London for the Win.

/SW17 represent.

London? Might as well have put down Mumbai.

/ducks

Nodnol?

Ya, maybe the Chav capital of the world.

I've also heard that Britannia rules the waves as well. Now this?

This story brought to you by the 1800s.

...or the Orwellian surveillance capital of the world.

My vote is for Providence.

"Capital" implies some kind of primacy or at least influence on the world stage. But it's not even an American city!

London?

London.

London?

London - bad food, worse weather, Mary ^%*@ing Poppins, LONDON!

Americans have maps?

TheKnownUniverse

Nodnol?


"The palindrome of 'London' would be 'Nodnol' - it don't work!"



(Apologies to Mr. Cleese)

Spent a lovely week in London last July.

Then I came back to my home two blocks north of the "capital of the free world."

truth be told, London is vastly more fun to spend time in, but the overreaching influence has been gone for some decades.

/can see the Washington Monument from my bedroom window
//would rather see Trafalgar Square

A friend and I went to London several years ago on the cheap. We stayed in a small room off of Earl's Court Road, ate as little as we could get away with and drank as much as possible. During the day, we'd go out and do a bunch of touristy things, then come back to the Imperial Pub in the evening to get schnockered with the locals.

The regulars there were genuinely curious about us and our trip - were we having a good time? What had we done that day? Did we need any help finding anything? All of them, just tremendously good-natured folks and very welcoming. On our last night there, every single person in that pub bought us each a pint. When I couldn't drink anymore, my friend walked with me back to the room and then returned to the pub. The whole place cheered him for coming back and took him out on the town when the place closed.

Best trip ever. London rocks.

uhhh... well obviously.

Just looking at the criteria they used, it would be obvious(without even beginning to make calculations) that London is the obvious choice.
It looks like they started with London as the answer and worked the criteria second.
http://travel.independent.co.uk/news_and_advice/article3261398.ece

But really, is anyone surprised?

good - let's give them UN headquarters and all the fun there in

Here is the TOP 10:

1 London
2 New York
3 Paris
4 Tokyo
5 Chicago
6 Madrid
7 Washington DC
8 Los Angeles
9 Rome
10 Mexico City

englebert Slaptyback

London?

London.

London?

London - bad food, worse weather, Mary ^%*@ing Poppins, LONDON!


Shut up you big bald f*#@!

What'd they get dentists or something?

FTA: dynamic Celtic conurbations. Yet it is London that rises above all other cities.

So, what the article is saying is that London is the world's biggest

Mai chippiez, nawt yoooors....

wankery

Saul Steinberg unavailable for comment.

Yes, London. You know: fish, chips, cup ‘o tea, bad food, worse weather, Mary farking Poppins… LONDON

disgustip8ed
damnit.

Rye_

Sounds great.... Where was this London ?

Mind you, if you want to get to know the locals in the UK, go to the same pub for 3 nights on the trott. You will have hundreds of friends.

im sure i'd enjoy london a lot , but NYC is simply the. best. damn. city. ever. stupid prices notwithstanding

http://travel.independent.co.uk/news_and_advice/article3261398.ece

There's a shocker! :|

//mmm shocker...

Hell, I was pleased to see Chicago at #5, though I'd have slid it above Paris.

NYC is bust.

As someone who has been to London, I'm really getting a kick out of some of these replies.

Lets see: bad teeth, bad food, warm beer. Yeah, that sounds like a real winnar. about the only thing they do have going for them is their women are known for loving to shave downstairs.

London boogers FTW!!!!!

A British study done by a British newspaper stating that London, is the world capital? No conflict of interest there. None at all.

Oh yeah, besides, Londoners smoke fags.

What other reason do you need to stay away?

TheKnownUniverse: Nodnol?

How bizarre. I was just watching that episode.

/.errazib woH

I liked the food in London. Just me though.

Oldiron_79:
Lets see: bad teeth, bad food, warm beer. Yeah, that sounds like a real winnar. about the only thing they do have going for them is their women are known for loving to shave downstairs.

So...the winnars should be fat, stupid, hairy drunks?

I haven't been to any of those cities.

/God I suck

I live in London, so I'm really getting kicked in the face.

/TW3 represent

I could have bet my mortgage that this thread would be full of American haters.

I'm from England and I've never even been to London but the results of this study are no surprise to me!

Meh, I prefer Bristol. MUCH smaller, friendlier, more fun. London's OK though. Different scale.

Captain Ford Prefect: I'm really getting kicked in the face.

Yup, sounds like London. Less likely to get f*ing knifed in Bristol...

robbjohn: Here is the TOP 10:

1 London
2 New York
3 Paris
4 Tokyo
5 Chicago
6 Madrid
7 Washington DC
8 Los Angeles
9 Rome
10 Mexico City

Wheres Moose Jaw on that list?

haha...a london paper finds london to be the capital of the world!

Thats some fine police work there, lou!

I love the use of a local newsstand's stock of travel guides. Yup. That's objective. (If only there were an internationally accessible bookseller that kept information about the relative popularity of books available on its web site.) Shockingly, there are more guidebooks about London available in a London bookstore than about any other major city. That, combined with how often the city appeared in THEIR OWN travel section column, accounts for the difference between London and NYC.
Looking at the last few "objective" measures, they were clearly stretching for a way to have London come out ahead of New York. Each of the last three, by their own admission, is skewed in favor of London. (They have 4 Unesco World Heritage Sites -- to Rome's 2. Uh-huh. There's a valid measure of the amount of historical significance to the city.)

robbjohn: Here is the TOP 10:

1 London
2 New York
3 Paris
4 Tokyo
5 Chicago
6 Madrid
7 Washington DC
8 Los Angeles
9 Rome
10 Mexico City

Right, because no cities in Asia have any significance. Typical euro-centric viewpoint.

Well, we can't have a capital of the world since we think there is no point in acknowledging other countries views.

Mexico City? Common. Toronto ranks on MExico City. easily.