Places you just "dont get"

[sam/phallocrat]

Camden
Brixton

 

[rennie]

Camden
Brixton

Ooooh controversial.

 

[Spymaster]

London. No chip shops. Literally none. What the fuck is that about?

London has the best chippies in the UK. Fact.

Camden
Brixton

Excellent shout.

Camden is a smelly khazi full of junkies, tourists and crap bars/pubs trying to be cool. Brixton is the same, without the tourists and more aggressive.

Why?

 

[Orang Utan]

London has the best chippies in the UK. Fact.

LIES

 

[DJWrongspeed]

London. The rich rip you off and the poor mug you. What attracts you to the toilet bowl?

yeah i get sick of it sometimes but it's cultural & artistic diversity is the envy of Europe.

I don't really get Amsterdam, there are much nicer watery cities in holland, belgium or germany.

 

[Dr Jon]

India. Over-crowded, smelly, dusty, typhoid and full of students finding themselves.

you forgot the mosquitoes and the beggars...

 

[Idaho]

London has the best chippies in the UK. Fact.

Sorry but you are clearly on drugs.

 

[DJWrongspeed]

I don't really get Paris, it's nice but nothing special - but I should go some more times and see more stuff.

Paris has an utterly unique atmosphere in my view. Read this book in case you need illuminating.

 

[Hollis]

London. No chip shops. Literally none. What the fuck is that about?

Fryer's Delight - Wood Green.. you clearly missed it.

 

[Hollis]

My advise if you 'don't get somewhere' is to go there.. I did this with the USA years ago, and Japan more recently - loved them both.. Still ain't got round to Australia.. but one day.

 

[Lea]

My advise if you 'don't get somewhere' is to go there.. I did this with the USA years ago, and Japan more recently - loved them both.. Still ain't got round to Australia.. but one day.

I agree with you. I never used to be interested in the US but went there recently and really enjoyed myself.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

I agree with Vegas. I mean it's a spectacle when you arrive but there isn't much to do there (other than drink and gamble) and it's all a bit empty.

Same goes for most "gambling" towns.

Deadwood, SD is one of the biggest holes I've ever gone too. It's like a zombie town where all of the history and buildings have been emptied of any soul, but it's still plodding around trying to eat your brain.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Urban75.

True.

It's full of Americans and other low class people.

 

[MightyAphrodite]

True.

It's full of Americans and other low class people.

 

[Maggot]

I hate the title of this thread. You can like or dislike places, but I don't see how you can 'get' them.

You can get jokes or get the beers in, how do you get a place?

 

[Gromit]

Malta.

Amazed by the number of people i met there who went every year and had never visited anywhere else.

Me "But its shit, try anywhere else in the world at all and then go there every year, honest you won't regret it."

 

[not-bono-ever]

I hate the title of this thread. You can like or dislike places, but I don't see how you can 'get' them.

You can get jokes or get the beers in, how do you get a place?

OK

get as in going to places that seems to draw people who unilaterally claim its great, yet when you go along, it just doesnt seem that good ...

eg my starter Whitstable - I think I am the only person in SE LOndon who seems to have missed why this place is such a mecca in the summer.

 

[Ich bin ein Mod]

Oh, and the jet d'eau !

Looks like someone let off a fire hydrant. Boring place imo although I only really experienced it for half a day. Anything after CERN is going to be a bit disappointing for a geek like me.

 

[Spion]

With the exception of Cuba you can keep the Caribbean.

Didn't enjoy Cuba. The cities are slums full of unhappy people.

I did enjoy St Kitts and Nevis tho. Days on the beach with chicken and rice n peas, Friday night BBQs, beers and sound systems in the street

 

[Spion]

New Zealand. No idea why so many of you poms go down there. A lot of you to live (without even having been there first). Fucking horrible place, and I was born and raised there. Maybe its the grass is always greener thing.

This. It's just like Britain, but 40 years ago, and there's a bunch of people we nicked it off who hate you. And the weather's mostly shit. It's not called 'land of the long white cloud' for nothing.

Superb fishing tho

 

[CyberRose]

London has the best chippies in the UK. Fact.

"Best" chippies that don't sell gravy?!

 

[krtek a houby]

Can't think of anywhere I've been that there wasn't something that I liked...

Although a mate once told me Gibraltar is a shit hole...

 

[not-bono-ever]

Oh yes

Australia

Its what America could have turned out like if things had gone badly after 1776

culturally barren, despite the protestations of the inhabitants

 

[A. Spies]

Agree with las vegas. It should be funny - you should be able to be all ironic or whatever or laugh at it, but it's just fucking horrible. Especially the venetian. Hate las vegas.
Quite like Isle of man tho I'm not sure why, I don't really get oxford, it's ok to look at for a day. But anymore's suffocatingly posh and the countryside around it is like the shire. Can't imagine living there at all.

 

[Sunray]

I hate the title of this thread. You can like or dislike places, but I don't see how you can 'get' them.

You can get jokes or get the beers in, how do you get a place?

Few years ago I would have said the same thing.

Thing is some places just click and other places are just meh and you don't really know why. Other places take time but you get them in the end.

What I mean by that is hard to actually quantify, its a bit like acquiring a taste you weren't sure about or in some cases didn't like.

 

[samk]

Malta.

Amazed by the number of people i met there who went every year and had never visited anywhere else.

I can't understand why anyone would go to the same place every year, even if it was great

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

I can't understand why anyone would go to the same place every year

i know what i like and i like what i know......

s'what my ma&pa say to me everytime they decide to go away...

 

[Geri]

I can't understand why anyone would go to the same place every year, even if it was great

Because people want to relax and enjoy themselves on holiday. If they've found the place where they can do that, why shouldn't they go there every year?

 

[bluestreak]

Ilford. I can understand why my parents moved there in 1976, but why anyone would want to go there now. Horrible horrible place.

 

[mattie]

Los Angeles. Full of pretentious wankers who want to work in the Hollywood and won't give you time of day unless they think you can give them a job. And when you get there all the famous locations are either shit, tiny or expensive to hang around. Or all three. Only advantage is that it concentrates all dick-heads in California in one place so it can be avoided.

Hollywood was tiny and shitty, the walk of fame was pointless and the Chinese cinema looked rancid. For something of such cultural significance (for better or for worse) I thought it would be grander.

Florida was just boring.

Toronto was pretty bad as well.

In fact, the bits of North America I loved were all those outside of the famous bits. Except New York, that was good.