Blackpool attracts the French.

[andylaw79]

You've sold it to me, must visit!!!

That's just on a quiet Wednesday afternoon - the excitement on the weekends is overwhelming.

 

[got-to-get-fit]

it figures though.....blackpool stinks ....the french stink.....perfect match really.

 

[Globalti]

Having seen from close up the rust on the girders of the Tower I'm predicting that within a couple of years the H&S wombles are going to close that to the Public, unless it falls over first.

 

[Maz]

...blackpool stinks ...

No it doesn't.

Blackpool rocks...

 

[Globalti]

Did you read in the papers about the Blackpool bloke who worked in the rock factory? He got sacked so just before leaving he fiddled the lettering machine. A month later the management discovered they had two miles of rock in the warehouse with "Feck Off" written down the middle.

 

[Unkraut]

Looks much nicer than Two-loos (Toulouse).

I tried to think up a quick answer to that, but it took too long ......

 

[gavintc]

this one?

you are taking the piss ?

 

[Maz]

Did you read in the papers about the Blackpool bloke who worked in the rock factory? He got sacked so just before leaving he fiddled the lettering machine. A month later the management discovered they had two miles of rock in the warehouse with "Feck Off" written down the middle.

Sweet!

 

[Arch]

Did you read in the papers about the Blackpool bloke who worked in the rock factory? He got sacked so just before leaving he fiddled the lettering machine. A month later the management discovered they had two miles of rock in the warehouse with "Feck Off" written down the middle.

Having seen how that make the letters (built up from blocks of coloured and white), can a machine do it? I don't think it's just a a case of typing a word in. Even if it was extruded, you'd need a whole new mould...

Nice story, but...

I think Blackpool is making a mistake trying to be chic. It isn't, it never will be. The attraction of Blackpool IS the tat. If you like tat all the time, you go because you can get pissed off your head and 'have a right laugh', and if you're like me, you just like the occasional immersion in tat, for a giggle, and to remind you how much nicer it is to have decent taste. You can gamble to your hearts content for a quid in the penny cascade machines, have fish and chips, and a force 9 gale, a couple of decent roller coaster rides and revel in the tackiness*. If it's warm, you can even paddle in the sea. It's the same reason I'd go to Scarborough.

*summed up by the A-Board I once saw outside a shop selling the usual 'anything made of rock' and inflatable hammers, on which a hand scrawled poster read "We sell fags!"

 

[Scoosh]

If Blackpool wants to attract all the French equivalent of the Brits who currently go there, why not let them ? It's good 'tourisme', brings in some € and means the local tourist people will stop trying to encourage us to go there






Just don't ask/expect me to go any nearer than the M6
[shudders]

 

[andylaw79]

If Blackpool wants to attract all the French equivalent of the Brits who currently go there, why not let them ? It's good 'tourisme', brings in some € and means the local tourist people will stop trying to encourage us to go there

The Scottish make up a large majority of visitors to Blackpool. In fact they have a Scottish fortnight in July/August.

I used to go to uni in Carlisle and the train home on a Friday afternoon used to be packed with Scots on their way to Blackpool for the weekend. After an hour or so on the train from either Glasgow or Edinburgh and a few drinks…lets just say it used to be a bit lively.

 

[Arch]

Thought so:

click on Rock Making

http://www.blackpoolrock.com/

"There have been improvements, obviously, in the equipment used and some machinery introduced where before the job would have been done manually, but their is still no machine that can put the letters in, that is done entirely by hand"

Don't you hate people who bust urban myths...

 

[Scoosh]

The Scottish make up a large majority of visitors to Blackpool. In fact they have a Scottish fortnight in July/August.

I used to go to uni in Carlisle and the train home on a Friday afternoon used to be packed with Scots on their way to Blackpool for the weekend. After an hour or so on the train from either Glasgow or Edinburgh and a few drinks…lets just say it used to be a bit lively.

My point exactly
[shudders some more]

 

[andylaw79]

My point exactly
[shudders some more]

It was all generally light hearted fun on train, even had one young lady run through a few carriages topless on one occassion

 

[threebikesmcginty]

....the A-Board I once saw outside a shop selling the usual 'anything made of rock' and inflatable hammers, on which a hand scrawled poster read "We sell fags!"

That is class!!!