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Slovenia has Harvey Norman, so I look forward to Ikea moving in there and destroying them. Anyone from Australia will understand the feelings of pure "Really? HERE?" that my husband and I both had when we're sitting at the McDonalds in Kopar waiting for our car pickup time and can see a fricking Harvey Norman store down the block.
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Pretty weird selection actually:quote:As of 30 June 2015, Harvey Norman Holdings' overseas operations (all conducted under the Harvey Norman brand) are in: How can there be 17 stores in Singapore alone? And in both parts of Ireland, but none in Great Britain proper? And how did they wind up in Slovenia and Croatia?
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HookShot posted:Slovenia has Harvey Norman, so I look forward to Ikea moving in there and destroying them. Really? There? Or of curiosity, is the name easy to pronounce from a Slovenian perspective....?
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I have never even heard of Harvey Norman.
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Phlegmish posted:I have never even heard of Harvey Norman.
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Cat Mattress posted:
What's with the power grid in Saudi Arabia that's not connected to anything else?
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Kassad posted:What's with the power grid in Saudi Arabia that's not connected to anything else? Appendicitis.
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Cat Mattress posted:
Is this the thing that is letting the angry Serbs make everybody's clocks run wrong?
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Is this the thing that is letting the angry Serbs make everybody's clocks run wrong? There's a really good "bombing begins in 5 minutes" joke here somewhere but I can't find it.
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Orange Devil posted:There's a really good "bombing begins in 5 minutes" joke here somewhere but I can't find it. Look above.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Look above. No I don't think appendicitis is it.
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Orange Devil posted:No I don't think appendicitis is it. Something something NATO airplanes.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:He sounds like a jerk. The Harvey part at least is very much a jerk.
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Kassad posted:What's with the power grid in Saudi Arabia that's not connected to anything else? Are you honestly unfamiliar with the Arabian Desert?
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Phlegmish posted:I have never even heard of Harvey Norman. Imagine a Trump-owned, Australia-based Ikea
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Kassad posted:What's with the power grid in Saudi Arabia that's not connected to anything else? All 
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Whiz Palace posted:Not pictured: Mecca True- it's a little inland from Jeddah and where the lines on the power map were running to.
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:Imagine a Trump-owned, Australia-based Ikea But unlike Ikea their prices are way higher than everywhere else so Gerry Harvey whines about how foreigners and the internet are ruining his business.
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CaptainRightful posted:Are you honestly unfamiliar with the Arabian Desert? It's not connected to the rest of these European power grids is what I meant.
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Kassad posted:It's not connected to the rest of these European power grids is what I meant. Are you honestly unfamiliar with the Arabian Desert?
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HookShot posted:But unlike Ikea their prices are way higher than everywhere else so Gerry Harvey whines about how foreigners and the internet are ruining his business.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Are you honestly unfamiliar with the Arabian Desert? i think they're just pointing out the map was called specifically a grid of European power supply
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Yeah, it's the map from the official site. Technically it also shows networks from other operators that are tightly interconnected, so it's really a combined ENTSO-E+Med-TSO map. And then someone points out inevitably that Saudi Arabia is neither European nor Mediterranean.
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Forget Saudi Arabia, what I want to know is what's with the one line directly connnecting Kars, Turkey to an unlabeled spot in Armenia. I didn't think anything crossed that border.
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https://twitter.com/the_sidecarist/status/971837724381638656 This offbeat part of town actually dates back to the 1890s, when the area below the river was first being developed. Two lawyers wanted to break away and establish a new town imaginatively called South Missoula, and began laying out a street plan that ran parallel to Bitterroot Wagon Road; unfortunately, the town's moneyed interests said "no dice," and surrounded their street plan with a grid that completely threw everything out of whack. Thus, Slant Streets was born. As if that weren't enough, Missoula also developed numerous needlessly complicated intersections, the most heinous of which is a five-lane intersection appropriately nicknamed "Malfunction Junction."
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The USA, where the 'offbeat' part of town still has a perfectly geometric layout
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Top Tip: If you throw spaghetti at the wall and it sticks, you've designed a European city layout.
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The offbeat part is better because it doesn't have one the grid axes being straight east-west, ie, gently caress you if you commute the wrong way during sunrise/sunset.
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Technocrat posted:https://twitter.com/the_sidecarist/status/971837724381638656 That is great. It way outdoes the thing where someone decided to mess with L'Enfant's OCD at the edges of his plan for DC. 
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Technocrat posted:https://twitter.com/the_sidecarist/status/971837724381638656  I found an article that named the malfunction junction....  Yeah... that needs a round-about too. You've got one... might as well joint the rest of the free world and make it a thing... then you can tackle the metric system!!
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Cable Guy posted:Holy poo poo... things I never thought I'd see in America - gun control.... and round-abouts "Roundabouts" used to be a major thing in NJ at least but we've actually gotten rid of the vast majority of them in favor of a safer alternative - the jug handle. 
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My area is screwy like that too: https://www.google.ca/maps/@49.3149895,-123.0678452,2789m/data=!3m1!1e3 If you go up the main drag, it goes from 6th street to 11th because of this. Plus there's a small native reserve just north of the marina which just put roads wherever the gently caress they wanted (left side).
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Diqnol posted:"Roundabouts" used to be a major thing in NJ at least but we've actually gotten rid of the vast majority of them in favor of a safer alternative - the jug handle. North Carolina has a lot of "traffic circles" too (at least for America). It's a nice idea, but when they're as rare as they are, no one seems to have any idea wtf to do when they get to them. What's also awful is: France. Some years ago they switched nearly all roundabouts so that the person inside the roundabout has right of way, but there are still some old drivers who, somehow, never figured out that the law changed. I have no idea how someone who thinks that hasn't gotten in 500 accidents by now, but I've seen it occasionally.
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Saladman posted:North Carolina has a lot of "traffic circles" too (at least for America). It's a nice idea, but when they're as rare as they are, no one seems to have any idea wtf to do when they get to them. We've got a few in Northeast Ohio (around Akron), and yeah, people don't get it. There are still plenty of those who still treat it as a full stop, even without a sign present. Maddening.
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Returning to DC, it has a lot of circles, but they're not purpose-designed traffic roundabouts at all. L'Enfant designed the intersections of the city's diagonal boulevards to be squares to act as community nodes where people/lawmakers from around the country would cluster together, say New Yorkers all near one, South Carolinians another, etc. That didn't quite happen and most (but not all) squares were long-ago rounded to improve flow, but they are sure enough neighborhood nodes. As traffic goes, they're a bit over-complicated to be effective.  Since they are set at intersections of major roads you have a lot of traffic to route through them.    
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Boston is probably lowhanging fruit for bad street design but I can't get over this dumbass street that is only 1km long, creates TWO separate 6-way intersections, and then just merges back into an east-west avenue
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Is there a Starbucks inside the EU delegation building in DC?
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Cable Guy posted:Holy poo poo... things I never thought I'd see in America - gun control.... and round-abouts There's a bunch of round-abouts in Massachusetts.
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