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View Poll Results: Which is further West?
Edinburgh 9 45.00%
Carlise 7 35.00%
neither 2 10.00%
Kiethd 2 10.00%
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Old 14-10-10, 12:45 PM   #1
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Default Which is further West?

Edinburgh or Carlisle?
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Old 14-10-10, 12:51 PM   #2
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Id say Carlisle is right on the same line as Edinburgh???
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Old 14-10-10, 12:52 PM   #3
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Edinburgh (assuming you are using the Greenwich meridian)
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Old 14-10-10, 12:56 PM   #4
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Carlisle 2 degrees 56 minuters west
Edinburgh 3 degrees 12 minutes west.

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Old 14-10-10, 01:02 PM   #5
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Default Re: Which is further West?

The are pretty much on excatly the same latitude... but I guess if you wanted to be really anal about it then Berlin is right
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Old 14-10-10, 01:24 PM   #6
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The are pretty much on excatly the same latitude.
Carlisle is as far north as Edinburgh? You must live south of the Watford gap.
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Old 14-10-10, 04:35 PM   #7
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The are pretty much on excatly the same latitude... but I guess if you wanted to be really anal about it then Berlin is right
Being a bit anal about it we should be talking longitude
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Old 14-10-10, 04:42 PM   #8
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well acording to google maps, and me balancing a sraight edge on the bottom of my moniter edinburgh is furthest west.
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Old 14-10-10, 09:25 PM   #9
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Neither, everybody knows Edinburgh is in the East of Scotland and where Carlisle is doesn't matter 'cos it's in Sassenach land.
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Old 14-10-10, 09:30 PM   #10
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its a trick q realised after voting D'OH

its keith D aint it
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