The Worst Things in Loughborough, Leicestershire*

The entirely missable and worth mentioning because of it

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• Much of Loughborough borders a flood plain. Also Loughborough lacks the infrastructure to become a big town but they are building houses and flats as such a pace that it is rapidly loosing its charm and is in fear of becoming over crowded and strained
• Townies, Chavs, Stupid People.
• The diverse cultural mix High street on a friday nite
• drugs in some places
• Growing up
• Annoying fucks that stop you and ask you to 'spare 5 minutes' to part with your hard earned cash for their charity (99% for them 10% for their charity) / Lloyds TSB staff / Town hall cafe prices / Empty library shelves / Caged birds in the park (let the buggers go for God's sake / OAPs on market day (move the fuck out of the way!)
• Chav-dodging in Shelthorpe and Thorpe Acre, and the Kinch buses that link the two with the centre. Wearing Burberry should be a capital offence.
• THE INBRED PEOPLE....THEY ARE EVERYWHERE!!!!!
• the 'locals'.....
• The Chavs and dickheads in general. all those rudies riding around on their "bees in tin cans" scooters which are really pathetic.
• dense townie slags an the lack of normal people who arnt messed in the head
• Garendon High School a completely facist/military style school. Thankfully psycotics like Mr Gardener have left, and Jebbo's retired, eccentric Mrs Bailey (she was cool though!)has retired. But Mike Cahill still resides over as Headmaster, and Mr Singh continues to perv, and ofcourse there is still Hagrid the dinnerlady!
• Overrun with tarty girls, sports students (urgh!), nowhere classy to go out, no decent clothes and shoe shops, thank god I have a car!
• the occasional bad egg (ashlie harman to be exact) does seem to pass through our humble community but all in all we're not a bad lot us loughbrorian/librarians/loughborough folk.
• Worse things about Loughborough are students who are rude and obnoxious especially in groups. Closely followed by the locals complaining about students all the time!
• NOw ay are hte girls slappers, a large amount of them go to the private convent and loughborough high school. They may a bit desperate as they have to go to shcool without boys but come on thats a bit harsh!
• easy girls...the big ones and theres plenty of them
• just like everywhere else, the town is bloody overrun by those towny, scally chav bastards, but like someone else said, theyre not real ones cos they run away. but up at burleigh we got loads of knife fights, so parents if u want ur children to be safe, at burleigh they will learn survival of the fittest.
• The bloody sock man
• I think the comments about the Griffin being rubbish, which were written in 1999, are now completely out-dated. In fact, Saturday night in the Griff is probably the best in town.
• Public Toilets most of them are discusting.
• Too many stoo-dents, too many hertberts and chavs
• matts bar
• Ugly townies in track suits and caps that walk around like they're got a 2 foot rod up their ass. And the girls - if you can call them girls - are too busy pushing their babies around and eating at mcdonalds to wash their hair and learn ENGLISH!
• there is no skatepark and the cinema is gay.
• Pissed up rugby blokes who can't handle their beer, and make life hell for those who don't roll around in the mud chasing an oddly shaped ball.
• i went bak recently n the town centres been painted purple
• these mofo skateboarders think they are bad, there just a waste of space, im telling you they wear thier trousers so the belt bit is at thier knee's......sick tings go on lol
• cold
• no skate shop
• the sock man
• The population sport the most badly drawn tatoos I have ever seen in my life. And the men are as bad.
• The locals with six fingers.
• the skag heads who nick off you and give the town a bad reputation. get rid of the tramps.
• townies, everywhere u look.Argh ! You're not 'ard so get over it.
• RUDE MUGGAS INIT
• Loughborough has to be the most boring and incestuous town (apart from shepshed) in the UK. I am so glad I got out of there before I fell into the trap of taking smack and stealing cars like most people of my age have started doing.
• all the "oi mate yea's" i.e. townie lads!
• the sock man. garendon high school. limehurst . wookbrookvale
• having to spend 7 months a year in this godforsaken shithole.
• when the students go home!!!!!!!!!!!
• Having to live with my mispent childhood in Loughborough
• returning to loughborough
• everything you possibly could think of
• The peckers from Sharpley Road thaqt think they are as hARD AS FUCK IN A GROUP, BUT RUN WHEN ALONE. wANKERS!!!
• The present Council. They seem to be keep on having Road Repairs on every road in the town. They also have raised the Community charge by 4% which is above inflation. Of course what can one expect from those in the Labour Party.
• Everybody knows each other
• Old people moaning about skateboarders
• Everything. I was seriously glad to get away from loughborough.
• Police, Security gaurds and Girls who think they are beutiful but they are actually butt ugly
• STUDENTS ( i managed to write my name on a GCSE paper so I'm important ) If the milkman dies I'll notice if they all died....
• ALL THE BLOODY SKATEBOARDERS. Oh yeay, and all the 'big hard' townie boys.
• As with almost everywhere these days, Loughborough seems to have a full complement of townie idiots with attitude. Busters and Pulse seem to be the worst affected areas. At least in Loughborough, they're only playing at being bad so you won't get shot or anything.
• Arrogant students who think they are the dogs bollocks because they can catch/kick/throw a ball around. Get a grip people!
• Wordsworth Road, used to be a nice area but getting worse all the time. Some of the residents are very strange, can be an entertaining area in the Summer when the neighbours get drunk and entertain everyone!!!!
• The Griffin: I used to love it as a customer (many years ago) but now as a long-suffering member of staff, I fucking hate it. The hours are long and poorly paid, the customers in the day (when there are any at all) are criminals, moneylenders, drug dealers, bored students, snobby retired old bastards, lazy college kids, underage drinkers, mad people, and one or two decent citizens, although these are few and far between. The evenings are dull from Monday - Thursdays, with more students, some good and some bad. Fridays are the worst day for underagers, with the age range being between sixteen and about twenty five - not great, eh? Saturdays are the worst day for mutants, with all kinds of dregs of society making nuisances of themselves, getting far too pissed and behaving like twats. Sunday afternoons are quiet, while in the evening is the quiz, full of decent students and townies alike (usually), and it is easily the only night of the week worth going to the Griffin. Try the Orange Tree or the Hobgoblin instead.
• Student birds that smake you in the gob if you try to get them to do anything after buying them a pint of snakebite and black
• Far too many purple people (uni sports students)
• All theatrical productions staged at Loughborough Town Hall, particularly anything by the ESNA players, whose contributions to the local culture have been lamentable. Queen: The Magic Continues and other tribute bands have appeared at the Town Hall, as has blue Aussie comic Mark Little. However, in 1969, an up and coming R 'n' B band called Led Zeppelin reportedly went down like a...well...lead zeppelin, I suppose. Lastly, the annual Loughborough schools revue, which once upon a long ago took the form of a surreal Sgt. Pepper style cabaret, and later featured an early performance by "seminal" local band Cinnamun, who featured one Joanna Koolman. Where is she now, Nicky?
• Lots of ineffective overpriced beer.
• The rapidly emerging yob culture after dark.Purple tracksuits, busstops,lampposts,bollards... You name it (What the f**k has purple got to do with anything?)Litter, potholes, yobbos & all the usual shit. How the hell is that stupid f**king statue supposed to reflect the history of the town? Answers on a postcard please! Some f**k-ugly buildings
• There are far, far, far, far, far and away too many to even begin to mention. This is one fucked up place, readers. And yet...here I still am, after all these years.
• The locals. They are all supremely stupid and ugly, unlike the university students. When they're not beating up the town's students (who they're jealous of) they're sniffing glue. The local girls are all complete slappers, who insist on wearing the shortest skirts imaginable in the middle of winter. They make the university's hockey lesbians look like a good prospect.
• THAT F**KING STUPID STATUE OF A BLOKE NEAR THE MARKET WITH A LEAF OVER HIS BALLS IT LOOKS PATHETIC AND COST THE COUNCIL 20
• Execrable town planning in the sixties, seventies and eighties...not showing many signs of let-up in the nineties. Small-minded parochialism (same as most market towns).
• The student population; either a totally homogeneous bunch of middle class school bullies, tracksuits and sensible haircuts at the University, or a totally homogeneous group of fashionably depressed Levellers Tshirts and nose rings from the Art College (who are in fact just as middle class as the University students, but you'd have to put them on a rack to get them to admit it.) The average University student never speaks to the average art college student and vice versa, because each thinks the other is a stuck up tosser. They are probably both correct.
• Worst thing is the annual Loughborough Fair which comes to town and which always brings the worst weather and floods with it. And yes I'm afraid that the uni students are to be avoided at all costs, they are known to be either sporty (in pukey purple tracksuits) or completely sad engineers.
• On the University campus you have to be really careful, as people try and OutPiss on you from the upper storeys of buildings. I was walking to a lecture, when someone Outpissed on me out of the 17th floor of Towers Hall, it really hurt as it hit me on the top of the head and ruined my hair. I wish people would not do things so stupid, suppose it is another stupid craze like 'Road Rage'.
• Pigs that have an irrational hatred of skateboarders.

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Last updated: 2008-03-19