No Surprises There Then...
Norwich would have been perceived as wealthy, a tad exclusive and middle class, with no ghettos to speak of, or "inner City issues" etc etc-safe, sound, full of Churches...nice and no edge to it...
Derry, well, plucky City in area previously under the shadow of the "troubles" and now re-inventing itself, "brave", "plucky", "young", "vibrant" etc etc.
We didn't stand a chance-previous holder was Liverpool, and the next one will probably be somewhere like Bracknell or Hull! They don't choose places that have culture already (unless its one growing in the kitchens of all the tardy take aways), they choose one they want to inflict culture on (tap dancers from Romania and Togan nose flutists?) and thus patronise, we should be glad we have escaped it and all the tourists who will have the Forum turned into a multi-level TK Maxx and have three weeks of roten vegetables from the market exhibited at the Museum as "organic art in decay".
Posted By: Martin Peters on July 15th 2010 at 19:33:35
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- FFS DERRY (n/m) (General Chat) - lurd, Jul 15, 19:26:13
- No Surprises There Then... (General Chat) - Martin Peters, Jul 15, 19:33:35
- The Forum is a bit of a nothing tbh, a Library and a couple of franchises (General Chat) - no one, Jul 15, 19:53:58
- I think you might be forgetting about some other bits of culture in Norwich, (General Chat) - Huge Small, Jul 15, 20:08:34
- and There's me thinking (General Chat) - no one, Jul 15, 20:22:05
- FFS, he even forgot the BSG. (General Chat) - tudders, Jul 15, 20:14:09
- The BSG desrves its own special World Heritage thing, or be designated a SSSI (n/m) (General Chat) - Huge Small, Jul 15, 20:20:46
- I think you might be forgetting about some other bits of culture in Norwich, (General Chat) - Huge Small, Jul 15, 20:08:34
- Exactly. It was never an award for a city with culture, (General Chat) - tudders, Jul 15, 19:51:05
- Fuck, there's some awful spelling in there. (n/m) (General Chat) - tudders, Jul 15, 19:51:44
- The Forum is a bit of a nothing tbh, a Library and a couple of franchises (General Chat) - no one, Jul 15, 19:53:58
- Lacked a former paramilitary commander in our delegation (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Jul 15, 19:29:05
- nah, it's their way of saying sorry for that whole bloody sunday palava (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Jul 15, 19:39:44
- exactly, now let's hear no more about that nasty little scuffle (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Jul 15, 20:01:42
- I think you'll find Stephen Fry was a major in the Mau-Mau (n/m) (General Chat) - Higher Wrather, Jul 15, 19:37:10
- I don't get it. We had both Christopher Biggins and Rick Wakeman backing our bid. (General Chat) - Bravo win or die, Jul 15, 19:36:06
- So we had a big fat queen and............... (General Chat) - usacanary, Jul 15, 22:17:41
- Sir Lolalot! (n/m) (General Chat) - Higher Wrather, Jul 15, 19:38:17
- nah, it's their way of saying sorry for that whole bloody sunday palava (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Jul 15, 19:39:44
- Boo Derry (n/m) (General Chat) - Coventry Yellow, Jul 15, 19:27:44
- No Surprises There Then... (General Chat) - Martin Peters, Jul 15, 19:33:35
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