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      04-07-2018, 04:35 AM   #155
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So what’s Luton like then
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Apparently it's not worth investing in the holiday home market just yet.
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Apparently it's not worth investing in the holiday home market just yet.
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Nice Thistle Express hotel there if you want to come down and take a look...?
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Nice Thistle Express hotel there if you want to come down and take a look...?
I can't, I get anxious if I drive any further south than Warrington.
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I used to have a job where I was in plain clothes and carrying concealed firearms. Part of the area we worked was Luton.

Because of the security implications the police gave us a safety brief. Their words were, and I am paraphrasing here "Don't go into Luton as they have more guns than you do".

Now I have personally only been to Luton a few times, and all i can remember is its a rough as a lot of places. Cant say anything about ethnic mixes though.
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They love their roundabouts there!
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They love their roundabouts there!
In comparison to Milton Keynes, Luton is as Roman as you can get!

When travelling to a customer in Brackley, BMW spasnav always tries to take me through MK, thankfully I just ignore it otherwise my fuel consumption would be through the floor!
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In comparison to Milton Keynes, Luton is as Roman as you can get!

When travelling to a customer in Brackley, BMW spasnav always tries to take me through MK, thankfully I just ignore it otherwise my fuel consumption would be through the floor!
But you'd have more fun. Milton Keynes is great, roundabout to roundabout is all 70 mph, it's like a big racetrack.
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They love their roundabouts there!
Better in Hemel Hempstead - we have 6 in one...
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Better in Hemel Hempstead - we have 6 in one...
lol I remember the first time I saw that, I thought someone was pissed when the designed it.
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In comparison to Milton Keynes, Luton is as Roman as you can get!

When travelling to a customer in Brackley, BMW spasnav always tries to take me through MK, thankfully I just ignore it otherwise my fuel consumption would be through the floor!
But you'd have more fun. Milton Keynes is great, roundabout to roundabout is all 70 mph, it's like a big racetrack.
When I was a service advisor at Victoria BMW in MK we sold more brake pads and discs proportionately than any other dealership. We also had different patterns of tyre wear to anywhere else in the country, all down to the road layout and the roundabouts.
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I used to have a job where I was in plain clothes and carrying concealed firearms. Part of the area we worked was Luton.

Because of the security implications the police gave us a safety brief. Their words were, and I am paraphrasing here "Don't go into Luton as they have more guns than you do".

Now I have personally only been to Luton a few times, and all i can remember is its a rough as a lot of places. Cant say anything about ethnic mixes though.
Over the last couple of years we've taken a lot of those guns off the street. Now they just stab each other daily.

The area I cover actually has far more guns but they are legal, used legitimately and securely locked away when not in use!
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They love their roundabouts there!
Better in Hemel Hempstead - we have 6 in one...
Even when I only want to go left on the first one I love going right and going all the way the wrong way round...
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In comparison to Milton Keynes, Luton is as Roman as you can get!

When travelling to a customer in Brackley, BMW spasnav always tries to take me through MK, thankfully I just ignore it otherwise my fuel consumption would be through the floor!
But you'd have more fun. Milton Keynes is great, roundabout to roundabout is all 70 mph, it's like a big racetrack.
Its a great place for a test drive...
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I can't believe how racist that white skin comment is, you think that because you both hide behind your phones that you can make comments like that? It's fucking disgraceful - get a life you couple of cunts.

Coming from a white skinned person living in Luton.
Oh & I suppose if the question had been "male?", it would've been considered sexist!!
Or "red-haired?" (Scottish racial remark) !!

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Oh & I suppose if the question had been "male?", it would've been considered sexist!!
Or "red-haired?" (Scottish racial remark) !!

to be fair, gingers can't help smelling of wee and 'Sweaties' have always been an object of ridicule since Julius Ceaser started taking the piss out of them
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Even when I only want to go left on the first one I love going right and going all the way the wrong way round...
The wrong way round is often the best...
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I can't believe how racist that white skin comment is, you think that because you both hide behind your phones that you can make comments like that? It's fucking disgraceful - get a life you couple of cunts.

Coming from a white skinned person living in Luton.
Oh & I suppose if the question had been "male?", it would've been considered sexist!!
Or "red-haired?" (Scottish racial remark) !!

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Everyone has already left.
Lol ..... Just realised that I was a few sleeps behind !!

We had a couple of days good weather up here .... so I've missed the excitement
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