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Things we hate in Central London

edited August 2009 in Not Sports Related
Free paper distributors - London Lite, City AM etc. Feck off, I dont want your free paper so don't thrust it at me or chase me across the pavement. How the feck any of them get so excited about dishing out free papers is beyond me. The City AM bloke outside Cannon St station is especially annoying.

Cyclists! Been done to death on here but the red light runners and those cycling down the wrong side of traffic islands.

'Charity' reps... posh students trying to smart talk their way into some commission.

People walking whilst reading a book or looking/typing on their Blackberry etc.

Any others?
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  • Tourists !
  • Market researchers with clipboards in the street who won't take a polite no thank you for an answer.

    I don't want to be rude to you but sometimes you leave me no alternative.......
  • ShootersHill Rd today how the f**k this cyclist is alive i`ll never know. Was waiting at a red light with a bus turning across me all other lights red. This cyclist comes through the red light across front of bus who has to do emergancy stop. Must have missed squashing the prat by inches. It was one of those motoring moments when you say out loud "f**kin hell".
  • [cite]Posted By: Goonerhater[/cite]ShootersHill Rd today how the f**k this cyclist is alive i`ll never know. Was waiting at a red light with a bus turning across me all other lights red. This cyclist comes through the red light across front of bus who has to do emergancy stop. Must have missed squashing the prat by inches. It was one of those motoring moments when you say out loud "f**kin hell".

    Probably a poster on here, GH.

    ;o)
  • True Oggy , no worries tho im reporting the bus driver for stopping !
  • East Europeans who can't pull a proper pint.
  • [cite]Posted By: Medders[/cite]Free paper distributors - London Lite, City AM etc. Feck off, I dont want your free paper so don't thrust it at me or chase me across the pavement. How the feck any of them get so excited about dishing out free papers is beyond me. The City AM bloke outside Cannon St station is especially annoying.

    Cyclists! Been done to death on here but the red light runners and those cycling down the wrong side of traffic islands.

    'Charity' reps... posh students trying to smart talk their way into some commission.

    People walking whilst reading a book or looking/typing on their Blackberry etc.

    Any others?
    That's four pretty annoying groups!

    I'd add people that, when crossing a busy road, do so diagonally and carelessly cut in front of others trying to reach the safety of the other side.
    Tourists who stand in large groups in the middle of the road/tops of staircases/at the entrances to tube platforms
    Studenty types sitting on staircases.
    People who run for trains that aren't going for 5 minutes
  • People who moan about the greatest city in the world especially when citing examples that have nothing to do with being in Central London : - )
  • Big Issue sellers from Rominia /Bugaria etc etc

    The charity muggers/callers/stoppers down the Strand, but the time you get to the end and passed 20 on the journey its very close to explosion time
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  • those annoying twats, blowing bubbles and leaping about, outside Hamleys, trying to entice you into the most overpriced toyshop on the planet.
  • edited August 2009
    People who eat stinking Greaseburgers and chips on trains
  • People who try getting on the tube before you have got off
    Tourists/old people/people with buggies getting on the tube at rush hour
    People standing in doorways
  • Miserable people from the commuter belt who moan about London
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    Charity collectors who walk right in front of you and rattle their collecting box right in your face.
    I'm happy to give - but don't force me to do so at what feels like frickin gunpoint .......

    Grrrrr .... that's when I feel a GH moment coming on. ;o)
  • [cite]Posted By: Shag[/cite]People who try getting on the tube before you have got off

    See now, i quite like it when people do that.

    Its a good excuse to let of some steam and push them back onto the platform!
  • [cite]Posted By: Rothko[/cite]Miserable people from the commuter belt who moan about London

    LOL


    [cite]Posted By: Shag[/cite]People who try getting on the tube before you have got off

    Agree but barge passed them anyway : - )
  • White dreadlocked G20 protestors.

    Black cabbies who wont take you south of the river (within the bondary they are obliged to) because "Gotta get back to Basildon" Turn your fecking light off then or go wait outside Liverpool st not London Bridge.

    Unlicesned cabs who try and rip you off claiming to have a better knowledge of london than you even though they quite clearly dont.

    Cost of a sandwich or a pint.

    Congestion charge

    Traffic Wardens.

    Plain clothes smoking wardens fining people around Hay's Galleria.
  • [cite]Posted By: Oggy Red[/cite]Charity collectors who walk right in front of you and rattle their collecting box right in your face.
    I'm happy to give - but don't force me to do so at what feels like frickin gunpoint .......

    Grrrrr .... that's when I feel a GH moment coming on. ;o)

    What Charity are they collecting for? Pastie Aid
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  • Millions of pieces of chewing gum stuck to the pavements - disgusting. Ban the firkin stuff.
  • People who dare to dawdle along the pavement, large groups - particularly tourists and school kids on trips to the theatre, anyone who behaves in a manner that suggests that they either don't know or don't care that I am in a hurry or who seems to be deliberately trying to thwart me on my daily return trip from Charing Cross from Charing Cross to Kingsway. Bit irrational admittedly - think it might be the pedestrian equivalent of road rage.

    Charity Muggers are subhuman scum. Fortunately I generally look so angry and unapproachable whilst walking, usually as a result of the people in the previous paragraph, that they no longer bother me.

    Fat, old gypsy women occasionally to be found selling lucky heather along Neal Street near Covent Garden. Given very short shrift, I can tell you.

    It's been an emotional release to write this!
  • [cite]Posted By: rhinosvalley[/cite]In pub/clubs trying to go to the gents and have individuals waiting at the sink trying to wash your hands for you with that soap crap and then give you towels to dry them and then expect a tip for their service..and then try and stop you from leaving when you refuse..
    ..may not be just Central London - but had it done on Covent Garden on Saturday...


    Happens all over the country.
  • [cite]Posted By: rhinosvalley[/cite]In pub/clubs trying to go to the gents and have individuals waiting at the sink trying to wash your hands for you with that soap crap and then give you towels to dry them and then expect a tip for their service..and then try and stop you from leaving when you refuse..
    ..may not be just Central London - but had it done on Covent Garden on Saturday...

    Great shout! Could not agree more. I do not wish to feel obliged to pay a quid just for taking a leak and then washing my hands after!
  • intolerance
  • Left wing leafletters.
  • People who don't open the windows on the tube
    People in Canary Wharf who don't understand that the flashing green man means you're not supposed to start crossing, then look shocked when they nearly get run over by a bus
  • [cite]Posted By: rhinosvalley[/cite]In pub/clubs trying to go to the gents and have individuals waiting at the sink trying to wash your hands for you with that soap crap and then give you towels to dry them and then expect a tip for their service..and then try and stop you from leaving when you refuse..
    ..may not be just Central London - but had it done on Covent Garden on Saturday...


    One around here starts singing and all sorts.

    ''Don't you know Freshen up, you've got to Freshen up''


    No i don't want a piece of wrigley's extra for 2 quid.
  • What's all this garbage about Eastern Europeans? Great bunch, wonderful looking women, good at there jobs, etc.
  • [cite]Posted By: RodneyCharltonTrotta[/cite]White dreadlocked G20 protestors.

    Black cabbies who wont take you south of the river

    Racialism.
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