My local Portuguese cafe (Golborne Road, West London)

by PabloEskimo_

41 comments

  2. Who uses cafe’s WiFi in 2025? Even travellers use esim. (I like the concept tho)

  4. Why don’t they just be honest?

    “We don’t have WiFi, because we’re not paying for it”

  5. who even asks for wifi anymore lol everyone has a data connection

  6. But would people want to talk to me? 😅

    Awkward hi… 😅

    Maybe I should dress like it’s the 90s too… 🤔

  7. Did you hear they made a portable computer now? Whatever next!

  12. no one uses public wifi anymore who is this even affecting

  13. I’ll pretend it’s 1995 too and write you cheque that won’t clear in 3 days

  19. I used to go to a Portuguese cafe on Golborne Road, the one nearest to the bridge called Lisboa as I remember. I think there may have been others around there.

  20. Get fucked. I hate this paternalistic nonsense. If my partner and I want to scroll our phones in silence because we’re fucking exhausted, that’s our prerogative.

  21. Pretend it’s 1995? That means I’ll have to cry non-stop and shit myself constantly

  22. Don’t think our friends in the balkans would want to pretend it’s the 90’s again

  23. I always find this cringe. Wi-Fi is almost never the thing stopping people from talking to each other.

    I wonder if places in the past encouraged people to not bring books or papers so that people would talk or whatever.

  24. I’m not sure if this is a repost but this board has definitely been posted before (like 5 years ago if I remember)

  25. I used to live in that street. Miss that cafe and the brunch place next to it!

  26. there’s a similar one at my east london portuguese, in west green road! but i don’t have a photo and i’m not there.

  28. Not very original….

    Plus, I’d rather not use public WiFi. I’m sure I’d get signal for my unlimited data anyway 🤷🏼‍♂️

  31. I wonder if they’ll let you borrow their phone socket so you can use a modem to connect a laptop at 28.8 Kbps?

  32. Why 1995 specifically? It’s not like WiFi was invented in 1996.

  33. Okay okay I get the hate but honestly their chicken escalope sandwich is absolutely delightful

  35. **People from the Balkans:** **Looks nervously at each other.**

  36. Back then, we just read newspapers and magazines, wrote in our notepads or drew in our sketchbooks and listened to CDs on our DiscMan.

  37. Yet if I go in alone and start talking to myself, I’m in the wrong?

  39. I remember when this was vaguely amusing about 12 years ago

  41. I highly doubt that in 1995 you would talk to random people in cafes. You would talk to people in your group, much like nowadays

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