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The British Weather!!!!

evil_santa said:
Welcome to eSanta's surburban hell.
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hahahah where do you live in West London??

I've got friends who live out in Tooting way... and it just seems such a boring place to live, well were they live isn't but that's more to do with the building they live in heheheh, also seems to take an age to get there as well... :confused:
 
depends how west you go really the outskirts or london are really boring wherever you go, staying north of the river somewhere in the middle near a tube stop is your best bet

maby i'll dig up a picture of my house and post it, it's a weird house looks big but it's small 3 bedroom corner house slightly gothic looking (not gothic spelt with a k mind) built 1900.
 
iGAV said:
hahahah where do you live in West London??
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Sunny Ruislip When i got my house I though i would only be here for a couple years then get something back out where i grew up on Marlow/Windsor, that was 1993 :eek: Trains are usualy good Met & Central line, though i did get stuffed a bit on tuesday when most of west london tubes got rained on. There are some good restaurants, there is a very good Lebanese but on the whole its Surburbia at its best :D
 
evil_santa said:
where i grew up on Marlow/Windsor, that was 1993
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I used to live just down the road from Windsor in not-as-nice-Bracknell... :eek: :p
 
iGAV said:
I used to live just down the road from Windsor in not-as-nice-Bracknell... :eek: :p
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i use to go to a warter park in Bracknell & I remember the fist gig i went to was the Boomtown Rats @ Bracknell sports center 1979/80 ish,
 
iGAV said:
Same goes for the whole South of the River area... :eek: :p :p unless one happens to be frequenting either Tate Modern, The Design Museum or the fab OXO Tower, other than that.... never, ever venture South of the River. :eek: :p
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Borough's actually got some nice pubs. The Duke of York and The Lord Clyde for two. Admittedly you might get mugged on the way home....and defo don't go any further south...
 
evil_santa said:
i use to go to a warter park in Bracknell & I remember the fist gig i went to was the Boomtown Rats @ Bracknell sports center 1979/80 ish,
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A water park was built in the forest behind where I used to live, was called 'Coral Reef', opened in late '89/early '90 I think, I left Bracknell in '89 though to move to Yorkshire.

http://www.bracknell-forest.gov.uk/coralreef/
 
I'm *retired* but I'm not a slacker

I was checking out some differences in our the language between here and there and found that the word "retired" which over here means - having reached a certain age and deciding not to work any more lives off accumulated cash reserves, means "to be laid off"

I don't want to be chatting up some nice bloke in the pub and have him lose interest when I tell him I'm retired because he thinks I can't hold a job :confused:

Doesn't anyone "retire" over there?

m
OH, thanks for the prize - I look forward to collecting it!
 
Retired in the UK means to have finished working for (usually) age reasons. We have the expression 'to be laid off' but also we have sacked, fired, to be made redundant or (more recently) 'downsized'.

So it means the same thing as it does with you.
 
iGAV said:
if you're wealthy enough you do.. :eek: :p :p
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Dang, they told me I was old enough, they never said anything about being wealthy. I wondered why it wasn't as much fun as I thought it was going to be LOL

Margaret
 
to change the subject has anyone here been to a mac shop in kilburn high street there a bunch of dodgy buggers that overcharge you and do bad repairs.
 
caveman_uk said:
Retired in the UK means to have finished working for (usually) age reasons. We have the expression 'to be laid off' but also we have sacked, fired, to be made redundant or (more recently) 'downsized'.

So it means the same thing as it does with you.
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any outsourcing yet?
 
complaining about the british weather?

welcome to ireland!

if you get any tan it's not tan, it's rust..
 
This year has been terrible for weather, I dont think this summer has even hit 90, And its like fall here in OH. Its just crazy, Just a glimpse of how cold it is going ot be this winter
 
The weather is mad at the moment up here, absolutely bucketing down with rain and thunder and lightning that bad it knocked our sky off and no signal on any of our mobile's :( Lukily the national grid is withstanding it and no power cuts (touch wood) yet :)

I really hope this winter is snowy, i love winter.

Last night i went storm chasing, I live on the pennines so didn't have to travel far when my freinds car got struck by lightning with us in it. Was weird but good, wish I had a camera on me.
 
iGAV said:
Same goes for the whole South of the River area... :eek: :p :p unless one happens to be frequenting either Tate Modern, The Design Museum or the fab OXO Tower, other than that.... never, ever venture South of the River. :eek: :p
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C'mon Gav, there's always a good cuppa at my gaff... :D
 
iGAV said:
The one place I'd never live is West London, a dreadful place, you definitely need to be a married 40 something to want to live out there, Suburban hell with no soul.

I actually like living in East London, I like it's continuous state of decay, renewal and reinvention.
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I think it's best to work in West London... Hmmm all those cute nannies.... ;)

East london is cool as long as you don't go too far out. Barking anyone?
 
garybUK said:
The weather is mad at the moment up here, absolutely bucketing down with rain and thunder and lightning that bad it knocked our sky off and no signal on any of our mobile's :( Luckily the national grid is withstanding it and no power cuts (touch wood) yet :)

I really hope this winter is snowy, i love winter.

Last night i went storm chasing, I live on the pennines so didn't have to travel far when my friends car got struck by lightning with us in it. Was weird but good, wish I had a camera on me.
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I totally agree with you winter is a great season. So far we have had more than seven months straight below normal temperature. It's fine with me. This weather is no indication of what the winter will be like though.
 
Hector said:
take tham to the pub and they will come out men

just kidding.

but seriously,

i will give you a couple translations:

if someone apotches you and says "oi blad you got a mobile phone" it means they are trying to mug you for a cell phone

if someone says "you want a fag" they are not offering you a homosexual sex slave they are offering you a ciggerette say no there bad for you.

if someone makes a non sensical bartering noise towards you in an area of london called church street, portabello, or camden they are trying to sell you somthing just say no thanks.

and finaly some areas to avoid

dont ever ever ever go to brixton or hackney at night under any circumstance.

if you say aluminium people will laugh at you just avoid that word.

act like you hate the french and everyone will like you apart from french people of course.

oh and slag off george bush and tony blair for extra kudos.


i will give the person that can tell me what pub means a prize* (no brits allowed in the contest)


*the prize may both suck and blow at the same time, I am not liable in any way
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Got a problem with South London and Black people have we?
 
ThomasJefferson said:
South Carolina
90 degrees in the shade for the next three days... and rain.

ugh ...
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That is an example why I could never tolerate living in the South. Sounds like it must be very muggy which even makes it worse. We are having some nice weather right now.
 
Brixton

Don't listen to the robots who are frightened of Brixton,its the most vibrant part of London.It suits us not to have the usual 9-5 wageslaves ****ing up our area.Yes you'll get robbed if you arrive looking like a euroclone but if you like freedom and have an open mind come on down.I guarantee you a good time.Transport and Shops are freely available 24hours a day(I'd say 24/7 but fortunately I've avoided being programmed by MTVspeak)The best Clubs,Pubs and street ambiance going.By the way the casual racism of most non inner city english people is unfortunately a true reflection of life here in england.TTFN.
 
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