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Isn't every bit of land with a watershed technically a series of island then
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europe is simply a tightly packed archipelago when you think about it
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May 7, 2018 20:46
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I'm always saying Delmarva should be considered an island because yes there is a canal but it's free flowing tidal water.
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May 7, 2018 20:47
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Baronjutter posted:
I thought it was weird that the "main" route skipped the Lower Mississippi and instead opted to go through a bunch of smaller rivers and canals in Tennessee/Alabama. I mean, isn't that supposed to be one of those quintessential American experiences, boating down the Mississippi River? So I looked the route up and it turns out in that between Cairo, Illinois and New Orleans, the Mississippi River doesn't have that many marinas open for recreational boaters, and there's a particular stretch where you'd have to go 450 miles (or about two weeks) without being able to dock anywhere. Meanwhile, traveling through that other route that goes through Tennessee and Alabama has tons of marinas.
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May 7, 2018 20:56
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Too brown for Bostonians. Holy poo poo. Pakled posted:I thought it was weird that the "main" route skipped the Lower Mississippi and instead opted to go through a bunch of smaller rivers and canals in Tennessee/Alabama. I mean, isn't that supposed to be one of those quintessential American experiences, boating down the Mississippi River? So I looked the route up and it turns out in that between Cairo, Illinois and New Orleans, the Mississippi River doesn't have that many marinas open for recreational boaters, and there's a particular stretch where you'd have to go 450 miles (or about two weeks) without being able to dock anywhere. Meanwhile, traveling through that other route that goes through Tennessee and Alabama has tons of marinas. I've known about the ICW and Great loop for a long time now but I didn't know that about the Mississippi river (lack of) marinas. Anyone know why that might be? Milo and POTUS fucked around with this message at 21:44 on May 7, 2018 |
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May 7, 2018 21:32
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Milo and POTUS posted:Holy poo poo. The Lower Mississippi is pretty heavily enclosed in levees and floods a lot, so it's not really the most hospitable place to put luxury facilities like marinas for pleasure craft. Plus there really aren't a lot of pleasure craft around to take advantage of facilities like marinas, so nobody builds them, so there aren't any pleasure craft, and so on.
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May 7, 2018 21:50
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Cat Mattress posted:Bolivia wouldn't keep that coast for long. They're pissed about it to this day.  Text reads: Which was once ours will be ours once more. Hold on tight rotos (Chilean slang and apparently a slur for Chileans outside of Chile), here come the colorados of Bolivia.
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May 7, 2018 21:53
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Jerry Cotton posted:Why not? (Other than the fact that kebab came to Sweden from Germany, not Turkey.) How about in a hundred years? Or a thousand years? When has a dish become "domestic" in any given culture? Why not when people in that culture consider it a normal part of their everyday life? Who is making the kebab in Sweden? (and who do you think brought it from Germany, that country with one particularly notable immigrant community)
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May 7, 2018 23:33
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Truly we cant talk about national cuisines unless we can identify the guy who first had the idea of cooking a chunk of meat over a fire.
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May 7, 2018 23:38
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It was me, you're welcome.
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May 7, 2018 23:58
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steinrokkan posted:Isn't every bit of land with a watershed technically a series of island then No, because distributaries are rare. Usually there isn’t surface water right on the divide.
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May 8, 2018 00:08
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Platystemon posted:No, because distributaries are rare. Usually. You do get stuff like the two creeks of Two Oceans Pass in Wyoming:  As you probably expect, out of the marsh and small lake in the middle of the pass, Atlantic Creek flows to the Yellowstone River, which flows to the Missouri and thence to the Mississippi. Pacific Creek flows to the Snake River and thence into the Columbia to the ocean. It's not like these are intermittent streams either, they're active flows year round as is the marsh in the middle, and fish capable of swimming against the current could theoretically go through it to migrate all the way from the west coast to the east coast through the various river networks.
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May 8, 2018 00:22
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ekuNNN posted:
and Kazakhstan declared independence on December 21, whereas the Soviet Union dissolved itself on December 26 - meaning that for five days, the country existed solely on paper.
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May 8, 2018 01:09
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Grape posted:Who is making the kebab in Sweden? This post is titled "missing the forest for the trees"
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May 8, 2018 02:05
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Senor Dog posted:This post is titled "missing the forest for the trees" Would you guys call Chinese takeout American food? Or Chinese food in America? Now ask yourselves why this is any different with Sweden or Germany with Turkish food. Or the simple method, ask anyone from the Balkans/Levant if Kebabgyroschwarma can be considered Swedish, and just soak in the uproarious laughter and/or cuss words.
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May 8, 2018 04:02
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Grape posted:Would you guys call Chinese takeout American food? Or Chinese food in America?
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May 8, 2018 04:12
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Grape posted:Would you guys call Chinese takeout American food? Or Chinese food in America? I'm glad we had this back and forth so we could finally infer that there is no such thing as street food in Sweden.
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May 8, 2018 04:34
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May 8, 2018 06:50
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The shape of Alabama’s flag has never been specified. LOL Wikipedia posted:It is sometimes believed that the crimson saltire of the current flag of Alabama was designed to resemble the blue saltire of the Confederate Battle Flag. Many battle flags were square, and the flag of Alabama is sometimes also depicted as square. The legislation that created the state flag did not specify that the flag was to be square, however.[7] The authors of a 1917 article in National Geographic expressed their opinion that because the Alabama flag was based on the Battle Flag, it should be square.[8] In 1987, the office of Alabama Attorney General Don Siegelman issued an opinion in which the derivation from the 60th Alabama Battle Flag is indicated, and also concluded that the proper shape is rectangular, as it had been depicted numerous times in official publications and reproductions;[6] despite this, the flag is still often depicted as being square, even in official publications of the U.S. federal government.[9]
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May 8, 2018 06:58
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Grape posted:Who is making the kebab in Sweden? Swedes or kurds.
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May 8, 2018 07:40
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I like how Nevada, Hawaii and Alaska don't have nearly enough counties to come anywhere close to depicting their flags
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May 8, 2018 10:43
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Grape posted:Would you guys call Chinese takeout American food? Or Chinese food in America? Sauerkraut: German or Chinese?
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May 8, 2018 11:25
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Cat Mattress posted:Sauerkraut: German or Chinese? Alsacien. 
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May 8, 2018 11:30
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is tikka masala British?
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May 8, 2018 11:30
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Ras Het posted:is tikka masala British?
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May 8, 2018 12:18
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Grape posted:Who is making the kebab in Sweden? Most kebab place owners are Swedish citizens by now. Look, i'm not claiming Swedes invented kebab. But like indish food in britain it has adapted so much locally to the point that i think a levantine person would scarcely recognize it as a levantine dish.
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May 8, 2018 15:30
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the prototypically swedish street food is tunnbrödsrulle and you'll just have to accept that in your heart
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May 8, 2018 15:46
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Also kebab is ubiquitous in Europe now, you can get it as steeet food literally in any European city with a population of more than like 15 people. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a town in Switzerland with more than 2 restaurants that didn’t have at least one kebab shop. And usually it’s the only place open on Sundays or at random off hours like 4pm. I’ve never lived in Sweden but I don’t remember kebab being any more ubiquitous there than it is in any large European city, and certainly far less than Berlin. Also currywurst is disgusting.
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May 8, 2018 15:55
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Currywurst sucks, and also for Christ's sake, how long can you talk about loving meat and vegetables in a bun.
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May 8, 2018 15:57
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How long has it been from the invention of bread?
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May 8, 2018 15:59
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steinrokkan posted:Currywurst sucks, and also for Christ's sake, how long can you talk about loving meat and vegetables in a bun. Look, I'll agree that Finnish kebab isn't perfect but calling it vegetables is a bit much
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May 8, 2018 16:00
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Turn that one county white and you get Puerto Ric-Ohio
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May 8, 2018 18:51
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Benagain posted:How long has it been from the invention of bread? Seven.
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May 8, 2018 19:49
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May 8, 2018 20:48
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lmao bulgaria
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May 8, 2018 21:36
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lmao UK. you were the first first world country and now you're getting beaten by the primitive backwards Spaniard with his Catholic theocracy and lazy lounging in the Mediterranean sun
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May 8, 2018 21:44
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Peaceful Anarchy posted:Chinese takeout is a US tailored modification of mainland Chinese food that most Chinese would not consider Chinese food, kind of like Taco Bell isn't Mexican food (although at least Chinese takeout was probably developed by people of Chinese descent). It's also complete crap compared with actual Chinese food, as well as somehow established all over Europe too. The same thing goes for British curries.
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May 8, 2018 22:03
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Come on, Estonia, you'll never be able to join the Nordic club that way
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May 8, 2018 22:16
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 It’s also the most important role of a man.
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Private Speech posted:It's also complete crap compared with actual Chinese food, as well as somehow established all over Europe too.  on both counts
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