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"This is a Piccadilly line train to Cockfosters." Every two minutes. Yes it's a bit immature to find this amusing but I think London deserves it. The first thing that I saw when exited the long, hard, pointed tube was a pub called "The Famous Cock Tavern." Thankfully the rest of my stay proved a lot less phallic.
London's a pretty nice city but there's too much to do! We didn't make it to the Science Museum unfortunately (I've had the pleasure before so I'm not too upset) but we got in the Natural History (saw the whale finally! It was closed for cleaning or something last time I was in London) and the Victoria & Albert which was pretty interesting excepting the fashion exhibition I got pulled through, while the Pop Art exhibition in the Tate Modern showed me that it's not just Japanese artists that are sexually ****ed up (though it also confirmed that they are too).
Obviously did Christmas shopping. Got some stuff for the missus I can't talk about because she'll be reading this. I also got my mother a necklace I probably couldn't afford to get her and for myself I got a pen with a laser and LED flashlight (great for messing with cats' heads) a Cuban cigar (only seven pounds fifty so not a great one, but better than Hamlet), Sandman volume one, Unseen Academicals (I wonder how many books Pratchet has left in him) and Metropolis. I also saw the first part of the monstrous finale to The Wheel of Time too but I don't think I'll be able to read it till I reread books nine and eleven first (not ten though, never again).
Didn't see any show in the end, just went to a cinema in Leicester Square and saw Fantastic Mister Fox. Favourite thing may have been Covent Garden Market. It's a pretty awesome market. I got a pretty useless number stamp that caught my eye. Something like this without the handle. There's also a Games Workshop there in which I saw the new Skaven rulebook. Makes me want to collect giant rats all over again.
But alas I have a complaint: You English people do not know how to get fat. Your McDonalds don't serve double quarter pounders, I have learned! It's the only one that's actually filling. And your coke tastes like diet coke. Where the hell is the sugar? Don't even mention the Fanta. Fanta in Ireland is orange, because it's orange flavoured. It's a clue to help you know what to expect. The stuff I got in McDonalds was a greenish yellow. This was also a clue as to what to expect. It tasted like watered down piss. How do you drink that stuff? Come over here and have some real soft drinks. They'll rot your teeth right out but god damn they're nice.
Must also report on something. I saw two new megadrives in a HMV. Is this normal? Has this been happening behind my back? It had the normal sega logo with another green one under it (Atomic Games or something I think) and it said on the box there were fifteen games built into it. Explain immediately halflife2.net!
London's a pretty nice city but there's too much to do! We didn't make it to the Science Museum unfortunately (I've had the pleasure before so I'm not too upset) but we got in the Natural History (saw the whale finally! It was closed for cleaning or something last time I was in London) and the Victoria & Albert which was pretty interesting excepting the fashion exhibition I got pulled through, while the Pop Art exhibition in the Tate Modern showed me that it's not just Japanese artists that are sexually ****ed up (though it also confirmed that they are too).
Obviously did Christmas shopping. Got some stuff for the missus I can't talk about because she'll be reading this. I also got my mother a necklace I probably couldn't afford to get her and for myself I got a pen with a laser and LED flashlight (great for messing with cats' heads) a Cuban cigar (only seven pounds fifty so not a great one, but better than Hamlet), Sandman volume one, Unseen Academicals (I wonder how many books Pratchet has left in him) and Metropolis. I also saw the first part of the monstrous finale to The Wheel of Time too but I don't think I'll be able to read it till I reread books nine and eleven first (not ten though, never again).
Didn't see any show in the end, just went to a cinema in Leicester Square and saw Fantastic Mister Fox. Favourite thing may have been Covent Garden Market. It's a pretty awesome market. I got a pretty useless number stamp that caught my eye. Something like this without the handle. There's also a Games Workshop there in which I saw the new Skaven rulebook. Makes me want to collect giant rats all over again.
But alas I have a complaint: You English people do not know how to get fat. Your McDonalds don't serve double quarter pounders, I have learned! It's the only one that's actually filling. And your coke tastes like diet coke. Where the hell is the sugar? Don't even mention the Fanta. Fanta in Ireland is orange, because it's orange flavoured. It's a clue to help you know what to expect. The stuff I got in McDonalds was a greenish yellow. This was also a clue as to what to expect. It tasted like watered down piss. How do you drink that stuff? Come over here and have some real soft drinks. They'll rot your teeth right out but god damn they're nice.
Must also report on something. I saw two new megadrives in a HMV. Is this normal? Has this been happening behind my back? It had the normal sega logo with another green one under it (Atomic Games or something I think) and it said on the box there were fifteen games built into it. Explain immediately halflife2.net!
