Tell me something good about Milton Keynes

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Go on, then

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Ken C used to live there.

It has conrcete cows.

Um, that's about it.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:19 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:19 (twenty-two years ago)

It has a train station allowing easy exit.

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:23 (twenty-two years ago)

And a spanking new 2nd Division football club, eh Dave?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:24 (twenty-two years ago)

it has a very logical grid-based street system that makes it feel like the town was designed by gilbert & george.

on midsummer's day the sun does/is supposed to rise at one end of midsummer boulevard and set at the other end. i think that's cool.

― pete b. (pete b.), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:28 (twenty-two years ago)

OK. Theiving plastic cunts.

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I spent fun weekends there as a kid and the glass pyramid cinema building was classic.

― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:34 (twenty-two years ago)

didn't their old 80s advertising campaign feature red balloons. maybe even 99 of them? maybe even the song, which is the best song ever. or did i dream it all?

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:37 (twenty-two years ago)

classic ad with kid in back of car looking at concrete cows and thinking 'i wish i lived here.' that the one you mean?

― pete b. (pete b.), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:39 (twenty-two years ago)

also, i have just been struck by the weirdness of the idea of adverts for towns.

― pete b. (pete b.), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:40 (twenty-two years ago)

hello people! one word 'The Sanctuary' a huge sprawling warehouse complex on the edge of town that houses britains biggest raves.

― lukey (Lukey G), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:45 (twenty-two years ago)

MK:Centre is the best shopping centre in the area, ten times better than Bicester shopping village, and there's this little cart there that sells really good frozen yoghurt.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:55 (twenty-two years ago)

zeb bias is from there, actually

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:57 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:58 (twenty-two years ago)

To people in Northamptonshire, a trip to Milton Keynes is seen as a day out.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 11:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Dom, please further explain the MK: Centre, not been there in years, but I spend random Sundays at Bicester with the fam.

― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 11:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Milton Keynes

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 11:26 (twenty-two years ago)

The idea of an advert on telly going COME AND LIVE HERE strikes me as insanely weird in this day and age.

Ashford in Kent will be the new Milton Keynes in 10-30 years.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 11:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Milton Keynes: it's not Aylesbury.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 11:37 (twenty-two years ago)

good things: the point (red/mirrored glass former cinema), easycinema, the weird subterranean market underneath midsummer boulevard flyover, the mk gallery and theatre.

dud: the fact that the bus station is totally inaccessible from town or the train station.

i quite like milton keynes. but i am yet to find any houses/ living places, so am bemused as to how the people in mk:one actually exist.

mind you, when i was a kid, i hated it. that was because my mum insisted on making us walk the 20 min walk from he station to the point, and the mathematical spacing of the trees on misdummer boulevard depressed me.

ps. nowt wrong with aylesbury. except for a bit of violence

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 11:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Crickets- I'll tell you the one positive of Bicester: Carluccio's. That's my favourite cafe ever. I do work security at Bicester during the holidays, which is probably the reason for my antipathy towards it.

MK:Centre is basically two two centres indoors. It's just convenient really, and good for those capitalist orgasms that everyone needs once in a while. The mopey teenagers are really well spread out.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 11:42 (twenty-two years ago)

There (used to) be an excellent CD bootleg stall in the market, lunchtimes Tuesday or Wednesday. I used to work there back when...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

The village of Stony Stratford. Two pubs, The Cock and The Bull. Ancient trading road into London. Travellers stopped off and told their tall tales. Hence the 'Cock and Bull' story.

I like the station and Avebury boulevard too.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 11:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I bought two nice Sun Ra albums on Impulse! from Milton Keynes market! 'Magic City' and 'Astro Black'. For two pounds each!!! In, err, 1989... And I spent a whole summer there once, landscaping one of the roundabouts, me and this doped out Gong fan, staggering around with all these frigging rose bushes, trying to dig holes in the bone dry dirt.

I hate the place. There is no sense of actually being there when you're driving through it. Impossible to ride through it on a bike too, which for me is just about the antithesis of a habitat suitable for human dwelling.

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I spent six happy months there as a teenager, mostly watching bands at the Counter Point (Klick Klick and Conflict spring to mind :-/ but I'm sure there were better bands I just can't remember) - a venue that travelling crusty types actually took their dogs and kids along to.
The record stalls in the markets were good.
Urm... nice walks down by the canal, or something...

x-post - summer of '89 was when I was there too.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)

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