View on Widnes, Runcorn and Warrington

COYBL25 · January 16, 2015

orly said:
Mate I totally agree with the underlying message here; London is better than Liverpool

Simply not true, London is indeed a cess pit of dubious breeding.

Woolly Blue · January 16, 2015

chicoazul said:
Anyone got any views? I know a few sound lids from round that way myself like.

When I moved back to the UK I lived in Warrington for a few years. It has an identity crisis, likes to think it's part of Cheshire ( as per it's address ), acts more like it's in Lancashire and has a small influx of Scousers just to mix things up a bit.

It's wool, but it isn't

like proper parts of Lancashire are.

Runcorn and Widnes are considered Wool by Scousers but Scouse by Wools.
Obviously the Wools are right on this.

L4Everton · January 16, 2015

Only me that finds the 27 stone 'martial arts expert' story any good? What's he good at protecting, his many and varied dinners.

R.E.T.N.U.B · January 16, 2015

L4Everton said:
Only me that finds the 27 stone 'martial arts expert' story any good? What's he good at protecting, his many and varied dinners.

Would appear so, it was not a particularly interesting or novel post therefore no response, get over it.

Moomin · January 16, 2015

One of my best mates is a fireman and serves in Widnes, he turns up at a house to inspect the smoke alarms and every wall was covered in pictures of horses.

Every wall.

Plus Widnes stinks.

L4Everton · January 16, 2015

R.E.T.N.U.B said:
Would appear so, it was not a particularly interesting or novel post therefore no response, get over it.

You're him aren't you, knew it.

Donald Twain · January 16, 2015

R.E.T.N.U.B said:
Would appear so, it was not a particularly interesting or novel post therefore no response, get over it.

Stick it to the git!

Fresh Prince of Belle Val · January 17, 2015

Meatheads with bad haircuts.

Huyton Layne · January 17, 2015

Didn't even know people lived there. Thought it was all industrial estates, chemical plants and a bridge.

graeme2911 · January 17, 2015

Parents sent me to school and college in Widnes even though we were from Hunts Cross.
Despised the place and despised 99% of the people.
I go back every now and then to see a couple of mates. Everyone in Widnes is pyaaaarrr scouse laaaa now. Does my head in. It was only 12 years since I finished college and left that cesspit, nowhere near enough time for a complete evolution of the accent.

It's 20 years behind the times, only just got some half decent shops. Pubs are still [Poor language removed] and full of scruffy bellends, and I still see the same low-grade DNA I went to school with knocking about the place, probably still living in their parents houses driving round in their shitty vauxhall novas/ S reg corsas. [Poor language removed] scruffs.

COYBL25 · January 18, 2015

graeme2911 said:
Parents sent me to school and college in Widnes even though we were from Hunts Cross.
Despised the place and despised 99% of the people.
I go back every now and then to see a couple of mates. Everyone in Widnes is pyaaaarrr scouse laaaa now. Does my head in. It was only 12 years since I finished college and left that cesspit, nowhere near enough time for a complete evolution of the accent.

It's 20 years behind the times, only just got some half decent shops. Pubs are still [Poor language removed] and full of scruffy bellends, and I still see the same low-grade DNA I went to school with knocking about the place, probably still living in their parents houses driving round in their shitty vauxhall novas/ S reg corsas. [Poor language removed] scruffs.

So you do don't like them then !

DrEFC · January 18, 2015

Runcorn is just a horrific place. I used to occasionally do an antenatal clinic in Halton that terrified me re: the future generation of that town. The older people you'd meet were lovely though.

BlueWool85 · January 18, 2015

I'm from Runcorn....

I constantly get the mick taken out of me by the missus, who is a born and bred Scouser. I take it all in jest, when I use phrases like "ice l0lly" (let's not start that again) and the way I dress - it gives us a few giggles.

I went to school with so many plastic 'plazzy' Scousers though, constantly did my head in. They probably still hang around in the pubs in Runcorn's 'old town' - luckily my local isn't anywhere near that place so I stay well clear. Speaking of which, the Shopping City (formerly Halton Lea) is like night of the living dead.. crawling with the unemployed wearing 'Cantona 7' shirts and pregnant 12-year-olds leaving a trail of pastry flakes from their prams, creating a Hansel and Grettle trail from Greggs to Jobcentre Plus..