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Simon Brooke

@schratze Or, for those of us too near this particular black hole, 'in England'.

29 Dec 2024 at 14:23 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.scot
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StuartB

@simon_brooke
Oh, us English have to do it as well.
As for "In London", because apparently nothing exists beyond the borders of the Home Counties - occasionally, someone will remember that Manchester or Newcastle, and if the Mancs or Geordies get too big for their boots someone will drag out a professional Scouser to remind everyone that other Northerners exist, but other than that, everything happens in London.
Can you tell I've been plotting a blog post about this all day?
@schratze

29 Dec 2024 at 14:33 | Open on social.teamb.space
HighlandLawyer

@stuartb @simon_brooke @schratze
Ah yes "in The North", meaning locations south of almost everyone in Scotland. Likewise the newer usage of "UK" by politicians & the media as a synonym of "England".

29 Dec 2024 at 17:44 | Open on mastodon.social
z3z

@HighlandLawyer @stuartb @simon_brooke @schratze Yip, classic UK weather forecast will say "Rain in Scotland and the North". They don't need to specify where the North is, because of course England is the default. πŸ˜’

29 Dec 2024 at 20:01 | Open on mastodon.scot
Goiterzan/Amygdalai Lama

@z3z @HighlandLawyer @stuartb @simon_brooke @schratze
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it’s fun to hear in Canada where our provinces are a thousand kilometres north to south - although, the so far inland ones are all pretty much β€œnorth,” for weather too, top to bottom πŸ˜€

29 Dec 2024 at 20:33 | Open on autistics.life
Goiterzan/Amygdalai Lama

@z3z @HighlandLawyer @stuartb @simon_brooke @schratze
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on a QI rerun recently, she signed off quoting I forget who, that, British people think a hundred miles is a long way and Americans think a hundred years is a long time,
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I like that. πŸ˜€

29 Dec 2024 at 20:37 | Open on autistics.life
Simon Brooke

@punishmenthurts @z3z @HighlandLawyer hey, in Britain we famously think that a week is a long time... in politics.

29 Dec 2024 at 20:42 | Open on mastodon.scot
David Hough

@punishmenthurts @z3z @HighlandLawyer @simon_brooke Having driven in both places yes, driving a hundred miles each way in a day is something I do fairly often in the US. I've done 700+ miles in a day before now. Driving Bristol to London or Birmingham seemed a lot harder. I've lived in places in the UK where some of the buildings have existed longer than the US - I do still make jokes about a short course on US history being all that's needed.

30 Dec 2024 at 1:19 | Open on mastodonapp.uk
Goiterzan/Amygdalai Lama
Simon Brooke

@llondel @punishmenthurts @z3z @HighlandLawyer I've owned and lived in -- and indeed you've visited me in, Dave -- a house older than the United States!

30 Dec 2024 at 1:26 | Open on mastodon.scot
Goiterzan/Amygdalai Lama

@simon_brooke @llondel @z3z @HighlandLawyer
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I spent a bunch of my childhood in a really old apartment building in Vancouver - like, a hundred years, not even, at the time. Place was built in 1903 (proudly said "1895" over the door, but I know someone who is a bit of an historian and they say maybe they started it then, but no) or something. I'm on the new side of the "new world." 😜

30 Dec 2024 at 1:32 | Open on autistics.life
David Hough

@simon_brooke @punishmenthurts @z3z @HighlandLawyer This is true, fun times, those visits. Cambridge has been there over 800 years, and parts of the church in my village near there date back to the 1200s.

30 Dec 2024 at 5:52 | Open on mastodonapp.uk
StuartB

@punishmenthurts
That "100 miles is a long way" thing is simultaneously horrifically inaccurate, given the way that British people colonised the planet, and hilariously accurate, given that most Brits live within 35 miles of where they were born.
@z3z @HighlandLawyer @simon_brooke

30 Dec 2024 at 7:55 | Open on social.teamb.space
StuartB

@HighlandLawyer
London-based media and governmental functions will grudgingly accept my identity as British (and, occasionally, English), even if anywhere in England north of The Watford Gap is largely unexplored, undefined, and unknown.
Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland may as well be marked on the map with "Here be dragons" for all that they know about those countries.
@simon_brooke @schratze

30 Dec 2024 at 7:49 | Open on social.teamb.space
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