jasey

AN - I'm gonna pish myself here - I've been called plenty of things in my time pretty much all of them revolving around my (ill guessed) link to London and/or England my (incorrectly assumed) parentage and my (spot on) size - None of them could be descibed as polite .

ps Most people I've met from Manchester have been great - But none of them know anything about footie

DavidBrown

You're either a "London type" or you're not.

Personally, fighting my way onto a crammed tube, sniffing some guys armpit for 30 minutes, while everyone avoids everyone elses gaze is my idea of commuting hell.

Sure.. you get paid more for the "privilege".. but then house prices are so high, you can only afford a shoe-box with your "compensation"..

That's why Londoners are so obsessed with image/style and having "cool crap" in their appartments.. they can't afford what most of us would consider a decent house.. and they have an awful time commuting, so they have to make up for it by having the latest clothes, SMEG fridge.. or pots and pans.. Whoop-de-doo.

Give me a big house in the country, a peaceful commute, and you can shove your fancy accoutrements.

What amuses me is they way Londoners look down on "out of towners" as if the Londoners have the best jobs, are on the gravy train, and are in "powerful jobs in the City".. completely overlooking the fact that quality of life is more important that status

I'm not quite sure how much you'd have to pay me to work in London, but it'd have plenty of zeros on the end.

Dracoro

I live in ('surbuban' oooooh ) London but I'm certainly not from London. Does that makes sense? I'm originally from the country you see (a little village in the middle of nowhere

There may be Londoners may seem a little unfriendly but I guess they're just as bad as those from outside who think all Londoners are to$$ers. Take people as you meet them, no matter where they're from.

BTW - what is a londoner? someone who lives there? someone who's born there? someone who's family are from there? There's 8 or 9 million people here and such an eclectic mix of people, it's hard to generalise.

I appreciate that many people, myself included, dislike the 'stereotypical' londoner who's unaware of life outside the m25 but I guess it depends on where you go and who you talk to. There will be a certain amount of large city mentality but the same goes for birmingham, manchester etc. You also get small town mentality from people in small towns but it comes down to who you talk to.

angrynorth

LOL, thought someone would bring up footy eventually. I'm pretty certain that the north far outweighs London in terms of trophy history

TelBoy

Can i get a degree in Sweeping Generalisations?

Geezer

London may well only have as many bull****ters percentage wise as anywhere else, but since there are 8 million of the loud mouthed tosspots, there are many many more bull****ters numerically!

I think any capital in the world see themselves as better, even though we know they are not

Geezer

Buzzer

IMO theres a difference in sense of humour. You can sometimes crack a joke at our Christmas Party and only people north of Watford laugh

Then when a Londoner / southerner cracks a joke (very rare) every one except the Northerners laugh, very strange

I think Londoners are very cellular and very wrapped up in there own world. The "I'm alright Jack" attitude but this a bad generalisation it just seems that way from the outside

I have been to our head office in Mitcham many times and not once have i been offered a drink when i go in, i just couldn't believe it when i first found out that they bring their own tea bags and milk in

If anyone, no matter how junior they are, comes up to our office, we make sure that they are fully fed and watered as soon as they land

Just an observation thats all.

BTW i get on really well with everyone from our H.O. and they love it when we tell one of them that they can be one of our adopted northerners

Inforcer

Nicci I am from London so dont worry I will back yuo up
Tell your work girls that people from London are the SUPERIOR BEINGS.We are of SUPERIOR INTELLIGENCE & CULTURE.
So they better stop giving you any grief and stop swearing at Londoners or two up their bum

Scooby-Doo

I'm from London and we are not all total ar$eholes although my wife does call me one numerous times.

Commuting is not that bad if you can avoid the underground If I could get out I would but my career options would be somewhat limited outside of the square mile.

davyboy

Black bogeys, high property prices and congestion.

What's good about living there again?

Philip Attaway

All the scantily clad ladies in Golden Square at lunchtimes

Leslie

Yes they do!

Nimbus

Do any Londerers where their ties the London way? My cous told my they pull the small bit around and thread it through the top bit (like the large part) so the small on is on top of the large on, and then have them both at different angles...

jasey

What medication are you on Nimbus

Philip Attaway

People wear their ties down our way

Nimbus

It's true though he did say it was originally started by the gay community but now all the "city boys" are doing it...

Nicci

The girls in the office think that everyone who has posted here agrees with them.

They are having a good laugh reading replies.

Its not true. Most Londoners are nice people not full of themselves.

angrynorth

Double post??

Markus

I'd say it's the same everywhere you go. You're always going to get the snobs and the wannabe snobs, and the arseholes.

I think you can go to any City in the uk and meet nice people and *****, no one city has a monopoly on it.

Maybe it's the north/south divide thing? who knows.

jasey

BOLLOX

johnnie_m

Good point speedking.

Judging by the susequent responses, emanating from both camps, it appears my original assessment was correct.

Ted Maul

LONDON RULES!

gsm1

They probably came across some Londoner who's a security guard in Asda but told them he was a movie and music producer and was going to make them stars. Now they're tarring us all with the same brush.

Scooby-Doo

Ok I admit it I am an ar$sehole, posh snob whatever you want to call me but then again I did enjoy lunch on the balcony today over looking St Pauls gazing down on some lovely looking ladies that obviously forgot to get dressed this morning

Suresh

Fascinating, polarised thread.
Who was it who said if you're tired of London, you're tired of life?? Reckon they were right. I live abroad but always relish a return visit to the vibrant city that is London.

Where the **** is Northampton anyway? :P

Nicci

Hey Suresh,

Don't drag Northampton into it. It only happens to be home of Silverstone and has lots of other motoring things in or nearby.