*PREVIEW* Britainology 3: Understanding Home Counties Guys
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🗓️ 27 August 2020
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I went back very recently and like every third shop on that high street is a vape shop. |
| 0:20.7 | So there are like Turkish restaurants, a KFC and McDonald's And like every third shop on that high street is a vape shop. |
| 0:31.1 | So there are like Turkish restaurants, a KFC and McDonald's, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, uh, the money transfers, porn store and vape stores. |
| 0:35.3 | So the vape stores are like the thing that are like keeping this like local economy afloat. |
| 0:42.8 | It's funny to me because my great, great grandfather was in the Royal Army Band at Woolwich Arsenal and my great grandfather was born in Plumstead. |
| 0:46.9 | And where he was born, that street doesn't exist anymore because it was blown up, you know, |
| 0:52.1 | errant bombs trying to hit the fucking army base, hit the street in the war. |
| 0:55.6 | And so they built a bunch of social housing there. |
| 0:58.3 | But as I understand it, my family then moved further out. |
| 1:04.0 | So after the war, they left Plumstead and went to Croydon. |
| 1:09.5 | And it's weird how, if I look now, it took me a while finding, looking on old maps to figure out where the old station road was. |
| 1:16.6 | Because that was, and I've seen a photo on Ancestry.com of like the house he was born in in 1900. |
| 1:21.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:21.8 | And that house, that street doesn't exist anymore. |
| 1:24.8 | There is a station road, but it's just a different street now. |
| 1:32.7 | And God, fucking hell, man, around the actual station, it's just really, really grim. Like, it's just scrapyards and, like, like, what you're describing, you know? I mean, I, I, I don't |
| 1:36.6 | live too far away from there. So, like, I see them. I see, I see it a lot. And yes, it is a pretty, it's a pretty grim place along with all the other places that we |
| 1:44.9 | talk about. |
| 1:45.7 | Listen, here in Dartford, you ate the Muslims. |
| 1:48.1 | You love your wife, gold, and you love glowing flat clouds, simple as. |
| 1:52.1 | But that's the thing. |
| 1:52.9 | Like, I feel like with one of the like the through lines that connects all these places is the |
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