- it rains like fuck up north. ALL THE TIME.
- it is NOT cheap. NOT CHEAP. ok? ok.
- we got shouted at in the street, by some guys in a car. according to my (asian) friend, he knew them, kind of, and they shouted at him as he was with two whites. i gave them the finger.
- there are lots of loud chavs here.
- i entered the most hellish gay club on earth - 'thompsons' - do not, repeat, DO NOT go in there.
- i don't like trams
- there's a mini london eye there!
- Lyme Park is amazing :)
- people say thank you to bus drivers
- Primark is like, the most popular place EVER.
more, maybe, later.
It's been raining all the time...
down south as well.
you're in manchester?
we should totally hang out...
i'm going home tomorrow.
and, ha, at the moment i'm in Nelson LOL
I've been there once
Someone asked if I had a cigarette, I said no, so he called me a southern poof and hit me in the back of the head.
It's a shithole, the north can keep it.
i dont understand women like that!
girls should be ladylike!
notthaticantalkfallingonmyfacebutstill
women like what??
oh!
i thought he said 'she'
i meant rough women who get into fights and the like
people say thank you to bus drivers
in some parts of london. nice parts.
In Bristol...
...we say Cheers Drive.
XD
I don't
I say thank you
though
i say it in certain circumstances
on nightbuses when they actually stop for me i say cheers as i get on, often. also when im the last person to get off the bus i often call out "thanks" to the driver or whatever
In wolverhampton they say
thanks droivah
go to the indie clubs, can't remember what they're called
5th avenue or something? My mate says its very good, if occasionally generic.
your friend LIED
rly?
He does like some questionable indie, but he likes good shit mostly. What's wrong with it?
the people, the music, the smell
everything. it's horrid.
where IS good?
Not pangea, surely?
i'm not a very good person to ask
as i think bars > clubs. i pretty much hate all clubs. soz.
5th avenue is vile
Really really vile
I went for the first time the weekend before last.
It was really really rubbish. And while I was there, they didn't play indie at all. It was basically the worst shit from Jilly's main room, but with a crowd that tried to jump and dance to it instead of headbang / mosh.
I'm not much of a club sorta person anyway. Once I arrived there and realized the dancefloor is boring and it's too loud to talk to people, I just wandered about on my own, checking out everyone there. At least the crowd typically dresses fairly uniquely ... 'unique' without being gothic or scene is hard to find in Manchester. :P
Isn't it weird how, if you wander around a nightclub slowly on your own, you get stares from loads of people? Like "Are you lost?" or "Are you out on your own looking to pull?", I'm guessing... or maybe "Look at that dickhead with no friends!"
^this
I went in once and you physically couldn't move.
it's a disgustingly bad place.
scalls.
they are called scalls.
scallIEs
that's the term for their young silly
i always say thankyou
to bus drivers
So do I.
It's only London where you turn into a cunt and just ignore them.
i sometimes ignore them in edinburgh
because everyone else does, plus they dont even look at you, you just put your money in and they press the button for you ticket.
...
- i don't like trams
Trams are cool as fuck - San Francisco, Melbourne, and Croydon, London, do not get it wrong
- there's a mini london eye there!
How tragic
- Lyme Park is amazing :)
More info
- people say thank you to bus drivers
That's nice.
Aye!
I shall sing the praises of Croydon's Trams. Theyre super, though there needs to be more routes that come to my part of town. The flip side fo that would mean it is easy for the slag to get to my part of town.
'the slag'?
eee, whats this?
'the slag'
Is a derogatory term applied to all the assorted scumbags who live in and visit Croydon.
i thought you had an affectionate
nickname for your missus
Alas, the wench has no nickname
'how tragic'
what? so like, only london is allowed to have a big wheel now? fuck off.
It's called the London Eye, innit?
A tad touchy there...
what?
you said that it's tragic that manchester should have a 'mini london eye'. so you're basically saying that it's tragic that any other city apart from london should have some kind of big wheel in order that you can get a better view of the city?
i'm not touchy, i just find the whole 'london is the centre of the universe' attitude to be bloody annoying.
but it IS
;)
ISN'T
so there.
Christ, Vienna has a massive wheel - so do heaps of cities
Actually, I'm downloading stuff onto my laptop and flicking through and not really writing epic posts at this hour, so forgive your mis understanding.
I was referring to the fact it's always been known as The London Eye.
I hope yours is called the Manchester Eye. Or something more apt. As am sure it would be. But even above, it was referred to as a 'mini London eye' which in itself is tragic.
Far too late to be getting emotional - sorry, going back to downloads.. this is pointless. No offence meant.
And for the record, I'm originally from Australia and regularly get criticism.. 'Cultural cringe' and the like happens everywhere... and if I had a dollar for the amount of Australian bashing I got, I'd be rich. Even though I've lived over here nearly a decade.
It's not right but it happens.
That is all.
Yeah
it's not actually called or know as 'the mini London eye' that would be silly. As it's in Manchester.
It's actually called 'Ay up, the Big Fookin' Wheel Our Kid Madferit'
i'm not even from manchester
i only referred to it as a 'mini london eye' because that's what sarkyfox referred to it as. i think it's called something equally lame like 'the wheel of manchester' and it's expensive and not that good.
the main problem i had with your comment though, is the implication that manchester (or indeed any other city) wishes it was london, because obviously london is the only city of any worth in the country.
i have no idea what all that stuff about you being from australia has to do with anything. but meh, i can't really be bothered with this either.
wtf?
you totally misconstrued my original point.
and clearly didn't get my subsequent points.
i can't be bothered either.
You did totally miss Rose's point
it's Sarkyfox's fault for being unable to note that it's a big wheel rather than using 'London Eye' as if it's some sort of generic term for a big wheel. :D
erm
it's not a ferris wheel. it has capsule things with seats, and basically looks exactly like... a mini london eye.
Lymer Park
is the stately home used in the BBC version of Pride & Prej for the exterior of Pemberley - ie the house with the lake that Darcy dives into. it was beautiful - pics up soon.
Lyme Park.
not lymer :S
technically lyme park
is in stockport, not manchester.
phillips park is in manchester though! you should go there! it's near sportcity and it has an aquaduct and an open air theatre and swings and it's lovely and hilly and YEAH. you can just walk down the canal from the city centre to it and it's lovely.
true true.
but, the journey was on my 'manchester trip' so.... :P
i'm just jealous
because i've never been there and it looks pretty.
then again, i've always fancied going to the stockport hat museum too. i could spend a whole day in stockport. wowz!
i do this
often
that's because you work there
wazzface.
it was meant to be a funny
you clearly don't understand my ultra advanced sense of humour
you have a sense of humour?
IT'S NEWS TO ME!!!
i'm sad now
:(
:D
score!
ps. i'm joking really
you
cunt
ps. i'm joking really
i want to call someone a wazzface
i like that word. i'm not going to call you it though.
it's too late
you did and i don't think i'll ever be able to forgive you
i always want to go to the hat museum too.
but i only remember when going past it on the train.
It's terrible
what's wrong with saying thanks to the bus driver?
we do this in Cardiff as well, it's called politeness.
nothing wrong with it!
we do it in dublin too.
Good on ya.
We say 'cheers drive' when we get off the bus. I knew someone who moved to Cardiff from Tiperary and thought it odd that everyone knew the bus driver. She thought we were saying "Cheers Clive".
some notes on sarkyfox
- she missed BOTH my birthday drinks
- she sucks
some notes on sophiacherryx
B Flat
A Sharp
dropped (double) D
also
i say thankyou to bus drivers!
ALWAYS when im back in southampton and when im close enough in london.
it was quite weird re-training yourslef to be LESS polite when you first arrive in london
We say thank u to bus drivers all the time
down in sunny lil brighton, where do u live?
Manhester is ace
It's my favourite city.
You can keep your overrated London.
Although this did happen on my doorstep;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/6758849.stm
people don't say thank you to bus drivers in London?
I don't like Manchester. It's big and confusing.
well, you get off at the middle doors so....
Oh.
I'm so not prepared for tomorrow.
you know now!
:)
the whole London bus system
seems designed in a way for their to be as little interaction between passenger and driver as possible. Oyster Cards, middle doors to get off, sometimes you can't pay on the bus itself.
it's a bit odd.
i thought it weird
first time i used edinburgh buses that you couldnt get change on the bus and that the bus driver basically just drove the bus and nothing else
you don't get change in Cardiff
it's so very annoying. All in all, Cardiff Bus is basically shit. Still thank the drivers though
so is it the same price to go anywhere?
in edinburgh its a £1 no matter where you are going, is this the norm for all cities?
Cardiff is broken up into zones
despite being a really small city that doesn't really need 'zones'. £1.30 seems to be standard for a single fair, which is a 2 zone journey. 1 zone is a pound.
Pensioners get a free bus pass them, bless 'em.
though*
I forgot to once
I felt so bad that I had to apologise to the next one twice.
And you totally didn't thank the one in York.
I did!
At least on the second one.
The first one I did too, but too quietly... So I felt good about thanking them, but so people didn't have to hear me say thanks.
Makes sense?
what are you talking about?
It has pretty much the smallest city centre for a major conurbation in the world.
Pfft.
The trams make it scary.
I rarely use the trams.
You can WALK anywhere you want to go in 20 minutes. Waiting for the right tram typically makes me later... ¬_¬
Londons
very big and very confusing.
I know!
:(
Manchester actually has less annual rainfall than Cornwall
Fact alert.
utm
it's pointless telling a bunch of uppity londoners not to slag our city off, we know it's good and i've met plenty of southerners who love it. It's more tragic to slag off a place while visiting it and as for a mini London eye, it doesn't have one and that is not always in the city centre.
erm.......
did i slag it off?
and, it does have a mini london eye. i saw it.