On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 08:40:15AM -0700, Earl Purple wrote:

Perhaps now there's a congestion charge and internet shopping and all
the shops in Oxford Street are doing so badly, we should bulldoze is
all down to make that the common London terminus then?

Not only do the shops claim to be doing badly (although I don't see them
all closing, so they must still be making some money from the hordes of
tourist scum) certainly the vast majority of them, especially east of
oxford circus, are just plain crap, selling nothing but poor quality
clothes, phones, "sports" shoes and stolen goods to, to be blunt, poor
quality people. Flattening them all would be a good thing even if we
didn't build a huge Victorian-style temple of gleaming wrought iron and
glass on the site.

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When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life
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