What comes into your mind when you think of the British town of Slough?

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miss london

The Office.

Gar

Ricky Gervaise and the office.

It would not be my choice to live there. I like the countryside life too much.

choccy_002

John Betjeman's poem -
Slough
Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now,
There isn't grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death!

Come, bombs and blow to smithereens
Those air -conditioned, bright canteens,
Tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans,
Tinned minds, tinned breath.

Mess up the mess they call a town-
A house for ninety-seven down
And once a week a half a crown
For twenty years.

And get that man with double chin
Who'll always cheat and always win,
Who washes his repulsive skin
In women's tears:

And smash his desk of polished oak
And smash his hands so used to stroke
And stop his boring dirty joke
And make him yell.

But spare the bald young clerks who add
The profits of the stinking cad;
It's not their fault that they are mad,
They've tasted Hell.

It's not their fault they do not know
The birdsong from the radio,
It's not their fault they often go
To Maidenhead

And talk of sport and makes of cars
In various bogus-Tudor bars
And daren't look up and see the stars
But belch instead.

In labour-saving homes, with care
Their wives frizz out peroxide hair
And dry it in synthetic air
And paint their nails.

Come, friendly bombs and fall on Slough
To get it ready for the plough.
The cabbages are coming now;
The earth exhales.

(Don't think I'd want to live there!!!!)

The Office

Sebastian

i think of 'Road Wars' on sky one, and all the druggies,, crackheads, law breakers, and anti social behaviour they come acrpss on that show :-)

probablygraham

The trading estate.
I'm sure nobody actually plans to live there - they just can't afford to live anywhere nice :-)

Shawn

Chavs, litter, joyriders and high rise flats. No i would not live there. I'll stay in Scotland.

Carrie S

John Betjeman wrote:

Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough
It isn't fit for humans now
There isn't grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, death!

I personally don't like it but it's got some great hotels being near Heathrow. I have stayed there while visiting Legoland before and not left the hotel apart from to go back to Windsor. I think it's a great place to stay if you're visiting Windsor or flying out next day.

rainy-h

Mars Bars!

Uncle Sid

John Betjeman's poem (Come friendly bombs and rain on Slough), Will Hay in 'The Goose Steps Out' teaching English to a group of (wartime) Germans correcting them when they pronounced it 'Sluf' ['No, no! In English O-U-G-H is pronounced "ow"!' - 'Ach, that must make learning English very touw! (tough)'], and, of course, Wernham Hogg Office Supplies as in Ricky Gervaise's 'The Office'.

Marion,

The Office ,

Ewood Eddie

Betjamans Poem

craig s

road wars!

Stephanie

I think of a poem that was done by a famous political satirist (cant remeber his name), concrete cows and I would rather slit my wrist than live there.

Gary S

it almost sounds like sloth...and id clearly hate to live in a place called sloth

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