I went to Margate this weekend. How do you tell the difference between a local and a visitor in Kent? The vistor looks horrified the moment they get off the train as they realise the horrible mistake they've made in coming here, the local looks horrified the moment they get on the train as they remember exactly what they're going back to. That's probably a bit unfair, really I've been saving that joke for ages in the hope I'll visit somewhere where I can genuinely use it but as it looks like I'm not going to be visiting Liverpool any time soon I'm just going to go ahead with it now.
Margate train station is quite impressive. The high arched ceiling with its cracked and peeling paintwork, the abandoned wheelie bin blocking the main entrance, the underage kids outside smoking cigarettes. It's clever how they've distilled the entire feeling of the town into that one initial experience. Outside the view improves slightly as at least one third of the panorama is open sea and try as human's might we've yet to convert that into an eyesore. We haven't completely dropped the ball though, the remaining two thirds compensates more than adequately for the calm peaceful beauty of the sea. Imagine all the seaside charm of Blackpool and Scarborough combined then subtracted from all the seaside charm of Port Talbot (Possible taglines for Port Talbot advertising campaigns; 'Port Talbot: Nearly as glamorous as Swansea', 'Port Talbot: Where the sea and modern technology meet!', 'Port Talbot: Technically a seaside town, no matter what Goverment Health Official say', 'Port Talbot: Sponsored by the steel manufacturing and industrial chemical industries'). Think 70's British Bingo Halls designed to look like 50's American Casino halls. Think faded blue outdoor swimming pools full of rain water and leaves. Think primark stores on the sea front.
I really don't know why I'm being so scathing about Margate. Everyone I met who lived there seemed friendly and the town wasn't really that unpleasant, it's just something about it set me on edge. Maybe it was the slow train journey all the way from London that never left a residential area or entered the countryside. Maybe it was the weather. Maybe it was that I just don't like Kent. Whatever.
People of Liverpool, Margate, Kent, Blackpool, Scarborough and Portsmouth I apologise for being so rude about your places of residence (I know I haven't mentioned Portsmouth at all but believe me the intention was there) but hey, I COME FROM SWANSEA.
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(t) Mum
I love this country, i really do, but we do have a shockingly high percentage of rubbish towns. I picked on the seaside towns because they make the easiest target but I reckon their are a whole bunch of middle England towns that aren't up to much. Peterborough for instance
I LIKE BLACKPOOL!
Which country? Wales or England?
The UK in general.
Although that said, Wales is better. 11-9 Come on.
all it proves is Jonny Wilkinson won the World Cup on his own...
still, at least we've won it...
Lies! The Welsh lads were awsome...and you knows it.
I was about to say "Hey, I like Kent!" then I realised I was thinking of Surrey. My apologies to Surrey.
Mark, what have you done that makes it possible to submit a comment without error checking?
Don't rightly know. I know I altered /lib/MT/App/Comments.pm so as to stop it from checking for e-mail addresses. I think I broke something in the process though.
Pity - thought you'd found some way round using the mt-comments.cgi script. Why can't people support XForms? Ah well...
(My whole site is based around a small content negotiation PHP script which won't work with mt-comments.cgi - I need to figure some way of blocking people with no emails though...)
Could not just write a php script that bypasses MT-comments and inserts straight into mysql? I thought of doing that once but couldn't be bothered working out how to. It wouldn't be hard though I imagine. Plus as you'd have a unique comment system you'd get NO SPAM WHATSOEVER. That'd be nice.
Yeah, but how could you get the PHP to rebuild your archives? I did think of this but the rebuild problem is hard.
By "rebuild your archives" I obviously mean just for that particular entry. It also would give you problems with any text processing plugins you want to use (unless there's a PHP version of them you can hack, as there is in my case probably).
HAHAHAHA..is my valuable imput.
And with that invaluable piece of advice in my ears, I've fixed it. Cheers, Caff.
She's not just a pretty face. Pass me the code if you could, I'm always intrigued by this sort of stuff.
What particular code? I think I gave up trying to do my own script and fixed it using mod_rewrite. The [R] flag rocks.
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You really need to visit Ponty. Then you will understand.
And no that isnt an invite.