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― mookieproof, Saturday, 26 September 2020 03:02 (three years ago) link
I grew up in Michigan north of Montreal and Toronto which has confused some Canadians I’ve known. And when I lived in eastern Washington, five hours from the ocean, I was further west than my friend in San Diego which was incredibly counterintuitive
― joygoat, Saturday, 26 September 2020 12:28 (three years ago) link
I thought Canada had a straight border because it was following a line of latitude or something.Is it accurate?Would think the whole this is further West than that thing would indicate it might not be.
Is the standard understanding of angle of continent totally off compass understanding?
I mean what kind of layout of continents do you call that.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 26 September 2020 12:46 (three years ago) link
I didn't really have a concept of Michigan's Upper Peninsula until I went there for my brother's wedding. I was just thinking 'oh, Michigan, that's not too far from Chicago' but it took soooo looong to get there. Beautiful place, though.
― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Saturday, 26 September 2020 12:55 (three years ago) link
I was just realising where Minneapolis was last week, not sure why I was thinking it was on water. It's pretty far inland though next to the north of the Mississipi, wonder if that was it?
― Stevolende, Saturday, 26 September 2020 13:41 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I went to Minneapolis about a decade ago and was shocked to learn that the Mississippi River flows through it.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 26 September 2020 13:56 (three years ago) link
The part of the UP where I lived is west of Chicago but is on eastern time because they gerrymandered the time zone so (allegedly) copper mines would be in the same time zone as the mining companies in Ohio. I was shockingly old when I learned that most kids didn’t have to go to bed in essentially full daylight in the summer because the sun doesn’t set til 10:30
― joygoat, Saturday, 26 September 2020 14:26 (three years ago) link
I thought Canada had a straight border because it was following a line of latitude or something..
― Boring, Maryland, Saturday, 26 September 2020 14:42 (three years ago) link
I live in Toronto. I just looked at a map, I knew we dipped south but I don’t think I’d ever really thought about it - we’re south of Boston!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Saturday, 26 September 2020 15:48 (three years ago) link
Toronto: 43° 44′ 30″ N, 79° 22′ 24″ W42° 21′ 29″ N, 71° 3′ 49″ W
So not really?
― pomenitul, Saturday, 26 September 2020 15:56 (three years ago) link
Err, second one is Boston.
El Paso is closer to San Diego than it is to Texarkana.
― pplains, Saturday, 26 September 2020 16:31 (three years ago) link
A sizable chunk of Virginia is west of Detroit. Geography is full of these little oddnesses.
The Mississippi is supposed to be the border between Missouri and Illinois, but the river has its own ideas about where it wants to be, and it shifts with some frequency. As a result, there are bits of Illinois on the Missouri side, and vice versa.
― velcro-magnon (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 26 September 2020 18:15 (three years ago) link
UK one that often surprises people is that Edinburgh, on the east coast, is further west than Liverpool and Bristol.
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― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Saturday, 26 September 2020 18:58 (three years ago) link
Sorry, I just looked at some shitty jpg man, guess I was wrong.
Toronto: 43° 44′ 30″ N, 79° 22′ 24″ W42° 21′ 29″ N, 71° 3′ 49″ WSo not really?
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Sunday, 27 September 2020 04:14 (three years ago) link
You'd think if you 5hought your country was the centre of the universe you'd stop it stooping like.& try to set it more firmly on a North South compass axis.Should make that a Brexit precondition. If they can't straighten it they can't leave. Makes about as much sense dunnit.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 27 September 2020 07:32 (three years ago) link
That in 1970, Rod Stewart told the International Times magazine:"I think Enoch Powell is the man. I’m all for him. This country is overcrowded. The immigrants should be sent home."
― Alba, Sunday, 27 September 2020 16:39 (three years ago) link
Courtesy of clemenza, on this thread.
― Alba, Sunday, 27 September 2020 16:42 (three years ago) link
I never knew that tbh but always thought he was a colossal twat and a waste of space anyway. Did his PR team go around every newspaper archive in the UK with a hidden bottle of tippex or something lol!
― calzino, Sunday, 27 September 2020 17:19 (three years ago) link
I always thought Itchycoo Park was a fascist anthem about attending a National Front rally tbh!
― calzino, Sunday, 27 September 2020 17:22 (three years ago) link
nah its a smutty thing about a park in Ilford or Stratford or vicinity.Lover's lane type thing. BUt surrounded by stinging nettles which is presumably less painful than poison ivy but gives you an itchy coo.I think its a childish pun on the actual name
― Stevolende, Sunday, 27 September 2020 17:33 (three years ago) link
you are absolutely correct Stevo, my humour-fail deserves that level of pedantic contempt!
― calzino, Sunday, 27 September 2020 17:35 (three years ago) link
Now I've learned from the Itchycoo Park – which has a separate section on critical reaction to the M-People cover version – that Steve Marriott was childhood friends with Tony Robinson of Blackadder and centrism fame, which makes a certain amount of sense.
― Alba, Sunday, 27 September 2020 19:38 (three years ago) link
That Azerbaijan has a non-contiguous exclave, the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic.
― All cars are bad (Euler), Monday, 28 September 2020 06:13 (three years ago) link
That E.B. White was Roger Angell’s stepfather!
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 03:18 (three years ago) link
That white stuff covering Judy Garland? Pure asbestos, of course—in chrysotile form, making the material a bit more dangerous than, say, in building material. (By the way, not exactly a nice gesture on the part of the Good Witch there, but odds are good she didn’t know about mesothelioma, because not a lot of people did.
that they often used to shower actors with the most deadly form of asbestos on 30's Hollywood sets as fake snow!
― calzino, Thursday, 1 October 2020 22:24 (three years ago) link
oh yeah and also the Good Witch's broomstick in the Wizard of Oz was made out of asbestos as well.
― calzino, Thursday, 1 October 2020 22:26 (three years ago) link
― Boring, Maryland, Thursday, 1 October 2020 22:52 (three years ago) link
He was a law unto himself.
― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Thursday, 1 October 2020 23:00 (three years ago) link
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A "buttload" is 108 imperial gallons.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 2 October 2020 18:50 (three years ago) link
Buttpipe
― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Friday, 2 October 2020 18:57 (three years ago) link
stfu lil rundlet
― the burrito that defined a generation, Friday, 2 October 2020 19:11 (three years ago) link
(xp not you)
― the burrito that defined a generation, Friday, 2 October 2020 19:12 (three years ago) link
Where do Kilderkins, Pins and Firkins fit into that lot then? Specialist vocabularies are the best thing.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 2 October 2020 20:15 (three years ago) link
that there's a 1971 stackridge song called 'dora, the female explorer' and so
― mookieproof, Sunday, 4 October 2020 01:45 (three years ago) link
That the lead singer of Canned Heat died just before Jimi and Janis, also at the age of 27. Like I didn't even know he was dead (but then I've spent maybe a sum total of thirty minutes thinking about Canned Heat in my entire life).
― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Monday, 5 October 2020 16:44 (three years ago) link
"Going Up the Country" remains one of my least favorite songs of all time. I guess I'm just not into the whole blues flute thing.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 5 October 2020 17:24 (three years ago) link
wait how much is a liquid shit tun though
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Monday, 5 October 2020 17:26 (three years ago) link
Why We Think Outhouses All Had Crescent Moons in Their Doors
― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 7 October 2020 00:58 (three years ago) link
i have always assumed that the song "tommy's holiday camp," on the album tommy, was sung by keith moon, since he played uncle ernie in the movie. i've just learned that it was actually pete townshend doing a funny voice.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 7 October 2020 10:34 (three years ago) link
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― Erdős-szám 69 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 7 October 2020 14:14 (three years ago) link
That Mama Cass and Keith Moon died in the exact same room, both at the age of 32.
― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Thursday, 8 October 2020 14:02 (three years ago) link
that teeth aren't bones
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Thursday, 8 October 2020 14:07 (three years ago) link
Simon!
― Alba, Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:19 (three years ago) link
Sorry, there should be no shame here.
― Alba, Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:20 (three years ago) link
But... calcium!
― pomenitul, Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:22 (three years ago) link
I sort of vaguely knew that but never knew any of the details until I just read about it now.
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:25 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF7V2dSvxpo
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:26 (three years ago) link
Sorry, wrong thread!
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:31 (three years ago) link
xp Pretty much every depiction of a skeleton ever nudges towards the wrong belief there, it must be said.
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 8 October 2020 21:42 (three years ago) link