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Fact-o-rama - 09/07/2007
Londoncentric I'm afraid, but inspired by the rare occasion of me actually taking the tube yesterday...
If you want to take the tube from King's Cross-St Pancras to Euston (although you shouldn't - walk it, you lazy fuck!) you can either go southbound on the victoria line, or northbound on the city branch of the northern line.
AND
did you know that shepherds bush has two, yes that's right, TWO tube stations? both called 'shepherds bush' but 10 min walk away from each other?
oh how the tourists love it!
yup
they're on different lines - i think the story goes that the lines were originally built by different businessmen who didn't get on, hence the lack of an interchange.
hammersmith & city.
Not for much longer, though.
They're renaming the Hammersmith and City one Shepherds Bush Market or something.
are they? har.
that's prob also to do with the new tube station they're building.
Yes though it's not a tube station
it's the London Overground.
is it?
are you sure?
ahhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Fairly sure, yes
good.
i love the green tiledness of the current central line station. :)
Why would that matter?
They're cleaning up all the Central Line platforms. Have you got confused by this?
heh?
ha?
urm i don't get what you mean.
they're green tiles. on... purpose. green and red.
Well I don't understand why building a new station would remove them?
So I could only assume you were getting confused by the renovations meaning they were removing the tiles for cleaning.
i thought they were building a new station
in the big shopping centre, and closing the current one.
They might change the entrace
but it would seem weird if they actually build a whole new platform on the line. They didn't at Charing Cross and we pay the price with the vast amount you have to walk between the Bakerloo and Northern Lines.
I guess they did with King's Cross, but that was probably close to 150 years ago.
10 minutes?
walkit.com calls you a slow bint
http://tinyurl.com/26j44n
Brooner == my new favouritest DiSser
why rush when you can amble?
yup
I found that out the first time I went to the empire, when I was about 17, I think I was seeing . . . . Reef, or maybe the Bluetones.
Paddington kinda has two tube stations
also
Well Monument and Bank are the same station
And there are two Edgware Road stations
there is a tube section
and an underground section, i haven't walked from one to the other though
They're far closer than the two Paddingtons
or others.
The main issue is the route you take. If you go between the Northern/Central Line and the District/Circle line via the DLR then it does actually take ages. Otherwise it's very quick.
That's a pretty crap fact!
but I don't have any that are better
That's awful and been mentioned many times
:D
well boil my handbag
that's amazing!
Fact-o-Reading
Reading is, according to the metro this fair morn, England's fastest growing city. Quite a feat for England biggest Town
haha
Hmm. Is it a city or a town, though?
Does it have a Cathedral?
I believe somewhere like Wells in Somerset is the smallest city in England due to having a Cathedral.
a town
the queen refuses to give it an upgrade, queen victoria hated the city or something, so, as some person i met once told me, she erected a statue of herself facing away from the town
You mean she hated the town? :D
Ah right. Get them to build a Cathedral there. I'm fairly sure a Cathedral automatically grants a town 'city' status.
here y'go
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England/City
Edinburgh & Glasgow
aren't formally cities.
Aren't they? They're on the list of Scottish cities there...
Edinburgh(57)
(royal burgh; city status has never
been formally granted)
-
The present council areas are designated "cities" by virtue of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994,
i like how
the City of London and the City of Westminster are cities, but the rest of London can go fly.
Well y'know they never were technically London
People in Wimbledon still like to talk about 'going into London' no matter how many times I point out Zones 3 and 4 are clearly in London.
i was more talking about
the ridiculously over-divided nature of london.
also, i don't really know what you're talking about with that subject line.
Yeah, pretty much
most places still have their old town centre from when they weren't part of London.
yeah, i know
but they were also all seperated (at least, everywhere in inner london) from middlesex / essex and united under the County of London well over a century ago, it just seems strange that the status has never been changed to recognise that.
Reading used to have the second largest abbey in the country
always second best though :-(
Reading went for City
status about 5 years ago but missed out on achieving the aim. So the council just started calling themselves a city anyway.
well it is the 17th biggest settlement in England
i think i might have blown my Reading load in one thread, i'll have to save it all for a few months now...
http://www.drivers.com/img/articles/334_roundabout1.jpg
but
that's in reverse
You shouldn't eat a crayfish
with a straight tail as this means it was dead before it was cooked.
Your title was correct in the first place
look, I'm trying here
if you eat a crab and the claws have fallen off it was put in boiling water
as opposed to cold and heated up. the sudden change in temperature can cause the crabs to spazz about and their claws fall off.
yum yum
I love the dis-used old skool underground stations
very much.
I'd try York Way
Disused tube station in the middle of nowhere - better chance of survival. Unless the King's Cross Eurostar had opened by that time, and hordes of French zombies are pouring into London... then I'd try the City Road station.
Rather that than French zombies
Plus they'll make good allies when les zombies arrive - the pimps can pimpslap their heads off, and the crack whores can help you relax after the attack.
I speak from experience
Q: Does being beheaded hurt?
A: It might be quick, but it's certainly not painless. Anyone unfortunate enough to get the chop will feel a few seconds of pain, no matter how sharp the blade.
There are many accounts of the heads of executed people continuing to show movement or expression after the final blow.
In a 1905 experiment, a French physician called out the name of the dead man seconds after the blade fell.
The eyes of the severed head opened, looked up at him, then closed again.
When the doctor called out a second time the same thing happened. Only on the third shout the head gave no response.
Heads up, eh?