I am 16 years old
and wondering aimlessley around Rochester with my friends one quiet Sunday with nothing to do but smoke shitty joints and try to get served alcohol.

Little pikeys that we were.

Somehow we end up in the most God awful hellhole pub which, on a Sunday afternoon/early evening has an 'exotic dancers' show. Nice

I use the term 'exotic' very loosely as what ensued was the most bizarre, un-erotic, awkward THING I've ever witnessed. The lovely ladies were obviously bottom of the barrel in terms of nasty strippers, and looked like the kind of shrivelled harridans you would pay to stay away from you all evening.

So there we are, mouths gaped open in horror and being glared at by the pub owner who circles our table like an angry buzzard.

"We don't normally like having girls here for this." She hisses at me and my friend (we are the only females out of our group)

"Um I think we're just about to leave now."

So we bolt out of there like a bat out of hell and I make my way back home, trying to shake the smell of depraved old men and weed off my clothes and the image of the ugliest stripper and her saggy backside out of my head.

Its still there :(
(Eldoofus, Sun 8 Feb 2009, 12:52, 4 replies)

Is that 'The Star'?
At the end of the high street at the bottom of the hill?
(Spaff_Quaffer Wise fwom your gwave., Sun 8 Feb 2009, 12:56, closed)

Yep
Thats the one. Been there?
(Eldoofus, Sun 8 Feb 2009, 13:01, closed)

Ahh yes!
The medway towns, Which include Chatham. The word chav originates from here. Although there are some very nice parts. But it does live down to it's reputation. Strood which appears to always have a storm cloud over it. Gillingham has more bedsits than is healthy. Rainham "thinks" it's better than the rest. Rochester well you've already covered that. I'm amazed there's only one poundland in the towns. And the best thing to come out of the whole area is the A2.

Let me clear up a few things. Before I'm told off for running it down. I was born in Chatham and have spent many more years there than not. I've met many many great people. Been to more amazing party's than I can remember. Took my first E in Chatham (thank you Jackie, a mitsubishi in 98). I've fought and fucked, been kissed and kicked, lived in all of the towns more than once. It's only an hour or so to both London and Dover. Although I don't live there at the moment (left for a job) I know I'll probably go back at some time, not just to visit. We all run down the place we live but that's only because we know the faults and failings.

Long live Chavland.
(Pill Popper Thank you Sasha Shulgin, Sun 8 Feb 2009, 15:34, closed)

Rumour has it
that they're about to open a new Poundland in Twydall - the site of the old Woolworths.
( fastcar, Tue 10 Feb 2009, 10:21, closed)