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Britain's "only topless beach" doesn't exist
PERVY GEEKS are being lured to a fake Cornwall beach by an Internet hoax.
A website has been built for Porthemmet beach boasting it is the largest in the county and the only one in Britain “to allow topless sunbathing.
The beach does not exist so an awful lot of Googlers who type the phrase " topless beach" and "Cornwall" are going to be disappointed.
When the Currant Bun ran an expose the site was closed down. It's back up now though.
Anyone who has tried sunbathing in Blighty would suspect that it is a hoax and, besides, the word 'emmet' is a slang for tourist in Cornwall. Anyone knows that.
The site points out "local landmarks" such as Emmet’s Head, Emmet’s Stump and Emmet’s Reef.
The website also instructs tourists not to listen to locals who do not know where the beach is, saying it is a private joke amongst locals not to tell, um, emmets.
Wikipedia has the beach mentioned so expect it to appear on EU maps soon. µ
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I must admit I got done by this. I walked into a local pub and asked the barman which way to the Eden project and he told me to follow the A30 until you see signs for porthemmet.
The signs never materialised and we of course made fools of ourselfs asking further locals where porth emmet is.
To be honest it did make us think about Cornwall from a locals point of view and why some of the Cornish are sick of Emmets. Still fair play to them for this joke, we did laugh once we figured out we'd been had.
Makes a change to see people actually having a laugh, had this happened in England there'd be a court case because an ethnic minority got offended at being called an "emmet".
I have since moved to Cornwall, it's only another 609 years to go till i get my official Cornish status.
Send people to either Black's Beach by San Diego or Rooster Rock State Park in Oregon.
Just had a look at the website and it now seems to be more about 'loseing The Game'

Quite Sureal if you read the FAQ.
lots of beaches in Britain allow topless sunbathing. Like Brighton, for example. It's not a problem. There's even a nudist beach here. Get with the times!