# Oh, to be in small town England .. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 14, 2017, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-to-be-in-small-town-england/779842 "2017-02-14T20:47:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-to-be-in-small-town-england/779842/1 "2017-02-14T20:47:40Z")
… on a Saturday night. This was last Saturday. Fwiw I come from a small town originally and they are generally a bit punchy, though we didn’t have phone cameras then - in this fine example I like the baldy bloke wearing glasses who pops up periodically from stage right 🙂 Happy days: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK1f8MYZISg) ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-to-be-in-small-town-england/779842/2 "2017-02-14T21:24:19Z")
Gosh, it reminds me of Mayberry. I thought I saw Aunt Bee deck someone in there. ---
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-to-be-in-small-town-england/779842/3 "2017-02-14T21:44:17Z")
It’'s not quite Call the Midwife, is it … ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-to-be-in-small-town-england/779842/4 "2017-02-15T12:24:37Z")
These’ll keep your fingers on the pulse: [http://apiln.blogspot.co.uk/](http://apiln.blogspot.co.uk/) [https://www.flickr.com/groups/argusheadlines/pool/](https://www.flickr.com/groups/argusheadlines/pool/) ---
**Author:** ![Teuton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teuton/32/3864_2.png) [@Teuton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teuton)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-to-be-in-small-town-england/779842/5 "2017-02-15T17:22:13Z")
Well, it’s a 'spoons, isn’t it, what do you expect? ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-to-be-in-small-town-england/779842/6 "2017-02-15T17:26:32Z")
Can someone give a text-based hint as to what’s in the videos? ---
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-to-be-in-small-town-england/779842/7 "2017-02-15T17:51:11Z")
a massive punch up. ---
**Author:** ![JustinC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justinc/32/8083_2.png) [@JustinC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustinC)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-to-be-in-small-town-england/779842/8 "2017-02-15T18:36:43Z")
That isn’t a small town. It’s either a big town or a small city. Possibly a big city (Manchester, Liverpool, Brum, Newcastle) but if fights like those break out in big those cities, security would usually be in like Flyn. I saw no security there, so am guessing it isn’t in a big city. I’d guess it’s a town in south or west Yorkshire, or on the NE coast in Sunderland, Newcastle or Durham/Middlesborough, as it’s all fisticuffs and no knives or guns are present. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-to-be-in-small-town-england/779842/9 "2017-02-15T18:54:08Z")
> [@JustinC](#): > > That isn’t a small town. It’s either a big town or a small city. Possibly a big city (Manchester, Liverpool, Brum, Newcastle) but if fights like those break out in big those cities, security would usually be in like Flyn. I saw no security there, so am guessing it isn’t in a big city. I’d guess it’s a town in south or west Yorkshire, or on the NE coast in Sunderland, Newcastle or Durham/Middlesborough, as it’s all fisticuffs and no knives or guns are present. It’s Trowbridge in Wiltshire, population 33,000. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-to-be-in-small-town-england/779842/10 "2017-02-15T19:00:57Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > Can someone give a text-based hint as to what’s in the videos? > [@up\_the\_junction](#): > > a massive punch up. Also known as a barroom brawl. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-to-be-in-small-town-england/779842/11 "2017-02-15T19:03:26Z")
Wow, it’s like something out of a Thomas Hardy novel. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-to-be-in-small-town-england/779842/12 "2017-02-15T20:51:57Z")
You know, I really don’t miss working as a bouncer… ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-to-be-in-small-town-england/779842/13 "2017-02-15T21:04:42Z")
These blighters need to be listed in [shameachav.com](http://shameachav.com) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-to-be-in-small-town-england/779842/14 "2017-02-15T23:31:27Z")
> [@JustinC](#): > > That isn’t a small town. It’s either a big town or a small city. Possibly a big city (Manchester, Liverpool, Brum, Newcastle) but if fights like those break out in big those cities, security would usually be in like Flyn. I saw no security there, so am guessing it isn’t in a big city. I’d guess it’s a town in south or west Yorkshire, or on the NE coast in Sunderland, Newcastle or Durham/Middlesborough, as it’s all fisticuffs and no knives or guns are present. When I worked as a volunteer cop, the standing rule for barroom brawls was “Wait until it’s over, then go in and arrest the winners.” ---
**Author:** ![UDS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecae2f/32.png) [@UDS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UDS)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-to-be-in-small-town-england/779842/15 "2017-02-16T00:45:21Z")
> [@JustinC](#): > > That isn’t a small town. It’s either a big town or a small city. Possibly a big city (Manchester, Liverpool, Brum, Newcastle) but if fights like those break out in big those cities, security would usually be in like Flyn. I saw no security there, so am guessing it isn’t in a big city . . . Security may well have been in like Flynn. The video is only 10 seconds long. It’s just looped. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-to-be-in-small-town-england/779842/16 "2017-02-16T20:44:59Z")
The only guy who deserved a punch to the face was the idiot who filmed that \*vertically \*(really, people, it’s not hard to turn your phone 90 degrees…)