Amen Corner
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 Lady Dock Path   Lings Coppice
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 Medical Research Institute
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 Neasden Underpass
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 North Pole Road
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 Old School Close
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 Times Square
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oh, really? I thought Minorca and Majorica were British and/or German...even once I asked for a Paella and they corrected me offering a Pallella ( a typical British way to mispronounce it )
And what about the Malvinas? ( I think British people mispronounce them as well, something like the Falklands...)
No, seriously, people tend to make mountains out of mole hills when they don´t have a good life...I really couldn´t care less.

I totally can relate to naming things as I see them...maybe being a mother can do that to you...
By the way, is it true there´s a BBC European correspondent called Matthew Correspondent ?

Another funny name of a place Batman in Turkey...I couldn´t believe it , but it´s real

Well the Argentine Junta did needed "A Short, Victorious War" because murdering and torturing your own people makes you really popular.  It would have worked a bit better if they planned their defense a bit better, having a couple of generals on the island, complete with separate staff and no one in charge, isn't a good idea.  I am sure you could have organized it better.

In Minorca and Majorica, don't the British and Germans just occupy and go to war over sun loungers?
I can put a good  case for Great Britain to run the whole world.  apart from the bits that used to be coloured red, going through history.  One, King Canute brings Denmark, Norway and Sweden.  From William the Bastard Conqueror (He's father was call Roger the Devil, it must have been great at the breakfast table) & others bring us France.  Then the whole of Ireland.... I am willing to pass on it (btw one of my grannies was Irish).  One of Edward III's son married into the family of the leader of Milan but didn't last long, either over-eating or poison (a note from history, Geoffrey Chaucer traveled with him to Italy).  Going forward with come to Philip II of Spain and Queen Mary, that's Spain and Portugal plus their colonial empires.  Going forward a hundred years there was William of Orange & another Queen Mary which adds the Netherlands and colonial empire.  Then we come to Queen Victoria and all her children who married into the royal houses of Europe.  The major ones were Germany and Russia. Off the top of my head it only leaves China, Taiwan, Japan, both Koreas, Thailand, Switzerland and a few small counties free 

Thuggy plays "Does your mother know your English?"

Not bad from off the top of my head.

Back to the place names.  There is naming fatigue.  I noticed it in Australia when I traveled there.  In the Northern Terrorities there is a town called Katherine, a Katherine River and a Katherine Gorge.
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Long distance driving along the Highways i noticed the Australians put up signs on every piece of water crossed not just major rivers.  You could see where people run out of ideas when the streams are just named Four Mile stream, Seven Mile stream 

Don’t be a twat: parody posters tackle anti-social commuters

More fake London Underground signs...

More fake London Underground signs...

Mmm Melbourne, it was the only Australia city I dislike... and Bozana doesn't like it either.
Throwing yourself onto the tracks would seem better most of the time 

Thuggy

 

Two True London Underground stories.

Near the suburbs, the tube goes over ground.  Two sisters traveling home from school, the elder used to back her younger one hold her breath as they went a cemetery "In respect of the dead".

At 11pm on Halloween, a tube train driver stopped  the train, turned off all but the emergency lights and said over the tannoy "The is the driver speaking.... or is it?"

he got ticked off by his bosses but got a contract doing voice-overs from one of his passengers 

Now, I saw this film on a student discount a long time ago.  I was the only one in the cinema... and it was a dark, foggy and quiet night walking home 

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LONDON PRIDE

Noel Coward was a fine Englishman …

London Pride has been handed down to us.
 London Pride is a flower that’s free.
 London Pride means our own dear town to us,
 And our pride it for ever will be.

Oh Liza! See the coster barrows,
 Vegetable marrows and the fruit piled high.
 Oh Liza! Little London sparrows,
 Covent Garden Market where the costers cry.

Cockney feet mark the beat of history.
 Every street pins a memory down.
 Nothing ever can quite replace
 The grace of London Town.

There’s a little city flower every spring unfailing
 Growing in the crevices by some London railing,
 Though it has a Latin name, in town and country-side
 We in England call it
 London Pride.

London Pride has been handed down to us.
 London Pride is a flower that’s free.
 London Pride means our own dear town to us,
 And our pride it for ever will be.

Hey, lady! When the day is dawning
 See the policeman yawning on his lonely beat.
 Gay lady! Mayfair in the morning,
 Hear your footsteps echo in the empty street.
 Early rain and the pavement’s glistening.
 All Park Lane in a shimmering gown.
 Nothing ever could break or harm
 The charm of London Town.

In our city darkened now, street and square and crescent,
 We can feel our living past in our shadowed present,
 Ghosts beside our starlit Thames who lived and loved and died
 Keep throughout the ages
 London Pride.

London Pride has been handed down to us.
 London Pride is a flower that’s free.
 London Pride means our own dear town to us,
 And our pride it for ever will be.

Grey city! Stubbornly implanted,
 Taken so for granted for a thousand years.
 Stay, city! Smokily enchanted,
 Cradle of our memories and hopes and fears.

Every Blitz your resistance toughening,
 From the Ritz to the Anchor and Crown,
 Nothing ever could override
 The pride of London Town.

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sorry mr T ,too British for me 

Miss P, You can't be too British in London.... how about being too Spanish in Madrid?   
 I sound like Mr Iron but no one should hear me sing.  I am to singing what elephants are to hang gliding

How about humourous misleading advice for tourists?

Like London Taxi Drivers are grossly offended if you offer a tip.

Policeman should be addressed as Pleb 


Adam Kay & Suman Biswas London underground (ADULT HUMOUR)
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Werewolves of London
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The Jam - Down the Tube station at Midnight
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Mary Hopkin "Streets Of London"
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Fergie - London Bridge (Mature)
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Wow, don´t know if talk about the laughs or the trip down memory lane
Good to know underground/metro is the same everywhere ( at least in Madrid is not too expensive,and for younglings-is that a word anymore, or I´m ancient- is the best option)

Can you believe in 7th grade my teacher taught us Streets of London when now my students would appreciate more Fergie ( thanks for the video, but I could have done without it)

And yep, you can be too Spanish in Madrid, and everybody will hate you, here it can be considered too cheesy.
Not a lot of Spanish music I like...Not my cup of tea.

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Younglings.... is a bit too "Star Wars".... Young people is a better term.  If you miss the rush hour it isn't bad and gave me an excuse to stay in pub/bar/restaurant before moving on.  The problems are only all the stairs for some people and the fact London Transports doesn't believe people traveling have a bladder and stomach... no toilets for travelers which made some journeys after a night out on the town 'interesting'.

If older people don't like pop music it isn't doing it's job! 

Well here is a song written for the Australian Tourist Board 
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