7 cultural faux pas in London

7 cultural faux pas in London

There is nothing that makes Londoners as angry as standing on the left side of a escalator. Avoid this and other cultural faux pas in London with our advice below.

1. Incorrect use of the London subway

This is such a minefield that we wrote an entire separate contribution about it. Read "London: Rules of the Underground" to avoid the many, many faux pas that this gauntlet causes.

2. The attempt to express Leicester Square without prior training

Lester is pronounced, not lie-ses or lee-ses-tes or a similar permutation. Likewise, you should probably ask a London how to express Marybone, Westminster, The Mall, Grosvenor Square and Berwick Street before doing it in the wild. It is also useful to note that the part "Street" or "Road" of a location is important.

If you are Americans, you could try to say that you live on "Pembridge", but that could mean Pembridge Villas, Pembridge Road, Pembridge Garden, Pembridge Place, Pembridge Crescent and so on.

3. Wearing a barbour jacket outside of hackney or chelsea

If you have a preference for barbour jackets or hunter rubber boots or other traditional British clothing, which have been acquired by the hipster classes, you will do well to stay within the borders of hackney or the wealthy Chelsea. Otherwise you will probably be mocked as a "stubborn" (unless you are actually a farmer, in that case you are probably okay).

4. Use the rail replacement traffic instead of just canceling

When it comes to using TFL's rail replacement traffic or staying at home, stays at home. If you really have to travel, take a taxi or go on foot or crawl or instead hire a group of sloths to drag them there. All of these options will be faster and less stressful.

alt = “sloths”>

5. Resist yourself before the C-word

Londoner swear! We use the expressiveness of fucking in all its expansive beauty. We have a hundred different synonyms for "penis" and don't be afraid to use them, often loving, but mostly pejorative. Our television presenters use shit and crap and wanker, among other things. Accept this.

6. Ask a black taxi to bring you south of the river

Despite the prose's prose from Dulwich and the persistent persistence that Peckham is really and truly on the rise, South London is still largely regarded as a murder-like presence that has settled under the safe limits of the Thames.

You can reach its depths by public transport (the orcs have to come home somehow), so do not ask the driver of a black taxi to cross the river for them.

7. And finally ... touch the queen

You don't stir the queen. She touches you if she wishes it, but you don't touch her. It does not matter whether you are Olympic champions or the first lady of the United States: the rule still applies. (Pay attention to Ms. Obama.)

alt = “touch-the-kingy not”>

very British problem of Rob Temple is a hilarious insight into the British psyche.

main picture: tfl

 .