Bad time to be a Brit in America?
Aug 11th 2006, 7:59 pm
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Re: Bad time to be a Brit in America?
Liverpool is in Lancashire.... those administrative counties created in 1974, what a headache.
Aug 11th 2006, 8:01 pm
#32
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Re: Bad time to be a Brit in America?
Originally Posted by snowbunny
Liverpool is in Lancashire.... those administrative counties created in 1974, what a headache.
Aug 11th 2006, 8:03 pm
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Re: Bad time to be a Brit in America?
Originally Posted by snowbunny
Liverpool is in Lancashire.... those administrative counties created in 1974, what a headache.
Aug 11th 2006, 8:06 pm
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Re: Bad time to be a Brit in America?
Originally Posted by Tolos
Really? Then what the hell is Merseyside?! God..a man could go insane trying to work it all out...
Aug 11th 2006, 8:06 pm
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Re: Bad time to be a Brit in America?
Originally Posted by TruBrit
... i'm a scouser
Aug 11th 2006, 8:10 pm
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Re: Bad time to be a Brit in America?
Originally Posted by TruBrit
nope it's not, it used to be however now it's merseyside ....well has been for the last 20yrs or so and i know coz i'm a scouser
I was trying to explain to Toon whether or not there was a difference between a Liverpudlian and a scouser. I was confused over whether or not all Merseysiders are scousers or just the Liverpudlian ones.
Aug 11th 2006, 8:13 pm
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Re: Bad time to be a Brit in America?
Damn, it really is Complicated: http://www.abcounties.co.uk/counties/confusionmap2.htm
Aug 11th 2006, 8:13 pm
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Re: Bad time to be a Brit in America?
Originally Posted by Tolos
Sorry about that.
don't be it's great....and it beats being a houstonian a million times over
Aug 11th 2006, 8:13 pm
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Re: Bad time to be a Brit in America?
Originally Posted by paddingtongreen
It's sort of, across from Humberside that was in Yorkshire, and I'm not sure where it is now. It may have moved again.
Aug 11th 2006, 8:14 pm
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Re: Bad time to be a Brit in America?
Originally Posted by TruBrit
nope it's not, it used to be however now it's merseyside ....well has been for the last 20yrs or so and i know coz i'm a scouser
I couldn't send any replies..........I was most frustrated
Then I went to the fridge for a bevy and I had forgotten to chill my peckers...not a good evening!
Aug 11th 2006, 8:14 pm
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Re: Bad time to be a Brit in America?
Originally Posted by snowbunny
I know.... it was Lancashire pre-1974.
I was trying to explain to Toon whether or not there was a difference between a Liverpudlian and a scouser. I was confused over whether or not all Merseysiders are scousers or just the Liverpudlian ones.
I was trying to explain to Toon whether or not there was a difference between a Liverpudlian and a scouser. I was confused over whether or not all Merseysiders are scousers or just the Liverpudlian ones.
Aug 11th 2006, 8:15 pm
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Re: Bad time to be a Brit in America?
Originally Posted by Tbag
Howdy Trubrit & Britvic........did your server get gremlins too last night?
I couldn't send any replies..........I was most frustrated
Then I went to the fridge for a bevy and I had forgotten to chill my peckers...not a good evening!
I couldn't send any replies..........I was most frustrated
Then I went to the fridge for a bevy and I had forgotten to chill my peckers...not a good evening!
now don't chill that pecker and make him too cold
Aug 11th 2006, 8:16 pm
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Re: Bad time to be a Brit in America?
Originally Posted by cinnabar
It's now in Scotland, next to Paris.
is that close to europe
Aug 11th 2006, 8:19 pm
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Re: Bad time to be a Brit in America?
Originally Posted by Tbag
Howdy Trubrit & Britvic........did your server get gremlins too last night?
I couldn't send any replies..........I was most frustrated
Then I went to the fridge for a bevy and I had forgotten to chill my peckers...not a good evening!
I couldn't send any replies..........I was most frustrated
Then I went to the fridge for a bevy and I had forgotten to chill my peckers...not a good evening!
