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The Worst Things

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• terrible pubs...at night
• the parmos in the perfect pizza shop 289 linthorpe road are the worst ive ever had not only was the parmo crap but the salad?bit ov mouldy lettuce was crap too the chips were ok all 17 ov them this place needs to be given a wide berth its total crap!!
• THE VILLAGE PANTRY BEHIND THE CLEVELAND JUST OPENED ITS SHIT
• NOTHING AT ALL IS RONG WIV DA BORO ITS A MINT PLACE 2 LIVE N WERE ALL PROUD OV IT
• I was born in Middlesbrough, I moved to Cambridge as a kid, to Birmingham and now living in Spain.... and I can say hand on heart that Teessiders are the salt of the earth. Everyone is down to earth, great senses of humour, laid back and friendly. There are major problems in the Boro (eg crime, drugs etc.) but it was never our fault. We had coalmines, docks and chemical plants as industry and they all got shut down (not our fault) so obviously along came poverty and with poverty comes crime. people trying to survive the best way, and in some cases, the only way, they know how. Yet still, people are very friendly and generally happy here despite this. So think about why we have problems here before you slag it off, and quite simply shut the fuck up!! COME ON BORO!!
• The worse thing about middlesbrough is the THIEVES the place is abundant with them watch out keep an eye on your sat-navs, this is a desperatly sad place to live l do not recommend anyone lives around middlesbro, it is a depressing place full of drugs and tea-leafs the place is smelly and grimey and the police and council have lost the plot completely. keep away well clear its a sad place, car crime is rife.

• Look up why it's rated the worst place to live in England.
• STUDENTS WHO COME HERE AND SLAG IT OFF - BE GRATEFUL
• The Chavs! :p
• A FEW STUCK UP PPL WHO HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO THAN MOAN ABOUT THINGS THAT OTHER PPL ARE ENJOYING
• Seeing Middlesbrough in windscreen
• Chavs.
• The kappa tracksuits on every criminal walking. The lack of support from the police. The prositutes everywhere (even though i cant see how their make a living as there is so many giving it away for nothing)

• nothin its fuckin wikkid n all u little tits that are disin it can fuck off n yeah i am from grove hill n i might be a chav but im fuckin proud ov it yas are jus fuckin stuck up ya own asses n think that theres no 1 betta than yas now FUCK OFF !!!!!
• people that slag it off n there not even from the place they wanna learn to keep there gobs shut if they dont like it then they can all fuck off n stop disin grove hill if yav neva fuckin been there grove hill is fuckin mint man xxxxx
• Car trashing fuckers, thats about it, no problems with people with drug problems, I was an ex studuent from newcastle, came to boro, and it really grew on me, avoided a good beating here and there but generally the people you meet are good people, just why do they pick on my fucking car? not as if I advertise its a geordie car!!
• Is scruffy get your cd players niked all the time
• everything shops, buses, people,
• the bag eds, prosies, kids thinking the rock hard, slappers,
• Joe Rigatoni's, the worst place to eat in middlesbrough, Terrible service, awful food, generaly crap! Don't waste your money, its like throwing it down the drain if you eat here!!! not being bitter, went several times to give them a chance and nothing was ever changed(even though they were told).
• too many chavs.
• name one city/town in england that dont have drug,crime,unemployment etc problems? fair do boro does have all the above but its no where near as bad as some of you geeks make it out to be! there isnt a cloud of smog hanging over the town,you dont get batterd and mugged every time you go outdoors or get offerd sex by 12yr old prostitues every time you walk down borough road! ive lived in london and its wank,everyone if a foreigner, if u smile at someone or say morning they think ur a crazy person! also we have fitter girls then them southern towns and we dress much better. nobody wears kappa trackies these days (maybe bout 10yrs ago)and we actually have decent food and beer, southern food comes in tiny bitch portions and a baby couldnt get pissed off the so called beer in london,its like drinking shandy flavour water. boro is MINT haha
• Being assosiated with all the scum ie- druggies, prostitutes etc etc, u get that every where, not just boro, so dont think every single person in boro is like that, loads of us a hardworking people who like to go out and have a laugh & get drunk - SO WHAT!!
• minority low life scum, bring the place to its knees
• (sorry to use caps but this needs emphasis) DID YOU SEE THE TV PROGRAMME? THE TOP 10 BEST AND WORST PLACES TO LIVE? GUESS WHERE BORO CAME!!! ;D 5TH WORST! where I live atm, is 6th best ;]. I go between the two, going to uni at boro n living in camb, i can say without a shadow of doubt, boro is a shitehole, the only ppl who say otherwise have lived there their whole life n dont know any different. "I thought it was normal to be mugged and burgled once a month...". Its a city full of drunken idiots (apart from the absolute edge of the city, some nice bits there) who are only friendly cus they want a shag, or want to be your friend incase you know girls they can shag. Sex, alcohol, drugs and violence, and thats jus the under 16s.
• I lived in boro for about 26 years before moving abroad. I went to teesside university to study engineering - which is now my profession. Why did i move abroad? after graduating i found it virtually impossible to get a job on teesside, no one would employ me because of my lack of industrial experience. only when moving away from the town to find employment and now abroad, have my eyes openend and i have realised what a back ward place middlesbrough actually is. The people in boro, from my experience are unfriendly, you go out for a few drinks, you end up having a fight with some nob from chicargo rock or the royal ex (i think its changed its name now). the beggars in the town centre where a complete nuisance, althougth since ray mallon came in, things have calmed down a lot on the 'begging for smack' side. People who slag the students off, are the ones who have never been to university or who are probably not educated themselves. the majority of students in teesside university are from the boro. they actually bring money & culture into this back ward society. the problem with boro is the lack of education, the school i went to was absolute bollocks for learning anything, it was only through my self ambition to educate myself by going to college then university that i realised there is more to life than working weekdays in a production line & drinking till 'mortal' on weekends, as the culture in boro is exactly that, get drunk have a fight, talk about it the next day in a pub, have another fight. i wish i had nicer things to say about this town - but its virtually impossible, pally park is completely fucked, kids riding motorbikes, twoced cars, construction vehicles, dogs etc. its hardly conceivable that on the continent england is perceived as an aristocractic society. people who slag london off who have never actually lived their or been their - well i have lived in the east end of london aswell, and to be honest, its crime ridden, but is on a much larger scale than boro, with probably 10 times as many people, from different areas of the world, so a high crime rate is probably expected considering its the capital of england. Boro has a population of about 170 000 people, which is a scratch on the population of london, and yet the crime rate is just as high. the problem with boro is the town itself: 1 - people being unwilling to educate themselves 2 - people being arsed to get a job 3 - making an effort to see other places in the world other than faliraki 4 - people having kids at 16 and not taking care of them 5 - having a lack of anything useful to do on a weekend other than getting lashed. i fuckin hate boro, i hate the predjudice people, i hate the simplicity of the entire place, its utter crap at the highest order - violence, nobheads, wankers, twocers. 'open your your fuckin eyes and see what the rest of the country does for a life', you complete pack of fuckin uneducated gormless fuckin chebs. how mortified i was when reading to my considerable dissatisfaction that the entire place is slagged off by people who actually have lived their - you are truly right in what you say, the place is riddle with putrid tracksuit wearing tossers who behave like monkeys chasing a banana on a friday night piss up. i have got to the point where i cannot say anything constructive about the place, so please forgive whilst i continue to vent my frustration. why pinch cars? what is the absolute point to this, your not doing your area any fuckin good, your just bringing the fuckin place down, and causing an excess of fuckin problems for the people who you live with. the attitude of 'i don't have brains to get a proper job' is fuckin wank, utter bollocks (i apologise for my obscene outbursts, but this is the only language i can use to communicate with the fuckin baboons of the teesside society), if the nobs would only try then the place would'nt be were it was now, we are now ranked 5th in the worst places to live in the UK, and we are'nt even a town that has a large population. probably 40% unemployed men, 10% unemployed women, 30% chav stealing twocers, 20% single parents under the age of 16. i'm so glad i don't live there anymore, but it boils my piss when i read about the town going more backward in to society more than ever, people of boro do yourself a favour and fuckin eduacate yourselves, read a fuckin book, a newspaper (the Sun or the Star is not a substitute).
• Middlesbroug is revolting. Its full of litter and dirty, grey 1960s tower blocks. The town centre is now a mixture of modern concourses and drug filled side alleys. The locals walk around the centre like zombies, looking to start trouble with anyone who so much as looks at them. Despite living a life of constant depression, they will defend the town to the hills - as if being a 'Smoggy' is something to be proud of? To top everything off, the town's mayor is Ray Mallan, the most corrupt policeman in the North East (and that's saying something). Trust me, never visit Middlesbrough.
• cheeky little runt.sat behind a desk ..probably playing with oneself. not all people in st hildas and grove hill are scummy as stated on this site. REMEMBER......GOOD AND BAD EVERYWHERE.
• The little Scally cunt's who hang around all over.
• I moved to Middlesbrough for university a couple of years ago. I have travelled all over the world and it is the most backward messed up place I have ever been in my entire life. I'm not saying everyone in Middlesbrough is like this. I know lots of cool people but sadly it seems to be the majority who are messed up. Local people seem to have developed their own unique culture unlike anywhere else in England. This only normally happens in isolated communities. DO NOT ask a local person for directions. You must note that you will have to ask about five people before you find someone who will be helpful. Sadly a lot of people will just brazently ignore you. This is because they are used to being constantly harassed by beggers. DO NOT let a local person hear your accent because they will somehow assume that you are better or wealthier than them and therefore will become very hostile. These are not assumptions, these are facts gained from experience. Beggers are more pro-active than anywhere else in the country. Not as bad as Amsterdam or New York, but they WILL hassle you and they will most likely give you abuse if you do not co-operate for them. There are NO shops that sell anything other than candy and drinks after 5pm. This is only usually typical of a small town or village. The only take out available in the evening are pizzas and kebabs. Go to neighboring Stockton, they have a take out called Pokeys and it sells REAL food (open late). Otherwise, make sure your cupboards are stocked before 5pm, otherwise you're screwed. The traffic on the roads in the town centre, especially linthorpe road is just like Istanbul. People will drive on the pavements to get by and the roads surfaces are like ploughed fields. These are just a few things that are wrong, but beware. I was mugged in my first week here, and I was beaten up by club doormen for being a student and having long hair. Avoid Middlesbrough like the plague!
• prob some parts of grove hill not like it was years ago put it this way you carnt leave your door unlocked there
• the moshers that think they're class smoking near the cleveland centre aged 14. sick of all the skateboarder stuff.
• BORO
• chris rear
• Middlesbrough!!!!CCJ city. Full of debtors, don't know how to pay their bills. Water rates? Council Tax? Gas Bills? what are they? Sorry? They don't know, they don't pay any of those. Lots have electric coin meters so they can keep the sky plus on though. Probably 98% of them are on invalidity, disability and other benefits and might as well live in James Cook jobcentre! They keep skyplus on by being on the game, selling drugs or frauding benefits.
• People who didnt get invite to come here but take plenty opportunity to slag us off.
• GROVE HILL - got our car broken into in our drive hours after parling it. constant noise and groups hanging about in street giving abuse out. you want a quiet life? don't move to grove hill! check crime statistics before moving here.
• the way this town is plummeting into ablivion. the local scum balls are dragging this place to hell. do your self a favour and stay clear. i have lived here 29 years. chavs, immigrants and crack heads everywhere.
• Most of the 12-17 age bracket
• Unfortunate and alledgedly unpreventable employment cutbacks within the chemical industry I work in. The whole of Teessides Industrial land could and has been described as run down at best (although safety issues are always met). Crime and Drug problems within the area - see local press for details.
• beggers smack heads pushers young queens -coming out of cassadys
• dodgiest town in england, people ask you for 10p for the phone every 2 mins!! full of people on drugs
• Dog poo and scallys
• Mummy's boy students who come to stay in Middlesbrough from the South and refuse to go anywhere except the union bar and hate everything about the town because they don't understand it because they come from a middle class, comfortable life in the Sunny South. One of the worst things about the town is groups of teenagers who have nothing to do and too many young unstable family environments.
• Come on the boros not all bad not compared to places like sheffield and manchester. Students walk around boro scared that thell get battered, you probably will but for fuck sake stand up for yourself.
• You name it, the already high yet spiralling drug problem, wide spread deprevation everywhere, litter on every street, horrible children, the skyline of you go into a relatively tall building and look South, from my building, Dundas House where BT is housed you can see both the chemical factories and the rows and rows of council houses in between, a lot with the metal green shutters over the window. My horse, my horse. My horse for a panoramic camera!
• The worst thing about the Boro is simply that it exists. its architecture is drab and depressing, its atmosphere oppressive (especially in town on a Friday night), and the scummy scally-count is way above the call of duty. The begging problem in the town centre is beyond a joke, the amount of run-down buildings and areas like Whinney Banks and Grove Hill is appalling, and the majority of people you see just walking around town look depressed just to be there, even though they'd defend the place to the last simply because they were born there. My fondest memory of Middlesbrough was catching the fucking train out of it. (And yes, I am a Boro boy).
• too many bag heads/scallys and a generation of kids manly lads who copy and bag head look =nike cap half way up forehead =fake big chain around neck and on show =white tracksuit =reebok classics/nike air max trainers
• The least intelligent student population in the country.
• Growing up here. Coming back here. Grove Hill. Whinney Banks. Grangetown. Ingleby Barwick (the traffic, the ex-boro wannabes, the way it calls different parts of the future council estate villages.)
• THE BOTTLE N ITS FREEKS !
• Can't believe no one has mentioned the bingo...90% of people in there are on benefits and spend all day chainsmoking until you cant see your hand in front of your face for the cloud of fag smoke!
• to many smac heads,homelessnes and beggers.come on community wardens GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER.let the busker earn a living and entertain us.and get rid of the fuckin scroungers
• Is there any other town on 'The Knowhere Board' with so many negative comments? This place has more chips than Harry Ramsdens. Most of the town centre is scruffy and it has more than its fair share of yobs, but there are some nice places and some lovely people as well. And do the most strident defenders - who probably know someone who went as far south as Thirsk - have to slag off places of which they have no knowledge or experience? Belive me, there are better places!
• I was absolutely disgusted and shocked today, a friend had asked me to go and meet one of her friends with her, (in a pub) My husband works nights so i had to take my son along with me, he's only 5 months old, no sooner had i walked in someone came over to me and told me to leave, "we don't allow children" he said, CHILDREN!!!!!! He's a 5 month old baby, what's he going to do, crawl over to the fruit machine, or steal some sips of a pint!!! And as the law clearly states if a baby is under 6 months old s/he is allowed in with the parents regardless on whether they allow children or not! I'd literally walked in, i hadn't even said hello to my friend's friend, i was so shocked i came home in tears. The way mothers are treated by everyone else is shocking, people should be ashamed, we are shoved to the back, having to wait for certain buses in able to get our babies on safely, having to get someone to go grocery shopping with us because we can't push a trolley and a pram, or even go to the toilet. Shops are no better everywhere i look down the high street there's shops with steps, no automatic doors, and aisles so small only 1 person at a time can walk down them, we can get in yes, but look at anything, no, the clothes are shoved in so tightly you daren't go in for fear of knocking things over. Before i had my son i thought all pram pushers were just in the way, now i realise we are not, we are just trying to do the same as everyone else, just because we have a baby in a pram doesn't make us any different, or any worse than the next person. Everyone living & breathing in the universe at some point or another had had a mother, why then are we sighed at, stared at, moaned at, slagged off, all because we repopulate the species, we are there ones that get left behind, i for one am totally sick of it!!!!!!! Your sincerely Sarah Watson Middlesbrough
• People asking for money in the streets!!!
• Cheap smack, cheap crack, Fucking bagheads, grove Hill, Easterside
• Being proud to be from the Boro and then to read what other people think rightly or wrongly about our town. Its sad to see the negatives and to actually agree with them. Some of us work, pay taxes have had an education. PS I don't own a Kappa tracksuit.
• The university cause this attracts unwanted londoners. And believe me everyone from boro should hate them more than geordies or mackams.
• Ok as this could go on forever.. i'll just compile a top 10 list. 1. The "42p" man.. could someone please just take him home. 2. CrackHeads - Ok i can accept there are "Acceptions" to every rule but all crackheads are the low life scum of the earth, but there seems to be some convention for them in middlesbrough. 3. STUDENTS - NEVER EVER COME HERE. SOMEONE ELSE WILL ALWAYS TAKE YOU. DO NOT COME HERE.. TRUST ME. 4. Tracksuits. Christ - When did they go out (Secret shipments?) 5. Taxis's ... OK i don't think i've seen this many taxis's anywhere else. Not even London. 6. Rubbish Bins. Shit Man.. Im sure this S**T hole could look alot better if they could just invest in some rubbish bins! (Comon who would really want to pub bombs in them.... Ok... fair enough.. Everyone.) 7. Kids - Ok when you can just tell kids to "F**k Off" generally you would normally listern.. but christ what are the low lives comming to when they have to bloody well attack you in the Park of all places. I guess its because they have "NOTHING BETTER TO DO". Their single mum has kicked them out the house. The gather is in Jail all so they can just walk round like labotimised baboons causing as much trouble as possible. 8. Never live here. People only do because of Crack (Ok if u must have your crack fair enough.. "Come Right In" .... As i ask again.. Any Terrorists fancy attacking here? ),, If your caught up in living here.. Move.. the houses relatively cheap here. 8. Crack Heads 9. Crack Heads 10. Crack Heads
• a few of the boro bouncers are tossers (not as many as there used to be - there was a kull a few months ago)
• For my money the worst single problem for the people of Middlesbrough is the Alleys. These are just easy breeding grounds for crime from House breaking, drugs, mugging and all that goes with dark, dangerous unkempt passageways. They should all be destroyed, and garden walls extended back to each other, which would increase the tiny gardens that most people seem to have in Boro. It would at a blow reduce access by dogs, cats, and owners who don't seem to care a toss about anyone else and think it fair game to dump there leftover rubbish. It would give criminals no where to hide and lurk in safety any more, making crime easier to detect.
• the worst things are the people who bring us all down. the scum. The charvers. The drug abusers and the criminals. Send them to Scotland, we dont want them.
• OK MIDDLESBROUGH MIGHT NOT BE THE BEST OF PLACES, HOWEVER THERE ARE GOOD POINTS ABOUT MIDDLESBROUGH FOR INSTANCE THE STRONG AMOUNT OF PRIDE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN BROUGHT UP AND LIVED IN MIDDLESBROUGH ALL THERE LIVES. WETHER THAT PRIDE BE THE FOOTBALL TEAM OR THE BLUNT FEELINGS OF "WE WOULD KILL ANY ONE WHO IS'NT FROM BORO". THERE IS A MIXED RACE SOCIETY IN MIDDLESBROUGH AND YET MORE IMERGRANTS SEEM TO BE MOVING HERE MABYE IT IS CAUSE BORO IS A SHIT HOLE AND THEY ARE DUMPED HERE OR MABYE IT IS BECAUSE THE SOUTH OF ENGLAND IS LOOKED AFTER MUCH BETTER THAN THE NORTH EAST. (FUCK YOU BLAIR) BUT NOW THERE COULD BE A DROP IN CRIME AND HEROIN ADDICTS IN MIDDLESBROUGH AS THROUGH THE NEWLY INTRODUCED MAIR OF MIDDLESBROUGH "RAY MALLON" MIDDLESBROUGH CITIZENS COULD BE IN FOR A TREAT AS A NUMBER OF THINGS HAVE BEEN INTRODUCEN INTO BORO WHICH ARENT IN OTHER TOWNS OR CITIES SUCH AS ALLY GATES, STREET WARDENS AND MORE SECURITY CAMERAS IN THE STREET. i CANT REALLY BE BOTHERED TO WRITE ANY MORE AS NO ONE WILL GIVE A FUCK ABOUT THE INJUSTICE MIDDLESBROUGH IS FACING. PEACE OUT AND RESPECT THE PEOPLE OF BORO THEY ARENT ALL "THICK, SCRUFFY, POOR, AND VIOLENT."
• the train station is a dump its suposed 2 b a city station
• THE TOWNIES
• THE TOWNIES
• Empire, Corner house oh and jaks its full of kids.
• The worst thing about the boro is all the shitty places, for example 'over the border' sorry but its distgusting.
• seeing boro out of windscreen
• The place is run by a council the seems to want a total descution of any History Middlesbrough had. Man the town is about 150years old and the local money grabbing council members have over the years ruined a excelent towns history in their quest to be known as a city. A city Middlesbrough, get a life and see what a city is.
• Crack heads, common women, speed traps, the all-pervading stench of baking dog shit on summer days.
• The border, smackheads beggin for 42.0987 pence, the burglaries, (had 2 in a year) but none elsewere. The sundays are so dark and dull, why? The rain and cold, too many mosques, the mini pakistan is growing unusually large which can be intimidating. Being the only white guy in a square mile. Gettin asked for business by prostitutes. watching how the women walk, like theyve just taken a lampost or something, scallies tucking pants into socks, basically the town.
• worrah town eh?? who cares about the crime and drugs, we know owta ava good tarme! tha lads an lasses ov this town are all up for a laugh, the atmosphere is mint, we arent fulla smack eds or wallaz, we have loads of mint cloth shops, such as the box, usc, topman, river island. u name it, the boro can offer it. the spirit is all around u, everyone follows the same team an are aleays willing to av a natter about Stevey Macs Red Army (deh deh der deh, deh deh der deh!!!) So stop slaggin off tha boro, iv ya dont like it, dont cum ere, an iv ya winge whilst ya there, u'll probably get battered wiv an ammer from some lad from Grove Hill or Whinney Bronx.
• students who've lived here for 2 minutes slagging the area off! They chose to come here! piss off back to where you come from if you don't like it
• Everything....tramps, druggies, pro's, smog, pollution, poverty, cold, wet, crap football team, crap university,crap shops
• living in boro, best day when I left, who else would elect a mayor who cost the ratpayers a fortune and self confests lair
• To many mosher kids, who are worse than the townies...
• i am from middlesbrough and now live in cambs an i avta say that theres nowt wrong wiv the boro. we mite be a town fulla smack eds and twokkas but at least we arnt propa snobs and we av a mint foty team. RED ARMY!!! so all you dick eds that slag us off bring it on, coz u'd only dare say it on the Internet, if u wanna say it, go down Borough Road or Grove Hill, well anywhere.
• pollution, middlesbrough models with their ali g jewellry, nike air max, tracksuits and their prams.
• liquid
• well, what shall I say....
• all the townies walking round with those huge pink cap things on their heads which look like marshmallows. and watch out for blokes with: skin heads white shoes SOVEREIGNS watch out for women with: excessive amounts of (fake) gold jewellry three scrunchies in their hair
• SMACK EDS....SCALLIES....LITTLE SCRUFFY COCKY BASTERDS WITH HARD M8S...PROSIES
• Having to constantly be on your guard. I have lived in Middlesbrough for 23 years and have survived with my if you cant beat em join em. You have to learn to see trouble coming and learn to avoid it (it is actually possible) and remember and nine times out of ten people are cowards and are probably carrying a knife or something similar. Be very careful at night and dont go anywhere alone, whether male or female. Stay out of the Council Estates at night and under no circumstances cross the border, whether in a group or not - it is not safe. Also dont give doormen or police officers cheek, you will definitely come off worse and be spending the night in the general hospital (if you know what I mean)
• the glorfication of thiggery and mindlessness COME DOWN HERE YOU BORO WEEDS AND YOULL GET YOUR HEADS FILLED IN
• its where my family live
• smackheads, skanky hoes
• the inbreds that inhabit the town centre
• Violence, drugs, crime, scruffy estates, smog and so on.
• Smack heads - more of those per person anywhere in the country.
• drugs but there are all over the world
• Central Park Restraunt, terrible service
• Lack of alternative night clubs and bars.
• Carl Rankin, Carl Flea
• Thorntree Park. A kaleidoscope of broken glass and dog shit! The 5 a side pitches that were built there 10 years ago have probably never seen a single game of 5 a side played on them. They have just become somewhere where cratefuls of bottles are smashed to cut dogs paws to shreds. People have no respect for their surroundings... they enjoy smashing anything made of glass. You walk by telephone boxes in Pallister Park and Thorntree and all you see is a frame with a pile of broken glass underneath. As soon as it is replaced the glass is smashed again the next day.
• Having lived in Boro for three years I can say it is the worst place on Earth. The students are the only redeeming feature of the town - they manage to raise the average intelligence to double figures. Everyone else are as thick as shit and should be wiped off the face of the earth along with the scummy town itself. (And I'm her friend, and have never been to Middlesbrough, but just reading this website proves that you're all intellectually subnormal, absolute, utter townie scumbags - I can see you all in knock-off Kappa tracksuits, still drinking White Lightning even though you're almost thirty, every last one of you born sloppy seconds and will stay that way. You've got Bob Mortimer and a Claes Oldenburg statue going for you and that's all. Jesus Christ, I thought Rochdale was bad. Thank you for your time.)
• the locals inability to speak english. the static from all the rustling kappa "sport wear"
• People who knock it because they don't understand it People who come to work in industry and then spend all their time knocking the area. Why stay for 20 years then?
• Soft southern lesbian shandy drinking bedwetters who come here to go to Uni and slag the Boro off saying its full of scum... well Ive lived in Central London and the outskirts (woodford Green, Essex) and found that in central London its full of total cunts who look down their noses at any northerners who cross their path, probably because the southern cunts have never had to do a hard days work and cos they cant fight and are a bunch of apron clinging Mammy boys! The outskirts are even worse... full of boy racers who are pissed off one Jack Daniels and coke, have the friendliness of a pit bull licking piss off a thistle and have enough silverware shoved up their arse from their parents that they cant go near magnets.... and they cant fight... soft cunts!!!! Ha Ha HA!!
• moaners. if u dont want to live here then fuck off and do us all a favour.
• OFT TOSSERS COMING HERE TO USE OUE UNI AND FUCK OFBACK TO THE CRIME RIDDDLED CAPITAL.L..THE REFUGIES TO MANEY OF THEM .AND YES IS DOES HAVE SMACK HEADS ..FUCKIN SHOOT THEM AL...
• Oddly enough the people in Middlesbrough are also it's worst asset. Although the mojority have a real sense of family and community, not many have any civic pride, dirty town centre, unwashed net curtains. Scruffy looking children. It's not up to 'them' i.e. the council to do all the tidying up, some of it relies on the people. Some of the tastes in fashion leave a lot to be desired, Kappa tracksuits, sovereign rings, belly piercings.
• All the scruffy, bone-idle inbred trendy smack-head fuckers!! Skin 'em all alive, mummify them in barbed wire and drown them in salt water!! The town centre itself has an atmosphere of filth, ugliness and coldness. The drunken arseholes who go to shitty trendy breeding clubs like Liquid and the Millenium! A lot of the trendy women here are stupid, loud, noisy and damn ugly!!
• the roads leading in
• The townie scum. The tracksuits. The drugs. The violence. Everyone's said it already.
• The smell of urine no matter where you go. The buggy brigade of teenage mums, no more than 11. Trashing up cars and belongings that good honest citizens have worked hard to pay for. Filthy and litter ridden back alleys
• The car showroom on Newport Road which broadcasts its phone messages through a loudspeaker,telling everyone "telephone call for the used car salesman, thank you!" (training for station announcers?) and has a flagpole which rattles against a lamppost in a strong wind, keeping residents awake at night.
• Whinging scruffy twats who live off the state. They litter the town centre every night scrounging drinks and just generally being twats... Who.. Students from out of town who are too stupid to go a University near to own home. If you don't like it... FUCK OFF HOME...
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• Southern Gits who moan about the Boro, who've lived here for only 5 years and spent the whole time up their own arse.
• Students who were too thick to pass their entry exams in the first place and had to go to 'clearing' and ended up in M'bro - you deserve to have a hard time if you couldn't be arsed in the first place
• okay, the pollution....
• THE WORST ABOUT THE BORO, WOULD BE ALL THE MEMORIES OF WALKING HOME FROM VARIOUS ESTABLISHMENTS, BUMPING INTO PEOPLE, HITTIN ANOTHER BAR, TRYING TO FIND A TAXI [THE MOST EXPENSIVE ON EARTH AT 3AM] AND GETTING HOME.
• People from the Boro are scruffy as hell.
• It's an easy target for insults even though there are many people who work really hard in order to prevent this.
• Smoking - You cannot get away from it in the town and town centres they are all puffing away. Thieves/Joy Riders - Not being able to take a car up there now and sleep at night safe in the knowledge that it will be okay parked outside in the Grove Hill area! If they cannot drive it away there then they will burn it out just for the fun of it. Litter - Black sacks ripped open in the search for alluminum cans to be exchanged for cash/or ripped open by cats/dogs. Unwanted furniture dumped in the back alleys Dog dirt
• Students beware! They don't like us up here and will try to mug us on Linthorpe road (I KNOW IVE BEEN THERE SO HAVE 4 FRIENDS!!!). Don't look the dodgy locals in the eye or they will beat the crap out of you and avoid leaving your house at all costs cos you will probably die and get burgled in the same day. Don't expect your skin to be nice, the pollution kills it. Good Luck.
• student haters. Why? I am not a student, but they are a real part of middlesbrough society. People from my own town who slag the place off. Come on - the grass is always greener....
• Leaving the place
• The smack heads in pallister park
• Coming from Australia to visit your relatives in England and they live in Middlesbrough. The dog shit on the streets - has no one heard of a poopa scoopa or a bag for that matter.
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• No more Pizza Hut and far too many beggers, mainly outside Kentucky Fried chicken and blockbuster video as well as macdonalds, talk about the sympathy vote. I dont mind at all if someone is genuinly homeless, and on the streets but when its money for drugs (come on, you had a choice!!)
• Idiot teenagers who like to fight each other when they're drunk, & punch & kick passing cars. Smackheads!!! John Foster on TFM.
• The fact that im barred
• Crap drugs, very young prostitutes at the end of Parliament road
• All the people.
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• The southerenrs who come into the place, bitch and moan about it, try and change it and then go back down south and slag it off!
• Poverty, decline of town centre, smackheads, crime, pally park grangetown southbank etc all rough as fuck and looking worse than the shitpot. How can the crime rate of a small conurbation match the likes of manchester and liverpool
• People who've never been anywhere insisting that it's great... That halibut look (downturned mouth) that all the women get... Old ladies in head squares leaning like italics into the icy blast Stench of piss at the train station
• Increasingly annoying are the scruffy bastards walking up and down Linthorpe Road talking out the sides of their mouths saying 'ere mate wanna by some aftershave'. Try using it on yourself you scruffy scabie ridden skaghead fuckers.
• Southerners knocking it!
• The whole of teesside is the scruffiest part of england, and i grew up in liverpool and still think its not as shitty as stockton
• The Cheap n nasty clothes shops in the town....... can't we have a bit more class?
• too much crime. they say grangetown is bad what about marton grove and grove hill. You cant go down the beck without gettin a good kick in from the boro lads now a days.
• Too many smack heads and drug dealers!!Kill them all!
• Slappers , Slappers & Even more Slappers .. Well will these 16 yr olds learn than PVC skirts which cling to their tyres & high heeled white stilletoes are just ugly & soo passe! Crackheads ... enough said Most other boys between the ages 0f 14 & 19 who seem to think that they are Gods gift to Women ..even though their faces look like a pizza .. god help us all!!
• Smack heads
• The whole place
• Southbank, Grangetown, these places are full of scum who live off of the state and will nick anything if its not bolted to the floor. You just need to look at the security cameras encased in steel cages to see evidence of this, why cant NATO intervene here and drop bombs on the whole area. do not travel into these places.. should have a government health warning on the road signs leading to them.
• Slappers in flarey short belts and 2lbs of markup learing pissed at you on a friday night in the Kebab Centre.
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• The way the whole city centre has been turned into a mall and car park. The advert they took off the bridge under the railway station. How could they get rid of that icon just like that. That was the Boro for me! The bus service has been totally destroyed. You can't get a bus for love nor money. I like buses, they are cheap, ecological and you meet people.
• The monstrous carbuncle in the centre of town known as the Cleveland Centre.
• The cold weather, still that's England for ya.
• Don't take your car, in fact anything valuable, it will get nicked.
• He's right - Dont' take anything valuable, like your car, it will get clamped or broken into. Just keep out of town for your own good.
• the accent!!

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