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Best and Worst in Wombwell, South Yorkshire*

Wombwell, South Yorkshire Triumphs and Tragedies

Favourite Building

• The public toilets on the high street, it sums this town up - one big shithole.
• B Mills DIY and Hardware shop, just like Mr Bens shop on the kids program, you always feel like buying something in there
• The old Burton building, on the high street.

Demolish It Now Building

• royal oak
• All of the fucking shit hole.
• Demolish anything - there is nothing of great importance in this town. Never as been and never will be.
• All of the town, their is no point to a place like Wombwell.
• The Drop
• The Railway Pub. dear me!!
• Public toilets on the High Street. They can only be part of Barnsley councils plan to totally discredit the place.
• the fucking nu well for god sake wot do they sell in there its a load of shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Not flattened but The Horseshoe needs doing up very badly, a great old place gone to ruin.

The Best Things

• The best thing about Wombwell is that a man only needs a A-level to be more intelligent than 80% of the male population.
• I would like to say something, yes wombwell isnt the best place on earth and it as problems but which town doesnt???? i lived in wombwell for 16 years of my life and loved every minute, but for all these people are such know it alls and know everthing about the place you will know that not everybody is a bum, i moved away from wombwell to follow my sporting career and i come bk as much as i can and i lov coming back.... And for this person who doesnt live there anymore and slags it off who are you and wat do you do now Mr successful??????
• Places like Wombwell are actually very important. The self-important buffoon who goes on about how well qualified he is on this website and complains his career can't progress in Wombwell doesn't see the point. The point is this: Places like Wombwell are important because they concentrate all the idiots, retards and low-lifes from our society all in one place, so that the rest of us can live a nicer and more fulfilled life by avoiding the town (and all the cretins within) like the plague. That complaining bloke might have letters after his name but he doesn't have common sense enough to get out of the place. So, long story short, the best thing about Wombwell is that when you leave, everyone you meet in your new town is nicer. It keeps all the scum and scrubbers all in one place so you can stay away and never have to bump into them. I live in Beaconsfield near High Wycombe now - it's a bit snobby and far from perfect, but at least people you meet round the town don't have knuckles dragging on the ground as they walk along. Orb.
• nice people
• Leaving Home When people leave home, they move into houses close to their parents, like across the road, or on the same street. 99% of people who leave home must live within the same village / area of their parents. Good god, if you are leaving home and you have got bills you might as well live in a nice place, just because your parents have lived in a shithole does not mean that you have to
• Penguins Most people are the same in this town, the look the same, act the same, have the same life style, generally have the same life. In fact 98% of the people could be rolled into one person. Nobody ever does anything different. They are like penguins, everybody acts and does the same
• The people are so thick they believe anything
• I am a director of a Wombwell company and the best thing is the hugh number of unemployed people in this town makes it easy to replace the manual workers in our factory. Every manual position in my company only requires one weeks training to be upto speed (probably the same in most factories), these positions are certainly not skilled positions, and the people that do these positions do not have any skills to bargin with. Not exactly PHD graduates are they. So I can pay them the minimum wage (I think that is too much for a manual worker anyway) and there is nothing they can do, non of them show any brains by investing some of their hard earned money in gaining qualifications, all they do is moan they are underpaid, well this is bollocks for the jobs they do.
• There are a large number of specialist employment positions in this town that require higher education qualifications that are equivalent to a degree or above. Such as driving a forklift truck, working in a stores department, working in a factory or on a production line, tape edges etc, returns, despatch, working in a garage, car machanics, body specialists, driving a truck, shop assistant work, cleaning up dog shit, sweeping the streets, tax drivers, fish and chip shop work, stacking shelfs, bar work. Generally loads of thicko manual jobs. But nothing for an unskilled person like my wife who is a lawyer. Well every body who does a manual job around this place seem to think it is an high skilled job, no manual position is high skilled, certainly does not require a degree to do.
• Even if you are the thickest person in the world, you will fit into this town ok. Just put a pint pot in your hand, shave your head and be pasty white.
• The day Brazil bet England in the woeld cup, I jumped around Wombwell high street taking the piss out of the thicko locals, who have made my life hell since I have lived here, it is a very racist town to be in. It is uncultured and the people are not preparedto learn about other peoples cultures. And every body around this town knows so much but as acheived so little.
• The place is full of women slappers at a weekend, but if you dont mind about pulling a second hand dart board you can;t fail.
• Mens looks are not important when trying to pull a women in this town, the women around this town love rough looking men, but then again they have not got much choice in the metter. 99% of the men are like the back end of the bus.
• At least there are pletty of factories and warehouses that offer hundreds of thicko manual jobs, which gives 99% of the men in this town employment. The only trouble is that every were you go you have to mix with thicko manual workers.
• All the roads out
• The pubs. The people, who are still the salt of the earth despite 20 years of Thatcher rule trying to destroy them.
• eatin cock on toast in linda's cafe
• Beer and the people
• People are genuine and very 'salt of the earth'. It's not far from the M1!

The Worst Things

• Going out around Wombwell for a night out drinking is like being on a manual workers outting, all the local factory workers fill the pubs which gives this village a manual workers atmosphere. For example half of Perfecta Beds manual work force fill the pubs yippee, stimulating people which to spend stimulating time with.
• I used to live there, all my life 'til I was 24, mid 1990's. I think the worst thing is the thick, thick people. People there are so thick they can't even tell that their town is a dump, their lives are fruitless and entirely devoid of prospects and the way they speak and act makes them a laughing stock for the rest of the country. They're so thick they don't even know they're thick, they just plod along in their dreary existance. Still, if a pig is happy living in sh*t, then let it live there. Orb.
• young piss heads
• House Prices Why do people buy property in this town for £90’000 and above is beyond me, this town is a shit hole not Malibu beach or Australia. This place is a dump, one estate looks the same as the next, yet they keep building houses. Why is there a demand to live in such a town like this, but then again most people that come to live here will be working class scum. But then again people don’t pay £90’000 in cash, they have to get loans, so they haven’t bought the property, they are in the process of buying it.
• Own Modelling Business In 2002 I opened a modelling business in this town, I have branches in Australia, London, USA and I was trying to find new locations and new faces. I have supplied over 5000 models to clients over the past six years. And currently have over 2000 on my UK books. Well I have scouted this area for the past twelve months, visiting companies, the local pubs at weekends, walking the streets, and I have to say I have never seen such an ugly looking bunch of people in one place, the men are like thugs, and the women aren’t proper women. In fact in this time I only saw one handsome looking man and he is already on the books of a modelling agency, and he does not look like a local, more of latin European, and I cannot match his wages. So after 12 months I have closed this business down at a business loss of £42’000 for administration wages, and rent.
• The women talk so loud, they are common and most are butch. The only nice ones are still at school.
• The people are very racist I am from China and my life is made hell do to the fucking locals who are thicko uncultured wankers.
• I worked at a local bedding manufacturing firn for two years, and the type of people that I had to mix with each day for eight hours was horrible. 95% of the workforce had no higher level qualifications, it was filled of thicko manual workers, even the managers had come up from the factory force, without any education behind them, no wonder these departments never worked efficiently. Yet again people were in positions through who they knew not through degree level qualifications. Most where thicko people, with no visions for the future, doing a shit job, how on earth people can do jobs like that I never know. Well once I got my degree through night school studies, I moved on to a better paid psoition, with a company where qualified people are in the correct positions.
• When the local so a thicko manual position that is demeaning, they continue to do it year after year, they show no signs of ambition by attending night school atUniversity etc, they just plod along doing the same shit week after week, but they think it is great just to have a job. The only way they progress in employment is by creeping around the boss, at work, or for a drink after, or through family connections.
• The people hate outsiders, or anybody who is the slighest bit different, they love to spread untrue rummours about people, take the piss, and generally run and pull people down. But who are they to judge anybody - nobody. Are they qualified lawyers are they fuck And what do these people achieve - nothing. The only thing anybody living in this town as to look forward to is an holiday a year, and waking up at the side of somebody ugly. Their life is pointless
• I am from Italy I am 25 years old and female, my job is to model for hugo Boss. I have lived in this town for four years, and I have never seen an attractive man, then men around this town are horrible, thick thugs, the women are also bitchy towards me, but I dont mind this as I earn £100,000 per year, while most of the locals get excited about £6.oo per hour. Once my modeling contract is up in 5 months I shall return to Italy.
• The locals, they are so ugly, you dont get any female models or male models from the locals around this place. Most of the local ares drunks and look like drunks, nobody takes pride in their looks, ts cool to be ugly.
• There are no employment opportunites for people with high level qualifications in this town (degree or above), only thick low paid jobs, mostly manual position that only people without no qualifications would want. Also the local companies only employ thicko staff with no qualifications, that are allowed one day to become managers with no qualifications. In general Wombwell is a joke for employment prospects for qualified people.
• The women around this town are horrible, unfriendly, common, ugly they look like mrs piggy. The men are like Butch Dingles, common as muck. This place is a very clicky place, if you are not one of the locals, your face wont fit in. It is full of nosey people who don;t mind their own business. Its like living in the big brother house.
• Smallminded Wombwellers.
• Toilets on the High Street.
• You state that people in Wombwell are small minded etc. I beg to differ. Perhaps they were in the past but now we do actually go further than Barnsley for our holidays. I have travelled half the world and I know a lot more from Wombwell who have done the same. Just thought I would try and put it right that we are not cloth caps and clogs Thank you
• House values never getting higher
• People there are so small minded - they seem to be proud of the fact that they can trace back 6 generations of people who've never been further than Barnsley in their lives.

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