Moar downtime? who was playing with bots again?
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Unless my momory fails me at least.
It's a fairly interesting and diverse area. The county includes decent-sized mountains, multiple military bases, deserts, remote wooded areas, etc.
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so is it that my memory failed me or not?
i may be running on far to little sleep today...
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i may be running on far to little sleep today...
Today appears to be a really bad day for everyone here.
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servers fell over went boom on saturday.
was not good weekend.
also you didn't answer my question.
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I'm not quite sure.
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that's something at least.
also... it's 15th by population, 22nd by area. my memory is full of lies!
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Interesting. The Phoenix-Mesa metro area is ranked 12th both ways.
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big state, tiny cock.
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big state, tiny cock.
TDEMSYR
I've never understood the sort of people who watch others and say, "Oh, he's just doing that to compensate for his tiny dick." Sounds like sour grapes on their part for both things.
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What it amounts to is that it seems only Americans give the slightest fuck about the relative size of their states. Or countries, indeed; you won't find a frenchman proudly extolling the fact that France has 5 times the area of the UK. Perhaps it's just a cultural thing, something to do with having little to no history and no actual roots.
Filed under : Or perhaps it's just that you overpondians all have tiny, tiny, cocks.
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Filed under : Or perhaps it's just that you overpondians all have tiny, tiny, cocks.
not having one at all i guess i only really care for ironic reasons, and so that i can use the sizes of places to push the buttons of those that annoy me.
i cna be remarkably evil like that.
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It probably has more to do with the fact that everyone drives. When you drive a car, you can get a better sense of distance and size. Riding an airplane or a train just doesn't do that justice, because you aren't paying attention. We have much better highway systems, too.
Your small (geographically and demographically) countries aren't nearly as interesting as ours for many reasons.
Filed under : Or perhaps it's just that you overpondians all have tiny, tiny, cocks.
Indeed.
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The rule is simple. If "it is" works, use the apostrophe. Otherwise don't. It's a contraction.
I actually know the rule. Pronouns, as powerlord guessed, don't take apostrophes on the possessive form, where nouns do. "The rolling car crushed its frame" vs "Blakeyrant's reputation is for humorlessness and pendantry."
Should You Use Its, It's, or Its'?
Its, it's, or its' -- which is it? These letters can cause a lot of confusion, but once mastered, the choice is simple.
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my actual real face on the other hand... good luck finding a picture of that, you'll need it.
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why do you think i have murdered every picture of me i can find?
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Your small (geographically and demographically) countries aren't nearly as interesting as ours for many reasons.
Funny thing. When I was working in the US, most of my colleagues identified as being "German" or "Italian" or "Irish", despite the fact they (or, probably, any of their living relatives) had never been back to the "old country", and in the non-anglophonic cases, didn't spicka da lingo. Strangely, though, hardly any admitted to being "English", there's probably some sort of tea-boston-related thing going on there.
The US is interesting, though, at least sociologically speaking.
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Is this like that scene in The Princess Bride where Fezzik tries to guess why the Dread Pirate Roberts wears a mask?
Are you deformed? Were you burned by acid as a child?
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When I was working in the US, most of my colleagues identified as being "German" or "Italian" or "Irish", despite the fact they (or, probably, any of their living relatives) had never been back to the "old country"
That mostly occurs because any family that has been in the states for a while is some form of ethnic mutt and so we use those identifiers as "majority from this area"/"most recent immigrants from that area". It's one of those things that means different stuff due to different assumed context.
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Funny thing. When I was working in the US, most of my colleagues identified as being "German" or "Italian" or "Irish", despite the fact they (or, probably, any of their living relatives) had never been back to the "old country", and in the non-anglophonic cases, didn't spicka da lingo. Strangely, though, hardly any admitted to being "English", there's probably some sort of tea-boston-related thing going on there.
Most English ancestry is too old to be remembered by most families. And by now most people have at least some non-English in there.
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most of my colleagues identified as being "German" or "Italian" or "Irish"
that's a trend that confuses the hell out of me
Are you deformed? Were you burned by acid as a child?
thanks for that boost to my self esteem. no on both counts. good day to you sir.
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indeed; you won't find a frenchman proudly extolling the fact that France has 5 times the area of the UK.
I highly doubt that is true.
Well it's true, but only on the technicality that I don't know French.
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Back in college, I had a RA named Cesar who claimed to be Scottish, and got upset when I made fun of Braveheart.
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That pisses me off too. We've been independent long enough that it's Ok to JUST BE AMERICAN, guyz.
If people ask me what "creed" (I guess?) I am, I say American. And fuck any American who doesn't. (Unless they're a recent immigrant, then they get a pass.)
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that's a trend that confuses the hell out of me
Identity politics is all the rage. If you aren't something hip and trendy, might as well use what you got.
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If people ask me what "creed" (I guess?) I am, I say American.
"Creed" is about religion. Maybe you were thinking ethnicity?
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Whatever. Point is, fuck everybody who says German when their great, great, great grandfathers were bombing the Kaiser. And I'm sure their great, great, great grandfather would say the same. Except with more charming Victorian lingo.
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Yeah, my German ancestors all came over in the 19th century, though my wife's great grandfather was in the Kaiser's army and apparently jumped ship in NY in the early 20th. She also has Scottish ancestors who came over in the 17th century to survey NJ.
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She also has Scottish ancestors who came over in the 17th century to survey NJ.
"Even now, in the 17th century, this area sucks ass. It would be a good place to put endless tacky strip malls, once those are invented!"
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But at least it doesn't rain every single day like the far west.
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thanks for that boost to my self esteem.
Did you not see The Princess Bride
Also, whoooosh?
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But at least it doesn't rain every single day like the far west.
You mean right up against the coast? You get 150 miles or so from the coast, and it dries out fairly quick. I grew up in south-central Washington, and we got something like 4-5 inches of rain per year. The area is actually considered "semi-arid".
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You mean right up against the coast?
Mostly I meant a stereotype. And of course I was referring to Seattle.
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Seattle is on the Sound, not on the coast. PEDANTIC DICKWEEDERY.
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Seattle is on the Sound, not on the coast. PEDANTIC DICKWEEDERY.
PEDANTIC DICKWEEDERY UPSMANSHIP. I never said it was on the coast.
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PEDANTI-- ... shit you're right.
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Seattle is on the Sound, not on the coast. PEDANTIC DICKWEEDERY.
Many people consider the land along the Puget Sound to be part of the coast. Of course, according to @blakeyrat, those people are worse than useless idiots, right?
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Many people consider the land along the Puget Sound to be part of the coast.
Many people believe a lot of wrong things.
Look west. Do you see nothing but ocean? You're on the coast. Do you see land? You ain't. It's pretty easy.
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Look west. Do you see nothing but ocean? You're on the coast. Do you see land? You ain't. It's pretty easy.
Those on the east coast may disagree with this assessment. Also there are places like Anchorage that are coastal, but not directly on the main portion of the ocean.
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What if that land is an island? Or a peninsula? According to @blakeyrat's shitty logic, you cannot be on the coast, regardless of your true situation.
@blakeyrat's shitty logic further claims that you can only live on a coast if the ocean is to your west. If the ocean is to your east, north, or south you don't live on the coast.
Seattle is protected from major ocean surges by the Olympic Peninsula. This does not mean it isn't a coastal city. Because it is.
PEDANTIC DICKWEEDERY
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It's pretty easy.
There, maybe. Depending on where you are standing, you can be standing on the coast looking east in Florida and still see land.
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Look west. Do you see nothing but ocean? You're on the coast. Do you see land? You ain't. It's pretty easy.
There's being on the coast and being on the coast. Locally, if you aren't beachfront, you aren't on the coast. To most people, Seattle is close enough to count as coastal, geographical pedantic dickweedery be damned.
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geographical pedantic dickweedery be damned.
Why? Seattle is on the ocean. It is a coastal city.
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Why? Seattle is on the ocean. It is a coastal city.
I was also making a larger point not limited to Seattle.
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accalia:
thanks for that boost to my self esteem.Did you not see The Princess Bride
just because it was a reference to a popular movie does not make it funny.
I did not find it funny in the slightest, so thanks for that.
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I did not find it funny in the slightest, so thanks for that.
Ugh. Well, I'm sorry if I upset/offended you. It was only intended to be a joke.
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What's the difference between San Diego city and San Diego County?
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HTML comment with answer above this lineIt's San Francisco city and County that are the same. Unique in California.
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It's interesting that the definition they use results as San Francisco-Oakland and San Jose being listed separately. I think most locals would consider them all to be part of a single urban area.
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But at least it doesn't rain every single day like the far west.
It doesn't rain every single day in the far west. Just most of them.
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There's being on the coast and being on the coast.
There's also the difference between being on the open ocean and being on the coast of a bay or sound. Puget Sound is technically part of the Pacific Ocean (thus Seattle is indeed coastal), but other than being salty water, is different in almost every possible way from being on the coast of the open ocean — weather, population, culture.
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