The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant.

[hellymedic]

St Evenage, St Anmore, St Ansted and St Reatham are  fine between consenting adults in private.

There is no place for them on supposedly 'informative' parts of tellybox broadcasting.

[Andrij]

I'd only ever heard of St Reatham and St Ockwell until this evening.

[jsabine]

In similar though uncanonised vein are Cla'am and BatTerSeeAh.

[Gattopardo]

I'd only ever heard of St Reatham and St Ockwell until this evening.

Me too.

[Gattopardo]

In similar though uncanonised vein are Cla'am and BatTerSeeAh.

South chelsea?

[ian]

It's actually Baalham. Where' the demon Baal fell after his titanic battle with St Reatham. St Reatham's Common is the scar of that battle. Everyone in south London knows this.

[Kim]

That'll be in one of Mr Rankin's pieces of historical research, no doubt.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Whereas the area of Bristol known to officialdom as St Anne's is often called Stan's.

[Basil]

I was once asked for directions in Brum for St. Henry  Square.   
Took me a while to twig that they meant Centenary Square.

[Kim]

I was once asked for directions in Brum for St. Henry  Square.

Round the corner from the Gastric Basin.

[hellymedic]

Is Gastric Basin the same as Mordor Central?

[Kim]

Is Gastric Basin the same as Mordor Central?

Gastric Basin

Mordor Central

[ElyDave]

It's actually Baalham. Where' the demon Baal fell after his titanic battle with St Reatham. St Reatham's Common is the scar of that battle. Everyone in south London knows this.

St Retham is in between Ely and Cambridge, maybe that was an alternate skirmish.

As for Wind'em (wymondham) and Cossy (Costessy)  - Norfolk has a lot to answer for.

[ian]

A lot of places that people think are real aren't. Like Mordon.

I convinced a French friend that Mitcham was pronounced My-sham and it was where all the really rich people in London lived and there was a big fence around it and they'd turned the common into their own wildlife refuge. She was pretty angry when she finally went to Mitcham, but to be honest, most people are.

[Basil]

Is Gastric Basin the same as Mordor Central?

No.

Gas Street Basin. 

Canal hub in Brum centre.

 

[ElyDave]

Is Gastric Basin the same as Mordor Central?

No.

Gas Street Basin. 

Canal hub in Brum centre.

 

So pretty similar in atmosphere, if not location?

[Canardly]

Woe betide you if you refer to certain Warwick castle persons as Beuchamp (as if France) when, of course, it is pronounced Beecham.

[Kim]

Is Gastric Basin the same as Mordor Central?

No.

Gas Street Basin. 

Canal hub in Brum centre.

 

So pretty similar in atmosphere, if not location?

More geese poo and alcoholic vomit, fewer PM10s.

[ElyDave]

sorry, I can only compare Kings Dross and Regents Canal

[hellymedic]

Woe betide you if you refer to certain Warwick castle persons as Beuchamp (as if France) when, of course, it is pronounced Beecham.

And 'Belvoir' is pronounced 'beaver'.
At least this is done consistently everywhere, unlike Gillingham, Kent and Gillingham, Dorset or Wymondham, Norfolk and Wymondham, Leicestershire......

[Mr Larrington]

Woe betide you if you refer to certain Warwick castle persons as Beuchamp (as if France) when, of course, it is pronounced Beecham.

I have a USAnian friend yclept "Warren Beauchamp".  "Is it 'BOW-CHOMP' or 'BEECHAM'?" asked someone.  Quoth he: "It's pronounced 'SHRIMP-BOAT'".

I think there have been a Several of times over the last fifteen years when he has regretted this.

[Guy]

Pity the poor souls who had to address the earls of Southampton, but had only seen their name written down

How was I to know Wriothesley is pronounced Risley?

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

I have split my left index finger nail down to the quick and it really hurts.

[Pedaldog.]

My personal tailors, Cotton Traders, have closed their Ambleside outlet. The search begins for a new purveyors of clothing in the multiple X sizes.

[ian]

In American measures I'm XS (could probably fit XXS, but I like to leave room to gestate a pie baby after lunch) so you must be really tiny.