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Elviscat posted:VA is the worst 1/3. In Montana if you somehow got pulled over for speeding it used to be a $15 ticket whatever speed you were going and you could just hand it over to the cop. #1 reason you get pulled over in Montana is because the cop hadn't talked to anyone in 5 or 6 hours and they felt lonely. There's stretches of road so long they have a curve to the right just to account for the curvature of the earth.
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delaware has the smoothest business incorporation courts in the nation, maybe the world. most of the fortune 500 is delaware c corps, despite everything that matters being in other states
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Twitch posted:While it's never explicitly stated in the book or the movie, the setting of Fight Club is inspired by Delaware. Gonna have to call bullshit here. Nothing, nobody, nowhere was ever inspired by Delaware.
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Inspector 34 posted:Gonna have to call bullshit here. Nothing, nobody, nowhere was ever inspired by Delaware. Everything I've ever heard about Deleware has inspired me to never visit.
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There was that Friends episode where Chandler (the funny one) asks the rest if they can straight-up name all 50 states. Ross, the one with the most academic achievement in the group, spends the episode getting to 49 and forgetting one. By the end he realizes it's Delaware. When I watched Friends I hadn't yet learned that much English, so outside of New York, the name Delaware sticks in my head.
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Elviscat posted:VA is the worst 1/3. Strong talk for a state I once drove through in less than 20 minutes. (yes, through the northern end and into New Jersey so it wasn't exactly a win)
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toanoradian posted:Also do each state has a stereotype of for the other 49 or are there some states nobody cares about?
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And that reputation is meth more often than not
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:And that reputation is meth more often than not
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toanoradian posted:What are the most popular Joe Biden paraphernalia The band Fall Out Boy, who ultimately owe their existence to Joe Biden's 1972 senatorial campaign. I'm not joking.
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:Then there's the paradox of California because it's far to the south but it isn't The South. Parts of California are further north than parts of Canada.
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Inceltown posted:Everything I've ever heard about Deleware has inspired me to never visit. Occasionally, I am called to (drive to) Delaware for corporate training, certification classes, or the like. They describe the state as "we have everything, just none of it is very good". My hot take: it seems rather flat.
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Platystemon posted:Parts of California are further north than parts of Canada.
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well, "parts" is doing a lot of work there My favourite one is how Maine is the closest US state to Africa 
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FFT posted:what the gently caress It’s a very small overlap. Less than eighty square kilometres of dry, Canadian land is south of California’s northern border. On the California side, because the overlap spans the whole width of the state, the are something like twelve thousand square kilometres of land north of Canada’s (uninhabited) Middle Island, including the westernmost city in the contiguous United States, Crescent City.  more here This is all taking place at the same latitude as Rome—the Eternal City, not one of the thirteen U.S. cities of that name. Platystemon has a new favorite as of 10:43 on Apr 2, 2021 |
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that image is also a good illustration that if you want to cross into Windsor from Detroit you drive south
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But as Journey famously found out, “Windsor” doesn’t rhyme with “boy”.
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Delaware is also home to DC's Metropolis, which is across from New Jersey's Gotham. 
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Delaware has not yet, despite claiming to be a modern state, has no commercial airports, possibly because they can't figure out how to build tollbooths that tall
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projecthalaxy posted:Delaware has not yet, despite claiming to be a modern state, has no commercial airports, possibly because they can't figure out how to build tollbooths that tall wasn't that just floated by some cro-magnon chuds as a reason not to grant DC statehood? lack of airports? hell at least DC has dulles
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Deep Glove Bruno posted:wasn't that just floated by some cro-magnon chuds as a reason not to grant DC statehood? lack of airports? hell at least DC has dulles aside from this being a ridiculous and dishonest argument if it were actually made, you could ride a bicycle to National Airport pretty easily from anywhere in D.C.
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Ambitious Spider posted:Delaware is also home to DC's Metropolis, which is across from New Jersey's Gotham. From what I know of New Jersey, a city full of maniacal villains would fit being in New Jersey. Is that accurate?
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toanoradian posted:From what I know of New Jersey, a city full of maniacal villains would fit being in New Jersey. Is that accurate? the whole eastern seaboard is full of maniacal villains
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Riven posted:Fun fact, Wyoming has two escalators. Ya gotta have two or else you can't get down again.
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This thread might qualify for a third entry on ‘Mentions in Popular Culture’ for Delaware after Friends and Wayne’s World. There will be debate about just how popular our culture is.
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Memento posted:well, "parts" is doing a lot of work there Man, globe earth is crazy as hell.
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Elviscat posted:Man, globe earth is crazy as hell. globehead logic :eyeroll:
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Elviscat posted:Man, globe earth is crazy as hell. It's mostly just projection
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lmao look how big America is, pretending its one country. Basically cheating. Utter bullshitery. gently caress you edit: russia does NOT count, it's basically empty space, steppe rabbit?? and mountains
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Mauser posted:aside from this being a ridiculous and dishonest argument if it were actually made, you could ride a bicycle to National Airport pretty easily from anywhere in D.C. Well unless you were Buttigieg in which case you'd have to have the bike SUV'd to within 100 yards first. https://twitter.com/Xeriland/status/1377757687954423808
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Regarde Aduck posted:lmao look how big America is, pretending its one country. Basically cheating. Utter bullshitery. gently caress you It's not cheating, it's just a very very bad idea.
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https://twitter.com/SamFishell/status/1377857312866504704 (after you've admired the first one, go read the wikipedia article instead of squinting at the screenshots) https://twitter.com/Riela2/status/1378006352254152712
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Elviscat posted:Man, globe earth is crazy as hell. spherecucks btfo
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The Dollop did a great episode on him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0zI3Ed0kTQ Though I think those guys have been accused of just reading off Wikipedia in the past. Still, it's a fun episode.
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:Then there's the paradox of California because it's far to the south but it isn't The South. Nowhere west of the Rockies is The South.
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feedmyleg posted:The Dollop did a great episode on him: I dunno, it seems very clear that Dave writes scripts for all these. That said, listen to the episode. It might be the best history podcast episode ever. Dr. Lunchables has a new favorite as of 19:35 on Apr 2, 2021 |
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