so what's britain got to offer me?

  On 2/18/2010 at 5:40 AM, abusivegeorge said:

  On 2/17/2010 at 11:09 PM, BCM said:

don't go to the un-natural history museum.

also known as the anal museum

  On 2/20/2010 at 1:34 AM, keltoi said:

is there anyone on watmm that's welsh?

yeah, whatever it is to be welsh.

being able to laugh at yourself is a huge leap. Sounds simple. but its not.

  On 2/20/2010 at 1:34 AM, keltoi said:

is there anyone on watmm that's welsh?

i used to live there y0

I leave tomorrow, getting pretty stoked! Figured I'd take one more stab at getting some good recommendations for decent record shops I might check out (not just in London but anywhere; I plan on moving about the country a bit).

Also, any watmmers looking to have a cup of tea with a real, live American(!) should feel free to pm me as I won't really have anyone but family to chill with while I'm there

Quite a few record shops on Berwick Street in Soho. If you drive, hire a car do the South coast, taking in Beachy Head, Dungeness and Brighton.

  On 2/17/2010 at 3:36 PM, messiaen said:

i want to go and live in london for a year after uni because it has an inhumanely awesome club scene.

yeah, that was my plan too, until i realised that i didn't have any money or a job. so now i'm looking for work and living in wardrobes.

  On 2/20/2010 at 1:34 AM, keltoi said:

is there anyone on watmm that's welsh?

yes. born in cardiff. raised by wolves. died on my arse. haven't got the accent though, thankfully.

yyyeeeeaaaahhhhh! I be back, bitches!

in case you were wondering:

- England is still the shit

- street vendor sausage rolls are pretty hit-or-miss

- Berwick street, though home to a few decent record shops, is also smack dab in the middle of one of the seediest parts of London ("Buy the nice lady a drink guv'na?" "uhh, okay...?" "she's drinking champagne at 100 pounds a glass." "... Ah." *runs*)

- the underground still smells like fish and urine

- British girls still can't compare to most of the French/Norwegian/German tourist ladies

- all top 40 songs seem to be legally required to make heavy use of vocoders

- Warp stuff does not fall under a single category like "electronic" or "dance", it is apparently its own genre

- food/cost of living/gas is all mad expensive!

- most of the indian take-out really is the shit though

you'll probably get stabbed by a 9 year old

  On 3/8/2010 at 7:12 PM, doorjamb said:

yyyeeeeaaaahhhhh! I be back, bitches!

 

in case you were wondering:

- England is still the shit

- street vendor sausage rolls are pretty hit-or-miss

- Berwick street, though home to a few decent record shops, is also smack dab in the middle of one of the seediest parts of London ("Buy the nice lady a drink guv'na?" "uhh, okay...?" "she's drinking champagne at 100 pounds a glass." "... Ah." *runs*)

- the underground still smells like fish and urine

- British girls still can't compare to most of the French/Norwegian/German tourist ladies

- all top 40 songs seem to be legally required to make heavy use of vocoders

- Warp stuff does not fall under a single category like "electronic" or "dance", it is apparently its own genre

- food/cost of living/gas is all mad expensive!

- most of the indian take-out really is the shit though

lol

yeah, i never understand why people go on about berwick street all the time - most people who recommend it has "good record shops" have never actually been down there i think. there are a couple, but it's not like good record shop heaven or anything.

the area you're referring to is Soho - i work about 2 minutes from there. i like it, but i guess it could come across as seedy - the sex shops and strip clubs etc. it's a really vibrant area though despite that and there's plenty to see and do. i've also never felt it was an unsafe area.

the underground has it's own special smell i agree - to me it's more like diesel and engines and stuff. smells quite industrial.

most of the indian take-out isn't really shit - you must have had very bad luck.

i don't know about the top40 - haven't listened to it in years. if everything's got vocoders in it though i might start.

food/cost of living/gas IS all mad expensive compared to America.

my favourite girls in the world are British girls. go to Clapham for fit birds.

Warp is not it's own genre.

England is, in many ways still The Shit. unfortunately, in many other ways, it's just Shit.

SOME WICKED MCs

lol at that video. If I was 13 still, I'd probably want to be him. What a dude

he said he liked the indian food.

come to Leicester niggaz

  On 3/9/2010 at 4:23 AM, marf said:

he said he liked the indian food.

oh right. I mis-read it...

  On 3/8/2010 at 8:50 PM, BCM said:

yeah, i never understand why people go on about berwick street all the time - most people who recommend it has "good record shops" have never actually been down there i think. there are a couple, but it's not like good record shop heaven or anything.

Where do you go for your records? a side door with a membership fob and inside its only you, Robert Elms and Suggs. Specialist record shops havent really existed since you and I started moving into places like Clapham, sending all the blacks scuttling further south and turning the soul and reggae shops into Pret's.

There's a couple of things I miss about London:

Fish & chip meals

KFC

Indian Curries

An array of snacks including Monster Munch (pickled onion flavour) Twirl bars, flake bars, turkish delight,

Chillin out on Blackheath common out in front of the Princess of Wales pub on a lazy sunny saturday afternoon with a pint of ale and a bit of green

  On 2/20/2010 at 1:34 AM, keltoi said:

is there anyone on watmm that's welsh?

Born in Cardiff but moved over the border before picking up any accent. Great city though.

London- go hang out on Kings Road and pay £8 odd for a beer. Go fight someone in Bermondsey. Don't try finding anywhere good for fish and chips in London, because there isn't.

When I worked at Buckingham Palace a few years back (lol) and had only been there a week or two Americans/Canadians would get well ticked off if you couldn't tell the difference between the accents. Was alright soon after, they both tipped quite lot which was odd as nobody else from any country did.

One day this Spanish bloke came up to me at the ticket office moved to the corner of the desk and took a piss, lol. Then one day this French woman (not knowing I can understand the language to an OK extent) called me a shithead at which point I told her to do one. Good day in the office.

Unfortunately this thread is a year old.

I was searching for something else and couldn't help myself. Back to my cave.

  On 2/20/2010 at 1:34 AM, keltoi said:

is there anyone on watmm that's welsh?

i grew up on the border in heffer-ford shire so i'm an honorary taff lol. i know south wales very well, it rocks. also, i hate london.

taxfree gambling!

been to London once and had a blast

just avoid subways in the morning

and those "newspaper proppers" were something i had never seen, they looked very miserable and agressive. One almost fought me because i asked directions

I cant bring myself to go to an Indian restaurant any more. It has to be the most easily masked food in the world. You don't know you have been shafted until the food is in your mouth. Had a bad experience from a dodgy indian take away and now I only eat curry that I make myself. Sucks because for every 1 dodgy place there are probably 10 legit places. I just can't risk it.

I made the best curry ive ever eaten last night. Slow cooked lamb and apricot, fuck it was good.