#126

last time i was in wokingham there was some drunk bloke in the pub who started talking to us and bemoaning the number of ‘benders’ that were around these days

:frowning:

#127

Also actually as I recall, a lot of barneying around prams.

#128

Weren’t there loads of retrograde lads at your school as well? I guess that’s who they grow up to be.

#129

yeah a few - place just has a bit of a small town mentality, perfectly nice place to be if you are comfortable with that i suppose, but i couldn’t go back to living there!

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#130

You can go bowling, and go see a film at Winnersh Triangle, and make a big trip into town to drink on Friar St on a friday? What are you complaining about.

The last time I went to the bowling alley in Bracknell, I dislocated my shoulder.

#131

I remember that one guy who went to your school (I think his initials are IB? Def first name I) who used to be such, such a creep to the women at the After Dark. But in a really pathetic way.

#132

Ha! I haven’t thought about him for a LONG time - i think he is still in the area - he was a very strange lad indeed

NOT A FAN

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#133

I’d totally forgotten about him, until he turned up in a photo on FB the other day and it was like “wow that guy still exists. What, he has friends?? Or at least people who will sit on a table with him??” He was always dancing on his own, not in a cool Robyn way. In a “I’m trying to rub myself on women when their backs are turned” sort of way.

#134

:grinning:

that is a very good description of him!

#135

I have definite visions of indoor sunglasses too.

#136

The last time I went out in Bracknell (10+years ago) I nearly got beat up (for no reason) and a lad pushed his girlfriend down the steps at the train station onto my girlfriend. If mine wasn’t there she’d have been fucked.

It’s a great place. So now I go to Wokingham* or Reading.

*though there are too many benders around there these days.

#137

Didnt see me crying when Zone in Wakefield closed down

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#138

iconic

#139

There is a fine choice of nightclubs in Wakefield for every decade experience though.

#140

Never had any trouble in The Bugle but I was always with Scots people in there. It is, however, a really shit pub.

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#141

Flares for 70s, Buzz for 80s, Boom/Fanny and Bacardis for 90s

#142

This place sounds brilliant. Wish we had this style of indie disco in Ireland.

#143

does the Face Bar still exist? that’s the only place I’ve ever really been to in Reading

#144

Pretty sure it was still there when I left abut 2 months ago, though think there was rumours of that being turned into flats too.

#145

Yep, still there. Still a venue etc - though upstairs area hasn’t been open for yonks