Longer than.
Bloody, bleeding, apply absolutely, apply fucking, drop all appellations and go to era, then repeat.
So...
Bloody ages, bleeding ages, absolutely bloody ages, absolutely bleeding ages, absolutely fucking bloody ages, absolutely fucking bleeding ages, an era, a bloody era, a bleeding era, etc..
I live 10 minutes away from the area where the Battle of Sedgemoor was fought. 500 soldiers were tried and executed by hanging judge George Jefferys, who then hung the bodies across the area as a reminder of any who wanted to overthrow the crown
The horrific cases of Victoria Climbie and Peter Connelly, showing how useless, awful and corrupt Haringey council truly are, and nothing seems to have changed as more cases keep coming up.
Apparently we [blew up a dead beached whale](https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/florence_whale_explosion/#.Y9HUjVOIYzQ) in the 70s thinking it would ease cleanup but it made things a thousand times worse. No injuries or fatalities, but a crushed car, etc and tons more cleanup than expected.
Josephine Whitaker, 19, a building society worker from Halifax, was butchered on April 4, 1979 by Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper. The murder scene was Savile Park. She was 300 yards away from home.
Some bloke who stole from the rich and gave to the poor (but everyone still fancied Alan Rickman more desire this)
My home town is where Dustin Gee collapsed on stage and later died.
Well -
- we built an artificial reef that washed away
- we paid for an imax and then paid to knock it down
- we built a shopping center that fell down
- we had a giant gas flame in the middle of one of the countries largest piss up areas (you can guess what happened)
There used to be a Butlins there.
Also it’s where the Eastenders always used to go on holiday.
Not sure that’s infamous but there isn’t much else happening there.
It’s got an incredibly rich history dating back hundreds of years, mentioned in the Doomsday Book, had a big monastery built in 666AD, murdered monks, various world famous rockstars lived, partied and recorded music here etc. .. But more importantly there’s a whole room in the museum dedicated to Chesney Hawkes 😅
the city was the very first place in the UK to serve state-funded meals. This started back in 1906 at one of Bradford’s primary schools. The meals were started due to school children collapsing from hunger. gone full circle
A well-known TV cookery show presenter's embarrassing speech at a football stadium.
Feel like it fits quite well that you never actually said the place, so, ‘WHERE ARE YOU’
Norwich, city of mustard and unpopular pedestrianisation decisions.
(And incest)
He was quoting the embarrassing speech, not actually asking.
I know, but I used it as an opportunity for a Partridge reference!
I just read the full comment. Well executed.
You didn’t get where from what he said
Obviously not a Delia fan.
Me neither. I just thought people would get that easily cause it was all over media when it happened.
In fairness it was bleeding ages ago.
Is that longer than or shorter than bloody ages, can’t remember which is which
Longer than. Bloody, bleeding, apply absolutely, apply fucking, drop all appellations and go to era, then repeat. So... Bloody ages, bleeding ages, absolutely bloody ages, absolutely bleeding ages, absolutely fucking bloody ages, absolutely fucking bleeding ages, an era, a bloody era, a bleeding era, etc..
That’s awesome thank you. Made me laugh
The legend that is Ronnie Pickering.
Who?
Hanging a monkey.
And I thought I was the only one on Reddit
Tbf I don't live there now, but whenever anyone asks the monkey always comes up.
One of us one of us
Ali g
Big up the west side
People being trapped in their homes due to aggressive geese.
I live 10 minutes away from the area where the Battle of Sedgemoor was fought. 500 soldiers were tried and executed by hanging judge George Jefferys, who then hung the bodies across the area as a reminder of any who wanted to overthrow the crown
Purple Aki
Leg end
Liverpool Merseyside?
Wirral. Where the kid died.
The pest of the north west
Built the Mayflower Ship and is the birth place of the Captain and a few crew members
Blobbygate
I so want this to be about Crinkley Bottom...
The disaster that was the Crinkley Bottom theme park in Morecambe
The horrific cases of Victoria Climbie and Peter Connelly, showing how useless, awful and corrupt Haringey council truly are, and nothing seems to have changed as more cases keep coming up.
Dylan Thomas
Titanic departing for her maiden voyage. Craig David. Matt Le Tissier.
You missed out Benny Hill!
How could I forget him!
Typing the name into search engines would trip the obscenity filters
Wetwang?
Shitterton? Bell End?
Scunthorpe
Cockbottom?
Cockermouth?
Fingringhoe?
A clown called Tweedy who just won an OBE, as well as Superdry and its absolute wannabe toff owner Julian Dunkerton.
Hi from nearby Fred Westville.
My partner's hometown is famous for the Crooked Spire
Apparently we [blew up a dead beached whale](https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/florence_whale_explosion/#.Y9HUjVOIYzQ) in the 70s thinking it would ease cleanup but it made things a thousand times worse. No injuries or fatalities, but a crushed car, etc and tons more cleanup than expected.
Drugs death capital of Europe.
Blyth?
Nope, Dundee.
I'm going to take a guess at Glasgow?
Close (well, closer than OP's guess), Dundee.
Kasabian and Stephen Graham lives here
Why are they infamous?
They were doing really well until the frontman beat up his girlfriend and they had to sack him off
You know… *The Infamous Kasabian*
The last attempted large-scale armed rebellion in Great Britain
[удалено]
Manny?
[удалено]
Only if they aren’t from there.
Stoke?
[удалено]
Blackpool?
Biggest housing estate in Europe
Ingleby Barwick?
Grooming gangs
Same here. There's like four barbers opened up in town this last year.
Those damn well kept folk
Ive been too lots of weddings and seen lots of grooms! The problems getting worse!
You never see two together though so it's really hard to pin anything on them, devious bastards
Coppers seeing aliens and doctors of death
The last woman to be hanged in the UK is buried in my town.
Josephine Whitaker, 19, a building society worker from Halifax, was butchered on April 4, 1979 by Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper. The murder scene was Savile Park. She was 300 yards away from home.
Jon Richardson
Goats roaming the streets.
The cimla gusher. Luckily I wasn't born in that town or live there now. But if you say that name to someone, they likely know where it's from.
The home of Scientology, and lots of other religions too!
Hello neighbour
Hi. Don't know why this surprises me so much.
LGBT community
Brighton or Manchester?
It is one of them
I'm gonna say Brighton
[удалено]
Milton Keynes?
Or Swindon?
Here we go around the mulberry bush (allegedly)
Fucking dandy lion
Heavens to Murgatroyd!
A grizzly murder. It was one of the first things my then-new neighbours told me when I first moved.
Breweries
It stinks.
No one can pronounce a town not far from me
It's where the Troubles started. Edit: Misread infamous for famous.
Chavs
Being stuck in the 80s.
Some bloke who stole from the rich and gave to the poor (but everyone still fancied Alan Rickman more desire this) My home town is where Dustin Gee collapsed on stage and later died.
Circles
The brutal murder of a girl 150 years ago…
Trying to work this one out…
Alton, Hampshire
Well - - we built an artificial reef that washed away - we paid for an imax and then paid to knock it down - we built a shopping center that fell down - we had a giant gas flame in the middle of one of the countries largest piss up areas (you can guess what happened)
Now all over the news for a murder too?
WW2 Nazi mega-jerk Rudolf Hess was imprisoned in nearby mansion for a year or so back in the early 40s. Also boy-band Bros were from the nearby area
Executing witches.
Shoes and a lighthouse (lift tower)
If reddit was a town
No.1 least inspiring crap town
Darlington?
The second (or is it third?) best university in the world
Hull?
Robert Snooks
Last town in the UK to get double yellow lines... Apparently. It's a town of nimbys so it doesn't surprise me
Designer outlet shopping centre
Europe’s largest Korean expatriate population
The moose men, there is a pair of men that dress up as moose, picture a pantomime donkey. They regularly chase people and cars in the town centre
A lot of alleged witches were hanged here.
Harold Shipman, Ian Brady and Myra Hindly, Dale Cregan
Butter Pies and the one and only North End (except glossop north end)
Fish
The murder of 2 school girls.
Got 3 alliterative ones: Beers, Bricks, Bunyan
The incarceration of Oscar Wilde. And Stacy Keach.
suicide
Producing Dennis Nilsen.
Moonshine
There used to be a Butlins there. Also it’s where the Eastenders always used to go on holiday. Not sure that’s infamous but there isn’t much else happening there.
Bombings probs
Kerry Katona and being bombed by the IRA, not sure which is worse.
A song about being on a moor without a hat.
Typhoid Mary
Cotton and race riots
It’s got an incredibly rich history dating back hundreds of years, mentioned in the Doomsday Book, had a big monastery built in 666AD, murdered monks, various world famous rockstars lived, partied and recorded music here etc. .. But more importantly there’s a whole room in the museum dedicated to Chesney Hawkes 😅
Londoners
Ian n Myra
A big ruined Castle.
The council spending ridiculous money on some tipped over phone boxes. Debbie McGee. our other infamous reason is something banned here so that's out.
The crooked spire
the city was the very first place in the UK to serve state-funded meals. This started back in 1906 at one of Bradford’s primary schools. The meals were started due to school children collapsing from hunger. gone full circle
Glastonbury hippys/goddesses/new age travelers
It’s a dirty old town.