Q: 'Is there a bull ring in Watford?' (Watford)

Member Name: Pulsebeat

Product:	Watford
Date:	11/08/01 (118 review reads)
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Advantages: ummmmmmmm......., the CD Warehouse is damn funny when he has a go at you for not buying things in the Cd Warehouse, and unsubtly promotes his service, by telling you about really good box sets that they have on the artist you have just bought.

Disadvantages: I'm not sure that there are disadvantages as such, it's just dfferent

First of all I'll tell you my favourite thing about Watford. Once, when playing Trivial Pursuits a few years back, I received a question (I think in the Sports category, which is unusual for me to pick, so it may have evn been for a bit of cheese). This question was 'Is there a bull ring in Watford?'. My immediate response was 'of course there isn't, don't you think that I would have noticed a huge bull rink, on at least one of the million occasions that I have been in Watford!' However, I didn't blurt this out straight away (obviously a tense point in the game). Instead I thought about it loads. 'Maybe that big buliding used to be a bull rink. But 'used' doesn't mean that it is still in Watford....etc etc'. Finally, I replied 'No'. My opponent slowly swiveled the card around, gazed at the answer with a serious expression and declared 'Correct'. Bloody bull ring in Watford, my arse. They only have those in Spain. Stupid question.

However, it wouldn't really surprise you if Watford did have a bull ring. It's one of those really weird places. Funny even. When you go there, everything and everyone is defiantly 'Watford'. There is a 'Watford' accent despite being so close to central London. There is Watford dress sense (snakeskin loafers are son in this season).

The place seems genetically engineered to be the perfect place for its inhabitants. It has dick loads of shops, so that you can buy things during the day. Like shoes (snakeskin preferrable), CDs, Watford football shirts, Reebok classics etc. Then at night, there are more pubs than you have ever encountered shoved into the smallest area possible, with two clubs, TWO (that's 'two' McDonalds), kebab vans, Krunchy Fried chicken, the lot.

The Harlequin centre is like the Arc de Triumph of Watford. It stands tall and bold, with parking and Virgin Megastore, Burger King, Teddy Bear factory
, Vision express, previously TLC giftshop (now sadly defunct). It is huge and has caused high street shopping to suffer greatly according to my GCSE Geography project. This is why I will ignore the main part of the high street which is occupied by pound shops (cheap but short tenancy you see). But down the other end of Watford, as previously stated, there are so many pubs, you will cry tears of blue WKD. The Hogwash, Yates, O' Neils, Red Bar, Aura (which mistakenly thinks that its in Hoxton square to hilarious effect), the Moon, the Pub on the Corner, Bodegas, the Boardwalk, Chicagos. There's more too. Then there are clubs, make sure you bring your smart shoes or you a'int getting in. Area, with house and garage, and Brandon Block quite alot too. Then there is Destiny which is a bit like your school disco, but loads of 30 year old twats have turned up.

Loaded magazine (I promise I don't read it) once ran an article on nights out in Britain. On their ratings they said 'chance of a decent conversation: 1/10' Chances of getting into a fight = 10/10. Believe me, there are a hell of a lot of fights in Watford. I would go as far as to say more than anywhere else in the UK in terms of number. There are a lot of people, there are a lot of pubs, there are alot of fights. Watford, in short is hilarious. Seemingly unaffected by the cosmopolitan outlook of Lonon, it bubbles away in its own Wafordness and may it never change. You know it kind of grows on you after a while.

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