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Tell us a stereotype of where you live and we'll try and guess where it is

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H0TBUZZARD · 06/09/2024 19:50

I'll start

Condoms on the beach

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MelodyMalone · 06/09/2024 22:03

JudgeJ · 06/09/2024 22:03

Bolton

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Nearly

Perzival · 06/09/2024 22:03

Icouldbringmylittleghettoblaster · 06/09/2024 21:51

Who are they? 😃

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Exactly!

SockQueen · 06/09/2024 22:04

WiddlinDiddlin · 06/09/2024 22:01

Where I am from:

Our pudding and our market are famous (apparently).

Where I now live:

The sauce Americans can't pronounce.

The second is Worcestershire. Don't know the first!

ThomasPatrickKeatingsDegas · 06/09/2024 22:04

Faux Tudor suburbia and middle-class commuters.

UserNameOfShame · 06/09/2024 22:04

LittleTalkingMan · 06/09/2024 22:00

Ow what’s occurring!

Barry island

PrancerandDancer · 06/09/2024 22:04

HeddaGarbled · 06/09/2024 20:32

We’re either in-bred racists or second-home owners from London.

Cornwall 😂😂

JudgeJ · 06/09/2024 22:04

CitrineRaindropPhoenix · 06/09/2024 21:43

People walk the streets in white tie evening dress cuddling their teddy bears

Bear called Aloysius? Oxford?

TheMadGardener · 06/09/2024 22:05

Granite tors, a very old prison, sheep that like to stand in the middle of the road and a spectral Hound which Sherlock investigated...

JudgeJ · 06/09/2024 22:05

SockQueen · 06/09/2024 22:04

The second is Worcestershire. Don't know the first!

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Bury?

MelodyMalone · 06/09/2024 22:05

TheMadGardener · 06/09/2024 22:05

Granite tors, a very old prison, sheep that like to stand in the middle of the road and a spectral Hound which Sherlock investigated...

Dartmoor?

Perzival · 06/09/2024 22:05

MelodyMalone · 06/09/2024 22:03

Nearly

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Bury

Veronicasharmonica · 06/09/2024 22:05

Spenditlikebeckham · 06/09/2024 19:52

They once hanged a monkey here..

Hartlepool!

GrowAndGreen · 06/09/2024 22:06

Nomorecoconutboosts · 06/09/2024 21:45

People are often surprised we don’t have a ‘Brummie’ accent.
Those who have heard of my city tend to think of it as a bit ‘rough’
However in bygone days people were actually sent here!

Coventry

JudgeJ · 06/09/2024 22:06

MelodyMalone · 06/09/2024 22:03

Nearly

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Bury?

mpsw · 06/09/2024 22:07

CitrineRaindropPhoenix · 06/09/2024 21:43

People walk the streets in white tie evening dress cuddling their teddy bears

Oxford

iseewhatyoudidthere · 06/09/2024 22:08

Britains ocean city

Veronicasharmonica · 06/09/2024 22:08

ButterMyEar · 06/09/2024 20:10

We go out in toon without coats and get mortal after a Greggs sausage roll.

Hyem

ElizaMulvil · 06/09/2024 22:08

Likewhatever · 06/09/2024 20:30

Not me but close family - we have a very twisty steeple

Chesterfield

MrsMoastyToasty · 06/09/2024 22:08

As I live between 2 cities I will describe the other city as nobody has guessed my first.

We all live in grade2 listed Georgian town houses.
We like Jane Austen and Roman remains.

mpsw · 06/09/2024 22:09

Imisscoffee2021 · 06/09/2024 21:50

Girls go partying practically naked in midwinter

Anywhere on Tyneside

Singingseals · 06/09/2024 22:09

ThomasPatrickKeatingsDegas · 06/09/2024 22:04

Faux Tudor suburbia and middle-class commuters.

Surrey obvs

Pieceofpurplesky · 06/09/2024 22:09

@ShillyShallySherbet yep

Port1aCastis · 06/09/2024 22:09

MrsMoastyToasty · 06/09/2024 22:08

As I live between 2 cities I will describe the other city as nobody has guessed my first.

We all live in grade2 listed Georgian town houses.
We like Jane Austen and Roman remains.

Bath

PurplePi · 06/09/2024 22:10

So if you want cheese on your chips, medieval ships
See mattresses in skips, then comes take a trips

mpsw · 06/09/2024 22:11

ThomasPatrickKeatingsDegas · 06/09/2024 22:04

Faux Tudor suburbia and middle-class commuters.

Weybridge

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