Meme Thread... no politics

Toyman01 + Sized and said:

berkeley you, we're only #7.  

Long boring article about flatness: https://www.disruptivegeo.com/2015/08/the-flatness-of-u-s-states/

llysgennad said:

Toyman01 + Sized and said:

berkeley you, we're only #7.  

Long boring article about flatness: https://www.disruptivegeo.com/2015/08/the-flatness-of-u-s-states/

 

I never understood people calling Indiana or Iowa flat. Coming from Illinois, everything seemed relatively hilly. I used to live in the tallest building between Chicago and St. Louis, in Normal, IL. On a clear day at the top of the building, you could just about see to Chicago. Not quite there, but pretty close. 

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Please.  You want flat?  Here's a relief map of my state:

https://en-gb.topographic-map.com/maps/d3c/Delaware/ 

llysgennad said:

Toyman01 + Sized and said:

berkeley you, we're only #7.  

Long boring article about flatness: https://www.disruptivegeo.com/2015/08/the-flatness-of-u-s-states/

 

Back in 1988 I drove my future MIL (Louisiana lifer) from my first marriage from the Conejo Valley to the San Fernando Valley in Southern California which involved something like a 300' elevation change...about 400' up followed by 700' down .  Her ears popped (I E36 M3 you not) and she asked me "what mountain range are we crossing"...um, it's a hill, we don't name hills. 

In reply to mtn :

Trivia question guy at work told me - random dorm building at Illinois State University.  Go Big Red.  

Adrian_Thompson (Forum Supporter) said:

Streetwiseguy said:

600 kilometers is 6 hours away.  How long is 450 miles?

Trick question!  You're are obviously rounding 600km to 450 miles and want the same answer, but the truth is no country with speed limits and distances measured in km will you be able to do that distance in 6 hours.  It's easy to do 450miles in six hours in this country, I've done it many many time.  But you can't do it anywhere else legally or even illegally but safely.  Before you mention Germany and Autobahns, nope not possible.  More and more of Germany has speed limits on autobahns and the areas that don't aren't 600km apart and that's not taking into account traffic, which will never alow you to do those speeds for long enough!

Joking aside in all seriousbness I have a rule of thumb in main land Europe that it takes the same time to travel X km there as it does to travel X miles here.  Places are further apart, population density is magnitudes less and so freeways tend to be more direct so average speeds between points are much higher here.  

And that's todays lesson from a shiny happy person pedant.   I should buy myself the following.

Challenge accepted, sir 

Burnin the 'Bahn

In reply to Wally (Forum Supporter) :

Lebowski berking hates the Eagles, man, well I berking hate Fleetwood Mac.  The world would be a better place if Stevie Nicks had never been born.

Cue "yeah, well, that's just your opinion, man" meme here.

Duke said:

In reply to Wally (Forum Supporter) :

Lebowski berking hates the Eagles, man, well I berking hate Fleetwood Mac.  The world would be a better place if Stevie Nicks had never been born.

Cue "yeah, well, that's just your opinion, man" meme here.

 

So.... shouldn't you be directing that birth directive at Mick Fleetwood?

chandler said:

Duke said:

In reply to Wally (Forum Supporter) :

Lebowski berking hates the Eagles, man, well I berking hate Fleetwood Mac.  The world would be a better place if Stevie Nicks had never been born.

Cue "yeah, well, that's just your opinion, man" meme here.

 

So.... shouldn't you be directing that birth directive at Mick Fleetwood?

No.

Fleetwood Mac would have been a great band without Stevie.

In reply to chandler :

No, because Fleetwood Mac was just a journeyman blues band mainly known for not being known as the authors of Black Magic Woman before Stevie Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham came along and made them into the annoying hit machine they exploded into.

And Stevie Nicks - voice, lyrics, image, personality, self-perception, everything about her - is just like nails on a chalkboard to me.

[edit]  Treed by Tuna.

In reply to tuna55 :

Awesome. 

Wait...is Fleetwood Mac a Cadillac shaped like a hamburger,  or a hamburger shaped like a Cadillac?