As a city, London isn't shit, it just has shitness in it...and in that shitness it excels.
The best way to make London a much better place would be to turn the congestion charging zone into an exclusion zone. Ban all private cars and require any diesel powered delivery vehicle to make their deliveries between midnight and 6 am.
Anyone who drives a car in central London is aunt.
Minimum wage retail staff don't unload deliveries. A business could hire one or two extra people to if needed to work the night shift to receive deliveries. This happens in many businesses already. If English people are too lazy to make the job then there are plenty of hard working immigrants who would happily do it (like most other low paying work in this country).
saying it in a "clever" way doesn't make you less wrong, wobble. There are plenty of cities around the world that have pedestrianised large portions of their downtown areas. if they can do it, London can do it.
Obsession over recycling yet the inability to address some of the impracticalities of doing so in the context of a big city--I have a box full of broken electronics, used batteries, burnt-out bulbs, etc., that I have no idea what to do with. At some point I am just going to put it all in one bag and dump it in the communcal rubbish collection point for my building even though I'm not supposed to.
Southwark council, OB. The only place that seems to take electronics, etc., is in a stabby area half an hour's walk from where I live. I don't care about the planet THAT much.
The irony that everyone there thinks they're cosmopolitan and worldly when in fact they're totally London-centric, inward looking and terrified of straying outside the M25 unless absolutely necessary.
Commuting on tube/train. Unbelievable angst, aggression and arsiness the likes of which I've never seen elsewhere, included on way more crowded systems across the world.
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Middle class racists in pubs
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You're ok with working class racists?
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Nothing. It's perfect.
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least favourite thing about London, and what is most London about it?
The people. London people are rude, miserable, impatient, selfish aunts on the whole.
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the roads have been ruined by cycle lanes.
the roadworks are always far too slow
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As a city, London isn't shit, it just has shitness in it...and in that shitness it excels.
The best way to make London a much better place would be to turn the congestion charging zone into an exclusion zone. Ban all private cars and require any diesel powered delivery vehicle to make their deliveries between midnight and 6 am.
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Millenial Londoners who think they should be able to afford a 5 bed house with a garden in zone 1 on a single income aged 25
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completely unworkable supes
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imo it is the poor people with the knives and guns and stuff
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Supes in dumbfook comments non shocka!
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I'm sure all those minimum wage shop staff would love being compelled to work nights to receive deliveries. Brilliant stuff
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Anyone who drives a car in central London is aunt.
Minimum wage retail staff don't unload deliveries. A business could hire one or two extra people to if needed to work the night shift to receive deliveries. This happens in many businesses already. If English people are too lazy to make the job then there are plenty of hard working immigrants who would happily do it (like most other low paying work in this country).
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I refer my readers to the comments posted above at 13:57
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1) The slow-walking tourists in the west end.
2) Oxford Street.
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saying it in a "clever" way doesn't make you less wrong, wobble. There are plenty of cities around the world that have pedestrianised large portions of their downtown areas. if they can do it, London can do it.
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The crowds, the pollution, the weather, the cost, the crime.
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"There are plenty of cities around the world that have pedestrianised large portions of their downtown areas"
And they are all shit and crime riddles as a result.
hth
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If new York can do it then so can London
https://www1.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/motorist/offhoursdelivery.shtml
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Endless waffle about property prices
now
endless waffle about Brexit
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YOu said: - make their deliveries between midnight and 6 am.
The New York pilot program you linked to said: - a) it was voluntary. b) shift their delivery windows to between 7 pm and 6 am. c) you spazz.
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Obsession over recycling yet the inability to address some of the impracticalities of doing so in the context of a big city--I have a box full of broken electronics, used batteries, burnt-out bulbs, etc., that I have no idea what to do with. At some point I am just going to put it all in one bag and dump it in the communcal rubbish collection point for my building even though I'm not supposed to.
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Christ you are tedious
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Where are you PP?
haringey has a load of recycle points for all those bits just dotted around. The small electrics one is brilliant
rymans does pens and batteries
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Least fave thing about London, dunno, probably the cost of the house, but it’s done now so don’t really think about it.
air quality was a big one but we moved to this bit specifically because of the air quality and country feel / lack of roads + traffic.
maybe that the kids will be able to roam a lot less than I did.
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Southwark council, OB. The only place that seems to take electronics, etc., is in a stabby area half an hour's walk from where I live. I don't care about the planet THAT much.
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The irony that everyone there thinks they're cosmopolitan and worldly when in fact they're totally London-centric, inward looking and terrified of straying outside the M25 unless absolutely necessary.
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The StradaGiraffeFrancaMancaPizzaExpressHonestBurgerCostaIfication of the high street
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PP the Tesco at Surrey Quays takes batteries for recycling. Probably other stuff too.
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Commuting on tube/train. Unbelievable angst, aggression and arsiness the likes of which I've never seen elsewhere, included on way more crowded systems across the world.
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North London.
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Agree with Supes. Those that disagree are probably city oiks.
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Pollution, crime, filth, overcrowding, astronomical cost of living, the money laundering capital of Europe (McRussian Mafia, McChina, McGulf).
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