Urban75's north - south divide: definitive statistics

[brogdale]

Just remember that we keep the good stuff for ourselves. You get Brains, we get Bragdy Mantle (their Moho is a bit of a treat).

Actually, the pint I had that afternoon, as well sat alfiasco outside Hayes 'spoons, was something from Evan Evans.

 

[Gromit]

The Mercury carries an electric current to magnetise or demag the stick (a railway term I CBA to explain). To be honest I don't know which it does.

As someone else stated it's unlikely they use actual mercury now. I'm guessing a conductive gel which drains out or summat... but it's not my area of expertise and drivers just think of it as mercury still. If it has never been broken I wouldn't be at all surprised if it still had mercury until it has been.

Actually thinking about how electo magnets work I'm guessing the stick get de-magentised. No power = no magnet.

 

[existentialist]

But isn’t about 40 miles of that ‘Little England beyond Wales’?

About that, yes. As I later learned

 

[existentialist]

So is Wales in the south or not?

South Wales is.

 

[brogdale]

Boring. Let’s get back onto square sausages!

Are these just those Richmonds that are packed too tight in the pack?

 

[existentialist]

Actually, the pint I had that afternoon, as well sat alfiasco outside Hayes 'spoons, was something from Evan Evans.

<makes hand-wavy gesture>

 

[neonwilderness]

I refuse to be southern when 15 minutes away from Kendal

15 minutes in the wrong direction I'm afraid

 

[brogdale]

<makes hand-wavy gesture>

One thing I will say about drinking outside 'spoons on Hayes high street was being able to watch Red Kites soaring over the town centre. Local chap told me it was not uncommon to see them there! I remember, not so long ago, i had only seen Red Kites in the Brecon Beacons, now you see 'em all over the place.

 

[Gromit]

A better example (just because I know the details) is district line trains. They could take the wrong signal and go to Heathrow (Ive seen this) or Uxbridge. In both instances there are tubes filled with Mercury suspended above the track long before a train reaches a tunnel.

High roofed S stock will break the tubes throwing a signal to Red. Pic trains easily go under them. Passing a Red will trip a train and stop it.

In the case of Hanger Lane junction there is also an axle counter so that the longer S stock won't get a signal to Uxbridge. This however does not stop Pic line trains from accidentally ending up in Ealing Broadway if given a wrong signal. I have received such a signal and did not accept it and avoided getting into trouble.

By the way... Before someone says Hanger Lane Junction is on the Central line. I'm not referring to that but a section of track westbound from Ealing Common. It's what we call it.

 

[existentialist]

By the way... Before someone says Hanger Lane Junction is on the Central line. I'm not referring to that but a section of track westbound from Ealing Common. It's what we call it.

Thanks to you for clarifying that. Teuchter, at least, will be relieved.

 

[Jammy smears]

I'm not southern (nowt against them, even married one) so I cannot bring myself to click on the south of Kendal option. Was this poll created just to upset us northeners

 

[krtek a houby]

Boring. Let’s get back onto square sausages!

Squashages?

 

[WouldBe]

Are these just those Richmonds that are packed too tight in the pack?

They're made from square pigs.

 

[brogdale]

They're made from square pigs.

...that don't fit into round holes?

 

[kabbes]

Was this poll created just to upset us northeners

Yes

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

I know not of those places and cannot therefore enter a valid reply to the poll.

 

[brogdale]

I know not of those places and cannot therefore enter a valid reply to the poll.

Didn't you watch Succession ?

 

[Saul Goodman]

I'm not southern (nowt against them, even married one) so I cannot bring myself to click on the south of Kendal option. Was this poll created just to upset us northeners

Yes

I'd say it was for people both sides of the divide. teuchter likes to be inclusive in his trolling.

 

[danny la rouge]

I'm not southern (nowt against them, even married one) so I cannot bring myself to click on the south of Kendal option. Was this poll created just to upset us northeners

Are you from South of Kendal?

 

[Puddy_Tat]

No, the Lake District Line is the line midway between the 37th parallel and the 84th elliptical which separates Denmark from Narnia. Except on Wednesdays, when it's the other way round.

except this year, what with xmas day and new years day both being wednesdays, it's different.

 

[Pickman's model]

Thanks to you for clarifying that. Teuchter, at least, will be relieved.

He should have been relieved years ago

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Boring. Let’s get back onto square sausages!

I’m thinking of messaging this person and suggesting a group buy…

 

[PTK]

Parts of Greater London are in The North, which is why they are on the Northern Line.

 

[iona]

I’m thinking of messaging this person and suggesting a group buy…

Pretty sure they sell square sausage in English Icelands

 

[SpookyFrank]

Pretty sure they sell square sausage in English Icelands

But ironically they only have triangular sausages in Icelandic Englands.

 

[Humberto]

Not another F.E.B thread surely.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I'm not southern (nowt against them, even married one) so I cannot bring myself to click on the south of Kendal option. Was this poll created just to upset us northeners

Mrs Frank often complains that she doesn't like 'the North' despite being from a place some distance north of everywhere in the British Isles.

 

[A380]

...that don't fit into round holes?

In Cape Town?

 

[Monte]

It's just a square burger with a bit of nutmeg and mace in it.
Make your own!

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

The North begins at the point bread rolls are no longer called bread rolls.
If you travel above the bread roll line, which is somewhere in the South Midlands, bread rolls will start to be called by strange names such as baps, barm cakes, batch, cobs and even tea cakes.

Funny how all the baps and cobs and barms are sandwiched between two rolls.