JimW
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And I need to just read the post! Cast out the beam etc
Wales has world's steepest street
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No, it’s definitely a proper street. It connects the high street to the main road. It’s about as towny a town street as you get in North Wales.
davesgcr
Reading books
Which for a short time , had a tram up it . Eat your heart out San Francisco. ( a nicked shot)
teuchter
je suis teuchter
That is not a definition of a proper street.
What makes it a proper street is that I recognise one when I see one. Have you been there, to be dismissing it as a street?
wiskey
Albatross Admirer
This was fun in our nearly 20 year old sprinter
We had a fewmoments.
Bet that made your ears pop
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Yes, via google streetview.
Ah. An internet expert
a_chap
When the world came apart, where were you?
"Old Wyche Road, Worcestershire
This hill requires a good handbrake but will deliver undisturbed views of the Malvern Hills and valleys."
Delivers undisturbed views of the Malvern Hills??? Does if fuck. At best you can see a little bit of one side of one of the hills.
And what "valleys"? Have you ever even been to Malvern?!?!?
[Rages at shit journalism for the next few pages....]
andysays
Love and solidarity
What is a definition of a proper street, in your opinion?
teuchter
je suis teuchter
I dunno, something crazy like... what it says in most dictionaries. Have you heard of dictionaries? Here's one:
STREET | meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
While teuchter is being a grump for no good reason, I suspect he is factually right. Slums in Latin America are often built up mountainsides and I'm sure no-one has bothered to measure the gradient of most of the streets. I found this in Medellin within about 30 seconds and know that if I looked I'd find steeper - though many of the smaller streets aren't on streetview Google Maps
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
You are either so obtuse you’re off the scale or your prejudice against Wales, dressed up as something about the tourist board wasn’t it, carries over to a woeful ignorance of Welsh culture.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I'm not sure Celyn can be held responsible for the fact that the song in question is titled "Men of Harlech".
I've just tried it, and can confirm that it loses something of its martial aplomb when you try to sing it "Menandwomen of Harlech".
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
The street outside my front door, in Wales, is steeper than that.
I’ve been through South America from top to bottom, and some places there do have steep streets, but I never really found anything to match a few places I’ve been to in the U.K. (in terms of gradient, with streets. Crossing the Andes is something else but there’s no streets up there).
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
I didn't say that was the steepest street, just making the point that entire districts of cities have been built up mountainsides in places where no-one has ever bothered to measure the gradient. Medellin is a good example as there are parts where cable cars and escalators are the public transport. Rio would be another one to look at, see the Rocinha favela pic here: Rio de Janeiro
planetgeli, everyone knows one crosses the Andes by frog.
That must have quite entertaining for your colleagues or neighbours.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Well, the loftrats all departedThat must have quite entertaining for your colleagues or neighbours.
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
We took the more conventional bus option both ways (Santiago-Mendoza, Mendoza-Santiago). It was one of the best journeys ever, completely scaring the crap out of my gf over the hundreds of switchbacks as we climbed and descended thousands of metres. That's one way to beat steep streets. Switchbacks. And don't build houses.
Anyway, tenuous connection for quick story. As any traveller knows, the people you don't ever fuck with while travelling are passport control. Chileans were brilliant both ways, a cheery wave through. Argentinians not so much. And we'd met this Dutch guy on the bus, travelling alone, who seemed pretty chill - until we got to Argentinian passport control. All seemed well until they went to stamp his passport. On a page at the back that apparently in Netherlands passports are reserved for kids if you have them on your passport. He went mental. Continuously shouting and swearing in good Dutch (I assume), not bad English, and piss poor Spanish. Grabbed his passport back off the bloke through the window. Continued to rant. These guys had guns. You just never do this. He did. And I loved him for it. Again and again he ranted about how much that back page mustn't be touched, really screaming. Maybe you had to be there but I've never seen such a brave thing at a border. And he won. Eventually.
So the Argentinians searched our whole bus and most of us and our bags to make up for it.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
If it's such an important song, the people of Wales should have thought of a gender-inclusive version by now. All you need to do is find a one syllable word to replace 'men' with. You might be just the person to lead this campaign. Then the people of Harlech would have something meaningful to be proud of, instead of a bogus 'steep street'.
davesgcr
Reading books
We had a spectacularly drunken , Welsh themed dinner for my 50th , where this song was indeed sung with men (and Women) of Harlech as one of the "highlights" . I have tried.
Off topic I know , but you understand am sure.
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
"Them of Harlech"
Stupid Welsh eh? That took me two seconds.
Stupid Welsh eh? That took me two seconds.
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