i live in slough and think its perfectly alright. some areas are a bit rough but there is rough areas in every city/town. i originally come from west drayton and even if you paid me a million pounds i'd never live there again. why does everyone think that slough is full of scumbags and an awful place to live? there are some really nice, quiet areas with very nice people living there. how did slough get its bad name?!
2007-01-16 12:05:02 · 6 answers · asked by mummy_of_one 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
that is true about polish people, i must admit
2007-01-16 12:18:33 · update #1
sure rani, drop by anytime lol
2007-01-16 12:23:31 · update #2
Slough's bad reputation largely goes back to 1937 when the poet John Betjeman wrote his poem "Slough" as a protest against the 850 factories and a new town in what had been formerly a rural area, and the onslaught of the suburban lifestyle:
Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough
It isn't fit for humans now
There isn't grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, death!
In fact Betjemen retracted his view later, and is said to have been sorry he had ever written the poem.
Ironically, Ricky Gervais set "The Office" in Slough, reiterating Betjeman's view of the place as a depressing industrial wasteland.
2007-01-16 12:13:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've never been there, but I've been told it's as horrible as you'd expect a town called Slough to be. (That's how it got it's reputation probably, the name.)
However, everyone still seems to think Birmingham is scummy whereas I've actually been there and can you there's nothing particularly bad about it, in fact it's easy to get around, well appointed and surprisingly clean for a major city. The real scummy city is Brighton.
So as far as Slough is concerned I'll withhold judgement until I actually see it for myself.
2007-01-16 12:47:09 · answer #2 · answered by Kate 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I for one got it mixed up with 'sloth' which is a big hairy dirty animal--or a person who is equally dirty, probably hairy, and lazy. so maybe they think sloths live in slough. I had to look it up---
Then I learned in UK it is pronounced like the word 'cow'-- but in the US it is pronounced 'slew', which has kind of negative connotations too, don't you think?
Can I visit you in Slough and see what its like? Seems nice--- there was that nice park for killing the copier in the flick.
2007-01-16 12:20:09 · answer #3 · answered by Rani 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Slough England? Isn't that where The Office was set? If so, it wasn't very complimentary was it? I personally have nothing against it though.
2007-01-16 12:14:59 · answer #4 · answered by Kble 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've only been there once, and it was disgusting. The most miserable looking place on the planet, alongside Afghanistan. I'm from the Welsh coast, and couldn't get out of there quick enough to get back to my lovely village.
2007-01-16 22:18:26 · answer #5 · answered by papa.rumbo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I worked there for three months last year.I didn't fit in .Could not speak Polish .And i'm not being racist it's a fact
2007-01-16 12:16:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋