by Gordons Cumming » 26 Nov 2010 11:04
floyd__streeteBig Footfloyd__streete Elm Park was a good metaphor for West Reading actually; shabby, ugly looking and unloved by the population at large.
Madejski Stadium sums up all that one would associate with our fans from other areas of town: plastic, a bit souless and generally shit.
VaLOLid. Seriously though, whenever I have to venture west of the Ramada I begin to feel unsafe and no little depressed. I genuinely feel for anyone who lives in the other half of the town, a genuinely gloomy place it is with your weird Oxford Road streetlighting and run-down sex shops. You all buy your dinner from the 555 fish bar too. It is like a different town, indeed a different world. West Reading = the DDR, East Reading = the BRD, they should build a brick wall along the IDR. And aren't your accents weird: "dayn tayn to pop in to the caynsil."
by OldBiscuit » 28 Nov 2010 13:41
Negative_Jeff Does the West Reading Laundry still exist?
by soggy biscuit » 28 Nov 2010 15:15
Rainham Dagger Can I just say as an non Readingensian (and perhaps as such I don't "get it") but I find all this West/East Reading stuff hilarious.
If your family going back several generations were all Geordies, Brummies, Cornish whatever - you can kind of understand a bit of local pride - but to get this coming from someone from Reading is LOLaughable. And to then further split it out by a kind of "my bland suburb of a bland town is better than yours" is, well
by oldebiscuit » 28 Nov 2010 18:35
soggy biscuit
If you think that is bad then you to see the rivaly within those areas, SSW Reading folk hate SSE reading folk with a passion!
by Red » 29 Nov 2010 14:04
by Millsy » 29 Nov 2010 19:26
by Linden Jones' Tash » 29 Nov 2010 20:12
oldebiscuitbigshaka'away'
I live in Caversham and would love to know which area is a 'no go areas', as they seemed to have passed me by. This has confused me. - also what serious crime, other than the odd mugging?????? Its no nivarna, but its nothing like you have suggested.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading,_Berkshire
by LoyalRoyalFan » 29 Nov 2010 21:50
by prostak » 29 Nov 2010 23:54
LoyalRoyalFan So would you say that Reading is a middle-class town or a working-class town?
Is it a rough place, or a lot better than most places in the country?
by Harpers So Solid Crew » 30 Nov 2010 03:01
2 world wars, 1 world cup The general consensus is that those from Earley are the most refined of all Redingensians.
Few people know that the Garden of Eden was actually somewhere in Earley.
Thanks.
by LoyalRoyalFan » 30 Nov 2010 12:11
LoyalRoyalFan I think that the majority of Reading is actually pretty rough and certainly not middle-class.
by Forbury Lion » 30 Nov 2010 13:23
by Forbury Lion » 30 Nov 2010 13:26
+1Red Biggest rivalry is probably on the Shinfield Road, divided by which pub you drink in.
Sportsman FTW FTR.
by LoyalRoyalFan » 30 Nov 2010 14:49
by Red » 30 Nov 2010 15:52
Forbury Lion+1Red Biggest rivalry is probably on the Shinfield Road, divided by which pub you drink in.
Sportsman FTW FTR.
Sportsman review - watched as a guy took on allcommers at the pool table, when one guy beat him in a fluke match he snaps and chases him out the pub with the pool cue.
by readingbedding » 05 Dec 2010 12:12
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