i'm sorry british people i am trying to learn about and understand your culture and be respectful and informed but it's very funny to have a moment that people think is a potential historical sea change moment happen in a place called "gorton and denton"

February 27, 2026 - 04:51 UTC

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It also isn't really a place, but almost like a gerrymandered congressional district, except it's not actually not gerrymandered. Denton is a white suburb, Gorton is a diverse urban residential neighborhood of Manchester.
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after i posted this i looked it up and found out that it's an area that is in the shape of a set of human lungs, which is not a coherent district shape
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No, no, we enjoy the names too.
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Big words from the country whose revolutionary war started with the Battles of Dictionary and Airplane
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she gorton on my denton til I brit.
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It's in Manchester if you want to have more fun with it
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the English think that Wales has funny place names, but they just start to seem normal once you've been here a while and you know how to pronounce a LL, Y or W.
On the other hand, I've spoken English my whole life, and English town names will never stop being hilarious.
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I see what you're saying but your country has an entire city called Gary.
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Yeah but nothing important ever happens there
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Austin is a car from the 70s

All your cities are called Fishbone, Nebraska and Electricity, Wisconsin and are called cities even though only 14 people live there and one of them is a dog.
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What?
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We're just amazed the choice came down to a racist talkshow academic, a racist corporate freak or a nice local lady who is a trained plumber and people actually went with the good choice.
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Not only that it wasn't even close. It almost restores my faith in humanity until I remember Starmer still exists.
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yeah that goes against all of my tenuous notional understanding of british politics
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Tube from Arsenal to Cockfosters always made me laugh
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Fun fact, until the last constituency boundary change, the area was known as Morrissey with Smiths, and was renamed after Malfoys two sidekicks in the Harry Potter stories
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gorton is the name of a frozen fish mascot
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denton is the name of a town in north texas
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🎶 It’s gorton and denton’s FISHermaaaaan
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wait that was the place?? I thought that's who won the election im losing my mind
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Stop. Reel in. Listen to "The Gift." Meditate and continue.
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idk what that is
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The one bad thing about this is I have to hear Americans talk about it on my feed
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it is a country that has for over a thousand years been at war with itself over whether to be whimsical or to be melnibone from the elric saga but its run by ugly people
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Oh, mate, that's nothing. Near me we have:

Warninglid
Plumpton
Pease Pottage
Blackboys
Fairwarp
Upper Dicker
Lower Dicker
The Dicker
Cocking
Lickfold
Titty Hill
Dragon's Green
Cowfold
Tarring Neville (poor Neville!)
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shitterton, home of monkey world
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that's ok
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Ding Dong, TX sends their regards

ZIP Code is 76542 btw
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Huh, I wonder if the Ding Dong Daddy From Dumas has two homes
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that rules, that's a great name for a place to have
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I thought it was where the sequel to Rocky Horror was set.
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It's an electorate, they're supposed to have shit names. I'm pretty sure the US just numbers them
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It's okay, the rest of the world doesn't even try to have any respect for the country that denies people healthcare and has a mass shooting every week.
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My fellow, I believe this is quite the overreaction for such a harmless joke. No ill will was meant by this, I'm sure.
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Thank god we didn’t have a hotly contested election in Ramsbottom
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It's better than a by election in Shitterton. (real place www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shitterton&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjv15zH3vmSAxVIWkEAHdARLLUQFnoECAwQAg&usg=AOvVaw3bZH_XXh8-e29Zis8uUK6R)
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i think they make those up on the spot to fuck with us
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There’s a Gorton in Pennsylvania and a Denton in Texas. Brits make them up just to see them get reused by Americans in the weirdest ways possible.
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🤫
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There’s never any reason to respect the British.
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Wait til you realise Weston Super Mare is not renowned for its incredible lady horses
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'Gorten and Denton' sounds like the name of series of newspaper comic strips
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We end up with odd constituency names as the MP seats are divided up broadly to give each seat a roughly similar number of constituents. Under the current woeful first-past-the-post govt electoral system we're saddled with, it's pretty fair and gives each MP a theoretically manageable workload.
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It's one of those weird constituencies where I used to live there and never heard of Gorton or Denton. Levenshulme, Longsight, and Burnage are much better known areas contained in that constituency.
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Haha, if it helps, that’s the name of the constituency, there are two separate places called Gorton and Denton (I actually don’t know if that’s better or worse)
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this guy?
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and this guy?
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at least it's not chumbley-upon-scrumplethorpe
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So inspiring to have an election in District Four, drawn to look like two snakes shagging.
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It was a let down to read through and realize this is just one seat, not 2

Gorton AND Denton. One place. Come, *on* chaps!
🙄
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It’s two adjacent places with a single MP
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Whenever I try to explain where I’m from in the UK, my husband laughs & accuses me of making it up.
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well where are you from
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Butter Cow
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greg we're finding new stuff to make out of butter every day
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