Countryside dwellers and townies
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Forget the north south divide a few threads on here recently has really shown a kind of big divide between those that live in rural areas and those that live in towns and cities. In those few threads people that live in countryside have been accused of having a big chip on their shoulders and townies have been accused of total ignorance.
Is it really that bad in real life or is PH not a real cross section of society?
Is it really that bad in real life or is PH not a real cross section of society?
Never you mind said:
...and townies have been accused of total ignorance.
This is more of a statement of basic fact, tbh.A quick google finds this, from surveys of London children aged 7-14.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/oct/12/educati...
That was 17 years ago, so those kids are now in their 20s and early 30s - but there's absolutely no reason to think that's some kind of exception.
Many urban-dwellers simply don't understand that the countryside is a factory, with large machinery, not simply their playground.
TooMany2cvs said:
Many urban-dwellers simply don't understand that the countryside is a factory, with large machinery, not simply their playground.
This Its mainly Dairy farms round where I live so on any given country lane (or right of way across a field) you have a reasonable chance of coming across cows.
September is peak time for heavy machinery for harvest (and prep for winter) so there's loads of tractors/combines etc trundling around.
Its fine, but you need to be aware that you're in a different environment to a city and act accordingly.
Mind you a lot of farmers are right miserable sods to be fair !
TVR Moneypit said:
Mind you, he also thought that ... that you could drive to Mexico only crossing the English Channel, so maybe not the best example?
He's not technically incorrect - although he is VERY ambitious...Nobody's yet driven across the Bering Straight icebridge, although a few people have crossed by foot - but maybe one day it'll be routine... http://www.interbering.com/
TVR Moneypit said:
I know a bloke, late 30's, lived in the centre of London all his life, who did not know that fish fingers come from fish in the sea, that beef burgers come from cows, or that wooly jumpers come from sheep.
Mind you, he also thought that the Falkland Islands were in Germany, and the Falklands War was part of WW2, didn't know that Paris was the capital of France, and that you could drive to Mexico only crossing the English Channel, so maybe not the best example?
The Mexico thing ought to be possible, when the Bering strait's freeze.Mind you, he also thought that the Falkland Islands were in Germany, and the Falklands War was part of WW2, didn't know that Paris was the capital of France, and that you could drive to Mexico only crossing the English Channel, so maybe not the best example?
Not sure if anyone's tried it yet maybe a good one for a grand tour Christmas special
PositronicRay said:
TVR Moneypit said:
I know a bloke, late 30's, lived in the centre of London all his life, who did not know that fish fingers come from fish in the sea, that beef burgers come from cows, or that wooly jumpers come from sheep.
Mind you, he also thought that the Falkland Islands were in Germany, and the Falklands War was part of WW2, didn't know that Paris was the capital of France, and that you could drive to Mexico only crossing the English Channel, so maybe not the best example?
The Mexico thing ought to be possible, when the Bering strait's freeze.Mind you, he also thought that the Falkland Islands were in Germany, and the Falklands War was part of WW2, didn't know that Paris was the capital of France, and that you could drive to Mexico only crossing the English Channel, so maybe not the best example?
Not sure if anyone's tried it yet maybe a good one for a grand tour Christmas special
I can't remember if they made it, I believe I missed the last episode on account of having mumps or some other ghastly childhood disease.
Googling it, a few results suggest it was called The Big Race
TVR Moneypit said:
I know a bloke, late 30's, lived in the centre of London all his life, who did not know that fish fingers come from fish in the sea, that beef burgers come from cows, or that wooly jumpers come from sheep.
Mind you, he also thought that the Falkland Islands were in Germany, and the Falklands War was part of WW2, didn't know that Paris was the capital of France, and that you could drive to Mexico only crossing the English Channel, so maybe not the best example?
Your friend is a retard. Mind you, he also thought that the Falkland Islands were in Germany, and the Falklands War was part of WW2, didn't know that Paris was the capital of France, and that you could drive to Mexico only crossing the English Channel, so maybe not the best example?
I love when I'm on the tube and you get the occasional country yokel family on a day trip to the big smoke who totally oblivious to standard city etiquette, try to talk to everybody (weirdo's) or worse proclaim loudly "This is very busy, I don't think I'd like to do this every day" at 2pm on a Tuesday
BUSY!? BUSY!? You haven't seen busy until you've experienced the shear joy of a 5pm rush hour crowd on a matchday, sandwiched between the armpit of a person who seems not to have washed for 5 days while being gently bummed by the semi-tumescence of the rather large gentleman pressed up behind you.
BUSY!? BUSY!? You haven't seen busy until you've experienced the shear joy of a 5pm rush hour crowd on a matchday, sandwiched between the armpit of a person who seems not to have washed for 5 days while being gently bummed by the semi-tumescence of the rather large gentleman pressed up behind you.
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