Guess the City

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"there's not actually a ton of streetviews available for Tbilisi anyway"

perhaps those Google street van drivers are intimidated? This is the city where the most famous Georgian bandit of the 20th century, Soso, was involved in a bigtime armed robbery in 1907!

calzino, Friday, 26 March 2021 21:04 (three years ago) link

i wonder if it went .......

so-so?

John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Friday, 26 March 2021 21:05 (three years ago) link

you could buy a lot of so-so things for a huge stack of 500 ruble notes back then!

calzino, Friday, 26 March 2021 21:09 (three years ago) link

I heard that in Irkutsk in the mid-1900s there was something like a 1% chance of any individual being murdered in any year.

Have tried to find some pictures of Irkutsk for this thread before but it would be a bit too easy, nowhere else really looks anything like it.

Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 26 March 2021 21:26 (three years ago) link

gezundheit!

John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Friday, 26 March 2021 21:29 (three years ago) link

too many unique-looking cities and not enough cities that make you think they're somewhere else

John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Friday, 26 March 2021 21:33 (three years ago) link

Weymouth isn't a city?

Particularly disallowing UK towns that are not actual cities seems off, given that this is a very local and arbitrary distinction that pretty much doesn't exist elsewhere in the world?

anatol_merklich, Friday, 26 March 2021 22:19 (three years ago) link

ok here's something different

http://stuff.jklol.net/i/guess.jpg

Canon in Deez (silby), Friday, 26 March 2021 22:20 (three years ago) link

They may take our lives, but they will never take our local and arbitrary distinctions that pretty much don't exist elsewhere in the world!

Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 26 March 2021 22:21 (three years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/f3fKvbR.png

Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 26 March 2021 22:23 (three years ago) link

Not Cat City

Canon in Deez (silby), Friday, 26 March 2021 22:56 (three years ago) link

buenos aires

《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Friday, 26 March 2021 23:04 (three years ago) link

it's definitely not Cat Town, the eye-patch is a bourgeoisie-poser dead giveaway!

calzino, Friday, 26 March 2021 23:11 (three years ago) link

It looks like it could be a cemetery, and cats in cemeteries always make me think Paris, but the bench doesn’t look like Pere Lachaise.

It could definitely be Recoleta in Buenos Aires.

Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Friday, 26 March 2021 23:20 (three years ago) link

some monumentally massive gravestones there!

calzino, Friday, 26 March 2021 23:34 (three years ago) link

yeah cats in a cemetery always makes me think of la recoleta first, though cats in a cemetery seems to be a common thing. ive never been to buenos aires incidentally, but i did plan a solo trip there many moons ago, and have read up on the city a bit

《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Friday, 26 March 2021 23:41 (three years ago) link

Yep Recoleta! A place I have been but don’t think I formed particularly strong memories of. Are you supposed to remember things?

Canon in Deez (silby), Friday, 26 March 2021 23:43 (three years ago) link

Looking at pictures does bring the memories back. It’s very prestigious real estate, with cats.

Canon in Deez (silby), Friday, 26 March 2021 23:44 (three years ago) link

I think I saw a cat inside of a glass-doored crypt in there

Canon in Deez (silby), Friday, 26 March 2021 23:44 (three years ago) link

very prestigious real estate, with cats.

new board description

John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Saturday, 27 March 2021 00:05 (three years ago) link

This can likely be reverse image searched very easily but I am sure ye can work it out without that.

https://i.postimg.cc/rFx4ZTPc/94514493-8-DF6-4-AC4-AA60-941-AFB3882-C1.jpg

Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Saturday, 27 March 2021 06:55 (three years ago) link

nottingham

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 27 March 2021 07:16 (three years ago) link

It’s not Nottingham.

Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Saturday, 27 March 2021 07:21 (three years ago) link

Warsaw.

Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 27 March 2021 10:55 (three years ago) link

Correct!

Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Saturday, 27 March 2021 11:03 (three years ago) link

did this building by some miracle survive ww2 or was it rebuilt?

calzino, Saturday, 27 March 2021 11:14 (three years ago) link

It’s Warsaw University of Technology which was damaged in the war and restored in the fifties, I think, with a glass roof added later.

https://i.postimg.cc/fRnRMxtX/D49-A03-FB-E059-4-CC5-AC05-BCA3-A84-A7-FB6.jpg

It’s really impressive.

Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Saturday, 27 March 2021 11:37 (three years ago) link

damn! beautiful

John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Saturday, 27 March 2021 13:58 (three years ago) link

I kinda want to know what prompted caek to suggest Nottingham.

Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Saturday, 27 March 2021 14:53 (three years ago) link

hey you started it

Nottingham

― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Tuesday, 14 October 2008 15:39

nashwan, Saturday, 27 March 2021 14:57 (three years ago) link

First time I've got one! What a beautiful building.

Am I OK to post an image?

Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 27 March 2021 15:27 (three years ago) link

As in, I've never quite worked out what the rules are (or if there are any!).

Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 27 March 2021 15:27 (three years ago) link

I think the only "rule" (unspoken) is to not post a new image until the current one has been guessed, so you're good to go!

rob, Saturday, 27 March 2021 15:34 (three years ago) link

OK, cheers! Absolutely someone will get this right away because I've missed some sigh saying the name in massive capital letters...

https://i.imgur.com/JE2l9Qw.jpg

Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 27 March 2021 15:42 (three years ago) link

Some sign[ ffs.

Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 27 March 2021 15:42 (three years ago) link

Bridgetown, Barbados is my first thought.

Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Saturday, 27 March 2021 15:58 (three years ago) link

Not a million miles away but not Barbados, no.

Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 27 March 2021 16:52 (three years ago) link

Curaçao?

StanM, Saturday, 27 March 2021 17:37 (three years ago) link

I mean, there is that famous harbour view of Willemstad with the painted houses - but the mountain in the background, no idea

StanM, Saturday, 27 March 2021 17:38 (three years ago) link

Curacao just dished out a 5-0 spanking of Saint Vincent & the Grenadines the other night

calzino, Saturday, 27 March 2021 18:10 (three years ago) link

Thought it might be Bo Kaap in Cape Town but perhaps not quite colourful enough and that's not quite Table Mountain

or something, Saturday, 27 March 2021 18:23 (three years ago) link

Mindelo
https://maps.app.goo.gl/1GZwfRXe3NLU8juD6

Mindelo, Cabo Verde islands

or something, Saturday, 27 March 2021 18:30 (three years ago) link

Boom! Nice work. How did you find it?

Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 27 March 2021 18:56 (three years ago) link

A fair bit of image searching "colourful buildings africa coast"

or something, Saturday, 27 March 2021 19:27 (three years ago) link

Had a dream that I posted an image here and no one got it after weeks of guesses.

it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Monday, 29 March 2021 15:27 (three years ago) link

Originally I thought Bozhmy Novmanor but the shade of green on one of the fences didn't feel quite right

cherry blossom, Monday, 29 March 2021 16:50 (three years ago) link

I'd like to post pictures to this thread but I'm a bit of a luddite. What do you guys do, take a screenshot or share a google maps streetview to imgur and then link it?

or something, Monday, 29 March 2021 17:07 (three years ago) link

I take a screenshot and then post to postimg.cc

cherry blossom, Monday, 29 March 2021 17:20 (three years ago) link

possibly of interest to members of this group, some of these are effectively "guess the state"

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/upshot/trump-biden-geography-quiz.html

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 29 March 2021 17:22 (three years ago) link


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