Imaginary places. (was motd 2)

Do people identify with Haltemprice and talk about the place on a daily basis?

Are there signposts to it?

No?

Well it doesn't exist then according to your own rules

 

Yeah, this discussion is getting way out of hand.

Some people find the documented facts unpalatable and as such feel the need to erase them out of the collective consciousness.

Shame really.

 

There was an interesting program about the ancient geographical region of the Middle Land which stretched from the Scottish lowlands down to the Humber, that was how it was geographically defined. The Humber was clearly seen as a large barrier helping to define a region and separating the Southern part of England.

 

What rules would these be?

 

Yep, I saw quite a bit of that. Wasn't it effectively arguing that the Romans invented the English and Scots?

The Humber being a barrier was one of the major failings with a humberside region.

 

And others seem to have an imaginary interpretation of imaginary facts about an imaginary region.

 

"Oh they exist. They have a history and sense of place."

See post 33 on this thread.

 

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So, Haltemprice has history and a sense of place, you've shown that Humberside doesn't have either.

 

Are there any roadsigns for it?

Have you ever met anyone from Haltemprice?

Thought not.

It doesn't exist then.

 

You started poorly and have slid downhill ever since.

 

You've used your anti Humberside obsession to deny the existence of Haltemprice using the same nonsensical reasoning.

 

That has to be one of the most feeble attempts at spin I've seen on here, and there's been some **** ones.

 

I'll take that as a 'No, you're right, there are no signs to Haltemprice'.

Which is the 'argument' you used to deny the existence of Humberside.

 

Why not just be honest and say 'I hated the Humberside local government idea foisted on us in the 70s' rather than embarking on this silly scorched earth crusade of denying 'Humberside' has ever existed?

It might make your life so much more stress-free.....

 

That's a worse spin than the other pile of ****e.

 

Who said it never existed?

 

Yes Scotland didn't exist as a region before Hadrian's wall, I was a bit puzzled why they built a wall so far down South. And for some periods after that it wasn't relevant either, at least until the Tudors.

 

Er...that would be you on post 18 on this thread.

Here, let me remind you:-

"It's not a question of liking or disliking, it simply doesn't exist. It's about history and culture."

 

Nope. You claimed I said it NEVER existed. That quote correctly states that it doesn't currently exist.