To think that Brighton is a hideous dump

[StunningCunt]

Just looking at these pictures:

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2179371/Broken-bottles-plastic-bags-left-strewn-Brighton-seafront.html

Yes I know there's probably a similar amount of rubbish on Bournemouth beach, but at least they've got SAND for fuck's sake.

As far as I can tell the only purpose Brighton serves is to be an easy journey from London on the train. All this bollocks about it being bohemian (i.e. lots of stag dos) is a front for the fact that it's effectively Croydon-on-sea - an expensive London commuter town but with extra vomit and seagull shit.

It's hideous.

We've so many DFLs in Lewes that there's no room for a decent spot of devil worshipping.

what with their flowery wellies and Per Uno outfits......

What's a DFL?

Down From London

Can I come to the magic meet up?
I'll cruise up on my broomstick .

Devils Dyke, at midnight on Beltane.
don't forget your flowery wellies.

Let's all embrace the Olympic spirit of fair play and being nice to each other, eh?
Thanks

Wiccans are always nice to each other Olivia, whatever you wish on someone comes back to you threefold.
Don't you think it's a bit unfair to randomly accuse people of being Devil Worshippers? Because we have a crystal or two or burn a little incense?
Go skyclad on a beach with our wrinkly bits showing?
Let's consider the number of Upstanding Christians killed by witches in the last two millenia. (Evidence required)
As opposed to the number of witches killed by Upstanding Christians....(Evidence by the bucketload)

Why wait til Beltane? Next celebration is Lammastide.
1st August, bring a fruit or an interesting vegetable.

I agree with you fallen. I think it's completely fair and in the Olympic spirit to go for Gold in Loon Spotting when such absurd allegations are being chucked around!

Went to Hastings the other day. Now that place really is a hideous dump........

I must have missed the devil worship when I lived in Brighton.. I always miss the fun :(

That's what I love about Brighton lunatic - there's a bit of everything here and nobody seems to mind any of it! Of course there are parts you'd avoid, but not that many. I like that my son has grown up seeing everything from Gay Pride to the Burning of the Clocks (which is quite witchy but rather lovely!). The Old Lanes are the worst for the incense and skull shite - and those shops are almost always packed with the language students of which there are many and all seemingly filling their boots with skull shite and badges with cannabis leaves on!

I was born and raised in Blackpool, and it is a dump - spoilt by stag and hen parties fighting and vomiting their way through the weekend in the season. And then a ghost town in the winter. There are many, many pretty areas to Blackpool that the average visitor probably wouldn't know about but I agree - it is now a dump.

I lived in Brighton for a year and could not wait to leave. I hated the place, almost on an inexplicable level. I honestly felt nothing but relief the day I moved back to London. I should have liked it. On the surface - the tolerance to alternative types, the North Lanes shopping, the beach, the lovely quirkiness of the painted houses etc, etc. Having lived in Hackney previously and grimaced my way through the pretentiousness that is Hoxton, Dalston and Shoreditch...the wanky pretentious side of Brighton didn't bother me at all.

It was just the whole place. I didn't feel right there. I'll never be able to explain it - I should have loved it. I can say Blackpool is a dump and mean it, and not feel defensive just because I grew up there...it is a dump! But I have never, ever felt anywhere like what I felt living in Brighton. I think it kind of bothers me that ten years later, I still can't figure out what it was about the place. I keep thinking - I should have loved it, but I didn't. I hated it. I hated every second being there, and couldn't wait to leave. Weird :)

Different places for different people, Orenishii. I felt the same level of distaste for Manchester. Never been back, never want to.

To be a tiny bit serious for a moment, I'd really like it if people could get their heads around the idea that Pagans don't worship the Devil. Not least because such an entity is entirely unrecognised.

I love Hastings too, as it happens. Great stuff goes on there - 14,300 pirates last Sunday, for example - and while there is deprivation there's also a great sense of community. In fact I'd take Brighton and Hastings any time if the alternative was sodding Surrey.

Pandemonia - it is annoying. Satanists don't even worship the devil, as it's really just a philosophical rejection of religion - something that definitely wouldn't support actively worshiping that other proponent of religion (Satan!). Probably the most disingenuous self-label for a group, ever!

To get back to the point, Brighton is scruffy and a bit seedy, certainly a bit bonkers but I love it because of that. It's probably the only place in the south east outside London that is accepting of difference. I love going down in January to walk along getting my face frozen off. As for the pebbles, they don't get up your crack like sand.

Lentilly has it right. Brighton really does have a bit of everything. I've lived in Brighton, London, rural Kent and the Midlands and in my opinion, nothing compares to Brighton. I love the fact you can walk everywhere, the beaches are great (go to the other side of the burnt out pier- they're MUCH quieter!) and there's just a great atmosphere. The streets feel so much safer than London and there's just so much to do, a lot of which isn't expensive. Transport links are brilliant (trains to London/South East every 15 mins!) It's also not only a summer place- I went to shows in the Fringe festival in May, I'll go to Pride in September and the comedy festival in October. There's lots of independent places to find that aren't full of tourists. Yes it's expensive to live here and very difficult to get houses/schools but I haven't found anywhere else that I prefer.

But, like Fallen says, it's all personal preference. My brother loves Brighton- to visit for a day. He could never live here, he wants a house in a tiny village surrounded by fields. I would say YANBU to say you don't like a place, but YABU to think Brighton's a 'hideous dump.' There are far, far worse places out there in the UK.

If Brighton is a 'hideous dump' then I feel for anyone who lives in the many places that might, quite reasonably be described thus. Even the less lovely parts of Brighton are nothing compared to some of the places that people are forced to live in.

As a Brightonian I am more than happy to propagate the opinion that Brighton is a hideous dump. That way all those people who flock here every sunny day might think twice and bugger off with all their rubbish and crappy behavior.

So YES BRIGHTON IS A SHIT HOLE ;)

(Sadly it is SO not a shit hole, so much so that its impossible to get your kid into school for all the people moving here. Please don't move here...)

You are named after my son's favourite place!

Liking the username snoopers. Has a very Kensington Gardens ring to it!