London

[Blueberrypie]

Me and my friends' is going to London the coming weekend. It'll be a blast no doubt. :P We've got our arbitrary activities laid out and everything, which include a fancy Museum, a theatre and obscene amounts of shopping.

Thing is - we'll want to do more shit than this, and I'm fond of planning ahead. So, if you're been in the city and had a good time, shoot me a lil' suggestion on what to do there. Anything we would hate to miss out and what-not.

 

[George Beardsly]

If you hear of a person named Dave Brown or Zara Kane, stay far away. Very. Very. Far. Away.

 

[Veritas et Lux]

my boyfriend's name is london... heh... just go get hammered and push over a queen's guard ;D should be fun

edit: or just screw with a queen's guard :3

 

[Matt]

my boyfriend's name is london... heh... just go get hammered and push over a queen's guard ;D should be fun

edit: or just screw with a queen's guard :3

You do realize those men are Grenadier guards?

These are members of a regiment that fought at Waterloo.

Yeah, go **** with them.....:CAbove

Covent Garden is cool, lots of street performers and cool resturants with bars.

Well it's London, there are hundreds of things to do.

 

[Ols]

Tonnes of stuff to do in London, so it really depends what you're looking to do. Obviously your best areas for shopping are from Oxford Street (Selfridges etc), Regent Street and Knightsbridge (Harrods, Harvey Nichols etc). Loads of nice restaurants and bars around there. If you're going to the theatre I'm guessing you'll be in and around Shaftesbury Avenue? Worth checking out Soho while your there, aside from the sex shops, which I can't recommend given I've never been in one, there's lots of cool cafes, bars and shops around there. Likewise with Charlotte Square which is pretty much across Tottenham Court Road from Soho (and just down the street from all the shopping). If you want to see boho London, go to Camden where the markets are, it's an experience if you've got a couple of hours to spare (just don't eat any food from the market, there's plenty of good restaurants around there and those stalls have dodgy food). If you're interested in museums there's lots around London from the big ones like the Natural History, the Science Museum, the British Museum and even slightly smaller ones like the V and A. Go to the Tate galleries, both of them if you can, some of the stuff there is mindblowing. What are you going to see at the theatre?

 

[Matt]

Tonnes of stuff to do in London, so it really depends what you're looking to do. Obviously your best areas for shopping are from Oxford Street (Selfridges etc), Regent Street and Knightsbridge (Harrods, Harvey Nichols etc). Loads of nice restaurants and bars around there. If you're going to the theatre I'm guessing you'll be in and around Shaftesbury Avenue? Worth checking out Soho while your there, aside from the sex shops, which I can't recommend given I've never been in one, there's lots of cool cafes, bars and shops around there. Likewise with Charlotte Square which is pretty much across Tottenham Court Road from Soho (and just down the street from all the shopping). If you want to see boho London, go to Camden where the markets are, it's an experience if you've got a couple of hours to spare (just don't eat any food from the market, there's plenty of good restaurants around there and those stalls have dodgy food). If you're interested in museums there's lots around London from the big ones like the Natural History, the Science Museum, the British Museum and even slightly smaller ones like the V and A. Go to the Tate galleries, both of them if you can, some of the stuff there is mindblowing. What are you going to see at the theatre?

Lies.

 

[Ols]

Lies.

Yeah, I spend all my time checking out dusty dildos and rusty handcuffs in Soho...

 

[Sovereign]

London is expensive as *******************

 

[Malz]

Chips = Crisps
Cookies = Biscuits
Fries = Chips
Subway(transportation, not the sandwich place) = Tube

Learn these conversions and you'll be set. Oh, and remember to bring a converter for the outlets. Nothing is more stressful than knowing you only have a limited amount of DS time.

 

[Sovereign]

Pants=trousers

 

[Emma Lou]

Do the London Eye! Its a must must must! And go see the palace cause it's big and pretty. The Tower of London is great if you like History, which I do! I loved it.

 

[Jake]

Dick = wanker, teeth = wooden dentures

Can't believe SIN and Malz forgot these.

 

[Ols]

London is expensive as *******************

Living here, you barely notice it. And it means that when you go somewhere else you're like "a pint is only 2.50, how lovely!"

Chips = Crisps
Cookies = Biscuits
Fries = Chips
Subway(transportation, not the sandwich place) = Tube

Learn these conversions and you'll be set. Oh, and remember to bring a converter for the outlets. Nothing is more stressful than knowing you only have a limited amount of DS time.

There's not really good outlets in London. The shopping there is about the expensive department stores like Harrods and Selfridges. The outlet places are outside of London. And IIRC a dollar is about 60p at the minute.

Pants=trousers

And FYI we call underpants just 'pants'.

Do the London Eye! Its a must must must! And go see the palace cause it's big and pretty. The Tower of London is great if you like History, which I do! I loved it.

The London Eye has awesome views, definitely give it a go (I don't think you have to book it in advance any more...)

Dick = wanker, teeth = wooden dentures

Nope, mate. A wanker is an offensive word for (usually) a guy. It comes from the verb 'to wank' which means 'to masturbate'.

And I think I've asked this before but why do Americans seem to think we all have terrible dental hygiene? I genuinely don't get this stereotype...

 

[Sovereign]

Go to convent garden. Lots of great pubs. English chicks love americans.

 

[Keanu]

You do realize those men are Grenadier guards?

These are members of a regiment that fought at Waterloo.

Yeah, go **** with them.....:CAbove

Covent Garden is cool, lots of street performers and cool resturants with bars.

Well it's London, there are hundreds of things to do.

battle of waterloo
Date 18 June 1815

You what?

even then the battle of waterloo was no big deal. The allies outnumbered the french 2 to 1 almost.

3 to 1 if you count total army size of all the coalition combined

 

[Sovereign]

Napoleon>Wellington&Great Britain.

 

[Keanu]

Napoleon>Wellington&Great Britain.

This man knows his history

 

[Jake]

Nope, mate. A wanker is an offensive word for (usually) a guy. It comes from the verb 'to wank' which means 'to masturbate'.

And I think I've asked this before but why do Americans seem to think we all have terrible dental hygiene? I genuinely don't get this stereotype...

Calling someone a "dick" is an offensive word for a guy in America. :P

And I don't know why they apply it to British people, but the Polish genuinely do have horrible dental hygiene, if every Polish person I've ever met is anything to judge by and Polish people are surprisingly plentiful in Uruguay.

 

[Ols]

Go to convent garden. Lots of great pubs. English chicks love americans.

True that. There's an awesome real ale pub, I can't remember what it's caled, but it's just round the back of Neal Street in 7 dials (in Covent Garden...).

battle of waterloo
Date 18 June 1815

You what?

even then the battle of waterloo was no big deal. The allies outnumbered the french 2 to 1 almost.

3 to 1 if you count total army size of all the coalition combined

Yeah, the battle that pretty much ended the Napoleonic Wars was no biggie...

And the Grenadier Guards don't just have Battle Honours at Waterloo, they're one of the oldest reigments in the army and they've got honours from most of the major campaigns Britain has been involved in. The fact that they're the 1st infantry regiment in the Order of march means that theoretically they're the 'most important' infantry regiment of the British Army. Just as an aside...

 

[Ols]

Calling someone a "dick" is an offensive word for a guy in America. :P

And I don't know why they apply it to British people, but the Polish genuinely do have horrible dental hygiene, if every Polish person I've ever met is anything to judge by and Polish people are surprisingly plentiful in Uruguay.

Calling someone a dick is an offensive word for a guy here. But a wanker isn't a dick. In all fairness, in practical usage as an insult it's almost interchangeable with dick, but it's not one. It's a great word...

And I can't say I know many Polish people, I just don't know many (if any?) fellow Brits with particularly poor dental hygiene, and it seems quite a common and big thing for you guys when you refer to us.