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Canal Street
fact: Better known as Anal Street from continual vandalizing since establishment in 1904. |
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Holland Park
Fact: Many a protitute has been known to migrate into this park. |
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New Cross/New Cross Gate
Fact: These two stations are actually only one place. New Cross Gate was added on the maps to (in a London Underground spokesman's words) "confuse bloody students". |
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Cockfosters
Fact: Place of thriving homosexual activity. "when walking in to find one of your friends has just screwed three males consecutively in one night" "JESUS CHRIST YOU REALLY ARE A COCKFOSTER AREN'T YOU" |
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Golders Green
Fact: Amy Winehouse didn't have her bat mitzvah here.
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Putney Bridge
Fact: Due to a clerical error Putney Bridge wasn't built over the Thames as planned but was needlessly built two miles north of the river. |
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another interesting fact about swiss cottage is that it has the highest proportion of rapes in all of london. |
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Chancery Lane
Fact: Chancery Lane is a corruption of its original name 'Chance Your Eye Lane' which referred to the popular London game of taking turns to throw a knife at each others eyes from a distance of three meters. |
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Is that actually true? I really wouldn't have thought that about Swiss Cottage. |
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well now you've got me wondering whether it was st john's wood, but either way it's same. apparently it's because a lot of women go jogging around there assuming because it's a quiet & wealthy residential area that it's safer than going jogging in hackney wick, or some such place. |
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Ah, good point that's probably why. And yeah St John's Wood and Swiss Cottage are the same. I think St John's Wood's name gives it away ie John ain't no saint.
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Mile End.
Fact: London's first Hell's Angel chapter was founded here, called "Satan's Raleigh Choppers".
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maybe it's his ghost that's doing all the raping, because he's stuck for eternity with a hard on |
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Leicester Square
Fact: Commonly referred to as "Lie-chester Square" by Americans. |
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Chalk Farm
Fact: so called because primary school teachers used to breed their blackboard writing implements here during the war.
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Ha! I've just noticed something. Goldhawk Road is right by Ravenscourt Park. They sure do like their bird referrences in those parts.
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Victoria
Fact: If you pay close attention to the architecture of the entrance to this station you will notice that it is subtley modelled on Queen Victoria's vagina. |
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Fuck, I've just also noticed that there are two stations called Shepherd's Bush.
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Yeah, the victims have been giving the same description for the last fifty years: fat man in cassock. Crime Watch didn't get far. |
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South Kensington
Fact: Despite having some of the highest property prices in the whole of London, no one actually lives in Kensington. |
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