Shit meaning – unspecified item(s), ‘stuff’, ‘thing(s)’.
NOT, ‘London is shit’. I love this city and really believe it would be a poorer place without the things featured on this blog.
Shit London began life as Facebook group for Londoners to post their pictures of strange and unusual things they spotted on their travels around the city.
These are photographs of the unintentional human comedy that surround us in the city. It’s the flotsam and jetsam of city life , the overlooked minutiae , the tragic , the grotesque and the basest of base. It’s the adapted posters , the dirty joke on the back of a van , the mispelt signs , the glory hole in the public loo , that weird shop down the end of your road and the knob graffiti strategically placed for maximum effect.
Grab your camera. Notice your city and laugh at it.
E-mail me your pictures and if they make the grade I’ll post them to the site. Let me know where you shot them and if you want to say a few words about them I’ll post those too. The only rule here is that you shot the picture yourself. No sending me pictures taken from other blogs or virals. Believe me I will be able to tell, I am that sad.
Patrick Dalton x
E-mail photos to [email protected]
Tremendous stuff Pat, let those cunce at Facebook take it out in this!
Best wishes
Nick.
Great site Patrick, caused a few giggles at work!!
Great stuff! Congrats on housing the stuff that’s makes us smile wryly now and again.
Love it! So Fun. We in USA need this side of things. Too hot to do anything else. Especially in Georgia. We’re so proud of you! Ask your Mom who I am.
Love love love it. I have been crying with laughter at some of these pics
Ditto! Trying not to wake family in the next room!
Bought your Shit London book today.Have been crying with laughter
it’s wonderful ,seeing the unseen and ignored ,a triumph.
I look forward to seeing more on the website.
Keep up this vital work!
Patrick
This site is true genius and bizarrely is one of the main factors in me missing living in London (moved to Devon 10 years ago – don’t believe the hype..). PLEASE don’t sell out (though I couldn’t blame you if you did). Be strong. (have I used enough brackets?)
I’m selling out the first chance I get. Shit London sponsored by The Parisian Tourist Board.
What a shit site! Many thanks!
Hello! Bought your book the other day as a present for a friend who was leaving Balham to work in Abu Dhabi of all places!!! I laughed so much reading it that I think a bit of wee came out
Your stuff has inspired me to dig out the shitness in my neck of the woods, Bristol/Westcountry. I know this is supposed to be Shit London but have you thought of branching out the series?
Watch this space Wes. Shit Universe coming soon! Bristol is rich in the stuff…found loads over the summer when I visited.
This is literally the best thing on the internet. Literally.
That’s a bold claim there JT , have you not discovered all the porn yet? There’s loads of it.
hi, that’s a city flier. There is many mistakes but the important is here.
got the book for xmas, wondeful stuff and the site is great.
Great site.
Abrakebabra was a laugh out loud moment.
Great. Some of this made me laugh A LOT, cheered me up after a bit of a crap day
You LOVE London? Why, where else have you lived long enough to make a meaningful comparison?
haha
I am here for one reason, my job! I do unfortunately need my job so have to be here but I cannot believe any sane person could Love this city. What does it have to evoke such a strong emotion I wonder. The filth, Litter.,Pollution, breathing in second hand cigarette smoke 24/7?, the violence perhaps? Or is the poverty and despair that turns you on? Or being born into a system that labels people as better than others simply by their so-called class?
I lived in Sydney Australia before this and thought it was just another eddy of human waste, a monument to mans eternal greed and stupidity a disgusting conglomeration of filth and human degradation, until moving to London that is. London elevates Sydney to a position akin to Nirvana!
But to leave that behind and wonder the empty moors or barren sea-side cliffs
that remain, incredibly, untarnished by the blight of man’s activity. This tiny group of islands still has such gems and the only thing I would thank London for is that experiencing it makes me treasure the other all the more!
Hari Om
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P.s You may well indeed have lived ‘all over’, I haven’t read the entire blog, this was just a reaction to the much bandied phrase ‘I Love London’ which although it may appear quite innocuous really helps those in authoritative positions that waste income on so many useless pursuits to not have to deal with any of the problems cities face.
You may also just say F* off you stupid git, I have the right to my own opinion but please also ask yourself if this opinion really is your own. We have all been subject to mind control techniques from the womb
Hi i have just seen this website and so regret not taking a photo of something to send to you. There is a new preparatory school opening where the old Alfarthing Library used to be on Allfarthing Lane in Wandsworth and someone wrote some graffiti saying “no SUV ghetto here” and another above the temporary letterbox saying “insert money here” Ah well I am well into this weird shit so will give you something if I find it soon. Great site.
Thanks Jazz. Always good to hear from a fellow aficionado.
You should add ‘Add This’ functionality (google it) so that we can like and tweet individual posts.