For many reasons, most agree that Bristol is a cool city, probably an awesome one. Why is it so awesome for you? Below, there is very unique description of Bristol's awesomeness written by a friend of mine, who has created a website to acknowledge awesome people and things happening in the world (check website). Have fun!
Why is
Bristol awesome? That’s not the question you need to be asking. The question
you need to be asking is “Why don’t you think Bristol is awesome?” What part of
your life have you failed at, not to realise the sheer, incredible, brain
boiling amazingness of this city? Well, for those of you who have a geographic
deficit where Bristol is concerned, I’m here to fill that cold, dark horrible
void that you didn’t know it existed until after you read this article.
Bristol has
a place for everyone. If you enjoy getting as baked as a cake with herbal
remedies, Stokes Croft will accommodate your hippy and hipster need with
aplomb. A shabby looking street that gets incredibly busy on a weekend night
with those looking for an alternative night out. If you have the brain cells of a single cell organism and enjoy drinking yourself into a
stupor, the night life in Bristol is supposedly very good. It even comes with a
host of dodgy kebab shops with non-English speaking staff to accommodate you
once you've spent your hard earned cash getting chalk boarded with your liquid drugs.
Perhaps
you’re a hard up national front, BNP, EDL fanboy,… There’s a place for you too
(other than hell). Well, not the hell that waits for you after you die. But,
Hartcliffe and Southmead aren’t far off.
Ethnic
minorities need not worry; there are a large number of various cultures
floating around, from Somali and Arab communities to the Burgeoning Polish
contingent. The Polski Sklep’s never had it so good.
Looking for
a bit of culture? Have no fear, just rock up to the Wallace and Gromit
headquarters and maybe Gromit will show you round the slave trade routes and
FLOATING MUSEUMS! That’s right, every other city has some pathetic Museum to
look around in, but not many have the previously sunk SS Great Britain docked
in a harbour.
EVEN Jamie Oliver has opened a restaurant here, and everyone knows that Jamie only opens
restaurants in cities that achieve the Institute of Super Awesome People (IOSAP) recognition of awesomeness.
Also, in
case you are culturally abandoned or pathetically uneducated, the renowned
street artist Banksy is from Bristol. Banksy himself is awesome in his own
right considering his continued hidden identity and consistent political
expression, but his Bristolian Roots just go to show that awesomeness is
intrinsic in the city’s fabric.
Finally,
Bristol has been voted as the best place to live in the UK about a gazillion
times (twice) by the Sunday Times. This honour doesn't compare to the Official
recognition of awesomeness from the Institute of Super Awesome People, but
still, it’s not to be sniffed at.
All this,
despite the fact that the local dialect is amazingly fowl (that’s not
misspelled). You walk into Bristol and you are hit by an agricultural lilt so
powerful that it’s enough to make the top button of your dungarees pop out in
surprised uneducated horror. You will never feel the true power of an “R” until
you spend time in Bristol. However, this does not diminish its awesomeness,
instead it multiplies it as there is nothing more awesome than overcoming a
crippling disability in the pursuit of success. In city terms, a crippling
disability is a pirate/farmer hybrid accent.
