What do you know about Liverpool?

[Graeme the mad]

Well I was sitting in my castle the other day and reading the local newspaper (or Uk piece of anti-semitic propoganda if your IceBlaze) and I noticed that Liverpool is in the running to be European City of Culture for some date.
I nearly fell of my seat laughing, apart from the Joke that is the whole idea of a different city of culture each year the idea of this hellhole in the running was so funny.
However I also noticed the paper claimed that Liverpool was 'famous the world over for its many varied attractions'

Well i thought - lets put that to the test - so aside from the beatles (and my gothic style castle) can you name anything you know about Liverpool (penny lane, strawberrry fields or anything else from beatles song doesnt count either).

Dont look things up on the internet as that invalidates the whole exercise

 

[philippe]

i only know their football team(soccer for americans)
and the biggest attraction for the ladies is michal owen.

 

[Hitro]

Liverpool is famous for the Beatles and their football clubs Liverpool FC and Everton FC.
Besides that I don't instantly know of things especially significant in terms of culture. Isn't it rather a worker's town? Shipyards, etc.?

 

[Baleog]

Phillipe and Hitro beet me in mentioning it was home of the best football team in the world, though they didn't quite state it like that.
(Liverpool by the by, not Everton)

I suppose you could call Liverpool stab city if you wanted. No offence if your really proud of being scouse, but face facts.

I suppose seen as I live just across the sea from you, and that Liverpool was a hot spot for immigration, this question wasn't really aimed at me.

 

[sysyphus]

Well, if the scousers I work with are representative, they seem to like to complain alot

Seriously though, I don't know much other than the Beatles, Liverpool FC and Everton FC, plus that it's located in Merseyside.

That and the local dialect makes every statement sound like a question.

 

[Becka]

What do you know about Liverpool?

My great-grandfather was from there. That's all I know.

I don't even know where Liverpool is.

 

[Knight-Dragon]

My impression is it's an industrial city, located somewhere in N England. That's all. General impression is it's a sooty polluted relic fr England's Industrial Revolution, for some reason. Hmmm...

And yeah, a famous football team.

 

[Graeme the mad]

'suppose you could call Liverpool stab city if you wanted'



I know what you mean and Im not at all offended but to be fair its come along way and is not even in the bottom 30% of cities in crime statistics
Still a hellhole though

Its hardly an industrial city though so I guess this is proving what I suspected.

No one's mentioned the big other thing I expected though

 

[Lt.Col. Kilgore]

Isn't there a U.S. Naval Base in Liverpool?

 

[Graeme the mad]

Isn't there a U.S. Naval Base in Liverpool?

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Do you know what counry this city is in?

 

[Lt.Col. Kilgore]

Yeah I do. And I know during WWII and even the 50s there was some sort of U.S. military installation there. Why do you think I specified 'U.S.'? If I thought it were an American city I wouldn't have needed to do so, correct?

 

[duke o' york]

It was a very important port for British colonies throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, specialising in slaves and cotton.
A mill town too, although not to the extent of those in Lancashire as it was more concerned with importing the stuff rather than refining it and weaving.
People have mentioned Liverpool and Everton FCs, but no-one has said anything about Tranmere yet - the second team on Merseyside (depending on which of the above two is your first ).
I'm a red by the way
Did someone say Derek Hatton? No? Oh well then, best not dwelt upon.
Liverpool have produced far more bands than the Beatles, but apart from Cilla Black (Priscilla White - a George Harrison prodigy) then I won't go any further for fear of missing out someone important. There are people who know far more about pop music than I and can give a more comprehensive list.
Famed for their sense of humour, they have somehow managed to also produce the Liver Birds and Bread, but a scouser in the flesh is far funnier than anything they put on telly. Diddy men indeed.
Liverpool Speke Airport has recently been renamed John Lennon Airport complete with statue of the gentleman in question. However, the "great" scouse joke "Is this bus going to Speke?" "Nah, it's a bus, they can't talk" is still possible although seldom heard these days.
And er, I was born there! Woo I hear you cry.
Before anyone points it out, yes I'm a Newcastle fan, but I lean more toward the red than the blue as regards the city of my birth.

 

[Rodgers]

I went there for a weekend recently and, my god, you've got some women there man! They all look like Louise except that they'd probably shag up a back alley you for 20 B&H!



I'd move there tomorrow except I couldn't summon enough phlegm to do the accent with

 

[ComradeDavo]

"calm down, calm down"



That is the phrase I generally associate with Liverpool


(note: if anyone doesn't know it's from Harry Enfield)

I do have to regually listen to my freind Carl, a Man Utd regular (and he's from grantham originally!!) moan about how the 'scousers robbed there championship league place'.

 

[MrPresident]

Liverpool = The greatest football team there has ever been.

 

[Dell19]

Originally posted by Lt.Col. Kilgore
Isn't there a U.S. Naval Base in Liverpool?

Are you talking about the Liverpool in Uruguay? I think there is another city called Liverpool in Uruguay although it may just be the name of a football team...

 

[Switch625]

It's in the UK, and home of the Beatles. That's as far as I get.

 

[Simon Darkshade]

It is somewhere west of Adelaide...



The Beatles came from there, and the people talk funny because they were all dropped in the Mersey as babies.

 

[Zwelgje]

When I think Liverpool I think of football and the Beatles, that's it, what other things were you expecting Graeme?

 

[Dell19]

Everyone seems to forget about Tranmere when they talk about football from Liverpool...