I think it's safe to say that if you only come to Warrington once a year to spend actual time in the town, you are a stranger.

This is a local town. For local people.

I'd lay off that sherry, duckie. You'll have none left for Christmas

Well it's quite simple really... If you live well outside the town and the only prolonged amount of time that you actually spend within the town (aside from going to the game every other week) is ONCE a year. Then of course you will be a stranger within your home town.

If I left my wife and house my house, lived somewhere else all year; occasionally nipping in every two weeks for a hour for a cup of tea, then coming home for one day just before Christmas and then leaving again... I'm pretty sure that would make me a stranger in my house and to the wife.

Be rest assured though, It was intended as a joke and as tongue in cheek but you've ruined in now by having me explain it.

Merry Christmas one and all

We'll have no trouble here!

Don't touch the precious things

At least someone gets it

In fairness, I think the comment was about the plight of the high street in the face of consumers predilection for online shopping.

To wit, Warrington town centre is a dump and a new cinema isn't likely to change that. A direct hit from an intercontinental ballistic missile might but a multiplex and fancy new pub, nope.

The High Street as we knew it has had its day I'm afraid. Whilst Warrington is on the slide it's still a shopper's paradise in comparison to St Helens town centre, and I think that there are several other towns in the region in a similar state. Earlier this year I visited Altrincham. Growing up Altrincham was quite nice but at some point it turned into an absolute hole. Recently they've completely turned things around and at the centre is the old market which has been turned into a food hall. The Baltic Market in Liverpool seems to follow a similar model.

Yet more click bait.

You do realise you've said this for years now, you can't claim you meant it if it ever actually happens. You got hammered several times with your first choice pack playing, how do you explain that away?

Because it's always our year that's how

I only came to see the new road.........and to have some of Hillary Briss' special sausages

Not sure I recall anything other than that said pack, playing without 1st choice half's, doing exactly that in RL biggest and most famous stage show in RL.
What a day. Laughter all the way home.

....and the pens, don't forget the pens

Sorry,sign of the times!

I blame Brexit. Or is that vieux chapeau now?

We don't need new road. We need to keep things clean and pure and....... Local.

65 years of laughter is even better

Regrettably I can’t take you seriously after you posted the least believable thing I have read on the internet...no not the guff about the cars, but the suggestion you have a wife, the inflatable in your bedroom doesn’t count.

Really? It's only you semi-scouse fools who are bothered about it.
It doesn't bother our REAL rivals, i.e. Widnes, Wigan and even Leigh. They don't bother posting about it. It'll probably be 66. We'll live with it. If it makes you tumescent, that says more about you.

I beg to differ , i work with lads from wigan, widnes and leigh and believe me everyone of them finds it funny

I'm amazed you work

Do they really think collecting a giro is working?

Chaps, the job is as real as the cars and his wife.