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Glasgow :D
Closed.
You should see the state of some of the long pasta we have here.
That's not done to death at all yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by dino
Still though, Glasgow.
@Sir Andy Mahowry
:D :D
Grinned and giggled to myself for a good 5 minutes after I saw that photo. Good work.
I can't take American money seriously. Statue and Ellis Island tour booked. Unfortunately, the tours to get you inside the statue are sold out until July. :moop:
Evenin'. Let me bring you guys up to speed:
Flights and airport were fine. Well, to Newark was delayed by baggage and some jetty bother. Then I had to go through passport screening twice because I didn't pick up a customs form.
All of this meant I got to the hotel way after midnight. Weather was blustery shit and New York at night is .... just full of the strangest people. I have not been on a single train ride without a homeless pleading for change.
Ellis Island was amazing! Just a top, focused museum that took up 3 hours. It can't be topped. Liberty island was decent for th view of Manhattan and the statue. Also, anybody doing some kind of customer service has a proper warmth to them. Airport staff, the subway drivers reacting to the shit happening on their trains, etc. Makes a contrast when I'm used to uniform British politeness.
Visited the 911 memorial and I find it a bit bleak how tourist heavy that is. To me, it's still a grave site, not some place to take selfies and arty shot of the names around the pool.
I keep forgetting about the intrepid so that's tomorrow's priority. Might skip some museums in favour of more sightseeing. Couldn't be arsed with the MoMA today. The weekends peaked early, tbh.
The Americans just do museums better than us. Go to the Natural History Museum, it's a banger.
Go to Five Napkin Burger. I never went, but i thought the name was hilarious
Well, that was five hours at the Intrepid. Awesome exhibits there. Food's taken a hit with me grabbing whatever I can.
Sounds fun. :thbup:
Meet @Josh!
Fate dealt me a five napkin burger. I rate the place. Took mine to go but the staff seemed canny. Burger seemed too pink to be medium rare, though.
Hell yeah! I have heard it’s really good. Did anyone explain to you the origins of the name? I wonder to this day
Go to beauty and Essex bar shinners.
I haven't actually drank since I got here. I never asked about the name either. It was a messy burger so that might be it.
Not sure why you got done because of the customs form. They haven't required those for quite a while now.
Yeah, I wasn't the only one that got confused by it. Someone left their ESTA on the desk whilst they were filling it in, too. Hope the airport got a message out for that.
Maybe it's a Trump thing?
Idk if i understand the question, but every time I re-enter the US from abroad I have to fill out the customs form and wait in the customs line. It’s been like this for as long as i can remember.
ESTA means you just log in on those terminals.
Well, I'm in the home stretch now. Didn't get to the transit museum but spent a while walking around Brooklyn. That place is a lot more relaxed than Manhattan.
The views over the bridge were great. Central Park was decent. Seeing black and red squirrels everywhere was cool. The one way signs don't do much, do they?
Didn't feel too bothered by the Natural History Musrum. There's lots of stuff there but nothing that I'm super into. It's a big, traditional museum which doesn't hit me like the Intrepid or Ellis Island.
Tomorrow I have about 4 hours after checkout to kill. I'm thinking about Times Square and Wall Street.
Times Square is garbage, Wall Street is marginally more interesting. I would go to the neighborhood in Brooklyn that’s full of ultra-Orthodox Jews and people watch
Get a chance to visit MSG, @Shindig?
You can do that in North London though tbf. Had a quality bagel in Finnsbury park last Sunday.Quote:
Originally Posted by mugbull
:D
Borough Park is the name of it. It’s quite a trip.
Nope. Although I'll be past that place again as my train to Newark goes from Penn Station. To compensate, I've been watching Mert's lot sneak their way through March Madness. And Rocky 3 is on BBC America. Stallone wrote and directed that. Explains a lot.Quote:
Originally Posted by igor_balis
It is quite strange experiencing the rapid shift from 'no jews' to 'all jews' for the first time.Quote:
Originally Posted by igor_balis
The only part of Brooklyn I saw was around the vicinity of the Barclays Center and that was rough as hell. Didn't enjoy the walk back to my hotel at midnight.
The more I hear about New York, the less interest I have in ever going. My in laws have just got back and described it as London but without the good bits.
It's better than London imo
It's way, way better than London. And that's just factoring in that people have to pretend to be nice to you so they don't get fired.
Faux-sincerity is probably the most irritating American trait of them all, so that's not really selling it.
If you think someone pretending to like you is a positive, then that says a lot about your self esteem.
I pretend to like everyone.
They're all welcome. The pricks.
Where did I say anything about liking me?Quote:
Originally Posted by SvN
Sexual tension
@Shindig you should to the Creek and the Cave for the Legionbof Skanks show.
Where did I say anything about you?Quote:
Originally Posted by phonics
When you used the pronoun 'you' in direct context of what I'd just said. We're not speaking Queens english or something.
I think you're paranoid, mate.
That was directed at Baz, by the way.
Bigger is better. And there's a proper culture shock going from mostly white Britain to Manhattan's melting pot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
I always preferred Chicago, but that was because New York felt too European. Chicago is a proper American city.
True. It made asking for directions tricky because you never knew what accent you'd land on. Or whether u could contain mine.
So, London then.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
I’m with Spikey. London is so much better. It’s got as many people as New York, but without the towering, oppressive skyscrapers everywhere
That says more about you than the area, I've never felt unsafe in any part of New York or Brooklyn although I haven't done anything silly like venture out to East New York at night or anything.
That says more about you than the area, I've never felt unsafe in any part of New York or Brooklyn although I haven't done anything silly like venture out to East New York at night or anything.Quote:
Originally Posted by 7om
Describing gentrified Brooklyn as sketchy is peak whiteness. It’s not the Bronx.
Phonics listened to The Best of Biggie last night so he'll be adding 'New York' to his list of things to be smug and patronising about now.
Good stuff.
Been in Pasadena for the last three days. I have not done anything. The weather though. :drool: