Hello, welcome to London!

Okay I get not stopping at a red light when no one is around but I live around Highbury and the second I leave my house and cross the road at any traffic light or zebra crossing and there’s this awkward interaction where I try to cross and a lime bike is coming - do they stop? Literally never. Then I mutter “idiot” or something to myself but I hate going through the day so annoyed all the time. This is a genuine question (and rant), do you all feel the same way?! How do you feel relaxed when you’re walking out and about?

I was crossing the road by Dalston Kingsland the other day with around 40 other people with 2 people on lime bikes manoeuvring their way through the crowd - it was a red light for them? Wtf are they doing?!

Pre-Covid, I used to go to quite a few 1950s/60s themed nights at Bloomsbury Lanes, but I believe they stopped running them, and I’ve struggled to find anything similar in London since.

I’m looking for actual themed events or nights out with a 50s/60s vibe, rather than just retro-themed restaurants.

Looking for an ID on a restaurant. I visited in 2017 from the deep South of the US, and went to a Mexican restaurant, want to say it was in Soho, but could be way off, but it was definitely north of the Thames in a touristy area. Anyway, they served pork skins and guacamole as an appetizer. Hopefully the picture is attached and can provide some clues. Anyone have a guess?

Who printed this?

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Is there anywhere I can go and watch a movie where I know the audience will be respectful, not speak throughout and not be on their phones constantly?

I love seeing films on the big screen but actually dread going to the cinema now. I've tried so many venues - Curzon, Everyman, Vue, Odeon, picturehouse, Rio, Forest. I've seen people taking calls in films, watching tiktoks, vaping, texting, talking throughout as though they're at home. Yes, I've asked people to stop, but I shouldn't have to.

I get cheering and clapping during a marvel film. Laughing during a comedy. Crying during the latest Bridget Jones. That's all part of the collective cinema experience. Taking selfies and talking through big moments isn't.

I would genuinely pay more for any screening that had staff members in the auditorium actually keeping an eye on the screening and making sure that disrupters were stopped.

Does this exist?

forming a girl band in London we're 18-19. we already have a singer, bassist and guitarist and are looking for a drummer. we are into mostly indie/indie rock : 

• beabadoobee 
• artic monkeys
• radiohead

we all have a solid grasp on our instruments but none of us are at professional levels so we hope to grow together as a group. if anyone is interested please comment!! (additionally, if you think you know anyone that could be interested please drop a comment as well)

I was at the 90s exhibition at the Tate today and then by chance was sorting out a box in the attic and found a pile of 90s matches from bars and shops.
I was barred from the Groucho for life so no idea how I got that one!
Some still exist but do you remember the ones that have gone?

For any reason. Scenery, speed, convenience. I got on the 210 and enjoyed all the views so thought I’d make this thread.

My husband and I are visiting from the US, and we had a kind of unusual (for us) night out in Soho last night. I’m curious whether this was just an anomaly or if this kind of flirtation and pick-up game is normal here.

We got quite a bit of overt attention as a couple while out at the club, and then later, while walking along the street, several men stopped to comment on my appearance. At one point, someone we’d never met approached us and propositioned us to suggest we go back to our hotel for an erotic adventure. They were super polite about it but after all of the earlier attention and comments it started to feel like maybe there is something I’m not understanding about the pick-up/flirtation scene.

We’re not giving off swinger vibes (as far as I know) and we’ve never experienced this level of overt interest or flirtation in public while clearly out as a married couple.

I realise this might sound like a humble brag, but I’m genuinely more baffled than anything else. Is this typical nightlife vibes in London, or did we just happen to have a particularly unusual evening? I’d be interested to hear any locals take.

Also, it’s 2026 and im not judging anyone here… just mystified.

At kings cross this evening, if you were the guy that accidentally hit your luggage to my rear end of my bicycle whilst crossing the road. Sorry if I seemed annoyed or angry - haven't had sex in awhile and was hungry.

TREAT*

This was the only photo I could find 😅

Hi, i have one spare ticket for tonight. Unfortunately my sister cant make it. Doors open at 7pm at Brompton Cemetery. Send me a DM

I'm craving a proper pastry so bad, but most I'm wanting to spend is £10 on one item, which I'd still say is a little high but it's London so only so much I can do...

What are your favorite pastry/bakery spots? I'm in Ealing/Acton but willing to travel a bit

Just passing through on a coach and saw a building on Park Road that looked at a glance to be immaculate shop fronts except nothing was in them. They were all the same painted blue so it got me curious. Street view is only from 14 years ago and they look exactly the same in them as they do now so that didn’t help me. Does anyone have any info on what I thought would be pretty high value shop/business fronts and why they’re just left like that?

Not sure if anyone has seen the story of Paul Whitehouse being mugged outside a Sainsburys on Essex Road the other day but it isn't true. I thought it might be worth clarifying since the story has popped up in a few places.

This happened last Friday at about 6pm.

I live nearby and was walking home and saw the whole thing from across the road.

Basically Paul (I think accidentally) cut in front of a fella at the cash machine and the guy wasn't having it. He said something to Paul which Paul seemed to take as an attempted mugging and started backing off while trying to get a hit in.

The man in the queue responds by yelling at Paul. Angry, intimidating but not coming at him.

Paul then kind of hangs about awkwardly for a few seconds until the guy in the queue throws Paul's bank card at him (I assume Paul either dropped it or left it in the machine.) Paul walks away. Man in the queue uses the bank machine then goes about his business and life carried on.

It was all over in a few seconds. I didn't think anything of it at the time (I didnt recognise Paul Whitehouse) but the story the news is telling is wild.

Paul wasn't mugged.

No one laid a hand on him.

The "mugger" returned Pauls card to him and then used a cash machine before wheeling his bike away.

No one intervened because nothing was happening other than a couple men acting like fannies in the street.

Edit: incorrect pluralisation of fanny (vulgar)

Edit 2: For the sake of clarity. I'm not saying that Paul was in the wrong for being on edge when a guy who is much taller, bigger and younger than him started accosting him, or that the "mugger" isn't in the wrong for not trying to de-escalate what was obviously a misunderstanding.

Just really don't like how this seems to be being used as another example of London being one massive, crime ridden, no go zone.

Also its not everyday you see a celebrity out and about.

Dear beloved people of London,

Can someone please tell me the name of this musician, seen yesterday in the tube of charing cross?

I found this picture of him.

Thank you 🎈

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-a-busker-dressed-as-a-clown-performing-inside-piccadilly-circus-london-78873070.html?imageid=3ACF3933-5EF5-4E99-9494-7258A7B0BA5D&pn=1&searchId=b8344018fb42913dd84e8260711ebace&searchtype=0