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d000hg replied

2 November 2021, 14:04
It's like an hour's commute.
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Mordac replied

2 November 2021, 10:53
Originally posted by BlasterBates View Post

Apparently Joe Biden is in Edinburgh, which is why all the news teams are there as well as they simply follow the President. The question is, is why is Joe Biden in Edinburgh. There's no point in being in Glasgow if your sources are all in Edinburgh.

He's not as daft as people seem to think he is...
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Paralytic replied

2 November 2021, 10:49
Originally posted by BlasterBates View Post

Apparently Joe Biden is in Edinburgh, which is why all the news teams are there as well as they simply follow the President. The question is, is why is Joe Biden in Edinburgh. There's no point in being in Glasgow if your sources are all in Edinburgh.

He's getting a deep fried mars bar.
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BlasterBates replied

2 November 2021, 09:55
Apparently Joe Biden is in Edinburgh, which is why all the news teams are there as well as they simply follow the President. The question is, is why is Joe Biden in Edinburgh. There's no point in being in Glasgow if your sources are all in Edinburgh.
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ladymuck replied

2 November 2021, 09:06
Originally posted by d000hg View Post

46 miles, in the US, is how far you drive to McDonald's. Didn't the Glasgow commonwealth games have events in Edinburgh?

Glasgow was the hosting city but, much like the Toyko Olympics, used venues in other parts of the country for some events.

There's only one venue for COP26.
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d000hg replied

2 November 2021, 01:44
46 miles, in the US, is how far you drive to McDonald's. Didn't the Glasgow commonwealth games have events in Edinburgh?
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1 November 2021, 22:41
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Edinburgh for Cop26!

Least it stops their mispronunciation of Glasgow (to rhyme with Mos-cow)

https://www.theguardian.com/environm...6-to-edinburgh
Eyebrows were raised at Cop26 on Monday when a veteran US news anchor announced he would be covering the climate summit from Edinburgh – 47 miles east of Glasgow.

Wolf Blitzer, a news anchor with CNN, wrote on Twitter that he was reporting from Edinburgh in Scotland, “where 20,000 world leaders and delegates have gathered for the Cop26”.

Byline Times’s chief Westminster correspondent, Adam Bienkov, replied with a map of Scotland, while Specsavers got in on the act, telling Blitzer that he “should’ve gone to Glasgow”.

A parody Boris Johnson account quipped: “You seem to have all the necessary attributes to become my next Foreign Secretary.”

Rumours have swirled around the conference that a mix-up at the White House left several American media teams based miles away from Glasgow.

The Guardian has contacted the White House Correspondents’ Association for a response.

But it wasn’t the only example of American journalists getting confused about the geography of Scotland in the opening days of the global climate summit.

Reuters’ White House correspondent Jeff Mason tweeted a picture of the US president, Joe Biden’s arrival in Scotland for Cop26, with the caption: “Arrived in Glasgow.”
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