Student towers 'too tall', say residents (From Daily Echo)

one in a million wrote:
May I be the first to use the acronym "NIMBY" hopefully forestalling those that seem to derive pleasure in using it (feeling rather smug while they do so)

Rockstone wrote:
They should relocate the 'future professionals' accomodation to portsmouth where they can vomit in the street, urinate in the street, make noise at all hours, threaten people and smash glasses or bottles to their heart's content instead of in Bedford Place and the surrounding area.

kingnotail wrote:

Rockstone wrote:
They should relocate the 'future professionals' accomodation to portsmouth where they can vomit in the street, urinate in the street, make noise at all hours, threaten people and smash glasses or bottles to their heart's content instead of in Bedford Place and the surrounding area.

As if it is only students responsible for this. Southampton has more than it's fair share of native scumbags just as responsible for such behaviour.

chrisja wrote:
Look... St Marys is a total, complete and utter shithole. If you look up the word 'shithole' in the dictionary, there is just a picture of St Marys. In fact, if you lined its streets with heavily pre-loaded festival toilets that would actually be an improvement.

These residents need to get real and stop whinging.

kingnotail wrote:
NIMBYs in an dirty, run-down area which is currently full of street drinking tramps and junkies. Anything that makes it look better is a good thing. Come on people of Southampton, do you want your city to look modern, or continue to look like the 1970s decrepit catastrophe it is right now?

Rockstone wrote:
They should relocate the 'future professionals' accomodation to portsmouth where they can vomit in the street, urinate in the street, make noise at all hours, threaten people and smash glasses or bottles to their heart's content instead of in Bedford Place and the surrounding area.

Rockstone wrote:

chrisja wrote:
Look... St Marys is a total, complete and utter shithole. If you look up the word 'shithole' in the dictionary, there is just a picture of St Marys. In fact, if you lined its streets with heavily pre-loaded festival toilets that would actually be an improvement.

These residents need to get real and stop whinging.

And WHY is it a sh*thole?

sotonboy84 wrote:

kingnotail wrote:
NIMBYs in an dirty, run-down area which is currently full of street drinking tramps and junkies. Anything that makes it look better is a good thing. Come on people of Southampton, do you want your city to look modern, or continue to look like the 1970s decrepit catastrophe it is right now?

So building a 20 storey block of student flats on a currently empty piece of land is going to make Southampton look any less like a "1970's decrepit catastrophe" exactly?

Rockstone wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

Rockstone wrote: They should relocate the 'future professionals' accomodation to portsmouth where they can vomit in the street, urinate in the street, make noise at all hours, threaten people and smash glasses or bottles to their heart's content instead of in Bedford Place and the surrounding area.

As if it is only students responsible for this. Southampton has more than it's fair share of native scumbags just as responsible for such behaviour.

When I lived in that area it was the students who were by far the biggest offenders, and the police did **** all.

Block41row0sfc wrote:

Rockstone wrote:
They should relocate the 'future professionals' accomodation to portsmouth where they can vomit in the street, urinate in the street, make noise at all hours, threaten people and smash glasses or bottles to their heart's content instead of in Bedford Place and the surrounding area.

There's crackheads smackheads and pimps there why is it a problem moving students in.

kingnotail wrote:

sotonboy84 wrote:

kingnotail wrote: NIMBYs in an dirty, run-down area which is currently full of street drinking tramps and junkies. Anything that makes it look better is a good thing. Come on people of Southampton, do you want your city to look modern, or continue to look like the 1970s decrepit catastrophe it is right now?

So building a 20 storey block of student flats on a currently empty piece of land is going to make Southampton look any less like a "1970's decrepit catastrophe" exactly?

At least it would look modern, for a few years at least. But don't get me wrong, it'll take more than a few blocks of student flats to save Southampton from terminal decline and ever-increasing mediocrity.

sotonboy84 wrote:

Rockstone wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

Rockstone wrote: They should relocate the 'future professionals' accomodation to portsmouth where they can vomit in the street, urinate in the street, make noise at all hours, threaten people and smash glasses or bottles to their heart's content instead of in Bedford Place and the surrounding area.

As if it is only students responsible for this. Southampton has more than it's fair share of native scumbags just as responsible for such behaviour.

When I lived in that area it was the students who were by far the biggest offenders, and the police did **** all.

That's also why that area has signs warning of £80 fines for being loud at night.

Every city has trouble from somebody or other but it's a well know fact that some students cause a lot more trouble. They're away from home, away from the authority they have known at home and intent on having a good time and don't care about the place they're in as they'll be leaving it in a few years.

kingnotail wrote:

Block41row0sfc wrote:

Rockstone wrote: They should relocate the 'future professionals' accomodation to portsmouth where they can vomit in the street, urinate in the street, make noise at all hours, threaten people and smash glasses or bottles to their heart's content instead of in Bedford Place and the surrounding area.

There's crackheads smackheads and pimps there why is it a problem moving students in.

Because to people like this, students are 'dangerous, scary outsiders', to be blamed for all ills when in fact the true offenders are local and staring you straight in the face. Plus, I'd prefer the occasional pile of vomit and p1ss to the endless piles of dogsh1t that still litter the streets of Southampton. Don't recall seeing many students with dogs?

kingnotail wrote:

Rockstone wrote:

chrisja wrote: Look... St Marys is a total, complete and utter shithole. If you look up the word 'shithole' in the dictionary, there is just a picture of St Marys. In fact, if you lined its streets with heavily pre-loaded festival toilets that would actually be an improvement. These residents need to get real and stop whinging.

And WHY is it a sh*thole?

Decaying, run down, ugly, old, full of smackheads/crackhead s....to be fair I could be talking about the whole of Southampton.

sotonboy84 wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

sotonboy84 wrote:

kingnotail wrote: NIMBYs in an dirty, run-down area which is currently full of street drinking tramps and junkies. Anything that makes it look better is a good thing. Come on people of Southampton, do you want your city to look modern, or continue to look like the 1970s decrepit catastrophe it is right now?

So building a 20 storey block of student flats on a currently empty piece of land is going to make Southampton look any less like a "1970's decrepit catastrophe" exactly?

At least it would look modern, for a few years at least. But don't get me wrong, it'll take more than a few blocks of student flats to save Southampton from terminal decline and ever-increasing mediocrity.

Maybe your view is a little one sided, not everybody wants to see Southampton turned into a 'modern city'. Southampton is a modern city with a rich hiostory, maybe not quite used to it's full advantage but it's there. If by modern I assume you mean flatten the city and fill it full of glass and concrete high rises.

Some people have more important concerns over much needed housing for permanent residents and what problems an influx of hundreds of students will bring to the area they live in.

You make it very clear on many posts that you hate Southampton and it's a disgusting dump and if so, why do follow it's news stories and comment on most of them?

****-Biker wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

Rockstone wrote:

chrisja wrote: Look... St Marys is a total, complete and utter shithole. If you look up the word 'shithole' in the dictionary, there is just a picture of St Marys. In fact, if you lined its streets with heavily pre-loaded festival toilets that would actually be an improvement. These residents need to get real and stop whinging.

And WHY is it a sh*thole?

Decaying, run down, ugly, old, full of smackheads/crackhead s....to be fair I could be talking about the whole of Southampton.

Come on Kingnotail, every major city has this similar problem.

kingnotail wrote:

****-Biker wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

Rockstone wrote:

chrisja wrote: Look... St Marys is a total, complete and utter shithole. If you look up the word 'shithole' in the dictionary, there is just a picture of St Marys. In fact, if you lined its streets with heavily pre-loaded festival toilets that would actually be an improvement. These residents need to get real and stop whinging.

And WHY is it a sh*thole?

Decaying, run down, ugly, old, full of smackheads/crackhead s....to be fair I could be talking about the whole of Southampton.

Come on Kingnotail, every major city has this similar problem.

Most other cities have good aspects to make up for such negatives. Southampton really doesn't.

sotonboy84 wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

Block41row0sfc wrote:

Rockstone wrote: They should relocate the 'future professionals' accomodation to portsmouth where they can vomit in the street, urinate in the street, make noise at all hours, threaten people and smash glasses or bottles to their heart's content instead of in Bedford Place and the surrounding area.

There's crackheads smackheads and pimps there why is it a problem moving students in.

Because to people like this, students are 'dangerous, scary outsiders', to be blamed for all ills when in fact the true offenders are local and staring you straight in the face. Plus, I'd prefer the occasional pile of vomit and p1ss to the endless piles of dogsh1t that still litter the streets of Southampton. Don't recall seeing many students with dogs?

A dog owner should be responsible for picking up their own dogs mess but the difference is, a dog has to go to toilet outside. I'm a dog owner and I must be scanning the wrong parts of the streets but apart from the odd bit very occasionally, Southampton does not have a problem.

You were only saying yesterday about the poor guy that got drunk at a family wedding and unfortunately drowned in Portsmouth. You had no sympathy for him, made quite insensitive comments and said he 'brought it on himself'. If students are being sick and urinating in the streets, shouldn't they also take a bit of responsibility and clear up their own mess? After all, they did bring it on themselves. Oh wait, that doesn't count as you seem to twist everything to suit your current weak argument with the only intention of winding people up.

Grow up mate. If Southampton sickens you that much, drop your mickey mouse of a degree at the dimstitute and clear off back to the hole you came from.

one in a million wrote:
May I be the first to use the acronym "NIMBY" hopefully forestalling those that seem to derive pleasure in using it (feeling rather smug while they do so)

kingnotail wrote:

sotonboy84 wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

Block41row0sfc wrote:

Rockstone wrote: They should relocate the 'future professionals' accomodation to portsmouth where they can vomit in the street, urinate in the street, make noise at all hours, threaten people and smash glasses or bottles to their heart's content instead of in Bedford Place and the surrounding area.

There's crackheads smackheads and pimps there why is it a problem moving students in.

Because to people like this, students are 'dangerous, scary outsiders', to be blamed for all ills when in fact the true offenders are local and staring you straight in the face. Plus, I'd prefer the occasional pile of vomit and p1ss to the endless piles of dogsh1t that still litter the streets of Southampton. Don't recall seeing many students with dogs?

A dog owner should be responsible for picking up their own dogs mess but the difference is, a dog has to go to toilet outside. I'm a dog owner and I must be scanning the wrong parts of the streets but apart from the odd bit very occasionally, Southampton does not have a problem. You were only saying yesterday about the poor guy that got drunk at a family wedding and unfortunately drowned in Portsmouth. You had no sympathy for him, made quite insensitive comments and said he 'brought it on himself'. If students are being sick and urinating in the streets, shouldn't they also take a bit of responsibility and clear up their own mess? After all, they did bring it on themselves. Oh wait, that doesn't count as you seem to twist everything to suit your current weak argument with the only intention of winding people up. Grow up mate. If Southampton sickens you that much, drop your mickey mouse of a degree at the dimstitute and clear off back to the hole you came from.

You're a dog owner, what a suprise. Brain not firing on all cylinders I expect? Where did I say that students should escape punishment for such behaviour? ANYONE should be responsible for cleaning up after themselves, and should face a punitive fine if caught.

loosehead wrote:
Purpose built blocks with landlords objecting to it calling themselves residents? I lived in a run down bedsit in Oxford Avenue those Landlords lived in Fareham. You'd report damp & they'd come around remove the wood effect boarding & paint the walls & the electric meters were charging far more than they should & we proved it by one person insisting on paying by direct debit. These places & the mini village they're building behind the Mayflower should reduce the amount of students in HMO's so leaving these landlords two choices sell the properties or lower rents the first could let more family homes go on the market the second could see cheaper rents for the people looking to rent a property, the only ones to lose out are the rip of land lords & developers? Hopefully give the students a decent safe place to live & they'll act accordingly otherwise the Uni or colleges should come down hard on ant anti social behaviour but will we come down on local yobs?

sotonboy84 wrote:

Rockstone wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

Rockstone wrote: They should relocate the 'future professionals' accomodation to portsmouth where they can vomit in the street, urinate in the street, make noise at all hours, threaten people and smash glasses or bottles to their heart's content instead of in Bedford Place and the surrounding area.

As if it is only students responsible for this. Southampton has more than it's fair share of native scumbags just as responsible for such behaviour.

When I lived in that area it was the students who were by far the biggest offenders, and the police did **** all.

That's also why that area has signs warning of £80 fines for being loud at night.

Every city has trouble from somebody or other but it's a well know fact that some students cause a lot more trouble. They're away from home, away from the authority they have known at home and intent on having a good time and don't care about the place they're in as they'll be leaving it in a few years.

sotonboy84 wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

sotonboy84 wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

Block41row0sfc wrote:

Rockstone wrote: They should relocate the 'future professionals' accomodation to portsmouth where they can vomit in the street, urinate in the street, make noise at all hours, threaten people and smash glasses or bottles to their heart's content instead of in Bedford Place and the surrounding area.

There's crackheads smackheads and pimps there why is it a problem moving students in.

Because to people like this, students are 'dangerous, scary outsiders', to be blamed for all ills when in fact the true offenders are local and staring you straight in the face. Plus, I'd prefer the occasional pile of vomit and p1ss to the endless piles of dogsh1t that still litter the streets of Southampton. Don't recall seeing many students with dogs?

A dog owner should be responsible for picking up their own dogs mess but the difference is, a dog has to go to toilet outside. I'm a dog owner and I must be scanning the wrong parts of the streets but apart from the odd bit very occasionally, Southampton does not have a problem. You were only saying yesterday about the poor guy that got drunk at a family wedding and unfortunately drowned in Portsmouth. You had no sympathy for him, made quite insensitive comments and said he 'brought it on himself'. If students are being sick and urinating in the streets, shouldn't they also take a bit of responsibility and clear up their own mess? After all, they did bring it on themselves. Oh wait, that doesn't count as you seem to twist everything to suit your current weak argument with the only intention of winding people up. Grow up mate. If Southampton sickens you that much, drop your mickey mouse of a degree at the dimstitute and clear off back to the hole you came from.

You're a dog owner, what a suprise. Brain not firing on all cylinders I expect? Where did I say that students should escape punishment for such behaviour? ANYONE should be responsible for cleaning up after themselves, and should face a punitive fine if caught.

Jesus Christ.
So now all dog owners have something wrong with them... You're a very angry little person which suggests there's a lot about yourself that you're very unhappy with, not the world around you or Southampton. I would really sort that out mate before it becomes an even bigger problem.
You may not have said students should escape punishment but you did say you'd rather walk in their vomit and urine, rather than the non existent dog mess problem which implies you're in support of students unsociable behaviour.

Beer Monster wrote:

sotonboy84 wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

sotonboy84 wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

Block41row0sfc wrote:

Rockstone wrote: They should relocate the 'future professionals' accomodation to portsmouth where they can vomit in the street, urinate in the street, make noise at all hours, threaten people and smash glasses or bottles to their heart's content instead of in Bedford Place and the surrounding area.

There's crackheads smackheads and pimps there why is it a problem moving students in.

Because to people like this, students are 'dangerous, scary outsiders', to be blamed for all ills when in fact the true offenders are local and staring you straight in the face. Plus, I'd prefer the occasional pile of vomit and p1ss to the endless piles of dogsh1t that still litter the streets of Southampton. Don't recall seeing many students with dogs?

A dog owner should be responsible for picking up their own dogs mess but the difference is, a dog has to go to toilet outside. I'm a dog owner and I must be scanning the wrong parts of the streets but apart from the odd bit very occasionally, Southampton does not have a problem. You were only saying yesterday about the poor guy that got drunk at a family wedding and unfortunately drowned in Portsmouth. You had no sympathy for him, made quite insensitive comments and said he 'brought it on himself'. If students are being sick and urinating in the streets, shouldn't they also take a bit of responsibility and clear up their own mess? After all, they did bring it on themselves. Oh wait, that doesn't count as you seem to twist everything to suit your current weak argument with the only intention of winding people up. Grow up mate. If Southampton sickens you that much, drop your mickey mouse of a degree at the dimstitute and clear off back to the hole you came from.

You're a dog owner, what a suprise. Brain not firing on all cylinders I expect? Where did I say that students should escape punishment for such behaviour? ANYONE should be responsible for cleaning up after themselves, and should face a punitive fine if caught.

Jesus Christ. So now all dog owners have something wrong with them... You're a very angry little person which suggests there's a lot about yourself that you're very unhappy with, not the world around you or Southampton. I would really sort that out mate before it becomes an even bigger problem. You may not have said students should escape punishment but you did say you'd rather walk in their vomit and urine, rather than the non existent dog mess problem which implies you're in support of students unsociable behaviour.

Thank you sotonboy, exactly what I was thinking as I scrolled down this thread. Okay, Southampton isn't the prettiest city in the world, but it's where I was born and I'm proud of our heritage. If you want pretty, take a trip over to the New Forest, it's not far, I commuted for six years to Salisbury via Southampton Central from there after all. If people want to come and study here then they should be given every opportunity to do so in comfort and peace of mind. If this means building a skyscraper style building that's too high for the surrounding area (next to Jury's Inn FFS!) then so be it. Rant over, I'm off for a wander around Edinburgh...

sotonboy84 wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

****-Biker wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

Rockstone wrote:

chrisja wrote: Look... St Marys is a total, complete and utter shithole. If you look up the word 'shithole' in the dictionary, there is just a picture of St Marys. In fact, if you lined its streets with heavily pre-loaded festival toilets that would actually be an improvement. These residents need to get real and stop whinging.

And WHY is it a sh*thole?

Decaying, run down, ugly, old, full of smackheads/crackhead s....to be fair I could be talking about the whole of Southampton.

Come on Kingnotail, every major city has this similar problem.

Most other cities have good aspects to make up for such negatives. Southampton really doesn't.

Get out of it then!

If I hated something so much, I would change it. What's stopping you?

Lone Ranger. wrote:

sotonboy84 wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

****-Biker wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

Rockstone wrote:

chrisja wrote: Look... St Marys is a total, complete and utter shithole. If you look up the word 'shithole' in the dictionary, there is just a picture of St Marys. In fact, if you lined its streets with heavily pre-loaded festival toilets that would actually be an improvement. These residents need to get real and stop whinging.

And WHY is it a sh*thole?

Decaying, run down, ugly, old, full of smackheads/crackhead s....to be fair I could be talking about the whole of Southampton.

Come on Kingnotail, every major city has this similar problem.

Most other cities have good aspects to make up for such negatives. Southampton really doesn't.

Get out of it then! If I hated something so much, I would change it. What's stopping you?

Dont waste you time on him sotonboy ... just a WUM

sotonboy84 wrote:

Beer Monster wrote:

sotonboy84 wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

sotonboy84 wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

Block41row0sfc wrote:

Rockstone wrote: They should relocate the 'future professionals' accomodation to portsmouth where they can vomit in the street, urinate in the street, make noise at all hours, threaten people and smash glasses or bottles to their heart's content instead of in Bedford Place and the surrounding area.

There's crackheads smackheads and pimps there why is it a problem moving students in.

Because to people like this, students are 'dangerous, scary outsiders', to be blamed for all ills when in fact the true offenders are local and staring you straight in the face. Plus, I'd prefer the occasional pile of vomit and p1ss to the endless piles of dogsh1t that still litter the streets of Southampton. Don't recall seeing many students with dogs?

A dog owner should be responsible for picking up their own dogs mess but the difference is, a dog has to go to toilet outside. I'm a dog owner and I must be scanning the wrong parts of the streets but apart from the odd bit very occasionally, Southampton does not have a problem. You were only saying yesterday about the poor guy that got drunk at a family wedding and unfortunately drowned in Portsmouth. You had no sympathy for him, made quite insensitive comments and said he 'brought it on himself'. If students are being sick and urinating in the streets, shouldn't they also take a bit of responsibility and clear up their own mess? After all, they did bring it on themselves. Oh wait, that doesn't count as you seem to twist everything to suit your current weak argument with the only intention of winding people up. Grow up mate. If Southampton sickens you that much, drop your mickey mouse of a degree at the dimstitute and clear off back to the hole you came from.

You're a dog owner, what a suprise. Brain not firing on all cylinders I expect? Where did I say that students should escape punishment for such behaviour? ANYONE should be responsible for cleaning up after themselves, and should face a punitive fine if caught.

Jesus Christ. So now all dog owners have something wrong with them... You're a very angry little person which suggests there's a lot about yourself that you're very unhappy with, not the world around you or Southampton. I would really sort that out mate before it becomes an even bigger problem. You may not have said students should escape punishment but you did say you'd rather walk in their vomit and urine, rather than the non existent dog mess problem which implies you're in support of students unsociable behaviour.

Thank you sotonboy, exactly what I was thinking as I scrolled down this thread. Okay, Southampton isn't the prettiest city in the world, but it's where I was born and I'm proud of our heritage. If you want pretty, take a trip over to the New Forest, it's not far, I commuted for six years to Salisbury via Southampton Central from there after all. If people want to come and study here then they should be given every opportunity to do so in comfort and peace of mind. If this means building a skyscraper style building that's too high for the surrounding area (next to Jury's Inn FFS!) then so be it. Rant over, I'm off for a wander around Edinburgh...

Enjoy!

Rockstone wrote:

sotonboy84 wrote:

Beer Monster wrote:

sotonboy84 wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

sotonboy84 wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

Block41row0sfc wrote:

Rockstone wrote: They should relocate the 'future professionals' accomodation to portsmouth where they can vomit in the street, urinate in the street, make noise at all hours, threaten people and smash glasses or bottles to their heart's content instead of in Bedford Place and the surrounding area.

There's crackheads smackheads and pimps there why is it a problem moving students in.

Because to people like this, students are 'dangerous, scary outsiders', to be blamed for all ills when in fact the true offenders are local and staring you straight in the face. Plus, I'd prefer the occasional pile of vomit and p1ss to the endless piles of dogsh1t that still litter the streets of Southampton. Don't recall seeing many students with dogs?

A dog owner should be responsible for picking up their own dogs mess but the difference is, a dog has to go to toilet outside. I'm a dog owner and I must be scanning the wrong parts of the streets but apart from the odd bit very occasionally, Southampton does not have a problem. You were only saying yesterday about the poor guy that got drunk at a family wedding and unfortunately drowned in Portsmouth. You had no sympathy for him, made quite insensitive comments and said he 'brought it on himself'. If students are being sick and urinating in the streets, shouldn't they also take a bit of responsibility and clear up their own mess? After all, they did bring it on themselves. Oh wait, that doesn't count as you seem to twist everything to suit your current weak argument with the only intention of winding people up. Grow up mate. If Southampton sickens you that much, drop your mickey mouse of a degree at the dimstitute and clear off back to the hole you came from.

You're a dog owner, what a suprise. Brain not firing on all cylinders I expect? Where did I say that students should escape punishment for such behaviour? ANYONE should be responsible for cleaning up after themselves, and should face a punitive fine if caught.

Jesus Christ. So now all dog owners have something wrong with them... You're a very angry little person which suggests there's a lot about yourself that you're very unhappy with, not the world around you or Southampton. I would really sort that out mate before it becomes an even bigger problem. You may not have said students should escape punishment but you did say you'd rather walk in their vomit and urine, rather than the non existent dog mess problem which implies you're in support of students unsociable behaviour.

Thank you sotonboy, exactly what I was thinking as I scrolled down this thread. Okay, Southampton isn't the prettiest city in the world, but it's where I was born and I'm proud of our heritage. If you want pretty, take a trip over to the New Forest, it's not far, I commuted for six years to Salisbury via Southampton Central from there after all. If people want to come and study here then they should be given every opportunity to do so in comfort and peace of mind. If this means building a skyscraper style building that's too high for the surrounding area (next to Jury's Inn FFS!) then so be it. Rant over, I'm off for a wander around Edinburgh...

Enjoy!

You have obviously never lived next door to a building full of students living in comfort but destroying everybody else's peace of mind through their total ignorance of how to behave normally, one example being Rockstone Place. Once the agents have got the scumbags in they don't give a toss about what the neighbours have/had to put up with.

sotonboy84 wrote:

Rockstone wrote:

sotonboy84 wrote:

Beer Monster wrote:

sotonboy84 wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

sotonboy84 wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

Block41row0sfc wrote:

Rockstone wrote: They should relocate the 'future professionals' accomodation to portsmouth where they can vomit in the street, urinate in the street, make noise at all hours, threaten people and smash glasses or bottles to their heart's content instead of in Bedford Place and the surrounding area.

There's crackheads smackheads and pimps there why is it a problem moving students in.

Because to people like this, students are 'dangerous, scary outsiders', to be blamed for all ills when in fact the true offenders are local and staring you straight in the face. Plus, I'd prefer the occasional pile of vomit and p1ss to the endless piles of dogsh1t that still litter the streets of Southampton. Don't recall seeing many students with dogs?

A dog owner should be responsible for picking up their own dogs mess but the difference is, a dog has to go to toilet outside. I'm a dog owner and I must be scanning the wrong parts of the streets but apart from the odd bit very occasionally, Southampton does not have a problem. You were only saying yesterday about the poor guy that got drunk at a family wedding and unfortunately drowned in Portsmouth. You had no sympathy for him, made quite insensitive comments and said he 'brought it on himself'. If students are being sick and urinating in the streets, shouldn't they also take a bit of responsibility and clear up their own mess? After all, they did bring it on themselves. Oh wait, that doesn't count as you seem to twist everything to suit your current weak argument with the only intention of winding people up. Grow up mate. If Southampton sickens you that much, drop your mickey mouse of a degree at the dimstitute and clear off back to the hole you came from.

You're a dog owner, what a suprise. Brain not firing on all cylinders I expect? Where did I say that students should escape punishment for such behaviour? ANYONE should be responsible for cleaning up after themselves, and should face a punitive fine if caught.

Jesus Christ. So now all dog owners have something wrong with them... You're a very angry little person which suggests there's a lot about yourself that you're very unhappy with, not the world around you or Southampton. I would really sort that out mate before it becomes an even bigger problem. You may not have said students should escape punishment but you did say you'd rather walk in their vomit and urine, rather than the non existent dog mess problem which implies you're in support of students unsociable behaviour.

Thank you sotonboy, exactly what I was thinking as I scrolled down this thread. Okay, Southampton isn't the prettiest city in the world, but it's where I was born and I'm proud of our heritage. If you want pretty, take a trip over to the New Forest, it's not far, I commuted for six years to Salisbury via Southampton Central from there after all. If people want to come and study here then they should be given every opportunity to do so in comfort and peace of mind. If this means building a skyscraper style building that's too high for the surrounding area (next to Jury's Inn FFS!) then so be it. Rant over, I'm off for a wander around Edinburgh...

Enjoy!

You have obviously never lived next door to a building full of students living in comfort but destroying everybody else's peace of mind through their total ignorance of how to behave normally, one example being Rockstone Place. Once the agents have got the scumbags in they don't give a toss about what the neighbours have/had to put up with.

I have. I've seen the beautiful houses in Portswood just off the avenue change to run down hovels with students having parties in front and back gardens, setting fire to wheelie bins, damaging cars, shouting abuse, screaming and playing loud music until 6am.
Not to mention the aftermath of rubbish and bottles thrown in the streets, pairs of shoes hanging from the telephone lines, things stolen from gardens and road signs dumped out of the fronts of houses...

kingnotail wrote:

sotonboy84 wrote:

Rockstone wrote:

sotonboy84 wrote:

Beer Monster wrote:

sotonboy84 wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

sotonboy84 wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

Block41row0sfc wrote:

Rockstone wrote: They should relocate the 'future professionals' accomodation to portsmouth where they can vomit in the street, urinate in the street, make noise at all hours, threaten people and smash glasses or bottles to their heart's content instead of in Bedford Place and the surrounding area.

There's crackheads smackheads and pimps there why is it a problem moving students in.

Because to people like this, students are 'dangerous, scary outsiders', to be blamed for all ills when in fact the true offenders are local and staring you straight in the face. Plus, I'd prefer the occasional pile of vomit and p1ss to the endless piles of dogsh1t that still litter the streets of Southampton. Don't recall seeing many students with dogs?

A dog owner should be responsible for picking up their own dogs mess but the difference is, a dog has to go to toilet outside. I'm a dog owner and I must be scanning the wrong parts of the streets but apart from the odd bit very occasionally, Southampton does not have a problem. You were only saying yesterday about the poor guy that got drunk at a family wedding and unfortunately drowned in Portsmouth. You had no sympathy for him, made quite insensitive comments and said he 'brought it on himself'. If students are being sick and urinating in the streets, shouldn't they also take a bit of responsibility and clear up their own mess? After all, they did bring it on themselves. Oh wait, that doesn't count as you seem to twist everything to suit your current weak argument with the only intention of winding people up. Grow up mate. If Southampton sickens you that much, drop your mickey mouse of a degree at the dimstitute and clear off back to the hole you came from.

You're a dog owner, what a suprise. Brain not firing on all cylinders I expect? Where did I say that students should escape punishment for such behaviour? ANYONE should be responsible for cleaning up after themselves, and should face a punitive fine if caught.

Jesus Christ. So now all dog owners have something wrong with them... You're a very angry little person which suggests there's a lot about yourself that you're very unhappy with, not the world around you or Southampton. I would really sort that out mate before it becomes an even bigger problem. You may not have said students should escape punishment but you did say you'd rather walk in their vomit and urine, rather than the non existent dog mess problem which implies you're in support of students unsociable behaviour.

Thank you sotonboy, exactly what I was thinking as I scrolled down this thread. Okay, Southampton isn't the prettiest city in the world, but it's where I was born and I'm proud of our heritage. If you want pretty, take a trip over to the New Forest, it's not far, I commuted for six years to Salisbury via Southampton Central from there after all. If people want to come and study here then they should be given every opportunity to do so in comfort and peace of mind. If this means building a skyscraper style building that's too high for the surrounding area (next to Jury's Inn FFS!) then so be it. Rant over, I'm off for a wander around Edinburgh...

Enjoy!

You have obviously never lived next door to a building full of students living in comfort but destroying everybody else's peace of mind through their total ignorance of how to behave normally, one example being Rockstone Place. Once the agents have got the scumbags in they don't give a toss about what the neighbours have/had to put up with.

I have. I've seen the beautiful houses in Portswood just off the avenue change to run down hovels with students having parties in front and back gardens, setting fire to wheelie bins, damaging cars, shouting abuse, screaming and playing loud music until 6am. Not to mention the aftermath of rubbish and bottles thrown in the streets, pairs of shoes hanging from the telephone lines, things stolen from gardens and road signs dumped out of the fronts of houses...

Let's get rid of the universities then and see how quickly Sh1thampton's economy goes straight down the toilet. Ford? Gone. Docks and Cruises? Unsustainable in the long term. Anything else left? Fortunately the economic benefit of the Universities is safe in the long term, otherwise I would be very careful what you wish for.

sotonboy84 wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

sotonboy84 wrote:

Rockstone wrote:

sotonboy84 wrote:

Beer Monster wrote:

sotonboy84 wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

sotonboy84 wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

Block41row0sfc wrote:

Rockstone wrote: They should relocate the 'future professionals' accomodation to portsmouth where they can vomit in the street, urinate in the street, make noise at all hours, threaten people and smash glasses or bottles to their heart's content instead of in Bedford Place and the surrounding area.

There's crackheads smackheads and pimps there why is it a problem moving students in.

Because to people like this, students are 'dangerous, scary outsiders', to be blamed for all ills when in fact the true offenders are local and staring you straight in the face. Plus, I'd prefer the occasional pile of vomit and p1ss to the endless piles of dogsh1t that still litter the streets of Southampton. Don't recall seeing many students with dogs?

A dog owner should be responsible for picking up their own dogs mess but the difference is, a dog has to go to toilet outside. I'm a dog owner and I must be scanning the wrong parts of the streets but apart from the odd bit very occasionally, Southampton does not have a problem. You were only saying yesterday about the poor guy that got drunk at a family wedding and unfortunately drowned in Portsmouth. You had no sympathy for him, made quite insensitive comments and said he 'brought it on himself'. If students are being sick and urinating in the streets, shouldn't they also take a bit of responsibility and clear up their own mess? After all, they did bring it on themselves. Oh wait, that doesn't count as you seem to twist everything to suit your current weak argument with the only intention of winding people up. Grow up mate. If Southampton sickens you that much, drop your mickey mouse of a degree at the dimstitute and clear off back to the hole you came from.

You're a dog owner, what a suprise. Brain not firing on all cylinders I expect? Where did I say that students should escape punishment for such behaviour? ANYONE should be responsible for cleaning up after themselves, and should face a punitive fine if caught.

Jesus Christ. So now all dog owners have something wrong with them... You're a very angry little person which suggests there's a lot about yourself that you're very unhappy with, not the world around you or Southampton. I would really sort that out mate before it becomes an even bigger problem. You may not have said students should escape punishment but you did say you'd rather walk in their vomit and urine, rather than the non existent dog mess problem which implies you're in support of students unsociable behaviour.

Thank you sotonboy, exactly what I was thinking as I scrolled down this thread. Okay, Southampton isn't the prettiest city in the world, but it's where I was born and I'm proud of our heritage. If you want pretty, take a trip over to the New Forest, it's not far, I commuted for six years to Salisbury via Southampton Central from there after all. If people want to come and study here then they should be given every opportunity to do so in comfort and peace of mind. If this means building a skyscraper style building that's too high for the surrounding area (next to Jury's Inn FFS!) then so be it. Rant over, I'm off for a wander around Edinburgh...

Enjoy!

You have obviously never lived next door to a building full of students living in comfort but destroying everybody else's peace of mind through their total ignorance of how to behave normally, one example being Rockstone Place. Once the agents have got the scumbags in they don't give a toss about what the neighbours have/had to put up with.

I have. I've seen the beautiful houses in Portswood just off the avenue change to run down hovels with students having parties in front and back gardens, setting fire to wheelie bins, damaging cars, shouting abuse, screaming and playing loud music until 6am. Not to mention the aftermath of rubbish and bottles thrown in the streets, pairs of shoes hanging from the telephone lines, things stolen from gardens and road signs dumped out of the fronts of houses...

Let's get rid of the universities then and see how quickly Sh1thampton's economy goes straight down the toilet. Ford? Gone. Docks and Cruises? Unsustainable in the long term. Anything else left? Fortunately the economic benefit of the Universities is safe in the long term, otherwise I would be very careful what you wish for.

I'm surprised that you don't think Southampton's economy has already gone down the toilet, along with everything else it once posessed?

Southampton has survived for many hundreds of years before the universities came along and Southampton does not depend on a bunch of students who spend most of their loans in pubs and very little anywhere else to keep its economy going. The people that really benefit from students are the universities and the greedy landlords, not the people of Southampton. The people of Southampton suffer.

You really just make childish comments based on nothing but your own ill informed view with no substance whatsoever. Try thinking outside the box for a moment and make a constructive comment, argument or criticsim and you might have a leg to stand on.

Maybe you'll also tell me why you are actually in Southampton if it's that bad? I have asked you a number of times but the answer isn't forthcoming.

kingnotail wrote:

sotonboy84 wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

sotonboy84 wrote:

Rockstone wrote:

sotonboy84 wrote:

Beer Monster wrote:

sotonboy84 wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

sotonboy84 wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

Block41row0sfc wrote:

Rockstone wrote: They should relocate the 'future professionals' accomodation to portsmouth where they can vomit in the street, urinate in the street, make noise at all hours, threaten people and smash glasses or bottles to their heart's content instead of in Bedford Place and the surrounding area.

There's crackheads smackheads and pimps there why is it a problem moving students in.

Because to people like this, students are 'dangerous, scary outsiders', to be blamed for all ills when in fact the true offenders are local and staring you straight in the face. Plus, I'd prefer the occasional pile of vomit and p1ss to the endless piles of dogsh1t that still litter the streets of Southampton. Don't recall seeing many students with dogs?

A dog owner should be responsible for picking up their own dogs mess but the difference is, a dog has to go to toilet outside. I'm a dog owner and I must be scanning the wrong parts of the streets but apart from the odd bit very occasionally, Southampton does not have a problem. You were only saying yesterday about the poor guy that got drunk at a family wedding and unfortunately drowned in Portsmouth. You had no sympathy for him, made quite insensitive comments and said he 'brought it on himself'. If students are being sick and urinating in the streets, shouldn't they also take a bit of responsibility and clear up their own mess? After all, they did bring it on themselves. Oh wait, that doesn't count as you seem to twist everything to suit your current weak argument with the only intention of winding people up. Grow up mate. If Southampton sickens you that much, drop your mickey mouse of a degree at the dimstitute and clear off back to the hole you came from.

You're a dog owner, what a suprise. Brain not firing on all cylinders I expect? Where did I say that students should escape punishment for such behaviour? ANYONE should be responsible for cleaning up after themselves, and should face a punitive fine if caught.

Jesus Christ. So now all dog owners have something wrong with them... You're a very angry little person which suggests there's a lot about yourself that you're very unhappy with, not the world around you or Southampton. I would really sort that out mate before it becomes an even bigger problem. You may not have said students should escape punishment but you did say you'd rather walk in their vomit and urine, rather than the non existent dog mess problem which implies you're in support of students unsociable behaviour.

Thank you sotonboy, exactly what I was thinking as I scrolled down this thread. Okay, Southampton isn't the prettiest city in the world, but it's where I was born and I'm proud of our heritage. If you want pretty, take a trip over to the New Forest, it's not far, I commuted for six years to Salisbury via Southampton Central from there after all. If people want to come and study here then they should be given every opportunity to do so in comfort and peace of mind. If this means building a skyscraper style building that's too high for the surrounding area (next to Jury's Inn FFS!) then so be it. Rant over, I'm off for a wander around Edinburgh...

Enjoy!

You have obviously never lived next door to a building full of students living in comfort but destroying everybody else's peace of mind through their total ignorance of how to behave normally, one example being Rockstone Place. Once the agents have got the scumbags in they don't give a toss about what the neighbours have/had to put up with.

I have. I've seen the beautiful houses in Portswood just off the avenue change to run down hovels with students having parties in front and back gardens, setting fire to wheelie bins, damaging cars, shouting abuse, screaming and playing loud music until 6am. Not to mention the aftermath of rubbish and bottles thrown in the streets, pairs of shoes hanging from the telephone lines, things stolen from gardens and road signs dumped out of the fronts of houses...

Let's get rid of the universities then and see how quickly Sh1thampton's economy goes straight down the toilet. Ford? Gone. Docks and Cruises? Unsustainable in the long term. Anything else left? Fortunately the economic benefit of the Universities is safe in the long term, otherwise I would be very careful what you wish for.

I'm surprised that you don't think Southampton's economy has already gone down the toilet, along with everything else it once posessed?

Southampton has survived for many hundreds of years before the universities came along and Southampton does not depend on a bunch of students who spend most of their loans in pubs and very little anywhere else to keep its economy going. The people that really benefit from students are the universities and the greedy landlords, not the people of Southampton. The people of Southampton suffer.

You really just make childish comments based on nothing but your own ill informed view with no substance whatsoever. Try thinking outside the box for a moment and make a constructive comment, argument or criticsim and you might have a leg to stand on.

Maybe you'll also tell me why you are actually in Southampton if it's that bad? I have asked you a number of times but the answer isn't forthcoming.

Accepted a job here thinking 'can't be that bad'? It is. Contract expires at the end of the year, trust me you won't see me for dust.

kingnotail wrote:

sotonboy84 wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

sotonboy84 wrote:

Rockstone wrote:

sotonboy84 wrote:

Beer Monster wrote:

sotonboy84 wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

sotonboy84 wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

Block41row0sfc wrote:

Rockstone wrote: They should relocate the 'future professionals' accomodation to portsmouth where they can vomit in the street, urinate in the street, make noise at all hours, threaten people and smash glasses or bottles to their heart's content instead of in Bedford Place and the surrounding area.

There's crackheads smackheads and pimps there why is it a problem moving students in.

Because to people like this, students are 'dangerous, scary outsiders', to be blamed for all ills when in fact the true offenders are local and staring you straight in the face. Plus, I'd prefer the occasional pile of vomit and p1ss to the endless piles of dogsh1t that still litter the streets of Southampton. Don't recall seeing many students with dogs?

A dog owner should be responsible for picking up their own dogs mess but the difference is, a dog has to go to toilet outside. I'm a dog owner and I must be scanning the wrong parts of the streets but apart from the odd bit very occasionally, Southampton does not have a problem. You were only saying yesterday about the poor guy that got drunk at a family wedding and unfortunately drowned in Portsmouth. You had no sympathy for him, made quite insensitive comments and said he 'brought it on himself'. If students are being sick and urinating in the streets, shouldn't they also take a bit of responsibility and clear up their own mess? After all, they did bring it on themselves. Oh wait, that doesn't count as you seem to twist everything to suit your current weak argument with the only intention of winding people up. Grow up mate. If Southampton sickens you that much, drop your mickey mouse of a degree at the dimstitute and clear off back to the hole you came from.

You're a dog owner, what a suprise. Brain not firing on all cylinders I expect? Where did I say that students should escape punishment for such behaviour? ANYONE should be responsible for cleaning up after themselves, and should face a punitive fine if caught.

Jesus Christ. So now all dog owners have something wrong with them... You're a very angry little person which suggests there's a lot about yourself that you're very unhappy with, not the world around you or Southampton. I would really sort that out mate before it becomes an even bigger problem. You may not have said students should escape punishment but you did say you'd rather walk in their vomit and urine, rather than the non existent dog mess problem which implies you're in support of students unsociable behaviour.

Thank you sotonboy, exactly what I was thinking as I scrolled down this thread. Okay, Southampton isn't the prettiest city in the world, but it's where I was born and I'm proud of our heritage. If you want pretty, take a trip over to the New Forest, it's not far, I commuted for six years to Salisbury via Southampton Central from there after all. If people want to come and study here then they should be given every opportunity to do so in comfort and peace of mind. If this means building a skyscraper style building that's too high for the surrounding area (next to Jury's Inn FFS!) then so be it. Rant over, I'm off for a wander around Edinburgh...

Enjoy!

You have obviously never lived next door to a building full of students living in comfort but destroying everybody else's peace of mind through their total ignorance of how to behave normally, one example being Rockstone Place. Once the agents have got the scumbags in they don't give a toss about what the neighbours have/had to put up with.

I have. I've seen the beautiful houses in Portswood just off the avenue change to run down hovels with students having parties in front and back gardens, setting fire to wheelie bins, damaging cars, shouting abuse, screaming and playing loud music until 6am. Not to mention the aftermath of rubbish and bottles thrown in the streets, pairs of shoes hanging from the telephone lines, things stolen from gardens and road signs dumped out of the fronts of houses...

Let's get rid of the universities then and see how quickly Sh1thampton's economy goes straight down the toilet. Ford? Gone. Docks and Cruises? Unsustainable in the long term. Anything else left? Fortunately the economic benefit of the Universities is safe in the long term, otherwise I would be very careful what you wish for.

I'm surprised that you don't think Southampton's economy has already gone down the toilet, along with everything else it once posessed?

Southampton has survived for many hundreds of years before the universities came along and Southampton does not depend on a bunch of students who spend most of their loans in pubs and very little anywhere else to keep its economy going. The people that really benefit from students are the universities and the greedy landlords, not the people of Southampton. The people of Southampton suffer.

You really just make childish comments based on nothing but your own ill informed view with no substance whatsoever. Try thinking outside the box for a moment and make a constructive comment, argument or criticsim and you might have a leg to stand on.

Maybe you'll also tell me why you are actually in Southampton if it's that bad? I have asked you a number of times but the answer isn't forthcoming.

Accepted a job here thinking 'can't be that bad'? It is. Contract expires at the end of the year, trust me you won't see me for dust.

loosehead wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

sotonboy84 wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

sotonboy84 wrote:

Rockstone wrote:

sotonboy84 wrote:

Beer Monster wrote:

sotonboy84 wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

sotonboy84 wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

Block41row0sfc wrote:

Rockstone wrote: They should relocate the 'future professionals' accomodation to portsmouth where they can vomit in the street, urinate in the street, make noise at all hours, threaten people and smash glasses or bottles to their heart's content instead of in Bedford Place and the surrounding area.

There's crackheads smackheads and pimps there why is it a problem moving students in.

Because to people like this, students are 'dangerous, scary outsiders', to be blamed for all ills when in fact the true offenders are local and staring you straight in the face. Plus, I'd prefer the occasional pile of vomit and p1ss to the endless piles of dogsh1t that still litter the streets of Southampton. Don't recall seeing many students with dogs?

A dog owner should be responsible for picking up their own dogs mess but the difference is, a dog has to go to toilet outside. I'm a dog owner and I must be scanning the wrong parts of the streets but apart from the odd bit very occasionally, Southampton does not have a problem. You were only saying yesterday about the poor guy that got drunk at a family wedding and unfortunately drowned in Portsmouth. You had no sympathy for him, made quite insensitive comments and said he 'brought it on himself'. If students are being sick and urinating in the streets, shouldn't they also take a bit of responsibility and clear up their own mess? After all, they did bring it on themselves. Oh wait, that doesn't count as you seem to twist everything to suit your current weak argument with the only intention of winding people up. Grow up mate. If Southampton sickens you that much, drop your mickey mouse of a degree at the dimstitute and clear off back to the hole you came from.

You're a dog owner, what a suprise. Brain not firing on all cylinders I expect? Where did I say that students should escape punishment for such behaviour? ANYONE should be responsible for cleaning up after themselves, and should face a punitive fine if caught.

Jesus Christ. So now all dog owners have something wrong with them... You're a very angry little person which suggests there's a lot about yourself that you're very unhappy with, not the world around you or Southampton. I would really sort that out mate before it becomes an even bigger problem. You may not have said students should escape punishment but you did say you'd rather walk in their vomit and urine, rather than the non existent dog mess problem which implies you're in support of students unsociable behaviour.

Thank you sotonboy, exactly what I was thinking as I scrolled down this thread. Okay, Southampton isn't the prettiest city in the world, but it's where I was born and I'm proud of our heritage. If you want pretty, take a trip over to the New Forest, it's not far, I commuted for six years to Salisbury via Southampton Central from there after all. If people want to come and study here then they should be given every opportunity to do so in comfort and peace of mind. If this means building a skyscraper style building that's too high for the surrounding area (next to Jury's Inn FFS!) then so be it. Rant over, I'm off for a wander around Edinburgh...

Enjoy!

You have obviously never lived next door to a building full of students living in comfort but destroying everybody else's peace of mind through their total ignorance of how to behave normally, one example being Rockstone Place. Once the agents have got the scumbags in they don't give a toss about what the neighbours have/had to put up with.

I have. I've seen the beautiful houses in Portswood just off the avenue change to run down hovels with students having parties in front and back gardens, setting fire to wheelie bins, damaging cars, shouting abuse, screaming and playing loud music until 6am. Not to mention the aftermath of rubbish and bottles thrown in the streets, pairs of shoes hanging from the telephone lines, things stolen from gardens and road signs dumped out of the fronts of houses...

Let's get rid of the universities then and see how quickly Sh1thampton's economy goes straight down the toilet. Ford? Gone. Docks and Cruises? Unsustainable in the long term. Anything else left? Fortunately the economic benefit of the Universities is safe in the long term, otherwise I would be very careful what you wish for.

I'm surprised that you don't think Southampton's economy has already gone down the toilet, along with everything else it once posessed? Southampton has survived for many hundreds of years before the universities came along and Southampton does not depend on a bunch of students who spend most of their loans in pubs and very little anywhere else to keep its economy going. The people that really benefit from students are the universities and the greedy landlords, not the people of Southampton. The people of Southampton suffer. You really just make childish comments based on nothing but your own ill informed view with no substance whatsoever. Try thinking outside the box for a moment and make a constructive comment, argument or criticsim and you might have a leg to stand on. Maybe you'll also tell me why you are actually in Southampton if it's that bad? I have asked you a number of times but the answer isn't forthcoming.

Accepted a job here thinking 'can't be that bad'? It is. Contract expires at the end of the year, trust me you won't see me for dust.

So your working here taking employment from a local person & taking up what a flat? yet you constantly slag the city down? Maybe when you go back home you'll find it's not the great place you remembered

Block41row0sfc wrote:

Rockstone wrote:
They should relocate the 'future professionals' accomodation to portsmouth where they can vomit in the street, urinate in the street, make noise at all hours, threaten people and smash glasses or bottles to their heart's content instead of in Bedford Place and the surrounding area.

There's crackheads smackheads and pimps there why is it a problem moving students in.

sotonboy84 wrote:

loosehead wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

sotonboy84 wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

sotonboy84 wrote:

Rockstone wrote:

sotonboy84 wrote:

Beer Monster wrote:

sotonboy84 wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

sotonboy84 wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

Block41row0sfc wrote:

Rockstone wrote: They should relocate the 'future professionals' accomodation to portsmouth where they can vomit in the street, urinate in the street, make noise at all hours, threaten people and smash glasses or bottles to their heart's content instead of in Bedford Place and the surrounding area.

There's crackheads smackheads and pimps there why is it a problem moving students in.

Because to people like this, students are 'dangerous, scary outsiders', to be blamed for all ills when in fact the true offenders are local and staring you straight in the face. Plus, I'd prefer the occasional pile of vomit and p1ss to the endless piles of dogsh1t that still litter the streets of Southampton. Don't recall seeing many students with dogs?

A dog owner should be responsible for picking up their own dogs mess but the difference is, a dog has to go to toilet outside. I'm a dog owner and I must be scanning the wrong parts of the streets but apart from the odd bit very occasionally, Southampton does not have a problem. You were only saying yesterday about the poor guy that got drunk at a family wedding and unfortunately drowned in Portsmouth. You had no sympathy for him, made quite insensitive comments and said he 'brought it on himself'. If students are being sick and urinating in the streets, shouldn't they also take a bit of responsibility and clear up their own mess? After all, they did bring it on themselves. Oh wait, that doesn't count as you seem to twist everything to suit your current weak argument with the only intention of winding people up. Grow up mate. If Southampton sickens you that much, drop your mickey mouse of a degree at the dimstitute and clear off back to the hole you came from.

You're a dog owner, what a suprise. Brain not firing on all cylinders I expect? Where did I say that students should escape punishment for such behaviour? ANYONE should be responsible for cleaning up after themselves, and should face a punitive fine if caught.

Jesus Christ. So now all dog owners have something wrong with them... You're a very angry little person which suggests there's a lot about yourself that you're very unhappy with, not the world around you or Southampton. I would really sort that out mate before it becomes an even bigger problem. You may not have said students should escape punishment but you did say you'd rather walk in their vomit and urine, rather than the non existent dog mess problem which implies you're in support of students unsociable behaviour.

Thank you sotonboy, exactly what I was thinking as I scrolled down this thread. Okay, Southampton isn't the prettiest city in the world, but it's where I was born and I'm proud of our heritage. If you want pretty, take a trip over to the New Forest, it's not far, I commuted for six years to Salisbury via Southampton Central from there after all. If people want to come and study here then they should be given every opportunity to do so in comfort and peace of mind. If this means building a skyscraper style building that's too high for the surrounding area (next to Jury's Inn FFS!) then so be it. Rant over, I'm off for a wander around Edinburgh...

Enjoy!

You have obviously never lived next door to a building full of students living in comfort but destroying everybody else's peace of mind through their total ignorance of how to behave normally, one example being Rockstone Place. Once the agents have got the scumbags in they don't give a toss about what the neighbours have/had to put up with.

I have. I've seen the beautiful houses in Portswood just off the avenue change to run down hovels with students having parties in front and back gardens, setting fire to wheelie bins, damaging cars, shouting abuse, screaming and playing loud music until 6am. Not to mention the aftermath of rubbish and bottles thrown in the streets, pairs of shoes hanging from the telephone lines, things stolen from gardens and road signs dumped out of the fronts of houses...

Let's get rid of the universities then and see how quickly Sh1thampton's economy goes straight down the toilet. Ford? Gone. Docks and Cruises? Unsustainable in the long term. Anything else left? Fortunately the economic benefit of the Universities is safe in the long term, otherwise I would be very careful what you wish for.

I'm surprised that you don't think Southampton's economy has already gone down the toilet, along with everything else it once posessed? Southampton has survived for many hundreds of years before the universities came along and Southampton does not depend on a bunch of students who spend most of their loans in pubs and very little anywhere else to keep its economy going. The people that really benefit from students are the universities and the greedy landlords, not the people of Southampton. The people of Southampton suffer. You really just make childish comments based on nothing but your own ill informed view with no substance whatsoever. Try thinking outside the box for a moment and make a constructive comment, argument or criticsim and you might have a leg to stand on. Maybe you'll also tell me why you are actually in Southampton if it's that bad? I have asked you a number of times but the answer isn't forthcoming.

Accepted a job here thinking 'can't be that bad'? It is. Contract expires at the end of the year, trust me you won't see me for dust.

So your working here taking employment from a local person & taking up what a flat? yet you constantly slag the city down? Maybe when you go back home you'll find it's not the great place you remembered

He's probably some weirdo from Southampton that gets his kicks out of annoying people on the internet by saying anything to cause a stir.
Sad little person.