Why British cities make no sense 

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If you think about it Surfshark is a brilliant answer: you can eat the shark and presumably it comes with a surfboard which can take you home.

Did you fully research Neil Buchanan before making that joke?

technically #94 has been done in the past.

i fucking love you mate

And suddenly Wales' GDP doubles

We should take [Reading] and push it somewhere else!

'Accidentally' drop it on the way, shattering it into a thousand pieces and losing nothing of value.

But then you’d have to change the spelling to “Rwding”

@@ThatGuyNicho causing millions of pounds worth of improvements

And don't forget travelling to the sign for St. Albans!

Clearly that's where the Surfshark VPN money went.

​@@youcanlearnalotfromlydiaand they also went all the way to the sign for St David's in Wales!

Quite a feast, too! ❤

Throw one of them on beans on toast

Every center where all the shops are at are called town, unless it's a village from my experience.

Toon.

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@@EdDueim Gannin duuuun the tuuuuuuun

That makes sense. In the US, the city center is usually referred to as "downtown".

Totally agree with this. And I know they are more experienced now than at the start, but I do have an urge to go back and watch all the other episodes. But with much more generous use of the pause button to pick up all the cleverly put-together jokes that flash by too fast to read normally. The dictionary, future cities and especially the list of what else Parliament has to do in this episode are just hilarious

@@Varksterable stopping to read all of them (getting burned by the one that said "you have time to write that email"), I half expected an Achievement Unlocked notification! (also, Neil Buchanan should alsolutely be given a knighthood)

It's been months and I just found the 'Beef Jerky' entry.

I have the mosquito thing 1st, but yah, consistent clothes sizes is top 5.

Also Ban Twitter and Ban the number 71 at number 70. The attention to detail for such a small bit 😂😂

Invading Canada has me irrationally worried.

​@antonioarroyas7662 at least they'll apologize right after😊

​@@f.eugenedunnamiii9452the mosquito thing? Isn't that a bit far-fetched?

Who knew they had the same sign too

@@b3yourself91 Budget cuts. It's easier for the government to reuse the signs.

Your wrong. It was the same sign, but they scraped off the word "Alban's" and welded on some metal letters reading "David's" so the signs said "st. David's" Clever!

@@EggPotionFilms damn really? Because nobody could ever make a joke in a youtube section

Urban legend here, I can verify that it’s true.

I'm from Reading, was told the same thing as a kid

All of our local legends (both true and false) are depressing as hell 😂 I forgot about this one. Don't know if it's true but I heard it too growing up here.

If you know any local Reading history, you know why. Reading in those days lacked a sewer system among other things. It stunk to high heaven and there was excrement everywhere. Reading at that time epitomised all the social ills of the day which Dickens wrote about in his novels. Disease, poverty, child labour, debtors prisons, workhouses, etc. It was pretty bad. In fact, there is some evidence to suggest that during his time in Reading, Dickens witnessed things which may have inspired some of his works. Particularly, Oliver Twist.

I don’t blame her. It hasn’t improved over the years either unless you like chicken shops and fancy getting your nails done.

with Chat GPT it takes 5 minutes bruh

@@adiq6360no it’s personalised and fitted to the channel

I broke the 100 likes

@@adiq6360 but it would be shit bruh

Indeed! That "dictionary" is quite funny!

There's a joke in here about Reading being so boring that it being a town is what's considered an interesting fact there but it would be mean to say it, so I won't. The remodelled train station is a bit of an improvement although it desperately needs shops upstairs and more seats (although literally every train station needs more seats, and shops).

​@@jonevansauthorhehe the train station? Readings response to being boring and nothing to do is to build lots of stuff that looks like an airport? They also have these featureless glass offices now too. One interesting thing was the previous brutalist weird buildings i hope they dont get rid of them all! Tbh living there is not too bad its surrounded by great country towns, scenery, oxford and london under an hour. Its just the bit you have to leave to get somewhere else that's the problem. The main historical fact being "we jailed a homosexual"!?

Us Northamptonians grew up believing that WE were the biggest town. We still say it today, hoping that people are too lazy to look it up themselves.

Reading is best observed from a train window.

Is it even the most populous town. Bolton is a town and has double the population of reading?

You have the time

@@doxielain2231 Brb, replying to emails...

@@hux2000 But how do you have time?!

Should be easier moving forward with lists being banned.

I read the entire list at the end and now have a whole new perspective on how the uk needs fixing

If you’ve got time to pause this video and type out this essay into the comments section, you’ve DEFINITELY got time to reply to that email.

That. Sounds. Rubbish.

@@JayForemanYou are rubbish!

@@JayForeman Its a good idea, we can call it Red Leicester.

@@eihcra_ UK remake of The Americans?

@@eihcra_Or on the second attempt ( the first having run into some rather melty problems) we could call it double Gloucester .

I think they would change the slogan, but "Britain's last city" might sour the mood a bit.

They did that after Chelmsford became Essex’s first city. I think they were a bit salty about that.

@@JimCroz oh rest assured, they were. XD

I bet, the Romans wouldn´t have forgotten to fill the paperwork, for keeping the city-status

We hate the 'first city' nonsense. Everyone loved the 'oldest recorded town' signs and slogan and wish they would bring them back

Hahaha that was excellent.

😂😂😂 underated comment

Especially since they made "Reading 2: Electric Boogaloo" a city in 2401 and because was in Wales, it got accepted.

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Cyanide and Happiness pic+Map Men fan = certified man of culture

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You mean your life has cartography again Much better than meaning

Lol

Tbf, I’ve been caught out by the “It’s a city because of its church” thing multiple times since living in the UK. 😅

They simplified a bit - St Davids was a city for 600 years because of its cathedral and cultural importance in Wales. It lost its status in the 1800's and regained it in 1996.

I wish people would realise that having a cathedral doesn't make a place a city. It's related to civic charters and isn't remotely dependent on Cathedral presence

@@sandersson2813 Yes, we've seen the video too.

​@@sandersson2813 Did you not watch the video?

Wikipedia says to "town privileges": Common privileges were related to trading (to have a market, to store goods, etc.) and the establishment of guilds. Some of these privileges were permanent and could imply that the town obtained the right to be called a city, hence the term city rights (Stadtrecht in German). In other words: British city status and German Stadtrecht are literally the same.

@@NeovanGoth It actually makes sence for countries like the uk or the us, but i guess in germany is it slightly different. A small town (kleinstadt) with a small population (up to a few thousand people) maybe has an elementary school, a highschool and sometimes it has an local mayor. A big town (population between 50000 and 100000 people) has a lord mayor (oberbürgermeister), schools for higher education, is moustly a local powerhouse and, in some cases, the countytown like my hometown gotha. A city (population more than 100000), in my understanding, is nearly every time also a county in its own (like greater manchester or frankfurt/main), has a huge impact to the surounding areas (because of its huge size) and, sometimes, can be a state with its own government (like the city and state of berlin).

@@riesenmax92 No, it's not. Terms like "Kleinstadt" and "Großstadt" are statistical categories used by the Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building and have no legal meaning whatsoever. The Stadtrecht however is a privilege originally granted by the monarch. The smallest Gemeinde that has the Stadtrecht (and hence is allowed to call itself a Stadt) is Arnis in Schleswig-Holstein, which has a population of less than 300 (and hence doesn't even fall into the statistical category of Kleinstadt), while the biggest Gemeinde _without_ Stadtrecht is Seevetal in Niedersachsen with a population of over 40.000 (which is categorized as "kleine Mittelstadt"). In former times having the Stadtrecht granted a bunch of additional privileges like the right to host a market, and a certain amount of self-governance, but nowadays it's _only_ the right to call itself a Stadt.

@@NeovanGoth danke √√√√ and we are not boring.....

Pangbourne is just about a village, and the only thing notable about Winnersh is that it has a Park and Ride with no buses. Still, potentially more going for them than "used to make biscuits".

Wokingham?

@@mr22bishop and seeds and a brewery and a gaol for playwrights and a ruined church with some French speaking English kings buried there. Oh, and a battle against the Vikings and the walls of a Roman town/city. Still a rather ugly town, glad I lived on the outskirts.

Wokingham is pretty nice when it comes to connectivity, average salaries, average school ratings and just general feel. Its better than Slough, lets say that

@@Kromiballthere’s a movie studio near there if that counts?

Glad i'm not alone!

The children yearn for the factory floor. You can’t blame them

Listen, structural steel doesn't hammer itself. Little Billy can buy shoes with his first paycheck.

Welwyn wasn't even the first garden city, that tile goes to Letchworth, which is also in Hertfordshire interestingly enough

They're a garden city,not a plain city "garden city" is a phrase coined by the creator of such style of settlement 🎩

Or as I call it - Welwyn City Garden Centre

​@@mattjackson9859the Welwyn City town centre shopping centre?

There is also a settlement on the Dee called Garden City

Ely does still have a square tower at the west end, which is also unusual because it's more common for medieval English cathedrals to have two towers in that position. It's a really interesting church

IIRC the original was stone, but the new is octagonal because it was made of wood, and it was an easier build design, or something. (Visited in 1996, from NZ)

So that means they _do_ deserve to be a city!

this is an unexpected crossover of my subscriptions.

@@cvbattum also, their railway station actually has an insanely good variety of services for its size (long distance trains to Leicester and Birmingham by XC and Nottingham, Sheffield, Liverpool and Manchester by EMR as well as the usual services to Peterborough, Cambridge, Norwich and London) which kinda helps its image - there are other cities of a similar size (Ripon and Armagh) which don't even have train stations!

Was he playing for the men or women?

Also, Reading is a shithole

Come to think about it, you have weird neighboring villages and towns. Playhatch, Wargrave, Three Mile Cross...

Indeed we are! And rather annoyed by the fact that we're still just a town ...

I spotted this too. Grew up in the Town of Reading, now I live in the City of Milton Keynes :) It used to be said that the statue of Queen Victoria in Reading faces the railway station because she hated the place so much.

Fucking Milton Keynes as if a worse shithole couldn't be given city status. What's next? Slough? @@andyhoudini

Whoops! Very fair point. Peel shouldn’t have been there. Well spotted.

@@JayForeman The title does say British, so I think it would count! 😂

​@@benz.The Isle of Man isn't part of Great Britain either

@@seven7zip You're right, but the Isle of Man is still 'British'. The Isle of Man, Jersey, and Guernsey, are 'Crown Dependencies' which are 'self-governing possessions of the British Crown'. In law, they are known as the 'British Islands'. Its citizens are British citizens, etc., etc. Essentially, British doesn't mean 'part of Great Britain'.

@@benz. Yes, they're "British", but they aren't part of the UK, which is the point.

Passed over for city status not once but 4 times. Even has a king buried there. Probably just considered as bad neighbours from windsors pov.

It has a stupid name that connotes a boring hobby done by lazy people who act soooo smart!

maybe books weren't her thing?

"Everyone"? Not by a long chalk. Unless you were talking mainly to royalists and local government panjandrums.

Reading is one of the dreariest places in England. It has no character at all compared to the vast majority of UK towns and has no right to be a city. I'm pleased to hear you enjoyed your time there but I bet you would have enjoyed most towns in England a lot more.

"In the majority of the world, where it's not Britain" is a line that happens in the first 30 seconds and is pure, undiluted Monty Python.

The intermission is very pythonescque

I hate these Monty Python comments

​​​@@arthurb6882Absolutely. I strongly disagree with them in both directions. They have almost _nothing_ in common stylistically. MP was Avant-garde, surreal. Mm is almost surgically constructed and highly educated. The only commonality is that (some people) find both very funny. And both use words. That's it.

"could write Monty Python level sketches.." Hmm. I do wonder how much of Monty Python you have seen, outside the well worn classics? And also how much of the intricacies of Map Man you actually 'get'. To paraphrase OP; "Being thrown into the Panama canal is like drinking a glass of sparkling Perrier water." Because both are wet, right? I do agree with your closing remark, though. They are all brilliant writers, performers and comics. And _always_ top-notch entertainment. Heck; Map Men even make their sponsorship ads worth watching. I want to start another company up just to sponsor them and see what they come up with!

That's the Britain I know and love

Medway was never a city. The ancient city of Rochester was, until its incompetent council screwed up and lost its status.

@@pyromanic8Glorious

Front, middle or back?

@@TomDestry left side, middle down the length, or right side? Or, top third, middle third or bottom third?

That's town status, not city. A city - or Großstadt - is quite clearly defined by a population of 100k within city limits.

it's the first time I hear someone translating City as Großstadt instead of Stadt. I would have used major city as Großstadt. And town for Gemeinde.

I refuse to accept that there isn't a properly written rule with three exceptions that everyone has to learn in school. And a very long word for it.

​@@DuskHorizon How else should we get Lernlebensfreude?

@@randuru City is by far the more common translation for Stadt, and it's also more historical accurate, as the German Stadtrecht corresponds closely to English city status.

The UK is in Europe, which is in Eurasia. So Llandaff is a city in a city in a country in a country in a continent in a continent.

Llandaff's historic city status in kinda on the same boat with St Asaph and St Davids cos both were cities by virtue of their cathedrals, but never formally recognised by the modern post-1974 government (Bangor was the only historic cathedral city in Wales to have its city status formally recognised in 1974). Incidentally, St Davids did actually lose its city status in 1888 when they abolished the cathedral rule to allow Belfast and Birmingham (later most of the other industrial giants) to become cities, only for it to be reinstated over a century later.

@@AymanTravelTransport there's them what says that Cardiff only got it's city status because of Llandaff... Not sure how true that is mind...

one moment "...or Laws of England in their Natural Order, according to Common Use." (in four Books), Tommy Wood, 1724 **flips pages** ah yes, Book 1, Chapter 8, "Of Corporations or Bodies Politick"... **it was right here somewhere** "A Corporation is a Person in a Political Capacity created by the Law, and is a Body Politick fram'd by Policy or Fiction of Law to endure in perpetual Succession with Capacity to take and grant, to sue and be sued, & c. He who gives the first Possessions is the Founder of it, tho they are but of small Value. So that a common Person may be Founder, tho' the King shall afterwards endow it with great Possessions. It differs from a Franchise or Liberty, because they are Estates of Inheritance, and may be granted over from one to another." (More on Letters Patent as Company Charters later, with Gerard Malynes and Thomas Hobbes...or Lord Coke.) Okay so it says right there you can stack personal fictions as corporations, since corporations are personal fictions, using the Law of Transportation (Beyond the Seas) to stack Personae Cities-zens (denizens and inhabitants) on and in Cities, as long as Bocland Ledger Dominii is preserved in the Kings-Dome (Domes-Day Book)...as long as the royal company office (the royal we incorporated) does of course agree that it can be done and is not an unnatural impossible fiction since all fictions in pleadings are hereby abolished...yadda yadda... It's how they made a penal company called "Australia" in Britain, then set up the court system (probatio) with George 3 on the company books internally, then shipped the books (transported beyond seas) to Auscorp Prime along with convicts, while retaining "proprietorship and good graces, et al." in Britain. So technically, Australia was never a city or county or country, it was a probate court system run by an Admiral with a special charter commission by King George 3 (the absolute madman GENIUS!) to run "Auscorp Prison Industries".

@@garethaethwy never heard of that claim before, but what is certain is that Cardiff was awarded city status in 1905 after it petitioned for it, irrespective of any cathedrals within its boundaries at the time.

Stoke-On-Trent is actually 6 towns. Fenton, Longton, Hanley, Burslem, Tunstall ...and Stoke-upon-Trent

I'd be more interested to know why someone thought "Stoke-on-Trent" is a sensible name for a city, rather than some kinda curse directed at a guy named Trent.

so Stroke-on-Trent is 6Towns-on-Trenchcoat? where is the exit?

I think one of us had a stroke, I just don't know jet who.

​@@fireazaIt's because it's a town next to the river Trent. There's another town called stoke elsewhere in the country and on Trent clarifies which one you mean. There are also 2 Newcastles, one of which is Newcastle on Tyne. It's like how in the US there are lots of towns with the same name and you specify the State to differentiate, except we do it with rivers.

City status is granted to a council (a legal corporation. In the 1960s they expanded the County of London to include parts of Essex, Kent, Surrey, Hertfordshire and almost all of Middlesex. London County Council never had city status, as that was held by the City of London Council (the Square Mile). Essentially, places like Southall, Croydon etc are towns, that at some point were in the same county as the City of Westminster, and so were towns of the COUNTY of London, not the City of London, which was not in the County of London. Greater London no longer exists, so now we just have a bunch of towns that are part of "London Boroughs". A Borough Council or Town Council is renamed a City Council if it gets status. Like Southend-on-Sea Borough Council is now Southend-on-Sea City Council. Today only City of Westminster and City of London have City status. The rest of the boroughs are just collections of towns, villages and housing estates

this is so interesting

@@aodhanmonaghan1268 If there's no council, a city status can be granted to a charter trustee, Carlisle for example. Greater London still exists as both a county, region and administrative area (Greater London Authority).

You can change the name of Reading but my satnav will always pronounce it 'reading'.....

It's also peculiar that British monarch cannot enter the City of London without permission. From whom and how, go look up.

"And Hove!"

Make Tesco's sell Golden Grahams again!

That ugly flyover is my reminder to brace myself for having to change trains at Donny.

Bloody, he's right. I do have time to reply to that email.

I was just about to watch the latest episode 😂

Plus the little code in the top right before the advertisements

"it's gotta happen soon" ↑ Oy! Stop trying to spend my council taxes on fawning to the monarch

I always though it was so it doesnt overshadow Windsor in prestege. Though they do like to misrepresent the population a bit by quoting the Reading Urban Area (233k ish) rather than actual Reading (174k ish) so while it is still a big town they still like to cheat a bit. (And theres otehr wierdness like i live in Lower Early 2 miles from reading centre but i am technically part of wokingham (7 miles away)

As someone from Reading, my theory is its because Reading is shite and lack enough culture to be a city, but rather a commuter base for people working in london. Plus, quite possibly the overinflated population figures due to being an ever-growing amoeba of suburbia and towns that are actually outside of Reading.

​@@75oharasyeh, its cheating with the population. I believe they extended to nearby town of wokingham to include that which i would never say was reading. Centrally, its not small yet not really anything in comparison to actual cities. I mean, Bath or Oxford are smaller but internally seem to have features of being a city somehow...because in many ways are more facilitated centrally. There is a lot of large suburbs that could be (and probably are..) towns in their own right and are attached, so maybe that gives it cause for being a city? Or does it give it less cause by just having filled in gaps with stuff without necessarily doing much city-like facility? It does have a laarge red-brick university so perhaps.

"in some very niche areas" - is maths considered niche?

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Reading, or Reading? Given the video 😂

@@PJWey I don't know why I laughed at that!!

I think make Reading a city did not make the list... Am I wrong?

@@juanpablosaenz9037 indeed it did not. Somehow make Neil Buchanan a knight did. Which I think is absolutely necessary.

Unironically a great manifesto for a progressive party 😂

why are political assassinations so common in the UK??

​​​@@waspsandwich6548they aren't. Aside from David Amess, the last one was in 2016 and before that it was 1990. That's not exactly common.

@@bruhngl 3 in about 3 decades, and 6 in 45 years, is actually very frequent.

Jo Cox.

​@@bruhnglit's surprisingly more common per capita than many other similar countries in the past few decades, but by and large historically speaking? It's fine... I guess.. probably. ?

I agree. Where is MiltonKeynesShire after all!!? I've previously lived in both places and am fond of both, but I do feel that Northampton is more deserving than MK .

Northampton has the Saints so if nothing else then this really should show we deserve to be a city

I mean even though it’s literally barely more than 50 years old, it is larger than Northampton now so it seems about right

Queen must've seen something in Milton Keynes that literally no one else saw

I mean all the criteria mentioned aside, MK certainly feels like more of a city, with its vast and varying districts, quirky 60s features and excellent connectivity, all designed to be self sufficient. Its the fastest growing place in the UK, it certainly deserves city status. This is from someone who lives near Reading

the black and white corner thing before a break got me

The list of things for the government to do first is hilarious. "make google pay taxes"

legends

Beatles reference in the Blackburn city bid (4,000 holes).

Hands up for who cares?

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@@marmac83 Lol, ratioed.

Yeah! I'd only grant city status to a town that could *actually* kill me. Finish the job if you want to be a city, coward.

They do seem quite ignorant on how countries outside their own operate, usually defaulting to some bland statement that everything is better elsewhere.

@@JohnyG29to be fair it usually is. But in this case, no!

Sweden used a similar system until Säffle got City status. Then we stopped. Anyone who has been to Säffle understands why.

Grazie for this municipo-political insight

In Italy nobody cares about the official status of a city. My city has a thousand-year history behind it, it has been capital of an empire and capital of several barbarian kingdoms. And that is only for the first thousand years of its history So how can the official status of city give by the monarch really matter?

she hates words

been here for 19 years and I agree. but hey, we’re getting mentioned on RU-vid!

wasnt The Hague created to stop Amsterdam and Rotterdam fighting for who had the right to be capitol of the neatherlands?

@@highpath4776No, you're thinking of Brasilia.

​​@@cecasanderno, he's thinking of Canberra. Brasília was not built to stop any dispute.

@@TCA17 No, I'm pretty sure he's thinking of how Washington D.C. isn't part of any state.

@@highpath4776 Technically Amsterdam is the capital. The Hague is just the seat of Government. I have no idea how the seat of Government isn't automatically the capital (other than in the event of a short term relocation).

Just like Poland! Here, technically speaking settlement may be either "miasto" (city) or "wieś" (village). There are no towns in legal language. Well, we have word "miasteczko" (literary a diminutive for miasto), but is used only colloquially and there is no real consensus what it means. Therefore smallest Polish city has 300 (sic!) inhabitants, whereas biggest village has 12.000. BTW it is also mostly a status thing - city does not have any special powers - these are held by "gmina" (community), which may consist of only one city, city and surrounding villages, few cities and surrounding villages or no cities at all. The only legal differences are probably in agricultural law, with some privileges for villages.

I came to the comments because I figured that they picked Germany in jest. Thank you for the confirmation

but at the same time we have fixed numbers for different levels of cities. there is no city under 5k unless it fulfils a central role in the region.

In my opinion Arnis is a town - not a city.

@@menoflowicz I have heard an argument that Poland _does_ make a distinction between a town and a city - they just call them both _miasto_ anyway for some reason. The argument is that “towns” have a mayor, and “cities” have a president. But while it is true that the mayor-president distinction exists in Poland, whether this is equivalent to the town-city distinction is debatable. It certainly isn’t as much of a status symbol as in the UK!

Did you see #101 on the to-do list? 10:20

That was definitely sharp. Cathedral City sharp. (For those outside the UK, Cathedral City is a brand of less than good cheddar, sharp is a word used to describe cheddar that cheddar purists would probably be just as offended by as the concept of extra mature cheddar)

(For those outside the UK, “extra mature cheddar” can also refer to an unexpectedly attractive pensioner.)

You Germans also got rid of all the crazy little borders you had during German Empire times. Kings for Bavaria and Hanover, Prussian borders all over the place, with exclaves here and enclaves there. Made the county map of England look like a piece of rationality and logic. Thank God certain, ahem, ***events*** transpired to rationalize German maps. Huzzah!

If it was bombed by the RAF from 1940 to 1945 then it's a city!!

In Germany the term „Stadt“ (city) doesn’t mean anything but that the place once was awarded the right to call themself city. All that counts is the municipality as that’s the important unit. So some municipalities are allowed to call themselves city, others can call themselves market (as they had the right to host a market) but it all has no real value other than bragging rights.

I mean at least we TRIED to rationalise the rules by adding the rule of number of inhabitants to the existing rules. So basically now there is three ways to become a city in Germany. Why...

@@chcucivtxzclccucifudohzfu6766 and the bragging rights are meager at best. Though is has the nice side effect (at least in Hesse) that the city governement/ the local council can call themselves "Magistrat". But it is just as vague as you said, though there will be a ministerial guidline somewhere that makes the rule more concrete.

Thanks Father

Great train links though.

But we must be a city, we got an Banksy

"Good morning, how are you doing?"' "I can't believe we're not a city! Like... how?"

Northampton resident here: Similar fair!

The link between cities and cathedrals was broken in the 19th century, your history class was wrong

As a fellow map, i can confirm you are a map

Why not also be men?

You should be careful saying you are map. You might get on an FBI watch list.

Unfortunate time for the mapping community. Can't even call themselves a map without sounding like a pedophile.

Wow, that's a big mug. Is your computer in it as well?

Yep. Lisburn people are very welcome in Portugal. Ronaldo should visit Lisburn.

at least they spelled Derry correctly, meaning Map Men have won the internet today

@@jayplay8140 I thought it was spelled Londonderry. With a massive emphasis on the London?

​@@drunkenhobo8020cos it is

@@drunkenhobo8020 Only word in the English Language with 6 silent letters

Oh no, it's happening again! Someone get the Good Friday Agreement in here!

i think being the biggest town in the UK is much better than being some random city anyways

I always say that the reason Reading never gets city status is because the queen - or king now - is from Slough.

hey, let's not be greedy - Windsor is already part of a Royal Borough with Crossroads on Thames (otherwise known as Maidenhead).

Reading can't become a city because the name confuses tourists. I was reading about it last week... oh wait!

Loved that bit of Detail 😂

Yeah, don't know why people are not talking about it.

Mexico is not happy. No bueno.

Precisely. In Virginia, where I live, there are no cities, per se, there are instead independent cities, which function like counties. This is unique among states and leads to all sorts of difficulties with census data

In North Carolina municipalities can choose to be a village, town, or city no matter the population.

Here in Oregon, every incorporated community is considered a city. The exception is Clackamas County, which has a separate category of "village," which includes exactly one place, Mt. Hood Village.

In Massachusetts every piece of land is incorporated as either a town or a city, villages are located entirely within 1 town or city and do not have a government of their own. Towns can have some form of town meeting as governance. While cities have to have a mayor/manager and a council.. Some cities still choose to keep "town of" in their name, like the City of the Town of Randolph, MA.

California does have a handful of incorporated towns, but they are functionally identical to cities. Also California used to have townships, which were unincorporated towns and villages. When my mom was born, for instance, East Los Angeles was Belvedere Township, and before my hometown of Pasadena incorporated in 1886, it was two villages, Indiana Colony and Lake Vineyard, which were administered as part of San Gabriel Township.