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Obscure london places quiz - answer and ask

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    #91
    Originally posted by thunderlizard View Post
    The Suicide Bridge - anecdotally a popular place to lob yourself off, though I'm not sure how true that is.
    Yep, you got it. And I have seen the bridge cordoned off by police twice since I lived here.
    'Orwell's 1984 was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual'. -
    Nick Pickles, director of Big Brother Watch.

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      #92
      Ok, this one includes an area just on the edges of London:

      Name 2 places in or around London that George Michael has been found in lewd conduct?
      'Orwell's 1984 was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual'. -
      Nick Pickles, director of Big Brother Watch.

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        #93
        There must me some truth in it then. I expect part of its grim charm is the view it affords of the Archway Tower, that houses the offices of the DSS, CSA and various other government agencies that might have driven the suicidee* there in the first place.


        *or suicidant. Amounts to the same thing.

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          #94
          Originally posted by thunderlizard View Post
          There must me some truth in it then. I expect part of its grim charm is the view it affords of the Archway Tower, that houses the offices of the DSS, CSA and various other government agencies that might have driven the suicidee* there in the first place.


          *or suicidant. Amounts to the same thing.
          The council keep on asking how they can make Archway nicer, whilst conveniently ignoring the glaring answer to knock down the tower.

          There is a reason why the climb from Archway to Highgate is so steep though. It's to keep out Chavs and drunks

          But the reward for a would be suicide case who can make it up the hill to Suicide Bridge and over the high railings is death into the oncoming traffic of the Archway road.
          Last edited by SantaClaus; 6 July 2009, 16:57.
          'Orwell's 1984 was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual'. -
          Nick Pickles, director of Big Brother Watch.

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            #95
            Suicide bridge was actually a tunnel which collapsed due to poor engineering. So they dug it out as a big trench and built a bridge over the new chasm.

            Returning to the last question

            Name 2 places in or around London that George Michael has been found in lewd conduct?
            Hampstead Heath is one. LA is another but that's not really "around London".
            Cats are evil.

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              #96
              Originally posted by swamp View Post
              Suicide bridge was actually a tunnel which collapsed due to poor engineering. So they dug it out as a big trench and built a bridge over the new chasm.

              Returning to the last question



              Hampstead Heath is one. LA is another but that's not really "around London".
              He was found drug-driving around hyde park too (asleep at the wheel IIRC) too; not sure it's "lewd" though...
              "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "


              Thomas Jefferson

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                #97
                Originally posted by SantaClaus View Post
                Ok, this one includes an area just on the edges of London:

                Name 2 places in or around London that George Michael has been found in lewd conduct?
                Your back garden and Highgate public toilets !

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                  #98
                  Originally posted by eliquant View Post
                  Your back garden and Highgate public toilets !
                  Some partially correct answers.

                  It was the gay mens' bathing pond at Hampstead Heath and the public toilets opposite Elstree and Borehamwood Station.
                  'Orwell's 1984 was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual'. -
                  Nick Pickles, director of Big Brother Watch.

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                    #99
                    Originally posted by SantaClaus View Post
                    There is a reason why the climb from Archway to Highgate is so steep though. It's to keep out Chavs and drunks
                    Agreed. Archway is the devils a-hole. Some 'interesting' characters (usually demanding/asking for 20p?) assemble there late on weekend evenings.
                    King of Chutney.

                    Bring back Chetty - Lord of all things Chet!

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