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Where is London's most central sheep?

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Re: Where is London's most central sheep?

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Post by xenocratus »

baxtr wrote: post #78
barrkel wrote: post #76

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This only makes sense if you enjoy the English countryside. I'm an Irishman. I grew up in the countryside, in the west, and spent 15 years living in London in my 20s and 30s. I can count on one hand the number of visits to the English countryside I made that weren't on the back of a motorcycle, and then, I didn't stop except for petrol. The city is what I enjoyed, the chaos, the diversity, ambition, variety. No small…

Your preferred metric is "time to chaos" I guess then?

"Time to something I haven't seen or experienced in the past 3 years"

Having spent more than 5 years in small towns, London has fixed my utter boredom.

Re: Where is London's most central sheep?

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Post by xemdetia »

steerpike wrote: post #3

When my wife and I lived in Bristol we developed a metric designed to measure how enjoyable a city was to live in that we called "time to sheep". Basically it's a measure of how long you have to travel from the center of the city before you're in the English countryside surrounded by sheep and the best cities have a low (but not too low) "time to sheep" metric. It helped explain one of the reasons we loved living in…

I find this fun because I always described this metric as 'time to cow.' I suppose a sheep is fine too.

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Post by drewzero1 »

themaninthedark wrote: post #107
bryanlarsen wrote: post #95

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I think by "theater" the OP was implying professional theatre. Lots of small towns have theater, but professional theatre is a much higher bar. In my case, my old workplace in Ottawa, Canada had a "time to moose" of about 5 miles and a "time to theatre" of about 1/2 a mile. Sadly, the professional Opera company in Ottawa went bankrupt so we only have amateur Opera now, but we do get regular professional Broadway prod…

>"time to moose" of about 5 miles and a "time to theatre" of about 1/2 a mile. Unit of measure error: unit specified it time, unit supplied is distance :P

Not sure how it is in Ottawa but here in the US Midwest distances are frequently measured in units of time. I might say I'm an hour from Green Bay or two hours from Madison, though I don't remember the actual mileage. That said, it usually only applies to distances over 20 minutes (between 7 and 25 miles, depending on speed limits).

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Post by dylan604 »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #112
pyrale wrote: post #101

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Time to cow dung, the higher the better obviously.

That's also a problem with sheep, you know.

But do you mark off a field into squares and then place bets on which square the dung will be freshly found for sheep?

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Post by eppp »

xenocratus wrote: post #111
baxtr wrote: post #78

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Your preferred metric is "time to chaos" I guess then?

"Time to something I haven't seen or experienced in the past 3 years" Having spent more than 5 years in small towns, London has fixed my utter boredom.

I have lived my entire life in a a rural area, not even a town and it seems to me that every time I go to a city it is the same as the last. Everyone has their thing I guess.

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Post by ta1243 »

noneeeed wrote: post #52
steerpike wrote: post #3

When my wife and I lived in Bristol we developed a metric designed to measure how enjoyable a city was to live in that we called "time to sheep". Basically it's a measure of how long you have to travel from the center of the city before you're in the English countryside surrounded by sheep and the best cities have a low (but not too low) "time to sheep" metric. It helped explain one of the reasons we loved living in…

I live in Bath, so quite a bit smaller than Bristol, but I really apprecaite the fact that we can be in the city centre in half an hour, or in the countryside in 15 minutes. If I didn't live in Bath I'd probably live in Bristol, it's a great city. And I absolutely agree that it's kind of the perfect size for a metropolitan area. I think a lot of London is saved by having so many parks, and so many large parks and com…

What amazes me is how dense Westminster is, considering it contains Hyde, Green, St James Park and significant parts of Regents Park and Kensington Gardens

Even with that, it's still the 10th most dense borough.

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Post by ajb »

asjir wrote: post #98
jrmg wrote: post #65

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Some good advice at the end of that: 1) Don't state something as fact when you haven't researched it fully. 2) Remember that when you do state something because you believe it's fact, it could be based on incomplete information. 3) If you're not 100% sure about something, best introduce at least some element of doubt. 4) Don't trust everything you read just because somebody you trust presented it as fact.

I think this was overly self-critical - what would researching fully even mean? They can have however many sheep they want hidden within one-mile distance from Trafalgar square, no-one would expect the author to scour every possible location ensuring that there is no sheep hidden lol just to make a funny post 100% sure to be true

Guy knows his audience though. All of his posts are incredibly prone to bikeshedding. If our main journalists knew that their output was going to be subject to much detail-oriented scrutiny, we'd have the best-run country in the world.

Re: Where is London's most central sheep?

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Post by jrmg »

ajb wrote: post #118
asjir wrote: post #98

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I think this was overly self-critical - what would researching fully even mean? They can have however many sheep they want hidden within one-mile distance from Trafalgar square, no-one would expect the author to scour every possible location ensuring that there is no sheep hidden lol just to make a funny post 100% sure to be true

Guy knows his audience though. All of his posts are incredibly prone to bikeshedding. If our main journalists knew that their output was going to be subject to much detail-oriented scrutiny, we'd have the best-run country in the world.

Much of his bikeshedding is obviously self-deprecating humor to me. It’s simultaneously both genuine and ironic.

I think that people sometimes don’t (can’t?) quite ‘get’ that wry-but-also-sincere style that much of British humor exhibits.

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