The "I Hate London" Thread - Get it off your chests

[eddyk]

Fecking hell....what was supposed to me a comedic thread turned into idiotic Brit bashing...

"its 20th century art and architecture is utter crap"
"The city is just not so interesting."
"Without London, Britain would be nothing"

and these people were being serious...and stupid

[Citrus-Fruit]

Originally Posted by I'mBack

I hate London because whenever I went there, I kept meeting people like the ones I meet in this forum

Really London, Ontario - Because you havent been to the London we are talking about.

[Citrus-Fruit]

I hate London because it made me leave

Plus at Cafe Nero, my chocolate cake was landed on by a Wasp and I hate wasps, so I had to buy another one.

[I'mBack]

Originally Posted by Citrus-Fruit

Really London, Ontario - Because you havent been to the London we are talking about.

You see what I mean. You are one of the forumers I was talking about

I fail to see the spate of great 20th century buildings I must have missed my last eight visits.

[GM]

I hate London because once I was there, and I went to a French bakery in order to feel again some good old home sensations. I asked for a "pain au chocolat", and first, it costed 1,5 pound (three times more expensive than in France), and second, they served it to me with a knife and a fork...
Weird city where everything has a prohibitive cost and where you can't even eat a "pain au chocolat" with your hands...

[Zaqattaq]

Originally Posted by eddyk

Fecking hell....what was supposed to me a comedic thread turned into idiotic Brit bashing...

"its 20th century art and architecture is utter crap"
"The city is just not so interesting."
"Without London, Britain would be nothing"

and these people were being serious...and stupid

I will not allow the bashing of the finest nation in the world aside from Germany



Long Live the Queen!

[eddyk]

Originally Posted by Flatiron

I fail to see the spate of great 20th century buildings I must have missed my last eight visits.

Hate the place so much yet been there 8 times....


Show us your idea of a great 20th century building?

[DetoX]

I have never seen you post a reply which doesnt correct someone on thier spelling or grammar - This is a Skyscraper forum not a bloomin English literature one - Now stop being so boring and ponse OFF somewhere else

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Agree - this is just international forum - this fellow should try to write in some other language - then he will realize the problem.

TWA Terminal
Guggenheim Museum
Whitney Museum
Seagram Building
Lever House
Union Carbide
Chrysler Building
Rockerfeller Center
Empire State Building
George Washington Bridge
CBS Headquarters (Black Rock)
MoMA
Grand Central Station (1905--1912)
Flatiron Building (1902-3)
Woolworth Building
Olivatt Building
555 Fifth Avenue
Chanin Building
Daily News Building
The Majestic Apartments
United Nations
Butterfield House
The Beekman Place Tower
City Hall Annex
Two Park Avenue
Chase Manhattan Plaza
One Wall Street
Plus arguably the world's greatest collection of Art Deco.

That's just New York, mind. Some would argue that Chicago is much, much better.

You do, however, have the big circus tent and the insurance company with all the sewage pipes on the outside. Nicely played.

Also I think I said I didn't "hate" the place--I just don't care for it. So it's true what they say about contemporary British schooling and its effects on reading comprehension?

[eddyk]

Troll

and also...

Proved the fact you have never been to London

Why? Are all the buildings I mentioned actually located opposite Buckingham Palace?

I think not.

Quite frankly, my opinion is that after 1900 there wasn't much of interest built in London. Sorry.

[eddyk]

Why? Are all the buildings I mentioned actually located opposite Buckingham Palace?

You what?

after 1900 there wasnt much built in London....heck after 1900 thats when most things were built....a lot of rebuilding after the war you know

Whether a lot of things were built or a few doesn't make much difference. I don't think much of what WAS built after 1900 is very interesting. You are free to give me your own list of post 1900 marvels, however. I'll even start you off:

The little ramp for the penguins
The big glass pickle
The tent thing
The ferris wheel
The library that looks like a WalMart
The concrete tower blocks designed, it would seem, to shield St. Paul's from the evil glare of, well, anybody who wanted an unobstructed view of the thing.

[eddyk]

Your right because there are no concrete blocks in NY

Your ignorance on London amazes me...yet you claim to have been there 8 times








































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I just copied and pasted the links from another thread of mine and cant be arsed to go through them....yet most pics are of buildings built in the 1900s

[eddyk]

[kids]

Londons the greatest city on earth, whats not to like?? it's the most varied city, the most beatiful large city - amazing.

It's nothing compared to your ignorance--and you appear to live there.

Oddly enough, the two best 20th century buildings in your first thread are both by American architects--Selfridges by D.H. Burnham & Co. and the black and gold Art Deco building by Raymond Hood--very nice! Sorry, the rather dicey array of lets-play-catch-up in the second thread doesn't much impress me.

[eddyk]

You're not really good at this whole "debating the facts" thing, are you?