I had the misfortune of living in Toxteh -actually an area called ‘Canning’ which the city tried to promote as the ‘Georgian Quarter’ due to the 19th century houses. A lot of people who lived in Canning tried to pretend that it wasn’t Toxteth, but it was.
Oh my god, what a shithole. It’s a very high crime area, with way above average burglaries, robberies and vehicle crime. There was way more drug use and prostitution than in other cities i have lived in in the UK.
The locals (black and white) are a bunch of complaining, lazy, brain dead, dirty, twats. I have never known people to be more self obsessed and inward looking. Toxteth is like the archetypal ‘village’ with its inhabitants hating outsiders and change and with none of them having more than about 2 brain cells to rub together.
And don’t get me started on their self pitying-just google the dead baby/chicken fetus story. What a bunch of morons-i really hated living there and i have lived in many cities around the UK, including London, Birmingham, Bristol and Leeds and none of their inhabitants have the self obsessed, self pitying attitude that scousers do. And so many scousers are thieves-you have really got to have your wits about you or you WILL end up a victim of crime, as i was several times.
In Liverpool if you really want to be unpopular, just say ‘job’ . Most scousers are totally resistant to working for a living and many think that they have a right to benefits, even if they, and their families, have never worked a day in their life. Of course they can’t manage on benefits (get to get the money for the fags, booze and plasma TV from somewhere) so they are invariably involved in crime to supplement their benefit ‘income’
Bunch of losers-and i am afraid that i would have to apply the above to nearly all the people in Liverpool, though i do appreciate that some scousers are decent. No wonder so many leave this shit hole of a city-including ALL celebrities.
God i will never return to that place-it gives me nightmares,
Basically, if you said things like that to us, no wonder you ‘were a victim of crime’, because you obviously assume that you are above us. An you get ‘scumbags’ everywhere.
I laughed my 34dd’s off at this.
Fellow Liverpudlians, we always say how much our humour is the best in the country. Well, lets act like it.
Lets get in-depth about our comment author here. Given the psychological warning signs sent out by our lovely human, its quite probable that the person in question has nobody to call “friend”. It’s quite possible that the amount of places they’ve claimed to have lived in is for the simple fact that they’re wanted for questioning down by the police. Their parents quite possibly had a party (you know, them swinging parties all the weirdo’s are raving about these days) when their adopted (but they still don’t know it yet) “child” left for brighter shores. Or should that read to be shafted up the bottom?
Just to also clarify, there is no geographical area within Liverpool’s boundaries called “Canning”. There is however a place called Canning Street, not too far from the City Centre. I do apologise for being pedantic, but my Toxteth born and bred brain cannot comprehend idiocy nor a person commenting on a place when they cannot even bother to get to know the correct names for the areas they apparently live in.
And yes. I still live in Toxteth. I was born here, educated here, work here, had my son here, live here, got married here, made a success of my life here, bought a house here, and love it here. And I’m a 34 year old sexy bitch, with a f**king great rack, great arse and legs that wont quit and after all that, I’m a historian.
Joke’s on you, Gumby. It’s OK to cry. Maybe mama didn’t love you enough?
All this stereotyped bullshit that everyone has to say about Liverpool is ridiculous. So sick of it. The southern based media hate us and constantly promote these false ideas of Liverpool and its people. Take the f**king outrageous, slanderous lies the s*n printed after the Hillsborough tragedy. To this day people refuse to buy the paper because of it. Many shops refuse to stock it and rightly so.
I hate all the jokes you see on telly about scousers being thieves and all this shit. I can take a joke but its bordering on racism when you think about it. Before any gobshite mentions, I know being scouse is not a race, but if you where to suggest the whole Pakistani community are theieves, then people would be in uproar. How is it fair to generalise a whole community of people, just because they come from Liverpool as being chavs, thieves and all the rest of it.
Scousers are extreamly proud of our city and rightly so. I often think people who hate us are just jelous really. City with more no.1′s than anywhere else, city with 2 of the best football clubs the english league and infact Europe has ever seen. We are uniuqe in our accent and proud of it. Girls up and down the country seem to f**king love it aswell.
WE’RE NOT ENGLISH, WE ARE SCOUSE!
Correction about the Irish famine. Liverpool were turning ships and boats back to Dublin, full of the starving, due to serious over-crowding and the health risks taking anymore would create.
Liverpool can be a fantastic city, steeped in history and culture. But, some of the people are arrogant, rude and aggressive, and it is that part of Liverpool culture people dispise.
By the way Scousers, isn’t it about time you gave Ringo Starr a break. What other people would take a flippant remark to heart like that? He said he didn’t miss anything about Liverpool, (surprise, surprise), that’s all he did! Grow up Liverpool, and stop embarrassing yourselves!
I lived and worked here between 2001-2006. Lived in the particularly run down area of Kensington (Rufford Road). Coming from Chester, as posh as it is, I am in no way posh. I hated my time spent there. Kept myself to myself where I lived but that still didnt stop the scummy dregs of society from hurling abuse at me for just walking down the street minding my own business.
Now as a whole, I love Liverpool, its History and Culture and often come back to visit some of the city centre’s more quirky old fashioned pubs. However, there are certain types of ‘Scouser’ that have appalling attitudes, think they are constantly ‘hard done to’ and should get everything handed to them for free.
Despite scallies hurling abuse at me, the most idiotic thing I have heard was when travelling home on a bus, sitting behind a mother and her 18 year old daughter. The daughter was actually arguing that she wanted to go out and work and meet people but her Mother refused and wanted to wrap her little girl up in cotton wool.
Totally pathetic, no wonder certain Scousers end up like they do in Liverpool.
I spent four years in Liverpool as a student and also worked there for a year.What a great multi-cultural diverse society, which won capital of culture while i was living there too! Harbouring some great bars, shopping, muesames, music venues and some nice attractions such as the docks, it is a nice getaway for a weekend. However there was only one thing i didnt like about the city and this was its inhabitants, not the various different races, but the scousers themselves!!I have lived in various parts of the Uk such as London and Birmingham and sincerely believe these have to be the lowest scum of the earth..The women were particularily scary people..I tend to keep myself to myself on nights out and dnt get in much trouble however within the time i spent in this city i realised that the ladies were a truly scary, intimidating, typical jeremy kyle generation of folk. I felt that nights out were like a local meat market were they would compete to look the tackiest! Most ladies were usely orange and dressed to the nines in counterfeit gear, and felt that sadly most of these were very dumb with not much interests other than makeup clothes and money, and with no aspiration in life but to be the next colleen rooney, bag a footballer or drug dealer boyfriend. I have to agree and relate to alot of what shaded Pardon has claimed.. I would do my shopping in local asda and see these women in their pyjamas in the middle of the day, i am yet to see this anywhere else! The men also tend to look generally the same with skinheads and dark trackies, walking around with their hands down their trousers.Just a nasty class of people with an accent that would go through your brain. I just found all in all these people cannot be trusted and although on face value are over the top nice and seem friendly, they are genuinely not, and often out for what they can get, whether it be robbing you at a cash point or snatching your handbag! It may seem stereotypical to speak of the drug and crime situation within this city, but generally most scousers look like heroin addicts, inbred or just plain dodgy and i would never trust one of them! I would recommend Liverpool for anybody interested in visiting for a weekend however i would also advise them to keep their wits about them, and hold on to their belongings and not trust any of these folk!
what an awful shitty er i mean city liverpool is, a proper communist city it is, where else would you see scetty women in the pajamas with big rollers in the hair and a face that it looks like its been tangoed(if you have been in liverpool you will notice the umpa lumpas, orange women to you and me).best quotes ive heard is “AAARGUHH HES A SNOB, HES GORRA JOBBBB!!!” and before any one says, not all scousers are unemployed, thats true, but the ones that are, cant and wont do the jobs properly.And it is true, what somebody wrote, liverpool people are just a big bunch of horrible biggoty bullying nasty troglodites.And have you tried reporting a crime in liverpool???? need i say more, it comes to it when even the police tell you to get yourself out of that horrible city.ive lived all over, and im sure im qualified to say liverpool has to be the worst of the worst ,its just plain awful.look at it in 2008, it looked like a building site.i think, give Liverpool what it wants, a republic, build a wall around it and rename it H.M.P.LIVERPOOL.Stop wasting hard EARNED tax payers money on the place, lasting impressions of liverpool…its not the place it used to be, it has a false brookie accent, and the people are just as false.Pure properganda what liverpool people say about them selves, a shitty ass city for a shitty ass people………………….
Well I must say that was the funniest thing Ive read for a long time, I actually had pains in my side from laughing, in fact I laughed so much I almost fell of my chair, Its absolutely brilliant, well done, I thought a last some one with a sense of humour( obviously aquired whilst a resident in our fair and wonderful city). Then I suddenly had an absolutely horrendous thought, maybe, just maybe this ‘tit’ is serious. So in the off chance that you are:-
I am Toxteth born and bread, over the years Ive lived in a number of cities throughout the UK and believe me we all have our fare share of crime and violence.
The Georgian Quarter:- Its now such a sort after place to live that to purchase a property in the area costs mega bucks. by the way there is no such place in Liverpool as ‘Canning’.
Crime in the city is no more and no less that many other cities in the UK.
Work shy my arse:- The average unemployment figures for Liverpool for the last 5 years are 5.3% so thats 94.7% of us who are working.
It seems that you have been a victime of crime on a regular basis I can only assume that your appearance my make you look a little bit more vunerable than normal, red hair and 6 fingers on each hand, just won’t help, no matter where you live(may I appologise to our country cousins in East Anglia).
Try no to be so bitter, we (Scousers)are not that much different to most other folk, well other than being:-friendly/generous/great sense of humour and welcoming, yes welcoming, name me one other city in the UK that has a memorial to the Irish famine victims? (Answer NONE, not one) we took them in and tried to help and still do, thats why many of use have Irish ancestors and Chinese( my wifes family), and every race under the sun, these good people came here and added value to the city, unlike yourself.( Mean spirited Twat come sto mind) I notice one glaring omition from your increadibly fair minded critique, you didn’t mention your home town!!!
I will leave you with this, its a quote from that esteemed 21st c sociologist(Jim Royal) ” Get a f**king life”
Having worked there for sometime I have to agree witht some of thes posts, from major thefts to false compensation claims I’ve seen it all and more from the locals, the amount of toilet flooding and offensive graffiti is unbelievable, worse than kids.
Has it occured to anyone else that the rude commentors one here are making sweeping judgements based on their own sad experiences in a city? If you are so unfortunate to have had such a bad time, then i suggest a) you are making the wrong type of aquaintances, and b) you are spending too much time in the wrong areas! All cities have bad areas and bad people. Liverpool on the whole is a dyverse, creative and architecturally beautiful city. You will only see what you want to see so open your eyes and stop judging everything and everyone.
what a load of tosh, Liverpool has its good and bad just like anywhere else! And this stereotypical scouser image, im from Liverpool and never spouted an ‘i met john lennon’ story once, never took drugs and consider myself to be an intelligent individual unlike a lot of the posters on here!
That seemed to end that “conversation” jon, well wrote mate.
Segar – You twat, toxteth is full of the lowest form of life on earth. Smackheads, violent black crackheads, roming Poles on the rape, slags on the corner, dealers in the Nova, pensioner behind triple bolted door. As for standing on a corner and saying what you thought of the place, why? So some gang of tracky wearing scallies, high on Frosty Jacks knife you in the face?
You really are a tosser arnt you?
Haha internet tough guys on here. “sideshow bob”, you truly are a big-time queg.
If you don’t like Liverpool, you were undoubtedly bullied by its inhabitants.
The OP was a victim of crime? I’m not surprised. If you act in real life like you write on here, you got everything you deserved.
Was going to comment on the usual uninformed and embarrassing stereotypes peddled by idiots who post on this website but can’t really be arsed as no one will take any notice. After all, the average Chavtowns contributor either can’t read beyond a primary school level or has his/her head stuck firmly up their own arsehole.
Note: Canning is and always has been an area in its own right. Facts straight please you OP, you OOT whopper.
I lived in Liverpool between 1998 and 2009.
It was quite an unpleasant experience to say the least. The first 2 years were fine but the rest of my time there as I began to realise what Scousers are REALLY like was downright awful. After 11 years, I left there with just ONE friend… and she came from St Helens!
Scousers are the biggest load of bullshitters on the planet. They so love themselves and think they’re all so witty and wonderful. However, the only scousers with closed mouths are dead ones since they love to drone on and on and on and on and on about absolutely nothing. The amount of liars I encountered with their “I met John Lennon” stories… well, I lost count.
Scousers like to believe they’re really warm, sincere and caring. Are they buggery… I had a personal crisis. At that time I believed I had many Scouse friends. I helped them and was there for them when they had problems. When it was MY turn for a bit of help and support, that was it. I ceased to exist. Not a single one of them bothered to get in touch to find out how I was. Why? I’d outlived my purpose. Scousers are only interested in you if you have stuff to leech or bum off you.
Then you have the Scallies, as the Chavs like to call themselves. A hateful race of robotic clones. They all think they’re dead alternative and misunderstood when they’re just nasty obnoxious hateful cretins. They all look the same. All adopt the same dumbed down accent. And they think they own the place and that the World owes them a living and “respect.” Chavs in general are awful but Scallies are plain hateful.
And where else on the planet do you regularly see Scally women in the supermarket wearing pyjamas and slippers? Unbelievable… but sadly true.
I was bitterly disappointed with my experiences of Liverpool. I so wanted to believe all the good things that are often said in defence of the place. I explored every inch of that city looking for some people rooted in reality… and failed. I was and am glad to see the back of that place and will NEVER set foot there ever again.
I’ve moved to toxteth (park road) and found the area to generally be ok. There is a shithead youth element but on the whole its an ok place to live. Most of the locals are friendly enough and love to comment positively on my rather broad west country accent.
Its no worse than any other city. I can think of areas in birmingham and bristol which are far rougher.
from someone who was born and lived 19 years in liverpool i must say getting away from this nasty place was the best thing that ever happend to me, i have moved over to the wirral 10 years ago and oh my god what a lovely place, much better people , much better houses, no where near half as much crime, and no where near half as much drug use. liverpool is a very nasty place that is full of stuck up wankers.
whoever posted the area as canning I think you are a bloody liar,it is actually canning street,I don’t think you ever lived in Liverpool and your comments are totally uncalled for,if you did live here were you unemployed,taken one of the jobs or most probably a student and if you want to stand by those comments why don’t you come back to Liverpool/Toxteth and stand on a corner and spout your crap,then you will be the victim of a crime or are you as we all think just a bloody COWARD!
Oi segar!
What the f**k is this supposed to mean?
or are you as we all think just a bloody COWARD!
Who the f**k do you think you are declaring yourself spokesman for the whole of Toxteth?
You f**king Scouse gobshite, the guy has an opinion of your godforsaken shithole and the f**king losers that inhabit it and all of a sudden the typical scrawny necked scouse gobshite pops up and threatens him from a f**king keyboard! and a keyboard that has been nicked from the original owner too no f**king doubt! crawl back into the hole you call home with your sister/wife and wind yer f**king neck in.
sideshow bob you classic spastic.
every scouse hater comes out with the same stereotypical bullshit about robbing and drugs.
if as you say the keyboard segar used was stolen. who was its original owner? someone in liverpool perhaps, or cant we afford such luxuries. everyone can stereotype an area.
did you know everyone in wales has had intercourse with a sheep?
or that everyone from scotland is a kilt wearing ginger?
grow up.
Admittedly Toxteth isn’t the greatest part of town, but it doesn’t deserve the slamming that it receives here. The author, as Ted succinctly points out, rolls out every scouse stereotype and I seriously doubt whether they have spent any reasonable amount of time there. The evidence is likely to be anecdotal.
The person who wrote the article must be the most unfortunate soul I have ever heard of, as they reel off a whole list of undesirable areas in which they have lived across the UK. What crime must the author have committed to force them to move from one hole to the next?
Unfortunately there has to be areas in all cities were those who are less fortunate must reside, as it’s cheap. Not every town can be like Primrose Hill. I must admit that I am a scouse expat and now call London home, I do get back to Liverpool once a month to visit family and I can honestly say that I would move back if the jobs were there. Unfortunately Liverpool’s population started to shrink because job opportunities dried up; those unable to move away have borne the brunt of the recent economic crisis. That said I still find my home town to be far more positive a place with positive people than were I live in London.
Crime – Liverpool’s rate of reported crimes is far less than; Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Bristol and London. Please refer to the home office website for details.
I must agree with the author though on the point of scouser’s inward looking nature. They are fiercely proud of their town and heritage and do not wish to be associated with other towns and cities. I wonder if the author has visited Barcelona or other areas in the Basque region, if so he would have experienced the same attitude there. I don’t necessarily think this is a bad thing; at least we have an identity. The same cannot be said of other big cities in the UK, were the population struggle to differentiate from their town and countless others across the country.
I am a proud Scouser, with a very good job and a clean criminal record, there are many more like me. Liverpool has one of the finest collections of grade 2 listed buildings and a rich history to explore. I would advise all to take the article above and its contents with a pinch of salt, visit our fine city and make their own mind up.
Lol! So if no-one works what do they steal? The ‘Pool is far from perfect but overall no better or worse than any other city.
Why do I not believe you have ever lived in Liverpool? You’ve just rolled out every lazy out-dated media-created stereotype. How unimaginative and sad.