I need a holiday

[Ithillian Turambar]

Westward Ho!

 

 

There's actually a town in England called that. It's the only town to have an exclamation mark as part of its name.

[Ithillian Turambar]

The only town in the UK.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westward_Ho!

 

There's some others with exclamation marks elsewhere in the world.

[NeverTame]

Westward Ho!

 

 

There's actually a town in England called that. It's the only town to have an exclamation mark as part of its name.

 

That's... random. o_O Kind of neat, though.

[Ithillian Turambar]

There's one called Beer too.

 

I stopped and had a beer there once.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer,_Devon

[Ithillian Turambar]

I know a lot of random stuff.

 

I'm pre Google era.

[NeverTame]

I only know about weird place names in Finland... like a town called Pöljä. Which translates to something like "dumbass". And there's a school there, called Pöljän Ala-aste, effectively Primary School of the Dumbass.

[Ithillian Turambar]

Which came first I wonder. The Town's name ... or its name being used to mean a dumbass?

 

maybe someone from there did something reeeeeeaaaaaallllyyy stupid once and everyone started saying people from there were all stupid and then it went viral and actually turned into a verb.

 

Like Verb

 

or Google

[Reyoru]

 

 

 

Hear hear.

 

Man I neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed a holiday.

Isn't your 17 week summer break coming up soon?

 

lol

 

 

17 week?! 

 

I get 4 weeks off. And it won't be off, I'm sitting an external licensing exam and writing papers...

 

No rest for the wicked.

 

Students lol.

 

 

 

 

Haha yes!

[NeverTame]

Which came first I wonder. The Town's name ... or its name being used to mean a dumbass?

 

maybe someone from there did something reeeeeeaaaaaallllyyy stupid once and everyone started saying people from there were all stupid and then it went viral and actually turned into a verb.

 

Like Verb

 

or Google

 

That's an extremely good question!

 

Hmm, the wikipedia article (only in Finnish m'fraid) tells me there's been human settlement in the area as far as 5000 years ago but nothing on the origins of the name of the current town.

[Ithillian Turambar]

 

 

 

 

Hear hear.

 

Man I neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed a holiday.

Isn't your 17 week summer break coming up soon?

 

lol

 

 

17 week?! 

 

I get 4 weeks off. And it won't be off, I'm sitting an external licensing exam and writing papers...

 

No rest for the wicked.

 

Students lol.

 

 

 

 

Haha yes!

 

But you is student, hence skint. So I'd have to pay and probably also get you a MacDonald's because you've only been eating 7p noodles all week.

 

 

My Dad used to do that lol

[Reyoru]

 

But you is student, hence skint. So I'd have to pay and probably also get you a MacDonald's because you've only been eating 7p noodles all week.

 

 

My Dad used to do that lol

 

 

 

Can't get them for 7p now. 20p more like it.

[Ithillian Turambar]

20p?

 

Even for the plain white wrapper ones?

 

oh my.

[Reyoru]

Think there might be some knocking about at 12p. Possibly.

[Reyoru]

http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=255630848

 

20p at Tesco.

[Ithillian Turambar]

You're right though.

 

Tesco Everyday noodles are 20p a pack.

 

AND you have to get loans out to even go to Uni.

 

How did my holiday thread get turned into your student life thread?

[Ithillian Turambar]

Let us mourn the loss of the 7p noodle

 

:sombre:

[Reyoru]

You're right though.

 

Tesco Everyday noodles are 20p a pack.

 

AND you have to get loans out to even go to Uni.

 

How did my holiday thread get turned into your student life thread?

 

You started it!

 

:solemn noodle silence:

[Turin Turambar]

alas, the 7p noodle will be missed...

 

*silence *

 

 

 

Holidays are nice. 

 

 

Disney is pretty fun but now that it is nearly summer it will be stupid crowded.

[csarmi]

Got a summer house a few miles from Lake Balaton.

[Hayl3y]

*grins*

[csarmi]

Pretty sure I can house a couple of shadowies there.

[csarmi]

Even shadowspawn.

[Hayl3y]

Shadowies usually travel with Shadowspawn indeed

[Turin Turambar]

how do they get through the gateways?

[Hayl3y]

oh, i was speaking about "Shadowspawn" not "shadowspawn" lol

 

 

the ones that need a lot of luggage, babycarriages, ...