Comments on: Wipe England Wales off the map

By: Geoff

Geoff — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 02:55:29 +0000

# justcorbly

addenum: …but be sure to drive on the left and really try to avoid gatwick… otherwise, very good advice.

By: Lugosi

Lugosi — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:38:34 +0000

They got one of those simulators for Louisiana?

By: themadlolscientist

themadlolscientist — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:04:50 +0000

You gotta be really careful about dropping big rocks on Wales, to avoid the endangered species.

By: reCoil

reCoil — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:11:02 +0000

@ Alice: you mean like ‘War Games’ with Broderick?

By: ARP1234

ARP1234 — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:01:55 +0000

We plan on making the UK the 51st State anyway, so
don’t worry about all your outdated territories.

By: justcorbly

justcorbly — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:45:36 +0000

To make up for confusing Wales and England, you need to go to Wales. Great place, great people, fine pubs, place names that look like they’re unpronounceable. Fly to Heathrow, rent a car, drive west on the M4 and you’re there in time for your next meal.

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:18:32 +0000

I live in Wales. It is nicer than England.

By: pnakotus

pnakotus — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:09:58 +0000

Yeah, I wanna see what happens to the earth if an asteroid the size of texas lands ON TEXAS!

By: StevoR

StevoR — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:47:36 +0000

Why England / Wales?

There are plenty of other nations that should be wiped off the map …

Dare I say Israel? (Wicked red with horns!)

(Of course, the fact is by rights Israel should never have been on the map to begin with – but that’s another whole other debate not for here … )

… Or the good ole US of A? (Now that’d please a large section of the planets population! )

Note to the humour-challenged : Don’t worry I am joking!

Seriously though, they should set it up so you can choose to vapourise anywhere on Earth … or sea. I offer that suggestion for their improved model.

By: andy

andy — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:52:54 +0000

I just took out Portishead!

…and they’d just released their third album after god knows how many decades too…

By: website design

website design — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:20:27 +0000

What a great idea, science teachers should take notice. Science class would have been a lot more fun if we had something like this we could play around with!

By: Cusp

Cusp — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:21:50 +0000

I know it’s been said – but come on – that is not England – it’s Wales. There is a BIG difference. Come on Phil – Fix it.

By: Gareth

Gareth — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:41:21 +0000

And you can see by some of the comments here why the Welsh and English don’t really get on with each other…

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By: madge

madge — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:44:45 +0000

Do ALL Americans suck at geography?

http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=14866

By: Jack

Jack — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:35:29 +0000

Wow, Phil… do we need to re-name your site “Bad Geography”?!

Othi wrth y Cymro-Americanwyr.

By: Alice

Alice — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:17:05 +0000

Okay Phil – You’re never going to get this far down in the comments, but just in case you do, or in case someone else read through that entire “Wales isn’t in England” flame-fest hoping for something interesting and substantial – here’s my thought, and a nod to a different realm of Geekdom:

Does anyone else worry that this might be like playing Global Thermonuclear War?

… waiting to see who gets it first …

By: Starviking

Starviking — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 04:25:23 +0000

>Since when has the Republic of Ireland been part of the United
>Kingdom..methinks some irate Northern Ireland peeps who wear orange
>and march ‘n stuff may beg to differ! (dont let the good friday
>agreement fool ya!).

I don’t wear orange and march, but…ARRRRGHHHHHH!!!!!

We now resume usual programming…

By: ARP1234

ARP1234 — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 04:04:05 +0000

Think the English will still keep their upper lips stiff as the
giant fireball comes barreling down on their heads?

By: charlie

charlie — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:36:20 +0000

No magical thinking! The doctor can’t save you. Wake up and look at the universe

By: DustPuppyOI

DustPuppyOI — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:08:29 +0000

For a variation, there's Nuke the Hamptons.

By: Chester M.

Chester M. — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 02:30:56 +0000

I wonder if I could use the second one to do calculations about the Giant Impact hypothesis. You know, where early in the earth’s life some giant asteroid or planet crashed into the earth and knocked out a big chunk of it which became the moon.

Or maybe I just want to drop the moon on something. Like in that one Zelda game.

By: Steve Bloom

Steve Bloom — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:15:07 +0000

Obviously it’s another Plantagenet trick. People like that don’t let something like a half-millennium of dynastic extinction get in ther way.

By: Utakata

Utakata — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:59:38 +0000

BA wrote in part:

“In general, the answer is: very dead.”

No, they’re just sleeping.