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I live here I think I would know better than you somehow.
Unless Manchester/Liverpool breeds placcy northerners then I would suggest your wrong.
well they inbreed with the welsh occasionally, good thing its the north welsh as well, cause if it was the south, we'd all be in trouble
/end sarcasm
well how come everytime i go there im surrounded by tourists?
you cant get a job coz your too fucking thick,
in your nothern slums, in your northern slums
(just thought i'd add something to the topic, even if it does offend half the people on this messgae board)
Mind you, I don't in Bradford, because it's full of loons. Splendid.
*shuts up*
HA, Pot-Kettle anyone?
i know
much like durham is, but cause durham is soo tiny they are everywhere
Whenever I'm out on the piss and I meet backpackers they've always just been to York Minster and the Jorvik Viking Centre (woohoo!). It's a total cliche in terms of Northern day-tripping, too and has always been full of OAP bus trips when I've been.
Not that that makes it an awful place, Bomberman, in fact it's quite the opposite. I adore York, but your insistence that you know it's not tourist-heaven is bordering on being obtuse.
is that like the opposite of acute, like i learned in primary school with obtuse and acute angles?
I would think that is very simple.
Selby has the Selby abbey. Does that make Selby a tourist town? I will not accept that the majority of people in York city centre are tourists. Dealing with people at work, it is fairly obvious the proportion of people in the town centre that are tourists and they are in the minority, compared to Blackpool where everybody is.
Yes. But I didn't mean it in that way.
Look it up, Gareth.
You'd think attracting tourism was a bad thing.
so your first point means that bradford isnt necessarily a tourist city, many people go "to york", it is a tourist city, theres lots to do there, and a lot of people want to go there to see the place
where as, i might add, bradford does have tourist attractions, it really does cause even i have been there, but people tend to go to "the attractions" rather than visit bradford as a place, well thats what i think anyway
i would tell you my mildly amusing story about when i went into a bradford bar, and got told i was standing on the wrong end of the bar to get served for white people, but its too long and it might scare the children
You are right about blackpool, it does focus heavily on tourism too, but that doesnt mean that thats it, there are other business in blackpool other than tourism ones, so that arguement doesnt stand up.
Does that make sense?
I think in the summer there will be more tourists in York, Bomberman you can't say there aren't many tourists in York, there are whole coachloads of people with cameras around their neck queueing to get into Betty's Tearooms!
i can never understand why that betty's place gets so bloody busy, whats that about? you can get a brew and a cake anywhere. not been in myself, so maybe im missing out on some orgasmic experience, but everytime i walk past im like, what you doing people. is it famous for sometghing?
I have no idea what the obsession is with Betty's, very strange...
Don't make me laugh! Bradford and York are not comparable in terms of tourism.
I've been to Betty's Tearooms (twice, I'm not ashamed!) and it's not up to much really.
However I fail to see how people who come on day trips to York really have the place to call it a tourist city and say I don't know what I am talking about. It has no more tourists most of the time than any other city I have ever been to. The only exceptions are when an event is here, like our christmas market or the races and this applies to anywhere that a big event is held.
I wouldn't nesscesarily assume that because there are lots of people here that are foreign that means they are tourists. York uni has a very large proportion of foreign students.
The other point I would argue is York is quite a large city compared to other nearby places and a lot of people come here regularly for shopping and I would not count those as tourists.
Bettys is just one part of York. The city centre itself here is very large and you can find tourists in only a handful of places usually. If it was a tourist city the whole place would be crawling with them.
Either way, do you prefer the weather today? Very sunny but at this time of year here that means very cold.