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| 1. Cardiff buses |
 Why
do Cardiff buses operate a 'correct change only' policy?
I've been in plenty of cities that favour the old fashioned
'giving you change' system, and public transport anarchy
rarely ensues as a result. On the plus side, I've calculated
that by the year 2013, I'll have paid enough surplus
from having the incorrect change to pay for an entire
bus of my own. (Marky, lower Roath) |
| 2. Street names |
I’m not original enough to
come up with a normal street name so I’ll name
them after lousy metals: Copper
St, Tin St and Zinc St. What?
Oh, that worked well. Lets do countries
this time Australia St, New Zealand St and Canada
St. And then the piece de resistance to add a touch
of cosmopolitan glamour we have: Stuttgarter Strasse
and Boulevard de Nantes. Please, how try hard is that?
(Geoff, Ely) |
| 3. Cardiff Souvenirs |
what you can take home as souvenirs?
The two quintessential Cardiff gifts are a Welsh rugby
shirt. Yeah, something to be proud of right now. And
even better: Love spoons. What’s all that about?
This apparently is the zenith of Welsh romance. This
is the one true way to tell her you love her. Cutlery.
In wood. With stupid shapes cut in the handle so you
can’t hold it properly. (Geoff, Ely)
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| 4. Traffic |
| Cardiff has 305,000 people compared
to 8m in London - so why is our traffic twice as bad?
Even if we all owned 52 cars each we could not drive
them simultaneously so what's going on? (Dan, Cathays) |
| 5. Is it? |
| The colloquialism, not the bar. It's
as grammatically sound as "Where's that to?"
or "Tidy as f*** like". "Is it?"
makes no sense and yet I find myself doing it now after
three years of intensive conditioning - what exactly
are the taffies questioning and why is it never answered?
[no pun intended] Arrrrrghhh (Dan, Cathays) |
| 6. Chuggers |
 Those
buggers with the clip-boards who make me meander evasively
like a confused snake all over Queen Street when all
I want to do is get where
I'm going. (Dan, Cathays) |
| 7. Call centres |
 Surely
there must be some places with proper jobs in Cardiff,
other than call centres? £6 an hour is not enough,
for anyone to live on. Or afford a £200k appartment.
(Sarah, Roath) |
| 8. Luxury Appartments |
 does
cardiff really need more so called "luxury appartments"
bumping up prices for the rest of us? (Paolo, Penylan) |
| 9. Identi-pubs |
 can't
they open another new pub that has a different music,
drinks, door, trainer policy?? (Paolo, Penylan) |
| 10. Bused in Valleys commandos |
| grrrr, dont get me started, all they
do is wear ben sherman shirts, start fights, steal our
women, and vomit, grrrr (Steve, Ribena) |
11. The Organ Playing
disabled guy
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| The one that plays on his bontempi
organ on a saturday, and gets soo much pitty money..
grrrr. I am sure he can play he just winds everybody
up wailing like a hyena and playing imaginary chords.
I am sure he can really play and is just winding us
up. (Steve, Ribena) |
| 12. The lack of celebrities |
| My girlfriend always complains, "Cardiff
is a capital city, where are the celebs". If it
is a capital, shouldn't it be brimming with celebs?
Why doesn't Wales embrace celebrity culture, like London?
where is our Met bar? I've seen Charlotte Church once,
sneaking a cigarette, and Welsh Rugby players dont count
as celebrities. (Paolo, Penylan) |
| 13. Taurus Steak House Vomit |
| Why does someone always vomit chunks
right infront of my view when ever I'm about to tuck
into a post-pub delicious looking Taurus steak?? (Tim,
Canton) |
| 14. Students |
 What
do they do other than drink alcohol, leave rubbish strewn
everywhere, spend tax payers money and eat pies?? (Tim,
Canton) |
| 15. Rented accomodation |
| So many landlords all converting that
lounge into a bedroom, doing the bare mimimum and sometimes
less than the bare minimum to make the property rentable,
grrr?? (Ian, Fairwater) |
| 16. Splott |
| No its not lower Roath, or South Adamsdown,
its Splott. Them pesky estate agents will do anything
to shift a propert?? (Chris, Splott) |
| 17. Cardiff train station |
 What's
all this welsh language announcements first business?
Is it so that Welsh people can start queuing before
English language people and get the best train seats?
I cunningly can understand some of the welsh pronunciations
and therefore can overide thius complex system. (Max,
Fairwater) |
| 18. Parking Scratchcards |
| I've bought lousy parking scratchcards
for 3 years, yet never won anything on them. I'm sticking
to national lottery scratchcards now. (Tim , Adamsdown) |
| 19. Car Parking at the Capitol
Centre |
| It costs about £12 for an hour
or something, thats such such a rip off. (Tim, Whitchurch) |
| 20. M4 Bridge to Wales |
| Paying a fiver to get into Wales,
what's all that about? Also why can't they accept debit/credit
cards? are they doing a little backhander, and running
an illegal bridging operation? (Sally, Radyr) |
| 21. Cardiff graffitti |
| Where are all the Cardiff graffitti
artists? I only ever see really amateurish kiddy tags,
isn't this supposed to be the capital of culture?. (Owain,
Grangetown) |
| 22. The welsh assembly |
 How
much is the tax payer paying for this? I have a friend
who works in there, apparently, no one ever makes a
decision, they hire expensive consultants for everything,
and all the AM's offices have polished wood and leather
fittings. If they can name one thing that they've done
for this country, just one thing, that would make me
happy. (Jenny, Grangetown) |
| 23. S4C |
| It is the most expensive station per
viewer something like £500 per person that watches
in. (Max, Fairwater) |
| 24. BBC Wales |
| According to BBC Wales, or by guessing
for the trailers/idents, all welsh people do is drink
beer and watch rugby. (Debby, Grangetown) |
| 25. BBC Wales News |
| Why does it show Cardiff Bay in the
background when quite clearly its filmed at Llandaff,
which is miles away. (Rhoddri, Citycentre) |
| 26. NTL |
 I
suppose that we should feel sorry for NTL they are something
like £9billion in debt. But anyone that has ever
tried to have NTL install a line will know what i mean.
(Chris, Adamsdown) |
| 27. Lowri turner |
 Who
is she? Is she the most famous person in Cardiff? What
does she do? (Sarah, Roath) |
| 28. Beer Prices |
Every time a new bar opens the beer
is a little more expensive than the last place to open.
£3 pints are not far off now. And every single place
is the same inside with tables that look more at home
in an operating theatre. And soon Whetherspoons
will own every pub in Cardiff, is this good?
(Gareth, Canton) |
| 29. Yo bras/trendies/townies/bros/twats!!
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| Why the hell are there so many of them?!!!
Everywhere you go they're there - lurking outside shops,
bus stops, under lamposts (they seem to be attracted
to light - are they moths or something??!). In their
hideous pink towelling tracksuits from Primark that
are blatently too small and nasty hair stuck tight to
their heads. They have the nerve to call me a mosher.....
*puts them all in the assembly building and fetches
a small atomic device* (Beth, Cyncoed) |
| 30. Airport so far! |
I love Cardiff but the public transport
is awful. Where is the rail link to
the airport to make the most of the BMI Baby flights
eh??
(Jane, Pontcanna) |
| 31. relationship gone sour
after house buy |
I love Cardiff, but.. Ever
since we decided to settle down and buy a house together
the passion seesm to have gone out of the relationship.
And thats why I've been secretly seeing
Exeter for the last six month
(Alex, Whitchurch)
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| 32. Me too |
| I love Cardiff too, but ! (Dylan, Whitchurch (Posh, like)) |
| 33. Roath, Cathays, Grangetown,
Splott |
| They get in the way of entering or leaving the good bits. (Lucent V Berger (MBE), Cyncoed) |
| 34. Shimmering water tower
down bay |
| Looks cool when someone remembers to
turn it on... (Roland, Cardiff Bay) |
| 35. Flares |
| It's a poor excuse for a nightclub.
(Roderick, Slovakia) |
| 36. The cycle lanes |
| Cardiff has 2 million miles of cycle
lanes for a convenient tour of pot holes, drains and
small lakes. (Roland, Cathays) |
| 37. Hand shaking drunk |
| He's drunk, accosts you late at night
walking home and shakes your hand sincerely. Great until
someone tells you he gets his kicks by preparing for
this by fiddling with his mangy manhood. (Roland,
Cathays) |
| 38. no skunk |
| but not on failed skunk missions in
St melons and driving alsmot 40 miles in circles around
the suburbs :( (Micahel Jones (Merthyr Tydfil)) |
| 39. St Mellons |
| but not st melons :P (Michael Jones
(Merthyr)). |
| 40. Mystery of the missing
Platform |
| Why isn't there a platform 5 on Cardiff
Central rail station? Platforms are 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6,
7 Is the station suffering from platform rot? Ron Davies
inspired badger interference - or is this simply the
result of some pikey from Ely nicking the entire platform?
(Peter Morgan, Cardiff ) |
| 41. Pod fans |
| What ever happened to those pods on
rails they promised us, that could transport us around
the city? Serious. (Heath). |
| 42. Where are the statues? |
| they have put big concrete blocks on
queen st, but where are the statues to go on them>??? |
| 43. Armadillo Alert! |
| Why is there a giant armadillo in the
bay? Or is a GM coffee bean? (Calum, Fairwater) |
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