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  • ScrubblesEnglish
    50•2 years ago

    Jay Foreman is a treasure, before my first trip to the UK I watched his videos and they were some of the most informative ones there. Both for learning how to read a tube map and also getting some of the history

  • Nougat
    28•2 years ago

    I will always never not fail to upvote Map Men.

    • MinusPi (she/they)English
      18•2 years ago

      I will always (never not) fail to upvote Map Men

      I will always fail to upvote Map Men

    • clb92English
      15•2 years ago

      I will always never not fail to upvote Map Men.

      You always fail to upvote them, you say?

  • elouboub
    12•2 years ago

    Aren’t we lucky to have the brits to make fun of for such things?

    • metaStatic
      17•2 years ago

      meanwhile in America: Let’s run this street down a cliff because a city needs to be a grid.

  • Synapse
    10•2 years ago

    I love the map men !

  • Ronno
    6•2 years ago

    This is also the case in The Netherlands. I live in a “city” with 15.000 residents, whilst there are “villages” with 100.000. Just because newer places(?) never got the ceremonial title of city.

  • blanketswithsmallpox
    -7•2 years ago

    Is the tldr that theyre old as fuck?

    Edit: the tl;dr is they’re specifically talking about Britainland only. tl;dr @ 2m54s

    Every BRITISH city on the official ‘City’ list was named by the King at some point.

    • @Rilichu
      37•2 years ago

      Tldr is that the official term “city” in the UK is pretty much entirely ceremonial.

      All it means is that the ruling monarch liked your town enough that they would give it city status by royal decree. That’s why “city status” seems so arbitrary because it’s entirely is.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•2 years ago

        Up until 1889, city status was granted on the basis of the existence of having an Anglican cathedral.

        It’s only been arbitrary since they tore up the rulebook and gave Birmingham city status.

    • @HonoraryMancunian
      5•2 years ago

      You should deffo give it a watch when you get the chance

      Imo the most consistently funny series on YouTube