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What happens in Swansea?

I was back home in Neath last April. I thought the "Abbey" and its ridiculously fake Welsh translation had closed down. And that says it all- I left 27 years ago and Neath still feels like home. As for kickings from "valley boys" you can get one of them in Bogotá if you know where to look.

Yeah, I was back there a couple of years ago for my Dads wedding (I'm from Seven Sisters originally so Neath was like the big city for us :D )
 
someone emailed me this years ago, managed to find it on google.... apols for c+p but it's funny!

EARTHQUAKE IN WALES
A MAJOR EARTHQUAKE MEASURING 4.8 ON THE RICHTER SCALE, HIT IN THE EARLY HOURS OF Friday morning .
It EPICENTERED ON SWANSEA SOUTH WALES.

Victims can be seen wandering aimlessly muttering:
"How be?", "Tidy" and "Can't fault it Butt". The Earthquake
decimated the area, causing approximately £30 worth of damage. Several priceless collections of mementos
from the Balearics and Spanish Costas were damaged.
Three areas of historic and scientifically significant burnt out cars
were disturbed. Many were woken well before their giro
arrived.
Thousands are confused and bewildered, trying to come to terms
with the fact that something interesting has happened in Swansea.

One resident, Sara-Angharad Davies, a 15 year old
mother-of-five said "It > was such a shock, little Chardonnay-Mercedes came running into my bedroom crying. My youngest two, Tyler-Morgan and Megan-Storm slept through it. I was still shaking when I was watching Kilroy Silk the next morning."
Apparently though, looting, muggings and car crime
did carry on as normal.
The British Red Cross have so far managed to ship
4000 crates of Sunny Delight to the area to help the stricken masses. Rescue workers are
still > searching through the rubble and have found
large quantities of personal belongings including benefit books,
jewellery from Elizabeth Duke at Argos and bone china from Everythings a Pound.

* HOW YOU CAN HELP?

This appeal is to raise clothing and food parcels for those
unfortunate > enough to be caught up in it.
Clothing is most sought after.
Items required include: - Fila, Baseball Caps, Kappa
Tracksuit tops (His and Hers), Shell Suits (Female), White Sports Socks, Nike Air Basketball Boots
and any other items usually sold in TK Maxx.
Food parcels may be harder to put together but
necessary all the same. Required foodstuffs include: -
Microwave meals, Tins of Baked Beans, Ice Cream and
cans of Colt 45 or Special Brew.
£2 buys chips, scraps and blue pop for a family of four.
£10 can take a family to Port Talbot for the day,
where children can play on a radioactive beach in front of the national collection of Steel works. £1.68 pays for a return bus ticket to the countryside where they can pick magic mushrooms to feed the family. 22p buys a biro for filling in a compensation claim.
Please do not send tents for shelter, as the sight of "posh" housing is unfair on the population of neighbouring areas of Gorseinon, Llanelli and Clydach.
 
Pity it wasn't a bit funnier, though... An opportunity missed... Actually I miss those run down days as house prices weren't fucking silly, and there wasn't so much gentrification...
 
zog said:
They look in a dustbin for something to eat
they find a dead rat and they think it's a treat
in the swansea slums

shamelessly stolen from the north bank chants cos you lot cant think up any songs yourselves:p
 
You should read Ian Bone's "Bash the Rich", you'll love Swansea and all the Jacks after that. Good luck it is a lovely city, like Barcelona in that it's got a beach right there.
 
Portia said:
someone emailed me this years ago, managed to find it on google.... apols for c+p but it's funny!


That's one of those adaptable 'jokes' for different towns. Actually, I think the original said somewhere in England first. Funny once...maybe.
 
brianx said:
You should read Ian Bone's "Bash the Rich", you'll love Swansea and all the Jacks after that. Good luck it is a lovely city, like Barcelona in that it's got a beach right there.

A friend and I were having lunch and discussing our home town. We both agreed we would go back- if we could both afford to live in the West of the city.Otherwise we are both perfectly content in the Valleys north of Cardiff.
I think that says alot.
 
Hello Chio,
If you live in Manchester you're used to the Manchester Liverpool rivalry. Cardiff and Swansea have a similar relationship but please don't let that put you off. The people are lovely and I've never known anyone be anti English, anti Cardiff or Swansea sometimes.
 
LilMissHissyFit said:
shamelessly stolen from the north bank chants cos you lot cant think up any songs yourselves:p

Talking of Manchester and Liverpool, that was "In your Liverpool slums", as sung at Old Trafford and what used to be Maine Road
 
Strumpet said:
That's one of those adaptable 'jokes' for different towns. Actually, I think the original said somewhere in England first. Funny once...maybe.

yeah i know ive heard it about Merthyr as well

but just another thing about swansea

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:D
 
LilMissHissyFit said:
Swanseas not actually anything like that.... Port talbot is though.. which is where 'the twins' are from


Now my experiences of Swansea fit Twin Town pretty well, from buying green eggs off OAP's, to bent coppers who knock steroids out.

And Barons is just as shite in real life.
 
LOL really? I didnt encounter half as much of that living in Mount pleasant as I did living in the centre of Port talbot.
Although yeah the coppers I knew were (with one exception) bent and Barons has always always been crap:)
 
Ska fan's ?

Tidy band on in the Monkey on Friday - Tootin Ska Moon. The Monkey bar's one of Swansea's better venues I think. Relaxed door attitude too. Swansea's not all bad .
 
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