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Is Bristol Dangerous?

organised_chaos

Well I'm from Sunderland...so chances are Bristol's as dangerous as a children's play area in comparison....haha...

My next door neighbour is from Sunderland, he got mugged the same week he moved down to south-east London.

Ha! Bloody northerners.... :smile:

Reply 21

organised_chaos

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Don't even START with the northerner digs....I wasn't saying I was rocky btw...i was just insulting the place I hail from...

Reply 22

cappucino07

organised_chaos

Don't even START with the northerner digs....I wasn't saying I was rocky btw...i was just insulting the place I hail from...

Haha was only joking. My neighbour is the only Geordie I know (are people from Sunderland considered Geordies? Or did I just insult them with that? Mackems? That just the football team? Dunno...) and he's well alright.

I know you can't judge a whole people by one random bloke who moved down south but hell there you go.

Reply 23

The Mudman

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the victory james

My next door neighbour is from Sunderland, he got mugged the same week he moved down to south-east London.

Ha! Bloody northerners.... :smile:

*Puffs out proud Northern chest*

Ah yew staartin'...? :mad:

Reply 24

cappucino07

And what on earth does "rocky" mean?

Reply 25

organised_chaos

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rocky= sylvester stallone....hard man...
sunderland people get called mackems...lovely word isn't it?
:|
xxx

Reply 26

The Mudman

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What's a Tackem then?

Reply 27

organised_chaos

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that comes from (apprently) the etymology of mackem...
because we were famous for building ships back in the day (although people probably think that's all we still do...despite the shipyards being closed now)....the slogan about sunderland was 'we mak 'em and they tak 'em'
for those of you not common...'we make them and they take them'
you learn something new (and highly trivial) every day don't you?

Thanks hun!

organised_chaos

that comes from (apprently) the etymology of mackem...
because we were famous for building ships back in the day (although people probably think that's all we still do...despite the shipyards being closed now)....the slogan about sunderland was 'we mak 'em and they tak 'em'
for those of you not common...'we make them and they take them'
you learn something new (and highly trivial) every day don't you?

I thought northerners just grunted, beat each other up and went down't mines.

:smile:

I think the general rule is that you lot are a lot friendlier than us shandy drinking, limp-wristed, fey southern types.

Reply 30

db

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all this north/south stuff and ignoring NI :frown:

Reply 31

The Mudman

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That's cos NI is just ace :cool:

Reply 32

cappucino07

Never been there myself.

I've got family in Ireland though, in Cork to be precise. They're all quite scary. It's nice there.

Reply 33

db

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The Mudman

That's cos NI is just ace :cool:

hell yeah

Reply 34

Rui

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There was a thing in the Evening Standard a couple of weeks back, that listed the 50 most dangerous cities and towns in Britain. Bristol wasn't in the top 50.

Not quite sure how they worked it out, though, must have been interesting; "murder = 10 points, GBH = 7 points, rape = 6 points..."

Reply 35

suga_fly_77

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Think Nottingham came top.

Reply 36

Rui

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Wouldn't be surprised. It's like Lazerquest up there. But...with, proper guns. Clearly.

Reply 37

cappucino07

Yeah supposedly it's the "gun capital of Europe". Some one was shot in the cinema car park the week I was there for an open day.

My best mate is going there...