What're the most London-y places or sights you can think of?

[ShiftyBagLady]

Interesting looking new book here...

http://londonist.com/2009/11/book_review_24_hours_london.php#mail

Ah, you've reminded me of Smoke Magazine.
If you can get a copy of that for your guest then you won't have to take them anywhere. Yeah, do that.

 

[Sadken]

*swoon*
It's nice. They are having some sort of remembrance weekend event, not sure what they'll be doing but the other events they put on are great.
I went to a civil war weekend a few weeks ago and got to see some fancy armour, some fencing and some pikes

You are such a bastard for not telling me about the civil war thing.

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

I did not you were a fellow war enthusiast. I won't tell you about the lectures I've been to then or you'll end up crying yourself to sleep.

 

[Santino]

One of those open-top bus things.

 

[Sadken]

I did not you were a fellow war enthusiast. I won't tell you about the lectures I've been to then or you'll end up crying yourself to sleep.

Go ahead, I was planning to do that anyway.

 

[quimcunx]

Get the tube to Westminster. Let him see the future as imagined 100 years ago in ''Metropolis''. At surface level point at Big Ben and the Palace of Westminster. Walk up to Trafalgar Square. Point at Nelson's column. Walk along The Mall. Point at Buckingham Palace. Walk past St. James's Palace pointing at it as you go. Up St. James's Street - point at the old-fashioned shops and any window you can see art in and tell them it's a Gentleman's club. Along Piccadilly point at Fortnum and Masons then go in for a cup of tea in the Fountain reastaurant. Then go to Piccadilly Circus and point at it generally, then Eros specifically. Then take him to a sex shop in Soho and point at the sex toys.

Then go home with your purchases and try them out on each other.

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

Oh.
Well...
I will. There was a great talk by a man who wrote a book called Delane's War about the reporting of the Crimean war and the impact that it had on the government at the time. Not enough was said about the parallels that can be drawn with today's reporting but it was still really good and the book looks good. I don't usually buy war books but I might buy that one.
Some of what he said about Florence Nightingale was interesting.

 

[Belushi]

One of those open-top bus things.

I'd never done one of those until I went to New York last year, they're great - keep meaning to do one in London.

 

[clicker]

Don't forget to round the evening off nicely with a piss in a red phonebox.

 

[Sadken]

Get the tube to Westminster. Let him see the future as imagined 100 years ago in ''Metropolis''. At surface level point at Big Ben and the Palace of Westminster. Walk up to Trafalgar Square. Point at Nelson's column. Walk along The Mall. Point at Buckingham Palace. Walk past St. James's Palace pointing at it as you go. Up St. James's Street - point at the old-fashioned shops and any window you can see art in and tell them it's a Gentleman's club. Along Piccadilly point at Fortnum and Masons then go in for a cup of tea in the Fountain reastaurant. Then go to Piccadilly Circus and point at it generally, then Eros specifically. Then take him to a sex shop in Soho and point at the sex toys.

Then go home with your purchases and try them out on each other.

You know, hardly any of my mates are men these days. True fact. It's probably about 80/20 women to men in terms of muckers...

 

[Belushi]

You know, hardly any of my mates are men these days. True fact. It's probably about 80/20 women to men in terms of muckers...

Me too, in my case its the love of Musical Theatre and the dislike of soccer.

 

[Sadken]

I'm completely the opposite. I don't know why it's turned out this way at all, to be honest. I quite miss having someone to talk about the football with. It's not that I don't have any really good male mates, just that we live a fair distance apart from eachother, unfortunately.

 

[HobgoblinMan]

I'm completely the opposite. I don't know why it's turned out this way at all, to be honest. I quite miss having someone to talk about the football with. It's not that I don't have any really good male mates, just that we live a fair distance apart from eachother, unfortunately.

It's just an excuse to make good your bone to unboned ratio Ken.

 

[Sadken]

You'd think so but - it's weird - anyone who spends time with me in a social capacity generally seems reluctant to bone me.

 

[HobgoblinMan]

You'd think so but - it's weird - anyone who spends time with me in a social capacity generally seems reluctant to bone me.

Perhaps you should stop showing them that pic of you as the Orient mascot then

 

[HobgoblinMan]

Or adopt a Costanza approach, he always had a beautiful woman on the go....

 

[Sadken]

And maybe sellotaping my mouth up wasn't such a bad idea afterall...

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

You'd think so but - it's weird - anyone who spends time with me in a social capacity generally seems reluctant to bone me.

do you smell?