You know you're not in London when.....

[vickster]

When you get home and your clothes arent so full of stink it's like you have an 40 a day habit.

Have you looked at the stats for smoking across the UK...think you'll find outside London, your clothes are rather more likely to stink of fag smoke after walking down the street...ditto for the coughing comment

 

[Brains]

Having friends and work colleagues from the rest of Europe

 

[Dirk]

When you can hold a street festival and not have to board up all the windows.

 

[Brains]

Residents of Houston may disagree with that one.

As would the residents of Putney or Chelsea after after a Force 3 "storm"

 

[Dirk]

When you can hold a street festival and not have to board up all the windows.

Or import a gazillion more police.

 

[stephec]

You know you're not dealing with Londoners when everything is posted twice







(fingers crossed I don't make a double post}

I was so shocked that I couldn't stop myself repeating it.

 

[Brains]

Where people actually STILL think Brexit was a step in the right direction !

 

[Brains]

You had over a £20 note for a couple of drinks for you and 'er indoors, and you get change !

 

[Dirk]

You had over a £20 note for a couple of drinks for you and 'er indoors, and you get change !

Or £20.40.

 

[Drago]

When you go out for dinner and the local town only has 6 pubs offering identical food and a chippy.

Its awfully tiresome here in rural England, having to drive all of three miles to eat the slop dished out by the Queens chef.

 

[mjr]

Its awfully tiresome here in rural England, having to drive all of three miles to eat the slop dished out by the Queens chef.

You ain't in Snettisham at the moment, are you?

 

[mjr]

The drinks and music are intense AND in tents

 

[mjr]

Two Naarfolk types:

"Oi been to Bury St Edmunds"

"Really? Oi didn even know E were dead"

When you're among people who know not every country accent uses "oi" (Norfolk has generally rather short vowels but pronounces most of them and often differently to other accents.) http://www.norfolkdialect.com/speaking.htm

 

[jefmcg]

When you can sit in your garden and hear the surf crashing on the beach.

You're clearly never seen the tideway with wind against tide.

 

[TVC]

When you're among people who know not every country accent uses "oi" (Norfolk has generally rather short vowels but pronounces most of them and often differently to other accents.) http://www.norfolkdialect.com/speaking.htm

Some might also spot that Bury St Edmunds is in Suffolk