Fun with maps
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@Bulb said in Fun with maps:
When the other options are mozarella, gorgonzola, camambert and parmigiano, cheddar is the closest one to ‘generic cheese’.
Now that's rather locale dependent.
Also now I am sad over lactose intolerance. Might have to make my own pizza with non-bovine cheese at some point in the future.
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@Bulb said in Fun with maps:
Cheese is a base ingredient. You normally start with Marghareta, that is sugo and mozarella, and then add toppings. The cream-based options have greater variation of which cheese is included, but it is very rare that there isn't any.
Base ingredients are flour, water, and yeast.
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@Captain said in Fun with maps:
@Bulb said in Fun with maps:
Cheese is a base ingredient. You normally start with Marghareta, that is sugo and mozarella, and then add toppings. The cream-based options have greater variation of which cheese is included, but it is very rare that there isn't any.
Base ingredients are flour, water, and yeast.
If the evolution of "macaroni" and "cheese" is anything to go by, so are modified polyurethane starch, yellow cake as stabilizer and pennies flavoring based on hydrofluoric acid esters
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@topspin said in Fun with maps:
@HardwareGeek still don’t know if that means “sausage” is something like salami or pepperoni, which belongs on a pizza, or something like hot dog wieners, which absolutely do not.
When I read “sausage” as a pizza topping there, I pictured whole sausages on top of a pizza — and only then decided that probably isn’t what’s meant. But it did remind me of the old Pizza Tycoon game in which you could put a whole lobster on a pizza.
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@dkf said in Fun with maps:
@LaoC said in Fun with maps:
yellow cake as stabilizer
The Do Not Want thread is
That's what I meant, but Gboard turned it into two words. Just like "permitted" turned into "pennies" 🤪
Once the text is taller than the viewport you basically type blind on mobile
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@Gurth said in Fun with maps:
When I read “sausage” as a pizza topping there, I pictured whole sausages on top of a pizza — and only then decided that probably isn’t what’s meant.
Reminds me of the time a British online acquaintance of mine heard about the US Southern delicacy of "sausage, biscuits and gravy" and tried to reproduce it from the name alone. For "sausage" he used frankfurters, for "biscuits" some kind of sugar cookie digestive thing, and for "gravy" something like Bisto.
Needless to say he did not find the results appetizing.
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@da-Doctah said in Fun with maps:
@Gurth said in Fun with maps:
When I read “sausage” as a pizza topping there, I pictured whole sausages on top of a pizza — and only then decided that probably isn’t what’s meant.
Reminds me of the time a British online acquaintance of mine heard about the US Southern delicacy of "sausage, biscuits and gravy" and tried to reproduce it from the name alone. For "sausage" he used frankfurters, for "biscuits" some kind of sugar cookie digestive thing, and for "gravy" something like Bisto.
Needless to say he did not find the results appetizing.
Yeah on the face of it "sausage, biscuits and gravy" sounds weird in Britain. But not once actually looking into what it is.
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@da-Doctah said in Fun with maps:
Reminds me of the time a British online acquaintance of mine heard about the US Southern delicacy of "sausage, biscuits and gravy" and tried to reproduce it from the name alone. For "sausage" he used frankfurters, for "biscuits" some kind of sugar cookie digestive thing, and for "gravy" something like Bisto.
Needless to say he did not find the results appetizing.
I have no idea what that dish is supposed to be, nor what “Bisto” is, but to me it does not exactly sound like a delicacy either …
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@Gurth There's definitely sausages which work with gravy but the biscuits confuse me. Maybe some form of toast?
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The "biscuits" are basically scones and the gravy is different and made with pork sausages.
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@Gurth said in Fun with maps:
I have no idea [...] what “Bisto” is
Lucky you. It's instant standard gravy, and used by far too many people as a replacement for making a gravy using the juices that came out of the meat during roasting (which isn't very difficult and usually makes a much nicer result).
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@loopback0 said in Fun with maps:
The "biscuits" are basically scones and the gravy is different and made with pork sausages.
Also the liquid to make the gravy is milk.
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@HardwareGeek said in Fun with maps:
@LaoC Yeah, but he's ian. He thinks poutine is a normal pizza topping.
I've never had poutine on a pizza, but I wouldn't say no if it was offered
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@hungrier Q.E.D.
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Geography facts that remind you of WTD
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@PleegWat said in Fun with maps:
@Bulb said in Fun with maps:
When the other options are mozarella, gorgonzola, camambert and parmigiano, cheddar is the closest one to ‘generic cheese’.
Now that's rather locale dependent.
Also now I am sad over lactose intolerance. Might have to make my own pizza with non-bovine cheese at some point in the future.
Goat cheese pizza is quite common in some places. Usually with Rucola topping.
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in Fun with maps:
@PleegWat said in Fun with maps:
@Bulb said in Fun with maps:
When the other options are mozarella, gorgonzola, camambert and parmigiano, cheddar is the closest one to ‘generic cheese’.
Now that's rather locale dependent.
Also now I am sad over lactose intolerance. Might have to make my own pizza with non-bovine cheese at some point in the future.
Goat cheese pizza is quite common in some places. Usually with Rucola topping.
That does sound like a reasonable combination.
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@da-Doctah said in Fun with maps:
@LaoC said in Fun with maps:
1931?
This some kind of metric system thing?
The false earth calendar is 10 years ahead of the true earth's calendar because of the great conspiracy of the roundacists.
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@da-Doctah said in Fun with maps:
@LaoC said in Fun with maps:
1931?
This some kind of metric system thing?
Dude, you're presented with The Truth™ and think you have to haggle plus or minus a decade or so? Typical sheeple.
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4 24 hour days per cube of time. Do you people know nothing?
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@LaoC Why is there such an atrocious amount of artifacts in that image, though?
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@Gurth said in Fun with maps:
@LaoC Why is there such an atrocious amount of artifacts in that image, though?
Probably posted half a dozen times and screenshotted to JPG for repost each time
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Our world map. but as if drawn in a Lord of the Rings style: (Zoom and pan around to get the full effect)
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@pcooper Cool! It seems to be just a drawing style applied to OpenStreetMaps data, so it has all the detail you'd expect from that, right down to individual houses.
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@pcooper said in Fun with maps:
Our world map. but as if drawn in a Lord of the Rings style: (Zoom and pan around to get the full effect)
It does not match the style all that well. It still shows the topography with shading and contours, like a normal modern map is supposed to, but the Lord of the Rings map shows mountains as little pictures of mountains.
And, well, the only aspect making it specifically Lord of the Rings style is the font. Otherwise the maps in the Lord of the Ring are drawn in a very typical style of maps from before topographic measurements were accurate enough to try to draw the actual terrain.
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@HardwareGeek said in Fun with maps:
it has all the detail you'd expect from that, right down to individual houses.
...and also all the usual failure modes of all (?) non-human curated maps, i.e. being unable to properly show the biggest city names.
Scrolling a bit around France I immediately found at least 4 major cities where I can't even get their name to appear, no matter how much I zoom. In 3 of those some of the suburbs tiny towns/villages are visible, sometimes at a very low zoom level. In better known places, Rome has the same issue though that's probably because there is the label for a different state (Vatican) that hides it so at least I can understand how it happened (but it doesn't make it less wrong).
(most cases would be fixed by knowing the population of places, which I think should be fairly easy to find in the Western world, and prioritise the places with more inhabitants, but I'm pretty certain it wouldn't always work)
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What’s weird is that “Brighton” doesn’t show up while many of the suburbs and “not quite towns any more” that are part of Brighton (Hove, but also Westdene, Hollingbury, Withdean, Preston, even Whitehawk) all do.
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@Arantor
Same for Bruges but then again I'm currently not In Bruges
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@Luhmann B*****m (or parts thereof) not appearing on the map is a feature, not a bug.
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@HardwareGeek
The Map disagrees and gives you a when you zoom in on Europe
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@Luhmann ?
"B e l g i u m" written over the german states of Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse, North-Rhine-Westphalia?
You are becomingmegaloxonthicmegalomaniac lately.
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@BernieTheBernie
Is that worse then Andorra taking over the North West of Spain and the South East of Spain?After the anschluss we'll be doubling the allowed joke per week per capita in the new Belgian territories.
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@Luhmann Wait a moment... Aren't we talking insensitively highly politically sensitive stuff here?
These posts should go into the European Garage !
Because the other garage is right where we left it.
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@Arantor The Brexit is
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@BernieTheBernie I was lamenting that I can only the regular Garage not the European one…
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@Arantor said in Fun with maps:
@BernieTheBernie I was lamenting that I can only the regular Garage not the European one…
You brexidentally the Garage?
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@Luhmann said in Fun with maps:
After the anschluss we'll be doubling the allowed joke per week per capita in the new Belgian territories.
2 * 0 == 0
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@Luhmann said in Fun with maps:
Andorra taking over the North West of Spain and the South East of Spain?
Does "fun with maps" include at people who can't into geography?
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@Arantor said in Fun with maps:
What’s weird is that “Brighton” doesn’t show up while many of the suburbs and “not quite towns any more” that are part of Brighton (Hove, but also Westdene, Hollingbury, Withdean, Preston, even Whitehawk) all do.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I noticed the same effect around (at least, and after a quick look around) Montpellier, Grenoble and Clermont-Ferrand. Main city isn't visible, regardless of how much you zoom in, but some tiny suburbs are.
An even bigger failure that I noticed in France is around Nancy, where neither the main city nor any of the suburbs ever shows. The city is there, you can see the streets and so on, but there's just not any label.
It's a failure mode of maps that I noticed long ago. Google Maps improved and now usually does not make that mistake, but many maps still do...
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@Bulb said in Fun with maps:
And, well, the only aspect making it specifically Lord of the Rings style is the font. Otherwise the maps in the Lord of the Ring are drawn in a very typical style of maps from before topographic measurements were accurate enough to try to draw the actual terrain.
Hmm; I thought that besides the font, it focused more on things like plains and mountains rather than populated areas, and the tilted-perspective look; but maybe I was too focused on looking at the US.