What counts as the West Country?

[felixthecat]

Trowbridge is a shite-hole

Agreed x1000

and Devizes is quite pleasant

'tis not too bad a place. Not where you'd go for the most thriving night life (or any life really) but ok.

Why has no one mentioned Warminster - there's a right pus filled boil on the backside of the world.

 

[Thora]

Public transport is not great but don't know what you mean by a dodgy drug scene tbh Pretty normal range of shops for a small market town too, a few of the large chains plus lots of little local places.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Agreed x1000


'tis not too bad a place. Not where you'd go for the most thriving night life (or any life really) but ok.

Why has no one mentioned Warminster - there's a right pus filled boil on the backside of the world.

Nicer than Westbury.

 

[felixthecat]

Nicer than Westbury.

Its a close call - I reckon Warminster is worse but only by a hair's breadth

 

[Geri]

I used to live in Laura place by the rugby ground. I worked in Fodders when it first opened. I drank in the Bell then moved up to the Hat and Feather for later drinks.

The Hat & Feather has been transformed into some yupppie wine bar/gastro pub now, hasn't it?

 

[marty21]

The Hat & Feather has been transformed into some yupppie wine bar/gastro pub now, hasn't it?

sadly yes, A few years ago

 

[JTG]

Much more contentious would be BS5/BS2 versus BS3 / further south.

Anyone who thinks BS3 is in any way cool is a muppet of the highest order

lol at the Bristol haterz on here (ie Idaho). Let them hate so long as they fear.

 

[bob_fossil]

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[bob_fossil]

 

[bob_fossil]

 

[marty21]

i'm in the west country at the moment, came down to bath to see the folks, had a drink in my fave pub - the green tree in green street, lovely boozer

 

[gentlegreen]

'tis all relative isn't it

 

[big eejit]

i'm in the west country at the moment, came down to bath to see the folks, had a drink in my fave pub - the green tree in green street, lovely boozer

Great pub:




From Extras tonight - "Inbreeding, sheepshagging and slavery - Bristol's famous for all sorts of things."

 

[marty21]

Great pub:




From Extras tonight - "Inbreeding, sheepshagging and slavery - Bristol's famous for all sorts of things."

it is! we were sitting there, right by the entrance to the bar

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

i'm in the west country at the moment, came down to bath to see the folks, had a drink in my fave pub - the green tree in green street, lovely boozer

Isn't it the smallest pub in britain or something?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

No hold on I think I am thinking of another.

 

[marty21]

No hold on I think I am thinking of another.

the coeur de lion is much smaller, just up the road from the green tree, but i don't think that is the smallest pub in britain either

 

[Idaho]

lol at the Bristol haterz on here (ie Idaho). Let them hate so long as they fear.

I don't hate the place. I think it's alright. But the way some people speak about it, it seems that they have stumbled into an entirely different place from the average, sprawling, inward-looking, oversized market town that I have always come across.

 

[marty21]

in bath today and i am going to the widcombe social club , possibly followed by the liberal club in larkhall, my dad likes his social clubs

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

the coeur de lion is much smaller, just up the road from the green tree, but i don't think that is the smallest pub in britain either

I rememebr something in bath with a bar that could only get about three people in, a lounge with one (maybe two) tables, and a pool room that had a round table (because you needed to spin it to get into position).

 

[marty21]

I rememebr something in bath with a bar that could only get about three people in, a lounge with one (maybe two) tables, and a pool room that had a round table (because you needed to spin it to get into position).

i used to go to a pub with a round table, not that far from laura place, the crown in bathwick, but it wasn't a small pub, it had two bars

 

[JTG]

I don't hate the place. I think it's alright. But the way some people speak about it, it seems that they have stumbled into an entirely different place from the average, sprawling, inward-looking, oversized market town that I have always come across.

You're missing out then

*shrugs*

 

[madzone]

Cornwall's not Westcountry. Geographically we're too far South and culturally we're just separate

If anything we could be lumped in as the South West I s'pose

 

[Idaho]

Cornwall's not Westcountry. Geographically we're too far South and culturally we're just separate

If anything we could be lumped in as the South West I s'pose

You try too hard

 

[madzone]

You try too hard

I'm perfectly serious

 

[jannerboyuk]

Cornwall's not Westcountry. Geographically we're too far South and culturally we're just separate

If anything we could be lumped in as the South West I s'pose

As a Plymouthian

 

[madzone]

As a Plymouthian

all you like, makes no odds to me

 

[nightowl]

plymouthians just wish they'd been born on god's side of the tamar

 

[Kevicious]

In fact no region wants Dorset, because it's crap.

That'll be one less twat visiting Dorset this summer and getting in everyone's way then...

 

[marty21]

i'm off to dorset next week, love the place