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17 October 2014, 12:51 PM
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I would like to tell you what you two show classic symptoms of but I'm being polite today 
Why not stick to subjects you actually know something about which leaves you both fairly limited in what you can post I grant you, but it would make you look slightly less daft when you do
Why not stick to subjects you actually know something about which leaves you both fairly limited in what you can post I grant you, but it would make you look slightly less daft when you do
17 October 2014, 03:03 PM
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As daft as someone who had to stand on the train from London to Manchester because he didn't book a seat?
17 October 2014, 04:07 PM
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PS 10 out of 10 for the hypocrisy too, I'm sure you get my drift
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17 October 2014, 08:48 PM
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Ah now that's pretty funny. I did actually have a seat reservation but the seat reservation system had failed on the train and the train manager didn't want to try and remove the football thug types that were sat where my seat was and frankly I didn't blame him as they had already told the bloke supposed to be in the seat next to me to eff off. Everyone was in the same boat as every seat just said 'available'... Typical Britain basically. So not so daft after all.
Nice little story to include "football thug types". Were they from Manchester?P.S. Time to change your word of the day toilet paper, you've already accused Martin of hypocrisy in an earlier post on this thread.
17 October 2014, 09:38 PM
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Classic example I have is, I deliver to one of our shops on Tottenham Court Road, No place to park a lorry so hazard lights on and as far to the right hand side I can get on double yellow lines(always get a ticket
), anyway when I take stock from the lorry to walk to the shop front door, I get people from all directions literally trying to walk through me, that I have to run around them so I dont get trampled on!!
just most people have no respect.Nicest people in London are the homeless people, I always try and give them a couple of quid, as they seem the most grateful, appreciated people in London, but 9 times out of 10 there usually from somewhere else in the UK!!
17 October 2014, 10:12 PM
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To be honest I do know some kind people in London. Some with large dwellings and some with matchboxes, if not homeless. Even matchbox dwelling friends will put me up in the kitchen under their sink, if it need be. Not as a dead body, but to save my money on hotels, I mean. I think this is quite generous of them.
17 October 2014, 11:01 PM
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As for having a dig at the rail service I actually felt sorry for the train manager, wasn't his fault and he seemed like a decent chap being as he was from Manchester of course.
Ah so you didn't get my drift then, no surprise really!
17 October 2014, 11:37 PM
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Of course he was.
Yes you are if you catch my drift.
18 October 2014, 12:48 AM
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Agree with you there, Only place I know where people try to walk through you instead of around you!!
Classic example I have is, I deliver to one of our shops on Tottenham Court Road, No place to park a lorry so hazard lights on and as far to the right hand side I can get on double yellow lines(always get a ticket), anyway when I take stock from the lorry to walk to the shop front door, I get people from all directions literally trying to walk through me, that I have to run around them so I dont get trampled on!! just most people have no respect.
Nicest people in London are the homeless people, I always try and give them a couple of quid, as they seem the most grateful, appreciated people in London, but 9 times out of 10 there usually from somewhere else in the UK!!
Classic example I have is, I deliver to one of our shops on Tottenham Court Road, No place to park a lorry so hazard lights on and as far to the right hand side I can get on double yellow lines(always get a ticket
), anyway when I take stock from the lorry to walk to the shop front door, I get people from all directions literally trying to walk through me, that I have to run around them so I dont get trampled on!! just most people have no respect.Nicest people in London are the homeless people, I always try and give them a couple of quid, as they seem the most grateful, appreciated people in London, but 9 times out of 10 there usually from somewhere else in the UK!!
I agree, it's the only place I've been where they walk through you rather than round you, absolute mad place with rude aggressive people in too much of a rush.
18 October 2014, 08:30 AM
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You really need to stop trying to contribute to threads you are incapable of making a worthy contribution to. Stick to the cycling malarkey in future
18 October 2014, 08:51 AM
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Of course your kind have to deal in details.
I'm sorry I didn't know what time train you got to be able to make my contribution more valuable to the forum.
I'm sorry I didn't know what time train you got to be able to make my contribution more valuable to the forum.
19 October 2014, 08:52 AM
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20 October 2014, 09:06 PM
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Friendliness - when I moved from London to Manchester in the 80s I was oft told of the fabled friendliness of Northerners.... I assumed it was bollocks, but it wasn't and still isn't. In Manchester or Lancashire where I live now people are always stopping to chat, you get to know your neighbours, there is still a sense of community. My brother lives in London and has lived in the same house for 7 years... he is yet to speak to his neighbours other than nodding a silent hello.
Three years ago I parked my car near Earls Court and my business partner left the interior light on so the battery was flat by morning. I had jump leads but needed a friendly car owner to provide a jump start. I must have stopped and asked 50 people over a two hour period before I found someone willing to give up 5 minutes of their day to help me and (I kid you not) he was from Manchester
Three years ago I parked my car near Earls Court and my business partner left the interior light on so the battery was flat by morning. I had jump leads but needed a friendly car owner to provide a jump start. I must have stopped and asked 50 people over a two hour period before I found someone willing to give up 5 minutes of their day to help me and (I kid you not) he was from Manchester
As an example, Lisa and I were in High Wycombe a couple of years ago for Swiss Tony's wedding. Someone, no idea who, had left the incar charger for the sat nav in his works van.
We got to our hotel in High Wycombe alright, but, I needed the sat nav for the following day to visit another SN member, AsifScoob, and I sure as hell wouldn't have found my way to his house.Trying to get anyone to help with locations of possible shops that would sell a replacement charger or something suitable was nigh on impossible. Telling me a shop was next to another shop, FFS where's the shop it's next to then?
Finally managed to get one of those kits that have multiple fitments from Halfrauds, by christ they were ignorant ******* in there, I thought the staff at Gateshead branch were bad. London itself from what I remember is a bit of a sh1thole, as was Liverpool when I was last there. None of them are quite as bad as Sunderland though.
Someone mentioned money earlier in the thread. When we visited Asif, we were driving along the road he lived on. When we started on the road, it frankly looked like one of the sink estates that we have up here. Further up the road, the bigger and obviously more expensive the houses got.
From end houses that looked like they would cost around 100K up here to stuff at the far end of the road that were well over a million quid.
20 October 2014, 10:32 PM
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It's down South in general that people are ignorant, rude, unfriendly and unhelpful. There are decent people, but, in my limited experience of London and it's surrounding areas they are very few and far between. Very long time since I've been to central London. Last time I was there was around 1982.
As an example, Lisa and I were in High Wycombe a couple of years ago for Swiss Tony's wedding. Someone, no idea who, had left the incar charger for the sat nav in his works van. We got to our hotel in High Wycombe alright, but, I needed the sat nav for the following day to visit another SN member, AsifScoob, and I sure as hell wouldn't have found my way to his house.
Trying to get anyone to help with locations of possible shops that would sell a replacement charger or something suitable was nigh on impossible. Telling me a shop was next to another shop, FFS where's the shop it's next to then? Finally managed to get one of those kits that have multiple fitments from Halfrauds, by christ they were ignorant ******* in there, I thought the staff at Gateshead branch were bad.
London itself from what I remember is a bit of a sh1thole, as was Liverpool when I was last there. None of them are quite as bad as Sunderland though.
Someone mentioned money earlier in the thread. When we visited Asif, we were driving along the road he lived on. When we started on the road, it frankly looked like one of the sink estates that we have up here. Further up the road, the bigger and obviously more expensive the houses got.
From end houses that looked like they would cost around 100K up here to stuff at the far end of the road that were well over a million quid.
As an example, Lisa and I were in High Wycombe a couple of years ago for Swiss Tony's wedding. Someone, no idea who, had left the incar charger for the sat nav in his works van.
We got to our hotel in High Wycombe alright, but, I needed the sat nav for the following day to visit another SN member, AsifScoob, and I sure as hell wouldn't have found my way to his house.Trying to get anyone to help with locations of possible shops that would sell a replacement charger or something suitable was nigh on impossible. Telling me a shop was next to another shop, FFS where's the shop it's next to then?
Finally managed to get one of those kits that have multiple fitments from Halfrauds, by christ they were ignorant ******* in there, I thought the staff at Gateshead branch were bad. London itself from what I remember is a bit of a sh1thole, as was Liverpool when I was last there. None of them are quite as bad as Sunderland though.
Someone mentioned money earlier in the thread. When we visited Asif, we were driving along the road he lived on. When we started on the road, it frankly looked like one of the sink estates that we have up here. Further up the road, the bigger and obviously more expensive the houses got.
From end houses that looked like they would cost around 100K up here to stuff at the far end of the road that were well over a million quid.
Then there is the Tube exit procedure. No other place in the world can the population not work out it is best to let those wanting to get off the train off before trying to get on themselves.
Finally I have just had a sad excuse for a curry in a so called Indian restaurant... expensive and utterly bland... as per usual for London despite the excellent Trip Advisor reviews.
Ah well home tomorrow... no doubt my seat will be taken by some football thug type again. Never mind
20 October 2014, 11:01 PM
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Yep, that's about the size of it. I am there again tonight and hating every second of it. Watched someone gently touch someone's leg on the Tube with their bag and the woman whose leg was 'assaulted' went ballistic and accused her of trying to maim her. FFS!
Then there is the Tube exit procedure. No other place in the world can the population not work out it is best to let those wanting to get off the train off before trying to get on themselves.
Finally I have just had a sad excuse for a curry in a so called Indian restaurant... expensive and utterly bland... as per usual for London despite the excellent Trip Advisor reviews.
Ah well home tomorrow... no doubt my seat will be taken by some football thug type again. Never mind
Then there is the Tube exit procedure. No other place in the world can the population not work out it is best to let those wanting to get off the train off before trying to get on themselves.
Finally I have just had a sad excuse for a curry in a so called Indian restaurant... expensive and utterly bland... as per usual for London despite the excellent Trip Advisor reviews.
Ah well home tomorrow... no doubt my seat will be taken by some football thug type again. Never mind
20 October 2014, 11:35 PM
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Just as you contend that what I experienced in Manchester could just as happened anywhere else, one could argue that the type of people you encounter in London are the type you would encounter anywhere else. If your seat on the train back is taken by some football thug, it's more than likely a Mancunian, going home like you, and not a Londoner!
Oh and I doubt the Tube incidents could happen anywhere e.g. Manchester, being a sensible sized city we have no need to travel around like rats in a sewer
PS Feel free to deconstruct the points I made the other day, I see no one has dared try as yet ... I wonder why
20 October 2014, 11:46 PM
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I'm actually a Londoner who left 31 years ago by the way.
Oh and I doubt the Tube incidents could happen anywhere e.g. Manchester, being a sensible sized city we have no need to travel around like rats in a sewer
PS Feel free to deconstruct the points I made the other day, I see no one has dared try as yet ... I wonder why
Oh and I doubt the Tube incidents could happen anywhere e.g. Manchester, being a sensible sized city we have no need to travel around like rats in a sewer
PS Feel free to deconstruct the points I made the other day, I see no one has dared try as yet ... I wonder why
21 October 2014, 10:35 AM
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I'm actually a Londoner who left 31 years ago by the way.
Oh and I doubt the Tube incidents could happen anywhere e.g. Manchester, being a sensible sized city we have no need to travel around like rats in a sewer
PS Feel free to deconstruct the points I made the other day, I see no one has dared try as yet ... I wonder why
Oh and I doubt the Tube incidents could happen anywhere e.g. Manchester, being a sensible sized city we have no need to travel around like rats in a sewer
PS Feel free to deconstruct the points I made the other day, I see no one has dared try as yet ... I wonder why
I’ve never been subject to such racist vitriol in London or anywhere else for that matter in recent times. Since London is hugely more populated than Manchester, makes Manchester proportionately more racist and ignorant than London. The last time I experience such abuse was in the seventies and early eighties.
Incidentally, a bit unfair to compare one city to everywhere north of London. In your poll (whatever poll that is) of the greatest Britains, how many were from Manchester.
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21 October 2014, 10:47 AM
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How presumptuous? I am actually covering some technical analysis work for a friend of mine who has had an accident and is currently in hospital. I am doing it for my expenses only, but you crack on with your accusations if it makes you feel better Anyway it's 2 days out of the last 10 years so even if it were different it's hardly relying on it
Anyway it's 2 days out of the last 10 years so even if it were different it's hardly relying on it
21 October 2014, 11:01 AM
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I can deconstruct your points on London in just one overriding factor; I would happily accept and live with all the points you raised rather than live with and be subject to the racism and ignorance I experienced in Manchester.
I’ve never been subject to such racist vitriol in London or anywhere else for that matter in recent times. Since London is hugely more populated than Manchester, makes Manchester proportionately more racist and ignorant than London. The last time I experience such abuse was in the seventies and early eighties.
I’ve never been subject to such racist vitriol in London or anywhere else for that matter in recent times. Since London is hugely more populated than Manchester, makes Manchester proportionately more racist and ignorant than London. The last time I experience such abuse was in the seventies and early eighties.