The Worst Things in Barnsley, South Yorkshire*

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• GAWBER VILLAGE (1): DEFENDERS OF THE TOWN Many people get upset and don’t like any criticism of this town and the Gawber area, but the truth is regardless of either or not this is your home town or not. It is not a great place to live. It is not one of the best. This town does not give anybody a great life. I have never seen a local Barnsley person with a great life. And my response to all those people that say life is what you make it. Is that everybody just makes another groundhog working class Barnsley lives, which is not great. I get the impression that 99% of the locals are just going through the same groundhog motions that I am going through living in Gawber. I am honest when I state it is not great.
• Life in this town is pure purgatory. It is one long slog. Many people live inth e false bubble that everything is great, and make what ever they do with their lives osund great. But in all honesty this is a groundhog life for all those that live in the Barnsley area.
• I get the impression everybody in this area particularly around Grafton Street in Town End is loud. Everybody seems loud and in your face in Barnsley
• The worst things on my way to work each morning from Penistone to Dodworth are the high number of mobile phone lovers. These people all talk so loud, so that everybody has to listen to their groundhog conversations each day. These mobile phone lovers never just talk for a short period, it is always for the entire length of your journey. I live in the real world and understand that people sometimes need to make a telephone call. But in the last 12 months I have listened to 100s of mobile lovers telephone calls and none of them have been urgent, most are just groundhog day waffle,pointless conversations just to pass on the time. Many passengers on the buses just sit there hoping that the batteries on the mobile phone fails. All modes of transports within and around this area contain mobile phone lovers that talk loud. I have seen signs on the buses banning loud music, why not ban mobile phones? or why not create mobile free buses. Not everybody want to listen to typical groundhog day conversations.
• The youngsters aged 16 and below around Dodworth and Penistone give me the impression each day on my way to work at Koyo in Dowworth that they are all loud, rough and stupid. None seem capable of conducting themselves in public places and you only need two of them within an environment to create an hellish environment. The buses prior to school hours are hellish has I travel to work, the environment is hellish each morning from my home in Penistone to Dodworth.
• The worse thing about living in this town is the performance of the public transport. Regulary buses are later, never arrive on time and some don't even turn up. During a seven day period only 3 out of 20 required buses turned up on time. I spend more time spent at the bus stops in Dodworth just wasting away the minutes. The bus service is a shocking service. I think it is time somebody started to play the game CLAP THE BUS, when a bus arrives at your stop give it a CLAP because this is a rare event and you should be grateful a bus has turn up at all.
• BARNSLEY AND DARTON are dominated by Low Qualified People. Me and my brother share a house in DARTON and this place is full of low educated people (see our comments below)
• Throughout my brothers working career he has found Barnsley to be a place dominated by people who love crap jobs that are only done by desperados who cannot get anything better. They spend lifetimes doing crap jobs which they feel and make sound great, and they believe anybody should be grateful for a crap degrading job. Many Darton people actually recommend doing a crap job to other people, because they are on the crap job level they want everybody else to join them on the crap job level. They hate to see anybody doing any better than themselves, and let’s be honest nearly everybody does better than a Barnsley person. Darton people don’t encourage you to go on to achieve better things than themselves, they think anything above their own low level of shit degrading job is having your head in the clouds, they want you to remain one of them, these local Darton/Barnsley people want you to fail, and remain amongst the low achieving people, get a masters degree and they still want you to have the same ambition as somebody with a o-levels and GCSEs. But let’s be honest people with only o-levels and a-levels are not inspiration role models, they are the type of people you strive to become detached from. I feel these people are too in a rush to accept a shit degrading life. Just because they aspire to nobody they want everybody else to achieve the same. I have never met anybody who has aspired to anything great. My own Darton family does not contain 1 person with a degree except for myself and my brother, why? Because they are all losers; I have more than 30 cousins and many uncles and aunties and none of them have achieved anything that impresses me. Everybody seems stuck in what I believe are crap jobs, and have partners that did not get in the cue for attractiveness. My own Darton family is riddled with ugly foul overweight women. My own relatives within Darton are uninspiring models they were all going to achieve greatness and where intelligent, but none achieved a degree, or play for Liverpool and I believe getting a degree is not hard to obtain, and I can’t exactly play for Liverpool because I am a woman. Another funny thing is that everybody is full of advice and views about you but none of them are inspiration models who you can listen to. Barnsley and Darton is full of two to a penny shit degrading jobs like (No degrees required) Bus drivers, Customer care assistants, Hairdressers, Shop workers, Cafe workers, Crèche’ workers, Cleaners, Taxi drivers, Market traders, Security men, Delivery drivers, Better ware delivery people, Avon, Beauty people, Manual workers, Plasters, Plumbers and Joiners, School dinner ladies, Factory workers, Lorry drivers, Care assistants, Call centre people, Ventura (many non-master degree graduates work there ), Window Blind Fitters, Benefit Agency People, Window Cleaners, Warehouse Staff, these are just a few of the profession that low qualified people like Darton and Barnsley families with easy to get degrading qualifications like City and Guilds and NVQ’s drift into, and there are hundred more. But to these people these careers are great. Not exactly Master Degree quality people or careers. It becomes soul destroying mixing with low qualified people every day in Darton. Families throughout Darton/Barnsley are not riddled with Master Degree graduates, probably because regardless of their so called knowledge and intelligence these local people are lacking something, and mosts greatest achievement will be some shitty NVQ or City+Guilds
• Reporters from the Barnsley Chronicle who are so short of journalistic skills and local knowledge that they resort to using the knowhere guide for information and then publishing comments in the paper, prompting 'locals' to put their side of the story. Hmmm.... me thinks the lady needs to check here NUJ training manual. Try getting out and finding story the old fashioned way rather than sitting on your backside in Barnsley towncentre surfing the Internet trying to find an angle. You will never get your dream job on a 'national' sat in the office. Get out & about my love. You may have manage to persuade the Chronicle about your commitment to regional newspapers but your words don't lie.
• the worst thing about barnsley is coming back to it after being somewhere else i am ashamed to say i come from barnsley the people are ignorant they grunt at you and hurl abuse , the children are foul mouthed in town also barnsley people are classed as a joke from outsiders
• The worst thing by far is that retard who keeps stressing the point about manual labour and lack of skilled jobs in the town.... hes obviously been fired from tescos for falling below their employment standards or its sexual repression after being rammed by 6 blokes in yellow jackets. Admit it mate your a sad sicko who was probably bullied at school.
• the new bus station - bright colours!!!! - this is yorkshire
• All of it! I was born and bred here and I will spend the rest of my life looking for a decent bloke to marry and leave here with! I am doomed to walk eternity as a single lass because I am not up for one night stands or talking to incoherent idiots in the pubs here. The men are all pug ugly who treat women like they are dirt and this makes my mission of finding someone to leave this god forsaken town with even more difficult. May God have mercy on my soul.
• I was really surprised by all the people who slagged Barnsley off, at the end of the day there is good and bad everywhere you go, Leeds, Sheffield, Wakefield, outer fucking mongolia. Have people got nothing better to do than sit typing shit!! If you dont like Barnsley move! Its a load of crap saying 'i cant afford to' Im sure Barnsley is not the only place in this country that has people on benifits?! And all these people calling others because they havent got 'propper jobs' where would you be without the bin men? Without shelf stackers? Do you not use supermarkets? Everyone contributes to society no matter what job they choose to do. Im 22 and have lived in Barnsley all my life. My job, as a prisoner custody officer, has taken me all over the country and i have to say, even though i might be a little bias, Barnsley people are friendly. If anyone bumps into you they always say sorry, spill your drink and they will offer to buy you another. Which cannot be said for Mansfield!! Plus its a well known fact that educated people have no commonsense. The only qualifications i have are my GCSE's but i have a well paid job and i work hard. All these pen pushers who have only probably been to Barnsley a handfull of times need to get a life.
• oooo a se! guin darn lungy, nar thts in mi body!, it int a time mr.rudey
• Idiots on this forum who may not be from this area slagging everyone else off... yes we're all entitled to opinions, but we don't want YOURS rammed down our necks.... If you don't like it here - say so, be polite, and SOD OFF. Barnsley's worst things - Some peope are arrogant. Think they own the place and that the place owes them a big favour. Drugs and crime are rife in the area now, and people don't seem to want to do anything (not that they can) to combat this. The police are a joke. Barnsley town center is also a joke - its a huge concrete monument to poor 60's design - but it's a symbol of how this once mighty town has turned into nothing - probably a great indication of what the rest of the country will become. There are some areas, like Athersley, Kendray, Grimethorpe, Worsbrough (which has the nicety of being officially the poorest district in the UK), some parts of Wombwell and Darfield, some of Royston and Carlton, Lundwood to name a few - that have some real problems with "social label" - agreed, these areas are what the uninitiated call "rough" and there are some "clans" who're intent on living on certain streets and causing hell - I know, because a few streets on from us, everyone in the area (apart from those that live there) say its where all the druggies, idiots, and general scum live... having been for a wander round there I have to agree..... The worst thing is, that this is no more than 100 yards from my back door..... Kids were using my garden as a through route (till I collared some).... and they were from THAT area, not the side where I live..... There is such division between the areas of Barnsley that it's unreal. Come on people, we're all born the same way, we die the same way.... so let's make the most of it, eh? The Manvers Regeneration Project was supposed to be started in the late 90's I think, to give those people in the areas (who probably worked in the pits) alternative, secure employment. Now there are some decent places there, I grant you, but we have more call centre and monkey work factories than most places. There's little engineering left (Beatson Clark being the only one I think) - Redfearn Glassworks was bought out, sold and sold again (Now it's back to Redfearns) - Lyons Bakery isn't Lyons any more.... Shaw Carpets used to have a great market selling carpets to prestige markets including the Sultan of Brunei - someone came in, bought the company, sacked 85% of the workforce... ran the place into the ground and sold it for a tidy profit... now it hardly makes anything.... John Smith's brewery shut down for profit and went to Tadcaster to make Fosters rats-piss for poofters..... and of course, in 86 and the 90's all the pits closed down, rendering the area totally cursed. The REAL worst thing is that the council likes to spend more and more of our money on themselves (and foreign nationals with no right to being here) rather than on those communities that need it (like the poor and elderley/handicapped) - schools are suffering a lot here (they're knocking most of them down to build SUPERSCHOOLS - a waste of time and money as they've not thought how people are going to GET TO THEM, as they're in stupid places) - public transport doesn't seem to exist (Tracky buses were taken over by Stagecoach and there's hardly any buses on routes) - The town center is overrun by chavs, there's nothing but pound shops and the like (though oddly poundstretcher shut) - Cash (for drugs) Converters opened up one of the first uk stores here.... says it all doesn't it.
• The worst thing about Barnsley is everything. And I should know, I live there! I get so embarrassed telling people where I live that sometimes I just say I'm from South Yorkshire instead. And just in response to all the muppets who say 'Tarn is great' and 'Baaaaaarnsley fowk are t'salt o' t'earth' - can I just say, 'No it isn't, it's sh*te' and 'No they're not, most of them are thick tw*ts'. It's a dump and the only reason I don't move is because I can't afford it yet, but God, I can't wait until I DO move!
• nowt. Im a proud resident of barnsley n wen i mek it big al announce it t the world n al show all them snotty cunts up! promise!
• the chavs contrary to belife not every1 on barnsley are thick ot ugly but a good few dont know how to dress think its cool to do drugs and scoung there way trhough life. but most people want to work for a living and seen as tho every1 says we all do manual jobs which we do makes us a very hard working yorkshire town not like all the glassback sat it ther office tryong to get away with looking at porn on ther pc. got away from point there YES it the yokels you and i know who they are!!!
• barnsley has been voted worst place in britain for the 8th time in 10 yr n uva 2 times it was runner up, this place is discusting, its chav town, everywere u luk u see kids in there disyner tops with there collars uo high n bling on mouthin off at some poor man because he didnt give em a light
• There's nothing for young people to do. There is no cinema, bowling alley, arcade or ice rink. No wonder kids just end up walking the streets at night or attempting to get into the pubs. Someone with the power, influence or money needs to build a place for people to go, just to hang out in the warm, maybe with pool tables or arcade games and a refreshment bar, keep them entertained and keep the pregnancy and STD rates down. Oh and Lundwood and Kendray (get rid of them, get rid of half Barnsley's crime rate)
• Blockbuster video
• The accent, i am now living in Portmsouth (as a student) and every one seems to mock me at any given opportunity. People down here look at me in disgust when i speak, and that really annoys me. Its so true that southerner's are so more stuck up than us northerner's, also we are much more friendly, people down here just dont talk to one another.
• Parking's going to be a bugger when it's all restricted to under 4 hours! People actually work in the town centre you know and need somewhere closer than Piper's flippin' Cottage. Come on BMBC start thinking logically. If we can't park then at least give us some semblance of a decent public transport system. I've got ONE bus per hour that's why I bring my car. In fact, although Barnsley is my closest town it takes me TWO bus journeys to get here. I can get a direct bus to Huddersfield or Sheffield though - bizarre.
• its full of dik heads all chaved up, bang any1 hu luks different, and you cant wlk thro town without gettin somthing niked
• The dreadful attitude to anyone who comes from the outside world. If you werent barnsley bornn you're frequently told to "Fuck off back South". my girlfriend was slapped and kicked by a woman simply because she has a Southern accent. As you may guess, that was in a Pub - the Cultural Heart of Barnsley. Whenever I've asked anyone what is good about barnsley they invariably say "the Pubs, lots of them. birds are easy too". Basically, there is nothing except Pub culture, racism (and i do not mean just black / white - I mean anyone who was not born in barnley is treated in a racist fashion. Personally I think moving to barnsley was the worst decision I ever made, and I cannot wait to get out of here and never come back. Let the "fanastic friendly people" fester in their "wonderful Pub's" and delude themselves for the rest of eternity.
• The worst thing in Barnsley is the people that think your stupid because you work in certain jobs. Not everyone is after a high powered flash job and if they were where would you be with no manuel workers! I worked in one of these dead end jobs (or so they are called)to put myself through college and university and I can say alot of these jobs are harder than they look! I recently left uni because my job prospects would be better with this job than if I got my degree!I'm sick of snobbish people who think you have to have letters after your name to be worth something. I am proud of where I come from and don't understand other people who are ashamed of it. Barnsley has its druggies and chavs but so as everywhere else! Its the people that think moving out of Barnsley will change their lives for the better who are wearing rose tinted spectacles not us who actually like the place where we live!
• Our Local Authority
• I am currently working in a department of a statutory organisation within Barnsley, this is a temporary position and although im not originally from Yorkshire, let alone Barnsley, (Im actually from Lancashire) i feel i had to somehow contribute to the comments already made about the town. During my time spent here i can honestly say that i have been in several situations where complete strangers have been perfectly kind and have in some respects come to my rescue! This is namely silly things like a stranger letting me use her toilet when i had asked for directions to the nearest public toilets and a lovely couple talking to me and keeping me cheery as i waited for a bus on a freezing dark night! These little things certainly make a difference when living your day to day existence! I have to say however that these people were of the older generation and my experience so far has been of kindly older people i have met. If any of the negative comments about Barnsley's younger generation are true, maybe they could learn from the example of such elders? Personally i don't think generalisations are always to be trusted, I am originally from a so called deprived town- and i see the same social situation there.. a sense of apathy amongst the youth and a greater sense of respect and kindness amongst the older generation..but of course im contradicting myself..what im trying to say is that not only do 'bad' people live in Barnsley! They are everywhere! It is ridiculous to judge people according to their birthplace or dwelling! I also want to somehow apologise to those who feel they have been racially abused..i was disgusted to read these comments! This kind of issue should be what is addressed if people really want to see improved changes in their town, rather than stupid, stereotyped pointless comments that 'Barnsley is a shithole' or that 'Barnsley people are thick, ugly and incapable'. Where's the sense of self-respect? Also could someone explain to me the complete disregard for those who work in blue-collar and service industries? Next time someone's stacking the shelves in Morrison's or digging up the roadside, whose going to benefit!!! These people are undervalued and without them the whole order of a society would be impossible! Snobbery is so futile!
• Christmas is approaching, more people are out shopping, Barnsley council said Let's create as many roadworks as we can to cause hold ups for every one plus make all the busses run late. Merrx Xmas
• WELL AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED EVERYTHING ABOUT BARNSLEY IS HORRIBLE THIS PLACE AND ONE OF THE PEOPPLE WHO LIVE HERE HAVE RUINED MY LIFE (FOR THE TIME BEING NEWAYS) AND IF I NEVER STEP FOOT IN BARNSLEY AGAIN IT WILL BE 2 SOON
• to many burgalors i mean get a job thats jst a hobie
• there is nothing bad about barnsley
• the weather and nesbits
• M1 junctions 36-38. Demolish sliproads to isolate this hellhole from the rest of the country. Then nuke the site from orbit. I live here, but everytime I leave the house I'd rather be put out of my misery.
• Take your pic. The fact that there's only music so that there's new ringtones. The accent and the fact that whenever I tell people where I'm from I automatically say "Yorkshire" first and only through extended coercion will I say Barnsley. Followed by the other person's impression of a Barnsley accent. The titz and glitz brigade on a Friday and Saturday night (come to mention it, on every other night of the week). The factories. The culture of "Hate you if you're clever and dispise a fool". People going out on Wednesday night to "pull some College fanny" on "student" night, then proceeding to see every male under 25 as easy picking when wanting a scrap. The unparalleled defense the morons put up of Barnsley. The lack of multiculturism. White working class and proud. Calling anyone of darker skin a "raghead". The Tabloid reading, ITV watching Labour voters. People from Barnsley voting Tory. People voting BNP. Club bouncers reigning all mighty.
• http://www.barnsleyskatepark.cjb.net/
• the people in town who are constantly tryin to stop you to donate, i dont mind donating but its not good when you are going to miss your bus for work
• The dirty smackheads and constantly fearing for my family's safety. I spent over four years in Europe and Asia and thought fondly of my return. I have photos of me in my Barnsley shirt at the Angkor Wat in Cambodia, on a jungle trek in Thailand, outside the Toyota building in Tokyo as well as numerous other places and I always had a longing for home. When I got back last summer ( and it brings tears to my eyes to say it) the place looked terrible. Tired, and worn out. The people looked depressed, and I'll never get over that initial day in my home town. The tab ends and dog shit have always been there, the needles and attitude haven't.
• drugs rife in village air pollution from coking plant
• The education system really is a mess. Parents that can afford it send their kids to private schools in Wakefield, Sheffield, etc. There are no sixth forms in Barnsley and, although Barnsley College is pretty good, this set-up doesn't seem to work as well as the more traditional set-up found in other districts. The town needs to deal with this to avoid falling behind other towns. On a different note, Barnsley lacks a decent service sector and has very few financial institutions. This causes bright young people to move away and look for higher-paying jobs in other areas of the country. Unfortunately, students that leave from Barnsley tend not to come back, so this is a bit of a "brain drain". Things may change, though; they've got better lately and they could carry on that way.
• Those Welcome to Barnsley signs
• Women in their slippers - no where else in the country would a woman go outdoors in her slippers. Screaming snot covered kids who parents don't give a damn
• why is there so much apathy in town team.now clubs been taken over theres a chance to improve and if you want a manager i ll do it for nowtwhy not let sum 1 manage team for a day for 500 quid to raise funds.put me down for it.burnley did it a few years ago and it regenerated interest ikil
• I JUST WISH SUMMAT COULD BE DONE WITH THE 1 WAY SYSTEM IN THE TOWN CENTRE.ITS POORLY SIGNEDPOSTED
• Monday nights now! Infact, most nights now. Of course, working in town I don't actually know whether anywhere's good anymore. Citrus was alright the last time we went in and KGV provide us with nice after work sunday night drinks!
• rough landings and twats in burberry
• NOT BEEN ABLE TO GET TO THE BAR ON A WKEND FOR ALL THESE FOLK WHO PULL BARNSLEY DOWN BUT STILL COME HERE BOOZING EVRY WKEND KEEP OUT IF YOU DONT LIKE IT
• PILLEY IS THE PLACE TO BE IN BARNSLEY!!!!!!! the police are too slow to respond to any street crime..an when they do show up they ant got a clue where the hell they are!!! bottom bus stop is far better than the top......more space an hiding spots for the crates of alcohol......Yanick!!!! who the hell is Yanick!!! margorie of carr lane, is pilleys kid catcher(chitty chitty bang bang).....shes the number 1 curtain twitcher!!!!!
• druggies roundabout in peel square a marble plinth that they ought to have placed all the councillors on for commissioning and lit a bonfire beneath. all that moneyt spent on a marble monstrosity dedicated to the taking and dealing of heroin
• The school system fails the children of Barnsley terribly.
• trying to get a bus home
• Living around this town particulary in the Low Valley / Wombwell / Darfield area is like living in the BIG BROTHER house, everybody watches you, everywhere you go you are seen, and people break their necks to tell others they have seen you. Everybody sits with their house curtains wide open so they can watch everybody go by. Everybody as got nasty comments to make about other people, everybody is jelous of other people.
• Barnsley is a racisy place and will continue to be so - just be glad that you are not a retard in this town - your life would be hell.
• Is the hugh number of barking dogs in this town, particulary in the Low Valley, Wombwell, Darfield area of the town. these dogs bark all fucking day when their owners are at work and school, and they also fucking bark like mad when their owners are in the house. If I had a dog like that I would shoot the fucking thing or get it put down, because they are no benefit to anybody, they only annoy people and spoil their peace and quiet. BEWARE OF A BROWN SAUAGE DOG.
• Employment opportunities only become avaliable to the unqualified section of the working force in Barnsley. My friend recently got a job as a team leader, he as only O-level qualifications, I researched into this type of job, and all of them asked for degree educated. What an insult to the qualified people in this town. I have one peace of advice - Emmigration out of this hell hole.
• Every where you go in Barnsley, people have a hugh grin on their faces. Barnsley scum.
• The worst thing about Banrsley is living here, I moved here at the age of 12 from Italy, I cried for two whole days.Because even at 12 I did not need brains to work out that Barnsley would be a shithole, with a pit culture. Since arriving I have hated every minute, as soon as I save enough money up I shall leave. What a dump, Barnsley is a pathetic place to live.
• Barnsley as again won the national award for the worst place in Britain, Barnsley has won eight out of ten years since the introduction of the award in 1992. This year over 17 million people voted on-line, and Barnsley won with a percentage of 83%. Next years voting will be conducted between January 2003 and October 2003. Roger Wilkins MBA, BA. Voting Intermation ASAPA.1990.
• ***************************************************************************** I HAVE READ THE INFORMATION ENTERED BY PEOPLE, AND I HAVE TO AGREE WITH MOST OF THE COMMENTS. THE POINT BEING THAT I HAVE JUST BOUGHT A COMPANY FOR TWO MILLION WITHIN THE BARNSLEY AREA, AND ALL OF THE MANAGERS AND STAFF ARE THICK , NONE OF THEM ARE QUALIFIED, I DONT KNOW WHAT THE PREVIOUS OWNER WAS PLAYING AT, MAYBE KEEPING THE WAGE BILL DOWN. i AIM TO GET RID OF THESE PEOPLE AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE AND REPLACE THEM WITH QUALIFIED PEOPLE. SO DONT ALL QUALIFIED PEOPLE IN THE BARNSLY AREA LOSE HOPE, IN THE END UNQUALIFIED PEOPLE WILL BE SEEN FOR THE THICK PEOPLE THEY ARE.
• ok we do av our faults. kendray, grimey all places like that. the people in barnsley who r insane enuff 2 support wednesday or united, god u need ur heads testin
• It is the locals - Baaaarnsley born and Baaaarnsley bred, strong in back and weak in head - who make up 99.99% of the population, 90% of which are insular, narrow-minded, parochial, immature, prejudiced and racist oiks with single-digit IQ's. If they see anybody with a darker skin colour, they make prejudiced remarks. They snigger inanely at anyone who shows intelligence. The only people who are remotely friendly and intelligent seems to be the 0.01% minority who come from outside. (Yes, I was born in Wakefield, and if this is the West Yorkshire attitude to Barnsley, then so be it. It is an attitude the whole country shares, and with good reason). Also noticeable is the fact that Barnsley people never seem to mature as they get older. They still persist with school playground name-calling when in their thirties - something everybody else in other parts of the country has long grown out of by then, and somehow they seem to be so oblivious as to how pathetic they look and sound. Against this background, it's so easy to see why employers don't create skilled jobs which require intelligence around here, and the place is a no-hope dump - who wants to employ thickoes like these? To date, I have experienced nothing but rudeness from the cretinous majority in this unpleasant town.
• it seem,s to me the worst things are the rude intollerant people this little town attracts from the outer regions of this fiar country of ours they appear to lack self confedence and hate to see it in people who by there oroneus outlook should have niether esteem courage but alas barnsley people have this in abundance,also I.Q is not learnt it is a gift and barnsley is a gifted place so if the going,s tough as the song,say,s get going as soon as possible.
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• People around here are so boorish, small-minded and ignorant that if you make a point of view about any subject, and somebody disagrees with you, they see it as an excuse to want to beat you up. They are so prejudiced and form cliques who make outsiders unwelcome. The men seem to think it is great, and think others are impressed, when they go around behaving like uncivilised cavemen, when really they are behaving like infantile dorks. Sadly, the women around here are easily impressed by this loutish behaviour, which says everything about them.
• poncie southerners who slag our town then show up buying our houses take up residence nether to return south agian (more faces than the town hall clock) more,s the pity
• A fifth-rate football team that's just relegated to the Second Division. The players, manager, directors and chairman of Barnsley FC. High unemployment, lousy employers who are suspicious of, and hate anybody who gains decent academic qualifications and ruthlessly exploit training schemes like New Deal, non-existent job and career opportunities, what few jobs there are around here are dead end - typically call centre, warehousing, cleaning, security work, labouring etc, low wages (typically £4.10 - £4.60 an hour) - everything to make you want to get out on the next Midland Mainline train leaving from the station and not shed a tear.
• aLL THE POSH BASTARDS THAT COME TO VISIT... THEY SHOULD HAVE A BARNSLEY BIRTH CERTIFICATE TO GET INTO OUR TOWN
• The accent. People on this site moan about the reputation Barnsley has with everyone else, and then go around talking like some bad parody of Zak Dingle off Emmerdale, Compo, or the '4 Yorkshiremen' sketch from Monty Python. The whole country laughs at Barnsley, and it's only when you escape and get away that you start to realise why. Plus, the town seems to be full of cretins. All the intelligent people get away the first chance they get, leaving the place full of slavering idiots (the type who think it's good to write in that horrible accent I was just on about - "Gooin rarnd tarn" etc..). And these people stay there because they're too think to see how TRULY AWFUL a place it really is. I recently returned to Barnsley (I was born and bred there 'til 1994) with my girlfriend, and I was embarrassed she had to see it.
• Again, the students.
• Lingering Man Utd and Sheff Utd fans, I hate them pricks. And any one who disses the tarn, in the words of my hero Mr T " I pity the fools"
• K2 is wank, theres too many fuckin card shops and bird shit
• Inbred, inbred people. How can you say "arrr!" For 'yes' and expect to be taken seriously?
• Most of the people are so uneducated and narrow-minded; official statistics show that almost two-thirds of Barnsley adults have no post-16 education. They don't seem to realise there is a big wide world beyond the confines of their little town, or that it is possible to better oneself; that just because your dad was on the dole for 50 years doesn't mean you have to do the same. Oh, and the town planners are idiots; the road system makes no sense whatsoever.
• football club
• Peoples inability to see that there are other things to do in there life and that they do have a choice to better themselves
• Pidgeons! Always outside chip shops
• The worst thing about Barnsley is that there is too many Pubs, and that attracts the wrong sort of people. People that just come to Barnsley to get drunk and start causing trouble and spoil it for everyone else. I think if there were less Pubs then Barnsley would be a good place to have a drink. OH, by the way I am Barnsley Born and Bred, but I have seen what people are like after about ten or twelve pints.
• Towny slappers
• Nowt's bad abart Tarn.
• Mallets: Those shaven-haired, pink and yellow Ben Sherman shirt wearing gangs of blokes who walk round in gangs looking like a packet of Opal Fruits on a Saturday night, and shouting abuse at women and anyone who doesn't look/dress like they do.
• The outsider view of Barnsley, has anyone in west Yorkshire or London ever actually visited before forming an opinion of the town? Euan.
• The worst thing about Barnsley is the reputation, which has obviously been cast upon us by people who are not true 'tarn folk! Despite countless reports, we are not all dole blaggers and tossers, and we dont look like bulldogs chewing wasps! The next time these mindless morons visit Barnsley, they should open their minds (if they have them), and realise what brilliant people we really are (well most of us).
• Friday and Saturday nights in the town centre.
• The spiralling number of late-night assaults which take place in the town centre (up 30% in the last year, 1998-99) - yet another symptom of the exodus of the generally better-behaved and cleverer folks leaving for better climes, leaving behind the utter picnic-baskets with the I.Q. of an earthworm who carry out the assaults.
• High unemployment, low wages, lack of decent job opportunities mean that Barnsley's brightest youngsters who go to university tend not to return after graduating. Result - a brain drain. As for the rest, either dead-end jobs (if they're lucky), or a succession of worthless training schemes leading to no meaningful employment.
• Women. They seem to be so rough, foul-mouthed, unfriendly, and are attracted to rough blokes. they regard nice decent lads who open doors for them as weirdoes. If you are a nice decent lad who is unattached and wants a nice decent girl, you would be far better off looking around Wakefield, Leeds, Shefield, Nottingham, etc.

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