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Jay Foreman @jayforeman.bsky.social · 1d

Good grief! So there isn't.

Jay Foreman @jayforeman.bsky.social · 2d

This time next week, @markcooperjones.bsky.social and I will be in the mapmobile* travelling up and down Britain to do book signings for ‘This Way Up’, the Map Men Book. 🗺️📕

And there are still some tickets available! Come and say hello! 👋🏻

mapmen.lnk.to/BOOKTOUR

*probably megabus

THIS WAY UP BOOK TOUR

Go to THIS WAY UP BOOK TOUR.

mapmen.lnk.to

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Jay Foreman @jayforeman.bsky.social · 2d

Would you be interested to watch a video we made all about why we have 32 boroughs, why they’re the size they are and whether or not the system works?

youtu.be/_T_0FYHn0I0

What's wrong with London's boroughs?

YouTube video by Jay and Mark

youtu.be

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Jay Foreman @jayforeman.bsky.social · 2d

THERE IT IS!!!! 😃

Thank you @optimalcynic.bsky.social.

Sometimes I love the internet.

Optimal Cynic @optimalcynic.bsky.social · 2d

Relevant bits

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Jay Foreman @jayforeman.bsky.social · 2d

Ah, sadly not likely, actually. It finished in 1989. I’d have been too young to remember this.

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Jay Foreman @jayforeman.bsky.social · 2d

Oooh…. POSSIBLY. That’s potentially brought me one step closer to being able to properly Google this.

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Jay Foreman @jayforeman.bsky.social · 2d

Anyway, enough waffling, the point is….

Do YOU remember this? Did this happen? Did I dream it? Did I remember it right?

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Jay Foreman @jayforeman.bsky.social · 2d

I remember very clearly being surprised and amused that the country had been split along the unusual east/west rather than north/south axis - possibly to achieve something more arbitrary and eliminate a perceived cultural difference between the two sides.

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Jay Foreman @jayforeman.bsky.social · 2d

On one side of the nation, a very very brief subliminal flash of an image of the same woman with a big beaming smile had been shown beforehand. And the other side got nothing. The programme was trying to experiment with whether this would affect the vote.

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Jay Foreman @jayforeman.bsky.social · 2d

At the end, they revealed that there was a geographic split in how the nation voted, because, unbeknownst to us viewers, the east and west sides of the country had been shown a slightly different programme.

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Jay Foreman @jayforeman.bsky.social · 2d

They had this feature where they showed a woman’s face in an ambiguous Mona Lisa like expression and asked the nation to phone in and vote whether she was smiling or not smiling.

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Jay Foreman @jayforeman.bsky.social · 2d

I have a very specific memory of a thing from TV from about 1992-1994…? that’s very hard to Google.

It was a show like Tomorrow’s World. Possibly Tomorrow’s World, but I seem to remember it being a Tomorrow’s World knock off, like How Do They Do That? Either way, it was BBC1 on a weekday evening.

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Jay Foreman @jayforeman.bsky.social · 5d

I think “driveway” and “parkway” are named the wrong way round.

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Jay Foreman @jayforeman.bsky.social · 5d

Loved this video! Thanks!

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Jay Foreman @jayforeman.bsky.social · 5d

Fuck.

A multicoloured umbrella hat (including green) in front of a green screen.

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Jay Foreman @jayforeman.bsky.social · 6d

Last chance to buy the Map Men book HALF PRICE today from Amazon Prime! ⏰

Jay Foreman @jayforeman.bsky.social · 7d

Ssssh.... don't tell anyone.... but if you buy the Map Men Book today from Amazon Prime, it's HALF PRICE!

www.amazon.co.uk/This-Way-Up-...

This Way Up: The brilliantly entertaining debut book from everyone’s favourite YouTube geographers

Buy This Way Up: The brilliantly entertaining debut book from everyone’s favourite YouTube geographers by Map Men (ISBN: 9780008710279) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

www.amazon.co.uk

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Jay Foreman @jayforeman.bsky.social · 7d

Yep! lnk.to/mapmen to choose your favourite retailer.

THIS WAY UP

Go to THIS WAY UP.

lnk.to

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Jay Foreman @jayforeman.bsky.social · 7d

Depending on the shipping costs, you might still have been able to get it cheaper from a US store. But more than happy for you to get the UK version. (Don’t tell anyone, but there are slightly more gags on the “all rights reserved etc” page in the UK version)

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Jay Foreman @jayforeman.bsky.social · 7d

Buy seven. Friends and family.

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Jay Foreman @jayforeman.bsky.social · 7d

This is very temporary! If you like paying half price for things, I’d do this as now as possible if I were you. (No pressure)

Jay Foreman @jayforeman.bsky.social · 7d

Ssssh.... don't tell anyone.... but if you buy the Map Men Book today from Amazon Prime, it's HALF PRICE!

www.amazon.co.uk/This-Way-Up-...

This Way Up: The brilliantly entertaining debut book from everyone’s favourite YouTube geographers

Buy This Way Up: The brilliantly entertaining debut book from everyone’s favourite YouTube geographers by Map Men (ISBN: 9780008710279) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

www.amazon.co.uk

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Jay Foreman @jayforeman.bsky.social · 7d

And thirdly, there’s a PDF attachment with the maps so you can look at them when you’re not driving or trying to fall asleep.

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Jay Foreman @jayforeman.bsky.social · 7d

The audiobook is a brilliant way to consume this book. Firstly, Mark and I read it ourselves. Secondly, it’s a book full of stories ABOUT maps, so unlike a road atlas, you don’t need to see the maps to understand and enjoy it….

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