Urban75's north - south divide: definitive statistics

[A380]

Hold on!

Teacakes are the same as bread rolls?

That's bollocks isn't it?

Obviously, tea cakes are flat currant buns.

 

[A380]

No, I've been there; not at all Welsh.

You’ve never been at a home game in the Principality Stadium when the locals start banging out Wlad Fy Nhadau then?

 

[iona]

Obviously, tea cakes are flat currant buns.

Tea cakes are chocolate coated marshmallowy things that come wrapped in foil

 

[A380]

Tea cakes are chocolate coated marshmallowy things that come wrapped in foil

And deep fried presumably? Sometimes I think Hadrian had a point with his wall.

 

[brogdale]

You’ve never been at a home game in the Principality Stadium when the locals start banging out Wlad Fy Nhadau then?

Not the Principality Stadium, but I have in the old Arms Park (National Stadium) and mighty impressive it was; all those Welsh people who had come to Cardiff for the day!

 

[danny la rouge]

Bless you, learning the word “bread” and even using it apparently properly in a sentence.

Yeah, yeah. The Neolithic reached Orkney and the Western Isles before the South East of England.

 

[iona]

And deep fried presumably? Sometimes I think Hadrian had a point with his wall.

Sandwiched inside a sweet-ish bread cookie and washed down wi irn bru

(I wouldn't know tbh, caramel wafers are infinitely superior)

 

[LakieLady]

Think there's a few standard definitions geographers and demographers use.
Theoretically simple here because household registrations are one or the other, but in reality you might be urban in a bumfuck county town and technically rural in the highly developed hinterland of one of the megalopolises.

I think this needs more definition. I'm in what I would regard as a "bumfuck county town", but it's so small, it barely qualifies as urban. A fit person could walk from one edge to the other in less than an hour, but it is the administrative centre of the county, so the county town.

 

[LakieLady]

What is a "tube line"?

A thin line of runny clay, used to decorate ceramics (aka "slip trail").

 

[dessiato]

It's obviously yours. Watford gap is the dividing line, then there's some barren wasteland above Kendal on the way to Iceland, but only sheep live there, with the odd sheep worrier.

That wasteland around Iceland is the car park, which is useful for shopping.

 

[JimW]

I think this needs more definition. I'm in what I would regard as a "bumfuck county town", but it's so small, it barely qualifies as urban. A fit person could walk from one edge to the other in less than an hour, but it is the administrative centre of the county, so the county town.

Not denying the small town folk are townsfolk, more that so should the other supposed bumpkins on the outskirts of Chongqing be.

 

[teuchter]

Hold on!

Teacakes are the same as bread rolls?

That's bollocks isn't it?

There's actually a dedicated thread for maps like this. The routine is, you find any old map on the internet, screenshot it without really examining it, post it up on there and then pretend to get all offended when it's pointed out that it's nonsense. It's a fun thread.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Hold on!

Teacakes are the same as bread rolls?

That's bollocks isn't it?

No, it's Tunnock's

 

[kabbes]

Yeah, yeah. The Neolithic reached Orkney and the Western Isles before the South East of England.

Unfortunately, it stayed there

 

[teuchter]

I think this needs more definition. I'm in what I would regard as a "bumfuck county town", but it's so small, it barely qualifies as urban. A fit person could walk from one edge to the other in less than an hour, but it is the administrative centre of the county, so the county town.

I'll confidently predict that 90% of urban75 posters live in suburbia. A high proportion of those will like to think they live in urban or rural locations, a bit like how many of the UK's southerners delude themselves with the notion that they live in a "northern" place. Or all those who are in denial about being middle class.

 

[brogdale]

There's actually a dedicated thread for maps like this. The routine is, you find any old map on the internet, screenshot it without really examining it, post it up on there and then pretend to get all offended when it's pointed out that it's nonsense. It's a fun thread.

So this is supposed to be a serious thread?

 

[A380]

I'll confidently predict that 90% of urban75 posters live in suburbia. A high proportion of those will like to think they live in urban or rural locations, a bit like how many of the UK's southerners delude themselves with the notion that they live in a "northern" place. Or all those who are in denial about being middle class.

Lost in the high street, where the dogs run
Roaming suburban boys
Mother's got her hairdo to be done
She says they're too old for toys
Stood by the bus stop with a felt pen
In this suburban hell
And in the distance a police car
To break the suburban spell

Let's take a ride
And run with the moomins tonight in suburbia
You can't hide
Run with the moomins tonight
In suburbia

Break the window by the town hall
Listen, a siren screams
There in the distance like a roll call
Of all the suburban dreams

Let's take a ride
And run with the moomins tonight in suburbia
You can't hide
Run with the moomins tonight
In suburbia

I only wanted something else to do but troll a thread
I only wanted something else to do but troll a thread

 

[LakieLady]

Is that map implying that East Sussex is in the south-west? Looks like the line goes all the way to Hastings. A bold assertion indeed.

I don't think it goes quite that far. The pointy bit just west of the dividing line is Beachy Head, which puts Hastings in the south-east.

It puts rather a lot of East Sussex in the SW though.

 

[Saul Goodman]

I'll confidently predict that 90% of urban75 posters live in suburbia. A high proportion of those will like to think they live in urban or rural locations, a bit like how many of the UK's southerners delude themselves with the notion that they live in a "northern" place. Or all those who are in denial about being middle class.

Slip the projection and real thread purpose in right at the end, where you think it'll fly under the radar. Nice try!

 

[Elpenor]

I'll confidently predict that 90% of urban75 posters live in suburbia. A high proportion of those will like to think they live in urban or rural locations, a bit like how many of the UK's southerners delude themselves with the notion that they live in a "northern" place. Or all those who are in denial about being middle class.

How are you defining suburbia?

 

[brogdale]

How are you defining suburbia?

It's where poor urban dwellers have to live.

 

[kabbes]

How are you defining suburbia?

Don’t tell him, Pike!

 

[danny la rouge]

How are you defining suburbia?

Would Margo Ledbetter live there?

 

[Elpenor]

Would Margo Ledbetter live there?

You are not meant to dox other posters!

 

[A380]

Would Margo Ledbetter live there?

It's a good life

 

[JimW]

How are you defining suburbia?

As per Betjeman (1973).

 

[Pickman's model]

How are you defining suburbia?

Badly, which is teuchter's default

 

[LakieLady]

I'll confidently predict that 90% of urban75 posters live in suburbia. A high proportion of those will like to think they live in urban or rural locations, a bit like how many of the UK's southerners delude themselves with the notion that they live in a "northern" place. Or all those who are in denial about being middle class.

You're probably right. I live in a town, so technically urban, but it's very small and there's miles of open countryside between this town and any other towns, so it feels rural. And I live right on the edge of it. Once I've walked 100 yards and crossed a very minor road, I could walk for 5 miles or more without reaching a road.

It also feels rural in the sense that every fucker knows all your business (or thinks they do, the gossip is rarely accurate).

 

[kabbes]

You're probably right. I live in a town, so technically urban, but it's very small and there's miles of open countryside between this town and any other towns, so it feels rural. And I live right on the edge of it. Once I've walked 100 yards and crossed a very minor road, I could walk for 5 miles or more without reaching a road.

It also feels rural in the sense that every fucker knows all your business (or thinks they do, the gossip is rarely accurate).

I warn you — you’re falling right into his cunning trap.

 

[Orang Utan]

I’m from Leeds. It’s in the North.
North is a feeling. It knows of no lines on maps drawn and relied upon by silly people.