View Full Version : CNN tells viewers London is in Norfolk
MothBalls
01-31-12, 01:28 AM
No doubt there are a few red faces at American news channel CNN today after one geographically challenged employee failed to locate London, one of the world’s biggest capital cities, on their map.http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-world/2012/01/30/cnn-tells-viewers-london-is-in-norfolk-115875-23727083/
Oooops
kraznyi_oktjabr
01-31-12, 03:51 AM
One witty Twitter user said he was waiting to see the coach loads of American tourists trying to find Buckingham Palace in the rural backwaters of Norfolk.:D
:har:
Ah, geography and americans, almost as good as black humor. :O:
Betonov
01-31-12, 05:21 AM
Almost :D
Nah, they meant the London Pub in Norfolk :DL
Lord_magerius
01-31-12, 05:22 AM
Also looks like Cornwall is being pointed out as a city too :hmmm: http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj222/Nonnie87/Smiley/244-1.gif
To be honest, in summer most of London IS in Suffolk and Norfolk... :dead:
Tribesman
01-31-12, 08:33 AM
To be honest, in summer most of London IS in Suffolk and Norfolk...
To be honest most Norfolk people wouldn't be able to find London on a map, they probably couldn't spell map either and would have difficulty pointing at anything specific on it due to webbed fingers:03:
Catfish
01-31-12, 08:36 AM
To be honest most Norfolk people wouldn't be able to find London on a map, they probably couldn't spell map either and would have difficulty pointing at anything specific on it due to webbed fingers:03:
You !"§$%& owe me a keyboard, AND a cup of coffee
:rotfl2:
Herr-Berbunch
01-31-12, 08:46 AM
... and would have difficulty pointing at anything specific on it due to webbed fingers:03:
:har:
I spent a couple of years working in Norfolk, hated it! The roads were tiny, with a tractor or a lorry around every corner, or worse - a tourist! I never met any girls there with webbed body parts, but I do know two Cornish girls who have webbed feet. :o
I think the North Sea should reclaim Norfolk.
TLAM Strike
01-31-12, 08:48 AM
Can't blame them; they went to London and mistook it for Islamabad.
:O:
:har:
I think the North Sea should reclaim Norfolk.
It keeps trying! Suffolk too! :O:
Sailor Steve
01-31-12, 03:42 PM
You stupid Yurrupean...Yuropeon...Europe people! America is today what Britain was two hundred years ago! You used to say that the problem with foreign countries is that there are so many foreigners there. Well, it's even more true today.
Your capital is where we tell you it is! You'll take it and you'll like it. Learn the truth and toe the line!
One more thing...why does everybody hate us so much? We just want to help. :D
Takeda Shingen
01-31-12, 04:48 PM
Another triumph for American intellect.
TLAM Strike
01-31-12, 05:20 PM
Another triumph for American intellect.
It was that intellect that put a man on the Moon!!!
...well that and Nazis...
:O:
Takeda Shingen
01-31-12, 05:27 PM
It was that intellect that put a man on the Moon!!!
...well that and Nazis...
:O:
Awesome. We can send men to the moon, but lack even the most basic concept of terrestrial geography. That's okay, it's not as though we've been living here for a few million years or anything.
kraznyi_oktjabr
01-31-12, 05:33 PM
It was that intellect that put a man on the Moon!!!
...well that and Nazis...
:O:Yeah. Nazis provided the rocket, america provided people stupid enough to tie themselves in top of it.
:O:
Penguin
01-31-12, 05:40 PM
I think one of the geniuses from CNN misspelled London while looking it up on google maps. The town the sign points to is actually Loddon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loddon,_Norfolk)
A question to the Brits: Is Norfolk really that awful? :o I once thought about a job offer in Norwich - from reading only, the city sounded quite decent.
I think one of the geniuses from CNN misspelled London while looking it up on google maps. The town the sign points to is actually Loddon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loddon,_Norfolk)
A question to the Brits: Is Norfolk really that awful? :o I once thought about a job offer in Norwich - from reading only, the city sounded quite decent.
Norwich ain't too bad, although I am duty bound by my location to rubbish Norfolk at every opportunity, particularly when the derbies come around ;)
Used to be a sod to park though, not too bad these days.
Norfolk in general is quite nice though, particularly around Wroxham and on the North Coast around Sheringham and that.
Great Yarmouth used to be the seaside resort in the area but the recession has hit it hard, lots of empty shops and I think only Jim Davidson appears on the end of the pier shows these days, he's the only thing keeping Yarmouth running I think...that and arcade machines. :doh:
Sammi79
01-31-12, 06:06 PM
:hmmm: can we absolutely certain it was the moon they landed on?
:hmmm: can we absolutely certain it was the moon they landed on?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Y73sPHKxw
Penguin
01-31-12, 06:21 PM
Norwich ain't too bad, although I am duty bound by my location to rubbish Norfolk at every opportunity, particularly when the derbies come around ;)
Used to be a sod to park though, not too bad these days.
Norfolk in general is quite nice though, particularly around Wroxham and on the North Coast around Sheringham and that.
Great Yarmouth used to be the seaside resort in the area but the recession has hit it hard, lots of empty shops and I think only Jim Davidson appears on the end of the pier shows these days, he's the only thing keeping Yarmouth running I think...that and arcade machines. :doh:
Love thy neighbours, eh? Same here, my duty is to mock any other German region than the glorious Rhineland. :DL
Talking about the recession, actually the pay in Norwich would have been 20% less than I make here, and this at a company which has 1000 times as many employees as mine has...
:hmmm: can we absolutely certain it was the moon they landed on?
Well, there's a Moon in Pennsylvania... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Township,_Pennsylvania) :03:
Sammi79
01-31-12, 06:26 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Y73sPHKxw
:har: That's pure class.
Herr-Berbunch
01-31-12, 06:45 PM
Norwich ain't too bad, although I am duty bound by my location to rubbish Norfolk at every opportunity, particularly when the derbies come around ;)
Used to be a sod to park though, not too bad these days.
Norfolk in general is quite nice though, particularly around Wroxham and on the North Coast around Sheringham and that.
Great Yarmouth used to be the seaside resort in the area but the recession has hit it hard, lots of empty shops and I think only Jim Davidson appears on the end of the pier shows these days, he's the only thing keeping Yarmouth running I think...that and arcade machines. :doh:
I was there 94-96 and Norwich was a sod to drive to as well as park in. The A47 is (was?) the worst A-road surely?
Let's see, good things...? I was in the audience for a Vanessa show once - usually all light hearted stuff but ours was about domestic violence :doh:.
So not good then!
Wroxham - aaargh! Roys of Wroxham - Roys IS Wroxham, the only shop in town - when the Golden Arches finally arrived in town it was in (one of) Roys! One cashpoint, and don't even bother in the holiday season - bloody tourists even slower than the tra'ers (tractors for those whom English is a first, second, or even third language :O:).
The only good points were having Clem the landlord at the Railway give us a bar tab each month (I very much doubt he's still around), and The Mundesly Royal (or Royal Hotel, Mundesley - I've just double checked the name and it gets some fab ratings at tripadvisor.co.uk) disco nights, and, err, that's about it. Oh, it was my first dealings with a corner shop that opened till 11pm :o, how times change!
Awesome. We can send men to the moon, but lack even the most basic concept of terrestrial geography. That's okay, it's not as though we've been living here for a few million years or anything.
You sent a man to the moon?,....
No wait......! :o
You're a few million years old? :DL
Seriously we've always had our share of people who couldn't read a map. The way I look at it "we" went to the moon and survived that long in spite of such people and we always will.
TLAM Strike
01-31-12, 07:04 PM
:hmmm: can we absolutely certain it was the moon they landed on?
http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/9358/fakemoonlandingdesign.png
I was there 94-96 and Norwich was a sod to drive to as well as park in. The A47 is (was?) the worst A-road surely?
Let's see, good things...? I was in the audience for a Vanessa show once - usually all light hearted stuff but ours was about domestic violence :doh:.
So not good then!
Wroxham - aaargh! Roys of Wroxham - Roys IS Wroxham, the only shop in town - when the Golden Arches finally arrived in town it was in (one of) Roys! One cashpoint, and don't even bother in the holiday season - bloody tourists even slower than the tra'ers (tractors for those whom English is a first, second, or even third language :O:).
The only good points were having Clem the landlord at the Railway give us a bar tab each month (I very much doubt he's still around), and The Mundesly Royal (or Royal Hotel, Mundesley - I've just double checked the name and it gets some fab ratings at tripadvisor.co.uk) disco nights, and, err, that's about it. Oh, it was my first dealings with a corner shop that opened till 11pm :o, how times change!
Yeah, the A47 was designed by Satans traffic committee. It's probably quicker to take the smaller B roads to Norwich than that thing. Still, it's a bit better than it was, but even so...ugh.
Oh bloody hell, Vanessa...that's going back, she used to drive me mad, well...her and some of the people that showed up...bit like Mr Kyle these days... :nope:
Oh, and there's a little song around here:
"I can't read and I can't write
But I can drive a tra'er
But I was born in Ipswich Town
So it don't really ma'er." :haha:
What are y'all goin' on about?...
Everyone knows Norfolk is in Virginia!... :D
What are y'all goin' on about?...
Everyone knows Norfolk is in Virginia!... :D
Aaaah, but where is Greenville? :O:
Herr-Berbunch
01-31-12, 07:54 PM
What are y'all goin' on about?...
Everyone knows Norfolk is in Virginia!... :D
Didn't even have the courtesy to call it New Norfolk. :nope:
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And Vanessa was nowhere near as bad as Kyle!
Or Delia - "where are you, c'mon, where are you?" Classy Norfolk Broad - see what I did there?
Didn't even have the courtesy to call it New Norfolk. :nope:
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And Vanessa was nowhere near as bad as Kyle!
Or Delia - "where are you, c'mon, where are you?" Classy Norfolk Broad - see what I did there?
:har: "Let's be havin' yer!"
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