Does Anyone Live in Manchester ?

[Sundayjumper]

I'm going there on Friday. Just wondering.

[Jobbo]

About 1m people do. I doubt it’ll be like 28 Days Later.

[DeskJockey]

I can confirm I saw many people on the four occasions in the past few months I went there.

[Mito Man]

It makes London look like a car friendly city

[jamcg]

I'm going there on Friday. Just wondering.

Do yourself a favour and don’t bother

[McSwede]

Pissing down and full of spice mong's

(And I'm going next Saturday)

[Sundayjumper]

Everybody else's replies were totally predictable but this is new to me:

...full of spice mong's

You what now ?

[dinny_g]

Go to the Cenotaph and doff your cap to my Great Uncle - Major Henry Kelly VC, MC and Bar

[McSwede]

Everybody else's replies were totally predictable but this is new to me:

...full of spice mong's

You what now ?

Apologies in advance for the daily express link. I was there in August and walked through Piccadilly gardens on my way to The Stock Exchange and stopped for lunch and had to navigate these fuckwits fighting each other.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/17970 ... icts-spice

[mik]

About 1m people do. I doubt it’ll be like 28 Days Later.

You just took me back 35 yrs.

Often when we’d go to the video shop to rent something to watch (as a group of mates) for an evening, someone would hold up something and say “what about this? I’ve heard it’s supposed to be good”

To which he’d invariably respond “yeah, but I think all films are supposed to be good”.

[Sundayjumper]

Apologies in advance for the daily express link. I was there in August and walked through Piccadilly gardens on my way to The Stock Exchange and stopped for lunch and had to navigate these fuckwits fighting each other.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/17970 ... icts-spice

Ohhhhhh, spice. I was not aware. My first thought was Mick and his ilk who like a pint and a curry and a fight*

* anal

[Beany]

I'm going there on Friday. Just wondering.

I mean, no-one worth knowing.

I was the wrong side of the Pennines in the last week, and it was awful.

[Sundayjumper]

Go to the Cenotaph and doff your cap to my Great Uncle - Major Henry Kelly VC, MC and Bar

Truth be told I'm going to the Travelodge on Upper Brook Street and probably not a whole lot further. If we venture right into town then I'll do you a selfie. I've spent most of the last twenty years working with / for the MOD so I have a lot of respect for the services.

[integrale_evo]

I do not live in Manchester and will not be there on Friday, and have never been there in my life. Hth

[Rich B]

I love Manchester, we had an office up there so spent a fair amount of time in the city. It's a bit like London in that you need some local knowledge to find the best places to go out, otherwise you end up in predictable large town centre places.

[dinny_g]

Go to the Cenotaph and doff your cap to my Great Uncle - Major Henry Kelly VC, MC and Bar

Truth be told I'm going to the Travelodge on Upper Brook Street and probably not a whole lot further. If we venture right into town then I'll do you a selfie. I've spent most of the last twenty years working with / for the MOD so I have a lot of respect for the services.

we only found out about his war record a few years ago. Very proud.

[Jobbo]

I love Manchester, we had an office up there so spent a fair amount of time in the city. It's a bit like London in that you need some local knowledge to find the best places to go out, otherwise you end up in predictable large town centre places.

I went up there for work quite a few times, though not recently. Stayed generally near Oxford Road station. Always had a good time; I really like it as a city.

One night we just went for a curry on Canal Street and the place turned out to be having a drag night. All these very dressed up chaps in makeup and heels with dowdy wives accompanying them. It was most entertaining.

[duncs500]

I love Manchester, we had an office up there so spent a fair amount of time in the city. It's a bit like London in that you need some local knowledge to find the best places to go out, otherwise you end up in predictable large town centre places.

I went up there for work quite a few times, though not recently. Stayed generally near Oxford Road station. Always had a good time; I really like it as a city.

All of this. My best mate lived there for more than a decade, always had a great time when I visited.

[Swervin_Mervin]

I don't go in town very much at all these days, however, it's evolving at an incredible rate in the centre and if you know where you're going there's some fantastic places - as Rich says. Just avoid Piccadilly - it has always been a hub for wrong 'uns as long as I can remember, and nothing has changed really other than the substances that are abused.

Upper Brook Street is an area undergoing huge regeneration (of which we're involved in a massive scheme ), albeit a bit closer to town than where the Travelodge is. Where you're staying is pretty much on the boundary between students-ville and the new outer areas of the city centre. You'll be opposite the MRI - if you walk down Grafton Street (almost opposite) you'll find yourself on Oxford Road and all that has to offer. The Whitworth art gallery is a couple of hundred yards to the south, in Whitworth Park, or just to the north you'll find yourself right outside the University of Manchester.

If you venture into town there's a lot to be going at. I can give you more pointers on that front if you need.

[Sundayjumper]

...if you walk down Grafton Street (almost opposite) you'll find yourself on Oxford Road...

The main plan is to walk down Grafton Street, turn right, go into the Academy, get drunk, then do our best to walk back to the hotel

Depending how I feel Saturday morning I might venture into town for a coffee before heading home but I'm not making any promises.