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I've sailed under that bridge!

Back before the western end was redeveloped, and back when the Boat Show in January took over the entire Excel, plus the dockside (and still had the Navy turn up with a frigate) I was part of the "entertainment". We had a series of races in entirely unsuitable (for the venue) boats, on what is frankly the worst possible place to try to sail. But it was good fun. Ish. I mean as much as you can have fun when Excel is involved.
Ha ha. Another spot-on pastiche by DG! This sort of "journalism" is all we'll have left soon. Can you imagine Woodward and Bernstein writing "13 surprising things you never knew about this Watergate apartment"?
Plenty of ironic flags blowing in the summer breeze then?
Who needs BuzzFeed now - nice piece !
Excellent. Your other job must be writing for Time Out.
Had to check Londonist was still on the blog roll
I couldn't believe number 6!
Is this the prose of DG? The Dangleway has the courtesy title of a cable car!
And that extraordinary Paolozzi almost makes up for it. Especially if you just happen to visit in the middle of a Comic Con and the place is swarming with Cosplay teenagers.
Is this sort of stuff any different to what is in the Sunday supplements, or lifestyle magazines, or a post listing variations on tube journeys or interesting places around Manchester.
Rather wonderfully, the link to "SS Robin" points to a site which is full of the same desperate attempt to make bad stuff look good as DG is parodying here.

Basically, this is a ship, and they are looking for someone who can find anything to be done with it, except put it in the water. Oh, and preferably you must take it away.
DG-ist?
It's very telling that as this style seems to be the norm these days, I couldn't quite be sure throughout if the irony flags were waving or not!
Brilliantly written!
for true authenticity this post needs to be a clickable link to a series of pages with a separate "secret" on each page which takes ages to load because it's so advert-heavy
For the benefit of those of us who are challenged by distance some indication of whether the content was well as the style is a spoof would help. I honestly could not tell and did think that the cranes (for a start) were interesting (they are listed monuments <https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1393528>). I'm wondering what the view from the bridge would be like at sunset / dusk? And the Thai place looked OK ...

Other than that, yes it was very '25 Poor Life Choices Made by cats'-ish.
You're really selling that steak house. I'll have to pop in next time I'm in the area.
Literally every cliche of hashtag content is here. This. is. EVERYTHING.
I have some sympathy for Antipodean, because some of DG's spoofs have contained whopping lies, generally only recognisable by their whoppingness. But quite capable of detection, if necessary, by that old-fashioned notion of "checking".

Whereas most if not all of the content of this one seems to be true, if rather less whelming than depicted. But then this carries an important message, that even if you are told nothing but truth, you can easily be misled. As in this case: Royal Docks could be a good place for a tourist to visit, except for the minor detail that just about everywhere else is better.
It's no guarantee of lots of clickthroughs. For example, my piece "London's Top Five Truncated Hyperbolic Parabaloids" got very few pageviews for some reason: https://londonist.com/2015/07/anyoneforpringles
It's probably a coincidence, but two of the posts on Londonist today were:
* London’s Best Olympics-Themed Food And Drink
* 12 Secrets Of Big Ben
That's because you didn't call them SECRET truncated hyperbolic parabaloids, M@.
Irony flag may have been missed...



@ Malcolm - thanks :). I've seen the big touristy things in London and I love industrial heritage ... so I might even go to the Docks next I'm in town!
Hahaha! Wonder when the penny will drop at London's Royal Docks @YourRoyalDocks!!!
The penny has now dropped at @YourRoyalDocks. They've deleted their over-enthusiastic tweet, and blocked me.
I've been wanting to visit for a long time. I think now that the dollar being what it is, this might be an good time to do so.
Now where was this article when I was in the area last Thursday?

But in all seriousness, jolly good read, as always
what on earth is a bistro-style sandwich?
@M@ - I read your article on hyperbolic paraboloids, even though you included one elliptic paraboloid and one potato snack. One reason for their popularity in architecture - other than looking fantastic - is that they are doubly ruled surfaces: that is, you can construct them from straight members crossing in two directions.










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