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forgrt the tourists bit for Luton
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Aswell as @cockney slang' and 'backslang' there is a third older one still used today it's called Polari which is still in use today particularly among London gays. My ex wife's hairdresser friends used it all the time actors use it too.
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That's really interesting boxingthefox.
As the fact has been posted here's a link to it. . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polari |
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There is no in-between, you are either a gullible leftie, or a racist, (which in the real world Is a realist)
The gullible left, were never born in or around London, and the racists ( realists) were. |
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Coachbuster 13 Oct 15 19:17 Joined: 08 Apr 06 | Topic/replies: 30,220 | Blogger: Coachbuster's blog
it's actually called London Luton - as is Southend which could be even further out .Must be for the benefit of tourists - Yanks would consider Outer Hebredes London though Crazy The film "american werewolf in london" is a great example of this, the hero gets attacked in yorkshire, but for some miraculous reason gets treated in a hospital in London!  |
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The obvious one not yet posted, Big Ben is not the tower but the bell, which chimes in the key of E.
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1 there is a miniature version of st pauls cathedral (known as little st pauls) that hangs over the south side of vauxhall bridge. be carfeul you dont fall in the thames if you look for it.
2 the seats in the house of commons are green, the same colour as westminster bridge, the closest bridge to the commons. whereas the seats in the house of lords are red, the same colour as lambeth bridge. 3 savoy court is the only road in london where you drive on the right 4 apsley house which is on hyde park corner is known as number one london 5 chelsea football club is in fulham not chelsea 6 there is only one road within the postcode w1, charing cross road. boxinthefox, i think the tower is actually queen elizabeth tower, not 100% though. |
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jollyswagman correct, it was renamed for the Diamond jubilee I believe, don't know the previous name without googling.
Apsley house was home to Arthur Wellesley, aka 1st Duke of Wellington. what a great address. |
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curiously those ghastly new apartments known as one hyde park are actually on knightsbridge. i know which one i would rather live in.
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I know the apartments but did not know that they had snaffled that address, Money talks, I suppose some/most are owned by absentee "investors" ?
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Bigmo, read the link, very good just like this fred.
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just read that link too. i once heard two people with links to the travelling community using a dialect i had never heard before or since. it always puzzled me, perhaps it was this. annoyingly i will never know for sure!
absentee investors indeed boxingthefox. there is a big development in vauxhall called st georges wharf, i read a report yesterday that said at night the lights are only on in about 20% of the entire plot, i know thats not scientific but its a sad state of affairs for sure, imo. |
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Yes a sad state indeed, .....if you ever hear a gay guy say to his friend "Vada the Package dear" (look at his bulge) run like hell.
 . Just to remind everyone my ex wife was a hairdresser and had many gay friends.That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Sorry Bigmo I will stop hijacking your fred now. |
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London is expanding and now contains parts of Kent, Surrey and Middlesex to name just 3 counties.
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Harry Nilsson owned a London Apartment in Mayfair, Mama Cass Elliott was staying there in 1974 & died in the apartment from a heart attack in July 1974, four years later Keith moon was staying in the same flat & died there in Sept 1978, Nilsson never stayed there again & sold the flat To Pete Townsend.
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the a smallest statue in london is a sculpture of two mice eating cheese. its halfway up a building on philpot lane. no one knows for sure how it got there.
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Is that off Eastcheap, Jolly?
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thats it ek, it runs from eastcheap to fenchurch st
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Aside from E1 the remaining East London postcodes, through to E18, are in alphabetical order; very few Londoners realise this.
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Polari was much used by Julian and Sandy in Round the Horn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZL4rTEWU5c In Brighton in the gay quarter is a restaurant called Bona Foodie. Bona being the polari word for "nice". |