Why British cities make no sense

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• cowpowered@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Map Men Map Men Map Map Map Men!

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  • CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Men

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    • Hallainzil@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Men

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• scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Jay Foreman is a treasure, before my first trip to the UK I watched his videos and they were some of the most informative ones there. Both for learning how to read a tube map and also getting some of the history

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  • kurikai@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    He is pretty great

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  • NuPNuA@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    How hard is the tub map? It’s literally just a bunch of lines with the stations on them.

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• Nougat@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I will always never not fail to upvote Map Men.

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  • MinusPi@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I will always (never not) fail to upvote Map Men

    I will always fail to upvote Map Men

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  • clb92@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I will always never not fail to upvote Map Men.

    You always fail to upvote them, you say?

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    • Nougat@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      No, I said:

      I will always never not fail to upvote Map Men.

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  • Techlos@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    This isn’t not the first time I’ve not narrowly avoided me missing seeing them map men.

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• CatpainTypo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I LOVE YOU MAP MEN

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• elouboub@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Aren't we lucky to have the brits to make fun of for such things?

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  • metaStatic@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    meanwhile in America: Let's run this street down a cliff because a city needs to be a grid.

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• synapse1278@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I love the map men !

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• blanketswithsmallpox@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Is the tldr that theyre old as fuck?

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  • Rilichu@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Tldr is that the official term “city” in the UK is pretty much entirely ceremonial.

    All it means is that the ruling monarch liked your town enough that they would give it city status by royal decree.

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    • merridew@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Up until 1889, city status was granted on the basis of the existence of having an Anglican cathedral.

      It’s only been arbitrary since they tore up the rulebook and gave Birmingham city status.

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  • HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    You should deffo give it a watch when you get the chance

    Imo the most consistently funny series on YouTube

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    • blanketswithsmallpox@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Thanks for the reminder, I got time now.

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  • ScreamingFirehawk@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    No, Milton Keynes is pretty new

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• Ronno@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  This is also the case in The Netherlands. I live in a "city" with 15.000 residents, whilst there are "villages" with 100.000. Just because newer places(?) never got the ceremonial title of city.

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• jet@hackertalks.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Except Rochester

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