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• park events and galas would be a nice addition if not already on
• There is a fantastic shop on 'The Arcade'. It is called Dorricott and they do speciality food, drinks and gifts. The 'Tracklements' are to die for. Go, shop. I really don't want it to go under!
• How many pubs are there in Barnsley? I'm sorry but there's no way of actually counting them.
• hows about you wish our uncle albert parkin of keresfothill rd a happy 90th birthday
• Why is the actual 'railway crossing' in the town centre called jumble lane? Its two train tracks over Kendray Street. Where the hell does a lane of jumble come into it???...Now I know why the Town Hall woz painted white!!!!! (think about it)
• someone mentioned bjhs coffee shop,best store we had in town closed down as we were forced to by the overbig and heavy going meadowhall thats killed our town.
• Note to tourists- We're not all drunken, yobbish, former or current sex offenders- some of us are genuinly normal!
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• We are the Wombles, and we hate being compared unfavourably with Barnsley women. What have we done wrong to deserve this offensive slur? Signed Orinoco, Tomsk, Tobermory, Madame Cholet and Great Uncle Bulgaria.
• Barnsley is strange really. As someone who comes from down South but has lived and studied here for 4 years, i find there is an ignorance and rudeness towards me, yet also a real feeling of warmth sometimes. Likewise the brain power of the locals is not great, but for fear of generalising it obviously produces a few brainboxes (see above). However, the fact that i want to stay here and work for a living in this area must say something. But it really is a different place here to anywhere i've seen before, both for good and bad reasons.
• The slags in the town wouldn't shag just anyone...
• A horrible, horrible place. I've travelled the world, meeting people of all races and creeds, and never have a I met a load of such small-minded, backward thinking cretins all concentrated in one place.
• The amazing youthfulness of people in the nightclubs, especially at Regents Park. Amazing dress sense too.......some of it resembles NAPPIES.
• Can the fella who keeps dissin tarn please meet me rount the back of Durty o'Dwyers this friday night around 11.15, I will be armed only with a empty pint glass
• One thing about Barnsley is the attitude towards anyone who shows promise – academically or otherwise - it seems they must be held back and prevented from achieving. This attitude was rife in my schooldays, and sadly, nothing much has changed since then. There seems to be a lot of petty jealousy around – little wonder this town loses its talent to go-ahead places like Leeds, Manchester, etc.
• Well situated, right in the middle of loads of greenbelt, and between the cities of Sheff, leeds, Bradford, Manchester.
• I love Barnsley and I hate it. I have lived here all my life (apart from a spell at Huddersfield University, where I achieved a good degree, proving that not all Barnsley folk are thick) and the place is home, yet sometimes I despair of it. The main problem is that although most of the people are friendly and easy to get on with, they are mostly uneducated and have no ambition to make anything of their lives. It's so frustrating talking to people who don't know what a degree is and think I should have got a job in a local factory instead of going to uni. The local culture is about 100 years behind the rest of the country.
• In 1981, Newcastle and Liverpool were bywords for poverty and deprivation. Twenty years on, in 2001, Barnsley carries the tag as being one of the poorest areas in Europe, way behind Newcastle and Liverpool. An American academic recently described wages, poverty levels and living standards in Barnsley as comparable to Poland. It's time something was done about it.
• Born and raised in Barnsley, I've travelled and worked all around the world, I've often asked myself whats special about Barnsley, sure there's dick heads and shag whits, rough spots etc but for me its the character of the place and people that brings a smile to my face and makes me want to go home. As for the Barnsley guy who slates it, I suggest you are a fairly sad, pathetic individual with no character, so stop winging about it and 'bugger off' I don't think you'll be missed.
• I have visited Nottingham a few times recently, and I have to be honest – it knocks spots off Barnsley. I have found the people down there to be much friendlier and more approachable than up here, its girls are far prettier and friendlier than their Barnsley counterparts – and I haven’t had ANY abuse from them – unlike in Barnsley. At the moment I am doing a Microsoft Certification course, and hope to be able to relocate to the Nottingham area some time this year (2000).
• Has it occurred to any of the ignoramus' who have slated Barnsley that the reason you find the people there so unworthy of your time is that they just don't want you in there town? Narrow minded dickheads, (yes, I'm talking to the prick who told "the person who said the good things about Barnsley" to learn to spell (and yes you are a prick, check your spelling before you correct others!!!,) never have been and never will be welcome in Barnsley. I suspect it is no great loss to the town that you don't want to spend time there, in fact a job well done by all the people who contributed to making sure you wouldn't be going back!
• People here think if you’re well educated you’re not a real man. They think masculinity is only proven if you’re as thick as two short planks, handy with your fists, have cauliflower ears after too many fights, and a scar across the forehead like Frankenstein’s monster.
• Contrary to the threads above barnsley is definitely no 'brain-drain' - we like people to think we're daft while we just get on with doing what we're doing. I'm a student at Cambridge and I'll certainly be coming back - if not for anything else than the football...
• The brain-drain is alive and well within this town. The biggest mistake of my life was coming back here after graduating from University. I'll soon be out of here though (thank God). The women aren't THAT bad...
• Barnsley is a town which has taken a kicking in recent years. Much as I love the place I couldn't live their. The whole town appears to be populated by ridiculously tight white jeans wearing slappas all about 14 years old, wearing Kappa tops and pushing a pram full of bairns. The blokes who shag these girls are all about 16 and think they are indestructable. I chastised one of them for dropping some litter on the floor, I did it in an inteligent reasonable manner and pointed out that if he was proud of his town he wouldn't litter it. He told me to f-off so I grabbed him and forced him to pick it up, then he threatened to call the police, hypocrit, he was drinking whilst underage at the same time. They force people who live in Barnsley to undertake citizenship exams and then sterilise anybody who doesn't pass.
• The girls here are vulgar and foul-mouthed (note the example on Blind Date - unfortunately about 50% of the girls are as bad as that). If the words "Fuck" and "Off" didn't exist, they wouldn't open their mouths. If you're a well-mannered and polite bloke, the only time they speak to you is when they are hurling insults.
• We can receive Radio Shefield here - brilliant for listening to whingeing Wednesdayites on it's Grumble and Praise programme (the one following Wednesday's 8-0 hiding at Newcastle was a gem).
• The women are largely unapproachable, and shriek "What you gawping at" at 150 decibels if you catch sight of them for more than one second. We nickname them "Mint Imperials" because they are hard on the outside, an not much softer inside.
• The people who live in Barnsley are the most stupid in the whole country. They not only sound and look thick but they are THICK. The women are by far are more ugly than anyware else. I have come to the conclusion that Barnsley was created by the government many years ago to deter any foreign invasion, after all who in their sound mind would want to be near to a place like Barnsley. Oh, the person who wrote the nice things about Barnsley, learn to spell you moron !
• Kexborough is the best village - where I lived and where Darton High School is!
• I have had this misfortune of living in Barnsley for too long now. It's a dirty smelly arm pit of a hole with a non-existent shopping centre, rough pubs, rough women and a chronic intolerable accent. Note the film "Kes". The only good thing being that its near to Sheffield, a real city.
• The best thing about Barnsley? Er, it's quite near to Manchester.

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