NACA Political Jokes Page

[Pblakeney]

I'm Scottish and I live in North Shields, Yorkshire isn't North.

Neither is Manchester, nor Liverpool.

But then when people think Watford or Milton Keynes is "North" it's hardly surprising that people's geographical sense is completely warped.

In simple terms, anywhere north of where you are is north.
The mistake is calling anywhere The North. (Or indeed The South).

 

[Psamathe]

In simple terms, anywhere north of where you are is north.
The mistake is calling anywhere The North. (Or indeed The South).

Interesting fact (or not): the Pirahã tribe language (they live in the Amazon) has a limited vocabulary eg when it comes to numbers they were thought to have only two "1" and "2". But researchers studying found that actually "1" was really "Few" and "2" was really "More". eg put down 1 object and everybody used the "Few", then put another and still use "Few". continue adding objects and at 3 or more some use "Few" and others "More".

Start with 10 objects and everybody uses "More" and remove then one at a time and by 6 objects some start using "Few", others still using "More" and once down to 3 objects everybody switches to "Few".

Similar for colours, they only have words for "light" and "dark" but on that they cheat and use descriptive terminology eg "Like blood" meaning red.