london

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-17869815
Throwing computers out of a window.

feeling him on that

the cordoned area gets wider and wider! our building is now blocked off. great.

hope you've got your sandwiches ken, stay safe man

How fucking far can one person throw a computer from a 5th floor window?

i just ate a sainsbury's curry so at least i'll die with a full stomach.. pressure sure it's just a precaution though police seem quite relaxed down this bit

i just ate a sainsbury's curry so at least i'll die with a full stomach

^ you fool, you're probably too bloated now to crawl through the air-con ducts and take him out

i can fart into the air con and gas him out though

well, i'm gonna have to walk past TCR this afternoon, so if anyone wants me to pick up anything from Sainsbury's...

How about picking up several smashed PCs?

(really they shouldn't drink on duty, but it's a stressful job)

Sorry guys I'm just excited to be here, got a little carried away

nb we don't tip our hostages in london, save your cash

pretty sure this level of police cordon is ott for some dude with a couple of cans of camping gas. it's all the way up to euston road now

and if i had taken lunch half an hour later i would have had a half day off. damn

any sign of boris in a bomb suit yet?

sky are reporting he just threw some files from the window. soon he'll be on to the paper clips.

that's our boris

Hostage-taker now arrested by police, so I guess that's that then.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-17869815
Throwing computers out of a window.

― ILX uh-huh-uh uh-huh uh-huh BEEP BOOP BOOP BEEP (snoball), Friday, April 27, 2012 1:14 PM (2 hours ago)

did he want to make something real

Ha!

I think I can hear Yaz, actually.

can't believe I survived that ordeal. i think i might try and get myself on BBC news and maybe write an autobiography

Ordeal? Sainsbury's curry isn't absolutely pukka, but it's not that bad.

My eyewitness report indicates tottenham c road is still closed, with a pile of assorted rubbish on the street. However, I am in Sainsbury's RIGHT NOW.

Meanwhile, the New York Times discovers a mysterious land called East London and would like to let you know about it:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/travel/36-hours-in-east-london.html

9 a.m.
4. ETHNIC BREAKFAST

lol ethnic meaning beigel bake

Head north on Shoreditch High Street until you hit Regent’s Canal, nearing its 200th anniversary and once used to transport goods around the city. On the lively pedestrian and cycling path, walk under arched low bridges and take in the varied architecture.

Though the hottest East London club is always a moving target, you’re safe starting explorations at Hoxton Square.

they rly are str8 trolling

, nearing its 200th anniversary and once used to transport goods around the city

as canals are wont to be employed

lol ethnic meaning beigel bake

for the NEW YORK times lest we forget

lol @ how they couldn't be bothered to leave shoreditch

* Bill
* Auburn, CA
Unless you've been to London several times, I would not recommend going to the East End. Almost all the main tourist sites are in The City and Westminster.

http://travel.nytimes.com/2006/12/31/travel/31hours.html

urgh the queen of hoxton

11:45 p.m.
5) LAST CALL AT LEICESTER SQUARE

Anyone turned off by the charmlessness of Times Square in New York, best regarded as a place that you hurriedly pass through on your way to somewhere else, might be amazed at the late-night vibrancy of Leicester Square, in the heart of the West End. Though the specific elements don't amount to much — a Burger King, a Pizza Hut, a couple of movie theaters, and nightclubs with doormen who are alternately entreating and threatening — it all comes together to create a lively gathering spot for 20-somethings spilling out of nearby pubs by around 11 p.m., most of whom clearly don't want the night to end. It's a sometimes chaotic party scene that lasts until 2:30 a.m. or so, when everyone starts heading home on the early-morning buses that fan out from central London.

speechless.

speechless!

Anyone turned off by the charmlessness of Times Square in New York, best regarded as a place that you hurriedly pass through on your way to somewhere else, might be turned off by the charmlessness of Leicester Square, best regarded as a place that you hurriedly pass through on your way to somewhere else.

Would rather stick a knife in my face than spend a second in Leicester Square.

I always eyeroll at people who think that gentrified Hackney is the x1 place to spend your holiday in London but then again NYT tourist pieces about our fair capital are pretty much my favourite pieces of terrible tourist writing.

This has nothing on their recommendation that American tourists check out New Cross and Deptford. Like I can vaguely see the appeal of going to New Cross if it is going to persist in turning itself into Dalston south of the river but I can't imagine what even the most insufferable of fairweather exoticism-seeking Yank tossers would gain from rocking up on Deptford Broadway on a Saturday night.

I ate at beigel bake tonight guys

You ethnicist

Leicester square was once described as the closest thing London had to a European style piazza or square. On a quiet sunny early morning you can still just about see it if you squint a bit. That was near on 100 years ago now tho. place is a purgatorial shithole at any other time of day, esp Friday night.

To be fair the first piece is specifically about east London, definitely some weird ideas but they do recommend some good stuff.

The canal is sort of ugly I guess, I have visions of terrified Americans walking it at night, but on a sunny day it is a pretty nice walk.

I know this has come up before but I don't think it's weird to use east as your base for seeing London.

that leicester square thing is surely a piss-take SURELY

xxp yeah it's just like any pedestrianised shopping precinct now

the bit between leicester square and piccadilly circus might actually be my least favourite stretch of road in the entire city

Thrill to the shabby faded shittiness of the Capital Radio building!

(used to walk past it every day on my way to work and think to myself 'Chris Tarrant used to work here? Fucking figures...')

Leicester square at night too! It is truly the most horrible atmosphere of anywhere I've ever been. And you'd struggle to find a good pub.