London

[marshalt]

It was because you're lazy and don't want a job, right?

No, I took whatever work I could find. In summertime, I was up at 4:30 in the morning and my ass was at one of the staffing companies. With any luck, I would get picked to clean up construction sites or maybe haul concrete around in a wheelbarrow all day. Or maybe I would get to do data entry or inventory, but those jobs don't pay as well. In winter, the jobs thinned out and if I was lucky, I would get 20 hours a week. On days when the staffing companies had no work, I was out pounding the pavement, filling out applications, submitting resumes, going to interviews, and job fairs. I worked at a gas station, car wash, bakery, and did online customer service. You know when you go to websites and that little box pops up that says, "Chat now with a live customer service agent!" Yeah, I was on the other end.

I've recently found a decent, full time job. It's manual labor, but it pays the bills and has benefits. It's not glamorous, but... it pays the bills.

 

[Scotsman69]

Taste is a subjective matter.

We'll just need to agree to differ on this.

I've traveled on 5 continents too and I there are heaps of beers and ales superior to those from England. Belgium, of course, ranks. Hell, a fucking Duvel as better than anyting from England.

 

[Scotsman69]

Who's talking bullshit?

There was a well-documented international trade dispute over the theft of the name. Here's a reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budweiser_Budvar_Brewery

Prove me wrong. You know you can't. I have facts to support me, you have only ignorant assertions.

Oh that's bullshit. The "Americans" that "stole" the name were Germans who settled in Missouri and tried to replicate Bohemian lager. They brought their craft with them and did the best they could with locally available ingredients. And now it's owned by InBev. I'm not defending the brand, it's never my first choice, but to accuse the brewers of some kind of insidious plot is absurd. Or bullshit.

 

[SalviaDivinorum]

What a gorgeous city it is.

Spent the day in Camden yesterday listening to bands and today being a tourist.

I love siting outside a café, people watching. Guessing what nationality they are before they speak. Americans were pretty easy to guess.

My neck of the woods
I spent all day Sunday at carnival. A friend has two kids in a band and they were so CUUUUUTE dancing with their float!

I didn't catch this lot though, sadly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CDYAW8EVI5s

 

[HoHoBomb]

Patisserie Valerie

Patisserie Valerie
http://www.patisserie-valerie.co.uk/default.aspx

 

[_Roobarb]

'You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.'

Samuel Johnson

http://theleathersaurus.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/jerusalem-tavern-farringdon-01.jpg

 

[Scotsman69]

On this, as on many matters, SJ was wrong.

For example, there isn't a mountain worthy of the name within over 250 miles of London.

'You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.'

Samuel Johnson

http://theleathersaurus.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/jerusalem-tavern-farringdon-01.jpg

 

[_Roobarb]

For example, there isn't a mountain worthy of the name within over 250 miles of London.

Quite clearly you've never climbed the Beckton Alps.


I'll save you the google..
Beckton Alps

 

[Scotsman69]

It's OK pal...

I know the geography of London and Sarfee Stingland pretty well.

Quite clearly you've never climbed the Beckton Alps.


I'll save you the google..
Beckton Alps

 

[_Roobarb]

Naturally, you're Scottish.

All Scottish people people come from the South-East of England. Just like Manchester United fans.

 

[Sean]

Naturally, you're Scottish.

All Scottish people people come from the South-East of England. Just like Manchester United fans.

Fuck you!

 

[Scotsman69]

Silly person...

Read my stories, and you'll learn how well I know London. I had and still have relations there and nearby, and work used to take me there regularly. I've always lived in Scotland: one summer working in London, strap-hanging on the Northern Line, was quite enough to teach me I never want to live there. But for fairly brief visits... it's great.

Naturally, you're Scottish.

All Scottish people people come from the South-East of England. Just like Manchester United fans.

 

[torchthebitch]

There was a well-documented international trade dispute over the theft of the name. Here's a reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budweiser_Budvar_Brewery

Prove me wrong. You know you can't. I have facts to support me, you have only ignorant assertions.

Internecine Celts

 

[Scotsman69]

Saying silly things

does nothing to refute my argument. I have recorded facts on my side. I don't get into a debate unless I know I'm on sure ground. And can provide the evidence to prove my case. Have, in this case, done so.

Internecine Celts

 

[SalviaDivinorum]

Eleven!

 

[_Roobarb]

London...

Full of sensible down-to-Earth people.

The Pub Landlord