Donal MacIntyre: Britain's Toughest Towns

[Sunspots]

Is this the same prat who wandered around Brixton for two or three nights with a flashy mobile and a laptop (and wearing a massive stab-proof jacket) unsuccessfully trying to get someone to rob him (and being told repeatedly by friendly local people to be more careful)?

I remember that one.

Does Donut actually appear in this series as anything other than a voice over? I've just realised I've not seen his face on camera yet. I guess he's over-exposed himself in recent years. (-As it were. )

 

[JTG]

He's just illustrated his introduction to the Stapleton Road with pics of the bloody Cheltenham Road!

Of course, Easton had no problems before the Black & White was closed.

 

[Sunspots]

It just showed Gloucester/Cheltenham Rd (by the arches), while claiming it's Stapleton Rd...

Damn, beaten to it by JTG!

 

[JTG]

He's too scared to actually film on the Stapleton Road see - it's well 'ard.

 

[Sunspots]

There's no denying there's problems in Bristol, but this programme really is very lazy isn't it.

 

[JTG]

Was that it?!

So he just drove round in a cop car and broadcast everything they told him to...

Fucking trash TV. I'm not so bothered about Britain's view of Bristol so much as the rest of Bristol's view of St Pauls & Easton really. They're just normal places full of normal people.

 

[butchersapron]

Oh god, i'm really scared now. Crack and that.

 

[butchersapron]

Also did Lawence Hill station and claimed it was Stapleton road...fucking hell...

 

[JTG]

Oh god, i'm really scared now. Crack and that.

Fuck that, did you see all the blokes in hoodies?

 

[spacemonkey]

A guy i used to work with looked like Donal MacIntyre, i sometimes thought he was doing an undercover expose on student pubs, then i just realised he was a cunt.

 

[butchersapron]

Fuck that, did you see all the blokes in hoodies?

I think one of them was a black bloke..i can't be sure though....

He got no footage at all - nothing. Par for the course with this cunt though.

 

[Sunspots]

The voiceover as the credits rolled ("Since the making of this programme...") seemed to suggest that loads of people had been nicked and crackhouses shut down, etc, as a result of Donut's incisive exposé...

Still, it's a C5/Donut effort, so I suppose we really shouldn't be too surprised by how bad it was.

 

[Sunspots]

Fuck that, did you see all the blokes in hoodies?

<...treble locks front door, hides...>

 

[DaveCinzano]

what a huge steaming turd of a - if you will - 'shockumentary'.

basic, factual information was inaccurately reported.

no reliable sources were properly cited.

the official police version was, at every turn, presented without question (despite the many criticisms of the accuracy of that version aired here and elsewhere, especially in relation to crack in st. paul's and operation atrium).

there was no real attempt at historical context.

dates, locations, distances - all were wrongly presented.

sloppy, sloppy, sloppy.

 

[Firky]

I just saw the road where i used to live on, the pompy one I was out that day with my camera,

Anyway, I gotta say Pompy 6.57 crew fuckin' love geordies, hehehe I lived fairly close to fratton park, and could see it from my bedroom. I always wore my toon top and got plenty of thumbs up from them, and they're an alreet bunch actually.

Serious, they just like a fight thats all. And so do their rivals, they were always alright with me and often had a bit crack with me

Bunch of hooligans my arse. Bunch of kids, thats all.

 

[butchersapron]

Window scarfer twat.

 

[Firky]

is that directed at me? i hope it is!

 

[butchersapron]

Of course!

 

[Firky]

Thought as much

Its true though, I used to get told to be careful and what not in Portsmouth because of the 6.57 crew and I never had any bother what so ever, Portsmouth is a shit hole but it is far from rough or tough.

Pompy fans? I've shit them.

 

[DaveCinzano]

firky (l) & ninjaboy (r) training their crew of baby casuals

 

[butchersapron]

Why has the boy on the bottom left, one in, just a got a thing for his chin? Were you going to get him one later? How much later? Don't lie to the boy!

 

[Firky]

We played Fulchester United, we had some class players... born half-human, half-piscine, Billy the Fish. Sporting a permed mullet to match kevin keegan's, he floated in the air alongside teamates Johnny X, the invisible striker, and Brown Fox, the Red Indian brave - who once committed the unusual foul of 'breast ball'

 

[butchersapron]

I suspect Mr ninjaboy is about to let forth some interesting comments as well...

 

[DaveCinzano]

these days there's no way they'd let a fella looking like that train a bunch of kids without a few background checks

 

[Firky]

I'm sure I've seen him selling crack in bristol to squirrels

 

[DaveCinzano]

there are no squirrels in bristol anymore - the crackheads killed them all

 

[butchersapron]

That's how we're living blud .This is bristol.

 

[DaveCinzano]

bath had better look out, else an angry army of 12,000 crackheads will junkie-strut its way down the a4 on a squirrel-slaughtering expedition

 

[Firky]

Pfft, in toon we had to lick road clean wit' tongue, had two bits of cold gravel, worked twentyfour hours a day a' mill for sixpence every four years, when we got home our dad would slice us in two wit' bread knife.