The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter: No but I love when all you beautiful sickos start posting shit like "Bogroubler flips Hambarn upon Gwynyychlyyrah! A huge result!" It's like hanging out with people being poisoned by carbon monoxide. None of those places are real

No but I love when all you beautiful sickos start posting shit like "Bogroubler flips Hambarn upon Gwynyychlyyrah! A huge result!" It's like hanging out with people being poisoned by carbon monoxide. None of those places are real

I could post like "Nigel Thornington flips Fartknuckle-upon-Whimsycockle for Labour" and get 50 likes and I don't know if anybody would notice

That's because Fartknuckle-upon-Whimsycockle is a real place that happens to have 7 voters and has had a representative in parliament dating back to 1364, when there were 5 voters

Ah yes, a rottenborough

I just assume every MP in England is from a rotten borough

I noticed

bunch of these guys lost. or won

Im happy for them. Or sorry that happened.

This must be how they feel about Kalamazoo and Albuquerque

Part of why I want Texas to become a swing state is that I want national reporters to grapple with such things as Pflugerville, Bexar County, and Kyukendahl

Refugio, things of that nature

for spectators: it's re-foo-he-oh in spanish, but it's re-fur-ee-oh in texan

Hopping in to add Llano, Buda, Manchaca, Iraan, Refugio, and Waxahachie.

Mexia

I worked in Texas politics for a year and can only pronounce two of those.

Kyukendahl: ⬇️↘️➡️ + 🅿️

I lost my mind when I found out that Rancho Cucamonga is a real place lol

And on the East Coast, there are names like Weehawken

can confirm! a real conversation I had while updating my address on file recently: "And the city is Weehawken? I feel like I've heard of it somewhere..." "Probably in The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss. The Onceler gives directions to his relatives: 'turn left at Weehawken, sharp right at South Stitch.'"

Ho-Ho-Kus, Communipaw, and The Township of The City Of Orange

Try Poughkeepsie, or any of NY's mispronounced city names lifted from other countries like Cairo, Delhi, or Madrid. www.newyorkupstate.com/news/2016/05...

25 places in NY with stolen names from around the worldwww.newyorkupstate.com Where else can you go from Cleveland to Rome in half an hour?

Portuguese watching NM election coverage for the hit

Ok no sorry Albuquerque is in Badajoz, Spain, just right on the Portuguese border and *used* to be Portuguese

Oh sure. We start talking about the results out of Penistone and that’s just too much for Bluesky

Never gonna get tired of breaking out the fact that Penistone is on the same train line as Wombwell to incredulous friends from the US

Yer making that up 😂

The line passes near my house

AMAZING

sounds hard

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48462/...

especially jarring when a real word slips in because it also exists in the US "we're expecting results from Twitherford, Chumblesly-upon-Berrick, Boston and Skegness sometime after 11pm" wait hang on then you discover it's a single constituency called "Boston and Skegness"

Like Mid Dunbartonshire.

pronounced "Midshore"

If you're going to pronounce it Chumley, SPELL IT THAT WAY.

Shitting-Under-Fartington ass names

I saw someone get yelled at for being racist against the Welsh

Is this because of the term 'welching' on a deal? All the fun traps for t he unwary posting openly on social media!

No someone got bent out of shape because an American made a joke about Plaid Cymru being a Star Wars name

i think it was the constituency name (ynys môn), which sounds like a doom level rather than a star wars name imo

Wait until they hear the name of the leader of Plaid Cymru.

I could definitely see that being the name of a Bounty Hunter.

tbf "racist against the welsh" is technically a series of words that could conceivably be strung together to form a phrase

When I play Cities: Skylines I like to give my cities names that sound like shitty British villages. Qweefwell, Harddix-on-Trent, Cumshotte-on-Hoal

Welcome aboard this Great Western Railway service bound for Bristol Temple Meads. We will be calling at Reading, Fourskyne-on-Dix, Swindon, Fartbox-under-Taint… and… Bristol Temple Meads! We are arriving at Reading. For services to Gatwick Airport and Suck-le-Cocq, please change here!

Look, as someone raised with an ancestral hatred of the British as long as any of them is suffering I feel good

As a descendant of English Catholics and Irish Protestants I feel an internal conflict on this.

Lmao that’s a tough one but also have you seen the film A Field in England

No I haven’t. Is it good?

Yes!

Then I will have to look it up! Thanks for the rec :)

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