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Where is Charlton anyway?

Weegie Addick
Weegie Addick Posts: 17,028
edited March 2008 in General Charlton
Picking up on the TV thread below.
Do you not get fed up with this question?
I tend to say near the O2 now - at least people have heard of that, and know it's in London!

And I wonder who'll be the first to answer "Still 5th" ;-)

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  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 19,048
    I always said it's near Greenwich, and now it's near the O2
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,314
    I say "Kent"
  • Northstand
    Northstand Posts: 85
    Thames Barrier. Was my point of reference, for those with ferrets etc Greenwich.
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 58,714
    Strange, i've been asked that loads of times away.

    I always say by the Thames Barrier
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 58,714
    [cite]Posted By: WSS[/cite]I say "Kent"

    Give it a couple of years...........
  • ThreadKiller
    ThreadKiller Posts: 8,672
    1/2 a mile fom the centre of the world.
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 19,048
    [cite]Posted By: AFKA Bartram[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: WSS[/cite]I say "Kent"

    Give it a couple of years...........

    Over my dead body
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,507
    depends where they are from, but normally say by the millennium dome. don't like referring to things by their brand name....

    i'm off to do the hoovering (!)
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 19,048
    Got to give the marketing team at AEG huge credit for the way they've completely rebranded a white elephant into something everyone wants a slice of
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,214
    [cite]Posted By: WSS[/cite]I say "Kent"

    Up until the late part of the 1800's, it was part of Kent. Then it just got swallowed up as part of Greater London

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  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,507
    [cite]Posted By: Rothko[/cite]Got to give the marketing team at AEG huge credit for the way they've completely rebranded a white elephant into something everyone wants a slice of

    naah, the media had something else at the time to moan/write about so they left it alone.

    I wanna know when they'll install heating and open up the other side.
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 19,048
    Otherside will be developed over the next 18 months.

    There wasn't any heating or cooling in there went it was the Millennium Experience, you'll either freeze or burn. Loads of the bars have outdoors heaters now though
  • WhenIwasLittleBoy
    WhenIwasLittleBoy Posts: 5,434
    where my heart is
  • KillersBeard
    KillersBeard Posts: 985
    Centre of the universe.
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 17,028
    [cite]Posted By: ThreadKiller[/cite]1/2 a mile fom the centre of the world.

    I might use that one in the future! (Surely it's just a little bit more than half a mile, though?)
  • Ledge
    Ledge Posts: 7,179
    near the barrier
  • Southendaddick
    Southendaddick Posts: 5,402
    Down Sowf
  • RedArmySE7
    RedArmySE7 Posts: 5,407
    South East London is usually my answer.
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,302
    down the road from Greenwich is the safest bet for me. that usualy shuts them up.
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 17,028
    Up the road from Woolwich might work too!

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  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,302
    er yes well it might weegie but i dont mention that... i sometimes say we are are the tip of a triangle and at the other corners of that triangle are blackheath and greenwich!
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 19,048
    [cite]Posted By: Curb_It[/cite]er yes well it might weegie but i dont mention that... i sometimes say we are are the tip of a triangle and at the other corners of that triangle are blackheath and greenwich!

    Better for the house price
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 17,028
    Well, as a resident, you have your own reputation to protect, I guess!
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 17,028
    We may express it differently, but we're saying the same things now, Rothko - spooky :-)
  • bigstemarra
    bigstemarra Posts: 5,105
    Kentish London (remember when our particular London buses had SELKENT on them?).

    Or if they watch soaps, just say next to that curly bit of the river at the beginning of Eastenders.
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,548
    [cite]Posted By: Weegie Addick[/cite]Picking up on the TV thread below.
    Do you not get fed up with this question?
    I tend to say near the O2 now - at least people have heard of that, and know it's in London!

    And I wonder who'll be the first to answer "Still 5th" ;-)

    I replied to that question at Los Angeles airport, with the answer of the "Dome" (imigration officer shakes head) just up the road from the "Cutty Sark" still nothing, not far from the "Tower of London" feeling quite pleased with my unoffical tour, "cant say I`ve heard of it " for christ sake, "Buckingham Palace" are yes!! hoo "fecking" ray we got there, "thats where your Prime minister lives".
  • pickwick
    pickwick Posts: 1,652
    I always say Greenwich, it is in the borough after all and people have heard of Greenwich.

    I think the local buses still have SELKENT on them.
  • Imissthepeanutman
    Imissthepeanutman Posts: 1,458
    Dont you just love Americans.

    On a 30 minute tourist cruise around the Southern half of New York one of the americans asked the boat tour guide if we could expect to see Niagara Falls.
  • BDL
    BDL Posts: 6,040
    [cite]Posted By: Imissthepeanutman[/cite]Dont you just love Americans.

    On a 30 minute tourist cruise around the Southern half of New York one of the americans asked the boat tour guide if we could expect to see Niagara Falls.

    I feel a "How stupid are our American Cousin's" thread coming on

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