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oh wow! good job!

StanM, Thursday, 25 August 2022 13:36 (one year ago) link

The monorail looks way cool and has its own unusual detail in wikipedia article:

The Wuppertal Suspension Railway, a suspended monorail, serves the city and its surroundings. It has operated since 1901, with new cars added beginning in December 2016. In 1950, a young elephant named Tuffi was put aboard the Wuppertal Schwebebahn (monorail), as a promotion for the Althoff Circus. The swinging tram upset the elephant, and she trumpeted, charged, and plummeted 12 m (40 ft) into the river below. Tuffi suffered minor injuries; she lived until 1989. In 1999, the Schwebebahn had its thus far only fatal accident.

the man with the chili in his eyes (ledge), Thursday, 25 August 2022 13:36 (one year ago) link

the glass was a station but the elevator didn't go to it, so we were both right and astray

ciderpress, Thursday, 25 August 2022 13:37 (one year ago) link

I got it from the 'lyp cr' tag


how though? were you familiar with it?
I mean, I get one or two hits retroactively, but they don’t seem to lead straight to Wuppertal

(also kicking myself for not pursuing that lead, even though I saw it. I mean, what are the chances?)

big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 25 August 2022 13:57 (one year ago) link

i searched for '"lyp" "cr" graffiti', second result says "I don't know anything about LYP Crew except they are from NRW, probably from the area Wuppertal" without even clicking through. pretty lucky, i doubt that would happen for most other tags.

the man with the chili in his eyes (ledge), Thursday, 25 August 2022 14:17 (one year ago) link

very good work!

big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 25 August 2022 15:17 (one year ago) link

oh and it was a sideways german flag!

the man with the chili in his eyes (ledge), Thursday, 25 August 2022 15:55 (one year ago) link

we should've spotted that the black strip on the left was actually the side of the recessed window.

the man with the chili in his eyes (ledge), Thursday, 25 August 2022 15:56 (one year ago) link

why I'll be... I was 100% sure on it being the Belgian flag but did not spot that the black wasn't part of the flag :(

StanM, Thursday, 25 August 2022 17:43 (one year ago) link

Good work! The flag was a bit of an optical illusion eh

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Saturday, 27 August 2022 18:38 (one year ago) link

https://i.ibb.co/ykRsWMn/Screenshot-2022-08-26-at-12-17-13.png

cycling home for Christmas

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Saturday, 27 August 2022 18:39 (one year ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/RIRNU9Z.png

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Saturday, 27 August 2022 18:43 (one year ago) link

Looks like Southern California, which the Lakers shorts on the cyclist support. Maybe somewhere near Carpinteria, or Oxnard?

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 27 August 2022 18:49 (one year ago) link

Looks like one of the bridges over the Santa Clara River in Santa Clarita, CA but can't quite find the exact one.

Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 27 August 2022 23:19 (one year ago) link

the one in santa paula has the same railing but isn't it. none of the santa clarita ones i checked had the right railing

ciderpress, Saturday, 27 August 2022 23:41 (one year ago) link

And I've been to Mt Rubidoux park right next to it - multiple times even!

Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 27 August 2022 23:46 (one year ago) link

credit to your guess though, i only did the easy work of checking a bunch of bridges in the region

ciderpress, Saturday, 27 August 2022 23:50 (one year ago) link

Riversiiiide

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 17:05 (one year ago) link

https://i.ibb.co/tBsd6vV/ez1.png

River side

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 17:05 (one year ago) link

is it a river?

StanM, Monday, 5 September 2022 07:54 (one year ago) link

moncton nb

https://maps.app.goo.gl/wkGFDGTcAYpRHRDE7

micah, Monday, 5 September 2022 10:42 (one year ago) link

nice one!

StanM, Monday, 5 September 2022 10:59 (one year ago) link

what gave it away, or did you know the place?

StanM, Monday, 5 September 2022 12:26 (one year ago) link

just cropped and yandexed the tower, which eventually brought up this pic https://www.flickr.com/photos/james_mann/15655889666/

micah, Monday, 5 September 2022 12:55 (one year ago) link

thanks :)

StanM, Monday, 5 September 2022 13:42 (one year ago) link

didn't expect that one to go so quick

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Monday, 12 September 2022 13:19 (one year ago) link

https://i.ibb.co/n7LSyCK/dy1.jpg

4-4-2

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Monday, 12 September 2022 13:20 (one year ago) link

ok, so it says "dajemo" on the banner in the back, which Google translate tells me is Croatian (and in Latin script, so not Serbian etc.) but the shirt says "FK Something" and Croatian teams are NK not FK. Hm.

link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 12 September 2022 13:43 (one year ago) link

I think it's Bosnia (BH Telecom on that banner if I'm not mistaken), and FK does seem to be their version of FC

rob, Monday, 12 September 2022 13:45 (one year ago) link

So it's Tuzla, apparently the third-largest city in Boznia.

link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 12 September 2022 13:57 (one year ago) link

Nice work - I was busy looking at Karlovac in Croatia because the coat of arms on the logo we can see front and centre looks like it might be this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlovačko, but it's an international brand by the looks.

Tim, Monday, 12 September 2022 14:00 (one year ago) link

Glad someone got that, I'd forgotten where it was, looks to be correct though!

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 02:48 (one year ago) link

I had the image saved from some time previously, and must have rejected it for the one of the two women at the water park instead

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 02:51 (one year ago) link

https://i.ibb.co/Jktnt99/pre.jpg

good morning

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 07:56 (one year ago) link

alright, show your working

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 12:42 (one year ago) link

taking a hard line on local rivals Nancy there, a piece of graffito which immediately made me assume it was an Anglophone country

Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 12:44 (one year ago) link

it took me 2mn once i saw the tag, cos of fcsm which is french football club fc sochaux montbéliard, the nancy being fucked is fc nancy, so i started looking for football pitches in sochaux

Jibe, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 12:46 (one year ago) link

sorry the other club is as nancy lorraine, not fc nancy

Jibe, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 12:48 (one year ago) link

Good work! Thats what I assumed but sometimes there are unexpected routes

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 12:52 (one year ago) link

damnit i googled 'ecsm' and found another french club, Entente Chateauneuf Saint Marcel. well done!

ledge, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 12:53 (one year ago) link

I thought about cropping it so it just had 'Fuck Nancy' and no fcsm but then it was too constrained an image

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 12:57 (one year ago) link

there I was thinking it said “Fuck NanoX”, which would surely also have made sense to someone

big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 12:59 (one year ago) link

damnit i googled 'ecsm' and found another french club, Entente Chateauneuf Saint Marcel. well done!

― ledge, mercredi 14 septembre 2022 14:53 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

my hours and hours of watching ligue 1 paid off big time

cherry blossom, hearing that you thought about cropping out half that tag makes me really curious about how you select the images you post. also thanks for keeping this thread alive, i really enjoy it even though i don't often get the chance to guess.

Jibe, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 14:48 (one year ago) link

impressive

StanM, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 14:57 (one year ago) link

hearing that you thought about cropping out half that tag makes me really curious about how you select the images you post

Purely on a whim.

In this particular case I was on a run this morning and it suddenly hit me that I had no idea where in France Sochaux actually is, or even if that was the name of a city or part of a city

I had a look on streetview when I got in and landed on the graffiti and immediately thought of this thread

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 16:57 (one year ago) link

Ok, let's have a go then.

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

link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 21:40 (one year ago) link


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