A Northerners Journey Into The Big Smoke

[BigSilverEstate]

Edit: tube I mean!

 

[MOCAŠ]

It's also on the tube and London bus networks. London I reckon, postcodes notwithstanding.

Nah, markjay's right - it's still mainly in the HA postcode area.

 

[markjay]

I was being generous by suggesting the post codes as yardstick - traditionalists would narrow it down to 071.

 

[MOCAŠ]

I was being generous by suggesting the post codes as yardstick - traditionalists would narrow it down to 071.

071 (now broadly-speaking 0207) is a reasonable yardstick, but a true traditionalist would use the old Director codes to sort the Parks and Flaxmans from the Dukes and Renowns.

 

[Beno]

SPX please don't judge all us southerners on your resent visit that gesture you recived is just a jaunty "Hello" and welcome to London, Rest assured some of us some of us are proper a*seholes

 

[brucemillar]

SPX please don't judge all us southerners on your resent visit that gesture you recived is just a jaunty "Hello" and welcome to London, Rest assured some of us some of us are proper a*seholes

Agreed.

Lot's people wave like this when they spot a Banker or a Tanker on their travels. I can only guess that those behind you made an assumption about your chosen profession. Unless they mistook the ferrets in your underpants as some other kind of gesture on your part?

 

[BigSilverEstate]

Unless they mistook the ferrets in your underpants as some other kind of gesture on your part?

Great edit. Well worth the trouble ;-)

 

[Druk]

It'll fit right in. This is mine last year in Grenville Street:

Nobody noticed us...

Did you use one of the Boris bikes to get to the kerb?

 

[bpsorrel]

If it's inside the ring of death (M25) it's London as far as I'm concerned, guvnor.

I bought the car in Wembley, is that still not proper Landan?

Well, my Dad who lives there will definitely say it IS in London, but we all know the truth, if it doesn't have a "London" post code, it aint London!

Funnily enough I rarely use J4 when I go back down the M1 to visit him (and all my clients) but take the seemingly daft route of right down to J1 Staples Corner and then casually saunter along the NCR (A406) to Hanger Lane and then along Ealing Road, stopping only to enjoy the views of McDonalds and Currys before ending up in good ol' Wembley.

The hand jesture you mentioned is actually a signal to people who formerly lived there (like me) and is a kind of "welcome back". Maybe they assumed you also were a returning ex-Londoner?

 

[BigSilverEstate]

I thought it was just gangsters and estate agents who based their system of geography on postcode areas!

 

[MOCAŠ]

I thought it was just gangsters and estate agents who based their system of geography on postcode areas!

What about the Post Office?!

 

[Deleted member 37751]

Agreed.

Lot's people wave like this when they spot a Banker or a Tanker on their travels. I can only guess that those behind you made an assumption about your chosen profession. Unless they mistook the ferrets in your underpants as some other kind of gesture on your part?

We went down on the horse and trap, so I didn't take the ferrets because they don't travel well.

 

[Deleted member 37751]

Maybe they assumed you also were a returning ex-Londoner?

Once they witnessed me use my indicators and show some road manners, they could smell my northern blood.

 

[brucemillar]

I will assume that by Horse & Trap you have not started using Cockney Rhyming Slang.

 

[MOCAŠ]

Once they witnessed me use my indicators and show some road manners, they could smell my northern blood.

Are you sure it was your blood they could smell?

 

[Deleted member 37751]

I will assume that by Horse & Trap you have not started using Cockney Rhyming Slang.

No, I wasn't there long enough to pick up the lingo.

I didn't manage to see Hampton Wick, but there seemed to be a lot of their natives on the road.

 

[Deleted member 37751]

Are you sure it was your blood they could smell?

I think so, my grandad always told us children stories of how London and the south east sucks the blood and life out of the north.

Are you saying that he meant it metophorically and not literally?

 

[nick mercedes]

We went down on the horse and trap, so I didn't take the ferrets because they don't travel well.

Did you bring back much lead or cats as well as the new shape (for Donny) Mercedes?

 

[renault12ts]

Did you bring back much lead or cats as well as the new shape (for Donny) Mercedes?

When wishing to make a quick exit from London it's best not to weigh down the boot with all that stuff.

 

[Deleted member 37751]

Did you bring back much lead or cats

No, we actually took a roll of lead down to donate to these poor people.

Please help them, every pound you donate goes towards giving these people clean water wells.