The lost city of Melbourne
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This is so wrong on so many levels that I don't even know where to start.
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@martijntje said in The lost city of Melbourne:
on so many levels
Someone typed an N instead of an S? That's barely even one level.
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At least they didn't put it in the middle of the Atlantic off the coast of West Africa. (You know, at 0,0.)
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@ben_lubar I was thinking more of the fact that they use Wikipedia to get the coordinates of a city. Then again, it's Microsoft and they have pulled far greater stunts in the past.
I wonder if we could move countries too this way.
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@martijntje said in The lost city of Melbourne:
I wonder if we could move countries too this way.
You could move the United Kingdom out of Europe!
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@aliceif said in The lost city of Melbourne:
@martijntje said in The lost city of Melbourne:
I wonder if we could move countries too this way.
You could move the United Kingdom out of Europe!
Can we move {insert topical country/town/location} off the planet entirely?
</PoliticalHumor>
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@Lorne-Kates It's consolation that the rest of Europe can act smug to the UK.
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@xaade to be fair, we've been acting smug to them for decades
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Why do I keep want to insert an Elric of
MelbourneMelnibone joke into this conversation?
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@Jaloopa said in The lost city of Melbourne:
acting smug to them for decades
Yeah Germany is a steady source of jokes since 1945
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@aliceif said in The lost city of Melbourne:
@martijntje said in The lost city of Melbourne:
I wonder if we could move countries too this way.
You could move the United Kingdom out of Europe!
consults map
Looks like geography might have beaten you to the punch on that one.
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@pydsigner That's why we want lots of global warming, so that we can raise sea levels and make the gap even wider by inundating as much of London as possible.
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@dkf Why not just ask the Valar to do it for you? It wouldn't be the first time.
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@ScholRLEA Probably still trying to find a Silmaril. It's not easy these days.
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@dkf said in The lost city of Melbourne:
@pydsigner That's why we want lots of global warming, so that we can raise sea levels and make the gap even wider by inundating as much of London as possible.
I guess some Dutch might not like it. Still a win-win situation, as far as I can see.
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@Jaloopa said in The lost city of Melbourne:
@xaade to be fair, we've been acting smug to them for decades
If we means French people, then you've been acting smug to everybody for centuries!
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in The lost city of Melbourne:
Probably still trying to find a Silmaril. It's not easy these days.
Have you checked on eBay?
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@kt_ said in The lost city of Melbourne:
If we means French people,
How dare you! I'm a smug Brit, the country that's been trying to be a
in the EU the entire time we've been a member, because we're obviously better than the smelly continentThe worst boss I ever worked for was a French restaurant manager. All the stereotypes; arrogant, smug, annoying accent.
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@thegoryone he was even worse and smelled of onions
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@remi said in The lost city of Melbourne:
@dkf said in The lost city of Melbourne:
@pydsigner That's why we want lots of global warming, so that we can raise sea levels and make the gap even wider by inundating as much of London as possible.
I guess some Dutch might not like it. Still a win-win situation, as far as I can see.
For a country of water management experts, there is good business in a rising sea level.
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@ben_lubar said in The lost city of Melbourne:
@martijntje said in The lost city of Melbourne:
on so many levels
Someone typed an N instead of an S? That's barely even one level.
Maybe they had to enter it in a fixed-sized modal dialog with a single line of 80-column width.
BTW, where is @blakeyrat?
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@Jaloopa said in The lost city of Melbourne:
@thegoryone he was even worse and smelled of onions
As opposed to you, who (presumably) smells of elderberries?
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@masonwheeler does that make my daughter King Arthur? And my wife a hamster?
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@Jaloopa I sort of viewed that as a general insult towards all the English k-niggits, not King Arthur specifically.
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@masonwheeler elderberries make wine, father was a drunk. Hamsters breed like rabbits, mother was a slag
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@Jaloopa said in The lost city of Melbourne:
mother was a slag
I've actually never heard that term before. The only meaning of "slag" with which I'm familiar has to do with smelting metal.
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@masonwheeler slag, slut, tart, whore, slapper, trollop, bike
There are a lot of words for women who have a lot of sex.
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@dse said in The lost city of Melbourne:
BTW, where is @blakeyrat?
Seems like he ragequit after throwing a huge fit in his NodeBB bug thread (which I muted a long time ago). Apparently, he called Ben a retard because NodeBB displays weird stuff when he uses invalid HTML, and then got mad at people who pointed out that the HTML was invalid or that he called Ben a retard.
Get some
and follow the links on his profile.
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@Jaloopa said in The lost city of Melbourne:
bike
So when they said "ride a bike or use public transportation"...
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@ben_lubar the town bike. Everyone's had a ride
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@masonwheeler said in The lost city of Melbourne:
The only meaning of "slag" with which I'm familiar has to do with smelting metal.
I think they called the aliens in Alien Nation that, too.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The lost city of Melbourne:
@aliceif said in The lost city of Melbourne:
@martijntje said in The lost city of Melbourne:
I wonder if we could move countries too this way.
You could move the United Kingdom out of Europe!
Can we move {insert topical country/town/location} off the planet entirely?
</PoliticalHumor>No, but you can move {insert group of people} to a large island between the Indian and North Pacific oceans.
fake edit: damn, that island's already been taken.
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@dkf said in The lost city of Melbourne:
@Scarlet_Manuka said in The lost city of Melbourne:
Probably still trying to find a Silmaril. It's not easy these days.
Have you checked on eBay?
There was "MAGLIONE RSI RADICATO STILE ITALICO Sweater ITALY 196Eu -30% SILMARIL- Uomo" but it was $202 + $47 postage so I decided not to buy it. Also "RSI Radicato Stile Italico Sweatshirt Tshirt Make Offer Sz L Man Greys SILMARIL" for $359 + $59 postage.
Apart from that there were only some CDs. Apparently there was at one point a band called Silmaril, which released an album called "The Voyage of Icarus".
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in The lost city of Melbourne:
Silmaril
Bands with Tolkein-names do seem like a thing.
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