7 Strange Google Street View Sights (UK)
Written by geetarchurchy on April 21, 2009 · Filed under Funnies, Internet, Tech
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
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)
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! :)
It’s not where’s Wally! It’s where’s Waldo!
I thought it was Waldo. Not Wally.
Wally in the UK! Waldo in North America
its not “where’s wally?”
its “Where’s Waldo?”
get it right.
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.
even after david bradley stated its where’s wally in THE UK, you still insist its wrong…americans : /
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.
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.
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
You think the time was wasted…? Wow? I thought we were here for fun and games, that’s never a waste of time.
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
@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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Wally I think you’ll find the capital city of Scotland is London!!
Adam, was that sarcastic? lol
Edinburgh is Scotland’s capital!
Plus he never said what he corrected it to anyway.
nice selection you’ve got here! i wonder what we’re gonna find when street view finally starts over here in germany end of this year :-)
Does anything need correcting? I live in britan and over here it is Wally!
IT IS WALLY IN THE UK WHERE THESE PICTURES WERE TAKEN!!! THEREFORE THIS IS WWAALLLLYY…. stupid americans -_-