how do you look at that photo and guess, correctly, Vladivostok on the first guess?
1. Ex-Soviet apartment blocks2. Port town3. If you zoom in, there's a truncated word that gives you a partial clue
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 13:03 (three years ago) link
These are too easy, let's go back to Podunk, Arkansas (pop. 3,220).
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 13:05 (three years ago) link
Yeah there's a "Sollers" sign, makes sense (in the Vladivostok photo)
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 13:09 (three years ago) link
I think the last one might be Samarkand?
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 15:52 (three years ago) link
Correct!
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 15:53 (three years ago) link
hey hey hey!
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.6558293,66.9642106,3a,75y,94.6h,90t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipPaUtHBSFUv0G4gg7eRDWAjryx5wjwuDWdyb8oO!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPaUtHBSFUv0G4gg7eRDWAjryx5wjwuDWdyb8oO%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi0-ya194.80452-ro-0-fo100!7i8704!8i4352
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 15:56 (three years ago) link
An impressive showing.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 15:56 (three years ago) link
crazy
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 16:25 (three years ago) link
I've been to Samarkand but I don't recognize that area. Didn't venture far beyond the Registan.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 16:47 (three years ago) link
I was going to guess Ashgabat, figuring it would be somewhere between the Caspian and the stans/Chinese border
― nashwan, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 16:49 (three years ago) link
I'm impressed by how well travelled people are too tbh.
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 17:22 (three years ago) link
lol yeah I think i'm just jealous of everyones insane travel knowledge.
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 22:21 (three years ago) link
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 16:47 (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
posts that need a beat
― new variant (onimo), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 23:25 (three years ago) link
Here's an easy one
Just screen-grabbed a photo bc it was so lovely to look at
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50878668013_36474bc7c3_h.jpg
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 23:49 (three years ago) link
Monaco?
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 23:52 (three years ago) link
Yep, that's got to be Monte Carlo. Stock photos are too easy. :)
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 23:56 (three years ago) link
Lemme try another:
https://i.imgur.com/srdvqTS.png
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 00:34 (three years ago) link
Pretty distinctive pink building that looks like a church, well maintained while everything else looks a bit decrepit. I'll take a wild guess at somewhere in Africa, maybe former French or Portuguese colony
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 00:54 (three years ago) link
Intrigued by the anchor crosses on the building behind the church (if it is a church). Sadly I can't nail down any organisation that uses an anchor cross as their symbol. But it is used by Methodist missionaries - which might go with the fact that the "church" doesn't look Catholic (no stained glass windows, too austere). Which might rule out my initial thought of Francophone or Lusophone Africa.
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 06:05 (three years ago) link
why am I googling pink churches - what's Google going to think of me now?
― StanM, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 06:57 (three years ago) link
i could easily be wrong but the two entrances suggests its a mosque to me...
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 17:52 (three years ago) link
no visible crosses either
― rob, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 18:00 (three years ago) link
looks more like a church than a mosque to me but yes, no crosses
― Fenners' Pen (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 18:04 (three years ago) link
anyway a lot of cities feature both lol
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 18:28 (three years ago) link
Looks like French Switzerland to me... is it Basel? Lausanne?
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 18:47 (three years ago) link
if that's true I have been wildly misled by the mural and the anchors
― rob, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 18:49 (three years ago) link
I was noting the brands of cars, the particular quality of the trim, and the fact that Basel and Switzerland are the 'grotty' Swiss cities (rich kids who are into Emma Goldman)
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 18:59 (three years ago) link
*Basel and Lausanne, that is
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 19:00 (three years ago) link
Something about it says southern hemisphere to me, maybe the roof of the building on the right but thats very tentative
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 19:12 (three years ago) link
window AC = not europe. but the grafitti makes me think not asia. i think it's south america somewhere. santiago?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 19:27 (three years ago) link
graffiti on wall ends "her" which certainly suggests someplace where Roman script is used.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 19:30 (three years ago) link
https://www.google.com/maps/@-17.5434455,-149.573821,3a,75y,258.17h,99.47t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sAF1QipO2FTstMNMar_NldxyiZU4t4uAxGmKp9YTtHmCU!2e10!3e11!7i7680!8i3840
Papeete
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 19:44 (three years ago) link
bien fait damn
― rob, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 19:46 (three years ago) link
Correct!Colour me impressed x infinity.xp
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 20:04 (three years ago) link
tell us your secret, cherry blossom!
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 20:09 (three years ago) link
I thought it was south Pacific straightaway from the church/roof but nothing more than that. Initial thought it was Noumea and couldn't see beyond there. I couldn't think of anywhere else french and polynesian other than Tahiti and there's only about 12 churches in Papeete on google maps
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 20:18 (three years ago) link
whence the French connection tho?
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 20:31 (three years ago) link
seriously. I did idly think "looks like Hawaii" but never got much further than ruling out Hawaii
― rob, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 20:32 (three years ago) link
It kind of felt French too / I subconsciously think of most of Polynesia as French / Zelda Zonk with the assist
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 20:34 (three years ago) link
WOW I'm so impressed cb
That big tree-- not an arborist, don't know the species-- but it doesn't look European in retrospect, at all
idk why it "looks French", something about that red car and les camions, can't identify the makes but it just said "Franch" at me
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 20:43 (three years ago) link
merci et chapeau, cb!
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 20:51 (three years ago) link
how about this one then?
https://i.imgur.com/Tx42CO5.jpeg
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 21:06 (three years ago) link
it's Thames Town in Shanghai
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 21:33 (three years ago) link
ha, really thought I was being sneaky with that one
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 21:34 (three years ago) link
You were. I did suspect an ersatz but my google-fu was foiled nonetheless.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 21:37 (three years ago) link
ha, I immediately thought it had to be some faux-European project in China (with Japan as a second option, but there it's more in the form of amusement parks, I think). (well, the first thing I googled was of course the Elephant House/Euro (or Buro?) Fashion combo, turns out EH is a Harry Potter thing, I had no idea)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Town
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 21:41 (three years ago) link
this paper has a photo that's very similar to the one CaAL posted: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3544032(see Figure 9)
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 21:43 (three years ago) link
it was an odd place and surprisingly hard to find (nobody in Shanghai had heard of it) - here is my alternate view photo.
https://i.imgur.com/tgVmDaw.jpg
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 21:46 (three years ago) link
I’m reasonably familiar with Shanghai, but I haven’t heard of it either. Not that that means anything, it’s... quite a big place.
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 21:50 (three years ago) link
Wait... does "Thames Town" really qualify as a city?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 21:50 (three years ago) link