After all that election nonsense, now for a bit of fun. Naturally, as a benighted colonist, I don’t get the joke, but here, via The (always nifty) Cartoonist, is London (and the rest of the known universe) as seen by North Londoners (PDF).
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Murk:
South of the river there is no tube line. This is due to the ground being geologically different..
Actually, I lied. There are tube lines, but they don’t venture far at all as it is much more expensive to tunnel in the south than the north.
The M25 encircles london.
To the northeast we have east anglia. Quite an empty area. East and North of the Thames we have Essex - this has not a nice reputation.
Kent to South East (my home country).
Brixton is a place in London which had riots in the 70s. Its name doesn’t conjure happy thoughts.
To the west (if you go far enough) there is Devon/Cornwall/Wales… rural type places. Hence the sheep reference.
To the north west are areas like Windsor, Berkshire (can be quite posh).
To the north is Watford. ‘Watford Gap’ (it is just a name, don’t get excited) marks the ‘North South divide’. An imaginary line that most people wouldn’t want to live on the other side of, the ‘soft shandy drinking southerners’ know that ‘its grim up north’.
Actually there is an area called ‘the midlands’ which the north see as being ‘south’ and the south see as being ‘not south’. Both north and south tend to look down on it as a result. Birmingham gets it in the neck a bit, but it’s a lovely place (most people only ever see it from the M6, not its most flattering angle - it’s like looking at a supermodel via a medical probe).
I’ve lived on both sides of the line, in the south, in the north and in the midlands.
November 13, 2004 at 3:35 AM
The Cartoonist:
Now that must have been the best comment I ever read in a weblog. Fabulous.
November 13, 2004 at 6:18 PM