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# London, according to Microsoft...

This is an unretouched screenshot from Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002. I guess they were too busy wiping off the World Trade Centre to worry about putting the right building in right place in London...
(I helped save b3ta! bnt what, me worry?, Wed 8 Jan 2003, 9:59, archived)
# Oooohhh!
Is London really covered in gooey black tar stuff?
(I helped save b3ta! Mystery_Bob, Wed 8 Jan 2003, 10:01, archived)
# that's the snow
ricin + smog + icy stuff = black gunk
(I helped save b3ta! new_matt, Wed 8 Jan 2003, 10:03, archived)
# it will be soon
if the tarmacadam terrorists take hold.
*mwahahaa and they think it's snow - hahahahaha
(I helped save b3ta! Fat Boab of dailyreckless.com fame, Wed 8 Jan 2003, 10:04, archived)
# it is...
... on Sunday mornings, after the hobos have been crawling their way through Covent Garden, spewing from every orifice...
When you're tired of London, you're tired of life. I lived there for 8 years, and I'm probably going back.
(I helped save b3ta! bnt what, me worry?, Wed 8 Jan 2003, 10:06, archived)
# i moved out of london
cos i was sick of it. give me 6 months, i'll be back
(I helped save b3ta! new_matt, Wed 8 Jan 2003, 10:09, archived)
# I've only been to London once...
...for 1 day and it was enough. Sorry.

Personally I think if you're tired of B3ta, then you're tired of life. At least tired of the interweb.
(I helped save b3ta! Mystery_Bob, Wed 8 Jan 2003, 10:10, archived)
# *yawns*
...
...
...
...

*dies*
(I helped save b3ta! Dr Phil Kitten, Wed 8 Jan 2003, 10:11, archived)
# i lived there for 6 or 7 years
i'd probably have stayed but most of my chums left and/or got married with kids and wouldn't come out to play any more
(I helped save b3ta! new_matt, Wed 8 Jan 2003, 10:12, archived)
# i don't like london
it's too big.
i'm a scared owl.
(I helped save b3ta! mnb098mnb used to be here, Wed 8 Jan 2003, 10:15, archived)
# Eep!
(afrayed, Wed 8 Jan 2003, 10:19, archived)
# I'm
not normally claustrophobic or anything like that but the first time I went to London as an adult... (passing through one evening trying to find Kings Cross)... I got rather flustered and had what I can only describe as a panic attack. It's alright at daytime but at night all them buildings loom in at you. Scary!
(I helped save b3ta! armaitus Sheep Casings!, Wed 8 Jan 2003, 10:30, archived)
# oooh
london is a muddy flat witha few scattered buildings around?

I must have been SO DRUNK last time I was there, because I don't remember it like that...
(I helped save b3ta! Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Wed 8 Jan 2003, 10:01, archived)
# not the half of it...
... I mean, shouldn't that dome-shaped carbuncle be a few miles further east..?
(I helped save b3ta! bnt what, me worry?, Wed 8 Jan 2003, 10:02, archived)
# yes.
that too.
(I helped save b3ta! Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Wed 8 Jan 2003, 10:04, archived)
# Who cares about a piddly little village like London
I'm more worried about whether they put the Buttermarket in the right place in Ipswich!
(I helped save b3ta! mnb098mnb used to be here, Wed 8 Jan 2003, 10:01, archived)
# checking...
... no. Sorry.
(I helped save b3ta! bnt what, me worry?, Wed 8 Jan 2003, 10:08, archived)
# is holmfirth in it?
(just to the left of huddersfield, you know a bit further over to the left from leeds)

you'll know it by the old men careering around in bathtubs on wheels...
(I helped save b3ta! new_matt, Wed 8 Jan 2003, 10:15, archived)
# one of the missions
is to bomb holmfirth post office.
allegedly
(I helped save b3ta! mnb098mnb used to be here, Wed 8 Jan 2003, 10:17, archived)
# good
i always had to queue up for hours behind doddery old pensioners to get my dole.
(I helped save b3ta! new_matt, Wed 8 Jan 2003, 10:19, archived)
# That's
one tiny target...

So what have they got against Huddersfield/Holmfirth then?

Huddersfield Defence League
(I helped save b3ta! armaitus Sheep Casings!, Wed 8 Jan 2003, 10:32, archived)
# don't know what microsoft have
but i used to live in holmfirth. gah!
(I helped save b3ta! new_matt, Wed 8 Jan 2003, 10:35, archived)
# its
like a hell of narrow roads, Sid's Cafe and the only way out of it is either up steep hills or into Huddersfield... where I still live...
(I helped save b3ta! armaitus Sheep Casings!, Wed 8 Jan 2003, 10:42, archived)
# not unlike Bradford then
when I was there it was like an elephants graveyard for reliants

so much for fookin 'ard nerverners pah ! :oP
(I helped save b3ta! FlanFlinger 🥧, Wed 8 Jan 2003, 10:17, archived)
# it's an allusion
to the greatest tv series ever. holmfirth is home to "last of the summer wine"

*wiggly reminiscence* ahh, nora batty's stockings...compo's ferrets...
(I helped save b3ta! new_matt, Wed 8 Jan 2003, 10:20, archived)
# calm down
deeeeeeep breaths
(I helped save b3ta! FlanFlinger 🥧, Wed 8 Jan 2003, 10:22, archived)
# yeth
and i'm only thikthteen
(I helped save b3ta! ablufia v0.43 - have your face drawn, Wed 8 Jan 2003, 10:23, archived)
# the fear!
the stockings!
(I helped save b3ta! bnt what, me worry?, Wed 8 Jan 2003, 10:53, archived)
# one of my abiding memories
of bradford is of watching a car drive past with no tyres and no windows. and that was one of the more well mantained vehicles
(I helped save b3ta! Spoon, Wed 8 Jan 2003, 10:35, archived)
# you what?
huddersfield's not in there either.
(I helped save b3ta! bnt what, me worry?, Wed 8 Jan 2003, 10:51, archived)
# I just sent that
around the office... even our shitty low-polygon model of london is better than that heap of poo.

And we've got the dome in the right place :)
(I helped save b3ta! chthonic, Wed 8 Jan 2003, 10:02, archived)
# Well...
You can make FS2002 put more buildings in, but just generic buildings. The designers only put a few landmark buildings in properly. I can see why, can you imagine doing that for every major city in the world?
With some they just don't bother, e.g. Melbourne, Johannesburg, etc.
(I helped save b3ta! bnt what, me worry?, Wed 8 Jan 2003, 10:32, archived)
# I can see my house from here :)
another repost, sozz again, then I MUST fuck off :)
(I helped save b3ta! Hugo Rune, Wed 8 Jan 2003, 10:03, archived)
# As
long as you can crash into the 'Eastenders' set I'd be happy !
(I helped save b3ta! ablufia v0.43 - have your face drawn, Wed 8 Jan 2003, 10:10, archived)
# Toughie that...
...seeing as it's in Borehamwood.
(I helped save b3ta! Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Wed 8 Jan 2003, 10:14, archived)
# bugger !
i was led to beleive (via my eyes) that those cheeky cockney fuckpigs were in London - can I crash a plane into Borehamwood (what an appropriate name for Eastenders) ?
(I helped save b3ta! ablufia v0.43 - have your face drawn, Wed 8 Jan 2003, 10:17, archived)
# No, on account of...
..wiping out the entire cast of Grange Hill too.

Oh, go on.
(I helped save b3ta! Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Wed 8 Jan 2003, 10:21, archived)
# OK
killing two really annoying TV shows with one plane sounds good to me...
(I helped save b3ta! ablufia v0.43 - have your face drawn, Wed 8 Jan 2003, 10:22, archived)
# Gosh!
I go through there every day!

Bomb it, then I won't be able to get to work.
(Amerella, Wed 8 Jan 2003, 10:23, archived)
# anywhere you like
On September 12, 2001, you can guess what half the FS2000 users in the world were doing. Sky News picked up on the fact that the terrorists used FS2000 as part of their "training", and asked "should we ban it?". Idiots.
Last week I crashed a 747 into the Capitol in Washington DC, as per the ending of Tom Clancy's "Debt Of Honor". Why? Dunno.
(I helped save b3ta! bnt what, me worry?, Wed 8 Jan 2003, 10:24, archived)
# There's nothing finer
than standing outside the Houses of Parliament admiring the Dome.
(I helped save b3ta! routine has perfected burgers, Wed 8 Jan 2003, 10:44, archived)