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at work yesterday my boss said " why would i get a ferry to holland i want to go to amsterdam?"

i then went on to ask a few other people 8 in total and only 1 a 10 year old named the country which amsterdam is in!!!!

i had it's in europe ( well emm yeah) but most i don't know.

then i was speaking to an F1 fan....:bang: about Modena which i was informed is in mote carlo (sp it is early).

is it me or am i just unlucky?????
 
A few ways to look at it, but my angle is similar to Einstein's who suggested filling your head up with unnecessary facts was a waste of computing space.
 
geographically challenged?

Amsterdam is the capital of Denmark!

Monte Carlo is in Uruguay.

Next?
 
Holland isn't the country - it's a province :p

The Netherlands is the country ;)
 
Don't knock it, being around thick people makes you look good :D
 
Interesting - I have three kids all of whom have numerous GCSEs and have been to college etc. but all three of them struggle with Geography. Well countries and cities to be specific.

Must be the way they are taught these days:shake:

Either that or they use Google Earth and a satnav:bang:
 
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When I was a kid I heard my older brother asking our dad if he could take me with him to Holland. I thought I'd have to pack a case. Didn't know about Holland, Lincolnshire ;)
 
fabs said:
Actually, The Netherlands is also known as Holland so it IS a country. It's made up of 12 provinces but none of them are called Holland.
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There are two provinces one called Noord (North) Holland with Haarlem as its capital, one Zuid (South) Holland with Den Haag as its capital both on the western seaboard of The Netherlands. The use of Holland to refer to the whole of The Netherlands is unofficial, though common, and is hated by people from the eastern provinces.

It's a bit like calling Britain England innit ;)
 
I once asked the husband of the childminder of my son what was the best way to get to a village just outside the town where I live (I'd only moved there a couple of months before), He said he didn't know, he'd never been outside the town! He was well into his thirties and had lived there all his life.

If you REALLY want to meet geographically challenged people, Go to Stoke on Trent. Going outside the city is like emigrating to them :wave:
 
ok ok can we just see i was being light hearted my boss even said she is a daft brush.. but only one person has picked up on the second part of my OP

oh well no doubt i will have another tit bit for next week
 
Islander said:
There are two provinces one called Noord (North) Holland with Haarlem as its capital, one Zuid (South) Holland with Den Haag as its capital both on the western seaboard of The Netherlands. The use of Holland to refer to the whole of The Netherlands is unofficial, though common, and is hated by people from the eastern provinces.

It's a bit like calling Britain England innit ;)
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But it still refers to the country and isn't a province. :shrug:
 
gumbo-67 said:
ok ok can we just see i was being light hearted my boss even said she is a daft brush.. but only one person has picked up on the second part of my OP

oh well no doubt i will have another tit bit for next week
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So you're the F1 fan then?:shake:
 
You probably won't be surprised if you ask people what is the capital of Australia and get most of the answers as Sydney.

And which country is Strasbourg in - France or Germany?

Then another - which countries constitute the UK, and which ones Great Britain.
 
i love Holland.

their pies are fantastic :lol:
 
Somelier said:
If you REALLY want to meet geographically challenged people, Go to Stoke on Trent. Going outside the city is like emigrating to them :wave:
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No, go to Banbury! Anyone with any sense has left, and those left behind are pretty much all related.
 
cyclamens said:
Interesting - I have three kids all of whom have numerous GCSEs and have been to college etc. but all three of them struggle with Geography. Well countries and cities to be specific.

Must be the way they are taught these days:shake:

Either that or they use Google Earth and a satnav:bang:
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Geography nowadays is all about water erosion, shifting plates causing earthquakes and that sort of thing. There's actually very little to do with geographical placement of countries etc.
 
TriggerHappy said:
Geography nowadays is all about water erosion, shifting plates causing earthquakes and that sort of thing. There's actually very little to do with geographical placement of countries etc.
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Yep, and in history lessons we're tought about the history of everything else but bloody Britain :cuckoo: never once did they mention Darwin, for instance. Edison, Graham Bell and other such characters were never mentioned, but were in sciences.

Oh, and speaking of Geography, who here knows what PANGEA was?
 
trencheel303 said:
Yep, and in history lessons we're tought about the history of everything else but bloody Britain :cuckoo: never once did they mention Darwin, for instance. Edison, Graham Bell and other such characters were never mentioned, but were in sciences.

Oh, and speaking of Geography, who here knows what PANGEA was?
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:thumbs:

I have a peice of paper somewhere that says I have a geography degree, so should know more than most.

Geography come from the latin "Geographia" meaning description of the earth.

It is about how the world around us was formed, and is split into Physical (ox bow lakes, mountains, volcanoes etc) and Human (peoples interaction with the world) Geography.

Knowing where places are, capital cities etc. whilst useful for pub quizzes is more general knowledge than syllabus geography now.
 
PANGEA was the placement of the countries before the continental shift which broke up the land into what we now know as the continents.( when all the countries were joined together) if I remember correctly, They taught proper Geography when I was at school. ( JESUS I am showing my age now).
 
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trencheel303 said:
Yep, and in history lessons we're tought about the history of everything else but bloody Britain :cuckoo: never once did they mention Darwin, for instance. Edison, Graham Bell and other such characters were never mentioned, but were in sciences.

Oh, and speaking of Geography, who here knows what PANGEA was?
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I do. It was a supercontinent that existed around 250Ma. That's geology more than geography :)
 
Whilst in the USA, (Lake Eire) some of the people I was working with asked if I could show them some of the currency from England as they had never seen any,
So I showed them some 5s, 10s and 20s and some coins.
One after looking at at all the money came asked me with a very puzzled look on here face and she was quite serious with her question,

Why has all your money got the Canadian Queen onit?:bonk:



Gaz
 
try living in cornwall, anywere further north than plymouth is just 'up the line' or 'up country'. occasionally someone will know if somewere is further than london or not!
i know a few people older than me (mid 30's) that have never ventured further than devon, and they are just happy they once left the county lol
 
photon said:
When I was a kid I heard my older brother asking our dad if he could take me with him to Holland. I thought I'd have to pack a case. Didn't know about Holland, Lincolnshire ;)
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it's new holland , lincolnshire

back in the 80's it must of been confusing if you were north as you ha to take a ferry to new holland and holland , especially if you were young lol
 
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wegotitugetit said:
it's new holland , lincolnshire

back in the 80's it must of been confusing if you were north as you ha to take a ferry to new holland and holland , especially if you were young lol
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There also Up Holland, which is in Wigan, and certainly not on many peoples holiday must do list.
 
cyclamens said:
Interesting - I have three kids all of whom have numerous GCSEs and have been to college etc. but all three of them struggle with Geography. Well countries and cities to be specific.

Must be the way they are taught these days:shake:

Either that or they use Google Earth and a satnav:bang:
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That's because Geography lessons aren't sitting in front of a globe memorising the location of every country and it's capital city Polly parrot fashion. Times have moved on since Victoria was on the throne, and Geography is a very wide subject essentially covering the physics of our planet and how our human actions shape it. Being able to pinpoint Cape town on a map hardly deserves a qualification does it?

I can't believe I just stuck up for education...:cuckoo:
 
i have 2 brats doing geography one (hopefully going to uni to study it) other brat collage.!!!!!!! blooming heck....
 
Alan Clogwyn said:
That's because Geography lessons aren't sitting in front of a globe memorising the location of every country and it's capital city Polly parrot fashion. Times have moved on since Victoria was on the throne, and Geography is a very wide subject essentially covering the physics of our planet and how our human actions shape it. Being able to pinpoint Cape town on a map hardly deserves a qualification does it?

I can't believe I just stuck up for education...:cuckoo:
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Are you saying I'm old? Victoria was a bit before me:razz:
 
shanlea said:
try living in cornwall, anywere further north than plymouth is just 'up the line' or 'up country'. occasionally someone will know if somewere is further than london or not!
i know a few people older than me (mid 30's) that have never ventured further than devon, and they are just happy they once left the county lol
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In fairness if you live in that part of the country - why would you want to go anywhere else?:cuckoo:
 
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