Best and worst towns to visit

[Istenem]

Port talbot has a unchipped change over fast chip that works on cups on daily refill in the spoons with a cluedo in there aswel, also has a unchipped power 5 across the road with a Vortex

if only any of us knew what that means. most of the words make sense but i have no idea what action we need to take.

[anfield road]

need to be a player to know what a fast chip change over is!

[JG]

"most of the words make sense but i have no idea what action we need to take."

PMSLROFLMAOLOLOFLAMINGOLAO!



Yes Anfield, what action do we need to take? We must take action now!


A fast pause chip slow take over bid for some cups in a Wortex next to a steak and chip shop five powered by what?


OK here's a tip. Anyone got a 'Spin when you're winning'?

If you take super hold and hold nothing, the LED tells you to 'hold yourself' and you will be awarded nothing. Mazooma, what is the meaning of this?

Also what action, if any, do we need to take?


A chip shop fast takeaway with Gortex cups change over steak powered who?


I suppose it's only like a quiz buff talking about iambic pentametantric double consonant barricades on a word up clearance.


Any hybrid fruit/Swp pro players? I know Matt is pretty nifty on the quiz but not top of the shop.

Any players who could cane FFQ, Word up and know their way around a slow chip pause fast cup enabled Borax that doesn't block turnover steaks? Whilst hitting a Shoot 'em up?!?


With their chin?

[fotherz]

Good: Oxford, Reading

Bad: Luton, Windsor

[grecian]

One other bad place that comes to mind is High Wycombe - looks lovely from the M40, with that dramatic valley location, but when I visited in the late 90s it was pretty desolate, with machines few and far between. Maybe it has improved since though.

[Nil Satis]

High Wycombe is still pretty desolate but it did have the oldest ItBox version I've seen in any mainstream location for ages last time I was there (i.e. not in the venues like chip shops and Students' Unions where old machines can linger for ever). Unfortunately it didn't have any of the old games *I* could have raised a nostalgic tear for.

Bad: Windsor

Agreed - surprisingly barren and rough in parts as well. It also has what I believe to be the only Wetherspoon's anywhere * without a quiz machine, unless anyone knows better...

* excluding airports obviously

[grecian]

Agreed - surprisingly barren and rough in parts as well. It also has what I believe to be the only Wetherspoon's anywhere * without a quiz machine, unless anyone knows better...

* excluding airports obviously

The Coronet on Holloway Road, London, has not had a machine in any of the five or so years I've lived in north London, although I've only checked it sporadically (last such check within the last year), unless it's tucked away in some obscure nook of the pub that I haven't spotted.

A pal recently spotted a GamesNet in a Wetherspoons in the midlands. Has anyone else come across instances of Wetherspoons with a machine that's not an ItBox?

[BJ2006]

Aye there is a spoons with a gamesnet in Reading.

[cool]

bugger bognor what a hole! or should I rephrase that?

[dmac]

xyz

[donttellhimpike]

Never felt truly comfortable in deepest Luton........

[wires74]

Whats up with LUTON ??????

[Drpepper]

I'd place Blackpool second only to Great Yarmouth on my list of Depressing British Places.

The most depressing place I've played machines in would have to be Middlesbrough, although I went there to watch the Toffees rather than specifically to play the machines. In any case Middlesbrough would win the vote for most depressing place based on virtually any criteria. So my vote would have to go to ... Filey - just along the coast from Scarborough but resembling nothing more than The Land That Time Forgot. If there is a more depressing place than out-of-season Filey I have yet to visit it but I'm sure you'll all have your own suggestions.

As for the best place, York is just a lovely city in general, it has lots of pubs close together and in the days when virtually all of them had a machine there really was no finer place to while away a day which ended with pockets jangling.

As someone from whitby, i can whole heartedly agree with the comments about boro and filey. Filey is just a giant morgue in the winter.

Saying that though the central square mile of middlesborough is quite pleasant, never been outside of it yet and i don't intend to lol.

The only place i can think of that's worse than out of season Filey is Kabul.

But my vote goes to barnard castle, played in the first pub, look at the line of chavs outside the pizza shop, me and mate consider going past, at this point random member of public does instead, and gets a kicking for his troubles, in broad daylight.

Lovely stuff.

[grecian]

Whats up with LUTON ??????

Hehe, I wondered that - three or four have named it but surely it can't be *that* bad? The one thing I did wonder is whether, with its large Asian population, it might have a comparative lack of pubs (I've always had this idea, probably unfairly, of pubs as being predominantly a white thing, or at least not particularly an Asian thing, culturally). I'm only about 35 minutes on the train from Luton so maybe I'll slip up there one day and have a nose about.

(A check on BITE after making this post suggests that there's a goodly number of pubs although few immediately identifiable as chain bars - so I could well believe SWPs might be thin on the ground.)

[Matt Vinyl]

Quote from Only Fools and Horses:

Rodders: "Quick Del, the missiles are now heading over Luton!"

Del: "Sod Luton!"