London iPhone Queue

[EternalOptimist]

When we went we visited a greasy spoon recommend by NickFitz and there was a table of genuine Cockerknee builders behind us, it was like being in a film.

wow.

there is a greasy spoon next to Camden tube station, it's become an institution in our family.
could it be the same one ?

[d000hg]

You'd have to ask Nick. It was also near a rather nice pub he recommends, with hanging baskets.

[IR35FanClub]

And there was me thinking it was only the brits that liked to queue. Seems we have at least taught the rest of the world some manners.

There are massive variations in ethnic / national make up when you compare the cities to the shires and market towns. It seems most of the foreigners are city based, whereas the brits have all moved out. Is it students I wonder? The street im renting a flat in is made up of mostly overseas students. (who were not bought up knowing its rude to stand in the street shouting till 2am) Ignoreing the student visa debate... the universtities are located in major population areas and hence people come to study and then stay on for a few years, get some skills and then maybe heads home with a big bag of cash. Or often stay?

That and theres loads of tulipe jobs in cities like hotels and fast food and cleaning which the lazy workshy british dolites cant be bothered to do, but to someone from overseas £200/wk is the equivalent to 2 to 4 months salary back home. Seriously!

[Halo Jones]

Don't know if I am a rarity, but I actually visited London recently and met a 'Southern person'

It's true, they do look like real people, in fact it's hard to tell them apart
the give away is that they can't drink much, they just can't take their ale

poofs

Except for the orange ones, you can spot them a mile off

& darlink we don’t “do” ale it’s a fine wine down here

[vetran]

That and theres loads of tulipe jobs in cities like hotels and fast food and cleaning which the british dolites cant AFFORD to do, but to someone from overseas £200/wk is the equivalent to 2 to 4 months salary back home (which is where it will go plus any benefits they claim). Seriously the big multinationals can make even more offshore and pay even less UK tax

FTFY - £800 per month to keep your family? Give up benefits and earn 30% less. they are out of work not trying for sainthood. Using cheap foreign labour to undercut local labour costs then accuse the residents of being lazy is part one of the Globalisation playlist..

Edward Gibbon - The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, he describes how the Roman army became lax in discipline and exercise. "It is the just and important observation of Vegetius, that the infantry was invariably covered with defensive armor, from the foundation of the city to the reign of the emperor Gratian. The relaxation of discipline, and the disuse of exercise, rendered the soldiers less able, and less willing, to support the fatigues of the service; they complained of the weight of the armor, which they seldom wore: and they successively obtained the permission of laying aside both their cuirasses and their helmets.
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The cavalry of the Goths, the Huns, and the Alani, had felt the benefits, and adopted the use, of defensive armor; and, as they excelled in the management of missile weapons, they easily overwhelmed the naked and trembling legions, whose heads and breasts were exposed, without defence, to the arrows of the barbarians. The loss of armies, the destruction of cities, and the dishonor of the Roman name, ineffectually solicited the successors of Gratian to restore the helmets and cuirasses of the infantry. The enervated soldiers abandoned their own, and the public defence; and the pusillanimous indolence may be considered as the immediate cause of the downfall of the empire." (Vol. III, pp. 271-272).

To those suggesting its racist to post a picture is revealing and we should ignore the message it carries ,part of the reason for posting was to wonder what that message is.

[OwlHoot]

Both taken in Covent Garden, not Southall

Hmmm, may well be. But there's a big shopping emporium in Mile End Road that looks very similar.

[sasguru]

maybe it's this lot

We should be glad - the economy is fooked as it is.

[doomage]

To those suggesting its racist to post a picture is revealing and we should ignore the message it carries ,part of the reason for posting was to wonder what that message is.

I thought it was implying that only asians like iPhones. This cannot be true, surely idiots of many different races and colours will fall for the Apple BS.

[d000hg]

That and theres loads of tulipe jobs in cities like hotels and fast food and cleaning which the lazy workshy british dolites cant be bothered to do, but to someone from overseas £200/wk is the equivalent to 2 to 4 months salary back home. Seriously!

FTFY

If they can afford to do it AND send money home, locals can afford it too - they are entitled to the same benefits to top up low income, etc.

To those suggesting its racist to post a picture is revealing and we should ignore the message it carries ,part of the reason for posting was to wonder what that message is.

As I said, it's xenophobic rather than racist. The fact London is highly multi-cultural is not exactly news, surely 20 years ago it was already full of foreign people doing the cleaning and such?

[sasguru]

FTFY - £800 per month to keep your family? Give up benefits and earn 30% less. they are out of work not trying for sainthood. Using cheap foreign labour to undercut local labour costs then accuse the residents of being lazy is part one of the Globalisation playlist..



To those suggesting its racist to post a picture is revealing and we should ignore the message it carries ,part of the reason for posting was to wonder what that message is.

Oh and you're a cretin for not considering that they are most likely tourists who are queueing because the I-phone won't be released back where they come from for a while.