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Brit describes a day trip into London

sheesh “ All these things happened to me in London ...
Carnelian mad cow disease
  06/22/25
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flirting step-uncle's house gunner
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fighting center
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Chartreuse At-the-ready Senate International Law Enforcement Agency
  06/23/25
I feel the same way about London. It’s a sleepy town w...
hairraiser church therapy
  06/22/25
i went london first time in 2003 and i was thinking birtish ...
dun rigor bawdyhouse
  06/22/25
I was there around that time too thought it was a ghastl...
Carnelian mad cow disease
  06/23/25
years ago John Cleese made the observation that London was n...
glassy windowlicker indian lodge
  06/22/25
the war on noticing has been going on for decades
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motley state
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Mind-boggling shrine
  06/23/25
If you want an authentic British experience, you’d do ...
Excitant canary pit
  06/22/25
wow
Carnelian mad cow disease
  06/23/25
Londoners are traditionally guarded and private in their own...
Hyperventilating wine marketing idea
  06/23/25
Lol
mahogany drunken giraffe yarmulke
  06/23/25
I have lived in Chelsea and Holland Park, I ought to know
Hyperventilating wine marketing idea
  06/23/25
London has always been pretty dead at night though, pubs clo...
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Date: June 22nd, 2025 9:37 PM
Author: Carnelian mad cow disease

sheesh

“ All these things happened to me in London today

I paid nearly £30 for a train ticket to take me into London from a town just 30 miles away —on a Saturday

The first person I sat next to, I think from India, decided to have a FaceTime conversation with his friend on speakerphone so we all had to listen to it

The train was late by 40 minutes due to unexplained “signalling issues”. It was also filthy.

I paid nearly £8 for a pint

I offered a woman my seat on the tube without realising she was with a man who intervened and said “no man”. He was not from the UK. I think he took my gesture as an insult.

I was asked for money by homeless people 3 times in one day

I noticed several people who are paid to give information to taxpayers and tourists over the tannoy on the London Tube cannot speak English properly

A cabbie told me “London is dead most nights”, unless you are the global high net worth set or top 1%

Restaurants are visibly struggling and often hideously overpriced

I had dinner in a neighbourhood where the average rent is £3,663 per month while half of all local social housing has gone to people who were not even born in the UK

I was constantly aware I should not get my phone out on the street as 80,000 were stolen last year

I also read on the way back while checking that stat that there were 90,000 shoplifting offences in London last year, up 54%

My train back —delayed—was suddenly changed at the last minute with all passengers on board. They were told it would no longer be stopping at all stops.

I bought a tin of instant coffee on the way home and it had a security tag on it

Maybe I’m in a bad mood and perhaps it’s amusing to think how somebody of my political outlook is “triggered” but to me there is a deeper point here

London is over —it’s so over

It’s a city in visible decline with deteriorating standards and no real sense of identity or belonging

Going in and out of our capital city is a truly miserable experience

Infrastructure is falling apart, as is the social contract

I’ve been coming in and out of London since 1981

I simply cannot remember a time when it’s been this visibly dire and when so many things just do not work as they should”

https://x.com/goodwinmj/status/1936548371423961173

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5742019&forum_id=2)#49041431)



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Date: June 23rd, 2025 12:35 AM
Author: flirting step-uncle's house gunner

Community Note: Like the immigrants he despises, OP himself couldn’t hack it in his country and had to self-deport and live as an immigrant in countries belonging to other people.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5742019&forum_id=2)#49041710)



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Date: June 23rd, 2025 7:45 AM
Author: fighting center



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Date: June 23rd, 2025 7:48 AM
Author: Chartreuse At-the-ready Senate International Law Enforcement Agency



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Date: June 22nd, 2025 10:00 PM
Author: hairraiser church therapy

I feel the same way about London. It’s a sleepy town with dead eyes people and no culture to speak of.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5742019&forum_id=2)#49041462)



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Date: June 22nd, 2025 11:27 PM
Author: dun rigor bawdyhouse

i went london first time in 2003 and i was thinking birtish accent is strange and not like the historical drama movies. its cus everoyne is polish. but gatwick girls who annoucne themself on arrival in airport is hot accent

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5742019&forum_id=2)#49041618)



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Date: June 23rd, 2025 12:44 AM
Author: Carnelian mad cow disease

I was there around that time too

thought it was a ghastly town and have never had any interest in going back

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5742019&forum_id=2)#49041717)



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Date: June 22nd, 2025 10:16 PM
Author: glassy windowlicker indian lodge

years ago John Cleese made the observation that London was not an English city and was excoriated for it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5742019&forum_id=2)#49041493)



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Date: June 22nd, 2025 10:46 PM
Author: Carnelian mad cow disease

the war on noticing has been going on for decades

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5742019&forum_id=2)#49041553)



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Date: June 23rd, 2025 12:12 AM
Author: motley state



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Date: June 23rd, 2025 12:31 AM
Author: Mind-boggling shrine



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Date: June 22nd, 2025 11:26 PM
Author: Excitant canary pit

If you want an authentic British experience, you’d do better at the Epcot UK Pavilion than IRL “London.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5742019&forum_id=2)#49041615)



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Date: June 23rd, 2025 12:44 AM
Author: Carnelian mad cow disease

wow

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5742019&forum_id=2)#49041718)



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Date: June 23rd, 2025 5:18 AM
Author: Hyperventilating wine marketing idea

Londoners are traditionally guarded and private in their own affairs, and proper English society has never been an open book-- it's clear you would never fit in their world. Go back to Ukraine.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5742019&forum_id=2)#49041927)



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Date: June 23rd, 2025 6:33 AM
Author: mahogany drunken giraffe yarmulke

Lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5742019&forum_id=2)#49041944)



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Date: June 23rd, 2025 8:45 AM
Author: Hyperventilating wine marketing idea

I have lived in Chelsea and Holland Park, I ought to know

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5742019&forum_id=2)#49042077)



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Date: June 23rd, 2025 5:36 AM
Author: Soul-stirring mexican

London has always been pretty dead at night though, pubs close early as FUUUUAAARCK, members bars close by ~2am then what do you have left? A handful of TTTrashy clubs? The demographics get worse and worse, i'll be there this weekend i'm sure it'll be ghastly. THEY HAVE TO GO BACK!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5742019&forum_id=2)#49041931)



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Date: June 23rd, 2025 7:43 AM
Author: Carnelian mad cow disease



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5742019&forum_id=2)#49042000)