[ladbroke]

It is a great city, and even the small things (like steam coming out of holes in the road!) made me smile like a kid!

[Munki Bhoy]

It is a great city, and even the small things (like steam coming out of holes in the road!) made me smile like a kid!

I couldn't believe it the first time I saw that. I thought it was a movie thing!

[Johnny 1989]

It is a great city, and even the small things (like steam coming out of holes in the road!) made me smile like a kid!

I couldn't believe it the first time I saw that. I thought it was a movie thing!

What or where is that steam coming from anyway?

*expects the obvious answer of under ground from at least one poster*

[Sunny So Cal]

Subway system.

[Johnny 1989]

Subway system.

Ah ok, I did think it was the Underground but wasn't to sure.

[Sunny So Cal]

That said there are also the water system manholes that have steam rising on the cold days/nights.

[DannyBoy]

Why are people from New York so rude? They make Londoners seem hospitable! You take a trip in a yellow taxi and there's not so much as a moment of banter or chat with the driver. Some people might think this is good, but it makes for a frosty journey. Also those touch screen displays in the back of cabs play the same interview over and over and over. I pretty much knew them word for word after a while! I'm guessing the rudeness is a major city thing, it's just that it's worse in NYC than most places.

Most of the people I meet and see in New York are nice friendly people, you do the odd rude person but you get them in every city in world, as for taxi drivers they are mostly foreigners with little English, Ive gotten in Cabs before where the driver handed me a cell phone I told the guy on the phone where I was going and handed it back to the driver who then got directions from the cell phone guy. Anyways if do get a native New York cab driver they are the salt of the earth and never stop talking. Its all Ying and Yang.

[MK Chris]

Ive gotten in Cabs before where the driver handed me a cell phone I told the guy on the phone where I was going and handed it back to the driver who then got directions from the cell phone guy.

Then the taxi driver is shit. A very large part of his job is knowing where he's going.

[DannyBoy]

Ive gotten in Cabs before where the driver handed me a cell phone I told the guy on the phone where I was going and handed it back to the driver who then got directions from the cell phone guy.

Then the taxi driver is shit. A very large part of his job is knowing where he's going.

Yep he was shit, he had no idea where he was going he was turning down one way streets, I rang his cab number into 311.

[Sunny So Cal]

Ive gotten in Cabs before where the driver handed me a cell phone I told the guy on the phone where I was going and handed it back to the driver who then got directions from the cell phone guy.

Ha. This happened to me in Little Italy. Very funny!

[Yudster]

I think I'm too English to find amusement in the poorness of any service that I'm paying through the nose for!

Taking a cab was one of the things I didn't do when I went to New York. Next time.

[Munki Bhoy]

The only cabs we used were to and from JFK. Busch Gardens in Tampa Bay has NOTHING that compares to that thrill ride.

[Yudster]

My friend picked me up from JFK, she lived in the Riverdale area of the Bronx. It was very very nice. You didn't half see some stuff going in to Manhattan on the bus though. Glad it didn't stop in Harlem............

[Sunny So Cal]

Taking a cab was one of the things I didn't do when I went to New York. Next time.

No rush on that. The city's meant for walking. I don't take a taxi unless it's bitter cold and I've got a whining person in tow who can't walk.

[Yudster]

I did plenty of walking that's for sure.

[Munki Bhoy]

Taking a cab was one of the things I didn't do when I went to New York. Next time.

No rush on that. The city's meant for walking. I don't take a taxi unless it's bitter cold and I've got a whining person in tow who can't walk.

Even then we took the subway.

(Lesson here - if you're going to walk around a city, wear the right footwear!)

[Sunny So Cal]

Oh, believe me, Munki, some people would complain no matter their choice of footwear. Don't get me started.

[foot-loose]

FAO ALL AMERICANS.

"Mirror" DOES NOT rhyme with "beer"! Or "deer". And it has two syllables.

[Yudster]

And "squirrel" does not rhyme with "twirl". It also has two syllables.

[MK Chris]

...and while we're at it, "pretty" is not spelled, or pronounced "purdy".

[Zoot]

And herb has a * 'H' in it!

[Yudster]

And "centimetre" is NOT pronounced "sontimetre". Neither is it spelled "centimeter".

[Munki Bhoy]

And it's nuclear, not nucular.

And it's not aluminum! You know, like Aluminum Foil. Everyone knows it's pronounced "tin".

[foot-loose]

Hahaha. I like what i've started.

[Sunny So Cal]

I don't speak that 'American' way. I pronounce things correctly. I think you'll find it's more of a Southern thing to pronounce things the way you're describing. Don't be so stereotypical! The rest of us know how. Besides, most of you have heard me and know how I enunciate. I'm not one of the culprits. The only one that I don't say your way would be Zoot's 'herb'. (Sorry Zoot)

Who says sontimetre???