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minus-squareWoofWoof91 [comrade/them]hexbear39·edit-21 year agoroads in the uk are almost never numbered they usually have names like "cheese lane", "steve avenue", or "wanker's crescent" link
minus-squareFrogFractions [he/him, comrade/them]hexbear19·1 year agoEvery single street name in the UK is actually a euphemism for some kind of sex act link
minus-squareProfessorOwl_PhD [any]hexbear16·1 year agoAlmost, but they're actually named after words from Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky - Flaxton Street, Colwyn Road, Ingle Grove etc link
minus-squareFindom_DeLuise [she/her, they/them]hexbear10·1 year agoVorpal Court Bandersnatch Lane link
minus-squareProfessorOwl_PhD [any]hexbear7·1 year agoI've just realised my joke doesn't work without the fairly obscure pieces of knowledge that those aren't words from Jabberwocky, they're real street names. link
minus-squarecame_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]hexbear11·1 year ago Sir Chortley's Hollow Prince's Hole The Knob Faffery Row Milk Hill Mustard Gate Noncebury Square link
minus-squareLocalMaxima [she/her]hexbear24·1 year agoI imagine it has something to do with reputation of 5th Ave in NYC for luxury shops compared to what the road in Harlow is like link
minus-squareLocalMaxima [she/her]hexbear23·1 year agoAnd/or numbered avenues are largely an American thing link
minus-squarePolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.mlhexbear6·1 year agoWhat lack of history does to mfers linkfedilink
Why is fifth avenue funny.
roads in the uk are almost never numbered
they usually have names like "cheese lane", "steve avenue", or "wanker's crescent"
Every single street name in the UK is actually a euphemism for some kind of sex act
St. Turd's Cockshot
Almost, but they're actually named after words from Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky - Flaxton Street, Colwyn Road, Ingle Grove etc
Vorpal Court
Bandersnatch Lane
I've just realised my joke doesn't work without the fairly obscure pieces of knowledge that those aren't words from Jabberwocky, they're real street names.
I imagine it has something to do with reputation of 5th Ave in NYC for luxury shops compared to what the road in Harlow is like
And/or numbered avenues are largely an American thing
What lack of history does to mfers
Its a candy bar