what was YOUR shit seaside town?

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#21
  • big wheel
  • dodgems
  • waltzers
  • twister
  • other
  • none, shite

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#22

Was supposed to be going to Hunstanton for the day next weekend. But itā€™s been quarantined off (as one of the other participants is currently in Spain).

#23

2p waterfalls, weird horse racing thing and this:

Was a wizard at Rainbow Islands on the Amiga so always dreamed of finding a machine in an arcade soā€™s I could play for 40 mins on a single credit, but this dream never came to be

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#24

was it really cool growing up next to the sea? all my mates who did all have this pirate/seadog quality to them.

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#25

Walton on the Naze was my Proper Holiday destination cos the charity my Nan worked for had a house there that staff could book for cheap hols. It had a huge pear tree in the garden and Iā€™ve wanted one ever since. In town there was a restaurant called the Blue Penguin which I loved for some reason

If weā€™re talking proper shitholes though, Clacton, Jaywick, Canvey Island, Merseaā€¦ take your pic!

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#27

terrifying rickety wooden rollercoaster (annual trips to my uncle & auntā€™s house in Aberdeen)

#28

They do this on the local High Street every year (pandemic permitting)

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#29

Courtown in Wexford, vaguely remember some fairground rides and a shop beside the beach that was like a shit little shack where we bought calippos

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#30

Cor this time next year I might actually be living in a shit seaside town of my own!

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#31

Definitely more good than bad, ample space for underage drinking since thereā€™s loads of wild sand dunes and stuff. And there was/is enough fun dive bars that keep going to make it interesting, if actively dangerous, for a jaunt out. Bleak in the Winter though.

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#32

Highcliffe most often, sometimes bognor. Or if we were going big weā€™d go to bournemouth for harry ramsdenā€™s.

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#33

nah the actual motorbikes that you sit on

last time i was at the horse racing in skeggy theyā€™d changed it so it was camels, and the white guy running the game was dressed in full Arabic gear. this was like two years ago.

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#34

Love this song

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#35

Whitstable
Margate
Broadstairs

Still go to them all on the regular.

Spending my bday next week in Hastings tho :relaxed:

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#36

oh my god i havenā€™t checked in on the Blackpool grime scene in aaaaaages

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#37

Troon/Ayr/Largs

Iā€™m all about the 2p/10p machines

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#38

BOP

#39

IIRC think itā€™s got a lot of connections with (early) Blur or something too

#40

pretty much did that this morning! Drove up to Southport and let the kids ride their bikes around the prom and Queenā€™s park. Yesterday we went out to New Brighton to do the same.

I grew up in my shit seaside town (Southend). We sometimes went to Clacton for a change of scenery (sea-nery) which is pretty bleak as well. I used to go to orchestra residential trips as a teenager to Clacton during the school holidays where we spend the days rehearsing and the nights getting absolutely wrecked.

I have quite a weird attraction to the sea and seaside towns. Really get cravings to go out to them and get some sea air.

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#41

tune tbf

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