I find Herefordshire, Gloucestershire and Staffordshire even worse than Shropshire for potholes. When we went to Wiltshire there were literal craters across the road! Made me really appreciate our shropshire roads.
Beefy Boys?
I will probably be lynched by my neighbours for this but... I think, personally, it is a bit overrated, which is just my opinion, my personal thoughts, that is what I feel. A nice treat every once in a while.
Again, all just my opinion and not necessarily factual.
I was actually sold such a device by a young lady. Told me she was bored of pop music and wanted to branch out, Ms. Ora I think she was.
She called it Rita’s heaters for metres of litres
They're the same thing - a litre is just 1/1000th of a cubic metre. They're both just measured of capacity.
CM³ and mL also mean exactly the same thing.
Potholes per square foot for Bucks?
I used to live on the same road as the lady who was responsible for organising pothole repair. Can't remember if it was just Aylesbury Vale or Bucks CC she did it for. But there was a reason the road had block paving instead of tarmac...
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I find the flatness of the fens to be genuinely a little unsettling, with the horizon the same in every direction. And I say that as someone from Suffolk.
I did part of the fife coastal path last year and I couldn't get over how grim methill and buckhaven were. The people we spoke to were lovely but yikes, the deprivation was palpable.
Warwickshire: bards that have pissed off countless generations of school children with their plays. (Cannot think of 1 other thing about Warks. For a small county it has a lot of miles of motorways, but I doubt it’s the most).
Damn you beat me to it!
I'll throw out another one - Surrey is also the county with (by far) the largest annual contribution to the national exchequer - around £40 billion last year iirc.
West Midlands.
Erm. Maybe distance from coast?
Economic downturn following policy in the 70/80's.
Aha I've got it!
Horses kept in the garden of a 3 bed semi. Definitely win that.
Wiltshire - so I'll go "Cathedrals worth an international day trip from Russia"
Standing stones: 90
Lardy bread!
Yorkshire. Puddings: 100
Puddings is massive!
Steve Redditswell
Herefordshire: **Cows - 97** Fields - 90 SAS - 95 Ale & Cider - 90 Other stuff - 2
That's just Shropshire with special forces.
Shropshire - Potholes 99
I find Herefordshire, Gloucestershire and Staffordshire even worse than Shropshire for potholes. When we went to Wiltshire there were literal craters across the road! Made me really appreciate our shropshire roads.
What colour is the boathouse at Hereford?
You're talking about an ambush? I just ambushed you with a cup of coffee
Cows
How the fuck should I know?
I think there's probably a few more than 97 cows
That burger place is surely 100.
Beefy Boys? I will probably be lynched by my neighbours for this but... I think, personally, it is a bit overrated, which is just my opinion, my personal thoughts, that is what I feel. A nice treat every once in a while. Again, all just my opinion and not necessarily factual.
West Sussex - cubic meters of effluent in sea
Damn, you know it's bad when the card lists it in solid form (metres) rather than fluid (litres).
metres of litres
If it was cold effluent you’d need heaters for metres of litres…
I was actually sold such a device by a young lady. Told me she was bored of pop music and wanted to branch out, Ms. Ora I think she was. She called it Rita’s heaters for metres of litres
They're the same thing - a litre is just 1/1000th of a cubic metre. They're both just measured of capacity. CM³ and mL also mean exactly the same thing.
Is this how it feels to get heckled when you attempt a joke at a convention of engineers?
Cute how you think engineers will be extroverted enough to heckle
Devon. Separate coastlines: 2
I think we have the most miles of roads as well, don't we?
I did not know that!
I might have made it up
It’s on the Internet now. So it’s a fact
Devon Live reported it as the most road per person in England.
It seems unlikely considering how few large cities there are which I would assume would have more miles of road than just long roads between towns
Correct way to have a cream tea.
**Lancashire**: Year of first motorway: 1958
Lancashire: in 2010, a Lancashire lad became the country’s first ever national Top Trumps champion, beating more than 100,000 other players
Think the first franchised kfc ever in the uk too in Preston haha.
Yep, weirdest fact growing up around here but genuinely true.
Middlesex: 100 on "uncertainty of appearing as a county in drop down lists"
You’d tie with Bristol on that one, but still a good one.
99% of the time it still lists Avon. Also, North Somerset.
We have this issue in Rutland too (probably because there's only 3 of us)
County Durham - Biffa bins per capita.
Other counties might compete on that though. I say we play 'Historical monkey hangings'
That's Hartlepool, and we disowned them about 50 years ago......
Alternatively: closed coal mines, or unemployment rate :(
Oxford, most houses with sharks sticking out of the roof.
Also most F1 teams per county. * Alpine, Enstone * Haas, Banbury * Williams, Grove
Also fastest shed
Number of Fingers on each hand.
Norfolk?
Yeah, and I'm normally defensive of my county but in this case I want to win Top Trumps XD
Pigs. We have almost the entire country's population of pigs.
How about cities excommunicated by the Pope. Definitely win with that one.
Now see THAT I'm proud of.
Motorways: 0 (lowest wins)
That's good, give me a high six to celebrate.
Gloucestershire- most people rolling down a hill after a cheese
I should have read down but I'm glad it was someone else's first thought too
I was just about to put Gloucestershire as well but just for the double Gloucester cheese rather than the Coopers hill cheese rolling.
Bedfordshire: Bedtime sayings
Brilliant comment, take the paupers award aka a red tick
Also Bedfordshire: Average innits per minute - 11.8
Cheshire so rich footballers or salt mines
Best Telescope?
Good call
Grins?
Cheese.
Essex - most white socks and fake tans
The geordies would run you close on that one
East Sussex: Number of French invasions
I'd have gone with Bonfire societies
Both are more entertaining than 'Sunny Days'. I believe Eastbourne holds the national average record.
I currently live in Worcestershire, so **Sauce: 99** I grew up in Buckinghamshire, and honestly, I don't think it would win any category.
Potholes per square foot for Bucks? I used to live on the same road as the lady who was responsible for organising pothole repair. Can't remember if it was just Aylesbury Vale or Bucks CC she did it for. But there was a reason the road had block paving instead of tarmac...
I was going to go with "Kent: sounds a bit like a rude word" but Bucks would give it a very close run.
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Nottinghamshire. Bow and arrow skills: 100
Sheriff Effectiveness: 14
Caves: 800 Number of castles blown up: At least 2
Surrey - pot holes per cubic meter
We’ve got Harry Potter though. And some of the Beatles. And a bunch of other things! Potholes mostly though, you’re right.
Bucks could definitely give you a run for your money.
Essex - Stilettos per capita.
Cambridgeshire, specifically the fens. So sharpest incline - 10 degrees And yes, I'm going for the low score!
I find the flatness of the fens to be genuinely a little unsettling, with the horizon the same in every direction. And I say that as someone from Suffolk.
It is not surprising that out-of-county'ers find it unsettling. The Fens, in their natural state, were completely flooded...
We'd win lowest score on rainfall too. Driest County in the UK...not that you'd believe it lately.
If we’re the driest I’d hate to see wet.
Cornwall: most second homes
Tourism: 99 Pasties: 100 Affordability: 5
Scones: Jam first
You might get some competiton from Wales there.
Bordering counties: 1 Picturesque Coastline: 100
West Midalnds.. battered chips
I'd like to learn more
Chips typically battered and use paprika and stuff like that making them orange. It’s a thing from the Black Country
Now I have learned more I would like to eat them all
Thought for sure West Midlands would be ‘canals (relative to Venice)’
Birthplaces of kings given the title "The Great"
A not insignificant amount of Wantage locals insist its just temporarily occupied Berkshire
For me it makes no difference. But interestingly enough the two counties had a combined county court for most of their history.
Suffolk - Containers handled in TEU, 3,850,000
Weirdest ‘Magic’ Multiroundabout
Wiltshire: Most Crop Circles.
Northumberland: Castles per capita
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Somerset: Cider Consumption | 95 Traffic Jams Caused by Tractors| 88 Crystals, incense and woo | 90 Cheese | 93 Festivals | 91 Accent Thickness | 89 Buses after 6pm | 1
Staffordshire - Size of largest Anglo-Saxon hoard
Spitfire designers: 1 Oatcakes: 100 Shite football teams: All
Miles of canal?
Worcestershire - Pronunciation Attempts 100
Somerset - average number of toes per person > 10
Bridgwater, alone, does most of the lifting on that one.
Heroin addicts per sq.m
Dundee or Glasgow?
Fife lol
I did part of the fife coastal path last year and I couldn't get over how grim methill and buckhaven were. The people we spoke to were lovely but yikes, the deprivation was palpable.
Warwickshire: bards that have pissed off countless generations of school children with their plays. (Cannot think of 1 other thing about Warks. For a small county it has a lot of miles of motorways, but I doubt it’s the most).
Teesside: Teenage pregnancy
Torbay used to be pretty darn high on the list
Lincolnshire - Number of Red Arrows per capita
Flatness - 96 Number of original copies of the Magna Carta - 1 Traffic problems in county city - 100
Or Sausages 100
Suicide spot with the best sea view. Or Craziest Bonfire Night Celebrations.
Most grammar schools
Most likely to be referred to as “the garden of England”
That too!
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Surrey?
Specifically Guildford.
Tyneside. We don’t need to wear anything more than a T-shirt regardless of weather
Durham - Greggs per capita
Tyne and Wear would like to have a word. Bonus points for having the first one as well.
Devon- number of non-continuous coastlines. Will beat every other English county.
London: Cost of living 100 (pounds per minute)
Northamptonshire: Lift towers - 90 Shoes - 96 Rugby Union - 100
Dead princesses -50
Surrey is England's most wooded county, with more than one-fifth of its land area covered by trees
Damn you beat me to it! I'll throw out another one - Surrey is also the county with (by far) the largest annual contribution to the national exchequer - around £40 billion last year iirc.
Northumberland is just behind you at 19.7%, but ours is mostly non-native
Devon: Pasties and Scones with Cream and Jam
Worcestershire. Sauce 100 Americans struggling to pronounce name 100
Hertfordshire: Best place to not stop.
Hey! I mean....OK fairs
Buckinghamshire Potholes per m²: 12
Suffolk: Roman treasure finds
Merseyside: European Cups (6)
Hampshire - Inequality: 80
Greater London. %ge of area inside M25.
Price of croissant
Population. Of rats.
Avocado toast consumption per capita.
Berkshire. British Prime Ministers schooled, 20. London is next best with 17.
**Royal** county of Berkshire Say no more fam.
Bristol: best bridge 🤣
Bristol: most ket use per capitta?
Literally my first thought
Only because we can't work out which county gets to claim the Humber Bridge.
Trustafarians - 95 Extinction Rebellion - 88 Cider - 92 Graffiti - 77 Ketamine - 100 Affordability - 12 London Wankers - 67 Police Effectiveness - 5 Sporting Achievements - 3 Statues - 0
Sorry, do we have a bridge?
Most number of balloons?
Surrey. Bankers: 95
B should be a W
Shropshire, oldest people ler capita, most number of times being told we're in Wales, the best cider brand in the country
Number of sighs per minute when in a queue
Yorkshire: loving tha self
Rutland: %age area covered by water and highest council tax.
Carmarthenshire: ... shit, we're so boring that I can't actually think of anything.
Middlesex Doesn’t exist anymore 88
Worcestershire: Sauce 100
Lincolnshire... Mountains & hills 0 Motorway 0 miles Former RAF bases 100
Devon. Rhoticity.
Missing from most Website form's drop down 'County' lists..
Cheese, hippies and music festivals
Commuters
Most married cousins: Norfolk
Norfolk - going with flatness or highest % of cousins married to each other
Derbyshire: Quality of County Youth Orchestra to GDP per capita ratio is off the charts
Bedfordshire: Clangers
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Herts. Number of previously alive Romans.
Carbombing
Cleveland: Crime
Scottish Highlands: Personal Space - 100 (8 persons per km2, for you fact checkers)
prolific mass murderer whilst under the guise of doing their job , 250+.
Kent - Boats - 1,000,000,000,000
Anglesey - Tractors on roads
Essex - Full of cunts
Milton Keynes, roundabouts 130+
Gloucestershire, And chasing cheese down hills is the skill
Devon probably also has the highest percentage of palm trees in the uk
West Midlands. Erm. Maybe distance from coast? Economic downturn following policy in the 70/80's. Aha I've got it! Horses kept in the garden of a 3 bed semi. Definitely win that.
Chicken shops. London. Smash it.
Somerset- Cider.
Devon category largest natural harbour in the UK
Yorkshire. Smallest gene pool.
Leicestershire: .....er......kings buried in carparks? Canal locks in a row?