i wanted to go read though! i can pick one tomorrow or something.i'm amazed i knew because there must be 100 places that look like that but i just thought it looked like that one place i made my dad detour to so we could see centralia but i forgot what it was called. i remembered there were signs for anthracite real estate there and i googled it to remember it was ashland.
― harbl, Monday, 30 November 2009 02:17 (fourteen years ago) link
oh when i said it was impossible i meant it was impossible to guess, not impossible that it was altoona. i don't know what altoona looks like.can someone put up another? i'm no good at picking one
― harbl, Monday, 30 November 2009 19:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I had promised I wasn't going to play this any more, but here's 105:
http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/2308/bigboat.jpg
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 30 November 2009 19:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, the ship's the QE2, which doesn't really narrow it down that much really, since it's been everywhere. I'll guess Honolulu.
― ailsa, Monday, 30 November 2009 20:17 (fourteen years ago) link
You usually guess mine instantly, ailsa, but not this time. Here's another angle:
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/914/noboat.jpg
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 30 November 2009 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
miami?</lazy>
― tehresa, Monday, 30 November 2009 20:29 (fourteen years ago) link
galveston?
― harbl, Monday, 30 November 2009 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link
the downtown structure def. looks north american, and that little jetty looks forested, and the light makes it look fairly high latitude, which makes me think it's in canada, but since there are no mountains within ~50 miles of the first shot, it's not vancouver. maybe an atlantic city like halifax? thunder bay?
― iiiijjjj, Monday, 30 November 2009 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link
You're all way off.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 30 November 2009 20:38 (fourteen years ago) link
A Coruna? Valencia?
― ailsa, Monday, 30 November 2009 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link
perth?
― caek, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:02 (fourteen years ago) link
(not the one in scotland)
None of those. I could post a suitably gritty street scene, if you'd prefer to guess from micro rather than macro.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:03 (fourteen years ago) link
i thought maybe it was perth earlier, but it doesn't seem to match the google maps aerial. then i checked all 100K+ cities in new zealand, no go. can you tell us which hemisphere this is in? i've already spent way too much time on this one.
― iiiijjjj, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah post that street scene
― iiiijjjj, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, I've just been googling round European ports with no joy.
― ailsa, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:07 (fourteen years ago) link
durban?
― caek, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:09 (fourteen years ago) link
that looks like a rugby ground to me
the buildings almost look too modern to be a developed european city, plus the stadium in the lower left of the second picture looks like a soccer stadium now that i think about it. so now i think this is def. south america and not def. north america like i thought before.
― iiiijjjj, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:09 (fourteen years ago) link
(yes, or "rugby")
― iiiijjjj, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:10 (fourteen years ago) link
is it kingston
― harbl, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:10 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought it was an athletics ground or a v. old football stadium
― ailsa, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i47.tinypic.com/2vimsg5.jpg
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:14 (fourteen years ago) link
bermuda
― caek, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Durban
― ailsa, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Results 1 - 10 of about 10,500 for "mr phone". (0.17 seconds)
damn it
― iiiijjjj, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Correct ailsa, but caek gets the points!
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:18 (fourteen years ago) link
I googled MTN, found they were South African, and went straight for Durban on google maps
(the ground is a cricket ground, btw)
― ailsa, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Sorry for postponing your moment of triumph, caek, but the street scene picture took about ten minutes to upload - I was bloody well posting it after that wait.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh, I never even spotted caek saying Durban. FAIL!
― ailsa, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:21 (fourteen years ago) link
hahah
― caek, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:23 (fourteen years ago) link
someone else post one
― caek, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:24 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm on dialup, too slow to go looking for a good one
durban was a really good one, btw.
― caek, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i45.tinypic.com/1425t2q.jpg
― iiiijjjj, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
That's beautiful. I'm bowing out now though, I've got work to get on with - you pesky kids have already cost me an hour.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i49.tinypic.com/k05z09.jpg
― ailsa, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:29 (fourteen years ago) link
likewise ismael! and excellent work, caek. i had tried cape town after abandoning canada (???) but then went elsewhere...
― iiiijjjj, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:29 (fourteen years ago) link
ailsa yours can be 107 and mine'll be 106.
― iiiijjjj, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link
106 almost looks like bristol, but the topography is wrong and they are driving on the right.
― caek, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:31 (fourteen years ago) link
omg yes the return of my favorite thread ever wahhhh
― 69, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:32 (fourteen years ago) link
107 looks like it's in england (e.g. villa in the bottom right, smallish size of fields in the background), but i don't recognize the river at all, so i guess it's not. hmmm.
― caek, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:34 (fourteen years ago) link
106 athens?
― caek, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link
107 is Inverness. And I am bowing out now.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link
haha
106 looks Baltic or Scandinavian. Gdansk, maybe?
Ismael, correct, I have no better imagination that to use my home town!
― ailsa, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:36 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, athens was nuts. that's northern europe.
― caek, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:37 (fourteen years ago) link
106 nope not athens. gdansk is a gdanswer but you're off by over a thousand miles.
― iiiijjjj, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha
― caek, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
what is ariston?
― 69, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link