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Post by scfc73 on Jul 23, 2024 13:52:04 GMT
What was said ? (can't look at work) Essentially what I'd put above. Talked about how nice LA was, said it was nicer than Wrexham. No problem so far. Then said there are lovely flowers and displays etc everywhere, and says you couldn't have that in Wrexham as it would get destroyed. What probably makes it worse from a Wrexham fan point of view is that she's not even from the town. It's not a huge crime obviously, but I do think it's poor. All she needs to do is apologise and they can hopefully draw a line under it. I'm no fan of Wrexham as a club or a place but I'd wager there's a far less chance of having your head blown off in Wrexham for something as simple as wearing the wrong colour clothing in the wrong district (Even a Chester shirt) than there is in L.A.!
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Post by HTC on Jul 23, 2024 13:55:56 GMT
I'd genuinely rather visit Wrexham than LA, which is top of my 'worst place I've ever visited' list, just about beating Leicester.
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Post by suedehead on Jul 23, 2024 15:34:30 GMT
I'd genuinely rather visit Wrexham than LA, which is top of my 'worst place I've ever visited' list, just about beating Leicester. We only skirted around it and don’t really have any desire to try and see any more of it. Stayed in Santa Monica for four days, really enjoyed that, and we went to Griffiths Observatory and the park, saw the Hollywood sign from the car (from a distance) then carried on south.
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Post by atmosphere on Jul 23, 2024 15:37:10 GMT
Los Angeles itself is a shit hole but there are some lovely areas around it and in Southern California in general.
But you couldn't pay me enough to live anywhere in the U.S.A.
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Post by HTC on Jul 23, 2024 15:55:33 GMT
Similar here. Really liked California generally - thought Santa Barbara and Big Sur were great, as was San Francisco (although from what everyone says, that's gone badly downhill since I last visited in the mid 00s)
But LA is probably the only place I've ever been that has lived down to every negative stereotype I had of the place, and wasn't even vaguely like any of the positive ones either.
I suspect Dubai is probably the only place that could beat it, but my expectations of Dubai are so subterranean, it would be almost impossible for it to be worse than I'm expecting.
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Post by adammoss on Jul 23, 2024 16:09:12 GMT
Similar here. Really liked California generally - thought Santa Barbara and Big Sur were great, as was San Francisco (although from what everyone says, that's gone badly downhill since I last visited in the mid 00s) But LA is probably the only place I've ever been that has lived down to every negative stereotype I had of the place, and wasn't even vaguely like any of the positive ones either. I suspect Dubai is probably the only place that could beat it, but my expectations of Dubai are so subterranean, it would be almost impossible for it to be worse than I'm expecting. I worked in Dubai, albeit for only a few weeks, a few years ago. It is, I imagine, the closest thing we have to Hell on earth. Utterly soulless, packed full of questionable characters and devoid of anything remotely worthwhile. They use the glitz of tall buildings to mask the poverty of the real inhabitants. It is, in my humble opinion, a place where humanity goes to die.
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Post by hedleyverity on Jul 23, 2024 16:47:08 GMT
Similar here. Really liked California generally - thought Santa Barbara and Big Sur were great, as was San Francisco (although from what everyone says, that's gone badly downhill since I last visited in the mid 00s) But LA is probably the only place I've ever been that has lived down to every negative stereotype I had of the place, and wasn't even vaguely like any of the positive ones either. I suspect Dubai is probably the only place that could beat it, but my expectations of Dubai are so subterranean, it would be almost impossible for it to be worse than I'm expecting. I worked in Dubai, albeit for only a few weeks, a few years ago. It is, I imagine, the closest thing we have to Hell on earth. Utterly soulless, packed full of questionable characters and devoid of anything remotely worthwhile. They use the glitz of tall buildings to mask the poverty of the real inhabitants. It is, in my humble opinion, a place where humanity goes to die. Literally in the case of the people doing the dirty work (the work that gets hands dirty, not the dirty work that makes the money), can't think of anywhere I'd less like to go
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Post by vicar on Jul 23, 2024 17:13:17 GMT
Philcounty - you're a "regular" there. Are fans actually that bothered? Misguided comments but nothing terrible. Or has it descended into the usual women's football arguments? I can't be bothered reading 40 pages, just glanced at the thread as I was surprised it was so long. Massive overreaction on there and Twitter. I genuinely don't think we'd care if someone said that about Stockport, but I think some are very sensitive about how they are perceived by the Americans. I'd care, I hate all that shit when people start wittering on saying things like "that'd be wrecked around here" it happens in lots of towns and it's just pointless negativity.
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Post by Stranded Hatter on Jul 23, 2024 17:43:13 GMT
I'd genuinely rather visit Wrexham than LA, which is top of my 'worst place I've ever visited' list, just about beating Leicester. There are some parts of LA which are really nice (mostly the non touristy beach communities), and then a lot which aren’t. Overall San Francisco and San Diego are much nicer.
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Post by Stranded Hatter on Jul 23, 2024 17:44:19 GMT
Similar here. Really liked California generally - thought Santa Barbara and Big Sur were great, as was San Francisco (although from what everyone says, that's gone badly downhill since I last visited in the mid 00s) But LA is probably the only place I've ever been that has lived down to every negative stereotype I had of the place, and wasn't even vaguely like any of the positive ones either. I suspect Dubai is probably the only place that could beat it, but my expectations of Dubai are so subterranean, it would be almost impossible for it to be worse than I'm expecting. I also visited these places in the mid 00s so could be similarly out of date with my perceptions.
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Post by Philcounty on Jul 23, 2024 17:50:50 GMT
Massive overreaction on there and Twitter. I genuinely don't think we'd care if someone said that about Stockport, but I think some are very sensitive about how they are perceived by the Americans. I'd care, I hate all that shit when people start wittering on saying things like "that'd be wrecked around here" it happens in lots of towns and it's just pointless negativity. I agree that it's pointless negativity, but I think the reaction was way OTT. I feel like she has been held to standards that male players wouldn't be. If that was Mullin they'd be making excuses for him.
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Post by suedehead on Jul 23, 2024 18:25:56 GMT
Similar here. Really liked California generally - thought Santa Barbara and Big Sur were great, as was San Francisco (although from what everyone says, that's gone badly downhill since I last visited in the mid 00s) But LA is probably the only place I've ever been that has lived down to every negative stereotype I had of the place, and wasn't even vaguely like any of the positive ones either. I suspect Dubai is probably the only place that could beat it, but my expectations of Dubai are so subterranean, it would be almost impossible for it to be worse than I'm expecting. Santa Barbara is great. It’s one of our places we say we’d buy a house if won the Euromillions.
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Post by desmond on Jul 23, 2024 18:41:47 GMT
Similar here. Really liked California generally - thought Santa Barbara and Big Sur were great, as was San Francisco (although from what everyone says, that's gone badly downhill since I last visited in the mid 00s) But LA is probably the only place I've ever been that has lived down to every negative stereotype I had of the place, and wasn't even vaguely like any of the positive ones either. I suspect Dubai is probably the only place that could beat it, but my expectations of Dubai are so subterranean, it would be almost impossible for it to be worse than I'm expecting. I also visited these places in the mid 00s so could be similarly out of date with my perceptions. I was in San Francisco about 5 years ago and we loved it.
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Post by stalybridgehatter on Jul 23, 2024 19:04:01 GMT
Essentially what I'd put above. Talked about how nice LA was, said it was nicer than Wrexham. No problem so far. Then said there are lovely flowers and displays etc everywhere, and says you couldn't have that in Wrexham as it would get destroyed. What probably makes it worse from a Wrexham fan point of view is that she's not even from the town. It's not a huge crime obviously, but I do think it's poor. All she needs to do is apologise and they can hopefully draw a line under it. I'm no fan of Wrexham as a club or a place but I'd wager there's a far less chance of having your head blown off in Wrexham for something as simple as wearing the wrong colour clothing in the wrong district (Even a Chester shirt) than there is in L.A.! I went to LA when I went travelling after uni. Set off from Hollywood Blvd for a walk by myself ... I look back now and think "WTF mate? We're you trying to get killed?" I walked through some proper dodgy areas, how I never got mugged, beaten up or worse is beyond me!
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Post by 1994hatter on Jul 23, 2024 19:59:38 GMT
The club did say 1,500 capacity in the courtyard! I had the same doubts as you so I’ll go with 1.5k in total throughout the course of a matchday for the purpose of the calculations! Does it do much post-match? I tend to think not but have never really looked (though frequent beforehand). It might help if they did something post-match - player interview etc. I know the posh lounge get priority as they pay more but something should be done to encourage a post match tincture or two. Sorry to interrupt the experiences in different places chat! No, it stays open for a short while after Saturday games but never see that many in there. Even after Salford in the playoffs there was no more than 20-30 I’d say. Most have one beer whilst they wait for the traffic to die down and then head off.
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