Fun with maps
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@boomzilla Where are the ones who claim it rhymes with "prune"?
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@da-Doctah In the fire pits of Hell, where they belong.
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Just a few weeks ago, the United States grew in size by 1 million square kilometers (more than 386,000 square miles) – that’s almost twice the area of Spain. The unexpected growth spurt was not the result of strange geological forces, nor the invasion of a foreign land, but the States attempting to lay claim to its surrounding ocean-floor territory.
I approve.
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@Zecc Well, seems you did not RTFA.
Because it tells us that the US has not ratified that agreement regarding the continental shelf extension, and so other UN member will likely show the US a simple
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@Zecc So then New Zealand claims the rest of the Zealandia continental shelf, growing by 4.5 million square kilometres in the process, and declares war on France because it now includes New Caledonia.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Fun with maps:
@Zecc Well, seems you did not RTFA.
The only thing which was not a link to or a direct quote from TFA was "I approve. ", which was barely semi-serious. Also, I posted this in Fun with maps, not one of the news threads. So I'm not sure what you're referring to.
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@LaoC Wait. So nobody answered "Drunk"?
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@LaoC "Why is [Montenegro] so... N/A?"
@da-Doctah said in Fun with maps:
Wait. So nobody answered "Drunk"?
Everyone knows why that is! Because they are Poor/Happy/Green.
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@boomzilla I kinda half wish Chicago really was part of Texas. There'd be a lot less BS going on there.
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@HardwareGeek
Can we get Texas or Florida to annex the western portions of New York there too?
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@HardwareGeek said in Fun with maps:
@boomzilla I kinda half wish Chicago really was part of Texas. There'd be a lot less BS going on there.
Or there would be a lot more BS going on in Texas...
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@dkf said in Fun with maps:
@HardwareGeek said in Fun with maps:
@boomzilla I kinda half wish Chicago really was part of Texas. There'd be a lot less BS going on there.
Or there would be a lot more BS going on in Texas...
Steers and queers point to yes.
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@dcon
seems a gross underrepresentation
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@dkf said in Fun with maps:
@HardwareGeek said in Fun with maps:
@boomzilla I kinda half wish Chicago really was part of Texas. There'd be a lot less BS going on there.
Or there would be a lot more BS going on in Texas...
And BIGGER!
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Just found another collection of weird German place names:
Testicle Heights - Lederhose - Upper Poo (municipality of Myouchie)
Fucking Mills - Fuck Farm - Wankenhouse, suburb of Intestine City
Gift of God - Upper Ugly - Dog Air
Vomiting - Pissing - Petting
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@LaoC Hundeluft is better still if you speak Dutch, because it comes across as “Dog Smell” (de Luft = nl lucht, which means not only “air” or “sky” but also “smell” or “scent” [de Geruch, Duft], and in combination with something that smells, almost always the latter).
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Pretty sure on the meme, but these tweets are recent:
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@Atazhaia said in Fun with maps:
@Zerosquare said in Fun with maps:
Greatest, or worst?
That's two different maps. The bad one the video is about is 149 years older than the one the BBC article is about.
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@Bulb But if I hadn't I wouldn't have had any reason to post more Map Men and that would be a loss for everyone.
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Looking at the map from the article, it gets Scandinavia completely wrong and Finland, Sweden, Norway, Iceland and Greenland are all one big landmass. And it's not nice to Iceland.
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@LaoC Here in Arizona, where someone periodically demands that all official signage be in English only, we have a town called Eloy. That's from the words of Jesus on the cross, and translates as OMG!
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@da-Doctah said in Fun with maps:
we have a town called Eloy.
I stayed overnight in the Motel 6 there when I was moving to Texas. AFAICT from Google Maps, the Eloy Motel 6 has a Casa Grande address, despite being (just barely) inside the Eloy city limits.
Arizona, where someone periodically demands that all official signage be in English only
That's amusing, given that half of the official place names are Spanish.
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@HardwareGeek said in Fun with maps:
That's amusing, given that half of the official place names are Spanish.
Such as "Arizona"
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@HardwareGeek said in Fun with maps:
@da-Doctah said in Fun with maps:
Arizona, where someone periodically demands that all official signage be in English only
That's amusing, given that half of the official place names are Spanish.
And the other half are Native American. Tucson, for instance, is O'odham for "black foothill".
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@Atazhaia said in Fun with maps:
Iceland and Greenland are all one big landmass. And it's not nice to Iceland.
Is that why Iceland has more green than Greenland and Greenland has more ice than Iceland?
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@da-Doctah said in Fun with maps:
that all official signage be in English only
pffff ... hold my
No it's not only French/Dutch combo's ... we don't forget about our third language. But no Police or park for the Flemish and and Germans can keep their rubbish.
Orange signs are normally deviations but this one is pointing a small portion of scrambled eggs ...
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@Luhmann said in Fun with maps:
Germans can keep their rubbish
Containerpark is a German word too. However, going by Wikipedia it’s not common and the few pages that do contain it, use it in the context of a container port rather than for a place to bring your household waste to. I’d say chances are that in de-BE, it’s a calque from Dutch or perhaps French.
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@Luhmann said in Fun with maps:
Orange signs are normally deviations but this one is pointing a small portion of scrambled eggs ...
That's worth having signage for. Good scrambled egg is surprisingly uncommon...
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@dkf the sign says "omelette," not "scrambled eggs."
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@remi Good too, unless it has mushrooms.
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@remi said in Fun with maps:
@dkf the sign says "omelette," not "scrambled eggs."
Omelette is just the fancy schmancy Europeen word for scrambled eggs.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in Fun with maps:
@remi said in Fun with maps:
@dkf the sign says "omelette," not "scrambled eggs."
Omelette is just the fancy schmancy Europeen word for scrambled eggs.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in Fun with maps:
@remi said in Fun with maps:
@dkf the sign says "omelette," not "scrambled eggs."
Omelette is just the fancy schmancy Europeen word for scrambled eggs.
They are similar, but not the same. Scrambled eggs are mixed in the pan during frying, making small lumps, while for omelette they are mixed before pouring in the pan and left to fry still, making an egg pancake.
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@boomzilla I did hear something about volcanic eruptions in Iceland, but I had no clue they were strong enough to move it so far south!
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@boomzilla And now do the next map:
"Will you as a guest at someone's house become food?"