What's happening to you in Bristol this week?

[electrogirl]

yeah but it's all this, ugh ugh clifton is full of posh wankers and pretentious students.....

it's no worse than someone saying 'ooh i'm not going down st pauls, it's full of crackheads'

 

[Iam]

To be honest, I'm *this* bothered what you think of it, deary.

 

[electrogirl]

To be honest, I'm *this* bothered what you think of it, deary.

ooooooooh patronising tone, my fave.

what a bozo.

 

[JTG]

you could say that about any part of the city! i haven't been up gloucester road for ages and i used to live there, i hadn't been up in clifton for ages either until this weekend...that's a weird point you made there.

It's actually entirely valid and you can't say it about anywhere else in the city either.

Anyway, strung out is entirely correct about the irritating arses at Clifton Down Sainsburys and the very fact that there's a Fresh & Wild there at all tells you everything you should ever need to know.

 

[electrogirl]

It's actually entirely valid and you can't say it about anywhere else in the city either.

Anyway, strung out is entirely correct about the irritating arses at Clifton Down Sainsburys and the very fact that there's a Fresh & Wild there at all tells you everything you should ever need to know.

jsut sounds like some beautiful reverse snobbery to me.

 

[strung out]

i had a customer come in the other day who had ordered some bread to be freshly baked for when she came in at 5pm. anyway, she came in at 5 and the person who had supposed to be baking it had been through a busy patch and completely forgotten to bake the bread. the customer stormed out of the shop furiously proclaiming that her foie gras would be ruined

 

[Iam]

ooooooooh patronising tone, my fave.

what a bozo.

ooooh, name calling, my fave.

what an attention seeker!

 

[electrogirl]

i had a customer come in the other day who had ordered some bread to be freshly baked for when she came in at 5pm. anyway, she came in at 5 and the person who had supposed to be baking it had been through a busy patch and completely forgotten to bake the bread. the customer stormed out of the shop furiously proclaiming that her foie gras would be ruined

yes a tosser, but a tosser that could appear anywhere!

 

[electrogirl]

ooooh, name calling, my fave.

what an attention seeker!

what are you on? bozo is hardly at the edge of namecalling is it?

i just don't like your 'oh give the girlie who loves clifton a pat on the head, we're much more wiser and alternative than her' approach.

that's all.

 

[strung out]

she was french so she would have been a cunt wherever she lived

 

[Iam]

what are you on? bozo is hardly at the edge of namecalling is it?

i just don't like your 'oh give the girlie who loves clifton a pat on the head, we're much more wiser and alternative than her' approach.

that's all.

Well, I offered the chance for us to just not agree, but you chose to continue. And Attention Seeker is hardly a cutting edge insult, either. I could have worded that a in a lot more unfriendly manner, had I wished.

This is all very serious, eh?

Nevermind, we'll ignore the other bits of what I posted about why I don't like the area (parking, overcrowding and so on) and pretend that I just said the bit about the people, is that better?

 

[electrogirl]

Well, I offered the chance for us to just not agree, but you chose to continue. And Attention Seeker is hardly a cutting edge insult, either. I could have worded that a in a lot more unfriendly manner, had I wished.

This is all very serious, eh?

Nevermind, we'll ignore the other bits of what I posted about why I don't like the area (parking, overcrowding and so on) and pretend that I just said the bit about the people, is that better?

erm i don't think you did offer the chance to 'agree to disagree' really.

not without snidey patronisey comments anyway.

but there you go, let's do it now.

 

[JTG]

jsut sounds like some beautiful reverse snobbery to me.

well then you're wrong

'inverse snob' is what I'm usually called when someone can't believe I honestly hold an opinion based on personal experience (in this case almost 30 years' worth of it).

 

[Iam]

I very much beg to differ.

 

[electrogirl]

ha this thread is a beautiful example of why stig hates the happy smiley face smilie! it's somehow taken on a smug side.

 

[strung out]

arguments in the bristol forum arent as fun as the ones in other forums

 

[Iam]

Kept me busy whilst I was on hold to VMWare, though.

 

[Gerry1time]

I ended up back in Clifton a bit last weekend, and was really wondering if it's changed since i lived there 10 years or so ago. Sure it used to be more chilled, and have fewer pashminas, boutiques and generally 'rah' type people. Not that there's anything wrong with them, just wondering if the place has actually changed, or whether i've just become more/differently observant.

Still prefer St Pauls/Montpelier/ St Werburghs kinda area though.

 

[kalidarkone]

Sorry to hear you have been having a hard time BlackArab (((BA))) I went to the picnic at Ashton court and had a lovely time- just such a nice spot and good company and homemade bread.

Today I was on trial in Yate for not displaying my tax on my car (it fell off) the case was dropped. (just as well as it was a bloody wasted of time anyway) Now I am at home feeling premenstrual and wishing I had a mountain of chocolate peanuts. Later I am going to burn all the stuff I chopped in the garden and have a little BBQ.

 

[Geri]

I agree with Iam. Clifton could be disappeared out of existence and the rest of Bristol would never notice.

Me too.

I used to work there and it's just horrendous in term time. It would take twice as long to do your shopping in a lunch hour as it did out of term.

Of course it has a lot of lovely buildings, and if all the students and rich people disappeared, I would probably quite like it.

 

[BlackArab]

Yes, yes, yes love it, thank you fellow Bristolians. This thread has had the desired effect which is In fact I read it twice. I'm trying not to be mysterious or melodramatic, please understand that I'm just dealing right now with a really bad situation that I don't really want to post about and was just wishing I was back in Bristol doing normal stuff instead and had a massive urge to hear what others were up to.

The interweb is great for escaping reality.

Loved how it descended into a battle about Clifton as I've been flat-sitting there for a mate recently. Only a temporary thing, thank god, as I'm tired of being the only ethnic in the Village.

ps Fizzerbird its emergency visit, sorry wasn't clearer in OP

pps cheers Kali

 

[fizzerbird]

Hope whatever emergency it was/is gets sorted with a positive conclusion.

urban is a sanctuary

Bristol is gert lush

 

[geekpenguin]

I'm at worky work up on Park Row. Got over an hour to go and it's really hot and busy in here. Although I can't complain, cause any job which allows you to reply on a forum must be pretty good. Would like to be going out for food later, but I've got family down and have to settle for crappy lamb chops instead. It's too hot for lamb chops...

 

[kalidarkone]

My tummy hurts

 

[Geri]

I've got family down and have to settle for crappy lamb chops instead. It's too hot for lamb chops...

It's never too hot for lamb chops!

 

[deviousmonkey]

It's full of students and twats who think living there makes them posh, expensive, nowhere to park, overcrowded... shall I go on?

please do as I'm very curiou as to which catagory you are putting me in

 

[Iam]

please do as I'm very curiou as to which catagory you are putting me in

Zoo residents don't count.

 

[deviousmonkey]

This week, in Bristol, I'm mainly going to be annoying Iam; ya hairy wallabe

 

[Iam]

Heheh.

I sort of ask for it, really.

 

[deviousmonkey]

Anything in the post? Oh yeah, that's right, 'Avon' doesn't exist