Can't quite figure out what's going on with that building -- clearly occupied (towels hanging off some balconies) but many of the windows are missing? Partially abandoned?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 19 July 2021 21:10 (two years ago) link
Going to have a wild stab in the dark guess - Luanda
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 19 July 2021 21:10 (two years ago) link
it’s this building in Lunik IX in Košice, Slovakiahttps://www.teraz.sk/regiony/kosice-vsetci-testovani-na-novy-kor/460123-clanok.html
― tean mean poleand cheaseang theas means hamseak feasts (breastcrawl), Monday, 19 July 2021 21:21 (two years ago) link
fuck, I've been to Košice! just for a few hours on the way to Michalovce, still should really have made a better guess.
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 19 July 2021 21:24 (two years ago) link
oh wow - that was fast
― StanM, Monday, 19 July 2021 21:33 (two years ago) link
how do you possibly look at that and go "oh, kosice slovakia"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 19 July 2021 21:35 (two years ago) link
it looked a) extremely poor, but also b) very (Central) European (the foliage especially), which made me think that it might be a Romani neighbourhood (the people in the picture seemed to fit in with that) (also, we have had a different Romani neighbourhood in Bulgaria (?) last year iirc) - googled and pictures of Lunik IX came up
― tean mean poleand cheaseang theas means hamseak feasts (breastcrawl), Monday, 19 July 2021 21:46 (two years ago) link
https://www.google.com/maps/@48.6965896,21.220741,3a,75y,223.89h,90.72t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s-MjwvwQIEjBnt_YLs5nw9Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
And the SV link here
Even with picking one of the less distinctive buildings I had a feeling it might go quickly!
― cherry blossom, Monday, 19 July 2021 21:56 (two years ago) link
But maybe not quite that quickly!
― cherry blossom, Monday, 19 July 2021 21:58 (two years ago) link
took me a while, but this is the spot:https://goo.gl/maps/JgKsVcrVt7jJ1aMT9
― tean mean poleand cheaseang theas means hamseak feasts (breastcrawl), Monday, 19 July 2021 21:58 (two years ago) link
shit romani are not very well taken care of are they - sorry for u.s. dumb
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, 19 July 2021 22:28 (two years ago) link
I read recently that things have turned around a bit in Lunik IX since 2019 with the introduction of a new mayor. Though I also read there are a number of anti-romani walls in different parts of the city - couldn't see one here but then Lunix IX is a stub and doesn't connect to the rest of the city
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 07:06 (two years ago) link
xpost - this explains it quite well: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2015/04/roma-in-europe-11-things-you-always-wanted-to-know-but-were-afraid-to-ask/
― StanM, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 08:17 (two years ago) link
I love the use of this thread to shine a light on such things tbh kep 'em coming
― nashwan, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 10:11 (two years ago) link
https://cdn.planetradio.co.uk/one/media/60ed/cd25/7b99/1f70/aec6/f2b0/IMG_2913.jpg
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 10:51 (two years ago) link
Haha this is a good one.
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 10:58 (two years ago) link
Looks like a place that's obsessed with the American flag, but the roads don't look like they're in a civilized country...
― StanM, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 11:00 (two years ago) link
ha!
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 11:00 (two years ago) link
definitely Nicosia this time
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 11:02 (two years ago) link
the roads don't look like they're in a civilized country...
Dying laughing at this
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 11:07 (two years ago) link
Nottingham finally
― nashwan, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 11:25 (two years ago) link
Hangzhou
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 11:27 (two years ago) link
the one time I went to Hangzhou it was so foggy I couldn't see more than 50m in front of me
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 11:30 (two years ago) link
Yeah, thats what threw me at first too, this is as close as I could get.
https://i.postimg.cc/wMF4sVx7/han.png
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 11:33 (two years ago) link
Lol I walked past this the other day, should've posted a pic here myself, v good
― ignore the blue line (or something), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 11:49 (two years ago) link
thr building on the right has a word beginning with pha, isn't that Korean?
― StanM, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 11:59 (two years ago) link
Not I'm this case, I'm pretty sure it's part of the facade
― ignore the blue line (or something), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 12:02 (two years ago) link
Guys! Those buildings are so northern England I'm practically vomiting at how easy this one is.
― Diggin Holes (Ste), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 12:34 (two years ago) link
Is it a movie set? What’s with the fake NY subway entrance?
― KEEP HONKING -- I'M BOBOING (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 13:20 (two years ago) link
Yes.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 13:23 (two years ago) link
glasgow?
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 22:31 (two years ago) link
Yes! Glasgow as NYC for the new Indiana Jones film.
https://anglotopia.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/featureimage-12-scaled.jpg
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 23:09 (two years ago) link
I think it played NYC for The Batman as well.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 23:11 (two years ago) link
It's new York in house of mirth
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 23:12 (two years ago) link
Yes, it is. Also another recent film with Meryl streep in it. Can't be bothered looking it up though.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 23:22 (two years ago) link
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 23:23 (two years ago) link
oh! good one - never would have guessed :-)
― StanM, Thursday, 22 July 2021 04:04 (two years ago) link
Hope this works...
https://i.postimg.cc/T3XnsWMz/clue1.jpg
― o. nate, Friday, 23 July 2021 13:52 (two years ago) link
off to the big book of bridges again
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 23 July 2021 13:53 (two years ago) link
I've been there - do I still get to guess?
― StanM, Friday, 23 July 2021 14:51 (two years ago) link
Let's not - hint: I'm from Belgium so it's either in or near there :-)
― StanM, Friday, 23 July 2021 14:54 (two years ago) link
I mean it screams Netherlands but
― ignore the blue line (or something), Friday, 23 July 2021 15:03 (two years ago) link
but?
― StanM, Friday, 23 July 2021 15:06 (two years ago) link
looking at a lot of Dutch cities, Arnhem is the closest so far but it's not right
― Neil S, Friday, 23 July 2021 15:17 (two years ago) link
close
― StanM, Friday, 23 July 2021 15:19 (two years ago) link
I’m also recusing myself
― tean mean poleand cheaseang theas means hamseak feasts (breastcrawl), Friday, 23 July 2021 16:21 (two years ago) link
but it’s very close
― tean mean poleand cheaseang theas means hamseak feasts (breastcrawl), Friday, 23 July 2021 16:22 (two years ago) link
Looks like this one is going to go before I get a chance to have a proper look. Off top of my head without looking I'm making an opening move with Krefeld.
Going to have a look around now tho
― cherry blossom, Friday, 23 July 2021 16:55 (two years ago) link
https://www.google.com/maps/@50.841902,5.699407,3a,75y,111.12h,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipOj2OKOiVJNxYEsUJFpvqz4s8bqFCuzTvtfaga_!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOj2OKOiVJNxYEsUJFpvqz4s8bqFCuzTvtfaga_%3Dw241-h100-k-no!7i2048!8i849
Nijmegen
― cherry blossom, Friday, 23 July 2021 17:01 (two years ago) link
yay!
― StanM, Friday, 23 July 2021 17:02 (two years ago) link