Fun with maps
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@da-Doctah said in Fun with maps:
The wining pair, for those now wondering, was San Jose.
Drinking on the job, eh?!
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@Gribnit said in Fun with maps:
@da-Doctah said in Fun with maps:
The wining pair, for those now wondering, was San Jose.
Drinking on the job, eh?!
Naw, eating pretzels. The crumbs get down in the keyboard and sometimes double letter keypresses don't register.
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@da-Doctah said in Fun with maps:
@Gribnit said in Fun with maps:
@da-Doctah said in Fun with maps:
The wining pair, for those now wondering, was San Jose.
Drinking on the job, eh?!
Naw, eating pretzels. The crumbs get down in the keyboard and sometimes double letter keypresses don't register.
Once the ecosystem takes off whatever grazers take root will take care of that.
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@El_Heffe said in Fun with maps:
The International Date Line. I'm sure politics had absolutely nothing to do with this.
Did you know the Date Line is redrawn every so often?
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@hungrier said in Fun with maps:
@Zecc Not pictured: Springfield, Springfield, Springfield, Springfield, Springfield, Springfield, Springfield, Springfield, and Springfield. Not to mention Springfield, Springfield and any other Springfields I may have missed
Bitch please.
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@Gąska said in Fun with maps:
Did you know the Date Line is redrawn every so often?
No, I didn't know that. But it doesn't surprise me. I'm sure the governments in the area are always looking for some perceived benefit (tourism, political, whatever).
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Speaking of place names and International Date Line, it seems Kiribati-ians (?) don't have a lot of imagination.
That looks like the setup for a joke. A British, a French, a Pole and a (???) are on a boat and they discover an island...
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@remi I've read the location names left-to-right, and I audibly snorted when I reached Banana. It caught me by surprise.
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@Zecc I had initially zoomed in more than that on the picture and was browsing through several other names (nothing unusual, either local-sounding ones or generic stuff like Cook Island or Pelican Lagoon) and I was smiling at finding London/Paris/Poland and then chuckled when discovering Banana.
The Wikipedia article says most names come from a time at the beginning of the 20th century when the island was lent to a French priest (and coconut tree cultivator), hence Paris (where he had his house, and which is now abandoned) and Poland (because one of his employees was Polish... that priest guy clearly had not a lot of imagination!). Banana apparently comes from the nuclear tests era, with no more details given.
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@Zecc said in Fun with maps:
@remi I've read the location names left-to-right, and I audibly snorted when I reached Banana. It caught me by surprise.
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@Gąska said in Fun with maps:
Bitch please.
Nowa Wieś (meaning "new village")
Ah, so that's the Polish geographic equivalent of
New folder (27)
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@Gąska said in Fun with maps:
Did you know the Date Line is redrawn every so often?
Every time the page refreshes, yes.
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@Zerosquare said in Fun with maps:
@Gąska said in Fun with maps:
Bitch please.
Nowa Wieś (meaning "new village")
Ah, so that's the Polish geographic equivalent of
New folder (27)
.Yes. And the German version is "Neustadt", often with an "Altenstadt" (old town) nearby.
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@dkf said in Fun with maps:
@Gąska said in Fun with maps:
Did you know the Date Line is redrawn every so often?
Every time the page refreshes, yes.
Even if you don't refresh it's redrawn, 60 times per seconds (or more!)
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@Gąska said in Fun with maps:
Even if you don't refresh it's redrawn, 60 times per seconds (or more!)
Or less.
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@remi said in Fun with maps:
Speaking of place names and International Date Line, it seems Kiribati-ians (?) don't have a lot of imagination.
That looks like the setup for a joke. A British, a French, a Pole and a
(???)monkey are on a boat and they discover an island...
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@BernieTheBernie said in Fun with maps:
Yes. And the German version is "Neustadt", often with an "Altenstadt" (old town) nearby.
Along the same line, a lot of places (in France, but not only) have a "Pont Neuf" ("new bridge"), and it's usually one if not the oldest (surviving) bridge of those places.
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@Gąska said in Fun with maps:
@dkf said in Fun with maps:
@Gąska said in Fun with maps:
Did you know the Date Line is redrawn every so often?
Every time the page refreshes, yes.
Even if you don't refresh it's redrawn, 60 times per seconds (or more!)
Wasteful. Also false, if you're using a proper e-ink display like a responsible person.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Fun with maps:
Yes. And the German version is "Neustadt", often with an "Altenstadt" (old town) nearby.
At least here in the Netherlands, we had actual new land to build places with names like that.
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@Gurth said in Fun with maps:
@BernieTheBernie said in Fun with maps:
Yes. And the German version is "Neustadt", often with an "Altenstadt" (old town) nearby.
At least here in the Netherlands, we had actual new land to build places with names like that.
But then there's a number of places which were named after the polder they're in which was named after the lake it was originally. I'm trying to remember if there are any places whose name ends in a synonym for -lake.
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@PleegWat Zoetermeer? Watergraafsmeer?
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@boomzilla The bit in the middle should be marked SUPER LARGE DEATH VALLEY: NOBODY GOES HERE.
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@dkf said in Fun with maps:
@boomzilla The bit in the middle should be marked SUPER LARGE DEATH VALLEY: NOBODY GOES HERE.
Australia or USA?
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@boomzilla said in Fun with maps:
A cyclist used GPS to draw a gigantic 66-mile-large
I was pleasantly surprised it wasn't what I thought it's going to be.
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@Gąska That's been done before:
I also found this, that I didn't know about the Ever Given (the ship that got stuck in the Suez Canal):
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@hungrier The later was plausibly accidental though; they were sailing in circles (they were over deep water, so no anchor possible, and they need to move to have some control) and just happened to make them like this.
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Blood soup seems horrible.
Why waste blood on soup instead of a nice sausage or pudding?
Pancakes? Now I'm curious.
Okay, now I'm hungry. I think I'm going to the cupboard and grab one of these:
The Mealworm Bite - Fig and Orange is a protein bar made from a fantastic mixture of fig and cereals ending with a fresh orange flavor.
The protein source of this product comes mostly from the inclusion of insects (mealworms) in its formulation, thus making this product incredibly tasty, nutritious and essentially sustainable.
Edit: I just realized this is Fun with Maps I should have turned left to Nope You Eat It.
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@boomzilla Waht happened with Scotland? No more Haggis?
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@BernieTheBernie Maybe the author didn't consider it that awful … conflicts with considering black pudding awful though; if black pudding is awful, haggis should be doubly so.
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@Bulb said in Fun with maps:
@BernieTheBernie Maybe the author didn't consider it that awful … conflicts with considering black pudding awful though; if black pudding is awful, haggis should be doubly so.
I tried to find a Japanese translation for "haggis" when I was studying the language in community college. The best I was able to come up with was 裏返しの羊 ("urugaeshi no hitsuji"), which literally spells "inside-out sheep".
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May I suggest adding this to the "Nope, you eat it" thread? I would really like to hear what's wrong with Lard or Salted Pig Fat (also, what is the difference)?
The Swiss one, however, really made me laugh :-)
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@Kamil-Podlesak Switzerland does appear to have the worst and most abhorrent taste in food according to that map, yes.
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in Fun with maps:
May I suggest adding this to the "Nope, you eat it" thread? I would really like to hear what's wrong with Lard or Salted Pig Fat (also, what is the difference)?
The Swiss one, however, really made me laugh :-)
I would totally try deep fried pizza.
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Liver paste doesn't quite have the same ring to it as foie gras.
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@Zecc Foie gras, if you didn't know what it is, sounds like something you might eat. Liver paste, however, belongs in that other thread.
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@HardwareGeek said in Fun with maps:
Liver paste, however, belongs in that other thread.
The Cooking thread? Yes.
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@dkf Not the thread I was thinking of, but if you like it, you eat it.
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@HardwareGeek
the nope I eat it one?
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in Fun with maps:
May I suggest adding this to the "Nope, you eat it" thread? I would really like to hear what's wrong with Lard or Salted Pig Fat (also, what is the difference)?
The Swiss one, however, really made me laugh :-)
Lard is a byproduct of cooking. Salted fat (salo) is raw fat.
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@loopback0 Of course, you've also got to consider that the official Greater London is drawn a lot tighter in on the city than that area for Greater Tokyo. That's why comparing cities according to their official area is so difficult; there's no consistency at all for what is included and what is not.
It's more comparable with London+South East, and in many ways (including both total area and conceptual dominance of the main city).
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With holiday season pseudo-approaching, what better occasion to explore summer time in Australia?
Five different time zones; delightful.
So if you love Christmas, or somehow need more excuses to get drunk on New Year’s, you can experience either three times in a row, each half an hour after the last, by just hanging around either place where the borders of Queensland and South Australia meet those of the NT or NSW. Alternatively, hang around WA/NT/SA for a bit more breathing time between.
If you’re feeling really adventurous: hang around the north-west corner of NSW, then once midnight hits “just” cover a couple hundred kilometres across SA to make it to QLD in an hour, then divert west to the NT for a fourth midnight in a single span of one and a half hours. That then leaves another 90 minutes for the final stretch to WA.
(For anyone perplexed by the multitudinous offsets: the tropics don’t believe in DST. For a group that has by necessity all gone troppo, this seems remarkably level-headed.)
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@kazitor I am more perplexed by the rare half-hour offset.