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12-21-2014, 06:50 PM
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Projecting my phallogos with long, hard diction
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Dee Cee
Gender: Male
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
98% on the US, I barely placed Kansas incorrectly because I didn't have any of its neighbors yet.
98% on Africa as well... :shakelesotho: That one was a lot easier because it was by region though, effectively adding a lot more coastline.
I got 100% on Europe
Europe doesn't have any big rectangular countries in the middle of the continent, so it's a lot easier. It also only gave me one landlocked country (Belarus) before any of its neighbors, but I got close enough fortunately.
Last edited by erimir; 12-21-2014 at 07:09 PM.
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12-29-2014, 12:51 AM
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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.
Not a map exactly, but site that tells you the city over 100,000 population and the city over 1,000,000 population furthest from the closest city over 100,000 population to your location: Discover The Furthest City On Earth From Wherever You Live
In my case, Perth, WA, Australia is the furthest city from me, over 17,000 miles. I would love to go there, at least once.
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12-29-2014, 01:10 AM
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Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
Ours is Vacoas-Phoenix, Mauritius. I image searched it to see what it looks like there, and it turns out that it looks pretty much like it looks at my house most of the time. BORING.
Vacoas/ Phoenix 2013
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12-29-2014, 08:52 AM
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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.
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12-29-2014, 05:25 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: UK
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
You need to be south of New Zealand's South Island to be opposite England. Dunedin (19,000+ miles) is the southernmost town with over a hundred thousand population, and you have to go to Aukland on North Island for the nearest city with one million plus inhabitants.
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12-30-2014, 09:10 PM
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lagomorph lover
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: North Carolina
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
The United States of Monsters
Jersey Devil, Chupacabra, Mothman... Poop Monster?!! What the hell, NC? I'm moving back home to take my chances with Sasquatch.
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12-31-2014, 10:46 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.
Speaking of food and maps... The Global Hunger Index over time...
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01-07-2015, 12:20 AM
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A fellow sophisticate
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
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01-08-2015, 12:13 AM
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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.
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01-08-2015, 09:48 AM
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
We're in the "any snow" region, but in our defense, we do have hills unlike most of the states in the middle parts.
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01-08-2015, 01:48 PM
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A fellow sophisticate
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
We have some hills around here, and it doesn't take much to cancel them. Wyoming has hellacious "hills" and they only cancel school when the drifts get too deep for the buses to bust through them. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised to see school buses outfitted with snowplows.
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01-08-2015, 11:44 PM
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Location: Flint, MI
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
When I was a kid they never cancelled school for snow, only ice storms which are more dangerous. That was a private school, though. I think the public schools were a little more likely to close.
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01-09-2015, 01:07 AM
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
Oh that is another point our snow tends to be Ice more often than not.
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01-09-2015, 01:24 AM
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
I kind of hate that gray area between about 6 inches and 2 feet, just because the closings are all spotty and you're never quite sure whether you should be showing up places or not. And so much of it depends on other factors, like the type of snow, the rate of snowfall, how prepared we were for it, and stuff like that. Even three inches can be pretty treacherous if you get a nasty confluence of things.
Also, there's a special breed of asshole that likes to make a big show of driving around in blizzards, and an even worse kind that makes other people do it. Two feet is just the point where you reach a sort of consensus that anyone out driving without a very good reason is an asshole.
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01-09-2015, 04:08 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.
Big show here. Our last blizzard, I busted out of my driveway in my 4x4 Chevy Trailblazer and made my way to QuikTrip, where 30 or so people were stranded. You can always count on QuikTrip to be open. Why did I do this? My Diet Dr Pepper stores were getting dangerously low. To get there I had to drive around vehicles abandoned in the snow in the middle of the road, even down into the ditch to go around them. And go around all of them, I did, as I was desperate. When I got back home I couldn't get up my own 700 foot long driveway because my tracks had blown full and it's uphill. Apparently it's easier to go downhill than up, who would have guessed? It forced me to grab my sackful of liquid refreshments and trudge up the hill to my nice warm house in 3-4 feet of snow, at 20 degrees below zero. Fun stuff, a great adventure.
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01-09-2015, 05:18 PM
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dingfod
My Diet Dr Pepper stores were getting dangerously low.
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I said without a very good reason. You know, like going to work and school and stuff.
This is actually a common thing in bad companies. There's a subset of arrogant assholes who think it makes them look important or dedicated to go to work in a blizzard even when they could easily work from home.
One particularly evil company made everyone stay until 5PM during a really big one. McDonalds and 7-11s were closing, but OH NO THE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT MUST GO ON. And that is how I ended up walking for 2 miles in a blizzard with a disabled coworker after they closed the highway our bus was on.
And when we got to the park and ride, we couldn't find either one of our cars. (Turned out mine was just buried in a monster drift, and his had been stolen. LOL.)
I have a lot of feelings about snow day policies and procedures! OKAY?
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01-15-2015, 09:06 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.
Today DC, tomorrow the world.
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01-15-2015, 09:25 PM
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Solipsist
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
"Foodstands" is not a cuisine.
Nor is gastropubs. Or "soup". Or "breakfast/brunch". Or "gluten free" ffs.
I am encouraged to see Hawaiian in Hawaii, Southern in the South, Tex-Mex in Texas and Cajun in Louisiana. Who would have guessed?
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01-15-2015, 09:40 PM
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Bizarre unknowable space alien
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Location: Flint, MI
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
I have no idea what they mean by disproportionate. Michigan has a huge Middle-Eastern population.
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01-15-2015, 09:55 PM
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Solipsist
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
I also thought that it was a meaningless thrown-in word, but then I decided there's probably a meaning behind it.
Say burgers are the most popular food choice everywhere (70% of people in any state), but 15% of New Yorkers like triple-decker pizzas whereas only 2% of people in any other state like this style. Then triple-decker pizzas would be disproportionately popular in NY. While still not being the most popular.
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01-15-2015, 09:58 PM
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Solipsist
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Location: Kolmannessa kerroksessa
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
It certainly doesn't mean "surprisingly popular".
Are the Peruvian-loving states surprising?
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01-15-2015, 10:09 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.
I thought the Portuguese-loving states were. But then there's Portuguese in Family guy which is set in Rhode Island, so maybe there are a lot of them there?
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01-15-2015, 10:21 PM
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Adequately Crumbulent
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Location: Cascadia
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
Quote:
Originally Posted by JoeP
"Foodstands" is not a cuisine.
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I know, they are food CARTS! Get it right, jeez!
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01-15-2015, 11:11 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.
Quote:
Originally Posted by JoeP
I also thought that it was a meaningless thrown-in word, but then I decided there's probably a meaning behind it.
Say burgers are the most popular food choice everywhere (70% of people in any state), but 15% of New Yorkers like triple-decker pizzas whereas only 2% of people in any other state like this style. Then triple-decker pizzas would be disproportionately popular in NY. While still not being the most popular.
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That makes more sense than my first thought, which was out of proportion to the ethnic make-up of the population. That's why I was puzzled. And it seems you are correct, based on the full article.
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01-16-2015, 12:18 AM
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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.
Oklahoma = Tex-Mex
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