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

[Tin Pot]

After two weeks staying in NotLondon:

1: You might as well try to pay with a dead trout than an Amex card
2: You order steak and the waitress asks if you want ketchup or mayonnaise
3: It takes 17 years for the 4 cars ahead of you to get onto the roundabout.

This thread is only for the well heeled and educated London classes. Shaun has written some code so no proletarians from the north are able to contribute ensuring this thread is kept accurate and civilised.

So please add to my list above.

Hedges.

As soon as you see a hedge, you're not in London.

 

[Dirk]

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

I've never heard of it, let alone seen it.

 

[Dirk]

When the sound of nearby gunfire doesn't send you diving for cover or phoning the police.

 

[Drago]

When someone asking you for directions really wants directions, and not your wallet.

 

[Sharky]

Maybe not quite as true as it used to be, but you walk to work in the morning and than pop back for dinner and then walk back to work in the afternoon.

And you have dinner at dinner time (mid day) and tea at tea time.

 

[Ian H]

Having a foot in both camps, I'm ambidextrous obnoxious ambivalent agnostic anhydrous antediluvian happy to see the advantages and disadvantages of both. I did ditch the Amex card many years ago.

 

[Bollo]

When Kant is the name of a philosopher.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

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

I think you will find i am referring to the excessive pollution in London rather than smoking per say. You did know that?

 

[vickster]

I think you will find i am referring to the excessive pollution in London rather than smoking per say. You did know that?

I assumed so, but there are other causes of coughing and stinking clothes...in fact smoking is a rather major contributory factor

I think you may have got a TMN or two for not being the first to allude to it either

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I assumed so, but there are other causes of coughing and stinking clothes...in fact smoking is a rather major contributory factor

I think you may have got a TMN or two for not being the first to allude to it either

Maybe there are but walking down a street others smoking is not going to leave you stinking of it unlike the all pervading pollution in London.

 

[Dirk]

When your nearest farm shop is closer than your nearest supermarket.

 

[vickster]

Maybe there are but walking down a street others smoking is not going to leave you stinking of it unlike the all pervading pollution in London.

I've never actually noticed it really compared to other cities I've been to

Others smoking do actually make you stink if you happen to walk past or stand near them

 

[Drago]

When then trains and trams are above the ground.

 

[jefmcg]

I've never heard of it, let alone seen it.

You know you are not in London when apparently you can't reach google.

 

[jefmcg]

[QUOTE 4942627, member: 45"]When you don't have to take two bottles into the shower.[/QUOTE]