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- From: fletcher@rtf.bt.co.uk (Catherine Fletcher)
- Newsgroups: uk.misc
- Subject: Re: humor in England
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.125555.9957@rtf.bt.co.uk>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 12:55:55 GMT
- References: <BxtE7J.Kuw@cck.coventry.ac.uk>
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- apj003@cck.coventry.ac.uk (James W Bottomley) writes:
- >
- > It can't be worse than central London! Sleezy streets full of degenerates...
- > people with accents that sound like they stepped out of one of those 30's
- > movies about cheeky cockney chappies and jolly good toffs.. rubbish piled
- > everywhere... wall-to-wall Iranians and other shady arabs trying to rob you
- > of your parking place... nowhere to park and a fight to the death to buy
- > a bag of sweets or a newspaper from bad tempered illiterate foreign illegals.
- >
- > Not that I'm biased or anything, but I reckon England starts at Watford Gap.
- > Heading north.
-
- OK nobody can argue that London hasn't got a terrible traffic/parking problem.
- But what about the wonderful architecture in the city, I mean it's a treasure
- house of well kept buildings from the 17th century onwards, with some of the
- best in state of the art design too. Coventry's got a pretty good cathedral,
- but the rest of it inspires suicidal feelings.
-
- Many citys in England have a rubbish problem, and Brighton, from my experience
- (albeit a town) has got far more evidence of homeless people, relatively. The
- fantastic availability and variety of arts, culture, entertainment, food
- and *excitement* in London makes up for the more visible evidence of urban
- decay (something that makes me want to *act* rather than escape to "nicer"
- place).
-
- As for your comments about the accents and "foreigners"... Are you
- prejudiced or what? Do you object to the large Indian community in
- Coventry?
-
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- Catherine
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