Comments about the other london

There are 82 comments about "the other london"

PEARLYKINGJIM: Its been along time since i have been on this site thank you Mrs Strong for you kind comments which leads me to answer somethng that was said about me over the weekend two of my friends......

in response to: The Pearly Kings and Queens by Jamie

londongirl: i have to agree with you HA HA the pearlies are laughable last year at our local club they booked a group of pearly kings and queens for a cockney night what a shambles they had some old......

in response to: The Pearly Kings and Queens by Jamie

Julian Austin-Seal: Hi Natalie, I think you might be talking about my twin brother, his full name being Mark Leonard Austin-Seal, my brother did go through a phase in which we did refer to him as Leonard,......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Pearlykingjim: i would like to thank the person or persons for the vile and nasty E-mail that was sent to my address, it is someone on this forum form what was said i only hope we bump it......

in response to: The Pearly Kings and Queens by Jamie

Pearlykingjim: ammende script this is how it should read like the dole family i now do not belong to any pearly mafia opps sorry group,is part of it but some of them plastics get right on......

in response to: The Pearly Kings and Queens by Jamie

Pearlykingjim: Wotch ya all not been on this site for a couple of months, just thought i would catch up on things that are going on in the Pearly world i see mr smith is still about wotch......

in response to: The Pearly Kings and Queens by Jamie

Mist One53. Tdt=The Deadly Type.: Hello JA From Mist1 Sheffield England uk. I was first in Nyc in 1989 and saw SANE eveywhere. At the top of the World trade centre, not much bigger that this text on the screen.I......

in response to: Sane Smith: Puttin' the Green in Greenpoint by Peter

Jeff: What a beautiful building! It gives me another BIG reason to visit London. I understand that the structure is "green." What exactly does that mean?...

in response to: The Gherkin by Hasslehoff

BelievelandBikes: Nice piece... If you're the writer, it would be nice to see a series of your walls across the city. It might help us get a sense of your style in general rather than......

in response to: Duplo Graffiti by duplo one

pearlykingjim: having just read some comments on this page it seems some people have a problem with londons pearly kings and queens did your mother hit you over the head with a bag of buttons when you......

in response to: The Pearly Kings and Queens by Jamie

Mackenzie: I'm from east London and i want to find others that are intested in doing it as i am. so if you want to get hold of me add my msn mac_10_is@hotmail.co.uk...

in response to: Le Parkour: An Introduction by 3flow

EvilGentleman: Ahem - Jamie, I'm still waiting for you to restore the original location on this article. I know you love London, but this article was specified as "England", due to the nature of the subject......

in response to: Banksy Rocks! by EvilGentleman

colavitos ghost: this proves it; public housing--american or otherwise--just pretty much sucks. i've never been to glasgow, london, or any other british city for that matter, but from what i've read and seen in these photos, it seems......

in response to: Glasgow Schemes4 by kobie

Brandon: [[img:20107]] London Ontario , Just another picture i wanted to share....

in response to: The Top 10 Canadian Skylines by CE

ENEP1: thanks for showin my stuff, alot of the underpasses have been buffed though. This summer London is gonna need it's own vandal squad, it's gonna be fuckin war. Any other london writers here, account_0010@hushmail.com...

in response to: Graffiti in the Other London by jeeff

jack: once upon a time, an aging man, was left home, alone, his wife had gone off to work, his children all at their places and with their families, and this old man, well older gentleman,......

in response to: User Survey 2007 by Jamie

Brian : Hi, As a London boy I am ashamed to say that I did not know where the Pearlys came from until I came across the story of Henry Croft today. I've followed up a number of sites......

in response to: The Pearly Kings and Queens by Jamie

Beadle and Tatum: http://www.thefilthandthefury.co.uk/images/congrat1a.jpg Its a hand written rambling note about the Sex Pistols calling the mueseum a "piss stain". There was some pettitioning and a USA today poll that helped locate the hall. I did some research, this is the......

in response to: RIP Robert Jr Lockwood by Beadle and Tatum

Beadle and Tatum: I always brag that Cleveland has the Rock hall, but you realize what a coup it was after comparing the musical displays there about Tennesse, Detroit, London and New York to the display of medium......

in response to: RIP Robert Jr Lockwood by Beadle and Tatum

anon (cache-los-ac07.proxy.aol.com): Jeff it's not a throwdowm. it's to let you all know that Genuine pearly kings and queens dont have to be members of the opk&q all though it may seem like that. A few years back......

in response to: The Pearly Kings and Queens by Jamie

Chris Erb: The controversy is starting to pour in so here are my reasons for excluding some cities that I was considering: **Ottawa:** For a city its size and importance, the skyline in't very impressive. The Parlement......

in response to: The Top 10 Canadian Skylines by CE

nancy: experienced tracuers if you are interested in being in a short film to be shot in London on 20th August 2006 please email me ASAP on nancy@anothermag.com you will be paid for your time. Thanks......

in response to: le parkour: london waterloo jam by 3flow

EvilGentleman: Interesting comment above from Hellfire Jack, but what the hell does it have to do with London parkour, or any of the other comments here? FOR CITYNOISE! NO UNDERSTAND....

in response to: Southbank Parkour by 3flow

EvilGentleman: Here you go, as per your request, compliments of the good folks at Google Earth. Seems to be relatively current, but before the sinkhole situation arose. But the resolution is shit, for some reason Google......

in response to: The Case of the Disappearing Lake by sine

Jamie: I'm not from London, Ruairí. What gave you the impression that i did? I live in Lincolnshire. I wholeheartedly agree that the pictures i have shown on this website do not reflect a fair image......

in response to: Cross Street and Blossom 2002 by Jamie

Ruairí: Hi Jamie Just wondered - what area of london are you from? I am originally from Lisnaskea but live in London now. I have had the idea of going round to to your neighbourhood and taking photos of......

in response to: Cross Street and Blossom 2002 by Jamie

jamie: Cool, the other river thames in the other london. Nice photos jeeff. Roll on tomorrow when my adsl line kicks in. This page took me 5mins to load!...

in response to: Graffiti in the Other London by jeeff

elaine: that's a nice looking thames. does it start in an oxford as well as our one in the other other london? (the one that is too far east tto be considered a suburb of toronto)...

in response to: Graffiti in the Other London by jeeff

Sally: Today is memorial day in America. THEY ARE HOLDING PARTIES AND BBQs and HAVE TOTALLY FORGOTTEN THE ABOUT 2 WORLD WARS WHERE I LOST FAMILY MEMBERS, NOT TO MENTION THEIR OWN TROUPS IN THIS LATEST......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

elaine: in edinburgh when i was a teen, they started the trend for recycling churches. there was one which was a sweetshop distribution place, which we lied about having a shop to get to look at......

in response to: New Use for Urban Ruins? by CE

anon (p54907093.dip.t-dialin.net): Hi I'm half German. I live in England and have done for 3 years. I like a lot of the people there, as you do in every country you meet good people and bad people.......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

Jamie: Hey, [[author:jeeff]] started it: **[[825:The Other London]]** glad you liked em, been meaning to do these since time began, but like you say, they're the everyday things that blur into insignificance. If there's one thing this......

in response to: The Other Boston by Jamie

Rapunzel: I will acknowledge that I know shit about this situation. I only stopped to look at this online because it reminded me of some graffiti I read in a toilet in SOUTH AMERICA. Someone had......

in response to: The Bogside by norniron

Chris: i live in the west midlands which is pretty rural. Most americans that havent been to the uk (dont mean any offence) seem to be influenced way to much by american films that dont do......

in response to: A Sunday Walk in Eastend London... by Lawrence

Chris: billy i dont believe u have ever been to the UK judging from ur... review of it. I have met many cool americans that apreciate there only allie on the planet and are nice......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

elaine: jack, i can tell you this, it is very good. it wants reading aloud. it's very phonetic, very local, very london. bovvered is bothered. it's a good contemporary equivalent to the jack kerouac kind of......

in response to: Will You Be Waiting for Me in the Star Alley? by an impossible child

Lawrence: In London too, they use clear bags on the underground. Also, any other potiential places bombs can be planted have security seals, much like cds or computer cases which once opened, break the seal.......

in response to: Anti-terror Recycling Bin by Ken

elaine: apologies accepted, tex, for my part. london can be a bit gloomy in a way, but not always a bad way. actually we need 60% extra rain before the summer or we have yet another......

in response to: A Sunday Walk in Eastend London... by Lawrence

Lawrence: re: tex, haha, not all of London is as grimey... this is a series of photos from the Eastend which is a great deal less salubrious as the West. Prodominantly working class, wrecked by......

in response to: A Sunday Walk in Eastend London... by Lawrence

elaine: greenwich mean time. it is the time from which all other times are measured, and was brought in when train timetabling became problematic because time would be different even in Manchester than it was in......

in response to: View from My Office in Calgary by Helen

anon (CPE000129ff6803-CM0014f8633a9e.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com): Good for her! It is all about being a pig and not caring or respecting our precious environment. Littering is totally NOT cool! If this girl is a single mom and working very hard as......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

elaine: thanks! those are great. and yeah, mainly negative feelings about scotland, although i understand people liking it. it is beautiful, mainly, but it does do this kind of housing estate, and others, which tend to be......

in response to: Fence by barry

elaine: the famous and grand Tate Britain and Tate Modern galleries in london are built on the sweat of the slave labour of the past, for the sugar giant Tate & Lyle. the reality of such......

in response to: Something Sweet by groovehouse

rick: ok....this place is over due an update..... As any of you other locals will realise by now the building work has started and according to the main man on-site who i talked to it is a......

in response to: london fields lido blues by elaine

Jai-o: That's a pcp or primary connection/cross connection point, breaking into them and stripping the wires is generally associated with 'phreaking' which involves attaching another series of wires and hardware called a 'box' (usually with a......

in response to: new junction stencils by elaine

elaine: you, on the other hand would be a lemon squeezer, or a diamond geezer, or you would round east or south east london...

in response to: Prospect Heights 2: by Peter

joey: U Can't Touch This - MC Hammer (Hammer) U can't touch this (x2) U can't touch this (oh-oh oh oh oh-oh-oh) (x2) My-my-my-my music hits me so hard makes me say oh my Lord Thank you for blessing me with......

in response to: good bird night tonight by joey

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: I also read the eye of the storm and I'm blown away. I've been enjoying getting to know you guys through your pictures, stories and comments. This is a wonderful, human site, where we all......

in response to: abject objects by elaine

elaine: not to worry steelisreal socialist, i will do it, just not right this very moment. it's not a massive bother, but i am not always terribly mobile. you are right, it's not very very far,......

in response to: abject objects by elaine

steelisreal: well where do you live?? I never really considered anything far in london. oh well i was just asking sorry to bother you....

in response to: abject objects by elaine

the calm one: i watched these cats along with loads of other writers do some carecter peices on a cafe wall, martha cooper was there but missed the big show. found loads of london police stuff in a......

in response to: tlp - sticker graff by Jamie

Colin: Yes, that is sometimes a problem with the internet, where various web sites end up quoting each other in a sort of endless cycle. By the way, took a while to download on......

in response to: victoria park bench by elaine

Colin: I'm not sure that the civicheraldry.co.uk web site is correct to say that the device is known as the Southwark Cross or even that it symbolises the London Borough of Southwark, without further corroborative evidence.......

in response to: victoria park bench by elaine

barry: Jamie I am not angry at you are your pictures.I came across this web site by accident when looking for soom information about soom thing at home.Anyway I seen you pic and read soom off......

in response to: Beat-up Derelict Buildings in my Neighbourhood by Jamie

elaine: i used to live just beyond the ugly hotel to the right of the last pic. i had 2 survivalist fantasies, in one i am alone and i go live in tower bridge, in the......

in response to: tower bridge pt1 by steelisreal

SpankyHam: nah banksy didnt do the oscar - soz shoulda said somet bout that! and another awesome graffer is D-face which is the bottom photo - couldnt find some of his propper wall art tho,......

in response to: Banksy Photos + other graf by SpankyHam

elaine: regent's park is big, well looked after, wide avenues, trees, roses, a boating lake. a zoo, a canal, and it's west central london, so as far as i am concerned it may as well be......

in response to: 14.00 Train. Time to kill by Nic

AirdrieMK: Your last comment about the North stipulates what many people think as being stereo type due to the past troubles. Normally it is due to igmorant people - eg on a recent visit to England......

in response to: Urban Street Propoganda by Jamie

kobe: ive seen that {another crap advert} tag, in one form or another, all about london in a few places. i like yer photos elaine. the graffy character on the {sign} is nice, additionally....

in response to: mixed messages by elaine

elaine: well, doubtless you are drinking other men's piss if you ever drink tapwater in anywhere like london where the water is endlessly recycled, lots of men's women's and fishes pisses. lucky i have a strong......

in response to: mixed messages by elaine

elaine: i like to think of nature as cthonic ranther than idyllic, and in that sense london is a very 'natural' place, everything gets used spat out, cannibalised, recovered as something else, including people (not in......

in response to: mixed messages by elaine

elaine: well ##i## like it. london is a semi/post industrial city. big, mean and dirty, and this neighbourhood is not exactly posh, but it is interesting and i think friendly. people say london is not friendly......

in response to: Acton\'s Lock by elaine

elaine: also, re context, our history with high rise building is very different from the US version, cheap tower blocks thrown up postwar to house the poorest when homelessness and slum clearance became acute, so we......

in response to: canary wharf porn by elaine

David: You say Eire is the third richest country in the world,well that might be,good for you,but it is not our country.If Russia wants us to be part of them, or Germany or the U.S.A or......

in response to: Falls Road: Belfast by Jamie

hotdogx: Lets get something straight here, the last time you visited the republic must have been in the 70s or 80s when there was a standard of living diffirence between Ni and rep. Ireland is now......

in response to: Falls Road: Belfast by Jamie

Peter: ##Very Happy to See You## hahahaha! nice shots. this is why i dont eat meat, chicken or otherwise. thanks for sharing- id love to see more. loving all the entries about london lately!...

in response to: Death in Dalston by JamJar

elaine: so often just each other - in an infinity of glass nothingness, like a big swimmingpool world. once when the IRA bombed the city here in london all the glass was put out, and those......

in response to: art deco echo by vz

Jamie: **Re:** Amy from KY ##And you mother fuckers need to speak English. because this is {America}. Not {Afric}a, not London, not any other country.## heh, is that KY as in Kentucky or as in {Jelly}? Sorry,......

in response to: Crip/Blood Graffiti: Washington Heights by anon

elaine: some of my favourite domiciles have been slums at the time of living, but i am of that ilk, and maybe i have grown out of it too. when my beautiful faded - grandeur georgian......

in response to: Brownstones in by joe urb

Peter: thats the whole point of this site- the banalities of an everyday {urban} existence that, though familiar and perhaps uninteresting to you, might be fascinating to people who have never been to your {city} or......

in response to: Track 5, Newark Penn Station by Peter

American Wanker: its closeminded intolerant talk like where "Amy from KY" says ##"And you mother fuckers need to speak English. because this is America. Not Africa, not London, not any other country"## that makes the rest of......

in response to: Crip/Blood Graffiti: Washington Heights by anon

Amy from KY: I am a redneck.I am a hillbilly. or anything else you wanna call me. And you mother fuckers need to speak English. because this is America. Not Africa, not London,not any other country. ...

in response to: Crip/Blood Graffiti: Washington Heights by anon

elaine: the rule is if you are here you are a londoner, even if you have a return ticket to somewhere else, loads of people do, because rail tickets are usually cheaper if bought as returns......

in response to: The Lost Rules of Living in NYC: by Peter

hotdogx: I would like to thank the person above for their input here, and this illustrates the true feelings on " the tribal matters" outside northern ireland. many unionists deny this strongly, but the evidence is......

in response to: Falls Road: Belfast by Jamie

Marc: london is a great vacation getaway on mayday- always sunny, always hilarious. when i was there in 2001 I got trapped up in oxford circus in front of John Lewis with a fuckload of other......

in response to: Mayday Fun by Steelisreal

elaine: actually, you know, london suburbs are very unlike other places in the world. get your camera out and give us your perspective, why doncha?...

in response to: Postcard From Suburbia by Anonymous

elaine: ... which brings me neatly back to Ballard. maybe his liking for the suburbs came in part from how weird his life had been up until then? God, Empire of the Sun was such a......

in response to: Postcard From Suburbia by Anonymous

elaine: By the way, lots of people of all ages complain constantly about where they live - or about where I live, for better or worse reason. My friend Lucy lives in Edinburgh and pines for......

in response to: Postcard From Suburbia by Anonymous

elaine: hee hee hee. My brother works at Ikea. I have emailed him to tell him about your poem. He wrote me a poem of his own on the day of the riots as you might......

in response to: Motorway Haiku: UK (Part One) by Jamie

Jamie: Heh, thats pretty unique in a funny sorta way. I've googled for other stuff by this guy and he has his own website. He's been quite prolific all over the uk, most notably in London......

in response to: Giant Rat Destroys Liverpool by banksyfan

Jamie: A bit of clarification is perhaps needed for those not familiar with the Irish/Ulster slang used here. My facts should not be taken as gospel but are what I have gleaned from spending a couple......

in response to: Falls Road: Belfast by Jamie

steelisreal: guess now i will post my other photos of bridges in london, today is unofficial bridge day on citynoise it seems...

in response to: The Bridges of New York City by Peter