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Brown and Orange 70's carpet...? You weren't hiding out in my house were you?
GreyDesk

*zooms round a roundabout, tyres smoking and squealing"

So Ben. At last you admit that it is the roundabouts! I have you now!

Actually in the manner of all cr*p local papers the letters page of the Comet this week (remember the Comet?), is dominated by letters complaining about the behaviour of motorists at roundabouts in Stevenage. Motorists behave differently on Stevenage's roundabouts to those in other towns?

Oh yes, Harlow.

I'm really worried about the pasting that Hull is getting. Not because I feel the need to defend it, but because it cant possibly be worse than Stevenage. Stevenage is sooooo grotty that it should not even get a capital letter.

How many times can I vote for stevenage?
stevenage
stevenage
stevenage
stevenage.

I don't want to be accused of beating about the bush. stevenage is crap.

One of the problems of much of Stevenage is that cars and pedestrians are so effectively segregated that kids don't know how to cross the road safely. There were a number of accidents involving children from areas where there were subways walking to school where there weren't subways (Nobel in Chells) and stepping out in front of cars. Bang!

Indeed when I moved away from Stevenage after two years, I had to relearn how to cross a road.

GreyDesk

OK enough already. You've made your point. Ever thought about Letchworth?

Stevenage = Harlow The Herts/Essex parallel universe copies of each other.

My own personal vote is Cheshunt. (Herts - in case no-one else knows) Spent 18 years living there so i *know* this. Maybe Waltham Cross comes pretty damn close but they had a (gasp shock horror) nightclub - once upon a time, many years ago...

Yawn

I have come to the descision, for quite different reasons that suggested thus far, Manchester is really boaring, not as a place, but cause of the idiots that are native to the region, and that is that, details may follow,
"ahhhh"
(Moon Monkey"
(Green smoke Dragon fire)
MAGIC
Time machine
Towel/swipe
(vanish)

Live in Letchworth.

Hangs head in shame.

In an international context I'd like to put Canberra forward for consideration. If the number of roundabouts is an indicator of boredom levels then this must be a prime contender at the very least it must be the worlds most boring Capital City.

If in any doubt check out http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A287813

The problem is not the roundabouts - it is the proportion of roundabouts to other stuff.

Stevenage has lots of roundabouts, and bugger-all else. Apart from brown and orange 70s carpet.

Seems like most new towns have the same problem. Swindon even has roundabouts that lead into fields, (presumably to facilitate moving cattle from one part of town to the other).

agcB

What about the ice-rink? That counts as something other than roundabouts. I used to even visit Stevenage from St.Albans Because of that ice-rink.

Newbury (as mentioned up the thread) doesn't even have one of those, the only thing it has in any sort of quantity is Vodafone offices (well over 50).

Burgess Hill has got roundabouts that lead into fields... I guess this is to facilitate access for builder's lorries as yet another Sussex field is smallowed up by naff looking modern shoebox sized houses.

I'm afraid I can't comment on the boringness of the town, as I've always been fortunate enough to be driving straight through it without needing to stop

GretDesk

Ice rink now closed. Covered in brown and orange carpet probably.

Ice rink now closed in stevenage. Probably covered in brown and orange carpet. What do you think of stevenage now then Dancing Ermine?

Shows how long it's been since I went there But at least they have a football team in the Conference and one that occasionally makes it through a couple of rounds of the FA cup at that...