CNN tells viewers London is in Norfolk - Page 2

Takeda Shingen · 01-31-12, 05:27 PM

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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

It was that intellect that put a man on the Moon!!!

...well that and Nazis...

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

It was that intellect that put a man on the Moon!!!

...well that and Nazis...

Yeah. Nazis provided the rocket, america provided people stupid enough to tie themselves in top of it.

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?

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

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?

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.

Sammi79 · 01-31-12, 06:06 PM

can we absolutely certain it was the moon they landed on?

Dowly · 01-31-12, 06:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Sammi79

can we absolutely certain it was the moon they landed on?

Penguin · 01-31-12, 06:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Oberon

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.

Love thy neighbours, eh? Same here, my duty is to mock any other German region than the glorious Rhineland.

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...

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Originally Posted by Sammi79

can we absolutely certain it was the moon they landed on?

Well, there's a Moon in Pennsylvania...

Sammi79 · 01-31-12, 06:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Dowly

That's pure class.

Herr-Berbunch · 01-31-12, 06:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Oberon

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.

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

.

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

).

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

, how times change!

August · 01-31-12, 06:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

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......!

You're a few million years old?

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

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Originally Posted by Sammi79

can we absolutely certain it was the moon they landed on?

Oberon · 01-31-12, 07:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

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

.

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

).

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

, 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...

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."

vienna · 01-31-12, 07:41 PM

What are y'all goin' on about?...

Everyone knows Norfolk is in Virginia!...

Oberon · 01-31-12, 07:53 PM

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What are y'all goin' on about?...

Everyone knows Norfolk is in Virginia!...

Aaaah, but where is Greenville?

Herr-Berbunch · 01-31-12, 07:54 PM

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Originally Posted by vienna

What are y'all goin' on about?...

Everyone knows Norfolk is in Virginia!...

Didn't even have the courtesy to call it New Norfolk.

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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?

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Penguin Ocean Warrior Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Rheinische Republik Posts: 3,322 Downloads: 92 Uploads: 0	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? I once thought about a job offer in Norwich - from reading only, the city sounded quite decent.

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