Penistone had better keep a sharp lookout on Facebook then...

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  1. Tek

    Tekkytyke Well-Known Member

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    "Facebook has been criticised for temporarily removing the official page of the small French town of Bitche.

    The social network's algorithm confused the name of the town in Moselle, north-east France, with the English insult." :)
     
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    I suspect a load of places like these do tbh...

    Me and a few mates keep joking we are going to do a road trip and take photos of us in obscure place-names.....

    This is a starting point [​IMG]
     
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    Did America not import those sort of names?
     
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    You might be joking but now I know about this I'm going to actually do it
     
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    Good pub on Fanny Street in Saltaire , surprisingly called Fanny’s Ale House although it might be on Upper Fanny Street
     
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    Nivver heard of Rimswell before.:D
    Re Shaftesbury, once had a mate come down from Grangemouth and he couldn't get over the name Shafton when we drove past.
     
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    What's rude about Clitheroe
     
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    Forget that, just got me tongue round the spelling.
     
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    On the way to the Bromsgrove Cup game all of those years back, I'm sure we travelled through Lickey End.
     
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    We had an office in Pratts Bottom until recently;)
     
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    I remember when at Penistone 6th Form, the internet in the newly installed IT room blocked access to their own school website.
     
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