London Rolling

Good idea but maybe use a specific thread for that? Every time I see this thread bumped I assume there's been a catastrophic fire or terrorist attack.

sometimes it's me hearing a funny sound tbf

"bring me soup mfers" (thread of urgent coronavirus quarantine requests shd need arise: london local)

emergency-specific thread already overrun with non-emergency quotidian chatter lol

ilx bring me soup and never change

Quietest exercise hour yet out there. I wonder if being able to go out multiple times has made people stop saving it up for a big post-work trip

Green Lanes was rammed yesterday, busiest I've seen it since lockdown began.

More than usual today a mile south of Stet - maybe the joggers all headed parkwards?

More than usual on the south bank, too.

That makes sense if people are travelling further afield then

Anyone near Southgate Rd? Whats going on?

A lot of emergency vehicles on Southgate Road. pic.twitter.com/UaLcm8VBZi

— Samir Jeraj 🇰🇪 🇮🇪 (@sajeraj) May 27, 2020

https://twitter .com/MPSIslington/status/1265748021234429952

(sorry dicking about with the URL, didn't really want to embed it, it's pretty grim)

*sorry for

I wonder if future historians will look back at this horrendous 2015 ad for One Blackfriars as a perfect Last Days of Rome-style artefact, the hubris before the collapse https://t.co/8v75jDcNys

— Dan Hancox (@danhancox) May 27, 2020

an old tweet from D hancox featuring some demented Epstein creepo vibes in a promotional video for the £23m flats in the giant buttplug building, amazing!

That advert (aside from the fury) just makes me nostalgic for swimming pools. what a luxury they were.

not been in a swimming pool since Pond's Forge on Feburary 4th which was my son's birthday and that is probably the longest I've gone in decades without swimming. It's really not good.

My understanding is that it doesn't really transmit in water but I wouldn't set foot in a changing room right now.

lol @ that 1 blackfriars video. Every time i see it i completely marvel at the fact of it being built. It basically looks like exhibit A in a bribery and corruption case. It reminds me of that quip that the shard looks like the kind of building you don't expect to see in a functioning democracy x10.

Buildings designed by starchitects who suffer from a different kind of degeneracy than Speer and call human inhabitants of cities that aren't millionaires freeriders.

Related and good: https://theconversation.com/how-the-super-rich-conquered-london-138865?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton

what psychopaths

<Cut to Dr Laing eating his alsatian on the balcony>

otm, still waiting for everyone to realise the film was Actually Really Good

Low traffic neighbourhood / modal filters on Upwood Road, Lewisham. pic.twitter.com/qlTDP5TSYS

— Tom Edwards (@BBCTomEdwards) June 30, 2020

:(

traffic will . . . find a way.

update: a few days ago i was walking around farringdon station and there was tons of homophobic graffiti about george michael everywhere

yeah that's been there since around the start of lockdown, not all of it homophobic but all of it weird. goes as far over as old st.

My first thought was that they'd knocked something down that revealed a wall from the 90s or something. Bizarre.

its so arbitrary, why this particular grudge?

I've seen it in Leather Lane - childish handwriting "george micheal is evil man" - that sort of thing?

sounds like one obsessed weirdo.

yeah that's the same stuff, handwritten in black on white backgrounds, things like "george michael's mum is stripper".

"george michael's mother has hepatitis" "george michael takes fists up the arse"

like what?

Seems like time can never end the brainless witterings of some bell ends.

ridgeley has fallen far

there's a similar guy in brooklyn who uses crayon in the stations on the subway ads on the wall and he likes to write about how evil michael jackson "is"

Let's hope they don't find out about this...

https://www.timeout.com/london/news/london-is-getting-a-nine-metre-tall-mural-of-george-michael-finally-081220

We've just stayed in an airbnb near elephant and castle, had a great three days playing in the brand new free splash park for kids and enjoying the multiple international food options available, all built on the backs of displaced residents and communities of the old heygate estate and environs :/