don't mean to be mean... but why don't they smile at passers by? why does everyone just get on with their own thing and ignore the existence of others down there?
2006-10-24 08:37:09 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Hello !! You obviously have not met me , I smile even when I'm unhappy , I love everyone , until they p me off , my names Lee and I live in Bexley nr london , were not all ignorent , I talk to anyone and they talk & laugh with me , always having a laugh , lifes too short for misery , so if you see a blonde woman with a smile , smile back!!
2006-10-24 08:43:35 · answer #1 · answered by TRUEBRIT 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A third of people in London on a working day do not live in London: they are commuters, so it is hard to say if it is specifically Londoners who are the unfriendly ones.
I'd also add that London, being a capital, is essentially a "serious" place, full of people trying to make careers in the headquarters of thier organisations. Provincial cities are often more friendly because the people their are not involved with such responsible work, or jobs which are so demanding.
London is not worse than other similarly sized cities for unfriendliness: actually I think it compares quite well to Paris, New York and Moscow.
2006-10-24 08:45:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Another petty London-hater. Yawn.
I bet everyone in your town is perfect, are they?
You say " why does everyone just get on with their own thing and ignore the existence of others down there?"
What the **** does that even mean? We get on with our own thing. Is that bad? We ignore the existance of others? Listen, *****, we live in a town of over 7 million people. How the **** do you ignore 7 million people? What are we supposed to do? Run up to absolutley every single person and question them about their business? We don't live in a small insular town like some northeners do. We live in a place with a population almost that of Wales and Ireland combined, with a variety of different cultures and people from all over the world. You probably live in some tiny northern town where absolutely everyone is the same race, nationality, religion and demographic. How the **** you can criticise us? If London is so bad, how come so many ******* northerners/Scottish/Welsh/Irish come down here (and constantly slag us off while they're still here. The amount of northerners/Scottish/Welsh/Irish I've seen slagging off my city and droning on about how their place is so perfect and how everyone in their place is so much greater and friendlier than London because Londoners are so terrible...etc. Why don't they just **** off and stay in their little shithole in Scotland? Londoners don't move en masse to the north and sit around slagging northerners off. So don't do it to us.
I am a Londoner, and I am extremely friendly and helpful. I give money to charity, I am respectful to everyone I meet. I went to the north and it wasn't all that. The people weren't some mega-friendly air-hostess type that cared so much about me, a man they had never met before. As is typical whenever I speak to northerners/Scottish/Welsh/Irish, my accent made them turn instantly hostile to me. Happens a lot. They would go out of their way to screw me over, even physically assault me if possible, yet I have to sit there and say that they are so friendly and I am scum.
Also, did it ever occur to you that, whilst you slag us off for being rude and unfriendly, you wold simply call us gay or soft if we were overtly outgoing towards others.
Face it, you are going to slag London off no matter what. If it's not that we are rude, mean, unfriendly and aggressive, some **** will just call us weak, soft and gay.
So we have the choice of appearing either mean or soft. I know which one I'd choose.
2006-10-24 09:00:35 · answer #3 · answered by schmagum 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm visiting London for a few days.
Today I sat with a friend outside a cafe drinking coffee.
The people at the next table were friendly as were the people beyond them.
Several passers-by smiled.
I'm friendly by nature, smile at strangers and pass a few friendly words.
My world is a world of friends!
2006-10-24 12:03:45 · answer #4 · answered by lordofthetarot 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are millions of people in London. How can we smile at every passer by? I generally found when I worked and lived in London that people there were just as friendly as people anywhere else. If you have occasion to speak to them, they are quite prepared to answer, unless it's the case that your approach seems in some way odd, as if you are singling someone out for some reason. That happened to me occasionally - your instinct sometimes tells you that someone is "dodgy" and to blank them.
2006-10-24 09:44:00 · answer #5 · answered by Specsy 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
londerers are some of the most friendly people in the uk the problem you have is that you don't meet that many londoners you only see people who are not natural londoners but people who live in london and try to make a million pounds a minute,these people do not live a normal life,and no I am not a londoner I was born and bred in Yorkshire (Gods garden) and currently live in Norfolk,and also look around you and see how many people in london are white skin blond haired blue eyed anglo saxons,and this is not a racist comment just an observation
2006-10-24 08:48:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I was down there at the weekend and dont think i saw anybody that was actually from London. They were all from foreign parts (to put it nicely). By the looks of some of them they were the type of people i didnt want smiling at me or speaking to me. So I cant blame the genuine folk from London for not smiling at other people. From what i saw they dont have a lot to smile about.
2006-10-24 09:16:25 · answer #7 · answered by jakeybird2000 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Some are friendly, but others are a bit reserved! When I lived near there once, I was walking down the road and a guy was walking towards me I said "Morning" as we do in Wales-south wales anyway- and he looked at me as if I was stark raving mad!
Didn't do it after that, kept my head down like they did! Was glad to get back to Swansea! But did meet some nice ones whilst there, I think they need to know you before they commit to conversation maybe!
2006-10-24 08:43:09 · answer #8 · answered by Welshchick 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Most of the aren't Londoners!
2006-10-24 08:42:11 · answer #9 · answered by helen p 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's the same in all major cities. We ARE friendly, but we have to be on our guard too as there are all sorts of people around. Try engaging someone in conversation and you will find them friendly and welcoming. We are renowned for our tolerance in England.
2006-10-24 09:01:09 · answer #10 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋