Does Britain have a 'Florida"? Y'know like a province or region known for oddballs and weirdos in the news constantly due to some new bizarreness (often with legal consequences).

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theincrediblenick@reddit

No. Though each region will have their own local equivalent place that they make fun of.

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ImpulsiveApe07@reddit

Lol in my case it's Clacton, or Clackers as many call it, or Hell's Waiting Room, which is my favourite way to refer to that sad little stain on the rump of Essex :p

It's an abandoned seaside town mostly composed of ornery old folks, jobless twenty somethings, and caravan dwellers who I guess just couldn't cut it elsewhere in Essex lol

It's also a town that voted itself into political irrelevance - Twice in a row. Voting for candidates from parties that are basically just poor-bashing, hate platforms run by rich idiots.

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AdmiralSkeret@reddit

Do you folk class Clacton and Jaywick as one? Or acknowledge that Jaywick is just in a class of it's own for awfulness

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ImpulsiveApe07@reddit

Didn't use to, but afaik we do now yeah

Sadly, Jaywick is definitely not the quaint little holiday spot it used to be..

It's got character now - with lots of local colour to liven up your stay!

Whether you want to encounter dangerous dogs off their leash, unruly kids on angry little motorbikes, loud arguments between punchdrunk couples, or roving gangs of coked up gamblers and washouts - Jaywick has something for everyone! :p

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Alternative_Boat9540@reddit

I respect Jaywick. Do you know how trashy you have to be to keep a detached 3 bed bungalow with a garden and drive under 100k with a direct train link to London? Jaywick is where gentrification goes to be stabbed 27 times and set on fire.

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Violet351@reddit

Why I was little people wanted to retire to Jaywick. It’s so awful now, it’s sad

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Fanoflif21@reddit

I loved Clacton when I was a kid and it's the first place we took our first on holiday too; horrible poverty there.

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ImpulsiveApe07@reddit

Aye, it's a damn shame what's happened to the place.

It was quite lively when I first moved to Essex, lots of shops, gigs and events, but gradually it's become Essex's sorriest backwater - so many small businesses went under, and the council kept upping rents, which scared people away, all while doing next to nothing to help the local community recover and thrive (ya get what ya vote for, after all..).

To be fair, some of Clacton's downfall is probably down to the relentless rise of e-commerce and cheap holidays abroad, but it's still sad to see such a formerly lively place go under.

It's eerie going there in the summer now, relative to what it was like 20-25 years ago. With lots of shops gone, busy days in Clackers are mostly composed of people pouring onto the beaches and the promenade, before grabbing an ice cream and buggering off elsewhere lol

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Fanoflif21@reddit

Lots of seaside places around the UK are similar - Margate, Southend and especially Great Yarmouth.

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Baboobalou@reddit

Margate's on the up. It's getting a bit of a face lift, and Londoners, etc, are taking advantage of property prices. Being able to work from home is going to change some seaside towns, I think.

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Fanoflif21@reddit

I hope so. Glad about Margate (another holiday destination in the 70s - Dreamland??)

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fastfxmama@reddit

When I went to school in London, the students from Berks and London were always making fun of the “Essex Girls”, and I have to admit a few of them had a bit of a Ft Lauderdale vibe… same makeup, hair and clothes but the overall look was even more orange.

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featurenotabug@reddit

It's a strange thing Clacton, we often come to visit from Felixstowe. On the surface it should be, and parts of it do, look like a lovely place, the beach up towards Holland-on-sea is lovely but it has such a rep for poverty. Felixstowe I guess avoids the downfall of many seaside towns because of the port. Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth seem to suffer from the rep of failed seaside town too.

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JTitch420@reddit

Tilbury (and basically south Essex) aspire to be like Clacton.

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honkymotherfucker1@reddit

Rhyl

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Puzzleheaded_Gear801@reddit

Prestatyn

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honkymotherfucker1@reddit

Prestatyn is what people think Rhyl is like lol

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Puzzleheaded_Gear801@reddit

I shouldn't be mean and say at least both have the sea front, at least they aren't Flint.

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largebumlady42@reddit

And turd surfers floating by, such a great view.

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Comfortable-Bug1737@reddit

Aww, don't pick on Flint. That's well sly

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Emin3mzhoe69@reddit

Why knock Flint?? Pretty nice views from the coastal path in Flint, with a kebab in one hand & a Tinny in the other! 😂

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Puzzleheaded_Gear801@reddit

I shouldn't knock it really, I'm intrigued by the castle sign every time I drive through.

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Averyingyoursympathy@reddit

Are you on drugs? Prestatyn is well nicer.

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Twootwootwoo@reddit

Stop naming drugs.

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Bill_Hubbard@reddit

I came to say Rhyl and Blackpool.

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Secundum21@reddit

I came for Blackpool too

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sunbeamshadow@reddit

Haha I came to say Rhyl, although it surely only exists to give Holyhead something to aspire to

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busysquirrel83@reddit

This!

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tshawkins@reddit

So slough then ?

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Happy_fairy89@reddit

Slough is the sweaty armpit of this country.

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tropicalazure@reddit

My memory of Slough is trekking to PC World on the bus after I'd moved fairly locally (few towns over) trying to get my laptop repaired, and then getting completely lost.

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random-andros@reddit

Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough, it isn't fit for humans now

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Willing_Ad_375@reddit

John Betjeman wrote a poem a poem about lovely German bombs falling on ‘sluff’

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Quentin_Tarantinio@reddit

It’s not as bad as Feltham & Hanworth though

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BGH-251F2@reddit

Ilfracombe.

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SilverellaUK@reddit

I'm surprised by this since he is from Norfolk and has talked about the notes on medical records NFN - Normal For Norfolk.

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Wolfdarkeneddoor@reddit

Maybe Norfolk is somewhat like the UK's Florida in that lots of people have holiday homes & retire here.

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BGH-251F2@reddit

I was wrong, it was actually William Shatner lmao

https://youtu.be/bAqGRcg7XkE?si=NViimD4PPgrzb8Lm

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drxgsndfxckups@reddit

I’m speaking only as a tourist but ilfracombe seemed pretty delightful, idk if it’s bc isn’t reference point is poverty stricken old mining villages

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BGH-251F2@reddit

It’s filled with drug addicts, and literally everyone who has even semi-regularly gone out for the night there has a horror story of seeing people getting glassed or jumped by coked up meatheads.

It’s glorious on a sunny day, but when the sun goes down it turns into the purge.

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drxgsndfxckups@reddit

ahhh I never stayed till nightfall and was lucky enough to be there in the sunniest week last year - just as well!

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Superbad1_8_7@reddit

Bratfud

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MediumD@reddit

Swindon.

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Haramdour@reddit

You’re all wrong, the correct answer is Camborne

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PheonixKernow@reddit

This came up way too quickly.
I like it here. My house is cheap and I'm central enough to easily get everywhere else. 2 minutes to the A30 in Tuckingmill.
I'd honestly rather live here than Newquay.

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Haramdour@reddit

I’m sure it just gets a bad rep and I haven’t been in a long time but last time I drive through I genuinely saw a big silver banner across a front door that read ‘HAPPY 30th GRANDMA!’

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witchemia@reddit

Rov'rum!!

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Yhardvaark@reddit

That's Rotherham to you normies.

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Positively-negative_@reddit

So swindon?

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TheAmazingSealo@reddit

Swindon ain't so bad

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Fanoflif21@reddit

My youngest 's science teacher describes it as ' where dreams go to die!'

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chriscringlesmother@reddit

Luton

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Keen_Whopper@reddit

House of Commons where the murderous Criminals sprout the most shitty excuses for killing pensioners, killing Russians and Palestinians.

Surprisingly such a small place can hold such amount of Power.

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nimble95@reddit

Nuneaton 😉

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duskfinger67@reddit

I feel like Blackpool is the most universally shat on town

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JustASmith27@reddit

Pretty sure the UK is Europe’s Florida

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pnlrogue1@reddit

I'm in this comment and I don't like it

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pnlrogue1@reddit

This is absolutely true

Also, there's Essex

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mister_barfly75@reddit

You mean Chatham?

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Fair_Woodpecker_6088@reddit

This is actually a hilariously accurate assessment

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Espi0nage-Ninja@reddit

Like Staffordshire has Cheadle

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honkymotherfucker1@reddit

Burslem gets a bit of a rep sometimes too but downtown Stoke city is rough as fuck lol gear everywhere

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Hobgoblin_Khanate@reddit

Isn’t that greater Manchester

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blindio10@reddit

different cheadle, like how theirs 2 very different newcastle's(could be worse GM has 3 different areas called ashton)

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Material-Sherbet-404@reddit

lately i’ve heard the weirdest news coming from blackpool, and judging by the comments many people agree

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NoEmployment5064@reddit

Every region has its own but if we have to single any group out I'd say geordies or mackems they are the maddest yet weirdly the kindest bunch of people I've ever met!

From smashing a car with a golf club to helping an old lady across the street, the spectrum of North Eastern chaos is a broad yet endearing one!

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Reasonable_OnionUK@reddit

Yes, it’s called England

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SojournerInThisVale@reddit

Norfolk?

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JackDrawsStuff@reddit

Liverpool.

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GreatGrumpyBrit@reddit

Lancashire

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BlondBitch91@reddit

In the South West it's Cornwall. In Cornwall it's probably Bodmin or Redruth. In the South East it's Norfolk. In Norfolk it's Cromer. Everywhere has somewhere.

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90210fred@reddit

Clacton

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Top-Serve9519@reddit

Birmingham

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Paulstan67@reddit

The closest we have to this is wetherspoons.

Full of oddballs and weirdos every time I visit... I should know I visit often... Oh wait....

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tormentachina@reddit

I miss wetherspoons

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Paulstan67@reddit

Yes, unlike smaller traditional pubs they are a little "soulless" however they are full of characters, they offer great drinks at great prices and microwaved/deep fried food that doesn't pretend to be anything else.

I also like that no matter where you are in the country you will get the "spoons" experience exactly the same as every other spoons.

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ColossusOfChoads@reddit

It sounds like your version of our (USA) Denny's, which is a knockoff of the American diner. Spend enough time at Denny's after 11 p.m. and you will have at least one tale to tell.

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Paulstan67@reddit

Yes except in "spoons" it's after 9am that there is a takeaway to tell (they open at 8am!)

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tormentachina@reddit

Haha exactly. This is what I miss the most from the UK: a cozy wetherspoons, a pint of Brewdog Punk or a Guiness and a burger with chips <3

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aldursys@reddit

Just need to work on your aim

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Bose82@reddit

We have a town called Portland on the south coast that’s fucking bizarre. But not a bigger city or county that has such a reputation.

But yeah, Portland is fucking weird, man.

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headinthegamebruh@reddit

What are the chances, Portland, Oregon in the USA is also the nations capital for weirdo's

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Fair_Woodpecker_6088@reddit

Portland, Oregon is just full of kooky art types, not actual psycho swamp people high on angel dust like in Florida

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ColossusOfChoads@reddit

Actually, they've long been known for having many psychiatric hospitals. Lots of people going in and out of them for decades.

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Grammar-love-1616@reddit

I’m from there, left in 95. It’s so weird.

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Bose82@reddit

Portland Oregon is just weirdos thinking they’re progressive though, isn’t it? Portland in the UK is just full of straight up oddballs 😂

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General_Ignoranse@reddit

I have a great aunt who lives there who had her little toes surgically removed to fit a pair of shoes!

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Grammar-love-1616@reddit

That is totally weird.

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General_Ignoranse@reddit

Right? I have so many questions that no one in my immediate family can seem to answer. How did she find someone that would do it? How would a surgeon be allowed to do that? Why on earth would you want to do that? She did that for ONE specific pair of shoes. So bizarre

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Bose82@reddit

Bold of you to presume it was done by a surgeon. Probably done by some six-fingered alcoholic with a pair of cable cutters

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Bitmush-@reddit

That doesn’t narrow it down on Portland….

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Bose82@reddit

😂😂

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Grammar-love-1616@reddit

You deserve an explanation! Even I deserve an explanation. Haha.

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General_Ignoranse@reddit

It always cracks me up, because my dad has the same questions! My mum told him about it quite a while after they got together, and he always jokes that he can’t believe it wasn’t one of the first things he told her. Along with the fact that she lived with a guy who turned out to be a literal grave robber!

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Grammar-love-1616@reddit

Ohmygod. That’s too much. Your mom should write a book. Your dad should ask more questions.

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General_Ignoranse@reddit

I know right! If I can convince her to I’ll mail you a copy when it’s done

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Grammar-love-1616@reddit

I’ll read it!

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adrenalinexfreak@reddit

reminds me of the original story of cinderella where the stepsisters cut their own toes off to be able to fit in the glass slipper😭😭😭

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General_Ignoranse@reddit

No wonder they cut that out of the film 🥴

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Ohd34ryme@reddit

They wouldn't have been able to fit the film in the glass slipper otherwise.

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Bose82@reddit

Doesn’t even surprise me 😂

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peterGalaxyS22@reddit

it's a real place!? i thought it was a fake place in gta3

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23Doves@reddit

I stayed there for a couple of winter months while "between houses" (waiting for a house purchase to get the finish line after I'd been rushed into selling my old house by an impatient and pushy buyer).

I actually loved the weird and isolated nature of it. For an island to have its own very distinct culture despite being very close to proper sized towns is so strange - not least the island-specific superstition about rabbits. Didn't meet anyone objectionable there at all, the people were generally very friendly.

There are towns in Essex, on the other hand, which are super-paranoid, angry, fearful levels of bizarro. Clacton (previously mentioned) would be one, but the Benfleet area is filled to the brim with people who think they're super-normal and straight-down-the-line while having some of the most paranoid worldviews ever.

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Maine892@reddit

So Glad that folks in the UK know the difference between Portland, Maine (Normal, good beer)and Portland, Oregon.(a bit odd, good beer) Or do they? Beer has a way of swaying opinions.

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Bose82@reddit

I genuinely thought someone was taking the piss with the whole rabbit thing when they told me

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a_f_s-29@reddit

Please enlighten me

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23Doves@reddit

It caused Chas & Dave no end of problems, apparently. And Wallace and Grommit. And presumably Watership Down was banned.

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something_python@reddit

I lived in Weymouth for 8 years. The people of Weymouth were weird enough, but Portland dwellers were bizarre.

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StepUpYourLife@reddit

Keep Portland weird

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riolightbar@reddit

I see this on a bumper sticker often, always makes me smile

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Bose82@reddit

Yeah, I saw it on loads of cars when I was there

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ukbusybee@reddit

I stayed on Portland once and it’s just SO GREY, it was actually depressing. I know everything is built with the grey rock/slate but jeez…

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Naughtyspider@reddit

I like Portland. The Portland little museum was awesome.

I like the fact they found a WW2 unexplored bomb on the football pitch in the 90s, but an retired police dog who had been trained to find explosives had been walking up and sitting in the spot for years and no one realised why.

Or that Thomas Hardy writer and architect lived there, and the locals point out that it was a good job he was a good writer because he was a shit architect.

I like the fact there’s signs saying “WARNING! WILD GUINEA PIGS!”

I like the grave of that guy who was killed in the Great Storm in the 1800s that says something like “Here lies Joe Bloggs, who died in the Great Storm, when he broke his leg and then his house fell on him”. (Can’t remember the guys name, wish I’d taken a pic now.

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hardito-carlito2@reddit

Family lived in portland for 8 years can confirm weird as fook. Great sea fishing tho 👌

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Ethelredthebold@reddit

I lasted 1 year. Couldn't wait to get out.

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Bose82@reddit

I didn’t think you could get out. I escaped on a battleship 😂

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Bearcat-2800@reddit

I policed it once upon a time. The weirdness is regional, even on the island!

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badgersruse@reddit

Some years ago we founded a colony for all our crazy people. We now refer to it as America.

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Geekenstein@reddit

And now we’re running the asylum. How’s that feel?

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DionysianDejaVu@reddit

Rather it be one of our spawn running the show than someone else. Could be worse, like the French.

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ColossusOfChoads@reddit

the French.

I think they're still jealous.

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PrimusDCE@reddit

lol this was such an innocuous reply and the perfect amount of self depreciating but also underlining that they can do no better. The people actually downvoting/ replying to this are clueless. For a culture that prides itself on its "bants", a lot of them sure didn't get it.

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Middle-Hour-2364@reddit

😂😂😂 you're delusional

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starbuck8415@reddit

That’s not the flex you think it is

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Gwallod@reddit

Hardly. Unless you mean running it directly into the ground with all of you onboard.

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Particular-Annual853@reddit

Who is running the show, really. We are all just equally as clueless as the other, globally.

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Same_Agent_3465@reddit

I thought that was Australia.

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olalilalo@reddit

Indeed. Sent off as a bunch of criminals, and now they have a markedly lower crime rate than we do now in modern day UK.

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a_f_s-29@reddit

Goes to show that criminality isn’t inherited

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ElBernando@reddit

Yep, they are better at keeping people out of their island…

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clearsighted@reddit

Has more to do with different immigration policies, sadly.

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clearsighted@reddit

Australia is where they sent the criminals.

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Charitard123@reddit

I could be wrong, but my understanding was that Australia was more for the criminals and America was for the religious nutjobs.

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DasharrEandall@reddit

America was for the ones who went there for religious freedom.

As anyone who follows politics knows, "religious freedom" is normally code for "I want to oppress others in the name of my religion".

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Charitard123@reddit

From what I understand, though, sometimes it was also a matter of even the British government wanting nothing to do with them lol

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Aussiechimp@reddit

Criminals went sent to the states until the revolution

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JCDU@reddit

When I visited there the guy at passport control asked if I had any criminal convictions, I said I didn't realise that was still a requirement.

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JacobDCRoss@reddit

No, you didn't.

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ukbusybee@reddit

Hahahaha 😆

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Fanoflif21@reddit

Classic 😂

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badgersruse@reddit

No, that was the convicts.

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boweroftable@reddit

... mostly guilty of being poor

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Sir_Edna_Bucket@reddit

We've got a few more to send

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PhysicsEagle@reddit

Hey, I resemble that remark

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virgin_goat@reddit

The religious ones because cathlic europe with its witch burnings wasn't religious enough for them

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prowler28@reddit

We are pretty crazy aren't we.

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Soggy_Cabbage@reddit

Australia too, you go to the outback and practically everyone you meet would be some sort of "Florida man".

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Still_Flounder_6921@reddit

Damn, Brits don't even know their own history. It's Australia, m8

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DemandApart9791@reddit

Yes and to show them who’s boss you consume their culture. This particular social media platform, likely the device in your hand……

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a_f_s-29@reddit

I don’t really watch American TV tbh. Mostly British and international stuff

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TheAmazingSealo@reddit

The bits of their culture that I consume I do really like. Some of my favourite music, art and films are American. I'm not really concerned with showing anyone who is boss, or holding grudges from like 400 years ago and stuff. FWIW I think the comment you are responding to was meant as a joke really and wasn't really serious

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reverielagoon1208@reddit

Yeah to be fair there is a lot of modern cultural exchange between the US and UK. Lots of popular musicians are from the UK as well and the U.S. loves to remake UK shows

Wish we adapted your sense of banter though as that person you responded to clearly didn’t get that haha

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TheAmazingSealo@reddit

I think we're more similar than we like to admit, I've had great banter with lots of yanks in the past!

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Middle-Hour-2364@reddit

I can assure you my penis has nothing to do with the colonies sir

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Bernsteinn@reddit

Decolonize this!

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SeePerspectives@reddit

Britain has been exploiting cheap foreign labour for centuries, don’t pretend it makes you special

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SirLostit@reddit

Grow up

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Prestigious-Claim597@reddit (OP)

Spat out my coffee

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human_totem_pole@reddit

You can afford coffee? Go and cry into your moat.

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Hamsternoir@reddit

Better than wasting tea

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Nopidyno@reddit

A cunning plan, Baldrick!

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Bonerjamz_666@reddit

Touche

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Ochib@reddit

Norfolk gets a bad rap. NFN (normal for Norfolk) was Utilised by doctors and Social Services in Norfolk and elsewhere to depict patients of lesser intellect, some were moved to record the letters ‘NFN’ against the personal details of certain clients, where they were considered to be a bit strange or had peculiar habits.

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Judge_Dreddful@reddit

No, they didn't. The phrase is a well known trope about Norfolk, but its never been used on medical records. That's an urban myth.

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Ochib@reddit

Yes they did

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/3159813.stm

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Judge_Dreddful@reddit

That doesn't prove anything. It says he 'spent four years charting' and then goes on to mention various acronyms. There is literally no actual verifiable examples - including if you Google his name - of NFN ever being documented on medical notes. None. At all. Anywhere.

I'm not disputing that the term is in common use, what I am disputing is that it has ever been proven to have been written on medical notes.

So, my point still stands; a 21 year old BBC web page article is no different to 'my mate told me...' or 'a bloke down the pub said...' anecdote.

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Ochib@reddit

Ok how about a medical journal

https://www.nationalreviewofmedicine.com/issue/2004_01_30/article19.html

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Judge_Dreddful@reddit

So the same article copied and pasted to a different site...

Want to try again and find some, y'know, evidence?

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Ochib@reddit

Or the BBC took the article from an international publication which was written by a well respected Dr.

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Judge_Dreddful@reddit

Ah, ok. And the articles references the occasions when it was documented that an urban myth was actually used?

Oh. Hang on...

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Ochib@reddit

Was it ever documented as an urban myth?

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Judge_Dreddful@reddit

Maybe you could try Googling 'urban myth' and that way you won't need to embarrass yourself on the internet?

No need to thank me, you're welcome.

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Ochib@reddit

Maybe you need to read the published paper that this was written in.

No Need to thanks me, you are welcome

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Judge_Dreddful@reddit

I admire your determination to argue a losing position. Well done. Bless.

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Ochib@reddit

If it was published by a world renowned Doctor in a world renowned journal, then it’s not a urban legend

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Keen_Whopper@reddit

Britain also have a version of Donald Trump too, he resides in No. 10 Downing Street. We also had a version of Kumbaya Harris too, she lasted one Month before eviction for trashing UK.

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Substantial-Pea-7631@reddit

we call it LIVERPOOL !

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DiskSensitive7441@reddit

Cornwall, specifically Redruth Nowt to do around there other than cause trouble

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MrAlf0nse@reddit

Essex

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Pure-Example@reddit

Luton Just no.

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Bitmush-@reddit

Weymouth aaaafter 7pm.

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Al89nut@reddit

Yes. London.

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stugots85@reddit

I'm from the US but isn't it Blackpool?

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arsenic_kitchen@reddit

Psst... once upon a time, America was Britain's Florida.

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LooseAlternative1343@reddit

Lowestoft, Suffolk 🤦‍♂️

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Ok-Plankton9993@reddit

Come to say Blackpool and Rhyl

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DollSteff@reddit

Croydon

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tigglylee@reddit

Yorkshire

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Sumo_FM@reddit

The Wirral, Newcastle and Essex all fit the bill I reckon... But agree with others that every region has it's own - I'd probably go so far as to say every town and city has an area that could be considered it's own Florida

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TaniksOnReddit@reddit

Fife..,,.

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hulminator@reddit

Canvey in Essex

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GlacierFox@reddit

Yeah, it's called Sunderland.

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RavenDancer@reddit

Essex perhaps

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reverse_ngin_ear@reddit

Turns out if you search up "Birmingham man" on Google and go on the news tab, there's quite a bit to look through.

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CaptH3inzB3anz@reddit

It's called Westminster, it's where all the Politicians are fucking up our country

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weedywet@reddit

The ones you elected?

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CaptH3inzB3anz@reddit

I didn't vote for the shit show that's in power now

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RedRumsGhost@reddit

Clacton Small town on the South coast of England.

Not much elsewhere - we shipped a lot of our craziest out to the Colonies around 400 years ago 😉😜

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tropicalazure@reddit

Skeggy. 😜

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KevinBaconsAnOKActor@reddit

Northern Ireland's is Larne.

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Mjr_Benson@reddit

Kernow. Or luton

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TjAZARdIK@reddit

We don’t have that but there’s so many towns they’re just shit like Luton and Stevenage

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fragrantasscough@reddit

Yes, it’s called Bridgewater

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Ghftihs@reddit

Only people from Bridgwater can’t spell Bridgwater…

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SirLostit@reddit

Hayling Island (near Portsmouth), is pretty weird. It’s known as ‘the land that time forgot’

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miningthecraft@reddit

Didn’t expect to see my old home town here- or anywhere really half the mainlanders don’t know there’s something at the other end of the bridge!

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SirLostit@reddit

Over the years I’ve done a few jobs on Hayling Island. There used to be a really nice restaurant in a marina towards the bottom right of the island. I can’t remember the name. Funny place though, really is like the land that time forgot.

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miningthecraft@reddit

It absolutely is- there is something magical about it- but largely because the whole place is mental- take great pleasure repeating the mental stories you hear growing up there!

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Judge_Dreddful@reddit

‘the land that time forgot’? Ah, you mean Hereford?

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Cromises_93@reddit

It's definitely Lincolnshire

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Blackjack_Davy@reddit

Oh boy thats a new one never heard of a "florida" before

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Background-Aardvark1@reddit

Blackpool

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Celtic-Brit@reddit

I think the UK has many comparible places.

Skegness, for me, is comparable to Florida. A lot of locals in Skegness dress like they are in Benidorm on a lads holiday, and that's just the women. Tattooed,smoking, and drinking usually before 11am.For some reason, the area promotes fierce loyalty from holiday makers, who flock to the row upon row of the most basic tin shed looking caravans. I have heard some visitors there call it Skeg- Vegas.

Or Birmingham is like New York,it may be expensive,have high-end hotels, and have lots to see, but you could leave minus your possessions if you are lucky. Or injured if you are not lucky.There is a reason the most popular programme from the area is about criminals.

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lucifer-and-angel@reddit

York 😭

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Intrepid_Truth_6210@reddit

Croydon

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weedywet@reddit

No. Florida is infinitely more fucked than anywhere in the UK.

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SokkaHaikuBot@reddit

^Sokka-Haiku ^by ^weedywet:

No. Florida is

Infinitely more fucked than

Anywhere in the UK.

^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.

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burtvader@reddit

Essex

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Professional-Meat-42@reddit

Yes. It’s Canvey Island in Essex.

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Brief-Education-8498@reddit

If you want weird, try Glastonbury

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KDurin@reddit

I’m in Somerset, and would have to say Yeovil. If we had some kind of zombie apocalypse, you really wouldn’t be able to tell in Yeovil. I’m pretty sure there was a news story some years back, about a bloke from there marrying a badger. Could have been a joke, but again, could be absolutely real.

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CoreyCW12@reddit

I’m curious too 🤔

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steveasis@reddit

Hull

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AutobotJessa@reddit

Sunderland 🤣

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DaydreamMyLifeAway@reddit

Essex

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LibbieIsCool@reddit

Glastonbury

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immortalhallur@reddit

Norwich is a bit like that, also the island of Sheppy

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drh4995@reddit

It's called London

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ninjomat@reddit

Not really. Florida is Florida cos it attracts the crazies from the rest of the US. Not sure there’s any one part of the UK that brings in them all like a magnet in the same way

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mattnessPL@reddit

Florida Man stereotype exists because that’s only State in US which publish all details (name, photo, case details) of the suspect.

Floridians are not much different than other Americans, their shenanigans are just out in internet straight away.

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Still_Flounder_6921@reddit

Tell me you've never been to Florida without saying it

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red_white_and_pew@reddit

Exactly this

I'm from Florida myself and the stereotypes about a state as big as England is so ignorant

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OG-Brass-Monkey@reddit

London is the nearest thing.

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TonyChimichanga@reddit

Blackpool.

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bumbaclartIsreal@reddit

Skegness. Mad as lorry’s them lot

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Naughtyspider@reddit

If you want to take a stroll in the morning to see people pushing prams whilst swigging Special Brew and smoking dope, then see a a middle aged woman stick her finger up a strange dogs arse to stop it biting a toddler, Skegness is the holiday resort for you!

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PM_ME_MICRO_DICKS@reddit

Nicknaming it Skegvegas was… certainly a decision.

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bumbaclartIsreal@reddit

And the delights of Ingoldmells market. Any old tat for a quid

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Jane1943@reddit

Confirmed by the fact that they voted in Richard Tice as their MP.

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SnooDonuts6494@reddit

Norfolk

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marieascot@reddit

Close the answer is Suffolk

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coffee_and_tv_easily@reddit

Agreed - it’s definitely Suffolk

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BrittleMender64@reddit

I found out during graduation (having been there for three years and not heard it before) that the University of East Anglia's motto was "do different". This was because the founders heard the phrase "people in Norfolk do things different." I don't know whether they thought it was a compliment, or were embracing it.

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SnooDonuts6494@reddit

Doctors write the abbreviation NFN on patient notes, meaning "Normal For Norfolk".

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Trevelyan-Rutherford@reddit

This has not been true for decades. Patients can request their notes and it would not be worth risking your career over for a start.

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folklovermore_@reddit

They might not write it but it was definitely in use as a verbal description up until at least 2019. (Source: had a doctor friend who would use it in everyday chat. And she was early 30s at the time.)

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SnooDonuts6494@reddit

2016, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-36082307

2023, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08ywgml/episodes/guide

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Trevelyan-Rutherford@reddit

Ok, neither of these links shows modern doctors using the term in patient notes.

I wasn’t disputing that the term exists, just that it is not used in patient notes and hasn’t been for a long time. I did my nursing training in East Anglia 20 years ago and we were told about it as a historic thing that would land us in a lot of trouble were it to be documented or overheard (same as FLK for ‘funny looking kid).

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slightly-simian@reddit

We were warned about NFL, "Normal for Lincolnshire", CTD, "Circling the drain" and the most disgusting one TUBE, "Totally unnecessary breast examination". This was in the early 2000's too.

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Judge_Dreddful@reddit

Do they fuck.

This has been said of every shit town - NFB; Normal for Bridgwater or NFN; Normal for Newport etc etc.

It's not true now and its never been true. There is not one documented, verifiable instance where this was ever actually done, just loads of 'a bloke down the pub told me...' and 'I saw on the internet...'

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Haramdour@reddit

Population 200,000, surnames 3

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UserCannotBeVerified@reddit

Cousins, 50000000

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Breakwaterbot@reddit

I think k Norfolk is more like Alabama.

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mcrosby78@reddit

The strange farmer's sons with the large ears?

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PanpsychismIsTrue@reddit

Exactly

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FleetofBerties@reddit

In the sense that it's full of Londoners in the same way Florida has New Yorkers.

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DirectCaterpillar916@reddit

Sadly yes. Kensington-on-Sea

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HumorPsychological60@reddit

Knew this was tom s be right at the top

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Low_Economics_5004@reddit

I went to uni with someone from Devon, I think Ilfracombe specifically, and she had a lot of pretty crazy stories to tell about people from her area. Like all the adults she knew smoked weed- her teachers, her driving instructor. Like they were high whilst they were teaching. I wish I could remember more specifics of some of the crazy things.

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Norman_debris@reddit

No, I don't think so. The weirdest stuff happens in London, but that's just because of the sheer number of people there.

There are a few odd places, like Blackpool, but they tend to be quite deprived and don't have quite the same brand of nutter as Florida.

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BigBlueMountainStar@reddit

There was a post on CasualUK yesterday about places that scare the shit out of you, and Blackpool was probably top of the list.

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folklovermore_@reddit

I used to work in Blackpool and occasionally had to walk from the football stadium to the bus stop in the town centre to get home. It's not an experience I recommend.

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kawaiiyokaisenpai@reddit

You clearly never spent a Saturday in Brighton's Laine

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Judge_Dreddful@reddit

I've spent a couple of lairy nights in Brighton and a couple of lairy nights in Blackpool and I can tell you with authority that Brighton has nothing on Blackpool.

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kawaiiyokaisenpai@reddit

I do not believe you. Brighton is by FAR the whackest city in Britain.

In Brighton, you do not need to go out at night to see the weirdos hit the streets. Our Brightonians are bizarre 24/7.

I propose a dual. April 1st 2025 High noon North Laine, Brighton.

Bring me your most lairy weirdo from Blackpool, and I'll show you mine. And they Must.Be.Sobre.

No drink, no drugs. Just 100% freakazoid!

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wildOldcheesecake@reddit

As a Londoner, I’d say we have areas within boroughs that is our Florida. But as mentioned, given the range of responses, the UK doesn’t have one really

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TheGamblingAddict@reddit

As a non Londoner, London is our Florida minus the weather.

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wildOldcheesecake@reddit

Yeah, no.

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TheGamblingAddict@reddit

How so? I find London has the concentration of crazies in this country by laaaarge margin. Just turn on the news. From news reporters right down to the guests.

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wildOldcheesecake@reddit

And how different is it to say, Liverpool. Given that you’re a non Londoner, it pretty much says it all. Further, London consists of many different boroughs. It’s reductive to simply say London is akin to Florida in this respect.

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TheGamblingAddict@reddit

Ooof.

So let me get this straight, an outside perspective, which is invaluable in a lot of scenarios, is to be instantly dismissed here, because you say so? I'm going to take it your a Londoner. Now I hope you don't fall into the prior category we have been discussing.

Given that you’re a non Londoner, it pretty much says it all.

Applause

And Liverpool? They ain't no angel, but again, ain't on the magnitude London is.

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wildOldcheesecake@reddit

No because factually, London is not like any other city. Having lived in Swansea, Prague and Berlin for work, Bristol for uni with an Erasmus year in Valencia, I’d say I have had fair exposure to different living standards.

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TheGamblingAddict@reddit

I'm happy for you, I truly am. I'm glad you got to experience many different living standards, that's something every human should have the ability to do as it can open your eyes. That however is completely unrelated to my point.

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wildOldcheesecake@reddit

I don’t think so but whatever.

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TheGamblingAddict@reddit

Well if you think so, ok I guess?

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wildOldcheesecake@reddit

My overall point is that it is reductive to liken Florida to London as a whole. That’s like me trying to compare the US and its states to Cardiff. London had areas that are like Florida sure but you’ll have to mention these specifically

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TheGamblingAddict@reddit

The point is London attracts crazies like Florida. I'm sorry if this somehow offends you as you don't wish your specific borough to be tagged along with it. But there is a reason the rest of the UK crown London as being in its own bubble.

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wildOldcheesecake@reddit

Well now you’re being silly. I never suggested I was offended.

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TheGamblingAddict@reddit

The hell you talking about? Thats been the entire premise of this debate, it is what a stated when I expanded upon how London is like Florida. What have you been debating?

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wildOldcheesecake@reddit

Fucking hell you twat I was talking about you insinuating me being offended.

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TheGamblingAddict@reddit

Point in case.

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wildOldcheesecake@reddit

Well done

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travelingwhilestupid@reddit

I think London over-represents for weird. It's what makes it great. you can find your tribe there.

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Beebuzz100@reddit

Great Yarmouth

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onetimeuselong@reddit

NoFlorida.

We do have a New Jersey though: Essex

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wosmo@reddit

The thing with Florida is that they're not actually special, you're all crazy - but FL has especially open access to arrest records, so it's much easier to report on.

This makes it harder to replicate in places where such laws aren't passed state-by-state.

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BadBassist@reddit

That is a fun fact

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Charitard123@reddit

This. Journalists use Florida crime records to get an easy hit story

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blarfblarf@reddit

That's a lot of words to have only said, "blackpool."

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PuntTheRunt010@reddit

Middlesborough.

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lucylucylane@reddit

Manchester

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Ynys_cymru@reddit

Northern Ireland

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aspinator27@reddit

I’m surprised no one said Northern Ireland. We feel like the Florida of the UK sometimes. Or maybe Alabama or Kansas.

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PMax480@reddit

Sheppey

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georgiaraisef@reddit

Wouldn’t Birmingham count?

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Ok_Annual3581@reddit

Norfolk.

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Cenamark2@reddit

Ill bet it's Wales.

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PanpsychismIsTrue@reddit

Blackpool

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EstuaryEnd@reddit

I think the closest parallel is Clacton. UKiP and all that ,is very Florida vibe.

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Nigglym@reddit

Clacton is the epicentre of Essex, which is the most Florida like part of England...

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ClingerOn@reddit

Essex is more like one of those areas in New Jersey or the OC where all the retired gangsters moved to, and their rich kids just cut about throwing money around.

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PanpsychismIsTrue@reddit

Essex absolutely is the UK’s New Jersey, for sure. They are the nouveau-riche orbiters of the two most important cities on earth

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marieascot@reddit

I would say Suffolk is Florida and Essex is Texas. Clacton being almost Suffolk.

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Jane1943@reddit

They probably sell baseball caps with Make Clacton Great Again. LOL

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CambridgeRunner@reddit

Wisbech.

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SensibleChapess@reddit

Isle of Sheppey... Always a murder or two from someone wearing an 'Engerlund Flag'... as well as a private gated village next to a Dogging Beach...

Also a WW2 shipwreck that'll make a tidal wave if it goes off that'll take out half of London.

Not exactly Florida... but 'interesting' nonetheless...

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Fair_Woodpecker_6088@reddit

I only know about Isle of Sheppey because it’s where mdotr is apparently from. Based on your description maybe he’s actually pretty normal by their standards!

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SensibleChapess@reddit

He has two eyes and his hands don't look webbed... so I'd say he's probably only a first or second regeneration Sheppeyite! His parents likely came from Mainland Kent...

P.S. He sounds good though!

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TheNekromantik97@reddit

I grew up in Sittingbourne, not too far away from Sheppey, and I remember all the chavvies at school referring to them as webbed-digit mutants. Lmao

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SensibleChapess@reddit

I loved hearing that whenever someone escaped from the prisons on the island that they simply pulled the bridge up to stop them getting down to you lot at Sittingbourne!!

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avoirgopher@reddit

I want to hear more about this doomsday boat.

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SensibleChapess@reddit

This looks like it might be quite a detailed history of it. It seems to get raised in Parliament almost every year because of the risk.

https://www.submerged.co.uk/montgomery/

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avoirgopher@reddit

Thanks!

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St2Crank@reddit

That ship, built in Florida.

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SensibleChapess@reddit

Aha... Spooky coincidence!!

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ValhallaCupcake@reddit

I wondered if anyone would mention Sheppey! Sheppey is... weird. It has a weird vibe and every native Sheppey-ite I've met has been one arrow short of a quiver in some way. 😂

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SensibleChapess@reddit

Indeed... I once kayaked out to Deadman's Island off of Queenborough. The place was littered with jawbone and thighbones... Then you look up and see all the cranes and refineries and realise you're in the Thames Estuary. Very, very, strange place is Sheppey!

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Capital_Release_6289@reddit

The West Country can be pretty bizarre. Too much cider

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Fair_Woodpecker_6088@reddit

You don’t understand.

It’s all for the greater good

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ShouldHaveGoneToUCC@reddit

I hear everybody and their mums is packing round the West Country.

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mew123456b@reddit

Now live in the rural West Country and can confirm.

There’s them that lives here, that’ll never leave here, and will die here(if they know what’s good for em).

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Tired_penguins@reddit

Anyone remember the Somerset Gimp? Somerset Gimp

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hardito-carlito2@reddit

Woah woah woah. Nowt wrong with us lad

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Merciless-Dom@reddit

Easy stranger, we don’t take kindly to that kind of talk.

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Trilobite_Tom@reddit

Easy now uncle dad. We don’t want to wake our mum up.

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EvilFin@reddit

Yes. We call it America

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ThrwAwayAdvicePlease@reddit

We have a few but they are only known regionally...jaywick, Chatham, Gillingham...are the ones I know

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Nicola2412@reddit

Skeg Vegas or known as Skegness lol

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Aclassali@reddit

Larne.

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freebiscuit2002@reddit

The Thirteen Colonies. They were sent on their way a while back.

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lburbs@reddit

Spain 🤣

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seven-cents@reddit

The Welsh Valleys. If you're not married to your sister you're a freak.

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mittfh@reddit

I thought they were the place where men are men and sheep are worried... 😉

(For those outside the UK, sheep are the main livestock in Wales, likely as that don't mind grazing on steep slopes, so inevitably the joke started that if in some villages there's aren't enough eligible unmarried women to go around, the farmers find alternative ways of relieving their desires...)

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seven-cents@reddit

Lol, the downvotes 😂

I love the Valleys, spent many a happy night off my tits there. Shrooms and acid or candy flips in the late 90's and early 00's. Absolutely banging!

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Ryclea@reddit

What would some of those towns be? You know...just so I don't go there.

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seven-cents@reddit

Oh, you definitely want to go there, for the experience, like.

I also recommend consuming a lot of drugs, especially and particularly psilocybin.

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Ryclea@reddit

So where, in Wales, are the real moral cesspools, where the most depraved Welshwomen hang out. Is there parking available?

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blodblodblod@reddit

Koolers nightclub in Merthyr.

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DirectCaterpillar916@reddit

Rubbish. Unless your sister goes baaa

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furrycroissant@reddit

Isn't that Norfolk?

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Evilnight007@reddit

Is it not Essex?

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girlslovehorror@reddit

Scunthorpe

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Jingsley@reddit

Yes, America

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xtremesmok@reddit

No. We do have a New Jersey (Essex) but there’s not really any “bizarre” parts of the country.

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peachandbetty@reddit

Isle of Sheppey

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BetYouWishYouKnew@reddit

Europe's "Florida Man" is probably "British Tourist"

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RicochetRabidUK@reddit

Hey, you forgot your apple with "for the fairest" written on it.

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Lunaborne@reddit

Brighton for sure.

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Qindaloft@reddit

Most of it🤣 About the same size,just with less crystal meth and fentynal

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MGSC_1726@reddit

Judging from all the different responses.. no

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hanjay09@reddit

The stereotype is Yorkshire. They have local politicians that want to secede from the rest of the UK 😅.

Except if you're from Yorkshire, then it's Lincolnshire. The joke is they literally abut each other.

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Turtle2727@reddit

So do the Cornish, Welsh and Scots! Though I reckon if they all banded together and maybe did the unthinkable and took Lancashire Merseyside and Tyneside they might manage it! (Or I've been watching too much Vikings Valhalla and I'm dreaming of the great northern empire)

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PiercedGeek@reddit

Sounds more like the Texas of GB

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FreddyDeus@reddit

They’re talking bollocks

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hanjay09@reddit

I said it was a stereotype. From my county. Do you have a better one?

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FreddyDeus@reddit

I’m disagree with you that it is a stereotype. I don’t need to offer an alternative.

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an7667@reddit

Cornwall is definitely the Texas of the UK

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VolcanicBear@reddit

Cornwall has a functional power grid.

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noddyneddy@reddit

I’d say that’s true! Everything is Yorkshire is bigger and better! Nearly kept a typo that said ‘Betty’s’ and that would also be true!

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hanjay09@reddit

Why all the downvotes? I didn't say I disliked Yorkshire nor believed it was true.

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Cold_Tension_2976@reddit

Think you're thinking of Lancashire rather than Lincolnshire, that's who we have a rivalry with.

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ResolutionNumber9@reddit

Britain's Florida...

https://images.news18.com/ibnlive/uploads/2021/12/spiderman-meme-16401651614x3.png

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Kian-Tremayne@reddit

I don’t think we have an exact equivalent of Florida as a centre of “Florida man” craziness.

Someone mentioned Norfolk, but that’s more like inbred redneck country - the English Alabama if you will.

Brighton is, ah, progressive and alternative. It’s San Francisco without the highly paid tech industry.

Cornwall and Devon are rural, so a bit like flyover states but with tourism to annoy the locals. The key thing to remember is that those two counties border on each other and have a lot of similarities, yet hate each other. Both like pasties, but one crimps them on the side and the other across the top. Both have cream teas, but the scone/jam/cream order is different. Doing anything Devon style in Cornwall, or vice versa, will get you lunched as a “filthy furriner”.

Yorkshire is large, and loudly and proudly independent. It’s like Texas with less barbecue and more being careful with their money.

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mrs_peep@reddit

I"d say Brighton is more of a Portland OR, but toned way down of course.

Devon/Cornwall are like Maine but warmer than the rest of the country rather than colder than most of it. Beautiful and remote-ish place people go in summer.

Yorkshire is nothing like Texas. Sure it's large and has a kind of "independent" spirit, but TX is mostly flat, dry and empty. Nothing quaint to be seen. Do people avoid Yorks because the people there are so awful? Not if they're proper people they don't. Does Texas have any equivalent for a fat rascal? No siree y'all.

Norfolk for Alabama I'll grant you.

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Judge_Dreddful@reddit

Legend is that if you hold a Yorkshire pudding to your ear, you can hear the sound of a Yorkshireman complaining about the cost of something.

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FleetofBerties@reddit

Here in Norfolk our motto is love the one you're with.

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JuicyWRLD9-9-9@reddit

Birkenhead and Liverpool😂😂

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bigfatpup@reddit

It’s called Australia and we put it really far away for a reason

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SokkaHaikuBot@reddit

^Sokka-Haiku ^by ^bigfatpup:

It’s called Australia

And we put it really far

Away for a reason

^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.

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CoffeeForJasmine@reddit

Jaywick

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Hal1342@reddit

Could be Ayrshire.

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Bravo_November@reddit

Crazy oddballs who hang around a swamp who are constantly in the news for doing strange things? I think the closest we have is in this obscure part of London called Westminster.

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previously_on_earth@reddit

Liverpool

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yehyehyehyeh@reddit

Benidorm.

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nicho594@reddit

Royston vasey

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NateKashLivesFast@reddit

Cornwall.

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IndustrialPet@reddit

Wherever the individual you're talking to lives, it's the next town over.

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Jane1943@reddit

Jaywick is supposed to be the most deprived place in England apparently.

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Alien_Goatman@reddit

Birmingham

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Yatsey007@reddit

Medway

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Anastasiathrowout@reddit

Yes. It’s called “Liverpool”. It’s the Florida of the uk, and also acts as the Amsterdam of the uk too. 🤣 (I’m scouse, I’m allowed to call us oddballs🤣)

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Judge_Dreddful@reddit

I mean, Liverpool is a city full of chippy complainers with a penchant for heroin, shell suits and petty crime, but its not weird...

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Present_Afternoon_47@reddit

NFN..."Normal" for Norfolk is allegedly a term some medical staff use due to the thin gene pool in that particular area.. see Alan Partridge, Liz Truss etc...

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Old_Introduction_395@reddit

I moved to Norfolk in 1970. 50 kids in primary school, all related.

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Present_Afternoon_47@reddit

***Banjo music intensifies.....****

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Zealousideal_Tap_405@reddit

South of Spain and the various expat enclaves down there is probably the best equivalent.

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SportTawk@reddit

Cornwall, the further west the more lively 😂

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Judge_Dreddful@reddit

Norfolk, Wales, the Forest of Dean...take your pick...

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Exotic-Astronaut6662@reddit

Bournemouth

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Dennyel84@reddit

I love Bournemouth, but I had never seen so many full face tattoos before going there

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lucyhems@reddit

Yessss. Full of rehab units and smack heads and inbreds once you go out of the town and into the places like Townsend, west Howe etc

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Dennyel84@reddit

The Florida of the UK is called Benidorm. That's where they go

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Cold_Tension_2976@reddit

Maybe not, florida, but I definitely see a lot of similarities between my home county of Yorkshire and Texas. They are both the largest "regions" within their respective countries. Both groups of people are extremely proud to be a Yorkshireman or Texan. Both regions have several large cities that seem to be overlooked for other cities within their countries, Yorkshire has Leeds and Bradford next to each other, and Texas has Fort Worth and Dallas.

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miemcc@reddit

Essex!

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astrid-star@reddit

Blackpool and Picadilly Gardens in Manchester

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ParinoidAndroid4236@reddit

We have free range stupidity in the UK.

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Sea-Television2470@reddit

It's Blackpool tbh. Visit and you'll see.

Everyone who's saying Cornwall, please go abroad on holiday next summer, we are fucking sick of you down here.

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Goatmanification@reddit

Cornwall????

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Sea-Television2470@reddit

No, we are definitely California. Beaches, mining and a hatred for the rest of the country.

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seven-cents@reddit

Emmit

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ChangingMyLife849@reddit

Cornwall

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Sea-Television2470@reddit

Think you'll find if we were a state it would be California

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TopAngle7630@reddit

Florida has it's reputation due to laws that make it easy for journalists to get the stories. In reality, I would guess that most of the US has similar people who just don't make the news. The UK doesn't have an equivalent in terms of news stories, as we don't have the variation in terms of how the law allows reporting of crimes differently in different areas.
We do have places that we take the piss out of. Cornwall or the Forrest of Dean for inbreeding, Wales for sheep shagging, Glasgow for drunkenness.... As someone stated earlier, we did send a significant number of our weirdos across the Atlantic. The Plymouth brethren who were the 1st ones we sent, seem to have been remembered in the US as having fled religious intolerance. In reality the reason they left is that we didn't allow their religious intolerance so they went somewhere they were allowed to be intolerant.

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Fetch_Ted@reddit

It's already been mentioned a couple of times and the answer is Norfolk. Where behaviour Normal for Norfolk (NFN) is peculiar to the rest of the islands.

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Old_Introduction_395@reddit

Normal for Norfolk is for biological oddities, not behavioural. (Doctors use it).

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redditor_no_69@reddit

Glastonbury, the place not the festival (although that too)

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Books_Bristol@reddit

Nahhh, those unique folks are at the opposite end to the Florida scale. Sure, still oddballs for the most part, but they aren't attacking people on the high street, fighting the local swan population, or challenging King Arthur's ghost to a duel!

Much more likely to be sold some glass as a healing crystal, meet a druid, and go on a pilgrimage up the tor.

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banglaonline@reddit

Clacton-on-Sea

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KatVanWall@reddit

I’d say for an equivalent you’re looking for a county rather than a town/city. Norfolk is obviously Alabama … I’d say maybe Lincolnshire or Cumbria are closer to Florida. Maybe Cumbria because it attracts a lot of tourists and retirees living their dream.

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The_Nunnster@reddit

Who needs a county when we have Paul Gascoigne

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Advanced-Jump6434@reddit

Every city, every town, every village has a street or area that could be considered Florida.

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uncleal2024@reddit

Isle of Sheppy in Kent

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Azzaphox@reddit

This is the correct answer

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hellyfrosty@reddit

Pretty much any coastal town with high levels of deprivation, poverty and low educational attainment

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Bahnmor@reddit

General consensus is that there is no single part of the U.K. for it. To quote from some moderately famous British literature:

“Most everyone’s mad, here.”

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MadeOfEurope@reddit

Brexit Britain? Would that count? It’s more a state of mind than an actual place.

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UserCannotBeVerified@reddit

Coventry is a weird place. Not exactly Floridian levels but deffo the "odd place". You don't go to Cov unless you really need to, and even then, why do you need to?

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Middle-Hour-2364@reddit

I mean, there's Lancashire, but we don't talk about those people. That's why god created the Pennines

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Haggis161@reddit

Trowbridge, Wiltshire.

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Numerous_Witness6454@reddit

South Wales, for sure

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saint_maria@reddit

Probably Sunderland. Off the top of my head we had a guy convicted for being a cow pedo and another guy for fucking a seagull. Plus a woman handing out bricks to rioting children recently.

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dont_thr0w_me_away_@reddit

It's the House of Lords

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boweroftable@reddit

All of it except Bristol

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NotABrummie@reddit

In many cases, the Westcountry. Weird shit happens out in the country - not much violent crime, but a lot of weird crime. Also, loads of white flight retirees that cause their own problems.

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SadAndHappyBear@reddit

Essex is a vibe

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The_Putney_Pugalist@reddit

The whole country is full of them, that’s what makes us British 🇬🇧

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Cocobean0875@reddit

Totnes has some 'unique' characters

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fothergillfuckup@reddit

Essex.

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loganscanlon@reddit

Probably Glasgow?

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Trikecarface@reddit

London but that's a separate island

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RaspberryCapybara@reddit

Moss side Manchester

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Embarrassed_Belt9379@reddit

Britain is Europe’s Florida

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remarkable_always@reddit

Wales. No?

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Ryclea@reddit

Wales is the Minnesota of Britain. (or Minnesota is the Wales of America). It's a little quieter, friendlier, and doesn't get the attention It deserves. There are a lot of famous people from there and they can name every single one of them.

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Claim-Nice@reddit

Friendlier?? Wales??? You must be on the tourist board.

Any country who decides that Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is a sensible place name cannot be for real.

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mittfh@reddit

Widely believed to be a Victorian era publicity stunt that still works today (the village is officially Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, but the even shorter Llanfairpwll and Llanfair P. G. are also in common use) to have the longest railway station name, it still attracts tourists today.

Having said that, Wiki spoils the fun by pointing out references to the long name (and variations of) predating the construction of the railway.

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TheAncientGeek@reddit

That's a tourist trap.

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EstuaryEnd@reddit

This makes it sound like Wales is the Canada of America

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blorezum@reddit

It’s called the Midlands

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creosoterolls@reddit

Wales

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IllustriousLimit8473@reddit

Glasgow. Most of us are nice people but it still happens

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Chonky-Marsupial@reddit

Well Clacton has recently made a bid for this status...

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killer_by_design@reddit

It's either Slough because it's Slough or Reading because it's ALWAYS on those police car chase programs.

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Automatic_Role6120@reddit

Norfolk?

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BacupBhoy@reddit

Camden.

Definitely Camden.

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DaveTheWraith@reddit

the rest of us in the UK call it 'London'

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editoreal@reddit

Liam Gallagher is Great Britain's Florida.

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blaxninja@reddit

Noel is Texas

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silverman96@reddit

Closest thing has to be Glasgow right?

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josh5676543@reddit

These sort of comparisons don't really work the whole what is the somewhere of somewhere often leads to looking for small similarities whilst overlooking the much larger differences

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NoHorse3525@reddit

Punctuation sucks!

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AcceptableBee8492@reddit

Wow that blew my tiny mind man! I hope you're not a bot

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kawaiiyokaisenpai@reddit

I go to Brighton when I want to see light-hearted weirdo antics on the street. Head down Brighton Laine, especially on sunny weekends. You'll know it when you see it!

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Spottyjamie@reddit

Hull and carlisle feature in Angry People in Local Newspapers quite often compared to other towns

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London-Reza@reddit

Scotland

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TheAncientGeek@reddit

Malvern.

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SweetMysterious524@reddit

Exeter

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ProfessionalEven296@reddit

Cornwall runs pretty close…

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CaterpillarLoud8071@reddit

Usually Essex, or Croydon

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GB_GeorgiaF@reddit

Essex, or London, maybe both.

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BearDown75@reddit

Ya Blackpool

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Shed_Some_Skin@reddit

That's our Las Vegas

Let that sink in for a minute

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VerityPee@reddit

Yeah, it’s called Britain. We’re all mad here.

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RhodCymru@reddit

Wrexham - despite being somewhat romanticised by Disney - is a greener version of The Hills Have Eyes. Just with more inbreeding.

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DirectCaterpillar916@reddit

If you’ve been to Wigan, you’d know.

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Dragonfly_pin@reddit

It’s Brighton.

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Insideout_Ink_Demon@reddit

It's the whole of Britain

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Nervous-Peanut-5802@reddit

Honestly, no.

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Simple_Knowledge6423@reddit

Grimsby. Full of nonces if the papers are to be believed lol

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leelam808@reddit

Britain is small even the UK. I don’t think there’s one concentrated area

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_NotMitetechno_@reddit

Look up the Somerset gimp

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Ravenmorghane@reddit

Telford

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smoulderstoat@reddit

Pretty much the entire country, to be perfectly honest.

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Crunchie2020@reddit

We have smaller islands

I lived isle Lewis in the late 90s and man it was a different world. They had coal fires or some kids had to dig their own peat for warmth. Very religious so rules like no hanging washing on line on Sundays things like that. No cinema n things. Was like living in 1950s

So that was weird. And wonderful. So free but so isolated. When teh travelling cinema did make it on land All the movies were 8 years old. I had seen them all already. So they were out of touch a bit.

I learnt some old Scottish Gaelic.

So probably a weird island on yeh outskirts

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