A map of England, according to Google autocomplete
London is awful, Surrey is ghetto but, would you believe it, Bristol is not trash
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In news that in-no-way-whatsoever risks fanning the flames of a post-Brexit Civil War among little Englanders, a brilliantly amusing map has been posted to Reddit, describing all of England’s counties as per Google’s autocomplete function.
Its findings – generated by typing ‘[County] is’ and observing the most popular result – are hilarious, but also rather enlightening; a quasi-social experiment into the cultural stereotypes surrounding certain areas.
Oh, and it also reveals just how dense certain web users are, considering the most popular search term for Somerset – a county – is: ‘Somerset is in what county’.
The full facepalm-yet-funny list is below. Brace yourselves, Gloucestershire citizens.
Cornwall is: boring
Devon is: the best place to live
Somerset is: in what county
Dorset is: beautiful
The Isle of Wight is: dog friendly
Wiltshire is: near London
Bristol is: not trash
Hampshire is: on a hose pipe ban
West Sussex is: where
East Sussex is: in England
Kent is: a city
London is: awful
Surrey is: ghetto
Berkshire is: undervalued
Gloucestershire is: a dump
Oxfordshire is: overrated
Buckinghamshire is: posh
Hertfordshire is: posh
Essex is: crap
Suffolk is: the best place to live
Cambridgeshire is: better than Oxford
Norfolk is: holidays
Bedford is: boring
Herefordshire is: in Wales
Worcestershire is: flooded
Warwickshire is: in what country
Northamptonshire is: my school closed
Rutland is: small
Leicestershire is: famous for
Birmingham is: a dump
Shropshire is: Welsh
Staffordshire is: where
Cheshire is: posh
Derbyshire is: crap
Nottinghamshire is: better than Derbyshire
Lincolnshire is: boring
Cheshire is: posh
Merseyside is: the best
Manchester is: better than London
South Yorkshire is: in what county
East Riding of Yorkshire is: the best
West Yorkshire is: crap
Lancashire is: better than Yorkshire
Yorkshire is: better than Lancashire
Cumbria is: boring
County Durham is: ghetto
Tyne & Wear is: it a county
Northumberland is: missing
(Pic: iStock)
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