London, no thanks.

[Mad Doug Biker]

The Japanese take food seriously, even everyday food. People don't put up with crap. And the thing about Tokyo wot not a lot of people realise is that not only is the Japanese food obviously outstanding, but the quality of the food from elsewhere in the world is often better than you can find it in those countries except at the most expensive places. I've already eaten top-notch ramen (we have one of the top ramen places in Tokyo quite near us), sushi, Cantonese, Norman, Trinidadian, been to a brilliant Belgian beer bar and had some of the best French bread I've ever eaten (even in Paris - it's no accident some of the best current Paris patissieres and bakers are Japanese) and yesterday we were in a hilariousluy ironic version of an English tea-room complete with a tiny, automatic hand-waving figure of the Queen...

And yet, whenever you mention Japanese food in this country all you ever get is

'Oh, that's all raw fish isn't it?' (usually accompanied by a horrible face).

Yeah, that's right, because all they ever eat is raw fish, there is nothing else in the country to eat, just that, they survive soley on the stuff!!
It really gets on my t*ts that does, I mean why are people so bloody thick about it?? Its like saying that the Irish survive purely on Potatoes, or the French exclusively on Baguettes, the Germans on Sausages, or the Italians.... well you get the picture.

 

[RedRider]

London, New York, Paris, Milan, Tokyo. Let's face it, you're all wools and as such lacking in good fortune and culture.

The only exception are those living within the siren sounds of King's A&E and Brixton nick. All other Smoke-dwellers are metropolitan wannabees or bumpkins

 

[Speicher]

I'm quite old (57 ) and I love London

 

[threebikesmcginty]

[QUOTE 2526543, member: 1314"]The greatest song about love ever written.[/quote]

What, better than Grandad by Clive Dunn?

 

[Primal Scream]

London, New York, Paris, Milan, Tokyo. Let's face it, you're all wools and as such lacking in good fortune and culture.

The only exception are those living within the siren sounds of King's A&E and Brixton nick. All other Smoke-dwellers are metropolitan wannabees or bumpkins

Be fair your from south of the river better known as the dark side which is hardly proper London now is it.

 

[Pale Rider]

Every Pogues song sounds the same.

Which wouldn't be so bad if they weren't all such dreadful dirges.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Be fair your from south of the river better known as the dark side which is hardly proper London now is it.

I once knew a woman from Stonebridge Park, and she just about had a fit when I told her I liked to go south of the river. That said, she didn't think very highly of Stonebridge Park and the surrounding area either.

 

[avalon]

London, New York, Paris, Milan, Tokyo. Let's face it, you're all wools and as such lacking in good fortune and culture.

The only exception are those living within the siren sounds of King's A&E and Brixton nick. All other Smoke-dwellers are metropolitan wannabees or bumpkins

I was born in South London but now consider myself a country bumpkin and avoid anywhere that is big enough to have traffic lights, although I do say that if I were to ever live in a city again, London would be the only place I would consider.

 

[theclaud]

I once knew a woman from Stonebridge Park, and she just about had a fit when I told her I liked to go south of the river.

The Innuendo Thread is thataway>>>>

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

The Innuendo Thread is thataway>>>>

Coming through the tunnel is never going to sound the same again to me. Nor does that fact that the last time I came south of the river I used the free ferry.....

 

[slowmotion]

Back to "black bogies". I read , a long time ago, that 90% of the dust in the Underground comprises of sloughed-off skin flakes and dandruff. This is possibly entirely untrue, but it's a great and gross concept. If you ride a bike instead of taking public transport, you will be entirely unaffected by this dark nasal affliction.
Thank-you.

 

[Kookas]

Back to "black bogies". I read , a long time ago, that 90% of the dust in the Underground comprises of sloughed-off skin flakes and dandruff. This is possibly entirely untrue, but it's a great and gross concept. If you ride a bike instead of taking public transport, you will be entirely unaffected by this dark nasal affliction.
Thank-you.

Most dust in general is dead organic matter like shedded skin and hairs AFAIK, so you're probably not really safe anywhere indoors.

 

[slowmotion]

This paranoid stuff will run and run! We had a friend who confessed that she had a terrible fear of hot air hand driers in public "toilets". " The driers suck up all the pubic hairs in the room and it gets blown down on your hands as you try to dry them...."