Things About Brighton (the city) you find weird

[Barrel of Fun]

The amount of incredibly fit woemn in Waitrose tonight. Including Zoe Ball. Normally, they are par of the course.

 

[Munkfish]

JJB Sports western road

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Why there's security guards outside Poundstretchers in London Road?

 

[ali jenkins]

The fact that you cant get into a bar unless your group is EXACTLY the ratio of 50:50 guys to girls!

 

[Les Biehn]

JJB Sports western road

That my man is spot on. It like a portal to the mid 90s. Fecking odd shop.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

The fact that after about 8pm there's no trains to Wivelsfield/Burgess Hill/Hassocks/Preston Park for 29 minutes, then a Thameslink (OK, KFC if you will) and a Southern train arrive at, say, Three Bridges within a minute of each other. Then there's nothing for ANOTHER 29 minutes. Any normal enterprise would say, hang on, lets space them apart and run a train down to Brighton every fifteen minutes. Brainless wankers.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Oh, and on the subject of trains, the last train leaves Brighton for London about 2 minutes to 11, even on a Saturday night. WTF?

 

[Les Biehn]

The fact that after about 8pm there's no trains to Wivelsfield/Burgess Hill/Hassocks/Preston Park for 29 minutes, then a Thameslink (OK, KFC if you will) and a Southern train arrive at, say, Three Bridges within a minute of each other. Then there's nothing for ANOTHER 29 minutes. Any normal enterprise would say, hang on, lets space them apart and run a train down to Brighton every fifteen minutes. Brainless wankers.

At the main commuter hour of 5-6 you have a train that calls at Wivelsfield at 5.07 and the next one is 5.55, a 48 minut wait, genius.

 

[Les Biehn]

Oh, and on the subject of trains, the last train leaves Brighton for London about 2 minutes to 11, even on a Saturday night. WTF?

They are 11.30 sunday to thursday. Used to be an 11.30 on the weekend but to many pissed up nobbers smashing the train up.

 

[Frutos]

Those anti-graffiti cones in the middle of whatever that road is called leading from the seafront up to the clock tower.

If you don't want graffii, would it not be easier to just not have anything there TO graffiti, instead of what look like over-sized ice lollies.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

They are 11.30 sunday to thursday. Used to be an 11.30 on the weekend but to many pissed up nobbers smashing the train up.

Sure thing, we all know that's the reason, but this is the 21st Century. Shouldn't really be running the railways on the 'avoid dealing with pissed up nobbers' theory. But then again, I expect that exact same theory explains why all the honest god-fearing (and more to the point pissed up nobber fearing) chippies shut up shop about 9pm and leave the kebab/curry/chinese takeaway owners to deal with the pissed up knobbers. Sort of a sad state of affairs tho innit.

 

[British Bulldog]

They are 11.30 sunday to thursday. Used to be an 11.30 on the weekend but to many pissed up nobbers smashing the train up.

Is the correct answer so on a Saturday night it now runs empty to Haywards Heath where it then starts as a passenger service.

 

[Drumstick]

Those anti-graffiti cones in the middle of whatever that road is called leading from the seafront up to the clock tower.

If you don't want graffii, would it not be easier to just not have anything there TO graffiti, instead of what look like over-sized ice lollies.

I was told they were meant to be calming or somthing.

 

[Les Biehn]

Sure thing, we all know that's the reason, but this is the 21st Century. Shouldn't really be running the railways on the 'avoid dealing with pissed up nobbers' theory. But then again, I expect that exact same theory explains why all the honest god-fearing (and more to the point pissed up nobber fearing) chippies shut up shop about 9pm and leave the kebab/curry/chinese takeaway owners to deal with the pissed up knobbers. Sort of a sad state of affairs tho innit.

Strangely with the new licensing laws I don't think the problem would be as bad.

 

[dougdeep]

It's weird that it has the highest percentage of whingers than anywhere else on earth. FACT.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Strangely with the new licensing laws I don't think the problem would be as bad.

So far as remember, it's normal for chippies to open late oop north. And I read the other day that Greasy Greggs are planning on opening up in Newcastle when the pubs chuck out to cash in on the FOOD! NOW! market. Going to be offering pies and pasties and the like as an alternative to kebabs. Good call IMHO

 

[Les Biehn]

It's weird that it has the highest percentage of whingers than anywhere else on earth. FACT.

You've obviously never been to Bolton then. Mind you at least they have something to moan about.

 

[smudge]

That weird little 'cafe society' mini-park thing at Preston Circus, going up towards the Cobblers Thumb / New England Road.
It's got the statue/artwork of two people str-e-e-e-tching and kissing, there's a couple of half dead palm trees and a half-hearted attempt at a leafy glade that looks to have been abandoned about 15 years ago. topped off with the faintly sinister Black Chapati restaurant, a launderette, the Pause Cafe (nice fry-up!), the internet-gaming-geek-bunker, the very strange army surplus store (bear dressed in a Russian submariners outfit some days). Indeed the Cobblers Thumb is, well, cobblers, being BY FAR the worst Aussie theme pub the world has ever seen. It's all a bit head-mental round there really. I blame the traffic fumes.

Don't forget the Brighton Wok!

 

[Horsham Gull]

The level

 

[Deleted User X18H]

That has been flattened - for about two years!

The strangest thing is the people of Hove.

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