7 Strange Google Street View Sights (UK)
Since it kicked off here in the UK a few weeks ago, Google Street View has courted controversy with the residents of a Buckinghamshire village, Broughton, who refused to be photographed, and the privacy lobby who say that the service is against human rights.
Here at Zath towers however, we prefer to focus on the fun and beneficial side of the mapping tool. Here’s the top seven strange sights we’ve found so far as you take a virtual stroll round these fair isles…
1) How us British love to queue! We’ll even queue for nothing!
2) Paddington Bear in Trafalgar Square!
3) My worst fear, being run over by a cyclist!
4) The Stig relaxes in the office in Shepherd’s Bush!
5) Lambeth’s traffic cops remove an illegally parked car!
6) Despite the recession, business must be booming for certain types of plastic surgery!
7) And the holy grail, a Google in-joke – Where’s Wally?…in Putney!
Zath: This was a guest post from geetarchurchy, if you liked what he had to say, be sure to check out more of his great writing over at his blog; The Seldom Seen Kid.
Via – Google Sightseeing
Related Pages:
- Google Street View (UK) To Get ‘Path View’
- Google Street View (UK) Cleared Of Privacy Concerns
- Google Street View (UK)
- Google Street View (UK) Goes Live
- Google Street View Update – Smart Navigation
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Comments: 18
8:39 pm 26th April, 2009
Last time I was in London I saw a guy dressed as Wally walking through King’s Cross tube station. Maybe he was just some guy or maybe he was a real Wally involved in some kind of Googlated PR…who knows? (He probably does)
Comments: 174
8:54 pm 17th May, 2009
It does make you wonder doesn’t it – you work for Google, what are you doing today? Oh I’m being paid to dress up as Wally and appear at random places for people to then try and find me on the Internet!
Now that’s different!
Comments: 1
7:01 pm 23rd May, 2009
It’s not where’s Wally! It’s where’s Waldo!
Comments: 1
9:38 am 24th May, 2009
I thought it was Waldo. Not Wally.
Comments: 18
12:04 pm 26th May, 2009
Wally in the UK! Waldo in North America
Comments: 1
9:59 pm 1st June, 2009
its not “where’s wally?”
its “Where’s Waldo?”
get it right.
Comments: 1
10:47 pm 2nd June, 2009
Jack, bj735, and jennxsomething,
There is a reason some people can’t stand Americans, and I understand where they’re coming from even though I am American myself. The book is titled “Where’s Waldo” in the U.S., but it is titled “Where’s Wally” in the UK. Since this is a .uk website AND the picture of Waldo or Wally is in the UK, they are right in saying he is Wally. I believe you should check your facts before falsely correcting people.
Comments: 1
2:23 pm 3rd June, 2009
even after david bradley stated its where’s wally in THE UK, you still insist its wrong…americans : /
Comments: 18
4:20 pm 3rd June, 2009
Google.com in the USA shows 1,020,000 hits for “where’s Wally” and a mere 395,000 for “where’s Waldo”, so even the majority of Americans seem to think his real name is Wally even if there’s this impostor out there called Waldo.
Comments: 1
5:35 am 4th June, 2009
Imagine if we could put forth the time we’ve wasted arguing over Wally/Waldo towards something more constructive…
I know! We could read real books! Crazy, I know.
Comments: 18
9:49 am 4th June, 2009
The idea that the character is called Wally in the UK also ties in with a 1980s defamatory term in Brit speak where tabloid newspapers and kids alike would refer to an ineffectual, accident prone, socially inept person as “a wally”. I guess the equivalent in the US would be dork or the Yiddish word klutz
Comments: 18
11:43 am 4th June, 2009
You think the time was wasted…? Wow? I thought we were here for fun and games, that’s never a waste of time.
Comments: 1
3:35 am 14th June, 2009
Where’s Wally? (titled Where’s Waldo? in the United States and Canada) is a series of children’s books created by the British illustrator Martin Handford.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where%27s_Wally%3F
Brits win this one
Comments: 1
5:41 am 18th June, 2009
@anon
I suppose you think it’s okay to generalize the population of an entire country based on a few posts on a single website, right? Not cool. Criticize the person, not the population.
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1:07 pm 25th June, 2009
In Ireland it’s ‘where’s whisky’ naw I’m kidding it’s Wally, I suppose they changed it for the yanks because Wallace was not a name that travelled well into the new world, oh yeah and cos they’re stupid!
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2:05 pm 24th July, 2009
It’s not that I hate Americans, it’s just that when some of you (I say some, not all) choose to open your big fat french fry yappers you do it in such an authoritive knowitall kind of a way that It makes me kind of hate all of you and your egocentric, ‘america rules the world’ culture, I’m pretty sure I’m not alone on that one.
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10:31 am 8th September, 2009
I nearly typed up a lengthy diatribe in defense of the majority of Americans, struck with a strange sense of patriotism, but then I realized my comment would be in response to a man dubbed “jazzballs” and figured it was better left unsaid.
And beside, generalizing any large, artificial grouping of people – whether it be by religion, race, nationality, musical taste – is something we need to move past. I really hate to go into the whole “Judge the person, not the race/creed/etc. kinda thing, but when it comes down to it that’s the way it truly is.
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9:24 am 30th September, 2009
My mate was born in Scotland and moved to the states when he was 7. One day at School his geography teacher stated that the capital city of Scotland IS Glasgow, my mate corrected him and the teacher gave him detention and continued to teach the class that Glasgow is Scotland’s capital city.
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10:48 am 6th October, 2009
Wally I think you’ll find the capital city of Scotland is London!!