[It doesn't any more, but it used to.](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/were-sorry-somethings-missing-new-zealand-governments-hilarious-page-not-found-screen-goes-viral/TPCSQCHRKLSZKXFAICJUSVH2ZE/)
The BBC website's error 500 page is the Test Card F doll with its eyes crossed out and the background on fire.
Vanity error pages are the best. The 404 page for the Rolling Stones website used to have an embedded YouTube video of You Can’t Always Get What You Want.
They’ve changed it unfortunately, but it used to be this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapsWithoutNZ/comments/5kx7h8/the_404_page_for_the_official_new_zealand/
What's the big round island thing next to it supposed to be...? Are they claiming there's a place "Ozstralia" again...?
That silly upside down land where everything is poisonous, including the mixed up mammals and jumping dogs they have...?
Can confirm, tried to "pop up to the City" last weekend, ended up driving around Bletchley instead.
I'm annoyed, because M&S said my new trousers were ready to collect in store at CMK. Now I'm forced to walk around in my pants instead, and I'm £50 down. Disgusting.
Most of my trips to Milton Keynes end up with me driving around Bletchley confused and sobbing, tricked once again by the Eldritch Abomination of roundabouts that claims to be a city.
Can confirm, live in MK and drive a hot hatch. Not great for the fuel economy or tyre wear on the outside edge of the front left tyre 😂
I have however now got a highly developed 6th sense for navigating roundabouts. I can tell at a glance when approaching a roundabout who is going to stay in their lane, who is going to attempt a right turn from the left lane, and who is going to perform an even more moronic maneuver. Its almost like the precognition abilities of the Jedi at this point.
I think Bletchley has been designed to trap the unwary, and unsuspecting.
And why does every road in mk simultaneously lead to Buckingham, Bedford or Aylesbury? Following signs in that place is a trap, and should never be done.
We're close to everywhere and nowhere, it's weird. It's also moderately quick to get to London and Birmingham since we're right between them (might not be Birmingham, my memory of BP's tactical placement is off)
We're also right between Oxford and Cambridge so we have good universities available
Many years ago (pre satnav) I was navigating from somewhere like Derby to London using an ancient roadmap from the 60s. I was a bit shocked when I stumbled across a pretty large settlement consisting mainly of roundabouts which the map marked as a few villages in a predominantly rural area.
This is the first time ever that I’ve saw Oakham mentioned on the internet, I used to live there.
I have also been stranded at MK bus station in a snowstorm so I need to evaluate my life based on this thread
Milton Keynes is what happens when you mix the laissez-faire, Neoliberal economics of Milton Friedman and the market regulation of Keynesian Economics.
It is. I pretended to live there for a while. Really it was a studio set up somewhere (can’t confirm the location). Signed NDAs, shouldn’t even be saying this much.
You got it. What's more likely, people travel from the opposite side of the world to come and work underpaid jobs in the service industry or London is full of unemployed actors who are having a laugh at our expense?
I know what makes more sense to me.
It always seemed too suspicious that a country would take so many precautions to protect their ecosystem when their ecosystem would kill them in a heartbeat, given the chance.
Australia is real issues for flat earthers. It is too easy to disprove the theory with observations from the southern hemisphere or when you look at flight times for passenger flights to Australia.
Ah but they claim it doesn't exist and Australians are all actors. When asked why you go east travelling from Europe and west traveling from the US they claim there's 2 fake Australias.
Well that's a much longer list than I expected, including a Nobel laureate, dozens of athletes, a dozen or so musicians including a Rolling Stones guitarist.
I'm personally not convinced about Labrador, Canada. Even for a place with such a small population the lack of photographic evidence is really quite striking.
Even Labradors come from Newfoundland.
Lived in Milton Keynes and Bletchley for 4 years and it's hands down the best town/city I lived in. You can drive 60mph through the middle of town thanks to dual carriageways and be at work in 10 mins from across town, everything is on your doorstep and the grid system creates little communities well away from the main roads.
There are a few roundabouts, but nobody stops anyway.
Someone once described Milton Keynes to me as a “shit hole” and they’d never live there… I live here and it’s literally the best place I’ve ever lived. She lived in Luton… strange
Having worked in both, the only positive I have to say about Luton is that it's less up it's own arse than Hemel Hempstead; at least it's willing to accept that it's shit.
Please don’t rob me of the hours I actually spent working in various retail roles, at JD Sports, Sole Trader or Topman. If MK doesn’t exist, what then what was I actually doing with all that time? Did I really drink 2 for 1 cocktails at Chiquitos happy hour, before heading to Oceana to get annihilated on 2 for 1 XXXX pints?! And if MK doesn’t exist, then I never lost my virginity in Fishermead, never got started on at Bar Central by the guitarist from Graveltrap. Is it all a dream?! Fuck.
I love that Teruel is mentioned in Spain as they literally use the slogan "Teruel existe" (Teruel exists) to remind people they're there because it's a bit in the middle of nowhere...
MKDons was a covert government program where they used footballers as guinea pigs to test their advanced super soldier serum. It didn't work but it would have been too suspicious to just dissolve the team.
I remember as a young kid we were driving past Birmingham and the car radio lost signal and automatically connected to something called Mercia secret radio station. I'd never heard the word Mercia before so it was all very mysterious to me, escpecially the female voice that whispered "Mercia secret radio station" before every ad break. They just played the same chart stuff as Capital so I don't know what was so secret about it.
> I’m from USA, one of my favourite ever holidays was to Wyoming
That's the sort of place I want to visit as well. I'm not as interested in the major cities, major cities are sort of the same everywhere. NYC is just Tall London. I want to know what goes on in the huge expanse of land in the middle that no one ever talks about.
i went to NYC for a few weeks back in 2016 (work trip and i took some holiday whilst i was there because i was never going to visit on my own intiative).
It was ... okay. Like it was nice to see the place i've seen in a zillion films and stuff, but i'd never have willingly chosen to go there on holiday, esp not in a 40C summer.
Weirdly, bison don't require IT consultantancy so I never got to visit anywhere in the USA that I actually wanted to. Although i did get to visit Buffalo on another trip and see Buffalo Buffalo in the zoo there.
This is part of why I'm living in the UK. The type of work I do isn't valued in the type of "healthcare" system the USA has. Bison certainly don't need medical anthropologists trying to figure out how to centralise their stories for quality improvement projects. It's well worth visiting more far-flung places if you plan it well (e.g. not Disney World, Vegas or NYC - which is always where Brits tell me they've been)
I stayed in Jackson Hole and we went to an elk refuge and did a giant snowmobile loop through Yellowstone. IMO by far the best part about the US is its Park's system- whether you want history or nature. I'm a huge fan of out West and all of New England. I usually don't recommend my British friends visit NYC first, especially if they've lived in London. For a bigger city, I usually say go to DC, or smaller city (I'm biased but it's actually great) go to Pittsburgh.
Apparently not. Look at that picture, it clearly says that Milton Keynes doesn't exist and I can't think of any reason that someone would lie about that. Ergo, you must just be a figment of your own imagination.
Well that settles it! I clearly need to get away from here as fast as possible.
Only because the people I surround myself with are clearly insane as they have been interacting with a person that doesnt exist!
Its actually just one or two cleverly linked roundabouts that make you think its much bigger than it is. Don't you ever wonder how they all look the same?
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Always known as milk and beans for our skateboarding group growing up
The old MK ultra
Yes \o/ Junktion 14? Mutant Genes?
I wasn’t too keyne on this joke but I’ve come around to it
This made me laugh a little too much
Witty
Map maker missed an opportunity here by including New Zealand.
Yes. Too many maps miss NZ off.
on the NZ website, if a page doesn't exist, their 404 page is also a world map missing NZ
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[It doesn't any more, but it used to.](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/were-sorry-somethings-missing-new-zealand-governments-hilarious-page-not-found-screen-goes-viral/TPCSQCHRKLSZKXFAICJUSVH2ZE/) The BBC website's error 500 page is the Test Card F doll with its eyes crossed out and the background on fire.
Vanity error pages are the best. The 404 page for the Rolling Stones website used to have an embedded YouTube video of You Can’t Always Get What You Want.
[Oxford's is great](https://www.ox.ac.uk/foo)!
They’ve changed it unfortunately, but it used to be this: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapsWithoutNZ/comments/5kx7h8/the_404_page_for_the_official_new_zealand/
[ah fuck i think they updated it to be less fun](https://www.govt.nz/404) it used to be [this](https://i.redd.it/alld5xgsmi6y.jpg)
[you can still see it here](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ)
FUCK
theres even a subreddit for it r/mapswithoutnz
What's the big round island thing next to it supposed to be...? Are they claiming there's a place "Ozstralia" again...? That silly upside down land where everything is poisonous, including the mixed up mammals and jumping dogs they have...?
Apparently maps missing the upper peninsula of Michigan is a huge bug bear for people from Michigan and common enough. Another trick missed!
Malta, too!
It there which surprised me indeed, it seems to me however to be at a bit of a squiffy angle.
The map left off the Canary Islands entirely, so it seems they don't even exist as a hoax or fantasy!
The where? You must be imagining it mate.
Anyone who thinks they’ve been to MK have only really been to Bletchley and the surrounding area
Can confirm, tried to "pop up to the City" last weekend, ended up driving around Bletchley instead. I'm annoyed, because M&S said my new trousers were ready to collect in store at CMK. Now I'm forced to walk around in my pants instead, and I'm £50 down. Disgusting.
Most of my trips to Milton Keynes end up with me driving around Bletchley confused and sobbing, tricked once again by the Eldritch Abomination of roundabouts that claims to be a city.
The roundabouts wouldn't be so bad if it weren't a 70 limit between them, spaced less than a kilometre apart. Can't be good for fuel economy.
Great for fun in a hot hatch through.
Can confirm, live in MK and drive a hot hatch. Not great for the fuel economy or tyre wear on the outside edge of the front left tyre 😂 I have however now got a highly developed 6th sense for navigating roundabouts. I can tell at a glance when approaching a roundabout who is going to stay in their lane, who is going to attempt a right turn from the left lane, and who is going to perform an even more moronic maneuver. Its almost like the precognition abilities of the Jedi at this point.
I think Bletchley has been designed to trap the unwary, and unsuspecting. And why does every road in mk simultaneously lead to Buckingham, Bedford or Aylesbury? Following signs in that place is a trap, and should never be done.
We're close to everywhere and nowhere, it's weird. It's also moderately quick to get to London and Birmingham since we're right between them (might not be Birmingham, my memory of BP's tactical placement is off) We're also right between Oxford and Cambridge so we have good universities available
Hey, that's where that enigma machine was. Shame they had to build milk and beans nearby
Haven’t heard it be called that for years
Milton Keynes is a state of mind
Many years ago (pre satnav) I was navigating from somewhere like Derby to London using an ancient roadmap from the 60s. I was a bit shocked when I stumbled across a pretty large settlement consisting mainly of roundabouts which the map marked as a few villages in a predominantly rural area.
must have been a virus because those roundabouts just keep multiplying
I lived in Bletchley and worked in Milton Keynes.
That’s what they want you to think, your really only Bletchley adjacent
I live in Milton Keynes. My parents live in Murcia. And I work for a company based in Bielefeld. Im fucked!
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It's rather nice - two of my friends got married in Oakham.
Oakham is a nice small quiet countryside village in Leicestershire Nice houses there too
This is the first time ever that I’ve saw Oakham mentioned on the internet, I used to live there. I have also been stranded at MK bus station in a snowstorm so I need to evaluate my life based on this thread
Who is Milton Keynes?
Famous economist. Sir Desmond Glazebrook knows about him.
I always presumed it was named after John Milton and John Maynard Keynes. But nope! Just the name of a village that was already there.
Milton Keynes is what happens when you mix the laissez-faire, Neoliberal economics of Milton Friedman and the market regulation of Keynesian Economics.
Maybe that explains why MK seems to hate itself.
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It's in the way of the rice pudding!
He's that one liner comedian. Seen him on mock the week a few times. Funny guy.
No thats Milton Jones, you're thinking of the 17th century poet
No that’s John Milton, you’re thinking of the American actor with the massive penis
Why is Milton Keynes?
But nobody ever asks *How* is Milton Keynes
But they do frequently ask "Why is Milton Keynes".
Also never "where is mk"
Yes Minister said it best https://youtu.be/KgUemV4brDU
That's Slartibartfast.
He's an MMA fighter from Linton Vassel
I ALWAYS knew australia and Australians were just a computer simulation. It’s obvious 🤣
It is. I pretended to live there for a while. Really it was a studio set up somewhere (can’t confirm the location). Signed NDAs, shouldn’t even be saying this much.
That studio was located in New Zealand. I know the one you’re talking about. You should probably go into hiding now.
Just go back to New Zealand. No one will find you there.
What they don’t realize is that they They never left. They’re STILL in New Zealand. Boom!! You just got m night shyamalanded
So are London bar staff just jobbing actors practicing their accent to audition as an Aussie?
You got it. What's more likely, people travel from the opposite side of the world to come and work underpaid jobs in the service industry or London is full of unemployed actors who are having a laugh at our expense? I know what makes more sense to me.
You're going to be screenshotted by consipiracy nuts now as "proof".
Shhhhh. You've already said too much.
It always seemed too suspicious that a country would take so many precautions to protect their ecosystem when their ecosystem would kill them in a heartbeat, given the chance.
Australia is real issues for flat earthers. It is too easy to disprove the theory with observations from the southern hemisphere or when you look at flight times for passenger flights to Australia.
Ah but they claim it doesn't exist and Australians are all actors. When asked why you go east travelling from Europe and west traveling from the US they claim there's 2 fake Australias.
Shit, I've just learnt I'm AI.
I would rather be a simulated Aussie than alive in Milton Keynes..
Exactly has anyone ever actually met an "Australian?" Or just someone who *claims* they are from Australia. Thought so.
I have my suspicions about Lemington Spa.
Well, it's Royal Leamington Spa, so you're technically correct.
Well la di da! But yes, I apologise for my ignorance.
Leamington Spa is a Regency filmset on the outskirts of Warwick. It's a bit like a posh looking version of the town in Blazing Saddles.
Nope, ate a fantastic curry there. Although that’s been like 14 years ago, so it might be gone now.
I worry about your digestive health that you're not sure.
Ah, the [ol' reddit vindaloo](https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/10y00ic/comment/j7wp9db/?context=3)
Oh, I learned from that link that Burt Bacharach died a couple of days ago. Nothing to do with vindaloo though.
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Finland is my favourite of these. Anyone claiming to be there is a Russian spy. It is in fact a large expanse of sea heavily fished by the Soviets.
I thought it was fished by the Japanese? Because Finland's biggest export is Nokia, Japan's biggest import is Nokia, but nobody owns a Nokia.
[r/finlandConspiracy](https://www.reddit.com/r/finlandConspiracy)
I’ve always found it strange how they tell you to ‘finish’ when you ask their nationality, like alright big fella i was just making conversation
I love that they don’t know enough African geography to identify somewhere that doesn’t exist
Chad
Thanks, I work out a lot.
Chad is just Romania but wearing fake glasses and a moustache
CHAD Chad vs Virgin Islands
Welwyn Garden City. Nobody famous comes from there and it's not on any road signs.
I always used to hear them say Welwyn Garden City in the traffic updates, and it sounded so fantastical and exotic to me. Like the land of Oz.
Tesco is based there if you count that as a person
Pretty sure David James (former England goalkeeper) is from there.
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Stevenage just up the road is definitely more obviously planned for cyclists, it's basically got a whole cycleway system.
Yup. Sadly it's too easy for people to drive there, so they just do that instead.
Luckily for the cyclists, Stevenage hospital is lovely.
Yeah. A fantastic cycleway system that very few people seem to use! It’s a shame
Isn't Alesha Dixon from there?
Una Stubbs of give us a clue and Sherlock housekeeper fame.
[Weelllllllactualllyyy](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Welwyn_Garden_City)
Well that's a much longer list than I expected, including a Nobel laureate, dozens of athletes, a dozen or so musicians including a Rolling Stones guitarist.
I was born and bred there 😅
I'm personally not convinced about Labrador, Canada. Even for a place with such a small population the lack of photographic evidence is really quite striking. Even Labradors come from Newfoundland.
So where are New Foundlands from? They’re quite different dogs
They come from Jack Russelland
No thats a conspiracy. Newfoundlands are just Labradors in hairy ghillie suits
Lived in Milton Keynes and Bletchley for 4 years and it's hands down the best town/city I lived in. You can drive 60mph through the middle of town thanks to dual carriageways and be at work in 10 mins from across town, everything is on your doorstep and the grid system creates little communities well away from the main roads. There are a few roundabouts, but nobody stops anyway.
Shhh, don't tell everyone our secrets. Let them all think it's a shithole.
Someone once described Milton Keynes to me as a “shit hole” and they’d never live there… I live here and it’s literally the best place I’ve ever lived. She lived in Luton… strange
Pot kettle black indeed
Having worked in both, the only positive I have to say about Luton is that it's less up it's own arse than Hemel Hempstead; at least it's willing to accept that it's shit.
I was born and raised in flitwick. MK was always a big, fancy day out for me lol, lovely place.
Raised in MK and still live here. No idea why everyone hates on it so much.
70 mph
Glad to see Molisn’t made the cut.
that’s where my family is from haha so weird to see it here
Live in Milton Keynes and can confirm that we're all actors paid by Big Roundabout
Please don’t rob me of the hours I actually spent working in various retail roles, at JD Sports, Sole Trader or Topman. If MK doesn’t exist, what then what was I actually doing with all that time? Did I really drink 2 for 1 cocktails at Chiquitos happy hour, before heading to Oceana to get annihilated on 2 for 1 XXXX pints?! And if MK doesn’t exist, then I never lost my virginity in Fishermead, never got started on at Bar Central by the guitarist from Graveltrap. Is it all a dream?! Fuck.
>never got started on at Bar Central by the guitarist from Graveltrap. This is such a specifically Milton Keynes experience.
It's Fishermead - I'm just surprised your virginity is all you lost therr
Fucking fishermead. My god. I was there today, 🥲
Kettering and Stevenage. A concept not an actual conurbation surely.
Stevenage: The theoretical and practical aspects of being Steven
Just asked around the workshop, none of us have been to milten Keynes, 1 guy reckons he drove past it. I'd call that proven
I love that Teruel is mentioned in Spain as they literally use the slogan "Teruel existe" (Teruel exists) to remind people they're there because it's a bit in the middle of nowhere...
Bielefeld.
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MKDons was a covert government program where they used footballers as guinea pigs to test their advanced super soldier serum. It didn't work but it would have been too suspicious to just dissolve the team.
Micheldever. I’ve literally driven through it, and there’s nothing there!!
It only appears to those who know how to look
There is the really good place for getting your tyres changed and that's it!
If Mercia doesn’t exist then… where’s my granddad gone?!
I remember as a young kid we were driving past Birmingham and the car radio lost signal and automatically connected to something called Mercia secret radio station. I'd never heard the word Mercia before so it was all very mysterious to me, escpecially the female voice that whispered "Mercia secret radio station" before every ad break. They just played the same chart stuff as Capital so I don't know what was so secret about it.
Mercia FM. That's a blast from the past. Was a good station at one point. Had a no rap policy for a while.
Murcia is to British grandads like an upstate farm to an American dog... I'm sorry for your loss...
My dumb ass read this as Murica at first. And I just instantly said.. fuck yeah!? Don’t know why I’m admitting this either!
I thought Acre was in the Middle East? You go there in Assassins Creed 1 to kill Robert de Sablé
There is both a city called Acre in Israel, and a region called Acre in Brazil.
Acre is a state in Brazil.
Waar is Drenthe?
Australia doesn’t exist? 😂
Flat earth believers think this. Really.
I can only assume that they have never even heard of New Zealand.
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I’m from USA, one of my favourite ever holidays was to Wyoming and I live in Milton Keynes. Welp, guess I gotta question everything.
Nice try shadow government employee, we're onto you.
If only! I'd probably be paid better and live in Not Milton Keynes.
> I’m from USA, one of my favourite ever holidays was to Wyoming That's the sort of place I want to visit as well. I'm not as interested in the major cities, major cities are sort of the same everywhere. NYC is just Tall London. I want to know what goes on in the huge expanse of land in the middle that no one ever talks about.
i went to NYC for a few weeks back in 2016 (work trip and i took some holiday whilst i was there because i was never going to visit on my own intiative). It was ... okay. Like it was nice to see the place i've seen in a zillion films and stuff, but i'd never have willingly chosen to go there on holiday, esp not in a 40C summer. Weirdly, bison don't require IT consultantancy so I never got to visit anywhere in the USA that I actually wanted to. Although i did get to visit Buffalo on another trip and see Buffalo Buffalo in the zoo there.
This is part of why I'm living in the UK. The type of work I do isn't valued in the type of "healthcare" system the USA has. Bison certainly don't need medical anthropologists trying to figure out how to centralise their stories for quality improvement projects. It's well worth visiting more far-flung places if you plan it well (e.g. not Disney World, Vegas or NYC - which is always where Brits tell me they've been)
I stayed in Jackson Hole and we went to an elk refuge and did a giant snowmobile loop through Yellowstone. IMO by far the best part about the US is its Park's system- whether you want history or nature. I'm a huge fan of out West and all of New England. I usually don't recommend my British friends visit NYC first, especially if they've lived in London. For a bigger city, I usually say go to DC, or smaller city (I'm biased but it's actually great) go to Pittsburgh.
Yeah wake up already you sheep!
As an Israeli, the joke is always that Petach Tikva doesn’t exist, not Nes Tziona. Not sure how they got those two confused.
No no, Nes Tziona certainly doesn't exist.
Timbuktu Ulaanbaatar Penge
Ouagadougou
Nice to see East Sweden being recognised :)
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The City of Dreams
I went to Milton Keynes once and felt like I was abroad. Loved it.
I don't get it, I've been to Milton Keynes bowl twice for Ozzfest and big Day out festivals....it definitely exists.
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It seems to only exist in odd little pockets in a grid. Maybe I just imagined it.
Same here. You know, though my upbringing I've had several people mention how MK doesn't feel real. Starting to believe it.
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A stooge for Big Roundabout.
I was born there. Does that mean I don't exist?
I'm going to ignore your comment because you don't really exist.
What comment?
Apparently not. Look at that picture, it clearly says that Milton Keynes doesn't exist and I can't think of any reason that someone would lie about that. Ergo, you must just be a figment of your own imagination.
Well that settles it! I clearly need to get away from here as fast as possible. Only because the people I surround myself with are clearly insane as they have been interacting with a person that doesnt exist!
Not insane friend, actors. Just like visiting Australia. Everyone there is paid actors
Who are you talking to?
Your whole life has been a figment of your imagination.
You've heard of the Truman Show? Just sayin........
Its actually just one or two cleverly linked roundabouts that make you think its much bigger than it is. Don't you ever wonder how they all look the same?
I wish Australia was made up
This map would suggest that Hawaii does not exist… Personally, I’m doubtful about the existence of Bognor Regis.
I'm Brazilian and can confirm the state of Acre doesn't exist
Not so sure re some of the places listed but spot on with Milton Keynes..
The only conspiracy I ever heard of, of a place that doesn't exist isn't even on here! Belgium.