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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 Anonymousreply 35December 7, 2021 3:42 AM

They got bombed because they refused to surrender like the French did. That's why London is ugly. Berlin is even uglier.

by Anonymousreply 1December 6, 2021 5:31 AM

But the Queen!

by Anonymousreply 2December 6, 2021 5:34 AM

Londoners love New York and Paris.

by Anonymousreply 3December 6, 2021 5:40 AM

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 Anonymousreply 4December 6, 2021 6:26 AM

London has great theater, especially Shakespeare's theater. And free museums!

by Anonymousreply 5December 6, 2021 6:41 AM

Sorry, meant Shakespearean.

by Anonymousreply 6December 6, 2021 6:41 AM

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 Anonymousreply 7December 6, 2021 6:51 AM

[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 Anonymousreply 8December 6, 2021 6:55 AM

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 Anonymousreply 9December 6, 2021 6:59 AM

Muslim capital of the world. Feces all over the place.

by Anonymousreply 10December 6, 2021 7:02 AM

What European capital is better than London?

by Anonymousreply 11December 6, 2021 7:03 AM

London sucks New York’s huge cock

by Anonymousreply 12December 6, 2021 7:03 AM

[quote] Muslim capital of the world.

This is the real problem with London. Why are there so many hardcore muslims everywhere?

by Anonymousreply 13December 6, 2021 7:04 AM

R11...Paris. Rome. Berlin. Vienna. Moscow. Madrid. Hell, Copenhagen is more charming and easier to deal with.

by Anonymousreply 14December 6, 2021 7:05 AM

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 Anonymousreply 15December 6, 2021 7:06 AM

It sounds like you just hate London, R14.

by Anonymousreply 16December 6, 2021 7:06 AM

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 Anonymousreply 17December 6, 2021 7:07 AM

New York smells like piss, and is full of uppity blacks and neurotic jews. Fuck off.

by Anonymousreply 18December 6, 2021 7:07 AM

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 Anonymousreply 19December 6, 2021 7:08 AM

There is nothing worse than uppity blacks! Aren't they in Harlem?

by Anonymousreply 20December 6, 2021 7:08 AM

Still angry that you can’t bump threads anymore r19?

by Anonymousreply 21December 6, 2021 7:09 AM

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 Anonymousreply 22December 6, 2021 7:11 AM

Just stay in your midrange suburb, OP. No one wants you anywhere.

by Anonymousreply 23December 6, 2021 7:16 AM

R14 never said they were the OP so how is one supposed to know?

by Anonymousreply 24December 6, 2021 7:17 AM

I am Berlin based but spend a lot of time in Paris and London and love them all.

by Anonymousreply 25December 6, 2021 7:33 AM

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 Anonymousreply 26December 6, 2021 8:12 AM

[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 Anonymousreply 27December 6, 2021 8:38 AM

[quote]People are cold and rude. Paris is way better as far as cities go.

in comparison to Paris? Idiot.

by Anonymousreply 28December 6, 2021 8:54 AM

[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 Anonymousreply 29December 6, 2021 9:09 AM

[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 Anonymousreply 30December 6, 2021 5:53 PM

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 Anonymousreply 31December 6, 2021 9:35 PM

I like Sauna Bar. It's low key and it feels a little less overwhelming than a huge bathhouse. Is it still open?

by Anonymousreply 32December 7, 2021 2:09 AM

Get over yourself OP. Don't like somewhere, don't go there. And shut up about it!

by Anonymousreply 33December 7, 2021 2:19 AM

OP, do you live in Montecito by any chance? Does your name rhyme with Beggan Barkle?

by Anonymousreply 34December 7, 2021 2:21 AM

FF r18 as I did.

by Anonymousreply 35December 7, 2021 3:42 AM
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