London is horrible
FACT
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:02, 5 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

Yes, North wales is far nicer...

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:02, Reply)

Just because London is rather low on Orc-ridden mystical forests doesn't mean it's horrible.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:03, Reply)

There's always Clapham Common.

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:10, Reply)

Are those orcs on there?
I thought they were randy gay MPs.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:14, Reply)

Are those orcs on there?
I thought they were black people.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:15, Reply)

Are those Orcs?
i thought it was kids with downs.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:21, Reply)

Are those Orcs?
I thought they were rapists.
( Kroney, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:27, Reply)

10/10 for this subthread

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:29, Reply)

I know, it's awful having all these shops and restaurants and theatres.
All this business and industry and money.

I don't know how we cope.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:10, Reply)

you guys are so defensive of the place
like the parents of an ugly child "but she's beautiful on the inside"
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:12, Reply)

No where else in the country has restaurants or theatres.
Outside London, we all live in mud huts and eat raw meat that we take from passing goats. We also fuck the goats. And our sisters/brothers.
(Spleep Shit, or get off the internet., Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:30, Reply)

What I hate most about it
are the world's finest art treasures all available for free. That's so shit - I'd much rather pay £8.95 to get into the Abergavenny Shoe Museum myself, but one can only dream...
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:16, Reply)

art galleries and museums are
free all round the country, dear
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:19, Reply)

So I can go the Abergavenny Shoe Museum for free?
Great news! No more tedious hours trudging round the mediocrities on display at the British Museum, the National Gallery and the British Library for me!!!

This has made my day - SHOE MUSEUM HERE I COME!!!!!
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:21, Reply)

Barry would go with you

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:22, Reply)

I suppose she has a point actually.
I mean, we don't have the Gavin & Stacey Tour here.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:23, Reply)

Yeah, but all the good stuff is here...
When I visit the provinces I do like seeing the pencil sketches of bowls of fruit drawn by miners shaky with pleurisy, mind you.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:21, Reply)

you went to the wrong one, then

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:23, Reply)

The wrong province?
Or the wrong 'give the working class a paintbrush' museum?
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:24, Reply)

Elgin Marbles? 'Schmelgin Schmarbles', I say!

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:23, Reply)

Yeah, the Louvre, the Smithsonian and the Uffizi have naught but shite in them these days.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:29, Reply)

Some of Wales's most popular attractions listed right here.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:32, Reply)

I'm not defending Wales
Jesus, Monty, I'm all for playing devil's advocate in online debates but even I can't defend that.

I was merely suggesting that London doesn't quite have "all the good stuff"
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:34, Reply)

We have the Ashmolean,
Oldest museum in the UK and largest collection of something or other. I never really paid attention to be honest.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:33, Reply)

You also have the Pitt Rivers museum which is one of my all time favourite places in Britain.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:35, Reply)

Did you see the tall mouse?
I fucking love that mouse. Come visit you scrotumfaced prune.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 30 Oct 2012, 10:02, Reply)

I'm not sure they are even in the same country that we are talking about.
I mean, I'm no geography professor, so I may be wrong.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:34, Reply)

what's country got to do with "London has all the good stuff" ? you never said "in the UK"
incidentally, if you're going down that line of defence, Wales is a different country and all. Just.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:37, Reply)

I'd go back to the point where Cavy said 'Free all round the country, my dear'
and follow the conversation from there as a starting point.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:39, Reply)

OK, National Museum of Scotland. MOMI in Bradford.
The Kelvingrove. The Lowry.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:43, Reply)

Yeah, all shit.
Lowry is the definitive 'give the working class a paintbrush' museum.

And shove it next to the Cadbury's Outlet shop while we're at it, so the fat northerners can munch their grubby way around while sheltering from the polluted industrial rain.


OK, I am being a cunt for the sake of being a cunt now. I actually quite like The Lowry. I mean, it's small and has 6 pictures in it, but they are good ones...
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:45, Reply)

Are you channelling Monty again, dear?

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:47, Reply)

I channelled him til he couldn't walk straight.

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:49, Reply)

*drops monocle*

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:52, Reply)

They aren't available for free though, are they?
they are available for the financially destructive price of "living in London"
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:26, Reply)

YES!

Wait...I mean 'No! That doesn't even make sense'.

They are free. You walk up, you don't pay, and you look at stuff.

And you don't even have to live in London to do it. Even durty foreigns can come in.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:28, Reply)

I'm dead against it personally,
but I am pretty sure they do allow non-London residents into these places as well, you know. I am *certain* I saw a tourist at the Tate once.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:28, Reply)

That would be my point.
Why would anyone want to live there when the only redeeming features are equally accessable to tourists?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:32, Reply)

If that was your point, you made it appallingly.
In fact, it seems to me that it's an entirely different point you are now making and you are just trying to bluff your way through it by saying that it was what you meant all along.

it's OK, i won't tell anyone.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:33, Reply)

not at all
I may have misunderstood exactly what you were defending. I was under the impression you were defending London as a place to live, and my point didn't change at all.

If you're merely defending London as a place to visit, no problem.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:39, Reply)

No it wasn't. Your point was that 'they aren't available for free though'
That is an entirely different point. A wrong point.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:34, Reply)

It's scaring me how on the same page you and I are for once.

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:34, Reply)

What's annoying me is that you are making MY points BEFORE me.
Stop it.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:35, Reply)

You beat me to the 'they aren't in Wales' one.

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:36, Reply)

I was under the impression you were using the fact that art galleries are free
as a defence of London as a place to live.

If you weren't, my mistake.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:35, Reply)

I can see the Rosetta Stone within 20 minutes of walking out of my front door
and it is for this reason as well as thousands of others which make high living costs and grubbiness more than worthwhile to me.

I just think it's a bit rich to write off one of the world's greatest cities as 'horrible' when you live in Bogshite, Gwent, and the only cultural activity for hundreds of miles is 'drinking Ice White in a bus shelter' or 'molesting sheep'.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:48, Reply)

Oh, absolutely. Just as it's extraordinarily ignorant to write off a place you've never even seen
as "bogshite" just because you happen to be one of the several million people who are geographically located inside the M25.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:51, Reply)

You've no idea at all about how much of Wales I've seen.
That's 'extraordinarily ignorant', if you ask me. I've visited the majority of the castles of Wales, a large number of the towns as well as much of the coastline from Pembrokeshire to Anglesey. My mother was born in Swansea where her father was Professor. I've also been to a number of festivals in the middle of nowhere there and find the place to be beautiful and extremely pleasant.

Which is why I'm not the prick posting 'Wales is horrible. Fact' like some kind of backward, ill-informed dunce.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:57, Reply)

Right, so you have been to where Cavy lives
and you know it's shite, then? in which case, my apologies.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 10:01, Reply)

Accepted.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 10:19, Reply)

can we all just cuddle now?

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 10:20, Reply)

i'll agree with this statement right here

(quintsy, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:14, Reply)

Now now,
I don't really like London, bit too busy and noisy, but it is still a great city.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:31, Reply)