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Post by minionofmidas on Jan 21, 2021 8:59:02 GMT
My intention was to start on the outside, go along the edge, and gradually coil inwards towards the middle. I had to deviate from the plan in a number of places in order to avoid bottlenecks, avoid exclaves, and keep within the limits at all times.  In all honesty and sincerity I'd submit that to the BCNI. This too much complacency amongst both sides in Northern Ireland and you may have just discovered a great bit reset button. Someone do the sectarian math first plz |
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Post by 🏴☠️ Neath West 🏴☠️ on Jan 22, 2021 15:58:55 GMT
I was trying to find a way of doing something non-awful with Reigate and Banstead's awful new wards. This is not it.  1 East Surrey 73223 Yes 2 Croydon South Without 73668 Yes 3 Epsom and Ewell 76844 Yes 4 Reigate 71060 Yes |
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Jan 22, 2021 18:05:46 GMT
Missed opportunity to call that fourth seat Box Hill.
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Post by johnloony on Jan 23, 2021 11:22:45 GMT
I tried to do the same with Wales as I did with Northern Ireland (creeping round the edge in a spiral and ending in the middle) but I ended up with a blob of about 26k electors in the middle unassigned, and several instances where I wasn't sure which blob was which of the same colour. I think in a few cases I got mixed up so that there were bits of two constituencies next to each other with the same colour, and/or disjointed bits of the same colour in different places which thought that they were bits of the same constituency. Rather than trying to sort it out - or start all over again - I just abandoned the whole caboodle.
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Post by Arthur Figgis on Jan 28, 2021 11:09:57 GMT
Missed opportunity to call that fourth seat Box Hill. Hills of Botley and Leith. |
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Post by 🏴☠️ Neath West 🏴☠️ on Jan 29, 2021 10:21:31 GMT
Southampton (and Hampshire in general) annoyed me with its megawards:  3 Romsey 72669 Yes 4 Eastleigh 74112 Yes 5 Netley 75341 Yes 6 Southampton 72289 Yes |
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Post by Andrew_S on Feb 2, 2021 0:17:09 GMT
Chadwell Heath -> Ilford North.
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Post by islington on Feb 25, 2021 11:11:17 GMT
I'm putting this here rather than in the Eastern thread because it's not a serious suggestion (although I've seen worse): but in the spirit of Cirencester (as in the SW thread) I give you -
 Godmanchester (76606). It's the purple one in the middle. All the others are legal too.
Also, completely irrelevantly, let me get this off my chest:
There was a young lady of Cirencester Whose gentleman friend came to virencester; But his intentions were low, And to force him to go,
She had to engage a solirencester.
I'd do one for Godmanchester but I don't think even Tom Lehrer could find a rhyme for it.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Feb 25, 2021 11:24:05 GMT
It's pronounced 'gumster' by locals apparently.
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Feb 25, 2021 11:36:39 GMT
I'm putting this here rather than in the Eastern thread because it's not a serious suggestion (although I've seen worse): but in the spirit of Cirencester (as in the SW thread) I give you -
Godmanchester (76606). It's the purple one in the middle. All the others are legal too. Also, completely irrelevantly, let me get this off my chest: There was a young lady of Cirencester Whose gentleman friend came to virencester; But his intentions were low, And to force him to go,
She had to engage a solirencester. I'd do one for Godmanchester but I don't think even Tom Lehrer could find a rhyme for it.
If you swapped the southern wards for Histon and Girton then that would actually be a reasonably decent plan. Godmanchester is a Huntingdon suburb and thus in an ideal world ought to go with the town, but the river is a clear boundary so it's not complete pitchfork bait. |
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Post by islington on Feb 25, 2021 11:44:21 GMT
It's pronounced 'gumster' by locals apparently. I'm not local but I've always understood that to be the pronunciation. |
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Post by bsjmcr on Feb 26, 2021 20:55:03 GMT
It's pronounced 'gumster' by locals apparently. I'm not local but I've always understood that to be the pronunciation. You've got to be joking - another one to add to the list then... along with nearby Caius, Magdalene and a bit further away, Southwell which apparently is 'Suthull' by other local Notts people except those who live in 'South-well' itself, apparently. Surely in this rate Cirencester should just be 'Sister'? |
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Post by islington on Feb 26, 2021 21:16:53 GMT
I believe that 'Sister' is a recognized variant, as is 'Sisister'. And of course there are those eccentric souls that pronounce it as spelt, but where's the fun in that? The only forms I've ever heard actually used are 'Sisiter' and as spelt.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2021 21:39:34 GMT
I'm not local but I've always understood that to be the pronunciation. You've got to be joking - another one to add to the list then... along with nearby Caius, Magdalene and a bit further away, Southwell which apparently is 'Suthull' by other local Notts people except those who live in 'South-well' itself, apparently. Surely in this rate Cirencester should just be 'Sister'? Normally Ciren, homophonous with siren |
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Post by tiberius on Feb 26, 2021 23:13:42 GMT
 Ribbons over East Midlands electorates in each of them, from west to east: (73,108), (76,322), (70,754), (76,879), (73,576), (75,852), (76,778). |
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Post by YL on Feb 27, 2021 11:29:22 GMT
It's pronounced 'gumster' by locals apparently. I'm not local but I've always understood that to be the pronunciation. According to Wikipedia, which is supported in this instance by some credible looking sources, that's the traditional pronunciation but most people in the town now use a pronunciation close to what the spelling suggests. |
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Post by The Bishop on Feb 27, 2021 12:05:56 GMT
I've definitely heard it pronounced starting with a "Z".
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2021 0:45:29 GMT
I've definitely heard it pronounced starting with a "Z". Ciren or Godmanchester? I certainly don't think I've ever heard Ciren pronounced with a /z/ sound (it would be relatively unusual for a Gloucestershire accent as well, certainly around here; voicing of /s/ to /z/ in unusual places tend to be more a Bristol/Somerset thing. It is done in Gloucestershire but not to as great an extent) |
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Post by The Bishop on Feb 28, 2021 12:00:38 GMT
Thinking back it may well have been a Bristolian who pronounced it thus, yes  |
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Post by johnloony on Mar 8, 2021 3:45:13 GMT
The Commission reputedly has a rule against 4 authority constituencies, but no one mentioned 10.  And now I know that if I really, really want to I can access the plan builder on the phone. And have also learned how to take screenshots w/ this thing. For some reason, I was thinking about this map and was wondering what it should be called. Perhaps "City of London, Parks and Bridges" or similar twee affectations. Or it might want to satisfy all the residents by mentioning all the ingredient boroughs. "City of London, Hackney South, Islington South, Camden South, Lambeth North, Southwark North East, Westminster Central, Kensington South & Hammersmith South West". But I thought it deserves a better map:  |
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