Last June I spent 6 hours in london. It cost me $500 dollars, just for a lunch meeting, transportation to and from airports, and a place to keep my bags during the meeting.


If you are going to spend the 9 hours, then when you land, change at least $500+ into Pounds Stirling. You might feel that this is silly, and you won't need it, but TRUST ME, you will!!


Mark my words Lloyd!!! London is one of the most insanely expensive places around.



.Have fun! :)

Not by most Brits, according to what I have read. Unless that is another stereotype along the lines of the rotten teeth thing.

The thought of serving any kind of beer warm turns my stomach.

You are totally wrong. Lager is NEVER, EVER served warm here. In fact, I believe we pioneered some extra cooling systems that are used.

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Your negativity is for what, to my hospitality? :(




Baddog, Sorry about the weasels crap in your pro Brit thread... Natalie & I welcome anyone into our home, especially fellow business associates. I know you would love this fellas bike, the spray job is pretty awsome :thumbsup

Indeed..... Baddog should stay for much longer to make his trip worthwhile :2 cents:

The UK is shockingly expensive and not worth the effort. Heathrow is a truly awful airport. Not many places in the world where it's quite possible to miss a flight cause the airports ONLY access spur from the motorway is blocked, but Heathrow is it.

A taxi into central town is around £40-60 ($60-90) and might take an hour each way. Specify a touristic destination in town and have a US accent and you will, for sure, get the scenic route.

You could take the tube (subway) but its slow and smelly at all times, and in the summer, hot too. The trains have no aircon and the tunnels are only ventilated by the trains moving through them.

Food in the UK is pretty damn good as Damian says and working backwards from the food that disappointed most in the US when I was last there - Indian - I would recommend you try a good curry in the UK, but be warned, hot means HOT here.

Sometime about 20 years ago the UK swapped from bitter beer to lager beer - bitter was that warm brown shit in a glass which got us the bad rep for beer. Thankfully those days are gone and lager is server cold.

Everything in the UK is kinda small and un-impressive so its quite hard to do anything that really leaves you with a feeling of having "done" London in the way going up the entire state building or wandering about central park does. Probably why no films ever manage London-ness other than the ariel view of the Thames and Big Ben. For me anyway, it never quite feels like you've been to a centre or seen a thing that really blows you away - Visit NYC and even the view as you taxi into town the first time is exciting. The UK has no equivalent.

its never serverd warm, but ale is served at room temp. a bit like white and red wine.

lol that's one way of looking at it. so skyscrapers are more impressive than historically important architecture?

Perhaps you want to drink tea at tea time in London. Good luck.

Fitty Baddogs in London:pimp

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Customs Officer: Anything to declare?
Dennis Farina: Don't go ta England!

Its plenty of time for what you have planned. I know it first hand because I did it few times when I had my flight connections, so there is definitely plenty of time. Once it was only 7 hours and there was no rush to see something and grab a dinner in the city

i fucking hate england. i thought they invented the fucking language. no one there speaks english. its like being in LA if LA was overran with guys name Mohammed and chicks wearing hijabs

Yes its very said. Unfortunately you can call London Londonistan

On another note - don't you have huge mexican imigrant count in LA?

im probably the only legal resident of this federal law breaking sanctuary city.

like some people said, you could take the subway right there in Heathrow and visit some nice places, London is a very interesting city, one of my fave in the world. However, do not expect to see much, if I were you, I'd try to arrange at least 2-3 days flight delay and visit some great places, esp those cities close to London. I took a 1-day ride visiting London-Oxford-Bath-Bristol and a couple more places finishing in Cardiff and it really paid off. But yes, food (at least for those like me who are not rich) is quite horrible, I chose to go vegetarian the couple times I was in UK, with some Hindi food here and there

No, it is because you thought someone like Lloyd would be impressed that you knew a biker and a pimp. And *that* would persuade him to come and visit a stranger on the internet who posts like he is mentally ill.

He has already said he isn't going to stay here, so you can stop trying to persuade him to come to your house to meet your cool biker friend with the spayed bike.

Lloyd, looking forward to hanging with you in Amsterdam, been a while.

It isn't. It is served at celler temperature. Which is considerably colder than room temperature. And many bars have realised bitter actually tastes much better cold so are putting bottles of it in fridges.

Enjoy taking your money out of cash points in London - https://gfy.com/showthread.php?t=978289

fair enough i only drink lager, i didn't know cellar temperature was colder than room temp.

yeah it must seem scary coming from a crime free country like america.

Oh, nah what I posted is just for starters....

Funny enough, did you know that you are 4 times more likely to be mugged in London than in New York?


Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of crime ridden areas in the US, but you have to admit, street crime in the UK has gotten really bad.

I'm way too old to get into street fights, but the closest I've come in the last few years were the last 2 times I was in the UK. Seems like people REALLY enjoy getting drunk and then looking for people to beat up... especially "Yids" as they like to call me. They get a little disconcerted when you just stand there, take your glasses and ring off, and then say "You go first", but still....


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Are you saying skyscrapers aren't historically important?

yeah i know NYC has done well at reducing crime, and britain should follow some of their examples. NYC still has a murder rate of 3-4 times that of london though. and NYC is the exception rather than the rule, compare london to places like detroit.

but yeah i agree that street crime has got bad in parts of the UK, especially london. and the vast majority of gun and knife crime and street robberies are commited by young black gang members.

yes i am, certain ones may have some importance with modern architecture, but have no historical importance and will be pulled down long before they are considered to be that. places like the houses of parliment or tower of london have historical importance.

Reading this thread i'm amazed i've managed to survive here so long without being raped/murdered/drowned in warm beer.

its survival of the fittest:drinkup