich live in little ghettos in Thames side villages. Like Henley and Sonning some of the most picturesque affluent area in the country

In my experience many of the people are mean, money obsessed, weasely characters. Basically people with jobs rather than dole bludgers

 

What a load of rubbish. There's little left of central Reading that's older than 1980, beyond a couple of churches, Victoria St and a few pubs. Even the train station's been largely remodelled. It's completely soulless, man! Most of West Reading's a sewer iirc and Earley's a giant housing estate. Unemployment was historically low but not everyone has jobs (and I expect the situation's got worse lately). There's also plenty of poor people who live there who'd laugh at your description of the place as some kind of shangri-la. For every place like Henley, which is nice to look at but full of horrible people, there's places like Slough or Didcot just down the road. And Sonning? Don't make me laugh, it's blighted by traffic morning and night and that wanker Yuri Geller lives there. Theale's also a shit hole, completely blighted by the M4 and traffic to Newbury.

 

I think you are confusing a city that has grown from fairly modest beginnings at a unbelivable rate with a town that has deserted its history.

 

Surely Jimmy Page cancels out Uri Geller?

 

There's no confusion, thank you. If you were talking about Swindon you might have a point. Reading on the other hand has been a major city since the middle ages but has little to show for it in terms of history, culture or attractions. It's just a bland dormitory for IT workers, same as dozens of towns in England, there's nothing special about it, anybody who wants a day or night out jumps on the train to London if they're under 50. The Thames Valley is scenic in parts - Wallingford, Goring, Henley, Marlow, Windsor etc - but blighted by shit holes like Slough, Maidenhead, Twyford etc. Plus everything's overpriced, overpopulated and clogged with cars full of angry faux Londoners heading for their first heart attack.

 

There's really no comparison between Reading/the Reading area and Newcastle/Tyneside. The latter is better in so many ways imo, with the possible exception of the average temperature in winter. I know both Reading and Newcastle/Northumberland reasonably well, do you?

 

Regarding Jimmy Page, well fair enough, doesn't change what I said about Sonning though

[Meenzer 15561]

I remember I went to Blackpool about 12 years ago just a kid really, we played Man Utd on the Sunday drew 0-0 and Paul Dalglish missed a sitter, and this fuckin nobhead, we were stayin in these digs £15 a neet. There was 3 of us, and the two lads I was with were younger and smaller than me significantly, these mugs from Milton Keynes walk in about ten of them "have you been slaggin Milton Keynes off???" I didn't know the cunt from Adam, I said "I don't even know where the place is ya daft cunt", I can't remember the rest but he piped down, and his mates did fuck all, but that summed up these people from these non event places, fuckin mugs, Milton Keynes.

 

I have visions of the "Achhhhrington Stanleh? Oo're they?" advert now.

[Billy Castell 0]

I think Reading stands accused of being souless. It may be affluent and all that, but dull. I've only been for the festival in 2000, and passing through en route to Devon so I don't really know the place well enough to comment. Milton Keynes however is a dull place thatt is bad for your car's tyres due to all the roundabouts. The only thing going for it is Bletchley Park.

You're unbiased, I'm sure you've been to every big city in this country watching Blackburn, tell me somewhere nicer on the eye than here, with better locals.

 

Actually Stevie, the furthest up the coast I've been is Whitby. Haven't been to the north east proper, though my dad and grandad are monkey hangers by birth, and my great grandad was mayor of Hartlepool. Newcastle looks alright from what I've seen on TV, and Northunberland looks all windswept and interesting. It must be better than North Bedfordshire though, which is flat, full of pretty dull villages and the occaisional landfill site.

 

And the West country, as in East Devon, Dorset and Somerset does have character and is actually quite nice.

[Kevin 1]

Thanks for turning my thread into something boring, Danny.

 

In other news - I just broke my cooker, lol, put it back and walked away

[Danny CL 0]

Thanks for turning my thread into something boring, Danny.

 

In other news - I just broke my cooker, lol, put it back and walked away

 

Post it on your twitter twat boy.

 

Boring? Is there anything more boring and needy than your last post? Have a word with yourself.