64 Things You Still Don't Know After Living In London For 5 Years
Have YOU ever seen a closed Chicken Cottage?
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1. How to say Holborn.
2. How to say Marylebone.
3. Exactly how much a tube journey actually costs.
4. Or exactly when peak hours are.
5. How you've never met anyone who has ever been to an Angus Steak House, and yet it continues to exist.
6. Why Infernos has a carpet
7. Why is it that you know that Infernos has a carpet, because it's truly a hell like no other.
8. (Except perhaps The Swan.)
9. Where the quiet pubs are after work on a Friday.
10. Same goes for good beer gardens.
11. Why people would queue for an hour to eat their dinner.
12. Whether the Waterloo & City line is actually real.
13. Which exit to use at Elephant and Castle.
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14. What to do when Citymapper is down.
15. If you'll ever be able to buy a house.
16. Why your friend who lives in a really nice part of town pays less council tax than you, who lives in a shit hole.
17. Why the Circle line is called the Circle line when it's clearly not a circle.
18. Why anyone would choose not to sit at the front of the DLR.
19. How to get to Battersea.
20. Why the District line drivers can't fucking step on it once in a while.
21. Why someone will stand on the left when a hundred people below them are obviously standing on the right.
22. If Euston Square tube station has ever been used by a human being.
23. Why you can only buy a pasty in a train station.
24. How you can be in the middle of central London and not have any phone signal.
25. How to deal with the fact that you can be FREEZING, and then get on the tube and be sweating immediately.
26. Where really is up and coming.
27. Where the best Chicken Cottage is.
28. (This is a trick question, they are all perfect.)
29. And come to think of it, has anyone ever seen a Chicken Cottage close?
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