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(Msg. 1) Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 12:19 am
Post subject: Questions about London
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(Msg. 2) Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 12:19 am
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On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:19:01 -0500, Greg P <invaid.DeleteThis@invaild.net>
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>I had a friend go to London
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>What happen to the automatic self cleaning public toilets?
>According to the travel channel they were on almost every corner?
>She saw none. Did someone get stuck in it and almost got cleaned?
San Francisco had them, or did when I left six years ago. There's
at least one in Helsinki between the Market Square and the Market
Hall. In London there was one on Portobello Road, and welcome it
was while cruising the Portobello Market. But I doubt if they
were everywhere. They're furnished by JC Decaux, a French firm.
In San Francisco they offered to install and maintain the toilets
in exchange for the right to run the adverising in bus stop
kiosks and the like. There's been some controversy about them and
I don't know where they stand now.
>She saw a black building kind of shape like a bullet and painted
>black, when she was on the bus. What is the building?
She probably saw the "Gherkin", 30 St Mary Axe:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_St_Mary_Axe
>Why did the travel channel show beautiful Victorian places, but all
>she saw was them run down?.
That's impossible to answer without knowing what the Travel
Channel showed. Greater London is a very big place and she may
not have been in the right neighborhoods.
In San Francisco a row of Victorian homes called the Painted
Ladies (on Alamo Square) manages to get a lot of publicity but,
in fact, they are the only dolled up Victorians in that
neighborhood.
http://www.zurdogo.com/attractions/paintladies.html
There are other dolled up houses around, though. Many in the
vicinity of Haight-Ashbury.
>She said she went all over London.
I seriously doubt it.
>She was surprised it was not that fancy at least in her eyes.
Chacun a son gout.
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(Msg. 3) Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 5:26 am
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On the particular moment of Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:19:01 -0500 in
relation to Mary's disappointingly immaculate rumpy pumpy, Greg P
<invaid.TakeThisOut@invaild.net> put forth:
>I had a friend go to London
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>What happen to the automatic self cleaning public toilets?
>According to the travel channel they were on almost every corner?
>She saw none. Did someone get stuck in it and almost got cleaned?
They weren't too reliable IIRC. People would pry the door open, and
jam it, so anyone could use it, and thus it wouldn't get cleaned.
>She saw a black building kind of shape like a bullet and painted
>black, when she was on the bus. What is the building?
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>Why did the travel channel show beautiful Victorian places, but all
>she saw was them run down?.
What did she expect? HD tvs in every corner?
>She said she went all over London.
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>She was surprised it was not that fancy at least in her eyes.
Possibly because in films such as Match Point, Four Weddings etc. they
show the toffee nosed side of England which is nothing like the
regular life there.
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 5:26 am
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"Greg P" <invaid.TakeThisOut@invaild.net> wrote in message
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>I had a friend go to London
>
> What happen to the automatic self cleaning public toilets?
> According to the travel channel they were on almost every corner?
> She saw none. Did someone get stuck in it and almost got cleaned?
>
> She saw a black building kind of shape like a bullet and painted
> black, when she was on the bus. What is the building?
>
> Why did the travel channel show beautiful Victorian places, but all
> she saw was them run down?.
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> She said she went all over London.
>
> She was surprised it was not that fancy at least in her eyes.
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> Greg P
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Hi Greg,
Your friend is absolutely right London is not fancy at all,in
fact it is the arsehole of Europe, the self cleaning toilets are a miserable
failure because people "choose" to urinate & defecate in the street it is
also the most expensive Capital in Europe & the most violent there are so
many stabbings & shootings on London's streets these days that it hardly
gets mentioned any more in the news.If you are unfortunate enough to be on
the vomit strewn streets of London after 11pm you run the serious risk of
being attacked by gangs of marauding drunks or even murdered ,London is
governed by a drunken corrupt mayor,who along with a group of self appointed
highly paid gangsters cream off millions of pounds in free holidays expenses
& wages.The giant phallus that your friend saw is a building in the
financial sector & is known as the Gherkin,please pass the word round & tell
your friends the truth about London & tell them to boycott the 2012 Olympic
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(Msg. 5) Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:00 am
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Wow this group is really getting intellectual
Why the friend cannot adk the questions herself
Oh I see, just giving martin an apportunity to share a giggle
Duh.
"Greg P" <invaid.DeleteThis@invaild.net> a écrit dans le message de
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>I had a friend go to London
>
> What happen to the automatic self cleaning public toilets?
> According to the travel channel they were on almost every corner?
> She saw none. Did someone get stuck in it and almost got cleaned?
>
> She saw a black building kind of shape like a bullet and painted
> black, when she was on the bus. What is the building?
>
> Why did the travel channel show beautiful Victorian places, but all
> she saw was them run down?.
>
> She said she went all over London.
>
> She was surprised it was not that fancy at least in her eyes.
>
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> Greg P
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(Msg. 6) Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:00 am
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"Greg P" <invaid RemoveThis @invaild.net> wrote in message
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>I had a friend go to London
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> What happen to the automatic self cleaning public toilets?
> According to the travel channel they were on almost every corner?
> She saw none.
Moral: Don't believe everything the media tell you. They would only be
installed where there were no alternative facilities within a reasonable
distance and the Victorians built a lot of public lavatories, often
underground.
> She saw a black building kind of shape like a bullet and painted
> black, when she was on the bus. What is the building?
Sounds like the Gherkin
> Why did the travel channel show beautiful Victorian places, but all
> she saw was them run down?.
She didn't have a locations manager selecting what she saw.
> She said she went all over London.
Impressive, given that it covers more than 400 square miles and I only saw a
part of it in the 20 years I lived there.
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(Msg. 7) Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:00 am
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(Msg. 8) Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 9:13 am
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On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:19:01 -0500, Greg P <invaid.DeleteThis@invaild.net> wrote:
>I had a friend go to London
>
>What happen to the automatic self cleaning public toilets?
>According to the travel channel they were on almost every corner?
>She saw none. Did someone get stuck in it and almost got cleaned?
There is one in Russel Square. It almost gave me a heart attack when
I was walking by it and it started cleaning.
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(Msg. 9) Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 9:47 am
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On Jan 26, 12:19 am, Greg P <inv....RemoveThis@invaild.net> wrote:
> She saw a black building kind of shape like a bullet and painted
> black, when she was on the bus. What is the building?
Probably this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_St_Mary_Axe
> Why did the travel channel show beautiful Victorian places, but all
> she saw was them run down?.
Because only the ones that are actual tourist sights are prettified,
and a lot of the other buildings are not.
> She said she went all over London.
>
> She was surprised it was not that fancy at least in her eyes.
What was she expecting? It's not Disneyworld, it's a city where
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(Msg. 10) Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 10:23 am
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(Msg. 11) Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 10:28 am
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Following up to Greg P <invaid.RemoveThis@invaild.net> wrote:
>What happen to the automatic self cleaning public toilets?
>According to the travel channel they were on almost every corner?
then the channel is worng, but there are many.
>She saw none. Did someone get stuck in it and almost got cleaned?
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>She saw a black building kind of shape like a bullet and painted
>black, when she was on the bus. What is the building?
The Gherkin, its glass, not painted.
>Why did the travel channel show beautiful Victorian places, but all
>she saw was them run down?.
i would say most victorian houses in london are reasonably OK, but
victorian isnt a period (yet) where they are treated liked
preservation projects, they are just houses.
>She said she went all over London.
I doubt it.
>She was surprised it was not that fancy at least in her eyes.
its not all fancy.
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(Msg. 12) Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 10:28 am
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Following up to "nightjar" <cpb@<insert my surname here>.me.uk>
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>and the Victorians built a lot of public lavatories, often
>underground.
and now closed.
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(Msg. 13) Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 10:37 am
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(Msg. 14) Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 12:18 pm
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Greg P <invaid DeleteThis @invaild.net> wrote:
> Thank you for the replies.
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> I do not know if you get the travel channel in Europe.
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> I been watching Samantha Brown passport to Europe (repeats)
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> Unless the friend was not looking at the correct places, it sure
> seems different than what the travel channel showed.
It sounds very much as though your friend didn't enjoy the experience in
London. There are plenty of very impressive Victorian buildings in
London- many of them are major tourist attractions, though often
additions were made into the 20th century- e.g. Buckingham Palace.
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(Msg. 15) Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 12:18 pm
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"Martin" <me.DeleteThis@address.invalid> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:14:52 -0000, "nightjar" <cpb@<insert my surname
> here>.me.uk> wrote:
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>>"Greg P" <invaid.DeleteThis@invaild.net> wrote in message
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>>> She saw a black building kind of shape like a bullet and painted
>>> black, when she was on the bus. What is the building?
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>>Sounds like the Gherkin
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> Isn't the Gherkin unpainted glass?
It still looks black when seen from a distance.
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