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Sucrose posted:Most Canadians live to the south of Seattle, and more than 70% of them live below the 49th parallel. I live in Northern Ontario, but I'm still only at the 46th parallel. It's the same distance north of the equator as the border between Oregon and Washington. The most southern part of Ontario is at about the same latitude as the northern border of California.
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It's a little nuts how much colder the same latitude often is in the US versus Europe. Philadelphia is further south than Madrid, Barcelona, Rome, and Istanbul.
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Baron von Eevl posted:It's a little nuts how much colder the same latitude often is in the US versus Europe. Philadelphia is further south than Madrid, Barcelona, Rome, and Istanbul. I learned about this as a kid visiting some friends in France during the winter, at an even higher latitude than where we lived. It was generally comfortable outdoors weather over there, what I'd think of as pleasant fall weather. Getting on a plane after a few weeks of that and stepping off it hours later into classic Midwestern winter was quite the shock.
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Baron von Eevl posted:It's a little nuts how much colder the same latitude often is in the US versus Europe. Philadelphia is further south than Madrid, Barcelona, Rome, and Istanbul. I'm in Ireland and am at the same latitude as Kamchatka, the Bering Straits and bits of Alaska. It barely ever snows here and we get a hard frost maybe 5 days a year.
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Pookah posted:I'm in Ireland and am at the same latitude as Kamchatka, the Bering Straits and bits of Alaska. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWolvZIqZ2A --------- Dick Sargent's real surname was "Cox"
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Jan 14, 2024 22:34
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I keep reading the title as "world's biggest hit" and I'm like "me  "
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Yah once the gulf stream finally reverses or stops entirely it’ll be really fun
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I only learned that NYC is at the same latitude as Rome pretty recently
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Any city is on the same arbitrary line as any other.
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it's true. a nd many of them are large and chaotic and there's often a terrible smell. there are many similarities with one's mother.
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One that's probably only relevant to Australians is that Perth is further north than Sydney.  On my mental map of Australia I've always placed Sydney somewhere in the middle of the east coast but it's much further south than that
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drat I'm not from Straya and even I knew that Mainly because I thought perth was a lot further north
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And get this guys, it's called Australia, but actually Oh wait. Never mind.
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Yeah it's Brisbane that's halfway up the East coast
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I thought Jason Sudeikis was the shlub from How I Met Your Mother, but that's some other guy. The guy who is Jason Sudeikis is a guy I thought was Ed Helms this entire time. I mean, I know who Ed Helms is, I just... never realized Ed Helmes is not also Jason Sudeikis who is also not the guy from that tv show. Two different people, so says imdb
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Jan 16, 2024 07:07
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nah same guy, all three.
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Amoeba102 posted:Yeah it's Brisbane that's halfway up the East coast Queensland is insanely huge. Another FUN thing about maps of Australia is that cartographers feel uncomfortable about empty spaces and will fill them up with absurdly small towns. Anyone want to guess the population of Ivanhoe, New South Wales, that's there on the map?
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They also got bored and made the font bigger in no relation to population for some of these places.
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Tree Bucket posted:Queensland is insanely huge. Is it less than Diehard? 
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Inceltown posted:Is it less than Diehard? *scoffs* Ivanhoe is nearly twice the size of Diehard!
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In an area of the world where there aren't a lot of people, very small [I can't remember what taajama is in English and am too lethargic to move my hands enough to Google it]s are notable and should appear on maps.
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Tree Bucket posted:Queensland is insanely huge. I was going to say “twenty”, but then I looked it up so that I wouldn’t be embarrassed in guessing hilariously wrong. Eh, close enough.
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Tree Bucket posted:Queensland is insanely huge. Without looking it up, it's just a guy called Ivanhoe lives there e: I was pretty close
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Australia really has a village named after the historical novel Ivanhoe ?
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3D Megadoodoo posted:In an area of the world where there aren't a lot of people, very small [I can't remember what taajama is in English and am too lethargic to move my hands enough to Google it]s are notable and should appear on maps. I looked it up and got "penis".
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MyronMulch posted:I looked it up and got "penis". turn on your monitor
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Yngwie Mangosteen posted:turn on your monitor sounds like vice versa
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Tree Bucket posted:Anyone want to guess the population of Ivanhoe, New South Wales, that's there on the map? About one sixty-eighth the population of Ivanhoe, Victoria, which is around seven hours away
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Tree Bucket posted:Queensland is insanely huge. I noticed the same thing on holiday in much much smaller New Zealand. We were using paper maps at the time, and I remember when we were going from Lake Wanaka to Queenstown, the map showed us passing though what looked like a small town. It turned out to be a crossroads with maybe a postbox or something. Not even a single house in sight. I tried to find the place on google maps, but the closest I can find to where I remember it being appears to be a fence completely covered in bras.  So that's a thing.
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Pookah posted:I tried to find the place on google maps, but the closest I can find to where I remember it being appears to be a fence completely covered in bras. Well yeah, it's a brabed wire fence.
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Trabant posted:Well yeah, it's a brabed wire fence. 
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Yeah that's what it is called idk what to tell u
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The word "restauranteur" does not actually have an n in it 
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Captain Hygiene posted:The word "restauranteur" does not actually have an n in it What the gently caress is that then?
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The existence of restaurateurs implies the existence of staurateurs, prestaurateurs, and poststaurateurs.
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Captain Hygiene posted:The word "restauranteur" does not actually have an n in it Also that's the male form of the noun, the female form is restauratrice And the original form of 'restaurant' meant the same as restorant (something that restores your health, in this case food) and 'restaurateur' archaically also referred to someone who restores broken items or a doctor who sets broken bones https://www.etymonline.com/word/restaurant https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/644230/why-its-spelled-restaurateur-not-restauranteur
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"horse" isn't actually cognate with Latin "equus" or from PIE "*h₁éḱwos". It is, however, cognate with "car" 
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Captain Splendid posted:"horse" isn't actually cognate with Latin "equus" or from PIE "*h₁éḱwos". WHAT holy poo poo
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FreudianSlippers posted:Australia really has a village named after the historical novel Ivanhoe ? Yes. If it helps, a lot of these little towns started as family farms that didn't stop. Which is why my town shares its name with a book of notably bad poetry (and a genus of North Atlantic copepods, but that's coincidence)
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"The Beach That Makes You Old" is actually taken from a 2021 film. The film is about a beach that makes you old.
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