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guthrie Posts: 696 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 22 2006,11:47    Scotland. Have spent a couple of years in Sheffield and one in Manchester, am now back in Scotland and dont want to leave except for holidays. I am still amazed that some of you think Manchester or Wigan is the north of England.  No, the north is Cumbria or Newcastle.  Manchester is only 3 hours drive (When teh roads are clear) from London, but its still nearly 3 hours up to Carlisle.

Chris Hyland Posts: 705 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 22 2006,13:06    Well officially it's the North, especially to most of the Londoners who think everything north of Watford Gap is the North.

Stephen Elliott Posts: 1776 Joined: Oct. 2005 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 22 2006,13:36    Quote (Wonderpants @ Dec. 22 2006,09:54) Quote (Stephen Elliott @ Dec. 22 2006,06:06) now in Windsor SouthEast England. Hey, I can see your house from here! (Kew)   Oh! Nice place, I love it round there. Richmond and Kew are among my favourite London destinations. Nice atmosphere around kew station with all those bars/cafes/restaurants with street seating. Some pleasant walking around Kew gardens, Richmond park and along the river. EDIT: Guthrie, Wigan, Manchester and Liverpool are definately considered to be North West England.

stevestory Posts: 13407 Joined: Oct. 2005 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 22 2006,13:56    Quote (Alan Fox @ Dec. 22 2006,06:32) When you come out with remarks like:     Quote somewhere it Europe, which means little. that does not surprise me!     I see I was misinterpreted there. I didn't mean that Europe means little, I meant simply knowing VMartin Davison's IP was registered in Europe meant little to me. Whereas an IP that tracked back to a specific place in Europe, say CERN, would mean a lot.

heddle Posts: 126 Joined: Nov. 2005 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 22 2006,13:58    Originally from Pittsburgh, PA. Have lived in Champaign IL, Va and Md suburbs of DC, Newport News VA, and now in New Hampshire. And before anyone asks: no, I don’t think my opinions about the places I have lived are any more authoritative than anyone else’s opinions. -------------- Mysticism is a rational enterprise. Religion is not. The mystic has recognized something about the nature of consciousness prior to thought, and this recognition is susceptible to rational discussion. The mystic has reason for what he believes, and these reasons are empirical. --Sam Harris

JohnW Posts: 3217 Joined: Aug. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 22 2006,13:58    First 18 years in Doncaster, last 13 in Seattle, with a few years in Durham, Birmingham and London in between. -------------- Math is just a language of reality. Its a waste of time to know it. - Robert Byers There isn't any probability that the letter d is in the word "mathematics"...  The correct answer would be "not even 0" - JoeG

stevestory Posts: 13407 Joined: Oct. 2005 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 22 2006,14:00    Quote (keiths @ Dec. 22 2006,09:59) Quote (stevestory @ Dec. 21 2006,16:34) And of course our Strine friend K.E. k.e., I can't believe you let Steve get away with calling you "Strine." Everybody who talks like KE is Australian. In much the same way that all asians are either chinese or japanese. Quote Hank Hill: "So are you chinese or japanese?" Khan : "We Laotian..." Bill : "The ocean? What ocean?" Khan : "FROM LAOS STUIPID! Its a land lock country in southeast Asia.." Hank Hill : "So are you chinese or japanese?"

Arden Chatfield Posts: 6657 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 22 2006,14:01    Quote (Renier @ Dec. 22 2006,03:57) Cape Town, South Africa. Best city in the world... Jujuquisp from Milwaukee disagrees... -------------- "Rich is just mad because he thought all titties had fur on them until last week when a shorn transvestite ruined his childhood dreams by jumping out of a spider man cake and man boobing him in the face lips." - Erasmus

ericmurphy Posts: 2460 Joined: Oct. 2005 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 22 2006,14:01    I'm a "San Francisco Liberal" by way of being a "Boston Liberal." -------------- 2006 MVD award for most dogged defense of scientific sanity "Atheism is a religion the same way NOT collecting stamps is a hobby." —Scott Adams

MidnightVoice Posts: 380 Joined: Aug. 2005 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 22 2006,15:31    It seems a lot of us have lived in Upstate NY. Must be some sort of correlation here....   -------------- If I fly the coop some time And take nothing but a grip With the few good books that really count It's a necessary trip I'll be gone with the girl in the gold silk jacket The girl with the pearl-driller's hands

Freelurker Posts: 82 Joined: Oct. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 22 2006,15:41    I grew up in Detroit, Michigan. Currently I live in Virginia. Happy holidays to everyone! -------------- Invoking intelligent design in science is like invoking gremlins in engineering. [after Mark Isaak.] All models are wrong, some models are useful. - George E. P. Box

Reluctant Cannibal Posts: 36 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 22 2006,16:03    I was born and grew up in Zimbabwe, went to uni in the UK and stayed here, except for a year in Cape Town and 4 years in the SF Bay Area. I work (and have mostly worked) in London.

Steviepinhead Posts: 532 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 22 2006,17:05    Let's stay on topic, please. No more talk about where we, ugh, "work" (whatever that means...). After all, this is a respectable family forum. Most of the time.

Ogee Posts: 89 Joined: Mar. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 22 2006,17:40    I've been splitting atoms for fun and profit in Toronto for almost two years, after five years of grad school and postdockery in Montreal.  Lived in Vancouver prior to that for most of my life (but was born in Montreal).

"Rev Dr" Lenny Flank Posts: 2560 Joined: Feb. 2005 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 22 2006,17:49    Quote (Lou FCD @ Dec. 21 2006,21:43) Philthadelphia, born and raised in the City of Brotherly Shove. Ha, we Allentownians also refer to it as "Filthy-delphia".   -------------- Editor, Red and Black Publishers www.RedandBlackPublishers.com

"Rev Dr" Lenny Flank Posts: 2560 Joined: Feb. 2005 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 22 2006,17:54    Quote (heddle @ Dec. 22 2006,13:58) Originally from Pittsburgh, PA. (snip) And before anyone asks: no, I don’t think my opinions about the places I have lived are any more authoritative than anyone else’s opinions. But, having lived already in he!!, I can certainly see why you are so gung-ho about your religion.   -------------- Editor, Red and Black Publishers www.RedandBlackPublishers.com

Steviepinhead Posts: 532 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 22 2006,18:11    When you think about it, heddle, your opinions about places you've actually lived might well be entitled to more authority than the opinions of folks who've never been within miles of those places, much less lived there. Prolonged residence affords opportunity for observation, experience, comparing, testing, weighing, hypothesizing and discarding hypotheses...  Forming educated opinions.  Y'know--real world stuff like that. All stuff that mere belief in imaginary beings does NOT afford the opportunity for.  And why one person's opinion on such ineffable things is not worth more than any other person's. Epiphany?  Eh, I thought not... You may "he11" from Pittsburgh, but you're still, um,  farfar more at home in LaLaLand.

The Wayward Hammer Posts: 64 Joined: April 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 22 2006,18:25    Blipey, As I understand it, AFDave now lives near KC somewhere - maybe near Whiteman AFB?  Maybe in the limestone caves? Lou FCD - Huntington, WV?  My two year sentence to WV was spent in Milton.  Huntington was OK for, as a co-worker once told, "a one horse town that shot the horse twenty years ago and was still in mourning."

Steviepinhead Posts: 532 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 22 2006,18:30    Now, now, just because I was a tad uncharitable to heddle--and practically on Christmas Eve!--is no need for us to stoop to insults all around! I'm sure they still get a lot of use out of that old horse in Huntington: there's glue, mattress stuffing, something to stick over the mantle in lieu of a moosehead... Not to mention that playing horseshoes is a lot safer than playing with hand grenades!

phonon Posts: 396 Joined: Nov. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 22 2006,18:30    Quote (Art @ Dec. 21 2006,21:39) "Where are you from?"  A question that stumps me every time. Me too, but I'm not quite that widespread. For me just Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tenessee. But multiple places within each state. With a brief stint as a kid in Augsburg, Germany when my dad was in the Army. But still, I have to generalize when people ask "Where are you from?" I usually think, "I'm and earthling, of course." -------------- With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

k.e Posts: 1948 Joined: Mar. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 22 2006,21:17    Quote (keiths @ Dec. 22 2006,08:59) Quote (stevestory @ Dec. 21 2006,16:34) And of course our Strine friend K.E. k.e., I can't believe you let Steve get away with calling you "Strine." Wakes up....yeah thanks for reminding me! I've been here so long I'm now 'a bloody loud mouthed Ozzie' as my fellow Kiwis would say. Although the use of the word 'strine' to describe one of oarstrayleeyan nationality would be a neologism, when it normally means colloquial spoken Australian English, I fully understood that Steve S actually meant 'Ozzie'. Now since there are a few Ozzies here, I ...ah how shall I say this .....don't want to further the traditional 'friendly' cross ditch (Tasman Sea)  colonial cousin rivalry. And don't laff about the  'colonial cousin' both our countries still have the Queen of England as the titular head of state, along with Canada incidentally. It's the Brits who are to blame for all this, if Cornwallis had been a bit more vicious chasing down and 'pacifying' those revolting Yanks, the the Head of the Church of England would be King of World.....cut to scene where the last Redcoat Officer excuses himself from high dinner, apologizes for losing the British Empire and goes into the library and shoots himself, while the butler solemnly hands everyone else  brandy and cigars. Except of course if it is Friday night after a few cold ones. Where they accuse us of 'coming over here showing up at their barbecues drinking all their beer and stealing their wimin' all the while making the same old tired joke about us being sheep shaggers. Well I only have one thing to say ....thanks for the beer and the girls ....I enjoyed them all, heck I'm practically  married to one (for 22 years) and have 2 fine Ozzie daughters. Although the eldest found out she can get an EU passport by way of her Irish grandparents and now thinks she's ...smarter and prettier than me, scoff....age and cunning beat youth and beauty.. reminder to self... need to move that mirror.... -------------- The conservative has but little to fear from the man whose reason is the servant of his passions, but let him beware of him in whom reason has become the greatest and most terrible of the passions.These are the wreckers of outworn empires and civilisations, doubters, disintegrators, deicides.Haldane

stevestory Posts: 13407 Joined: Oct. 2005 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 22 2006,21:24    Oy!

Richardthughes Posts: 11178 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 22 2006,22:10    Quote (heddle @ Dec. 22 2006,13:58) Originally from Pittsburgh, PA. Have lived in Champaign IL, Va and Md suburbs of DC, Newport News VA, and now in New Hampshire. And before anyone asks: no, I don’t think my opinions about the places I have lived are any more authoritative than anyone else’s opinions. Arf! I doth my Tard-cap, sir. -------------- "Richardthughes, you magnificent bastard, I stand in awe of you..." : Arden Chatfield "You magnificent bastard! " : Louis "ATBC poster child", "I have to agree with Rich.." : DaveTard "I bow to your superior skills" : deadman_932 "...it was Richardthughes making me lie in bed.." : Kristine

Bob O'H Posts: 2564 Joined: Oct. 2005 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 23 2006,03:44    Another Brit: brought up in Scunthorpe (born on the Wirral, parents moved when I was two.  Luckily they took me with them).  Such an awful place I tried to get as far away from it as I could: now in Helsinki (Finland), via Denmark. My brother also escaped Scunthorpe, and now lives in Slough... Bob -------------- It is fun to dip into the various threads to watch cluelessness at work in the hands of the confident exponent. - Soapy Sam (so say we all)

Reluctant Cannibal Posts: 36 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 23 2006,04:13    Quote (Steviepinhead @ Dec. 22 2006,17:05) Let's stay on topic, please. No more talk about where we, ugh, "work" (whatever that means...). After all, this is a respectable family forum. Most of the time. My bad -- it just slipped out. Does "get paid to surf the interweb" sound better?

clamboy Posts: 299 Joined: May 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 23 2006,04:21    Yet another Seattleite raises a tentative, non-confrontational hand. Though originally from the Boston arear (yeah, that's the right spellin - whatayou, a re-tahd?), then Colorado, Chicago, and (briefly) Corvallis, OR.

jeannot Posts: 1201 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 23 2006,04:34    I was born in Annecy, France (50 kms from Geneva). Now I live in Brittany.

oldmanintheskydidntdoit Posts: 4999 Joined: July 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 23 2006,05:30    London originally, now i'm "sunning"* myself down by the south coast of England. * it's not really all that sunny! -------------- I also mentioned that He'd have to give me a thorough explanation as to *why* I must "eat human babies". FTK if there are even critical flaws in Gauger’s work, the evo mat narrative cannot stand Gordon Mullings

Lou FCD Posts: 5455 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 23 2006,06:02    Quote ("Rev Dr" Lenny Flank @ Dec. 22 2006,17:49)     Quote (Lou FCD @ Dec. 21 2006,21:43) Philthadelphia, born and raised in the City of Brotherly Shove. Ha, we Allentownians also refer to it as "Filthy-delphia".   And we Philthadelphians refer to Allentown as "Dorney Park".   Quote (The Wayward Hammer @ Dec. 22 2006,18:25) Lou FCD - Huntington, WV?  My two year sentence to WV was spent in Milton.  Huntington was OK for, as a co-worker once told, "a one horse town that shot the horse twenty years ago and was still in mourning." Yeah, they're still smarting over that whole mall fiasco.  Idiots. I wound up there because my wife was from there and Louisa, KY.  (I met her in Columbus, OH) On the bright side, I spent a year and a half at Marshall working on a physics degree during the years we were divorced (we're re-married now).   On the down side, working at a bar (Mulligan's on 3rd Ave.) to pay my way didn't do wonders for my college education and I dropped out. -------------- “Why do creationists have such a hard time with commas? Linky“. ~ Steve Story, Legend

Reciprocating Bill Posts: 4265 Joined: Oct. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Dec. 23 2006,09:58    Born in the Cleveland area, and currently reside in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. -------------- Myth: Something that never was true, and always will be. "The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you." - David Foster Wallace "Here’s a clue. Snarky banalities are not a substitute for saying something intelligent. Write that down." - Barry Arrington

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