The Worst Things in Bedford, Bedfordshire*

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• worst thing is that we don't have enough people with wild imaginations who like to complain a lot
• Shops need improving.
• Never easy enough to find a career here.
• houses that arent public houses
• Staying.
• no train station.
• 1. Gangs. 2. Contraception is available on the floor in some parks. Shame it's used... 3. We have 2 Subways
• the bus station the car park near it (smells) too many pigeons
• The schoolkids loitering at the avon drive shops or in town. Avoid small local parks. Avoid buses on a saturday, they'll be late and will have joyriders just going round and round for 'fun'. avoid bedford college also when people are around, yuck. 24 hour cabbies on midland road- reliable but dirty and dont wear seatbelts. there's also lots of bird poo by the river.
• where can i begin. dodgy areas eg queens park, midland road, farraday square etc. the fact tht nearly evry youth about 18 or under tht dosent skate is a rudeboy, or will turn out to be a rudboy. they like to hassle with no consicuances. the amount of mobile phone thefts goin up in bedford. fair play to the Italians in bedford. but when they beat sum1( even ajerbijan) they go on a mad rampage through the streets with there flags. gypsies, sorry but there is loads its dissapointing tht the best two states skools rnt in bedford- wooton and sharnbrook. too many private skools.
• private school kids goin around like they gd lol
• Aspects - end of
• extra cash needed for beer money. Temping with agency tryed them all the best was Blue arrow catering on the high street. they supplied me with cash for beer........Eddie or Sara... last orders please
• DAME ALICE SUCKERS they need to get over themselves they'll never be as good as BHS in anything.
• JOBBERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!NUTTIN ELSE,BEDFORD SMASHES IT.
• CHERRY'S!! ENOUGH SAID.
• BEDFORDISTAN
• Knowing everyine wherever you go.
• the amount of mentalist slags who cling on to people, who then go to university outside of bedford. stay in your own shitty town you liabilties, kappa slappas, and stop eating base amphetamine. WIERDOS
• The worst thing in bedford is Dame Alice, the private school along the river! The girls are either snobs or tarts! The teachers are too snobby and just shout at any girl that walks past! They are not aloud to wear the slightist bit of make up or heels over 4cm. I go there now and i hate soooo much. I just want to scream at the girls and kick the teachers in the shin and run out of the school!!! Parents NEVER send your girls to that school if you don't want them coming out like spoilt brats!
• My enemies - u know who u r.....
• the wannabe rude boys aka baby g's
• Lived in Bedford for 3 years. Overjoyed at the fact in that time the barmaid from my local bar was murdered a mile away, the bouncer was murdered next street over from mine, a taxi driver was shot dead in walking distance from my flat and the guy in the flat opposite mine was knifed to death. I'm not sad I moved away!
• rude boys with rude attitudes
• the police put hitlas henchmen to shame. the road sufaces and layouts are disgusting. the council are ******* ****, there are to many pubs down the high street its a no go at night if your timmid. there are some undesirables but no worse than other places, it is a nice place to visit but be warned this town is a black hole if you settle here it will be almost impossable to leave.
• Not enough Scots
• Apart from the lack of decent nights out? Tends to get repetative on a night out, as do the gangs of rude boys who patrol and try to start fights. If you keep out of their way you only have to protect yourself from the mad pigeons and people around the bus station and in Pigeon Square. Oh, and the dead bodies that drift every couple of weeks in the river, shot by yardies. Plus taxi's are extortionate from Aspects, despite onboard entertainment (we once got seranaded to Cliff Richard's 'Livin' Doll') The buses are absolutely pants and arrive either really early or really late, usually filled with Kappa Slappers
• I've been told of so many "dodgy" areas in Bedford I don't know where to start, and I'm a student so I'm not fussy where I go. I've been approached by countless mobs of arseholes looking to cause trouble. The bus services are crap. The one way system is off another planet. And while there are a lot of very nice people in Bedford who are friendly, outgoing and only too pleased to help, I think they're in the minority. The centre of town seems permanently overrun with school kids in Kappa gear skiving off school to have a fag and piss about or look after their kids. The nightlife is limited, it's far too expensive for what it offers. All the shops are being shut down so it's not even like you can shop properly anymore and it's always messy.
• The attitude. It's not what you know or how hard you are, it's who you know in this town. Everyone is always trying to be better than everyone else.
• THE DANCE FLOORS TOO SMALL! WITH ALL THE GREAT MUSIC EVERYONE WANTS TO DANCE BUT IT GETS A BIT CRAMPED SOMETIMES SO BE PREPARED TO BE ELBOWED!
• Saturday night in the town centre.
• The rude boys and the little girls that think they are all that!
• The Plaza, Engima and those damn public school girls - I swear to god these people are into interbreeding. I really hate the pretentious little cows!
• Getting back from an Esquires gig on a Saturday night if you came by train. The main band finishes at about 11.35pm and the last train goes at 11.18pm. On Mondays to Fridays there's an 11.55pm but not on Saturdays, when most gigs are staged. The management refuses to put bands on so a lot of gig goers are now looking to London - or to Venue 27 in Luton, which is new and excellent.
• If you move here from other places it is a hard place to make friends because of loads of attitude which can make it really unfriendly. Don't look at people and don't smile at strangers on the street because they'll think you're being a bit funny with them. Trying to look different by the way you dress really stigmatises you here. A very kind of conformist, provincial town
• Saw Mike and the Mechanics in a food line at a local homeless shelter, stealing all the grub. Fat bastards. And that Damon Alburn was buying records at Woolworths, and he looked like a right tramp.
• From nearby Maulden Wood to "The House Beautiful" from "The Pilgrims Progress" to today...
• It gets sooo violent on a Saturday night, big black BMWs with tinted windows cruising around with four yardies and their shotguns, scary.
• [But] I'm not claiming that Bedford is perfect, of course! But much depends upon what one is seeking for. The notion that Bedford "gets so violent on a Saturday night, big black BMWs etc." is absolute nonsense, I can assure you!
• Too many people trying to fill the baggy jeans with attitude.
• Getting beaten shitless on a Saturday night, smell of rotting cabbages from September to November, losing your heart to 16 year old art students.
• The worst thing about Bedford is that it's full of thieving bastards who break into your house on New Year's Eve. It was probably some slimeball from the Stanley Arms. They even took the kettle for fuck sake!
• Worst thing about Bedford is the Bluebell pub in Putnoe, it is frequented by the biggest bunch of wankers in the world, and the beer is expensive. Also about Putnoe Bedford, has the misfortune to endure a large group of youngsters who congregate in Putnoe Park and cause a load of shit, I'd love to beat up the little tossers.
  [But:] Rubbish! Perfectly good pub, and no more expensive than others. In fact, quite a lot of what is stated in this page is either outdated or the impression given by rather sad individuals!

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