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London 1967 in crystal clear colour.
London 1967 in crystal clear colour.
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you don't get to be a great city just by saying you are a great city as johnny mustang seems to believe
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After world war 1 and the Spanish flu the world population was under 2 billion,now it is heading towards 8 billion this is a problem.
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Yes it is G. The elite want to maintain 500 million population, so all this recent movement of populations is part of their master plans to lower the pop?
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take me back daddy-o
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The politicians have certainly turned London into a far worse place than it was 50 years ago. And for what?
All delivered by the two party system for people who think they live in a democratic state. |
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Blair as ever
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mind you he was under orders to do it,he"s not that bright too be fair
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Agree with Johnny Mustang. London is comfortably the best City in the world for so many reasons.
The best City in the world for sporting events. The best city in the world for gigs. The best City in the world for variety of quality restaurants. The best City in the world for wine. The best City in the world for theatre. A world City with wonderful people from all over the globe. It's a City for bright progressive people from everywhere. |
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it's that word 'progressive' popping up again that makes me shudder. Like the invaders of that cafe.
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Johnny_Mustang • January 31, 2018 9:12 AM GMT.....
And yet it was the second-highest most visited city in the world last year. 20 million international visitors can't all be wrong.' The problem is Johnny, that lots of them have stayed here and disappeard , especially the ones from 3rd world countries. |
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A world City with wonderful people from all over the globe.
It's a City for bright progressive people from everywhere. Here we can even see a few of them in action, bringing their 'progressive' contribution and cultural enrichment to 'pale, stale, male' London. Remember, our country "couldn't function" without such types. . http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5332739/The-middle-class-mob-stormed-Churchill-cafe.html |
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Bless their little cotton socks, they brought neatly typed scripts to read out. I bet their mothers' are 'so proud' of their little cherubs. Ahh!
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It's a City for bright progressive people from everywhere.
I'm surprised to see these wonderful progressives are doing so much thieving stabbing and shooting tbh. |
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progressives = immigration = globalist
strange bedfellows - progressives and globalists |
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Don't worry chaps you'll be safe in your bunkers many miles from that terrible place.
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I fkn won't
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Aside from London being the greatest city in the world, how about showing some respect and gratitude? A report from the Centre for Economics and Business Research showed that one pound in every five earned by Londoners is used to fund the rest of the country. So shut it you mugs.
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and they get £28 a head towards transport compared to £1 in Yorks I think.
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Original post with link has disappeared!
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Imagine being so incensed
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It's not 'colourful' enough for some - fences being scattered everywhere
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they are now ha ha
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Brilliant, enjoyed that Kenny.
Was a great time to be a teenager. |
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Just had another look at that riveting film of London in the Summer of 1967.
Wonderful to see so many beautiful young women walking through London’s streets so confidently, in skirts ending several inches above the knee. All at perfect ease with themselves. Never for a moment would they have to endure hostile scrutiny from the squalid Sharia Patrols that their grand-daughters would routinely face less than 50 years later. Stylishly dressed young men and women that actually looked like young men and young women. Never for a moment being put under pressure to be anything other than young men and young women. Never entertaining for one moment the ludicrous notion that there might be more than two genders. Aspiration and healthy complexions appear to be everywhere, and mercifully the traffic appears to be elsewhere. At 2:41 we see the Lord John Boutique, and the psychedelic mural above it. For those of you who may not know, that mural was a great (ahem) ‘influence’ on the design of the mural that eventually graced the catastrophic Beatles ‘Apple’ Boutique which opened later in 1967. Did any Chit Chatter ever visit that fabled Beatles endeavour, or even ‘Bibi’ ? Sadly I missed them both by a few years. At around 6:00 we see some street traders making plentiful use of the Union Jack on their stall. Later self-imagined ‘progressive’ generations would view this as dangerously anachronistic, pretending it was both offensive and of course 'WAAAAAAAAAYYYYYCIST". Swinging London at its very apex? Certainly the influence of The Beatles and ‘Sgt Pepper’ can be witnessed regularly throughout this little gem of a film. |
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Looked to me like a bunch of hippie Marxist post modernist types to me..
... you know the types that are now in powerful positions and intent on fluckin' this country up |
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Still no explanation by anyone as to why London should be considered a great city?
lets take a look at the attempt, however laughable, by asparagus: 1 The best city in the world for sporting events what would they be then ? last time I looked the Isle of Man and Manx grand prix ran every year in the IoM, and the North West 200 motorbike road race in N.Ireland not London 2 Quality restuarants? I suppose anythings possible, I don't feel comfortable in quality restuarants, even a new jacket makes me feel uncomfortable 3.best city in the world for wine? I prefer the Czech Republic where beer is cheaper than water 4.best in the world for theatre? any new plays that coukld be recommended? or musicals that come to mind, you know` with new`songs written for the musical and not just songs that have existed for decades and cobbled together and sung on stage 5 missed out best city for gigs, well there are bands in every city in the country and just as in London when they manage to write a great new` songs I am sure we will all have heard of them and get the chance to see them, then of course the people, yes well they are not much different from people all over the world, that's not necessarily a good thing |
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Probably need to be on a hundred bags a year to enjoy that list.
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I'd say London is pretty much the worst city in the world for gigs.
1) Ticket touts corner the market. 2) Prices for refreshments at places like the O2 are outrageous, screw-top champagne etc..awful quality. 3) The police always make sure the encores are kept to a minimum and the crowd is dispersed early. 4) Hyde Park shouldn't be used for concerts. It's flat ground. 5) There's nowhere for a crowd to go afterwards, central London locks down early. |
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Best city in the world for soot-laden bogeys.
The art galleries are good, probably the best in the UK. "best city in the world for wine"?  wtf's all that about as if it mattered. |
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mecca 31 Jan 18 23:46 Joined: 04 Apr 11 | Topic/replies: 5,084 | Blogger: mecca's blog
Looked to me like a bunch of hippie Marxist post modernist types to me.. ... you know the types that are now in powerful positions and intent on fluckin' this country up That's exactly what I thought watching it. Anything you don't like about London fifty years on, it's those very people in the film who are responsible for it. |
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you see that beautiful world that they enjoyed was not created by them, it was given to them by the previous generation who had gone through the war and hardships
Where they grateful? no, no one likes to be thankful |
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They were living in a country and were a generation that was more free more prosperous,and had more opportunities than any generation in any country in the history of the world.
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Sporting events - Wembley stadium, Wimbledon, Twickenham, Lords, Ally Pally, a number of premiership teams, Sandown Park, the greatest Olympics ever, World athletics championships etc etc. More quality events than any other City.
Gigs. More great bands play London than any other City in the world. Great venues include Brixton, Hammersmith, Royal Albert Hall etc. Quality wine from all over the world. Restaurants. A world city = great restaurants of every cuisine. Theatre. Loads of great plays new and old every year. Brilliant actors lining up to perform in the West End. In addition to this many great museums, galleriesetc to visit which are free. Basically if you want culture and entertainment London is the place to be. If you want cheap beer and don't like going to good restaurants then maybe it's not for you. I couldn't possibly consider living in another City in the UK. Nowhere else comes anywhere close. |
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London is NOW a $hithole ruined mainly by our ""come one come all policy" but mainly by Tony Blair and the Labour government.
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ah yes asparagus Wembley stadium, that's football. we have that covered in other cities thanks
Wimbledon, fair enough have never been but would be tempted, maybe once, so what? Rugby? they play that in Wales and Scotland and Ireland also the Olympics? I saw a couple of events in 2012, very good wont bother again if the chance arises in 20 years time Theatre, well what do you recommend I am sure if there was anything particularly good I might have heard Sandown park can be visited more easily from many other parts of the country rather than London great bands that play London? possibly but they are not from London that is the point, you see a great city does great things and creates great bands. Its easy to see them if you wish great museums and art galleries, well actually they have some quite good museums and art galleries I like art and have visited them, I get very tired in museums does expensive wine suit you that's good, I like cheap beer so there might be culture in London, but it is all museums, not being produced now they might have good plays and musicals and bands but they are not being produced now and haven't been for decades If they have put a name to this culture, who are the great painters, who are the great playwrights, who are the great musicians , I don't know and anyone can go and see them |
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you missed wentworth, I like that. But I like turnberry more
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I didn't mind London too much 30 years ago, when I had to live there for job reasons. There was enough history and ongoing, contemporary life in those streets that you could entertain yourself just walking through them - not to the extent of somewhere like Vienna, for instance - too dirty, crumbling and bereft of any sense of importance for that, but still a decent place to explore.
But a year or two ago I had the misfortune to have to walk north one Sunday afternoon from Clapham Junction to my mate's house in Battersea. Good God, it was like being transported back to the 1960s Slough in which I grew up - sad-faced immigrants shuffling aimlessly and morosely around the smelly burger bars and mini-marts in which they they earned a few bob without the authorities twigging. I mean, if you are someone just trying to get a foothold in this country, get things moving, and understandably don't therefore give a stuff about your surroundings, then I can see how London would attract you in the same way Slough did 50 years ago. But other people are borrowing 7-figure sums to live in badly maintained terraces in exactly the same streets. Why on earth...? Because of the chance to spend hours standing on the tube to see Lady Gaga at the O2? |
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Is not the 15/20 million visiters a year those coming over to visit relatives and use the Nhs
And when you reach 60 you get free travel anywhere in London payed for by guess who everybody but only the few get it while us outside of the greatest city in the world lose our bus services and train services for the pleasure All this globalism will lead to the culling of the human race bar the elite as robots do all the work the general dogsbody and the drain on resourses will not be required anymore And now for something completely different and uplifting(not really lol) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdSqLfuRN18 |
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Wimbledon shuts at 23.00 hours i think ,just like the Aussie open Ifc1971
which goes on till whenever. |
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My experience mirrors yours Screaming. I went to work in London almost 50 years ago and lived in the Richmond/Twickenham area for three years. Had a great time although I had to live in pokey attic room bedsits, it was all I could afford.
Recently, I've been to central London a couple of times with different visiting relatives from the USA and was shocked by how grotty and run down it has become. On Oxford street you can hardly breathe for the fumes and here and there people were queuing to eat in cramped basements. Went on one of the hop on, hop off bus tours and felt embarrassed for my guests at what we were seeing, but not to worry, luckily it was all new and different for them seeing some of the iconic sites for the first time. As for me, I never want to go there again. |