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Yorkshire's annexed the Former Scotland Republic of North Britain.



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On Sunday, May 11, 2014 4:58:54 PM UTC+1, wrote:
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Northern Ireland is the West Riding of Yorkshire!
Now it all makes sense.

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Yorkshire's annexed the Former Scotland Republic of North Britain.


That's not the peculiarity (reading the information panel to the left
clears up that misunderstanding). What's peculiar is the distortion
introduced by the use of the Mercator projection (possibly chosen to
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On Sun, 11 May 2014 10:24:02 -0700, Onetap wrote:

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Northern Ireland is the West Riding of Yorkshire!
Now it all makes sense.


Makes about as much sense as trying to split the entire country by two
bases which aren't even 50 miles apart...


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http://www.cornerstoneflooring.co.uk/index.html


Northern Ireland is the West Riding of Yorkshire!
Now it all makes sense.


Makes about as much sense as trying to split the entire country by two
bases which aren't even 50 miles apart...


Have you seen the left twix, right twix adverts :-?
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Does anyone remember that map of the UK on Teletext, with all its blocky
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