beers great, place is s**t and it's too hot, damn sun
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To be fair to all the sappy Southerners in the house, I'd take London over Glasgow any day - I hope to live there "when I grow up" (ahem!). I can never cram enough in on my trips there... for all the natives say about Camden being a tourist trap and having gone down the pan etc., it really is a lot more exciting and diverse and anywhere "oop north". I saw a fellow there in October with a Von hat on. I rest my case.timsinister wrote:Not too many people saying England, is there...?
Yep, definitely The Magnet for me too. Followed by NYC, and I'll get back to you on Egypt when I come back in Feb.DerekR wrote:Amsterdammmmand it's many attractions
I know what you mean, but I did find London a bit wearing to live in. Mainly because it's full of people who are unable to grasp that anywhere else might exist. Also it can feel like you have to travel forever just to see something approaching countryside. Half an hour from Glasgow you have Loch Lomond. Half an hour from London you have Luton.boudicca wrote: To be fair to all the sappy Southerners in the house, I'd take London over Glasgow any day - I hope to live there "when I grow up" (ahem!). I can never cram enough in on my trips there... for all the natives say about Camden being a tourist trap and having gone down the pan etc., it really is a lot more exciting and diverse and anywhere "oop north". I saw a fellow there in October with a Von hat on. I rest my case.
Another thing I like is the anonymity.You really can't walk about with a pair of slighty eccentric shoes in Glasgow without some bright spark making a comment about it. It's "The Patter", apparently. The reputation of larger, more cosmopolitan cities of being unfriendly may well be true (people walk right into you, look through you), but the friendliness of smaller communities soon turns sour if you stand out in any way. In London, it seems I can wear what I want, do my hair as I damn well please, and stand picking my nose in the middle of the street
- no-one bats an eyelid.
I've been thereHojyuu-obi wrote:
Gare d'Orsay
The countryside is the one thing that could swing it for me. Even once you do get out of London, the English countryside is (generally) much less dramatic and atmospheric. I feel most at home in the mountains (it's the Austria thing, probably).andymackem wrote:Also it can feel like you have to travel forever just to see something approaching countryside. Half an hour from Glasgow you have Loch Lomond. Half an hour from London you have Luton.
I think the real difference for me is walking into a pub. Up north (including, and on occasion especially in Glasgow) you can go to a pub on your own and even if you're just minding your own business reading the paper in the corner you can feel like you're part of a greater entity. In London, and the rest of the SE, you just feel like a bloke reading the paper in a room. It's like a lot of groups of people have all come to the same place to exist independently of one another. Not necessarily a bad thing, but I have a perfectly good flat where I can ignore the rest of the world and not pay £2.80 for a beer at the same time.
Why, you simply must come to Scotland! I've seen your photo...pikkrong wrote:back to the main questions: favourites: England (and Scotland and Wales - never been there yet) and Berlin.
the worst - ... don't want to think about it...
Ugh - wierdoboudicca wrote:The countryside is the one thing that could swing it for me. Even once you do get out of London, the English countryside is (generally) much less dramatic and atmospheric. I feel most at home in the mountains (it's the Austria thing, probably).
The pub thing isn't an issue. If I walk into any pub, anywhere, I just feel like a non-drinking (unless it's something very fancy and unpronouncable), non smoking wierdo, who's only making things worse for herself by wearing a flouncy blouse and having a sub-50 inch waist.
I don't do pubs. I do places where they make smoothies!![]()
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Yeh I'm lame.
The members gallery, my dear fellow!pikkrong wrote:That's Mr. Cleese on my avatarboudicca wrote: I've seen your photo...![]()
looking a bit rough for 23, boudicca
How peculiar. If the timing is right, I may just bump into you there!Quiff Boy wrote:it would appear quite likely that i am off to berlin at the end of february for along weekend. not booked yet but the logistics (dog sitter, time off work, etc) have been sorted
how marvellous
I'm sure she promised she was "s**t hot" and would be posting evidence shortly. That was some time ago, however. The advantage of having no life is an excellent memory
No, it's the wrong way round.
Not in my caseMy knowledge of computers is genuinely p*ss-poor, but as we all know, as knowledge of computers goes up, attractiveness usually goes down...
markfiend wrote:Or indeed I'm sure, in the case of anyone on this forum. Here there's no correlation at all.
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