Far Western England

12 Responses to Far Western England

1. Stark Dickflüssig says:

   April 30, 2014 at 2:34 am

   If you go far enough west of England, you end up in Dover. Nobody needs that fate.

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   • Gail Combs says:

     April 30, 2014 at 2:45 am

     It could be worse, you could end up in Boston MA, “home of the foremost Marxist Scholars in the world!”: (Quote from a communist friend in Cambridge MA)

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     • Stark Dickflüssig says:

       April 30, 2014 at 12:59 pm

       Yes, but Boston has Kitfo, which I can’t get up here in NH.

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2. Truthseeker says:

   April 30, 2014 at 6:53 am

   and in Rugby, the All Blacks are from Far Eastern Australia …

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   • Andy Oz says:

     April 30, 2014 at 1:39 pm

     That’s funny! Kiwis would die rather than take out Aussie citizenship, and Australia’s only goal in rugby is to beat the All Blacks. NZ are the best, no doubt about it, but I love it when the Wallabies beat them ( all to rare).
     Australia and NZ are mates but the chance of us ever becoming a single country is about the same as England and Ireland joining up, and we all know what happened there. Go Wallabies!!!

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3. Ben Vorlich says:

   April 30, 2014 at 7:01 am

   After 1707 Scotland became North Britain hence the North British Hotel in Edinburgh.

   When Andy Murray loses a Grand Slam final he is Scottish, when he wins he’s British/English, same applies to Gareth Bale and Wales.

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4. Bloke down the pub says:

   April 30, 2014 at 10:08 am

   It is technically more accurate to call Gareth Bale English than it is to call Andy Murray English, though I probably wouldn’t say it to his face.
   ‘Since the Laws in Wales Acts 1535–1542, (…) formally incorporated all of Wales within the Kingdom of England’
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Wales

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   • Ben Vorlich says:

     April 30, 2014 at 3:15 pm

     I don’t think Wales ever agreed to being part of England, just as they weren’t that chuffed with the banning of the Welsh language.

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     • Bloke down the pub says:

       May 1, 2014 at 10:28 am

       As recent events show, the losing side often don’t have a lot of say in the matter.

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5. Richard Mallett says:

   April 30, 2014 at 4:15 pm

   All the road signs are bilingual, even in Bristol.

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   • stevengoddard says:

     April 30, 2014 at 4:40 pm

     I worked in Bristol, and never saw any Welsh road signs until you got to the bridge.

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     • Richard Mallett says:

       April 30, 2014 at 5:35 pm

       That’s what I meant 🙂

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