Well, North London is the part that I prefer, since it's where I live. Mind you, I don't like Camden, Finsbury Park, Green Lanes or Seven Sisters. Or Kilburn. Or Queen's Park. Or Cricklewood.
Holloway is alright though, if you ignore the men selling smuggled cigarettes on the Holloway Road.
Which part of London do you prefer?
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Larry Scutta
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Not a great deal left after that lot!Ed Hammond wrote:Well, North London is the part that I prefer, since it's where I live. Mind you, I don't like Camden, Finsbury Park, Green Lanes or Seven Sisters. Or Kilburn. Or Queen's Park. Or Cricklewood.
I met that twat of a guy the other week. We had went down to the Virgin Megastore in Piccadilly for some talk and when it had finished we went out and saw the Team GB parade that went past. Said guy was stood outside some shop in Piccadilly Circus with megaphone in hand and during the time I was there, he really started to do my head in with all his rambling about Jesus.cat wrote:...and that wanker who stands by Chancery Lane station with a megaphone telling people to 'open up to Jesus'.
I also went past Broadcasting House on a bus that very same day and got off nearby. Since I last went to BH in London a few years ago, it's changed quite a bit. BH is now all covered in scaffolding and boarding. The road down the side between the church is a building site and some new buildings seem to have went up and the old offices that were there appear to have been demolished. I assume this is part of the renovations they are doing to it?
I walked up the road to the nearest tube station, and guess who I see. Mr "open up to Jesus" again, complete with megaphone. God, is he some sort of stalker or something?!
My girlfriend lived in Seven Sisters during the last 6 months as a temporary stay whilst at uni and never have I been scared to walk about around there and that's just during the day!Ed Hammond wrote:Well, North London is the part that I prefer, since it's where I live. Mind you, I don't like Camden, Finsbury Park, Green Lanes or Seven Sisters. Or Kilburn. Or Queen's Park. Or Cricklewood.
Holloway is alright though, if you ignore the men selling smuggled cigarettes on the Holloway Road.
Hmmm...rts wrote:Well If your a posh arseflap (© BBC LDN) like me, you can live half an hour outside of it in a lovely rural area with green fields and fab country pubs, with the option of hopping on a train, or stepping if you wish, and enjoying the wonders of our captital city.
I wouldn't want to live anywhere within a 100 mile radius of London. It's a dirty, horrible stinking shithole full of foreigners.
I was about to say that you're probably the only white person in Londonshire, Rod. But then I just remembered that you're not. Hardly surprising, lol!
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Is that the guy with the gingery colour hair who says, and iI quote "don't be a sinner be a winner". If it is He is in Oxford Circus every Saturday & Sunday. Very funny to listen too espcially brightens up your day, if to take the piss out off.cat wrote:Vauxhall is a bloody horrible place.
I ended up their quite by chance a few months ago.
Only decent thing about it is the tube station, which will get you out of there as quickly as possible. There's MI6, and some nice new flats they've built next to it (good security, one assumes), but that's about it.
Tottenham is my least favourite place on Earth.
And The City at the weekend is the best part of London. Empty. Scary, almost. The City on a weekday is also quite fun; watching bored business-types with 'I'm on Seroxat' written all over them go about their business, and that wanker who stands by Chancery Lane station with a megaphone telling people to 'open up to Jesus'.
In actual fact he once quoted the following, "the black eyed pease say 'where is the love?', Jesus is asking the same, don be a sinner be a winner" Soem youngsters (btw 16-18 years old) heard it & burst out laughing.
As for my favourite part of London , South West London but only SW1, SW3, SW10 & SW6 which is Pimlico, Kensington & Chelsea which although full of arrogant ar*eholes has some lovely houses (which I can never afford), also as someone mentioned NW1, Regents Park.
Johnny
Harry Hill : "What is it about people that repair shoes that makes them so good at cutting keys? Try going in there with a shoe shaped like a key and see how confused they get."
Harry Hill : "What is it about people that repair shoes that makes them so good at cutting keys? Try going in there with a shoe shaped like a key and see how confused they get."
Ah so that's what S was used for I knew NE was for Newcastle.Larry Scutta wrote:*Semi-Interesting Fact*Barrett wrote:I said on the other page page i forgot to put Nowhere in London and Central London and NE London does not exist on a post code system.
The reason there's no NE postcode in London is because it was needed for Newcastle. The same for S - that went to Sheffield
Also their IS a postcode for Central London, however it is split in two EC for East City (Liverpool Street, Tower Hill, St Paul's, Bank, Clerkenwell) & WC for West City (Strand, St Pancras, Bloomsbury) both very compact & bloody hard to find your way round espcially seeing as some streets are only about three meters long.
However some very nice arcitecture, & as for Seven Sister, I got off there once to look for a bus only to be greated by three youths with their hoods on two litre bottles of alcohol souting at each other "Bloodz". I ran back on & tried to find another way home.
London does has it pitfalls (Seven Sisters, Tottenham, Shadwell, Stepney Green, Wapping, Manor Park) but also some nice areas as well (Hyde Park, Pimlico, Kensington, Knightsbridge, Docklands)
Johnny
Harry Hill : "What is it about people that repair shoes that makes them so good at cutting keys? Try going in there with a shoe shaped like a key and see how confused they get."
Harry Hill : "What is it about people that repair shoes that makes them so good at cutting keys? Try going in there with a shoe shaped like a key and see how confused they get."
I was in London a few weeks back. Tavistock Square (near Russell Square Tube). Seemed quite nice to me, bit noisy but enough greenery etc.
Loved Hyde Park - wonderful. Kensington was good too. Docklands are much under-rated - Canary Wharf is quite nice too but they don't seem to have that many tourists there - obviously you can't go up any of the buildings unless you work there.
One thing I did notice, is that although many people on the streets are white, not one person who worked in the hotel or in any restaurants/cafes we visited was of British descent. Is this because of low pay or something?
Loved Hyde Park - wonderful. Kensington was good too. Docklands are much under-rated - Canary Wharf is quite nice too but they don't seem to have that many tourists there - obviously you can't go up any of the buildings unless you work there.
One thing I did notice, is that although many people on the streets are white, not one person who worked in the hotel or in any restaurants/cafes we visited was of British descent. Is this because of low pay or something?
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Inspector Sands
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He gets around, I was on a tube train with him once, thankfully he didn't use his megaphone.Johnny wrote:Is that the guy with the gingery colour hair who says, and iI quote "don't be a sinner be a winner". If it is He is in Oxford Circus every Saturday & Sunday. Very funny to listen too espcially brightens up your day, if to take the piss out off.
There's a very interesting interview with him here:
http://www.b3ta.com/interview/winnerorsinner/
Very interesting interview. I agree with the interviewer, he doesn't seem a nutter just commited to his cause. Long may he continueInspector Sands wrote:He gets around, I was on a tube train with him once, thankfully he didn't use his megaphone.Johnny wrote:Is that the guy with the gingery colour hair who says, and iI quote "don't be a sinner be a winner". If it is He is in Oxford Circus every Saturday & Sunday. Very funny to listen too espcially brightens up your day, if to take the piss out off.
There's a very interesting interview with him here:
http://www.b3ta.com/interview/winnerorsinner/
Johnny
Harry Hill : "What is it about people that repair shoes that makes them so good at cutting keys? Try going in there with a shoe shaped like a key and see how confused they get."
Harry Hill : "What is it about people that repair shoes that makes them so good at cutting keys? Try going in there with a shoe shaped like a key and see how confused they get."