Fun with maps
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For the definition of "embed," I guess.
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@Luhmann said in Fun with maps:
@loopback0 said in Fun with maps:
When we're taking the piss usually
Probably because of all that thee
Taking, not giving. I'm not sure which is worse though.
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@loopback0 said in Fun with maps:
Let's continue with
(edited to cope with the proficiency of reading incapability at WDTWTF)
FRIST PLACE: FESSENHEIM
and
SECNOD PLACE: LA HAGUE
with (in German, because strangely, the English version does not show a map)
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@BernieTheBernie said in Fun with maps:
and (strangely, the English version does not show a map) with
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@Zecc Exactly the map in that page is the reason why I used the German version instead of the English version.
@dcon You are - the Fessenheim map is in the first article, and the La Hague map is in the second article (but NOT in its English counterpart).
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@BernieTheBernie I thought you were posting en/de links for the same thing... I did kinda wonder why the map locations were ... off. But too is investigate any more than clicking and copying...
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@Zecc I could tell because the map has the administrative divisions.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Fun with maps:
and (strangely, the English version does not show a map) with
The English equivalent is more positioned to annoy the Irish.
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@dcon said in Fun with maps:
@BernieTheBernie I thought you were posting en/de links for the same thing... I did kinda wonder why the map locations were ... off. But too is investigate any more than clicking and copying...
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@dkf said in Fun with maps:
@BernieTheBernie said in Fun with maps:
and (strangely, the English version does not show a map) with
The English equivalent is more positioned to annoy the Irish.
The Russian one was famously built in the middle of Ukraine.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Fun with maps:
@Zecc Exactly the map in that page is the reason why I used the
I was making a remark about word length, but okay.
Filed under: explaining the joke.
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@Gustav said in Fun with maps:
@dkf said in Fun with maps:
@BernieTheBernie said in Fun with maps:
and (strangely, the English version does not show a map) with
The English equivalent is more positioned to annoy the Irish.
The
RussianSoviet one was famously builtin the middlea stone's throw from the border of Ukraine and Belorussia. Same shit almost, if it hadn't been all USSR. TBF, it wouldn't have been very useful for Russia to begin with, it supplied mostly power for Ukraine's industry (and Pu of course).
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@LaoC tell me you know nothing about USSR internal politics without telling me you know nothing about USSR internal politics.
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@Gustav said in Fun with maps:
@LaoC tell me you know nothing about USSR internal politics without telling me you know nothing about USSR internal politics.
Did they define the middle of Ukraine as being somewhere else?
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@LaoC yes. The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. As opposed to the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, another part of USSR.
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@Gustav said in Fun with maps:
@LaoC yes. The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. As opposed to the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, another part of USSR.
Oh, sorry. I was referring to these entities as "Ukraine" and "Russia" but that's obviously not correct. I don't know much about the special Soviet definition of "middle" either.
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@LaoC I admit, I didn't exactly check where Chernobyl is. Turns out it's quite far from Chernobyl memorial site that popped up on Google Maps first. Point is, it wouldn't be anywhere close to Kyiv if Ukrainians had a say in it.
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@LaoC also, Soviets have declared Poland the 5th largest economy in the world, so I wouldn't be very surprised if they said Chernobyl is the middle of Ukraine.
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@Gustav said in Fun with maps:
@LaoC I admit, I didn't exactly check where Chernobyl is. Turns out it's quite far from Chernobyl memorial site that popped up on Google Maps first. Point is, it wouldn't be anywhere close to Kyiv if Ukrainians had a say in it.
The Ukrainians were fed even more propaganda than the British, and the latter didn't object to the Magnox plants enough to keep anyone from building 26 of them right on their doorsteps, even after one caught fire in Windscale. After the first RBMK plants were built in Russia (one close to Leningrad at that), why would the Ukrainians have complained? They even kept the remaining blocks of Chernobyl running for almost 10 years after independence when the safety record was well known.
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@LaoC said in Fun with maps:
The Ukrainians were fed even more propaganda than the British
Proportionally to the hatred for their overlords, it was much, much less.
Fun fact: it was illegal in Poland to even say there's Ukraine. But I guess our discussion is getting rather garagey now.
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@Gustav said in Fun with maps:
@dkf said in Fun with maps:
@BernieTheBernie said in Fun with maps:
and (strangely, the English version does not show a map) with
The English equivalent is more positioned to annoy the Irish.
The Russian one was famously built in the middle of Ukraine.
I don't think that was a reprocessing plant, just power.
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@Gustav said in Fun with maps:
@LaoC tell me you know nothing about USSR internal politics without telling me you know nothing about USSR internal politics.
"I've not lived in a Balkan shithole."
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@loopback0 The Po or No thread is .
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@loopback0 since we're making fun of country names, here's fun fact: Polish name for Germany (Niemcy) roughly means "those who can't speak".
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@loopback0 There's also Lala-land... for the crazies among us.
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Maybe @Tsaukpaetra would have better luck if he left Phoenix and moved an hour or so southwest.
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@HardwareGeek said in Fun with maps:
Maybe @Tsaukpaetra would have better luck if he left Phoenix and moved an hour or so southwest.
That sounds like a blazing desert. Is a sort of lizard?
OTOH, sounds like a great place to get a date.
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@HardwareGeek said in Fun with maps:
Maybe @Tsaukpaetra would have better luck if he left Phoenix and moved an hour or so southwest.
He'd probably get lost and end up here:
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@Applied-Mediocrity Dateland is only 87 miles from the Gulf of California and 193 miles from the Pacific Ocean near Ensenada. If for some reason you don't want to cross into Mexico, it's 210 miles to the Pacific near the border.
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@loopback0 said in Fun with maps:
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What took you so long?
I suppose I could have shopped off a zero. But then it wouldn't be so dramatic.E:
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@Applied-Mediocrity Shirley there's an ocean 1000 miles from Dateland in some direction.
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@HardwareGeek said in Fun with maps:
@Applied-Mediocrity Dateland is only 87 miles from the Gulf of California and 193 miles from the Pacific Ocean near Ensenada. If for some reason you don't want to cross into Mexico, it's 210 miles to the Pacific near the border.
Which begs the question: Which point on earth is farthest away from any sea or ocean, and how far away is it? For point of argument, let's say it has to have significant tides.
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@PleegWat said in Fun with maps:
Which begs the question: Which point on earth is farthest away from any sea or ocean, and how far away is it?
This position is over 2,600 kilometers (1,600 mi) from the nearest coastline.
Filed under: Useless facts I have accumulated.
Edit: Although that's just counting oceans, lakes I am more unsure of.
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@PleegWat said in Fun with maps:
Which begs the question: Which point on earth is farthest away from any sea or ocean, and how far away is it? For point of argument, let's say it has to have significant tides.
I'm going to say the very middle.
But I guess you meant on the surface.
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@Zecc said in Fun with maps:
But I guess you meant on the surface.
@PleegWat said in Fun with maps:
Which point on earth
No need to guess.
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@BernieTheBernie And in Dutch, an implement:
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@Gurth And from Ronnie Barker, there's this:
"We will be speaking to the scientist who crossed a yard of ale beer glass with a Chinese vase and a chamber pot, to get a ping-pong-piddle-high-po."
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@loopback0 I was about to call foul on Rough and Ready because it's obviously intentional, but no, it's not intentional at all. In 1849, a bunch of hired gold miners were sent to form a town by none other than A. A. Townsend. It was named in
memoryhonor of the con-temporary President Zachary "Old Rough and Ready" Taylor.It's also one of the most American towns in all America, because in on April 7, 1850, following the example of the Founding Fathers, they whined about taxes being too high and declared independence as The Great Republic of Rough and Ready - which is absolutely the #1 best country name to have ever existed in all recorded history, however briefly.
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@loopback0 Having lived in Washington state, Humptulips faces strong competition from the coastal town of Sequim (pronounced "squim").
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