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# Is that really where Oxfordshire is?
jees i'm pig ignorant
(, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 11:02, archived)
# Various news and weather services disagree
Sometimes we appear in the middle of the country, other times we're welsh, a suburb of birmingham, or walking distance from Nelson's Column.
(, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 11:04, archived)
# Whereas in reality you are all of those at once.

(, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 11:08, archived)
# I thought it was closer to London
Inspector Morse must have travelled at Warp 9, "Lewis, i'm off to London" and *BAM*, he's there in no time.

How dare TV lie to me...what next? Films? Films such as "Prince of Thieves" have taught me that you can get from Dover to Nottingham in a day by horseback.
(, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 11:09, archived)
# you can
if the horse is on the back of a flatbed doing 65 up the motorway.
(, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 11:11, archived)
# HA! Now that would be a Costner film worth seeing
"Dances with DEATH"
(, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 11:13, archived)
# clinging on for dear life...
(, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 11:14, archived)
# yup
with its foot squarely on the neck of 'Royal' Berkshire
(, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 11:10, archived)
# That makes me even more pig ignorant
I spent 3 years at uni in Berkshire, so I really should have learnt where it is. I also had a friend from Oxford.

My dissertation was "Oxfordshire, where it is in relation to the other counties in Britain"
(, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 11:15, archived)
# was your conclusion "NEAR. AND ALSO FAR."?
(, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 11:21, archived)
# I wish it had been
I concluded it was down the back of the sofa.
(, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 11:31, archived)