London...

Layabout · Mon 20/09/2004 16:49:50

Hi.

My name is Ryan, and I'm from Australia. I recently moved to London because I was bored. For those who do not know, That is about 22 hours on a plane. Which is a hell of a long time.

Luckily I got to stop off in korea for 16 hours, staying in a classy hotel, and sampling the nightlife. Which involved beer, singing, and sekret doors. The sekret doors were so mysterious, I did not want to find out what lay behind them. Alot of asian men seemed to be interested in venturing through the Sekret door, which also I must add, included a price list. I'll let you imagine what was going up there. The next morning I went back to Icheon Int. Airport, which is space age fantastic looking, and got on my plane to Heathrow.

Which was a dump. For one of, if not the busiest airports in the world, it was shithouse!! It was dirty, smelly and dark. So I hopped on the Tube and went to the Hostel I planned on staying at. The tube was nice I guess. Very interesting. I've never seen a train system where trains come by every 3-5 minutes. In Brisbane, you'd be lucking If one came every half an hour!

The Generator...
Is awesome! I've never drunk so much in my life as I did in my 2.5 week stint as a generator regular. Sure the rooms were small, but they were only used to pass out after a hard nights drinking. Â£1 whisky and cokes!!! I was guzzling them down until happy hour was over and they changed to Â£2 whisky and cokes. Which I guzzled down until they closed the bar. There were many at the Generator whose most exciting part of the day was when the bar opened.

So on the first night I was sitting in the bar by myself with a whisky and coke in hand when a fellow antipodean, who mind you had a great rack, came up and invited me to sit at the OZ table. I made friends on the first night! They were really cool and stuff. The blond one, Madeline, was keen on me. I would have, but I lost my mojo! But only temporarily, because I got it back when I met my current girlfriend, Katherine. She is awesome to the max. I also met my current housemates that same day (a thursday), Robert, a stinkin bush voting yank, and Ivan and Andrea, two crazy mexicans who are married. We move to a house in Willesden Green NW2, which is not bad, It's better than being hungover for 2.5 weeks straight, turning into a raving alcoholic.

I visited other places like most of the famous sites, but now I need a job.

Ryan Keepence,
Adventurer.

dasjoe · Mon 20/09/2004 17:02:01

dude, that sounds fuckin' great

hope you like gb. how long do you plan to stay there? or aren't you willing to go back?

DGMacphee · Mon 20/09/2004 17:03:26

Ah, Laya, I'm glad you wrote. I was about to start my own thread asking "Where the hell are you?"

Oliver · Mon 20/09/2004 17:27:37

Hehe, that's a quite fun story

I hope you stopped drinking by now.

You need a job? I think you've gotten to the hard part not!

Pumaman · Mon 20/09/2004 20:25:09

Talk about making yourself at home -- getting yourself a load of mates, a girlfriend and a place to live within 2 weeks of being in another country is pretty good going! Hope it's not too much of an anti-climax now that reality has hit and you've got to find a job

Also, I have to agree about Heathrow - I was surprised at how much of a dump it was when we used it to go to Mittens. I guess it's also one of the world's oldest airports, and time hasn't treated it well.

Cluey · Mon 20/09/2004 22:34:10

In a Co-op in our town, you can just walk in and say "Give us a job,"
And they're like:
"Ok, interview on monday"

There's plenty of cafes in London, why not get a job at one of those?

Mr Jake · Mon 20/09/2004 22:45:31

ha! I got past the interview! EAT THAT!

Ill phone up Layabout tomorrow

Privateer Puddin' · Mon 20/09/2004 22:52:52

Quote from: Clueless3 on Mon 20/09/2004 22:34:10
In a Co-op in our town, you can just walk in and say "Give us a job,"
And they're like:
"Ok, interview on monday"

meh, i'm a poor student and i wouldnt ask for a job in the co op

BlackMan890 · Mon 20/09/2004 22:55:15

tell me, is it posible to use internet on an airplane?
if so, then these 22 hours you could have been online

Mr Jake · Mon 20/09/2004 23:02:55

No its not, iirc the wireless stuff interupts the plan's stuff... So unless you have a UBER MASSIVE LONG cable, no, no its not.

Btw, the Co-op is an uber job, so stfu k.

Moox · Tue 21/09/2004 00:47:24

Yes you can hotspot, I am an avid flyer, You just cant use it during takeoff or landing. The minutes are expensive tho

Kinoko · Tue 21/09/2004 04:22:39

Wow, you've done well, Layabout. By that I mean in getting so many friends, a girlfriend and accomodation in such a short time in a foreign land, as ... someone said. Not the massive amount of damage you did to your body during that time ^_- Don't let yourself fall into that British drinking binge circle! I've seen some docos on it and ... well, it's pretty fucked up. You NEED your senses to be able to tell if girls are really good looking or not.

If you get a job, save up and go on a tour of Scotland ^_^ Scotland rocks! So my friends tell me.

Mr Jake · Tue 21/09/2004 09:48:29

Quote from: LostTraveler on Tue 21/09/2004 00:47:24
Yes you can hotspot, I am an avid flyer, You just cant use it during takeoff or landing. The minutes are expensive tho

Yes when I was writing I thought it might of only been take off and landing, sorry for my mistake then

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Wow, you've done well, Layabout. By that I mean in getting so many friends, a girlfriend and accomodation

... Layabout has more than me >:|

Andail · Tue 21/09/2004 10:34:17

That's great to hear, Laya!
I'm tempted to move to London too, it sounds pretty funky.

Layabout · Tue 21/09/2004 15:01:55

I am applying for a job at an overpriced chocolate shop today. They are desparate for an assistant manager, and i'm like way qualified. Should pay pretty good too hopefully.

Pumaman · Tue 21/09/2004 22:15:02

Quote from: blackman890 on Mon 20/09/2004 22:55:15
tell me, is it posible to use internet on an airplane?
if so, then these 22 hours you could have been online

I dread the day they allow the internet, or for that matter mobile phones, to be used on aircraft... at least it's usually possible to get some sleep on flights at the moment.

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I'm tempted to move to London too, it sounds pretty funky.

Strange, that ... I've always seen it as a dirty, smelly mess.

m0ds · Wed 22/09/2004 00:19:35

Teh Ry,

PM me if you still want my mobile phone details

Hope you're finding London thrilling. Wormwood Scrubs all the way!

Layabout · Thu 30/09/2004 17:04:40

To all my ags gringos,

I am still 'looking' for a job. Teh pooh!!

I don't mind London, but Ihave one big complaint. THe Drivers over here. Where the hell did they learn how to drive? It's like they absolutly have to accelerate as much as possible until they are forced to slow down due to other cars. And it is dirty and smelly too.

Mark, I do have your phone number, thanks. I just ran out of credit, so I couldn't text you.

And CJ didn't bother to give me a number the hoe.

Blade · Thu 30/09/2004 17:16:58

Drivers... good thing you're from Australia, that way you've got no problems with the left side of the road.
In every big city drivers are hopeless, I think.

Pet Terry · Thu 30/09/2004 17:55:13

Quote from: The ghost of Layabout on Thu 30/09/2004 17:04:40
I don't mind London, but Ihave one big complaint. THe Drivers over here. Where the hell did they learn how to drive? It's like they absolutly have to accelerate as much as possible until they are forced to slow down due to other cars. And it is dirty and smelly too.

Finally someone else notices it aswell! Like busdrivers, they drive like maniacs.

And when CJ didn't notice that bump in the road...

London...

m0ds