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Popular Post chrisp65 Posted July 18, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted July 18, 2016 @London_Rooftops worth checking out the twitter account 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 New Chinese statue - Guan Yu, a war god. Hope it's not a message 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted July 18, 2016 Moderator Share Posted July 18, 2016 1 hour ago, chrisp65 said: worth checking out the twitter account There's a northern version*, too * there isn't a northern version Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted July 18, 2016 Moderator Share Posted July 18, 2016 3 hours ago, chrisp65 said: I absent-mindedly wandered into this thread and stared at that picture for a while and thought 'that's kinda cool'. Then I looked at the thread title. So, yeah, you win. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post dont_do_it_doug. Posted July 18, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted July 18, 2016 London is pretty cool full stop. I know some people are incredibly London averse and see why on a daily basis, the tourist traps are a nightmare. Spend some proper time there though and the city opens up and economically, culturally, architecturally and entertainment wise nowhere, and I mean nowhere, in the UK touches it. It's a liberal lefties paradise too. I love London and not in a big headed "we're considerably better than yow" kind of way. I'm still a brummy after all. It's just brilliant. Mostly thanks to mass immigration I might add, which for the main part Londoners understand and appreciate. Wouldn't want to live anywhere else in the UK. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted July 18, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted July 18, 2016 100% this. Very cool, is that London. I moved down saying I'd do 2 years, tops. 15 Years later and I can't think of anywhere else I'd rather live. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post dAVe80 Posted July 18, 2016 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 18, 2016 3 minutes ago, dont_do_it_doug. said: London is pretty cool full stop. I know some people are incredibly London averse and see why on a daily basis, the tourist traps are a nightmare. Spend some proper time there though and the city opens up and economically, culturally, architecturally and entertainment wise nowhere, and I mean nowhere, in the UK touches it. It's a liberal lefties paradise too. You've obviously never been to bingo night at Old Shildon WMC then. Pie and peas, bingo flyer, and a turn for £3, and £2.15 for a pint of best. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 8 minutes ago, dont_do_it_doug. said: London is pretty cool full stop. I know some people are incredibly London averse and see why on a daily basis, the tourist traps are a nightmare. Spend some proper time there though and the city opens up and economically, culturally, architecturally and entertainment wise nowhere, and I mean nowhere, in the UK touches it. It's a liberal lefties paradise too. I love London and not in a big headed "we're considerably better than yow" kind of way. I'm still a brummy after all. It's just brilliant. Mostly thanks to mass immigration I might add, which for the main part Londoners understand and appreciate. Wouldn't want to live anywhere else in the UK. which is why more than a fair few are so averse to the place... london and the rest of us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MakemineVanilla Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 2 hours ago, blandy said: There's a northern version*, too * there isn't a northern version There is a certain wabi sabi appeal about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted July 18, 2016 Moderator Share Posted July 18, 2016 18 minutes ago, MakemineVanilla said: There is a certain wabi sabi appeal about that. Yum, I love that hot horseradishy sauce with my sushi. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted July 18, 2016 Moderator Share Posted July 18, 2016 47 minutes ago, dont_do_it_doug. said: London is pretty cool full stop. I know some people are incredibly London averse and see why on a daily basis, the tourist traps are a nightmare. Spend some proper time there though and the city opens up and economically, culturally, architecturally and entertainment wise nowhere, and I mean nowhere, in the UK touches it. It's a liberal lefties paradise too. I love London and not in a big headed "we're considerably better than yow" kind of way. I'm still a brummy after all. It's just brilliant. Mostly thanks to mass immigration I might add, which for the main part Londoners understand and appreciate. Wouldn't want to live anywhere else in the UK. Nice place to visit. Wouldn't want to live there* though. Pollution, congestion, property and rent prices, everything prices, no gravy, creaking tube service, endless grotty, grubby 'burbs, flat beer, spurs fans, West ham fans, Chelsea fans, and loads of miserable people. Gimme the grim north any day. *Bits of it are alright, but christ how expensive would it be to live in them? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 52 minutes ago, villa4europe said: which is why more than a fair few are so averse to the place... london and the rest of us That's not how Londoners feel generally nor is it what I meant. Most Londoners aren't from London anyway and the majority are proud of their roots. I'm a staunchly proud brummy for one; I just so happen to live in this really cool sandbox, free to live my life and express myself however I dare to dream. @blandy It's a myth that Londoners are rude. Most of them are northern! It's a myth you can't find curry sauce or gravy. The selection of beers, flat or otherwise, blows any other town you care to name out the water. There aren't that many Spurs fans to be honest but generally they're ok. Better that than a nose. The tube is **** awesome. Yes it's expensive, no it's not dirty, yes there are shit parts. But give me possibilities and cultural richness over guaranteed grim any day of the week. Not that I think brum is grim, I think it's got massive potential. I just wish that culturally it would catch up with the modern world faster than it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan. Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 I had to drive through London once. Hipsters on foldable bikes everywhere, it was like they was dearing me to play skittles with them. I'm joking, I couldn't get out of first gear. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 I like London, I wish I'd moved down there in my younger days and tried to make it big in the 'City' but never did. I'm too old for that now. Plus the property prices. Wow! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted July 18, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted July 18, 2016 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thunderball Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 37 minutes ago, Xela said: I like London, I wish I'd moved down there in my younger days and tried to make it big in the 'City' but never did. I'm too old for that now. Plus the property prices. Wow! Yeah, London rocks. I started my working career moving to London from Uni in 1994. It was just too expensive renting a room and sleeping on an old mattress in Tooting Bec. I stuck it out for a year before moving back to Bristol where I had more money in my pocket. I said I would go back but the opportunity never arrived. My mates moved there when just as I left, and are now millionaires 20 years on, we were all the same sorts and I regret this big time as whilst things have gone well in the provinces, the streets really are paved with gold in London, few places can you leverage your ability to such great affect as London. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan. Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 Beautiful days = beautful Sunsets. Taken from my living room (out the window) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 to be brutally honest, I think that's a street light mate 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan. Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 Na, I'm just pointing with a stick. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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