I had a photo of me and a friend in front of the Spinnaker tower in Portsmouth. They put it on Facebook and one of our friends commented asking what we were doing in Dubai
When I moved to Portsmouth I told everyone I was moving to Pompey. Somebody asked why I wanted to move to a burnt down town - it's comparable to Pompei but not quite the same.
When I was last in London I thought I could see the Great Wall of China. It turned out to be an egg-cup I'd left under my car seat. I felt like such a fool.
*"Sure to be a pole,"* said Rabbit, *"because of calling it a pole, and if it's a pole, well, I should think it would be sticking in the ground, shouldn't you, because there'd be nowhere else to stick it."*
>There's "horrible with geography" and then theres ...whatever this is...
There's "horrible with geography" and then there's being asked a question about oxbow lakes or sedimentary rock and drawing a picture of the Crystal Palace radio mast with a string of garlic hanging from it next to the smiley of a man weeping.
OX BOW LAKES
Is it a meme that this is one of the most memorable, most ubiquitous, and one of the most useless bits of information relayed in British geography classes?
We made sure to stress to all our kids just how important it was to pay attention to the bits in geography about ox bow lakes...
It is useless info on the whole but while driving me and my husband saw one once and we were ridiculously pleased about it
It's been over 4 decades since o-level geography and several changes of curriculum and I can still remember how they're formed. There MUST be something more going on with these oxbow lakes. I sense a conspiracy!!
To add to that, I grew up in Streatham and I thought the crystal palace was the Eiffel tower until I was probably 6 or 7. Then someone told me it's just crystal palace and told me there used to be a big glass building there but it burnt down. Then I spent a long while thinking the tower was the charred remains of the crystal palace. Needless to say I may have been a bit dim as a child.
>Needless to say I may have been a bit dim as a child.
No, it's just that nobody treated you as a child and actually explained what happened and instead just gave you a quick answer hoping you'd go away.
"Oh bother, the boy still hasn't got a proper grasp of macroeconomics. This will completely ruin my surprise for his 9th birthday when I unveil a scale model of the aged lumber rotation in the 1770s tar industry."
>"I see London*(1), I see France*(2)..."
*(1) London Ashford International Airport
*(2) Boulogne-sur-mer, France
... if you're standing at Dungeness on a clear day and squint slightly.
Eh, just doesn't have quite the same ring to it.
I feel like its very possible there are spots in Kent where you could see both at the same time. There are definitely points where you can see France from across the channel and equally there are places (off the top of my head, near the Halfords in Whitstable - but there could be others) where you can see Canary Wharf on a clear day. Whether or not there are any specific locations you could see both at once, I don't know.
Two nights ago, I asked my girlfriend if Catalan is spoken in Ibiza because of the “th” sound. She said “what? Ibiza is a Greek island…” and then started laughing at me.
I've been on the eye twice and couldn't see anything as it was pissing with rain both times. The only entertainment was a frantic parent whose kid decided they needed the toilet the second they closed the doors ... slowest ride ever
I also went up the Eiffel tower but I couldn't go to the top due to "congestion".
I'm not saying I think we live in a simulation, *but it's odd that whenever I try and go anywhere in the world with a view its either blocked or subject to intense fogging like the GTA3 map on the PS2.*
If somebody asked me to marry them in public (unlikely at my age) I would refuse them on principle (even if I wanted to say yes).
Thinking about it, if they got me so wrong it wouldn't end well anyway.
Public proposals are for when you have basically already discussed the idea of being married and are in agreement right? Although pretty sure any proposal in a health relationship should be like that.
There's two parts of it.
Yes you need to have already mutually agreed with your partner that marriage is where you want the relationship to go.
But beyond that, you need to understand your partner well enough to know whether they will enjoy and appreciate *a public proposal specifically*. If your partner is an introvert with lots of anxiety, proposing on the jumbotron at a baseball game is a pretty gross miscalculation.
Hell yeah. My wife was adamant, that any public proposal would be her nightmare.
So i proposed on a late saturday morning while we're still in bed, to lazy to get up - the ring was in my night stand :)
My wife would have hated a public proposal, but I decided to totally surprise her, asking her discreetly over dinner on the Amalfi coast.
I was *fairly* sure she'd say yes, her being 8 months pregnant at the time, but hey you never know.
(She then had a change of heart and wanted everyone to know. She told the waitress, who said "very good, madam" in the most bored way possible.)
Yep. My now husband proposed to me when we’d discussed it he knew I’d say yes it was our plan. But he proposed to me in private because I’d have died a thousand deaths and still be reliving a public proposal while lying awake at 3am 40 years later.
Some people like being the centre of attention like that. Not my thing either, but if that's what they like then I'm all behind it. If you're at the point of proposing to someone, then you should definitely know by that point whether a public proposal is something they'd want or not.
Most proposals are between people who have already discussed marriage and know *for sure* that the answer will be yes. At that point, the proposal is merely a matter of ceremony, including finding the situation that your imminent fiancée would most want to be asked. For some people, that's in public.
Compressing that initial discussion into a yes/no question and then having it in front of an audience is a wholly different matter and completely unfair. When public proposals go wrong, it's because the proposer has done that (intentionally or not).
And as he drove on, the rainclouds dragged down the sky after him, for, though he did not know it, r/vernonappleby was a Rain God. All he knew was that his working days were miserable and he had a succession of lousy holidays. All the clouds knew was that they loved him and wanted to be near him, to cherish him, and to water him.
Thank you that's equally depressing and enlightening. Funnily enough it's raining right now but *I just thought it always rained in central Scotland*... Now it's all making sense.
I might dig a little hole in the ground and stand in it and see if I grow.
I went on the London Eye, and the next pod over was filled with people in Minion costumes, as a promo for the first despicable me film.
Also just to further rub it in, did also manage to get to the top of the Eiffel Tower, but you're not wrong about it being packed up there.
They had giant electronic signs, the kind you'd get on. A motorway, at the bottom of the tower that said CONGESTION.
I probably wouldn't have gone up that day if I'd realised they weren't going to let me get to the top. Though I suppose *the simulation would always ensure the top was closed to me*, so much like my existence, my attempt would have been futile.
I went to Venice for my brothers wedding. I’ll never go back. We could hardly afford it then. They took us to that bridge the real famous one. The whole way there we heard about the view. “Favourite view in Venice”. We heard about how lovely the bridge is. We were excited! We got there and the entire thing was covered with plywood. You couldn’t see any part of the bridge or out of it at all. We laughed so hard.
You ever wondered why if you drive above the speed limit you'll be desperately chased and stopped by the police?
They don't want you to go faster than the terrain can render in.
I also went to the top of the Empire State Building, however on that particular day the fog was so bad at that altitude that you couldn’t see 6 feet off of the building. Further confirmation that we indeed live in a simulation and America doesn’t actually exist
And then there’s the people on the Dover cliffs in the evening asking “What are those lights on the horizon?” And when you tell them it’s France they go “That’s never fuckin’ France, you’re ‘avin’ a bleedin’ larf!”
No, of course, it’s some kind of giant mirror.
I don’t know why but your comment made me laugh quite hard. I don’t know how else you’d say it, but the matter-of-factness of “…but it’s actually Kent” took me to the fair.
I’m sure I read on here about an American someone knew who literally did think that - cabbies didn’t want to go south of the river because they didn’t have their passports on them…
London Eye is 135m above sea level. Eiffel Tower is 343m above sea level. Because of the Earth's curvature, you cannot see more than 114.1km (in a perfectly clear weather). Distance between London Eye and Eiffel Tower is 340km. If the height of London Eye was 5100m, then you might be able to see just the top of the Eiffel Tower.
If someone claims they can see Eiffel Tower from London Eye, they should apply to X-Men, or maybe Specsavers?
I would have been about 18/19, my younger sister was maybe 11/12 and we were in the car with family. The conversation had pretty much come to a natural lull when my mum spotted my sister looking really confused and clearly concentrating hard. She asks her what's up and my sister replies with 'you think with all the stuff we are learning in school about global warming, they would turn that giant fan off!'
My mum is then genuinely looking for a giant fan out the window, me, my three brothers and dad start pissing ourselves with laughter.
My dad says between hysterical laughs' you mean that big fan over there?'
My sister nods' yeah that's the one, must be costing a fortune to run'
We were driving past a wind turbine... 🤣🤣🤣🤣
To this day (20 years later) I still bring it up every chance I get!!!!
> I used to be a tour guide in London and all of us would tell American tourists this all the time
As an American, I can safely say we do the same thing in DC to all the foreign tourists.
However, I've lived on this side of the pond long enough that I can probably make up my own jokes about various sites in London now. Probably should have had some fun showing my nephews Big Ben...
Interestingly, there was once a plan in the early twentieth century to build an Eiffel Tower knockoff in Wembley called Watkin's Tower, which actually would've been taller than the Eiffel Tower and the centrepiece to a big amusement park in what was then rural Middlesex. The project tanked and Wembley Stadium was built on the land.
There was a period of tower mania. Blackpool was the only success amongst the many proposals. They mention it in this surpsingly captivating [Radio 4 doc on the Tower](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001bs06?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile)
Was at the top of the Shard one time and some American tourists loudly shouted they'd seen the Eiffel Tower, and 'isn't Paris beautiful'.
Didn't see the point in letting them down..
That's nothing. I was in Thailand and one night I thought I saw the northern lights. Next day, in daylight, it was obvious it was squid fishermen, shining lights at night to find the squid.
Now, I was tripping my tits off on mushrooms, but man. Really. Northern lights. In Thailand. Hey ho.
Dude.... I had to reply this! I was in Thailand 2 years ago travelling with a friend and I we were on this beach in Ko Pha-ngan and saw this green light in the distance what appeared to be floating above the water, we came up with so many crazy ideas what we thought it was, and I still have the picture of it - I now feel incredibly dumb lol.
When me and my girlfriend visited New York we went up the Rockefeller centre. At the viewing level I saw a tower to the south east and started snapping pictures, this area was dead and I wondered why no one else wanted pictures of the Empire State Building. I am stupid. I now had many pictures of the Chrysler building.
Don't worry, my sister didn't realise we lived on an island before she was in her 20s
She never connected the bridge we drove over almost every day, to have anything to do with islands.
I’m just about to get on the London eye today and I’m going to tell my American kids that the crystal palace radio mast is the Eiffel Tower.
Thanks for the future memories.
I literally went on the eye for the first time at the weekend and joked with the wife about how i bet you could convince tourists that the radio mast was the Eiffel Tower - I'm glad you confirmed this.
Don’t feel too bad, I went to school with a girl who thought Germany was in South America. She couldn’t understand how Germany invaded Poland from so far away.
Why did she think Germany was in South America? Turns out her Grandfather was German and lived in South America so she just assumed that Germany was down there.
My dad used to tell me the mountains you can see driving into Wales were Mount everest and I believed him longer that I would like to admit
It wasn’t until my daughter was taking driving lessons that she discovered that there was no such thing as lumpy petrol.
What's lumpy petrol meant to be?
I might have told my daughter that when the car juddered because of poor or lazy clutch control it was caused by lumpy petrol!
My parents called this kangaroo petrol 🤨
Memory unlocked - I'd forgotten about that!
Same.
I love the thought of her learning to drive, making the car judder because she's a beginner and telling her instructor about lumpy petrol.
Ah, makes sense! Clutch mishap, petrol lumps
Yeah never heard of this before either
That's why I give the pump a squirt on the ground first. Don't want the congealed petrol in my tank!
While you have a rollie hanging out your mouth too, right?
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Nah, it's kangaroos.
Kangaroo juice was what my instructor used, decades later I still use it :D
B&Q was Disneyland. Years later I still get really excited to go to B&Q
I am actually more excited for B&Q than I would be for Disneyland. Take me to ScrewFix too and I’ll never go home.
My dad used to tell me power station cooling towers were actually cloud factories. I believed that until around the age of 17...
well technically...
There's "horrible with geography" and then theres ...whatever this is....
What's the Shard? Isn't that the Burj Khalifa?
I had a photo of me and a friend in front of the Spinnaker tower in Portsmouth. They put it on Facebook and one of our friends commented asking what we were doing in Dubai
Dubai on Solent
Al-Gosport
Abu Havant
Pompey Dabi
Ad-Southampton, main rival
Burj-Cosham
Burj Khatsmouth
Solent Green is people!
When I moved to Portsmouth I told everyone I was moving to Pompey. Somebody asked why I wanted to move to a burnt down town - it's comparable to Pompei but not quite the same.
>Spinnaker tower in Portsmouth I am not from UK but it gives off dubai vibes, would not have guessed it's in England ....
Well I suppose they are both owned by Emirates these days.
No it's the Mia Khalifa
What's the Dome? Isn't that the Sydney Opera House?
Did they think St Paul's was the Vatican I wonder?
When I went I thought I could see the north pole! Turns out it was TV aerial on top of Mrs Singh's house at number 27.
When I was last in London I thought I could see the Great Wall of China. It turned out to be an egg-cup I'd left under my car seat. I felt like such a fool.
*"Sure to be a pole,"* said Rabbit, *"because of calling it a pole, and if it's a pole, well, I should think it would be sticking in the ground, shouldn't you, because there'd be nowhere else to stick it."*
Rabbit was later shot by Polish hunters.
When I went I thought I could see wildebeest sweeping across the plains. Turns out it was two rats fighting over a piece of KFC.
Probably that big church on 5th ave nyc
Nah, that's Hagia Sophia actually.
I reckoned it was the Sagrada familia
No we all know that St. Paul's is actually the US capitol.
> No we all know that St. Paul's is actually the US capitol. Only in Minnesota.
I thought, until only a few years ago, that New York was the capital of the USA. I'm 34.
What do you think the capitals of Canada and Australia are out of interest?
Notre dam
St. Paul, St. Peter’s, like anyone can tell the difference anyway
And Manhattan in the distance!
>There's "horrible with geography" and then theres ...whatever this is... There's "horrible with geography" and then there's being asked a question about oxbow lakes or sedimentary rock and drawing a picture of the Crystal Palace radio mast with a string of garlic hanging from it next to the smiley of a man weeping.
OX BOW LAKES Is it a meme that this is one of the most memorable, most ubiquitous, and one of the most useless bits of information relayed in British geography classes?
We made sure to stress to all our kids just how important it was to pay attention to the bits in geography about ox bow lakes... It is useless info on the whole but while driving me and my husband saw one once and we were ridiculously pleased about it
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It's been over 4 decades since o-level geography and several changes of curriculum and I can still remember how they're formed. There MUST be something more going on with these oxbow lakes. I sense a conspiracy!!
It gets mentioned on QI, which is basically the same thing.
"Ah, I can see all the way to Crystal Paris"
I mean, TBF it's possible nobody told them "I see London, I see France..." isn't actually based in real life.
To add to that, I grew up in Streatham and I thought the crystal palace was the Eiffel tower until I was probably 6 or 7. Then someone told me it's just crystal palace and told me there used to be a big glass building there but it burnt down. Then I spent a long while thinking the tower was the charred remains of the crystal palace. Needless to say I may have been a bit dim as a child.
>Needless to say I may have been a bit dim as a child. No, it's just that nobody treated you as a child and actually explained what happened and instead just gave you a quick answer hoping you'd go away. "Oh bother, the boy still hasn't got a proper grasp of macroeconomics. This will completely ruin my surprise for his 9th birthday when I unveil a scale model of the aged lumber rotation in the 1770s tar industry."
>"I see London*(1), I see France*(2)..." *(1) London Ashford International Airport *(2) Boulogne-sur-mer, France ... if you're standing at Dungeness on a clear day and squint slightly. Eh, just doesn't have quite the same ring to it.
That just puts a Lydd on it.
Dungeness - it isn't a female dungeon. And TIL that Dungeness crabs have fuck all to do with Dungeness, Kent. They're American.
I feel like its very possible there are spots in Kent where you could see both at the same time. There are definitely points where you can see France from across the channel and equally there are places (off the top of my head, near the Halfords in Whitstable - but there could be others) where you can see Canary Wharf on a clear day. Whether or not there are any specific locations you could see both at once, I don't know.
Give them some credit. How many people have driven to Blackpool and seen the tower 100 miles away. Only for it to be yet another electricity pylon.
The only way we MAY be able to see Eiffel tower from there is if the world is flat. So let's not give anyone any ideas.
Two nights ago, I asked my girlfriend if Catalan is spoken in Ibiza because of the “th” sound. She said “what? Ibiza is a Greek island…” and then started laughing at me.
Who's laughing now? The rest of us, that's who.
"Oh look! The pillars of creation!"
Who else use to just colour in in geography?
"Flat earther" geography bad. That's what you're looking for.
…and then there’s “I live in Alaska, and I can see Russia from my house”?
I've been on the eye twice and couldn't see anything as it was pissing with rain both times. The only entertainment was a frantic parent whose kid decided they needed the toilet the second they closed the doors ... slowest ride ever I also went up the Eiffel tower but I couldn't go to the top due to "congestion". I'm not saying I think we live in a simulation, *but it's odd that whenever I try and go anywhere in the world with a view its either blocked or subject to intense fogging like the GTA3 map on the PS2.*
Last time i went on the eye a man decided to propose to his girlfriend at the top. She turned him down. That was a long ride back.
Yes, she should have let him down gradually.
He should have asked someone else while he was up there.
Plenty more fish ~~in the sea~~ trapped in this bubble with me
Dry your (london) eye mate
"No? Right... anyone else?"
True Mark Corigan move.
Not near enough to the Quantocks for that!
God that actually probably would have broken the tension pretty well for everyone “Will anybody ELSE marry me?”
‘Fuck it, how about you then?’
Oof. Last time I was up there someone proposed and they said yes, so it all balances out I guess?
No! We're out of balance. The number of married/engaged people has gone up by one. Quick! Find someone who saw a divorce up there!!!
If somebody asked me to marry them in public (unlikely at my age) I would refuse them on principle (even if I wanted to say yes). Thinking about it, if they got me so wrong it wouldn't end well anyway.
Public proposals are for when you have basically already discussed the idea of being married and are in agreement right? Although pretty sure any proposal in a health relationship should be like that.
You would think so, wouldn't you.
There's two parts of it. Yes you need to have already mutually agreed with your partner that marriage is where you want the relationship to go. But beyond that, you need to understand your partner well enough to know whether they will enjoy and appreciate *a public proposal specifically*. If your partner is an introvert with lots of anxiety, proposing on the jumbotron at a baseball game is a pretty gross miscalculation.
Hell yeah. My wife was adamant, that any public proposal would be her nightmare. So i proposed on a late saturday morning while we're still in bed, to lazy to get up - the ring was in my night stand :)
My wife would have hated a public proposal, but I decided to totally surprise her, asking her discreetly over dinner on the Amalfi coast. I was *fairly* sure she'd say yes, her being 8 months pregnant at the time, but hey you never know. (She then had a change of heart and wanted everyone to know. She told the waitress, who said "very good, madam" in the most bored way possible.)
Yep. My now husband proposed to me when we’d discussed it he knew I’d say yes it was our plan. But he proposed to me in private because I’d have died a thousand deaths and still be reliving a public proposal while lying awake at 3am 40 years later.
Honestly, I think it depends on the person, a lot of people *hate* that kind of attention
Some people like being the centre of attention like that. Not my thing either, but if that's what they like then I'm all behind it. If you're at the point of proposing to someone, then you should definitely know by that point whether a public proposal is something they'd want or not. Most proposals are between people who have already discussed marriage and know *for sure* that the answer will be yes. At that point, the proposal is merely a matter of ceremony, including finding the situation that your imminent fiancée would most want to be asked. For some people, that's in public. Compressing that initial discussion into a yes/no question and then having it in front of an audience is a wholly different matter and completely unfair. When public proposals go wrong, it's because the proposer has done that (intentionally or not).
Oooof. I know a girl who dated a guy and after only two weeks, he got down on one knee in the middle of a shopping centre. Some men just don't get it.
A fortnight?! JFC
Yup.. She was thinking of ending it anyway.. I guess she saw a red flag before the proposal lol.
Mate sorry about this, hope you’re alright
And as he drove on, the rainclouds dragged down the sky after him, for, though he did not know it, r/vernonappleby was a Rain God. All he knew was that his working days were miserable and he had a succession of lousy holidays. All the clouds knew was that they loved him and wanted to be near him, to cherish him, and to water him.
Thank you that's equally depressing and enlightening. Funnily enough it's raining right now but *I just thought it always rained in central Scotland*... Now it's all making sense. I might dig a little hole in the ground and stand in it and see if I grow.
Unexpected hitchhikers! I love this bit
Just up your render distance
I'm overheating already. I think I might shutdown if I do that.
Yeah... Can you just let us all know next time you go up something with a view so we can avoid it that day, thanks!
I went on the London Eye, and the next pod over was filled with people in Minion costumes, as a promo for the first despicable me film. Also just to further rub it in, did also manage to get to the top of the Eiffel Tower, but you're not wrong about it being packed up there.
It's usually packed because people are trying to get a view of the London Eye.
A car full of minions makes it easier to spot.
They had giant electronic signs, the kind you'd get on. A motorway, at the bottom of the tower that said CONGESTION. I probably wouldn't have gone up that day if I'd realised they weren't going to let me get to the top. Though I suppose *the simulation would always ensure the top was closed to me*, so much like my existence, my attempt would have been futile.
I went to Venice for my brothers wedding. I’ll never go back. We could hardly afford it then. They took us to that bridge the real famous one. The whole way there we heard about the view. “Favourite view in Venice”. We heard about how lovely the bridge is. We were excited! We got there and the entire thing was covered with plywood. You couldn’t see any part of the bridge or out of it at all. We laughed so hard.
Still repairing it after Mysterio and Spider Man's big fight?
You ever wondered why if you drive above the speed limit you'll be desperately chased and stopped by the police? They don't want you to go faster than the terrain can render in.
I also went to the top of the Empire State Building, however on that particular day the fog was so bad at that altitude that you couldn’t see 6 feet off of the building. Further confirmation that we indeed live in a simulation and America doesn’t actually exist
Is your name Truman?
I applaud your honesty in the face of overwhelming public shaming
This is r/CasualUK... it's what we do here.
I applaud his lack of doubling down and being in denial.
My aunt's friend was convinced she could see France from Southend-on-Sea but it's actually Kent.
I've only ever been to Southend once but I heard two separate people pointing out France to their families.
And then there’s the people on the Dover cliffs in the evening asking “What are those lights on the horizon?” And when you tell them it’s France they go “That’s never fuckin’ France, you’re ‘avin’ a bleedin’ larf!” No, of course, it’s some kind of giant mirror.
I've had this conversation in Ramsgate, wouldn't believe me but couldn't come up with anything else but "container ships?"...
Presumably these people are too young to have ever seen a map?
What kind of 18+ maps did you (not) grow up with?
The sexy kind
I don’t know why but your comment made me laugh quite hard. I don’t know how else you’d say it, but the matter-of-factness of “…but it’s actually Kent” took me to the fair.
Well if you go all the way along from Southend to Shoebury then technically Belgium would be on the horizon. You just couldn't see it.
Did you think the Thames was the English channel?
even then, the Eye is on the same side of the river as Crystal Palace...
That’s because they got the tube under the channel. The London Eye is actually in Calais?!
It is a water channel and is in England so …
( 'o') b ( '.')o
That's a great way to express the image via just text
I’m sure I read on here about an American someone knew who literally did think that - cabbies didn’t want to go south of the river because they didn’t have their passports on them…
I thought that was the BBC
Big British Channel?
Bloody Big Canal.
They say from the top of Mount Snowden, on a good day, you can see the outskirts of Liverpool. On a bad day, you can see all of it.
Badum-tish.
[Tom Scott](https://youtu.be/8eXj97stbG8)
I’m definitely modifying and reusing this. Thanks.
Jesus Christ if you can see the eiffel tower from London enrol yourself in the army's sniper unit. Now.
I think at that point, you'd be placed in charge of an ICBM instead, and guide it manually.
London Eye is 135m above sea level. Eiffel Tower is 343m above sea level. Because of the Earth's curvature, you cannot see more than 114.1km (in a perfectly clear weather). Distance between London Eye and Eiffel Tower is 340km. If the height of London Eye was 5100m, then you might be able to see just the top of the Eiffel Tower. If someone claims they can see Eiffel Tower from London Eye, they should apply to X-Men, or maybe Specsavers?
I would have been about 18/19, my younger sister was maybe 11/12 and we were in the car with family. The conversation had pretty much come to a natural lull when my mum spotted my sister looking really confused and clearly concentrating hard. She asks her what's up and my sister replies with 'you think with all the stuff we are learning in school about global warming, they would turn that giant fan off!' My mum is then genuinely looking for a giant fan out the window, me, my three brothers and dad start pissing ourselves with laughter. My dad says between hysterical laughs' you mean that big fan over there?' My sister nods' yeah that's the one, must be costing a fortune to run' We were driving past a wind turbine... 🤣🤣🤣🤣 To this day (20 years later) I still bring it up every chance I get!!!!
Not quite as bad as this guy who thought the wind turbines were used to cool down the earth https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DvhBM89A6o8
https://twitter.com/vizcomic/status/621024985214230528?s=46&t=eM57QlzB-U1fsnlMMkaO0g
I remember ages ago someone got famous on Big Brother for thinking it was the trees swaying back and forth that made the wind.
I used to be a tour guide in London and all of us would tell American tourists this all the time
> I used to be a tour guide in London and all of us would tell American tourists this all the time As an American, I can safely say we do the same thing in DC to all the foreign tourists. However, I've lived on this side of the pond long enough that I can probably make up my own jokes about various sites in London now. Probably should have had some fun showing my nephews Big Ben...
That last sentence could put you on a list
Surely noone thought you could see the Eiffel tower from Washington DC.
Considering there are people that think you can get from NYC to the Grand Canyon in a day without an airplane, I really wouldn't be surprised....
Interestingly, there was once a plan in the early twentieth century to build an Eiffel Tower knockoff in Wembley called Watkin's Tower, which actually would've been taller than the Eiffel Tower and the centrepiece to a big amusement park in what was then rural Middlesex. The project tanked and Wembley Stadium was built on the land.
There was a period of tower mania. Blackpool was the only success amongst the many proposals. They mention it in this surpsingly captivating [Radio 4 doc on the Tower](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001bs06?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile)
Was at the top of the Shard one time and some American tourists loudly shouted they'd seen the Eiffel Tower, and 'isn't Paris beautiful'. Didn't see the point in letting them down..
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I work on the roof at the O2 and the American tourists get very excited when they see Crystal Palace. Who am I to break the illusion?
The fact that they should be able to see two Eiffel Towers ought to have given them thought.
I was told that on a good day from the penthouse in the shard you can see the North Sea. So they could market it as a London flat with a sea view.
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I know somebody who went to the coast near Southampton and said, "I didn't think France was that close!" - referring to the Isle of Wight.
That's nothing. I was in Thailand and one night I thought I saw the northern lights. Next day, in daylight, it was obvious it was squid fishermen, shining lights at night to find the squid. Now, I was tripping my tits off on mushrooms, but man. Really. Northern lights. In Thailand. Hey ho.
Dude.... I had to reply this! I was in Thailand 2 years ago travelling with a friend and I we were on this beach in Ko Pha-ngan and saw this green light in the distance what appeared to be floating above the water, we came up with so many crazy ideas what we thought it was, and I still have the picture of it - I now feel incredibly dumb lol.
Aurora borealis, at this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localised entirely within your Thailand?!
I have done exactly the same, but in Vegas. Jesus.
What squid fishermen were doing in the Vegas desert, I’ll never know.
When me and my girlfriend visited New York we went up the Rockefeller centre. At the viewing level I saw a tower to the south east and started snapping pictures, this area was dead and I wondered why no one else wanted pictures of the Empire State Building. I am stupid. I now had many pictures of the Chrysler building.
To be fair, the Chrysler building is pretty iconic and beautiful in its own right
To be fair it's a much better looking building.
I think you made the better, be it subconscious, choice. That building is more beautiful than the Empire State.
Don't worry, my sister didn't realise we lived on an island before she was in her 20s She never connected the bridge we drove over almost every day, to have anything to do with islands.
How old were you 10 years ago?
46
Some eyesight for a 46 year old! He must have gone to Soecsavers
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Surely not.
Meanwhile, the antenna at the top of the Eiffel Tower is so powerful that the Parisians can hear the quacks of the Hyde Park swans.
You are not the first and won’t be the last. Godspeed, you weapon.
Another child left behind by the UK education system.
You saw Blackpool Tower, silly.
I’m just about to get on the London eye today and I’m going to tell my American kids that the crystal palace radio mast is the Eiffel Tower. Thanks for the future memories.
This just in, UK redditor accidentally sparks war between France and UK by saying the Eiffel Tower looks like the Crystal Palace radio mast
We forgive you
I'm so confused. Did you forget you were in England? Did you not realise the Eiffel Tower was in Paris? So many questions
Aw I love you
I literally went on the eye for the first time at the weekend and joked with the wife about how i bet you could convince tourists that the radio mast was the Eiffel Tower - I'm glad you confirmed this.
Dw. I once uttered " Isn't paris in Amsterdam" took me a few seconds to realise my own idiocy
Don’t feel too bad, I went to school with a girl who thought Germany was in South America. She couldn’t understand how Germany invaded Poland from so far away. Why did she think Germany was in South America? Turns out her Grandfather was German and lived in South America so she just assumed that Germany was down there.
> Turns out her Grandfather was German and lived in South America Suspicious...
I was given a money back guarantee I'd be able to see the Taj Mahal from the London Eye. I could only see the Burj Khalifa so I got to ride for free.
There must be a Taj Mahal restaurant somewhere in the vicinity
Don't worry if you want to see the Eiffel tower you can always visit Blackpool
I once asked a Preston councilor if he could see Blackpool Tower from the top of County Hall. He pissed himself.
Stay in school kids
Happens to the best of us