Westcountryman

Hey, pink panther country, nice!

Not a big fan of Newcastle or Tyne and Wear, I visit far too often and it's much too cold. Much prefer York.

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jgrabham

Ahh ya big southan poof...

j/k

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Westcountryman

LOL...I'm actually half-Geordie.

Although I'd never admit that in public.

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Northumbrian

Although living in Newcastle, I don't use 'Tyne and Wear', because it was set up as an administrative county, but as the 'county' council was abolished...

... then for what purpose does it exist?

Britannist

Good question - 'Tyne and Wear' and all the Heath-created artificial council names (i.e. 'Avon', 'West Midlands', 'Merseyside' and 'Humberside') should be removed from usage everywhere. 'Merseyside' should be returned to Lancashire, 'Humberside' to Yorkshire and Liincolnshire and so on.

Besoeker

My great and late friend Tommy, was a Geordie.
He died in a car crash some years ago - actually thought to have resulted from a fatal heart attack prior to the crash.
I still miss him.

We were colleagues and near neighbours. He was one of a kind.
I'd get an email from him....."I wanted to write a short letter but I didn't have time so I have written a long one...."
He described Geordies as Scots but without the generosity.

He was a gentleman to the last and it seems to me that's a dying breed.

jgrabham

Cool, one half of you can beat the other half up.

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Proudly increasing my CO2 output since 2007

"I'd have no desire to penalize a man because he's worthonly fifteen dollars a week. But I'll be damned if I can see why a man worth
forty must be penalized - and penalized in favor of the one who's less
competent."
- Ayn Rand

Ea of Dune

I got 47 of the 48. I agree though it's not the historic counties i.e. Westmorland and Huntingdonshire for example are not there. The one I missed was city of London. I typed in Great London and because it appeared over London figured I'f got that one right lol.
The Duchy of Richmind doesn't seem to be on there anymore either

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arden forester

It's not a very good game. It ask for some place called the "West Midlands" which has gone down the drain. I know, of course, that the Queen was asked to make this hybrid a "ceremonial" county but this is not a game that those of us wanting our proper counties back would bother to take seriously.

Warwickshire will be back, in all its glory!

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Westcountryman

Warwickshire is already in there...

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