London sucks
It's (mostly) hideous.
It's incoherent to a degree unlike any other major European capital. A master plan? No thanks, we're English.
What they call quaint I call infantile. Ye Olde Fake Tudore Pube? Yeahe, Righte.
They can't build skyscrapers and won't stop doing so (and then blaming the US for inventing the things).
I know it's a culinary wonderland, if you're willing to drop the right amount of money. But its basic food options make the average New York hot dog wagon look like the Grand Central Oyster Bar.
The drinking. My God, the drinking. And I love drinking. But not to the Dawn of the Dead levels you see on a Friday night in fucking Belgravia, for God's sake.
The titled class are ugly and one step away from trailer trash in their sexual and social habits.
The funny thing is that every Brit with any literary pretensions always writes about how much they hate New York. Americans with literary pretensions never repay the favor, for some reason. Perhaps because it would be a shame to take the money for pointing out the obvious.
London is generally Europe for Americans too stupid or xenophobic to learn or at least attempt a foreign language.
True, my impressions are all pre-Brexit and pre-Covid. But I can't imagine either feature somehow made it all better.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | December 7, 2021 3:42 AM
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They got bombed because they refused to surrender like the French did. That's why London is ugly. Berlin is even uglier.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | December 6, 2021 5:31 AM
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Londoners love New York and Paris.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | December 6, 2021 5:40 AM
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London is the center of the world. You are deluded. There is fantastic gay nightlife, god saunas, the walkability is amazing, the restaurants, and lounges are so much better than the US. London is better than Paris and most certainly better than NYC.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | December 6, 2021 6:26 AM
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London has great theater, especially Shakespeare's theater. And free museums!
by Anonymous | reply 5 | December 6, 2021 6:41 AM
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Sorry, meant Shakespearean.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | December 6, 2021 6:41 AM
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R5, the museums, outside of the British Museum and the National Gallery, are crap. The Metropolitan Museum of Art and MOMA shit all over them. As do the rest of NYC's museums.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | December 6, 2021 6:51 AM
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[quote] They got bombed because they refused to surrender like the French did.
No, they got bombed because their country couldn’t be overrun by panzers, like France was, because panzers can’t drive across the English Channel, genius.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | December 6, 2021 6:55 AM
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I think London is a cool city but compared to other European capitals it's kind of lacking. The thing that I hate most about London (other than the astronomical price of regular food as you mentioned) is it's almost impossible to find a public restroom or place to sit down. It's like the whole city is hostile to the idea of public life and they just want you to spend money.
You're vulgar as fuck r6 and your comment makes no sense. London's secondary museums aren't as good as NYC's primary museums? Well no shit. MOMA and the met are better than Paris's museums if you're not counting the Louvre and D'Orsay. You're also wrong since London has the Victoria and Albert museum and NYC doesn't have an equivalent museum. NYC has a better natural history museum but the Field Museum in Chicago is even better than the one in NYC so it's nothing to brag about.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | December 6, 2021 6:59 AM
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Muslim capital of the world. Feces all over the place.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | December 6, 2021 7:02 AM
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What European capital is better than London?
by Anonymous | reply 11 | December 6, 2021 7:03 AM
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London sucks New York’s huge cock
by Anonymous | reply 12 | December 6, 2021 7:03 AM
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[quote] Muslim capital of the world.
This is the real problem with London. Why are there so many hardcore muslims everywhere?
by Anonymous | reply 13 | December 6, 2021 7:04 AM
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R11...Paris. Rome. Berlin. Vienna. Moscow. Madrid. Hell, Copenhagen is more charming and easier to deal with.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | December 6, 2021 7:05 AM
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I’m a New Yorker and I love London.
And most Londoners I know enjoy visiting New York too.
So, nope, Defacto. Not playing your game.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | December 6, 2021 7:06 AM
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It sounds like you just hate London, R14.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | December 6, 2021 7:06 AM
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R9, in fact, the Met and MOMA are better than Paris' chief museums as well, in terms of providing a global look at art.
/waits for the screams that non-European art doesn't matter
by Anonymous | reply 17 | December 6, 2021 7:07 AM
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New York smells like piss, and is full of uppity blacks and neurotic jews. Fuck off.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | December 6, 2021 7:07 AM
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R16, you're a genius!!! How did you find out that I don't like London?!!! Did you hide out in my closet for years and years?
by Anonymous | reply 19 | December 6, 2021 7:08 AM
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There is nothing worse than uppity blacks! Aren't they in Harlem?
by Anonymous | reply 20 | December 6, 2021 7:08 AM
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Still angry that you can’t bump threads anymore r19?
by Anonymous | reply 21 | December 6, 2021 7:09 AM
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I've been to a lot of towns, and most were disappointments, but New York filled me with with disgust like no other. The people are a fucking joke. Ghetto blacks, prissy jewess, and fat stupid wops. I laughed hard on 9/11.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | December 6, 2021 7:11 AM
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Just stay in your midrange suburb, OP. No one wants you anywhere.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | December 6, 2021 7:16 AM
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R14 never said they were the OP so how is one supposed to know?
by Anonymous | reply 24 | December 6, 2021 7:17 AM
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I am Berlin based but spend a lot of time in Paris and London and love them all.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | December 6, 2021 7:33 AM
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People are cold and rude. Paris is way better as far as cities go. New York is next, but it is the capital of the world. London is meh. But the young men are hot.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | December 6, 2021 8:12 AM
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[quote] R9, in fact, the Met and MOMA are better than Paris' chief museums as well, in terms of providing a global look at art.
[quote] /waits for the screams that non-European art doesn't matter
Don't be ridiculous, R17. The Brits and the French have been looting and pillaging for centuries. Now that kind of thing is frowned upon. They've had a head start. Plus they've had royal and aristocratic families collect art for centuries. Once some Americans became super rich in the second half of the 19th century, after industrialization, all the best stuff wasn't for sale.
Sorry, most of the buildings in Manhattan are either dull or painfully ugly. True, there are some buildings that are very impressive and / or strikingly beautiful but they're few and far between. It is way easier to find a pretty street and beautiful architecture in London.
I watch livestreams of NYC and there is a part of Manhattan near Madison Square Garden that is just stunning in its ugliness.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | December 6, 2021 8:38 AM
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[quote]People are cold and rude. Paris is way better as far as cities go.
in comparison to Paris? Idiot.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | December 6, 2021 8:54 AM
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[quote]New York is next, but it is the capital of the world.
No. London is. Anyone in high finance knows this. It's also the money laundering capital of the world.
[quote] There is fantastic gay nightlife, god saunas
The gay nightlife you can find in most cities, but the saunas are SHIT. The fact London doesn't have a world class sauna since the closure of the old Chariots is unfuckingbelieveable. Even the best, the one in Waterloo, is second rate. And the trade there is ordinary. But I'll say one thing: London's streets still have some of the most stunning camellia-pink lipped men in the world.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | December 6, 2021 9:09 AM
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[quote]No. London is. Anyone in high finance knows this. It's also the money laundering capital of the world.
Why would London be the world's financial capital and not the biggest city of the world's superpower? America has big corporations that come up with the world's new technology, not Britain.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | December 6, 2021 5:53 PM
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R28 I know, right? Everyone says Parisians are unfriendly but I found it to be just the opposite. It's a brilliant city. The most sophisticated city I've ever been to.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | December 6, 2021 9:35 PM
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I like Sauna Bar. It's low key and it feels a little less overwhelming than a huge bathhouse. Is it still open?
by Anonymous | reply 32 | December 7, 2021 2:09 AM
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Get over yourself OP. Don't like somewhere, don't go there. And shut up about it!
by Anonymous | reply 33 | December 7, 2021 2:19 AM
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OP, do you live in Montecito by any chance? Does your name rhyme with Beggan Barkle?
by Anonymous | reply 34 | December 7, 2021 2:21 AM
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