Pwnallthethings: BBC just straight-up making up place names at this point

BBC just straight-up making up place names at this point

There's a city in Massachusetts called that.

These folks would like a word as well

That’s where the photo is from I believe

Oh, my bad. I assumed since it was BBC that it was a Braintree in UK.

A whole bunch of Middlesex county town and city naming in Massachusetts is just rearranged Essex county in England. (We don't have a Colchester, though Connecticut does.)

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oh dear

Long time since I lived in Massachusetts so I forgot how hard that name goes.

There’s a Braintree outside Boston, MA, and it’s even a T stop.

Home of the Adams clan, John Hancock, and the Watson of "Mr. Watson, come here, I want you" fame. (Also maybe the Wahlbergs, one of whom keeps buying car dealerships in my area.)

I think the Wahlbergs are from Dorchester, but at least one of them used to be involved in local politics in Quincy.

It's weird, I was double-checking the Wikipedia article to make sure I hadn't hallucinated the people I was pretty darned sure were from Braintree, but then the Wahlbergs were on the list too, but their own pages don't mention them living there. I was super tired, shouldn't have been posting.

Adamses were from neighboring Quincy, hence the name.

Quincy, MA wasn't established as a separate town until 1792 - and it was named after Abigail's grandfather John Quincy, just like JQA. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy_...

Quincy political family - Wikipediaen.m.wikipedia.org

I've been there, on my John Adams pilgrimage.

At last!!

Fake Massachusetts Townswww.mcsweeneys.net Lameham Methol Shamesbury Blight Falls West Lameham Mansocket Whitefolk Leominsterlingburghamshireton Scroughton Unstable (/unst’-a-bull/) Hamham B...

came here for this. all-time classic

"we are live from hambutt-on-tinklesmith where tory member of parliament sir ambrose panblemth has lost by six votes, the first time a tory won't represent this seat since the gunpowder plot"

Don't we have one of these near Boston

Birthplace of The Prodigy!

Best thing out of Braintree apart from the A120 and the train.

Its MP is called James Cleverly lol.

Place-upon-holder

It's in Essex. And it's real. Dunno why.

I lived in Essex for four years. Don’t know why that’s real either.

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I've been there! They have a Barbour outlet store!

New tongue twister: “Bill got a brain at the Braintree Barbour”

“Bill bought a brain by the Braintree Barbour” is better.

"Billy bilked, but bought a Braintree bargain Barbour."

I think it's named after Quincy, Mass.

Something to do with the river iirc Think it was origianlly Brantry to something

Guy trying to come up with a name for "head"

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