The Stuff We Can't Fit In Somewhere Else in Swindon, Wiltshire*

The things which can't be categorised

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• Culture! Competitions! Both! Battered Moons poetry Competiton open now till 8 Jan 2010. Send email with up to 3titled poems up to 50 lines each(no personal details here)to swindonpoetry@googlemail.com and second email with poem titles and personal details. Online publicaton and public reading at Swindon Literature Festival alongside well known poet. Supported by Swindon Literature Festival and ARTSWORDS -an Arts Council project.
• San Tropez brothel on Victoria Road! They charge a lot for a rubbish service. Can someone please close it down!?
• the stupid council who keep going on about how great a place it is and everyone laughs at them. The only good thing is the ability to gatecrash loads of parties and the great genuine people. Wayne's bag parties.
• junkies shoplifters and thiefes and pikes and asylam seekers all having a day out together in swindon spending there giros from our tax payments
• The tunnels of old town. This town was a hotbed of smuggling and cool tunnel stuff before Brunel lay his claim to the town. It needs some celebration of the excitement of this info and stories that abound to give the town more than the grey bloody railway stuff which inspires no one. Check out the tunnel in the cellar of the big building with gargoyles over the windows next to the Goddard Arms Hotel( this was built in the 16th century before Brunel was even sucking on his mamas teat)... THIS IS WHAT IS COOL,MOONRAKER LEGENDS OF SMUGGLING AND TUNNELS, EXCITEMENT OF MIDNIGHT GIN SMUGGLING RUNS ALONG THE RIDGEWAY. Why is this not a big feature of this town, finally something for the youth to be proud of instead of grey ugly industrial vibe.????????
• swindon needs skate parks, thats all i can say really oh and yeh, move england further south of the globe so we can enjoy some half decent weather!!
• To anyone one who has contributed negative messages about Swindon. Go live somewhere else
• Dude update on Swindon is seriously required - I mean that comment about being on the way to Eros.... It closed like three years ago!
• I've said it all!
• Swindon's very own breed of pedos; school teachers
• The quotes of the older generation: "i dont mean 2b personal but ur half dressed u naughty girl...what are you?!!? a naughty girl! ...gedda coat!"
• let me say this as it comes from my mouth ...are you ready //?? here we go i have never seen so many jump up little smart arse estate agent clientel leaches that suck up estate agents bums in order to pride them selfs as one of the longs crew and the idea that they think that they are all elite . maybe in swindon you bunch of self obsesed fasion freakes .you know that you look stupid in that trendy designer gear when you are to skint to buy your own beer or are waiting for your next back hander dont try to be flash cause as quick as you come in you are out .if you dont think so where are all the geezerz from last year ??/ the trouble with swindon is that if you are not in the old town possie then your not hip ,,iether that or you dont have a credit card this is my point they are all up to there eyebols in dept trying to be trendy to keep up with every body else ..but what they dont know is thats exactlay what everybody else is doing aswell
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• don't go here u will hate it
• Swindon seems to be full of pikeys in the day and people who try to hard in the evening. Saying that, I grew up and have left the place on three occasions. It's like the Godfather 3..... 'I keep trying to get away but they keep on dragging me back in'.
• I grew up in the sixties in Swindon, left it to go to Uni, never went back. Big name acts didn't go there then, or were cancelled for lack of ticket sales. Nice to hear the girls are still just as sophisticated & generally refreshing to see from your site that nothing else has changed. (Except Swindon Town FC once beat Manchester City 2-1 at the County Ground, packed in like sardines we were).
• GO TO SWINDON ON A SATURDAY AND IT IS LIKE A MAS EXPLOSION OF DEFECTED PEOPLE ALLSTRAQNGE SHAPES AND SIZES AND WHAT A FUCKING DRESS KODE ITS LIKE BEENING AT THE CIRCUS
• Pagan/Witchy shops/meeting places
• These comments are wholly accurate. Swindon is an unfriendly place full of narrow-minded, bitter, self important people who are so wrapped up in their petty little lives who believe that the whole world revolves around them. I lived there for years through school then work and have a few good friends there but moved away earlier this year and feel like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders. A hollow, shaloow, unwelcoming place to be avoided if at all possible folks!!
• Excellent Dive Shop called Aqualeisure in Commercial Road. Very helpful and cheerful staff, excellent service, advice and dive gear. Now operating a Scuba School. Try it out.
• Swindon is a most narrow minded, inbreed, shit hole I've ever been in my life. The sad thing is you have to leave Swindon to realise it ! wake up people it's a hole ! No good pubs (well two FUSION and Longs), no good clubs anymore, crap shopping, drab looking concerte jungle, please someone knock it down and start again........
• If you've never been to Swindon and you want to know what the arsehole of Britain looks like, come and see, you won't be disappointed!
• Swindon is a waste of time the place is full of snobs who think they're great southern snobs
• mate, i have never heard a more accurate description of this shit hole of a town. fair play to all involved in producing this "guide" it rocks! i am moving out of swindon due to uni and year out in oz arrangements, but there is no way on earth i would stay here past that time. the place is full of boring people who are only concerned about their lives and the shitty little clubs in the town (minus po-na-na, a wicked little venue) in a nutshell, i would call it no less than small town mentality on a MASSIVE scale. no one knows anything about good music, they are a load of dickweed townies. the only remotely decent place for seeing live bands is the vic on victoria road in old town, pretty kickin on a friday night with some decent tribute bands, ska and punk bands etc.. for instance, i surf, and yes i live in swindon. people say to me "but there's no sea in swindon" do they think i don't know? do they think i am blind? and then the stoopid fucks ask how i get to surf at all. ever heard of this wonderful invention called a "car"? i am pleased that someone has come into this hole with an objective opinion and has thought the same as me and my mates. that it sucks dick. one thing it is good for is dual slalom and mtb downhill as it is surrounded by loads of pretty rad hills and nice farmers who let you dig secrect jump sites in their fields, the location of which i am under no obligation to reveal!. carry on rockin mark
• I only lived there for 2 years and was glad to leave. Swindon is devoid of character. THe old town has been systematically destroyed and been turned into a faceless concrete sprawl
• Apparently Oasis are named after the Oasis - if you see what I mean!
• The John Murray Building is actually the David Murray-John Building. His first name was David his surname was Murray-John, he was the town clerk who started it all in the 50's & 60's. Took money from the London Development Corporation (to get rid of their dross) and built the Parks, Pinehurst and Penhill to house them.
• Please note the Murray Tower as you called it is called the John Murray Building.
• "Scoop" is a good free ads newspaper.
• Little or no hassle at most of the spots, but avoid Brunel Centre. Decent attitude to skating from the police. Skaters have the best attitudes: really like it when people come down. Lamest: no skate shop. Nowhere to skate when it's wet.
• The Link centre has a good nightclub, a multi-screen cinema, a sports and leisure centre, a pizza hut and loads of flat areas for people-on-small-wheels.
• Swindon: a town of roundabouts, the magic being the most famous. It is very green although lacks atmosphere (newtownish). The planners need to go to school again and realise that not everything should be planned on a computer (take a tip from the Romans). The traffic seems to come to a standstill if more that ten cars aproach a roundabout at the same time. Why not try and get rid of the cars altogether? Put in some trams or an underground. It is easier getting across London at night than returning home from Oldtown.
• The worst: the road in to Swindon. The best: the road out of Swindon.

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