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Hi! I'm Margin Headwinds!
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And I'm Chyna Barbello! We're nostril deep in worldwide investment banking wonks' broiges and as a result, we're bored stiff!
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I'm stiff!
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Is that you Beavis?
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And I'm bor -
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Is that you Beavis?
You said 'Beavis' uhhuh-huh-huh-huh-huh.
Wait, what?
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My oldest is finishing his last day of his first year of school today!
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What really today!
Penny doesn't get out until next Thursday!
Damn it! That friend I was worried about got his laptop confiscated.
I have no way of contacting him now, and I fear he's been kicked out of his house already.
...do any of you happen to live in Colorado? I really wish I could find some way to help my pal out.
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Thanks, it was that kind of information that made me ask the natives rather than look at a map. (Also, the best maps in my home is in atlas where the US is shown in Eastern United States and Western United States - even with an outline of Sweden next to it the scale get a tad abstract at that level.)Question for the New Englanders: How close is Hartford to Canada and/or New York City?My sister lives near Hartford. In light traffic, one could drive to New York City in 2 hours. (I am familiar with that drive.) It's substantially further from the Canadian border - about a 4 hour drive up through Massachusetts and Vermont to reach the southern edge of Quebec.
Even native east coasters tend to miss the scale of things out west. I drive for 7 hours (420 miles, or 676 kilometers for you heathens) to get to Disneyland and never leave the state. When you're young, 15-hour road trips aren't uncommon, just to get to a place you consider "local". (For example, to drive up to visit my brothers in Seattle is around a 13-hour drive, and is considered perfectly do-able in one day, and "easy" in two.)
I've had both Europeans and New Yorkers ask, "So, if I go to Alcatraz in the morning, can I drive down to Disneyland for the afternoon, and make it back up in time for dinner?"
Depends on whether dinner is served at 2:00 am, I guess.
I had the opposite experience: On our honeymoon in Australia, the scale was "as expected", and we spent many hours driving between Sydney, Alice Springs, Cairns, and back to Sydney. A few years later driving all over the U.K. and Ireland, we were constantly astonished. "It's only a 3.5-hour drive from Dublin to Killarney?!?!?! But that's all the way across the entire country!!!!"
Different scales, indeed...
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(Also, the best maps in my home is in atlas where the US is shown in Eastern United States and Western United States - even with an outline of Sweden next to it the scale get a tad abstract at that level.)Add a north/south split so you end up with the country in four quadrants (Northeast, Northwest, South [Southeast quadrant but no one calls it that], and Southwest) and... well, in a lot of ways, it's more accurate culturally and philosophically than a map showing the unified whole.
To make it even more accurate, break off California and New York into their own independent sections on top of the four-part split.
California is at least 4 states, maybe more:
(1) Southern California, with the "laid-back" L.A. and San Diego(2) The Bay Area, hotbed of liberalism, physical activity, and extremely odd crazes
(3) Northern California, environmental nirvana, and a great place to grow weed
(4) The rest. A bunch of conservatives wishing they could build a giant saw and remove the entire coastline...
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It takes 2 days to drive the length of Montana... 2 mind bendingly boring days of nothing, just the same dilapidated ranch and rusty Ford/Chevy pick up truck blasting along the interstate frontage dirt road... I don't recommend it :-)
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California is at least 4 states, maybe more:
(1) Southern California, with the "laid-back" L.A. and San Diego
(2) The Bay Area, hotbed of liberalism, physical activity, and extremely odd crazes
(3) Northern California, environmental nirvana, and a great place to grow weed
(4) The rest. A bunch of conservatives wishing they could build a giant saw and remove the entire coastline...
Admittedly Texas and Arizona were kind of the same... especially the last part, with the rest of us wanting to carve out Austin, Dallas, Corpus, and a few other cities/Phoenix and Flagstaff and send them off to be their own place....
Heck, Phoenix taught me that I hated large cities. Never want to live in a place that big again. And I didn't even live in Phoenix proper, just some of the suburbs - Tempe, Mesa, Chandler.
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Nobodyshome, Are your kids out of school already too?
Seems like mine are always the last out.... stupid Madison school district...
Edit: Orthos Ninja'd me! Smurf the world!
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It takes 2 days to drive the length of Montana... 2 mind bendingly boring days of nothing, just the same dilapidated ranch and rusty Ford/Chevy pick up truck blasting along the interstate frontage dirt road... I don't recommend it :-)
Ah, yes, but the I-5 corridor from L.A. to Redding inspired Prax in Glorantha (Runequest).
How bad does a road have to be to inspire someone to create one of the cruelest desert wastelands on the planet based on it?
EDIT: For those asking, the imps' last day of school is June 12. Two "graduations" in one week. Whatever happened to just plain, "OK, you're moving on to the next school. Deal with it."
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Two "graduations" in one week. Whatever happened to just plain, "OK, you're moving on to the next school. Deal with it."
I apparently missed the phase of "graduating" from lower grade levels. I vaguely recall some references to it floating around from people my age now who have kids, but I recall nothing of the sort prior to about 2000.
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Yay someone gets out after us!
I should let the school know, maybe we can get a Madison-San Fran school district cold war going....
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It happened again!
Smurf my archaic phone....
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Two "graduations" in one week. Whatever happened to just plain, "OK, you're moving on to the next school. Deal with it."I apparently missed the phase of "graduating" from lower grade levels. I vaguely recall some references to it floating around from people my age now who have kids, but I recall nothing of the sort prior to about 2000.
Ah, I'm old enough that our schoolmarm just whacked us on the backside with a yardstick and threw us out of the old red schoolhouse.
...or at least that's the way I remember it now.
Ah, well, work calls. Best get to it. FawTL is more fun, though...
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Nobodyshome, Are your kids out of school already too?
Seems like mine are always the last out.... stupid Madison school district...
We've been out about a week and change here. So nice not needing 6 AM wakeup times...
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(Also, the best maps in my home is in atlas where the US is shown in Eastern United States and Western United States - even with an outline of Sweden next to it the scale get a tad abstract at that level.)Add a north/south split so you end up with the country in four quadrants (Northeast, Northwest, South [Southeast quadrant but no one calls it that], and Southwest) and... well, in a lot of ways, it's more accurate culturally and philosophically than a map showing the unified whole.
To make it even more accurate, break off California and New York into their own independent sections on top of the four-part split.
California is at least 4 states, maybe more:
(1) Southern California, with the "laid-back" L.A. and San Diego
(2) The Bay Area, hotbed of liberalism, physical activity, and extremely odd crazes
(3) Northern California, environmental nirvana, and a great place to grow weed
(4) The rest. A bunch of conservatives wishing they could build a giant saw and remove the entire coastline...
Sounds like a plot for a goofy political fiction/catastrophic/urban fantasy novel. More fundamentalist conservatives of California conspire to trigger San Andreas falt massive earthquake that will push the more liberal areas into the ocean...
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Fröhlichen Welt-Apfelwein-Tag, JederFsVzL
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ups, wrong language,
Happy World Applewine Day, EveryFaWtL
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Jinx to Ambrosia Slaad for favorite'ing Lamontius' post at the same time as I!
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it was my post
so you both owe me a coke
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it was my post
so you both owe me a coke
Buuuuuuuuu~uuuut you didn't say that you edited your post, even when you did *OR which one is you in that last picture! BAM! Coke-owing returned! (No rum in mine, though.)
((Also, yeah, sure, just come over to Ocala.))
* EDIT'd for more evidence!
(Also, the best maps in my home is in atlas where the US is shown in Eastern United States and Western United States - even with an outline of Sweden next to it the scale get a tad abstract at that level.)Add a north/south split so you end up with the country in four quadrants (Northeast, Northwest, South [Southeast quadrant but no one calls it that], and Southwest) and... well, in a lot of ways, it's more accurate culturally and philosophically than a map showing the unified whole.
To make it even more accurate, break off California and New York into their own independent sections on top of the four-part split.
HEY!
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HEY!(Also, the best maps in my home is in atlas where the US is shown in Eastern United States and Western United States - even with an outline of Sweden next to it the scale get a tad abstract at that level.)Add a north/south split so you end up with the country in four quadrants (Northeast, Northwest, South [Southeast quadrant but no one calls it that], and Southwest) and... well, in a lot of ways, it's more accurate culturally and philosophically than a map showing the unified whole.
To make it even more accurate, break off California and New York into their own independent sections on top of the four-part split.
He wasn't lying, culturally.
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it was my post
so you both owe me a cokeBuuuuuuuuu~uuuut you didn't say that you edited your post, even when you did *OR which one is you in that last picture! BAM! Coke-owing returned! (No rum in mine, though.)
((Also, yeah, sure, just come over to Ocala.))
* EDIT'd for more evidence!
I am the dude on the right
Lamontia in the middleour friend Norbert (pronounced 'nor-bear' because he is french as hell)
is on the left
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I just figured I'd post and contribute to the problem.
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it was my post
so you both owe me a cokeBuuuuuuuuu~uuuut you didn't say that you edited your post, even when you did *OR which one is you in that last picture! BAM! Coke-owing returned! (No rum in mine, though.)
((Also, yeah, sure, just come over to Ocala.))
* EDIT'd for more evidence!
I am the dude on the right
Lamontia in the middle
our friend Norbert (pronounced 'nor-bear' because he is french as hell)
is on the left
Ah.
LamontiA is hot.
Also, you seem pretty pale to me.
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Fröhlichen Welt-Apfelwein-Tag, JederFsVzL
is jederfsvzl German for fawtl?
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it was my post
so you both owe me a cokeBuuuuuuuuu~uuuut you didn't say that you edited your post, even when you did *OR which one is you in that last picture! BAM! Coke-owing returned! (No rum in mine, though.)
((Also, yeah, sure, just come over to Ocala.))
* EDIT'd for more evidence!
I am the dude on the right
Lamontia in the middle
our friend Norbert (pronounced 'nor-bear' because he is french as hell)
is on the leftAh.
LamontiA is hot.
Also, you seem pretty pale to me.
Almost EVERYBODY seems pale to you. My advice is to stop using those tanning beds.
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I just figured I'd post and contribute to the problem.
Yar!
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HARRRRR!I just figured I'd post and contribute to the problem.Yar!
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Fröhlichen Welt-Apfelwein-Tag, JederFsVzLis jederfsvzl German for fawtl?
Forums sind Ver... uh, not sure, zu Lange.
jeder - every.
EDIT: and in German it is FsVzL - nouns are always capitalized.
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Fröhlichen Welt-Apfelwein-Tag, JederFsVzLis jederfsvzl German for fawtl?Forums sind Ver... uh, not sure, zu Lange.
jeder - every.
EDIT: and in German it is FsVzL - nouns are always capitalized.
coooooooool.
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Fröhlichen Welt-Apfelwein-Tag, JederFsVzLis jederfsvzl German for fawtl?Forums sind Ver... uh, not sure, zu Lange.
jeder - every.
EDIT: and in German it is FsVzL - nouns are always capitalized.
jederFsVzL would be my usual everyFaWtL greeting
Foren sind viel zu lang = FsVzL
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Fröhlichen Welt-Apfelwein-Tag, JederFsVzLis jederfsvzl German for fawtl?Forums sind Ver... uh, not sure, zu Lange.
jeder - every.
EDIT: and in German it is FsVzL - nouns are always capitalized.
jederFsVzL would be my usual everyFaWtL greeting
Foren sind viel zu lang = FsVzL
what would it be in Polish ? Swedish ?
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fszzd
fora są zdecydowanie za długie
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Fröhlichen Welt-Apfelwein-Tag, JederFsVzLis jederfsvzl German for fawtl?Forums sind Ver... uh, not sure, zu Lange.
jeder - every.
EDIT: and in German it is FsVzL - nouns are always capitalized.
jederFsVzL would be my usual everyFaWtL greeting
Foren sind viel zu lang = FsVzL
*facepalm* viel, of course...
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Is that you Beavis?You said 'Beavis' uhhuh-huh-huh-huh-huh.
Wait, what?
That's not Beavis, you fartknocker. Beavis looks like a spaz. Uh-huh-huh-huh-huh. This guy is strangely good looking though.
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Steve Holt!!