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Things you only see in 'Poorer' areas


This Charming Man

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KFCs with brothels on the first floor. Laugh if you must, you've never been on Tavistock Road in Bedford.

 

Well I guess they go together as they have a lot in common....''when finished with the Leg and breast, you stil have a greasy box to stick teh bone in'' boom boom (old ones are the best)

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Oppresion

Lack of opportunity to blossom

Low self-esteem

Higher than average mental health problems

Lower mortality rate

Stigma

Lack of investment in infrastructure

 

I could go on...

 

 

Dont think anyone is trying hard enough really - come lets extend it the really poor

 

Famine

malaria

Only 50% chance of seeing your 1st birthday

War

Child soldiers

AIDS

TB

Dyptheria

Cholera

Dictators

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Fat birds with skinny blokes who have grey skin.

 

Litter on top and underneath the bin but not in it.

 

Women servicing their own cars.

 

Cars with bumpers made of duck tape, usually a silver mondeo.

 

Shopping trolleys in front gardens.

 

People who don't work with the latest iPhone.

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School run taxi's

Fake ugg boots that have collapsed inwards

Track suit bottoms worn at funerals

All the shops boarded up aparts from the bookies

All the chips shops give massive portions

Empty pizza boxes on top of the bins "classy jenga"

Transit tippers

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Blue lighting in every public toilet to discourage the smackheads

Queues for the phone box

Birds with more tats than men

Lads in shirts that look like table cloths

Kids playing in cemeteries - the only area you'll find a bit of greenery and wildlife

A closed down Woolworths as the jewel in the crown of the town's shopping attractions

TVs bolted to the wall of every hotel you stay in

New Labour cut and paste colleges that make even MFI's furnishings look timeless and sturdy

Subway as the healthy alternative - Crawford biscuits here, there and every f**king where.

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1) Streets that are littered with scrap metal vans

2) Front walls of council houses that have been knocked down to allow the aforementioned scrap metal van to park

3) General litter/rubbish abuse, esp fast food cartons etc

4) Groups of youths dossing on walls, in tracksuits. They stare at cars as they drive past.

5) Obesity in younger women/men

6) Perambulators with kids in who don't look like they've been washed

7) House numbers written on walls with white paint

8) A high proportion of smokers

9) A high proportion of people with tattoos, usually indian ink type that look like they have been scrawled on

10) A queue outside Wetherspoon pubs at 8 am

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why is it, in poor areas, during the bin men strike...people were happy to leave their rubbish in the street

yet in the more affluent areas, they took the rubbish to the tips themselves

 

?

 

Probably because, in a stereotyping , sweeping generalisation kind of way, poorer people are poor because of their mentality that everything should be done for them, whilst more affluent people have become that way because they are of the "prepared to get off their arses and do whats needed to better themselves" type of attitude. (with the odd exception on both sides, obviously)

 

And in answer to the original post, scrawny dogs (four legged variety) roaming the streets, broken bus shelters, overgrown front gardens

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Wow this thread makes me miss living in England.

 

smokers

visible tattoos

graffiti

music being played loud for everyone to hear

people making throaty noises, then spitting a green lump on the pavement

gum chewing, and the remnants on the pavements and lamp-posts

casual littering, especially cigarette debris and fast food packaging

strong local accents

sportswear as leisurewear

parking on the road rather than in a driveway, garage or parking bays

cars with a door/wing/bonnet a different colour to the rest of the car

mostly terraced houses

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Down in Albion

they're black and blue

But we don't talk about that

Are you from 'round here?

How do you do?

I'd like to talk about that

 

Talk over

Gin in teacups

And leaves on the lawn

Violence in bus stops

And the pale thin girl with eyes forlorn

 

gin in teacups

And leaves on the lawn

Violence in dole queues

And the pale thin girl behind the checkout

 

But if you're looking for a cheap talk

Glint with perspiration

There's a four-mile queue

Outside the disused power station

Now come away, won't you come away

We'll go to

Deptford, Digby...

Anywhere in Albion

 

Yellowing classics

And canons at dawn

...

Reebok classics

And canons at dawn

...

 

But if you're looking for a cheap sort

That's in false anticipation

It'll be waiting in the photo booth

At the railway station

 

Ah come away, won't you come away

We're going to...

Watford, London Fields

Anywhere oh

 

If you're looking for a cheap sort

That's in false anticipation

It'll be waiting in the photo booth

At the underground station

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