strange towns...

[loretta]

Hmm..Has anybody else noticed the amount of small and weird towns that exist in Britain?? Where's the strangest 'are you local' place you've been? Mine's definitely Maryport in the lake district..the oddest people and the oddest shops.

[Timson]

Maryport strange!?!
You're mad U!...Well I knew that anyway.
If you want a strange town start looking at the names.
Auchtermuchty , Drymen heh
But I think the one place that sticks out a mile has to be Southport!
It's like the older generation saying, "Oh YES!, lets go there to die! Woohoo!" and then silently sneaking off into a corner.

[loretta]

Oh, my darling don't think that Southport is simply a place for the old dears to go and die..oh no that is merely a convenient cover for out most heinous acts..we are all a bunch of witches and vampires really..we practice dark deeds on the polluted beach. Hence the non-existence of any tide whatsoever...So don't even think about visiting me, you won't return alive!!

Life is beautiful..when you haven't got your head stuck down a toilet

[Timson]

[s]loretta wrote on 21:39, 19th Mar 2004:
Oh, my darling don't think that Southport is simply a place for the old dears to go and die..oh no that is merely a convenient cover for out most heinous acts..we are all a bunch of witches and vampires really..we practice dark deeds on the polluted beach. Hence the non-existence of any tide whatsoever...So don't even think about visiting me, you won't return alive!!

Life is beautiful..when you haven't got your head stuck down a toilet


Just like home on a Friday night, which I seem to have got out of in one piece, less said about my head the better!
U hurt me lauren, yes you really do
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[Al]

I can accept the possibility of Maryport being full of strange people. (The fact I have a lot of relatives there means I don't accept the reality of its oddness.) But please don't say it is in the Lake District. It's not.

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[loretta]

apologies, where is is pray?

[Cosmo's Moon]

I find life infinitely rosier when one's head is stuck down a toilet...at least then you know you have tried.

[Kizzy]

[s]Cosmo's Moon wrote on 00:14, 20th Mar 2004:
I find life infinitely rosier when one's head is stuck down a toilet...at least then you know you have tried.


But tried what, pray tell? Your stomach?

[Al]

[s]loretta wrote on 00:06, 20th Mar 2004:
apologies, where is is pray?


It is like an anti-Brigadoon. Rather than appearing once every hundred years, it appears once every giro day. That aside - it is in Cumbria, but not the Lake District.

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[Steveo]

As Al said, Maryport is strange, I live very near there, and it is not in the Lake District.

I must say Millom is stranger, in South Cumbria.

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[medea]

In Lancashire. I used to work there in my year out, and it was hideous.

True story : The League of Gentlemen crew were considering it for Royston Vasey but it was just too horrible. So they went for Hadfield instead. That's how bad it is.

It does distress me a bit that the majority of the strange towns so far are in the North West of England. Doesn't say much for those of us who hail from there.

[gingerbeer]

There's a town in the North of Scotland called Helmsdale which has a war memorial with a clock in it which chimes every 15 minutes day and night. There are also other such surreal things as a Barbara Cartland themed cafe and a tourist centre which is on a bridge. Other less interesting aspects of the town are the now closed crab factory, and the hostel where we stayed, which disappointingly didn't have Trivial Pursuit, so we were forced to play scrabble instead. It was probably the strangest stop on one of the most bizarre holidays I've been on.

[Setsuna]

Wigton, in the Scottish borders...

books, 12 year olds driving cars....


Small isolated population. Think about it.

[Stuart]

[s]gingerbeer wrote on 18:37, 20th Mar 2004:
There are also other such surreal things as a Barbara Cartland themed cafe


Oh - La mirage!
I've been there - lots of bizarre sculptures made out of shells and feathers.

[FURY-161]

I find that most of the western isles are like that...
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[Pender Native]

I'd have to agree with Wigton, EVERY shop is a second hand book shop. I spent a fortune.....

[rubbermuffin]

[s]medea wrote on 18:27, 20th Mar 2004:
It does distress me a bit that the majority of the strange towns so far are in the North West of England. Doesn't say much for those of us who hail from there.


Oi! It ain't all that bad - think of all the NICE places in the North West, cos there are loads and loads.

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[harmless loony]

[s]rubbermuffin wrote on 16:01, 21st Mar 2004:
[s]medea wrote on 18:27, 20th Mar 2004:[i]
It does distress me a bit that the majority of the strange towns so far are in the North West of England. Doesn't say much for those of us who hail from there.


Oi! It ain't all that bad - think of all the NICE places in the North West, cos there are loads and loads.

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Yeah, like Warrington...




oh

[oddly familiar]

Well its not exactly a strange place in and of itself - i mean its too small to be strange. From what i can tell its just a few houses, but i think it has one of the best names of any place in Scotland, and best of all, its not far from here!

Right next to it is Pool of Muckhart.

I love looking at maps to see places with funny names, and lets be honest; here in Britain we have some really, really wierd ones.

[rubbermuffin]

Yeah, like Warrington...

oh


I did say nice places! Great Budworth? Manchester? Liverpool (obviously without all the scousers)? The hills of Macclesfield? Chester?

The North West is a beautiful beautiful place.

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