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these ones are from the oyster boy at Columbia Road Flower Market. Nice guy. will tell you abt good club spots. But I like all of the oysters. London has nice oyster bars too. demolished these in three minutes.
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Shit i love old places like this. Seems like their prices never inflated. A landlocked seafood oasis with a liquor license.
Mar 23, 2025
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I know, I know, I know obvious! But hear me out, there is literally NOTHING better than sitting alone tipsy at one of the huge, round oyster bars with “a book” that acts as a shield of distraction while you eavesdrop on other people. One time I went and I watched three strangers meet, get hammered, and decide to have a threesome lol. Cheers! Everything here is good, but my personal fave is the caviar sandwich and a Campari spritz with olives. And you must (!) take a selfie on the red lips sofa in the bathroom! There’s a huge mirror in there just for that reason.
Jan 27, 2022
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Great cocktail bar. It’s been there forever. Also they have oysters
Jul 2, 2024
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Mar 26, 2025
Bought this for cheap in Berlin and read this on the plane + train back to London. had to fight tears. Such a quick and beautiful read.
Mar 9, 2025
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like many of the other responses to this post, I think that having physical copies of media ensures that there is some enduring access. It’s archival.
I would also add that having the physical copies enhances engagement with the media. This is of course a privilege bc physical media is usually more expensive than digital, but I do think that consuming Digital media is often more passive. Idk. I love my phone too (and Spotify and the internet archive and Gutenberg project). But after I started collecting CDs and physical books I became very interested in getting as much as possible out of them. listening to the same album in its entirety for weeks at a time. rereading a book (Seriously, I would rarely reread a book before).
Also lending the copies to friends is the best thing in the world. Like being able to share and then discus- or even just the sharing. Whether or not you get it back it just becomes a gift. Which is nice.
Anyways to blabber on this last point: I don’t think that you always have to personally own and keep forever all of the physical media you accrue. just going to a library does a lot of the same good (supporting local archiving + engaging with stuff my tangibly + media becoming communal). learning that many libraries still have VHS, CDs, and DVDs available to check out changed my life. ya.
Mar 9, 2025