I was on that beach yesterday. The water is still brown and disgusting unfortunately. Maybe the Gower will be an improvement

Oes unrhywun dal yma yn Abertawe, Cymru? Dw i'n teimlo'n unig :(

>>3044
I'm at the uni still. Nice to see the weather being consistent.

How shit is Swansea?

>>3069
It's pretty shitty.

It's the least shit place within a 50 mile radius though.

>>2871
5F-AKB-48 I think, it's been a while since I smoked that stuff. Amber leaf, cutters choice is crutterz choice.

>>1142
I was born in Newbury

>>2920

Where you are born does not matter, only where you will die.

>>2921

Ehhh...

Maidenhead, standing by

The London subreddit gets asked these questions all the time and has a wiki for that purpose: http://www.reddit.com/r/london/wiki/index which is quite handy.

My personal favourite evening places are:

Dovetail http://dovepubs.com/aboutdovetail/ if you like an interesting choice of beers (mostly Belgian). They do very nice food as well, but tend to get a bit too packed for that on Saturdays. Nearest tube station is probably Old Street.

Two Floors http://www.twofloors.com/ which do decent beer (Camden Brewery) and are tucked away enough to keep the usual tourist crowd at bay. Nearest tube station is Oxford Circus.

The Crown and Shuttle http://crownandshuttle.co.uk/ . Again, decent beer and a nice fully roofed and heated garden in the back. It tends to have bouncers at the door but they are for show and won't turn you away unless you look completely smashed. Never tried the food there. Nearest tube is once again Old Street.

Lingo http://lingocuisine.com/ , a Japanese restaurant with good food at reasonable prices. Don't trust the website quotes. The sushi is good to great, though they don't always have the more exotic stuff (e.g. otoro, urchin) in stock, but the staff will let you know as you order. They don't open late.

Maison Bertaux http://www.maisonbertaux.com/maisonbertaux.com/Maison_Bertaux.html do cakes, particularly cheese cakes. It's a bit artsy, especially the upstairs in the main place and downstairs in the next door but that only matters if you're there during the day. It's a bit of a fixture. Again, doesn't open late.

If you have a bit of a sweet tooth, then La Gelateria http://www.lagelatiera.co.uk/lagelatiera_contact_us.html does phenomenal ice cream, including some rather unusual concoctions (they had basil & chilli in the past which was really rather nice). Not sure which station is closest (I usually end up there after food) but Leicester Square probably isn't far off.

>>3023
Wander.

>>3026
Thanks Collin.

>>3025
This is a great post, I'm not the OP but that looks like all the types of places I'd be interested in visiting. I usually rely on friends to guide me around London, or wander around Brick Lane or Shoreditch on my own until I find something I want to eat. Thanks for taking the time to type all that out, I'll use it as a starting point for when I'm next in the capital.

>>3025
Nice post, whatever the reason for the formatting.

>>3012
I think you might have been dreaming. As far as I'm aware there're no abandoned Brunel dorms. It might have been something on the RAF base (I can ask my dad, he was there in the late 70s/early 80s); but that's all demolished now.

Windsor Castle from Coopers Hill, Egham

>>3014
OP, this is it. Here's the memorial you drew too.

However, it's quite far from Brunel, a good 10 miles; and certainly out of dorm radius.

>>3015
But there are dorms for Royal Holloway there.

>>3016
There are indeed.

>>2999

Manchester, easy. It's a bit rough around the edges, but it's a genuinely cosmopolitan city with a rich cultural life. Southampton is the kind of city that people escape from, Manchester is the kind of city that people escape to.

From personal experience Southampton seems like a decent place, good town centre with plenty of pubs etc. The campus is one of the better I've seen for a campus uni but it does seem to be strangely far from the student halls (maybe not an issue if you're getting your own place though).

From other people I know, I've heard mixed things. One guy going to the city college loves the place, but he's off his face on K and mandy most the time so he'd probably have an equally good time gurning in and abandoned barn in Yorkshire so maybe take that with a pinch of salt or whatever else is your poison.

Another guy who graduated a few years back seemed to have had enough of the place, in particular he said that it felt very generic and lacked the individual character of cities like Liverpool, Norwich etc.

Don't know so much about Manny, from what I've heard it's a great student city but as with any large city there are some seriously dodgy areas.

>>3001

If you're a student in Manchester you generally don't even have to go near the dodgy areas. Fallowfield is a bit shitty but it's not that dodgy and it's mainly students so there's no real issue.

>>3002
Oh sure, it's just worth bearing in mind if the proximity of that sort of area bothers you excessively.

>>3001

Yeah it's a bit bland. For some reason, my three favourite things about Southampton are that you can get there from Waterloo and it's not far from Portsmouth, whose high street I prefer. The third is that it's next to the New Forest.

>>2982

Sadly I think you're right, and I'm well aware of how the electronic side of things is thriving. But that's the totally opposite side of the coin to what I was brought up with, to the bands I've played in, to who I am. It's a shame really, there's nothing to stop me showing up and enjoying that sort of performance, but I always just feel out of place, it isn't "my scene", as you might say.

As my own band finds itself playing to more and more half empty rooms as time goes on, I am starting to worry that we might be finally entering the age where those strutting, flamboyant rockstars wielding their axe whilst casually smoking a cigarette, or wailing into a microphone bare chested and dripping with sweat, are nothing more than a memory.

It frightens me because I might have to end up becoming one of those "grown ups" where you can tell they used to be a greasy long haired punk back in the days, but decided to pack it all in to wear sensible clothes and settle down with a family. I don't know how to reconcile that with my world view.

>>2908
>You don't get the feel of living in a global city like you do in Leeds, Manchester etc

Thank fuck for that. Since moving to Manchester I've just felt my everyday life turn to a fairly narrow spectrum of shades of grey. McDonald's and Pret everywhere, choice few independently-run places to sit and have a bite to eat and the ones that do exist are so up themselves about being independently-run that they charge twice as much.

I hate it here. Manchester has definitely pissed on my cornflakes.

>>2987
>It frightens me because I might have to end up becoming one of those "grown ups" where you can tell they used to be a greasy long haired punk back in the days, but decided to pack it all in to wear sensible clothes and settle down with a family. I don't know how to reconcile that with my world view.
Neither did they, but they figured it out and you will too.

>>2988

Same feeling about central Leeds really. After living in Sheffield for 5 years, I really hate moving here. It's so much snazzier and well kept - all polished white stones and chrome. But it's pretty interchangeable with every big-ish city centre in the country, whereas Sheffield just isn't.

Also no Cooplands.

>>2990

>no Cooplands.

Yes there is. Just off Vicar Lane. There's plenty outside the centre too.

Get yer facts reyt before you start beefing m8.

Biggest difference with Leeds compared to other cities is that it's very evident how the place is a conurbation, not just a big single mass. The shiny posh tower blocks and fancy shops in the city centre are only there for southerners and rich student kids, unless you live in the centre of Leeds then you should have practically no need to go there. All the suburbs still have their own mini-centre, based around the old main street or whatever it was back before the urban sprawl engulfed it.

>>2976
Catholic influence.

>>2976
Because God. Especially the Protestants. Paisley's Free Presbyterian Church puts some of the old-school Puritans to shame.

I'm not too sure of my opinion of the lassies in NI yet. Been a mixed bag in my experience. The nutters are total fucking nutters but the nice ones are brand new. Nothing in the middle.

>>2969
They do, basically.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/education/northern-ireland-brain-drain-just-one-in-three-of-graduates-comes-home-29538047.html

>>2979

The middle ground ones do exist, trust me. The quintessential norn iron bird is one who's up for a bit of anything but also has their head screwed on - they'll suggest you take them up the arse on the first date but they'll also fit in with your mates down the pub.

And no matter what side of the fence they lean on politics wise I find it translates into them really enjoying an english knob, either for the taboo or the patriotism respectively.

>>2953
Give her arse a good pissing.

>>2953
>quite funny for a woman
Brilliant.

>>2953

Suck his dick!

She's still texting me constantly but it turns out she's in a relationship. Oh well, there's always the afterlife. Maybe I'll be reincarnated as a bonobo.

>>2959

Should've sucked her dick, bro.

>>2932

Pardon? I suggest you go back and read that again because you appear to have failed to comprehend the English language, I suspect not for the first time.

>>2933
Stop having cunt offs everywhere lad. Christ.

>>2934

Am I being trolled? I think I'm being trolled.

>>2935

See a doctor about your delusions lad.

>>2936

Now we've veered so far off piste I fear we have gotten ourselves stuck.

Good day!

>>2923

Did you read the Gazette, lad?

>>2924
I do on occasion.

When I was at Uni I was dating a girl that lived in Grimsby, I went there once and the beach was cordoned off because some human feet had washed up lol

>>2927

Ahahahaha, oh, man.

I think I love the ambiguous amount of human feet most of all.

>>2898
http://www.tradingstandards.gov.uk/

>>2897
A job agency called me, they said that they had one placement in Inverness, the other in Fort Williams. There is also a place in Invergordon, but they are not giving relocation support so fuck them.

What sort of job was this for? This sassenach would love to escape to the Highlands.

>>2901
Engineering, they were looking for somebody able to repair food processing machinery. Still waiting for their confirmation email, through.

>>2902
Update us lad. Did you manage to impregnate a very fertile woman?

>>2881
>shit areas to avoid
You should definitely stay clear of Norwich.

>>2882
You should probably get that broken down into sub-categories before you get started, OP.

>>2882
Top BANTER or genuine warning? I've only been once, it seemed very mixed between pleasant old parts of town and suburban housing and less pleasant council flats awash with INGERLAAAAND flags and depressing parts of the centre.

Then again I'm currently one of the resident 'bridge lads so I guess wherever I move is going to less pleasant than the surroundings I'm currently accustomed to.

>>2884
Nah, mostly everywhere is a step up from Stourbridge.

>>2885
Not that 'bridge matey.

>>2632

Those are not mutually exclusive concepts. Stereotypes aren't exaggerations.

Pikies?

There more of an ethnic group than anything else but they seem to fit most of your redneck requirements.

bump

(A good day to you Sir!)

>>2617
The working class.

There's always the Forest of Dean, and the lovely folk who live there.

Whenever they get posted on /zoo/ they go down well.

>>2860
>IWO means a dump of travel photos
Does it stand for anything?

>>2862
I believe it's an abbreviation for 'I went outside'

I quite like them. In my uni days I would visit /int/ twice a year when I should have been studying and they were always my favourite threads.