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Post by oldmeadowender on Nov 6, 2015 6:53:16 GMT
Congratulations on your irony by-pass. Was it expensive?
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Post by oldmeadowender on Nov 6, 2015 7:12:43 GMT
Oasis is a craphole when compared to Cardiff International and Swansea L2, both better places to visit also, especially Cardiff. Stoke has an old but great fun pool. Oh dear. It really wasn't meant to be a willy-waving contest about who has been to the best pool. Rather the reverse. You really don't get it do you? Enjoy Stoke. I suspect you, Stoke and the pool there all deserve each other.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2015 7:14:09 GMT
Oasis is a craphole when compared to Cardiff International and Swansea L2, both better places to visit also, especially Cardiff. Stoke has an old but great fun pool. Oh dear. It really wasn't meant to be a willy-waving contest about who has been to the best pool. Rather the reverse. You really don't get it do you? Enjoy Stoke. I suspect you, Stoke and the pool there all deserve each other. Good pool that!
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Post by Differentiabull on Nov 15, 2015 8:55:31 GMT
I like the frontage to Swindon station, looks like something out of a Thunderbirds set.
The roundabout is well worth a couple of goes.
STEAM museum really good.
I lived there for about 3 years. It's not too bad to be honest. Reading (where I also lived for a while) was far worse.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2015 11:49:06 GMT
I was living in Reading during the bad winter of '63. In an old Victorian terrace near Battle Hospital, with no bathroom, an outside lavvy, no electric, just gas lighting, and the guttering collapsing due to weight of snow. Having snowball fights amongst the bomb damage which still existed in parts, and skating on the Thames which had frozen at Caversham Bridge. Absolutely marvelous time! The kids today etc......
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Post by the one eyed man on Nov 15, 2015 18:15:51 GMT
I was living in Reading during the bad winter of '63. In an old Victorian terrace near Battle Hospital, with no bathroom, an outside lavvy, no electric, just gas lighting, and the guttering collapsing due to weight of snow. Having snowball fights amongst the bomb damage which still existed in parts, and skating on the Thames which had frozen at Caversham Bridge. Absolutely marvelous time! The kids today etc...... You were lucky. In't winter of '63, we lived in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day, week in, week out. And we got home, our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' 'is his belt. . No doubt Swindon's class A egoist will be along soon to trump your tale of woe.
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Post by oldmeadowender on Nov 15, 2015 23:44:25 GMT
I was living in Reading during the bad winter of '63. In an old Victorian terrace near Battle Hospital, with no bathroom, an outside lavvy, no electric, just gas lighting, and the guttering collapsing due to weight of snow. Having snowball fights amongst the bomb damage which still existed in parts, and skating on the Thames which had frozen at Caversham Bridge. Absolutely marvelous time! The kids today etc...... You were lucky. In't winter of '63, we lived in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day, week in, week out. And when we got home, our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' 'is his belt. Brown paper bag? So you had a roof over your head, you l*cky f*cker. I spent the winter of '63 living with one-eye on a Swindon roundabout. When he spoke, no one smiled. Ever. He used to hurl abuse at drivers in his usual twisted way and they used to hurl missiles at him. Coins sometimes. And then I had to pick up those coins and spend them on toilet paper for one eye. You never knew which end it was going to come out of, but guessing was the only fun I had that winter. To work fourteen hours a day and earn a crust was something I could only dream of back then. And you had belts? We couldn't afford luxury items. You come from another world. Hereford fans will never relate to you.
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Post by the one eyed man on Nov 16, 2015 18:05:32 GMT
You forgot to mention your legendary consumption of Skol Super and White Lightening snakebites, ten pints a day, rat-arsed by midday and ready to tell tall tales about celebrities to anybody you could trap and half bore to death.
Some things don't change.
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Post by eggchaserbull on Nov 16, 2015 18:52:27 GMT
You forgot to mention your legendary consumption of Skol Super and White Lightening snakebites, ten pints a day, rat-arsed by midday and ready to tell tall tales about celebrities to anybody you could trap and half bore to death. Some things don't change. Ah, that brings back a number of memories I'd like to avoid. Actually, that's not quite true, it brings back a number of voids I'd like to remember.
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Post by colebridgebull on Nov 17, 2015 9:54:33 GMT
I'm off to Swindon today.
Not much more I can add to that
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Post by oldmeadowender on Nov 17, 2015 19:17:32 GMT
How did you like your visit? I enjoyed mine.
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Post by colebridgebull on Nov 17, 2015 19:31:56 GMT
Just back
Braved the Magic Roundabout on the way in. Got stuck behind two trials, so didn't get on with mine until 4. Won it by 5. Got stuck in traffic so diverted via McDonalds (haute cuisine in this area of Swindon)Eventually got hack to Gloucester via the usual bottleneck at Birdlip.
Now at Kingshilm. Stowfords in hand. Gloucester (3rds) v a very strong Barbarians team. Will get tonked.
Prediction Glos 3 (Purdie Pen) Barbarians 0
Att -approx 6000.
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Post by oldmeadowender on Nov 17, 2015 19:39:24 GMT
Good on ya! Enjoy.
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