The Great UK Meet of 2009-NRM, York, UK -8th Aug 09

[Sacro]

if you were really bothered, you could enter precise addresses and compare.

By car, using google maps, I'm 32.1 miles away. I feel sooo much better now I know

36.6 miles here.

[welshdragon]

i could be awkward and come in from Knaresborough, which is....... 17.1 miles by car/bus, but i don't live there anymore

back to topic!

[jonty-comp]

According to my Google Maps, it's 71 miles by car... or 66 miles walking!

[Hyronymus]

According to my Google Maps, it's 71 miles by car... or 66 miles walking!

That's just silly! When did distance become dependant on ways of traveling.

[Sacro]

According to my Google Maps, it's 71 miles by car... or 66 miles walking!

That's just silly! When did distance become dependant on ways of traveling.

When they started putting in one way roads / pedestrianised areas / train lines / aircraft / boats.

[andel]

I'll be staying at a hotel in York - will that make me the closest?

[welshdragon]

I'll be staying at a hotel in York - will that make me the closest?

No - you still have to travel beforehand!

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[XeryusTC]

According to my Google Maps, it's 71 miles by car... or 66 miles walking!

That's just silly! When did distance become dependant on ways of traveling.

Because the distance is over the road, and not how the bird flies

[Ameecher]

126 miles. That's precisely why I won't be going. Also, by train it takes even longer!

Edit: It'd be shorter distance wise, by boat...

[orudge]

126 miles. That's precisely why I won't be going. Also, by train it takes even longer!

But 126 miles is nothing! I shall be driving 124 miles and back, and Born Acorn will be doing similar (indeed, exactly 126 miles according to my quick Google Maps estimate)! Be a man and drive, like us!

[Ameecher]

Well, as already stated I sha'n't be there. Not in the country that week.

[orudge]

Pfft. What country shall you be in? (You perhaps mentioned it in a previous post but it'd involve effort to check. )

[Ameecher]

France, on holiday.

[JamieLei]

That's no excuse!

I'm going to the meet en-route to my holiday (although I am flying to Singapore on the A380 in September )

[Ameecher]

That's no excuse!

I'm going to the meet en-route to my holiday

Last time I looked York was in the wrong direction to go to France...

[Born Acorn]

Take the scenic route! Besides, in the modern world of holidaying, France is just like York!

[Griff]

Take the scenic route! Besides, in the modern world of holidaying, France is just like York!

Although when you think about it, In York, inside the city walls you can legally shoot a Scottish man with an longbow whereas in France there are a lot of french people. So...France is nothing like York, in fact...it's worse!

[orudge]

Although when you think about it, In York, inside the city walls you can legally shoot a Scottish man with an longbow whereas in France there are a lot of french people. So...France is nothing like York, in fact...it's worse!

You may be able to "legally" shoot a Scotsman, but doesn't mean you can't legally then be tried for murder.

[Sacro]

Although when you think about it, In York, inside the city walls you can legally shoot a Scottish man with an longbow whereas in France there are a lot of french people. So...France is nothing like York, in fact...it's worse!

You may be able to "legally" shoot a Scotsman, but doesn't mean you can't legally then be tried for murder.

You can't be tried for a crime you didn't commit.

[JGR]

Although when you think about it, In York, inside the city walls you can legally shoot a Scottish man with an longbow whereas in France there are a lot of french people. So...France is nothing like York, in fact...it's worse!

You may be able to "legally" shoot a Scotsman, but doesn't mean you can't legally then be tried for murder.

You can't be tried for a crime you didn't commit.

Don't be so naïve...
The Thought Police makes unpersons out of proles who flagrantly oppose the Party with such thoughts...

(For the humour impaired, I am joking, sort of)