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Lordy, I haven't had my tvätt serviced in forever best page snype ever
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Gripweed posted:You can seriously drive all the way across England, long ways, in 27 hours? How is a place that small allowed to be a country? Let me tell you about Andorra.
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Jun 12, 2019 15:17
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The Bloop posted:Lordy, I haven't had my tvätt serviced in forever PM me 
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Jun 12, 2019 15:24
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idgi, it's just a cleaning service van?
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Jun 12, 2019 15:35
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chitoryu12 posted:"What do you mean this law won't work on a national scale? Your states can't all be that different!" China seems to manage fine with one law.  Shhh, no-one mention Hong Kong.
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Jun 12, 2019 15:35
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organburner posted:idgi, it's just a cleaning service van? Let none accuse the Swede of a sense of humour.
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Jun 12, 2019 15:40
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thespaceinvader posted:Let me tell you about Andorra. How about Sark?
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Jun 12, 2019 16:14
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Gripweed posted:My favorite part of Australian history is the dozens of stories of British dudes who decided to explore the country, set off with wagons full of supplies and scientific survey equipment, and then were found three months later by some aborigines, nearly starved to death, 90% of the party dead, tying their feet skin onto their feet to serve as shoes after it fell off. The Burke and Wills expedition of 1860 to travel overland to the north coast of the continent is pretty much the gold standard of idiot fuckers leading doomed explorations in Australia. The Exploration Committee had the option of picking noted explorers Ferdinand von Mueller or Wilhelm Blandowski as expedition leaders but because of stupid factionalism they instead chose Robert O'Hara Burke who had no exploration or wilderness survival experience. The expedition team of 19 men, 23 horses and 26 camels set off from Royal Park with 20 tonnes of equipment loaded into 6 carts and one cart broke down before they even left the park. A member of the Exploration Committee had offered to ship all their supplies about 600km up river to save them carrying all of it for that first leg but he'd voted against Burke as expedition leader so Burke declined the offer. The expedition's progress was so slow that for the first few nights Burke would ride a horse back to the city so he could visit an underaged actress he was infatuated with. Even though history records the expedition as "The Burke and Wills expedition" Wills wasn't even the second in command until a month into the journey when the original second in command George Landells and a bunch of other members (including the medic) got fed up with Burke's bullshit and left. An advance team of Burke, Wills and two other people (King and Gray) eventually left the rest of the expedition at a base camp so they could push forwards and they were technically successful in their goal of reaching the north coast when they reached the an estuary in the Gulf of Carpentaria but due to swampland and heavy rains they never actually saw the sea before turning back. On the way back south they gradually got weaker and sicker from starvation and bickered and fought amongst themselves, accusing each other of faking it when they acted sick and other dumb poo poo. Gray was caught sneaking supplies so Burke beat the crap out of him and he died a few weeks later. The remaining three members stopped for a day to bury Gray's body and regain their strength and when they finally got back to base camp a few days later they discovered that the rest of the expedition had got sick of waiting for them and left that same day (leaving a cache of supplies under a marked tree), and they'd missed them by 9 hours. They rested for two days, left a letter explaining their intentions in the buried cache and then slowly set off, planning on following a creek upstream and then crossing a desert to reach a cattle homestead 240 miles away. Two weeks later some members of the main party returned to the base camp to check if Burke & Wills had made it back but didn't bother digging up the cache so they missed the letter. Burke & Wills were only 35 miles away at this point but their pack animals had all died so they couldn't carry enough water to cross the desert and abandoned their plans to try and reach the distant homestead. Wills actually returned to the base camp a few weeks later and discovered that the other expedition members had returned but hadn't left them any supplies. The Indigenous Yandruwandha people had been trading food with Burke & Wills in exchange for sugar but while Wills was away Burke shot his pistol at the Yandruwandhas so they abandoned them. Burke and Wills died soon after and the remaining expedition member King managed to convince the Yandruwandhas to keep him alive until a rescue expedition found him three months later. But after all that they still ended up erecting a bunch of statues and monuments to those idiots fuckers: 
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Jun 12, 2019 16:23
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Ok. Got my retirement trip itinerary set!
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Jun 12, 2019 16:58
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:The Burke and Wills expedition of 1860 My favorite detail about this is that the return expedition didn't know Burke had returned to camp because he hadn't bothered to change the date marked on the tree next to the cache.
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Jun 12, 2019 17:20
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:one cart broke down before they even left the park A proto-goon!
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Jun 12, 2019 17:30
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I wonder if they would have gone through with the expedition if they had they internet and a forum of people relentlessly mocking their every step, or if they'd have given up after the third day too
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Jun 12, 2019 17:38
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MrUnderbridge posted:Ok. Got my retirement trip itinerary set! Always go from Twatt to Shitterton, never the other way around
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Jun 12, 2019 17:47
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Y'all getting excited about hauling all the way across England and Scotland for Twatt when you could take a trip to Austria and walk from Hucking to loving in thirty minutes.
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Jun 12, 2019 17:51
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Besesoth posted:My favorite detail about this is that the return expedition didn't know Burke had returned to camp because he hadn't bothered to change the date marked on the tree next to the cache. I hadn't heard of Burke beating up Gray. The story I read was he died more or less out of the blue. Him being beaten to death and just saying he dropped from heat stroke or something makes sense. I had heard that Burke was famous for getting lost even in regular cities and towns. And among the supplies he felt he needed included a giant oak table, a wardrobe and a Chinese gong.
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Jun 12, 2019 17:58
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MrUnderbridge posted:Ok. Got my retirement trip itinerary set! "Kids, gather round to hear the story about pee-pop's last big trip before drowning in Twatt."
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Jun 12, 2019 18:02
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If you got two hours, this is the funnest way to learn about it: http://thedollop.net/wp/episode-110-dollop/
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Jun 12, 2019 18:04
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:The Burke and Wills expedition of 1860 Is that the one where they brought a bathtub and dining table?
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Jun 12, 2019 18:05
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Trig Discipline posted:Y'all getting excited about hauling all the way across England and Scotland for Twatt when you could take a trip to Austria and walk from Hucking to loving in thirty minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLXe2WTYngQ
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Jun 12, 2019 18:06
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Trig Discipline posted:Y'all getting excited about hauling all the way across England and Scotland for Twatt when you could take a trip to Austria and walk from Hucking to loving in thirty minutes. born on a mountain raised in a cave
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Jun 12, 2019 18:30
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marshmallow creep posted:And among the supplies he felt he needed included a giant oak table, a wardrobe and a Chinese gong. Gripweed posted:Is that the one where they brought a bathtub and dining table? Yep, also 12 dandruff brushes (for the camels), four enema kits, six tonnes of firewood and tonnes and tonnes of other useless poo poo. But they also only took two field glasses, two watches and twelve water bottles. Edit: we should also note that their aim was to reach the Gulf of Carpentaria which was 3,250 kilometres (~ 2,000 miles) north of their starting point. Edit 2: their average speed was about 2 miles per hour (less than normal walking speed), they were slow as gently caress. quote:They reached Menindee on 12 October having taken two months to travel 750 km (470 mi) from Melbourne—the regular mail coach did the journey in little more than a week. Two of the expedition's five officers had resigned, thirteen members of the expedition had been fired and eight new men had been hired. Snowglobe of Doom has a new favorite as of 18:58 on Jun 12, 2019 |
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Jun 12, 2019 18:35
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I see Derek Huff's kid grew up just as expected. For those of you who haven't seen Step Brothers: https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Derek_Huff
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Jun 12, 2019 18:53
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Jun 12, 2019 19:05
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minato posted:born on a mountain Lmao
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Jun 12, 2019 19:18
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Gripweed posted:Is that the one where they brought a bathtub and dining table?
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Jun 12, 2019 19:56
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Pookah posted:They shouldn't have skipped Muff. 
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Jun 12, 2019 20:19
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That's why you should never allow Trump to return.
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Jun 12, 2019 20:21
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minato posted:born on a mountain I enjoyed this post.
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Jun 12, 2019 20:38
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chitoryu12 posted:Yeah but most of Australia is uninhabitable wasteland where everyone just lives on the coasts. Isn't the US something like 95% "empty land"?
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Jun 12, 2019 20:44
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Jerry Cotton posted:Isn't the US something like 95% "empty land"? a good chunk of that empty land is actually natural beauty preserved for future generations under America's revolutionary National Park system, you gently caress.
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Jun 12, 2019 20:48
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Gripweed posted:a good chunk of that empty land is actually natural beauty preserved for future generations under America's revolutionary National Park system, you gently caress. It's a drat good thing we got it when we did because it sure as hell wouldn't happen now.
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Jun 12, 2019 20:49
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Jerry Cotton posted:Isn't the US something like 95% "empty land"? Yeah, but it's not a gigantic desert filled with poisonous monsters and terrifying ambush dinosaurs. The US' empty land is full of trees and stuff.
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Jun 12, 2019 20:51
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Solice Kirsk posted:Yeah, but it's not a gigantic desert filled with poisonous monsters and terrifying ambush dinosaurs. The US' empty land is full of trees and stuff. Don't forget the CHUDs that's where most of them live. Rural backwoods fucks.
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Jun 12, 2019 20:53
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Jerry Cotton posted:Isn't the US something like 95% "empty land"? The great plains are much less empty than the outback, really.
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Jun 12, 2019 20:53
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Australia has roughly the same land area as mainland USA with less than 1/13 the population. Edit: here's a map of Australia superimposed over the USA. The area shaded red has a population of about 4.6 million, roughly the same as the state of Louisiana (shaded green) 
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Jun 12, 2019 20:54
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It's not a contest. Both continents are terrible.
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Jun 12, 2019 21:00
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Australia has roughly the same land area as mainland USA with less than 1/13 the population. Probably has to do with the murderous wildlife, raging fires, and totally inhospitable "middle zone". Oh and everything is upside down which is really hosed up.
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Jun 12, 2019 21:01
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LifeSunDeath posted:Probably has to do with the murderous wildlife, raging fires, and totally inhospitable "middle zone". Oh and everything is upside down which is really hosed up. Could be worse. They could be living in Rand McNally.
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Jun 12, 2019 21:07
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mng posted:It's not a contest. Both continents are terrible. That's fair.
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Jun 12, 2019 21:13
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Samovar posted:Could be worse. They could be living in Rand McNally. he can only fit one person inside him at a time, two at most
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