Re: Towns, cities and countries you get mixed up with each other

by cosmictanya Thu Aug 22, 2024 2:08 pm

Like Nightjar, I could place all four correctly.

On a map of China, I’d be struggling after correctly placing Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong.

by cosmictanya Thu Aug 22, 2024 2:11 pm

The Black Sea and the Black Country.

by Butterfield Thu Aug 22, 2024 4:38 pm

cosmictanya wrote:
Butterfield wrote:Turin and Milan.

Turin fashion week?

My brothers father was from Milan, so I’ve got these two clear.

I think I always think of Milan when I hear of Turin, but not vice versa.

I remember seeing signs to Turin when I was in Chamonix 20 years ago and thinking of Milan.

I think Fiats are made in Turin. Or Milan.

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Thu Aug 22, 2024 5:00 pm

The Alpha-Romeo Mito was designed in Milan and made in Turin.

I was it the other way around?

by Butterfield Thu Aug 22, 2024 5:13 pm

Butterfield wrote:I remember seeing signs to Turin when I was in Chamonix 20 years ago and thinking of Milan.

Just to confuse things even further.

by cosmictanya Thu Aug 22, 2024 7:52 pm

Butterfield wrote:
cosmictanya wrote:
Butterfield wrote:Turin and Milan.

Turin fashion week?

My brothers father was from Milan, so I’ve got these two clear.

I think I always think of Milan when I hear of Turin, but not vice versa.

I remember seeing signs to Turin when I was in Chamonix 20 years ago and thinking of Milan.

I think Fiats are made in Turin. Or Milan.

Oh, you ski?

by Butterfield Thu Aug 22, 2024 8:46 pm

Butterfield wrote:I remember seeing signs to Turin when I was in Chamonix 20 years ago and thinking of Milan.

cosmictanya wrote:Oh, you ski?

Me? Ski? I walk onto the cable car to go up the mountain, look at the nice views and have a snack in the cafe and come back down again.

by cosmictanya Fri Aug 23, 2024 2:12 pm

It’s more fun to ski down.

by cosmictanya Fri Aug 23, 2024 5:09 pm

cosmictanya wrote:The Black Sea and the Black Country.

On this. The West Midlands (county) should romantically rename itself Middlemarch. That’s a nice literary reference, and a singular identity that doesn’t wound the pride of the Black Country by centring the name round Birmingham. Previously, it was my view they should rename themselves ‘Heartlands’, for the same reason. Or they can continue to fight like ferrets in a sack with a duplicate name, and one half of it putting innocent people in mind of the Romanian coast.

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Mon Sep 30, 2024 8:14 pm

Have I mentioned Slough and Swindon? And to a lesser extent Staines.

by cosmictanya Mon Sep 30, 2024 10:38 pm

Slovakia and Slovenia always requires a moment of confirmation.

Apparently one of them was called Carniola in the past, and they should’ve returned to that. It sounds far more romantic.

Edit - it was Slovenia. While what became Slovakia was historically known as Slavonia, among other things.

Carniola and Slavonia would be so much more beautiful for their names. The Czechs should’ve said ‘shut up’ to the Moravian bits and gone with Bohemia. Then there would be three romantically named countries.

by cosmictanya Mon Sep 30, 2024 10:47 pm

Continuing the theme, it’s a crying shame Estonia didn’t choose Livonia after independence. The Three L’s, all little neighbours - Livonia, Latvia, Lithuania - how lovely.

Controversially, I think Ukraine is a bloody ugly name. Something like Ruthenia would be better. Also, ditch that ugly alphabet and use the Latin - they’ve got reason now.

A scattering of tiny principalities restored across the former Iron Curtain, along the likes of Monaco and Liechtenstein, would also have been such a picturesque addition to things.

by Butterfield Tue Oct 08, 2024 12:50 am

Mauritius, the Maldives and the Seychelles.

Which one are we "fighting with" again? shifty

by cosmictanya Tue Oct 08, 2024 6:34 am

None of them, but all three are ex possessions. It can be hard to keep track of just who we stitched up, why, and when.

It’s the Chagos Islands…

A 1967 memorandum from the Colonial Office states of the local population…

The object of the exercise is to get some rocks which will remain ours; there will be no indigenous population except seagulls who have not yet got a committee. Unfortunately along with the Birds go some few Tarzans or Men Fridays whose origins are obscure, and who are being hopefully wished on to Mauritius etc.

Another glorious chapter in our national story. There’s nobody to fight with - we expelled them all from their homes in 1968 because we wanted it/to lease it to the Americans instead. It’s a bit of a mess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealing_a_Nation

by Zarniwoop Tue Oct 08, 2024 1:52 pm

Butterfield wrote:Mauritius, the Maldives and the Seychelles.

Which one are we "fighting with" again?

We can't fall out with Mauritius!
I like holidays there too much Sad

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Yesterday at 6:13 pm

Cyprus and Crete.

by cosmictanya Yesterday at 6:38 pm

Really?

by cosmictanya Yesterday at 6:41 pm

Easy to remember without a map - Cyprus is the one split in half, and is the one containing two British sovereign military bases.

With a map that’s not marked - Cyprus is the one next to the Levant.

I’d like to go to Famagusta where everything is as it was when abandoned in the 70’s. Fascinating pictures, even including bottles of suntan lotion where holidaymakers abandoned them. Chernobyl without the radiation risk and better weather.

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