h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Milton Keynes is a very weird place indeed. I can remember tagging along to a conference there - me and my friend were wandering around the centre - only about 4 pubs that we could find - bad sign already. I managed to get us barred from the pub in the glass pyramid thing because I had holed in my jeans - definitly not the sort of clientele they were hoping to encourage (it was empty by the way) although I could stillwander around the rest of the complex putting my money into the slot machines etc as long as I didn't attempt to buy a beer in there I was OK.
Also - the streets all run north to south and east to west - every subway is identical. The only means of navigation was to examine the graffitti on each subway - turn left as BAZ LUV SHAZ.

Not a city centre as such - just a weird bizarre place, god knows why anyone would live there - absolutely no characer whatsoever.

To come to the resuce of the often maligned new town (which has a snowball's chance in hell of becoming a city if they insisit on spending about one tenth the amount of all the other hopefuls!) I have to defend the subways, not all the same, BAZ may LUV SHAZ in some of the estates but in others SHAZ LUVS DAN, which doesn't say much for SHAZ now does it.

Granted its an odd place, the only city where you have two spare tyres, one soley dedicated to the near side front. As for not letting people in bars with holes in their jeans, you didn't miss much. The glass pyramid thing is the point, much famed for only ever having three of its four red neons working since it opened, although to be fair its not always the same one thats off! They even had odd rules like no trainers!?!?

I forgot about the extra spare tyre, is there any truth to the rumour that when MK was being planned (planned?) the architects were drinking coffee and left lots of rings on the map thought they looked good so joined them up with roads? Also is it true the red ways are red to hide the blood stains from the muggings?

A new addition to MK as well as concrete cows and a dinosaur we now have a Concrete Snowman.

Vlad - by we I can asume you area a resident of the fair town. No truth to the rumours that I know of. I haven't seen a concrete snowman??

Its at the Stacey Hill collection I believe you know the Milton Keynes museum near Wolverton. I heard about it on Horizon.

I \LIKE/ milton keynes. It's a very sensibly arranged city. We have houses in one bit, usually we shops, a pub and schools nearby, big wide expanses of trees, nice dual carrigeways so traffic flows, and industrial bits somewhere else.

Most places (e.g. bletchly) have narrow roads, one way streets and, if you're lucky, you get to live next door to an active foundry!

And traffic lights, hold ups, narrow alleys, no street lights and no trees!

Plus, nowhere else I the country could I live on the next estate to my office and still break the ton on the way to work!

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