Is Staines the ‘New’ Liverpool?

Is Staines UK’s new Liverpool?

In a story about hometown celestial pop-group Hard Fi, the local paper
ran a headline asking is Staines the UK’s New Liverpool….

So AdPontes-Staines checked the stats…

Liverpool		Staines
size pop.	816,000	size pop.	52,400
river	Mersey	river	Thames
Inhabitants	Scousers	Inhabitants	Chavs
age	900 years	age	2000 years
Domesday Book?	No	Domesday Book?	Yes
Youth Culture	Mersey Beat	Youth Culture	Suburban Indie
Cultural	Centre	Cultural	Desert
City Of	Poetry	City Of	Profanity
Art	Several Galleries	Art	An art walk
Sport	Liverpool FC	Sport	Staines FC
Performance	Performing arts	Performance	Performing farts
World Heitage	Waterfront	World Heritage	Magna Carta
Airport	John Lennon	Airport	Heathrow
Pop Stars	Beatles	Pop Stars	Hard Fi
Comedy	Ken Dodd	Comedy	Bobby Davro
Trivia	Adolf Hitlers brother once lived here	Trivia	The man who arrested Guy Fawkes once lived here
Total	8/16	Total	7/16

Next week… is Staines the New Detroit, the New Florence, the New
Mississippi Delta? etc. etc etc.

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~ by staines on January 21, 2008.