hey englishes - which county do you live in

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going by ceremonial counties here folks, london to merrily pwn but is anywhere else gonna make a significant showing?

Poll Results

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* Greater London, excluding the City of London 34
* Greater Manchester 5
* City of Bristol 5
* Leicestershire, including Leicester 4
* West Yorkshire 3
* Cambridgeshire, including Peterborough 3
* Oxfordshire 3
* East Sussex, including Brighton and Hove 2
* East Riding of Yorkshire, including Kingston-upon-Hull 2
* Merseyside 2
* Devon, including Plymouth and Torbay 2
* South Yorkshire 1
* Lincolnshire, including North Lincolnshire, and North East Lincolnshire 1
* North Yorkshire, including York, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, and Stockton-on-Tees south of the River Tees 1
* Somerset, including Bath and North East Somerset and North Somerset 1
* Northumberland 1
* Surrey 1
* Hertfordshire 1
* Worcestershire 1
* Rutland 1
* Cornwall, including Isles of Scilly 1
* Tyne and Wear 1
* Essex, including Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock 1
* Cheshire, consisting of Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, Halton and Warrington 1
* Gloucestershire, including South Gloucestershire 1
* City of London 1
* Berkshire 1
* Wiltshire, including Swindon 1
* Shropshire, including Telford and Wrekin 0
* West Sussex 0
* West Midlands 0
* Staffordshire, including Stoke-on-Trent 0
* Suffolk 0
* Bedfordshire, consisting of Bedford, Central Bedfordshire and Luton 0
* Warwickshire 0
* Nottinghamshire, including Nottingham 0
* Cumbria 0
* Derbyshire, including Derby 0
* Dorset, including Bournemouth and Poole 0
* Durham, including Darlington, Hartlepool, and Stockton-on-Tees north of the River Tees 0
* Hampshire, including Southampton and Portsmouth 0
* Herefordshire 0
* Isle of Wight 0
* Kent, including Medway 0
* Lancashire, including Blackburn with Darwen, and Blackpool 0
* Norfolk 0
* Northamptonshire 0
* Buckinghamshire, including Milton Keynes 0


the unfished business of display names only (country matters), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 00:56 (sixteen years ago)

England's not really a country, right?

Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 01:01 (sixteen years ago)

In US now but am a Britishes, can I vote please? If so on last place of abode or place of birth? As they're Swindon and Essex respectively I guess it doesn't matter much...

ljubljana, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 01:04 (sixteen years ago)

I think a Wiltshire vote would be a marvellously spicy way to kick things off, yeah! Land of XTC and military firing ranges...

the unfished business of display names only (country matters), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 01:05 (sixteen years ago)

It feels very strange not clicking the button for Nottinghamshire.

emil.y, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 01:08 (sixteen years ago)

technically live in two counties, went with the one I will def. live in from next month (greater london.)

I donated and I expect some sort of reward measured in virgins. (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 01:10 (sixteen years ago)

greater london......45
rest of england.....10

the unfished business of display names only (country matters), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 01:11 (sixteen years ago)

does anybody actually live in the City of London???

Dr. Johnson (askance johnson), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 01:15 (sixteen years ago)

dunno but i can guarantee you some berk's gonna erroneously vote for it without checking for the greater london option

the unfished business of display names only (country matters), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 01:19 (sixteen years ago)

Shit, I might have just been that "berk." What's the difference between City of London and Greater London?

Shannon Whirry & the Bad Brains, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 08:48 (sixteen years ago)

I also just read that "berk" is derived from the rhyming slang Berkshire Hunt or Berkeley Hunt, meaning "cunt."

Shannon Whirry & the Bad Brains, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 08:49 (sixteen years ago)

city of london is a county?

jed_, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 09:04 (sixteen years ago)

does anybody actually live in the City of London???

all the Barbican poshoes and the people in the Golden Lane estate. otherwise probably not, according to wikipedia the population of the City of London hovers around 8000.

salsa shark, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 09:04 (sixteen years ago)

Homeless folks too.

Enemy Insects (NickB), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 09:06 (sixteen years ago)

City of London is weird at weekends, no-one around

Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 09:07 (sixteen years ago)

I live in the City and County of Kingston upon Hull ta very much.

Westwood Ho (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 09:12 (sixteen years ago)

Not English but I live in Greater London and voted so adjust yr results as you wish for authenticity.

scott seaward (G00blar), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 09:17 (sixteen years ago)

England's not really a country, right?

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, June 9, 2009 3:01 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i think it's as much a country as, like, scotland.

FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 09:19 (sixteen years ago)

Bedfordshire, consisting of Bedford
Leicestershire, including Leicester
Nottinghamshire, including Nottingham

HELPFUL

FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 09:20 (sixteen years ago)

I assume those cities are unitary authorities is why they're listed like that.

Westwood Ho (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 09:21 (sixteen years ago)

I also just read that "berk" is derived from the rhyming slang Berkshire Hunt or Berkeley Hunt, meaning "cunt."

― Shannon Whirry & the Bad Brains, Tuesday, June 9, 2009 10:49 AM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

have i been pronouncing "berk" wrong then?

FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 09:23 (sixteen years ago)

It's yer bleedin' cockney innit, not the Queen's, gawdblesser, English

Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 09:25 (sixteen years ago)

Not English but I live in Greater London and voted so adjust yr results as you wish for authenticity.

oh yeah um, this for me too

salsa shark, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 09:27 (sixteen years ago)

Bride Of LBZC is as English an office as they come tbh

the unfished business of display names only (country matters), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 09:29 (sixteen years ago)

and yeah it is pron. "burk" as in misogynist 999 presenter

the unfished business of display names only (country matters), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 09:30 (sixteen years ago)

oh really i didn't know that

FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 09:31 (sixteen years ago)

"according to wikipedia the population of the City of London hovers around 8000"

Enjoying my village having the same population as the City of London! Public transport not as good though I suspect...

a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 09:41 (sixteen years ago)

Aarxfudsheer, moi duck.

C J, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 09:43 (sixteen years ago)

i'm only just over 1km from the City of London boundary

Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 10:03 (sixteen years ago)

i recently learned that Roy Hattersley lives in the Barbican (or at least has a flat there)

Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 10:05 (sixteen years ago)

"according to wikipedia the population of the City of London hovers around 8000"

That's a huge metropolis, compared with the population where I live! (estimated at around 300).

C J, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 10:07 (sixteen years ago)

'Which county do you come from?' might have been a more interesting question (as I'd guess most of us choosing London don't come from there originally).

Teh Movable Object (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 10:35 (sixteen years ago)

i come from NOWHERE (Middlesex)

Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 10:37 (sixteen years ago)

Define "come from" ?

I mean, as in born, as in grew up, as in "genetic origin"?

The answer to all three of those questions is different for me.

(I was really confused, recently, to get a questionnaire that tried to get around the "we don't want to ask people their racial origin" conundrum by asking me what I considered myself "culturally" with the usual list of ethnic classifications. I mean, what on *earth* am *I* supposed to put for that?)

Violent In Design (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 10:42 (sixteen years ago)

no box for us corny indie fuxors?

Mark G, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 11:05 (sixteen years ago)

big up Rutland

Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 11:06 (sixteen years ago)

I mean, as in born, as in grew up, as in "genetic origin"?

i guess it should be 'born',
as 'grew up' could span over various counties for some people

Ant Attack.. (Ste), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 11:14 (sixteen years ago)

But the actual hospital where I was born was across the county line from where my family actually lived!

(I wonder what the NHS would do with that circumstance these days - no, no, no, don't care, you're in the wrong PCT, go back to your own PCT to have that baby, or have it in the damn taxi on the way there!)

This whole matter of "origin" is just too confusing. I'm still just trying to work out where the BNP would send me "back" to.

Violent In Design (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 11:18 (sixteen years ago)

I'm fairly sure that the NHS wouldn't do it any differently, as I would imagine the hospital that delivered the baby can just claim the necessary funds for the 'service' from the patient's home PCT.

AlanSmithee, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 11:22 (sixteen years ago)

(I know, I'm joking.)

Violent In Design (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 11:32 (sixteen years ago)

See, here's me.

Born in Bath, to parents from South Shields, where we moved back to, then my Dad was in the RAF so we lived in Germany, but came back to england when I got to school age, then moved to Windsor, then Reading.

(I've skipped a few places)....

Mark G, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 11:35 (sixteen years ago)

Here's me:

Born in Bahrain; moved with parents to south Wales and then Cheltenham; moved out on my own to college in Manchester and then Oxford; moved on my own to live in Melbourne then Hong Kong then back to Oxfordshire. I are a bit nomadic.

C J, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 11:47 (sixteen years ago)

you didn't take your parents to college with you?!

U2 raped goat (darraghmac), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 11:51 (sixteen years ago)

Go back to Bahrain, we've made enough concession to you Muslims, in the name of political correctness

Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 11:52 (sixteen years ago)

It's got so that it's literally illegal to be white, English and Christian!

Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 11:53 (sixteen years ago)

Not that it matters particularly, but I'm not a Muslim. I was born in Bahrain to a Welsh father and Scottish mother who happened to be posted there with my father's job.

C J, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 12:13 (sixteen years ago)

Uh, I didn't actually think you were a Muslim

Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 12:16 (sixteen years ago)

how long were you in Bahrain for? xp

Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 12:16 (sixteen years ago)

Uh, I didn't actually think you were a Muslim

Really? I thought that Go back to Bahrain, we've made enough concession to you Muslims, in the name of political correctness kinda meant that you did. I must have misunderstood.

I lived there 'til I was about 4.

C J, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 12:19 (sixteen years ago)

Where in Oxfordshire are you CJ?

Achtung Blobby (Neil S), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 12:22 (sixteen years ago)

Oh dear, Tom D's irate Daily Mail reader act has become indistingishable from the real thing!

Violent In Design (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 12:24 (sixteen years ago)

That was my irate BNP voter act. Bahraini's have no sense of irony.

Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 12:26 (sixteen years ago)

Isn't Bahrain where Saudis go to get drunk and do the wild thing?

(apart from London ho ho ho)

ned trifle is not working for you (Notinmyname), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 12:43 (sixteen years ago)

it's a real party town.

FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 13:30 (sixteen years ago)

i was born in kingston-upon-thames which is a london borough? or part of surrey? idk, we moved away about six weeks later.

FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 13:31 (sixteen years ago)

"Also in 2 Gallon Jars"

Enemy Insects (NickB), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 14:06 (sixteen years ago)

MIDDLESEX.

Orin Boyd (jel --), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 14:50 (sixteen years ago)

City of London is also less than 1km from me. There are loads of unexpected turnings with gorgeous flats around Smithfields such as Cloth Fair and (ho ho) Little Britain. BTW one ILXor of note lived in the City but it was probably before ILX.

502 Bad Gateway (suzy), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 16:34 (sixteen years ago)

me : south glos.

City of London is weird at weekends, no-one around

i once stayed overnight at a friends place in the barbican, was indeed a very strange experience.
to get anywhere (like the shared garden area) you have to open several heavy wrought iron gates which are locked to keep out the norms.
felt more like a prison as opposed to a home.

mark e, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 16:35 (sixteen years ago)

I'd rather have where you come from mean where you grew up rather than where you were born, as I only lived near where I was born for the first three months of my life, and feel most decidedly from Nottingham. But 'come from' is a malleable thing, and I think the American version of that poll works by just saying define it how you like. Maybe add an extra option for the nomads: nowhere/everywhere/I am a citizen of the world, baby.

emil.y, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 16:55 (sixteen years ago)

Big up middlesex

admrl, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 17:05 (sixteen years ago)

Durr? Rutland? City of London? Is this an Ealing Films counties list?

whatever, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 21:10 (sixteen years ago)

i think it's as much a country as, like, scotland.

Does Scotland have a Prime Minister and ambassadors to other countries?

Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 21:15 (sixteen years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 7,860,000 for "country of england". (0.33 seconds)

Results 1 - 10 of about 2,690,000 for "england is not a country". (0.42 seconds)

Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 21:18 (sixteen years ago)

solid stats

Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 21:18 (sixteen years ago)

I guess it's more like a state than a country but what's that got to do with this poll?

Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 21:21 (sixteen years ago)

Any other Herts ilxors (aka the county England forgot because it's boring)

I was pretty sure Rutland no longer exists... If we're gonna have Rutland, we need Huntingdonshire.

dog latin, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 21:27 (sixteen years ago)

Voted for my original Merseyside roots.

krakow, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 21:29 (sixteen years ago)

Rutland was sort-of remade a county in 1997 according to wiki, it's a unitary authority but the council calls itself Rutland County Council.

xpost

Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 21:30 (sixteen years ago)

i think it's as much a country as, like, scotland.

Does Scotland have a Prime Minister and ambassadors to other countries?

― Pleasant Plains

england and scotland are countries.

languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 21:31 (sixteen years ago)

the united kingdom is a state.

languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 21:31 (sixteen years ago)

replace the word country with nation and it works just as good.

languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 21:31 (sixteen years ago)

Scotland has its own parliament (England doesn't).

ailsa, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 21:33 (sixteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Monday, 15 June 2009 23:01 (sixteen years ago)

gotta catch 'em all!

gosh I actually dig this shit (country matters), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 10:20 (sixteen years ago)

quite interested how many essexers there are on here.

#/.'#/'@ilikecats (g-kit), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 11:25 (sixteen years ago)

why would essex not include southend on sea and thurrock? do not understand this clarification.

#/.'#/'@ilikecats (g-kit), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 11:26 (sixteen years ago)

As I said upthread kit, I think the list is counties including unitary authorities traditionally within those counties.

Posters that beg the Question: What the Hell were You THINKING? (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 11:27 (sixteen years ago)

oh ok. big thread, skimmed it. (bt;si?) thanks.

#/.'#/'@ilikecats (g-kit), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 11:30 (sixteen years ago)

I wasn't having a dig I just didn't wanna be accused of repeating meself.

Posters that beg the Question: What the Hell were You THINKING? (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 11:31 (sixteen years ago)

Essexer by birth here, but voted Swindon as last place lived in UK.

ljubljana, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 12:55 (sixteen years ago)

Worried my sock puppet army will be revealed here when East Riding romps to victory.

Posters that beg the Question: What the Hell were You THINKING? (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 12:59 (sixteen years ago)

lovely Cheshire, since birth

Ant Attack.. (Ste), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 13:03 (sixteen years ago)

i was born in kingston-upon-thames which is a london borough? or part of surrey? idk, we moved away about six weeks later.

― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 14:31 (1 week ago) Bookmark

It's officially a London Borough but when it became so, didn't want the hassle of changing everyone's address and causing problems for posties - so it says Surrey on my address. Just lazytown really.

b!tchass, birdchested bastard sees a dude bigger than he (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 13:50 (sixteen years ago)

I live in London (not the City), but in the past I've lived in Wiltshire, Dorset, Yorkshire and Leicestershire.

¥€$ (gnarly sceptre), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 13:50 (sixteen years ago)

Essexer by birth here

and another here

It's officially a London Borough but when it became so, didn't want the hassle of changing everyone's address and causing problems for posties - so it says Surrey on my address

Most addresses in outer London that don't have London post codes include the names of the counties (Essex, Middlesex, Surrey, Kent) that they used to be in.

Teh Movable Object (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 18:51 (sixteen years ago)

Another Middlesexer.

Zoe Espera, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 19:52 (sixteen years ago)

http://img196.imageshack.us/i/srsysmall6253779.jpg/

danski, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 21:06 (sixteen years ago)

hm ok tray again

http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/6663/srsysmall6253779.jpg

danski, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 21:09 (sixteen years ago)

Socialist Republic of Illiteracy and Poor HTML Skills

danski, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 21:10 (sixteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 23:01 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.goleicestershire.com/img/logo.jpg

Old Ned 1962 Vinyl Edition (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 07:25 (sixteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/london.jpg

F.C. Farcottonlocomotiv (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 07:32 (sixteen years ago)

The only other place I've heard "berk" is in Planescape: Torment. Make of that what you will.

kingfish, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 08:31 (sixteen years ago)

a lot less in bristol than i suspected

Molecular Man (Ste), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 09:35 (sixteen years ago)

I think a lot of people may not have voted in this, as I can think of at least 5 Brighton ILX0rs that I've personally met.

Violent In Design (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 09:36 (sixteen years ago)

There's at least 3 other Hull and surrounds ILXors to me, and I think I voted twice.

Bueller is a douche (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 09:38 (sixteen years ago)

Wow, no idea there's be so many fellow Leicesters! Hello all, so when are we getting out of here?

Suedey 2, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 09:45 (sixteen years ago)

(must not rise to the bait)

ned trifle is not working for you (Notinmyname), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 10:28 (sixteen years ago)


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