Richard's Online Journal
[22/04/07] Around Bath
A promising start to the destruction of our local chavtown. Opposite: mother pushing a gold edged pram, wearing revealing T-Shirt with gold lettering reading ‘DON’T LIKE ME? F*** YOU’. How sweet. How very not creepy.
Meanwhile, at Care in the Community’s Community Theatre division…
Welcome to Bath, City of Culture
Street musicians have started hiring bouncers. They work for cheap. Sanatogen too.
Bath’s a fun town, largely because most of it’s pretty prim and touristy. Which just makes stuff like the poster ("Excuse me? Drunk thugs? If you don’t mind horribly...") all the more noticeable.
Posted by Richard on Sunday 22nd April
First one looks like it could be “Half Life: The Bath Chronichles”
Posted by Cradok on Sunday 22nd April
Well, as you can see, we’ve got the Strider. Always walking into shot, our Percy…
Posted by Richard on Sunday 22nd April
Love the photos. Who could resist another visit to Bath after that!
Posted by Scylla on Sunday 22nd April
That guy on the unicycle totally isn’t an exhibitionist at all, is he? The tyre on his unicycle is PINK, FFS.
Posted by Iain on Monday 23rd April
As a fellow resident of Bath, I applaud your gallery of horrors. I’m shocked at the omission of the Jester Hat Jamaican Busker, though.
The “Please Don’t Urinate Here” sign made me laugh when I first saw it. Later, I was struck with tremendous guilt. Is it not affixed to a door which shares an alcove with a game shop? Evidently, the esteem of those who work in the game store(I forget its name) is so low they have no problem wading through piddle first thing in the morning.
Posted by Jachap on Thursday 10th May
Heh. Yep, it’s outside ePlay, opposite Thyme - aka The Best Sandwich Shop In Town.
Jamaican Guy wasn’t around when I was taking the photos, although to be honest, you’d need audio to properly convey the horror of his seasonal two-line songs like “We wish you a merry a-Christmas,” and “It’s gettin’ coldah and coldah and coldah,” that are on perpetual bloody repeat whenever you walk past.
Ditto for Insurance Salesman Preacher who used to hang around outside McDonalds, telling passers by that though they thought it was their life, it is not their life, it is God’s life, and they are going… to Hell. There’s no real way to describe his complete lack of charisma in text.
Posted by Richard on Thursday 10th May
To which i should quickly add Glasgow for the win!
Glasgow’s clyde is growing in commercialism and businesses. The new BBC Scotland building is finished and looks quite nice, although it completely blots out the Glasgow Science Centre. I think the quay is trying to become like Newcastle or London when it comes to the amount of buildings being erected. I fully expect high rise corporate buildings to be just around the corner. It’s nice to see Glasgow growing i suppose, but they really need to rejuvenate other areas as well
Posted by William Main on Sunday 22nd April