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

[jefmcg]

When theres no sewage and poo slopping about in the river.

Yeah, but the South East English countryside stinks more London**. I've a lot of non-working experience of working farms in Australia (in parts that are not short of space) but have never smelt anything in my life like a slurry or whatever is making that hellish smell that I often encounter in the South East country side.

Aside - Odd skill I didn't know I had: I can tell sheep from cattle by the smell of their manure. I developed this skill in Australia, but never noticed it because I was never exposed to the level of ... um ... odour there.

**and I say this living within a few miles of the aforementioned sewage processing plant.

 

[srw]

When your view isnt sploit by smog like this View attachment 371977

Photo taken from Mars? No wonder it's orange.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

@jefmcg I dont think you quite realise how much London stinks, the surrounding countryside is nothing in comparison

 

[jefmcg]

@jefmcg I dont think you quite realise how much London stinks, the surrounding countryside is nothing in comparison

I know exactly how much London stinks, and I row in the stinkiest part of it.

The countryside is much worse.

Edit: and i am also under the Heathrow flight path. I experience the worst (and the best) of London.

 

[PK99]

When theres no sewage and poo slopping about in the river.

I wish I was back home and not in Canada, I'd pop out on the bike and live stream images of Trout in the River at the bottom of Wimbledon Common. In fact when I get home I will ressurect this thread and do just that!

 

[Salty seadog]

Murkiness in river water is a very poor guide to cleanliness. The Thames is actually very clean.

No thanks to Thames water.

 

[jefmcg]

I'm off to Shrewsbury for the day on Saturday. I should get a blood pressure cuff, and report the results.

FWIW, I am - after 18 year in the UK - off to my first Association Football match. I don't expect it will have a huge effect on my blood pressure.

 

[slowmotion]

Yeah, but the South East English countryside stinks more London**. I've a lot of non-working experience of working farms in Australia (in parts that are not short of space) but have never smelt anything in my life like a slurry or whatever is making that hellish smell that I often encounter in the South East country side.

Aside - Odd skill I didn't know I had: I can tell sheep from cattle by the smell of their manure. I developed this skill in Australia, but never noticed it because I was never exposed to the level of ... um ... odour there.

**and I say this living within a few miles of the aforementioned sewage processing plant.

If London is stinking, it's usually from clouds of mankiness drifting over from slurry ponds in the Netherlands.
Brexit will fix it.

 

[Salty seadog]

If London is stinking, it's usually from clouds of mankiness drifting over from slurry ponds in the Netherlands.
Brexit will fix it.

Can we blame Brexit when London still whiffs a bit ....after the transition period of course, got to give those Dutch poo ponds a chance to get used to the new arrangements?

 

[slowmotion]

Can we blame Brexit when London still whiffs a bit ....after the transition period of course, got to give those Dutch poo ponds a chance to get used to the new arrangements?

Not sure. I'm a bit wary of the concept of a flexible and imaginative Dutch poo pond.

 

[Salty seadog]

Not sure. I'm a bit wary of the concept of a flexible and imaginative Dutch poo pond.

There must be life in those ponds, possibly cognative, We grew from the pimordial soup.

 

[slowmotion]

There must be life in those ponds, possibly cognative, We grew from the pimordial soup.

Yuk! You might have.......

 

[Dirk]

When you can't go into town and not bump into someone who knows you.

 

[Markymark]

...when you go to a Chinese restaurant and people are ordering chips with the sweet and sour.

 

[Dirk]

...when you go to a Chinese restaurant and people are ordering chips with the sweet and sour.

Wots wrong wi tha?