Petty Things That Get On Your Nerves...

[House Bartender]

In the meejah, there's an assumption that places in Ingerlund are known to all whereas those in Scotland are unworthy of a mention as whogivesashit. Bad enough from Fleet Street/BBC London, but it's rife in Scotland too. Generally lazy journalism, can't be bothered correcting press puffs. And no sub-editors.

as in (from Saturday's Herald) "Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth has returned to it's home base following visits to Liverpool and Scotland". 

 

[MEADOWXI]

33 minutes ago, House Bartender said:

In the meejah, there's an assumption that places in Ingerlund are known to all whereas those in Scotland are unworthy of a mention as whogivesashit. Bad enough from Fleet Street/BBC London, but it's rife in Scotland too. Generally lazy journalism, can't be bothered correcting press puffs. And no sub-editors.

as in (from Saturday's Herald) "Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth has returned to it's home base following visits to Liverpool and Scotland". 

 

The addition to this is how they describe where places are. They will say,

Newquay in Cornwall,

Brighton in Sussex,

Scarborough in Yorkshire

thus offering to narrow where places are but it just,

Paisley in Scotland, Methil in Scotland, Arbroath in Scotland.

It just up there somewhere but we really don't care, and assume the majority don't care either.

England is 50,000 Sq miles and Scotland is 30,000,

But they are myriad of counties and areas worth breaking down and knowing about, we are just one big lump stuck on the top of the them.

[Hillonearth]

On 04/04/2022 at 20:28, philpy said:

This one tops the lot 

A bukkake case?

[coprolite]

10 minutes ago, MEADOWXI said:

The addition to this is how they describe where places are. They will say,

Newquay in Cornwall,

Brighton in Sussex,

Scarborough in Yorkshire

thus offering to narrow where places are but it just,

Paisley in Scotland, Methil in Scotland, Arbroath in Scotland.

It just up there somewhere but we really don't care, and assume the majority don't care either.

England is 50,000 Sq miles and Scotland is 30,000,

But they are myriad of counties and areas worth breaking down and knowing about, we are just one big lump stuck on the top of the them.

I'd imagine there's some flat capped whippet breeder in Sheffield infuriated that they never specified that Scarborough is in North Yorkshire. 

[MEADOWXI]

3 minutes ago, coprolite said:

I'd imagine there's some flat capped whippet breeder in Sheffield infuriated that they never specified that Scarborough is in North Yorkshire. 

They often do,

 

Lets see them mention Kilmarnock is in Ayrshire never mind East Ayrshire rather than just Scotland.

[GordonD]

29 minutes ago, coprolite said:

I'd imagine there's some flat capped whippet breeder in Sheffield infuriated that they never specified that Scarborough is in North Yorkshire. 

Especially as they're a nuclear power.

 

[coprolite]

8 minutes ago, MEADOWXI said:

They often do,

 

Lets see them mention Kilmarnock is in Ayrshire never mind East Ayrshire rather than just Scotland.

It's still "there be monsters" on their mental map.  

[tamthebam]

It's the same when you watch quiz shows- it's amusing when you see English contestants totally puzzled over a Scottish question, even supposed clever ones like Oxbridge students on University Challenge.

Mind you my knowledge of the geography of Northern Ireland/the North of Ireland/The Failed Statelet/Jack's Granda's back gairden isn't the best. 

[philpy]

2 minutes ago, tamthebam said:

It's the same when you watch quiz shows- it's amusing when you see English contestants totally puzzled over a Scottish question, even supposed clever ones like Oxbridge students on University Challenge.

Mind you my knowledge of the geography of Northern Ireland/the North of Ireland/The Failed Statelet/Jack's Granda's back gairden isn't the best. 

Yup. A contestant on tipping point the other day thought king tut's wah wah tent was at Glastonbury....

[Melanius Mullarkey]

2 hours ago, House Bartender said:

In the meejah, there's an assumption that places in Ingerlund are known to all whereas those in Scotland are unworthy of a mention as whogivesashit. Bad enough from Fleet Street/BBC London, but it's rife in Scotland too. Generally lazy journalism, can't be bothered correcting press puffs. And no sub-editors.

as in (from Saturday's Herald) "Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth has returned to it's home base following visits to Liverpool and Scotland". 

 

Not just the media but folk living there as well.  And im talking specifically about my stupid sister who lives in London and is always on to me about "coming up to Scotland" next month.

Oh aye? The whole places or do you want to be any more fucking specific?

[House Bartender]

Just now, Melanius Mullarkay said:

Not just the media but folk living there as well.  And im talking specifically about my stupid sister who lives in London and is always on to me about "coming up to Scotland" next month.

Oh aye? The whole places or do you want to be any more fucking specific?

Scotland. You know. It's just above the North East which is just above the North which is beside the the North West.   It's all about the United Kingdom, innit?

[kennie makevin]

On 04/04/2022 at 17:46, GordonD said:

And yet Barnton and Corstorphine are among the more affluent areas of Edinburgh. You'd think they'd have gone to decent schools.

Don't for god's sake blame the schools..... you'll wake up the segregationists..

[Miguel Sanchez]

15 minutes ago, philpy said:

Yup. A contestant on tipping point the other day thought king tut's wah wah tent was at Glastonbury....

Could you name all or any of the stages at Glastonbury, or Reading & Leeds, or Download, or any other English music festival?

[TheScarf]

Are folk on here expecting English people to know or care where anywhere in Scotland is?  You do realise who the majority of English residents vote for, yes?

[Hedgecutter]

When one flashes* another car to say "I'm letting you go first", only for the other car to flash back to say the same and complicate things in an unnecessary stand-off.

*with headlights

[MEADOWXI]

45 minutes ago, philpy said:

Yup. A contestant on tipping point the other day thought king tut's wah wah tent was at Glastonbury....

 

29 minutes ago, Miguel Sanchez said:

Could you name all or any of the stages at Glastonbury, or Reading & Leeds, or Download, or any other English music festival?

King Tut = Tutankhamun = Egypt = Pyramid stage,

Without justifying the stupidity I see the link to the only stage I could name at Glastonbury or anywhere at an English festival.

[SlipperyP]

15 minutes ago, Hedgecutter said:

When one flashes* another car to say "I'm letting you go first", only for the other car to flash back to say the same and complicate things in an unnecessary stand-off.

*with headlights

It's the complete opposite here, a flash means, I'm coming get oot ma fuckin way!

[House Bartender]

According to the Highway Code which we all observe to the letter in the UK

"Only flash your headlights to let other road users know that you are there. Do not flash your headlights to convey any other message or intimidate other road users. Never assume that flashing headlights is a signal inviting you to proceed. Use your own judgement and proceed carefully."

So @SlipperyP's Singburians have got it right. And we're generally wrong.

[GordonD]

There's an urban myth in America that if you see a car at night with its headlights off you should never flash your own to warn the driver, because it's an initiation for somebody wanting to join a street gang: they have to chase down the driver of the car who flashed them and kill him.

[SlipperyP]

There's a rural myth in Thailand, that when driving at night through the paddy fields, you should turn your lights OFF so the ghosts can't see you.  I've been in a few cars and on motorbikes when the driver does it.

Edited April 6, 2022 by SlipperyP