How would they know?

[bigtomrodney]

Actually in Ireland they always mention the same couple of towns - Dublin, Dunleary, Bray and Baltinglass.

The thing is no-one from Dún Laoghaire would spell it Dunleary. Given the history of the town it's in bad taste anyway Also Baltinglass is a small village in the Wicklow/Dublin mountains. I would say the population of hot girls living there according to those ads is actually greater than the Baltinglass population. I'd say that just pulled some of the towns at random within a 20 mile radius of the exchange.

[fingal]

Actually in Ireland they always mention the same couple of towns - Dublin, Dunleary, Bray and Baltinglass.

The thing is no-one from Dún Laoghaire would spell it Dunleary. Given the history of the town it's in bad taste anyway Also Baltinglass is a small village in the Wicklow/Dublin mountains. I would say the population of hot girls living there according to those ads is actually greater than the Baltinglass population. I'd say that just pulled some of the towns at random within a 20 mile radius of the exchange.

On one of my 3 trips to Dub I went to Howth and had great fish and chips. I was told to pronounce it 'Hoe-t' giving the 't' a hard sound, as in 'goat'. Not sure why I'm mentioning this, apart from the fact it came up in casual conversation this weekend ... Not sure why I was discussing fish and chips! I think you got me interested by talking about hot girls.

[Freston]

I would say the population of hot girls living there according to those ads is actually greater than the Baltinglass population. I'd say that just pulled some of the towns at random within a 20 mile radius of the exchange.

Yeah, besides, I noticed all of them had American sounding names. None of them where called 'Maaike', 'Merel' or 'Roos'. And Carin is with a /K/

But it devestated my last shread of feeling the anonimity of internet. <= No I'm not that naive, but it made me wonder how they pulled it off.

[fingal]

IP addresses are quite easy to pin down to towns, but they are pretty imprecise I would think. For example, I chat on an IRC channel and I can see fairly generic information about service providers and other users. It's impressive that they can pinpoint your city.

[bigtomrodney]

On one of my 3 trips to Dub I went to Howth and had great fish and chips. I was told to pronounce it 'Hoe-t' giving the 't' a hard sound, as in 'goat'. Not sure why I'm mentioning this, apart from the fact it came up in casual conversation this weekend ... Not sure why I was discussing fish and chips! I think you got me interested by talking about hot girls.

Howth has some of the best fish and chips around. Were you down by the harbour? The fisherman there are sound. They'll usually just hand you a big bag of Cod or Haddock just for showing interest. You can get good lobster and crab there too.

You're right about the pronunciation. It's an old Nordic name for it. The original name is Binn Éadair, meaning the Headland of Etair. If anyone speaks Welsh 'Binn' is equivalent to 'Pen' or 'Penn' in welsh. The whole P/Q celt thing.

[fingal]

Howth has some of the best fish and chips around. Were you down by the harbour? The fisherman there are sound. They'll usually just hand you a big bag of Cod or Haddock just for showing interest. You can get good lobster and crab there too.

You're right about the pronunciation. It's an old Nordic name for it. The original name is Binn Éadair, meaning the Headland of Etair. If anyone speaks Welsh 'Binn' is equivalent to 'Pen' or 'Penn' in welsh. The whole P/Q celt thing.

Yes it was next to the harbour. A very simple shop with a metal counter and ... well it was sparse. But I've never forgotten those fish and chips: perhaps the best I've ever tasted. Ooops I'm off topic again.