You know you've lived in London too long when...

Saw this on metblogs.com, some of it's frighteningly true.

http://london.metblogs.com/archives/2005/03/you_know_youve.phtml

I'll try a few more...

1. You snigger at the price when you buy a round whilst visiting mates in other cities.

2. Your family tells you you have a Southern twang and you say "naah I've alwiss talked like this init"



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Ha, great thread Mogwai


3. 20p for 5 minutes parking seems reasonable.

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4. £300,000 is an acceptable price for a box room above a newsagents.

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5. Unsolicited friendliness from strangers is met with you looking directly at the floor, cos let’s face it they’re either going to ask you for money or tell you about God.

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6. You refer to the police as "Rozzers"

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7. you expect 15% gratuity to be automatically added when your bill is delivered to your table, after all it’s not up to you to decide whether the staff have earned it

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8. when you don’t think that 60% of Londoners wear ridiculous-looking footwear

(i reckon that only the Dutch have worse footwear than Londoners... don’t people know that only celebrities can get away with stupid-looking shoes)

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9. You begin to pack summer clothes for the tube journey and a suit & raincoat for a quick chage in the Westminster public loos

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10. You know the Underground replacement bus service drivers by name and shift

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11. The bloke sitting across from you on the tube seems strangely faymiliar, yet you wonder when did you start using words like "bloke" and why does "tube" seem like a normal word for public transport?

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12. The word "cheers" seems to keep worming its way onto a formal letter.

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