some of you don't get it.. I'm an atheist so I don't believe in God But there are many who do and for them "God" exists, the notion plays a part in their lives. You can't deny Humberside exists in the broad sense
Is that a serious reply? Fine, santa exists in an even more realistic sense as you can see an entity that you'd describe as santa. FFS.
I don't even know what a metropolitan county is and I would guess not many others do either. The only county I recognise is Yorkshire (more importantly East Riding of Yorkshire) A geographic region could mean anything? It could be Northern England or South Wales. Most people down South don't even know where Hull is and I would bet a £ to a penny that a lot would have never heard of Humberside. People either side of the Humber estuary do not recognise Humberside. Lincs people do not want to be associated with Yorkies and most Yorkies do not want associated with the potato pickers.
If only Assem - hallowed be thy name - had seen this thread before embarking on the name change plan... he probably would never have bothered. Of course it IS Humberside but get this - if you don't like it just call it East Riding or East Yorkshire or ****hole-On-Sea, whatever lights your candle. Same as if someone ill-advisedly renames your club Hull Tigers - it doesn't really matter. Just keep singing 'City 'til I die'.
20 pages? This guy managed a book full. The maps of imaginary places./ "an illustrated voyage into history’s greatest imaginary places, with all their fanciful inhabitants and odd customs. A dynamic tour guide for the human imagination,.
why is using a term for an area making it homogenous? that's an absurd claim. i can refer to the southern hemisphere without anyone being so stupid as to think i believe the south pole is as hot as the tropics or the sahara desert is as wet as the indian ocean. i'm not taking a pride in being inaccurate. i told you i don't care and the reason i don't care is because it has frequently been referred to as the river humber. i used to know someone who leapt on every opportunity to point out to anyone at all that it wasn't a river it was an estuary and he just got boring. it's pedantry if someone relentlessly corrects everyone at every opportunity. how can you expect to be taken seriously when you want exact boundaries to a general area? where does northern england start? how many yards inland is the west coast? is that with the tide in or out? do people use the word humberside to mean the area around the humber? yes, they do. do people use the word humberside to mean the county i live in? yes they do, but they're wrong.
A few ostriches get twitchy about the word Humberside. 99.999% of us just move on, knowing where the region is and not getting our knickers in a twist. http://www.bridlingtonfreepress.co.uk/news/local/trevor-pearson-dies-1-1710135 His spirit liveth on.
Because the people trying to show it exists, can't seem to decide if it's a three inch strip of mudflat or some peculiar non-existant boundary stretching about 100 miles in each direction. What's the point of calling something by a name that has absolutely no meaning, even to the few oddballs that reckon to support it? How would it help anyone to do or find anything without having to refer to the proper names? You agree you keep getting it wrong, but continue to make the mistake, that's hardly my pedantry is it.
Bless you, trying to call on false attribution, when there's just you and a couple of others struggling to make your case. Anyway, this little man thing you've got about Yorkshire, and this hypocritical position with the name change you keep running away from...
I was born in Hull, East Yorkshire. I live in Hull, East Yorkshire. Just cause some dip**** decides we have to adopt a name change (for admin only) it does not change the area name.
Tickles me that they mention the plod and the radio name, as if it's some sort of 'proof'. They even mention the airport, but seem to ignore the next one being Robin Hood. That actually fits better with the jesus and santa logic.
that doesn't make the term meaningless. you didn't tell me where northern england starts or any of the others i mentioned and yet you didn't deny their existence. you are the one that thinks it has no meaning. as far as i'm concerned, it's a shorter way of saying "the area around the humber". i don't need to define the southern limits of northern england before using it and i don't need to define the boundaries of humberside. what others might do is of no concern to me. it's your pedantry if you keep pointing it out. if i continue to call it a river despite knowing it's technically not a river, it's not making a mistake. it's wilfully ignoring the obvious, like you've been doing for the entire thread.
So Hornsea? Side of the Humber? Pocklington? Side of the Humber? Scunthorpe? All can be moored up to directly from the Humber? Bloody big estuary. Maybe Atlantis is a better name? It's so much quicker just to use the proper, understood names for these places. Humberside had to be split north and south anyway, so after saying north humberside, you'd have to explain where that was using the traditional terms that you could have used more effectively in the first place.
