The "where are you all from" thread?

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 29 Aug 2005, 01:06

I thought it was about time we all said where we were from.

I don't just mean the country but also the town and it's location. If you live in a different country than where you were from originally by all means post both.

Let me start:

Europe
England
South West

A poll would be fun too.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 29 Aug 2005, 01:17

Bradford-on-avon

Seriously ?

Alrighty:

Milkyway
Solar System
Earth
Europe
France
Provences Alpes Côte d'Azur Region.
A small town called Allauch, 10kms north of Marseille.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 29 Aug 2005, 01:23

Tom2681 wrote:
Bradford-on-avon
Seriously ?

Damn my secrets out

. You had to post a picture didn't you :rr:

p.s - I bet you couldn't say how many states/counties were in your country?

I don't have a clue for England let alone Britain.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 29 Aug 2005, 01:36

You had to post a picture didn't you

Any excuse to put some colours into this blueish and gray forum.
+ I think it's fun. Now you can look at a map and say:
"-Hey, this is where the weird cat-loving french maniac lives !"

I bet you couldn't say how many states/counties were in your country?

22 States (we call them regions).
102 Counties.

I even know the zip codes to about 90% of the counties. Every schoolkid knows them. 8)

Don't they teach you that stuff in grammar school ?

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 29 Aug 2005, 01:47

Tom2681 wrote:22 States (we call them regions).
102 Counties.

I always thought a state was the same thing as a county. They also call them counties in Ireland.

I've no idea therefore how many states we have. I don't think we even have states in that sense, just counties. We would say:

South West, South East (which is broken up again into the London area), North West, North East and Midlands but that doesn't really count.

Do they have counties in the USA?

Tom2681 wrote: I even know the zip codes to about 90% of the counties. Every schoolkid knows them. 8)

Don't they teach you that stuff in grammar school ?

Grammar school died long before I was born or mostly anyway. There are a few left and no btw we don't learn it, weird I know. Why bother to learn the zip/post codes? What real use do they have? (to know them all).

I don't know anyone who knows how many counties we have. I couldn't even guess at the number.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 29 Aug 2005, 02:01

Why bother to learn the zip/post codes?

Good question.

Zip codes are more meaningful in France than they are in Britain I guess.
-For example, I have drawn a huge "13" (my zip code) on my car.
-When I'm in the North and people ask me where I come from, I just say "I come from the 13".

-In our region we have learned to avoid people who come from the 75 (Paris).

Zip codes are more commonly used than the names of the different states.

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 29 Aug 2005, 02:09

Europe
England
North East Lincolnshire
New Waltham, near Grimsby

Mordib · Post by **Mordib** » 29 Aug 2005, 02:54

Europe
England
North-south-east-west (midlands

)
Birmingham

birmingham born, rutland/isle of man bread, currently trying to escape from birmingham again!!!

m.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 29 Aug 2005, 03:50

Mordib that would be the Midlands then

8)

Who ticked North America? That's cheating 8)

Zip codes are more meaningful in France than they are in Britain I guess.

Yep only our postal service give a shit about them.

Where are you form? BA15 2RP , madness

. It wouldn't mean anything.

That said we don't have a state/county code such as London, it's much more broken down than that. The county I live in (Wiltshire) has at least 5.

I still don't get the point Tom old bean. Saying "Allauch, 10kms north of Marseille" has to have more meaning than thirteen. Shirly?!?

ReconFive · Post by **ReconFive** » 29 Aug 2005, 03:53

North America
United States
Southern New Hampshire
Goffstown

Sorry brad

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 29 Aug 2005, 03:53

ReconFive · Post by **ReconFive** » 29 Aug 2005, 04:00

bradavon wrote: Local joke?

No, i've just always thought it was a funny sounding name

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 29 Aug 2005, 04:37

LOL fair enough then, it is.

It's interesting you put "Southern" New Hampshire, is it that big? or are they different up North?

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 29 Aug 2005, 09:10

St. Albans
Hertfordshire
England
Europe
Western Hemisphere
The World
Earth
Milky Way
The Universe

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 29 Aug 2005, 13:59

Europe, Holland, in a town above Amsterdam, called Alkmaar (City of Cheese)

...although at the moment I'm staying at Toge's mom's house...

:mrgreen:

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 29 Aug 2005, 14:35

You mean Alkmaar is where cheese is made, or does it actually mean "City of Cheese" in Dutch?

(Must resist making a bad "What cheese is made backwards...?" gag)

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 29 Aug 2005, 14:43

No, it doesn't literally mean 'city of cheese', but it has a long history of making cheese or something, and we have a classic ritual once a week or something where 2 doofbags in some stupid clothing go and carry big plates of cheese, run around a bit, all for the tourists, you know!?

Never seen it myself though...

I don't get the backwards cheese-making joke, btw...

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 29 Aug 2005, 15:42

The answer is Edam. Not very funny

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 29 Aug 2005, 16:04

grim_tales wrote:The answer is Edam. Not very funny

Aw ic ic... thanks... I get it now...

No... not really funny, now...

...or was it meant 'sarcastic'?!

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 29 Aug 2005, 16:10

Yeah

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 29 Aug 2005, 19:37

Is it really called the milky way?

grim_tales wrote:(Must resist making a bad "What cheese is made backwards...?" gag)

You've got me on that one??? -

eseehc

How is Edam (made) the answer?

Yi-Long wrote:No, it doesn't literally mean 'city of cheese', but it has a long history of making cheese or something, and we have a classic ritual once a week or something where 2 doofbags in some stupid clothing go and carry big plates of cheese, run around a bit, all for the tourists, you know!?

Once a week and you've never seen it?

Cheese seems to be all over Holland. There were cheese touristy things near Eindhovan when I visited there in 2003 too.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 29 Aug 2005, 20:23

Brad, the joke is in the "made". Since I say the question without putting any stress on the word "made" you are fooled into believing I mean "manufactured" - when I mean the actual word "made" written backwards.

"made" backwards = EDAM.

brassmonkey001 · Post by **brassmonkey001** » 30 Aug 2005, 00:38

Born from an egg on a mountain top...

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 31 Aug 2005, 22:52

Where I am:-
Mairangi Bay
North Shore of the Auckland
Auckland
New Zealand
The Pacific Ocean (I scoff at the idea of a continent called Oceania. A continent is a giant landmass, not a bloody group of islands.)
Earth
The Sol System
The Milkway Galaxy
The Universe

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 01 Sep 2005, 09:06

There is no continent called Ocieana

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