I’m greatly surprised my beloved hometown hasn’t yet been added to the role of shame on this here website.
I come and post from Blackburn in Lancashire. A town dying on its arse.
My particular beef is with the nightlife. It may seem surprising to outsiders but as relatively recently as 2004 Blackburn was a good, good night on the tiles consisting of probably a couple of thousand people of mixed ages, a roughly 50-50 gender divide and relative decency enjoying a number of respectable pubs.
Fast-forward 7 years and what do we have? Blackburn has now surrendered itself completely to the element of scum that has always existed in the background, but who now call the shots. The pubs are dives that now exist only to serve the lowest common denominators of local society.
Drug dealers, dole wasters, bums, guttersnipes, fallen women, young slappers and their steroid pumped teenage boyfriends. It’s a f*cking nightmare! A cross between ‘Shameless’ and the Star Wars canteen at best.
Blackburn pubs themselves haven’t seen a lick of paint, or a hoover or duster in 5 years or more. A couple stink of human feces from the blocked drains in the toilets. The regulars don’t care because hiring a plumber may see beer costs rise indirectly. You have to get your prioroties in order you see! Cheap beer whilst breathing in shit is a small price to pay for the patrons. The staff are comically inept, disinterested and/or rude.
I really begrudge going and rarely do. The last time a few months ago, against my better instincts, I visted the Postal Order pub about 10pm one Friday night only to see a 16 year old-looking girl casually throwing her guts up in the middle of the pub. No-one cared.
Many of the younger girls are rough beyond parody. Dresses 3 sizes too small revealling bruised white legs. Pissed out their minds before they leave their front door. None of them take any money into town, they just arrive tanked up off cider and cheap wine to then abuse people or pass out.
The Blackburn lads are hillbillies. Most steroided up + Dad in prison = most respect = shagging most slappers.
Perhaps apathy is a solution? In Blackburn its the only solution.
By: Gaz
Tags: Blackburn, Lancashire
I love Blackburn, and grew up there but everytime I come back to see family my heart sinks and I feel glad I left. It really is a shit hole. So many pubs have gone and the ones that are still there havent changed since the 90′s.
What used to be a good night, a circuit even, is now a cannonball run. A chavalanche of slags and knobheads surge into town on a Saturday night determined to shag or get pissed. It sounds ace but it really really isnt.
I lost all hope for Blackburn when it’s only bookstore was FORCED to close because uncultured illiterate ignorami that populate the ghastly town of Blackburn have no inclination to read, the Big Issue sellers in the town seem to be monopolised by one Roma Gypsy family, all the Umbro-wearing chavs seem to have a drug problem with teeth missing and the serially pregnant chavettes are as predatory as the town’s Pakistani bigamists, night time – as mentioned above – is the worst though for different as this is the time gangs of junkies and crackheads break into buisnesses to steal copper to feed their habits, it is a town that reeks because a large number of its council-estate hillbillies refuse to use deodrant for their horrific BO and people in the town are so miserly they do all their shopping in pound store, please avoid, let it die slowly tills its some quaint market town again as for me am glad am emigrating away this summer.
I am ashamed to say I was born in Bburn.
Now it is 40% chav and 40% pak. And they are mixing to create frankenstein monsters.#
Chavpakilovers frequent the numerous takeaways (where they tend to takeaway e-coli and the like).
bombing the place might be best, since the 80% I refer to are only good for increasing the pension age, being totally ignorant, shouting abuse, getting tanked up and interacial raping.
What a spot-on eloquent dissection of the nightlife by Gaz.
you don’t no what your talking about SHUT UP Blackburn is an amazing town soon to be coming a city. (idiot
Good observation Gaz. Add to this the sheer hilarity of the council ‘investing in public art’ and demolishing the market to encourage more businesses to relocate here……
The only people who missed Blackburn were the Luftwaffe.
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“A cross between ‘Shameless’ and the Star Wars canteen at best”
I love you, anon.
When I make it back up to my hometown in the North I always have the oddest feeling, like I’ve somehow travelled to the Ural Mountains, Russia, 1986.
Does the music in those pubs ever, ever change?
Why not try clayton brook nr preston its just the same
Could not agree more with this!! I actively avoid blackburn’s night life because it is simply dire!!
haha come to mountain ash it’s like Detroit on a Friday night, with roiders and their pissed slappers running riot all over the place!!
What?what are you on about you nob talk properly.