Educated types at uni...yeah right
Despite being from the inbred backwaters of darkest Somerset I some how managed to gain enough wisdom and education to get me to uni, what scared me most were the city types and their lack of knowledge on the real world.

One poor lass from inside the M25 had only seen cows on tv or tiny things in fields from the motorway, never knew if cow tipping was real or not.

Anyway I happily convinced her that potatoes grew on trees but due the french for spud being pomme de terre or literally apple of the earth and the reason they were muddy was due to only being ripe when they had fallen to the earth from the tree. Bless her for falling for that one.

She did however think it was a wind up when I said there were streets or rather lanes that didn't have pavements or even street lights. I'm pretty positive that the area round Chard isn't the only part of the world not to have such a luxury.
(bluehamster, Sat 20 Mar 2010, 18:57, 2 replies)

The whole village I'm from
doesn't have street lights.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sun 21 Mar 2010, 18:08, closed)

When I read 'inbred backwaters of darkest Somerset.'
I thought that's a bit harsh Somerset's a lovely county. Then I got to the bit about Chard. I think the first line of your post about covers it.
( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 18:26, closed)