Yep Reading is a shithole for sure. Been staying down here on Kennet Island (apartment is very nice) for work over the last year, and can’t wait to move back home next week.Anyways, still no sign of any more snow so shouldn’t be any issues with the game being on. Reading are shite, we’re better and we need 3pts...let it be so.
Quote from: KRS on February 01, 2019, 09:58:21 PMYep Reading is a shithole for sure. Been staying down here on Kennet Island (apartment is very nice) for work over the last year, and can’t wait to move back home next week.Anyways, still no sign of any more snow so shouldn’t be any issues with the game being on. Reading are shite, we’re better and we need 3pts...let it be so.I live not too far away and wouldn't say Reading is a shit hole. Like most big towns it has it's good points and bad....the footy ground being bad, a flat-pack stadium in a business park on the edge of town. The Grey Friar just down the hill from the Station is good ale pub.
Quote from: DB on February 01, 2019, 10:43:59 PMQuote from: KRS on February 01, 2019, 09:58:21 PMYep Reading is a shithole for sure. Been staying down here on Kennet Island (apartment is very nice) for work over the last year, and can’t wait to move back home next week.Anyways, still no sign of any more snow so shouldn’t be any issues with the game being on. Reading are shite, we’re better and we need 3pts...let it be so.I live not too far away and wouldn't say Reading is a shit hole. Like most big towns it has it's good points and bad....the footy ground being bad, a flat-pack stadium in a business park on the edge of town. The Grey Friar just down the hill from the Station is good ale pub.I think its reputation suffers because it's so close to London, and because it has all those blue chip companies based there. I will get there by train tomorrow and will arrive in the city (it is a city, tight?) centre in less than an hour after I close my front door. The first time I went there for work I expected it to have basically the same atmosphere as a London suburb like, say, Watford or Uxbridge and places like that do. But it's very much a small provincial city (or big provincial town!) so it feels weird that all those global firms have their British HQs there.
Quote from: Sexual Ealing on February 01, 2019, 10:54:10 PMQuote from: DB on February 01, 2019, 10:43:59 PMQuote from: KRS on February 01, 2019, 09:58:21 PMYep Reading is a shithole for sure. Been staying down here on Kennet Island (apartment is very nice) for work over the last year, and can’t wait to move back home next week.Anyways, still no sign of any more snow so shouldn’t be any issues with the game being on. Reading are shite, we’re better and we need 3pts...let it be so.I live not too far away and wouldn't say Reading is a shit hole. Like most big towns it has it's good points and bad....the footy ground being bad, a flat-pack stadium in a business park on the edge of town. The Grey Friar just down the hill from the Station is good ale pub.I think its reputation suffers because it's so close to London, and because it has all those blue chip companies based there. I will get there by train tomorrow and will arrive in the city (it is a city, tight?) centre in less than an hour after I close my front door. The first time I went there for work I expected it to have basically the same atmosphere as a London suburb like, say, Watford or Uxbridge and places like that do. But it's very much a small provincial city (or big provincial town!) so it feels weird that all those global firms have their British HQs there.I used to be dragooned to attend the MicroSludge Facility there. They had some kind of hawk to attack the pigeons and it would often crash into the window in a misdirected swoop. Earlier in my "career", I was dispatched to Basingstoke (IBM) and Milton Keynes(Unisys) on a regular basis. Ghastly doesn't begin to describe mental anguish inflicted.
Quote from: DB on February 01, 2019, 10:43:59 PMQuote from: KRS on February 01, 2019, 09:58:21 PMYep Reading is a shithole for sure. Been staying down here on Kennet Island (apartment is very nice) for work over the last year, and can’t wait to move back home next week.Anyways, still no sign of any more snow so shouldn’t be any issues with the game being on. Reading are shite, we’re better and we need 3pts...let it be so.I live not too far away and wouldn't say Reading is a shit hole. Like most big towns it has it's good points and bad....the footy ground being bad, a flat-pack stadium in a business park on the edge of town. The Grey Friar just down the hill from the Station is good ale pub.The town centre high street and river area around the Oracle is pleasant enough, but the road network is extremely poor with badly designed junctions, one way systems, bus lane traps and is poorly lit. I’m not a fan of the place...but the most important thing is a good performance and 3pts tomorrow.
The family of one of my ex fiances lived in Hungerford. Going to Reading was classed as a big night out. When you live in Hungerford a trip to Reading is like someone in one of those American towns with a population of fifty people that The A - Team liberate visiting New York.
Quote from: Damo70 on February 02, 2019, 10:04:31 AMThe family of one of my ex fiances lived in Hungerford. Going to Reading was classed as a big night out. When you live in Hungerford a trip to Reading is like someone in one of those American towns with a population of fifty people that The A - Team liberate visiting New York.How many ex-fiances have you got, you old dog?!