Where did you say you lived?

Sep 14, 2011 17:20

I've mentioned before about Survey sites sometimes having peculiar notions of which bits of the UK go where.

A couple of recently seen ones that have a base that's clearly come from the same stable but with a different cartographer...


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g8bur September 14 2011, 16:31:35 UTC
Oh good grief! Perhaps the first map is the reason some folk think Wales is part of England...

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fairfieldtowers September 16 2011, 18:43:15 UTC
Actually I think some people lump England and Wales due to the number of maps around that are England only but don't make it clear. A few foreign friends not overly familiar with outline of of UK can spot Haggisland missing but not the Leeky bit missing.

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fairfieldtowers September 16 2011, 18:48:14 UTC
I'd guess that they employ foreigners, for very little money. A lot of the screening questions are poorly written, badly spelt[1], appalling images to illustrate[2] and done by people who appear to have limited knowledge of anything much of the UK or the English language.

[1] "Buinsess" is popular at the moment.

[2] The same ones seem to come up regularly. "Best" one in the giggle stakes was probably the pic of a coffin to illustrate 'How old are you'.

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femsc September 15 2011, 21:19:42 UTC
Boggle!

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