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What I don't like about cities...

posted by [personal profile] sbisson at 10:46am on 07/05/2002
I grew up on a small island, I now live in a big city.

Normally I like the city, it's busy, bustling, exciting. But there's one thing that I find increasingly annoying. No one takes turns. They rush off the tube, crushing into narrow doorways, something that would be made so much simpler if people just filtered in turn by turn. It's a logical and simple way of working that shows consideration for their fellow human beings, but they just focus on their destinations and tune out simple considerations that would actually make their journeys easier.

Perhaps it's just me...
Mood:: 'frustrated' frustrated
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posted by [identity profile] swisstone.livejournal.com at 02:54am on 07/05/2002
Actually, in my experience this is not so much cities as London (and possibly other cities of equivalent size). Go to Manchester, Edinburgh, or Belfast (the other cities I have lived in in my life), and it just isn't like that -- people get out of each other's way, make space, and don't think that the quickest way of getting on a train is to crowd forward and reduce the people getting off to single file.
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Filter in Turn

posted by [identity profile] sbisson.livejournal.com at 03:05am on 07/05/2002
I'm not entirely sure. There's a concept back home of the "filter in turn" system, where two roads meet that allows a constant flow of traffic. It's a lovely idea, that works well, even at the end of The Dual Carriageway or even entering The Tunnel. But why doesn't anyone implement this system for motorway lane closures?

Mind you the Highways Agency is based in London...
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posted by [identity profile] akicif.livejournal.com at 01:18am on 08/05/2002
it's been a while since I've done any wandering around Belfast, but even at its worst, Edinburgh's nothing like as bad as London. And while the tourists in the West End were a bit of a bother, they were nothing like as bad for sheer 'me first'-ism as the hordes of fat and greasy citizens swirling about the City. If Dante's Inferno was to exist, I reckon that Charon's boat would have been replaced by something not completely unlike the Waterloo & City line in August.
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What I don't like about cities

posted by [identity profile] tamaranth.livejournal.com at 05:58am on 07/05/2002
- the people.

What I don't like about life in general:

- the people.

I like my friends (and my Friends). But either/ both of the above can make me feel terribly claustrophobic after prolonged exposure. Made this lunchtime's negotiation of the City feel like solitary bliss, as I was alone in my head.

Now you all think I'm weird so no change there
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Re: What I don't like about cities

posted by [identity profile] sbisson.livejournal.com at 06:13am on 07/05/2002
I can completely understand that... I thoroughly enjoy my solitary lunchtime wanders through the streets of the West End. It's surprisingly how empty they can be, just a couple of blocks away from the bustle of Oxford Street.
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Re: What I don't like about cities

posted by [identity profile] akicif.livejournal.com at 01:32am on 08/05/2002
Damn. You're right. I do miss Golden Square - which starts to get rather scenic at this time of year. And - bother, I'm blanking on the name of the place - the big bookshop off Piccadilly Circus with a surprisingly nice caff in the basement... Of course, if I have to be hanging around in Edinburgh, this is a pretty good time for it as Rob and Jenny both have exams and Tara's fighting the post-Whitby blues with some serious job-hunting.
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On an unrelated point

posted by [identity profile] swisstone.livejournal.com at 04:28pm on 07/05/2002
I was going to ask where these new user pics for you and [livejournal.com profile] marypcb came from, and then I remembered that you're friends of Bryan Talbot, and that he often tries to draw from his friends.
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Re: On an unrelated point

posted by [identity profile] marypcb.livejournal.com at 05:09pm on 07/05/2002
I've been meaning to do a proper post about the userpics - they're from Heart of Empire - the second Luther Arkwright story. I've known Bryan for (mumblety) years now and every time he did a new comic he'd say 'I should draw you into this one again' and I'd say 'that would be cool, I've not been in a comic yet' and he'd be convinced he'd drawn me in... so one of the last times we visited him in Preston, before he moved over to Sunderland we walked to the end of the street and stood on the steps of the Preston College of Art and made like a crowd of people in a demonstration while Bryan snapped some photos. The two black and white pages we're both in are on the wall behind me as I type; I'm in a third page that Bryan drew his webmaster into, so he bought that. And Bryan mailed us the computer coloured images from which I clipped my face to amuse and entertain...

Go to the Web site - check out stuff! Buy comics! Drink wine!
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Re: On an unrelated point

posted by [identity profile] sbisson.livejournal.com at 11:46pm on 07/05/2002
Got it in one - Bryan drew us into the crowd scenes at the end of Heart of Empire. The originals are now part of the East Putney Museum of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Comic Art (in other words, they're on the lounge wall).
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