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
https://www.google.com/maps/@-34.5880847,-58.3929371,3a,15y,58.77h,93.44t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipPq2onB3bzCNfi6Rop7OXn9YLQsOvw9nMBYYFiu!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPq2onB3bzCNfi6Rop7OXn9YLQsOvw9nMBYYFiu%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya36.317368-ro-0-fo100!7i7200!8i3600
Jim (and ShariVari) correct by looks of it
― cherry blossom, Friday, 26 March 2021 23:26 (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
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!).
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.
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
Mindelohttps://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
i was 15 for 21, had a run near the beginning where i got 5 wrong
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Monday, 29 March 2021 17:30 (three years ago) link