Bradley Stoke’s entry on Wikipedia was vandlised on Wednesday with an anonymous edit accusing residents of being “very impatient, selfish, self-indulgent”.
The edit, under the culture section, added that “many of the male inhabitants are alcoholic” and that the women living in the town “appear to have unpleasant aspirations to be Victoria Beckham”.
The edited information goes on to talk of behind-closed-door antics in the town and says youths have a “limited” IQ.
Another edit says: “Bradley Stoke is known to be “soulless” as unlike many other towns it has no history. In truth, you are far more likely to find more of a community spirit, in a nearby graveyard.”
We’ve included the edit, which has been on the site for more than 24 hours, in full below - we’ve starred out the bad language.
The town generally has a very impatient, selfish, self-indulgent culture about it. Generally rudeness and nastiness are normal traits of this town. Motorists appear to be incapable of using indicators at appropriate times.
Many of the male inhabitants are alcoholic (often illiterate) ‘Bob the builder’ types and their female companions appear to have unpleasant aspirations to be Victoria Beckham / Desperate Housewives, with a “shop till you drop, I’m a celebrity, get out my way” mentality.
Due to the high level of swinging and public indecency associated with the town, many of the males are c******. Their “Desperate Housewives” being too busy shopping to install moral values in their family, further contributes to the lack of taste, sophistication and moral corruption about the town.
The resulting offspring have limited IQ resulting in de-capacity to do anything of constructive value and whose verbal diction consists of dribbling. As they are not house trained, teenage offspring congregate outside convenience stores to urinate and attract fellow females.
8 responses so far ↓
1 Sorry // May 1, 2008 at 9:21 pm
I don’t think residents of Bradley Stoke need to be worried what some narrow minded person has written. People like these think it is amusing to run down other peoples communities……they are probably green with envy that the town is having money invested in it and is becoming more community minded.
The town is trying to give the youths more facilities, but even that seems to be up for complaint.
Please, please, please…..Stop the complaining.
Enjoy what we have. If you want more for the town, then join a committee and help out!
2 Maggy Thatcher // May 1, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Sounds just about right. I hope they left it on there. I particularly identified with the comment ’shop to you drop, Im a celebrity get out of my way’ mentality. That raised a smile. However its also true of Thornbury where there some of the female inhabitants often walk around with their noses at Ninety degrees with a ‘im a celebrity mentality.’ I don’t know who the geeza was who vanadalised the wiki entry but he was spot on when he described the inhabitants to be mainly bob the builder types. It’s true. Most people I know there are right wing Daily Mail readers who got lucky in the money game.
3 Qwerty // May 1, 2008 at 10:15 pm
I completely disagree with this prejudiced ‘vandalism’ of the page (apart from the indicating at roundabout part). Maggy Thatcher, im not sure how you can tar the whole population of Bradley Stoke with the same brush, with evidence based on a very small amount of people.
4 Bert Hindle // May 1, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Well, at least someone’s got a sense of humour!
Thing is…..how did they find out about the swinging?
5 AndrePrevin // May 2, 2008 at 9:35 am
This is scandalous!
It’s clear the comments were actually referring to Stoke Gifford.
6 Dan // May 2, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Sounds like more of a generalisation of the UK as a whole to me…
7 Dan // May 2, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Im guessing this person must have lived here at some point or still does to have come up with comments like that.
Whoever it was works for Fujitsu Seimens in the centre, where the original comments were posted from (IP 196.176.201.29).
8 Professor Big Balls // May 6, 2008 at 8:25 am
The whole place should be bulldozed. It has as much soul as a rotten cabbage and is a memorial to the greed and aspirations of the swinging eighties.
The national anthem for sadley broke should be:
God bless our swinging streets,
God bless our celebrity Queens,
God save our boring streets,
Send them to broadmoor Jail,
no more stores or clothes shops there,
give the rest of us some peace and quiet,
from their awful 4 by 4’s!
Prof Big Balls
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