Anyone here from Portsmouth?

[Kyajae]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/h...re/6521603.stm

And I thought the place was just full of hairy-@rsed matelots! Good 'ol Boris!

Oi! Board Game Geek. Don't you start mentioning that 'race card' malarky on this board or you'll have SA and all her EMU friends throwing their virtual dummies around the shop.

I can hear the squeals of indignation and cries (sorry, smears) of 'racist' as I type.

[Weltchy]

I live in fareham, having just moved from southsea. Personally, I think pompey has been overrun with lots of little chavs and east europeans!!!!!

[sparklelard]

I was born in Portsmouth and lived there until I was 30. I was glad to leave. It was such a dump. I have only visited twice in the last 10 years and it is a very depressing place.

And yes, there are some very large people in Portsmouth.

[VectraMan]

I'm from Portsmouth. It says so on my passport. But I don't think I've been there since I was one. Has it changed?

[xoggoth]

I lived in Portsmouth for a while as did my son years later when he was at Uni. One defining thing about Portmsouth, it stinks of raw sewage!

[Board Game Geek]

I visited friend in Bournemouth over Xmas.

Oh dear oh dear oh dear.

They explained that the once, pretty little seaside town was now awash with drug users, drug dealers, pimps, yobs and immigrants.

I decided to challenge them on this, so we agreed to go out Friday and Saturday night to a few bars and sample the nightlife.

I'm glad I'm not a betting man, put it that way.

We also popped in to a Tesco Superstore there to pick up my brother-in-law from night shift and he explained that their store had one of the highest ethnic / immigrant customer bases in that part of the country. I asked him if that was important, since customers are customers after all, and everyone's cash is good.

He replied that they also had the highest incidence of shop-lifting in the Tesco stores in that area. He also mentioned that his store were getting a bit fed up arresting the thieves, since they almost always play the race card which really messes up the original arrest and it's not worth the hassle pursuing it in the end.

[ee61re]

I live in Havant, which is near Portsmouth.

I'm slim and drug free, but looking around our local Asda, or when we dare to venture into Portsmouth city centre itself, I can see where Boris is coming from!

[Kyajae]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/h...re/6521603.stm

And I thought the place was just full of hairy-@rsed matelots! Good 'ol Boris!