bloody card factory
― calzino, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 21:26 (three years ago) link
Boom
27 Welby Sthttps://maps.app.goo.gl/Nf3EEJaDaJmhUbxg8
― or something, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 21:36 (three years ago) link
Hold on, did I get one right?
― Wrote For Lunch (Tom D.), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 21:41 (three years ago) link
Oh no, I said, "It can't be Stoke then".
― Wrote For Lunch (Tom D.), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 21:42 (three years ago) link
sorry stoke-on-trent but you're the first city in a while that i would not want to visit
― map ca. 1890 (map), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 21:42 (three years ago) link
Stoke does look ever so slightly like bits Doncaster or Dewsbury or loads of other verified N shitholes. Vale Park is a nice place to go for an way trip, some decent pubs and utterly horrid people!
― calzino, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 21:45 (three years ago) link
(xp) Very wise.
― Wrote For Lunch (Tom D.), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 21:48 (three years ago) link
I was there at the early days of the Card Factory empire story. I worked for a company called Power Plus that at the time had the contract do the leccy installation stuff where they were opening up shops 15 metres from every Clinton's Cards in the North and aggressively undercutting them and putting them out of business. They got a lot bigger since then, the founder Dean Hoyle sold them for £400m about 10 years ago.
― calzino, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 21:56 (three years ago) link
or something PI is on a hot streak right now!
― calzino, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 22:26 (three years ago) link
I've got a lot of time on my hands
― or something, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 22:46 (three years ago) link
Good curries in Stoke is all I remember.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 22:49 (three years ago) link
Stoke on Trent it is.
I thought the initial terrace might be too hard but couldn't tell. It felt like Stoke but at the same time if felt like both nowhere. Looking round it, it started to feel like this isn't anywhere it might be, and that only leaves Stoke.
Leaving in Card Factory in Bonus Beats might have been too big a clue, but refinding the original street even where I knew its location was tough, so good work to Or Something in finding that
― cherry blossom, Thursday, 11 March 2021 04:27 (three years ago) link
looks a little like Bosom Manor to me
― map ca. 1890 (map),
Whats Bosom Manor?!
― cherry blossom, Thursday, 11 March 2021 04:40 (three years ago) link
it's from a bit where Americans do British-isms to "hilarious" effect
― Sven Vath's scary carpet (Neil S), Thursday, 11 March 2021 09:30 (three years ago) link
I've been combing through Stoke trying to find that terrace with no joy. The raised ground in the background reminded me of looking from Stoke towards Newcastle-under-Lyme
I should have done a couple moves down the street to include that, might have made a touch easier - especially as people were in the right ballpark early on
― cherry blossom, Thursday, 11 March 2021 10:54 (three years ago) link
Bosom Manor was coined by silby, iirc, to make fun of the endless churn of tv & film born out of nostalgia for the British aristocracy (your Downton Abbeys etc.), not to mock British-isms.
― rob, Thursday, 11 March 2021 13:43 (three years ago) link
Yeah but now it just gets deployed when Brits talk about TV shows or celebrities that the American poster hasn't heard of.
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Thursday, 11 March 2021 13:53 (three years ago) link
It's a bit too LOL Funny Foreigners tbh.
― Wrote For Lunch (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 March 2021 13:56 (three years ago) link
Okay, I looked through some old posts and you're both right. I guess I retconned it to make into a more useful joke. Also: apologies to NA, who actually came up with the original.
― rob, Thursday, 11 March 2021 13:59 (three years ago) link
much obliged guv'nah
― Sven Vath's scary carpet (Neil S), Thursday, 11 March 2021 14:00 (three years ago) link
anytime m'lud
― rob, Thursday, 11 March 2021 14:04 (three years ago) link
Don't mention blood pudding.
― Wrote For Lunch (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 March 2021 14:05 (three years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/7h00LQCM/ploa.jpg
Time for a new city!
― cherry blossom, Thursday, 11 March 2021 14:20 (three years ago) link
An improvement on Stoke-on-Trent for sure.
― Wrote For Lunch (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 March 2021 14:22 (three years ago) link
Lol funny foreigners ban not a great fit for brits tbh imo
― Marry and Neghim (darraghmac), Thursday, 11 March 2021 14:25 (three years ago) link
xps my kind of town that
― Marry and Neghim (darraghmac), Thursday, 11 March 2021 14:26 (three years ago) link
Im mad but its hardly as obvious as seattle
― Marry and Neghim (darraghmac), Thursday, 11 March 2021 14:27 (three years ago) link
Oslo?
― calzino, Thursday, 11 March 2021 14:40 (three years ago) link
I think Oslo is flatter than that
― StanM, Thursday, 11 March 2021 14:56 (three years ago) link
First thought is it looks like a lake somewhere in the mountains, possibly in Asia or South America.
― o. nate, Thursday, 11 March 2021 15:02 (three years ago) link
sorry about "Bosom Manor" folks!
― map ca. 1890 (map), Thursday, 11 March 2021 15:23 (three years ago) link
I support the bosom manor meme strongly in all its forms
― Marry and Neghim (darraghmac), Thursday, 11 March 2021 15:25 (three years ago) link
I also took absolutely minus zero offence from it.
― calzino, Thursday, 11 March 2021 15:26 (three years ago) link
― Canon in Deez (silby), Thursday, 11 March 2021 16:17 (three years ago) link
for a second I wanted to say Vancouver, but no.
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Thursday, 11 March 2021 16:32 (three years ago) link
Also, taking offense at "Bosom Manor" is absurd, it has nothing to do with "lol foreigners," it has to do with Brits on this board being like "oh this person played the hilarious maid in a show that was on for one year in the 70s for which I'm nostalgic" and USAmericans being like "y'all crazy"
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Thursday, 11 March 2021 16:34 (three years ago) link
it's incredibly funny, too, makes me smile every time i read it.
I fell way behind on this thread but the latest pic reminds me of KL. Where is our Malaysian contingent?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 11 March 2021 16:38 (three years ago) link
(or Singapore?)
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 11 March 2021 16:40 (three years ago) link
xxp the Bosom Manor stuff isn't offensive at all (to me at least), just lame and unfunny, but then I might just be a humourless Brit so carry on!
― Sven Vath's scary carpet (Neil S), Thursday, 11 March 2021 16:43 (three years ago) link
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Thursday, March 11, 2021 4:34 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
tbf i did actually mean it as a sort of dig at how many photos of samey british flats we've been seeing lately itt but the same criticism could be leveled at any country's cities for the most part.
― map ca. 1890 (map), Thursday, 11 March 2021 17:05 (three years ago) link
Happens a lot on ILX does it?
― Wrote For Lunch (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 March 2021 17:20 (three years ago) link
Bosom Manor is quite amusing but not really fitting for a row of 2 up 2 downs in Stoke I'd have thought.
Anyway, first thought here was somewhere mountainous like maybe Switzerland but I've checked the Lake Geneva cities and it doesn't appear to be any of them
― or something, Thursday, 11 March 2021 17:41 (three years ago) link
it looks pacific to me, id guess asia
― himpathy with the devil (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 11 March 2021 18:19 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I thought that too.
― Wrote For Lunch (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 March 2021 18:36 (three years ago) link
Looks like Japan maybe? Nagasaki?
― Sven Vath's scary carpet (Neil S), Thursday, 11 March 2021 19:10 (three years ago) link
https://maps.app.goo.gl/vMjctkopsCqeAAoW6
Sokcho, South Korea. After scouring almost every coastal city on the Asian Pacific. First guess was way off, kudos to the above for pointing in right direction
― or something, Friday, 12 March 2021 00:47 (three years ago) link
I thought it was a lake so I spent some time looking at cities on lakes in Asia. For a little while I thought it might be Lake Suwa in Japan.
― o. nate, Friday, 12 March 2021 02:15 (three years ago) link
Sokcho it is, or 가슴 매너 as it is known locally
― cherry blossom, Friday, 12 March 2021 10:42 (three years ago) link
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli)
Presence was missed, the sleuthing on Cheboksary was exemplary
― cherry blossom, Friday, 12 March 2021 10:49 (three years ago) link