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04.03.2026 14:32
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"Trent" is.
Actually more complaints about the map (which I didn't do) than the thirding (which I did do)
MAP COMPLAINTS TO THESE PEOPLE: www.conceptdraw.com/How-To-Guide...
Spose we could just ask @robmanuel.b3ta.com.
Hey, @robmanuel.b3ta.com, where'd you get that map?
Scary thing is, I *WOULD* say I don't think this map, despite its many bizarre tells, is shit enough to be AI. But AI gets less shit every few minutes, so this probably *IS* AI. And I can only tell cos I'm a massive map nerd. We are, like, weeks away from AI not being shit enough for ANYONE to tell!
Alright, while I’m at it… why is “Torksey” (if that IS a real place) on this map?
What have you done to London?! I don’t mind Essex taking Havering back, but can’t we keep Barnet?
A photo of entertainers Little and Large. Large’s face has been blanked out and a question mark placed over it.
this photo leaves little to the imagination
The Amstrad version was a semitone higher, but otherwise exactly the same.
I LOVED this game!
Well, *I* remember it, and I played it loads. But only cos I liked the music. The game was rubbish.
This phenomenal bit of 8-bit music is wasted on an Amstrad game from 1987 that no one remembers.
youtu.be/Y8CMScjD82o?...
Don’t know if this still works, but when I used to get confused about news stories, I’d check Newsround.
Instead of building massive servers that require lots of wasteful energy to cool down, couldn’t we put millions of little servers in living rooms all over Britain to replace our radiators?
She might be impressed by the new Piccadilly line trains when she’s a teenager.
1. Yaaaay!!
2. Loz’s t-shirt looks like a stripy tie.
The Buggles?
Here’s a better photo…
Sort of cockroachy beetley thing?
What dis?
While we’re at it, “creatures crawl in search of blood, to terrorise y’all’s neighbourhood” only rhymes if, like Rod Temperton who wrote Thriller, you’re from Grimsby.
For starters, there are counties - the historic subdivisions dating back to the Saxons, mostly ending in 'shire. These come in wildly varying sizes, and even more wildly varying degrees of local pride. They're not a very helpful distinction for identifying where you live, because competing with the historic counties is the infuriatingly similar system of administrative counties for local government, which uses a slightly different map. Residents of Saddleworth for example can't, under pressure, say whether they're in Greater Manchester or Yorkshire. This isn't helped by yet a third definition of 'counties' used in British addresses. Royal Mail uses their own map to avoid splitting postal towns that straddle traditional county borders. This puts, for instance, the Essex town of Ugly Green in 'Hertfordshire'. And these incidentally are entirely unrelated to the Post Office's postcodes - a system initially set up in the 1960s for the benefit of postal workers, but which has since become indispensable for sat navs, emergency services, estate agents and rival street gangs. And these postcodes don't match up at all with phone codes. There are parliamentary constituencies that don't match up with local government areas, NHS areas that don't match up with police areas, and so on and so on.
This is a great and very accurate tranche of text about the weirdness of Britain’s geography and how we care to label it.
Source: This Way Up, by Mark Cooper-Jones and Jay Foreman
Black and white photo on a plaque. “Queens Bridge, traffic and pedestrians, c.1880”. The vehicles are way too modern for 1880.
“1880”??!?
We’d like to one day, maybe, but the problem is, Map Men isn’t very easy to turn into a podcast. We rely rather heavily on our scripts that take a long time to write. But, who knows? Maybe will come up with a podcast soon?
(@markcooperjones.bsky.social)
Thanks Jonn! :)
By the way, I forgot to tell you, I done another plug for your book again. This time on @herring1967.bsky.social’s podcast.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
The bit where we talk about your book is at 50:31.
Oops. Here is the specific link for our specific book. Don't forget to order our book, instead of a different book by mistake.
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This was great fun to be a guest on! Thanks so much @herring1967.bsky.social for saying such lovely things about our book!
What a dated reference. Write about now.
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