The Worst Things in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire*

The entirely missable and worth mentioning because of it

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The Worst Things

• The ringroad
• chavs.
• The traffic at times, but that is a nuisance nationwide these days.
• To all you Student haters on here. Im assuming your local people. At the end of the day the 2000 students that go to Hudds uni drink in your pubs,by from your shops and from this year are going to be paying 3000 pounds a year for their education. I agree university life can be quite easy at times but students do contribute a lot Huddersfields economy and you narrow minded people cant deny this. Get a life. Also you all bad mouth Huddersfield Town Fc yet for a second division team they get some of the largest crowds in the whole division (around 11-12 thousand a week) this combined with the away support also provides a substantial boost for Huddersfields economy. A small price to pay for a few blocked roads on match day. So get oyur facts right and stop moaning you miserable cunts by from your shops
• Rough areas and pubs on the outskirts of the town centre!
• Ring road is like a holding zone for drunken assed townies. And its always raining! ALWAYS
• SHOPPING

• most things!! like all of the "rude boys" and "rude girls" who think anyone who looks in their direction is trying to pick a fight! get over yourself!! u cnt expect us to look in 1 direction just because ur stood in the other!!
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• Queensgate market. What passes for news in the local paper ("Ramblers Go On Holiday" People who drop litter without even looking slightly guilty or hiding the fact they are dropping litter. The young parents who scream and shout at each other in the middle of the town centre. McDonalds. Nothing agasint McDonalds but Huddersfield has the worst in the country. Crossing the ring road (even at traffic lights)
• People who hate students.
• Urine-stinking guy in leather trousers sidling up outside the Queen's Tavern.
• the £500 fine 4 skating inside the ring road
• The so called football fans who drink in the town centre in their Stone Island and Henri Lloyd clothes who like to throw bottles and ashtrays at away fans

• the trains dont leave often enough
• the pennine rain
• 99.9% of the population is neurotic. Full of moaning, negative, whinging, narrow minded, short sighted, tight fisted, penny pinching, mean spirited,jealous, envious, tittle tattling, nosey bloody parker tosspots who espouse 'Yorkshire Culture' and misguidedly think it's a good place to live! Add on the armchair anarchists in the Albert pub in the town centre(are they still in there) and it all adds up to the urban wankfest known as t'uddersfield.
• The lack of choice and inflated prices in the Kingsgate!
• Local been-nowhere-done-nowts who think the town-centre night-life, such as it is, might still exist without thousands of students overspending on their loans.
• The locals
• Students! Fuck off! And take your annoying fake southern accents with you.
• football stadium, drinking before the game. Honley vilage and the allied pub.
• THERE IS NOTHING TO DO WHICH IS FUN NE MORE PART FROM GET WASTED N EVEN THAT GETIN DULL!
• Home Town.
• Johnny's dodgy mate that goes by the name of ginger Richard... can't handle rejection.
• Crime seems to be getting worse, three shootings in the past month
• you only ever meet students.
• imbreds everywhere - league of gentlemen was based on huddersfield
• Students everywhere, thinking they know Huddersfield sooooo well when really they'd be in tears if their 10% discount taxi dropped them off in Brackenhall. There are loads of dodgy estates inhabited by complete theiving shits and teenage Mums aplenty. Marsden is full of inbred pagans and satanists.
• one of the best viewing spots is unfortunately home to the craziest hourse in the world - it's fucking mad!! it bit me once and has bit several of my friends and aquintances on many occasions, it last struck in march 2001 when it chased my friend accross a field.
• The university has no organised events like getting gigs and groups in!! We have to go to the same clubs every week, so if anyone is reading that could do something please help us poor students!! The only positive thing I could say about the union is cheap drinks apart from that there is nothing to recommend it! we don't even have an entertainments officer!!!!!
• Students.
• Bloody students.
• Kirklees council. Riddings estate (sound people, crap area).
• Because Huddersfield established itself in the 18th and 19th centuries as a result of the textile trade most of the housing in Huddersfield is stone terracing which isn't exactly pleasant on the eye. Although there are more afluent areas containing bigger houses (Edgerton, Fixby) most of the rest of the housing is council property (Brackenhall, Sheepridge, Walpole, much of Almondbury, Rawthorpe, Bradley (Keldregate), Riddings Estate at Deighton - the list is endless). As a result, despite some impressive Victorian architecture (especially in the town centre) the place represents a typical working class northern town. Huddersfield is made up of numerous villages that have merged together which makes the town very pariochial. The further from the town centre you go the worse it gets. Shopping provision is poor which will hopefully be remedied by the completion of the Kingsgate centre.
• Car parking is expensive and crap
• Pepperhouse no longer exists its a club called the camel club now.
• the trouble, HYC, YDC!! they think there 'ard!! but only in a large group!!
• the ladies boyfs
• PAUL CALF CLONES IN JOHNNIES NIGHTCLUB
• The bleeding Alfred McAlpine friggin stadium and the stupid football followers who block the roads on match days
• The drone of an accent the locals have.
• All the muggings that seem to be happening - even in the middle of town on a Saturday afternoon. The sudden escalation of sneek-in thieving - you can't even sit in your back garden enjoying the sun without some thieving git sneeking in and swiping anything they can get their hands on.
• The little slappers that go to visage..they look about 12!!
• The constant wingeing of Town fans
• Narrow-minded inbreds of Marsden. Lack of a decent shopping centre - although the building site at the bottom of town is rumoured to become one sometime this century. The Hudderfield mentality - we are the biggest moaners on Earth. The lack of atmosphere at Hudersfield Town matches - even when we are doing well. The atmosphere only improves when Town are playing shite because everyone starts moaning.
• 40 year old slappers in Johnny's Brackenhall, Sheepridge, Deighton housing estates The building site at the bottom of town (that is meant to become a shopping centre)
• The council's love of demolishing anything vaguely old looking (the stadium, the bus depot, a whole load of textile mills, the entire bottom end of the town centre, etc.) and building "retail parks" instead. Does it have shares in a corrugated metal company or something?
• The tame stuff is that visage is sometimes a bit shit and ethos is never open! The bus to and from storthes hall takes too long. Also it stops too early and they make us feel like trapped up @ storthes.
• What the hell are they doing re the Kingsgate development now?!!
• The very large pile of garbage that now occupies the site of the old stadium. Whoever thought of calling those places retail PARKS?
• The lamest thing is that the council took back our mini because of complaints about noise, and they also boarded our warehouse up.
• The weather - fecking freezing all of the time apart from july & august. Oh, yes we are also partial to the odd avalanche of snow at any time from out of bloody nowhere....
• The Pepperhouse - A very dodgy "nightclub"
• The headquarters of Kirklees Council - possibly Britain's worst local authority. They waste millions each year through internal inefficiecy, and preside over the least well-maintained road system in the western world. Ignorant, arrogant and incompetent.
• The cab drivers. They all drive like complete psychopaths, turn up to take you to the station 20 minutes after your train left, then get really puzzled when you explain that since you have now missed you train/flight/whatever, that they may as well bugger off!

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