stroppycow - @ 20six.co.uk

How much of a Londoner have I become?

Via Annie
Mole

You say "the City" and expect everyone to know which
one.- I say I'm going "into town". Does that count? If I say
city I mean the Square Mile. 1/2point?
You have never been to The Tower of London or Madame Tussauds
but love Brighton. -Went to the Tower of London and Madame
Tussauds long before I ever lived in London and am not particularly
fond of Brighton. Nul point.
You can get into a four-hour argument about how to get from
Shepherds
Bush to Elephant & Castle at 3:30 on the Friday before a long
weekend, but can't find Dorset on a map.- Can win the argument
in less than 4 hours and can find Dorset on a map. Oh dear, not doing
so well, nul point
Hookers and the homeless are invisible.- Hookers and
homeless people? In London? really? Can't say I ever noticed. 1 point

You step over people who collapse on the Tube.- Are
you nuts? I don't step over them they might grab/hit/project bodily
fluids, I side step instead. Seriously I don't, I do tend to stop and
check, but it's only happened a couple of times, nul points again I
guess
You believe that being able to swear at people in their own
language makes you multilingual.- 1 point
You've considered stabbing someone.- Hasn't everybody? 1 point
Your door has more than three locks.- not scoring again
You consider eye contact an act of overt aggression.
- It IS an act of overt aggression, why else would I use it when I
cycle to stop motorists from cutting me up? 1 point
You call an 8' x 10' plot of patchy grass a garden.-
I'm lucky my garden is bigger than that but yes, if something grows in
it and it's big enough to sit down it's a garden. 1 point
You consider Essex the "countryside". - Don't know what I consider Essex. 0 points
You think Hyde Park is "nature".- Yes, it's nature
without the bad bits (spot the born and bred townie). I feel slightly
sorry for all the people who live in the countryside and are missing
out on all Hyde Park has to offer. 1 point
You're paying £1,200 a month for a studio the size of a
walk-in wardrobe and you think it's a "bargain".- No, I have a
crippling mortgage, but it's still a bargain for what I get.
1/2point?
Shopping in suburban supermarkets and shopping malls gives
you a severe attack of agoraphobia. I can handle it. 0points

You pay more each month to park your car than most people in
the UK pay in rent.- I don't use my car much, I use the tube
instead. 0 points
You pay £3 without blinking for a beer that cost the bar 28p.Guilty as charged. 1 point
You actually take fashion seriously.- I shop in
Primark and I am still wearing some clothes I bought over 5 years ago
so I expect I fail on that one too. 0 points
You have 27 different take-away menus next to your telephone.- more like half a dozen. 1/2 point?
The UK west of Heathrow is still theoretical to you.- I know it exists. 0 points
You're suspicious of strangers who are actually nice to you.- yes. 1 point.
Your idea of personal space is no one actually physically standing on you.- yep. 1 point.
£50 worth of groceries fit in one plastic bag.- no, I am way too stingy for that, 0 points
You have a minimum of five "worst cab ride ever"
stories. - I have only used a cab 3 times, so I only have 3
"worst cab ride ever" stories :-). 0 points
You don't hear sirens anymore.- Full marks here at last - 1 point
You've mentally blocked out all thoughts of the city's
air/water quality and what it's doing to your insides. - What
do you mean bogies aren't meant to be black? - 1 point
You live in a building with a larger population than most towns. - 0 points
Your cleaner is Portugese, your grocer is Somali, your
butcher is
Halal, your deli man is Israeli, your landlord is Italian, your laundry
guy is Philippino, your bartender is Australian, your favourite diner
owner is Greek, the watch seller on your corner is Senegalese, your
last cabbie was African, your newsagent is Indian and your local
English chippie owner is Turkish. - don't have a cleaner or a
landlors but used the halal butcher until it closed down a few months
ago, corner shop and grocer are Indian, fish shop owner is Greek etc...
1 point
You wouldn't want to live anywhere else until you get
married.- Wouldn't want t live anywhere else full stop. 1
point
You roll your eyes and say 'tsk' at the news that someone has
thrown themselves under a tube train. - Admitting with some
degree of shame having uttered "plonker" at such announcements, yes.
It's a very inconsiderate way to kill oneself. 1 point
Your day is ruined if you don't get a copy of Metro on the
way to work. - Nope can always pick up a discarded copy later
on the way home. 0 points

15 and 1/2 points. There's hope for me yet.

3.9.05 17:46

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(4.9.05 09:50)
I'll have you know that "The City" refers to San Francisco!
xoxo, BBR

Annie - London Underground Blo / Website (4.9.05 10:26)
Re clothes and fashion - I've realised that I have items of clothing that are the same age or older than a lot of the people on Thursday's tube challenge.

(4.9.05 11:10)
Is it realy Rosita? You must be mistaken :-)
Annie - I have had my lace up boots for 15 years so they are older than Johnny Lyon and one of my comfort jumpers is 20 years old (and falling to bits admitedly). I think Him Indoors has managed to make me let go of the oldest piece of clothing in my wardrobe recently - a top which my dad bought me when I was 14. Since Geoff was horrified to find out a skirt I was wearing the other day was 5 years old I wonder what he would make of that.

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