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notaspy posted:I don't see us "savage, orc-like inhabitants" of South London so aggressively, and mindlessly slagging off you (presumably) North Londoner's. I'm 90% sure goddamnedtwisto is Isle of Dogs, which although it's technically north of the river is south london in my book.
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careful, things like this can escalate to centuries long, bloody conflicts
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Jan 23, 2022 12:25
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ururugh! your lot! your lot! not like my lot your lot!!!  - the human hindbrain
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Jippa posted:There used to be a chicken "factory" (people called it) near my school. If the wind was in a certain direction the smell was unholy. I haven't smelled anything like it before or since. People would run between lessons desperate to get inside. I used to work near one of these. I'm blessed with a very poor sense of smell, so it really never really bothered me. Even then, on a warm day with the wind blowing in the wrong direction, it was obvious. The company was constantly being fined for environmental health violations, but somebody in accounting must have decided it was cheaper to pay the fines than solve the problem. At one point when their storage tank had broken and not been fixed, an inspector turned up and vomited immediately after getting out of their car.
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notaspy posted:I don't see us "savage, orc-like inhabitants" of South London so aggressively, and mindlessly slagging off you (presumably) North Londoner's. [Attenborough voice] And here we see the South Londoner demonstrating the basic lack of spatial and directional awareness that eventually led to their ancestors to end up on the wrong side of the river in the first place. See how they are completely unable to differentiate "north" from "east". This may however be a crude attempt to misdirect, as they do at least exhibit the most basic of pattern recognition skills and do not attempt to criticise or challenge their claret-and-blue betters, knowing that there is no possible way they could deny that East London (East London!) is wonderful (is wonderful!), and full of tits, fanny and West Ham.
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crispix posted:careful, things like this can escalate to centuries long, bloody conflicts "Escalate to"?
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Jan 23, 2022 12:35
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I would move to the green pastures of more-house-for-your-money south of the river but my wife is presumably a vampire and thus unable to cross moving water
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East London is definitely the best. I spent a decade moving further and further east... then ended up outside the M25, oops. Uh, hi everyone. I might post in here a bit now and then. It's been a while.
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Jan 23, 2022 13:04
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Wait... Goddamnedtwisto IS the isle of dogs? Everything makes so much more sense now. It's like a Ben Aaronovitch novel!
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Jan 23, 2022 13:05
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Mebh posted:Wait... Goddamnedtwisto IS the isle of dogs? Listen I've put some weight on over lockdown, I won't lie, but I don't (yet) have a 5 kilometre waistline. (I am, however, mostly reclaimed marshland)
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I noticed an odd change in Wikipedia's nomenclature for towns/cities/villages where that naming may be contentious, but suddenly it makes sense. So what is settling the Isle of Dogs?  (Other than the obvious answer  )
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Guavanaut posted:I noticed an odd change in Wikipedia's nomenclature for towns/cities/villages where that naming may be contentious, but suddenly it makes sense. I am moving to Streatham in the next month so shall relate back the status of the humans settled there.
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east london is the south london of north london anyway, no need for resentments imo
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Goddamnedtwisto is a big name in the North London elite dinner party circuit I hear.
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Red Oktober posted:I am moving to Streatham in the next month so shall relate back the status of the humans settled there. They've got a great football team there
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i should rather ought to think that the aisle of dogs is where you find the pet food!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
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Typical East London elites belittling the working class, salt-of-the-earth south londoner. When will these Dagenham dictors accept that while they sit in their ivory towers, criticising those seperated by the great schism of the trotskyite thames, they themselves have become representative of the chattering classes destroying this once-great nation. I do not know, dear reader, how long these hornchurch hoxaists have infiltrated our forum, nor how much longer they will continue to attack us with long, detailed posts. And assail us with these posts the barking bakuninists surely will. Cross-referencing their work thus far, it is estimated that the average wordcount of their posts is somewhere in the region of one thousand, nine hundred and eighty-four.
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Guavanaut posted:I noticed an odd change in Wikipedia's nomenclature for towns/cities/villages where that naming may be contentious, but suddenly it makes sense. Financial services workers. Whether that counts as settling, or humanity, is left open to the reader.
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Jan 23, 2022 14:10
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Imagine actually living in London lmao
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Dabir posted:Imagine actually living in London lmao it's pretty neat, actually though i wish it was about half as expensive 
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♪ to the tune of Beadle's About ♪ Watch out; Gnasher's about! Looks like GJ and the posse are term-searching and attacking randoms about that dead dude.
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Jan 23, 2022 14:35
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notaspy posted:I don't see us "savage, orc-like inhabitants" of South London so aggressively, and mindlessly slagging off you (presumably) North Londoner's. *laughs in (very) East Londonish* You want orcs? We got orcs. :P
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It's still all just London and you're all getting walled in like a metropolitan version of Cask of Amontillado when the time comes anyway.
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Guavanaut posted:I noticed an odd change in Wikipedia's nomenclature for towns/cities/villages where that naming may be contentious, but suddenly it makes sense. It's probably not the source of the contention on Wikipedia but it coincidentally does point out the fact that the "Isle of Dogs" is actually different from those other places because it's just a geographic feature[1] on which there are - depending on how you want to count them and how you want to set the boundaries of the "island" at least 3 and probably a lot more different settlements[2]. Obviously this happens in loads of places - Tottenham is on the Lea Valley which includes a dozen or more old villages, Streatham is on the un-named plateau that stretches from Plumstead to Tooting that probably has 50 or more places on it - but the sheer desolation of the area post-war meant that it ended up all being treated as one place (between pre-war slum clearance, Luftwaffe redecoration, and post-war council house construction only about 5% of the buildings on the Island pre-dated 1920 *even before* the 1980s scouring of the area). It *is* an interesting age shibboleth though - if you were born after about 1970 it's just the Island, before then it's the actual place names on it. A lot of this is because so much of the housing on the Island is post-war (at one point something like 90% of the dwellings were council-built or owned, 70% of those built between 1960 and 1980, and many of them were built on former industrial sites that used to more sharply define the edges between the older residential areas. [1] Yes yes yes, not technically an island, at least until the construction of the City Canal, although the French do use "Ile" to mean "an area between rivers". The name was also originally applied just to the area around Chapel House Street, in the south-west of the Island, which was the only high-and-dry area in the salt marsh that covered the area. It was the only permanently-occupied place on the Island, holding a small monastery, and was also the base of operations for the Dutch engineers who embanked and reclaimed the land in the 16th century - "Dutch Island" and "Dyke Island" are two possible explanations for the name, which definitely has nothing to do with royal kennels no matter how much people say it is. [2] Millwall, Cubitt Town, and Blackwall are the canonical three, although Blackwall is north of the City Canal so outside the actual "island" bit of the Isle. Now most people also recognise Island Gardens, Crossharbour, South Quay/Millharbour, and Canary Wharf (again north of the City Canal) as distinct areas of the Island too, and there's also something to be said for the 5 big post-war council estates being distinct, relatively self-contained settlements - each hold at least 2,000 people and have their own shopping areas, primary schools, etc.
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My eldest niece's English textbook (she's German) was all about the Isle of Dogs, featuring Dear Deidre style photostories about a group of kids having drama and hanging around at Mudchute farm and the Asda and Cutty Sark. As a former Mudchute resident I found it totally hilarious. Thousands of German kids earnestly learning about the DLR, the opening hours of the farm, and so on. Sehr komisch!
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EvilMoJoJoJo posted:My eldest niece's English textbook (she's German) was all about the Isle of Dogs, featuring Dear Deidre style photostories about a group of kids having drama and hanging around at Mudchute farm and the Asda and Cutty Sark. As a former Mudchute resident I found it totally hilarious. Thousands of German kids earnestly learning about the DLR, the opening hours of the farm, and so on. Sehr komisch! They weren't from Essen, were they? The S-Bahn there has (maybe had, I'm not sure if they're still in service) the original 12 DLR trains, heavily modified but still in their original livery, which I thought was a nice touch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr_PtAIuD90 The local secondary school had a trip out to Essen to go see them in the late 90s, it'd be nice to think there was some kind of cultural exchange thing going on.
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I haven't been to London since before the pandemic. I used to love it for brief visits after having lived there for years just by still being able to rapidly navigate the tube without standing on the right, not having my card out at the gates or getting hopelessly lost somewhere on the circle line. Of course now that I nearly have a panic attack in ASDA due to maskless coughing assholes every week cramming into the self checkouts waving bunches of spring onions I don't think I'd enjoy it much.
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I loved living in London - approx 30 years. So much to do and so much free entertainment if you sought it out - free concerts, free galleries, whatever. But yes, expensive. But also those elusive things known as jobs that paid reasonably well - and casual work to boost your income. I well remember the old Job Centre in Mortimer St where you would go sit early in a morning (including weekends) and they would dish out jobs in hotels or whatever on a first come first served basis. Chambermaid, cleaner, washing up, whatever. I was lucky to live in Bloomsbury for a total of about 10 years - albeit in bedsits in student / hospital accommodation - so was within crawling distance of Marquee, Astoria, and long-crawl of Dome, Electric Ballroom, and a few other places lost in the mists of time. Gigs twice a week, those were the days, that was the life. To go to a gig now, even to Cardiff or Bristol, means I have to budget an overnight stay (cheaper than a taxi home), 2 days for travelling, and most of the venues cost an arm and a leg like £60 or whatever! Not sorry to not be living there during the pandemic! Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Jan 23, 2022 |
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Everytime I remember london exists it just drags me down that little bit extra for the day. I hope this finally puts a stop to people claiming that London delenda est, because this on it's own is worth the trillions of pounds we plunder from around the world.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Millwall, Cubitt Town, and Blackwall ... Canary Wharf
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Not sorry to not be living there during the pandemic! I moved to London in February 2020, so like, 3 weeks before the pandemic. It has actually worked out pretty well even without being able to go anywhere outside my neighbourhood, in that there's little supermarkets all over the place which are stocked by Boris getting in his van and driving to Bulgaria rather than relying on HGV drivers, which means even during the worst of the shortages I could find things like yeast (labelled in Cyrillic and 1 quid a packet, at one point, but fortunately I had plenty already), toilet paper, etc. And in general since I like to cook a variety of stuff having e.g. 3 massive Indian cash and carries 15 minutes' walk away is pretty awesome.
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Should he not be running the country rather than keeping your local cornershop stocked?
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Should he not be running the country rather than keeping your local cornershop stocked? Take a look at the country. Do you think he's doing much of that?
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If we are doing weird smells, the asda in middlesbrough is built next to a big industrial estate that has: 1. the onion bhaji factory, I don't know if they actually make onion bhajis but whatever it is there is a very powerful smell of fried onions at certain times of day which I find difficult to tell apart from the smell of gas sometimes. 2. the drift track, so on thursdays there is a constant sound of screaming rubber and a faint smell of burning. 3. as of late, the biogas waste processing facility, so the entire place smells like a sewer during the summer when the wind is right. 4. sometimes people do big shits in the shop and hide it under the shelves, and sometimes also someone drops a case of beer and it gets under the racking and then the whole place smells like a particularly horrible pub. middlesbrough is an exciting land of myriad sensory experiences. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 16:25 on Jan 23, 2022 |
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goddamnedtwisto posted:They weren't from Essen, were they? The S-Bahn there has (maybe had, I'm not sure if they're still in service) the original 12 DLR trains, heavily modified but still in their original livery, which I thought was a nice touch: Bavaria but I think it's a textbook used all across Germany? Like my A Level German textbook used Saarbrücken as its example city (which was weird when I visited it and had ghost flashbacks to giving directions to the station or whatever). That's really cool about the old DLR trains though 
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https://twitter.com/lizmorrish/status/1485274982699737091 How long until the report is leaked in full?
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Depends what you mean, and when you smelled it. Before 2000 the area was definitely one of the more interesting smellscapes in London. Working north-to-south you had: It wasw and still is a REAL sulphury smell. for some reason on the south side not the north side of the tunnel. it smells of farts basically.
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Went to London on a school trip, it smelled, i ate greasy chips beside the Thames, didn't get to any museums (Madame Tussauds doesn't count in my book) that pissed me off no end. The highlight of my trip was finding a Misha lapel pin (1980 USSR Olympic mascot) lying in the street, i also saw a lizard for the first & only time in my life (Northern Ireland has one species of lizard which are a bit thin on the ground).
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cyril sneeeer posted:It wasw and still is a REAL sulphury smell. for some reason on the south side not the north side of the tunnel. it smells of farts basically. It might be an old stink pipe that's still in use? It would certainly explain any fart smells.
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