does sheffield exist anymore ? thats the question ? When graham norton introduced def leopard at live 8 he said the pride of LEEDS ! Roberto who was on big brother lived in sheffield for 9 years and davina macall said he lives in liverpool, even tho it was in the star saying that he used to work at nonna's on ecceshall road ! And dont get me started on look north and calander, the peace gardens were built for the people who died in hiroshima, the fountains represent the mushroom cloud created in a nuclear/atomic explosion but they never mentioned that they showed you people in LEEDS ! What is wrong with these small minded poeple aye ?

Are you having a bad day? :confused:

It's OK, don't panic.

They have to keep mentioning Leeds so that people will remember the place.

Sheffield is so much in people's minds that they won't forget us.

:)

But you're taking the **** over the mushroom-fountains, right? How bad-taste....bit tacky surely?

If sheffield didn't exist we'd all be eating with our hands. Sheffield practically invented cutlery. And if it wasn't for sheffield, where would we errrm, well I cant think of anything you can do here...

You're right. Sheffield doesn't exist. It's just a figment of our collective imaginations.

Huh? :confused:

Originally posted by tim_rutter
If sheffield didn't exist we'd all be eating with our hands. Sheffield practically invented cutlery. And if it wasn't for sheffield, where would we errrm, well I cant think of anything you can do here...

I don't think Sheffield invented cutlery, but they did make the finest.

The Chinese were first - with chopsticks, so many thousand years BC.

There's another thread on here about Sheffield being a town or a city. As everyone says it has a 'town' feel, perhaps outsiders feel the same?

I've often said Sheffield is a stealth city as far as the media is concerned. Only a few days ago I watched a programme on BBC Two about a couple who lived in Nottingham, but worked in the Sheffield region. They were both accountants and wanted to move to South Yorkshire. After a largely pointless introduction where we were shown Nottingham's city centre and told about the billions of pounds that have been spent developing it, we were then shown rural South Yorkshire and were told by the presenter that the 'exciting city of Leeds was only forty miles away.' At no stage was Sheffield mentioned at all. It's as if Sheffield doesn't exist.

I wonder why Sheffield is so often ignored, or only used in the context of social deprevation (c.f. the recent post on this board of a fascinating, but ultimately negative, focus on the city by Radio 4)?

The reasons are, I suggest, myriad; the city was left behind at the start of the 1990s and is only just beginning to catch up, the population of Sheffield don't seem to have, or care for, the kind of 'look at me' attitude of the citizens of Manchester (we don't have a Tony Wilson figure who spends all their time talking up their home city for example) and as a result we're constantly overlooked. We've produced many fine actors and musicians but any musical scenes we've produced, such as the electronica boom of the late Seventies are normally too esoteric for the media to get a handle on. The Madchester scene of the early 1990s coincided with a boom in drug culture and the fusing of music and football. Sheffield missed the boat completely.

The great danger is that these things become set in stone. The media are sometimes lazy and often under great pressure to produce copy under tight deadlines. So, if a BBC hack needs to knock out a story on urban cool to fill a gap in a broadcast they're not going to go out on a limb and try a city that they only know from Pulp's sardonic lyrics of urban decay or a film about a bunch of unemployed steel workers so desperate they almost have to prostitute themselves. It's a viscious circle and one that will be hard to break.

Sheffield City Council need to employ a PR agency to start planting some good stories in the press about our city, but don't hold your breath waiting for it.

Originally posted by JoeP
They have to keep mentioning Leeds so that people will remember the place.
:)

Its going to be remember pretty well now... with all the bombers from there etc.

Originally posted by noseyrosie
But you're taking the **** over the mushroom-fountains, right? How bad-taste....bit tacky surely?

yep its the truth

Hey where is this SHeffield place anyway?

Originally posted by JoeP
It's OK, don't panic.

They have to keep mentioning Leeds so that people will remember the place.

Sheffield is so much in people's minds that they won't forget us.

:)

Well said Joe P, Leeds is just a village! there so small they need Bradford to help them get on the A-Z

Originally posted by exmrbd
Well said Joe P, Leeds is just a village! there so small they need Bradford to help them get on the A-Z

Hate to mention it but the sheffield a-z covers doncaster also... :D

Ssshhhh let's keep Sheffield a secret. Let Look North rant on about 'fabulous' Leeds.

I have lived in several cities ( including trendy Leeds) and I like it here but I don't everyone to come and live here and turn it into Leeds. Crikey we'd have to brag about how fantastic it is all the time and make up some trivial connection to every topical news story ( just like Look North does about Leeds).

Though I wouldn't object to a Harvey Nicks :) But I am shallow.

Sheffield being televised 'live' to the WORLD.

WWE RAW and SMACKDOWN being transmitted live from the Sheffield Hallam FM Arena on Nov 21st and 22nd 2005.

Just to prove even the Yanks know about us.

Queen release a live DVD of their summer performance at the Arena in October. That should sell a fair few around the world as well.

aaaaaaaaaaand another thing, did anyone watch crimefighters last night on itv ? it was all about gun crime in south yorkshire, they made sheffield look like a right **** hole, they also said that heeley is on the outskirts of the city ? ya what ? you'd think they'd have a bit more local knowledge wouldnt ya ? ohhh make me blood boil lol (not that much honeslty)

Those traffic cops things don't half portray Sheffield badly as well :)

The "notorious Manor estate" spreads all the way from Handsworth to Town if they are to be believed :)

A good thing about Sheffield being so annoymous is that we'll never (touch wood) be subjected to any major terrorist attacks. It wouldn't make such a big impact in the media if say, there was an attack in L**ds or Manchester.

And people would soon know about us if global warming took hold and flooded the rest of the country, we'd be nice and safe up here :)

Ahhh, I like Sheffield.

Originally posted by Norton
if global warming took hold and flooded the rest of the country, we'd be nice and safe up here :)

That not actually true - I read somewhere that much of Sheffield would (somehow?) be underwater should water levels rise :confused:

Bit off the point but nevermind ;)

Originally posted by Norton
Those traffic cops things don't half portray Sheffield badly as well :)

The "notorious Manor estate" spreads all the way from Handsworth to Town if they are to be believed :)

A good thing about Sheffield being so annoymous is that we'll never (touch wood) be subjected to any major terrorist attacks. It wouldn't make such a big impact in the media if say, there was an attack in L**ds or Manchester.

And people would soon know about us if global warming took hold and flooded the rest of the country, we'd be nice and safe up here :)

Ahhh, I like Sheffield.

wel, uinless you happen to live at the bottom of a hill. Didnt sheffield have floods in the last year or two I heard?

Sheffield doesn't exist any more - they now call it "The Bronx"

at least vince mcmahon knows sheffield well every year they come to sheffield

really the problem is to me the council they dont promote the city eg the other day on tv was a program on short breaks and cities in britain sheffield no mention which other city can u go to in britain and in 10 mins u are in the peak district its a great city let down by a stupid council

I dont htink sheffield exists anymore
Im now floating in a space time void somewhere near where walkley used to be but it seems to havve just vanished from existance.............
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Originally posted by SheffieldSean


The reasons are, I suggest, myriad; the city was left behind at the start of the 1990s



Sheffield was left behind in the 1870s :(

i once wrote to the telegraph saying the council should advertise places like hyde park flats and hole in the road as tourist attractions, 'cos no other city has got 'em.

they didn't print the letter; the council pulled down hyde park, buried it in the hole in the road, and agreed to list the much inferior park hill.

sheffield looks alot better thesedays, but i miss those miserable looking back streets and corrugated bus shelters!

It fell into the hole in the road and was covered up for Supertram

Sheffield is mentioned frequently by Chris Moyles on Radio 1 and he is from Leeds (and runs it into the ground). Comedy Dave mentioned it in the tedious link:thumbsup:

Also, just referring to the first post in the thread, why would Davina McCall have mentioned that Roberto USED to live in Sheffield? He did, but that's in the past.

He now lives in Liverpool and that's what she said.

Originally posted by Damon
Also, just referring to the first post in the thread, why would Davina McCall have mentioned that Roberto USED to live in Sheffield? He did, but that's in the past.

He now lives in Liverpool and that's what she said.

If he USED to live in sheffield then how come just after he was evicted i saw him in vodka revolution at west one ? And im not the only one who saw him, a mate of mine saw him in crystal aswell. The point is davina said i love how youve got an italian/liverpool accent lol yeah cos ive heard lots of scousers saying oh reight

Originally posted by eighty4
If he USED to live in sheffield then how come just after he was evicted i saw him in vodka revolution at west one ? And im not the only one who saw him, a mate of mine saw him in crystal aswell. The point is davina said i love how youve got an italian/liverpool accent lol yeah cos ive heard lots of scousers saying oh reight

Saw him in Broomhill, must be lost :hihi:

Originally posted by eighty4
If he USED to live in sheffield then how come just after he was evicted i saw him in vodka revolution at west one ? And im not the only one who saw him, a mate of mine saw him in crystal aswell. The point is davina said i love how youve got an italian/liverpool accent lol yeah cos ive heard lots of scousers saying oh reight

Er... only card carrying citizens of Sheffield are allowed in Revolution now? Clearly he was on a night out with mates or something.

However, he lives in Liverpool and is a supply teacher in the city. It's on any BB website you care to look at.

Blimey, this sounds like I give a chuff about Z-list celebs from BB.

But yes, Davina's accent-spotting skills leave something to be desired.

I think its written in Leeds' contract that they have to be mentioned ahead of us. It's some sort of inferiorority thing I think.

Sheffield Rules afterall.

Just wanted to add as an outsider moving up to sheffield, the posts about Sheffield on the TV are spot on.

Down south the only time it's mentioined is the snooker and the crime. It's all Leeds, Manchester

Thinking about tho if you add all the times it's been on police whatever show, it's most prob more famous than ya think...:D

My mates down there, joke they'll get the train in leave there cars in another town. Thanks crimewatch :clap: