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[–] SomeGuy69 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You got any more jpeg artifacts for me?

[–] GombeenSysadmin 5 points 1 year ago

I kept trying to clean my glasses

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Seems like something drawn up by a soft southerner.

[–] Mojojojo1993 6 points 1 year ago

My thoughts exactly

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Landscapes - somebody's never been to the Yorkshire Dales have they

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Or the Pennines or the Lake District or...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Landscapes is totally wrong

[–] Forgetspasswords 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As a Canadian I'm not entirely sure what region it is that "punches horses" but it got a chuckle out of me.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Newcastle - happened at a football game some years ago

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

You can instantly tell it's Newcastle without knowing the exact point on the map, because it's the same place that is "shirtless"

[–] Forgetspasswords 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, that actually happened?? Hahaha I feel bad for laughing though, poor horse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Back in 2013 - there's video of it.

The horse was fine and died at the age of 21 after a pleasant retirement.

[–] Forgetspasswords 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow thanks for the link! It seemed too ridiculous to be true, but I'm not surprised it was a drunk sports fan 🤦‍♀️

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And no-one in the UK is surprised it was a Newcastle fan!

[–] Forgetspasswords 2 points 1 year ago
[–] cmbabul 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

As an American, is Newcastle yalls Florida?

[–] The_v 4 points 1 year ago

Think more Maine than Florida. Cold dark winters with lots of beer and whiskey.

[–] The_v 7 points 1 year ago

The "potential imminent violence" accents got me laughing.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

As a resident of Southampton, I take issue with Portsmouth being deemed enlightened, while we’re considered savages. That’s entirely the wrong way round.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I saw the bakeries one first - fooled me into thinking this was sincere haha

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I was very confused by the shape of this United Kingdom. For reference, this is what it + the non-UK part of Ireland actually looks like:

I'm guessing, they left out all the islands, but even then, it still doesn't look terribly accurate to me, so no idea...

Edit: Added clarification about Southern Ireland.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Careful what you call United Kingdom! They left out Ireland because it's not part of UK

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah yeah, good point. I was very confused by Southern Ireland missing on their map, too, but my comment made it sound like that's part of the UK.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You also want to be careful using terms like 'Southern Ireland'. Northern Ireland is a thing, and the Republic of Ireland is a thing...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, I decided to call it "Southern Ireland", because I doubt many people outside of Europe will know which one of the two Irelands is the "Republic of Ireland".

I did look up beforehand, if I'm allowed to say "Southern Ireland" without being crucified and Wikipedia said ~~yes~~ maybe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Ireland

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Wow, that dam between northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland has really come along in this better map. United Kingdom is great Britain and northern Ireland, for reference.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

They rotated it slightly to get the south coast more horizontal and binned off most islands (the Shetlands and Orkneys I can understand but the Isle of Man wasn't in the way).so they could pack more into the space.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Post-industrial depression landscape in the Cumbrian mountains? Or Yorkshire? The Pennines?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I know. 12 maps, 0 correct.

[–] feedum_sneedson 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't really enjoy this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sorry. Hanging head in shame, etc. I found it mildly entertaining how grossly wrong it was on every single level.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’ve never known Fife and Dundonian accents to be described as ‘pretentious’.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Divisive meme is divisive? I assumed it was just a too big bubble for Edinburgh

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah. I think they just made it too big for Edinburgh, as you say.

But to be honest, most of the folk I know fae the ‘burgh are nae posh.

[–] Mojojojo1993 3 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Dundonian accent is mad. It's probably the most out there. Like Russian or baltic.

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