Urban75's north - south divide: definitive statistics

[gentlegreen]

What’s 12 miles away?

Bath...

 

[gentlegreen]

I used to go on group cycle rides up to about 35 miles...

 

[SpookyFrank]

I think we should have another poll to see who lives in upland vs lowland Britain (usually defined as a line drawn from the Exe to the Tees)

I'm about quarter of a mile west of the Exe so that puts me in Upland Britain.

 

[SpookyFrank]

In England, the true North-South dividng line is River Trent - Trent and Mersey Canal - River Mersey.

 

[teuchter]

In England, the true North-South dividng line is River Trent - Trent and Mersey Canal - River Mersey.

This thread doesn't care.

 

[SpookyFrank]

This thread doesn't care.

The thread obviously does care or the thread wouldn't have started a thread with a deliberately stupid premise just to get reactions.

 

[WouldBe]

What about urban vs non urban? Given the name of the place.

If you're non urban you wouldn't be able to vote.

 

[WouldBe]

Uh, which tube line is Kendal and Northallerton on

Northern line obviously.

 

[teuchter]

The thread obviously does care or the thread wouldn't have started a thread with a deliberately stupid premise just to get reactions.

I'm sorry that you think that interest in the world outside of England is a "stupid premise". But this thread is not proposing to confiscate your St George's flag and poses no threat to you or your people.

 

[PTK]

Will stupid premises be the new name for the White House when Trump takes up residence?

 

[Humberto]

So, is anyone actually upset by these revelations so far as the OP foretold?

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

I live in the South, but I recently spent a week in the North.

It were cold!!

Honestly, that 2-3 degrees make * all * the difference!

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Watersheds should be the thing; with no lock on the door.

By watersheds, are you talking about water closets? Or the 9pm broadcasting watershed? (I've no idea why it's called a watershed.)

 

[Pickman's model]

I knew someone would fall in this trap. That the someone is you, comes as no great surprise.

Great Britain - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Saul Goodman]

Great Britain - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Connected to mainland Europe until 9,000 years ago by a land bridge now known as Doggerland,[8] Great Britain has been inhabited by modern humans for around 30,000 years.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Hold on, whip out your OS maps and check; you'll se there's 3 Norths to choose from. At least with E/W there's only one prime meridian.

Wait, what?!? There's a third north? I knew there was the regular north pole, and then the magnetic north pole, which fluctuates, but there's a third north pole?!? goes to Google

 

[teuchter]

Great Britain - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

That very Wikipedia article - had you bothered to read it - points out that:

The term "Great Britain" can also refer to the political territory of England, Scotland and Wales, which includes their offshore islands.[11] This territory, together with Northern Ireland, constitutes the United Kingdom.[2]

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

How do the options prevent anyone from voting honestly?

Because I can't bring myself to vote for an option that makes me feel/seem like a Southerner. I'm a Manc and I'm a Northerner, goddammit!

 

[Pickman's model]

That very Wikipedia article - had you bothered to read it - points out that:

That's not the killer point you think it is

 

[Humberto]

Because I can't bring myself to vote for an option that makes me feel/seem like a Southerner. I'm a Manc and I'm a Northerner, goddammit!

Last of the Summer Wine, set in the south.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Because I can't bring myself to vote for an option that makes me feel/seem like a Southerner. I'm a Manc and I'm a Northerner, goddammit!

teuchter is playing one of his silly games, where he tries to get normal people fighting with Southerners

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Who lives to the West of Greenwich meridian?

i do.

although the bit that's south of the thames and on / just east of the greenwich meridian is better.

I've no idea why it's called a watershed

isn't it a shed where you keep water?

but there's a third north pole?!?

it used to be a pub in the north kensington patch.

there's a railway junction (never a station) called north pole junction near there. i'm not sure what came first - i have heard it suggested it was known as the north pole as that was as far north as engines (and engine-men) from the south of london railway companies would go before they handed over to engines from the north of london companies, but that may be a load of old cobblers...

 

[krtek a houby]

I'm sorry that you think that interest in the world outside of England is a "stupid premise". But this thread is not proposing to confiscate your St George's flag and poses no threat to you or your people.

Thread is very localised.

The "world outside of England", my arse.

 

[PTK]

By watersheds, are you talking about water closets? Or the 9pm broadcasting watershed? (I've no idea why it's called a watershed.)

A watershed is a dividing line. Water falling on one side goes one way, and water falling on the other side goes the other way.
I assume that the television "watershed" is called that because it is a diving line.

 

[A380]

Option 3: I am neither North or South but East. Which is definitely real, it's on the compass and everything.

Indeed this thread is just another example of Urban trying to airbrush the East of the country from the map.

Urban’s lack of empathy for ordinary people who live in the East.


I thought better of teuchter , I didn’t think he be part of the anti Eastern hegemony, but I was wrong.


For shame teuchter, for shame.

 

[PTK]

Edinburgh is directly north of Cardiff.

 

[Saul Goodman]

I thought better of teuchter.

That makes one of us.

 

[A380]

He's playing the long game for obscure purposes we can only guess at and fear.

No, we all know WHY he’s obsessed with denizens of the North. And, frankly we are all appalled by it.

 

[Humberto]

There are populous areas in the far north and far south of Wales with little in between, I reckon. Yet the Welsh maintain a strong national identity.

 

[Saul Goodman]

This might help.