A death threat of sorts. What would GD do?

Malevolence said:
Wasn't it the equally retarded 'City Sentral', or were there two of them?
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There were two of them. The city centre was "City Sentral" (I misremebered it as "Sentre") and the approach to it was "Intu", as was the shopping/entertainment centre. So you'd go Intu City Sentral to Intu. Capital Letters Are Required Because A Capital Letter Makes Any Word Magically Important.

I wasn't joking about thinking it would have been better to hire some youths who had played some light city sim games to plan the project and to manage the city. I genuinely think they would have done and would continue to do a better job.

I am joking when I say that I will run for a position as councillor with the promise that I will waste council tax on beer and strippers because that would get me elected on the basis that I wouldn't waste it as badly as the current councillors. I wouldn't want to be a councillor :)

EDIT: Two bits of less bad news, though. The main development was renamed Unity Walk and then scrapped entirely. Only ~£350M wasted, plus the massive damage to the city centre that drove some business under and damaged many more. The shopping centre is still Intu, though.
 
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SexyGreyFox said:
Hope Street is full of shops and an area where all our musical instruments shops were/are and I've spent an absolute fortune on that Street, it isn't really a place where people live.

Anyway, isn't it about time all us Stokies got together for a drink and perhaps a big love in session after :)
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I spent most of my pocket money in Castle Computers on Hope Street :D
 
#Chri5# said:
I spent most of my pocket money in Castle Computers on Hope Street :D
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Was that the place three quarters of the way up that used to openly deal in warez before they got prosecuted and closed down? If it was, he did me a favour once by giving me the business address of a guy who ripped me off on a pc build. The guy who did the build did a runner to Canada for a few years before coming back to the UK and setting up on London Road.
 
JOSH said:
8 years of working the landings in London - YOI, reform, and Cat A and it was always shank.
I dont have second hand anecdotal evidence I'm afraid.
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Was this before or after the UK started 'appropriating' grammatically incorrect American cultural terms?

wolfie138 said:
i took multiple punches etc when doing martial arts of various types, never heard a bang. more of a thump.
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When boxing, I've had loud pops a few times which sounded a bit like bangs in my head... seen stars, too!!
 
After sadly, I remember the prison slang training morning being very enlightening.

It's was mostly the wannabe/plastic "gangsters" or drug dealers crowd.
 
JOSH said:
After sadly, I remember the prison slang training morning being very enlightening.
It's was mostly the wannabe/plastic "gangsters" or drug dealers crowd.
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Yeah, that tallies - Most of my 'criminal knowledge' is from before then, and from the lower classes of Army denizens.
I don't think I could get through a training morning like that, at least not without laughing my backside off and making remarks that'd get me 'shanked' before the end of the day!!
 
Housey said:
You sure he said shank?

It could have been an offer?
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I got a fair few of those when I was a pretty young man walking to my home in Cobridge, which was the prostitution district at that time. Maybe it still is, I don't know. The dynamics of the interactions are quite different. If he was a prostitute making an offer, he has absolutely terrible marketing skills. Anyway, my hearing isn't as sharp as it used to be but it's not that bad :)
 
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Sorry, couldn't resist! :P
 
Angilion - It's Hanley I'm sure it happens all of the time just like in Burslem, Tunstall etc.

Please will look into it but they wont do anything, your word against his.
 
Angilion said:
I got a fair few of those when I was a pretty young man walking to my home in Cobridge,
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Many years ago my cousin asked me if i would drop his 16 year old daughter daughter off at her friends so I followed her directions. I ended up on Cobridge Road and she said 'You can drop me off here, my friend lives over there' and I wouldn't drop her off. She had no idea where we were and what it was known for :)
 
Back in the 90s we used to get great weed from a Jamaican fella on Waterloo Rd., right by where Rourke's cycles is now and right opposite where all the street walkers used to gather before heading off to ply their trade. Was propositioned so many times up there it was unreal.
 
Malevolence said:
Back in the 90s we used to get great weed from a Jamaican fella on Waterloo Rd., right by where Rourke's cycles is now and right opposite where all the street walkers used to gather before heading off to ply their trade. Was propositioned so many times up there it was unreal.
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What was his name. I was unfortunately at the same school as that lot: Moorland Road :(
 
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