Well I never, a page about sheffield -

theflyingfish · 17-06-2005, 14:44

here

Shiesh · 17-06-2005, 14:52

How awful...though I do agree with this bit

''Claims to be Britain's greenest city, and to have quadruple the number of trees as people. An obvious fabrication: there are fewer than one million trees on the British Isles.....Residents seem to suffer from a misguided sense of civic pride (e.g. "we have lots of trees!"), and would no doubt claim their city far superior to the many surrounding it.

When I first came to Sheffield 8 years ago the amount of locals who said to me ' I bet you don't see this many trees in Middlesbrough??' was quite alarming!!

slimsid2000 · 17-06-2005, 14:52

Very funny. I enjoyed this.

theflyingfish · 17-06-2005, 15:01

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Originally posted by Shiesh
How awful...though I do agree with this bit

''Claims to be Britain's greenest city, and to have quadruple the number of trees as people. An obvious fabrication: there are fewer than one million trees on the British Isles.....Residents seem to suffer from a misguided sense of civic pride (e.g. "we have lots of trees!"), and would no doubt claim their city far superior to the many surrounding it.

When I first came to Sheffield 8 years ago the amount of locals who said to me ' I bet you don't see this many trees in Middlesbrough??' was quite alarming!!

The number of people who have told me in the last 4 years that "Sheffield is the 4th biggest in England"

I surprised that wasn't in there.

nick2 · 17-06-2005, 15:04

There must be more than 1 million trees in the UK.

They plant about 250,000 trees a year in London alone acording to the Guardian.

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/other...306430,00.html

"There are 8m trees in the capital and while its councils know how many they are planting, no one has kept a record of those being lost. "

triccivicci · 17-06-2005, 15:14

i remember one of my old uni lecturers proudly claiming sheff was 4th biggeest city in eng...never saw it myself, sheff city is tiny, compared to all the other cities ive been too...leeds..manchester..birmingham...london.....e tc

u get my point!!

Damon · 17-06-2005, 15:15

Not sure that verifiable numeric accuracy is the point of that (very funny) page...

triccivicci · 17-06-2005, 15:17

owdlad · 17-06-2005, 15:18

Email him http://www.tartcider.com/selley.htm and flood his inbox with mail telling him how nice Sheffield really is.

Unisol · 17-06-2005, 15:27

It's easy to forget just how big Sheffield is actually.

I drove from High Green to Totley this morning which took an hour in average traffic. A hour to cross a city does not make a small city.

Sheffield's city centre is quite small compared to Leeds, Liverpool etc but the suburbs are quite sprawling.

I always thought Sheffield was 3rd largest in area but 4th largest in population.

Who cares anyhow?

triccivicci · 17-06-2005, 15:30

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Who cares anyhow?

exactly,
u just need to look at the % of students who stay on after uni...myself included!sheff must be doing something right!

metalman · 17-06-2005, 15:38

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Originally posted by Unisol

I drove from High Green to Totley this morning which took an hour in average traffic. A hour to cross a city does not make a small city.

An hour to cross a not very big city makes a not very big city with severe traffic dysfunction.

Quite an amusing page. It does however highlight the comparative lack of 'unique' features in Sheffield that make a city.

Unisol · 17-06-2005, 15:40

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Originally posted by metalman
An hour to cross a not very big city makes a not very big city with severe traffic dysfunction.

See above - i said "average traffic"

metalman · 17-06-2005, 15:41

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Originally posted by Unisol
See above - i said "average traffic"

Yes I know!

*Ryan* · 17-06-2005, 16:01

top a the page it says sheffield sucks, oh well..

Craigy · 17-06-2005, 16:05

hmm i dont know if i should laugh and agree with the page or run out and start counting trees.......

youwhatref · 17-06-2005, 16:05

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Originally posted by metalman

Quite an amusing page. It does however highlight the comparative lack of 'unique' features in Sheffield that make a city.

I think this is due to our council who haven't the knowledge nor the enthusiasm to correct this. I'm sure if we do try something new, the anti-brigade will be out in force to keep Sheffield how it is.

WallBuilder · 17-06-2005, 16:36

Just had a look at the page and the thought came to mind 'some people really deserve the title of PRAT'

soupy · 17-06-2005, 17:00

well presented site some funny bits must have taken him/her a while to create it.

I disagree 100% with it though Sheffield r0x

rubydazzler · 17-06-2005, 17:06

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Originally posted by Shiesh
When I first came to Sheffield 8 years ago the amount of locals who said to me ' I bet you don't see this many trees in Middlesbrough??' was quite alarming!!

well. did you?