Things you see in London

Ubbquittious

In a similar vein to this thread: https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057844766


I used to spend a good bit of time there but in recent years not so much and I have delved deeper into the countryside in the meantime making the contrast altogether more stark.

*Free wifi in most places once you register, fill in a lengthy form of personal details, sign away your right to God knows what and then you get disconnected every few minutes. The base station a few meters down the road will belong to a different provider with his own lengthy registration rigmarole.

*Some poor sap with his bike and a big ugly cumbersome "uber eats" box on the pavement trying to fix a puncture in a mad rush so he can make it to the next customer on time so the rich fatcat who owns uber eats can get richer in altogether more comfortable circumstances

*A jumped up little sh1t wearing a pair of airpods and a fifty quid t-shirt thinking he's the bees knees.

*Pubs everywhere that have rows of little tables almost like a restaurant so they are set up to cater for little groups of friends rather as opposed to how most Irish pubs are laid out

*Boris this, Boris that, Boris the next thing

*An auld dullard wearing a suit waltzing in through the door of some hipster joint full of chungwans where he looks completely out of place.

*Ads everywhere trying to sell you consumer electronic gadgets that will be on the landfill next year. Everyone there seems to loves throwing their disposable income at this kind of thing.

*Girlies in their 20's and 30's absolutely everywhere all hours of the day. If you're ever in some depressing town or village in the world with no women, this is where they have gone.

*A pub that doesn't accept cash. This is all sorts of wrong, next they'll be telling you to cup your hands to pour the pint in because glass is dangerous and single use plastic bad

*Someone who actually bought that massively expensive iphone they released not so long ago.

*A few uncooth Americans who'se only fixation is whether or not the burlesque singer is going to "get her tits out"

*A box along the street where you can get rid of unwanted weapons, you know if you have been stabbing and mugging for a living and want a career change.

*Dreamers with their laptops out in cafes thinking they'll make it big in the art world but will instead end up with a menial admin job writing documents nobody will ever read.




Don't take the wrong way though, still had a mighty weekend and would recommend it to anyone