Signs you've been in London too long

[Mad Scientist]

1 You say 'mate' constantly.

2 You think it is perfectly normal to pay over three quid for a pint.

2Anyone not from London is a 'plonker'.

3 Anyone from outside London and north of the Watford Gap is a 'Northern Plonker'.

4 You have no idea where the North is, and 5 Cornwall is another country.

6 You see All Saints in the Met Bar (again) and find it hard to get excited about it.

7 The countryside makes you nervous.

8 Somebody speaks to you on the tube and you freak out thinking they are a stalker.

9 American tourists no longer annoy you.

10 You talk in postcodes. "God, it was really warm round SW1 the other day".

11 You can't remember the last time you got up to 30 mph in your car in the city.

12 You didn't realise that 'Paddington Green' is REAL.

 

Feel Free to add more......

[Thinkerman]

1 3 and 6 and in my case Frank bruno lol "Dont be a Plank Vote For Frank" lol

[Rising Phoenix]

LMFAO, mad scientist that was sooo funny.

 

YES to everything, except the pint thing since I dont drink, but the rest is sooo true.

LOL, keep it up.

 

But you forgot:

10.If in another city, it takes you less than half a day to get somewhere, you think its a village

11. If the house-prices dont include a leg and an arm, you think the estate agent has been at the local pub for his morning brew...and didn't come out before lunchtime

12.You use "bloody" more than you say "mum" (sometimes you use the two together )

 

 

~harmonyangel~

[silent-sistah]

know i know im a true londoner....thanx babe

[Modesty]

Okay...I didn't get one understand one thing from that list...But again I'm not in LONDON!

 

- Someone should start a topic of being in Minnesota too long!

[Paragon]

"Dont be a Plank Vote For Frank" lol shujui ... Bruno waa comedian. Have you heard the way he laughs? lol Hihihihihi ... he doesn't very funy.

[Quite -Storm]

Walahi strange enough but all of this above does not apply to me and i have been living in london for 15 yrs and i dont consider myself as a londoner, after all its not my country.

 

P.S

 

I dont say MATE, i hate that word and some other ones like, U DGET ME, BLOOD,INIT,And those ****** cogny accent......

[Ibtisaam]

Maybe some of us Aussies could relate to one or two things in your list MS and maybe one from harmonyangel list. After all we (Aussies) are a colony of Britain and i guess we are bound to have some sort of things in common right

[Conscious Manipulation]

salaam everyone,

 

I'm not from the UK but here's something I came across on BP. The first column is how someone from the N.America would talk, the second is how someone from the UK would say the same thing. Enjoy!

 

YaKnowI`msaying ...Ya done know

 

me and my boys ...me and da man dem

 

homies/homeboys ...bredrin

 

Crib ....Yard

 

chickenheads ...Skettoes/Skets

 

shawty ...Yattie

 

Punk azz ni99a ...Fassyhole

 

Shoes ...Creps

 

hotboy ...Topshotta

 

Whatspopping ...Wha gwan/wha blow

 

All Y`all ...Yous lot

 

Soccer ...Football

 

LOOOOOL@fassyhole!

 

salaam

[stpaulchick]

Now I somewhat understand Londoners. lol