Canada is Larger than China

[Mudcat]

I see there is a TV show coming out that is about Highway 401 Rescue or some damn thing. They make it all sound very exotic and dangerous and it's like, 'O man, I can't even imagine the kind of perils they must deal with. It must be like a cross between the Amazon and Mount Kilimanjaro.'

Then I remember it's a road I've been on like every other day my whole life.

 

[Matty]

I ride it on my shitty old motorcycle all the time. It's very wide.

 

[roguejuror]

I think I remember you saying that about Quebec.

https://www.gamelive.com/forum/showthread.php/1965-Random-thoughts?p=497343&viewfull=1#post497343

 

[roguejuror]

An old map.

[WEBM]https://my.mixtape.moe/yzsxqo.mp4[/WEBM]

 

[Mudcat]

Heavens. Like literally. At least part of that is a star map of the constellations.

 

[FairWarning]

How old is that?

 

[roguejuror]

from the 1600s FW, it was found up a chimney

here is the conservation process

and here is a short documentary

 

[FairWarning]

Good stuff RJ.

 

[Mudcat]

It's become a thing. Czechia. Rather than Czech Republic.

When it comes up on the occasional sporcle or whatever, typing Czechia always works.

Good.

 

[Mudcat]

Canada's population has topped 35 million.

We're coming after you China.

 

[Blitty]

It's become a thing. Czechia. Rather than Czech Republic.

When it comes up on the occasional sporcle or whatever, typing Czechia always works.

Good.

Google seems to say it's a myth or something.

 

[Mudcat]

I don't know what they mean by that. It is a transformative thing. Naturally. It's not like everyone is just going to get in line on the first day and - BOOM! - it's changed.

It's humans. Full integration of a change like that will take decades.


But it's on sporcle. That's all I need to know. Sporcle knows things. Sporcle is where I first learned that the capital of Palau had changed from Melekeok to Ngerulmud.

Need I say more?

 

[Mudcat]

This be Canada not China

 

[reno cool]

ooh, looks like Vail

 

[Mudcat]

Mont Tremblant

 

[Blitty]

We were there in 2013. Cool place.

 

[Mudcat]

I wonder if there has ever been a serious misunderstanding as a result of the capital of Albania sounding just like the capital of Ontario.

Like say there are a bunch of guise at a bar somewhere in the world and one says, "Okay let's meet in Tirana." - meaning the capital of Albania - but then I might hear them and it sounds like how normal, casual English-speakers say Toronto - so I go wait for them there.

Which is thousands of kilometers away.

I'd be all like drumming my fingers and be all like, "Where are those guise?"

 

[roguejuror]

I like this footage of Hong Kong in a fog

[WEBM]https://my.mixtape.moe/yricgr.mp4[/WEBM]