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11-22-2014, 11:30 PM
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Solipsist
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Kolmannessa kerroksessa
Gender: Male
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
"Craziest" correlates with "hottest residents"  ... and - with the addition of Hawaii - with "best vacation spot"
Nobody thinks much of Texas.
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11-23-2014, 12:11 AM
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A fellow sophisticate
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Cowtown, Kansas
Gender: Male
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
Texas, you are the weakest link. Goodbye.
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11-23-2014, 01:13 AM
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NeoTillichian Hierophant & Partisan Hack
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Iowa
Gender: Male
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
Why did no one pick Canada for the weirdest accent? More importantly, why doesn't Canada even show up on the map?
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11-23-2014, 10:30 PM
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A fellow sophisticate
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Cowtown, Kansas
Gender: Male
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
Canada, a pretty great state.
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11-23-2014, 11:05 PM
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Fishy mokey
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Furrin parts
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
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11-26-2014, 03:17 PM
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A fellow sophisticate
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Cowtown, Kansas
Gender: Male
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
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11-26-2014, 10:41 PM
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Bizarre unknowable space alien
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Flint, MI
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
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11-26-2014, 10:49 PM
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A fellow sophisticate
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Cowtown, Kansas
Gender: Male
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
Now I need to google sopapilla cheesecake.
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11-26-2014, 11:26 PM
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A Very Gentle Bort
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Bortlandia
Gender: Male
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
Pretzel salad? wtf?
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11-29-2014, 02:02 AM
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A fellow sophisticate
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Cowtown, Kansas
Gender: Male
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
Interesting that places with low populations have more fast food places per capita. That's because McDonald's or Subway are in truck stops all over the country, that and every little burg has a burger joint. The winner is San Juan County, Colorado, where they have 4 restaurants, making them have 7,117 per 1,000 population.
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11-30-2014, 01:00 AM
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Not drowning. Waving.
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Ignore list
Gender: Male
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
"Fast food" is an oxymoron. Add "restaurant" to the end of it, and you get a nested oxymoron.
Ok, now that I got that off my chest, back to maps.
This map reproportions countries by net migration figures.
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11-30-2014, 01:28 AM
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A fellow sophisticate
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Cowtown, Kansas
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
The main difference between a fast food restaurant and regular restaurant is when you pay the check, before receiving the food or after.
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12-06-2014, 08:38 PM
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A fellow sophisticate
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Cowtown, Kansas
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
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12-07-2014, 01:59 AM
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the internet says I'm right
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Western U.S.
Gender: Male
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
The trees are coming for their revenge!
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12-07-2014, 05:30 AM
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Projecting my phallogos with long, hard diction
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Dee Cee
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
Interesting that there's so much expansion of forests.
Not that there were a lot of forests in some of the countries in the first place (the British Isles notably seem to lack much forest).
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12-07-2014, 12:30 PM
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A fellow sophisticate
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Location: Cowtown, Kansas
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
The average American was asked to name the Australian states:
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12-08-2014, 01:21 PM
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Solipsist
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Kolmannessa kerroksessa
Gender: Male
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
the shetlands ... sigh
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12-08-2014, 01:23 PM
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Solipsist
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Location: Kolmannessa kerroksessa
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
Quote:
Originally Posted by erimir
Interesting that there's so much expansion of forests.
Not that there were a lot of forests in some of the countries in the first place (the British Isles notably seem to lack much forest).
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They were all cleared for grazing. Or building. Or burning.
Sweden and Finland, on the other hand ... not much except forest.
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12-08-2014, 01:48 PM
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Fishy mokey
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Furrin parts
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
What do you think they use for all that furniture and those saunas?
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12-08-2014, 01:58 PM
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Solipsist
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Kolmannessa kerroksessa
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
Someone else's trees, obviously. Since they have so much of theirs left.
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12-08-2014, 02:04 PM
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Solipsist
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Kolmannessa kerroksessa
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
Forest cover data in a bit more detail: Global Forest Change 2000-2012.
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12-21-2014, 06:17 PM
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puzzler
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: UK
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
Place The State - Intermediate Online Learning
It tests your knowledge of the USA. Warning - some short audio clips play when you drop each state in its correct (or wrong) position. I got 88% - but then I'm not an American. 
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12-21-2014, 06:26 PM
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puzzler
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: UK
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
For you Americans who no doubt will beat my score  here's the Europe version
European Countries - Game Three I got 96% first try on that one!
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Last edited by ceptimus; 12-21-2014 at 06:38 PM.
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12-21-2014, 06:40 PM
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puzzler
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: UK
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
African Ccountries - Game Two Africa! I don't expect to do so well on this one... I'll edit to post my score once I know... 
ETA: As I feared 81% - and I only did that well by employing jigsaw skills rather than geography ones. 
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Last edited by ceptimus; 12-21-2014 at 06:55 PM.
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12-21-2014, 06:46 PM
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Fishy mokey
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Furrin parts
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
Got 84% for the US, lots of states that only border other states 
Got 100% for Europe. They are not too strict with the rly tiny ones that make Luxembourg seem medium size.
96% for Africa, again: coastlines make it a lot easier.
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