[Travel] Interesting maps

[Whoislloydy]

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That's a shit map

 

[Sirnormangall]

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great news - the Russians are crapping themselves more than Ukrainians! (But not as much as most of Western Europe)

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

I can understand it with the French. Their lunches can drag on for hours, with multiple courses. They probably take the same approach to shitting.

Similarly the Italians with that Mediterranean diet with all the olive oil. It's probably more of a continuous stream.


Seriously though, I gather the French are increasingly inclined to just have a quick sandwich (in a baguette, obviously) for lunch rather than the full blown "LET'S HAVE THREE COURSES AND A BOTTLE OF WINE EACH!" approach they used to have.

Which is a shame, obviously.

 

[Albion my Albion]

I thought I read once that the US had a narrow vote for English over German originally

Um Längen verpasst!

Maxwell Schmart

 

[Brovion]

The Spanish interior is empty. So many abandoned and practically abandoned villages. Lots of city folk own a place in their ancestral village that they go back at weekends/holiday etc. You'd think with the rise of homeworking more people will return to village life but it's not happening yet.

A couple of years ago somebody offered me a little house in a village about 45 mins from here for 10k euros! It needed a bit of work but was livable. I was tempted but lack of cash, lack of car, and lack of spousal enthusiasm scuppered it

Ha! This is completely O/T, but I notice you're in Almeria. Years and years ago, in 1973, (when I was 16) coming back on the night ferry from Dieppe to Newhaven a very drunk man sat himself down next to us (me, my dad, step-mum and brother and sister) and proceeded to tell us about the amazing place he'd bought in "Carboneras, near Almeria" (sp). He kept going on and on about it and kept saying "You've gotta come out. It's in Carboneras, near Almeria. It's a bit primitive, shit in the streets, but it's great." If he said this once he said it a hundred times, no exaggeration (which is why it's stuck in my head over the years!). Despite my step-mum getting more and more irritated and telling him to piss off and annoy someone else he wouldn't stop talking. After a while he shook my dad's shoulder (he was pretending to be asleep), and said "Do you want to buy it?" He then changed tack and said how much it was costing him how he'd wished he'd never bought it, and how he was desperate for someone to take it off his hands. It's become one of those family stories we tell each other.

Anyway, carry on!

 

[beorhthelm]

I can understand it with the French. Their lunches can drag on for hours, with multiple courses. They probably take the same approach to shitting.

where would they find the time?

i reckon a borked study, mixing repsonses with visits to the toilet, or days, weeks, months.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Are you suggesting that German's don't shit 6.5times a day?

Well..... the 0.5 was a bit of a give away.
Unless that's because they have a daily careless and somewhat tragic fart.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Well..... the 0.5 was a bit of a give away.
Unless that's they have a daily careless and somewhat tragic fart.

Brown mist.

Somebody else probably knows what that is in German.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Brown mist.

Somebody else probably knows what that is in German.

Brauner Nebel

(Cousin of Phil and Gary)

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Brauner Nebel

I had a pint of that at my local's German Beer Festival last year.

 

[Bakero]

Ha! This is completely O/T, but I notice you're in Almeria. Years and years ago, in 1973, (when I was 16) coming back on the night ferry from Dieppe to Newhaven a very drunk man sat himself down next to us (me, my dad, step-mum and brother and sister) and proceeded to tell us about the amazing place he'd bought in "Carboneras, near Almeria" (sp). He kept going on and on about it and kept saying "You've gotta come out. It's in Carboneras, near Almeria. It's a bit primitive, shit in the streets, but it's great." If he said this once he said it a hundred times, no exaggeration (which is why it's stuck in my head over the years!). Despite my step-mum getting more and more irritated and telling him to piss off and annoy someone else he wouldn't stop talking. After a while he shook my dad's shoulder (he was pretending to be asleep), and said "Do you want to buy it?" He then changed tack and said how much it was costing him how he'd wished he'd never bought it, and how he was desperate for someone to take it off his hands. It's become one of those family stories we tell each other.

Anyway, carry on!

I can only imagine what Carboneras looked like back then. Picturesque, poor and largely cut off from the outside world. It sits right on the edge of the Cabo de Gata national park, which still today is a largely unspoilt paradise of hidden coves, fishing villages, and otherworldly volcanic landscapes.

However, Carboneras itself, which was a tiny fishing community, was transformed by the construction of a bloody, great power station at one end of the beach in the 80s. Your drunken chum bought in the wrong place at the wrong time. The town itself and the beach is still pleasant enough as long you keep your back to the aforementioned monstrosity, which thankfully has been decommissioned and is being deconstructed.

 

[Man of Harveys]

I’m not surprised the Germans are high on the shitometer. How often people shit and the texture, quality and quantity thereof is a national obsession over there. And rightly so.

 

[Man of Harveys]

I can understand it with the French. Their lunches can drag on for hours, with multiple courses. They probably take the same approach to shitting.

I love everything about France. Except that my intestinal tract doesn’t. The second I get there it’s like someone’s shoved a cork up it. So I’m frantically munching apples and All Bran to keep the big brown TGV train rolling along.

 

[Badger]

Similarly the Italians with that Mediterranean diet with all the olive oil. It's probably more of a continuous stream.


Seriously though, I gather the French are increasingly inclined to just have a quick sandwich (in a baguette, obviously) for lunch rather than the full blown "LET'S HAVE THREE COURSES AND A BOTTLE OF WINE EACH!" approach they used to have.

Which is a shame, obviously.

I spent a year working for Airbus in Bristol back in 2004/5. We used to finish at lunchtime on Fridays because Airbus HQ is in France, and Friday afternoons were for long lunches with lots of wine.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

I spent a year working for Airbus in Bristol back in 2004/5. We used to finish at lunchtime on Fridays because Airbus HQ is in France, and Friday afternoons were for long lunches with lots of wine.

To be fair, even in the UK you don't have to go much further back than that for the days of massive piss ups at lunch time.

I am willfully avoiding drawing attention to quite how long ago that was.

One of my Grandads was involved in designing Concorde, largely due to being able to speak French and having lived/worked over there, would the Airbus office in Bristol have been the same place (I guess it'd have been Gloster at some point further back)?

 

[Badger]

To be fair, even in the UK you don't have to go much further back than that for the days of massive piss ups at lunch time.

I am willfully avoiding drawing attention to quite how long ago that was.

One of my Grandads was involved in designing Concorde, largely due to being able to speak French and having lived/worked over there, would the Airbus office in Bristol have been the same place (I guess it'd have been Gloster at some point further back)?

It would be the same place - Filton, in the north of Bristol. It's an enormous facility with huge factory buildings and a 2-mile runway. They had a Concorde parked there, which was turned into a museum piece. I went to a couple of talks done by some of the people who worked on the Concorde project, which were very interesting.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

It would be the same place - Filton, in the north of Bristol. It's an enormous facility with huge factory buildings and a 2-mile runway. They had a Concorde parked there, which was turned into a museum piece. I went to a couple of talks done by some of the people who worked on the Concorde project, which were very interesting.

I'm vaguely familiar with the area as I went to uni in Bristol, but I've only ever driven past Filton on the way down into the city. I think there's some sort of Concorde museum/"experience" that I was always vaguely interested in but never bothered going to. That would have been before I had any idea my Grandad had any involvement.

 

[Badger]

I'm vaguely familiar with the area as I went to uni in Bristol, but I've only ever driven past Filton on the way down into the city. I think there's some sort of Concorde museum/"experience" that I was always vaguely interested in but never bothered going to. That would have been before I had any idea my Grandad had any involvement.

This has prompted me to look into it. It appears the Concorde has been moved into a dedicated hanger away from the Airbus site as part of the "Aerospace Bristol" museum. They have also torn up most of the runway, partly for new Airbus manufacturing buildings and partly for housing. There won't be any more planes landing at Filton.

This gives you an idea of the scale of the Airbus/BAE facilities there. I assume the new buildings will be on the old runway at the top, expanding things even more.

 

[Home and Away]

 

[Simster]

The couple map reminds me of the "how to say beer" one, where basically there are two words used across Europe and we actually use both depending on context. Here it's couple/pair and the beer one was beer/ale.