Today's Diddy Games

[neilthedon]

I can't stand Yeovil Town - they play in Celtic's green and white hoops. Also a horrible little town, they don't like outsiders.

And there is no sense of irony in that statement , IH ?

[TheDeeDon]

It’s a fuucking sh’itehole . I was last there 8 years ago, before even the 2016 referendum will have torpedoed it further. On a par with erseholes of the planet such as Skegness, Prestatyn, and Accrington.

We ended up in Yeovil in 2013 and didn't even bother staying the night as planned, just carried on with our journey to Cornwall.

I liked Skegness although I have never seen so many people in mobility scooters in my life. We did feel out of place using our legs to walk.

[DondyDan]

It’s a fuucking sh’itehole . I was last there 8 years ago, before even the 2016 referendum will have torpedoed it further. On a par with erseholes of the planet such as Skegness, Prestatyn, and Accrington.

I'll take those and raise you a Grimsby. What a f****n post apocalyptic looking, walking dead, image of post Brexit Britain sh*t hole

[57vintage]

I'll take those and raise you a Grimsby. What a f****n post apocalyptic looking, walking dead, image of post Brexit Britain sh*t hole

I’d bet blind on Withernsea, across the estuary and on the coast about 5 miles east of Hull. It was like 28 Days Later when I sped through it one Saturday night. I may even have witnessed cannibalism there. And fuucking Bridlington, apart from the chipper…

Alexandria doesn’t fare well when compared to its North African namesake either. And dinna get me started on Shipley, where the only redeeming feature was the curry restaurant’s naan breads, about the dimensions of a six yard box.

[DUFCstokie]

And there is no sense of irony in that statement , IH ?

Are you referring to my "outsiders" remark? I lived their for 10 months. I wasn't exactly made welcome but met a few good people. But they were in the minority - the locals even hated people from Dorset (the county border is only 5 miles away). Ended up being attacked by a local nutter from a local skinhead mob (yep skinheads) simple because of my accent and being Scottish. Got to phuck out of Dodge after that but still live in Somerset, and love it.

[DUFCstokie]

It’s a fuucking sh’itehole . I was last there 8 years ago, before even the 2016 referendum will have torpedoed it further. On a par with erseholes of the planet such as Skegness, Prestatyn, and Accrington.

We actually agree on something

[57vintage]

Dorset…the county border is only 5 miles away

When I was in Dorset, it was right on the Border in a wee village, Thornford. The one excursion to Yeovil, about 5 miles distant, was like turning the clock back to 1981. Even Thomas Hardy’s cottage at Bockhampton seemed more contemporary.

[Mason89]

Alexandria doesn’t fare well when compared to its North African namesake either.

There’s at least 3 folk songs describing how lovely the place is, which I’ll wager is 3 more than Hull

[The_Moog]

If we’re playing shyte town top trumps, I’ve never seen anything or anywhere to beat Greenock.

Absolutely zero redeeming features at all. Had the misfortune of working there for 6 months back in the day.

Grey, soulless, bleak, inhospitable landscape
A barren wasteland of despair - and it rained almost every day.

An absolute shyte hole populated by locals with that unbelievably annoying nasal weegie sounding accent - which didnt help.

You have to drive through Port Glasgow (which is enough of an eye opener) to get there too.

Gads.

Gourock though, far I bided a bitty further down the road, was quite nice tbf.

[Mason89]

Worst place I’ve ever seen in Scotland is a village called Patna. Went through there by mistake looking for a power line. It’s grim. Everything about the place saps your will to live. It looks incredibly staunch too

[57vintage]

Gourock seems to be split between west and east. The former, out towards the Western Ferries terminal, and Wemyss Bay, looks pretty well-to-do, with quite attractive dwellings, and a Conservative looking marina. On the Greenock side, at shore level, it looks like every other rundown, neglected, decaying carcass of a town in the land.

I canvassed Patna, Ochiltree, Drongan, Crosshill and many more South Ayrshire settlements in the 79 election. Since this was before Thatcher and McGregor started their delibetate, considered destruction of the coal industry, they were functional but OK places, mining villages kept in good nick because of innate working class pride. The NUM solidly backed George fuucking Foulkes, who I discovered, to my shame, had attended the same school as me, as Labour fought to win the seat. They were tough c’unts, quite happy to intimidate and assault anyone they perceived as a threat. It’s not an area to which I’d hurry back. The Orange Lodge had a huge presence in the coalfields, and Scott Severin’s old man scabbed during the strike, I believe.

[RED_JOHN]

Here is a question for you lot….we like having a dig at towns, cities etc but in your opinion, what is the most upto date and exciting town/city/village in Scotland? This should be interesting

[donsdaft]

England has many pretty town/ villages
Scotland less so

St Andrews
Banchory
Pitlochery
Ballater

Sod having to live in Pitlochery or Ballater though.

Cities?
I suppose it has to be Edinburgh

[GASC1980]

Obviously Glasgow and not only because it is the biggest. Much more to see/do with so many new buildings going up in city centre. I'm not denying there are numerous ****holes in it and many dregs of society living within its' confines. Dundee is vastly improved and probably leaving Aberdeen as the most outdated etc.

[Don Julio]

Tarland. Hands down!