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Post by Giggy of Telford on Apr 12, 2008 22:16:58 GMT
I just say Telford and walk off leaving them confused. ;D
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Post by robotsmfc on Apr 13, 2008 22:29:57 GMT
I'd have thought most people knew where Telford is. A good one for Solihull is to tell them you're from the place where Land Rovers come from, you should see Americans' eyes light up! stop
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Post by Giggy of Telford on Apr 14, 2008 23:30:57 GMT
Telford is a bit of a wild card, sometimes people know it and sometimes they don't. If they give a blank look I say in Shropshire and they give an even blanker look, I say right between Birmingham and Wales and they tend to give me a sad look*. ;D * No offence at all intended to anyone with any ties to either Birmingham or Wales.
To be more precise since November when we moved it has been High Ercall, a small village between Telford and Shrewsbury (half the people in the local area haven't heard of it), however we are closer to Telford in the way we get Telford postcodes and phone numbers, therefore we are still good and not like silly Shrewsbury.
For Telford we have birth place of industry and place where first steam locomotive was created, also the Iron Bridge. If all else fails people have probably heard of one of these things.
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Post by peekay on Apr 15, 2008 0:03:25 GMT
One of my old schoolteachers was always very keen on telling us that Telford is the only town in the UK to be named after a person (Thomas Telford).
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Post by medibot on Apr 15, 2008 5:35:57 GMT
I normally stick with "Sutton, the football team beat Coventry once etc" and if they don't get it from that or at least sound interested i know it's probably not the start of stunning relationship anyway South London usually covers it though.
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Post by Col ISIHAC. on Apr 15, 2008 12:05:00 GMT
If travelling abroad, you'd get fed up telling people you live "near London" all the time. Give it a week, and you'd be saying you live in London. It's far easier that way. I tried for ages to tell people I was from "Near Southampton", but it never really worked... Ooh! The stigma Almost as bad as having to tell people who had never heard of Emsworth that it was mid way between Portsmouth and Chichester! I mean: Come on I like living in places with no obvious geographical link; and we seem to be heading for another - Burton Latimer. Go seek....
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Post by malxscfc on Apr 15, 2008 12:24:40 GMT
If travelling abroad, you'd get fed up telling people you live "near London" all the time. Give it a week, and you'd be saying you live in London. It's far easier that way. I tried for ages to tell people I was from "Near Southampton", but it never really worked... Ooh! The stigma Almost as bad as having to tell people who had never heard of Emsworth that it was mid way between Portsmouth and Chichester! I mean: Come on I like living in places with no obvious geographical link; and we seem to be heading for another - Burton Latimer. Go seek.... Woahhh! That WAS freaky. I'd got another page up here on Internet Explorer, (Multimap), just to check I was right about Irthlingborough being Northants before Amber cuts off my goolies like usual ( ), so I entered your new place of residence, and what happened? The page didn't even reload, it just moved slightly north west. Felt very spooky! Had heard of the name, but as your exhortation implied, it does need checking up on. I guess it offers you lots of new chances for groundhopping, and maybe meeting up with some more reprobates from on this site!
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Post by DazaB_WCFC on Apr 15, 2008 13:17:45 GMT
When I lived abroad and used to tell people I was from Worcester, the only reaction I ever got was:
"Is that where the war-chest-er sauce is made?!"
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Post by ojiveojive on Apr 15, 2008 17:08:09 GMT
Birmingham - Centre of the Universe - wide eyes, slobbering mouth. That usually sorts the buggers out ;D.
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Post by bh on Apr 15, 2008 18:11:47 GMT
I've been to Shirley near Southampton, and Shirley near Croydon, and thought Emsworth was a station next to Havant. As for Worchester, that's where the Pears play is'nt it?? Telford, famous for Thomas???
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Post by DazaB_WCFC on Apr 16, 2008 1:11:22 GMT
Sooooper pears!!!!! Prepared to win at Edgbaston later ~
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Post by coops on Apr 16, 2008 4:50:05 GMT
Sooooper pears!!!!! Prepared to win at Edgbaston later ~ You've got a chance, Warwickshire don't seem to have any bowlers available for this game. The attack is spearheaded by the less than fearsome duo of Neil Carter and Lee Daggett.
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Post by bonehead on Apr 16, 2008 10:48:42 GMT
Burton Latimer, eh? Eeeeeeeeeeek! Hawky might inadvertently find out how to ketter!
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Post by Col ISIHAC. on Apr 16, 2008 12:29:56 GMT
Burton Latimer, eh? Eeeeeeeeeeek! Hawky might inadvertently find out how to ketter! The last attempt clearly went awry! We visited Rocky sometime just before the Festering Season - and you lost. For the first time at home this season. Clearly, it was our fault - my nephew had never seen you lose before. He said it was our fault. Still, it was comforting to discover that the old place hasn't changed! Next season does promise to be somewhat hoppy in the ground sense; but I imagine a trip or two to Bonehead's house; depending upon who the visiting team is - and I am going to catch the hawks in cambridge, Worcescesceseter (if you migrate south) and possible bimble over to Histon, Stamford, various other places, for no reason at all. Mind you IF we manage to squeak up via the playoffs; then Hawks at Rockingham Rd is a given. Somehow, I can't imagine a trip to that concrete monstrosity next to Irthlingborough! My one serious regret is also a double-edged sword. I shall be away from Hove / Arundel and exiled from my beloved Sussex. The other edge is that I shall be able to remind Daza, in particular that home grown talent (as in Hodd / Wright / Yardy) and experience (as in Kirtles; Grizzly and Mushy) is what won the triple!! Mind you; we are favourites to retain teh title - so I'd put money on relalgation and a pyjama final if I were you! ;D
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Post by DazaB_WCFC on Apr 16, 2008 13:23:55 GMT
Stamford - best club badge in history
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