The Worst Things in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire*

The entirely missable and worth mentioning because of it

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The Worst Things

• People are rude & uptight...
• Jackie Boyle - total horrible woman.
• To many cyclists...who seem to have their own highway code Lots of litter everywhere
• Boredom, skatespots that are terrible, the kids that hang around the skatepark and burn things and pour piss on tramps.
• Students and tourists
• not much to do in the winter
• nothing to do for people between the age of 16-17 apart from underage drink.

• Ballares
• the bikes, the tourists, the rugby playing tossers at johns and the fucking noisy ducks
• expensive, people treating foreigners like crap! crappy buses,rain, townies, stuck up elderlies, sluts, the cambridge stabber, acoustics of corn exchange - damn good place.
• Alan chadwicks new part, byron farrows song(trespass) and Philosopher Daves section! URRGHH!
• Chris Chudley's humour
• TRAFFIC PLANNING. The A14. The new road system in Newmarket Road with 2 lanes going into one and all the other nonsensical bus lane stretches that dont do much for busses but sure do screw drivers up completely - like the bits in Trumpington Road. The laughable inclusion of traffic lights at Bar Hill so superstore traffic was queuing on the A14 and the layby on the otherside that never opened because lorries pulling out would have blocked traffic going into Cambridge, going round the A14 and joining the M11 - that lot is said to have cost us a half a million quid!
• APU and life's losers that go there.

• All the blinkin' Cyclists!
• APU and 99% of its lecturers and administrators.
• Trendy small town wannabees, what purpose do you serve. Don't give skaters shit if you aren't doing anything but being a ponce.
• there is a pack of freacks with long hair about thr place
• McDonalds, all the trendy shops and Cambrige Uniteds stadium
• University Students, Foreign Language Students, Anything to do with the university really.
• anywhere thet isnt the ship pub arbury
• Expense, house prices, lack of decent clubs, clueless foreigners on bikes with no knowledge of basic UK traffic laws (i.e which side of road to ride on, A red light means stop etc.
• pedestrian types
• As I said before, high street shops. IF WE WANT THEM, WE WILL JUMP ON THE TRAIN TO LONDON. Bradwell's court, Starbucks, all of the shops on Pety Cury. The Lion Yard. (who allowed that monstrosity to be built?) The enormous amount of people begging. The Rat and Parrot. (which makes me want to drown a significant amount of Cambridgeshire's population for the good of mankind) The lack of decent B and B or cheap hotel accomodation for visitors.
• gets dark early in winter?
• Arbury is full of poofs who think its hard. its a nice estate compared to most places
• security, cocky residents [we live in this town, dont you know, so stay off our pavements or we'll call the police] and a distinctive lack of fun to be had
• the barrys,etc not liking me and my mates
• The Regal. Not being able to walk past it on a Friday or Saturday night without abuse.
• I'm comming to APU next september and I hope I'll have a great time. I don't know about all the other foreign students but you don't have to worry, Im not a nerd who don't know how to party. Here in Belgium I studied for three years in a very multicultural enviroment (Leuven) and I never experienced any problems. What I don't understand is why students from APU and Uni. of Cam. hate eachother?
• If you don't want to go via London, it takes bloody ages to get there from the north by train, even when they're working. I could walk faster.
• Don't enjoy student abuse really - I know lots of University students these days aren't exclusively public school wankers BUT... I used to work in a well known bookshop in town. Students win books sometimes which they claim from this shop and just have to inform the person at the desk which college they go to. One bloke when asked which college he was from, waved his college scarf in my mates face and said "don't you know?..." I also had to chuck somebody out for browsing the shop in his dressing gown one morning. If I have to get up for work, the least you can do is get dressed before descending from your rooms at Trinity...!
• the barry's, old people, and kiddy skaters who know no fear!
• We're not there in the summer! Full of cambridge tossers No real nightclub with top quality music
• the Arbury estate. enough said.
• People in Cambridgeshire who think Arbury is hard. It is fuckall to Glasgow, Liverpool, Moss Side and Grangetown. It would be paradise to any northern people.GAZZ.
• Foreign students and visitors should bear in mind that people who live in Cambridge usually want to get from A to B without wading through an obstructive crowd of ill-coordinated non-English-speaking tourists. Residents should consider that the town /is/ worth standing around and looking at, many roads often look deceptively like pedestrianised zones if you're unfamiliar with the place, and we probably do the same irritating stuff anyway when we go on holiday. Camb. Univ. students should sigh and realise that loud Pitt Club (society for people who went to prestigious public schools) and drinking society members are always going to get them a bad name, and counter this by being polite and considerate to residents and not joining the dumb drinking societies. They should also get bike lights, and admit that residents have a point about all the May Balls.
• Being kept awake by tossy students in May Ball Week (in June...duh?) who ban half the guided tours for the rest of the year because they need to study - we work you know as well; porters who lie when you ring them up about said Balls; people who dont' appreciate the beauty of the City and moan about lack of clubs (go to Stanstead etc etc); developers; too many rented houses in residential areas full of inconsiderate people
• The bloody house prices - my boyfriend was born and bred in Cambridge and we had to move to bleedin Bedfordshire to find a house when we wanted to buy one (I'm not saying which town because it's too embarassing).
• I have lived here all my life and I hate it. I hate the students as they are all a bunch of tossers, I hate they way everthing is biased towards students. I hate the fact that everone 'normal' or 'ordinary' is ignored by the city council.
• Way too many tourists cluttering up the place!
• All the Barrys if you're anywhere near the town centre in the evening. The whole city is owned by the University, which makes it impossible for puba and clubs to get music licences, or late bars etc, so unless you like commercial dance music you're not gonna like it here. Extreme lack of music venues accordingly, hence no "scene" as such, hardly any good bands, nothing for bands to aim towards.
• Expensive clubs(on weekends), tossers in 205 GTi's shouting at anyone who appears to be a student, the Regal (why anyone queues to go to this dive is beyond me).
• I never thought myself prejudiced, but a lot of Cambridge students are completely intolerable - significantly more obnoxious than any other place I have been. Driving and parking in Cambridge are terrible - forget it. Catch a Park & Ride. Housing prices are pretty crappy, and there are far too many grey concrete boxes jostling for space amongst the other somewhat prettier buildings. Cambridge needs more trees and parkland. Cambridge is pretty much devoid of things to do. I mean, one mainstream cinema in a whole city? Only one half-decent club in the town centre? Thank goodness for pubs. No decent rock venues in Cambridge.
• Foreign tourists & university students everywhere, people who go punting, no decent clubs, traffic around the city centre.
• Kings' College Porters. Rude, arogant, and stupid.
• The worst things are the preconceptions and the misconceptions about Cambridge: there is a lot to do if you ask around and are willing not to be too trendy. The best clubs are of course in London. As for "Cambridge tossers" and "top public schools", well if you're not prepared to accept that small, minority of Cambridge society, you might aswell go elsewhere. WE are in fact quite normal and contribute a lot to the community and nightlife. We manage to have a good time and are happy to welcome ANYONE else to do the same. The foreign students, by the way, are OK: Where would Thursday night at Fifth Avenue be without them?
• How on earth can the buses be the worst things? - 95p for a 5 minute journey? Why don't you walk if it's that short a trip, you fat jabber. Oh, and yeah, all the stupid bunches of no hopers from Anglia who think Cambridge students are posh geeky tossers, and also those stupid posh geeky tossers who think the guys from Anglia are a stupid bunch of no hopers - anyone who thinks like that - get a life, 'cos we don't need this crap.
• Bloody tourists EVERYWHERE.
• The homeless capital of the country. More hostels run by more charities with more money than sense. Mind you the salaries some of these "charity workers" are on makes me think I should get into the homeless business.
• For non-students, not knowing what May Week is. The tourists the tourists the tourists The train station is fucking miles away When cambridge people assume all students are stuck up wankers with more money than sense ok some of them are but not all - most of the students don't like the wankers any more than you do, so relax a bit. The retired American tourists The small identikit French schoolkids who descend on Kings Parade out of the sky by the thousand.
• The bloody cars ... keep them out. If you feel like visiting (which you really should - it's great), please don't bring your car any further than the park and rides which now surround the city.
• Most of the views above are quite extreme, the truth is somewhere in the middle of them all.

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