Currently working in Monaco/Monte Carlo, which in my view is an overhyped, overpriced grimy ****-tip. Does any other Awimber have similar feelings about places that are meant to be the dogs *******s?
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Currently working in Monaco/Monte Carlo, which in my view is an overhyped, overpriced grimy ****-tip. Does any other Awimber have similar feelings about places that are meant to be the dogs *******s?
London :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by The Insider
Wherebouts are you based? I've been about 7 times and usually stay in Beausoleil, which is technically just outside Monaco.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Insider
UAE. Qatar.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Insider
Actually, nowadays, Paris as well :-(
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Originally Posted by Sir C
But Paris is a proper city - it's supposed have grime amongst the glamour (like London). The other two you mention are as fake as Disneyland - you can see why they appeal to tasteless people who like to think they are among the "elite" because they can click their fingers and have someone bring them some cheese and chips or some other ****. In Paris or London you have to work to find the best
I agree absolutely, but in the last couple of years Paris (and Rome) have been changed by a large number of, shall we say, refugees, who often behave quite poorly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
My last visits to Paris and Rome were both blighted by a degree of squalor I have never seen before.
Haven't been to either for years - I wasn't that impressed by Rome when I was there anyway, save for the obvious sites/sights. And of course two of my trips to Paris have been for European finals we have been involved in :cry:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I like Rome, but you have to work for it a bit. We have to visit each year because the glw will only buy her gloves from one specific glover, in the Piazza di Trevi. She prefers the rabbit ones.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
:nod: Coming into the Gare du Nord these days is actually a deeply grim experience. A few years ago, I had some time to kill before catching my train and made the mistake of wandering around there. It was extremely...errrm... culturally enriched. By which I mean it was broken, covered in shīt, 90% non-white and involved several enterprising souls selling meat that was being barbecued on upside-down shopping trolleys.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
:nod: I have many happy memories of wandering out of the Gare du Nord into any random café for a café cognac to get an instance hit of France. Wouldn't do it now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
There are still some decent cafés slap bang opposite the GdN, but take any of the side roads and you're in downtown Dakar.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
A bit like her vibrators ....... allegedlyQuote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Knightsbridge.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Insider
Because of the billionaire boy racers burning around and showing off in their very very loud sports cars.
Knightsbridge has always been full of ****ers, though, a, but surprised the traffic allows anyone to burn aroundQuote:
Originally Posted by Ash
Is this similar to how you lived in Hampstead but technically didn't.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
Yes. Nothing more pointless than a sports car in a congested city. They drive up and down the quieter side streets. Well, quieter until they came along.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
There's a fúcking great elephant here that everyone's dancing around.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
They're WES's mates from the Gulf. Tasteless morons.
Is it taste?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I would suggest more money than sense. Like the bloke who had his Bugatti parked in the car park area of the Mandarin Oriental, he was not a resident in London but it was there for when he needed.
The car had not been moved in over a year.
:shrug: If he wants to keep a car in London and is happy for that car to be a Bugatti, I don't see the issue.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
No, it's the tastelessness of parading around Knightsbridge in a gold wrapped Ferrari that upsets me.
None of my business, of course.
It is if you have to listen to it. Assault on the eardrums innit?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
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Disturbing the peace
That is a subjective judgment, a. Personally I can think of few more glorious sounds than that of an Italian V12 wailing - but I consider it an act of cruelty to keep such a vehicle caged in traffic.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
Context. I'd be happy to hear it accelerating off the apex at Stirlings and tearing down towards Clearways. Not so much when strolling down the Brompton Road.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
When you are next holidaying in Dubai, sc, I suggest you go down to JBR on a Friday night.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
****s galore in Italian supercars having to drive very, very slowly down the cobbled road with speed bumps.
I will certainly check this out when next I am enjoying a gourmet holiday with WES, trying the very best of French, Italian and Thai cuisine at his favourite all you can eat fusion buffet.Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
Odd, isn't it, how some street names just take a definite article? Do we know why this is? Also, the rule varies for some people. I've always thought of the Holloway Road, for example, whilst others do not.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
The City Road, The King's Road.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I once found myself in a strip club on the City Road. Odd place. A bare lady grabbed my winkle without my permission. :-(
The City, but surely just City Road.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Au contraire, mein lieber, Irlandische Schatz:Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
"Up and down THE City Road
In and out The Eagle
That's the way the money goes.
Pop goes the weasel!'
So ner.
Oh I see, referencing nursery rhymes is it instead of when the area was indeed my manor and I would be up and down it every day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I am merely citing an old source that proves my point, sw. Besides you were a visitor to these shores and probably didn't speak the language very well. You can't be expected to pick up on all the nuances.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
I lived off City Road and never heard the definitive article used in conjunction with it. Does sound right thoughQuote:
Originally Posted by Burney
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Originally Posted by Burney
Irische, I think you mean. Are you from Switzerland?
You're correct, of course. What was I thinking?Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
It does make me laugh, however, that the Germans, when pressed to come up with a loving and affectionate term for one's dearest darling, came up with as unlovely a word as 'Schatz'. :hehe:
Yes, the wife mostly, adoringly, refers to her children as "Kröte" and "Stinktier" and so on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Odd, when you think about it. Or maybe, not so much.
And what does she call you?Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
Joseph. Or anyway, "Yo-sef". :-|Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I get to call her "Biggi" though so I win.
She's a fine figure of a woman, r.Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
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It's such a beautiful languageQuote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
Burney "She's a fine figure of a woman, r."
I am thinking that Mrs Red featured in Tom & Jerry
Chasing the cat round the kitchen with a rolling pin