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MothBalls 01-31-12 01:28 AM

CNN tells viewers London is in Norfolk
 
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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-w...5875-23727083/



Oooops

kraznyi_oktjabr 01-31-12 03:51 AM

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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:

Dowly 01-31-12 05:11 AM

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/j...iley/244-1.gif

Oberon 01-31-12 08:14 AM

To be honest, in summer most of London IS in Suffolk and Norfolk... :dead:

kroyon 01-31-12 08:17 AM

Funny!

Tribesman 01-31-12 08:33 AM

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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

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Originally Posted by Tribesman (Post 1830582)
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

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Originally Posted by Tribesman (Post 1830582)
... 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:

Oberon 01-31-12 12:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch (Post 1830587)
: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

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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen (Post 1830823)
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

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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike (Post 1830851)
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

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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike (Post 1830851)
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

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.

Oberon 01-31-12 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Penguin (Post 1830865)
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

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?


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