Lads attempt at a UK Address

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Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 2:10 pm

It's a particularly poor effort. My lad tells me to send a WU payment to London - of course, I'd be reassured if he could give me the address of his agent before I send the money.

He came up with this

Quote:

Office Address In London.

No 8 Bakewell Manchester
M8.....9bs.
London

Bakewell Manchester, London? M8 9BS a London postcode? This lad is a prime candidate for further de-education.

Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 2:20 pm

Sounds like a perfect normal adress to me.... Very Happy

It's in the People's Republic of Great England... isn't it?

Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 2:30 pm

M8 9BS is a valid Manchester postcode, but I can't find any street or road named Bakewell.
And he isn't the first lad to think that London overs nearly all of the UK. You could ask him if he means Bakewell Tart if you want to de-educate him..

Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 2:31 pm

The lad knows exactly what he's saying.

the "bs" in the zip code means Bull Sh1t Smile

Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 2:45 pm

All you do now is post the money to him, and, if that doesn't get to him for some reason. Try the good old fashioned meeting in person. Safest way to hand somebody some money. And, it's been some time since we saw a lad on Camera.

Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 3:25 pm

There are a couple of Bakewell Roads/Streets in Manchester. I do like Inspector Gadgets idea of posting the money. Of course I'm posting it straight away and letting my lad know after I've dropped it in the box.

Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 3:44 pm

That's brilliant. London is often the only city they know about and they sometimes think that other cities (Manchester for example) are just regions of London. Not that I can talk, I don't know many cities in Nigeria.

you can have some fun with this one. Making up some funny place names and de-educating him.

One of the funniest (genuine) place names I've seen was 'Sheepy Magna' (I saw it on a sign as we were passing through). I don't know why but the name just made me giggle!

Very Happy

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Apr 2007 Posts: 3123

Phoebe wrote:

Not that I can talk, I don't know many cities in Nigeria

But you are not tryung to scam a Nigerian. If you were, I'm sure any ordinary person would research such things. That said, if you are stupid enough to go into scamming in the first place, then you may forget to do your research.

Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 9:17 pm

ScoobyDon't wrote:

It's a particularly poor effort. My lad tells me to send a WU payment to London - of course, I'd be reassured if he could give me the address of his agent before I send the money.

He came up with this

Quote:

Office Address In London.

No 8 Bakewell Manchester
M8.....9bs.
London

Bakewell Manchester, London? M8 9BS a London postcode? This lad is a prime candidate for further de-education.

De-edukashun is good.

Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 9:48 pm

Phoebe wrote:

One of the funniest (genuine) place names I've seen was 'Sheepy Magna' (I saw it on a sign as we were passing through). I don't know why but the name just made me giggle!

Very Happy

Yep, not all that far from me actually. There's another amusingly-named place called Sheepy Parva is right next to it, seems they like "Sheepy" around those parts. Very Happy

Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 10:37 pm

I had a lad provide a real address in London for the Barrister so I had my cousin hand deliver the cash for me. Pissed him off no end.

Baiting Guru Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 3193

North Piddle, Wyre Piddle and so my father told me, although I've not found it on a map, Piddle In The Hole. They're all in the Vale of Evesham.

My favorite is a little north of there, near Hollywood on the outskirts of Birmingham, there's a Pink Green.

Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:27 am

ScoobyDon't wrote:

There are a couple of Bakewell Roads/Streets in Manchester. .

I used www.streetmap.co.uk to check the area round that postcode, not the whole city. No point really.

Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 11:41 am

thud419 wrote:

North Piddle, Wyre Piddle and so my father told me, although I've not found it on a map, Piddle In The Hole. They're all in the Vale of Evesham.

Piddle in the Hole is also the name of an ale produced by the Wyre Piddle brewery!

Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 1:26 pm

And there is a borehole there, they produce and sell bottles of

Piddle Water Laughing

Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 12:05 pm

There's a Wetwang somewhere, not sure if it's the NE or the SE but I used it in one of my first baits. A vlad if I remember correctly.

Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 12:49 pm

My favourite is "Pratts bottom" in kent. yes, it really exists!!

Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 12:59 pm

There's a F*cking in Austria, who wouldn't want to steal their traffic signs?

And, the ludicrous Welsh railway station

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 1:05 pm

There's Dead Woman's Bottom in Somerset. And some other names [url=]http://iq.lycos.co.uk/qa/show/65603/embaracing-place-names./ ]here[/url]

Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 5:12 pm

@ScoobyDon't

Wetwang is a village in East Yorkshire. Richard Whiteley presenter of ITV's 'Countdown' quiz was elected honourary mayor of it shortly before he unexpectantly pegged it when he was accidentally smothered by Carol Voordaman's overblown ego. Shocked

I used to travel through the place in my youth on the way to the east coast's hottest resort, Withernsea. Happy days.

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