Forth – a grey & moribund carbuncle on the ****-end of Scotland

Living in Forth, Scotland

The late great Rik Mayall once called Nottingham ‘a dark Godless void on the edge of human misery’, which exactly correlates with my feelings about Forth in Lanarkshire, Scotland. Cumbernauld’s little but equally-as-ugly little brother. Granted, it is a village – but hell is it depressing. A grey and moribund carbuncle on the ****-end of […]

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Kelty is full of dirty auld alkys

Living in Kelty, Fife, Scotland

Kelty, the former largest mining village situated on the Kinross to Fife border, is full of dirty auld alkys with no prospects in life followed by there even bigger alky children who always end up preggers by the time they’re 20 with a fitbaw team. The drug problems in the village are at an all […]

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The Siberian mining experiment-come-‘New’ town of Cumbernauld

Living in Cumbernauld, Scotland

Siberian mining experiment-come-‘New’ town, Cumbernauld, near Glasgow, was voted 2nd most **** town in Britain in the Idler magazine’s 2003 poll and it was in no small way thanks to the invaluable contribution made by the town’s ****-majority that this ground-breaking (or should that be window-breaking?) feat was achieved. Like its sister (by different fathers?) […]

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Belfast and the fermented cough syrup that is Buckfast

Living in Belfast

As a native of Washington, Tyne and Wear, the idea of a town overrun by hoards of ********* ******** was nothing new. In fact, I was convinced that I had seen it all in the 18 years that I had lived, relatively peacefully (only two black eyes and a bruised lip), amongst the burgeoning underclass […]

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