What comes into your mind when you think of the British town of Slough?

Question

would you live there?

Answer 1

i think of 'Road Wars' on sky one, and all the druggies,, crackheads, law breakers, and anti social behaviour they come acrpss on that show :-)

Answer 2

Mars Bars!

Answer 3

road wars!

Answer 4

Betjamans Poem

Answer 5

The Office

Answer 6

I think of a poem that was done by a famous political satirist (cant remeber his name), concrete cows and I would rather slit my wrist than live there.

Answer 7

John Betjeman's poem (Come friendly bombs and rain on Slough), Will Hay in 'The Goose Steps Out' teaching English to a group of (wartime) Germans correcting them when they pronounced it 'Sluf' ['No, no! In English O-U-G-H is pronounced "ow"!' - 'Ach, that must make learning English very touw! (tough)'], and, of course, Wernham Hogg Office Supplies as in Ricky Gervaise's 'The Office'.

Answer 8

The Office ,

Answer 9

John Betjeman wrote:

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!

I personally don't like it but it's got some great hotels being near Heathrow.  I have stayed there while visiting Legoland before and not left the hotel apart from to go back to Windsor.  I think it's a great place to stay if you're visiting Windsor or flying out next day.

Answer 10

John Betjeman's poem -

Slough

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!

Come, bombs and blow to smithereens

Those air -conditioned, bright canteens,

Tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans,

Tinned minds, tinned breath.

Mess up the mess they call a town-

A house for ninety-seven down

And once a week a half a crown

For twenty years.

And get that man with double chin

Who'll always cheat and always win,

Who washes his repulsive skin

In women's tears:

And smash his desk of polished oak

And smash his hands so used to stroke

And stop his boring dirty joke

And make him yell.

But spare the bald young clerks who add

The profits of the stinking cad;

It's not their fault that they are mad,

They've tasted h**l.

It's not their fault they do not know

The birdsong from the radio,

It's not their fault they often go

To Maidenhead

And talk of sport and makes of cars

In various bogus-Tudor bars

And daren't look up and see the stars

But belch instead.

In labour-saving homes, with care

Their wives frizz out peroxide hair

And dry it in synthetic air

And paint their nails.

Come, friendly bombs and fall on Slough

To get it ready for the plough.

The cabbages are coming now;

The earth exhales.

(Don't think I'd want to live there!!!!)

Answer 11

it almost sounds like sloth...and id clearly hate to live in a place called sloth

Answer 12

Chavs, litter, joyriders and high rise flats. No i would not live there. I'll stay in Scotland.

Answer 13

Ricky Gervaise and the office.

It would not be my choice to live there. I like the countryside life too much.

Answer 14

The Office.

Answer 15

The trading estate.

I'm sure nobody actually plans to live there - they just can't afford to live anywhere nice :-)