AcesFullOfKings

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Do you know the counties of the UK? in c/casualuk@feddit.uk
[–] AcesFullOfKings@feddit.uk 3 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Fair, my despicable anglocentrism is showing :) I guess the question applies equally to scotland, wales, and NI though. I'd imagine that counties are more well-known in those places, but maybe not.

Do you know the counties of the UK? in c/casualuk@feddit.uk
[–] AcesFullOfKings@feddit.uk 2 points 19 hours ago

oh yeah I haven't any hope with wales/scotland/NI. Even just trying the english ones made me feel quite stupid lol. And like I say, I think you'd score higher than you think just by cheesing it a bit with some guesswork and some process of elimination. But I'd say my county knowledge is absolutely terrible - I only really know a few confidently from places I've lived or visited relatives in, or places which are the capital city :)

Do you know the counties of the UK? in c/casualuk@feddit.uk
[–] AcesFullOfKings@feddit.uk 1 points 19 hours ago

oh, oof. I have ubo and a pihole and it worked ok for me.

This one is pretty similar though - I searched around and there are like a thousand of these. Although some of the ones I found just seem to want you to list the county names rather than match them with the map location, which is much less interesting.

https://www.sporcle.com/games/EmmaLH/locate-the-counties-of-england

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Do you know the counties of the UK? (feddit.uk)
submitted 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) by AcesFullOfKings@feddit.uk to c/casualuk@feddit.uk
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I'm not sure if I'm the weird one for having no idea where most counties are, or only a rough idea. Do most people know where most of the counties are? Do you think you could reliably label most of a map of the uk with the correct counties?

I looked online for a quiz and found this: https://www.geoguessr.com/vgp/3146?gamemode=pinhard

I got 62% but I think that mostly overrepresents my knowledge because towards the end a lot of them were gimmies just by the process of elimination. I was on the game mode "pin (easy)" - I think "pin (hard)" is much better as a knowledge test so I'd recommend that mode.

Would you say Brits are expected to know where counties are? Like if someone said they live in Sussex, or Berkshire, or Tyne and Wear, and I said idk where that is, would you think that's dumb or reasonable?

edit: this video is very good imo, discusses the counties and the history of them, but concludes that they don't really matter any more and are essentially a historic artifact. They say most people can't name or locate most of the counties, which makes me feel better lol.

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[–] AcesFullOfKings@feddit.uk 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Somehow I think the people who are fucking pillows with a picture of a fake girl on them.. don't have a high reproductive opportunity cost

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source: grid.iamkate.com

Previous record was 21.81GW - at time of posting we're generating 21.85GW and rising

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We've been counting down to this for years now and we're finally on the other side of coal power. Great! 🥳

Update: it produced its last energy on 30th Sept and now the uk is officially coal-free :D

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