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OwlHoot replied

6 September 2008, 12:14
Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post

Nope, women use landmarks to navigate while men use an internal map, i.e. have a natural sense of direction.

Yup, I don't use maps either. I never get lost, but end up doing a lot of exploring. (God, I hope that gag wasn't nicked from a post on this board)

BTW the replies so far have been very hilluminating (edit: apart from Shim's "just fliping give it your, um, no I give up")

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TimberWolf replied

6 September 2008, 12:08
Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post

Let's face it, if I'd been a stone age guy, arriving in the UK for the first time after the last ice age, before any towns existed, I'd be totally fliped.

P.S. Are there any other hills in England I should know about?

Nope, women use landmarks to navigate while men use an internal map, i.e. have a natural sense of direction.
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JoJoGabor replied

6 September 2008, 10:45
Elgar: The Malverns (Where I'm from)
Cotswolds (Between Gloucester, Swindon and Oxford - ish)
Chilterns (Think Aylesbury)
QUantocks (Somerset)

Dont know about the other one

Lookup Clent Hills (SW of Birmingham)

PS I'm not a hill freak jsut know my hills!
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Shimano105 replied

6 September 2008, 09:55
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voodooflux replied

5 September 2008, 22:48
Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post

P.S. Are there any other hills in England I should know about?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountai...lls_of_England

HTH
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OwlHoot started a topic I'm Hilliterate

5 September 2008, 22:44
I'm Hilliterate

Driving back from Wales today, in the pissing rain all the way, it suddenly occured to me that although I have a good idea where most towns in the country are, I've no idea where the Cotswolds or the Chilterns are.

Those two hills are the most confusing, possibly because they both begin with "C" and probably aren't that far apart. But I also have no idea where the Quantock hills are, or the Mendips. (I'm not even entirely sure the Mendips *are* hills.) However on the plus side I do know roughly where the Pennines are, and the North and South downs.

Also I don't even know which hills Elgar wandered while dreaming up his fiddle tunes. These must have been near Worcester though, as that was where he lived.

Let's face it, if I'd been a stone age guy, arriving in the UK for the first time after the last ice age, before any towns existed, I'd be totally fecked.

P.S. Are there any other hills in England I should know about?
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