A map of the Uk for Americans

[UKSmartypants]

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[Traddles]

"No one can understand them" - I once worked for several days with a Scot. Thankfully I had a Londoner with us to translate.

"Isle of Wight??" and "Isle of Man??" - :smiley_ROFLMAO: I think the cottage and the cat got confused.

Are the beef burgers from cows with legs to short to get away?

[Taxcutter]

Seems logical to me.

[Dubler9]

One big mistake... Ireland "Guinness" is not part of the UK. It is a country in its own right, just as France or Germany.

[Trinnity]

I want to visit the part that says GUINNESS.

[UKSmartypants]

One big mistake... Ireland "Guinness" is not part of the UK. It is a country in its own right, just as France or Germany.


Thats why its in grey and not white....... I knew it would be too complicated for somone... :P

[MedicineBow]

I refuse to say where on this map I once lived and worked. :geez:

[Gator Monroe]

Map lacks vintage Car & Motorbike racers paradise

[UKSmartypants]

I refuse to say where on this map I once lived and worked. :geez:


lived to the right of the R in brexitland........

[dinosaur]

:wtf20: Coventry is no longer in Warwickshire?? When the bloody hell did that happen?? Where do I go to get the records of my Coventry and Foleshill ancestors, and where do I go to get the records of my Nuneaton ancestors??

[Rutabaga]

wheres wankerville?


:thinking:

[UKSmartypants]

:wtf20: Coventry is no longer in Warwickshire?? When the bloody hell did that happen?? Where do I go to get the records of my Coventry and Foleshill ancestors, and where do I go to get the records of my Nuneaton ancestors??


If you was Moslem id suggest the Government Sheep and Goat Holding register.

[Dr. Felix Birdbiter]

Learn A Geordie Accent | Newcastle Accent Tutorial - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C1jbnBB6nc)

Where no one can understand them

[Gator Monroe]

Map also lacks New Albania

[Gator Monroe]

And the BSA Factory remnants

[BooBoo]

The "Garden of Eden" is NOT on that Map... and Now You Know the Rest of the Story..!!! :smiley_ROFLMAO:

[dinosaur]

If you was Moslem id suggest the Government Sheep and Goat Holding register.

Naw, my ancestors were real men, coal miners and brazers/metalworkers. Now if you are talking about animals, my Fifeshire ancestors were also coal miners, but there are lots of jobs in coal mines. My Fifeshire ancestors were teamsters, you know, taking care of the donkeys! And that is how the Pattersons all turned out to be Democrats! Now you know the rest of the story!

[dinosaur]

Map lacks vintage Car & Motorbike racers paradise

I have a cousin who was curator/historian at the Coventry Transport Museum. They have several museums in Coventry, but i am not sure if they are connected. They are all government operations if I understand correctly. He jumps around from historical job to historical job. Find his books on Amazon. (He has several for different types of vehicles, cars, motorcycles, bicycles)

Coventry Transport Museum
(https://www.transport-museum.com)

National Motorcycle Museum (https://www.nationalmotorcyclemuseum.co.uk)

Coventrys Motorcar Heritage: Kimberley, Damien: 9780752454481: Amazon.com: Books (https://www.amazon.com/Coventrys-Motorcar-Heritage-Damien-Kimberley/dp/075245448X)

[dinosaur]

The "Garden of Eden" is NOT on that Map... and Now You Know the Rest of the Story..!!! :smiley_ROFLMAO:


Nope. You gotta have a Florida Panhandle map to find that! :smiley_ROFLMAO:

Garden of Eden Trail: A Heavenly Hike in Northwest Florida | VISIT FLORIDA (https://www.visitflorida.com/travel-ideas/articles/outdoors-nature-garden-of-eden-trail/#:~:text=Located%20not%20far%20from%20Bristol,shru b%2C%20wiregrass%20and%20longleaf%20pine).

This link has a map.

Garden of Eden Trail | Apalachicola Bluffs and Ravines Preserve | Florida Hikes (https://floridahikes.com/gardenofeden)

And here is the story with the evidence and proof that this is the real garden of eden! :cool20:

https://www.florida-backroads-travel.com/bristol-florida.html

[Neo]

I inhabit the lands of weird accents

[old dog]

Londanistan?

[patrickt]

When I was in high school I picked up two men walking down a lonely stretch of highway. They were merchant seamen who's ship had put in at Fernandina Beach. They had two days off and were walking to Miami. I told them it was 380 miles and they showed me their map. It was a placemat from a restaurant with a map of the U.S. Jacksonville and Miami were an inch apart. I took them back to Fernandina and as the one guy was speaking I asked the other, "What language is that?"


"It's English. He's from Northern Ireland." I couldn't understand a word he was saying. The sailor from London had to translate.

[Moonie]

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I like the bit that says Americans That Think They're Irish.

That's a bit like Americans that think they've seen London in a week long hotel visit, from shopping in the West End (Oxford Street) and visiting the Tower of London.
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[Physics Hunter]

Fun Map!

[Neo]

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I like the bit that says Americans That Think They're Irish.

That's a bit like Americans that think they've seen London in a week long hotel visit, from shopping in the West End (Oxford Street) and visiting the Tower of London.
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I’d urge any visiting American to buy an Oyster card from a card dispenser and just jump on a tube. They should spend half a day jumping on different lines (routes) It’s a huge city. They could jump off at Arsenal station and enjoy the North London street scene. A quaint old London boozer only 200ft away from the exit. After a quick shifty jump on a tube to Boston Manor, a bit of a walk to a boozer but nearby you can buy a kebab…. Wonderful experiences! :)

[Moonie]

Just jump on a tube. They should spend half a day jumping on different lines (routes) It’s a huge city.

The could stick with the Circle line to avoid confusion.
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[dinosaur]

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I like the bit that says Americans That Think They're Irish.

That's a bit like Americans that think they've seen London in a week long hotel visit, from shopping in the West End (Oxford Street) and visiting the Tower of London.
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I think the regional differences and uniqueness of the UK and Ireland are lost on Americans for a simple reason. My Scottish, Scot-Irish, Irish, and English ancestors all got along fabulously. In fact, they interbred like rabbits! On this side of the pond, everybody seemingly forgot all their differences.

[Foghorn]

I'd stick to the bigger cities.

In small villages like Grantchester and Kembleford somebody get's murdered every week.



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[Neo]

I'd stick to the bigger cities.

In small villages like Grantchester and Kembleford somebody get's murdered every week.



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Yes! Out ere in the sticks it’s a bit dangerous too.

https://i.postimg.cc/FznprQzZ/76-D5738-B-A97-C-4-FF3-BD9-C-CBE6-BFAC61-FF.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

[BooBoo]

All One Needs to Know :

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[patrickt]

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I like the bit that says Americans That Think They're Irish.

That's a bit like Americans that think they've seen London in a week long hotel visit, from shopping in the West End (Oxford Street) and visiting the Tower of London.
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Or, Brits who've been to New York City or Los Angeles and know all about America.

[UKSmartypants]

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I like the bit that says Americans That Think They're Irish.

That's a bit like Americans that think they've seen London in a week long hotel visit, from shopping in the West End (Oxford Street) and visiting the Tower of London.
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especially ironic because theres currently uproar because Oxford street is filled with american candy shops and russian fake goods shops.

[UKSmartypants]

Or, Brits who've been to New York City or Los Angeles and know all about America.


Ive never been to either, but I know the full horrific truth about americans from reading this forum.....

[Neo]

Or, Brits who've been to New York City or Los Angeles and know all about America.

We know all about NYC and LA. Every cop show in the 70s 80s 90s were filmed there. :)

[Neo]

Ive never been to either, but I know the full horrific truth about americans from reading this forum.....

Yes. I agree with you Smarty, they do come over as loud and opinionated, it’s our job you and I to bring civility and manners to this forum. Winks!

[mr claws]

When I was in high school I picked up two men walking down a lonely stretch of highway. They were merchant seamen who's ship had put in at Fernandina Beach. They had two days off and were walking to Miami. I told them it was 380 miles and they showed me their map. It was a placemat from a restaurant with a map of the U.S. Jacksonville and Miami were an inch apart. I took them back to Fernandina and as the one guy was speaking I asked the other, "What language is that?"


"It's English. He's from Northern Ireland." I couldn't understand a word he was saying. The sailor from London had to translate.
:smiley_ROFLMAO: YEARS ago, a trio of British sailors on leave from down in Norfolk found their way to the valley and stopped in at my favorite watering hole. Nice guys, spent an entertaining evening drinking and getting OUR asses schooled in darts... to this day I couldn't tell you a word they said. :smiley20:

[Neo]

:smiley_ROFLMAO: YEARS ago, a trio of British sailors on leave from down in Norfolk found their way to the valley and stopped in at my favorite watering hole. Nice guys, spent an entertaining evening drinking and getting OUR asses schooled in darts... to this day I couldn't tell you a word they said. :smiley20:

Yes I’d walk into any boozer and play a yank a game of darts for a pint.

[mr claws]

Yes I’d walk into any boozer and play a yank a game of darts for a pint.
LOL, they drank for free that night. :sad20:

[Neo]

LOL, they drank for free that night. :sad20:

Gotta tell you I drank free in Frisco too

[Dr. Felix Birdbiter]

I inhabit the lands of weird accents
Yall want the land of weird accents come to the Southern States. Accents change down here from one side of the State to the other and in some cases from one side of town to the other. The San Antonio accent is certainly vastly different from the Richmond VA accent. In fact Tidewater Virginia is vastly different from Appalachian Virginia. It all depended upon who settled in what area. However, I will admit, regardless of what part of the country you may live in you can and do understand the accents of the rest of the country (except the Bronx and Brooklyn), unlike Great Britain where some parts of the United Kingdom may as well be foreign countries.

[Dr. Felix Birdbiter]

When I was in high school I picked up two men walking down a lonely stretch of highway. They were merchant seamen who's ship had put in at Fernandina Beach. They had two days off and were walking to Miami. I told them it was 380 miles and they showed me their map. It was a placemat from a restaurant with a map of the U.S. Jacksonville and Miami were an inch apart. I took them back to Fernandina and as the one guy was speaking I asked the other, "What language is that?"


"It's English. He's from Northern Ireland." I couldn't understand a word he was saying. The sailor from London had to translate.
I was once on vacation in San Antonio and was getting bored after about a week. While doing my laundry I found a map showing sights in the area. Carlsbad Caverns was only about an inch from San Antonio on this map so I told my wife, look its close, lets go see the Caverns. While an interesting drive it was almost 10 hours away at 474 miles! The scale of the map was a bit off I think. From there we went to El Paso, only 151 miles away. When I left New Mexico I had about a half tank of gas. I did not see another sign of civilization until I was about 10 miles from El Paso and almost out of gas!!

This country is huge!!

[Dr. Felix Birdbiter]

I'd stick to the bigger cities.

In small villages like Grantchester and Kembleford somebody get's murdered every week.



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Poor Father Brown. His parish is almost as violent as the South side of Chicago!

[Dr. Felix Birdbiter]

The only difference between an American and an Englishman is the American thinks 100 years is a long time while the Englishman thinks 100 miles is a long way.

[Moonie]

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Here you go American dudes.

This is the essential Englaaand.


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[Neo]

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Here you go American dudes.

This is the essential Englaaand.


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Arrrrh ok you lot, history time. Where I do be live is Gloucester. Once the capital city of England. It’s a small shire but Twas very important.
We have a gert cathedral sitting in the centre of the city, a very small town but granted city status because of its importance. Historic monuments abound where I do live. We emphasise the R word when we speak.
https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/1000-year-old-royal-palace-1597174

St Oswalds church is under 1/2 mile away from my house. King Alfred’s daughters funeral was celebrated and reenacted a couple of years ago. From Viking boat up the river and paraded through The cathedral was so important king William the conquerors eldest son was buried inside.
https://i.postimg.cc/sgTBrrJL/5-E03-B323-EC76-499-C-A683-8-B3-C692-CDA82.jpg (https://postimg.cc/nXQV4NgK)

Gloucester was first a Roman fortified town = Ceaster
Different spellings of Ceaster abound in England, not everybody could read and write in those days.

Manchester
Leicester
Chester
bicester
Gloucester
Doncaster
cirencester
etc etc
Thats only a few off the top of me head.

Gloucester was a Roman square fort originally, built right by the river Severn, a strategic military defensive position.

All around the town the Roman influence is easy to see to this day.

[Neo]

My accent. Terry sounds very much like what I do when I’ve had a few pints of cider, I kid ye not. Terry lives 30 miles away from me, our accents are the same, if I wanted to tune up it wouldn’t take minutes to alter.
Terry lives in Filton in Bristol, my father spoke exactly the same dialect….. I do fight and try to imitate a softer accent.

here you go lovelies, my Gloucestershire West Country accent.


https://youtu.be/XhgUeY1BExk

[Foghorn]

My buddy and I were sitting at the lobby bar in a Mexican resort when a Brit and his son come dragging in after traveling the whole day. They didn't even bother to check in, just went straight to the bar.

We had the best time for the next couple of hours despite not being able to catch two-thirds of what they were saying and having to translate a portion of that into Spanish for the sake of the bartender. By the time our wives showed up I had the Brit dad and the Mexican bartender check to check as I was demonstrating the subtle differences between a Roman nose and a Mayan nose. We thought it was hilarious, the wives didn't see the humor in it and left.

Apply enough booze and there is no such thing as a language barrier.

[El Guapo]

:grin20: A map of America for Brits:

https://scontent.fyvr4-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t31.18172-8/21753370_2035454646698914_4192731578713671198_o.pn g?_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=PS7BPZ9zyiUAX8ypMb8&_nc_ht=scontent.fyvr4-1.fna&oh=00_AfBbGQbViXIv0-J095RjRmnG40OefUDA29vg9uO-TnyV-A&oe=63AB058F

[Neo]

Hwicce

Hwicce (Old English: [ˈʍittʃe] (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Old_English)) was a tribal kingdom in Anglo-Saxon England (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxons). According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_Chronicle), the kingdom was established in 577, after the Battle of Deorham (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Deorham). After 628, the kingdom became a client or sub-kingdom of Mercia (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercia)as a result of the Battle of Cirencester (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cirencester).


Kingdom of the Hwicce


577–780s


https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Hwicce_kingdom.png/250px-Hwicce_kingdom.png (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hwicce_kingdom.png)Kingdom of the Hwicce (with later counties). Wychwood Forest, a former Hwicce territory, had apparently been lost before 679





In Olden times where I live it would have been called Hwicce.

[Gator Monroe]

Somewhere in Southern Scotland is the place where most Ford Cortinas went to die

[Neo]

Somewhere in Southern Scotland is the place where most Ford Cortinas went to die

Hoots mon! They are still being sold up there.
https://www.newsnow.co.uk/classifieds/cars-vans-for-sale/ford-cortina--scotland

[Dr. Felix Birdbiter]

I was born in New Orleans LA and lived there until I was seven. We then moved to Asheville NC. When I was 13 we moved to Jacksonville FL. At the age of 20 I moved back to New Orleans. My parents had moved to Baltimore MD by this point so a year later, while waiting to go on active duty with the Navy I moved to Baltimore. When I got out of the Navy I moved to Baltimore and attended the University of Maryland. Then at the age of 32 I moved back to Jacksonville then to East Tennessee and finally now to Ocala Florida. The purpose of this screed is to point out my accent is impossible to pinpoint since the Nawlings accent is quite different from the Ashvull, which is diffent from the drawl of the North Florida accent which is different from the Bawlmer accent. All of which have nothing to do with the Appalachian accent of the East Tennessee mountains. Although I only lived 50 miles from Asheville when I lived in East Tennessee there was a pronounced difference in accents. Think Dolly Parton vs Loretta Lynn

[Neo]

I was born in New Orleans LA and lived there until I was seven. We then moved to Asheville NC. When I was 13 we moved to Jacksonville FL. At the age of 20 I moved back to New Orleans. My parents had moved to Baltimore MD by this point so a year later, while waiting to go on active duty with the Navy I moved to Baltimore. When I got out of the Navy I moved to Baltimore and attended the University of Maryland. Then at the age of 32 I moved back to Jacksonville then to East Tennessee and finally now to Ocala Florida. The purpose of this screed is to point out my accent is impossible to pinpoint since the Nawlings accent is quite different from the Ashvull, which is diffent from the drawl of the North Florida accent which is different from the Bawlmer accent. All of which have nothing to do with the Appalachian accent of the East Tennessee mountains. Although I only lived 50 miles from Asheville when I lived in East Tennessee there was a pronounced difference in accents. Think Dolly Parton vs Loretta Lynn
I consider you vocally challenged. ;)

[Dr. Felix Birdbiter]

I consider you vocally challenged. ;)

Yall got dat right doncha know cobber

[Neo]

Now then…..The Wurzels are still touring.


https://youtu.be/JeCwr9MmiIc

https://youtu.be/tb63PdPweDc

The Wurzels are still in the Gloucester top 10 chart since 1974.

Yeah! This is how we sound singing.

[Neo]

Yall got dat right doncha know cobber

Brits don’t say “Cobber” that’s an Australia saying thank the Gods!

[El Guapo]

Brits don’t say “Cobber” that’s an Australia saying thank the Gods!

How do you pronounce 'whoosh'?

[Neo]

How do you pronounce 'whoosh'?

Wush

[Mr. Independent]

I was pen-pals with a girl from Wales who regularly spoke Welsh at home and came from a Welsh family. Haven't talked to her in a while.

[Trinnity]

Everybody in America hates each other because we don't speak to each other - that's how you can tell. I talk to strangers everywhere I do, but I'm atypical.

People really don't like each other. I'm convinced.

[patrickt]

I was once on vacation in San Antonio and was getting bored after about a week. While doing my laundry I found a map showing sights in the area. Carlsbad Caverns was only about an inch from San Antonio on this map so I told my wife, look its close, lets go see the Caverns. While an interesting drive it was almost 10 hours away at 474 miles! The scale of the map was a bit off I think. From there we went to El Paso, only 151 miles away. When I left New Mexico I had about a half tank of gas. I did not see another sign of civilization until I was about 10 miles from El Paso and almost out of gas!!

This country is huge!!
My neighbors were from NYC and had never driven a car. They took driving lessons and bought a nice used car. Phil asked me for a nice Sunday drive and I suggest north on US287 over a range of mountains and down into Wyoming to Laramie. Then east on Happy Jack Road to Cheyenne, have brunk at Little America, and I-25 from Cheyenne back home.


Phil and the family left about nine and we back by 11:00. I went down and asked if they had car trouble. No, no car trouble. Then Phil said, "When we went over the mountain and you could see forever."


"Yeah."
"Pat, it was empty."
"Yeah, pretty much."
"That's scary."
I thought a minute and laughed and said, "Phil have you ever gone down a flight of stairs into a subway station full of people?"
"Sure."
"That's terrifying. People are dangerous. Empty country isn't."


Also, the two British merchant marines met me and a girl friend the next day and we took them to Fort Clinch, a historic monument from the Second War of Independence. Ann and I kept talking about the old, old fort and one of the sailors laughed and said, "The building my family has a flat in is older than this."


Both space and time are relative.

[Taxcutter]

My ex-MIL (immigrated from France in the 1920s) used to dog me that everything here was new and had no history.

I zinged her back that Greeks probably think the same of France.

[Neo]

My ex-MIL (immigrated from France in the 1920s) used to dog me that everything here was new and had no history.

I zinged her back that Greeks probably think the same of France.

Here is a fact. 1mm of soil is deposited upon the land per year. In Gloucester city we have a glass covered dome view over the original street level. In fact the whole of the city we walk over the original streets buried below. Yes! You’ve guessed it. 1,000mm= 1 meter of soil.

The whole of Gloucester city is one big Pompeii buried under the ground.

Gloucester is a time capsule, Roman, Anglo Saxon, Norman, Tudor, it’s all here.

[UKSmartypants]

Here is a fact. 1mm of soil is deposited upon the land per year. In Gloucester city we have a glass covered dome view over the original street level. In fact the whole of the city we walk over the original streets buried below. Yes! You’ve guessed it. 1,000mm= 1 meter of soil.

The whole of Gloucester city is one big Pompeii buried under the ground.

Gloucester is a time capsule, Roman, Anglo Saxon, Norman, Tudor, it’s all here.


Most of the main towns and roads in the UK have roman remains. The town im from you literally can dig a hole anywhere and find medieval or roman remains. It also has three roman roads convering on it. and theres the traces of old roaman roads all over.

heres one. See the straight line that runs north south past Byards leap from Navenby to Ancaster, that is 8 miles, it runs in a straight line with a coupel of small deviations ten miles further north to Lincoln and another 20 miles south before it fades out, and it starts again on the other side of Lincoln as the A16 and runs 26 miles with no deviatioin. Thats a roman road. You can tell Roman road because apart from being straight as a die, they are 8 men wide (Romans Legions marched 8 abreast) and ther is a ditch and a hedge each side for defence.

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[Neo]

At Winchcombe I had to lay a gas main across a school park, the local area clerk of thd works informed me I was to dig no more than 250mm =12” to lay the pipework. The reason being the whole area was an Anglo Saxon settlement and all public works had to be informed.