A response to http://inquirelive.co.uk/node/178 (read first)
This entry is not an attack to the author of the original article who has explained to me that he adopted a character when writing.
1) If you are a snotty aesthete try not to ruin my day with your whining. I happen to find a certain charm in concrete nightmares.
2) How about visiting and not buying said sandwich? What about visiting a run-down café? They will glad of the company and I am sure I can recommend some cracking ones to you. Regardless there is something rather romantic about an arcade with its paint peeling off, requests for you to come join the bingo so you can win a set of pots in a presentation ribbon and then on to the beach to get sand in all your belongings. As for the city what do you expect? Surely the mere definition of the word allows for some sense of misinterpretation of the excitement within.
One could say it’s only disappointing people who are disappointed. .
For the record these photos are not shopped they are staged. That is different. The blue sky usually does exist. Also, if I may butt in-which I will, there are literally THOUSANDS of free things to do in London. Seriously man I don’t know where you have been all your life.
3)Surely all the shops being owned by the same people is Capitalist? Perhaps I am confused. Yes I have seen everything before I have left but so what? And please, try not to plagiarise Bill Bailey. It’s not very becoming of you.
4) I would disagree with your stance here that museums are just a way to generate money. Alright, in some respects that is the case. But time and time again I have come across instances where museums have had to be closed down because of a lack of government funding and grants. Just because YOU might not want to see some old coins (frankly, it sounds like you don’t really like doing anything) doesn’t mean that you are the only one. History is cool, and don’t you forget it.
5) Avoid at all costs any article that has “miserablist” in the title, especially one that features “amateur journalists”. These are bitter individuals who failed to make the local newspaper, and who get their revenge by shamelessly flaunting their own faux-Clarkson-esque writings on an unsuspecting student body who just wanted to read a bit of news for once and not an article better suited for a personal blog.
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