Every time I see some news footage with London in the background, I never see one single piece of litter (rubbish). The place always looks spotless; at least on TV anyway. Is it really that clean?
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The Clean Streets of London
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Nope, it's high tech wizardry and the 'magic of television'. In reality it's a festering pit of filth. Or so I've been told.
Is this London, England, we're talking about???
It's clean round where Queenie lives.
Since I live in the leafy and über-salubrious suburb of Richmond, I feel hardly qualified to comment. Here, they clean the litter before they bag it up.
That's very Posh, Victorian, Oxbridge, I-am-better-then-you, Eton-said
But I like it
Please tell me you have a butler who says: 'Charmed' all the time in the most patronizing way possible to anyone who is not of a higher posture and level in society
Like anywhere there's good parts and bad parts - each variance becoming more obvious to you depending on your mood I suppose. From what I've seen and compared to a lot of other places I'd say it's not so bad as a whole. I'm a n00b to the area however.
Ottawa is freakin' spotless, at least compared to any place in the US. Montreal is nice too...lovely country those Canadians have up there.
London - the centre - is pretty clean. It's no worse than other cities in the UK, and much better than some cities abroad that I've been too (I was thoroughly shocked at the amount of graffiti in Rome).
Outside the centre, however, it depends entirely on what borough you're in
Outside the centre, however, it depends entirely on what borough you're in
Paris, France is a pretty spotless place!
I was pretty surprised to hear, and see, they wash the gutters!!
It's absolutely filthy throughout. Litter everywhere and none of it ever seems to be cleaned out. If someone turfs something they shouldn't like an old monitor... it'll still be outside next month and the next after. Nothing but gum, wrappers, old beer cans everywhere. Not like most cities :-(
Metre, my dear Skunk, Metre. I think the Americans are corrupting your English!Don't give in. Hold the line and keep the purity of our language against those who would debase it.
For the people who have clean cities, it's probably because they dump all their trash on the freeway going through the city I live in when they commute.
Another strange thing I noticed about clean cities is that they get dirtier the longer you live there.
That or you just start noticing the dirt.
Another strange thing I noticed about clean cities is that they get dirtier the longer you live there.
That or you just start noticing the dirt.
Everywhere over here in the United states of A, is nothing but a sess pool. There's litter strewn everywhere. What I hate the most are filthy cigarette butts. I wish cigarettes were banned in this country.
There's always someone flicking their cigarette butt out the window of their car too. Everytime I see someone do that, it makes me think of that James Bond movie where the machine guns fold out of the car and obliterate the car in front of it.
I'm always sweeping the gutter in front of my house. My neighbors look at me like I'm mental, but I don't care.
There's always someone flicking their cigarette butt out the window of their car too. Everytime I see someone do that, it makes me think of that James Bond movie where the machine guns fold out of the car and obliterate the car in front of it.
I'm always sweeping the gutter in front of my house. My neighbors look at me like I'm mental, but I don't care.
On the contrary the toadish one is quite right. Metre is the correct spelling for the unit of measurement, but a device that measures stuff like water, electricity or irony is spelt meter.
Don't give in. Hold the line and keep the purity of our language against those who would debase it.
You are incorrect. A meter as an instrument for measuring is spelled meter whichever side of the Atlantic you hail from. Only when referring to a unit of measure do we follow the French.
Oh, snap, Edible One!
You obviously never check the bottom of your shoes then. The amount of dog crap on the streets is apalling. They just let their dogs crap anywhere and dont even think about picking up. I saw a woman standing in the doorway of a newsagent tpye store (tabac) and she waited while her stupid looking furball of a dog crapped right on the stoop then went into the store with the dog.