Unlocked Phones and Total Randomness
| by Rob Jackson on June 24th, 2009 |
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While I’m waiting for some HTC Hero Videos to upload to YouTube I thought I’d share a moment of complete randomness. One thing I’ve learned about London during my time here is that the city is very old and rich in history. But apprently nowhere during that history did they invent or figure out proper road signs.
Apparently some stores like to keep with the city’s theme of complete sign randomness by following suit with their own business:
Mobile Phone Unlocking/Sales/Repairs, Dry Cleaning Specialists and Shoe Repair all in one convenient location! You can kill 2 birds with one stone and Chuck Norris can kill 2 stones with one bird… but nobody can do like Smartline does.
Stay tuned for those videos!
1. Blu_Frog wrote on June 24, 2009
Took me a minute to figure out that they didn’t have their own Emergency Exit right there at the store fron too! :|
2. Ellis wrote on June 24, 2009
while in the UK come to Wales!
Specifically Swansea, also bring a Hero with you =P
3. J J wrote on June 24, 2009
Oi, Geezer I really don’t no why you bothered to came here. It’s all me me me…we we we with you yanks. There are other contries out there. Not everyone shares the yankee fantasy world. Try flying out to more countries and wake up.
4. Zitin wrote on June 24, 2009
Haha..Something you guys missed..Its actually 3 Birds..There is a Shoe Repair Sign too..Its the Red Neon Sign in the middle Window..
Man I wanna go to the UK now..hahaha
5. Sharktamer wrote on June 24, 2009
Yeah, that’s nothing weird over here. The barbers up the road is also an internet cafe and a mobile phone accessories store.
6. Craig wrote on June 24, 2009
That’s almost as crazy as a country selling guns and beer in the same store! ;)
7. Rob Jackson wrote on June 24, 2009
@JJ – it was all in good fun. Yes, I am somewhat ignorant to foreign countries and hope to travel more. I loved London and already cannot wait to come back.
That being said I think the street signs and street identification system is confusing and posed my opinion in a sarcastic (and what I thought was funny) manner. Loosen up… I’d be happy to laugh along with folks making fun of the United States for things that are admittedly wonky here. Plenty of material to poke on for sure.
By the way, everyone FROM London who asked me where I was fun had the SAME thing to say when I explained I was from Baltimore:
“Oh yeah, I just started watching The Wire. Don’t a lot of people die there?”
Great… hahahahhahahaha
8. ahmed wrote on June 24, 2009
craig lol u made my day
shit thats funny didn’t know that about uk i used to envy my aunt 4living there now i guess i don’t
i guess Dubai really is the best city in the world
huh beat tat
9. Darrell wrote on June 25, 2009
This is perfectly normal for the UK, in fact they should also do Key Cutting.
The best example i have seen (in central London) did Cheap International Calls, Internet, shoe repairs, key cutting, dry cleaning, phone unlocking/repairs and accessories.
10. Darrell wrote on June 25, 2009
As for road signs, yes it is confusing for Americans because our streets developed organically rather than being laid out in the grid system like most Ameriacn Ciies.
11. Ben wrote on June 25, 2009
Street signs in the UK are terrible, all that history getting in the way. My favourite sign so far was in Dublin though, advertising free gruel.
12. jeff wrote on June 25, 2009
Not for nothing but …most americans don’t have the luxury of traveling internationally …its not a tunnel away or a dirt cheap airline ticket away either …I don’t think its very fair to respond like that considering that there are differances and there are just as many weird things in the us as everywhere else …I have traveled alot and the one comman denomenator is that everywhere ya go in the world there is always something weird enough to laugh about….I don’t know if you have been to america or not but if you havn’t you should give us a chance we might not all turn out to be the devil that you view us being in your mind