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Lawman 0 posted:It might be banned/non-existent on a per province level. Edit: Sabah and Sarawak are part of Malaysia, but are blue on that map. Both have McDonald's. Ogantai fucked around with this message at 10:22 on Aug 21, 2013 |
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GreenCard78 posted:I really don't think that is accurate. One of my best friends is Bolivian and I'm pretty certain when he visits, McDonald's is his go to place in order to get away from Bolivian food because it's one of the few American places there. I don't want to call your friend a liar but according to Wikipedia Bolivia is one of the few places on earth that McDonald's failed in. Here.
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I don't know what the rules for starting a franchise in other countries is but in the US you need to upfront the 750,000k costs yourself and can not take out loans to do so. Presumably theres a bit more leeway in somewhere like Nairobi but for a product without any real market penetration or cultural cache it's probably a tough sell to businesspeople of in other countries.
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"A Big, Beautiful Midcentury Map Celebrating American Folklore" http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/08/21/william_gropper_his_mid_century_map_of_american_folklore.html
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Tzen posted:"A Big, Beautiful Midcentury Map Celebrating American Folklore" Interesting, I've never heard of the guy riding a cod that's leaping over the place of my birth, Bowleg Bill.
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Tzen posted:"A Big, Beautiful Midcentury Map Celebrating American Folklore" Deadwood Dick. Yes, that's all there is to say and yes I am a child.
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Tzen posted:"A Big, Beautiful Midcentury Map Celebrating American Folklore" Famous winds of Michigan? I did not know we had famous winds. Unless they mean the wind at the Mackinac Bridge.
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Technocrat posted:
Here's the Wikipedia map of McDonalds introductions internationally.  Edit: Since this map was made Bosnia, Armenia and Trinidad/Tobago have joined the McD's rank, with Vietnam set to open one in 2014. PrinceRandom fucked around with this message at 09:08 on Aug 22, 2013 |
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I know it's not a country but Corsica has no McDonald's.
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I'm surprised McDonald's would ever close down in a country. For a brand that's ubiquitous with the spread of fast food chains, you'd think they'd subsidize struggling McDonald's, particularly if it was the only one left in a country. I mean, the brand presence means a lot, and they're continuing to spread and achieve market penetration, so you'd think the sheer advertising value of one or two McDonald's in a country would be worth it. Not to mention, with greater spread and market penetration, things like 'logistically difficult and expensive to ship to and maintain' are only temporary issues, right?
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Kurtofan posted:I know it's not a country but Corsica has no McDonald's.
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A McDonalds actually went out of business by my house, it was like the first time it ever happened in the region. It was right by a highschool too, but there were too many good local little restaurants and they couldn't compete. Why spend like $6 on a lovely burger when the same money gets you a sushi lunch combo or some decent italian ?
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HookShot posted:It also doesn't belong to Italy. If you're referring to this map: You might be looking at Sardinia, Corsica is the same color as the rest of France. edit: Sorry, quoted the wrong guy. Soviet Commubot fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Aug 22, 2013 |
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Soviet Commubot posted:If you're referring to this map: 
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Baronjutter posted:A McDonalds actually went out of business by my house, it was like the first time it ever happened in the region. It was right by a highschool too, but there were too many good local little restaurants and they couldn't compete. Why spend like $6 on a lovely burger when the same money gets you a sushi lunch combo or some decent italian ? That happened near me, too. It wasn't near a highschool or anything, but smack dab in the middle of our downtown pedestrian mall area. Food carts, small local places, etc... were better, and similar price or maybe a tad more, but worth it for orders of magnitude better quality. The building the McD's is in is now a sort of mid-upscale "farm to table" and craft brew place called The Farmhouse. HUGE beer selection. And when that closed a few years ago, it meant that technically the largest city in Vermont does not have a McDonald's. It is a bit of a technicality, since although Burlington has no McD's, there are three in South Burlington. We are also the only state with no McD's in our state capital.
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Well Montpelier is by far the smallest state capitol.
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HookShot posted:Why did Chile and Argentina choose the time zones they're in? Their main trading partners were probably in the timezone they eventually chose. The real fun timezone is Nepal, because they're shifted just so you know you're not in India anymore.
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HookShot posted:Why did Chile and Argentina choose the time zones they're in? I guess its yet another way for countries to show how much they dislike each other.
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Are there any effects at all due to all of China having the same time zone? I mean besides the obvious of sunrise/sunset being at dramatically different times on different sides of China.
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Captain Frigate posted:Are there any effects at all due to all of China having the same time zone? I mean besides the obvious of sunrise/sunset being at dramatically different times on different sides of China. The Chinese government doesn't care about the far western part of China
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France was forced to switch to Central European Time during German occupation and hasn't switched back to its previous timezone (the same as UK) after the Liberation. Kurtofan fucked around with this message at 22:43 on Aug 22, 2013 |
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Where's California and Turkey on this map?! Oh, thanks. Also man.. fuckin' half hour time zones are so goofy. Aren't there movements at all to phase those out?
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John Nance Garner posted:The Chinese government doesn't care about the far western part of China Well, for a certain value of "doesn't care". They sure as poo poo care if Tibet or Xinjiang try to do anything Beijing doesn't approve of, like being Tibetan or Uighur.
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Mister Adequate posted:Well, for a certain value of "doesn't care". They sure as poo poo care if Tibet or Xinjiang try to do anything Beijing doesn't approve of, like being Tibetan or Uighur. Apparently there is an unofficial timezone recognized where everything just opens and closes 2 hours earlier than normal Beijing time.
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DrBouvenstein posted:That happened near me, too. It wasn't near a highschool or anything, but smack dab in the middle of our downtown pedestrian mall area. Food carts, small local places, etc... were better, and similar price or maybe a tad more, but worth it for orders of magnitude better quality. The building the McD's is in is now a sort of mid-upscale "farm to table" and craft brew place called The Farmhouse. HUGE beer selection. They tore one down around the corner from where I used to live. To be fair 3 people were brutally murdered there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_River_McDonald%27s_murders
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Kurtofan posted:France was forced to switch to Central European Time during German occupation and hasn't switched back to its previous timezone (the same as UK) after the Liberation. What's with Spain then?
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Baronjutter posted:Also man.. fuckin' half hour time zones are so goofy. Aren't there movements at all to phase those out? I live in one of the half-hour time zones, Newfoundland. We're a small province of 500k people who were deeply in the eastern half of the Atlantic Time Zone, near the border with the neighbouring timezone. At the time, we were an independent dominion (not yet part of Canada), so it was desirable to have a dominion-wide time zone. As we were a separate 'country', we retained the ability to adopt our own time zone. And since our capital lay squarely -3:30 from Greenwich, it made sense. Today it's kind of retained for 2 reasons. Culturally it's a throwback to when we were an independent nation, and for tourism- we often promote events as happening here first; St. John's was the first city in North America to hit Y2K, or get midnight releases of anything from Harry Potter books to video games and movies. So yeah I don't think we'll give it up anytime soon.
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That time zone map is out of date- Venezuela switched to GMT -4:30 a few years ago.
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Tzen posted:"A Big, Beautiful Midcentury Map Celebrating American Folklore" John Henry is a West Virginia legend. Don't take that from my adopted state 
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Baronjutter posted:Where's California and Turkey on this map?! Oh, thanks. It gets much more confusing with DST.
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Poizen Jam posted:I'm surprised McDonald's would ever close down in a country. For a brand that's ubiquitous with the spread of fast food chains, you'd think they'd subsidize struggling McDonald's, particularly if it was the only one left in a country. I mean, the brand presence means a lot, and they're continuing to spread and achieve market penetration, so you'd think the sheer advertising value of one or two McDonald's in a country would be worth it. Not to mention, with greater spread and market penetration, things like 'logistically difficult and expensive to ship to and maintain' are only temporary issues, right? McDonald's in most countries are owned by a single franchisee. And I think all McDonald'ses in the world are franchise owned. Are there any corporate-owned McDonald's? Anyway, in weird countries they're always single franchisee for the whole country, which means it's a really rich guy (any female franchisees?) who could be subsidizing the thing himself anyway. But anyway the corporation can't subsidize a franchisee even if they wanted to, because franchise agreements need to have the same terms. You can't agree to subsidize one franchisee and not the others, and you can't stop a franchisee from closing down if he's losing too much money and decides to throw in the towel. All you can do is wait for another franchisee to come along.
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Bloodnose posted:McDonald's in most countries are owned by a single franchisee. And I think all McDonald'ses in the world are franchise owned. Are there any corporate-owned McDonald's? Apparently about 15% of them are.
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Your map is pre-2010, Russia changed its timezones twice since then, got rid of those two bits near Samara and merged far east zones; and switched to permanent DST in second change and moved some more bits to/from Vladivostok time. Now there is no UTC+5 in Russia, 4 borders 6, far east is UTC+11 instead of 11 and 12.  E: this is still 1 change short of latest Pyromancer fucked around with this message at 08:39 on Aug 23, 2013 |
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You want to hear about stupid time zones look up Arziona. They are the only state in the Union not to observe Daylight Savings. The Navajo Nation does, however. Indiana was another weird one, originally on Central Time, most of the state eventually switched to Eastern. Some counties didn't observe daylight savings so Indiana ended up with 3 time zones: Eastern, Indiana Central, and Central. Finally the state told the Indiana Central time zone counties to pick Eastern or Central, almost all of them switched to Eastern. edit: Looking it up on wiki, Hawaii also doesn't observe DST.
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Here's a political map. (source) There's been a debate on and off since 2011 about wether or not we should lower the voting age to 16 in Norway.
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ulvir posted:Here's a political map. (source) How did 18 become more or less standard as the age of majority around the world?
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