This is not even a competition anymore.

  • Bappity
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    21 month ago

    transportation is a massive one. London is a grimy stinky mess of a place from the massive amount of car exhaust.

    • @ryedaft@sh.itjust.works
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      81 month ago

      Haha, London used to be so much worse. Like, you would spend a couple of days there and when you blew your nose everything came out black.

      • @Nighed@feddit.uk
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        51 month ago

        I remember going to the natural history museum as a kid and feeling sick from all the pollution.

        Now it’s not a problem at all there.

        • @ryedaft@sh.itjust.works
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          21 month ago

          I’M NOT THAT OLD

          God, I am. I’m as old as the youngest cardinal in the Vatican (45).

          And I was a tourist in London so I spent more time outdoors than some office worker.

          • Bappity
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            11 month ago

            ironically that was probably worse for your health than staying inside back then 😭😭😭

      • @oo1@lemmings.world
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        31 month ago

        Yep I remember the black snot days in the late 90s.

        Red Ken ftw! Good luck to NYC with their CC too.

        By all accounts, it was even worse the 60s though before clean air acts, gas central heating and when all those art galleries were power stations. I don’t think Alec Guiness actually did blackface, he probably just walked around in the smog for a few hours (/jk).

        Things really have got better if you look long enough.