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Where are you from?

clive
clive Posts: 19,441
in Fun, Jokes & Captions
A short quiz,suprisingly accurate in my case.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/15/upshot/british-irish-dialect-quiz.html

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  • palarsehater
    palarsehater Posts: 12,296
    reading, born and raised in bexley so not a million miles away 
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,141
    Got me spot on 
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,030
    Luton, which is a blow to my self esteem! 
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,664
    Yep.very good 
  • SWEnglandAddick
    SWEnglandAddick Posts: 877
    Bournemouth. Got mine spot on too. Clever stuff.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,993
    edited February 2019
    Very good, got mine right
  • stackitsteve
    stackitsteve Posts: 12,102

    Not a million miles away.

    Gave me Southend

  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,689
    edited February 2019
    heat map is mainly London and Kent, with some welsh and Cornish.  cheesy bugs seemed to narrow it down a fair bit.

    edit: no actual town area given though. so like EastStand a bit vague.
  • EastStand
    EastStand Posts: 4,109
    Mines pretty vague - whole swathes of SE England. 

    Though I might've confused it as we called my dad's dad "Grandad Taid" (we thought that was his name, which my dad found hilarious and didn't correct us until we were in our 20's, the prannet). 
  • hawksmoor
    hawksmoor Posts: 2,608
    Had me in bloody Luton as well. Maybe they got Lewisham and Luton mixed up.
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  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    EastStand said:
    Mines pretty vague - whole swathes of SE England. 

    Though I might've confused it as we called my dad's dad "Grandad Taid" (we thought that was his name, which my dad found hilarious and didn't correct us until we were in our 20's, the prannet). 
    Same with me, guess Chelmsford is such a vibrant melting pot of, err, south east England culture. Hoped my time as a student in Edinburgh would fool it... So much for cultural appropriation
  • PaddyP17
    PaddyP17 Posts: 13,035
    Leeds, Luton, Bristol and Dover.

    I was born and raised in Lewisham. So that's interesting.
  • SE7toSG3
    SE7toSG3 Posts: 3,140
    Spread across the South East for me 
  • EastStand
    EastStand Posts: 4,109
    Karim_myBagheri said:
    got me pretty spot on. heat map is mainly London and Kent. chessy bugs seemed to narrow it down a fair bit.
    WTF? I'm from Bermondsey and we just called them Woodlice. I've never heard anyone call them that.

    Here's one, what do you call this? 


  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,288
    Yup Im regarded as being raised from Bexleyheath
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,689
    EastStand said:
    Karim_myBagheri said:
    got me pretty spot on. heat map is mainly London and Kent. chessy bugs seemed to narrow it down a fair bit.
    WTF? I'm from Bermondsey and we just called them Woodlice. I've never heard anyone call them that.

    Here's one, what do you call this? 



    sensitive multi-coloured dildos?
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,587
    Luton. Struggling to think of anywhere I’d less like to come from 
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,433
    Pretty vague for me - spent most of my life in Hertfordshire and SE London.
  • EastStand
    EastStand Posts: 4,109
    Karim_myBagheri said:
    EastStand said:
    Karim_myBagheri said:
    got me pretty spot on. heat map is mainly London and Kent. chessy bugs seemed to narrow it down a fair bit.
    WTF? I'm from Bermondsey and we just called them Woodlice. I've never heard anyone call them that.

    Here's one, what do you call this? 



    sensitive multi-coloured dildos?
    They melt pretty fast so I wouldn't imagine they'd be useful for long  :D 

    I've heard people call them ice pops, which frankly is just wrong. 
  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,189
    Reigate - Redhill - Horley - Reigate - Epsom - Islington (if my gf lets me move in!). 
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  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,689
    edited February 2019
    EastStand said:
    Karim_myBagheri said:
    EastStand said:
    Karim_myBagheri said:
    got me pretty spot on. heat map is mainly London and Kent. chessy bugs seemed to narrow it down a fair bit.
    WTF? I'm from Bermondsey and we just called them Woodlice. I've never heard anyone call them that.

    Here's one, what do you call this? 



    sensitive multi-coloured dildos?
    They melt pretty fast so I wouldn't imagine they'd be useful for long  :D 

    I've heard people call them ice pops, which frankly is just wrong. 
    i think the cheesy bug thing is from Kent (quick google search) as i was born in Bromley and mainly raised in North Kent, plus catford, lewisham area. In Surrey they call them cheesybobs. 
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    edited February 2019
    Hot spot from Greenwich where I was born, but funnily enough the largest red grouping is around my dads home town of Bath.
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,103
    Luton and Portsmouth... Never been so insulted in my life. 
  • rananegra
    rananegra Posts: 3,689
    Had me generally across the SE; lived all my life in Greater London, brought up in Woolwich then Erith, lived for the last 30+ years in Lewisham. Have got relatives on my other half's side in Essex and East Sussex both show as hotspots. 
  • Pedro45
    Pedro45 Posts: 5,821
    London or Cambridge...figures, as my mum was brought up in London and my dad near Cambridge!
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,835
    Heat map was general SE England. Darkest red over Luton, Dover and Pompey though!
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,835
    killerandflash said:
    Heat map was general SE England. Darkest red over Luton, Dover and Pompey though!
    Then did the follow up questions (which you get if you enter your home town) and it's narrowed to more Kent/Sussex/Hampshire
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,840

    General SE England - darkest over Brighton!

    Born and raised in Woolwich/Plumstead.


  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,126
    Brighton. Must be the shared Palace hatred. 
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,345
    edited February 2019
    Cambridge or London ..  my dad was from East Anglia, Mum's family from Deptford .. me ? .. Lewisham/Blackheath borders .. are me & @Pedro45 cousins you reckon ((:>)

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