Maybe it's because you're a Londoner...
There is a really incredibly lame and mildly offensive poster campaign happening in the Tube at the moment, that I really cannot abide.
It is a campaign that, for all intents and purposes, is about how awesome London is, which, yeah, it is. I love London a lot, and it's got some great stuff going for it.
However, this campaign is not only about how great London is, it's about how great Londoners are, because they're all cultured and interesting and wear their work clothes to the pub instead of going home to change and buy cars that they never use because they're too busy being a Londoner and it's just sooooooooooooooooooooo snobby, and irritating, and it reminds me a lot of that episode of Sex and the City where one of them is dating a dude that hasn't left Manhattan in ten years because what is there outside of New York? and it's generally agreed by all concerned that he's a douche, and that Central Park does not equate to the countryside.
It is a poster campaign that says things like, Londoners are 37% more likely to be opinion leaders in the UK, stating they buy new products before their friends, and Maybe you've developed a "power walk", which only becomes apparent once your friends outside of London have to jog to keep up, and Londoners are 26% more likely to have been to a cultural event in the last month and it's all just so gross.
Like, is it something to be proud of that you are so materialistic that you insist on having all the shiny new stuff before anyone else has it just so you can brand yourself an opinion maker? Is it a good thing that you are unable to take a nice afternoon stroll by a river in the hiking boots that have never seen so much as a muddy puddle, but that you spent a tonne of money on anyway, because you're an opinion maker, that's the kind of shit you do. Ugh.
Is this how we're representing ourselves to the world now? Put aside the fact that no self-respecting English person owns a pair of "hiking" boots ( hey CBS, do some research, over here we just call that walking), but is all this stupid, lame, self-aggrandising shit really the kind of thing we want visitors to our city to believe that we think about ourselves?
Ick.
Also happening - sushi takeout for dinner, super yum, theatre tomorrow, super awesome, and what I thought was a police helicopter hovering over the flat for the last hour turned out to actually just be my sister's washing machine finishing its cycle, super me being kind of an idiot.
It is a campaign that, for all intents and purposes, is about how awesome London is, which, yeah, it is. I love London a lot, and it's got some great stuff going for it.
However, this campaign is not only about how great London is, it's about how great Londoners are, because they're all cultured and interesting and wear their work clothes to the pub instead of going home to change and buy cars that they never use because they're too busy being a Londoner and it's just sooooooooooooooooooooo snobby, and irritating, and it reminds me a lot of that episode of Sex and the City where one of them is dating a dude that hasn't left Manhattan in ten years because what is there outside of New York? and it's generally agreed by all concerned that he's a douche, and that Central Park does not equate to the countryside.
It is a poster campaign that says things like, Londoners are 37% more likely to be opinion leaders in the UK, stating they buy new products before their friends, and Maybe you've developed a "power walk", which only becomes apparent once your friends outside of London have to jog to keep up, and Londoners are 26% more likely to have been to a cultural event in the last month and it's all just so gross.
Like, is it something to be proud of that you are so materialistic that you insist on having all the shiny new stuff before anyone else has it just so you can brand yourself an opinion maker? Is it a good thing that you are unable to take a nice afternoon stroll by a river in the hiking boots that have never seen so much as a muddy puddle, but that you spent a tonne of money on anyway, because you're an opinion maker, that's the kind of shit you do. Ugh.
Is this how we're representing ourselves to the world now? Put aside the fact that no self-respecting English person owns a pair of "hiking" boots ( hey CBS, do some research, over here we just call that walking), but is all this stupid, lame, self-aggrandising shit really the kind of thing we want visitors to our city to believe that we think about ourselves?
Ick.
Also happening - sushi takeout for dinner, super yum, theatre tomorrow, super awesome, and what I thought was a police helicopter hovering over the flat for the last hour turned out to actually just be my sister's washing machine finishing its cycle, super me being kind of an idiot.