Having lived in London for a insanely short time I am not able to give a definitive view on whether or not it's a supremely great place to live, full of cool people and essentially like a big city version of the scene Paolo Nutini awakes to in his overexcited tribute to his fucking new shoes. But any claim that London is the coolest city in the world must surely be tempered by the fact it's the capital of the UK. It's like a talent scout discovering the next Beatles but then finding out this band refuse to speak any known language and will only do gigs in Badger sets. In other words London cant be cool until the UK, all of it is aswell. Which it never will be.
The UK if it were a person would be the sort of human being that would offer you a lift somewhere then as you take your place in the passenger seat and prepare to go the UK would suddely remember it left the cat in a bag or left the toilet seat up and run back in to right the situation. It would then come back out and spend the next 4 hours adjusting its seat before turning to you and tellng you it in fact does not have a driving license in a pathetic sheepish manner.
Londoner- Yeah but like I am cool and my friends are cool so like Londons cool so like we are cool.
No your a dick head
Londoner-But we get to see like all he bands first like this week me and a mate saw The Butchers Clitoris and Roll Over Fuckhead or ROF, they are gonna be big man
No they wont and your still a dickhead
Londoner-Whatever man I am busy.
Its not some wonder city where everyones waiting to be a star. Where even lollipop men take drugs with Pete Docherty. It just a city thats big...same as anywhere no magic properties and you just go about your business there wherther that be banking or glue sniffing.
Its easy to be cynical about London. Its a big city lots of good stuff, lots of crap but 99 per cent of the people who live there rarely do anything out the ordinary, mostly stay in the area they live in and hang about with the same old people like we all do. Because thats what Brits do and London is very much part of the UK
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