Altered Maps XII: Not to Scale

[JohannaK]

That is Ulster rather than Northern Ireland (Antrim, Armagh, Derry, Down, Fermanagh, Tyrone = NI, NI + Donegal, Cavan, Monaghan = Ulster)

Why not Londonderry.

 

[Borachio]

Isn't Derry the county? And Londonderry the county town?

 

[Arakhor]

Why not Londonderry.

I believe it's a similar policy to politely referring to sensitive people from parts of south-eastern Spain as Catalans, rather than Spaniards.

 

[JohannaK]

Poor Murcians, they just got offended.

 

[Borachio]

I believe it's a similar policy to politely referring to sensitive people from parts of south-eastern Spain as Catalans, rather than Spaniards.

wut wut?

 

[Lohrenswald]

Familiar?

RFC

street cred

 

[Civ'ed]

Poor Murcians, they just got offended.

'Murcia.

 

[Borachio]

Dunno. What do the United Provinces and Denmark, and the Balkans and Turkey, have in common?

 

[JohannaK]

In the second case, OTTOMANS.

 

[really]

Why not Londonderry.

I'm betraying my roots and indoctrination.

Coincidentally the 1655 Down survey of Ireland has been digitised and was made available online today: Derry/Londonderry
The survey was taken after the Cromwellian conquest to confiscate and re-distribute the land.

 

[Borachio]

Oh right. You must be a nationalist then. Which is fine. By me, at any rate.

 

[Arakhor]

Pay no attention to my lack of geography skills.

 

[Borachio]

I'm the same. North. South. What's it matter?

A lot depends on where you are and what direction you face in.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Svenskefaen put into place Norway über alles

 

[madviking]

 

[Lohrenswald]

I thought the Tethys sea was the mediteranian?

 

[Squonk]

I want to move to Denmark

 

[Gelion]

I want to move to Denmark

Face it, you just want to move out

 

[Squonk]

I want to get a job that would allow me to live on my own.

Like that:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQdQCiTcP38

Also, I want to spend the rest of my life with lordjoakim

 

[JohannaK]

Understandably so. Isnt he cute and handsome?