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Reg in slippers
Well-Known Member
many a happy childhood day spent digging up worms here
Griff said:That's a classic.
I tried looking for that a while back, but thought it had been deleted.
Thankfully not.
A classic thread indeed. Romford is my home town and I should feel obliged to defend the place but if the electorate insisit on voting for the likes of Rossindell as their MP, it makes it a bit difficult! But then again, politics, particularly local politics in Havering is a very strange, parochial, pull up the drawbridge beast - lots of independents and ratepayers.
Mind you when I left home, I ended up not taking a step up but a step down to the delights of Thurrock - which being a unitary borough isn't technically part of Essex anymore!
Divisive Cotton
Now I just have my toy soldiers
Reg in slippers said:
He's a wind-up merchant - he was brought up in Romford!
(Just read all the thread - it is funny)
Divisive Cotton said:
...and those of us who had the dubious honour of being brought up in Romford are probably the best placed to make the most scathing comments on the place! After all it has changed a lot over the last 30 years...some changes for the best, others definitely for the worst. The decline of the once mighty Romford FC to the Essex Senior League being one of the changes for the worst IMHO...
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
portman said:
Did you work at Ford?
Divisive Cotton
Now I just have my toy soldiers
chio said:
Which leaves the question - how do you know that somebody comes from Essex?
Augie March
blahem
Bump up the Essex massive. 
cliche guevara
Well-Known Member
W00t!
I went to Tropical Wings in South Woodham Ferrers on Sunday, it was only then that I remebered quite how 'Essex' Essex can be.
I went to Tropical Wings in South Woodham Ferrers on Sunday, it was only then that I remebered quite how 'Essex' Essex can be.
Divisive Cotton
Now I just have my toy soldiers
ahhh South Woodham Ferrers... home of the plotlands movement before the war
Divisive Cotton
Now I just have my toy soldiers
Everybody, sing together!
A13, trunkroad to the sea!
If you ever have to go to Shoeburyness
Take the A road, the OK road that's the best
Go motorin' on the A13
If you're looking for a thrill that's new
Take in Fords , Dartford Tunnel and the river too
Go motorin' on the A13
It starts down in Wapping
There ain't no stopping
By-pass Barking and straight through Dagenham
Down to Grays Thurrock
And rather near Basildon
Pitsea, Thundersley, Hadleigh, Leigh-On-Sea,
Chalkwell, Prittlewell
Southend's the end
If you ever have to go to Shoeburyness
Take the A road, the OK road that's the best
Go motorin' on the A13
A13, trunkroad to the sea!
If you ever have to go to Shoeburyness
Take the A road, the OK road that's the best
Go motorin' on the A13
If you're looking for a thrill that's new
Take in Fords , Dartford Tunnel and the river too
Go motorin' on the A13
It starts down in Wapping
There ain't no stopping
By-pass Barking and straight through Dagenham
Down to Grays Thurrock
And rather near Basildon
Pitsea, Thundersley, Hadleigh, Leigh-On-Sea,
Chalkwell, Prittlewell
Southend's the end
If you ever have to go to Shoeburyness
Take the A road, the OK road that's the best
Go motorin' on the A13
Boris Sprinkler
Dont be scared
a throwaway comment about the early internet being like essex has got you mad enough to start a thread.
bi0boy
Power User
Why oh why do people make these stupid fucking sweeping statements about 'being like Essex' or some such shit.
It's lazy and shit. Stop it.
It's not always lazy and shit, that's a bit of a sweeping statement IMO. Sometimes things are just exactly like Essex.
Doppelgänger
There's only one of me!
It's only becuase it is the "accepted" term to describe "chavness". I'm not saying it is correct, but you have to agree that if somebody makes a reference, most will understand straight away what is implied.
joustmaster
offcumdun
was jade goody from essex
just over the border in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, although she did move to Essex once rich and moderately famous
I saw her in Pizza Hut in Romford once. Giving it the big "I am", I recall, unchequered as I am by tabloid editor false memory syndrome.
Doppelgänger
There's only one of me!
The new film Fish Tank doesn't give Essex a good image, but I suppose that it really could have been set anywhere.......
Griff
Feeding the foxes
What a stupid thing to say. This is what I mean, what the fuck are you taliking about?
i always think Essex is quite a lot like Essex...if it wasn't it might end up being Aberdeen or something.
Griff
Feeding the foxes
Bermondsey, South East London.
PacificOcean
Unhinged User
Your thinking of Posh Spice - though actually from Goffs Oak which is next to Broxbourne.
Griff
Feeding the foxes
No, it's used a fair bit more than that on here I've noticed. Like I said, lazy. And of course an uninformed swweping generalisation.
PacificOcean
Unhinged User
Harlow.
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