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

[jefmcg]

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

Sweet and sour with chips is about as authentically Chinese as sweet and sour with rice. Especially if preceded by overcooked - oops, sorry, I mean "crispy" - duck and pancakes.

 

[BurningLegs]

When lunch is called dinner, dinner is called tea, and tea is called 'a brew'.

Sorry if that one has been mentioned already!

 

[Dirk]

When you can ride for 5 miles on a cycle path into town, at 10 am, and not see another soul - as I did this morning.

 

[Leaway2]

You can breath easier,due to the lower air pollution levels.

You can sunbathe,knowing there isn't a hole in the ozone layer above you.

You can afford a pint of beer with a head on it.

FIFY

 

[jefmcg]

You can sunbathe,knowing the hole in the ozone layer is over the southern hemisphere

FTFY

Just joining in the fact checking of one single post

 

[subaqua]

When you go to the railway station and you don't need to first visit a board to find out which platform.

Cambridge has 8 . trains to the smoke go from 6 of them. I need to look at a board.

 

[Dirk]

When your largest town is at the end of a branch line.

 

[Dirk]

That is London, at the end of a branch line of the French railway.

But once in London you can travel further on with a change of trains. We don't have that option 'ere, it's a local line for local people.

 

[Dirk]

Turn round and face the other way

Can't ......I get travel sick.

 

[Accy cyclist]

In the Accrington rain?

Well it does sunshine here sometimes you know.

 

[screenman]

When you can ride for 5 miles on a cycle path into town, at 10 am, and not see another soul - as I did this morning.

Or when you do the same at 7am, but 9 miles each way without another person, bliss. Also a bit of a shame seeing as the amount of cars on the roads, Bardney to Lincoln if anyone knows it.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

..............you hear a terrible wild moaning, wailing and gnashing of teeth from @Markymark

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Mod note:

Well, that went very wrong. A thread cleanup has been done and I'd like everyone to get back on topic from this point.

Thanks.

 

[nickyboy]

I'm not sure why my post was deleted. I seem to remember it was agreeing with @srw about everywhere being shut in London on a Sunday and some weak anecdote about being unable to buy a sandwich there

You remember incorrectly. Mods.

 

[srw]

When full data services work for free on the Underground.