they should have separate airports for people who walk quickly and are capable of reading signs
Benedict
@carto_graph
effete scion of civilisation 🏳️🌈
- Why does EVERYBODY seem to have thought this as a childthis is literally what i thought the eurostar did as a child
00:00 - Just met a guy in rural Austria. Told him I’m from London. Him: “I’d love to go to London. But I don’t want to get stabbed.” Glad to see our good reputation has travelled round the world.
- In Germany you know which platform your train leaves from months in advance – it’s on the timetable. In Britain Network Rail doesn’t tell you until the train is just about to leave.
- Just found out that my mother (the tax partner in a firm of London accountants) has just received the first instalment of her winter fuel allowance. Universal Boomer Income.
- America: rejected because your application lapses into hubris British UCAS personal statement: ‘My passion for geography was first sparked when I went on a scintillating field trip to Durdle Door.’For whatever it’s worth to Zach or other students, I’ve sat on Rhodes Scholarship committees & reviewed many elite apps. This essay: (1) lapsed into hubris by the end of para #1, & (2) didn’t explain *why* Zach wants to learn from other humans, let alone at a particular uni.🧵
- In Britain we have an unusual cultural practice. It’s called ‘following the signs’ which is a bit difficult to translate but roughly means ‘looking where you are going and reading things that are posted on walls’.Visiting Paris really makes you realize how much of "Western culture" is just French culture...
- > It didn’t chase glass-and-steel “progress.” Brother this is what central Warsaw looks like
00:56Replying to @CultureExploreXWhile the rest of Europe is debating statues, Poland is preserving cathedrals, restoring medieval squares, and opening palaces to the public. It didn’t chase glass-and-steel “progress.” It made history visible again. - The British Library is so intensely civilised. >walk in >go through some pointless bureaucracy >deal with a ropey IT system >access to EVERYTHING EVER PUBLISHED IN BRITAIN
- Sorry but are Americans now using the word ‘transplant’ as a synonym for ‘person who has moved to a city’?Every transplant should have to volunteer somewhere!! @macyagilliam
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