• Hextic
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        21 year ago

        Guerre de Cent Ans 2 ? Je pensais que nous étions alliés ?

        That’s what we wanted you to think!

        🎵 Rule_Britannica.mp3 🎶

  • teydam
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    251 year ago

    Am american. do not understand. live in a state that is 1000 miles wide.

    • @[email protected]
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      101 year ago

      The size difference is getting to me too lol

      I used to drive a 200 mile round trip weekly to visit home while I was in college.

      Houston to East Texas is a fun drive.

      • teydam
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        91 year ago

        I had a german professor once remark to me about how different Americans are, like hundreds of miles is a day trip, hundreds of miles is a week long trip by car. Bet the trains are awesome though. Amtrak long distances seems way too expensive relative to my other options when factoring in time.

        • @legion
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          151 year ago

          “An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; an American thinks a hundred years is a long time.”

        • @[email protected]
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          Your professor said it the best way possible. I’ll remember that saying to help explain it all in the future if needed to others.

          I had a professor who loved Amtrak and would talk about his travels every month or so. He mentioned the price too as an issue. I definitely want to experience a train ride on Amtrak one day on an overnight trip.

        • @[email protected]
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          41 year ago

          East Texas is more when it gets woody and Louisiana-lite. Houston is sorta on the edge.

          Lufkin/Carthage/Nacogdoches/Tyler is more east Texas than Houston.

          • @somethingsnappy
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            11 year ago

            Thanks. From MT everything east of the rockies is Eastern MT (or as we call it, West Dakota).

  • jorge
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    231 year ago

    They never said that they were walking on a straight line

    • @markstos
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      181 year ago

      Right. You need a proper isochrones map to visualize this based on walking routes.

      • LazaroFilm
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        51 year ago

        Thanks. Now I have a new hyper focus to work on.

        • @markstos
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          11 year ago

          There are services that will generate isochrones of walk travel time for you, but they usually charge a small API fee for the calculations

          • LazaroFilm
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            21 year ago

            Thanks I’m half way through learning how to generate maps with D3.JS

    • @MrBakedBeansOnToast
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      21 year ago

      Also thought, I wanna see someone cross Switzerland in a laterally straight line

  • @ThisIsNecessary
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    211 year ago

    This map made me realize how small Great Britain really is. I drive 550 miles to visit my mom in the US, Great Britain is only 600 miles long from north to south.

    • @Resistentialism
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      91 year ago

      I’m gonna say it.

      Even though we’re fucking tiny. We were some proper nasty bastards.

      • @islandofcaucasus
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        31 year ago

        I’ve never read a comment with an English accent before

    • @Spacecraft
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      81 year ago

      This weekend I drove over 500 miles to get to the Oregon coast from a neighboring state of which I live close to the border. The total distance I traveled could have taken me from Spain into France then into to Italy and then end up in like Switzerland or Austria or Slovenia or something. Could see Barcelona, Marseille, Florence, Milan, Zurich, but instead I saw hundreds of miles of nothing and then the Pacific ocean lol.

      • @ThisIsNecessary
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        41 year ago

        And other countries wonder why we drive everywhere lol. Everything is so far!!

  • @[email protected]
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    91 year ago

    Man Europe is hilariously small! Don’t get me wrong, it’d love to abandon the US and live there. It’s just mind blowing the perspective this map gives.

    • @[email protected]
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      121 year ago

      With around 10.5 Mio square Kilometer surface it is a bit larger than the USA with around 9.8 Mio square Kilometer area.

      • @docmark
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        131 year ago

        You’re comparing continents and countries.

        North America is over twice as large. So yes, from anyone on this side of the pond it’s tiny.

      • @islandofcaucasus
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        61 year ago

        Yeah Europe is a bunch of counties and an entire continent. United States is just 1 country and half a continent

        Not talking shit at all, I love how small Europe is. A few hours in a train and you’re in a brand new culture with a brand new language

  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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    I’d like to see on Google Maps how far The Empire of The Proclaimers truly is when it’s put on roads.

  • @RagingRobot
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    51 year ago

    It’s weird that they wrote miles instead of kilometers

    • Alf
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      101 year ago

      I would walk 804.672 kilometres just doesn’t have the same ring to it

    • @Animated_beans
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      31 year ago

      The UK uses miles. They mostly use the metric system, but there are a few cases where they use the imperial system (like distance)

    • @Ddhuud
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      21 year ago

      Other languages have words to describe lengths in a more “poetic” way.

      In Spanish we have “leguas” which I’m sure was a unit of length, but gun to my head, can’t tell how far one is.

    • AFK BRB Chocolate
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      101 year ago

      I don’t believe any country in Europe is bigger than Texas. Better maybe, but not bigger.

      • AFK BRB Chocolate
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        11 year ago

        For some reason I thought they were Irish. I guess I should have known, their accents are thick enough.

      • @Urbanfox
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        11 year ago

        They drink in my local pub.