it was the escalator 'rule' at tube stations that got me when i went to london. grown men ready to dash my short ass to the bottom because i was standing on the 'wrong' side! why dont they put up a sign, or better yet just chill out because you only save about three seconds anyway.

never saw that sign! i was probably too busy chatting to a stranger!

Fair enough girl 21. I don't advocate being rude to outsiders but you've got to understand what it feels like for somebody who has to get on the damned tube everyday. Its not a once in a while thing for us, its everyday we have to squeeze through thousands of people, deal with signal failures, baking heat, sweaty bodies, delays everyday and when someone is standing on the wrong side of the escalator and you are inrush and cannot get by, (theyusually with a bleeding rucksack on too), it can be the last straw! I have been known to tutt when this happens, but I'm not proud of it.

Still I wouldn't live in any other part of Britain, maybe for a visit but not to live. I knew a white girl who went to Newcastle to visit and as soon as she opened her mouth inthe pubshe sounded blatantly southern and a bit well spoken. Some drunk bloke stormed across and called her 'f***g student and punched her in the face. Nah man you can keep your northern politeness mate!

I agree ignoring a greeting is just plain rude.
But standing on the wrong side of the escalator - that is
a crime against london humanity!

MOVE OVER. I can't take when i am rushing to get somewhere
and i am walking up the escalator and there is someone standing
on the wrong side, busy chatting.
Ahhhh man - i guess its because we are all so used
to people knowing the rules - when someone is in the way,
it is very annoying.
Londoners are always in a rush - we SHOULD just chill.
But thats not going to happen any time soon.
Although they do announce over the tannoy stand to the right -
walk up on the left.

Another pet hate i have of people who aren't used to london -
those ones that when they are getting off the tube - they get to the
door and start looking around, whilst there is a whole heap of people
waiting for them to get off!
Ahhhh man - GET OFF THE TUBE - then look, and stop wasting time.

and what is up with men trying to ask questions in the middle of the night
or trying to chirpse. And they wonder why they get ignored.
The night time holds a different threat for women, i don't get
why some men don't understand this!
my friend told me how one time, she was walking home late,
this guy was trying to chirpse from his car.
She ignored him, any way the man didn't give up and started
following her and chatting. He was concentrating so much on her
that he crashed his foolish car into a gate. SHAME - his concentrate
soon returned to where it should've been!

yeah, im from manchester and would feel scared to venture into newcastle myself. (did you hear about the racist killing there of a guy who was practically white-his mum was half somali?)

also, alot of the time people like me are generally in a better mood than they themselves would normally be because you probably came down to london for a concert,carnival, visit an old friend etc -so i suppose miserable people will stand out more than at home

Wasn't that murder in hull or somewhere like that north-east? and his grandma was somali? they're not being very concise...anyways while we're onto the subject of northerners. I find people from yorkshire rude and common. I have to deal with them on the phone sometimes and they talk to you like your inferior and owe them a favour, not all yorkies just some...most of the time i find myself accidently putting the receiver down on them ....opps!

Yankee - its true - people in london do need to chill.
BUT PEOPLE NEED TO MOVE OVER! LOL the classic is when i say
excuse me, and they look at me like WHAT - one karate kick
to your head will tell you what!
cheek.

Having lived in NYC I can compare the two and say that London has to be the worse! I thought NY was bad but this city is enough to dampen yourmood in 10 minutes. Some people have mentioned California and I concur that the mentality out there is totally different. When I visited LA and San Diego the people dem were sooooo friendly and polite. Jamaica is the only other place where I've experienced such friendliness from children to elders.

Over here if you greet the elders from back home some of them will be like "why yu ah greet mi fah? Mi know yu?" People from Birmingham are far more friendly than London folks its a breath of fresh air every time I visit.

I have never experienced saying hello to an elder and them
respond in a bad way. I am really surprised by your experience of that
prince.

But its official london is unfriendly.
OK LEAVE THE PLACE ALONE NOW!
Lol!