# Things to do in London

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 26, 2011, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-do-in-london/590333 "2011-07-26T00:44:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-do-in-london/590333/54 "2011-07-27T09:52:53Z")

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> [@Jennyrosity](#):
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> Might I ask which cultural Mecca you hail from that makes the entirety of England so sneer-worthy?

I think I’ve worked out \*\*lukeinva’s \*\*animosity towards [this sceptred isle](http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/25255.html). Seems, from another thread, he met a shithead who happened to be English, so clearly dismissing a nation of 50 million people is fair enough:

> [@Lets start another tipping thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-start-another-tipping-thread/590122/42):
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> While traveling in Spain I met an Englishman who, upon learning I was American, began a tirade about his horrible trip to America caused by him having to leave tips.
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> He said he would never return to the US because of the expected tips. Happily I assured him the entire wait-staff population of America thanks him.

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