This thread is brought to you by someone asking me about what to do in the city I used to live in and my recommendations being massively subpar and obvious
For London this gives me a bit of anxiety - It’s so big and so much to do where do you even start!
I feel like Birmingham for the second city is surprisingly small (city centre anyway) so much easier to work out what people might want and what other areas they might be interested in
My interests i think aren’t interesting to many people, can recommend good gardens or woody places to visit but even then its limited to north west/south west london
I wouldn’t even consider London “ where I live”. If anyone asked me I’d point them at the train station and tell them to just wander about waiting for something interesting to turn up.
You see this Spar, right. Used to be a Co-Op – yes like the Co-Op just up the road from here, there used to be two Co-Ops. But before it was a Co-Op, it was a Spar. Like it is now. Anyway, yeah - they did some renovating on the Co-Op a few years ago and it became a Spar again. My mate used to shoplift from here and right over there is where a bloke threw a bottle at us because we told him his haircut looked like Niko Bellic’s from Grand Theft Auto 4
See now right here is where Stat lobbed this massive fucking apple and the apple like got pierced by the tree bark and loads of apple juice went in my eye and I was like “FUCK’S SAKE STAT, APPLE JUICE IN ME EYE”
So here’s a funny series of circumstances. Our school burned down the year I started, right? Three years in those temporary mobiles, but then a good few years of insurance payout-fuelled luxury! A comprehensive school with like state-of-the-art computers, we were. We had Garageband and that’s where a young man by the name of whatever my name is first discovered the joys of messing about with music production.
And nearly 15 years on and where am I now? Well… let’s just say, I wake up most nights. Screaming. Just fucking… I don’t know who I am anymore.
Used to be a computer shop here where these houses are. We got a graphics card from here and it had a copy of Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind come free with it. It was the game of the year edition as well, so some of the bugs had been fixed
You’ll never believe this! See, this hairdressers here - and it’s got her name on the sign. You’ll notice there’s another hairdressers next door n all right? And GET THIS! I’ve frequented the latter of the hairdressers and the proprietor, right? HER NAME IS THE SAME NAME AS WHAT THE HAIRDRESSER WHO EMBLAZENS HER NAME UPON HER SIGN HAS
Depends on what vibe they’re after. If they want wastelands, housing estates, concrete murals, chai tips, and a very flimsy grasp on history then I’m good.
Alwsys admire how much most europeans I’ve met know about the context of their towns and things like population, politics and trade.
