Originally Posted by Fluffy Kittens

That was a great post.

Originally Posted by GuitarBizarre

Generally speaking, within Britain Londoners are seen as a bit of an anomaly. There's a peculiar insularity about the area that leads to a few common (Not universal, but certainly common) traits and assumptions.

Most particularly, because London is so large, but so dense towards the center, Londoners in my experience can lack certain perspectives. The most obvious example is that while someone from Manchester or Sheffield would never commonly ring a company up and blindly assume they're speaking to someone local, who knows the area. Londoners will do that a lot. I'll get a phone call from a London area at work and people will ask me to give them directions to very specific places in London, referencing landmarks and street names immediately, before I even get a chance to tell them I've no idea where they're talking from, or indeed about. People from local towns and such will also define their location by a distance from London, or by their proximity to a side of London.

I've also had friends who've lived in London for extended periods tell me that in London the attitude that they've ended up having to take towards things like walking along a busy street, is to practically consider other people dangerous. Not make eye contact, to withdraw into your personal bubble as much as possible to avoid confrontation or interaction with other people. Now obviously I don't think any big city is really going to make you feel welcome and befriended on the street, but London was described to me as peculiarly so.

I'm sure there are other aspects of London that are bizarre too. Its simply so much bigger than anywhere else in the UK that it kind of makes its own set of social rules that don't apply anywhere else.

Originally Posted by eraser.time206

If you can't deal with the fact that there are 6+ billion people in the world and none of them think exactly the same that's not my problem. Just deal with it yourself or make actual conversation. This isn't a court and I'm not some poet or prophet that needs everything I say to be analytically critiqued.

Originally Posted by LoathsomePete

I definitely got the sense when I was in London that if I fell down of a heart attack, people would just step over me. People just kind of seemed to go about their business in their own way and only ever interacted with people when they absolutely had to.

Originally Posted by eraser.time206

If you can't deal with the fact that there are 6+ billion people in the world and none of them think exactly the same that's not my problem. Just deal with it yourself or make actual conversation. This isn't a court and I'm not some poet or prophet that needs everything I say to be analytically critiqued.

Originally Posted by Fluffy Kittens

One of the traits I have noticed in Londoners (might as well seeing as that's what we're discussing), is their lack of desire to explore outside of their home city. Now obviously this won't apply to all Londoners and London is a great place, but there does seem to be the opinion with Londoners that London = everything and anywhere outside of London in the UK = farms and coal miners (crude way to put it.)

The women I have met always seem to be impeccably groomed but scared to have fun for fear of breaking a nail. I have spent a lot of time in Manchester and other places up north and in comparison the people are much warmer (encountered a few Liam Gallagher-esque Mancs actually but generally they are nice people.)

Originally Posted by eraser.time206

If you can't deal with the fact that there are 6+ billion people in the world and none of them think exactly the same that's not my problem. Just deal with it yourself or make actual conversation. This isn't a court and I'm not some poet or prophet that needs everything I say to be analytically critiqued.

Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

As far as I'm concerned, anything north of Luton is a friggin up north and I have no desire to get all warm and cozy with northerners either.

Don't much care for rural folk either, with their farmyard accents and strange ways.

Greetings from London.

Originally Posted by Pedestrian

As for me, my inbox is as of yet testicle-free, and hopefully remains that way. Don't the rest of you get any ideas.

Originally Posted by Trollheart

I'll have you know, my ancestors were Kings of Wicklow! We're as Irish as losing a three-nil lead in a must-win fixture!

Originally Posted by GuitarBizarre

The oop north and daahn saath divide in action folks.

Originally Posted by eraser.time206

If you can't deal with the fact that there are 6+ billion people in the world and none of them think exactly the same that's not my problem. Just deal with it yourself or make actual conversation. This isn't a court and I'm not some poet or prophet that needs everything I say to be analytically critiqued.

Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

As far as I'm concerned, anything north of Luton is a friggin up north