"Ben Green" wrote in message

I don't know South Essex too well, got to admit.

From the grimy swarthes of Dagenham and Rainham in the east, to Southend in
the west, the whole area is by enlarge a poxy ********, populated by the
inbred descendants of those they just couldn't squeeze onto the ships bound
for Australia in the 19th Century.

I had the misfortune to pop down to Basildon for a couple of beers a few
Saturday nights ago, followed by a cruise down to Sarfend to see what all
the fuss about 'da cruise' was...

The evening seemed to be going ok... then some waster obviously in receipt
of rather too much acid came up to the pub window, and started dribbling,
whilst gibbering to himself.

He eventually dumped himself head first into a rubbish bin.

Then as we left the pub in question, some mangy old fish wife was screaming
down the phone to some 'slaaaag'... 'you keep your facking hands off my
facking son you facking slag. I'll do time for you in the scrubs if you
don't keep your facking hands off my facking son, you facking slaaag...'.

So onwards to Sarfend... the front along outside the various pubs and
arcades was littered with glass and yet more morons off their faces.

To top it all, as I approached my car with my aunt and mother, both who are
in their 50s, some oik came up to us to try and sell us some pills - whilst
we'd not have bought any, even we know that 'E' doesn't come in nice pressed
plastic, sealed with foil packets, a la Nurofen etc. :-)

Most insulting that was, although I think he regretted it once my aunt set
about him. ;-)

So... in a nutshell, I reckon Essex deserves the bad reputation it has, if
that night was an atypical Saturday.

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JackH